Grinding Past the Fries
01-18-2018
, 06:34 AM
01-18-2018
, 06:54 AM
01-20-2018
, 07:51 PM
Thanks a lot for the kind words guys, last post was pretty awesome so glad yous enjoyed! Kangal, nothing in LA, but me, hu4hoes and whatalife are going Vegas for a couple of days. I'll let loose then!
And a huge thank you to everyone for the birthday wishes. I get really soppy when people wish me happy birthday, so between this thread and all my internet pals on Skype, safe to say I feel the love a lot
Jacob, that's really kind man. Glad you like the thread. As for the live games in Malta, I only played once or twice and can't remember if the game was good or not unfortunately
if I recall correctly it was 1/2 and it was alright actually, so I'm sure you'll crush it if you just do the opposite of everything you read in this thread 
happy to answer any other questions...
Whirlwind few days. After the last post I went to the casino for a quick session for a few hours before doing something non poker related for the day seeing as it was my bday! After a few hours of the session I was down close to 5k and thinking I was gonna be there rostuckoing all ****ing day. A few hours after that I was up 3200 after an absolutely amazing game and a bit of heat. Booked it early and hiked all the way to the Hollywood sign...
...the hike itself was absolutely superb. Really peaceful and beautiful scenery, so glad I went. Plan to do it again with hu4hoes before I go home. Absolute ****ing babes up and down the trail too. I even did a cheeky wee look-back at a couple of topless dudes that went past too.
After the hike I had a genuinely bizarre uber home. I was exhausted and lacking sleep, and the woman just wouldn't shut up. She sounded exactly like the squaky woman out of Cheers. She had a Jesus figure thing on her dashboard. Anyway I fell asleep after about 10 mins of the journey, but before I did I am 1000000% certain I never told her I am trying to lose a bit of weight, like 10000000% certain. Anyway she woke me up when I got to my house and she said "here take my hand". So I did. Then she said "and how much weight is it you want to lose?" and I told her (not posting it here obv). She said "repeat after me... I, Gary, will lose x KG" and I repeated it. And then she went, "the power and the glory, AMEN." and I, the most vocal athiest in the ****ing world gave up all my dignity and said "the power and the glory, amen." and then she blessed me and I went on my way. After I got out I was like "did I tell her I want to lose some weight or did she just look at me and think 'this fat **** is going with christ'?"
On the weightloss front, I am crushing it so far. Will update when I'm where I wanna be.
Anyway after that I played 2 sessions where I lost $4100 in one and won $7500 in another. Too tired to type details, I'm off to my bed.
Edit - quick chip porn pic. You can see me listening to the Motherwell match at the same time (****ing dedication)...
And a huge thank you to everyone for the birthday wishes. I get really soppy when people wish me happy birthday, so between this thread and all my internet pals on Skype, safe to say I feel the love a lot
Jacob, that's really kind man. Glad you like the thread. As for the live games in Malta, I only played once or twice and can't remember if the game was good or not unfortunately
if I recall correctly it was 1/2 and it was alright actually, so I'm sure you'll crush it if you just do the opposite of everything you read in this thread happy to answer any other questions...Whirlwind few days. After the last post I went to the casino for a quick session for a few hours before doing something non poker related for the day seeing as it was my bday! After a few hours of the session I was down close to 5k and thinking I was gonna be there rostuckoing all ****ing day. A few hours after that I was up 3200 after an absolutely amazing game and a bit of heat. Booked it early and hiked all the way to the Hollywood sign...
...the hike itself was absolutely superb. Really peaceful and beautiful scenery, so glad I went. Plan to do it again with hu4hoes before I go home. Absolute ****ing babes up and down the trail too. I even did a cheeky wee look-back at a couple of topless dudes that went past too.
After the hike I had a genuinely bizarre uber home. I was exhausted and lacking sleep, and the woman just wouldn't shut up. She sounded exactly like the squaky woman out of Cheers. She had a Jesus figure thing on her dashboard. Anyway I fell asleep after about 10 mins of the journey, but before I did I am 1000000% certain I never told her I am trying to lose a bit of weight, like 10000000% certain. Anyway she woke me up when I got to my house and she said "here take my hand". So I did. Then she said "and how much weight is it you want to lose?" and I told her (not posting it here obv). She said "repeat after me... I, Gary, will lose x KG" and I repeated it. And then she went, "the power and the glory, AMEN." and I, the most vocal athiest in the ****ing world gave up all my dignity and said "the power and the glory, amen." and then she blessed me and I went on my way. After I got out I was like "did I tell her I want to lose some weight or did she just look at me and think 'this fat **** is going with christ'?"
On the weightloss front, I am crushing it so far. Will update when I'm where I wanna be.
Anyway after that I played 2 sessions where I lost $4100 in one and won $7500 in another. Too tired to type details, I'm off to my bed.
Edit - quick chip porn pic. You can see me listening to the Motherwell match at the same time (****ing dedication)...
