Title: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 05, 2013, 03:12:44 AM I really don't know were to start with this, i suppose the beginning is the best. I love the game simply put and this is what i want to do as a living, I've never been the type who wants to learn a trade e.g plumber, electrician or mechanic (all trades in my family) i started to play poker a while ago maybe 5 years but didn't understand it as i was just playing with some of my dads friends and didn't really care. Then i picked the game up again a few years later with my friends all of us underage obviously so we just messed about in small home games playing 5p/10p. This led me to where i am to be honest this made me want to learn everything about the game, so i guess i started to try too. I guess that i thought i was quite good back then siggggh..... i really was terrible and compared to a lot of players still have so much to learn but still feel i am quite good and having been to DTD few times felt like i have an edge over the recreational players.
I played a few of the XXL25 tournaments and chopped one in January were i was 3rd in chips for £1k this was the biggest confidence boost and made me feel like i could do well in tournaments not realizing at the time these were luck box tournaments and it wasn't a big accomplishment lol. So i played a little 50/1 cash which was really fun and i found wasn't hard at all, i had a good time playing and made a little bit playing these. I guess i haven't given a lot of background or anything but i don't know who will bother to read this as its my first post so more Will come if people want it. The main reason i am posting is because i am moving to Nottingham in the summer to try and make a living playing poker, i found Blonde to be a very good social place linked with DTD so thought it would be good to be on here and also i would like to ask some pros/regs for advice on playing and also on living the poker lifestyle and grinding. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: tikay on July 05, 2013, 04:06:58 AM Welcome to blonde Mr Poler.
Good luck with the Diary, & chasing that poker dream. Be careful, it is a well-trodden path, & very few earn money from it, so keep the feet planted, but a whole bunch of folks get tremendous pleasure from it, at a very limited cost. Enjoy. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: RED-DOG on July 05, 2013, 07:22:16 AM I wish you luck with the poker and the diary, but I promise you this. You won't last more than two years as a teenage grinder.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: CHIPPYMAN on July 05, 2013, 08:55:18 AM I wish you luck with the poker and the diary, but I promise you this. You won't last more than two years as a teenage grinder. Hard game Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: rfgqqabc on July 05, 2013, 09:45:12 AM Why Nottingham? I play similar stakes live and Nottingham was the place lowest down on my list. Best of luck, make yourself at home and feel free to pm me anytime about anything.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: bobAlike on July 05, 2013, 09:47:32 AM I wish you luck with the poker and the diary, but I promise you this. You won't last more than two years as a teenage grinder. too good Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 05, 2013, 11:27:31 AM I wish you luck with the poker and the diary, but I promise you this. You won't last more than two years as a teenage grinder. haha yes i guess that's true maybe i'll have to change the title at some point, Nottingham was my first choice as my friend will be going to Nottingham uni in the summer and were going to share an apartment obvious financial advantages. I also know the risks of this lifestyle it's more the side of everyone sort of not liking that i want this lifestyle parents etc.... but thanks guys what would you all say is an acceptable role to be starting out on, i have a staking deal sorted for all the tournaments i will play so just playing 50/1 cash? Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 05, 2013, 04:48:25 PM just had a big talk with my stepdad still not told him about poker really don't know how, read a lot on here about parents opinions and just wondering how anyone on here told there own parents and how they dealt with the reaction any replies will help please?
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: iangascoigne on July 05, 2013, 05:54:10 PM Welcome to Blonde. Yes I haven't managed to tell my dad about my poker yet,keep meaning to but never quite get there.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: PeeJay on July 05, 2013, 06:35:15 PM I'm not sure you'll be able to make a living playing 50/1 tbh. It's a pretty short stacked game with high rake. I just dont think its feasible that anyone can sustain a living playing the capped 50/1 games at DTD.
Also nottingham is not the best place to play as the games probably have the highest concentration of good regs that will make it hard for any biginner to win long term. I know this may sound condescending and pessimistic but I honestly think online poker would be a far better solution and will make the learning curve take a lot less time. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: kinboshi on July 05, 2013, 08:34:45 PM Melissa will be the one with her arms folded.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: kinboshi on July 05, 2013, 08:44:56 PM Melissa will be the one with her arms folded. Haha, I'm going to stop doing this now ::) ;melissa; Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: CHIPPYMAN on July 05, 2013, 11:47:49 PM Melissa will be the one with her arms folded. Haha, I'm going to stop doing this now ::) Any male that post on blonde , Melissa will try to chat them up . Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 06, 2013, 06:41:42 AM Hello :) Welcome to Blonde. Btw what sort of role would you suggest for playing the 1/1 games and the plan is to build a role while payimg living expenses so i can hopefully move into the 1/2 and 2/5(eventually) games and become a reg myself.We will most probably bump heads at DTD when you move here. Looking forward to this haha Whilst it is easy to make money at 50/1, I agree with PJ that it is hard to make a decent living out of it. This i had not really thought off. my plan was to put most of my volume in online anyway, what site do you play on? . Online is always going to be better and it's true that you learn a lot faster online too (online players are better) ;) Obv true ;) Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 06, 2013, 06:53:38 AM Melissa will be the one with her arms folded. Haha, I'm going to stop doing this now ::) Any male that post on blonde , Melissa will try to chat them up . Pretty sure theres worse things in life haha Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: CHIPPYMAN on July 06, 2013, 09:23:33 AM Melissa will be the one with her arms folded. Haha, I'm going to stop doing this now ::) Any male that post on blonde , Melissa will try to chat them up . Pretty sure theres worse things in life haha Oh be quiet Frankie! Just ignore him, this isn't true :) Welcome to my world Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: kinboshi on July 06, 2013, 10:03:06 AM Melissa will be the one with her arms folded. Haha, I'm going to stop doing this now ::) Any male that post on blonde , Melissa will try to chat them up . Pretty sure theres worse things in life haha Oh be quiet Frankie! Just ignore him, this isn't true ;melissa; FYP Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: zerofive on July 06, 2013, 02:50:45 PM Polerization,
Fellow diarist here. I have a few questions. 1. Why did you choose to spell your screen name like you did? 2. How many hours lifetime do you think you've spent playing cash game poker? 3. What's your default Nando's order? 4. When's your first shift at DTD? ;) Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: Young_gun on July 06, 2013, 03:02:41 PM Good luck sir, pretty risky but i hope you do well
How old are you? Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: adiman999 on July 06, 2013, 03:21:23 PM Hello :) Welcome to Blonde. Btw what sort of role would you suggest for playing the 1/1 games and the plan is to build a role while payimg living expenses so i can hopefully move into the 1/2 and 2/5(eventually) games and become a reg myself.We will most probably bump heads at DTD when you move here. Looking forward to this haha Whilst it is easy to make money at 50/1, I agree with PJ that it is hard to make a decent living out of it. This i had not really thought off. my plan was to put most of my volume in online anyway, what site do you play on? . Online is always going to be better and it true that you learn a lot faster online too (online players are better) ;) Obv true ;) I play on stars, 6-max games mostly. For 1/1, if it was your only income then a minimum of £5k I would say. The max buy in is £250 so I usually go a minimum of 20 buy ins for full ring. It really depends what you are comfortable with though. The 1/1 games can be soft, so if you felt comfortable and confident taking a shot at it with less than 20 buy ins, then I would encourage that (obviously as long as you don't put yourself at risk of going broke). If you want to move up pretty quick then I suggest you be quite aggressive with your bankroll. Hello :) Welcome to Blonde. Btw what sort of role would you suggest for playing the 1/1 games and the plan is to build a role while payimg living expenses so i can hopefully move into the 1/2 and 2/5(eventually) games and become a reg myself.We will most probably bump heads at DTD when you move here. Looking forward to this haha Whilst it is easy to make money at 50/1, I agree with PJ that it is hard to make a decent living out of it. This i had not really thought off. my plan was to put most of my volume in online anyway, what site do you play on? . Online is always going to be better and it true that you learn a lot faster online too (online players are better) ;) Obv true ;) I play on stars, 6-max games mostly. For 1/1, if it was your only income then a minimum of £5k I would say. The max buy in is £250 so I usually go a minimum of 20 buy ins for full ring. It really depends what you are comfortable with though. The 1/1 games can be soft, so if you felt comfortable and confident taking a shot at it with less than 20 buy ins, then I would encourage that (obviously as long as you don't put yourself at risk of going broke). If you want to move up pretty quick then I suggest you be quite aggressive with your bankroll. Hello :) Welcome to Blonde. Btw what sort of role would you suggest for playing the 1/1 games and the plan is to build a role while payimg living expenses so i can hopefully move into the 1/2 and 2/5(eventually) games and become a reg myself.We will most probably bump heads at DTD when you move here. Looking forward to this haha Whilst it is easy to make money at 50/1, I agree with PJ that it is hard to make a decent living out of it. This i had not really thought off. my plan was to put most of my volume in online anyway, what site do you play on? . Online is always going to be better and it true that you learn a lot faster online too (online players are better) ;) Obv true ;) I play on stars, 6-max games mostly. For 1/1, if it was