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SakiSaki  Sweden. Dec 30 2008 01:38. Posts 9687 | | |
Heh, yeah so this year ended in the best possible way pokerwise. I guess ill just do a quick summary of the year and after that ill talk a bit about the sunday mill.
2008 started out crappy, I had battled a pretty epic downswing and with a combination of tons of cashouts and poor bankroll management I had managed to put myself into a spot where I had to get staked. Being staked was for me a horrible experience. My backer was supercool in every way and was always very supportive but I just felt really uncomfortable playing with someone elses money, I do think it affected my play to a certain extent and this in combination with the quality loss that my play always experience during a bad run just made me play pretty bad. At this time I was still in school and it tilted me that I had to sit through meaningless lectures all day not being able to focus all my energy on battling the downswong.
A few things helped me climb out of this hole of shit that I had dug myself. First, I sattelited into the ftops main event with ftp points, pinball and I swapped 10% and being the hero that he is pinball obv binked 6th? or was it 8th place? For 80k giving me a nice 8k boost to my roll. Second, and I guess most importantly I found heads up. I had played HU alot back in the day but hadnt touched it in a while and sick of all the negative emotions I had associated with 6-max I started dabbling around in the heads up games on ipoker. I pretty quickly discovered two things:
1. HU really suits me, you can play very crazy and agressive and do tons of fun stuff.
2. People fucking suck at HU.
This golden combination made me crush the games for several months, I destroyed 2/4 and 3/6 for good winrates and consistently made between 15-25k a month not putting in a sick amount of hands. I do think I ran pretty well aswell throughout my first 100k hands or so. Unfortunately there are also downsides to playing almost only HU. As most of you know I dropped out of school in september and even though I dont regret that one bit I was by the end of this year pretty sick of being just a professional HU player. Its hard to get a good structured grind when you sometimes have to sit and wait for action for 30 min and sometimes feel that you really cant leave the tables cause you finally managed to get a huge fish to 2-table against you. Poker doesnt provide alot of structure to begin with, and HU poker really provides none. It takes its toll and by the end of the year I was sick of the whole thing, I didnt feel like playing at all cause I was tired of not getting action and having shorties hit and run me all the time. I didnt put in alot of hours at all and just played dota and waited for the next opertunity to get drunk with my friends.
Due to this I have been trying to get back into playing 6-max again. Grinding out the 2/4 games on stars made me realize how much I have improved this year. I can for the first time with confidence say that I am better or even way way better than all the 2/4 regs on stars. Its just overwhelming how these guys wear their leaks on their sleeves and just have bad fundamentals overall.
I dont have any exact numbers for my results cause all my hands are split over several computers and several diffrent programs but I think I landed somewhere around 100-120k profit in cashgames this year.
I could ramble on forever about the things I have learned this year but that will be way to long so ill just wrap this cashgame summary up with one word of advice:
Manage your bankroll. Dont be dumb like me and put yourself in a spot where you have to get staked and hate life. Poker is so much easier when you are comfortable and enjoy playing the game with little or no stress.
This got alot longer than I had planned so yeah, props if you made it this far.
Ill just finish up talking a bit about my sunday million win.
First of all I just want to say, and I think most of you guys who read my blog regularily knows this. I hate donkaments so so much. Theres nothing in this world I have cursed so much over as donkaments. Its the most frustrating form of poker there is. I insist on playing them though cause the sundays are soft and I have always wanted one big score. I got close in September when I busted 11th in the mill on a huge coinflip with JJ vs AQ. I was discouraged and life tilted for days after that.(I dont want to sound like an ungreatful little bitch here cause I did win 7,5k, but everyone who has gotten close but not quite all the way in a big donkament knows what im talking about)
But I kept playing. I think one of my best qualities as a poker player(and I think i share this with alot of you ex-scgamers) is that Im so god damn fucking stubborn. If I have set my mind one something I never give up Im not saying I deserve this win in any way because I dont. Im a huge luckbox and saying anything else would be a lie, but I have also worked hard and I am a firm believer in that hard work always pays off in the end. I think this vide symbolizes my struggle with donkaments pretty well:
gotta get there god damn it!
I ran good in so many ways this sunday. I wasnt running superhot in making premium hands and stuff like that but I was never really "forced" to make moves i managed to hold or suck out in key hands all the time. I also drew some really good tables, at the table from the bubble down to like 300 players left I played 32/28 and everyone was just letting me run them over completely. From the final 100 down to my win I did suck out like a champ, most of you guys who railed knows what im talking about. I think atleast 95% of my plays where correct but I still managed to get it in bad a ton, thats just the nature of 20bb poker I guess. What seperates champions from the rest is that the champs suck out everytime they get it in bad and hold everyime they get it in good. I think thats pretty much what it takes to win one of these unless you are mig.com or elky and just a crazy sick good donkament player.
I also ran good in that the quality of the players was very poor. Its just insane how some of these guys made the final table. The bad players also managed to suck out on and bust the few really solid players left leaving me with a very soft final table. I guess I shouldnt be so harsh when talking about the quality of the players though, I do think a couple of those guys probably are pretty good and solid but I think the fact that we where at a final table affected them more than I let it affect me and they sort of let me run them over. This was also the deciding factor regarding refusing the chop and I just wanna say a couple of things about that. Now, I dont think that I am a perticularily good donkament player and I dont really suffer from any allusions of grandeur in that department. I would gladly chop in alot of situations securing a nice payout with a good chopdeal. At this final table though, everyone in the last 6 or so played really weak/tight. One exception being the guy who busted third who seemed to to mix up being weak/tight with playing like a crazy monkey klicking buttons. I felt I had a pretty good edge in terms of skill and I had a good stack, but what gave me the biggest edge with 6 or so left was that I was playing fearless and everyone else was trying to make sure they werent the next one to bust. If I had chopped then I might have gotten a good deal but it would have killed sooo much of my edge since with a nice payout already secured alot of these guys would have started playing more optimal. Not chopping allowed me to blindsteal my way to a win.
