Been awhile since i updated the blog, so heres what i've been up to since then....
I'm glad pokerstars didnt let me unregister from the prague package and made me go. I had a great time there and met up with a lot of other regs from a variety of games. When I first arrived I met up with Palinca (from 2p2) and we instantly became freinds. We went out to a few bars that night and hung out pretty much all trip. I also met up with some sicko cash players, justforfunds and wpr101. Also met up with sick mtt players like breakribs and uhhmee. I told Matt Afleck my sn was pistons87, and this guy next to him yelled out "ftpballerstatus" (my ftp sn). He ended up being riycc225 and I met him also. Although the food was terrible, the nightlife and poker atmosphere in prague made it all worth while.
The first couple days I was there I hardly played online, and only saw my bankroll dwindle from buying into live events in the EPT side events. I made it to day 2 of the main event with 20 BB, but lost 3 mins in when my AJ<QQ. I was amazed at the level of play at this EPT. Compared to LA, the field was ridiculously bad. I noticed 5-6 fish per table while in LA it was about 8 either live pros or young internet kids and (maybe) one fish. I met and talked to Matt Afleck who agreed that the EPT was pretty much the softest feild ever, and have made plans to go back to as many as we can.
The next day I busted the main event was the 3.2k euro heads up event (which i bought in online). I won my first round vs a total fish who would blind raise and was obviously there just to donate. The second round I drew a kid from california who played probably the most tilting style of poker ever. He would literally time down every hand, and take at least 1 minute per decision even preflop! It was ridiculous and I wanted to call the floor but I didnt really have much of an argument. Anyway, he was horrible when the blinds got high at push/fold and he sucked out a bunch and ended up beating me.
After this I decided not to play any more events or live cash. I turned my focust to just having a good time, experiencing the culture and playing online. As predicted, I played higher than 550s and had to pay out the $200 bounty to old time gin who called me out about 11 seconds after I was in the 1k lobby. I'm glad I did this however, because I hit an epic heater. Finally running close to expectation in november and december! (and maybe a little above). I made about 30k the first night was really grinding online (played all night obv) and the next afternoon I made another 15k. This was really big for me because August-mid november was really depressing with no profits and just grinding away for rakeback.
We went out the night after i made all this money and met up with some people that palinca knew through couchsurfing.com. I had never heard of this website but its awesome. Random people just meet up in random cities. Anyway, we got to know some girls pretty well there that were teaching english temporarily. One was from Jersey and one from the UK. They were awesome and basically gave us a chance to tour the city because they knew where everything was already. We went to a Beatles museum, walked over charles bridge, and one of the girls ended up working for the bar crawl so we went on this one night. This was an awesome experience, and we met up a lot of people from different places like australia, scotland, chile etc. It was a really different experience than being in the US in terms of strangers meeting eachother and hanging out randomly which was cool.
I kept my heater going when I got back into the states, and finished with a really nice December. I just took a family trip to Biloxi, MS for a few days and played some live FR cash 1/2and 2/5 which didnt go so well. Its hard to adjust from playing 1k cap nl and 1k husngs to grinding 30 hands an hour with a 500-1.5k stack. I ended up losing around 3500.
Plans for new years are in ATL with college freinds, and then off to PCA on Jan 7th. I'm currently working out some numbers and will be selling some of my main event, so if you are interested you can contact me via AIM or MSN
AIM=detwings871
MSN=Akredandblack@hotmail.com
Looking forward to meeting a lot of regs up there and taking down the main...
Will try to update this blog more often with shorter posts lol
GL
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
My career as a poker player, Beggining till now, SUPER LONG TLDR ETC
I got a recent request from a follower to post my story of how i got to where I am today. I have made a lot of mistakes in the past, but the best way to utilize these is to learn from them.
I was introduced to poker by a friend of mine from high school. He taught me the basic rules of No Limit Texas Holdem and I soon became addicted and intrigued with the game. We would play with whatever change we could find at his house usually on weekday nights. He set up a tournament a few months after we started, and another friend of mine won it who barley knew the rules of the game. (luck game obv). I think my junior year of high school I went to a kid's house where a 'big game' was being held. $50 buy in to a .25 .50 cent game. I was scared to death when i bought in, and lost my money real quick when i went all in with QQ and got snapped off by Aces. Although I was not what you would consider poor growing up, my parents definitely watched my spending and restricted me with money. I would continue to scrounge up money and play the 5-10 dollar buy ins for fun, never really getting anywhere, but getting more intrigued with the game.
I deposited my first time online the summer after my freshman year of college (2006). Like most other players, i started with a small deposit of $50. My roommate at the time was also interested, so we decided to split the money and see what kind of damage we could do. We lost it that night. I of course deposited 50 more, lost, rinse and repeat. A few months later i deposited $25 and somehow ran it up to 2k on party poker playing up to 1/2nl. I lost it the next day, but instantly saw light in the game. There were some sickos living in Athens where I went to college (Univ of Georgia). Yellowsub86 was one of them, and they lived in the same apartment complex as me. I would constantly give them 1-200 cash for money online and lose it all the time. One time i managed to run 100--->10k playing 6 max cash and some heads up and managed to cash out enough to buy a new Plasma TV and ipods for my girlfreind at the time and myself. Life was good, I felt like such a baller. Went broke a few weeks later.
