Today I had my last exam in this semester. I had it in the afternoon so before it I had been learning it. I passed and decided to celebrate it in the evening. So I and my friends went to cinema. We chose new horror Drag Me to Hell. It was more funny then scary so it was good show and we laugh all the time. Then we went to pub and when we were only two we decided to go to poker club. We had good mood and we enjoyed it despite we both finished break even.
I didn’t play any session today and I’m not sure if I will play tomorrow because we have another big party in the evening. So maybe in the afternoon...
So if any of you have read my blog, I decided to accept the job offer after reading the contract, since it seemed excellent: experience-wise (for my future), moneywise, and developmentwise.
So we're gonna start off with a long distance relationship, its only an hour flight and if I manage to get the hang of the things quickly I might be able to work in Stockholm 3-4 days a week, and work 1-2 days in Malmö and live in my girlfriends apartment.
Pokerwise, might be going on a mtt staking deal.
Btw, does anybody know why pocketfives is missing some scores?
Here are some pics from midsummer in Sweden, 4 of my best friends and I held a party for about 20 people. The theme was "färgglatt med hatt" - which means "Colorful with a hat"
"Tiny" is the nickname of a 300lb. black man who regularly plays 1/2 and 2/5 at Harrah's New Orleans. Needless to say, he's not one to be pushed around.
he's one of those players who sort of has a clue about the relative strength of hands, but at times he does weird, unexplainable shit like taking pot control lines with hands like JK on a JJ9 multiway flop as the preflop raiser. he'll also act on instinct and whim like every other live pro out there, so he can appear to be a total maniac at times.
well he lost that JK hand to 99, and afterwards, he went off on ragetilt preflop, raising like 50% of hands. i stacked him with KK once after that in a 3bet pot, in which he c/r me all in on a 432 flop.
a few hands later he raised to 15 pre and i bumped it to 45 with JKo, ~$400 effective because he needs to know he's not going to shit on the whole table without hearing from me. he called and the flop came 924r. i cbet $50 and he called. turn was a harmless deuce and he checked to me, saying "you don't have a deuce, i check". rofl no shit sherlock. i looked over at his stack and fired $100 and he folded. i showed my KJo and he said that i had him beat. yeah i'm sure i did -__-;;
well about 30 mins later, he raised 67o utg to $10 and i was sitting to his direct left and woke up with AA (lol). i 3bet to $35. everyone folded and he shoved like $250 over the top and i snap called. well the board ran out T9xx8 and he busted my aces. rofl what the fuck ok no biggie, deal the next hand.
he raises to $20, $500 effective and i flat call my AKhh cuz i'd hate my life if he 4bet me (if i had a more comfortable br, i'd probably 3bet and get it in). well the flop comes A64hh (lol... ding?) and he cbets $50 and i think for a bit and call. turn is an offsuit 8 and he insta fires $150. haha ok so he obviously likes his hand and hates my guts so he's not gunna go anywhere. even though the stack sizes were kind of awkward i pushed him all in and he SNAP called with A9o.
the river was 9c gg 1k pot
T___T
after that hand i just kind of shrugged it off and restrained myself from pulling out more money cuz i was obviously affected by how gay the night was. i spent 8 fucking hours so i could build a stack and win that one crucial pot of the night. i put it in as a huge favorite and i lost.
i shook tiny's hand when he offered it to me, smiled, and after joking and laughing with him about the hand and the games tonight, i stacked up my chips and left the table. i dunno... i didn't think i could play optimally any more after suffering two ridiculous beats within an hour. i cashed out $206. counting the $6 spent on the hot dog, my total winnings for the night was $12, or $1.50 an hour
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on the 1 hr drive home, i kept telling myself, "if i can't handle being shit on by whatever the fuck is in charge of dealing out miracles on the river, i need to quit poker and go find a minimum wage job"
Been a couple of weeks since I graduated so now I can finally focus a bit on poker and having fun. Moved three weeks ago with my gf to a two bedroom place which is nice since I can have my own office here. Will post pics of apartment later.
