so fed up right now. Always happens the same way play a bunch of solid sessions one after the other and build up only to piss it away in a single big losing session. I'm just wasting my time. Every time like I feel like I'm getting footing again I get the rug pulled from under me. I've been thinking about quitting for a while now and just cashing everything out -_-
Amanda and I build this gingerbread house all by ourselves. We each decorated one side of the house, guess which side is mine? And yes i know we did this on Christmas, but i just founds the pics now. Just 4 more weeks of school and i get 4 months off!!! WEEEEEEEEEEE..... I plan to play a tournament every day and get atleast 21 hours a week in playing poker.
6hours/day on tables average + at least 2 with reading etc.
I went from destructive nitting on iPoker (That site is unplayable NL2) to Pokerstars, which became my home and I don't even think about leaving.
I played mostly 4 tables all the time, and experienced many aspects of microstakes poker. I even had a massive 1/3 BR downswing once, which helped me to lift my play incredibly.
I started using technical approach towards ranges using tracker and Stove since the downswing, and concepts of many hands suddenly came into my mind. This showed me how to adjust to all opponents, what are my odds for c/bets and also all those awkward calls which I wouldn't make before if I wasn't the favourite in that hand (Ie. I was not calling many +ev situations)
It was all nice, but the improvement in understanding poker made me even more angry about the idiocy at NL2, where you can't really be sure about ranges at all, and I have developed a very weird patterns.
I Watched how the stupidest players were bluffing and have done the same for the nuts (ie. just call a small raise with set and then push it all-in on turn with huge success), and I have imitated many stupid moves like that, which are very profitable at this stake.
This made me SICK, and I decided today that I have had enough of NL2.
Having learned from my mistakes though, I know I couldn't go around by BR management. I set myself a goal of 30x 100bb BI's for nl5. I was close once before the major downswing, but again I am very grateful that I could experience it before moving up.
My day started normally, I went to 4 tabling as usual, posting losing hands here and counting equity for hands I wasn't so sure about. A learning mode you would say.
As the day progressed and I saw I go above 10BB/100 I increased the number of tables up to 9 and started grinding. I made myself a huge bowl of rice, put on some loud HipHop shiz to my 5.1 speaker system and went for the longest grind so far.
I reached about $148 and than it happened, I started to get tired as hell and whats worse, I didn't resist to the urge to check cashier every 5 minutes now, so hard I wanted to be on $150.
What followed is not surprising, I opened my range and started bluffing too much and I went down to $143 at one point.
I started to get fucking angry, and I realised that I can't play intelligent open game anymore
I was slowly adding tables, until I got to number 18, and started ultra hardcore nitting. http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/500/tablesd.jpg
And Guess what, Its much easier to find the total idiots on NL2 this way. After exhausting grind I Stacked off with some nice sets and once one full BI with Ace high and... I DID IT! http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/5765/cashier.png
$150 At least ! :D
As an ending note I would like to thank you all on Liquidpoker for your amazing support, the constructive criticism and advice I have recieved has been priceless.
I am going to take a break from poker for couple of days as I am so exhausted right now, and when I come back I will taste NL5 with 5BI max loss limit.
As some of you know I dont visit this site anymore and I have a blog some other place and this is a copy of my last post there:
Obama's economy plan is failing hard on soo many levels. They are basically violating every possible rule set out by free market.
After the previous administration failed so hard by saving special interest and bailing out loosing companies on wall street now Obama, who is screaming change on top of his lungs, not only doing the same crap job as before but only more of it. Not letting the capitalism and free market doing its job its about the worse thing you can do. Saving out loosing companies. Creating zombies by injecting money to failed banks and companies. Buying assets that no one wants. And the latest trying to regulate CEO's pays! When are they going to learn? The system will only work if you let the bad ones loose. If you keep bailing out and helping loosers and those who make bad decisions you are not only discouraging productive people you are doing massive damage to the system.
It might sound tough. But people who made bad decisions HAVE TO live on the streets and get kicked out. People who are 50 year of age and screwing bolts at GM plants at $50/hour HAVE TO loose their job. CEO's who manage billions of dollars HAVE TO get 10+mil/year pay to stay motivated. Just because some lazy ass idiot didn't go to school and get an education and get fooled by some mortgage broker is on the street doesn't mean that EVERYONE in the country has to cut back on their lives. If people who make bad decisions don't pay who will be motivated to make good decisions? What happened to moral hazard?
