Got a headache mid session today, gonna use the gunnars from tomorrow. Had a good session, regged like 3 hours, won the big 100e on .fr, 4th in 320 6max and 10th in 100r with a few other scores for good day.

Probably playing tomorrow and Sunday as long as Im not getting ill.

kind of a frustating night. 2 days ago I came 15th in the 100r, last night i came 10th and today I finished 6th. A guy made a super bad call vs me and was v v lucky to be flipping and managed to bust me, but got around 3k so that was fine. Cashed the big 109, big 162 and the 320 Saturday knockout. I bet/called AQhigh on j75 in huge pot for top 5 stack and was good but he hit a 9 on the turn and I was gg. Kinda annoying but super super happy with my play and im going deep in a lot of stuff I play, just gotta convert something again soon. Been a very, very good week for me, I decided to grind the mid week comps and see how they differed to Sundays, really enjoyed it even though ran bad at the business end.

Big Sunday tomorrow, looking forward to it.

vamos.

chopped the trex for 18.5k. pretty happy

hahaha ok thats it i quit

Haha, obscene. You'll be ahead of Moorman soon at this rate! Forget top 10!

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That are some awesome scores, could you post your mtt graph for the year?

+1

Rough guess is

Abi: 100$
Count: 300
ROI: 1000%

sick pg&c, how have I missed this all the time just started reading from your warmup ship onwards, monster year glgl for scoop!

Must be nice to have people who can sweat you IRL.

Live, breath and eat poker.

Kind of jealous of that life.


Keep on crushing, jeeez. =)

Today was a decent day of grinding. I regged from 4-12 which is pretty big for mid week.

I came 2nd in the 265 for 6.2k which felt good
2nd in 30c for 2.8k
3rd in flip out with 100% cross book with an anonymous degen that frequents this forum!
Finalled a full tilt comp and had numerous other good runs too ith chases in 320 6max, big 162 etc

Not sure if ill take tomorrow off or not. Will make a decision when I wake up.

GLGL, gutted I missed out on your SCOOP package, so much heatttttttttttt

Is this real life?

Keep up the heat man, best of luck during SCOOOOOOOOOP

he just binked the 22r Action Hour for 2.6k.

Was 99% sure i wasnt going to grind today. I just didnt feel it and missed the early 265ko that i look forward to playing. I decided to reg from 6-8 and managed to get a win (chop as marginal chip leader) in the 22 action hour for 2.7k and a couple small scores for a smallish (1.5k) winning day.

Unsure about tomorrow or not. Im likely going to not grind and do something else instead but lets see.

I made this thread on 2p2 which should be pretty fun, feel free to get involved.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/61.../#post43001033

Whoops, how'd I miss this one
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Okay just read the last two pages.... I wanna get onboard the heat train. Toot toot.

Feel kinda bad that my updates recently have been short and not really much time put into them. I've literally just been grinding MTTs for 6-12 hours a day. Well try to post something a little substantial moving forward rather than just a diary post.

Went to dinner with Ingrid tonight at a really nice restaurant that we like. They do this all day breakfast, but they always find it so weird that i order pancakes for starter before a rare fillet steak. They again didnt remember to take the syrup off my pancakes which was pretty tilting. Theres nothing worse than a know it all waitress who doesnt bring a pen and paper to the table, then next time you go is offended when you repeat everything 5 times.

Half way through the dinner Ingrid was like "omg theres x" then this continued for 20 minutes untill all the biggest actors in Budapest were in the restaurant, they all moved to the back and through the doors into a theatre room that was there and something interesting was going on but my Hungarian is non existant so I didnt know what was going on.

I got back and regged for 90 minutes with no real success, all of the above praise is all really kind and stuff but it annoys me. Not you guys personally but theres no such thing as poker being solved, it is a forever evolving game. I last week looked at the sharkscopes of 5-6 very well known uK guys and was super shocked at their results. Mostly what happened was they played small stakes, had a big roi, binked a big one, got lots of recognition then lost for 5000+ games. I assume its because they didnt work hard or assumed they could only play on Sunday. I absolutely dont want to follow in their footsteps. I truly believe you get out what you put into this game, Im so so hungry right now and really want to play and learn and study and learn so much even though I have been doing so for the last 3-4 years. Every day I grind I think to myself, "wow i really should know this, im losing a lot of equity not knowing it" Basically I am anything but the finished article in poker, i have ran pretty good, I understand that, I also feel like i have played a lot better than my opponents, but im very aware there is, and always will be a lot of room for improvement.

I see regulars who have been "professionals" for 6 years make such such big mistakes on a daily basis. Everybody says that poker is dead but if a guy has been making money for 6 years and still not learned super basic fundamentals why is the game necessarily going to get significantly tougher over the next 5 years, im kinda sick of hearing poker is going to be dead, im pretty sure if you work harder than the other lazier regs then you will be just fine.

Over the next 10 days (most likely mon-thur next week) I am going to be doing a tonne of hh reviews in preperation for SCOOP. Im also going to play a little bit of some of the "other games" so that I can play the lows and mediums in SCOOP.