I'm going to US in two weeks where I'll be in new york, pennsylvania and washington. If you guys have any must sees you know in washington/new york please tell me. Hopefully will visit fazi in london before I go to us as well but that depends if I can get my passport very soon since idiot gb isn't a part of the schengen cooperation.
Been playing very little poker the last months due to moving/having a lot to do in school before graduation. But have obv been running good as usual up about 10bi in 6k hands which is nice since im rebuilding at a new site after I moved from ongame since they switched to the most horrible software I've seen. Probably won't be playing much this summer anyway as usual.
gl to everyone in vegas, especially the biggest us hero out there - evan
Well, it isn't the end of the month yet, but since I turned 22 2 days ago I might as well update now.
Quoting from the June goals thread:
On June 01 2009 03:31 Naib wrote:
[] Spiking my last few exams
[] Put in sick volume into learning, not just playing poker (I will finally have time, and I think I can get somewhere for once)
[] Score Platinum Star, if all goes well maybe I can Supernova it this year but that's a far-fetch. I need to jump limits for that so the poker gods should favor me.
[x] Keep up going to the gym 2-4 times a week (it already shows and I can feel the difference, too).
[] Snatch this summer job teaching chess for small children.
[] Actively look for opportunities getting my driver's license
[] English oral exam (I failed with like 2% last time, while I almost aced the written part). This is urgent.
Last two are more like "over the course of the summer" but better start preparing right now, after the exams are over (2 weeks, ONE TIME PLZ).
[x] SUCCESS
[] FAIL. I hardly played poker because I'm still busy it seems (wtf ). A lot of time spent with poker were put into reading articles though - half-success.
[] EPIC FAIL. I can forget about that.
[x] EPIC WIN. "Ripped Nerd Baller" is what Tasteless would say about me (well not quite there yet but on the way )
[] FAIL. Haha well who cares.
[x] WIN. One of my friends hooked me up with some cheap opportunity, and I also started practicing on our car with my father.
[] FAIL - so far at least. I really didn't bother looking into that yet.
Birthday: I degen'd it up and used the money I earned with hard work last year to buy myself an X-box, 2 controllers, and SFIV. Needless to say my friend (whom I go to the gym with) was pretty happy to hear that, haha. We've been melting each other's face ever since.
* DRUMROLL *
If you read the June goals thread, I updated it later with "Need to score this awesomely hot girl" or something.
Well
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[X] SUCCESS. Wow fuck yeah. She's a real hottie and I'm the luckiest guy on Earth (even though this is hardly a relationship but I don't feel the need to blog about that here, sorry guys )
(Yes it looks like it's cut right out from Playboy or whatever else because it actually WAS photo-shot for and published in a men's magazine. Now you can envy me bitches .)
All in all: I might be scared to play a ton of poker because I'm running way EV+ in life atm - afraid that Poker would go EV- wise
after almost two months of not playing my a-game a.k.a "running bad" (lol), i finally decide to go to vegas anyway and get out of this city im in, i think staying here after what's happened over the last two months IRL has really mindfucked me in a way i have never experienced before. this trip will most probably help me realize how small - i am, where i live, and how insignificant my problems are. travelling does that to me. plus the fact that i get to meet some, if not most lepers in vegas is something really huge for me, i mean, ive been posting here and msning some for over 2 years now, and meeting them for the first time will probably be quite something . im trying to sell the car i bought last march coz really i feel that fucking car has doomswitched my life since buying it, so yeah that thing has got to go. hope to see you guys there in vegas 2 days from now. i need the good "omen"
So I'll be spending the rest of the day tomorrow moving into my new pad w/ a bunch of friends from high school which I'm really stoked about especially since I get the master which is like 30x25ft or something similarly ridiculous. After that spending the day w/ my parents then driving out to Vegas to play some side games chill w/ some friends and play the main event. Thinking about playing either the 1500$ or the 5k$ 6max tourney also, not sure, have to see how it goes. Anyways, if anybody who's cool is gonna be in Vegas also drop me a PM or whatever. I'm definitely gonna go to the Leggo party and probably be grabbing drinks with a few other friends while I'm there. Gonna be there the 26th until, well, I guess however long I last in the ME, at least a week, maybe two or three. Let me know.
