in for freeroll

Freeroll???

DON`T YOU PLEBS GET ENOUGH FREE MONEY BY ME SITTING UR TABLES??????

It's v generous of you to offer all of us a freeroll.

Freerolls <3

Thanks for the offer but I don't require a freeroll. Have you got gif HHs instead?

Damn, came home from snowboarding yesterday and got really sick pretty much the moment I came home. Had actually thought about updating on the way home but feeling so fked now I just couldn`t type up anything

stars sn haarlem? (think its same as on here but not sure)

Free for inroll

same name sir

Sent

Will make planned update this week when I feel human again, it`s been brutally made clear to me that I`m getting too old to go on a bunch of consecutive drinking binges

Get well soon!! Update in here more often!!

PS: Never too old man, dont lettem get in ur head hehe peace

Feel better soon dude! See ya around at the tables when you're healthy again

OI!

UPDATE THIS DEAD THREAD AGAIN FOR FOOKS SAKE DOOD

In for freeroll

free for the in roll

the roll in free for

update n1994

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ALLRIGHT

Time to revive this thread again! The main reason I've put off updating for so long is because I was looking for freerolls in other threads.

First things first:

Graphs and stats


2017 Scope




2017 EV

Don't have the graph unfortunately but EVbb for this period was around 7


2018 Scope




2018 EV



This is missing quite some hands, mailed stars for them but they only sent me this and cbf mailing again. Last 80kish hands I have everything and EVbb is a smidge under 10 so going in the right direction (though lolsample).


Stars graph purposely filtered to create a nice picture for the thread




Thoughts and ramblings

So 2017 results wise was pretty underwhelming, as is 2018 so far. It's tough for me to put together a coherent piece about poker in the past year right now, guess that's what happens when you abandon your thread But let's give it a shot.

To start off, I'll say that a lot of times in the past year I've had thoughts in terms of 'I run so bad', 'never ever win a flip late in a big one' and 'all these ****ing runregs don't even realize how blessed they are'. And to some extent I think this is justified and I'll use this paragraph to get a small whine in because well, it's a little soothing (feel free to skip this part). I've made a bunch of runs in big tourneys in this period and fell short pretty much every time. Got a 12th in the warmup, 11th in the kickoff, F2T party main three times, went from 1/6 to 6th in a series event on ACR with 43k up top, got 12th in a series event on ES with 30k UT and a bucket full of other near misses in significant donkaments that I would have loved to win.

This being said, while it is somewhat tempting to look up every deep run I've made in big ones and wallow in self-pity, it's not exactly the most productive way to go about it and neither is it really justified for me to think this way.

Let's take an objective look at how I approached poker in the past year:

- I put in a ton of hours playing, mostly smoking weed non-stop

- I put in very few hours of solid study, most of what I did do was reviewing with someone else (i.e. me only putting in half the work or less)

- I loved to play for the glory in stuff like SCOOP and put in way to many hours chasing it during series (tbf I don't think I will ever lose the love for chasing a title and still love battling regs in nice structures, but there is definitely a better way to go about it)

- I played a ridiculously high avg. field size, mainly on stars.com

- My EVbb for this period was always around 7 (good, not great)

- I did little to no exercise/sports

- I got whiny way more often than I'd like to admit (tbf I won't ever blame any mtt reg for getting a whine in when times are tough, playing mtts fulltime can be difficult at times, but there are limits and I definitely hated myself at times for booming hands that serve no purpose but to whine, spamming my beloved skype group with rants etc.. even though I don't even think they really mind )

- Sleep rhythm was all over the place

- I put in significantly less volume than I intended to in 2017

So when reading all this, objectively did I really deserve any better than what I achieved? Probably not. Sure I really did run bad, but if all these points above would have been addressed in a professional way I'm sure results would have been better. And if not, could always get a good whine in where I actually feel good about the effort I put in

Fact is poker is getting harder all over the place and I have no illusions of where my place is on the reg ladder. It's pretty much right in the middle of the pack, nothing exceptional to be found in the way I approach this game I've put in a ridiculously high % of my time. Seems unideal to say the least. Now I've always been pretty good at admitting these kind of things to myself, what I've always been way worse at is actively addressing these problems and putting in honest hard work off the tables.

What has changed recently:

- Putting in a bit more volume (have been trying to up the table count with mixed results, recently decided to cut back again and focus on game quality)

- Pretty much cut out weed entirely since January 1st, only smoked less than a handful of times when I was very okay with the moment chosen to get a little high

- Upped the work ethic a lot wrt off the table work, making full word documents with notes on good theory videos. Got in a bunch of reviews and generally talked a bunch of poker with my poker buddies. Started grinding HRC quite a bit (though not enough which will be addressed below) and am relentlessly tagging problem spots in game to review later.

- Moved down the ABI a bit and started playing on a bunch of sites that are not stars.com (nearly avoided having to get staked, am still in somewhat of a danger zone bankroll wise which can be stressful at times)

- Created a weekly schedule in excel, although I've been slacking in filling out the blank version of it to compare what I did vs what I planned

- Started going to the gym a lot now (though only recently got a good schedule and really got into a rhythm of going 3+ times a week) and am pretty confident that this will continue. Also playing quite some basketball.

