Off-Peak MTTs and Beyond... --$150k 2013 Challenge-- & ??..$50k Golf Betting..??
01-09-2013
, 08:55 PM
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, 08:09 PM
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, 05:26 AM
Thanks for the comments, appreciated.
Philippines
When i was in my early 20's i used to love taking few months vacation in Ko Pha Ngan, Thailand, i probably spend a year out there in total bumming around. I'd figured out at that point i wanted to live in asia, but was growing weary of Thailand and wanted to go somewhere new.
Once i became a poker pro, i took a year out from uni to travel round the world playing poker to figure out where i wanted to stay. I had 5 months planned to travel around the philippines. After a month i met my gf in manila and have stayed here ever since.
Every Country has pros and cons, theses are just my opinions / experiences and not indicative of how the Philippines is as a whole, so if Filipinos read these please do not be offended. I don't really wanna derail the thread and discuss this further.
Pros
Weather
English Speaking
Religion - my family are Christians, so moving to a Catholic country makes life easier.
Cheap for some things - EG. Food, Drinks, Beer, Activities, Petrol, Taxes etc etc
Friendly, Happy People
Amazing Beach Holidays - There are so many places to visit here, that are really quick, cheap and easy to visit.
Cheap Costs / Labour / Rent - Cheap Costs means that the money i make can go a lot further so i can try out stuff like owning a bar etc. without having to borrow money etc.
Family - I have a large family here now, and that's great.
Life Stuff - I'm really crap at stuff like cooking, cleaning, paying bills etc. so i'm fortunate enough that i've got people to sort out all that stuff so i can put more hours into working.
Cons
Pollution
Traffic
Corruption - Leads to multiple things not being as good as they could, such as dodgy police, monopolies on markets (more expensive products etc).
Food - Philippine food just not really to my taste, and generally its low quality (hence cheap).
Expensive For Other Things - Electricity, Tech Stuff etc
Behind in Technology - EG. its taken me 5 years of looking to buy 2560×1600 res monitors.
No Online Shopping
Poverty - Life in the Philippines is tough for the vast majority of Filipinos, mostly due to rising cost of living and just not enough money to go around. This, and all the problems that come with it rubs over into your life eventually.
No Free Public Heath Care
People may try to scam you - Being white just paints a target on your head for these types.
Week 2 Update
Poker
My Poker Volumes been **** this week, probably only got 8 hours in, in short turbo sessions, so lower abi and roi. I've got people visiting this week also, so i'm really gonna have to grind hard last week of the month to make 1500 games.
Week
Month
Pace
$ Pace = $5753 : Me $8537
Volume Pace = 575 Games : 600
Golf Betting
Swongy Week...
Started Off Great with Scott Langley shooting -7 to take the first round lead at the Sony Open on the PGA Tour (left).
+$1,382.72
Then the Volvo Golf Champions (European Tour) started to go a bit **** with one of my biggest reds (-$1500) Scott Jamieson taking a 5 shot lead after 3 rounds. My EV at this point was like -$900, but i ****ed up and overbet $3k at 1.5 to take Jamieson to him to even (where i should have hedge the loss to -$900 not to $0). Which ended up leaving a big red on Louis Oosthuizen (and some 50:1 plus players) giving me about a 20% chance of losing $3.5k+ and 80% chance of breaking even.
This left me going into the final round with an exposure i wasn't really comfortable with, but i let it slide anway. After Scott Jamieson's tee shot on the 6th...
and watching Louis showing supreme confidence, playing great with the crowd behind him, tilted i snapped logged off, took a shower and went to bed rather the put myself through the misery of watching it.
-$3,604.69
Fortuantly i woke up to find PGA Tour Rookie Russel Henley birdie'd the last 5 holes to hold off Tim Clark (medium red) to take down the Sony Open.
+$2,247.56
Overall
Some solid results in the smaller markets gave me a profitable week.
+$1613.91
I've now reprogrammed my in between round staking to make sure that i dont allow myself to go into the final round with large exposures and hedge positions off current market EV, not $0.
Goals Update
Week
[] Finish the $265ko review in full.
Month
[] 1500 Games
[] No Booze in January - Started this Jan 1 but forgot to post.
GLA
When i was in my early 20's i used to love taking few months vacation in Ko Pha Ngan, Thailand, i probably spend a year out there in total bumming around. I'd figured out at that point i wanted to live in asia, but was growing weary of Thailand and wanted to go somewhere new.
Once i became a poker pro, i took a year out from uni to travel round the world playing poker to figure out where i wanted to stay. I had 5 months planned to travel around the philippines. After a month i met my gf in manila and have stayed here ever since.
Every Country has pros and cons, theses are just my opinions / experiences and not indicative of how the Philippines is as a whole, so if Filipinos read these please do not be offended. I don't really wanna derail the thread and discuss this further.