During my junior year, I deposited some more money (obv busto throughout most of college) and somehow ran my roll up to 100k playing mostly 6 max cash, and heads up cash. I was so excited. I decided to be responsible with this sum of money so I told my dad about it and he helped me cash most of it out. I left myself with 20k online and thought no problem I can run this up. I was busto a couple days later, and didnt want to ask my dad for any more money. I ended up getting some stakes on which i went busto with a few weeks later and quit poker.
I got a job in Myrtle Beach after graduation working in real estate. It was a good job, in a nice place, but I hated it mainly because there were no kids my age living there. I came back to visit Atlanta, and realized how much i missed my freinds/gf etc, so I moved back after talking to an entrepreneur and got a job shadowing him (no pay). After 6 months of shadowing him and basically getting nowhere (although he himself was brilliant) I got some more stakes online soon after. I ended up breaking even for a while and eventually lost. In Decemeber, I managed to scrap together 400 of my own to deposit online. I played 25c 50c cash and worked it up to a few k, then parlayed it at 50c/1 and had a huge end of the month at 1/2.
In January of this year with about a 12k roll, I decided to mess around in some HUsngs, the 115 turbo 4 mans while I was waiting for cash action. I started crushing the regs very quickly at this level, even with all the leaks in my game. I talked to dl184, and he said i'd eventually become a husng reg, i told him he was NUTS! I started playing more and more games as i was crushing, and had a 30k month in january, not to mention all the vpps and fpps I accumulated. I played a ton and kept moving up the husng ladder, and in April I found myself playing 5ks. I had an upswing at high stakes for a while, then a big downswing, and it would go back and forth. I decided to go to the WSOP for some live events this year ( never played live before) and went 0-5. I took 2 trips to vegas, one by myself and one with my gf at the time. Each time i blew about 30k. It was a huge setback to my goals and my roll. I hope to be more responsible this time around. I got SNE in July 10 and a lot of my profit has come from that, mainly because of my lack of discipline in playing high stakes games. I got some perspective talking to Iftarii, when he told me even the best regs vs the worst players will only win 65/100 games. Recently I have also been inspired by mid stakes grinders like Treezer, Fishenzon, Plauzee, Carryhero, Madamadadonk, Dibasio Old Time Gin and so on, who have grinded consistent profits this year.
I made a lot of mistakes, this year, including flipping massive amounts, sports betting, buying action and staking. Mostly just got caught up in upswings and didnt really make good decisions. I hope that next year I can become a more consistent grinder at the mid stakes, because I know I am one of the top regs at 1k down. (evident by the fact that regs sit me rarely). Not to sound cocky, but I think that if i stick to mid stakes next year, and do +ev things, I can be one of the top online grinders for heads up. At this point, its more about money and where I am in my life rather than beating a reg in a war or beating a certain level. $ in the bank is going to do a lot more for my future goals of starting a business or opening a hotel than my ego ever will, and thats why my attempt for 2011 is to put it aside.
Wow this post was ridiculously long
Going to Prague on Thursday, looking forward to having a great time and hopefully doing well in the live events there.
Need 112k more vpps this month to get 1.75 milliion
Gl All, hope you enjoyed my life poker story
I was introduced to poker by a friend of mine from high school. He taught me the basic rules of No Limit Texas Holdem and I soon became addicted and intrigued with the game. We would play with whatever change we could find at his house usually on weekday nights. He set up a tournament a few months after we started, and another friend of mine won it who barley knew the rules of the game. (luck game obv). I think my junior year of high school I went to a kid's house where a 'big game' was being held. $50 buy in to a .25 .50 cent game. I was scared to death when i bought in, and lost my money real quick when i went all in with QQ and got snapped off by Aces. Although I was not what you would consider poor growing up, my parents definitely watched my spending and restricted me with money. I would continue to scrounge up money and play the 5-10 dollar buy ins for fun, never really getting anywhere, but getting more intrigued with the game.
I deposited my first time online the summer after my freshman year of college (2006). Like most other players, i started with a small deposit of $50. My roommate at the time was also interested, so we decided to split the money and see what kind of damage we could do. We lost it that night. I of course deposited 50 more, lost, rinse and repeat. A few months later i deposited $25 and somehow ran it up to 2k on party poker playing up to 1/2nl. I lost it the next day, but instantly saw light in the game. There were some sickos living in Athens where I went to college (Univ of Georgia). Yellowsub86 was one of them, and they lived in the same apartment complex as me. I would constantly give them 1-200 cash for money online and lose it all the time. One time i managed to run 100--->10k playing 6 max cash and some heads up and managed to cash out enough to buy a new Plasma TV and ipods for my girlfreind at the time and myself. Life was good, I felt like such a baller. Went broke a few weeks later.
During my junior year, I deposited some more money (obv busto throughout most of college) and somehow ran my roll up to 100k playing mostly 6 max cash, and heads up cash. I was so excited. I decided to be responsible with this sum of money so I told my dad about it and he helped me cash most of it out. I left myself with 20k online and thought no problem I can run this up. I was busto a couple days later, and didnt want to ask my dad for any more money. I ended up getting some stakes on which i went busto with a few weeks later and quit poker.
