Most poker players have there best years in there late 20's and early 30's.

Chuck, you are even lazy in your responses, you need a life coach or something.

You could pay me a few hundo per week and I could punch you in the face daily. Lol. Look I was really just trying to motivate you but obviously you have lost your passion for poker. So whatever...... Just be honest with yourself man, are you really putting forth the effort you claim to be?

You still hint around in post that you would like to do something great with poker sometimes, I apologize if I was out of line just thought you needed a kick in the arse. Maybe not.

Sub'd. A lot of PGC threads, but this is probably my favorite so far in terms of the outlook and lifestyle. Good luck on the writing by the way, it can be a little hit or miss even if you are producing quality work.

Sorry your life sucks dicipline but please go bore someone else. We do not care what you think. Thanks

Yeah Finns pay 50% taxes for the WSOP and 0% rake for online poker + it's the middle of the summer in Finland (only good time of the year in my home country) = very slim chance I'll ever play in WSOP again. Spent one summer bricking 22/22 events and more or less bubbling the main on day four 99<88 pfai for an 80BB pot after spending a month in Vegas so I can say I have pretty much zero interest in participating in any of those again.


This week has been pretty hilarious, I've played every day and faced quite an array of obstacles. I played on cellular internet as the internet in this apartment sucks, and I wondered what happens when I reach the 5GB monthly limit of data use. Now I know, it cuts off. This happened when I had 4 fts and 20ish tables total and cost me ~1000€. I did sprint to an internet cafe but it still took like 30 mins to get there, I had blinded out a bunch, including from chipleading HU with a 500€ prize difference, and obviously had no focus left. That was the only day I ran good, every other day I've ran worse than I can recall running in like 2 years. I had three of my biggest fts ruined this week by spazzregs who I made valueshoves against in super important icm spots and they made absurdly bad calls with worse hands costing us both infinite EV and then binked 3/3 times. It's all good though, I'm in good fighting spirits, and take some pride in that despite all this I'm somehow up a small amount for the week. With all the **** that's happened this week I should by all means be down like 100 buyins. I've studied a BUNCH, especially icm stuff, and it feels good to observe all kinds of idiot regs make huge braindead mistakes in fts every day. But this is still shaping out to be my worst week in ages, where's the pgc rungood or is it just a myth?

I've played every day this week already and I ordered some $120/3 days internet modem thingy for this weekend so I'm gonna grind all day tomorrow and Sunday. I want to make sure that I can get up early, so I'm offering my friend Discipline12 a freeroll: if I don't either a) post ITT by 10am Montreal tomorrow, or b) play in a tournament by 11am Montreal time tomorrow I'll send you $50. I will do a, the other option is just in case I simply forget to post, the point is obviously to motivate myself to get up and not hit the snooze button.

Lastly here are a couple of funny hands

1. vs "WINNING REG" trololol





2. Vs decent reg, well he's probably better than me to be fair. I <3 my line here, I have infinitely more 8s than he does, 99 blocks all but one combo of 98s. I'd say this is pretty close to the best hand for me to do this with? I don't know wtf he has, I assume he cbets KK, his line seems strange for 8x, I guess he just has the 88?





3. This was during some other random internet glitch, I timed out for like 20 seconds for the exact duration of my timebank, then got back 2 seconds later in time to see their hands and my own in the muck. FFFUUU.







Anywayz so grinding all weekend-> moving to next place and hopefully better internet on Monday. TBC

I mean if he has any kind of read on your frequencies in hand one it's a more than fine call down. U over bluff every spot that's ever existed

Gl in May sir

Awake

It's nice to know I have been of some motivation to you.

Yay, you are 30 and can wake up all on your own, now if we could just learn to operate that pesky coffee maker. Lmao

This has not been my week. After all the other catastrophes fun stuff from today:

-Am in every tournament on Finnish site, accidetally click some button that gives me a 12 hour ban. Never saw this button, absurd you can ban yourself with one click? I chat with live support, tell them that I'm 6tabling tournaments, I understand I can't do any more buyins but I can't lose more to these tournaments, they are tourneys not cash. Sadly today is the biggest drinking day of the year in Finland and they (literally) tell me to stop drinking and mistake me for some ****** and refuse to help

-MPN disconnects me from the client and doesn't let me back, I blind out from everything, support is offline, so can't even get myself unregged. Site is notorious for never refunding anything so I'm not hopeful

-Been trying to get a refund from Unibet for 3 days now from something very obvious. Their English support tells me to contact their Finnish support, I contact Finnish support and they don't respond for 60 hours, when they do I get a message from their English support saying they've been trying to GOOGLE TRANSLATE the message I sent to the Finnish support but couldn't make sense of it sense of it (shocker google translate doesn't understand poker lingo) so still no refund

-Can't get a deposit go through to ongame because some glitch and as a result I literally can't find enough mtts to play in

-The ones I'm actually in end like this (for 1/12 and like 4x avg)






-Discipline12 sends me PMs stating he "sees through me"


I said before in this blog that I'm virtually tiltless these days but this week is making me reassess that statement

Subbed, best of luck old friend

So are you conceding the " I see through you" statement as correct, or just more tilting? Btw if you "never" tilt that is all the more reason you should be playing higher stakes or in the wsop. Lmao I love it!!!!

