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05-25-2013 , 06:28 PM
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Originally Posted by blakkman08
thx bro. unreal heater atm

taking a day off tonight to watch champions league and rest before a humongously huge sunday grind! will be my biggest day in terms of buyins ever by a mile (likely gonna play the medium main event, sunday kickoff and all the other $109+ majors other than the second chance and 500 so will be big)

lets close scoop out with a BANG!

gla
I've been following this thread since the start and it's been a fun ride.
GL tomorrow, it could be a real life changer for you if you bink one of those tourneys.

(sent from my phone)
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05-25-2013 , 08:29 PM
You are on fire!
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05-25-2013 , 08:44 PM
will be playing very similar events to you tomorrow. Good luck out there! and well done on recent success.
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05-25-2013 , 10:44 PM
Damn, son, great results! It's kinda tillting that you're doing so well, I always used to reassure myself that I didn't actually need to put any work into my game because you were working so hard and didn't seem to be going anywhere. Now I've seen the last few pages of this thread I'm feeling very stupid indeed
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05-25-2013 , 10:48 PM
Very stupid
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indeed
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05-26-2013 , 12:18 AM
Congrats on the hits!
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05-26-2013 , 01:33 AM
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Originally Posted by wupwup
I've been following this thread since the start and it's been a fun ride.
GL tomorrow, it could be a real life changer for you if you bink one of those tourneys.
thanks for following sir, it sure has been a fun ride haha. many thanks, but tbh this month has been so ridic that no matter what happens its already been a lifechanger! gonna try my best to close ths series out with another final table!

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Originally Posted by brutti
You are on fire!
wont deny it

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Originally Posted by claynuts
will be playing very similar events to you tomorrow. Good luck out there! and well done on recent success.
i m not as big a high roller as you are bro and just decided to skip the $1k main event. had i played it i d have sold 80% of my action and tbh it doesnt make much financial sense considering i m selling action to $215s as well. playing the $215s on my own roll would likely yield a much higher expectation but i dont want to have a sunday in excess of $2k in buyins having all my action so i ll just play a slightly bigger schedule (# of mtts wise) and not play the massive one. no need to rush to play my first $1k MTT, there s always another one and when i do i ll make sure i can stomach it and crush it to pieces

cliffs:

OP is scared manie

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Originally Posted by BertieWooster
Damn, son, great results! It's kinda tillting that you're doing so well, I always used to reassure myself that I didn't actually need to put any work into my game because you were working so hard and didn't seem to be going anywhere. Now I've seen the last few pages of this thread I'm feeling very stupid indeed
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notsureifsrs buuut glad i made u feel stupid haha

srsly tho, u re such a massive volume fish

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Originally Posted by ExpectedV
Very stupid
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indeed
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Congrats on the hits!
many thanks sir! inb4 top 100 monthly TLB tomorrow imo! gogogogo
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05-26-2013 , 05:01 PM
Poker Stars $200+$15 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t600/t1200 Blinds + t150 - 8 players
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

BTN: t10576 M = 3.53
SB: t66442 M = 22.15
BB: t23568 M = 7.86
UTG: t50093 M = 16.70
UTG+1: t33680 M = 11.23
MP1: t24467 M = 8.16
Hero (MP2): t54990 M = 18.33
CO: t29540 M = 9.85

Pre Flop: (t3000) Hero is MP2 with J A
3 folds, Hero raises to t2496, 3 folds, BB calls t1296

Flop: (t6792) 4 6 8 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks

Turn: (t6792) 7 (2 players)
BB bets t2241, Hero calls t2241

River: (t11274) 8 (2 players)
BB bets t7553, Hero calls t7553

Final Pot: t26380
BB shows 2 K (a pair of Eights)
Hero shows J A (a pair of Eights - Ace kicker)
Hero wins t26380

(flex)
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05-27-2013 , 03:36 AM
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Originally Posted by blakkman08
Na I only gave him 35 and sold the rest in 5% pieces with the exception of chAAnt JC who has 10%