I got a job in Myrtle Beach after graduation working in real estate. It was a good job, in a nice place, but I hated it mainly because there were no kids my age living there. I came back to visit Atlanta, and realized how much i missed my freinds/gf etc, so I moved back after talking to an entrepreneur and got a job shadowing him (no pay). After 6 months of shadowing him and basically getting nowhere (although he himself was brilliant) I got some more stakes online soon after. I ended up breaking even for a while and eventually lost. In Decemeber, I managed to scrap together 400 of my own to deposit online. I played 25c 50c cash and worked it up to a few k, then parlayed it at 50c/1 and had a huge end of the month at 1/2.
In January of this year with about a 12k roll, I decided to mess around in some HUsngs, the 115 turbo 4 mans while I was waiting for cash action. I started crushing the regs very quickly at this level, even with all the leaks in my game. I talked to dl184, and he said i'd eventually become a husng reg, i told him he was NUTS! I started playing more and more games as i was crushing, and had a 30k month in january, not to mention all the vpps and fpps I accumulated. I played a ton and kept moving up the husng ladder, and in April I found myself playing 5ks. I had an upswing at high stakes for a while, then a big downswing, and it would go back and forth. I decided to go to the WSOP for some live events this year ( never played live before) and went 0-5. I took 2 trips to vegas, one by myself and one with my gf at the time. Each time i blew about 30k. It was a huge setback to my goals and my roll. I hope to be more responsible this time around. I got SNE in July 10 and a lot of my profit has come from that, mainly because of my lack of discipline in playing high stakes games. I got some perspective talking to Iftarii, when he told me even the best regs vs the worst players will only win 65/100 games. Recently I have also been inspired by mid stakes grinders like Treezer, Fishenzon, Plauzee, Carryhero, Madamadadonk, Dibasio Old Time Gin and so on, who have grinded consistent profits this year.
I made a lot of mistakes, this year, including flipping massive amounts, sports betting, buying action and staking. Mostly just got caught up in upswings and didnt really make good decisions. I hope that next year I can become a more consistent grinder at the mid stakes, because I know I am one of the top regs at 1k down. (evident by the fact that regs sit me rarely). Not to sound cocky, but I think that if i stick to mid stakes next year, and do +ev things, I can be one of the top online grinders for heads up. At this point, its more about money and where I am in my life rather than beating a reg in a war or beating a certain level. $ in the bank is going to do a lot more for my future goals of starting a business or opening a hotel than my ego ever will, and thats why my attempt for 2011 is to put it aside.
Wow this post was ridiculously long
Going to Prague on Thursday, looking forward to having a great time and hopefully doing well in the live events there.
Need 112k more vpps this month to get 1.75 milliion
Gl All, hope you enjoyed my life poker story
Thursday, December 2, 2010
mid stakes grind and new motivation in life
Recently I put a bounty on myself for the month of December. If you see me playing higher than a 570 husng, you get $200 if you are the first one to post it on the husng regs thread on 2p2. I know 200 isnt a lot, but i think its more of a motivation thing for me to stay in line, I'd hate to give away $200 for free, that would be sick rake for playing a 1k haha.
I've got some inspiration recently from 'treezer' to grind the mid stakes and just take shots at high stakes when the game is super +ev. Back in January, 'Plauzee, Siervos, Treezer and I were all playing low stakes and all came up the levels together. In march-april, we were all playing the highest stakes games. Treezer i guess had enough of the variance and moved back to grinding lower stakes (230-570) while I was still swinging at high stakes. Well, he was right, the grind at 570 and lower is so much less stressful and easier money because 95% of the times you play fish, instead of trying to 'catch' them at higher stakes.
His graph is prove of his success compared to mine this year, as I could have easily imitated what he accomplished because i feel our skill level is similar. It will be my goal next year to beat this sick graph. If you want to see it, just sharkscope treezer on pokerstars.
The most annoying thing about mid stakes is having to fight for lobbies with other regs. When i join a game and another solid reg insta joins- we usually end up chopping. A waste of time, money and rake, but worth it in the end. I have a lot more respect for a lot of regs on stars these days especially at the 345-570 level. I rarely join regs at these levels because either A. they are just as solid, B. will start an unnecessary war or C. I became friends with them a long time ago. I will still join regs who i think i have an edge on, but mostly just to get the next open lobby.
Wanna give a shout out to mjw006- keep grinding buddy, you can get SNE next year!
Madamadadonk- if u make SNE at 50's next year you will go down in history as the all time greatest grinder
Howgood2good- saw u at the 100s the other day, dont get too crazy on us now
Mad-shoe-ter- gl becoming a ps pro!
Bandano-mbn
I've got some inspiration recently from 'treezer' to grind the mid stakes and just take shots at high stakes when the game is super +ev. Back in January, 'Plauzee, Siervos, Treezer and I were all playing low stakes and all came up the levels together. In march-april, we were all playing the highest stakes games. Treezer i guess had enough of the variance and moved back to grinding lower stakes (230-570) while I was still swinging at high stakes. Well, he was right, the grind at 570 and lower is so much less stressful and easier money because 95% of the times you play fish, instead of trying to 'catch' them at higher stakes.
His graph is prove of his success compared to mine this year, as I could have easily imitated what he accomplished because i feel our skill level is similar. It will be my goal next year to beat this sick graph. If you want to see it, just sharkscope treezer on pokerstars.
