I havent been blogging at all this year, nor posting too many hands as of late, i appologize for that but i have just been focusing hardcore on the grind and my game, ull understand why if u keep on reading.
With alot of people asking for updates about how im doing etc lately i figured its time as the year is comeing to its end soon(ish) to blog a bit, since i right now feel kinda hyped up and strong mentally.
Ok here we go.
Abit of Ket drama and Naz/daut/mig/smuft stake
As many of you know i lost and busted my roll last year, 400k$. I got a stake by ket pretty fast after going busto and played under him for a few months. We didnt make a solid agreement and everything was kinda badly done from both my and kets end. Long story short i lost some money on the stake, and we got some misscommunication where i thought our stake was over after that since he didnt want to shoot in more money, he was traveling alot during that period and we didnt keep the most active contact. With me not playing for an entire month i had no idea that his plans were that we were gonna continue the stake and clear some makeup and stuff before we were done with eachother.
I didnt even have an idea of what makeup was back then since ive never been or staked any1 before. As i went public and wrote a blogpost about getting a new stake things got really messy. Nazgul Daut Mig and Smuft took me under their wings almost instantly as i posted that stakerequest blog. The problem being me thinking mine and Kets deal was over and Ket thinking it wasnt over. Naz and the guys helped out tons with reviewing skypehistory between me and Ket etc to find out "who was right" and it was all very unclear and things got really rough for me and i had a sick breakdown where everything just felt so fucked up. I had some personal issues during that time with a deep relationship comeing to an end and with the big busting of roll, fearing being in depts aswell as playing on a stake was to much for me and i ended up crying for the first time in years infront of my computer with all the skypewindows up with investigation from Naz and the team aswell as Ket talking to both me and the team.
After a while discussing if i should or shouldnt owe ket money we didnt get any smarter and i really didnt wanna go judge judy on the situation. So instead i talked to Ket as a friend and he responded as a friend and i really felt shitty about everything and i felt like it didnt matter who was right or wrong, it was just a honest misscommunication error. As a friend i wanted to pay him back. Ket and i came to an agreement keeping our problem outside the new Naz-team stake. Ket was very supportive and we agreed of meeting somewhere inbetween with me oweing him a dept of a set amount of $ somewhere inbetween 0 and what i was oweing him in makeup instead or if i wanted to comeback play for him after my new stake was over that was fine too without any timeframe and i felt very relieved that we setteled and came to an agreement as friends. Ket is awesome and i appricieate his understanding of the type of pressure i was under during that time.
So Ket, i havent forgotten about us, im going to pay you before the end of this year no doubt, thats a promise.
Naz-team 5/10$ stake and BJJ in Thailand
As mine and Kets missunderstanding was cleared out i was ready to start grinding again for my new masters and things started out really well. After the first 2 months on stake or so i was up almost 60k$ on 5/10 stars and things felt great, in early 2013 i flyed down to Thailand and grinded from there and started doing BJJ and i started to feel stronger and stronger mentally.
It was the first time i tryed BJJ (ive only done some boxing and muaythai) and all i have to say about that is that BJJ is fucking awesome. I trained for about 2 months on Phuket Top team (link to their homepage here: http://www.phukettopteam.com/). Our BJJ coach there was a 3rd degree blackbelt from brazil and he was no doubt the best coach ive trained under. Im pretty sure im gonna go back there to attend more of his classes in the future.
Here is a clip from one of our trainingsessions:
U can see me in the background around the 57sec mark in yellow and a purple cap (was injured when the video was recorded, i was only there that session to watch and learn)
I hurt my back when a guy took it and choked me out and i wasnt able to train for the last couple weeks of my time there. Therefor as my visa was expiering during the 2nd month in thailand i flew home again to rest up and grind more. I ended up haveing backproblems for aobut 3 months or so wich was sad, i lost the spark a bit. I now train alittlebit home here in sweden. Hopefully i can go at it more actively since BJJ as stated earlier is fucking awesome. imo.
More about poker and qutting the stake
After thailand my heater was clearly over and i started to struggle alot. I was breaking even/slowly loseing over 4-500k hands mostly 5/10$ and i felt like shit again pokerwise. I didnt feel like the best player at the table or even close to it very often and i lost alot of confidence during this period, but that only motivated me to get more into pokertheory and study harder. The games have gotten really though and i think pretty much 50% of the 5/10+ Reg field on pokerstars are as good or superior to me. This was very new for me and Ive learnt alot this year and the entire experience has been good overall for my ego and getting a better grasp of what im capable of and my overall pokerskill. Ive felt like pretty much the best player on 5/10 10/20 for years prior to 2013 and clearly thats not the case anymore and it took some time for that to sink in. But like i said earlier, that lit a big fire under my ass and ive been working harder then ever before with adding more and more offtable study since this summer and ive improved tons and im really starting to the see results of that aswell as just feeling like a much better player now then i was when this year started.
