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YoMeR United States. Jan 01 2011 15:31. Posts 12435 | | |
Been a crazy year. Just gonna be a rant/reflection blog which is mostly for myself but I'll post picture/graphs to keep it somewhat entertaining for the folks who actually read this.
Started off year with fairly simple goals at NL50/100. To play a million hands and get out of some big debts. I undoubtedly failed at the volume goal but exceeded my financial goals for the year. about + ~75k including rakeback and bonuses, averaging around ~$105 an hr. Not bad considering I started out at NL100.
I feel extremely fortunate that things worked out my way. I stll remember back around ~march I took an NL200 shot was down 4 buyins (5 was my limit before i dropped down) and I get massively coolered 77 vs 99 on a 279 rainbow board and bink the one outer for the 4 buyin pot. After that I never looked back and continued on to crush NL200 for 4 ptbb/100 for little under 150k hands. Funny how luck works out to be a very big factor in all facets of life.
Hell, most of us on that visit this website are luckyass mofos. It wasn't how great we are that we lucked out and was born into a first world country, with good parents (or at least ones that'll put food on the table and clothes on your back), friends, and all the opportunities that a girl in say north korea or a boy in central african republic could ever dream of. I'm not ashamed to admit, I am one lucky son of a bitch.
I really worked on my work ethic and discipline as it was the weakest part of my game and just life in general. I feel I made leaps and bounds in this area but I still have a long way to go. I really feel I need to reach my volume goals this year. In terms of improvement on my actual game I feel I have a pretty big edge over the rest of the competition since I learned poker without a HUD and long before card runners ever existed. That creativity and ability to think really critically about my game allows me to think up adjustments easier than most I feel. I still have yet to get a membership to a training site which I should get since there will be valuable information there. Especially since a lot of the regs use the concepts and ideas outlined in those videos and directly incorporate them into their games.
Well anyway that was a long poker rant. Pix or it didn't happen.
In life it's been pretty busy as well. My little bro graduated from the University of Penn in may this year and our family is very proud of him.
Pride of our family!
Last but not least another big event happened for our family and that was the death of my grandmother. She died at the age of 87 and was well treated/loved by the family before she went.
She was widowed at a fairly young age with nothing left except a degenerate husband who gambled away the family fortune and died of cancer at an early age. And left grandma with nothing but 4 kids to feed in the post korean war era of South Korea. It was the 3rd poorest economy at that time so times were pretty brutal during that period. You can imagine just how rough they had it. But she persevered through that kinda hardship and raised up 4 very great kids. 1 of them grew up to be a top financial adviser in Korea as well as the president of Busan international bank. Her life story is quite inspirational.
Our family visited her in Korea. When grandma heard news of us coming she couldn't sleep for 5 days. It was a shock when I finally saw her for the last time. Seeing someone in their last stretch is pretty shocking. Nothing but a bag of bones and the empty shell of a person who was so strong willed and full of life. We visited her for a week. In the 2nd part of the week she started to vomit bile violently and constantly. It was so bad they had to get a hose to pump the bile out 24/7. My mom basically begged grandma to just let go and rest in peace as it was obvious to everyone she was in a lot of pain.
shortly after we left korea she passed away. It seemed as if she just gave up once we left as she finally saw the last of her family. I was close to my grandma as she raised me, and took care of me when I was a child. It was quite painful to watch someone close to you suffering like that and finally going.
RIP you'll be sorely missed.
On a positive side note I got to try quite a bit of great food this year from Pat's Philly cheese steaks to delicious legit Korean food and even Dog 
thx for reading.
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Im sorry about your grandma. My grandma just passed away too 1st funeral i ever went to. |
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dogmeat Czech Republic. Jan 01 2011 15:39. Posts 6374 | | | |
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mnj United States. Jan 01 2011 15:50. Posts 3848 | | |
had no idea you were korean
glad to hear about your success and wish u the best into the new year
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Arirang Canada. Jan 01 2011 15:58. Posts 1673 | | |
Nice, way to go hyung! :D |
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iop Sweden. Jan 01 2011 16:13. Posts 4951 | | |
you're a cool cat Yomer, Happy New Year |
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Congrats on a very successful year. Glad your family had the opportunity to say a final goodbye to your grandma. Major props to Hyun for graduating in 4 years from an Ivy....very prestigious for the family. And lastly, much props for that sick, sick win rate, as well as for the ability to keep everything in perspective. It's a sign of a true man who can have so many successes, yet recongize and appreciate the other intangible factors that contributed to those successes. Great read, and I wish you and your family all the best for 2011 and the years to follow. Stay in touch! |
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dUUd_ Estonia. Jan 01 2011 18:04. Posts 1840 | | |
this red line, i just jizzed my pants |
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Dogan0s United States. Jan 01 2011 18:25. Posts 902 | | |
happy new year and wishing the best of luck Yomer , coll stuff in your blog and in the hands you post.
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NeillyJQ United States. Jan 01 2011 21:05. Posts 8947 | | |
amazing job, keep up the good work sir |
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joLin United States. Jan 01 2011 21:22. Posts 3818 | | |
youre a good guy. good work and good luck. |
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