01-21-2018
, 01:18 AM
01-21-2018
, 06:43 AM
01-21-2018
, 09:06 PM
01-22-2018
, 08:50 AM
01-22-2018
, 01:24 PM
Thanks man, hope you're well! By the way a couple of years ago when we went for beers in Malta your gf added me on Snapchat when she was v drunk (she probs doesn't even know who I am). You show up in her stories from time to time, gives me a wee smile when I see ya 
Haha it would mean you're betting against Jesus! While motivation is this high however there's no need for prop bets. Ask me again in a month or two!
Thanks man, when I come back to UK I expect to see you in the 500z pools!
First reserve for both this Tuesday and this Thursday's streams 
Awesome fun yesterday buddy, whole table was having a blast!
Haha thanks bud! She literally prayed for OP, didn't even realise that!!
We doing another pen bet in April? I'll take 82/100 in the same goals we did it in
So it's 9am on 22nd Jan atm. I went into Commerce at 11pm on 20th Jan and played for 20 hours. Was hands down the most enjoyable session I've ever had in my life. Just an absolute blast all day. Ironically the game I first joined was total garbage, full of moody regs and nitty recs. Got moved to another table at about 4am. I was down $3k and then ran AK into KK and was down $4500. Said **** it I was having cheat day and ordered extreme amounts of food. Ironically before it arrived I rostuckod $3500 of the losses. I got my KK in vs AK vs a London reg and if I lost that I was literally done for a couple of days. Managed to hold though! I then played a great hand. There was an eastern European rec at the table, a jolly old fella who calls everyone a "bloody bastard!" for fun. I started calling him a "****in arsehole" for fun too. Anyway he limps UTG 6 handed. Czech reg makes it 60 from btn. I peel Husker's sweepstake selection from the BB. Flop comes down 925r. Ping. Checked to the Czech and he bets 100 into 185. I call and the rec makes it 400. Czech calls, and I call. As I'm thinking to myself "this spot couldn't get any dreamier" the dealer burns and turns a 5 to give me quads. Rec jams 600, the Czech guy flats and he has like 500 left so I'm just like whatever all in. He rage sigh calls and I flip them over and scoop it all.
I then proceed to blast it off to the older half of a pair of London reg brothers. He made extreme hero call vs my flop xc, turn xr and river jam w A8 on 8453K. I had A7s, flatted his CO open from SB to keep "bloody bastard" in the pot. He was bantering with me that I wasn't folding to his 3bets (in my defence we were super deep, I was IP a lot and I was getting solid hands to call). One time I open and he 3bets and I fold, he just stood up and shouted "I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD!" into a half empty Commerce. Was most humorous.
The younger brother joins the game, and it's very good now. Lots of action, and we even get a round of 20 straddles on. At one point we even got a couple of 40s thrown in (not me though I'm dumb but I'm not that dumb). Something happened yesterday that the whole table laughed at but it sent me into inexplicable fits of laughter. So it's one of the 5/10/20/40 hands and this rec who was amazing fun to play with limps 40. Another guy makes it 200. Folds to rec. He says he really wants to play the hand and asks if he calls can they just check it down. Other guy says no coz he obviously has strong hand. Rec sighs and turns his hand face up, shows 108cc. Dealer is like er do you fold. Silence. He then says "**** it" and turns his hand face down and calls the raise. I don't know why, maybe it was because he turned his hand face down again, but I was absolutely ending myself. Board came out AK3 and he just open mucked hahahaha. I'm actually pissing myself at the thought of it just now.
A few hours go by and I'm in profit for the day. My mate Gun joins the table, super nice guy and solid poker player. Get into a spot vs him. He opens in MP, I 3bet AQhh. He flats. Flop comes down KJThxx bzzzzzzzzzzzt. I cbet flop and 8 turn (can't remember sizing). River 7x I look at his stack and miscalculate. Pot is 1k and I put him in for what I thought was 1.3k. He had 1.7 tho. He takes like 4 mins and sigh calls it off. I won't say what he had, but we talked about it after and it's a very interesting spot. Really cool to see how other people think about poker and their strategy to analysing things.
Can't remember many other interesting hands. I made a few extreme folds. Couple of sets mucked in big pots with turned flushes etc. I was watching American Football with an older guy who was explaining it all to me, I'm a complete football newb. I had a few bottles of cider along the way and eventually gg'd at approx 8pm. Devastation as I racked up - my stacks were all 1 chip short. Went from thinking I was up $3500 to being up around 3k, extreme tilt!
I'm up just over $11k for the trip, a nice $23,000 upswing! Today I would quite like to not lose 5k in the first few hours, as that has been the norm lately
Also started the running bet today! 90 miles in 28 days, 85.98 to go
Edit - actually, can someone devise me a very very brief, basic, rough nutrition plan that will take into consideration the fact that I'll be running 3 or 4 miles a day. I could Google it but I think it'd be good to see what people say. Roughly 2500 cals a day.
Spoiler:
Haha it would mean you're betting against Jesus! While motivation is this high however there's no need for prop bets. Ask me again in a month or two!
Awesome fun yesterday buddy, whole table was having a blast!
