I couldnt make a withdrawal from my FTP account so I emailed support to get help.
When I woke up I saw this nice letter from nice support guy saying that my account had been closed because I had two accounts and I could continue using my primary account. It turned out it was some kind of an old account (from several years ago) that I had registered but not played at. TIIIILT!!
edit: at the end of the letter he said he could transfer the balance to my primary account. At first I thought they took my money since the letter just refered to their terms and conditions and there it says that those players may "account suspensions or revocations, and forfeiture of their accumulated Full Tilt Points and real money balances".. phewww..
So apparently I have either a bacterial infection or a strain of my Epididymis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epididymis) which has been causing my left nut to REALLY hurt. Basically take the pain of getting punched in the nuts and multiply it by 2 and thats what I feel like.
Ye im a failure. Cashgames and donkaments have gone really bad during the wsop. Im happy how I played almost every hand in the donkaments but i definitely spewed in cash alot.
Anyways, I busted the WSOP ME after 3 hours. I had an ok table i guess, a couple of softspots but unfortunately I had this very agressive cashgame player Ive to my left. Ive actually played with him before in a cashgame in copenhagen. To my right I had the guy who won the 50k horse this year. Rest of the table was a mix of young decent players and old fish.
Only two really interesting hands I think and both are in the second level.
I have around 31k at 100/200, two people limp and the 50k horse winner raises to 650 in the co. He has 15k in chips. I make it 2k otb with AKo. Villian tanks and 4-bets to like 5k. This was a weird hand because villian had been kinda inline and so had i but on lvl 2 he started loosening up a bit and I had been really active the last few orbits. I was very close to folding but I eventually jammed and he snapped with KK gg.
So now im down to 15k and I play tight for like 20 min until I pick up 94s and open it in mp. The good internet guy to my left calls and an old nit calls in the sb. Flop comes 9s9x5s. I bet 1200 young dude makes it 3k old nit folds. I tank for a while and jam my last 12k in, villian snapcalls with As7s turn 6s river brick. GG LIFE.
Ye so the wsop was a huge disapointment pokerwise, dropped like 20k total in donkaments and cash. I might play a 2k donkament tomorrow at the bellagio but not sure. Atleast Ive gotten really motivated to grind again so when I get back to sweden i will try to grind a ton online again.
ha I signed in here with an intent to make a quick entry and then got sidetracked and forgot to do my original intent..
In talking with someone about the hilarity of that jibjab video I posted in the coffin thread, I was introduced to another one by the same people. Well to me, even tho it's a little late, this vid was so great that I was originally going to bump the coffin thread with it but now I figure it's better to just let a thread with obviously no real interest here die
so since I sometimes make my blogs for my own beneficial reasons inasmuch if not more than for yours, I will post this video here
take care all
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before you watch this know this video was made during the campaigning times of last year - cheers
Sorry for the semi-long / spastic / poor grammar post but i need help!!!
Hey LP, I've been lurking here for a few months but have now chosen to make an account to seek advice. I have been playing poker for about 6 months now and currently play at Absolute Poker at NL50 and NL25 under the name Psychohawk(the first 3 months i played at fulltilt under the name zlaught in which i pretty much had no clue on how to play and just mass grinded ftp tournaments and then would mess around trying/wasting my money on different games), my bankroll has now fallen to around 800$ and am no longer able to play NL50. I normally play 15-20 tables FR (this site doesn't always have 20tables at nl25 for fr when i do play and recently have been breaking even or losing for about the past 3 weeks. I play 6max once in awhile but i seem to also just break even in that right now. Since summer has started I have been play 6-8 hours a day (before summer i didnt play much) and feel like I haven't gotten much better, if at all. What I'm wondering is what i should do now if i want to get better, Should i keep trying to multitable and move up limits or should i switch to 6max and play less tables, or should i switch to a different site and give sng's/tournaments a try (Right now this seems like the choice i feel like is best). I feel like i get my money in good and play well but since i have been breaking even the past 3 weeks i am obviously not doing either.
Uhhh some other questions/things-
1.should i be using poker programs? i have never used any and not sure if they help much
2.is absolute poker safe to play on? i watched some tv show and they talked about how like the head person on there scams people (which im not sure is true/ dont think happens at my limits but idk what do you guys think/know)
3.I currently have 2800 status points on Absolute poker which is way ahead of what i need atm to hit the highest rank of Diamond elite or w/e it is were you get the 9% interest thing, i can get this if i keep 20 tabling for the rest of the month, is this alone worth it to keep multitabling and breaking even there?
4.when watching johnnycosmos video from the lp vids thread on the site donkeytest, i took the test and got like 120 on everything and 143 on mtt, is this accurate and should i be playing mtt's/sng's or is it just another dumb test that doesnt mean anything.