your only income then a minimum of £5k I would say. The max buy in is £250 so I usually go a minimum of 20 buy ins for full ring. It really depends what you are comfortable with though. The 1/1 games can be soft, so if you felt comfortable and confident taking a shot at it with less than 20 buy ins, then I would encourage that (obviously as long as you don't put yourself at risk of going broke). If you want to move up pretty quick then I suggest you be quite aggressive with your bankroll. I have to disagree with Melissa on this one, while 20 buyins for full ring cash games is pretty standard bankroll management online, it works of the premise that you are just building a bankroll and not entirely living off it too. Having a 20 buyin downswing is pretty standard, so using a 20BI roll means you go broke unnecessarily. Bearing in mind you also have to pay rent and buy food with the money you make from poker, say you are in a downswing and are making a negative income for several months, that will quickly eat into the bankroll reducing the number of BIs you have for the leel you are playing and drastically increasing your risk of ruin. Personally if I was to play for a living I would want at least 20k to be happy that I could hit a downswing that lasts for months and still have money to pay for the life essentials such as food and rent. But it all depends on what you monthly expenditure is on average and what your win rate is at the tables. Knowing your standard deviation would help as well as you cpuld work out your exact risk of ruin based on your win rate and current bankroll. But that may be delving too far into maths for some people, but I'm a maths nerd so I love it haha Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 06, 2013, 03:50:59 PM Polerization, Fellow diarist here. I have a few questions. 1. Why did you choose to spell your screen name like you did? My online screen name and just the way i always spelt it haha 2. How many hours lifetime do you think you've spent playing cash game poker? A lot (mainly home games) and id say about 100k hands online maybe a little more 3. What's your default Nando's order? Dont go that often but usually like medium half a chicken guess thats quite standard haha 4. When's your first shift at DTD? ;) And im on holiday at then end of this month, which is going to cripple my role i guess but it will be at the end of september maybe the middle. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on July 06, 2013, 03:51:54 PM Hi pole, welcome to blonde. Although I am currently pessimistic about this idea (with the information currently available), I most sincerely hope that I'm wrong about it and you go on to do well. I also have a few questions:
Do you play online? (Games, stakes, volume, results etc.) Have you had any coaching / done any studying? Do you feel like you have any weaknesses in your game? Strengths in your game? Have you ever tried to make a cup-a-soup in a bowl? Looking forward to this diary and think it has a lot of potential to be an interesting read. GLGL. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 06, 2013, 03:55:28 PM Haha Adrian, you quoted me 3 times It's a fair point, I personally don't take any money out of my bankroll that would make me drop below 20 buy ins ever but I don't rely soley on poker as an income. A lot depends on your playing style too. So maybe having more than 20 is better for you, but certainly no less than that amount. I'm presuming you already have about 6 months of expenses set aside incase of a bad downswing? I wont have a huge role to start with and i dont think iver ever seen 20k in one go i can get the money to pay for rent and stuff which is so minimal and i can earn online in like a few days, i play on bwin (really really soft games) mainly and tornos on stars and have built up like a 1k role on there again not a lot but theres still time before i move ;) Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 06, 2013, 04:01:55 PM Hi pole, welcome to blonde. Although I am currently pessimistic about this idea (with the information currently available), I most sincerely hope that I'm wrong about it and you go on to do well. I also have a few questions: Do you play online? (Games, stakes, volume, results etc.) Have you had any coaching / done any studying? Do you feel like you have any weaknesses in your game? Strengths in your game? Have you ever tried to make a cup-a-soup in a bowl? Looking forward to this diary and think it has a lot of potential to be an interesting read. GLGL. 1) yes i do play online only micro/low stakes atm just building a role finding it really easy on bwin to move through the stakes fast and my roles growing fast 2) I was looking for one tbh when i move to nottigham thougt it better to ask around maybe post on here iver read super system1, caros book of tells, ace on the river and im currently reading the raisers edge and constantly think about my game and talk hands through with people. 3) not really sure about this maybe the fact i am an aggressive player but i use a great deal of judgement so not just a maniac haha 4) no i have not is it good? Lol Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 06, 2013, 04:08:56 PM Thought i'd write about something that really frustrates me and i guess a lot of other players the bad stigma attached to poker, i was at work last night and we got onto the topic of my summer plans poker came up, 'your an idiot' 'its a game of luck' 'its a fools game' so yeah 2 of these people i couldn't even be bothered to talk to but there is one intelligent person who i thought he might actually listen i tried to explain the concept of varience to him and after it all he just came back with the same response that its 'luck'. This whole attitude just makes me so tilted it's unreal but i'm starting to understand it's a pretty standard view of poker, the only trouble is people view it as a results based game if i got in and lose even like £300 they will be like told you i was right, e.g i made about £250 playing the 10/25 games on bwin not last night the night before and i told them about this there response was just how much did you lose though? Any views?
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on July 06, 2013, 04:09:50 PM I would certainly recommend trying to get involved in some kind of online staking deal that comes with coaching. That was how I started out and within 2 or 3 months I was 10 times the player I thought I was before I started (and now 2 years later I still don't rate myself as anywhere near the best!)
As for cup-a-soup in a bowl, don't do it, it's terrible! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on July 06, 2013, 04:12:52 PM As for what people think about the game, you will never change their minds. All you can do is prove them wrong! No point getting mad about it, haterz gon hate and that....
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 06, 2013, 04:17:20 PM I would certainly recommend trying to get involved in some kind of online staking deal that comes with coaching. That was how I started out and within 2 or 3 months I was 10 times the player I thought I was before I started (and now 2 years later I still don't rate myself as anywhere near the best!) As for cup-a-soup in a bowl, don't do it, it's terrible! I have a staking deal sorted for live tornos, but dont know any people who coach really so playing of my own dime really. And this is epic, think i will have to just to see what happens ahhahaha Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: Rod on July 06, 2013, 04:24:53 PM glgl with this. Certainly right to give it a go as if it does not work you have plenty of time to do something else.
Hope this thread keeps up it will be interesting to watch the ride. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 06, 2013, 04:26:59 PM I almost forgot this one wanted to share my first time at the DTD cash games tables i sat down didn't know who anyone was and must have just looked like i scared little kid that's what i felt like anyway, i didn't realise but on my table were some really good players who play high limit games e.g ruud on here and another guy who was talking to him about high stakes PLO games, anyway i remember this hand and thought it was funny how scared i was AK in the sb and ruud had opened MP it got 2 callers round to me and i 3bet to £14 i think but still felt like a boss haha till it went call then i wanted to hide :( flop came AJ8 i was happy but when i bet and was raised by the initial raiser i was so scared i called not knowing what i was doing turn bricks and i check willing to call all in but not knowing why, he checks behind which gives me the green light to shove my pot sized stack on the river the river bricks but i freeze up and we check it down for these 2 players to laugh and say why did you not jam the river. Thought this was a hilarious story and made me realise how far ive came i did win that day about £220 which at the time was huge and still would be a guess.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 07, 2013, 03:41:30 PM does anyone know of anyone who is a coach/willing to coach don't really know anyone and this would be helpful?
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on July 07, 2013, 04:05:28 PM Depends what for. Cash games, MTTs, sng's?
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 07, 2013, 04:44:35 PM Depends what for. Cash games, MTTs, sng's? mainly a cash game player so that or MTT? Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on July 07, 2013, 05:10:03 PM I have a fair bit of experience coaching MTT's & 180 man SNG's (micro-low stakes) which I do exceptionally well in. Feel free to sharkscope / OPR me, same username as on here. If its a cash game coach you're looking for, it would have to be someone else. If you're interested (I can provide references etc) then feel free to PM me further questions. There a plenty of great coaches out there but they're not all for everyone. I would maybe recommend having an hour with a two or three and see who you prefer.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 08, 2013, 08:01:46 AM I have a fair bit of experience coaching MTT's & 180 man SNG's (micro-low stakes) which I do exceptionally well in. i was just thinking ive put a decent amount of volume in online playing micro cash games recently and was just considering starting to play the $4.50 180 man SNG'S on stars ive had a bit of success playing these like one off in the past, i would be playing these on my own dime was just wondering what an acceptable starting role is for these games and what sort off swings i would get? Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on July 08, 2013, 10:34:32 AM Basically the hourly for playing these things is terrible and would take you a lifetime to make any money doing so. Even you were abso crushing them with a 100% ROI, you would make $4.50 a game, they run for 4 - 4 1/2hrs so you're looking at like $1 per game. Not only this, I think the traffic in the reg speed games is terrible and you might be lucky to average 3 - 4 games an hour, I might be wrong about this, but even if you were a complete sicko, I wouldn't expect you to make more than $4-$5 an hour. Though to answer you're question, I wouldnt expect more than 200 bi, though I haven't played enough to give a deinitive answer.
