TimDawg United States. Oct 28 2009 21:53. Posts 10197
Doomer and Mezs' blogs have inspired me to write a long entry as well, here it goes:
So poker has been owning me pretty hard lately and I'm a little unsure of how to approach it honestly. 2 months ago I took some "shots" in higher buyin tournaments that I normally don't play. One of these "shots" was in Barcelona where I went with Clay and his sister. I played 2 1k's (i think), 1 2k, some super sats to the main, and a bunch of 2/5 and 5/10 euro cash. The cash games there were a JOKE. Seriously the Spainards have to be the worst poker playing culture in the world! 5/10 euro there compares to like 2NL online, it was ridiculous. I started off running pretty badly in cash losing about 2-3k euros and could never really get anything going in the first few tournaments I played in.
About the 3rd or 4th day there I played in the 2k euro, which was a lot of fun. I had William Thorsson or w/e to my right for a big part of day 1 and he was raising every hand preflop and trying to bluff everyone cus he's so awesome at poker. Everytime he would play a hand, I would just think of Saki's rant blog about him and just lol in my head. I ended up doing really well in day 1 and had around 60k (750/1500/100 blinds i think) going into day 2 with 40ish left and 27 making the money.
After day 2 started, I busted in 4 hands. 1st one I fold some trash utg+2, 2nd I min-raise up A9s from utg+1 and crazy looking euro guy calls in MP. I double barrel a QxxK board and he tanked forever on the turn and shoved on me, fml oh well. Next hand I get AK utg and min-r again, folds to older man euro in bb and he flats, I missed flop and it goes ck/ck, then he bets a blank turn and I fold. My bustout hand I pick up AK in the BB and good online player raises utg and the same crazy euro looking guy flats in mp, I have a little over 20bb's left, so I just ship it in. Online guy folds his QJs right away obv and then the euro tanks again forever. I tell him I'm on massive tilt and want to be knocked out. This tilts him into calling me with 22. First card on flop was a 2 and I was out. BIG SIGH.....first was around 150k euros too...oh well.
From there on out, I just grinded a bunch of cash and a few more tourneys maybe. I had no success in them but I did manage to grind back all my losses from tournaments in cash, so as far as poker playing goes, I broke even on the trip which isn't too bad I guess. Overall was a pretty exciting trip and I def learned a lot more about poker from talking with Clay and a few others.
When I got back from Barcelona, I was super motivated to grind big tournaments and take more shots at 3/6. Well in short, I ran terribly and maybe played a tad spewy in certain spots in the WCOOP series (bubbled like 3). My 3/6 shot also went terrible as I lost 7k in about 2k hands (4k below EV). Also just been getting owned at 2/4 on ftp and stars recently. I think I've been a bit spewy lately and on ftp, I sorta just assumed the regs would play the same as on stars, which doesn't seem to be true at all.
The one positive thing lately has been staking. I've staked 2 of my good friends irl to play in a 2/4 game back where I use to live in TN. They've both had mixed results but they're both improving a ton and starting to make me a bit of money. Also, I've been staking strato for a bunch of sunday tournaments and he had a sick 10k+ score, so that was nice too.
Since then, my bad run has continued and I think I'm going to do what Clay did to regain focus and motivation to play. Going to move down to 100NL on Stars and only move up once I have made 20 buyins at each level. I'll probably post results if they are pretty to look at lol. We'll see how it goes.
Also I run terrible with women lately and I hate them all. f m l
really awesome song nolan sent me on aim
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online bob is actually a pretty smart person, not at all like the creepy fucker that sits in the sofa telling me he does nasty shit to me when im asleep - pinball
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[GiTM]-Ace United States. Oct 28 2009 21:58. Posts 1585
sorry to hear that. What tourneys you usually play?
[GiTM]- GoSu in the Making
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terrybunny19240 United States. Oct 28 2009 22:00. Posts 13829
nasty man.
20 buyins at lowers limits sounds cool.. its a pretty good idea
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morph1 Sierra Leone. Oct 28 2009 22:11. Posts 2352
it will get better
btw. where is mez's blog? on lp?
edit: actualy i have read it few days ago
Always Look On The Bright Side of Life
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Maynard! United States. Oct 28 2009 22:20. Posts 4453
Do what all poker players do - go to thailand and have sex every other hour.
Now I really am a busto. Thanks FTP.
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TimDawg United States. Oct 28 2009 22:39. Posts 10197
On October 28 2009 20:58 [GiTM]-Ace wrote:
sorry to hear that. What tourneys you usually play?
anything and everything that is NLHE
online bob is actually a pretty smart person, not at all like the creepy fucker that sits in the sofa telling me he does nasty shit to me when im asleep - pinball
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woodbrave1 United States. Oct 28 2009 22:45. Posts 666
AHAHAHA HE CALLED WITH TWOS, LOL
Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
On October 28 2009 20:53 TimDawg wrote: I had William Thorsson or w/e to my right for a big part of day 1 and he was raising every hand preflop and trying to bluff everyone cus he's so awesome at poker. Everytime he would play a hand, I would just think of Saki's rant blog about him and just lol in my head.
THIS LOL, had this when I played him too!
GL on the grind
Browsing through your hand histories makes me wonder that you might not be aware these games are possibly play money. Have you ever tried to cash out? - Kapol
played with you a few times on ftp in the last month i think. - I put some money on there too after an 8k downswing on stars lol. but yeah 2/4 on ftp seems crazy soft and so many of the regs just seem to get out of line alot
On October 28 2009 23:50 pinbaLL wrote:
oh and the "song" was FCKING HORRIBLE GO FUCK YOURSELF
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DooMeR United States. Oct 29 2009 02:06. Posts 8547
LOL PINBALL
he hates rap so much i love it -_-
dont worry timdawg ur life ev is higher than anyone your age. u'll be fine
I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance, by running away from the scene of an accident.
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Bigbobm United States. Oct 29 2009 02:41. Posts 5511
On October 29 2009 01:06 DooMeR wrote:
LOL PINBALL
he hates african people so much i love it -_-
dont worry timdawg ur life ev is higher than anyone your age. u'll be fine
grind that shit out homie
Its time to stop thinking like a bitch and think smart like a poker player - ket
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TimDawg United States. Oct 29 2009 02:43. Posts 10197
swvedish phish
online bob is actually a pretty smart person, not at all like the creepy fucker that sits in the sofa telling me he does nasty shit to me when im asleep - pinball
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Exhilarate United States. Oct 29 2009 05:51. Posts 5453
good luck on the regrind man, it'll all turn around soon enough.
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YoMeR United States. Nov 06 2009 16:36. Posts 12435
United States. Oct 28 2009 21:53. Posts 10197
gglglglgl