Why Obama is doing EXACTLY the same as Bush? Postponing the problem by creating zombie companies wont solve the problem it will only make things worse. Helping poors and bad decision makers has never solved anything it will only make things worse.
@wisdom. The way he is going I doubt he will be able to adjust in later times. Running huge deficits. Bailing out companies and ganging public against them. Trying to save countless of useless unproductive jobs. The economy is trying to get rid of trash and goverment doesn't let it. What makes people think all these will be easier to do in the future?
As I said somewhere I was supposed to play 30k hands of 2/4 before moving up to get my bank roll a little bit bigger and my self esteem back on track. It went pretty well overall I guess:
Let's see if I can keep up with like +4ptbb/100 on 3/6. Don't really think so but not sure. Might be able too if I table select a lot and only play 4 tables.
Urch need to find fixings!!!!by GP.Xelnaga, March 15
So i started out bad today, went down, got it up to 200$ but then got coolerd so bad and the other players hit everything or donkhitting vs my overs, making me go down again from 220$ to -zero :s
Luckily i hardly steam anymore, wich i think saves me soooo much money.
Still, my session today: my won without showdown is sooo bad, especially today. I had problems with the following: always 3people calling my bets, low pp getting cracked a lot or reraised. With more than 3ppl when i don't hit anything it's hard, even if i have a draw and don't hit, and bet flop/turn or check check, they always call. Secondly, donks leading into the flop when i know they're weak,they do this oop, but always call a reraise on flop . I don't improve on the turn and have basically A high, but can't get them out of the hand. Players betting small oop on flop/turn really make it hard for me.
Well here are stats, could use a LOT of advice....
I started this blog... Since then Ive come a long way and have enjoyed the help Ive received from LP a ton. Im very fortunate to have found LP when I did and I dont think Id be the same player or person if I hadnt
I figured Id post about whats going on in my life in terms of poker and other things
Ive been coaching a fair bit lately and have some very interesting students that Im working with, all LP members.
If you want to apply for coaching from me my rate is 200/h and just PM me for further details
Aside from poker school is coming to an end soon (thank god) and it will be summer here in Ontario which means tons of golfing finalllllllly
Ive also become really interested in Day Trading and have ordered a bunch of books on the subject from amazon... If anyone knows a lot about the subject or is a professional day trader pm me and maybe we can exchange some coaching or just chat about day trading and poker
Ive also been looking into buying a condo and have put offers in on a couple places, I will probably end up buying one before the end of the month so thats kinda exciting
Last but not least after a shitty breakeven Feb I started off March on a nice heater only to watch a big ds occur after that... Im just pulling outta that one now and hope this nice little run of late continues..
I am not doing anything drasticly wrong but here and there I try to make a play when I really know I shouldnt.. When I get it in good, they draw out and when I get it in bad (with monsterdraws etc) I cant hit. Dont know if I should take some days of or something.
Lesson learned: dont take unnecessary risks when you are on a downswing (play a bigswing style).
BR rule: Before I thought of going up to NL600 when I reached 20k but I think I need to change that to 25k (the swings are pretty big already on NL400)
Newest purchase: A new laptop so I can grind from anywhere in the world this summer
actually they are 2 songs
anyone got em?
1st one is Sebastien Leger - Bambou mushed up with another one but dunno what
2nd one is Starkillers - Discoteka but dunno what mix ...
I was excited yesterday when my downswing started because I saw it as an opportunity. I'd spent time thinking about how I would handle a downswing and here was my chance to apply it. Considering that I want to be a NL200 reg, dealing with NL200 downswings and the new level of money being lost was a big mental hump that I knew I'd have to get over, and here was my chance to do it.
My plan was to stick to my 3 buyin stop loss, and once I felt I was running like total shit I'd move down to NL100 6max and NL50 HU. I also planned to take breaks where I'd do walks, exercise, and just mental examination to get back into a good mindframe.
I stuck to my plan very well. First session I dropped nearly 3 buyins, then recovered to a 1.5 buyin loss. Thought it might just be a small dip and not the real downswing. Took a break and when I was feeling good and confident I did another session. This one just kicked my ass. Floated around 2 buyins lost and then had a rush of big hands where I got coolered / sucked out on and suddenly I was down 4.5 buyins, so I quit.