I have been watching a lot of documentaries recently, usually crime ones, not sure if anybody is interested but may leave one at the end of some of my blog posts incase anybody wants to watch.




The Craigslist Killer

Craigslist is a website where you can buy whatever you want or find services that you need. In this case this med student at Boston University used it to help with his darker sexual fantasies that he hid from his fellow med student fiance. Things got a little out of hand as some of the girls he met found out there was a darker side to this dorky looking student.

Great post.

Don't expect you to give away any "secrets", but can you say anything about what form your studying takes?

Any software packages in particular? Etc...

Today was a pretty good day. I lose a lot of money, but thats fine, I played good and ran bad and if I played like I did today every day then I would die a rich man.

We all went for dinner with a friend for his leaving meal as he travels around other parts of Europe. We went to a steak house called prime. I've ate some pretty expensive meals, most famously the 600 dollar 15 course that I quickly went for fast food afterwards in Vegas and a couple of others. Ive probably ate steak around 300-350 times in my life before, often always in very nice restaurants where it is kinda expensive (30-50/steak) but never a very expensive one. Things have gone well recently, I've worked maybe 20 of the last 23 days and I decided to treat myself to a pretty expensive 250ish steak dinner at this restaurant. It was so, so good and felt like a good decision.

We came home and grinded and some of the guys had some decent sweats.

I got into an email conversation with an old friend of mine who I havent spoken to in a while who spoke of their anxiety about current money problems and just generally worrying about how other people perceived them. We went back and forth and came to the conclusion that worrying about how other people perceive you or how you are going to be portrayed and allowing it to make you do something (in this example they wanted to leave Asia and come back as a volunteer in Europe with dogs but knew they would be portrayed poorly by a lot of Europeans especially as they were 28 and at the age they should have a "good job) I asked what would happen if they did get a good job what would happen then? They are naturally very anxious and nervous about people and quickly realised that no matter how much they "rise in society" there is always going to be somebody who is going to judge you or somebody you think is going to judge you. Whether that be a overly critical Mother in Law or somebody who has worked in a company that you just join.

Probably ^^^ all looks like nonsense as im just scribbling down random thoughts, but in general we decided that worrying about what people think about you and how you is perceived is stupid, especially if you let it make you be somebody. Because if you allow self doubt to get you to somewhere then you are only going to continue to doubt yourself and worry about being judged. If you can get to level where you are comfortable with yourself and understand yourself and not worry about others then youre going to be in such a happier place.

I started to think about how this translates into poker and I know previously when I tried to move to HSMTTs I would often not want to get to showdown with certain hands or take certain lines because people would think I was not good. If you have a style that works really well for you and that others sturggle to play against I really think that changing yourself because of self doubt and worry about how you will be perceived is really not a good thing. I kinda came to the realisation that you should follow your gut, go with your instincts and allow yourself to be yourself, inside and outside of poker.

Im sure, 100% all of ^^^^ is absolute bollocks to you and you dont get any of it, but to me it was the first "a-ha moment" ive had for a long time and allows me to enter SCOOP with a much clearer mind set.

Let me be the first to say that it doesn't sound like bollocks and some people (including me) will relate to it and take something from it

I concur.

It actually happened to me pretty recently. at the time I was winning 5bb/100 over a decent sample size (200k+) at 500nl. I played a hand where Zaza raised the button and I decided to flat TT in the big blind. Im not sure exactly what happened but I c/called, c/called, donkshoved and coolered him. He posted in his blog "LOL POKERSTRATEGY COACH" and it actually really affected me for 2-3 days, even into the position where I didnt even want to grind. Whenever I was on his or a couple of other guys that I feel are very arrogant I would often decide what to do in my lines depending on how I would be perceived in our skype chat afterwards. Often Zaza or one of the other guys would be incredibly rude and Zaza eventually tilt quit the skype group when I jammed a river vs him with (if i remember correctly) a merged range otr and he called me really light and started writing "god i have no idea how you ever got past 100nl"

I think firstly ever writing to a reg that starts 1k zoom 3 handed vs any two players and that plays with the upmost integrity is really kinda ool from him but I took it all way more seriously than I should have done. If I hadnt had this a-ha moment the other day then perhaps I would continue to play a style that I am not familiar or comfortable with vs them, now I feel so much clearer mentally and really couldnt give a **** about what anybody thinks.

FWIW this is not me calling Zaza out or anything similar we have spoken a lot on skype and got on well away from the tables and he is a very very very good player and coach, its just something nice to get off my chest as I was kinda always thinking with a blurred mindset regarding the whole thing, with lots of self doubt despite having a really good results vs all of these guys in these games.

It does make you really consider ever berating anybody in the chat box though, if I really didnt want to play when I was winning a lot jus because of something somebody wrote, then calling people out in blogs who are fish or bad regs really doesnt seem very wise for your bottomline.

Good luck today everybody.