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Originally Posted by Richard Sheils
2019 plans and goals
Heading to Macau for 2 months mid Jan - mid March planning to win all the money and try to go to the gym a lot - might stay an extra month.
12th April onwards planning to go travel for a long time, with blocks of playing poker in between.
Starting with Thailand for Songkran and full party on samui and Phangan
Then heading to Cambodia for a few weeks to grind a bit of live for fun and online - found a pretty good Airbnb, 3 double bedrooms, security downstairs and a gym for $30 a night, between us!
After that a few of us might be heading to vegas to do a full series, I'm not that fussed about that so will probably go have a look around the Philippines and Bali etc.
Might meet up with everyone to play the Main event start of July.
following that heading to South America, not fully planned out, but plan to live and travel around for at least 3 months.
After that gonna head back to the states, - ws planning to rent a campervan and travel for a few months coast to coast, but it is very expensive.
That should time quite well to go to the Aussie millions 2020.
After that it will depend how broke I am what I do next - Maybe grind online somewhere cheap or keep travelling or play live etc.
Gonna try my best stay in some kind of shape doing it.
I've also taken on 2 guys I'll be staking/CFp'ing on stars to see how that goes, so hopefully if that goes well I'll do more of those
I'm really tempted start a vlog - more just to force myself to do more interesting things and have something to look back on when I'm inevitably broke in a few years time.
So i guess this is a good place to start. Let me preface this by sayign I will be deliberately vague about some details for fairly obvius reasons - but I will sprinkle in the odd £200k pot to make up for it.
I started off playing live in a weird staking arrangement:
I was being staked by person A
2 others were being staked by person B
an the 3 of us were swapping equally.
Also my brother was staying with me and he wasn't beign staked or swapping with anyone, he had about £140k net worth and was playing mainly £2knl
The swap was weird as there were no real rules put in place, I couldn't really say no to swapping as I would be playign £6k buy in games, with the occassional straddle.
Also side note, I was in about a £100k hole before agreeing to this from app games.
January I won about £100k, was fairly steady wth no swings, but the other guys dusted and broke even. This was pretty frustrating for me, I saw a fair few mistakes from the guys i was swapping with, but that isn;t to say I wasn;t makign any myself. Person B who was way more experienced with the games we were playign kept chalkign it up to variance and highlighting my personal mistakes. My brother proceeded to dust and also play like a whale imo, shot takign games that were too high and started to play PLO which he claimed he thought he was winnign at, but really has no idea if he is winning or losing.
So, this was super frustrating and was about to get even more so...
February, a couple whales turned up and all of a sudden i was playing a £20knl game that was straddled with a £400 straddle. Obviouslt the higher I played the less ation I had as the backers would buy larger peices off stake.
I proceeded to dust about £60k an then spin up to have about £100k in front of me, so at this point I'm up £40k, but dont forget my peice would be like 40% or even less if I remeber correctly and then swapped 3 ways, and then my peice will come off my £100k make up, so I wasn't super fussed about the money, I was just trying to play well.
HH: whale (1) opens to £1k, reg 3 bets to £3k, whale (2) cold calls otb, I cold 4 bet AKo to £10k (awkward stacks behind me) and it folds around to whale (2) who peels, both of us £120k deep pre.
Pot is £24kish, flop is 723rb, I c bet £8k, he calls, turn 2h brings bdfd, I bet £30k he calls, river 2x complets trips and I jam £80k into £84k. He folded relatively fast, but it was probably the longest 15 seconds of my life. I lift my cards up, kinda to show the reg next to me, followed by another reg shouting 'Show one show all!' So I look at Whale (1) and ask him if he wants me to show, 'yes show, show!' I show... Whale (2) is furious, which is great fr the game as he isn't leaving. But person B is also furious, not happy with my aggro style of poker... more on this is my next post.