The turbo games however are much more profitable. You play tons of these per hour and with a bit of coaching and practise can make a decent hourly. I would recommend when starting out to have a roll of 500 buy ins assumming you are a profitable player. 250-300 BI would be aggressive bankroll management and as long as you could afford to reload it would be fine. Instead of grinding $4.50 reg speeds, I think you would be much better off grinding the $2.50 turbos and building a roll from there. As a comparison from the $4.50 games, lets say we can play 15 of these an hour (it could be a hell of a lot more with some practise) and we make an ROI of 20% (again ive heard it could be a lot more with practise). We would make $0.50 per game, so $7.50 per hour and we're only just starting out. I would say with practise you could play 30+ of these things an hour and have the traffic to allow you to do so. Not only this, you can quickly build your roll and move up to the 8's, 3r's, 15's and 35's thus increasing your roll faster (and actually make some decent money). I actually wrote an article about grinding 180's somewhere else, I will post in on Blonde and put you a link in here: ADDED http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=61683.0 (http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=61683.0) Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 08, 2013, 01:25:02 PM Basically the hourly for playing these things is terrible and would take you a lifetime to make any money doing so. Even you were abso crushing them with a 100% ROI, you would make $4.50 a game, they run for 4 - 4 1/2hrs so you're looking at like $1 per game. Not only this, I think the traffic in the reg speed games is terrible and you might be lucky to average 3 - 4 games an hour, I might be wrong about this, but even if you were a complete sicko, I wouldn't expect you to make more than $4-$5 an hour. Though to answer you're question, I wouldnt expect more than 200 bi, though I haven't played enough to give a deinitive answer. The turbo games however are much more profitable. You play tons of these per hour and with a bit of coaching and practise can make a decent hourly. I would recommend when starting out to have a roll of 500 buy ins assumming you are a profitable player. 250-300 BI would be aggressive bankroll management and as long as you could afford to reload it would be fine. Instead of grinding $4.50 reg speeds, I think you would be much better off grinding the $2.50 turbos and building a roll from there. As a comparison from the $4.50 games, lets say we can play 15 of these an hour (it could be a hell of a lot more with some practise) and we make an ROI of 20% (again ive heard it could be a lot more with practise). We would make $0.50 per game, so $7.50 per hour and we're only just starting out. I would say with practise you could play 30+ of these things an hour and have the traffic to allow you to do so. Not only this, you can quickly build your roll and move up to the 8's, 3r's, 15's and 35's thus increasing your roll faster (and actually make some decent money). I actually wrote an article about grinding 180's somewhere else, I will post in on Blonde and put you a link in here: ADDED http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=61683.0 (http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=61683.0) found all this very helpful, it was just thought anyway think i prefer cash games anyway but this will all be good to bear in mind Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 12, 2013, 11:04:32 PM i wasn't going to post on here till i move to nottingham in september, but decided that it would be good for me to post my progress on here playing the $2.50 turbo 180 man SNG'S on stars i'm doing this so that i can sort of keep track of my progress on here and also give anyone who's actually interested the info too haha. I'll also post a few hands on here i guess.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 13, 2013, 06:35:56 PM wow today's pissed me off grinding the $2.50 180 man's and variance has just killed me every time my moneys gone in the middle i seem to lose wether i'm a 90% favorite or a 10 to 1 dog i just cant win an all in put that with the fact every time my money gets shoved in someone calls with K10 obv hits the king or flops a set on my overpair, been such an annoying session and just tilted off 2 big stacks shoving 9's and 10's into queens bad plays at the time but couldn't see that siggggh.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 13, 2013, 06:48:26 PM okay so feel like i just went off like a baby cause i lost a few hands this is not how id normally react in this situation and need to remember that these are high variance was just wondering if anyone was bothered about numbers or don't really care?
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: Steve Swift on July 15, 2013, 11:29:43 AM Keep posting, the 180's need good BR, as all do, but I fine these vicious.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on July 15, 2013, 11:37:20 AM You can do 300 buy in's easily in 180s. 500 buy ins is certainly possible. Some of the breakeven type regs have been known to do 1k buy ins. You certainly can't judged anything on the strength of 1 session. You're gonna see a ton of bad beats, the skill is taking no notice and carrying on regardless. Its all about volume, if you start tilting or stop regging, you're gonna butcher your hourly.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 15, 2013, 01:48:17 PM so played a decent volume today for me lost again sigghhh, but i get what you guys are saying these seem absolutely brutal with the variance thought i was going deep in one then jammed JJ on my button guy calls with A4 and flops trip aces, had a few min cashes but seem to bust a lot of these on jacks haha hardest hand to play. down like 35 buyins over 3 sessions now not a lot really when one win is like 50.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on July 15, 2013, 01:52:16 PM Like I said, even for the best regs, 300 buy in aren't uncommon. Just gotta stick at it and make sure you're rolled for it.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: Steve Swift on July 15, 2013, 02:00:15 PM +1
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: mondatoo on July 15, 2013, 02:09:15 PM Like I said, even for the best regs, 300 buy in aren't uncommon. Just gotta stick at it and make sure you're rolled for it. Don't think I've ever had a 300 bi downswing and I'm definitely one of the more aggro regs ? Had a 200 bi downswing in all my games at once which wasn't a whole lot of fun. 200 is fairly common and I have a few over the course of the year, pretty certain polerization will be playing lower variance than I do though. GLGLGL. 180s are a walk in the park compared to mtt's. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on July 15, 2013, 02:14:32 PM Like I said, even for the best regs, 300 buy in aren't uncommon. Just gotta stick at it and make sure you're rolled for it. Don't think I've ever had a 300 bi downswing and I'm definitely one of the more aggro regs ? Had a 200 bi downswing in all my games at once which wasn't a whole lot of fun. 200 is fairly common and I have a few over the course of the year, pretty certain polerization will be playing lower variance than I do though. GLGLGL. 180s are a walk in the park compared to mtt's. Some rare brags in this forum today!!!!! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 15, 2013, 10:42:24 PM Yeah im not really rolled to play them tbh playing like 150bi , feel like ive been playing good and should have won a lot more than i have lost 2 big pots that would have put me chip leader in both AA vs KQ vs KJ im sat with aces obv both beat me haha then AK vs AQ vs AJ once again i lose to both these both hurts i cant really think off many bad hands but ill check when i look over my HH's, thanks for the advice guys would just like peoples opinion would you say its better to start aggressive in these i play really tight aggro at the start and open up as it goes on is this the wrong way round?
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on July 15, 2013, 10:53:09 PM Nah I generally play really tight early, then when antes come in, shit gets real.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: titaniumbean on July 15, 2013, 11:07:37 PM Nah I generally play really tight early, then when antes come in, shit gets real. Game's the same, just got more fierce! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 16, 2013, 12:33:36 AM Haha aggression is key right? Was just thinking anyway monda aren't you basiclly a god variance doesn't effect you lol.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 16, 2013, 01:35:01 PM So just played a couple on the mobile app and wow pokerstars mobile app is good! But lost 2 ridic tilting pots AA in BB cutoff jams 20bb on me i call my 15bb stack off for him to hit a 4 card flush on me with AJ niceeeee..... Then button mins i jam my 15bb from the BB for him to call off with Q10 and hit his queen gg.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 17, 2013, 02:38:53 PM so woke up this morning and i thought about playing some 25/50c heads up on BWIN these are the softest games and dont think ive lost at these, so put $50 on and made this into $150 in about 10 minutes (they really are bad players) then decided to shot take further cashing in my original $50 and playing 50/1 these players seem a bit better but still not special really i was up to like $140 against a guy who was playing like $180 when i tried tripple barrel semi bluffing on KQ56ddxx the river bricks Ax i have 78dd he checkstheres about $68 in the pot so bet $40 (felt like a nice number) for the guy to flat with J10 sigggggh think the xxx were clubs, then ended up getting my last $60 in with JJ on 569 flop for him to turn over 78 haha gg. but feel like i played really well bar these two hands which i think were just unlucky, i really need to get rolled/staked for the 50NLHU its so easy pretty much don't think ive lost at this stake so far.