Pros
Weather
English Speaking
Religion - my family are Christians, so moving to a Catholic country makes life easier.
Cheap for some things - EG. Food, Drinks, Beer, Activities, Petrol, Taxes etc etc
Friendly, Happy People
Amazing Beach Holidays - There are so many places to visit here, that are really quick, cheap and easy to visit.
Cheap Costs / Labour / Rent - Cheap Costs means that the money i make can go a lot further so i can try out stuff like owning a bar etc. without having to borrow money etc.
Family - I have a large family here now, and that's great.
Life Stuff - I'm really crap at stuff like cooking, cleaning, paying bills etc. so i'm fortunate enough that i've got people to sort out all that stuff so i can put more hours into working.
Cons
Pollution
Traffic
Corruption - Leads to multiple things not being as good as they could, such as dodgy police, monopolies on markets (more expensive products etc).
Food - Philippine food just not really to my taste, and generally its low quality (hence cheap).
Expensive For Other Things - Electricity, Tech Stuff etc
Behind in Technology - EG. its taken me 5 years of looking to buy 2560×1600 res monitors.
No Online Shopping
Poverty - Life in the Philippines is tough for the vast majority of Filipinos, mostly due to rising cost of living and just not enough money to go around. This, and all the problems that come with it rubs over into your life eventually.
No Free Public Heath Care
People may try to scam you - Being white just paints a target on your head for these types.
Week 2 Update
Poker
My Poker Volumes been **** this week, probably only got 8 hours in, in short turbo sessions, so lower abi and roi. I've got people visiting this week also, so i'm really gonna have to grind hard last week of the month to make 1500 games.
Week
Month
Pace
$ Pace = $5753 : Me $8537
Volume Pace = 575 Games : 600
Golf Betting
Swongy Week...
Started Off Great with Scott Langley shooting -7 to take the first round lead at the Sony Open on the PGA Tour (left).
+$1,382.72
Then the Volvo Golf Champions (European Tour) started to go a bit **** with one of my biggest reds (-$1500) Scott Jamieson taking a 5 shot lead after 3 rounds. My EV at this point was like -$900, but i ****ed up and overbet $3k at 1.5 to take Jamieson to him to even (where i should have hedge the loss to -$900 not to $0). Which ended up leaving a big red on Louis Oosthuizen (and some 50:1 plus players) giving me about a 20% chance of losing $3.5k+ and 80% chance of breaking even.
This left me going into the final round with an exposure i wasn't really comfortable with, but i let it slide anway. After Scott Jamieson's tee shot on the 6th...
and watching Louis showing supreme confidence, playing great with the crowd behind him, tilted i snapped logged off, took a shower and went to bed rather the put myself through the misery of watching it.
-$3,604.69
Fortuantly i woke up to find PGA Tour Rookie Russel Henley birdie'd the last 5 holes to hold off Tim Clark (medium red) to take down the Sony Open.
+$2,247.56
Overall
Some solid results in the smaller markets gave me a profitable week.
+$1613.91
I've now reprogrammed my in between round staking to make sure that i dont allow myself to go into the final round with large exposures and hedge positions off current market EV, not $0.
Goals Update
Week
[] Finish the $265ko review in full.
Month
[] 1500 Games
[] No Booze in January - Started this Jan 1 but forgot to post.
GLA
01-22-2013
, 03:23 AM
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At the moment i'm just using Betfair. I used to use;
http://www.sportsbookreview.com/
to check on a bookmaker, but their ratings are not so good anymore (see sports betting forum), but i don't know a better alternative.
In the past i've used all the bookies on display here (besides youwin, 188 and betway);
http://www.oddschecker.com/golf/us-m...masters/winner
I've had no problems with any of them, besides being limited. Most of them are regulated in the UK.
Week 3 Update
Poker
Had to take a few days off poker to friends staying. Been playing mixture of D to B game.
Cashes Over $1k
1st PS $109 Turbo $5600ish
5th PS $109 Turbo $1600ish
2nd Big 30Euro PS.FR 1000euros
9th $265ko $800ish (+ 8 * $50 KOs)
Week
Month
Pace
$ Pace = $8630 : Me = $12490
Games Pace = 863 : Me = 866
Golf Betting
European Tour
Got off to a good start with a Jamie Donaldson Win in Abu Dhabi. Tiger and Rory both missed the cut.
+$1,600.83
PGA Tour
Scott Stallings started the last round with a 5 shot lead played on a very easy golf course. Going on to the 18th He had to birdie a short easy par five on the last hole to win outright, and Par for a Playoff. I was -$300 or so on a Scott Stallings Win and (+$400 on Winner W/O Stallings) if he made the birdie...
instead he dumped his approach to the green in the water and made a bogey. This meant that the Win market and Winner w/o Stallings market were both riding on the result of the sudden death play off, leaving my positions as...