This is where I made my mistake. I took a break and told myself I would do 1 more 3 buyin stop loss session of NL200 and if it went bad I'd move down. I wasn't convinced that I was running bad or that I'd keep running bad. At that point I should have moved down to NL100 or quit for the day. So I've adjusted my plan to be more specific for dealing with downswings - from now on if I have 2 sessions in a row where I run like total shit then I will conclude I am starting a downswing and will either A) quit for the day or B) Move down at least 1 limit. And by definition a session always has a 3buyin stop loss.
I went back and did the third session and got rapeddddd. Same type of thing. Was down by 2 buyins really quick, floated there for a while, then hit some big hands that I thought would bring me into the green but lost in setups/beats and suddenly I was down a little more than 4 buyins on the session, so I quit. And I felt like shit, because it was suddenly very obvious to me that a 3rd NL200 session was idiotic. You can't beat variance when it decides to shit on you. I've learned this lesson before. I've moved down limits really fast before. But I didn't do it this time. It was stupid.
So the first lesson learned is that I need a better "dealing with a downswing" plan. Here it is for future reference.
1) Always follow a 3 buyin stop loss - don't feel like you need to hit 3 to quit though, it's fine to quit at 2.
2) After quitting a bad session don't check your BR or to see how much you lost. Just review hands and then take a break. Use the break time to take a walk, exercise, watch poker videos, play video games, go out with the GF, and overall get into a good mindframe. It's ok to take the rest of the day off if you can't get mentally solid again.
3) If you have 2 sessions in a row where you run like total dog shit, accept the fact that you're downswinging. Move down immediately. There's nothing wrong with playing a few thousand hands at a lower limit till things are going well again. Don't feel like you need to keep playing - quitting for the day is a great option. But if you do play more you need to move down. And when you come back for your next session, whether it's the same day or 3 days later, play it at a lower limit.
That's the first lesson. The second is much trickier and has been identified for a while now, but I still don't fully understand the root of the problem and I have very few ideas on how to fix it.
What I've realized is that I'm doing the exact opposite of what I should. I play too much when losing and too little while winning. I don't know why this happens. I do know that when I am having winning session after winning session they keep getting shorter. As soon as I win 2-3 buyins I stop. The reason I stop is because suddenly I get distracted, sometimes I get nerves in my gut, or I get apathetic, but overall my mental state wanes. I don't feel 100% in the game, I don't feel like I'm on my A game, so I quit.
On the other side, when I start a session and lose a buyin or break even for 500 hands, if I'm playing well then I am eager to keep playing for at least another 500 hands. I want to grind. I don't get any feelings other than a desire to be more aware and play even better. Eventually if I lose too much or take too many beats, I start to tilt, but my first reaction to a losing session is a passion to play more and better.
I need to switch those things around. I need my body and mind to get that drive to play more and better when I win 2-3 buyins so that I keep grinding. I need my body and mind to get those butterflies, nerves and apathy when I lose 1-3 buyins so that I stop. I've created these mental associations that are deep and ingrained in my body and they are triggered by circumstances at the poker table, and when they are triggered they affect my play and my stamina. I need to figure out why they were created in the first place and then I need to switch them, because playing too much while losing and too little while winning is my biggest leak right now.
I think that a big part of why I stop playing after winning a few buyins is that I am scared to lose it. I look at the profit and think "oh that's a nice winning session, might as well stop now cause I'll feel like shit if I lose it all in the next 100 hands and then quit at break even". I'm too worried about variance and not thinking at all about the long term. I'm far too focused on short term results. And I'm far too scared to lose money. I shouldn't even be thinking about how much I win or lose in any given session. It's not important.
To combat that I have a few ideas and am open to any suggestions you guys may have.
1) Don't check my BR or HEM results after a winning session. Right now I won't check that stuff after a losing session, but if I think I won money I am eager to close down the tables and see how the session went. Then I stare at it for a while and get a big boner. Then I look at my month long graph to see how the line is going and start to cum. lol. Seriously though, it's bad. From now on I'm going to check results at most 1 time a day, which will be in the morning. I will go to bed without looking at my results and when I wake up in the morning I'll check to see how I did the previous day. And that's at MOST - I am going to try going several days without checking results.