So excited atm go to Ayia Napa in a week with my friends this should be epic think its time for a break of poker now till i get back so like 3 weeks probably longest i wont have played in so long hopefully it'll help my game fingers crossed :D Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: david3103 on July 17, 2013, 06:37:28 PM so woke up this morning and i thought about playing some 25/50c heads up on BWIN these are the softest games and dont think ive lost at these, so put $50 on and made this into $150 in about 10 minutes (they really are bad players) then decided to shot take further cashing in my original $50 and playing 50/1 these players seem a bit better but still not special really i was up to like $140 against a guy who was playing like $180 when i tried tripple barrel semi bluffing on KQ56ddxx the river bricks Ax i have 78dd he checkstheres about $68 in the pot so bet $40 (felt like a nice number) for the guy to flat with J10 sigggggh think the xxx were clubs, then ended up getting my last $60 in with JJ on 569 flop for him to turn over 78 haha gg. but feel like i played really well bar these two hands which i think were just unlucky, i really need to get rolled/staked for the 50NLHU its so easy pretty much don't think ive lost at this stake so far. So excited atm go to Ayia Napa in a week with my friends this should be epic think its time for a break of poker now till i get back so like 3 weeks probably longest i wont have played in so long hopefully it'll help my game fingers crossed :D Recommended reading... http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=56559.0 Good luck Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 17, 2013, 08:44:44 PM Thanks for that really enjoyed reading the early bits ill read more later.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 20, 2013, 11:28:06 AM So decided that it would be an amazing time to play the GP when i come to nottingham going to try and sat in with a chip but wont have a lot of time after my holiday/ if theres any chips left! Would be amazing to win and played the GP before i liked the torno and met some nice ppl but bust AAvsKK playing like 15bb on the 2nd to last level of day one GG.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: SuuPRlim on July 20, 2013, 03:07:34 PM Hi Mate,
Been reading this diary over last month or so and it's interesting, I've been talking on facebook to a guy for a while now who is just starting out at poker, he reminds me of me when i was 18-20 and you remind me of him lol you guys should chat! Few things i've noticed, and this is pretty much the same advice I gave the other guy, at the moment your poker has no direction at all, you're trying this one day, that the other $50 punt here, $100 punt there and so on. Now there is nothing wrong with this AT ALL, if this is what you want, but i'd strongly advise that if you're going to do this then you have something else to do as well, a job, maybe a uni course IDK whatever you want, because you're going to find it quite frustrating to approach the game like this if you're relying on it for money - if that makes sense? What will happen ofc is you'll find a format of the game you just really like more than most of the others, or one you seem to be naturally better at and you'll spend more and more time doing that. I think atm this is the right thing to do, but without the pressure of saying "I wanna do this for a living" all that will do is put extra pressure on yourself, and it will deter from the most important aspect of the game for right now, which is your enjoyment of playing. I remember very fondly when I was first getting seriously into poker and I used to do 25c/50c HU one wednesday, then try some tournaments on Thursday, casino on Friday and play some live cash games and so on. Goes without saying I was not a winner in any of these formats at that time but I just LOVED playing so much...It actually makes me a little sad on reflection that nowadays it takes massive massive games to get me back to that same level of "Fresh Enjoyment" of the game. With this in mind my advice would be to keep plugging away things outside of poker and just make poker your "main hobby" and keep playing and enjoying the game. Get yourself to some live events like the £50 ones at DTD and down your local casino/card club and you'll quickly meet some other people your age who are in a similar spot and you can talk about poker, go to tournaments with etc but don't ruin all this my putting pressure on yourself to win, as (and I dont mean this with any malice AT ALL I hope that's obvious) you're very unlikely to be in a position where you can actually play profitable poker atm. The key to making money from poker is to have a "bread and butter game" that you know backwards+forwards, have a record of beating and a bankroll to play comfortably, everyone who is successful at poker has this but it takes a long time to develop. I started playing poker at 16, got serious at 19 and I was 21 y the time I could actuallly say I was successfully "BEATING" poker. So there is nothing wrong with not being in that position JUST YET, its exactly natural and right. Before you can learn to be good, you need to first learn HOW TO LEARN to be good (if this makes sense?) It begins as "sub-concious incompetence" where you're still at a point where you don't actually KNOW what you DON'T KNOW, this is evident from the way people report hands, everyone shares the JJ vs A4 type hands as you did which are very standard/unlucky hands and spending their time ruing those hands and completely ignoring the mistakes they are making in the small pots which is where the money is being lost atm. Luckily you're in a great position with blonde where there are tons of great players who are enthusiastic about poker and also great guys who'd help you along the progress. Tomsom+Monda for example very successful in the 180 mans and I bet either of them would give you 30minutes one day to watch you play or vica versa and chat poker with you, for someone in the early stages of development you can't put a price on that. The community spirit one Blonde is fantastic and if you get stuck into thing over here, then people will put their time into analysing your hands and giving you advice. I think the biggest problem with players coming up nowadays is people want to be printing immediately, and the huge influx of educational material out there and social media with people sharing poker experiences/lifestyles it's all about patience, realism and like I said 100 times already, ENJOYING yourself. You read "An Ape and a Notebook" its fascinating stuff, but good example of what I mean - John rushes into everything at 1000 miles per hour and expects to be destorying every poker game within 15 minutes. It's a long process, it takes a lot of time so just accept that right now and have fun whilst it's going on, but in the meanwhile from a practical angle and also to stop yourself going mental (lol) have something else to do in life as well cos it's pretty much a freeroll if you're gonna be crushing the pokers in 2 years right? GL mate. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 20, 2013, 05:52:21 PM Hi Mate, Been reading this diary over last month or so and it's interesting, I've been talking on facebook to a guy for a while now who is just starting out at poker, he reminds me of me when i was 18-20 and you remind me of him lol you guys should chat! whats his name? type of game? but could be helpful thanks. Few things i've noticed, and this is pretty much the same advice I gave the other guy, at the moment your poker has no direction at all, you're trying this one day, that the other $50 punt here, $100 punt there and so on. Now there is nothing wrong with this AT ALL, if this is what you want, but i'd strongly advise that if you're going to do this then you have something else to do as well, a job, maybe a uni course IDK whatever you want, because you're going to find it quite frustrating to approach the game like this if you're relying on it for money - if that makes sense? What will happen ofc is you'll find a format of the game you just really like more than most of the others, or one you seem to be naturally better at and you'll spend more and more time doing that. really thinking that atm i can support myself playing poker find playing 10/25c on any site but stars a really easy, this sort of counts as a spin up but made a $400 bankroll sort of think playing these of £30 this has now been cashed in but i will have a roll of about £600 to play these in september im really looking forward to the grind and feel that even though yeah i will have pressure for rent/expenditure i can get a job as a back up and already have one as a back up i feel that the 10/25c ive been playing on BWIN recently and these are incredibly easy so i see this as an opportunity to earn the 10/15bi a month that would cover my rent coupled with a live staking deal and the potential to crush these games i could build a roll so easy in these is this being niave? or is that a high win rate? I think atm this is the right thing to do, but without the pressure of saying "I wanna do this for a living" all that will do is put extra pressure on yourself, and it will deter from the most important aspect of the game for right now, which is your enjoyment of playing. I remember very fondly when I was first getting seriously into poker and I used to do 25c/50c HU one wednesday, then try some tournaments on Thursday, casino on Friday and play some live cash games and so on. Goes without saying I was not a winner in any of these formats at that time but I just LOVED playing so much...It actually makes me a little sad on reflection that nowadays it takes massive massive games to get me back to that same level of "Fresh Enjoyment" of the game. With this in mind my advice would be to keep plugging away things outside of poker and just make poker your "main hobby" and keep playing and enjoying the game. Get yourself to some live events like the £50 ones at DTD and down your local casino/card club and you'll quickly meet some other people your age who are in a similar spot and you can talk about poker, go to tournaments with etc but don't ruin all this my putting pressure on yourself to win, as (and I dont mean this with any malice AT ALL I hope that's obvious) you're very unlikely to be in a position where you can actually play profitable poker atm. The key to making money from poker is to have a "bread and butter game" that you know backwards+forwards, have a record of beating and a bankroll to play comfortably, everyone who is successful at poker has this but it takes a long time to develop. I started playing poker at 16, got serious at 19 and I was 21 y the time I could actuallly say I was successfully "BEATING" poker. So there is nothing wrong with not being in that position JUST YET, its exactly natural and right. Before you can learn to be good, you need to first learn HOW TO LEARN to be good (if this makes sense?) It begins as "sub-concious incompetence" where you're still at a point where you don't actually KNOW what you DON'T KNOW, this is evident from the way people report hands, everyone shares the JJ vs A4 type hands as you did which are very standard/unlucky hands and spending their time ruing those hands and completely ignoring the mistakes they are making in the small pots which is where the money is being lost atm. Luckily you're in a great position with blonde where there are tons of great players who are enthusiastic about poker and also great guys who'd help you along the progress. Tomsom+Monda for example very successful in the 180 mans and I bet either of them would give you 30minutes one day to watch you play or vica versa and chat poker with you, for someone in the early stages of development you can't put a price on that. The community spirit one Blonde is fantastic and if you get stuck into thing over here, then people will put their time into analysing your hands and giving you advice. I think the biggest problem with players coming up nowadays is people want to be printing immediately, and the huge influx of educational material out there and social media with people sharing poker experiences/lifestyles it's all about patience, realism and like I said 100 times already, ENJOYING yourself. You read "An Ape and a Notebook" its fascinating stuff, but good example of what I mean - John rushes into everything at 1000 miles per hour and expects to be destorying every poker game within 15 minutes. It's a long process, it takes a lot of time so just accept that right now and have fun whilst it's going on, but in the meanwhile from a practical angle and also to stop yourself going mental (lol) have something else to do in life as well cos it's pretty much a freeroll if you're gonna be crushing the pokers in 2 years right? GL mate. read a lot of Johns diary which has been very helpful and would absolutely love to be in his spot with Pleno, but this is obviously not an option till i've sort of proved myself. Nothing to do with that your a pretty sick cash player if i've read right do you teach/analyse sessions with people? I pretty much always analyse my game/ always think about how to improve this but its really hard to do without advice from much better players im sure when i eventually start 'regging' DTD then i will meet a lot better players than myself and get talking to them. I read Alex Goulder's diary from the start over the christmas/ jan feb period and found this very helpful in making up my mind. thanks. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: SuuPRlim on July 20, 2013, 06:59:06 PM I cant really talk with any intelligence on your poker game right now at all ofc, IDK your bankroll, living expenses etc but 25c/50c will require a decent amount of volume to pay your way, you'll find a lot of your winnings will go towards expenses (obviously the freedom poker gives you will result in you wanting to enjoy yourself a little more - I have some experience of this ;) ) so you won't be able to move up that easily, which means you'll be spending much of your time just grinding to pay rent. Pretty dull way to live at 19 imo.
