Yeah, went busto trying to clear the bonus. Oh well thats what you get for playing underrolled, but i had no choice, because time was running out to get the FPPs. Made a few misplays, and then basically ran cold as hell, i have gotten it in as a favourite almost all the time, and basically lost most of it.
That 500€ bonus would have really helped me, dang. Now i feel kinda lost.
Maybe ill deposit around 100€ later there, but dont feel good about it, because i cant spend more and it would still mean playing underrolled, but the chance of getting the bonus is just too juicy!
I also went for a 50$ starting bonus on UB, started good, going horribly now. Im down to 22$. The good thing is that i am not tilted, even though i am running like shit. But the bad thing is that i am about to go busto there as well soon, and i dont really know where to start again.
Maybe the poker gods hate me and i just should stop playing poker? But i hate to give up like that, oh well... but i have this feeling that i will never be a winning player again.
So I go by the alias EXCELED on FTP. Right now Im just trying to grind up a nice roll so I can have some extra cash when I head off to school again in January. I am a 20 year old student at Fanshawe in London and Im taking Pre-technology right at the moment.
Back in the day I used to check out Teamliquid.net when I played SC. Pretty good site Id say and I was pretty happy when I found out they had a poker site aswell. Its pretty cool to see that some of the names I used to watch in SC are now very big winning poker players. I mean look at ElkY. Holy shit man good for him lol.
I just loaded up some money on FTP. Got the nice bonus and rakeback. Im a LHE player with a roll big enough to start playing $.50/$1. Ive tried online a couple of times but dont really have the time to do it since Ive been working my nuts off lately trying to save up and plus hockey so it really takes away from me being able to put in time playing. Ive got more free time so now Im going to get to the grind and hopefully be up to $1/2 or MAYBE $2/4 by the time I head back to school. I just got the free trial of poker tracker so Ill be uploading my graphs to show my progess and hopefully vet some help along the way from you guys!
Anyways tonight Im actually going to be heading to the casino with some of my buddies so hopefully I crush it tonight Wish me luck guys.
Unfortunately i Lost my fight after 3x3 minute rounds with descision.
Conculusion.
1.) I made a lot of mistakes and could have won the fight at many points but failed to stay concentrated
2.) I had hell of fun weekend
3.) Polish emergency hospitalization > german emergency hospitalization
There is a video filmed by my teammates but i am pretty sure i want to keep it for myself and analyze mistakes rather than showing it around ^^
Okay now some short summerize of what happend
We went of to Poland at 5pm German time with a team of 9 fighters 2 trainers and 3 "Betreuer" ( Whats the english word for it ?)
spread over 3 cars.
We did need an exhausting 8h of driving till we arrived at the hotel.
When we finally arrived we realized that there was no place in our area where u can get food at 2o clock am ....
So we went to bed hungry ...
Weight in was next day at 12o clock (fights were at 4pm)so we also didnt get breakfast to eat ....
At this momment i was pretty pissed at the organisation cause normally i expected the weight-in to be earlier so that u can eat healthy the morning before the fight.
Also i was not used to not finding a fucking place where u can get food at 2am.
Well after the weight in the Organisator of this event brought our Team to a very nice restaurant where we had an incredible meal !
I am not sure if its a good idea to eat that much 3h before the fight >-< but the meal was just incredible good + incredible cheap + we havent had something to eat for more than 16hours ...
Hell Polish restaurants >>>>> German restaurants
prices were a joke (like 3,40 euro for a big and super nice meal)+ food was delicious and big size.
After the meal we went to the fighting place and prepared a bit.
The fight
I have allready watched most parts of the fight on video with my teammates directly after the event.
Unfortunately i had the first fight of the day which worked a bit to my disadvantage being in an unknown country not understanding any word of the language. It also was my first MMA fight vs a totally unknown opponent! ( I had only fought people of my Gym before which is totally different , since i know their strentgh + weakness and train with them all time)
So all in all i guess i was maybe a bit to overwhelmed from all the impressions.
Fight started , wie touched gloves and i opend with a left right -> lowkick combo.
