$200k in 2014: Crushing MSNL
07-14-2014
, 05:04 AM
The album is just unbelievable. I like all his stuff, but the slower more reflective feely **** is the best imho, and this album has more of it than any of his others. Creep, Ice Age, Somewhere Up Here, Bleed/Ira etc all absolute classics imo. Words can't describe my level of deadmau5 fanboy.
Hey man that's cool!!
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Talking of fanboys, my australian friend bjl90 dropped in to my 6max table today to tell me he loved the thread, which reminded me I haven't updated in a long while.
So, July went much better after a horrendous June, again my volume wasn't what I wanted it to be, but stayed busy with coaching/studying and ofc having fun out here in Mexico
Weird month variance wise, I ran super hot at 600nl but lost 10.4k in 1,200 hands playing 2kNL+. I also ran way above EV at 1k and 2kNL, which leaves the graph looking very weird. The upshot though, is that I won 13.3k at the tables in 27k hands, running at 6.8evbb/100, so overall I'm very happy with how it went (obv lol_sample).
At the halfway stage of the year I'm quite far behind my goal of making $200k, but hopefully the effort I'm putting into getting better and moving up in stakes will help me make up some lost ground in the second half of the year. Pretty excited with how things are progressing in general.
July so far has been crazy, on Saturday morning I got back from my first ever trip to Las Vegas! I booked the trip kind of on a whim with Aggro Santos, we flew in on Saturday and played day 1C of the main event on Monday. It was pretty cool to play such a big liveament, we had some problems sorting out cash for our buyins on the Sunday night, so unfortunately I couldn't play a few hours of live cash as planned to get back in the live groove. As a result, it felt pretty intense for the first few hours having people stare you down and stuff. I ran pretty good initially, got up to 50k after two levels. Then proceeded to fold for the next 3 levels to finish the day with almost exactly starting stack. On day 2 I lost two pots early doors, which left me grinding a 15-20bb stack most of the afternoon. I'd say that's pretty much the stack depth I know least about, so playing 30 hands an hour was actually more interesting than I expected it to be, thinking about what my ranges should look like. I ended up busting at the start of the 3rd level in pretty standard circumstances, very happy with how I played and happy to confirm that the main event field was every bit as soft as legend tells.
Definitely my favourite moment of the main event though, was bumping into Gerrard Pique on a break just before I busted.
Was pretty funny, I was pretty star-struck, told the guys at my table when I got back and the name clearly meant nothing at all to any of them. Until I told them he was Shakira's bf. Lol 'murica I guess
Also met up with loads of 2p2ers while there, got this photo in a sick nightclub overlooking the strip:
Bonus points for anyone not in the photo who can name everyone in it. Paging pontylad...
In the end though, vegas got me ldo. Got blind drunk after that photo was taken, then got myself up in the morning for a helicopter tour past the hoover dam to the grand canyon with Aggro Santos and Torino2000. For some reason the helicopter didn't really agree with me, I just managed to hold on to breakfast until the actual canyon, ended up puking my guts pretty early into the return journey. Not at all pleasant for me, or anyone in the tiny cockpit lol. Between that and eating like 2 ****ty meals a day while I was there, it's fair to say substantial gains were lost in vegas, as well as another chunk of my roll. w/e though it was definitely a good time, not sure I could stay in vegas for a whole summer but I wouldn't rule it out for next year.
Online, things have been going pretty decent this month so far, sticking to 500-1knl almost exclusively and played semi-reasonable volume considering I've only had 7 days here to play so far.
Taking the day off tomoro, going with a few of the guys to Cristalino cenote (went to Garden of Eden cenote last monday I had here if anyone wants to google), so that'll be chill. Planning on going snorkelling with whale sharks next monday, then have a trip to Panama for the LAPT at the end of the month.
That's it for now, hope everyone is doing good
edit: Also, not going to be taking any more guys into the stable for the next little while, basically it's taking longer than expected to get everyone crushing how I'd like them to, so I won't be taking anyone else on till I've solved that. I'll post here when applications open again.