I just can't stress enough how depressing poker is when you NEED to win, and DONT, and how incredible it is when you DON'T NEED to win, but DO. This is why I'm strongly advising you keep on it with something else for the meanwhile, to ease pressure and aid your enjoyment and whilst you're finding a game you can win in, and learning and experimenting in different type of poker. John's staking arrangement with Pleno was, imo, the worst thing for him (in heingsight, at the time I thought it was incredible as well) any sort of staking agreement for you at the moment would be a very bad idea, just take your time, build it up and work up slowly. There is a lot of rush these days to get staked when it's a huge strain on your mental approach. Patience Patience Patience. In regards to coaching etc, I don't coach really anymore not worth it, although I do sessions with people I like ;) you can add me on skype if you like (same name as here) and if you want to ask about a hand (as long as its not a SnG hand you're better off asking your nextdoor neighbour lol) then il be glad to talk it through with you. Just playing loads and thinking objectively about situations, don't focus on the badbeats and suckouts and think about your overall game and which situations (might be as small as times you call from the SB and fold the flop etc) are the ones you never seem to win. When you play and play the same games the same sort of spot continues to arise and you always seem to lose the pot you gotta think, what am I doing there, why do I always lose that pot? and so on. I hope none of this seems like a dig btw, I have been asked recently for an interview "what is the one piece of advice you would give yourself when you were just starting now" and the answer to it is that I just wish I'd had someone on board with a little bit of realism - I actually had a job well into when i was playing poker full time and it was a great decision as much as it didn't feel like it was at the time. You got a great chance to get to the right place much quicker than I did (chances are you;re prolly naturally a better player than me too) but don't rush yourself or get too carried away cos it'll just cause you a LOT of stress! Obviously one of the best times of my life was when I was just starting out rocking around with Jamie and Ash scrapping about so I'm really just saying you gotta enjoy this time of poker and dont criple your morale with too much pressure. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: redsimon on July 20, 2013, 07:36:31 PM quote "I just can't stress enough how depressing poker is when you NEED to win, and DONT, and how incredible it is when you DON'T NEED to win, but DO. This is why I'm strongly advising you keep on it with something else for the meanwhile, to ease pressure and aid your enjoyment and whilst you're finding a game you can win in, and learning and experimenting in different type of poker. "
top advice Dave Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: dwayne110 on July 20, 2013, 07:37:09 PM Nice, sensible advice Dave, fair play
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 20, 2013, 07:46:13 PM I cant really talk with any intelligence on your poker game right now at all ofc, IDK your bankroll, living expenses etc but 25c/50c will require a decent amount of volume to pay your way, you'll find a lot of your winnings will go towards expenses (obviously the freedom poker gives you will result in you wanting to enjoy yourself a little more - I have some experience of this ;) ) so you won't be able to move up that easily, which means you'll be spending much of your time just grinding to pay rent. Pretty dull way to live at 19 imo. I just can't stress enough how depressing poker is when you NEED to win, and DONT, and how incredible it is when you DON'T NEED to win, but DO. This is why I'm strongly advising you keep on it with something else for the meanwhile, to ease pressure and aid your enjoyment and whilst you're finding a game you can win in, and learning and experimenting in different type of poker. John's staking arrangement with Pleno was, imo, the worst thing for him (in heingsight, at the time I thought it was incredible as well) any sort of staking agreement for you at the moment would be a very bad idea, just take your time, build it up and work up slowly. There is a lot of rush these days to get staked when it's a huge strain on your mental approach. Patience Patience Patience. In regards to coaching etc, I don't coach really anymore not worth it, although I do sessions with people I like ;) you can add me on skype if you like (same name as here) and if you want to ask about a hand (as long as its not a SnG hand you're better off asking your nextdoor neighbour lol) then il be glad to talk it through with you. Just playing loads and thinking objectively about situations, don't focus on the badbeats and suckouts and think about your overall game and which situations (might be as small as times you call from the SB and fold the flop etc) are the ones you never seem to win. When you play and play the same games the same sort of spot continues to arise and you always seem to lose the pot you gotta think, what am I doing there, why do I always lose that pot? and so on. I hope none of this seems like a dig btw, I have been asked recently for an interview "what is the one piece of advice you would give yourself when you were just starting now" and the answer to it is that I just wish I'd had someone on board with a little bit of realism - I actually had a job well into when i was playing poker full time and it was a great decision as much as it didn't feel like it was at the time. You got a great chance to get to the right place much quicker than I did (chances are you;re prolly naturally a better player than me too) but don't rush yourself or get too carried away cos it'll just cause you a LOT of stress! Obviously one of the best times of my life was when I was just starting out rocking around with Jamie and Ash scrapping about so I'm really just saying you gotta enjoy this time of poker and dont criple your morale with too much pressure. Thanks for the advice and i really need to get skype set up as a lot of people use it but this would be majorly helpful, think i saw you sat down in a game at DTD like a big 1/2 or something not sure haha but i really feel that unless it was a huge upswing i can win at a high enough level to support myself (living expenses are so low) plus i can move from my current job to a store in Nottingham if i need to but don't really want to do this i really hate working and always end up arguing with people especially managers, the sample size i have is quite small about 5-7k hands on BWIN and won like $400 so 16 bi over this sample size felt i had a fair share of bad beats/mistakes (soon to be sorted working on the game a lot :P ) I don't want to sound naive or anything but i think i can win at a high enough rate to pay all my rent and stuff then be able to gain in my role i find it really easy to put volume in and the 8 hours id normally spend at work could be spent earning double as mucch at home, this is obv a stupid thought when i could also lose but its a horrible feeling having earnt like £200 in like a 5 hour session on tuesday night go to work to earn $40 on the wednesday for 8+ hours work. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 20, 2013, 07:48:24 PM Nice, sensible advice Dave, fair play I get this is amazing advice and if i am finding it to hard after the first month/2 then i will get a job/carry on with current job thanks for all the comments though guys. :) Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: dwayne110 on July 20, 2013, 08:13:32 PM " but its a horrible feeling having earnt like £200 in like a 5 hour session on tuesday night go to work to earn $40 on the wednesday for 8+ hours work."
