I'd just come back (well, a few days ago) from my trip from Amsterdam meeting up with some guys from discord. It was nice! I was pleased to announce that they were basically the same in person as they were online. To be honest, I haven't met too many I knew from online who turned out super different in real life.
The start of the trip was awful. I missed my flight because I forgot my passport because I am an incompetent human being, almost gave up and went home, but when I did I was convinced to book the next flight, so I went all the way back to the airport, only to find that I had booked a flight from a different airport. I swear I was about to break down and cry, but I was pot committed, so I booked a third flight that was 8 hours later than my initial one, napped in the airport (I went to the airport after an all night session so I had no sleep), managed to not oversleep, and successfully ended up in Amsterdam.
The guys met up with me and we went straight for sushi, which was a multi course buffet/all you can eat affair, and it was decent but seriously, sushi isn't exactly a type of food where more is better (despite with Brudi might think).
We went then to Holland Casino to grind. I almost didn't because I was so tired, but Monty and the rest convinced me. To his benefit of course, as he managed to win a couple of pots off me. The game was good though. The table wasn't particularly talkative and fun and I think everyone was a bit tired (and we were far away on the table so we didn't get to chat random sh t). I got 600 euros out from my Revolut card from the ATM because that's the limit for free withdrawals and I didn't feel like paying 2% when I am so tired, got stacked by monty, and then withdrew again twice for like 2.6k, lost a pot to Monty again, and ended up with 1.4k in the end.
Overall it was nice to meet up, but with how the day started and ended I had resigned myself to a failure of a trip, and to be honest wasn't much in the mood for playing poker anyway.
The next morning we went boxing. Filip/HorseOfHell came in this outfit to flex on us. later showed us some sick motorcycle tricks:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BvtSVyOB..._web_copy_link
Boxing was nice. I usually kickbox which is quite a bit less strenuous on the boxing part, and also has somewhat different technique, but this was useful too.
We went to get ramen lunch. The first option was full, so filip brought us to... f cking wagamama, wtf. The server was exceedingly rude too, and that's ignoring the fact that they don't even have or understand noodle firmness can be an option. They brought out a different dish than Monty had wanted to order, and when Monty said "this isn't what I ordered" he just said "no it is. you ordered donburi", and when Monty was just kinda taken aback and was like "uh no I meant to order xyz", the guy was just insisting "no you ordered donburi, I wrote it down.
Like I highly doubt anyone on the table would've asked him to take it back, both out of not wanting to be rude, getting him in trouble, or for time reasons, but the least he could do is not to basically tell the customer "f u, you're wrong", so that's kinda funny.
We went to a cafe later and got some free food from Filip's cafe friend. Filip talks about virginlyfe but clearly is more than adept as using his youthful charms.
We then went back to the casino. I was feeling better actually that day, so when Monty and I started off a nice short handed table with some pretty recreational players and I doubled up early I was feeling reasonable good about my chances. Of course it only took like an hour before Monty stacked me and I'm down to my last bullet and a half.
Of course poker being poker, it only took an hour to get to this point from 500 euros:
The highlight of this run was me 4betting AA with only .2 SPR left behind and my opponent flopping a set of jacks on QJ7ddx
Unlucky sir.
Obviously everyone demanded I treat dinner, and being my mother's child, I obliged. Imba being a hard grinder (read:antisocial) didn't join. Sorry gotta call you out on that.
We went to this nice Vietnamese restaurant, and was going to get pho but decided to go for this set menu instead. It was like 50 euros for 2, so hey 75 for 3 why not. Of course, as the food keeps coming and coming I was like, okay there's no way this isn't a 50/pp meal I got talked into paying.
It was very lowlight so pictures didn't come out good, so I won't post all of them. It was way more worth it than that stupid wagamama bs in any case. Anyway Filip redeemed himself as host even if it did cost me 150 euros.
After that we went back to the casino and played for a little more. I had to leave for the airport at like 4AM though and daylight saving came out of nowhere and I had barely any time. I lost a tiny bit back but got to see Filip get tilted as all hell, which was funny (he did get slightly de-tilted after winning a pot from a whale). Didn't get a chance to play with Imba and see him apparently get stacked by Filip many times in a row, but alas, next time.
Oh yeah, final fit pick from Filip, need to post this on reddit MFA:
I got home in one piece somehow and thus concluded my trip.
Last few days since then had been very hectic with life stuff, but it's under control. Played some live poker and went fairly well, but as usual this year, sold a bunch of action when the game was bigger, and not as hot when I have 100%, sooo I guess that's how it is.
Sweet graph still though:
Online graph is... not as good. Only played one session since, but um... not great. My overall evbb is still decent/winning but pretty sad I'm not an 8bb/100 winner anymore.
Unsurprisingly my EV basically took a nose dive since streaming; Lost 5k in EV exactly when I started. It's really quite hard to play well streaming. I don't know if I should practice playing low stakes more before I try again, that might be a good idea.
I shall post up some hands from the previous session soon. Until then!