The most annoying thing about mid stakes is having to fight for lobbies with other regs. When i join a game and another solid reg insta joins- we usually end up chopping. A waste of time, money and rake, but worth it in the end. I have a lot more respect for a lot of regs on stars these days especially at the 345-570 level. I rarely join regs at these levels because either A. they are just as solid, B. will start an unnecessary war or C. I became friends with them a long time ago. I will still join regs who i think i have an edge on, but mostly just to get the next open lobby.
Wanna give a shout out to mjw006- keep grinding buddy, you can get SNE next year!
Madamadadonk- if u make SNE at 50's next year you will go down in history as the all time greatest grinder
Howgood2good- saw u at the 100s the other day, dont get too crazy on us now
Mad-shoe-ter- gl becoming a ps pro!
Bandano-mbn
Monday, November 29, 2010
Goals for December 2011
I had a great November, and im ready to have another solid month in December.
I need about 150k vpps in december to reach my 1.75 mil goal and get a 10k bonus. This will not be easy at all as i usually dont reach 150k in a month.
I won an EPT Prague package recently for about 7k euros from a 20k fpp qualifier put on by pokerstars with one seat added. I was initially going to play but now im not sure because the avg temp is 10 degrees F there and I'm not sure how fun the nightlife will be when its so cold. I usually like to experience the city I'm traveling (not just poker) so i might try to go to a different and warmer event. Still waiting to hear back from pokerstars about whether or not I can get T$ or roll the package over.
Overally I had a sick november which included my NAPT LA score.
In December I plan to put in a lot more volume in at mid stakes (230-570). Everyone has similar VPP goals so i think I will have to play through more regs this month. I dont mind playing regs at these levels besides a few because I feel I have an edge. There are some regs that I will never play so i will have to share the lobbies and try to put in a lot of volume which includes waiting time for lobbies.
Im also going to play some sunday mtts again (sigh) and try to bink something huge. Hate MTTs!
Hope to put together a 30k month in December in pure profit.
Congrats to OLD TIME GIN for winning the Sunday 500 for 91k!
I need about 150k vpps in december to reach my 1.75 mil goal and get a 10k bonus. This will not be easy at all as i usually dont reach 150k in a month.
I won an EPT Prague package recently for about 7k euros from a 20k fpp qualifier put on by pokerstars with one seat added. I was initially going to play but now im not sure because the avg temp is 10 degrees F there and I'm not sure how fun the nightlife will be when its so cold. I usually like to experience the city I'm traveling (not just poker) so i might try to go to a different and warmer event. Still waiting to hear back from pokerstars about whether or not I can get T$ or roll the package over.
Overally I had a sick november which included my NAPT LA score.
In December I plan to put in a lot more volume in at mid stakes (230-570). Everyone has similar VPP goals so i think I will have to play through more regs this month. I dont mind playing regs at these levels besides a few because I feel I have an edge. There are some regs that I will never play so i will have to share the lobbies and try to put in a lot of volume which includes waiting time for lobbies.
Im also going to play some sunday mtts again (sigh) and try to bink something huge. Hate MTTs!
Hope to put together a 30k month in December in pure profit.
Congrats to OLD TIME GIN for winning the Sunday 500 for 91k!
Saturday, November 20, 2010
NAPT LA
Havent updated the blog in a while due to being out in LA and playing live a lot. Overall its been a great trip, and its been cool meeting other husng regs.
I arrived on the 9th and met up with Mad-shoe-ter at commerce and we stayed there and just chilled/went to dinner for a few nights before the 5k HU event.
I walked into the BIKE casino convention center and was blown away by the feild. There were literally 2 soft spots in the whole tournament. I ended up drawing Altrum Atlus first round, a sick live and online player. I ended up beating him 2-0, ran really good. I ended up playing a guy who didnt reveal his sn but said he played hu cash mostly on FTP the next round. He was pretty good as well, but i got through it with another 2-0 win and before i knew it i was on the money bubble. I walked over to the board and tried to scout who i was playing next. The winner of luckychewy and livb. (LOL) Luckychewy ended up winning and we got our matches underway. He pretty much owned me the first match and found myself down 0-1 pretty quickly. The next match i was down to half my stack, and got very lucky on a 1075 sss board, his AA (no spade) vs my 10J (no spade), board came running spades and i eventually was able to go 1-1. The next match was very back and fourth. He was a sick player and 4b me a ton and was generally very aggressive. I ended up getting in A7 vs his A4 and holding and was in the top 8. I played BMWCOUPE the next day to try to get into the final 4. He was god moding me for a while and went up 1-0 in the first 10 mins. Again i found myself shortstacked in the next match and managed to double and then dominate the next 2 matches. I played a guy i met the day before to get into the finals. Chanze4u or something, he was a cool kid, and we made a deal to get the loser 38k guaranteed. I went up 1-0 vs him, but he came back to beat me 2-1. I made a critical mistake shipping 2's in pf and getting snapped off by 5s bc he was super aggro, and i ended up busting out for 3rd place when i turned a straight while he turned a flush.
It was a nice run, and i got 3rd for 38.1k
I then played the main and lost day 1, got in 56 on a 789 board vs 10 J. Nothing like getting it in dead in a 5k main.
Ive also been crushing online lately, besides losing a lot last night while drunk in the 1k cap games. I honestly dont want to play that until i have a 500k roll because although its soft, the variance is so high.