This reminds me of a point Sam Grafton raised in his wel,l about young poker players who might struggle to enter/re-enter the employment market because of (a) lack of employment history on CV whilst playing poker full-time and (b) the difficulty to get used to a standard hourly rate of pay in a normal job when used to much higher levels of cash playing poker. It's just so important to keep perspective and remember that only a very small % of poker players actually make a significant living from the game. This is NOT to say you shouldn't pursue your dreams etc, if you really want to play poker long-term then by all means do so - but why not play it as your main hobby while working at the same time, gradually working your way up? Unless you're very well rolled, playing poker as a living with the pressure of having to win to pay rent etc could put you in difficult circumstances and possibly put you off the game long term. I think it's fair to say that poker plays are more likely to play their A game if they don't have to win. I also think it cannot be under-estimated how much having a normal job & working for a living at an early age enhances appreciation for the value of money, as well as being character-building. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 20, 2013, 08:32:37 PM " but its a horrible feeling having earnt like £200 in like a 5 hour session on tuesday night go to work to earn $40 on the wednesday for 8+ hours work." This reminds me of a point Sam Grafton raised in his wel,l about young poker players who might struggle to enter/re-enter the employment market because of (a) lack of employment history on CV whilst playing poker full-time and (b) the difficulty to get used to a standard hourly rate of pay in a normal job when used to much higher levels of cash playing poker. It's just so important to keep perspective and remember that only a very small % of poker players actually make a significant living from the game. This is NOT to say you shouldn't pursue your dreams etc, if you really want to play poker long-term then by all means do so - but why not play it as your main hobby while working at the same time, gradually working your way up? Unless you're very well rolled, playing poker as a living with the pressure of having to win to pay rent etc could put you in difficult circumstances and possibly put you off the game long term. I think it's fair to say that poker plays are more likely to play their A game if they don't have to win. I also think it cannot be under-estimated how much having a normal job & working for a living at an early age enhances appreciation for the value of money, as well as being character-building. Guess this is correct really feel i have done this over the last year found working so hard though, think the idea of freedom is what appeals to me in poker im incedibly driven to persue this dream and its all ive really wanted to do inthe last year, sort off made a promise to my mum that i wont just be stuck in a rut of going busto, rebuilding, shot taking and going busto again if it doesnt work out over the first year then i will be done with poker and it will become a hobby, but i feel i have a really good opportunity to 'shot take' this year im rolled to play the stakes im on about currently playing, the. I am backed for live events so find this will really help. Thank you too you all though keep the comments coming! Love the pressure hahaha Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: dwayne110 on July 20, 2013, 08:50:00 PM fair enough pal, good luck with it!
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 20, 2013, 09:38:08 PM Thanks for all the comments anyway guys not going to be able to post for a couple of day ( work all nighter, sleep, all nighter again) monday im looking at my appartment in Nottingham im so excited for this :D then i go away wednesday wooooooop! Cant wait but looking forward to getting back so i can start my grind and work like hell to build a bankroll/put myself in an amazing position for when i go to notts. just posting to say any questions or comments would be appreciated and helpful :)
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: SuuPRlim on July 21, 2013, 10:34:48 AM Thanks for the advice and i really need to get skype set up as a lot of people use it but this would be majorly helpful, think i saw you sat down in a game at DTD like a big 1/2 or something not sure haha but i really feel that unless it was a huge upswing i can win at a high enough level to support myself (living expenses are so low) plus i can move from my current job to a store in Nottingham if i need to but don't really want to do this i really hate working and always end up arguing with people especially managers, the sample size i have is quite small about 5-7k hands on BWIN and won like $400 so 16 bi over this sample size felt i had a fair share of bad beats/mistakes (soon to be sorted working on the game a lot :P ) I don't want to sound naive or anything but i think i can win at a high enough rate to pay all my rent and stuff then be able to gain in my role i find it really easy to put volume in and the 8 hours id normally spend at work could be spent earning double as mucch at home, this is obv a stupid thought when i could also lose but its a horrible feeling having earnt like £200 in like a 5 hour session on tuesday night go to work to earn $40 on the wednesday for 8+ hours work. I'm not suggesting keeping a job you really don't like btw - I'm suggesting keeping something else that isn't poker, maybe like a course of some sort or better still a job you actually enjoy/might gain some life skills etc - sitting and playing poker 8 hours in a day is actually really really hard (ok it's "easy" to do) but the thing that makes it different to a normal job is in that 8 hours every hour you lose focus/play badly then your wages turn into NEGATIVE. I still struggle to this day to play consistently well in sessions longer than 3 hours. Even in a full time job who can honestly say that there level of work in an 8 hour day NEVER EVER drops? If you got the bankroll to play what you're playing atm and wanna go get stuck into it then defo go for it, just don't shut everything else off cos poker isn't going anywhere! And it does sound pretty fkn exciting tbh so I dont wanna dampen the high morale by being all Captain Sensible. Very best of luck!! BTW - why do you always end up arguing with people? This doesn't sound healthy for poker lol poker can make the worlds calmest man wanna kill people! In all seriousness though if that's true think long and hard about why? There is no tool out there quite like good social skills. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 22, 2013, 07:38:17 AM Thanks for the advice and i really need to get skype set up as a lot of people use it but this would be majorly helpful, think i saw you sat down in a game at DTD like a big 1/2 or something not sure haha but i really feel that unless it was a huge upswing i can win at a high enough level to support myself (living expenses are so low) plus i can move from my current job to a store in Nottingham if i need to but don't really want to do this i really hate working and always end up arguing with people especially managers, the sample size i have is quite small about 5-7k hands on BWIN and won like $400 so 16 bi over this sample size felt i had a fair share of bad beats/mistakes (soon to be sorted working on the game a lot :P ) I don't want to sound naive or anything but i think i can win at a high enough rate to pay all my rent and stuff then be able to gain in my role i find it really easy to put volume in and the 8 hours id normally spend at work could be spent earning double as mucch at home, this is obv a stupid thought when i could also lose but its a horrible feeling having earnt like £200 in like a 5 hour session on tuesday night go to work to earn $40 on the wednesday for 8+ hours work. I'm not suggesting keeping a job you really don't like btw - I'm suggesting keeping something else that isn't poker, maybe like a course of some sort or better still a job you actually enjoy/might gain some life skills etc - sitting and playing poker 8 hours in a day is actually really really hard (ok it's "easy" to do) but the thing that makes it different to a normal job is in that 8 hours every hour you lose focus/play badly then your wages turn into NEGATIVE. I still struggle to this day to play consistently well in sessions longer than 3 hours. Even in a full time job who can honestly say that there level of work in an 8 hour day NEVER EVER drops? If you got the bankroll to play what you're playing atm and wanna go get stuck into it then defo go for it, just don't shut everything else off cos poker isn't going anywhere! And it does sound pretty fkn exciting tbh so I dont wanna dampen the high morale by being all Captain Sensible. Very best of luck!! BTW - why do you always end up arguing with people? This doesn't sound healthy for poker lol poker can make the worlds calmest man wanna kill people! In all seriousness though if that's true think long and hard about why? There is no tool out there quite like good social skills. Love this whole paragraph think everything youve said is really helpful and you havent just said bad points, 1) This for me feels like one big shot take im roled for it, i feel like this year is sort of going to prove to family members/friends that i am good at poker and this is what i want to be doing for a long time. 2) i tend to argue with people who have authority over me and try and use this to leverage there side of an argument when i am blatently right in a situation this doesnt really ever tend to be the case at the poker table (were someone has more power than you except chip stacks) im not going to lie and say yes im perfect at a table ive had quite a few blow ups in the past (friend cold called a 3bet pre with 84 op) i was a little mad lol, anyway this is something that i have tried to work in since reading the early part of alexs diary, but could also make for some fun reading ;) Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: kinboshi on July 22, 2013, 10:16:59 AM "I just can't stress enough how depressing poker is when you NEED to win, and DONT, and how incredible it is when you DON'T NEED to win, but DO."
Love that line. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on July 22, 2013, 10:46:46 AM Checkking out the house at 2 to see the place i will be starting to make my milliions next year, wow im so excited to be looking at this be more interesting in september though when ive already started grinding(printing money) then meeting my new room-mates fingers crossed pleaaaaaaaaaaaassssse get your results (to my friend!!!!) GLGLGLGL! :D
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: VBlue on July 22, 2013, 11:50:25 AM GL with this. Been catching up on your diary. Hope you find what you want playing the game for a living. Some absolutely top-notch input from lil'Dave (as always) here which you would do well to heed. You seem to be gracious and realistic enough to do so.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: Rexas on July 24, 2013, 06:43:01 AM What's up buddy, I've been a bit of a lurker on this diary since it started. My name's Matt, and when I was your age (like a year or two ago) I was doing my emotional nuts in a minimum wage job working 65+ hours a week. I still think my boss back then is the nastiest piece of work I have ever come across, and eventually I ended up walking out and turned to poker as my income. I'm now one of the most regular dtd goers and am getting towards my second year of "being a lolpro".
