June is over and there are only 3 days left to my 18th birthday. I have already got myself a gift, which is a small upgrade of my 'nerding point' (or 'nerding station', whatever you like better). Here's a pic:
I bought new speakers - Logitech Z-5500 plus mouse/keyboard MX5500 Revolution pack.
Speakers are AMAZING, let alone the keyboard and the mouse, which feel really nice.
Summer has been great so far. In the 2nd half (well, basically the end) of June I won back some money and am now confident enough to play and (hopefully) win more in July. I need to build up my BR a little so that I could splash out some money later in London I'm sooo looking forward to this trip. One of my main goals there is to gamble it up in a casino for the first time in my life.
Speaking of trips, today we were canoeing in Zwierzyniec. Nothing hardcore, small river, couple of beers, it was fun
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Ok, June 2009 is over and it was the best month of my poker "career" so far (and quite by far too)!
I spent June partly in Vegas playing WSOP and partly in Barcelona playing WPT Spanish Championship, with only a couple days inbetween spent at home when I needed to play the last couple of matches of my futsal team (futsal = football played on a smaller pitch 5vs5 for those who dont know).
Made money in 2 of them, which is good I think, especially when one of them was a pretty deep finish (24th out of 2,640). Invested $11k, won $21.5k, which means ROI of about 96%, quite nice imo.
Futsal
Then I went back home to play the last 2 futsal matches. We won both of them and secured 3rd place finish in our league, which was our historical best finish so far, so I was pretty happy about it, eventhough it didnt mean anything since only top 2 advance to the higher league. Edit: I just got this hot news, that we actually advanced to the higher league due to some system changes or something, yay, great month!
During those couple days I managed to score another solid finish in tournament poker - I won a package in the WSOP Super-satellite at PS worth $12,000 or (since I wasnt really going back there) simply $12,000 in cash.
Barcelona
Few days later I was on my way to Barcelona, to play the WPT Spanish Championship 2009. It was a €5,300 NLHE freezeout and I expected it to have quite a soft field. I also expected about 260-300 players. I was quite right about the first one, but totally wrong about the second - only 172 players registered for this tournament. Still, a pretty solid prize of €277,000 was waiting for the winner.
Anyways, the tournament went quite normal from the beginning, I wasnt really getting many big hands, but I had quite enough soft spots at my tables to be able to at least slightly increase my starting chipstack, which meant, that after 2 days of playing I was still in, eventhough with quite a shortstack. Didnt mind it at all given I didnt have to win a single big showdown up to that point (lost 2 allins vs shorties though, once hugely ahead, once slightly).
Then in the beginning of day 3 I finally used all the saved up luck from previous days to pull out this major suckout: an agressive Danish player with above avg. stack raised from the CO to 2.5bb, I found QJs in the SB and shipped it allin for about 20bb hoping to take it down uncontested or flip for it if called. But the big blind with about avg. stack announced allin too and I knew I wasnt going to be good. Even worse, the original raiser snapped the allin, oh well. My QJs vs BB's AK, vs. CO's AA! Tough one you say? Well, the flop came AK7, giving my opponents top two and top set and me the dreaded gutshot! I and couple players from other tables who rooted for me started shouting "Ten, ten, ten" in a rhytmic way and the river fullfilled my wish, easy game
Couple hands after that I got KK utg and raised, got a reraise from the button and the big blind cold 4-bet instantly. It was an older french guy that I didnt know but it was quite scary, but obviously I shipped it in hoping to see QQ. Button folded and french guy showed 99, wow. I held and suddenly had a big stack. Couple hands and steals/small pots later I was the overall chipleader with about 23 people left. I wanted to abuse the bubble but didnt quite get much of a chance since it was over sooner than I realised it. At least I was the one who busted it Then my super heater ended and with 12 left I was down to about the average stack. Later though, I managed to win a coinflip vs. a shortstack + some small pots against few weaker players, so in the end when the final table bubble busted, I had the chiplead back.
At the final table though I was super card dead, so I didnt really play any interesting hands at all, simply either a steal worked or did not, other than that I was just waiting around and folding, until we were 5 handed and I was already the shortest stack, so when Randall raised from utg and I found 77 in the SB, I didnt quite hesitate much to ship my 23 big blinds in. Got called quite fast, but was in a good shape flipping vs. his AQ. Unfortunately for me the flop came KJT and turned and river bricked and I was out in the 5th place.