2) Refocus on the long term. At the end of the day the BR will go up and down and up and down, but if you play well it will go up more often than down and the end result is a bigger BR. I know this. I've seen this. And I've played with a long term mentality for most of my poker career. I lost that the last 10 days or so. I need to focus on one hand at a time and making sure that I play every single one perfectly. I need to focus on putting in the hours. It doesn't matter if I have 5 winning sessions in a row or 5 losing sessions in a row, because the only way I'm really going to make money is by playing LOTS of sessions. A heater is just the same as a downswing, I'm making the same amount of money even if my BR is going up fast or slow. A downswing is just variance taking back what I earned when I didn't deserve it, and a heater is variance giving back what I lost when I shoulda won it. They balance each other out in the end. It reminds me of a poem I used to recite to myself a lot because it was a list of life lessons. It's called "If" by Rudyard Kipling and the part I'm thinking of is:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
Those two impostors. We always focus on learning how to deal with horrible times, painful downswings, and how to not let that type of thing affect us. But we don't ever focus on dealing with the good times, the heaters. The ability to treat a heater and a downswing exactly the same is what I want. Don't get all giddy about all the money won on a heater just like I shouldn't get all depressed by money lost in a downswing. Treat them the same.
Alright, that's all I can think of for now. Comments would be greatly appreciated, and definitely want to hear any suggestions that come to mind!
For now I'm going to do NL100 for a bit. I think I'll aim to win 10 buyins before moving back up but I'm not going to be too solid on that. Basically I'll wait till I feel confident and am playing well and am not running like shit. I'm still well rolled for NL200 so it's all good.
Meh, since I ran like absolute crap yesterday and I think it´s a good idea to get a bit de-tilted, I decided to make this way long due trip report. It's been about two weeks since I went on my snowboarding trip with the family but since poker been going so well since I returned, I didn't take the time to type this. I guess Jason thought it had been long enough and emailed Pokerstars to activate my doomswitch so I'd type my trip report so I hope this will make me run good again.
Anyways, we left for our destination friday night on February the 20th, Nauders in Austria. We had some problems earlier with the snow (basically, just having no snow) when we went on skiing vacation in villages located lower in the mountains so we decided to go to a village that was placed quite high into the mountains this year. Nauders is placed around 1600m above sea level and the highest peak you can get to with the lifts is around 3100m above sea level. There hasn't been any snow problems in these mountains for over 20 years so we assumed we'd be ok. The village was extremely close to both the Swiss and Italian border and we could even take a bus to places in those countries to enjoy some of the mountains over there.
I know the order in which I'm doing this so far makes little sense but this is my first trip report ever, so bear with me. Let's do a little bit of an introduction first. I went on vacation with my dad's side of the family (divorced parents). So, my dad, little sister and brother and my stepmom and her kid and me ofcourse.
So, we'll go from left to right (kind of speaks for itself but whatever, for the slow people I guess): Me, my little sister (17) and my little brother (13). My dad isn't on this pic because he took it so I guess I'll grab another pic to show him.
So, now you met my family, I guess we can take off with this trip report. As I said before, we left at the night of 20th February. It was during the holiday season so that basically means that every-freaking-body is going on a skiing trip. So we expected some big traffic jams along the way and since we could enter the hotel rooms at around 14:00 in the afternoon, we decided to leave around 23:00 at night. Once we left we soon found out that not a lot of people thought it was a good idea to leave at 23:00 and therefore, it actually was a good idea since we didn't get into any traffic jam in the way over there. Because of that though, we did end up getting there way too early so we couldn't put our bagage in the hotel room yet when we got there. Whatever, around 08:00 we decided to get into our skiing outfit in the hotel bathroom and took our ski/board out of the car and went down to the mountain to check it out. The mountain was very nice and although it wasn't extremely large, it was big enough and there was almost no queue for getting onto the lift which was very nice. Since it was just the first day and we were quite tired from the trip we bought a 1-day pass to only a couple of the smaller lifts and just got back into the groove after not boarding for a year. Damn, I wish I'd live in some mountainside area and could board every day I want to... Anyways, we all got back into it a little bit and from sunday to friday we'd have an all mountain pass for all the lifts (including the lifts nearby in Swiss and Italy) so that was all good. That evening we went to eat early and I decided to call it a night pretty early and just go to sleep.
