Woke up at 11pm today. Needed a good sleep after a heavy weekend.

Reged the last 11 micro MTTs before the site goes totally quiet for the night - managed to win 3 of the aforementioned tournaments. Only got about €60 but still one of my best achievements so far.

http://pokerprolabs.com/abdevilliers...2017/scheduled

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glglglgl all

Yeah the OP lol

Those are some nice pics

Thanks for the feedback guys, I'll try and get more pictures up since you all seem to like them. I just need to learn how to post HHs now - I don't have a hud/software so maybe it can't be done.

Weird one last night, I was so drunk that I passed out with 6 tables running - but I had such big stacks that I actually made a slight profit, if you count sat tokens as cash (and I do)

glglgl to all today!!!

GL mate. Since your from the UK you might want to take a look at sky poker. Pretty ****ing soft.

ABde are you well and alive man?

Agreed about it being soft but almost all the MTTs are bounty games in some way and I don't enjoy them as much.

Playing on Sky, for uk players in general, is great advice and they run some great promos too.

I pretty much started to learn how to play better when they had that TV show on for 5 hours about every other day. For those that don't live in the uk, it's basically like a 5 hour long Doug Polk hand review - 3 or 4 times a week. Sadly it ended a few years ago though.

Thanks for asking, I've fallen into the worst sleeping pattern for the last week or so. That means I've missed all the evening sessions and played only 47 games, losing about €25 since the last post. I hope you're good too btw.

We also had 2 days of storms, I was a bit scared about the electric going off so I decided not to play when I was awake. Rooted out some JNandez holdem vids amongst the PLO stuff and watched/enjoyed them. If watching youtube counts as "studying" then I did a lot of that.

The upside of the storm was that I didn't fancy walking to the shops so I had 2 days of no drinking. I've also been about 3 weeks without smoking, give or take a few days.

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Back on the lash at 1pm today, sleeping pattern improved so no more excuses.

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Outstanding thread so far, hope you manage to keep going (with the thread, that is, not the pipes).

I too have similar recreational peccadilloes and spent 3-4 years playing poker semi-seriously but at the toughest times. I'd typically grind from Monday evening to Thursday, then treat myself to a few drinks to "celebrate" my industry and not come home until Sunday evening. Typically it meant I didn't make much money playing poker and what I did make I would spaff off on booze, Class A's, takeaways, taxis and replacing phones etc.

I'm a bit better now, but slip up tons still. My results have increased considerably though once I switched my weekend to Monday/Tuesday.

Agree about Sky being soft - come and say hello if you play there (I tend to play 10-50nl).

Have you seen Valley Cops?

(nb have been reading 2+2 for 5+ years and have only just registered to I could comment on here so, you know, I'll be following with interest. Best of luck)

Not ignoring anyone, but I'll get to this part first. Since my life is involved, there has to be a *** up along the way. In this case flash is not working on chrome and I'm too stupid to fix it and can't upload any photos.

http://s1380.photobucket.com/user/da...hee8r.jpg.html

This is my brothers rabbit. He was with us for over 10 years and I live pretty near my mothers house and saw him almost daily. For a rabbit, he was extremely tame and had a great personality.

Sadly, you have to make tough decisions in life and getting him put down was hard but an obviously correct choice.

RIP

I typed a long reply to this but got logged out. So tilting.

Thanks for - peccadilloes - I had to google it but it's a great word.

I went Sky >> Unibet >> Betfair

Won on cricket and poker on the exchange. Lost on snooker and darts.

That's why I am on ipoker.

Sky name was groinBANG, was grinding 4 and 8NL - and our currency was worth more than it is now at that time.

Really slacked off since the last post. Been really lazy and when I did play I didn't enjoy it. Constantly watching the clock for the break is a new bad habit, it makes it feel like time is dragging. The final humiliation was losing my silver star on the loyalty scheme today.

I've found a winning life formula, however:

Don't speak to anyone and don't go anywhere.


Strict adherence to these 2 simple rules has seen my drug use fall off a cliff, negating my lack of poker profit. Not been smoking for at least a month too.

"A penny saved is a penny earned"

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Going forward, I've established 2 goals:

1. Win enough money to be "fully operational" in poker and cricket betting. £1.5k is the absolute minimum to make it worth my while. I won't put a time frame on it but hopefully I can change the title to "poker + cricket" some time next year.

2. Betfair are running sats to the Irish Open and they have no late reg and relatively huge overlay. I'm gonna try and play the €50 final every week, if I can, starting at the €1 sats.

A new song about Welsh coal mining:



I will also attempt to increase the popularity of my thread with superfluous hashtags.

#PLO
#cryptocurrencies

Mixed start to the month. I managed to put in good volume......but sadly it was the volume of alcohol consumed. My intention is to nip this at the bud because I have a habit at letting things get out of hand before I cop onto myself.

Poker was OK in terms of money but I still could have played a lot more. €200 profit - give or take.

Still no drugs or smoking :S

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Done in about €60 since the last post. Been drinking about 20 units daily.

I don't think I've ever been so demoralised.

Been drinking heavily every day since the last post. It's like a nightmare that never ends.

I had to use some tokens a few days back and won about €80.

My eyes are hurting from reading stuff online all the time. I can't eat gluten anymore so my diet is now alcohol only.

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It´s your life to wreck your own way, but seriously, 20 units a day? That´s a hell of a lot, man. Hope you find a way out of it before it´s too late.

I'm from the UK and forgive me for being stupid but what are MSJ's? Like spice and stuff? Stay off the crack too, I heard it's moreish..

Didn't see this when I posted my first post, anyway u can get help to try reduce intake??? Sounds like you need a bit of help in the nicest way possible. Hope ur ok dude

Message to ABdeVilliers:

Further to our pms, I'm unable to get Skype working due to Firewall issues
but can contact me on Twitter (same handle as sn here)

Btw, looked at your PokerProLabs results you've linked ITT and they're exceptional.
Very talented player, so well possible to be bossing bigger games & buy ins in the future.

P.S. Your P,G&C thread here is very good. If all poker players opened up a thread describing the various challenges they faced, we'd have thousands of similar threads.

Big credit and respect to you and much gl in everything you do.

Cheers

SageDonkey

I'm back
Not self-banned in any way, shape or form - but that's another story.

I relapsed in January, blowing my entire roll on crack with this bird I met at a massage parlour in Swansea (Polish, haggard... solid 4/10)

It's a hollow feeling; being back to square one in your 30s - mark my words!

Profit has been pathetic this year, less than €300 (including RB and bonuses)

I'm not particularly motivated by money. Trivial things seem more important to me. No matter what I do, my scope rating never goes above 75. I want to best that rating and keep my silver volume star for the whole year.

GLGL to everyone else #micros

MSJ = valium 10mg (the blue tablets)

Crack is very moreish, Super Hans

A few boring, break even days. Apparently we're due for snow and -10C to -15C temperatures so will be playing a lot to alleviate boredom in the coming days. Inclement weather usually works out well for me cos I won't feel like walking to the ATM - no drink/drugs and more gambling.

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Haven't got a hud so I can only post hands like this, I think. Worked out nice cos I finished 5th instead of about 30th after this fold.

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^A friend of mine

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I return to the virtual felt with the vim and vigor of a new born lamb....

Been cursed for the last few weeks. Seems like there is no possible way for me to get past 4th in an MTT :S Still got my sharkscope star though!!

Will be going hard today - no blow ups! ~12 hour session including the start of OPL season 8

Started early with vodka, gabapentin and jaffa cakes.........breakfast of champions. Will be back later to brag about my winnings.

muahahahahaaaa

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Pity it was the lowest prize game

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