Haha whitehotman08
Oh dayumm! Missed the part where you left 25% open for the rest.
Shotgun on 5% of your next package
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05-27-2013 , 08:25 AM
sicko, another FT?? nice work Sir
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05-27-2013 , 08:40 AM
You the man! Well done man. See you next SCOOP.. don't go 1.3 MU on us =P
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05-27-2013 , 11:41 AM
Good job !!! May the heat continue
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05-27-2013 , 12:49 PM
sup guys, thx for the comments. i m utterly entirely fkd up and burnt out so might take a while till i update but quite possibly will wrap up the month in my next post. although i am at 192 hours so might well try and get in one last session to push it over the 200 hour mark

sadly yesterday i punted two big potential stacks away deepish ITM in the $215 SCOOP 8max and the bigger 55 so yea will deffo take a day or two off and do reviews etc. pretty disappointed with my lack of focus towards the end of yesterday.

sick part was that i ran KK and my 3rd place stack into the second place stack's AA with 11 left in the 11c yesterday. guy was ridiculously aggro 3betting all the time and the chipleader on his left was battling hm too. so when i open KK, 2nd place 3bets and cl 4b i jizzed my pants obv. meh happens, almost broke even on the day despite having about 1.5k$ in buyins which isnt all that bad. had another top 27 finish in the $11 3k fr good measure

later fellas
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05-27-2013 , 12:55 PM
Good work mate

Cliffs on current stakes and BR?
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05-27-2013 , 12:57 PM
br is at all time high at about $18k, and i have 2 months expenses in the bank

stakes, regspeed MTTs up to 109s, and selling action to all $162+ majors/dailys i want to play to friends here in malta. life is good
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05-27-2013 , 01:00 PM
Inspiring. Good job.
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05-27-2013 , 01:14 PM
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Originally Posted by blakkman08
br is at all time high at about $18k, and i have 2 months expenses in the bank

stakes, regspeed MTTs up to 109s, and selling action to all $162+ majors/dailys i want to play to friends here in malta. life is good
Are you gonna post the action thats for sale itt?
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05-27-2013 , 01:18 PM
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Originally Posted by JPE23
Inspiring. Good job.
thanks bro

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Are you gonna post the action thats for sale itt?
probably not as its much easier to sell big chunks privately than go thrugh the hassle of selling small %ages. although i ve been selling action to the big buyin events without markup because i thought i needed to first get some kind of results in. chances are i will start selling with MU on 2+2 again but not sure. might just take shots on sundays and not sell anything too. dont know
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05-27-2013 , 01:42 PM
Let's make babies
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05-27-2013 , 11:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Mzbourg
Let's make babies
let's.

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[IMG]http://s12.************/gvzq1sz4t/babies.jpg[/IMG]



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gonna wrap up this month a bit prematurely again but i ve been so burnt out since yesterday that i m not sure i ll play much at all thill month is over. only big plans before flying to amsterdam is binkig the supernova freeroll on saturday but that ll be may 2nd

soooo lets get to the goals i set for myself:

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Originally Posted by blakkman08
goals for every single week of may:

[x] 45 hours of play - 192.5 hours this month. most i ve played in a month by a mile and i m gonna try and make it a cool 200.

[?] 7 hours of strategy - while i did a lot of review and study- especially with chAAnt JC- i have no clue how much of it we actually did as it was mainly a bunch of range talk during our grinds and then a bunch of great strat vids.

[ ] 3 workouts - didnt even workout once all month. gonna apply to a gym when i come back from my travels and will go there regularly. having the ability do do (halfassed) workouts at home kinda makes me ignore it but being the lifenit that i am if i actually pay for it i ll make good use of it

[x] bunch of coaching - although during SCOOP time i have had to cut down on a lot of this. will make sure to finish all the pre reserved packs of all my students up before likely stopping my coaching for the summer time. I currently enjoy griding too much to not play most of the time i have available

[ ] bunch of fruit and veg daily and NO junk food - miserably failed this one. had likely my tenth ordered in pizza of the month today. will try and work on this over the next month! I ll blame SCOOP for the majority of this tho

[x] get sh*tfaced on the pubcrawl with fellow grinders with TR - [B]had a lot of fun going out a bunch of times this month and met lots of great people that i m sure will be good friends for life
All in all I am happy with how this month went. I proved to myself that indeed i can hit targets when I set my mind to it. obviously some goals i neglected but given that SCOOP is only once a year I will cut myself some slack there provided I pick thm up again from now on.

