finally out of breakeven stretch

+1K this mornin.. ship

when we be gettin new spamz0r hand review?
i be visiting this forum 2 times less often if not be waiting for these.

To be honest, I've played blackpackkk a lot at 550s and he wasn't bad at all. He would bluffraise a lot, but his problem was he'd do ******ed **** every now and then.

Brutal!!

rofl for the record thats blackpackkk on FTP, not me ^^! ;p



this is me on FTP lately, w00t

I feel like my graph is gonna look like his very shortly... =(

**** i hate this game sometimes. Feel like im out of my 60BI downswing, start the day 10-0 and manage to finish stuck $2k for the day fml. ewkjfbwjbkqgejbkrgwjkjbkqgrwjbkjkgrqwjbkgrqwjkbgqr wjkjrwjbkwgqrkj.

, wtf, how many games did you play =/

played like 47 games between the sites. So fckn gay bryan. I swear to god mate im never going to beat the $300 level. Everytime i have taken a shot at it i play the biggest ****ing mother****ing monkeys and they win everytime, ive played almost 90 games at $300s and stuck $5k or smth ****ing stupidly gay like that and have not played one reg at that level... I dont think ive ever been as tilted/frustrated with this game as i am right now..!!! Its all standard ****, like its not like its something no one has seen b4 all u guys have seen it but its just so ****ing gay.

Matty... we will cure this in belgium I promise , after Hokie and PHMERC spent a week with me in AC they both had MASSIVE upswings (hokie went like -7k to +18k or something in a week), I am very good at giving other people run good =], but seriously, you'll start crushing post-belgium, I promise

do we have 4th player yet mate?

xSCWx is the hope, he'll let us know soon he said, if not then JLande from stars is interested as well, get on Ryan Dodge though, our team will be insane!

god its hard to get action on ftp this time of day

been sitting in an 88 4man w/ 2 big fish for like 5 min now. someone come chop it w/ me before one of them leaves

edit: nvm just as i post it fills

Sweet!!

But, primo, How did u go through the crazy downswing between games 2500 and 3000. What was it due to? (bad run, tilt...?)

I would've lost my self-confidence and not been able to take off like you did, how did u manage that??

(Respect!)

What buyins does this graph consist of?
How long time is this.

hrmm, I dunno, maybe 3-4 months, it could be pushing 5ish now, 110s-330s mostly, recently is almost 100% 330s.

the downswing was worse than it seems (due to 4man chops) as the upswing is a bit worse than it seems (also due to 4man chops), but I dunno, I just kinda deal w/it, i've always been super swingy (see stars graph below):






But even with that, I play a ton of 4mans so that !@))$s up my graph alot both ways, my upswings are usually small than they seem, and my downswings too, but I do have big swings compared to most regardless, but i've only had one losing month in the last 2 years (December of last yr, like 11 months ago or whatever) so it's kind of easy to keep my head up. Granted i've had alot of mediocre months this year which is frusterating (alot of 3-4k months), I also had the 100k score at WSOP (I only had 20ish%) and a 30k+ month in July, so I dunno, it all evens out, I play more games than most and play my C-game way more than most, so my results arent as amazing as I would hope would be, but I still make a very solid living and when you have a nice security net of $ and know regardless you are still turning a profit consistantly every month, it makes the swings alot easier to cope with.


However that said, I think that is probably more of a bad thing than a good thing, I think it allows me to be too complacent with mediocre results, which is something im working on. This month I started off CRUSHING (+12k in 5 days), and I am obviously running very well, however that said I am doing a TON of things differently, I am usually playing like 2 hr sessions, spaced out throughout the day (because i'm travelling in Europe we go out and do things alot), so I wake up, eat breakfast, relax, get my mind ready, and then play from like 2pm-4pm, go out and do some things, then sometimes play like 8-10pm, and then I will play alot from like 2am til 4-5am when she goes to sleep. Also I have recently been making sure every night after my session before I go to bed I take some time to just mentally go over the session briefly, just to give myself some final thoughts on it, closure, go to bed.

PREVIOUSLY, my days would be like, i'd wake up at like 10am, dont wake up / eat breakfast / anything, sit down at PC, start grinding ;p, and many times play 6-8 hour sessions straight. Also, when I would do a second session at night alot of times when the session ends, good or bad, I would just get off comp and go straight to bed and immediately fall asleep, and I think having this 'cool down' period where I just sit awake in bed for 5 min or whatever and think about it and get it all out of my mind helps alot.


So anyways, that turned into a ridic long post, but the point is, I have been doing alot of things differently since ive been on this trip, not by a direct choice but just because of the nature of vacation, obv running well has helped boost my confidence but I dont think it can only be attributed to that, so i've been trying to disect exactly which things i'm doing differently and quantify how much they help me, I think the waking up in the morning / cooling down at night really helps alot, as well as keeping my sessions to 2 hours or so with alot of space in between are the most important things, so I will continue to try to implement these things when I get back, and see how it goes. The problem for me usually is being able to keep entertained during the down-time, which is easy now when i'm on vacation, but when im around at home and bored I play poker alot when i'm just bored, which is a HORRIBLE habit, and I super respect people like spamz who really only play when they actually feel like playing, so i'm trying to get more and more towards at least only playing when I feel A+.


/rant, tl;dr :P

who busted him?

He took me for 5k begining of his hot streak running INSANELY hot.

Nice post primo...

cool to get some insights from a proven winner :-)

I mentioned to primo that I only play short sessions so I'll take credit for his heater.

i dont know the whole story about that, just a little bit from ur blog.
i might be interested as well if u need a 4th player and pm me some more details...

gametime1111 42 -$22,350
bUllEtTooTH666 133 -$16,410
Mientjeuh 180 -$15,855
Pot Odds 3 26 -$14,260
trader0811 133 -$7,555



i also lost a lot to him when he started his streak, i was 2-14 at some point and now im 25-21, gotta admire his determination and/or be sadden by his stupidity tho as he is already grinding back at the 220-330s, the dude wont give up

if xSCWx can't I will do

and yeah nice post primo, i have been doing much better lately after a rough stretch and i def recognize myself in some of what you said, mostly the part about the length of sessions and the cooling down

and id like to emphasize the part where u say that running good helps, but mostly on the confidence.

CONFIDENCE is HUGE in HU sngs, and it definitely affects results



p.s. GOOOOO ROCKY2810, keep ur head up

I really suck at rematching people. When i win they insta-decline so i never get more in than 2 games on row with it, bad players generally don't rematch few exceptions aside. The only times i get in alot of games is when i'm on the losing side until i win one match and get the insta-decline.

typical stars fishpool ; rematch only if they win and if the manage to lose one after winning several games they still snap-decline. So tilting imo