Nice Heater Marty

your backer must have bare dollars. I heard of a live pro being 900k in makeup,wont say who it is

why even mention it so?

wow nice week dude! heroic.

nice heat

GL this weekend

Gl.

-4nuS

Got to give the thelipofund credit, never giving up , never letting his backer down. Thinking about the situation in a logical way. Always trying to improve, grinding his ass off to get out of makeup. You have to take your hat off to the guy, he is a legend in online poker. Hope his good run continues..BIG SUNDAY

teasin' like a slut

+1

big day. gl to the grinders out there

won a 44 turbo last night, and the 82 hyper this morning

up to #1 monthly and #2 on the year. no real intention to pursue either as i have planned time off, but still nice to see my name up there

hyper score was for 5700, which is about 60% of my daily buyins today. think im putting in 10.5~ in estimated byuins afetr rebuy expenses

always a great feeling to get off to a good start on a sunday

had a frustrating breakeven yesterday. lost 3 pots for the CL final 2 tables of an mtt with 70k for first.

glad i got up for the monday grind though.

4th big 55
3rd multi 55 ftp
3rd 109 turbo

and currently FT of big 27.50

doesnt look like this heat is going to run out any time soon

didnt play great today in my last tournament, the 11r, but still managed to get 2nd

that score brought me into the 5 figure club. i have 95k makeup from a peak of 220k.

going to get drunk and celebrate. this feels great

Nice!!!! Continue on this run and the makeup will be gone in a month or 2 gl bro

games keep getting tougher and you keep crushing. very impressed.

it can be tough. it's really hard to put into words. the actual amount isn't the most disturbing part, it was the continual losing that started to bother me the most. everybody wants to be a master of their craft, and when you're high 6 figs in makeup, that's tough to think of as a possibility. the real "tough" times were pretty temporary, never lasting a whole day or keeping me from playing any. i really love what i do, and it has always important for me to get better. i've definitely stayed hungry the entire time, and maybe even moreso when i got buried the most. i see a lot of threads about horses getting deep into makeup, trying to get out of their makeup with angles, "quitting" poker, just a bunch of ridiculous **** and it all makes me sick.

i've gotten really angry, upset, even heartbroken from poker over the last year. but something important i've tried to do is to: focus on the present moment, ignore the past, dont worry about the future, and take each day as it comes. i have a lot of self-confidence. i know that even if i'm not the best player, i'm going to be able to outperform the competition when it comes to effort, and ability to learn+application.

also just remembering how much of a factor variance is. any MTT pro that hasn't read NoahSD's MTT variance blog simulation, needs to check it out. variance is crazy.

there really havent been any days where i've woke up and not wanted to play poker in a long time. win or lose.


i guess there were some small mental things along the way that i've noticed:

-i hate asking for reloads. i'll basically do anything it takes to not have to ask for a reload. when you're losing a lot it almost feels like some kind of character flaw having to ask for another one.

-getting tighter with finances. i have the money to do the things i want and pay my bills, even to do the extra things i want to do. but i have a fixed amount, and it can only last so long. so the longer i'm in makeup, i kind of start having to plan more. so there are some CCRs i'll buy out of now, certain purchases i wont make, trips i wont make, and just small financial things i never thought i had to sweat before. tightening up in this way is probably good for me in the longrun, but it has been a change

-sundays become so much more important than any other day.

-i've left a lot of money on the table short handed in MTTs or deep f2ts trying to play for a big stack, or force a situation. i never had "play for the win syndrome" as bad as a lot of people in a lot less makeup than myself, but it's still a problem.

-your relationships with some people change. you meet/come across a lot of people in poker. some friends, some not. when you're doing better, you're instantly more likable. short-term results have so much influence over people's perception in online poker.

i'm in a good place mentally. i have security in the financial sense, and i enjoy how i spend my time. when i didnt play poker, i spent my spare time playing card games. if i didnt play poker, i'd spend my spare time playing card games. this is the kind of stuff i am interested in hobby wise. so to be able to make money playing cards is really a dream come true (or at least it will be again, once the other half of this makeup is gone).


i might have forgot stuff. kinda drunk replying, but hope i got everything. will update if i forgot anything

this is caused by breakeven or slight losing cash game grinders are now moving to mtts? or is it just that everyone is solid and improving every day? because from my pov games have gotten softer in the past 6 months, then again i play mtsngs mainly.

if you still use hm1, it's because you're lazy.

as far as pt4 v hm2 goes:

there are advantages to both. i started as an hm2 guy, coming over hm1 user. i started playing HU SNGs as a side hobby back in august of last year, and a lot of the videos i was watching pushed pt4 as a product because of the HUD capabilities for HU (ability to make custom stats). i was playing HU pretty often then, and i didnt want to use pt4 for HU and hm2 for MTTs and import all of my hands into each program everytime i loaded them, so i made the switch to pt4. all of my friends and roommates use hm2. there are features they have, i wish i had. at the same time, there are features i use, that they dont have. i dont think one is right/wrong for any player so long as you can use the information in a smart way. hm2 way more user friendly

i definitely get good use out of my HUD. i guess you could call me "new school" in that regard. i'd rather sites just banned their use from everyone though

if anybody reading this is a pt4 user and has experience designing popup groups and wants to make some $$$, shoot me a PM !!!

not sure. going to grind hypers on the side to keep backdoor hopes alive. i have IRL plans throughout the year, and my poker plans could change a good bit if this pace keeps up

That's really awesome. Congrats mate

Railed the final couple tables cause I had a friend still in and noticed you.
The AQ wasnt THAT bad

after you clear MU, are you gonna start heavy BRM and work your way back up, starting with whatever roll youre comfortable with?

Pretty much how I feel and what I tell myself whenever poker is stressing.

Add me to one of those lazy ppl still using HEM1. Really should upgrade. Ive heard nothing but things about HEM2 so maybe I should give PT4 a try.

glgl sicko

keep celebrating, gonna be easy peasy for me then

myself on a downswing atm, so its really inspiring to see u coming back from such a huge swing

Gl bro