Ever moved two stakes in one month?by CrownRoyal, June 24
I started this month with 7.5k in my cake account which isn't all of the money I have, but it's all the money im going to dedicate to it. I have money saved away for dire straits and some money invested to get familiar with it and for fun but enough ranting. My account has 3k now.
what the fuck is going on, im not playing irrationally, i'm not playing out of my br and im putting in huge hours now that im concerned about my well being considering ive been way irresponsible with poker up until now and never put in good hours and always made good money.
I hate it when people do this and I think for the most part people exaggerate but I'm almost positive if I take the time to look in HEM and prove it ive won one race in the past 10k hands, my big hands always lose to implied odds hands like 77 or 67s in crucial spots where I can't really fold etc and I'm not getting any action on any of my good hands that I'm definitely getting.
I really dont want to move down to nl50 but I need to cashout the minimum im gonna need to pay my bills/buy groceries and I dunno if I can do all of that. The only good thing in all of this is that i can't handle losing and i'll play 200k hands if that's what it takes to continue but fuck i hate my life right now. I really just want to go to bed and fuck my bitch that I don't have but instead im sobering up from going to the water with my friends today to handle losing 500 more and im gonna play poker. Thank lee jones for rakeback, it's the only thing I'm playing for.
Taaaaaking a break, from playing!by dahornnn, June 23
Well looking back over my HH etc and the time stamps of my sessions it has occured to me that as of late i only ever have time to play when im busy doing work stuff and 8 tabling, or im playing at a rediciulous time whilst tired, so my focus is gone and i miss simple things like 'this guys a nit..' and even things as retarded as eff stack sizes jus a scroll of the mouse wheel and a click of bet raise check or fold, no thinking which isnt good. So, ive decided i will stop playing untill i can effectively sort myself out and have free hours during the day when i am at maximum focus w/o distractions which would probably take q a while so for now ive cashed out what was left of my roll. A bonus that comes out of this, i still get the beauty of going over HH on LP and i can spend my time studying poker when im tired instead of playing (has to be slightly more effective in the long run no?). Also wondering if anyone is up for letting me rail them through migoko or something so i can get an insight intoa 'higher stakes' player than my experience.
gglgllgLP
p.s if anyone recommends any good books/articles/shit to read plz let me know
I'll send first to anyone reputable. PM me or post or whatever. There's a couple people that can vouch for me, if you're not reputable and you want to xfer.
Thanks.
Mike
Before I get into my new prop bet I am trying to come up with I will update my day for those who have started reading my blog again. I will answer some of my comments from yesterday at the end also. I started yesterday with about 4.3k online after this awful month/-52 BI session so far and the graph I posted early yesterday I had been 24 tabling nl50 6 max and nl200 6max/fr. I put in a nl100 Fr session later after i woke up from nap and towards the end played some more nl50 6 max. I will say the day went very well http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/0ef0aa3eadcd34325a6e3e15c2e121a8.jpg
At the end I decided to play some nl50 fr and start a buncha tables and play like 9 HU at once lol tilted like a mother fucker though but overall am very happy with the day and my recovery.
Onto my newest prop bet idea and really would like some suggestions from you guys. The original idea a friend proposed was 50k hands nonstop at full-ring with positive winrate. With my really good results I have been having at 6 max the past few months 24 tabling I thought why not 50k hands in 1 day/24 hours at 6 max. I haven't really crunched the numbers to hard yet but it would be about 29 hours 24 tabling fast tables at full ring and 6 max I believe i get about 2100ish hands playing a mix of normal/fast tables but I am positive I could do all 6 max fast tables very easily so need to find out an exact hourly number but it should end up being 23 hours straight 24 tabling fast 6 max. I am pretty sure 50k 1 day sounds more impressive but what do you guys think would be best to try out. Obv would use webcam, stars verification and all the same things from my last prop. Am pretty sure I would do it at a combination of nl25-nl100 also. Would be aiming to do this late July/early August depending on my bankroll online and probably would look for 3-1/4-1 in odds but am not really sure about this number, hopefully you guys will have some good suggestions on this. I def think with my recent graph of me losing 52 BI i could get action on this lol.