These two pictures aren't of great quality since we made them with a camera phone because we left the camera back at the hotel that day. Still the pictures are pretty ok of the scenery:
Ok, so we got a very solid night rest after the exhausting trip and this was the first day we'd really hit the mountains. Me and both my brother and sister were all in a skiing/snowboarding class because we didn't really know the area (was our first time in this place), neither did we know any people from previous years or whatever. Besides, it never hurts to work a bit on your technique again after sitting still for almost a year. So we had to snowboard a little with the teachers watching so they know what group to put you in. Me and my little brothe got put in the same snowboarding group with some other intermediates. Was pretty nice because apart from one of other guy, it was almost al girls with even some pretty hot ones tagging along.
That's a picture of the group, two people are missing but whatever, they tagged on a couple days later. Btw, note the girl in the white and orange striped jacket sitting next to me in the picture. She was some crazy 14 year old German chick from Stuttgart which I went out with a little later this week. She came across quite innocent but damn, she turned into a straight out beast when we hit the bars. According to what she told me it's something all people from Stuttgart do. Apparently, alcohol must be almost free there or people are loaded and they drink a ton of booze to get a nice night out started. Nothing really special happened this day. I got to know people a little bit but after the lessons, I just boarded down without too much notice and I went straight to bed again after dinner because I was still a little tired.
Day 2 + day 3:
Taking these two days together because otherwise this trip report is going to turn extremely long without too many interesting stuff in it. After the first day of lesson, we kept the same group and just went on exploring the mountains a little more and working on that technique. Especially for some other people, after a day or two I got it going again and was back at the level as how I left my skiing trip the year before but some people still needed to get back into things so I basically just enjoyed myself, talked to the hot girls in the group and boarded some while tagging along with the group. The snow for the entire trip was extremely good. 5 out 7 days of the trip it either was snowing at night so the slopes were filled with solid powder and some days it even snowed during the day, not too hard that you couldn't snowboard but I never mind getting a little fresh supply of powder. I got a little ''action'' shot from the same photo series where I got the pic above from, it's nothing spectacular. I got some little clip of me taking a slope off-piste but I'd need to upload it on youtube.com. I might do it later if people are interested...
Later those nights, I went out with the German girl I mentioned before. The town was extremely small and there wasn't anything around really worth being called nightlife but I guess a bar with 4 speakers and some colored lights where I could get some beers was good enough. The girl was really much fun to be around and she brought along a pretty hot friend of hers which was quite funny. Thing is, her English wasn't all that good so her friend ended up being the translator constantly because I don't really talk German. Once we got in the bar they both started drinking like mad. They told me they had to be home around 22:30-23:00 again (meh... 14-15 year olds...) so they were basically just aiming at downing as much drinks as people in the time they had and well... I couldn't leave behind being the big bad 19 year old, right ?? I mean, it'd be a shame getting outdrunk by some 14-15 year olds so I tagged along and after I had two beers and they split 3 cocktails the 14 year old (the one from the snowboarding class) wanted to take a shot. So we ordered a shot and from there on she didn't stop ordering shots anymore. The worst thing was, the first night, I was on painkillers so I wasn't really supposed to drink but being stubborn, I decided I couldn't stay behind. We ended up down like 4-5 shots within 15-20 minutes and we joined some group of German guys that were there too. I didn't understand shit of their conversation and it was hard to mix in but whatever, we had a good time. After a little while talking with the group of German guys, the girls had to be taken home and I decided I didn't really feel like going back to the bar just to talk to them German guys so I went home as well.