07-17-2014
, 08:13 PM
(dance)
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Incase anyone is interested, I'm selling some action to the LAPT Panama Main event. It's a 1.7k re-entry with a solid structure and I'm sure it'll be super fishy
Selling 3 bullets at 1.33333 markup, minimum is 5% = $340
Thread is here if anyone's interested
Ty and gl
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Incase anyone is interested, I'm selling some action to the LAPT Panama Main event. It's a 1.7k re-entry with a solid structure and I'm sure it'll be super fishy
Selling 3 bullets at 1.33333 markup, minimum is 5% = $340
Thread is here if anyone's interested
Ty and gl
07-18-2014
, 04:32 AM
07-21-2014
, 12:38 AM
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, 03:38 PM
07-21-2014
, 06:25 PM
10-25-2014
, 09:56 PM
Update time!
Sincere apologies for the long absense, lots of stuff been going on but tbh poker hasn't been too update-worthy. Fair bit of grinding, sick swings, not a great deal of profit is the cliffs tbh. Always kinda weaksauce when people don't update during the rougher patches, but it is what it is, I'd far rather update when I feel like it and keep my PGC presence alive rather than have it become a chore.
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shrugsies
Nice, I did actually take a look at this when you posted. I think reading stuff like that (and listening to lefort's excellent vlog) has made me realise that a lot of the lifting, actually I should say bodybuilding, stuff is far more hollistic than i first appreciated.
^^ this
Thank you sir!
thanks man! (was grinding some 5/10 in the bellagio with some random dude on my left, turned out to be this fine gentleman, small world )
#shotsfired indeed hahaha! Spoke to some live MTT legends that night actually.
Cheers dude, regular lurker in your thread too (check it out y'all)
am i right in thinking you're going to be coming to visit us in Samui?? teh man, teh myth, teh legend....
cheers dunc
i am, but only privately.
(y)
tyty
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Soooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
It looks like the last time I updated was the middle of July. Since then, I took another trip for an lol_liveament series in Panama. That was a decent trip, don't know if it was just the area I was in but Panama City was super degen. Grinded pretty hard, think I played just about every event but unfortunately no cashes. I think I probably lost more money during that series than any other person, I played the main twice (1.7k each) the highroller twice (5k each) and quite a few smaller side events. Made some back playing live cash, game was 2/5, 10 handed and the action was insane. Was limping 53s UTG just knowing any kind of made hand wins at least $800 or so.
Had an unexpected highlight on the trip trying to find food. Myself and Torino2000 aka Kev Killeen (more on him later) went on trip advisor looking for restaurants, highest rated place was called 'The Fish Market'. So we jump in a taxi and ask them to take us there. We get there.......... and it's a fish market Down by the harbour, there's a bunch of super basic restaurants serving fish that was caught that day. Legit the best fish I've ever had, just served with lemon batter and plantain. Probably the only authentic experience I had in Panama, tons of locals hanging out and waiters that spoke no English at all, my favourite place I've been to in Panama City so far for sure. Actually took a photo:
AggroSantos ended up chopping the highroller 4 handed, then busting JJ into QQ the very next hand, so we went out the last night we were there to celebrate that. Had a sick time, things got out of hand very quickly haha, should probably leave it at that
The last month few weeks in Mexico were weird, my roommate and the UK/Eire the guys I was mostly hanging out with started leaving on the 1st of August, I didn't fly till the 14th, but it was cool. Went snorkelling with the whale sharks off the coast of cancun, which was definitely one of the sicker experiences I had in the whole trip. It was like swimming along beside a double decker bus, or 50. Very humbling. Packed up and left Mexico without much drama, even got my deposit back in full which I'm told was an outlier result. It's weird, the few weeks after leaving Mexico were so chaotic I kinda lost sight of just how good a trip it was. Lest we forget
Anyway, fly back to the UK, had a weekend chilling in Glasgow with my brother which was great, he bought a few car and we put a few of his bikes in the back and went mountain biking at Glentress which was amazing. He's super into his mountain biking, I'd never really done it before but I can definitely see how you'd fall in love with it. Went up the road to Inverness on the Sunday, then left for the annual Brora golf trip on the Monday. It was 7 days of boozy, golfy, gambly, drunky, sunny perfection. Nothing else compares - you can go around the world and do whatever, but there's something very different about bantering with your best mates you've known since you were tiny. Joyous
Picked up a keg from the Black Isle Brewery on the way there
Gambly beys
Steaming beys
Gambly, steaming beys
Scenic beys
Golfy beys
Winning beys
Pub beys
Jesus, such good times.