I saw him buckle a bit on his fron leg when i hit him with my shin and wanted to continue with a left hook.
unfortunately he stopped my movement with a short jab directly followed by a big knee to my chin and another knee to my face.
I felt like getting hit by a monstertruck and and wobbled a bit.
then i hear the referee shouting -> stop ! doctor .... doctor ... whatever.
And i was like hell hopefully i can fight on since i dont really know what happend and i dont feel pain >_<
The knee had directly hit me on the chin and there was blood everywhere from the Cut i got + there was lots of blood from my nose when the second knee hit ....
next 4 minutes ... i got checked by the doctor. They checked if my Nose is broken and if my Cut is too big to let me fight on.
After some arguing my Trainers and I + Doctor came to conclusion that i can continue the fight.
I got some tissue in my nose and some spray + patch on my chin.
When i went in to continue the fight my opponent really felt liek he will end this first round and unleashed a flury of punches and i dont know how often i got hit ... but i had a hard time doing anything but being a punching ball still being wobbly from the knees...
But i managed to survive round1 that i clearly lost
Round 2 i kinda got back into the game i landed some combinations and took my opponent down to the ground with some nice takedowns several times.
I had 2 submission attempts that only failed due to me not being concentrated enought
1nd Time i had him in an armbar but somehow didnt finish it properly so he stood up and pushed me off his arm.
2nd Time i was close to finishing a Footlock when i hear the 2nd round bell ring ....
I was like fuuuuuuuuck i almost had him and then round is over ...
I went back to my corner and my Trainer really made me hopes : He was talking like : great comeback i am proud of u ! he is almost done .. u won teh round -> keep going.
The problem was , that i was really done , too
I could hardly breath + move and all my muscles felt sour ( I guess all teh blood in my nose really was a big obstacle to find teh right breathing while fighting.
So i go into the third round and i cant really remember much what happend. ( havent seen it in video)
We traded a few punches and kicks and somehow eventuelly i hear a bell ring and fight was over.
We go to judges descision and the referee held up my opponents arm ...
then i realize there is blood everywehere
On my Body , on his body , on the ground and i started to feel happy even though i lost ^^
I was like " well i fucked it up but at least hell yeha it was a fucking bloodbath ^^"
Then i go to my teammates and everybody comes to tell me i showed great heart and stuff ( well always everybody does that no matter how good or shitty u fought ^^)
Then i took a shower and was driven to a nearby emergency hospitalization.
I got 4 stiches on my chin + tetanus injection and then went back to the place were my teammates fought.
I watched their fights and really enjoyed it and the longer i was sitting there i really enjoyed the momment.
It felt so fucking good.
This was one of the best parties i have ever been and it felt so nice !
at the evening all the fighters of our team to the fighters of the other teams went out to party and we drunk till next morning
We were like 25 MMA fighters being in the same club . haha ^^
In the recent weeks i haven't really had much time to play poker cause of the exhaustion at work. However, i've made some very good sessions the last few days. Yesterday i wasn't in the mood to play much so i played a short session, 4 sngs - 3 10+1EU, and 1 20+2EU cause there weren't much ppl to register for the 20eu sngs . I cashed in all 4 of them for a total of one 3rd place, two 2nd place finishes and one 1st place. Yummy . Total profit: 125 euros for an hour and a half. Wanna run like this every day and play just a few hours but damn poker doesn't work like this . So here is my graph stats, guys - it is becoming pretty steep lately: http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/3a21fdbf8041e11a8eb3eb5f70c13a74.png
went golfing today with my uncle down in Riverside cali...course was nice had good views. played 9 holes and sucked! well for not having played in 5 years besides for the driving range i did pretty good. Lost a ton of balls but w/e i had fun. fuckin owned a shot over some rocks on a par 5 straight onto the green...that was sweet hopefully i can get out more often.
swinging pretty hard at micro stakes...had a fun night there in the middle tiltin off a bunch of money. its been a week and im +money so to me thats a good sign. glhf
Played some 100NL today after 2 days of no poker (besides playing a 100K tourney yesterday which I busted in 20mins lol. donkaments). First prize was 16k, would have been nice *drool*. Anyways got 200VPPs this session, I need to win 2100 more before the end of the month in order to make Platinum Star (VIP rank). It's going to be quite doable at 100NL and somewhat tough to make at 50NL.