Charles Howell III -$1500
Brian Gay -$2150
Henrik Norlander +$4000
Didn't wanna swing so much over 1 hole so i layed Norlander $1150 at 3.65 before it started. Brian gay went on to win.
-$1020.51
Champions Tour
In the Mitsubishi Electric Championship my man David Frost (+$1k) lost in a playoff to John Cook.
-$353.56
Overall
+$879.34
Goals
Last Week
[
] Finish the $265ko review in full.
This Week
[] Finish a HH Review I'm doing for a friend.
Month
[] 1500 Games <-- Yesterday Day 1 of intensive grinding to get this done. Playing more tables, most was 26 but got in 100 games yesterday.
[] No Booze in January <-- Was hard with visitors but getting easier now after 3 weeks off and lots of poker to play.
GLA
http://www.sportsbookreview.com/
to check on a bookmaker, but their ratings are not so good anymore (see sports betting forum), but i don't know a better alternative.
In the past i've used all the bookies on display here (besides youwin, 188 and betway);
http://www.oddschecker.com/golf/us-m...masters/winner
I've had no problems with any of them, besides being limited. Most of them are regulated in the UK.
Week 3 Update
Poker
Had to take a few days off poker to friends staying. Been playing mixture of D to B game.
Cashes Over $1k
1st PS $109 Turbo $5600ish
5th PS $109 Turbo $1600ish
2nd Big 30Euro PS.FR 1000euros
9th $265ko $800ish (+ 8 * $50 KOs)
Week
Month
Pace
$ Pace = $8630 : Me = $12490
Games Pace = 863 : Me = 866
Golf Betting
European Tour
Got off to a good start with a Jamie Donaldson Win in Abu Dhabi. Tiger and Rory both missed the cut.
+$1,600.83
PGA Tour
Scott Stallings started the last round with a 5 shot lead played on a very easy golf course. Going on to the 18th He had to birdie a short easy par five on the last hole to win outright, and Par for a Playoff. I was -$300 or so on a Scott Stallings Win and (+$400 on Winner W/O Stallings) if he made the birdie...
instead he dumped his approach to the green in the water and made a bogey. This meant that the Win market and Winner w/o Stallings market were both riding on the result of the sudden death play off, leaving my positions as...
Charles Howell III -$1500
Brian Gay -$2150
Henrik Norlander +$4000
Didn't wanna swing so much over 1 hole so i layed Norlander $1150 at 3.65 before it started. Brian gay went on to win.
-$1020.51
Champions Tour
In the Mitsubishi Electric Championship my man David Frost (+$1k) lost in a playoff to John Cook.
-$353.56
Overall
+$879.34
Goals
Last Week
[
] Finish the $265ko review in full.This Week
[] Finish a HH Review I'm doing for a friend.
Month
[] 1500 Games <-- Yesterday Day 1 of intensive grinding to get this done. Playing more tables, most was 26 but got in 100 games yesterday.
[] No Booze in January <-- Was hard with visitors but getting easier now after 3 weeks off and lots of poker to play.
GLA
01-29-2013
, 12:36 AM
Yah been trying. Put it a lot of hours this week to go for the 1500 games this month, been an intensive grind!
Yeah i did, my mistake, was some unknown european golfer. (last post Henrik Norlander = David Lingmerth).
Week 4 Update
Poker
So been grinding hard. 6 days of 7-12 hour sessions. Results have been good. Overconfidence and burnout set in for my sunday session where i punted a good stack in the PS $75 to finish 9th frustrated me. In my daily review the following day my play i wasn't that happy with the hands i'd marked so took a day off yesterday.
Cashes Over $1k
6th TCOOP 36 $82 6max - $4305
http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/tcoop/...em-126348.html
1st PS $82 Hyper - $3300ish
1st PS $82 Hyper - $2800ish
1st PS $30 1r1a - $2000ish
1st PS.Fr Big 30euro - 1.3k euros
1st Microgaming 20euro Rebuy - 1k euros
Week
Timezone issues **** up the weekly graphs (missing 50 games or so), but picked up in monthly.
Month
Pace
$ Pace = $11918 : Me = $26483
Voume Pace = 1192 : Me = 1265
Golf Betting
European Tour
Chris Wood went into the final round of the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters with a 3 shot lead. Last time he had the 54 hole lead he shot a 76 to finish outside the top ten so was trading too high (imo) going into the final round. After the 17th he was 1 shot down going on to the par 5 18th. Had to make eagle to win outright and got on the green in 2 about 12ft away...