After that, things settled down really in September/early part of November. I was living with my dad, which was chill but not exactly bant-a-minute after living myself the last ages. But I made the best of it, was just gyming more or less every morning, poker every evening/night. Made some very solid weight lifting gains, didn't gain a huge amount of weight relative to my peak before I left Mexico, but I'm not going to stress too much about it, it's a long game.
On the 16th of this month, I flew Inverness -> Manchester -> Abu Dhabi -> Bangkok -> Chiang Mai to start 2 months out here in Thailand. We've got one month here in Chiang Mai, then we fly down to Koh Samui. The group is myself, smbsmbsmb, Mayo the Don and Tonnamunz. Kreuznagel (aka Barry Urinstein) will be joining us in two days time. The pad here is unreal sick, Tonnamunz is a much better photographer than me so I'll just post a link to his bloggy here and y'all can see where we're staying - http://tonnamunz.com/2014/10/18/%E0%...8%97%E0%B8%A2/
It's a super chill existence here, I've found it unbelivably easy to get serious grind time in living with other (much better) grinders. Just feels like zero effort to keep grinding when everyone around you is grinding. We haven't really been out much or done many activities yet, a lot of the touristy stuff we feel like we should hold off from until everyone is here, so it's pretty much been grindmode for the whole house.
Also very excited for next month, our place is Koh Samui is even sicker than here - http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Vacatio..._Province.html . Hoping to get some visits from 2p2'ers of varying levels of infamy, should make for interesting times whatever happens
This post is getting super long, I guess I'll do a more poker-heavy update at the end of the month. Till then, you stay classy 2p2.
Sincere apologies for the long absense, lots of stuff been going on but tbh poker hasn't been too update-worthy. Fair bit of grinding, sick swings, not a great deal of profit is the cliffs tbh. Always kinda weaksauce when people don't update during the rougher patches, but it is what it is, I'd far rather update when I feel like it and keep my PGC presence alive rather than have it become a chore.
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shrugsies
Quote:
Great job crushing the midstakes and on your lifting goals!! Very awesome read so far. Does your game revolve around staying balanced against better regs (like GTO calculations in many different scenarios to get accurate balanced ranges) or do you use more of the psychological factor and just feel based balance against players.
Also I have been into lifting and health forever and the best site I stumbled across for knowledge besides bodybuilding forums is aworkoutroutine.com in the blog section.. take a look at it, you seem like a work smarter not harder type of guy.
Good luck with your goals!
Also I have been into lifting and health forever and the best site I stumbled across for knowledge besides bodybuilding forums is aworkoutroutine.com in the blog section.. take a look at it, you seem like a work smarter not harder type of guy.
Good luck with your goals!
)Cheers dude, regular lurker in your thread too (check it out y'all)
am i right in thinking you're going to be coming to visit us in Samui?? teh man, teh myth, teh legend....
cheers dunc
i am, but only privately.
(y)
tyty
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Soooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
It looks like the last time I updated was the middle of July. Since then, I took another trip for an lol_liveament series in Panama. That was a decent trip, don't know if it was just the area I was in but Panama City was super degen. Grinded pretty hard, think I played just about every event but unfortunately no cashes. I think I probably lost more money during that series than any other person, I played the main twice (1.7k each) the highroller twice (5k each) and quite a few smaller side events. Made some back playing live cash, game was 2/5, 10 handed and the action was insane. Was limping 53s UTG just knowing any kind of made hand wins at least $800 or so.