My two cents on this thing Dave bought up about having a job before is that I would not be the person I am today without that experience. Whilst I hated pretty much every minute of it, it has given me an appreciation of money and a desire to "make it" that has yet to be shaken. I've had some very fun moments after big losing sessions, and most notably after big winnings ones, where I've been on the way home and it's suddenly hit me that I'd just made/lost months worth of wages in the space of a few hours. The fact that I can now comfortably put a months earnings over the line with no other way of winning a pot can be pretty frightening, and has at times kept me away from some of the bigger games, despite the fact that I am fairly comfortably "rolled" for them. My advice to you would be to take things very slowly, and try and create a network of friends with whom you can discuss hands and just lean on if you need some consolation, and revel in how wonderful this game can make you feel when you win. I've made the mistake of appearing to forget these people before, and it has been emotionally kinda expensive. Also, find a 24hr McDonalds, those places are the nuts for post session reviews. Finally, the poker lifestyle has a habit of making you very, very desensitised to money. You will, at some stage, go through a troubled relationship with another form of gambling if you aren't careful, as I'm sure many of your readers have, as have I. Remember that poker muggles are not used to seeing money in the same way as we do, and remember to try not to make decisions based solely on the game. Instead of getting embroiled in playing the toughest and the biggest games, play to your bankroll and play to your comfort zones. As soon as those little betting disks start to sound more like money than just numbers, it's time to step down. Good luck, I'll be following this with interest and hopefully meeting you at the tables sometime soon. I'm the nit who never shuts up, and has literally no fashion sense. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: CHIPPYMAN on July 24, 2013, 09:13:05 AM AND ALSO
1) don't moan 2) don't storm off if u get bad beat 3) don't tilt 4) don't drink while playing live 5) always smile , even if u are loosing Good luck Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on July 24, 2013, 10:27:39 AM AND ALSO 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) Good luck FYP FYP Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: CHIPPYMAN on July 24, 2013, 10:47:24 AM AND ALSO 1) 2) 3) 4) don't drink alcohol while playing live or online 5) Good luck I LIKE YOUR POST FRANKIE xxx Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on August 01, 2013, 12:47:16 AM Hey guys, Tyler is playing a 1/2 euro game in Cyprus , very very easy game, first hour up 100 euro , up 2 nights out in ayia Nap, i personally wanted to play with him but my bank account wouldn't let ,\me withdraw, we are both really drunk but we have a drunk taxi driver on our right so we have him killed most of the time. i know you guys are going to HATE us for playing drunk but we making money the one time we are playing. This Russian opposite table just bluffed the cap driver with Kc Th high and then mucked it but the cab driver was still in the hand and showed Jc high and scooped 600 euro ahahah. The Russian is in for 2k now in a 1\2 . I cannot wait to grind at dusk , finally turned 18 the other day. GG games!!
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on August 02, 2013, 03:17:56 PM So my last post was from my friend in a very tacky casino in ayia napa i sat down in the 1/2 game and ended up 100euros up which felt amazing but this was countered by the fact i lost the same last night, ill do a full right up when i get home but all you need to know is the guys are prepared to stack off to a 5 bet with AJ should be easy money vs my AK until the jacck drops the turn gg. ill post in a weeks time when im back and thanks for all the comments. :)
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on August 08, 2013, 09:38:30 AM so decided to do a write up of the holiday this was by far the best two weeks of my life and was absolutely mental:
1) Drunk way way way to much 2) Had a ridiculous lack of sleep 3) Spent more money than i ever have in my life 4) But we did some amazing moments (boat party, cliff jumping, general drinking and buggies) This is the most abs amazing two weeks ever but now it feels like its down to the hard work need to see if my house is sorted for September then to earn all the money for my apartment but most of all i cant wait to start playing poker again, missed it like hell for two weeks, cant wait for DTD as well might try and get down for a tournament on Friday or something hopefully meet some Blonde's :) Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: jgcblack on August 08, 2013, 06:11:20 PM so decided to do a write up of the holiday this was by far the best two weeks of my life and was absolutely mental: 1) Drunk way way way to much 2) Had a ridiculous lack of sleep 3) Spent more money than i ever have in my life 4) But we did some amazing moments (boat party, cliff jumping, general drinking and buggies) This is the most abs amazing two weeks ever but now it feels like its down to the hard work need to see if my house is sorted for September then to earn all the money for my apartment but most of all i cant wait to start playing poker again, missed it like hell for two weeks, cant wait for DTD as well might try and get down for a tournament on Friday or something hopefully meet some Blonde's :) more on aiya nappa mate! Ive just been there too and had a pretty sweet coupla days. Put a youtube vid I made on my blog - its worth checking out... where was the casino...? #grindinginnappawudbsweeeeet Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on August 09, 2013, 07:39:39 PM so decided to do a write up of the holiday this was by far the best two weeks of my life and was absolutely mental: 1) Drunk way way way to much 2) Had a ridiculous lack of sleep 3) Spent more money than i ever have in my life 4) But we did some amazing moments (boat party, cliff jumping, general drinking and buggies) This is the most abs amazing two weeks ever but now it feels like its down to the hard work need to see if my house is sorted for September then to earn all the money for my apartment but most of all i cant wait to start playing poker again, missed it like hell for two weeks, cant wait for DTD as well might try and get down for a tournament on Friday or something hopefully meet some Blonde's :) more on aiya nappa mate! Ive just been there too and had a pretty sweet coupla days. Put a youtube vid I made on my blog - its worth checking out... where was the casino...? #grindinginnappawudbsweeeeet haha really were abouts were you stopping? yeah it would be amazing the games are so soft as well we had a russian guy who claimed he won the sunday million on stars then manage to stack off 1500euros when the next stack was about 320 he ended up open shoving most hands, the game for me was pretty boring played really solidly ran an incredible (felt like it for me) bluff on this player who i put on 910 check raised him with AJ on 8Q4 he called the flop i bet 3/4 pot on the brick turn he called i was so confident in my read even half drunk and made myself a pot sized river shove so when it bricked again i shoved and the guy showed 910 apart from that made a decent laydown against a fish with 74hh on 2733 folded turn and he showed JJ and then lost aip with AK vs AJ when the guy called my 5 bet shove and the board ran out 997J8 siggggggh very boring apart from that..... on a Napa front the bars were amazing really enjoyed Bedrock, River Reggae and Square bar there were 6 of us who went what about you guys? Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on August 11, 2013, 02:04:40 PM just watching the start to the community shield and was just wondering what is going to happen with united i've been a fan on of man utd since i was really young and find it worrying not knowing that we have the fergie consistency just wondering if anyone had any thoughts on the matter?
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on August 16, 2013, 08:37:47 PM so haven't posted in a while this is because i've been leading the worst life ever it has just been work and sleep so decided their was no need to post haha. Decided to have a little shot take playing 50nl heads up as i don't have any money till i get paid for an actual role, i was playing okay for about 50 hands doubled through the guy when i hit my gutshot against top pair, then i called a 3 bet with 3c 3h the flop came Ahrt Qh 3d he leads out i raise because of it being a fairly draw heavy board he reraised i shoved him and he snaps running 2d 2c to pair the board im golden right? nope hes got Ac Ad GG. Then a few hands later i may have been slightly tilted at this point ;whistle; I get 8h 9h he raises button 3x i 3 bet to $4 he peels flop Ahrt Aspades 9c i check (check/raising here) he checks behind Qs i lead he calls presume he has a Q here 9s river and im happy i check raise shove him to get a call out his queen he snaps and shows Ac 3d GG sir. A lot of this in my mind was down to cold decks and overplaying hands but also it wouldn't have even been noticeable if i was rolled for this siggggggghhhhhhh........ roll on payday please!
Any comments on hands much appreciated :) Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on August 27, 2013, 02:28:19 AM Going to Nottingham today to sign the contract on the house, very exciting times. My mum decided it was time to tell my step-dad tonight after she'd had a few drinks this went down really well to be honest he's accepted really that it's my decision and just sort of said good luck, this has put me in such a good mood and feels like the last stumbling block has gone.
On a more poker related note me and my friend who i will be living with next month both of us will be playing but he's got uni as well so not as much just wondering with it being a Tuesday obviously dusk is closed and not really got the cash with having to pay 4 months rent in advance at the end of the month to put like £100/£200 down on a cash game anyone know of smaller cash games (dont really exist) haha or say a £20-£50 tournaments that are going on would be very helpful. Really want to have a punt on a sat into the £300 deepstack really really want to play this tournament seems really fun would have to get the days of work as well though so might have to play it online. anyway sorry the diary gone a bit dead guys tried to post but couldn't really got nothing going on but work and sleep not even been playing poker so..... good luck everyone anyway Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: david3103 on August 29, 2013, 08:52:10 AM You're moving to Nottingham solely to play poker but you're not rolled to play 50/1?
Have you thought this through? Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on September 01, 2013, 01:23:49 AM You're moving to Nottingham solely to play poker but you're not rolled to play 50/1? Have you thought this through? I will be rolled to play 50/1 by the time i move i have live staking for tournaments and have worked my ass of to get a roll going for myself for when i move over the last month and a half :) Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on September 16, 2013, 08:33:54 PM so i haven't posted in a long time so guess this one will be an update on whats been going on:
I found out i got my part time job in notts which really has allowed me to move over which is happening FRIDAY!!! i really can't wait so excited to be moving over and especially for freshers week should be a really good laugh with my mates. My life at the moment has consisted of working going out sometimes and a little bit of a grind played a really fun game the other day with my friends were our 2nd card was exposed still standard hold'em just one card was face up was hilarious. Need a few answers from people though where are the best places to eat in notts? (cheap haha) whats the best way of getting around till i get the money together to insure my car? anyone playing the £15 freezeout at DTD friday? (this seems like it would be a laugh in and might win a bit never know :P) so just a little report can't wait to move over it's come up so quick and hope to meet a lot of blonde's soon :) Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: Derbylad on September 17, 2013, 09:32:24 PM Just caught up on this diary. Glad to see some people have already posted some words of reason.