Ive been staying/hanging out with jayluf/chainsawdonk/jaws washington (ftp lol) and we've been having a great time and partying a lot. Chainsaw chopped the 1k hu napt la side event which was pretty awesome for his first live hu mtt
We also had dinner with gomukyaself and deldar182 a few nights ago, was a lot of fun and cool to meet nosebleed players
Shout out to fishenzon, what a beast, lame for not coming or buying action in my 5k hu though!
More updates coming
I arrived on the 9th and met up with Mad-shoe-ter at commerce and we stayed there and just chilled/went to dinner for a few nights before the 5k HU event.
I walked into the BIKE casino convention center and was blown away by the feild. There were literally 2 soft spots in the whole tournament. I ended up drawing Altrum Atlus first round, a sick live and online player. I ended up beating him 2-0, ran really good. I ended up playing a guy who didnt reveal his sn but said he played hu cash mostly on FTP the next round. He was pretty good as well, but i got through it with another 2-0 win and before i knew it i was on the money bubble. I walked over to the board and tried to scout who i was playing next. The winner of luckychewy and livb. (LOL) Luckychewy ended up winning and we got our matches underway. He pretty much owned me the first match and found myself down 0-1 pretty quickly. The next match i was down to half my stack, and got very lucky on a 1075 sss board, his AA (no spade) vs my 10J (no spade), board came running spades and i eventually was able to go 1-1. The next match was very back and fourth. He was a sick player and 4b me a ton and was generally very aggressive. I ended up getting in A7 vs his A4 and holding and was in the top 8. I played BMWCOUPE the next day to try to get into the final 4. He was god moding me for a while and went up 1-0 in the first 10 mins. Again i found myself shortstacked in the next match and managed to double and then dominate the next 2 matches. I played a guy i met the day before to get into the finals. Chanze4u or something, he was a cool kid, and we made a deal to get the loser 38k guaranteed. I went up 1-0 vs him, but he came back to beat me 2-1. I made a critical mistake shipping 2's in pf and getting snapped off by 5s bc he was super aggro, and i ended up busting out for 3rd place when i turned a straight while he turned a flush.
It was a nice run, and i got 3rd for 38.1k
I then played the main and lost day 1, got in 56 on a 789 board vs 10 J. Nothing like getting it in dead in a 5k main.
Ive also been crushing online lately, besides losing a lot last night while drunk in the 1k cap games. I honestly dont want to play that until i have a 500k roll because although its soft, the variance is so high.
Ive been staying/hanging out with jayluf/chainsawdonk/jaws washington (ftp lol) and we've been having a great time and partying a lot. Chainsaw chopped the 1k hu napt la side event which was pretty awesome for his first live hu mtt
We also had dinner with gomukyaself and deldar182 a few nights ago, was a lot of fun and cool to meet nosebleed players
Shout out to fishenzon, what a beast, lame for not coming or buying action in my 5k hu though!
More updates coming
Monday, November 8, 2010
mini MTT score + results
Sunday was pretty sucessful for me MTT wise. I got 5th in the 109 mtt at 1pm for a 10k score, and got really deep in the $55 DNG but lost a huge flip for chiplead late. I also got 13th in the $215 hyper turbo (lol run better). Overall it wasnt a bad day for MTTs
However heads up was a different story...
I started the day off losing a few 570s and some 1ks to random players. I then lost a few 1ks to 'stevesbets' who probably runs better than anyone i know on stars (mbn team ps pro). I also lost 4k in 25-50 hu cash to a guy named ME67890 (or smth) so it was a rocky start to the day. After i binked off the mtt, i immediatly lost two 1ks to 'zisimo07' who is also v lucky and one of the biggest scumbags on the site. He steals blinds in cash games and immediately sits out, and talks a lot of nonsense all the time. Luckily i bounced back later in the night vs some random players and ended up 6-1 in 1ks after that point.
I'm off to NAPT LA tomorrow and plan to play the $5k heads up event as well as the 5k main event. I emailed pokerstars and they said i could buy directly into the main through my pokerstars account which helps a lot because i hate paying cash at these places. I will probably sell a bit of action to both events to lower variance. I also plan to play the 1100 HU event and maybe a few other side events while im out there.
I plan to stay/ meet up with mad-shoe-ter, jayluf and chainsawdonk, and maybe fishenzon while im out there. Should be a good time, and I know of online pros will be out there so it will be interesting to meet some of the faces behind the names. I will be staying at the commerce hotel so let me know if you are around.
GL all
Pistons87
However heads up was a different story...
I started the day off losing a few 570s and some 1ks to random players. I then lost a few 1ks to 'stevesbets' who probably runs better than anyone i know on stars (mbn team ps pro). I also lost 4k in 25-50 hu cash to a guy named ME67890 (or smth) so it was a rocky start to the day. After i binked off the mtt, i immediatly lost two 1ks to 'zisimo07' who is also v lucky and one of the biggest scumbags on the site. He steals blinds in cash games and immediately sits out, and talks a lot of nonsense all the time. Luckily i bounced back later in the night vs some random players and ended up 6-1 in 1ks after that point.
I'm off to NAPT LA tomorrow and plan to play the $5k heads up event as well as the 5k main event. I emailed pokerstars and they said i could buy directly into the main through my pokerstars account which helps a lot because i hate paying cash at these places. I will probably sell a bit of action to both events to lower variance. I also plan to play the 1100 HU event and maybe a few other side events while im out there.