Had an unexpected highlight on the trip trying to find food. Myself and Torino2000 aka Kev Killeen (more on him later) went on trip advisor looking for restaurants, highest rated place was called 'The Fish Market'. So we jump in a taxi and ask them to take us there. We get there.......... and it's a fish market
Down by the harbour, there's a bunch of super basic restaurants serving fish that was caught that day. Legit the best fish I've ever had, just served with lemon batter and plantain. Probably the only authentic experience I had in Panama, tons of locals hanging out and waiters that spoke no English at all, my favourite place I've been to in Panama City so far for sure. Actually took a photo:AggroSantos ended up chopping the highroller 4 handed, then busting JJ into QQ the very next hand, so we went out the last night we were there to celebrate that. Had a sick time, things got out of hand very quickly haha, should probably leave it at that
The last month few weeks in Mexico were weird, my roommate and the UK/Eire the guys I was mostly hanging out with started leaving on the 1st of August, I didn't fly till the 14th, but it was cool. Went snorkelling with the whale sharks off the coast of cancun, which was definitely one of the sicker experiences I had in the whole trip. It was like swimming along beside a double decker bus, or 50. Very humbling. Packed up and left Mexico without much drama, even got my deposit back in full which I'm told was an outlier result. It's weird, the few weeks after leaving Mexico were so chaotic I kinda lost sight of just how good a trip it was. Lest we forget
Anyway, fly back to the UK, had a weekend chilling in Glasgow with my brother which was great, he bought a few car and we put a few of his bikes in the back and went mountain biking at Glentress which was amazing. He's super into his mountain biking, I'd never really done it before but I can definitely see how you'd fall in love with it. Went up the road to Inverness on the Sunday, then left for the annual Brora golf trip on the Monday. It was 7 days of boozy, golfy, gambly, drunky, sunny perfection. Nothing else compares - you can go around the world and do whatever, but there's something very different about bantering with your best mates you've known since you were tiny. Joyous
Picked up a keg from the Black Isle Brewery on the way there
Gambly beys
Steaming beys
Gambly, steaming beys
Scenic beys
Golfy beys
Winning beys
Pub beys
Jesus, such good times.
After that, things settled down really in September/early part of November. I was living with my dad, which was chill but not exactly bant-a-minute after living myself the last ages. But I made the best of it, was just gyming more or less every morning, poker every evening/night. Made some very solid weight lifting gains, didn't gain a huge amount of weight relative to my peak before I left Mexico, but I'm not going to stress too much about it, it's a long game.
On the 16th of this month, I flew Inverness -> Manchester -> Abu Dhabi -> Bangkok -> Chiang Mai to start 2 months out here in Thailand. We've got one month here in Chiang Mai, then we fly down to Koh Samui. The group is myself, smbsmbsmb, Mayo the Don and Tonnamunz. Kreuznagel (aka Barry Urinstein) will be joining us in two days time. The pad here is unreal sick, Tonnamunz is a much better photographer than me so I'll just post a link to his bloggy here and y'all can see where we're staying - http://tonnamunz.com/2014/10/18/%E0%...8%97%E0%B8%A2/
It's a super chill existence here, I've found it unbelivably easy to get serious grind time in living with other (much better) grinders. Just feels like zero effort to keep grinding when everyone around you is grinding. We haven't really been out much or done many activities yet, a lot of the touristy stuff we feel like we should hold off from until everyone is here, so it's pretty much been grindmode for the whole house.
Also very excited for next month, our place is Koh Samui is even sicker than here - http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Vacatio..._Province.html . Hoping to get some visits from 2p2'ers of varying levels of infamy, should make for interesting times whatever happens
This post is getting super long, I guess I'll do a more poker-heavy update at the end of the month. Till then, you stay classy 2p2.
10-25-2014
, 10:58 PM
