Why do you want to get volume in? For rake back?

Thanks for the info. Nope, I'm in Bangkok right now. Will go to Cambodia probably in the end of november for some days when I have my first visa run/flight.


To win more money at poker and to balance out the variance.

That said, I really have to get into grind mode again. Have been way too lazy, just drinking, ****ing, eating, watching random **** on Youtube/Netflix and sleeping for the last days. I'm super happy with my game tho atm. Just need to put in more hours again.

Just finished an epic meal. Spring Rollz, Pad thai and a big bowl of yellow curry with steamed rice and I'm pumped to fire up some tables. The wifi connection of my apartment tho is kind of timing out every eight to ten minutes for a minute and I don't wanna be in a big pot and lose the connection. One thing I want to know and maybe someone has the answer for me. When I play against other guys and they time out, usually they get the "Dissconnected" under their avatar and they get added like 240 seconds or so to reconnect. When I disconnect here and I come back one minute later or so all the tables where I was in a hand I sit out by that time. Why don't I get 240 seconds added on when I time out? ****ing sucks.

Poker-update

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So after destroying the 10z games I moved up to the 25z streets again and got dropped down around eight stacks immediatetly. Not very pleasent, but overall bb-wise I'm still doing great after changing my game. Bankroll is back at 1520$. Cashed out about 50$, because I did some soccer sportsbetting here and there in the last weeks for gambling fun and hoping to bink a nice score. Not yet but maybe tonight, got a multi-bet on the six CL games for around 5,2k euros.

Pokerwise I'm a little bit sad how things went this month so far and overall since I arrived here. I think I'm going to stick to 10z for now, get some good volume in there, because I'm positive that I'm crushing that game for 10bb+ now (overall sample of 6evbb over 78k hands since I started this blog, so including my poorer game for most of that sample). Going back to playing four-tables, as I feel the changes in my game got internalized by now and also I got used to my new hud. I realized that it is important for my mindset to have a lot of stacks for every limit I play and that I don't have to worry about moving down when things don't go well for some sessions. That said I'm definetely over-rolled for 10z, but I would rather play there than playing 25z and being in a realistic danger to get ass-whooped by variance for another twenty stacks and be back to my initial 1000$ bankroll. With a BR of 2,5k I would definetetly feel way better to play 25z. So let's move up slowly but surely, making sure to clearly beat every limit on the way. This is what I came here for. **** the partying and ****ing. No problem to ditch that for a while to get healthy in the poker streets.

Let's do this.

reading since day 1 and i love it

i really hope that you can make it to play this game for a living.
at the end of the day, hard work pays out - keep that in mind. its not going to be easy

enjoy your time in thailand and keep udating

greetz from cold germany

Nice blog OP and cool read.

Have one question because I don't uncerstand. Why you play on Pokerstars? I mean I know traffic sucks during the hours in Thailand but there are other sites with traffic too. I mean you play a game that have insanely huge rake and at this point no rakeback on Stars.
Why not moving at least some % of the traffic to other sites?? It would give you a lot bigger chance to succeed. I mean there was a huge thread already like 2 years ago about winrates on PLO ZOOM microstakes and literally no one was beating it due to insane rake. (I belive it was about PLO 25z and PLO 50z but might be wrong)

Cheers.

^^ From what I read, he really like the software and anything else just tilts him, he can't play his A-game.

Don't want to be a party p00per but this mentality is not the way forward if you want to make it as a pro.

Right now you are limiting yourself big time. I'm not sure how much rake back you are getting but I know for a fact you can easily make 40-50% on other sites. Doing anything else ESPECIALLY at these stakes would be about the excuse my words dumbest thing one could do.

If you are getting 0 rb, you are essentially missing out on ~50 buyin's a month from rake back. That's massive right now, for the stakes and rake you pay. At plo25 that's like ~1000 or 12k a year.

I'd rethink my strategy if I were you and I'd stop and look real close to my "primadonna" attitude regarding comfort over cold hard $$$$.

Going pro is about making sacrifices and hard ****ing work, period!

I only say all this because I enjoyed your writing so far and as hard as this might come across I think it's all good advice and something you might need to hear from somebody else.

PS: I'm not calling you dumb or a primadonna, just that you have that kind of mentality. A lot of Western kids have that flaw and often do not even know about it (it's mostly upbringing and pampering from parents), I think your attitude towards playing different sites and missing out on a ton of $$$ is a good example.

