monstrous session! 9 tabling nl100 mostly. the ev graph doesnt even begin to show how bad i was running. coolers and gay shit like them hitting very disguised donk cards on the river and fuck me up. felt i played really well though. made some good big lay downs etc.
Decided to make some goals for myself this year because I haven't found myself motivated enough and didn't really have a reason to play
Currently at NL 10, playing more than enough of a bankroll
can't beat nl 25 because I'm a retard and I'm going to look for coaching
[ ] Supernova - I've been playing 5k hands a day with no problem on a full time job. I can make up for the pace on the weekends
[ ] Beat NL 50 by the end of the year
[ ] $10k profit - which isn't out of the question even if I stay around 24 tabling nl 10 - which I'm murdering even while doing 24 tables
Also, I'm looking for a nl 25 coach. I'm in China so we may have some troubles matching up times. But PM me if you're interested in doing a little coaching.
In my last blog I outlined some of my goals for 2010. Some of them were in action tonight as I played a slate of MTTs tonight...as I don't want to be staked again I played a micro mtt slate.
Variance:Hey babe, i think its time you stopped playing... Me:No damnit, i'm not playing enough, i need to clock more hands to make my prop bet...go away, you're distracting me
Flop Variance:....i think we should have a talk. Our relationship isn't going in the direction i want. I just...don't know if i want to live my life with a 10nl 4 table grinder.
Turn Me:...I'll change i swear...I'll make my prop bet and then we'll live like ROYALTY. I'll give you everything you deserve. I can't move up stakes without you.
River Variance: You know i'd never leave. I love you. Me: I love you too. Now do your thing so i can start coolering people.
Submitted by : Mikae
***** Hand History for Game 37518810813 ***** Poker Stars
$10.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, January 02, 01:41:57 ET 2010
Table Metis Real Money
Seat 4 is the button
Seat 1: mjroussin30 $14.95 USD
Seat 2: canutet $6.80 USD
Seat 3: DKaLiN $26.00 USD
Seat 4: KRISMONYTAKR $2.35 USD
Seat 5: Hero $10.10 USD
Seat 6: LAMOVIES $2.00 USD
Hero posts small blind [$0.05 USD].
LAMOVIES posts big blind [$0.10 USD].
Hero shows
LAMOVIES shows
Hero wins $4.60 USD from main pot
So that pretty much sums up my progress in the prop bet so far. Pretty standard. Would have liked it if i hit more two outers. Once, my AA didn't hold up against KK. I slapped Variance across the face. Doesn't happen anymore.
I've got the rest of the month of make 1k to win the prop bet. I think its doable, i just gotta log more hands. My BR hit 1k today and i've still got 130 in ungrinded bonus. Its pretty hard to grind the bonus on micros, it takes forever. Should be more smoother now that i've moved up to 25nl. The downsides of this limit is i no longer see Arcticbeatle on the tables anymore [the live pro from Australia who bet his friend he could make 40k in a year from 40 bux? He's thread is on 2+2]. Would be nice if i coolered him a couple of times. Or just win like 10 coin tosses in a row.
In other news, i'm thinking of running a workshop on how to run good. This game gets alot easier when you learn to hit sets every few hands. That's why i'm a good player.
Starcraft News:
Jaedong, please crush your opponents so i can see their tears.
Also, INCONTROL HWAITING. He is so goddamn badass. I would totally watch his reality tv show if i could stream it. Shame he didn't win it. But i'm rooting for you in TSL. Do it. Pull the trigger. DO IT.
Edit: I cashed in those dollar tourneys. Do they cash me instantly or do they wait for the tourney to end? i won like 4 bux so i can't tell the difference >.<
Will keep it short and sweet.
Names Josh from Melb, Australia.
Play NL10 about to move up to NL25 and just thought id say hi as I plan to be around here a lot more, putting in muchmore volume and focus more on poker more and less on cod modern warfare 2 (but if anyone wants to play hit me up on 360! ^_^)
Hopefully speak to you soon might even run into a few if any are attending aussie millions this year!
Life
beat/brag: turned 25 january 1st...shit im old, drank some sick scotchs and got my 1st pair of PROPER boots ever.(my shoe size is 15 so hard to find boots)
beat: Montreal snowstorm...missed my last bus home
brag: they cleaned my main road of snow and got my ipod to work with virtually no power for 30 mins
Poker
brag: got some live donk to call my 140bb allin on a 8334 rainbow board with KQ because my image was too lag...I had AA.
beat: many to come...
In my last 13 sessions I've had 2 winners and 11 losers. Where's the suicide switch? haha
Just had my first winning session after 9 losers in a row, starting back on Dec 21st. That's exactly 2 weeks of pain and suffering. It was weird to hit hands, have them hold up, and be given good bluffing opportunities. That hasn't happened in so fucking long. I hope that this is the end of the downswing and not just a cock tease.
I hate being stressed and not really having anyone I trust enough to vent to.
-_-; fml
Anyways I just had a second interview for a Personal Banker position at a local bank. I really want/need this job. I'll be able to go to night school and work on my two year tech degree in Fluid Power Engineering. Lots of bills coming up and I'm getting to the end of my savings from when I use to play poker a lot.