As of August the 1st me and the staketeam talked things over and with probably 600k hands played on stake, being breakeven we made the decision to quit the stake while still being in the green, i was close to supernova elite phase, and i wanted to go after it and move down stakes and continue on my own, the team was very supportive of my plan and we all agreed on going seperatly with my backers only makeing a small profit. Wich feels alittlebit bad, i wouldnt mind makeing more money for them as they have been nothing else but supportive and very good to me.
Thanks to Ket Naz Daut Mig and Smuft Pinball and Dusty for everything u guys have done for me during this rough time, i really appriciate it.
Unfortunatly i dont have all the hands from the stake on my computer, i only have from april-july on this computer on stake, and the thailandhands i got on my laptop, but i felt like instead of getting those graphs posted here i can just tell my results instead, they arent very good. all together its pretty much a 600k hand graph going up 60k in the first 100k hands, and then pendeling between 0$ and 45k$ up and down up and down for the next 500k hands.
Moveing down in stakes for the first time in years, results and graphs
August 1st, i was finally playing on my own again for the first time in a loooong time. i deposited 15k$ of my own money on stars and started off alittlebit behind SNEphase 24 tableing 1/2.
I was alittle scared to be honest about how the skill level would be on 1/2 and if i could be able to masstable it profitably but after starting off with a 25 buy in day the first day as my own boss the pressure was instantly gone as i felt like i defenetely had nothing to fear down there without judgeing to much from the good first payday but more on the level of the regulars in those games compared to the 5/10 level (no offence to all of u LP 1/2 regs out there)
1/2 graph:
After buying acouple of FPP bonuses together with the profit i made on 1/2 i decided to take a 2/4 shot after only 2 weeks of grinding 1/2 (yes, i played 110k hands in 2 weeks ) once i hit 75 buy ins for it and change things up to 12-16 tables instead since i felt like i didnt do toooo well 24 tableing 1/2 as it often got very stressful. I hit a big heater on 2/4 and i felt really strong as i put in tons of hours in CRev and doing theorywork on my ranges during these months my game felt stronger then ever and takeing a step back was defenetely good for me accepting that i wasnt crushing 5/10 anymore. I feel right now that i took 2 steps forward with this movedown in stakes together with all the time and effort i put in off the tables.
2/4 graph:
12-16 tableing was defenetely my sweetspot, running insanely good helped out tons too obviously. As i bulldozed through 2/4 i started playing 500zoom as i hit 75 buyins for that.
500zoom graph:
Poker feels easy again and i even took some 3/6 and 5/10 shots wich didnt go to well
3/6 and 5/10 shots so far:
Where does all of this fit in on a timeline?
Well, since i started playing 1/2 August the 1st this year ive only played about 2.5 months now on my own and im currently putting in most of my hours on 500zoom and have been doing so for about 1.5 month together with 2/4 and alittlebit of 3/6 + the small 5/10 shot i did one day wich ended badly.
Oh, i recently also deposited a littlebit on my bread and butter swedish site Svenskaspel, these are my results the past days (godmode activated)
Cant really complain about those 4.5k hands
The games are still extremely soft for the stakes ive been playing there, wich is mostly 25/50 sek aka 4/8$ but today i even took a 8/16$ shot wich ended up more then well for me.
Small sample over there but i really noticed how much my game really with capital R have improved this year. Playing with the swedish regs on that site puts things in perspective, it feels like im Neo in the matrix.
Supernovaelite
Today as i was playing 4 tables of 500 zoom together with 2-3 tables on the swedish site i got over the 800k VPP mark and SNE starts to become a reality now, im getting really close and im about 30k VPP above phase. Spotting that 20000$ number today floating beside the milestonebar felt really good. SOOOOOON
The future for longple, rant
What are my plans for the future? Well, first off im gonna finish this brutally tought SNE grind and give SNE the finger. I can with confidence say, never again.