Some answers to comments I have gotten recently, my stats for 24 tabling 6 max started out at 19/16 but have gotten it up to 23/19/8 percent 3bet which I'm not really sure if this is nitty/tag or what it would be considered but hopefully will be able to open my game up a little bit more.
I'm not positive my ptbb/100 at nl50 6 max because I have fr/6m hands combined in my database but I'm pretty sure its around 8ptbb/100 over 80kish hands so far.
As far as what my setup i currently play on its 2 24's and 1 other monitor thats hooked up to other computer for music/movies/tv shows and can just dedicate my living room computer to poker. Going to be upgrading my chair asap for my upcoming volume prop bets. Sorry crappy pic
Good session turns into dumb sessionby BalloonFight, June 23
So I was playing 12 tables and having a pretty nice session and then I got into 2 pretty big pots equaling more than a buyin when my internet discs. Annoyingly it wouldn't work for the rest of the night so I had to end the session prematurely. Really frustrating to blow a buyin there when I had the nuts on one table and almost certainly was going to win the other hand as well. Luckily I still ended up for the night but meh.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/11e886eb596b8c68455d7f2dd6aed931.jpg
My best month to date, also the most poker i've every played, currently at 105 hours for the month, i feel im playing my A game. Finally moved up to NL50, things are good. Bonus's are getting smashed, Rakeback is grrowing. Menz are getting smashed on the ball court (i wanna be able to dunk by the end of July) and inside the Muay Thai ring. I'm also joining Hyi_vams of PokerStars first poker school, hes a sick 2/4, 3/6, 5/10++ Pro. Anyway i went to his first class and hes basically promising us he'll teach us to beat 1/2 NL, BUT we must take a staking deal with him after the course is finished. So we have to sign a contract at the beginning of the course stating we will take a staking deal with him at the completion of the course and another contract at the completion of the course stating are staking terms. If we refuse, he wants to charge 4k for the coaching. I think he can really elevate my game, seems like a win-win situation for me. Classes start when hes back from the Main event in Vegas. Im pretty confident this guy will turn me into a sick baller
Summer is here and the broads are wearing less and less every day. I think this summer i'll wife a latin and white bitch, i had an asian one last summer so i gotta switch it up.
Run goooooooooooood one timeeeeeeeby Cooper83, June 23
Just got a callback on the application I sent in. It's a really good company to work for sick sick benefits, but there looking for someone with more experience. I do however know a couple people that have some pull there so you never know. The HR rep also mentioned they weren't having a lot of luck finding someone with more experience so hopefully I run good one time and get the job because that would be awesome. On the poker side of things I was mid session when she called so had to close it down, it was going pretty well, no big hands to post. Reverted back to what was profitable which is basically just abuse the idiots at the table and stop getting cute and trying to outplay people. The adjustment was needed and while it's a bit nittier then I will need to play at higher limits it crushes 25nl because they just call call call regardless of image. Anyway I'll probably play another session later and if I have some big losers that aren't total setups or suckouts I'll be sure to post for some criticism.
My buddy offered me 150 bucks to get me to convince the girls to ditch out on their plans that night and stay out on the boat longer, I was so close to closing the deal when her friend called and bitched her out. >_< asshat. I don't have a picture of the other girl that came with, I have a video on my phone but it's too big to straight up send to my email I guess, which is pretty gay because she's pretty fucking hot, drunk, and dancing to rap music in it. aka epiccccc xD
In all it was a fucking great day, It's pretty relaxing not worry about grinding anymore. With school around the corner I might just take an extended break. I'm probably going to be hitting up the lake again today, I'll post some more pictures if you guys are interested I guess.
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up about 10bi in 6k hands which is nice since im rebuilding at a new site after I moved from ongame since they switched to the most horrible software I've seen. Probably won't be playing much this summer anyway as usual.
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