Anyways, I won the prize of €50,400 (only 68% was mine), which is also a new Czech record in biggest cash in live tournaments ranking
Summary
Ok, lets get to the summary:
This month, I made a total profit of $74,857 (of which almost $50k is profit from live tournaments, yay), which is by far my best month ever! I am really happy about it since I wasnt doing very good this year so far and was way below my expectations. After this month I am back in the ok-ish range as far as yearly progress goes. I am obviously pretty happy about this month
Edit: I made some photos while travelling, if anyone wants to see them, they are published here:
My main goal for june was to make 10BI during the first couple of days to prove I was in shape and then go to Vegas for some pawnage. It started out well, I was at my goal at one point but then stuff happened, I started to tilt/play bad and I was somehow down 10BI instead for the month.
After a few days off I went back to the basics, thought about what I did in certain spots and decided not to do any autopiloting in any spots. It resulted in some interesting spots, especially when I flat a couple of big pairs IP pre. And most important, it gave results. It felt like I was sooo much better then my opponents and I ended the month at a peak with a bit more than a 10BI profit.
Due to some travelling etc I didn’t put in too many hands (Swedish summer is just sooo great at this time) but I managed to play 20k hands atleast. Including RB I won $3k in June. Not too bad but I will try to improve that tremendously in July.
Right now I’m at Dusty's to stay there for a couple of days, grinding, fishing etc.. Think it will be really fun
Hello everybody, strange to write something about himself...
i'm a low stakes grinder right now, i had deposit 250e on microgaming on september and build my bankroll to around 12ke playing cash game shorthanded.
I have cashed out 6ke for my living and let 6k to play nl100. Unfortunately i recently lost 2K5 playing nl100... dunno how i have done at this limit, but doesn't matter.
I still have 3K5 bankroll and will grind nl50 for a short time and hope to be back soon.
this blog is to work on my english, find support when i need to, to work on my game, share some hands etc...
(ps : wonder know how to make a "spoiler" , if anyone is able to tell me )
And networks in particular. Been spending the last 6 hours or so trying to get my fucking computer to access the internet. It all started a few days ago when I couldn't get out and I had to fuck around with static IPs and crap to get it to work. This might not sound much, but when you're totally worthless with technology to the point that your roommate hardly lets you use the remote to the TV it's hard as hell. Now a couple of days later my computer decided to refuse to acknowledge the existence of that weird thing that's more commonly known as "the internet". Two trips to the computer store, a new network setup and some very annoying bitching with my (very aggressive, rude and overall not very trustying) firewall later I've got my internet back. My guess is that the problem was the the old network was set up by some really fucking stupid 17 y/o (me, anno 2003) without any computer knowledge what so ever and the motto; "If you can't solve it with violence, try more violence. Or duck tape". You'd be amazed of what kinds of cables you can fit into different kinds of sockets using a decent knife to prepare them.
I would like to ask liquid players, if have succesfully solved Ongame(Bwin) PT3 problem, after they´ve upgraded new software and new PT3 Beta version 28.2 was installed. In my case - HUD is not displaying and PT3 is switching off in few seconds after first actual hand import... :-(
Thanks for your opinions... (PT3 support have not answered me yet)
Finally switching from fr to 6m. Played maybe 10k hands at 6m my entire "career" or whatev. Going to be starting at nl25 + some nl50. If you are at like nl25/50/100 and want to chat/discuss hands, aim me at xxBalloonFight1xx. (take out the x's)
So anyway im not exactly sure but somehow I ended up playing poker vs some dude live
at wattamolla. + Show Spoiler +
Watamolla is an awesome place at national park where we used to go all the time
when we wanted to go to the beach. It has A lagoon and ocean. So the water in lagoon is much warmer
and has no waves so we usually swim in there. Plus there is a cliff from where you can jump off.
Heres a pic
[spoiler]http://spets1.googlepages.com/watamolla.jpg
So we're playing poker live on the rocks next to the water in cave kinda arrangement.
Im not up or down very much and we have played only a few hands. So im trying to figure out
what kind of opponent this is. TAG, LAG, loose passive, maniac or something else. So im like alright
lets get the stats on this guy, so im trying to get my HEM stats but wtf the game is live and
i cannot do that LOL.
Then the wind blows and all the cards go flying. We collect them and he wants
to continue playing but im like: dude lets recount the cards. So we figure out that half the deck is missing.
At this point i just look around next to the water and i see this HUGE fish swimming and im like
OMFG what a huge FISH! It looked like this http://spets1.googlepages.com/NFI2162.jpg
I did not realise this in the dream but thats pretty funny cos that huge fish appeared in my poker dream lol!!
Talking about metaphores.