It has been a tough year, very tough year, breaking even and getting my ego and confidence crushed during the first 6 months of the year aswell as putting in all of these hours into poker, both playing and studying i cant really say ive had much of a life this year. But it has been a very good ride. I have forced myself to improve my game and get a better understanding of pokertheory, math and the "GTO" approach. Wich is all new for me, being what i would concider a prior washed up explo lagtard that have gotten destroyed by the new rooster of really tough good hardworking highstakesregulars. And im happy to say that i feel like ive catched up to them and i look forward to trying to get my ass back up on highstakes, WITHOUT supernovaelite. I dont think im capable of playing on that level on that many tables/hours that is needed for SNE, its insanely challaging and theres been alot of B and even C game volume, but atleast now my B and C game have improved to probably my old B+ game in quality. However i dont think i can do this again, unless i want to settle on midstakes, wich isnt really what i want to do, i still have great ambitions to become a feared highstakesreg again, and im pretty sure i will get there, with playing fewer tables and higher quality volume + continue working on my game outside the tables, i have all the tools, now its just up to me how i want to spend my pokertime.
Im looking forward to playing fewer tables next year, play fewer hours aswell as hopefully playing higher stakes without cutting out my new offtable workethic im sure i will get there. Im also looking forward to enjoy life more off the computer and get back into BJJ more again aswell as spend alot more time with my friends.
Thats all for now, ill make another update at the end of the year, hopefully i can continue and finish the year as strong as i have been the last months.
yea dan from runitonce approaced me and wanted me to make videos for them, i ended up really thinking about it but i ended up decideing it wasnt worth it
i would feel very cheap too as they wanted a strong highstakescoach on their team and i just didnt feel like i was good enough for that task and i didnt want to be just another of those meh regs that are makeing videos nowadays since none of the toptier regs are makeing videos, except for sauce, galfond and odd_oddsen pretty much.
Really it was smuft being the person wanting to stake me the most and he was more of the leader of the gang, so to be fair i probably should have said the smuft team instead.
Naz is just such an authorityfigure on this site it just came unconsiously to me to call them team naz =)
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AndrewSong United States. Oct 10 2013 13:29. Posts 2355
On October 10 2013 11:46 longple wrote:
u mean runitonce?
yea dan from runitonce approaced me and wanted me to make videos for them, i ended up really thinking about it but i ended up decideing it wasnt worth it
i would feel very cheap too as they wanted a strong highstakescoach on their team and i just didnt feel like i was good enough for that task and i didnt want to be just another of those meh regs that are makeing videos nowadays since none of the toptier regs are makeing videos, except for sauce, galfond and odd_oddsen pretty much.
Stroggoz New Zealand. Oct 10 2013 21:03. Posts 5299
noice. I predict awesomeness once you stop going SNE next year
One of 3 non decent human beings on a site of 5 people with between 2-3 decent human beings
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MARSHALL28 United States. Oct 10 2013 23:12. Posts 1897
congrats on having success.
the hands we played the other day i thought u made a bunch of good folds. my play was still trying to 'catch up' to the other guys in the 500zoom games. i felt like the competition there was significantly tougher than the 1knl regular 6max tables...those i actually felt confident playing an exploitative style which i haven't used in over a year.
You sound like a great guy, righteous and honest, hard working and humble, you force respect. Can't say much except I wish you the best, and think of a plan outside poker...
On October 10 2013 11:46 longple wrote:
u mean runitonce?
yea dan from runitonce approaced me and wanted me to make videos for them, i ended up really thinking about it but i ended up decideing it wasnt worth it
i would feel very cheap too as they wanted a strong highstakescoach on their team and i just didnt feel like i was good enough for that task and i didnt want to be just another of those meh regs that are makeing videos nowadays since none of the toptier regs are makeing videos, except for sauce, galfond and odd_oddsen pretty much.
Oh, I thought it was ISILDRooN
Milkman lol i didnt spend half a thousand on a phone so i could play it cool and be all stealth
On October 10 2013 11:46 longple wrote:
u mean runitonce?
yea dan from runitonce approaced me and wanted me to make videos for them, i ended up really thinking about it but i ended up decideing it wasnt worth it
i would feel very cheap too as they wanted a strong highstakescoach on their team and i just didnt feel like i was good enough for that task and i didnt want to be just another of those meh regs that are makeing videos nowadays since none of the toptier regs are makeing videos, except for sauce, galfond and odd_oddsen pretty much.
how much did they offer you per hour of vid?
they didnt make an offer right away, they wanted samplevideo and stuff first.