I plan to stay/ meet up with mad-shoe-ter, jayluf and chainsawdonk, and maybe fishenzon while im out there. Should be a good time, and I know of online pros will be out there so it will be interesting to meet some of the faces behind the names. I will be staying at the commerce hotel so let me know if you are around.
GL all
Pistons87
Friday, November 5, 2010
upswings and vpp goals
The past couple days have been super swingy, (as usual at higher stakes) but i've managed to find some mega fish and has lead to my first decent size upswing in a long time.
Ive also racked up tons of vpps, currently at 1,496,000, only 4k to go to reach 1.5 million and a 10k bonus!
I'm going to play a bit more before I go out tonight and try to reach this milestone. Although friday night is one of the best nights for fish at high stakes, I don't want to sacrifice my social life. Gonna hit some bars tonight so should be fun, hopefully you dont see me online at 3 a.m because it wont be good news when im hammered.
Im heading out to NAPT LA on tuesday and plan to play some 1k mtts and the 5k and 1200 heads up events that they have. I got 4th in a very small live donkament a few months ago (6k score lol), but i feel confident in my live play. I played the wsop 10k HU and borgata 2k HU so i have some experience in that feild. Hopefully I can play like trader0811 (who got 2nd in the wsop HU for 500k).
Heres some fun hands from the past 24 hours...
PokerStars Game #52216177220: Tournament #328443835, $1100+$30 USD Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2010/11/05 13:29:04 ET
Table '328443835 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Venoxero (1500 in chips)
Seat 2: pistons87 (1500 in chips)
Venoxero: posts small blind 10
pistons87: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pistons87 [Jh Js]
Venoxero: raises 20 to 40
pistons87: raises 80 to 120
Venoxero: calls 80
*** FLOP *** [5s 8s 7c]
pistons87: bets 1380 and is all-in
Venoxero: calls 1380 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [5s 8s 7c] [6s]
*** RIVER *** [5s 8s 7c 6s] [2s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pistons87: shows [Jh Js] (a flush, Jack high)
Venoxero: shows [6d 3c] (a pair of Sixes)
pistons87 collected 3000 from pot
Venoxero finished the tournament in 2nd place
pistons87 wins the tournament and receives $2200.00 - congratulations!
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3000 | Rake 0
Board [5s 8s 7c 6s 2s]
Seat 1: Venoxero (button) (small blind) showed [6d 3c] and lost with a pair of Sixes
Seat 2: pistons87 (big blind) showed [Jh Js] and won (3000) with a flush, Jack high
PokerStars Game #52198413241: Tournament #328319612, $550+$20 USD Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2010/11/05 3:17:18 ET
Table '328319612 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: korz9999 (1050 in chips)
Seat 2: pistons87 (1950 in chips)
pistons87: posts small blind 10
korz9999: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pistons87 [3c 5c]
pistons87: raises 20 to 40
korz9999: calls 20
*** FLOP *** [5h 4h 4c]
korz9999: checks
pistons87: bets 40
korz9999: calls 40
*** TURN *** [5h 4h 4c] [2h]
korz9999: checks
pistons87: checks
*** RIVER *** [5h 4h 4c 2h] [5d]
korz9999: bets 100
pistons87: raises 1400 to 1500
korz9999: calls 870 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (530) returned to pistons87
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pistons87: shows [3c 5c] (a full house, Fives full of Fours)
korz9999: shows [9s Ks] (two pair, Fives and Fours)
pistons87 collected 2100 from pot
korz9999 finished the tournament in 2nd place
pistons87 wins the tournament and receives $1100.00 - congratulations!
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2100 | Rake 0
Board [5h 4h 4c 2h 5d]
Seat 1: korz9999 (big blind) showed [9s Ks] and lost with two pair, Fives and Fours
Seat 2: pistons87 (button) (small blind) showed [3c 5c] and won (2100) with a full house, Fives full of Fours
PokerStars Game #52198381901: Tournament #328319612, $550+$20 USD Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2010/11/05 3:15:23 ET
Table '328319612 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: korz9999 (1730 in chips)
Seat 2: pistons87 (1270 in chips)
korz9999: posts small blind 10
pistons87: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pistons87 [Qd Qs]
korz9999: raises 20 to 40
pistons87: raises 1230 to 1270 and is all-in
korz9999: calls 1230
*** FLOP *** [As Td 5s]
*** TURN *** [As Td 5s] [Jc]
*** RIVER *** [As Td 5s Jc] [7c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pistons87: shows [Qd Qs] (a pair of Queens)
korz9999: shows [9d Tc] (a pair of Tens)
pistons87 collected 2540 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2540 | Rake 0
Board [As Td 5s Jc 7c]
Seat 1: korz9999 (button) (small blind) showed [9d Tc] and lost with a pair of Tens
Seat 2: pistons87 (big blind) showed [Qd Qs] and won (2540) with a pair of Queens
in b4 downswing...gl all
Ive also racked up tons of vpps, currently at 1,496,000, only 4k to go to reach 1.5 million and a 10k bonus!
I'm going to play a bit more before I go out tonight and try to reach this milestone. Although friday night is one of the best nights for fish at high stakes, I don't want to sacrifice my social life. Gonna hit some bars tonight so should be fun, hopefully you dont see me online at 3 a.m because it wont be good news when im hammered.