I'm trying my best, I work so..... hard, I got up before 11am today all on my own.

Are you sure you want to add Discipline12 to your ignore list?

Sry bud but I think it would be beneficial for you to find someone else to spam or possibly get other obsessions than my pgc so I'm going to have to click the yes button. GG and gl in life, I hope you reach your dreams, whatever they may be


YES / NO

And you say you never tilt? I beg to differ!!!

I win, you lose. Good night!!!

Btw if you are this easy to tilt I would crush you in heads up over a large sample.
Lmao

You know chuck, avoiding obstacles in your path doesn't make them go away.

GG Miikka, GG.


Not!!!!

Lol goddamnit, so this is how ignore works? I thought I would actually not see these but this just as annoying. I can't be arsed to report these posts but if a mod happens to stumble about this thread I guess I would appreciate if you could find new recreational activities for Discipline12. I'm not trying to hate and IMO I've been very patient despite him probably posting more than I have in this pgc, but after all I'm just trying to have a pgc here and it would be kinda nice to not have to deal with him on a daily... err, hourly basis.


edit: If the last 3 were just a prolonged goodbye message or something then feel free to ignore this obv

edit2: make it last 4, sigh

Not sure what proper etiquette would be here so..... If 5 people post saying I should leave this thread then I will for good. But if 5 people post saying I should stay then I will stay for entertainment value.

So in other words it's a race to 5 unless mods ban me, which I think would be very unfair.

It's the people's choice as it should be imo.

Quit spamming the thread dude.

Leave.

To be honest, Discipline12 has a point. I mean, not to be a dick like he's being, but I think you're trying too hard to be eloquent in your writing. It comes off very, very boring. I don't think art is a part of who you are chuck.

I myself am not incredibly talented at writing, so I became an accountant. Your greatest strength is being a poker player.

Again, not trying to be a dick like this guy was being, but I do see a lot of shameless self promotion on here. C'mon man, this is PGC on 2p2, not promote your own crap product. you're not an artist or a good writer, and you don't need the money. Stop trying to scrape the bottom of the barrel.

Watch out, op will block/ignore you.

What is to become of a writer who can't handle criticism?

Blakkman was just joking. I have no problem accepting criticism - the book I put out was my first publication, I wrote it myself from scratch without as much as high school education, in a language I'm not native in (I did have an editor to fix the grammar mistakes though). I'll be the first to admit that it probably is not the best book ever written. I think it's a hell of an effort and very likely the best poker autobiography ever published though. I have no problem with people disagreeing with that, but I do think it's a bit harsh/unfair to judge my overall talent as a writer based on a pgc (I assume neither you or Discipline have even read the book, or if you have, I would genuinely like to know what I could have done better).

Writing is very much a learning process for me, but it's what I want to pursue, in the same way as many ex poker players pursue investing or dfs or whatever. I don't even know if I want to be a novelist or a reporter or a poet. I'm learning, reading infinite literature, talking to other writers, I'm going to enroll in a creative writing course when I get back home. My ~only big goal is to write for a living in 5 years. I have next to 0 care for if I'll be married or if I'll have 10, 100 or 1000k in that time, writing is all I care about in that sense. So by opening this pgc you should acknowledge that you'll probably be in for some writing content. If mods have a problem with this not being strictly poker, I can move this elsewhere, no problem.

I also think the whole process is somewhat interesting. When I was doing this whole publishing thing I didn't know who to ask about anything and I wished a thread like this existed (adsman didn't respond to me). And putting out this book was one of the biggest milestones of my life, I find this whole time period worth documenting.

Lastly, I wouldn't say I'm really spamming the book in people's faces. There are no promotional messages I've posted anywhere on 2p2. I'm not spamming random forums or people's Facebooks. But given that I get ~50 "when's the next part out" messages a month on various forums I don't think it's unfair to mention the book here and there within this blog. I mean come on this basically just my blog. It's not my problem if you have different expectations for it, I'm not charging you to read this. Again, if you have a problem with it, don't open the thread. Or if anything I've posted itt is a problem to 2p2, they can let me know, I can migrate elsewhere.

Also, I really don't care for people's 5.99 (of which I get like $2). But if this thread raises awareness about the book's existence I'm happy. I've posted this 1000 times but the book is pretty ****ing far from a moneygrab. I spent 2,5 years of my life trying to master the book, I could have written a notepad document and sold it for $50 a piece when the bbv thread was at its height, but instead I took years of mocking from people and 1000s of posts labeling me as a lazy procrastinator because I spent all that time to make sure my first book is the best product it can be. I put my entire poker career on hold for it, sacrificed two years of steady 100k/year to write it. And when I was finally artistically pleased with it, I put it out for the lowest possible price netting me $2-$4 per book (depends where you buy), all because I wanted people to read it. If you want to know how hard it is to get people to become aware your product even exists without spamming it in their faces, write your own book and then get back to me. Until then I will probably mention in a post or two in the future IN THIS THREAD ONLY.

I wrote that on cell while waiting takeout so there might be errors

I tried reading "my somewhat different poker story" until you were called out several times for making false statements and or telling stories that were untrue.

I'll tell you what though, if you send me a free copy of the book I will read it and give an honest and unbiased opinion.

Whatcha think op? Or are you still ignoring me? You shouldn't be ignoring me if you can really handle criticism like you stated above.