Day 4 + day 5:
These two days, I actually felt like crap. Don't really know what was wrong but I had stomach aches and didn't feel very good overall. I went boarding nontheless because I love it too much. Just took some pills to keep the aches down and went to the mountain. I felt somewhat better when I was just busy boarding again so that was nice but because of not feeling great I didn't go out these nights. The nightlife wasn't that big anyways and the 5th day the German girls didn't go out so I didn't see much reason to go and hit the bars by myself especially not feeling well. Isn't much to tell about the boarding here since I don't have enough solid action pics to show off my ''mad'' skills on the hills. It was pretty good, I got back into the groove and although most of the girls were scared (and some even didn't do any of it) we hit the snowpark. We took the small + medium jump a couple times each day and I even hit the halfpipe around 2 times although I can't really do any tricks in the halfpipe yet. Keep on practicing next year I guess and things will come together. The snowpark wasn't really big but the halfpipe was pretty good and so were the jumps (only two boxes and one rail there though, so that kind of sucked) so I practiced that a little bit and eventually got down a 180 (I'm a snowboarding noob...) which I was really proud of. We also practiced some fakie riding which I quite enjoyed because most people didn't do very well and I did because I accidently rode fakie for the first two days I ever rode a snowboard (I thought I was regular footed because I'm regular footed in skateboarding, turns out later I'm actually goofy footed in snowboarding, really strange) so I kind of practiced that before. Also, it seems that riding fakie is extremely important for being a somewhat skilled park rider and I enjoy doing the riding 180's and 360's which I got down fairly quickly. The 4th night we had a special buffet at the hotel and I was lucky to have my phone along to at least make a picture because it looked really, really good.
As you can see, the pic is a little bit blurry but it was basically an all fish buffet because of some religious holiday. Lots of sushi although that wasn't particularly great. I normally love sushi but these weren't of really great quality but whatever. The salmon and lobster was extremely good and they also had swordfish which I never had before and that also tasted really good. I also made a pic because of that ''statue'' you can see. They made a doplhin-shaped statue as an ornament for the buffet out of... butter. I'd never seen that before and I thought it was pretty cool so I obviously needed a pic. Anyways, the buffet was pretty good overall and I went to bed early again after dinner because I didn't feel great.
Day 6:
This was basically our last day of snowboarding and it was the absolute best. It snowed, A LOT, during the night before and the pistes were filled with powder. We decided to go a little off-piste because those were even more powdery and I can't say how awesome it was. First part of the day we went to the black slopes and basically just shredded those because the powder was awesome and those pistes were almost deserted because apparantly most people in this place are too much scared shitless to go down the black ones. Also, our snowboarding group slimmed down a little so that was quite good. All the girls left the day before which sucked a little because they obviously were nice company but we also made use of it a little by doing the black pistes and going into the park in the afternoon because all the girls were a bit scared to do this all. As I said, later in the afternoon we hit the park and we also hit the boxes a little, which I never did before. My little brother needed a little help taking it on because he was a little bit scared and didn't have enough speed to reach the end but that's ok. Anyways, I was quite proud because I just nailed the box in my first try which may have been a little expected since I have a skateboarding background. Anyways, I was obviously a bit down at the end of the day because I knew this was the last day of this amazing trip but I guess to every good thing comes an end.
Here are some pics of about half of the village we were in (yeah, seriously, it was that small... It was basically al just hotels and more hotels, oooh... and a skischool or whatever) made later that day to show how much it snowed. You can kind of tell of the look on the roof and everything, yeah, it really snowed a shitload that night.
Anyways, that was about, the last day most of the day was filled with the drive back home. We did go sledding for a bit before we went home because the traffic reports were saying it was very crowded on the roads in the morning so we had to pass some time before we went on the road. My little brother wanted to go sledding because they made a special sledding track from the top all the way down so I decided to tag along and try it out and it was surprisingly fun. Probably because it was pretty dangerous as well since I crashed several times and even got my ass partially down a fucking cliff when I couldn't take some sharp turn. Anyways, they rented out the little sleds at the top of the mountain and it was quite fun. I'll post a pic so you know what I mean. Unfortunately I don't have any picture of the track but I can just say it was fun.
Btw, the other girl in this pic is the daughter of my stepmom, just in case you are wondering.
Anyways, that pretty much wraps up my trip report. I certainly had a blast boarding there and I hope you had some fun reading this. Well, first off, I am just hoping at least some people will read it at all since I got quite some time down in this thing.
Just to poll the general opinion so I know how to improve (or whether to even post it at all) on my next trip report. http://www.liquidpoker.net/userpoll/draw.php?poll_id=809
Poll: Did you enjoy the trip report ??
(Vote): Yeah, it was great, keep up the good work !!
(Vote): Yeah, it was okay, too many pics though...
(Vote): No, it sucks, get your ass out of here !!
(Vote): LOL, uhm... TL;DR !!
Anyways, once again, I hoped everybody that read it enjoyed the trip report and I wish you all the best of luck on the tables since it's sunday and everything.