Im heading out to NAPT LA on tuesday and plan to play some 1k mtts and the 5k and 1200 heads up events that they have. I got 4th in a very small live donkament a few months ago (6k score lol), but i feel confident in my live play. I played the wsop 10k HU and borgata 2k HU so i have some experience in that feild. Hopefully I can play like trader0811 (who got 2nd in the wsop HU for 500k).
Heres some fun hands from the past 24 hours...
PokerStars Game #52216177220: Tournament #328443835, $1100+$30 USD Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2010/11/05 13:29:04 ET
Table '328443835 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Venoxero (1500 in chips)
Seat 2: pistons87 (1500 in chips)
Venoxero: posts small blind 10
pistons87: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pistons87 [Jh Js]
Venoxero: raises 20 to 40
pistons87: raises 80 to 120
Venoxero: calls 80
*** FLOP *** [5s 8s 7c]
pistons87: bets 1380 and is all-in
Venoxero: calls 1380 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [5s 8s 7c] [6s]
*** RIVER *** [5s 8s 7c 6s] [2s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pistons87: shows [Jh Js] (a flush, Jack high)
Venoxero: shows [6d 3c] (a pair of Sixes)
pistons87 collected 3000 from pot
Venoxero finished the tournament in 2nd place
pistons87 wins the tournament and receives $2200.00 - congratulations!
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3000 | Rake 0
Board [5s 8s 7c 6s 2s]
Seat 1: Venoxero (button) (small blind) showed [6d 3c] and lost with a pair of Sixes
Seat 2: pistons87 (big blind) showed [Jh Js] and won (3000) with a flush, Jack high
PokerStars Game #52198413241: Tournament #328319612, $550+$20 USD Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2010/11/05 3:17:18 ET
Table '328319612 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: korz9999 (1050 in chips)
Seat 2: pistons87 (1950 in chips)
pistons87: posts small blind 10
korz9999: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pistons87 [3c 5c]
pistons87: raises 20 to 40
korz9999: calls 20
*** FLOP *** [5h 4h 4c]
korz9999: checks
pistons87: bets 40
korz9999: calls 40
*** TURN *** [5h 4h 4c] [2h]
korz9999: checks
pistons87: checks
*** RIVER *** [5h 4h 4c 2h] [5d]
korz9999: bets 100
pistons87: raises 1400 to 1500
korz9999: calls 870 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (530) returned to pistons87
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pistons87: shows [3c 5c] (a full house, Fives full of Fours)
korz9999: shows [9s Ks] (two pair, Fives and Fours)
pistons87 collected 2100 from pot
korz9999 finished the tournament in 2nd place
pistons87 wins the tournament and receives $1100.00 - congratulations!
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2100 | Rake 0
Board [5h 4h 4c 2h 5d]
Seat 1: korz9999 (big blind) showed [9s Ks] and lost with two pair, Fives and Fours
Seat 2: pistons87 (button) (small blind) showed [3c 5c] and won (2100) with a full house, Fives full of Fours
PokerStars Game #52198381901: Tournament #328319612, $550+$20 USD Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2010/11/05 3:15:23 ET
Table '328319612 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: korz9999 (1730 in chips)
Seat 2: pistons87 (1270 in chips)
korz9999: posts small blind 10
pistons87: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pistons87 [Qd Qs]
korz9999: raises 20 to 40
pistons87: raises 1230 to 1270 and is all-in
korz9999: calls 1230
*** FLOP *** [As Td 5s]
*** TURN *** [As Td 5s] [Jc]
*** RIVER *** [As Td 5s Jc] [7c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pistons87: shows [Qd Qs] (a pair of Queens)
korz9999: shows [9d Tc] (a pair of Tens)
pistons87 collected 2540 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2540 | Rake 0
Board [As Td 5s Jc 7c]
Seat 1: korz9999 (button) (small blind) showed [9d Tc] and lost with a pair of Tens
Seat 2: pistons87 (big blind) showed [Qd Qs] and won (2540) with a pair of Queens
in b4 downswing...gl all
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
progress
Last few days have been really swingy for me, been playing some higher stakes when big fish are online.
Played a guy named BROKLEHSKER (or something along those lines) at 2k non turbos. While i dont normally play non turbos, I felt this guy was v. exploitable so worth taking a shot. Unfortunatly, got in aces vs kings pre flop and got 2 outed. Standard but cruel. Got run over the next matches with no cards. Against these opponents who call everything, its hard to win if you cant make pairs.
I did have some success however vs a player named PQuest. Most passive player ive ever played, literally folded down to 300 chips every match. Went 2-0 vs him.
At the end of the night i open sat a 2k because there were a lot of fish on. I ended up getting sat by HU legend M@D@M@D@NE who has crushed me in the past. I ended up winning and was particularly proud of my line on this hand.