5.oh yeah lastly,i found this site because i lurk TL and saw liquidpoker and checked it out one day. I used to play starcraft a lot under the names Zlaught/Abr/th[em] and some others(lol i like to change my name a lot ;/)
this is all i can think of now but im sure ill have a lot more questions but thanks in advance to anyone with some advice on what i should do
my first table was very very tight, complete different dynamic than it was last year. but there's a semi-aggro monkey on my right who talks a lot and opens a lot of pot. Needless to say, he is one of the biggest contributors to my stack.
Nothing interesting in the first 3 lvls except for couple of hands..
Hand 1:
utg (pokerstar qualifier) limped, i limped behind w/ 77, btn limped, blinds complete at 100/200. flop 7 7 2. (sigh..i knew i wouldn't get any action)
It went checked around, turn Ts, put up str8 draw and flush draw, I decided to v-bet my nuts, bet 1/2 the pot and everyone folded. sigh..
Hand 2:
semi-lag monkey opens co to 700, folds to me in sb w/ AA, I made it 2800 to go (cuz we were 300bb deep), he instant calls (he doesn't fold to any 3bet at all)
flop 6 8s Ts
I decided to check instead of cbetting. he checks back
Turn Qd
I led out 4k and he calls
River Ac
I led out 8k ish and he says AK is good and folds...another sigh..
Hand 3:
I opened TT utg1 to 700 and folds to the monkey in sb who called.
Flop: Kc Jc 4
he c/c my 800 cbet and I decided to check it down for the rest of the streets..
Turn: T!!!!
he c/c again my 2/3 pot bet
river: 9...
he checked dark and after few mins of thought, there are too many QX hands in his flop and turn c/c range so I decided to check back. He turned over AQo....wow! I run hawt!
Hand 4:
utg1(tightish guy) opens to 875 at 150/300, monkey flats..folds to me in bb and saw AA again. Being oop and the monkey doesn't like to fold, I made a huge squeeze to 3875 and utg1 folds and monkey obv calls.
Flop: J85r, I checks again with intention of c/r the monkey, he checks back.
Turn Q...I bet he folds..
Then I got moved to a new table before the dinner break where Howard Lederer was sitting 4 to my right.
Won a pot with 2 pair and brought my stack to about 49k before the dinner break.
Came back from the dinner break and started to card dead for the entire level, and the guy on Howard's right who's been playing like a total noob, wearing PS gear, runs hotter than the sun, flopped higher flush against lower flush and got it in for 60k each....
guy to my left is a desperate shorty who keeps raising whenever folds to him. I picked up his tendency and decided to trap him whenever I have a hand I'm willing to go broke with him.
Finally picked up JJ utg at the last hand of the lvl4. I limped w/ intention of getting in against the desperate shorty.
folds to mp (another big stack) who limps behind and the noobish PS guy made it 3k to go at 150/300/25!!!!!!!...I seriously have no clue how to counteract this but to just flat call since we were (165bb deep). mp folds.
Flop (6975) T 2 3 r
I check/call his 4k bet..
Turn (14975) 9,
I check, with intention of folding to another bet, but the noobish guy bets a small amount 4k...I decided to call again cuz of the pot odds..
River (22975) 3..
I checked and he instant checks behind and I thought my JJ was good until he shows KK! wow...well played sir!
After that hand, my stack was down to 37k at the end of lvl4.
LvL5 was a complete card dead also, there would be ppl opening every hand and I literally didn't see any A or K in the entire lvl and had to keep folding and getting blinded/anted off.
At the end of day 1, I had 31650 left.
Going to be at Orange 80, seat 4 for the day 2. Hopefully I can run better and get some cards at 250/500 with 60bb stack. one time plz.
I've got a midterm tomorrow but I'm a degen, so if anybody wants to play sc, I'll be taking frequent breaks to play. I'll be in channel LP Bet as usual.
So I'm like 95%+ sure I'll play Unibet Open unless I like die in a freak accident or the Police decides that I'm to much of a libertarian weirdo to get a new passport. If anyone is in London from the 16th and a few days after that I'd love to say hi or play something. Also, what's the easiest to get hold of monies there? Just bring like 2k£ in cash or can you get money from a VISA at the casino (Grosvenor Victoria Casino)?
19 years old
never had a girlfriend
no rl friends for 3 years
never had a job
get rejected for KFC
played poker for 1.5 years and can't beat micros
going busto as i type
never been good at anything in my life
conclusion: im retarded
Last September I started work for a Kitchen design company, full time. Kitchen design was just something I got into because of the jobs I had done before. I never loved it, but I didn't hate it, I thought it was ok, and could be good to make a career in. After some time working in this new job, I soon to begin to realize how bad the company was managed and how much of a mess it was in. Coming from a larger multi-outlet retailer to a local but large single outlet business, it was like going back in time 10 years ago. Because everything was really backwards. Nothing was computerized (except the actual designing of the kitchen software), all the accounts, orders and everything was on paper. And then there was the accounts. lol. I found this out after a few months, that apparently there was no accountant for the past year and a half, and the owners had been doing it. Now you might think there isn't much wrong with that, but when you realize that the two owners are complete idiots and only bought the business a few years ago and had no experience of running one, this was so bad.