Win Market: +$1453.55
Other Markets: +$1795.68
PGA
At the Farmers Insurance Open @ Torry Pines Tiger Woods cruises to victory despite being errant off the tee but drains some of my winnings from the euro tour.
Win Market: -$198.2
Other Markets: -$1794.46
Only had 1 oppertunity to bet after the event started as 2 Courses for the first 2 rounds (havn't got my betting set up to account for that yet) and fog all of saturday led to a monday finish and final round being half complete sunday night (again betting not setup to calculate this yet). This lead to leaving all positions wide open and less time to get +ev bets in.
I also doubled my stakes on saturday as the Euro Tour had finished (therefore had money freed up) but it lead to an increased burst of variance which i didn't like too much, and probably wont do again. The final day could have been a bit worse too.
Week Overall
+$1256.65
Year To Date Golf Betting
Months up so here is graph so far. The axis along the bottom is each individual market.
Goals
Last Week
[] Finish a HH Review I'm doing for a friend.
This Week
[] Finish 2nd HH Review i'm doing.
Month
[] 1500 Games <-- 3 Days and 235 games to go...
[] No Booze in January <-- Still rocking, this is actually getting harder the closer i get to the finish line! Interesting that i have my best month in a couple of years when i kick the booze. Going to pay attention to this in future and cut back on alcohol consumption this year.
Poker Goals & Challenges
Just want to give a shout out to all the fellow MTTers that have a PG&C Thread, feels like we're all on a good upswing at the moment and i enjoy reading all your threads even if i dont post too much. Its great that this forum stays relatively troll free. I really enjoy the community and a bit of friendly rivalry to help motivate me (even if its all in my head). Lets all keep working hard and crush FEB!
GLA
Yeah i did, my mistake, was some unknown european golfer. (last post Henrik Norlander = David Lingmerth).
Week 4 Update
Poker
So been grinding hard. 6 days of 7-12 hour sessions. Results have been good. Overconfidence and burnout set in for my sunday session where i punted a good stack in the PS $75 to finish 9th frustrated me. In my daily review the following day my play i wasn't that happy with the hands i'd marked so took a day off yesterday.
Cashes Over $1k
6th TCOOP 36 $82 6max - $4305
http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/tcoop/...em-126348.html
1st PS $82 Hyper - $3300ish
1st PS $82 Hyper - $2800ish
1st PS $30 1r1a - $2000ish
1st PS.Fr Big 30euro - 1.3k euros
1st Microgaming 20euro Rebuy - 1k euros
Week
Timezone issues **** up the weekly graphs (missing 50 games or so), but picked up in monthly.
Month
Pace
$ Pace = $11918 : Me = $26483
Voume Pace = 1192 : Me = 1265
Golf Betting
European Tour
Chris Wood went into the final round of the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters with a 3 shot lead. Last time he had the 54 hole lead he shot a 76 to finish outside the top ten so was trading too high (imo) going into the final round. After the 17th he was 1 shot down going on to the par 5 18th. Had to make eagle to win outright and got on the green in 2 about 12ft away...
Win Market: +$1453.55
Other Markets: +$1795.68
PGA
At the Farmers Insurance Open @ Torry Pines Tiger Woods cruises to victory despite being errant off the tee but drains some of my winnings from the euro tour.
Win Market: -$198.2
Other Markets: -$1794.46
Only had 1 oppertunity to bet after the event started as 2 Courses for the first 2 rounds (havn't got my betting set up to account for that yet) and fog all of saturday led to a monday finish and final round being half complete sunday night (again betting not setup to calculate this yet). This lead to leaving all positions wide open and less time to get +ev bets in.
I also doubled my stakes on saturday as the Euro Tour had finished (therefore had money freed up) but it lead to an increased burst of variance which i didn't like too much, and probably wont do again. The final day could have been a bit worse too.
Week Overall
+$1256.65
Year To Date Golf Betting
Months up so here is graph so far. The axis along the bottom is each individual market.
Goals
Last Week
[
] Finish a HH Review I'm doing for a friend.This Week
[] Finish 2nd HH Review i'm doing.
Month
[] 1500 Games <-- 3 Days and 235 games to go...
[] No Booze in January <-- Still rocking, this is actually getting harder the closer i get to the finish line! Interesting that i have my best month in a couple of years when i kick the booze. Going to pay attention to this in future and cut back on alcohol consumption this year.
Poker Goals & Challenges
Just want to give a shout out to all the fellow MTTers that have a PG&C Thread, feels like we're all on a good upswing at the moment and i enjoy reading all your threads even if i dont post too much. Its great that this forum stays relatively troll free. I really enjoy the community and a bit of friendly rivalry to help motivate me (even if its all in my head). Lets all keep working hard and crush FEB!
GLA
01-29-2013
, 11:57 AM
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, 02:26 PM