I guess from now on I am never ever entitled to ever whine about anything pokerrelated again so yaye for that!  Also, to Lady Donkament and all the other poker gods: I am sorry I have been so harsh and ungreatful to you sometimes. We have had a troubled past but thats all forgotten and forgiven.
This donkament win makes 2008 my by far best year ever with around 450k in profits, a result I in all likelyhood never will be able to top, but I have to say Im ok with that.
Also I once again want to thank everyone for railing and supporting me, you guys are awesome and I love you all <3<3<3 Special shoutout to ket for being a great friend and doing his best to keep my ego from making me do something wreckless and peachy for making a reversed jinx rail thread.
Happy new year everbody and may you all run great in 2009!
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iop Sweden. Dec 30 2008 01:45. Posts 4951 | | |
grattis anders, you deserve it. you've always seemed like a stand-up guy |
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Steal City United States. Dec 30 2008 01:49. Posts 2537 | | | |
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100Large Canada. Dec 30 2008 01:58. Posts 359 | | |
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO BUY ? PLEASE SAY A BALLIN BENZ OR A HARD TOP CONVERTIBLE BMW OR A MASERATI !! LIKE A TRUE BALLER, THEN INVEST THE REST INTO ABOUT 2 HOUSES AND GROW CHRONIC. SICK LIFE?
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Sure u didnt win more than 100.000$-120.000$ from cashgame ? I remember u posted a graph from headsup only where you was up 100.000$ from that alone.
Anyway, congrats with great results : - ) |
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Bigbobm United States. Dec 30 2008 02:10. Posts 5512 | | |
i want to cut your skin off and wear you like a costume
grats on a good year |
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milkman United States. Dec 30 2008 02:14. Posts 5719 | | |
i just wanna tell everyone that this is just karma catching up with saki.. when i was just starting poker he loaned me 250$ which he ended up just trading for a beer in vegas a year later.. he did an amazingly nice thing to a BRAND NEW poker player (me) who sucked but he just thought i might stick around for a while lol.. and now its all coming back to him!!
so i duno by my math like any money someone gives me they win back in donkaments about 1000X..
lol anyway congrats saki, you deserved it |
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Timonga United States. Dec 30 2008 02:22. Posts 1074 | | |
A half million in profits this year....the things I could do with that kind of money....great work man! |
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whats my leak sir
I'm down for the month and needs free advice! |
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Exhilarate United States. Dec 30 2008 04:28. Posts 5453 | | |
so jealous of the sunday mil win
congrats on a sick year |
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gratz
liquid poker > all |
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NeillyJQ United States. Dec 30 2008 05:42. Posts 8947 | | |
ur the fuckin man
whats ur plans poker wise, grind 2/4 n 3/6 and up to 5/10 soon?
how much u cashin out?
GL
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SakiSaki Sweden. Dec 30 2008 07:37. Posts 9687 | | |
| | On December 30 2008 04:42 NeillyJQ wrote:
ur the fuckin man
whats ur plans poker wise, grind 2/4 n 3/6 and up to 5/10 soon?
how much u cashin out?
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Cashing out most of it, probably atleast 200k. And yeah, ill keep grinding 2/4-5/10 6-max and HU with the added comfort of having an enormous bankroll.
As for what I am going to buy, I havent really decided yet. Most of it will go to buying an appartment, ill either buy one now or put the money way in a savings account to buy one later, it depends on what school I get in to. Im also thinking about buying a nice watch but other than that I dont really know.
| | On December 30 2008 01:03 VanDerMeyde wrote:
Sure u didnt win more than 100.000$-120.000$ from cashgame ? I remember u posted a graph from headsup only where you was up 100.000$ from that alone.
Anyway, congrats with great results : - ) |
Might be a bit more and I guess with rakeback and stuff its more but I did really poorly in 6-max the first 2-3 months of 2008 and since then I have played almost only heads up so Im probably down like 10-20k in 6-max and up 120-140k at HU
| | On December 30 2008 01:32 gawdawaful wrote:
whats my leak sir
I'm down for the month and needs free advice! |
Sorry havent played with you enough to give any advice. From what I have seen you seem to play well. |
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Maynard! United States. Dec 30 2008 08:16. Posts 4453 | | |
Congrats.
You shouldn't buy anything flashy right away. You should use this money to take a shot at high stakes but give yourself a stop loss. Maybe 20 buyins down then you'll return to where you're comfortable? Having 400 buyins at 5/10 or 200 at 10/20 is a huge edge in itself over players with much smaller BRs.
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Maynard! United States. Dec 30 2008 08:28. Posts 4453 | | |
| | On December 30 2008 01:32 gawdawaful wrote:
whats my leak sir
I'm down for the month and needs free advice! |
Personally I feel like emotions dictated how you played many pots but you seemed better than most of the regulars I was accustomed to (2/4-3/6). You had a super sweet run going up from .5/1 to 5/10. Then only to get sucked out on constantly. That has gotta take a toll on someone. Maybe put in some more time to get adjusted to the amounts, get some good strong consistent wins for a while then move up.
Then again what do I know. |
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chipsOwner Czech Republic. Dec 30 2008 10:07. Posts 529 | | |
third thread about it and my third grats, since its truly amazing.. any chance of you posting/sending HH from your SM ownage?
gl in future endeavors |
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