Not even talking about results but I feel this entire month has been an upward slope wih me improving in many aspects of MTTs consistently with every session I played. Its obviously awesome to hit my peak during the last week of scoop and run hot at the same time

$$$-wise this has been by far the best month of my life (+$15k), hours wise this has been the best month of my life, have-fun-in-Malta wise it has been the best month of my life so all things considered I am in a very good place right now and i am very fortuate to be in the position I am in right now. many thanks to all the guys who believed in me and bought shares

I am now playing unstaked and have a bankroll big enough to allow me to play decent stakes MTTs/cash for a while and go for some more scores. I will likely stick with MTTs for the time being (heaterrrrr ) and have done a bunch of reviewing to once again come up with the folowing plan:

-remove all turbo MTTs other than Hots (and mayyyybe $3+R 180s) from my daily schedule.
-play most regular speed MTTs up to $109s on my own roll, sell shares for the Sunday Milly, Sunday Warmup, Big $162

reasons for the removal of turbo MTTs is based (likely heavily biased) on my results in turbos since april where i ve basically dropped about 500 buyins (lawllll) in mainly bigfield turbos. all this while at the same time achieving great results in regular speed MTTs

here s my year graph in all turbos of all stakes:

[IMG]http://s21.************/ih6cr36o7/chart_21.jpg[/IMG]

and here s my graph for all regular speed MTTs this year below $25 stakes to show only the MTTs I was playing regularly without seling any action:

[IMG]http://s15.************/7p3ox87iz/chart_24.jpg[/IMG]

I understand that my decision against turbos is based on no sample whatsoever but i rly dont care given i also dont enjoy turbos nearly as much as regular speed MTTs where i can execute my edge much better (deeper stacks throughout) than in turbos. also the biggest positive of turbos - volume - is likely not much of a reason for me considering i just love playing 12hr+ days which i can easily fill with regspeed MTTs where i think my longterm ROI will be up to 3-4 times larger than my turbo MTT roi. this and i simply run better at regspeeds ldo

heres the graph for the entire month of march :

[IMG]http://s11.************/xz6l4lm6r/chart_23.jpg[/IMG]

(dance) (sun) weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

which amounts to me profiting the $15k mentioned above due to shares i sold.

I wont make too many goals for june cuz i frankly dont know how much / if i will be grinding from june 4th till june 24th but i will try to do some working out and some grinding until i fly and lots of review while i m travelling to keep my game sharp.

thanks again all for the well wishes, sweats and rails when i made runs in the SCOOP, i really appreciate the support

hope yall have a great and productive month of june

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05-28-2013 , 09:01 AM
Awesome man, sick month.
Thread gets better each and every day. Keep it up
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05-28-2013 , 03:37 PM
just remembered how we were talking about which form of poker has the bigger (future) EV
curious what you'd say now?
really sick progress this year! this thread becomes more and more inspiring!

but please blakk.. start being less results oriented^^
otherwise MTT's will rape your soul.. with a tremendously huge dick
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05-28-2013 , 04:44 PM
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Originally Posted by straykatbluz
Awesome man, sick month.
Thread gets better each and every day. Keep it up
thanks man I ll tr to keep it up over summer for sure! maybe i ll bink the nova freeroll

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Originally Posted by MatteoBounce
just remembered how we were talking about which form of poker has the bigger (future) EV
curious what you'd say now?
really sick progress this year! this thread becomes more and more inspiring!

but please blakk.. start being less results oriented^^
otherwise MTT's will rape your soul.. with a tremendously huge dick
Sup. well as u ve said i m results oriented so yea i think MTTs are sweet right now

And tbh i dont mind being results orientd the way I have been recently. not cuz derp i ve mad money but cuz it has made me focus on games that i have been enjoying and has made me keep learning and keep improving on a daily basis. I never have been a guy to force myself to do things/ play formats i wasnt 100% enjoying so having the option of dropping one format that gives me headaches and rather focus on one that i seems to be the maxEV option for me. I am absolutely prepared for a massive runbadspell in donkaments and i am happy to be able to go back to cash and reduce the variance in my income that way. as for turbos which i believe u re referring to I believe i said in my post that i understand its mainly due to variace and i have not much of a samle. however i also gave plenty of reasons to not bother playing turbos (that work for me but may well not work for others) so yea i am results oriented but imo not in the worst way
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05-28-2013 , 04:51 PM
yo were hitting paceville tonight, call me if you wanna join.

if not, we'll see you for bbq on thursday?

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05-28-2013 , 04:59 PM
haha i cant even get out of bed so i doubt i ll kill mysef further bro! BBQ and a few beers on thursday sounds great tho

you kids have fun now
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