On October 10 2013 16:02 Gawuss wrote:
great job man, keep on crushin
btw, why don't you use HM2 ? I think you can get more out of it than from the previous version
thanks bruv
i have hm2 aswell, ive used it for a while a few months ago, i built a hud and a giiiiaaaant specific popup there and it got too big and hm1 have all the useful stats that i used when i played with hm2. if u just search for them and it runs alot smoother for me, i couldnt use the popup well in hm2 playing a ton of tables. the only thing hm2 gave me was when i sat there for hours and hours and went through every stat they had in their system i found a few new stats i hadnt used in hm1 prior to useing hm2 this summer. Since i didnt like the software really i searched them in hm1 and surely they were all there. some stats i added were like a few cbet stats and ch/f ch/r as PFR aswell as more specific 3b pot cb stats. cold 4bet i added to hm1 hud too and a few other things like more specific rather then combined 3b stat against CO and BU i now have SB vs CO BB vs CO SB vs BU BB vs BU aswell etc. hm1 have them all. u dont need cbet in position 3way from UTG+1 vs utg limp/call and button flat, wich is pretty much the only type of stats that hm2 have that hm1 havent.
On October 10 2013 16:32 Defrag wrote:
Damn, good job. Once I quit few years ago I never recovered, heh.
btw, out of curiosity, what's the cost of high quality BJJ training class like that?
thanks =)
thailand is really cheap overall, i think we payed like maybe 300$/month or so? not more then that atleast. And it was well worth it, u can then attend all the classes they have (mma, grappling, GI or no GI BJJ, muay thai, western boxing, str and conditioning etc.
we had 10 GI BJJ classes a week, with some purple and brownbelt professional fighters fighting in bellator, i recognized a guy from TUF UK vs AUS there and i see on their facebookpage all the time about ufc fighters training over there so it was totally worth the money. mostly cuz of coach Olavo being a really good coach and guy.
i really recommend going to chalong phuket to train any form of martial arts if u want to get into it more seriously, there are like 4 tip top gyms along the same street. and every1 liveing on that street are training, every restaurant are offering good meals and proteinshakes and stuff for ppl training. its a great way to get ur ass involved and motivated hardcore for a period of time.
On October 10 2013 11:46 longple wrote:
u mean runitonce?
yea dan from runitonce approaced me and wanted me to make videos for them, i ended up really thinking about it but i ended up decideing it wasnt worth it
i would feel very cheap too as they wanted a strong highstakescoach on their team and i just didnt feel like i was good enough for that task and i didnt want to be just another of those meh regs that are makeing videos nowadays since none of the toptier regs are makeing videos, except for sauce, galfond and odd_oddsen pretty much.
Oh, I thought it was ISILDRooN
yea isildroon was the one behind it all im pretty sure hes a friend and he vouched and told them to go after me when they asked around for more NL HS guys. I just wasnt very interested, the pressure would be to much since id probably spend tons of hours trying to make perfect videos and it felt like to big of a task right now, it really felt wrong just being another 500zoom liveplay videomaker.
Last edit: 11/10/2013 05:26
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jvilla777 Australia. Oct 11 2013 06:14. Posts 1348
longple is the definition of "the underground KING, that ain't been crowned"
longple: ur missing the point! this is an attempt to get away from the bumhuntmentality!
Congrats on recovery. I think many players go through what you're describing (myself included). Success often breeds complacency and that in time leads to mediocrity. I think that's pretty evident at the higher stakes and it's sort of a cycle. Pretty important to stay humble and grounded and keep constantly working on your game. It's really beneficial to experience this though cause it burns and the feeling sucks but it can motivate you to never experience it again. You learn from it and come back better, and it seems that's the effect it had on you too. Good luck in the future!
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the cleaner Germany. Oct 11 2013 15:20. Posts 3014
It is nice to hear that you reject to be coach because you don't feel full skilled at high stakes, I wanna know how many guys do this in the same situation as you
Can't help but give respect. You are truly one of the few who inspire others to keep at it.
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PuertoRican United States. Oct 11 2013 22:00. Posts 13051
Good job on making a comeback. Many people would have lost everything they had and wouldn't have been able to recover, so you should feel good about yourself, as well as the people in your inner-circle online who believed enough in you to put their money into your hands.
i really recommend going to chalong phuket to train any form of martial arts if u want to get into it more seriously, there are like 4 tip top gyms along the same street. and every1 liveing on that street are training, every restaurant are offering good meals and proteinshakes and stuff for ppl training. its a great way to get ur ass involved and motivated hardcore for a period of time.
i'm planning on going to phuket in jan/feb. Doing some BJJ would be cool. how do you find a place in chalong phuket? I've been looking, and i'm only finding a few places in the middle of nowhere.
are there decent beaches and nightlife in chalong?