So it'd be so perfect if I get this job >_<
Also stressed because I moved back in with my mom for the moment while I try to sublease my other apartment near the college I went to for the first half of the year.
I usually am optimistic about everything working out, but I fucking hate living with my either of my parents. Really hope I can sublease my apartment asap so I can look for a new one hopefully within the next 3 months.
Sketchy thing in my bank statementby PillPoppin, January 04
So I check my savings account statement today (never use my savings account at all so this rly sketched me out), and there was a friendly paragraph under some bold words "Important Account Information"
"Your Card (Wells Fargo ATM Cards, Check Cards, or Cash Cards) must not be used for any unlawful purpose (for example, funding any
account that is set up to facilitate Internet gambling). You agree to take steps to ensure that you will not use your Card or any linked
account for any transaction that is illegal under the laws governing your account. In addition, the Bank reserves the right to deny
transactions or authorizations from merchants apparently engaging in the Internet gambling business or identifying themselves
through the Card transactions record or otherwise as engaged in such business."
So yeah im currently using wells fargo, have deposited to FTP with my check card, and to PokerStars with my check card and instant e-checks. Any thoughts on this? Should I get a new bank account, and if so what bank?
sup, nerd nostalgia etcby concrescence, January 04
I just feel like typing and posting images of gaming shit. You're a fucking hero if you read all this.
My diet is going well and im stepping away from veganism and starting to add raw grass fed animal products back into my diet. Lean grass fed beef and some grass fed raw/unpasteurised cheese to test out. I'm pretty excited and hope it improves my health a lot more Loco, you are the man. Lost ~60lbs since this whole thing started. Pretty convinced the secret to losing weight and keeping it off is researching everything about the food your eating so you have a more complex understanding of what you're building your body with instead of just eating a lot of shit.
Mid-late December i said to myself, i need to get fucking decent at a game cuz ive been playing most FPS games casually for so long. It took about a week to rape the shit out of MW2 and i had a LOT of fun with that around about christmas when i was taking it easy anyway. Consistently going 14-2, 31-3 etc.. I felt pretty happy and confident that i still had the ability to rape in these games after such a long period of casual gameplay. The last time i truely raped in FPS was the good old MOHAA / Q3 days.
How a true patriot plays MW2:
If we roll it back about 9 months i'm playing WoW all day every day rocking arena games with some internet friends ive kept in touch with very frequently since. I mean, these guys are fucking awesome and i hope to visit them someday irl, one from Finland and one from Poland. So many good memories from the game but when i quit 9 months or something ago i deleted ALL my screenshots to make quitting easier I wish i kept them now looking back on it
My friend sent me some pics from our WoW days and i thought id post them here... Its just so i can look back at them sometimes and remember them mainly but for your enjoyment too
Some are from my POV and some from his, hence UI/character changes etc.
Wanna see my banker? Will give you an idea of how hardcore i was playing... Check these resources i FREQUENTLY sold and created more, literally this much every week:
Heres a picture of me and my best WoW buddy and best 2v2 arena partner Sarumen. We played warlock/rogue and maxed at about ~2370 or so - shitty BG, extremely tough to get higher due to high % of OP DK faggots near the top at the time. Mostly played 2v2 with 0-200 resillience but near the end of S6 i settled with about 550-600 for 2v2/3v3. http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/1288e.saru.jpg
A ridiculous 2v2 game where this druid wouldnt leave and spammed hots for 45 minutes even though he literally cant beat a warlock and would lost 2 points if he left. We refuse to give in to douchbags like this obv cuz we lose 20+ pts: http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/2928/fuckourlives.jpg
Okay due to request on forums + ingame msgs i've decided to upload it for you all. I don't claim responsibility for everything in this pack as several things came from Caith UI (http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info11255-CaithUI.html) and Hams UI (http://www.ensidia.com/community/post/410/). Also credit goes to lewz for the action bar cooldown idea. I only changed that a couple days ago after seeing his video on WCM.
Note: Make sure your old Interface and WTF folders are backed up and moved out of your World of Warcraft folder before starting any of these steps.
1. Extract Gortz UI.rar and copy both Interface and WTF to your main World of Warcraft folder.
2. Open the WTF folder then the Account subfolder.
- Rename 'ACCOUNT NAME' to your account name.
3. Open the newly named 'ACCOUNT NAME' folder and look for a folder called 'YOUR REALM'.
- Rename 'YOUR REALM' to your realm name e.g. Auchindoun (no EU or US)
4. Open the newly named 'YOUR REALM' folder and look for a folder called 'YOUR CHAR NAME'.
- Rename 'YOUR CHAR NAME' with your character name.
5. Load up WoW. Select 'addons' on the character menu and be sure'Load out of date addons' is enabled.
6. It will be a mess. Two things you need to type into the chat window to load my profiles are:
/simpleminimap profile choose Gortz UI
/grid profile choose Gortz UI
7. Now you need to set all other addons to load my profile. Do this for the following addons by using the chat commands i give you:
For all of these, its as simple as selecting profile and setting the existing profile to 'Gortz UI'. Some might not display 'Gortz UI' but instead 'Caith UI', in that case select Caith.