Yeah +1... 50PLOz is notoriously a rake trap and who knows if anyone can actually beat it. I'd gtfo of Stars as well if you genuinely wanted to support yourself with this thing. Or switch to NLH.

how is it possible to get 50BI worth of rb?
thats like 50% rb and 100k hands p/m. if he switches from PS to lets say Party, he is not going to put that many hands in the same hours/month

to OP; concentrate more on quality, you just cant play your best game when you play 8h zoom every day

Nothing wrong with playing 8h zoom a day if youre a pro. It can be done while retaining quality of play.

Hi and thanks for your kind words!

greetz back to cold germania


Thank you and thanks for your input regarding changing sites. I'm gonna comment on it combined with tikmassys and meales post.



So yeah. You guys are absolutetely right. I underestimated the importance of rakeback in todays online environments. That said I shifted some part of my roll to Partypoker and will grind there from now on. The software is not as bad as I thought. The first one-two hours were pretty hard tho to get used to it. Played six-seven tables and got in around 370 hands/hour. Can play up to nine comfortably I think.

1st party session


Playing for weekly rakeback points is also a good motivation to keep the grinding hours high. I think 450 is realistic right now at PLO10 for a full week of grinding.

**** Stars man. Opening these ****ty chests was so tilting

Last Zoom Session on Stars before changing to Party



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As to the rest of living in thailand everyting is going smoothly. Can't complain. My relationship to the girl is pretty good. It's basically like an escort visiting me regularly for free. Yesterday she came again at like 6 am after partying. We joked around a little bit, I made fun of her being so drunk and then the chest match begun. We basically ****ed until forenoon. We **** and then we start to cuddle and during cuddling we both make each other so horny again that we **** again. Three times on this occasion. The first time I told her to lay on the bed with her head at the end. I stood in front of her 'claw-****ing' her pussy with two fingers, while she was giving me a nice blowjob. At one point I had to stop because she was moaning so loud and even started squirting a little bit. Then, in between, she always grabbed my hand and took it to her mouth to taste that delicious pussy juice. When she's drunk and horny she gets really naughty.

I basically don't do any sports here, but ****ing with this girl is like working out. I'm so sweaty sometimes and I have legit muscle ache in my legs and especially my thighs. Went to the thai massage the other day, because I thought it would be a good idea to get these aching muscles massaged a bit. NOPE! Think again idiot! This hour was very, very painful. I endured it but the next time I'll take an oil massage for sure.

We slept the whole day and I had the craziest sex dreams with a girl I dated back in the beginning of 2017. Followed by an end of the world dream with this 500 meter high wave that was ****ing everything up. Might be from my sub-consciousness from Interstellar. Watched it again the other day.

Waking up in the evening I really did not want to **** again, because I honestly tell you it is EXHAUSTING. It's a hard knock life right. We cuddled again and I gave her a nice long intense orgasmn with my hand. Then we lay there cuddeling in spoon position and her ass rubbing on my boner, I just could not resist as she wanted to **** also even tho I just made her come pretty hard some minutes before. But good decision actually. So we started in spoon position, then I grabbed her and put her on top of me while I was laying on my back. She then decided after some time to change it to reverse-cowgirl. She did not only did the normal reverse-cowgirl but after a while she got up in a squat position and damn this was just a feast for my eyes. Her ass and hip curves.



So yeah, wasn't the worst decision to play another match of chess. She's acutally a lovely girl. When I come out of the shower, my bedroom, that was a pure mess with condoms and clothes laying all over the place looks like the room service just went in there to clean up. Bedsheets and everything else super tidy again. Good girl.

The first month is in the books. Was a fun one, although poker did not went too well. Starting fresh on Party I'm going to change that. Thanks for commenting, giving tipps or just reading.

So far. Peace

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mood:

I got 32 Partypoints for the 1,7k hands I played so far on Party. Extrapolating this I'm going to make around 450 Partypoints per week, which is 112,50$. Multiplied by four it would be 450$ or 45 stacks by playing PLO10 only. This is 25% weekly rakeback, according to the Party software.

I want to play a lot. I can actually concentrate on quality and volume. I think to aim somewhere around 100k hands is a good start.

Qual update mate. Gl on the party grind, good move.

Thx papi
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Anyone itt knowing how to setup the HEM2 HUD properly for Party?

that would be 1800$ in rake a month, right? on how many hands; 100k?

18bb/100 in rake, thats great . even with 25% rb you are still paying like 13bb in rake. I read somewhere that MG rake is a lot lower then most sites and you can get 50% rb there. so if you are concerned about rake and rb maybe MG or some similar site would be the best for you.

You cant use HUD on Party, it doesnt work, just shows stas for every seat.