I dont know what a dt drop is. Is it a wrestling move? -Oly
i really recommend going to chalong phuket to train any form of martial arts if u want to get into it more seriously, there are like 4 tip top gyms along the same street. and every1 liveing on that street are training, every restaurant are offering good meals and proteinshakes and stuff for ppl training. its a great way to get ur ass involved and motivated hardcore for a period of time.
i'm planning on going to phuket in jan/feb. Doing some BJJ would be cool. how do you find a place in chalong phuket? I've been looking, and i'm only finding a few places in the middle of nowhere.
are there decent beaches and nightlife in chalong?
phuket is supersmall its not hard to find everything u want with a short cabride, and as phuket is kinda infested with drunk tourists all over its not hard to find places to party.
i would say to any cabdriver in entire phuket, "tiger muaythai in chalong" (the most known gym on the same street http://www.tigermuaythai.com/) every1 knows what it is and they will take u there.
i really recommend going to chalong phuket to train any form of martial arts if u want to get into it more seriously, there are like 4 tip top gyms along the same street. and every1 liveing on that street are training, every restaurant are offering good meals and proteinshakes and stuff for ppl training. its a great way to get ur ass involved and motivated hardcore for a period of time.
i'm planning on going to phuket in jan/feb. Doing some BJJ would be cool. how do you find a place in chalong phuket? I've been looking, and i'm only finding a few places in the middle of nowhere.
are there decent beaches and nightlife in chalong?
phuket is supersmall its not hard to find everything u want with a short cabride, and as phuket is kinda infested with drunk tourists all over its not hard to find places to party.
i would say to any cabdriver in entire phuket, "tiger muaythai in chalong" (the most known gym on the same street http://www.tigermuaythai.com/) every1 knows what it is and they will take u there.
thanks. looking at that tiger muay thai website, I see that there's rooms available to rent on-site
I dont know what a dt drop is. Is it a wrestling move? -Oly
i really recommend going to chalong phuket to train any form of martial arts if u want to get into it more seriously, there are like 4 tip top gyms along the same street. and every1 liveing on that street are training, every restaurant are offering good meals and proteinshakes and stuff for ppl training. its a great way to get ur ass involved and motivated hardcore for a period of time.
i'm planning on going to phuket in jan/feb. Doing some BJJ would be cool. how do you find a place in chalong phuket? I've been looking, and i'm only finding a few places in the middle of nowhere.
are there decent beaches and nightlife in chalong?
phuket is supersmall its not hard to find everything u want with a short cabride, and as phuket is kinda infested with drunk tourists all over its not hard to find places to party.
i would say to any cabdriver in entire phuket, "tiger muaythai in chalong" (the most known gym on the same street http://www.tigermuaythai.com/) every1 knows what it is and they will take u there.
thanks. looking at that tiger muay thai website, I see that there's rooms available to rent on-site
their rooms are really bad tho (and usually soldout) if u are to stay there for some time i would recommend just walking down that street and look at the hotels there, they are all fairly cheap and they are alot cleaner and nicer, the rooms on their gym is mostly for the 400kg guys that have bought like a 12 month program over there where they get help with food and training everyday, and it gets easier for them liveing at the gym and getting constant help.
i recommend siam hostel, ive stayed there like 5 months total over 2 trips now and its cheap, clean and a really beautiful enviorment, i think its like 4-500$ for 30 days or something to stay there and probably something similair in the 200-800$ range / month on all the hotels on that road depending on what standards ur looking for.
i would get maybe 3 days in sweden for the same $ at the same level of pretty good, probably like a decent 3 star hotel, only in thailand everything is beautiful outside of the rooms as a bonus
picture from outside my room
most of the hotels there, probably like 10 on that street only (its really like a trainingonly street, with low traffic and a quiet enviorment)
the reason why i in particular like siam is cuz of their wifi, we tryed the wifi on many of hotels on the same street and siam had easily the best most stabil internet of all the places we tryed out aswell as just being a really nice place overall
glhf in thailand let me know with some updates if u get there and end up doing any training at any gym!
Sweden. Oct 10 2013 12:15. Posts 4472
) once i hit 75 buy ins for it and change things up to 12-16 tables instead since i felt like i didnt do toooo well 24 tableing 1/2 as it often got very stressful. I hit a big heater on 2/4 and i felt really strong as i put in tons of hours in CRev and doing theorywork on my ranges during these months my game felt stronger then ever and takeing a step back was defenetely good for me accepting that i wasnt crushing 5/10 anymore. I feel right now that i took 2 steps forward with this movedown in stakes together with all the time and effort i put in off the tables.