8. If after having set all those up you have a black box around your chat window, type
/chatter and go to the option 'borders/backgrounds' and disable it for all chat frames.
9. For Bartender (action bar addon) there are two profiles.
Type /bar to go to the Bartender UI.
Under 'profile' select either 'config keybinds' or 'hidden bars'.
Something you should note about my configuration of bartender:
Bar 10 and Bar 8 are display only under 'Hidden bars' setting. I use it to display my cooldowns only and all the bars in 'Config Keybinds' are hidden out of sight but still enabled.
Bar 6, 2, 1 = Actual bars displayed in 'config keybind'
Bar 3 = hidden bar (mounts/pets/hearthstone) to save clutter.
Bar 4 = noggenfogger/poisons/food/bandages/cannibalize as displayed in config keybinds screenshot
Bar 5 and 7 were part of a hidden stealth and shadowdance keybind setup a while ago.
I wont be updating or providing support for this pack and im uploading it purely to help AJ players who requested it.
Enjoy,
Gortz.
In other gaming news, i also played Batman : Arkham Asylum and holy shit i'd recommend that to anyone. Really fantastic single player game and took about 15 hours to finish on normal. Graphics were amazing and ran surprisingly perfectly on my 8800GTX. I also played some torchlight and find it surprisingly shitty? Every dungeon just seems like a standard randomly generated cheap copy and all i have to do is spam 2 abilities then spam health/mana pots. Its pretty mindless and the stats system is so simple theres really nothing special about it. Can i even go outside the fucking town? It just seems like cheap portals to randomly generated content/dungeons and a pathetic storyline keeping it somewhat afloat although not really.
I havent talked much about poker here lately but im enjoying playing and dont have much else to say.. I customised my PS lately though with some modified mods -- made my own table background + buttons w/ coloured note mod and name/chipstack mods from some theme site. The circle around players avatars changes with the note colour. Lurped is red b/c he's the motherfucking lurped. Chips are an old clay chip mod. I hear the more mods you have the larger your cock and better at poker you become. Clearly +EV to mod everything to fuck.
I'd like to say a big thank you to Donald, Loco & Ket for being so cool and helpful. Even if its just discussing random stuff and hanging out on skype. You guys are truely awesome
Hope u enjoyed the blog, felt good to write a bunch of shit out.
With all the traveling I had to do, I definitely did not put in enough hands, but that's to be expected during holiday season. Despite that, my month went well. $9.2k online plus rakeback and a bit of live play came out to $11.5k in the end. Most satisfyingly, I am running good on FTP. Hope that keeps up.
For 2010, I am going to work on increasing the amount I play. While I always stress quality over quantity, I think I can add a decent amount to my monthly hands played without sacrificing quality of play or quality of life and other activities I am engaged in. For now, here's December graph:
So, firstly, my profit for last year was ~$120. lol, not too much, but I've learned A LOT last year, this year will be better for sure
Definitely I'm going to play more PLO, also I want to put more volume. Minimum 1k hand when playing. Because sometimes I play because I don't have better things to do, but I don't have this fire to play, it was bad and always ended with crappy spots etc.
So, this year, I start at nl5 and plo5. From the bottom to the top - that's the plan.
I wanna learn a bit more about the "investment world" and am hopeful that some of you LP guys can point me in the right direction. What books would you suggest? What websites? What do you use to trade stocks? Etc.
I know a few guys here have made a transition from poker to some form of investing (stocks, etc) and some play poker/invest at the same time, so I'm hopeful that you guys will give me some suggestions on where to get started learning about that world.
Every blog title I write while reasonably sober this year will be a reference to a movie, book or TV-series. Possibly a song.
I'm much better at omaha now then a month ago before my break. The main difference is that I've reduced my VPIP by 40% (%, not %-points) or so. My hold'em game is a little rusty since I didn't play much in December, but I've changed a thing or two with that too and so far I'm very happy with it. Slightly tighter in some spots and I've started table selecting a bit more then before. Considering how I played almost anyone HU on 10/20 to start tables last year and basically just used "select all" to get 10 tables up when I played mid stakes this doesn't say much, but still. Results have been good so far, over the first 8k hands or so.
I'm currently studying for 4 different exams, all occurring within ~2 weeks from now. I think I'm pretty much a look to pass two of them, but might screw up either one of the others which would mark the first time I'd fail a written exam. That would suck, but I can always pass them later.
New years eve was crazy, went to some "Gask", which is basically a dinner and then a club with my sister and a friend of hers. Got almost as drunk as them, and after it was all over I couldn't get myself to turn on my phone for 2.5 days due to generally being far to afraid of what I would find. Apparently my last words before we hailed a cab home was "Ohh no, we have to find the fat chick!".
Other then that I've played some fun hands the last few days:
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Loco, you are the man. Lost ~60lbs since this whole thing started. Pretty convinced the secret to losing weight and keeping it off is researching everything about the food your eating so you have a more complex understanding of what you're building your body with instead of just eating a lot of shit.
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