PokerStars Game #52097579143: Tournament #327646144, $2200+$50 USD Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2010/11/03 4:24:45 ET
Table '327646144 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: M@d@M@d@D@ne (1645 in chips)
Seat 2: pistons87 (1355 in chips)
pistons87: posts small blind 15
M@d@M@d@D@ne: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pistons87 [Kc Kd]
pistons87: raises 30 to 60
M@d@M@d@D@ne: raises 120 to 180
pistons87: calls 120
*** FLOP *** [6s 7h 4s]
M@d@M@d@D@ne: checks
pistons87: bets 180
M@d@M@d@D@ne: calls 180
*** TURN *** [6s 7h 4s] [7d]
M@d@M@d@D@ne: checks
pistons87: bets 400
M@d@M@d@D@ne: raises 885 to 1285 and is all-in
pistons87: calls 595 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (290) returned to M@d@M@d@D@ne
*** RIVER *** [6s 7h 4s 7d] [2c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
M@d@M@d@D@ne: shows [6c Ad] (two pair, Sevens and Sixes)
pistons87: shows [Kc Kd] (two pair, Kings and Sevens)
pistons87 collected 2710 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2710 | Rake 0
Board [6s 7h 4s 7d 2c]
Seat 1: M@d@M@d@D@ne (big blind) showed [6c Ad] and lost with two pair, Sevens and Sixes
Seat 2: pistons87 (button) (small blind) showed [Kc Kd] and won (2710) with two pair, Kings and Sevens
He is a sick player and i was happy to get out with a W and a snap decline.
Shout out to:
$30 reg howgood2good, almost at the 50's bud keep working
MBN to be Bandano- if i ran like this guy id be a mirrionaire
Fishenzon- :D congrats on a sick month
1,476,000 Vpps, will be looking to get 24k vpps so i can unlock a 10k bonus by tuesday nov 9th, when i leave for NAPT LA. I should also accumulate another 250k fpps which will give me a grand total of an 18k bonus when i hit 1.5 mil
Played a guy named BROKLEHSKER (or something along those lines) at 2k non turbos. While i dont normally play non turbos, I felt this guy was v. exploitable so worth taking a shot. Unfortunatly, got in aces vs kings pre flop and got 2 outed. Standard but cruel. Got run over the next matches with no cards. Against these opponents who call everything, its hard to win if you cant make pairs.
I did have some success however vs a player named PQuest. Most passive player ive ever played, literally folded down to 300 chips every match. Went 2-0 vs him.
At the end of the night i open sat a 2k because there were a lot of fish on. I ended up getting sat by HU legend M@D@M@D@NE who has crushed me in the past. I ended up winning and was particularly proud of my line on this hand.
PokerStars Game #52097579143: Tournament #327646144, $2200+$50 USD Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2010/11/03 4:24:45 ET
Table '327646144 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: M@d@M@d@D@ne (1645 in chips)
Seat 2: pistons87 (1355 in chips)
pistons87: posts small blind 15
M@d@M@d@D@ne: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pistons87 [Kc Kd]
pistons87: raises 30 to 60
M@d@M@d@D@ne: raises 120 to 180
pistons87: calls 120
*** FLOP *** [6s 7h 4s]
M@d@M@d@D@ne: checks
pistons87: bets 180
M@d@M@d@D@ne: calls 180
*** TURN *** [6s 7h 4s] [7d]
M@d@M@d@D@ne: checks
pistons87: bets 400
M@d@M@d@D@ne: raises 885 to 1285 and is all-in
pistons87: calls 595 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (290) returned to M@d@M@d@D@ne
*** RIVER *** [6s 7h 4s 7d] [2c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
M@d@M@d@D@ne: shows [6c Ad] (two pair, Sevens and Sixes)
pistons87: shows [Kc Kd] (two pair, Kings and Sevens)
pistons87 collected 2710 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2710 | Rake 0
Board [6s 7h 4s 7d 2c]
Seat 1: M@d@M@d@D@ne (big blind) showed [6c Ad] and lost with two pair, Sevens and Sixes
Seat 2: pistons87 (button) (small blind) showed [Kc Kd] and won (2710) with two pair, Kings and Sevens
He is a sick player and i was happy to get out with a W and a snap decline.
Shout out to:
$30 reg howgood2good, almost at the 50's bud keep working
MBN to be Bandano- if i ran like this guy id be a mirrionaire
Fishenzon- :D congrats on a sick month
1,476,000 Vpps, will be looking to get 24k vpps so i can unlock a 10k bonus by tuesday nov 9th, when i leave for NAPT LA. I should also accumulate another 250k fpps which will give me a grand total of an 18k bonus when i hit 1.5 mil
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
First Post- Everyones doing it
Inspired by all the recent Heads Up SNG regs who decided to create blogs, I am also creating one to track my progress/thoughts/goals for the rest of the year, and more importantly in 2011.
Currently I play mainly 345-1130 HUsng turbos on pokerstars. I am supernova elite and currently have 1.464 million vpps.
I have made most of my money this year in rakeback (aka the stars VIP system).
A breif backround:
Graduated from the University of Georgia, Econ/Fina May 2009
I am originally a HU cash player
Started Playing HUsngs in January 2010 at the $115 level
Had a ton of success at mid-stakes (115-570) all year, not so much at high stakes (5k) hence my profit being mostly rakeback
Trying to get back into the "grind mentality"
Treezer is my hero...
Thats all for now, will make my next post about results/goals for november
Go Dawgs
Currently I play mainly 345-1130 HUsng turbos on pokerstars. I am supernova elite and currently have 1.464 million vpps.
I have made most of my money this year in rakeback (aka the stars VIP system).
A breif backround:
Graduated from the University of Georgia, Econ/Fina May 2009
I am originally a HU cash player
Started Playing HUsngs in January 2010 at the $115 level
Had a ton of success at mid-stakes (115-570) all year, not so much at high stakes (5k) hence my profit being mostly rakeback
Trying to get back into the "grind mentality"
Treezer is my hero...
Thats all for now, will make my next post about results/goals for november
Go Dawgs
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