What happened after that i dont remember. But i remember that i was waking up and i was like damnit
i want to continue on my dream but it was too late... i was awake.
posted about getting my dream car last year and two days ago, i made it happen!
after weeks of searching, i was very lucky to find an old korean gentleman in Houston, Texas (5 hours away) whose goal is to get the deal done as cheaply as possible for his customers (who are mostly korean) because he loves his country and the brand he is selling (serious). he basically shaves off all of his own profit (he apparently only gets paid around 100 per car he sells).
i put down 10k at first but then the finance people were being kind of rough about financing so i put down an additional $3000 to shut them up and get a more appealing APR. that plus a $500 bonus that the korean salesman managed to pull off somehow.
the man is like 75 years old and has three children who are successful professionals but he still works because he loves what he does for his customers.
the other salespeople at the dealership did appear appalled at what he was trying to do, and tried to raise the price at every opportunity while i was trying to sign (like adding $1500 to the total price between negotiations and signing. mysteriously, with NO explanation. and when i asked them wtf that was, he just said, "hmm... i don't know how that got there. i'll take it off for you." -___-;; ). but in the end, they cut the korean salesman a lot of slack because he brings a TON of business to the dealership from the korean population.
without further ado,
the car:
2010 Genesis Coupe 2.0 Turbo
Nordeshleife gray
$28k including tax, title and license (most other buyers pay over 30k for this specific trim)
Track Trim - Infinity premium audio, proxy key entry with push-button start, sunroof, PLUS leather seats, 19 in. alloy wheels, Brembo braking system, track-tuned suspension, Torsen LSD, HID Xenon Headlights
shitty picture quality does not do the car justice:
17K Hands today, +7.4BI Good Startby Joeingram1, July 01
Played 3 sessions today, first 2 were short and sweet and went well, was up 6 BI. last session tonight games were super good but just couldn't get anything going and was down 6-7 BI seemed for hours. Low point was 1.3k down but ended up the session after 13k hands +77 and total for the day 733 with around 7k vpp
Feeling pretty confident so far that I will be able to get to 10k profit pretty easy, as long as I can avoid the -2k sessions which I know are going to happen. Was playing like a fucking psycho tonight with crazy 3bet, I have been able to calm it down lately and win every session but tonight just couldn't contain myself. Need to really work on that hard for this month.
I also ended up booking 2k more against me making it to 10k at nl100 so i have 5k+ extra incentive to get there and not let anything get in the way. So sore right now, my first long session in awhile!
bonus hand of the day
Submitted by : Joeingram1
PokerStars Game #29994715648: Holdem No Limit ($0.50/$1.00) - 2009/07/01 17:09:33 CT [2009/07/01 18:09:33 ET]
Table Gehrels V 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: ren4444 ($101.05 in chips)
Seat 2: liadmo ($108.70 in chips)
Seat 3: Maciek K ($98 in chips)
Seat 4: nitzan123 ($159.20 in chips)
Seat 5: Hero ($216.05 in chips)
Seat 6: crafty thrak ($105.95 in chips)
Seat 7: ryang421 ($124.10 in chips)
Seat 8: Chiren80 ($101.50 in chips)
Seat 9: royal_ja ($88.50 in chips)
nitzan123: posts small blind $0.50
Hero: posts big blind $1
nitzan123: bets $4
Hero: raises $10 to $14
nitzan123: raises $21 to $35
Hero: calls $21
Turn (Pot : $76.00)
nitzan123: bets $38
Hero: raises $140.05 to $178.05 and is all-in
nitzan123: folds
Uncalled bet ($140.05) returned to Hero
Hero collected $149 from pot
Hero: doesnt show hand
Summary Total pot $152 | Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: ren4444 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 2: liadmo folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: Maciek K (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: nitzan123 (small blind) folded on the Turn
Seat 5: Hero (big blind) collected ($149)
Seat 6: crafty thrak folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 7: ryang421 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 8: Chiren80 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 9: royal_ja folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Thoughts: I had been playing pretty solidly this month. I've been getting more confident in making moves with seemingly reckless abandon, where the majority of regs would rather lay down their hands rather than try to deal with me. The spots I choose to shit on people continue to be refined and with 75000 more hands under my belt, I should be able to completely master this level. however my leaks need more attention than my offense.
Its difficult to play straight when running super super fricken bad in the past week. I am now 10 buyins under expectation. I expect this to happen. I respect and welcome the almighty doomswitch. I did not expect it to hit me so intensely early in my 100nl experience.
Its not the suckouts that get me, a 3 second King Kong f-bomb quickly dismisses the transgression against his holiness. What gets me is throwing away a buy-in because of TILT, more specifically, the inability to channel the patient fearless decision maker within and follow through with His order. When I lose touch with this beast of a poker player, I become The Mummy whose immortality has been swept away by the King's ghosts.
I've been through this before on lower stakes and to my delight, it hurts only at about a 33% pain level of the first time I ever experienced something like this. But its a prolonged dull pain. Today, July 1st, I run almost -2bi under expectation. Mark my words July, I'm going to explode all over you.
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I'm sooo looking forward to this trip. One of my main goals there is to gamble it up in a casino for the first time in my life. 
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