Hope I can make Platinum Star so I can ship massive FPPs next month and buy lots of Futureshop Giftcards rofl. I've been thinking about getting a PS3 or a 360 in order to actually use the dormant HD features of my television.
I think I've got a much better idea now of which boards are cbettable, since before I'm cbetting nearly all boards. Also reading people better I guess and understanding how to play against different types of villains better. Also starting to utilize position a lot more post flop.
EDIT - Question for you all using HEM. Once you buy it they give you a key which will work twice, in general one for your desktop and one for your laptop. But what happens in the case of your PC crashing/having to format/new computer or anything like that when you have already used both keys? I've looked on their website but they don't seem to have a support e-mail address.. Anyone know how to go about this?
Stop at hand 350 obv. I was going to, but I thought why don't I get some more VPPs. Bad idea. 50VPPs < $130. So annoying when this happens. My roll was above 3k so that was pretty cool. Not anymore though.
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going into philly tomorrow night to catch up with two friends from high school, get hammered in what should be a ridiculous bar scene, and watch cole hamels lead the phils to victory. bring on the riots!
in other news: poker is meh, girls are fucking nuts, school is a pain in the ass.
I started using HEM because my PT3 trial was running out. In PT3 there was an option to choose "When your day starts" so that if my session went past midnight etc it would keep the session in the same day. Is there a similar option in HEM?
swing swongs, not running great but obviously my play isnt as good as it can be either, also gonna get plat star because of the sick amount of vpps at 100nl.
50% won at showdown w AA, 42% w QQ, only 60% w KK, rivered all the fucking time, just constant bs
I'm break even forever its just so fucking stupid I can see a fish sitting down and gambling and leave with more winning than I ever have and I put like 60hrs this month. WTF.
I hate this game.
I've been fed up for basically 2 month with this game and kept going on but this is getting borderline I am going fucking crazy. So much effort went to waste.
sunday million ridiculousnessby CrownRoyal, October 26
so i played in like 10 sunday million hyper turbo things and won 3 seats but one of the tournaments ran too long and i couldn't unregister.
dillema is, i have to work tonight in ~4 hours so I'll have to sell my action or pay someone to play for me or something. If i know you and you dont suck at poker and would be interested in doing something granted i make it 4 hours deep let me know.
decent wrapup for october yayby whamm!, October 26
nah just kidding. running real well as of late (but horrible first 3 weeks tho) and october is turning out to be not so bad at all. imma chasing a 40bi month in wins this end of october, but I'll shoot for 50 if i can. coaching with d_zoo was a fail, simply coz my net sucks like shit and he couldnt hear a damn thing i say, T_T. I'm gonna make sure before december I'll get this fixed and have him as a coach for 200nlFR soon. my goals for this year is nearing fruition, which is to have exactly not less than 20kusd in the bank, and have some left over for 100 or 200nl next year. I want the pain of the SN elite race next year lol. been working on my postflop game and it's getting a lot better too. timing bluffs well but not getting too out of line altogether, but it seems regs are so paranoid here about regs playing back at them that my aces and kings are getting 4bet shoved on with some really stupid shit lol ship the metagame. wish me luck on my goals this year, next year, I'll try to get SN elite and 100k in bank. we'll see how i do gtg peace ppl
There is very little difference between then and now - it's just the Republicans doing what Hillary tried and failed at... trying to bring Obama down with negative attacks. And Obama has stayed calm, consistent and strong. He still holds the same positions and is the same person he was. It's really impressive to watch someone go through such stressful situations and maintain his dignity and honor. It's a shame McCain couldn't do the same, as he bowed to the right wing and took on the course THEY wanted, not the course McCain of 2000 would take.
I'm glad I got to live through this. Watching Obama's campaign and actively taking part as a volunteer will be a memory that I will hold dear for all my life.
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Wish me luck guys.
. Total profit: 125 euros for an hour and a half. Wanna run like this every day and play just a few hours but damn poker doesn't work like this 
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