Good luck

Do you have any connections in poker world? Because you should easily get some money under the table with the new account. You could easily get like 10-15% more with an affiliate deal. Just look around and ask because for PLO it is like the most important thing.

Another thing is when you play on Party Poker consider investing in Party Caption. It is going to make griding on Party so much better:
https://sites.google.com/site/partycaption/home

2nd. I am not if you know but Microgaming rakes games on Microstakes 1/2 of what Stars does plus they offer 30% rakeback (and again probably closer to 50% if you look for an affiliate).
You have a program that does exactly the same things as Party Caption and it is called MPN tools:
https://sites.google.com/site/mpntoolsen/table

3rdly The US friendly sites offer good traffic during the day here in Thailand.
To improve the grind you have another bet script:
https://sites.google.com/site/wpntoolsen/

There is also another Chico network but no betting script I am aware of unfortunately.

Another option if you don't want to use programs like the one I mentioned is using Stack and Tile:
http://www.stackandtile.com

Again it is pretty generic but makes multitabling easy.

Lastly to make it a lot easier consider doing what I did which is moding each software to make it looks as simmilar as possible to each other:
http://pokerlayout.eu/multipacks/611-nice-pack.html

This is something I am using to make it easier. But again don't listen to idiots that tell you lol rakeback focus on quality. This is a free money and a lot easier than crusing the games and the guys that play PLO200z pay like 7bb/100 rake while you probbaly closer to 14 on micro. Makes completely no sense not to look around. But again ask friends PM someone I don't care but get yourself better deals that the standard ones. This is a free money with little effort.

JNandez used a HEM2 HUD in his Bankroll challenge on Partypoker. It's just, that you can only use session stats for the HUD. But I haven't figured out the proper setup. The HUD has this red background color and is showing the session stats, but it sucks. When I double click it to make the background black it changes automatically from session stats to overall stats and gets useless. Also I'm not sure if the stats for each seat are displayed correct.


Thank you for all the infos, appreciate it! Gonna look into affiliates now.

It is just so frustrating. Losing another 20 stacks in ~ 1500 hands. Nothing going my way. Hitting no flop, no matter how premium my hand is. Meanwhile villains hitting everything, no matter how bad their hand is. Hitting nothing in 3bet/4bet pots. That's it. **** poker for this month. Makes me sad

It's just lol. Today's session in a nutshell. I mean lol......

$0.05/$0.10 Pot Limit Omaha Hi
PartyPoker
6 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by WeakTight Poker Hand History Converter

Stacks:
UTG ($26.70) 267bb
UTG+1 ($18.74) 187bb
CO Hero ($11.72) 117bb
BTN ($11.43) 114bb
SB ($3.37) 34bb
BB ($10) 100bb

Pre-Flop: (0.15, 6 players) Hero is CO A 9 J A
1 fold, UTG+1 raises to $0.35, Hero raises to $1.20, 3 folds, UTG+1 calls $0.85

Flop: 5 Q Q ($2.55, 2 players)

UTG+1 checks, Hero checks

Turn: A ($2.55, 2)

UTG+1 checks, Hero bets $1.67, UTG+1 raises to $4.84, Hero calls $3.17

River: 10 ($12.23, 2)

UTG+1 bets $11.62, Hero goes all-in $5.68

Final Pot: $29.53
UTG+1 shows
Q K Q 5
Hero shows
A 9 J A

UTG+1 wins $34.47 (net +$16.81)

Hero lost $11.72

Yeah **** this ****, I'm out for this month.

gl everyone

for me it helps a lot to not look at the results every day
try to look at it at the end of the week/month and keep grinding, just focus on the game
its like stop smoking, pretty hard for most guys

kopf hoch op you will make it if you believe in yourself and work hard
try to see things positive. treat your bad run as a chance to improve your mindset - see it as a mental challenge

btw have you thought about a coaching for profit deal?

It's achievable especially at plo were you rake much more than NL.

To OP, don't forget to sign up via a rake back website like RTR. They offer you added value of around 10% through rake races, shop around. You can often get your account retagged and make use of another brand new sign up bonus!

+1 for RTR and check ipoker too. Your goal should be to play in the softest games possible (after rakeback) so multi sites and f*** Pokerstars/Amaya

hero MIA ?

Wouldn't be the first white person to get himself "suicided"

RIP

Did he dieded?

Or

Did he bustooo?

It is strange because he was ending in Thailand and he was moving to Cambodia and he didn't still wrote... probably he is somewhere walking dead... or running...


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