It soon became apparent, that the business owed thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of pounds to other companies. Every week we (the designers) were told to use different suppliers, and were fobbed off with some bullshit excuse that quality wasn't good, when we all knew why. They owed them money. Then there was the customer service, that was non-existent from the owners. They simply did not care one bit about them. It really became so bad, that I found myself having to cover for them and constantly lying to customers when I knew full well the truth. But I was simply doing what I was told as an employee. However I hated it, and it was happening every day. I actually felt sick going into work, and dreaded it each night. It was then that I knew, things had to change.
I started applying for all these other shitty jobs, which I knew I wouldn't like, but it had to be better than where I was. It was then after about the 20th application sent off, that I realized why am I wasting my time with this. I had spent 3 years in college studying music technology, and it was the music industry, in some shape or form, that I wanted to get involved with. I never just got my ass into gear to pursue it. I started asking around, and perhaps the luckiest encounter happened.
Just two days after me explaining how my life was so shit to my girlfriend in my current job and how I wanted to get into the music industry, a fantastic thing happened. My girlfriends dad works for the council and does events and things, and had some connections with some companies. My girl had spoken to my dad the following day and asked if there was anything available. There was nothing at the moment. Then an old friend of his just dropped into the office. This friend was the owner of one of the largest P.A hire (live sound systems) companies in the UK. Wow? They had not talked in years and he wanted to catch up. So he mentioned that I was looking work, and he said to give him an e-mail to arrange something. So i obviously e-mailed him, and we arranged a meeting, and he was able to start me working. I quit my job in the shithole I was in before. And 2 days after I finished, they shut the doors and it went into administration. It was in the papers, that they owned over 200,000 pounds to companies and customers. It was really crazy.
So lately I have been doing freelance work for the production company. He couldn't give me a permanent job, but said he could give me work, but variable hours per week. It is what I have always wanted to do, and I have been loving it. The work is very hard. Hard work, long hours, and shitty pay. But it is really good fun. The only problem is that the amount of hours I have been getting has not been enough to live on. I had been playing alot of Poker in the spare time because of the odd hours, it actually suited me playing Poker. I am just not at a limit that I can withdraw from on a regular basis.
After several gigs, I get a call from him, asking me if I can work full time for him up untill mid August (going on holiday then), as a trial to see how I get on. I seriously couldn't believe it. I had only worked for about a month, and this was only a handful of gigs, I must have done something right!
So tomorrow I start full time with them. I am excited that maybe this will be a my start of the career I always wanted. I really love playing Poker too, but it is not stable enough at the moment for the limit I play on to live on. I am certainly going to still play alot, but probably not the same volume anymore.
I go away on Wednesday for 5 days, as I am working at a big festival in ireland - http://www.oxegen.ie/2009/ - We are doing 4 stages there so its gonna be pretty busy! I am really excited and at same time a little sad to be away from home for so long and miss the missus! I just hope it works out and I can get a permanent offer after this trial period.
This kind of messes up my plans to grind mass sngs, because I don't have the time to. So I will probably grind back at NL25. I have been playing last few days and I feel I am playing really nice. My non-showdown line is a nice steady positive line, and my showdown has been going down a bit. But looking back, I have lost alot of coolers at showdown, so I think I am just running bad in the big pots.
Well anyway, If you have came this far, I would like to thank you for reading
The feeling I had yesterday continued today. I just feel I have an edge over most players at NL400! Today however was exceptional. No of the players I feel is better then me sat at the tables so I could do whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted.
Not to brag but I pawned the tables today. It was like I saw everyones cards and I think I made the right decision in (almost) every pot. I VB really good, raised, bluffed, and made some nice folds too. The only pot I was behind AI in the session I managed to draw out (KKvAA in a big pot, the last bump up on the graph.) which is so typical when you are running really good. Ofc I was a bit lucky in some pots, and its lucky not to be outdrawned, and I know this cannot continue but I like the feeling while it lasts
Last week got diagnosed with Delayed sleep phase syndrome. Basically my natural clock is way off the normal clock so I sleep at fucked hours if left to my own devices...pretty much everyone has this at some point or another. Mine is just more permanent then most. Meaning I can't adjust myself easily to sleep during "normal" sleep hours and once I do adjust I have to maintain a constant wake up time 7 days a week or I will revert to my natural fucked sleep cycle. Now I have to do some fucked sleep calendar to get me on a normal schedule. Today I sleep from 9AM-5PM, tomorrow from 10:30AM-6:30PM, etc til I reach a 2AM-10AM schedule. Doctor also told me to get a job which "will allow me to work to my natural hours" I'm taking that as getting a doctors order to play poker for a living. In poker news up like 2 buyins on the month 1.5ptbb/100 >.< . Just got done w/ an epic 9 hour tilt session, only lost a buyin though so woot.
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