So these are all pretty good trends, it´s nice to get some exercise in and the work I've put in off the tables is definitely paying off. That being said, this is only a small step in the direction I need to take if I want to get anywhere near my long term goals in this game. Typing out what is going better nowadays feels nice but in no way can I commend myself for stuff that good regs have been doing way better for a way longer period of time. So, with that, here is how I think these trends should be evolving in upcoming weeks/months.

What needs to happen:

- Buy PIOsolver and start grinding it really hard

- Keep comparing my actual schedule vs intended schedule and adjust stuff where needed

- Improve work ethic to the point where I can be very confident that the way I go about things will get me where I want to be at some point (good highstakes MTT reg)

- Stay healthy and keep going to the gym very regularly, never grind stoned again ever

- Stop procrastinating and put in as much time as I can into improving my game whilst still making time for myself to relax/travel/go out whenever I feel like it's appropriate

- Talk more poker with more people

- Put in more volume and learn to 12-table a game that crushes low-midstakes in the short term and grinds out a very good winrate at mid-highstakes in the long term

- Quit smoking cigarettes completely before the end of the year

- Keep tagging a bunch of spots in game and get through them before they pile up to an impossible amount

- Focus during sessions and improve mental game, enjoy the process of putting in the work and take focus off results as much as humanly possible

This list will do for now. I feel like this is getting super rambly and somewhat boring but this is stuff I feel is useful to write down here now that I finally got to updating again

Shoutouts

Ac3play
CO-grinder and roommate, great guy who is gonna join me on the journey out of the low-stakes shire and into the land of many dollar, many travels and much fun

TFTG
Short for team **** this guy, bunch of great Dutch speaking dudes who run like aids and will gather more tenth places than any other group in the world. A+ banter and occasionally even some good strat talk Also generally just a group of warriors with heart and commitment to the game. Special mention to LG for the lifetime aidsrun award and that_anon for the eternal bigfield struggle/bowl champ award, kingbustyou for somehow grinding 25 hours every day, powernap for the strongest rants on regs and nelis for the liveament glory chase. Also shoutout to jepser for actually making money.

Blakkman08

Also known as blakkbabe69, T8ofdiamonds and a whole list of other screennames that no one else could've come up with. Made me a lot better at poker, unfortunately is also a huge jynx and the main reason of all runbad Will need to coach him on how to go out for a beer once in a while

Vloey

Belgian friend who often asks me for updates on the grind, poker enthusiast and general nice guy

Standard backing stable

If it wasn't for these guys punting stacks left and right, I´m not sure I would've made any money from poker at all in the past year I expect to get slowrolled now by some of you so bring it on

Pads

Though I never really talked to him, he inspires me to not get tilted by mtts. Weird. I will consider my life complete when he calls me one of the best midstakes regs out there.

All my thread regulars

You know who you are, thanks for following


Gifs and savers

Allright enough with rambling and nuthugging, let's try to make this post slightly more entertaining. Some of these gifs I posted on twitter already, was trying to do something lifewithfacecards like (twitter One_Time184, shameless plug).

When you finish 36th out of 9697 players for 4x your buy in

When you want to order some food after the Sunday session


When you valuejam one pair on the river and get a tank from someone who likely has you slowroll listed

When you late register the big 22 thirty minutes in but it pops up 'you have already played in this tournament'


When you 3bet light CO vs MP and the BTN snap coldcalls


When someone goes in the tank after your turnbet but you have to get the pizza out of the oven


When you can't help yourself responding to the fish in chat and he stacks you 2 minutes later


When you try to bluff a station

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Thanks for reading

Gotta copy image location, not use the gyazo link

Good post. Always hard to take a step back and see past the curtain as a poker player, and definitely harder to do it publicly. Great to see the lifestyle change and hope 2018 goes well! One thing I always tell myself that I need to do is start running/gyming, really need to find motivation to get on that track like you did, hah.

I assumed that was intentional.

GL OP! Always enjoy reading your threads, on to the big one, it'll more glorious this way.

eyyyyyyyyyyy there he is, in for all of dem freerolls obv

gotta love the standard backing shoutout lolol

and i cant afford any reasonable leave the house coaching, market way too competitive in that regard unfortunately

realy nice update and really nice goals now please dotn disappear for another year again thanks

best of lakiiii

Definitely did not intentionally leave out the images panic-edited and fixed now

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thanks for the shoutout! great update and reading between the lines one can tell you have the haaart.

Vamuuuu

p.s. amazing that standard backing shoutout ️

p.p.s. next day is leg day fack me greeeeen

Now THAT's a fuc.kin update d00d!!

I really enjoyed this post!

I hope you keep the trend with gym/sports, believe me, you will 100% thank your self in the future.

Best of luck m8!

Nice to have some more active threads in my daily to-check list!

(All u needed were the savers anyway hahaha)

Vamoleo!!

Edit after ac3play's post: One does not simply SKIP leg day! glgl

Haha awesome update as expected!

Glgl for this year bro, will be railing hard