So it's 9am on 22nd Jan atm. I went into Commerce at 11pm on 20th Jan and played for 20 hours. Was hands down the most enjoyable session I've ever had in my life. Just an absolute blast all day. Ironically the game I first joined was total garbage, full of moody regs and nitty recs. Got moved to another table at about 4am. I was down $3k and then ran AK into KK and was down $4500. Said **** it I was having cheat day and ordered extreme amounts of food. Ironically before it arrived I rostuckod $3500 of the losses. I got my KK in vs AK vs a London reg and if I lost that I was literally done for a couple of days. Managed to hold though! I then played a great hand. There was an eastern European rec at the table, a jolly old fella who calls everyone a "bloody bastard!" for fun. I started calling him a "****in arsehole" for fun too. Anyway he limps UTG 6 handed. Czech reg makes it 60 from btn. I peel Husker's sweepstake selection from the BB. Flop comes down 925r. Ping. Checked to the Czech and he bets 100 into 185. I call and the rec makes it 400. Czech calls, and I call. As I'm thinking to myself "this spot couldn't get any dreamier" the dealer burns and turns a 5 to give me quads. Rec jams 600, the Czech guy flats and he has like 500 left so I'm just like whatever all in. He rage sigh calls and I flip them over and scoop it all.
Spoiler:
I then proceed to blast it off to the older half of a pair of London reg brothers. He made extreme hero call vs my flop xc, turn xr and river jam w A8 on 8453K. I had A7s, flatted his CO open from SB to keep "bloody bastard" in the pot. He was bantering with me that I wasn't folding to his 3bets (in my defence we were super deep, I was IP a lot and I was getting solid hands to call). One time I open and he 3bets and I fold, he just stood up and shouted "I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD!" into a half empty Commerce. Was most humorous.
The younger brother joins the game, and it's very good now. Lots of action, and we even get a round of 20 straddles on. At one point we even got a couple of 40s thrown in (not me though I'm dumb but I'm not that dumb). Something happened yesterday that the whole table laughed at but it sent me into inexplicable fits of laughter. So it's one of the 5/10/20/40 hands and this rec who was amazing fun to play with limps 40. Another guy makes it 200. Folds to rec. He says he really wants to play the hand and asks if he calls can they just check it down. Other guy says no coz he obviously has strong hand. Rec sighs and turns his hand face up, shows 108cc. Dealer is like er do you fold. Silence. He then says "**** it" and turns his hand face down and calls the raise. I don't know why, maybe it was because he turned his hand face down again, but I was absolutely ending myself. Board came out AK3 and he just open mucked hahahaha. I'm actually pissing myself at the thought of it just now.
A few hours go by and I'm in profit for the day. My mate Gun joins the table, super nice guy and solid poker player. Get into a spot vs him. He opens in MP, I 3bet AQhh. He flats. Flop comes down KJThxx bzzzzzzzzzzzt. I cbet flop and 8 turn (can't remember sizing). River 7x I look at his stack and miscalculate. Pot is 1k and I put him in for what I thought was 1.3k. He had 1.7 tho. He takes like 4 mins and sigh calls it off. I won't say what he had, but we talked about it after and it's a very interesting spot. Really cool to see how other people think about poker and their strategy to analysing things.
Can't remember many other interesting hands. I made a few extreme folds. Couple of sets mucked in big pots with turned flushes etc. I was watching American Football with an older guy who was explaining it all to me, I'm a complete football newb. I had a few bottles of cider along the way and eventually gg'd at approx 8pm. Devastation as I racked up - my stacks were all 1 chip short. Went from thinking I was up $3500 to being up around 3k, extreme tilt!
I'm up just over $11k for the trip, a nice $23,000 upswing! Today I would quite like to not lose 5k in the first few hours, as that has been the norm lately
Also started the running bet today! 90 miles in 28 days, 85.98 to go
Edit - actually, can someone devise me a very very brief, basic, rough nutrition plan that will take into consideration the fact that I'll be running 3 or 4 miles a day. I could Google it but I think it'd be good to see what people say. Roughly 2500 cals a day.
01-22-2018
, 01:46 PM
01-22-2018
, 01:53 PM
Incredible update, hope the heat continues!
If you're running daily you probably want high carb/protein breakfasts and lunches, high fat/protein small evening meals. Obviously pretty tough to sustain when you're in a casino until 8am though!
Something like porridge or fruit and yogurt breakfast, followed by big lunch of chicken/veg/noodles stir-fry, then salad with some sort of protein for dinner.
Disclaimer: I'm sure there will be some fitness GTO people who can give better advice than this.
If you're running daily you probably want high carb/protein breakfasts and lunches, high fat/protein small evening meals. Obviously pretty tough to sustain when you're in a casino until 8am though!
Something like porridge or fruit and yogurt breakfast, followed by big lunch of chicken/veg/noodles stir-fry, then salad with some sort of protein for dinner.
Disclaimer: I'm sure there will be some fitness GTO people who can give better advice than this.
Last edited by Kangal_; 01-22-2018 at 02:10 PM.
01-22-2018
, 07:15 PM