I, like you, transitioned from MTT's to cash games with very little previous live experience and have had a roller coaster of wins and losses. I'll be returning to Loughborough University in October so i'm likely to see you at the tables. The biggest advice i can give to you is to choose your games wisely and have good bank roll management. Like previous posters have said, Nottingham is one of the reggiest fields for poker and while it will help you improve your game it can also quickly decrease your bankroll. If your seriously considering playing out of a 1-2k roll i'd stick to 50/1 and try and grind up the stakes depending on what your other income is like. How many hours a week are you likely to be playing? Upto what buy in are you staked for in Live tournaments? Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on September 19, 2013, 08:12:49 AM Just caught up on this diary. Glad to see some people have already posted some words of reason. I, like you, transitioned from MTT's to cash games with very little previous live experience and have had a roller coaster of wins and losses. I'll be returning to Loughborough University in October so i'm likely to see you at the tables. The biggest advice i can give to you is to choose your games wisely and have good bank roll management. Like previous posters have said, Nottingham is one of the reggiest fields for poker and while it will help you improve your game it can also quickly decrease your bankroll. If your seriously considering playing out of a 1-2k roll i'd stick to 50/1 and try and grind up the stakes depending on what your other income is like. How many hours a week are you likely to be playing? Upto what buy in are you staked for in Live tournaments? I don't know whats actually happening with the staking now, it was only a verbal agreement and i can't get in touch with the guy so :/ and a lot i suppose a hell of a lot online around work and at dusk a lot playing the 50/1 games like you've said and also the super 50's/xxl 25 sort of torno's seem really good value you playing the grand prix? whats a good role to move up to 1/2 at DTD? Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on September 21, 2013, 07:25:27 PM Felt like the first trip to DTD went well played the £15 freezeout last night and felt like i pretty much crushed till i busted 20/81 when i jammed my 10BB from the cut-off with A4 and the SB had 9's oh well GG, back again tonight to play the same comp feel really comfortable at a table atm.
I'm playing at least one of the grand prix day 1's next week really excited for this with 50k up top FML! think that would start the year off very well. I think Nottingham is a great city from what i have seen so far and their is some amazing girls wow. So just a quick update hope to meet some people tonight got a couple of questions if i can pm someone? Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: pleno1 on September 21, 2013, 11:31:26 PM sorry for asking for cliffs, but do you have a job too ro just moved to play at dtd?
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on September 22, 2013, 12:04:31 AM sorry for asking for cliffs, but do you have a job too ro just moved to play at dtd? Yeah its fine i'm working a full time job to pay my rent at the moment but this is not why i moved here and want this to finish as soon as i can, If i manage to build up enough money to finish this i will. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: pleno1 on September 22, 2013, 12:44:09 AM oh cool, best of luck. what do you consider "enough" money?
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on September 22, 2013, 12:49:57 AM oh cool, best of luck. what do you consider "enough" money? Not really sure to be honest, how much 'enough' is but i think it's when i'm comfortably rolled for the games i'm playing on my own and also have rent payed with enough of a life roll to live comfortably through a downswing, not asking much! :P Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on September 22, 2013, 03:11:30 PM decided to play the miniFTOPS #38 event 6 max knockout deepstack yes please, with 150k guarantee 30k up top and $4 each knockout fingers crossed for a big sunday sweat i'll have to keep an update going if i go deep! ;D
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: Derbylad on September 22, 2013, 11:32:46 PM Just caught up on this diary. Glad to see some people have already posted some words of reason. I, like you, transitioned from MTT's to cash games with very little previous live experience and have had a roller coaster of wins and losses. I'll be returning to Loughborough University in October so i'm likely to see you at the tables. The biggest advice i can give to you is to choose your games wisely and have good bank roll management. Like previous posters have said, Nottingham is one of the reggiest fields for poker and while it will help you improve your game it can also quickly decrease your bankroll. If your seriously considering playing out of a 1-2k roll i'd stick to 50/1 and try and grind up the stakes depending on what your other income is like. How many hours a week are you likely to be playing? Upto what buy in are you staked for in Live tournaments? I don't know whats actually happening with the staking now, it was only a verbal agreement and i can't get in touch with the guy so :/ and a lot i suppose a hell of a lot online around work and at dusk a lot playing the 50/1 games like you've said and also the super 50's/xxl 25 sort of torno's seem really good value you playing the grand prix? whats a good role to move up to 1/2 at DTD? Apologies for the slack response, I've only just seen this. I don't move back in until the 29th so I won't be playing the Grand Prix unfortunately. In consideration to your bank roll it depends how aggressive your bank roll management is going to be. If you're a player that will sit for the max I.e 400, you're going to want at least a 30-50 BI bankroll to be able to comfortably afford the upswings and downswings that your roll is going to take. I'd personally start at 50-1 at gala and dusk and grind out a bank roll from there. With this you can afford to play tournaments and play online too for the major Mtt's. If you want to play the larger Mtt's live at dusk take advantage of the satellite structure and bink a 1-2 bankroll for a tenth of the cost. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on September 24, 2013, 06:18:08 PM Just caught up on this diary. Glad to see some people have already posted some words of reason. I, like you, transitioned from MTT's to cash games with very little previous live experience and have had a roller coaster of wins and losses. I'll be returning to Loughborough University in October so i'm likely to see you at the tables. The biggest advice i can give to you is to choose your games wisely and have good bank roll management. Like previous posters have said, Nottingham is one of the reggiest fields for poker and while it will help you improve your game it can also quickly decrease your bankroll. If your seriously considering playing out of a 1-2k roll i'd stick to 50/1 and try and grind up the stakes depending on what your other income is like. How many hours a week are you likely to be playing? Upto what buy in are you staked for in Live tournaments? I don't know whats actually happening with the staking now, it was only a verbal agreement and i can't get in touch with the guy so :/ and a lot i suppose a hell of a lot online around work and at dusk a lot playing the 50/1 games like you've said and also the super 50's/xxl 25 sort of torno's seem really good value you playing the grand prix? whats a good role to move up to 1/2 at DTD? Apologies for the slack response, I've only just seen this. I don't move back in until the 29th so I won't be playing the Grand Prix unfortunately. In consideration to your bank roll it depends how aggressive your bank roll management is going to be. If you're a player that will sit for the max I.e 400, you're going to want at least a 30-50 BI bankroll to be able to comfortably afford the upswings and downswings that your roll is going to take. I'd personally start at 50-1 at gala and dusk and grind out a bank roll from there. With this you can afford to play tournaments and play online too for the major Mtt's. If you want to play the larger Mtt's live at dusk take advantage of the satellite structure and bink a 1-2 bankroll for a tenth of the cost. Yeah thanks for all this and i'll bare it in mind :) hopefully i'll see you at the tables i'll be the one winning everyones money ;) Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on September 26, 2013, 11:06:44 AM right so im playing the Grand Prix today I've been given 2 bullets for if the first run goes wrong so get to play the 2nd one but works messed me up really as I wanted to play both today and tomorrow but oh well lest I'm playing, I'm just going to go play my best and let's just hope that at the end of it all I'm sat on Sunday with the GP trophy oh yeah and the money will also be nice I suppose :P
Is their anyone else who's playing the day 1's today? Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on September 28, 2013, 04:43:48 PM So made day 2 of the GP last night but with only 44k, So I went and played my day 2 only lasted 15 minutes but busted a pretty sick spot really in the big blind playing 40000 posted 3000 guy opens MP for 8k out of 100k he’s been opening fairly light though already shown KJ UTG hands like that, guy calls from the button with like 60k back I have 4’s and think I’m doubling up nearly with blinds ante’s and the raise and call if I shove and take it down and obviously don't mind flipping with AK/AQ well the guy say’s ‘fuck it’ chucks in 50k and the other guy folds he turns over J10cc I sighed a little but its a race Ac9c5d turn 9h river 2c I couldn't really do much I was handcuffed with stack size really, Don't know if their is anything I can do here really feels pretty sick if I'm honest as this gets through a lot of the time but it happens Anything else I can do really?
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: Derbylad on September 28, 2013, 05:38:23 PM 50p
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on September 29, 2013, 05:41:55 AM Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on September 29, 2013, 05:48:45 AM I thought it would be a decent idea to use this as a weekly review for myself and see how it goes, first of all though I've got to say really enjoyed this week/end the grand prix has been quality in my opinion would have love to go deeper than a min cash though sigggggh. I just won the super 50 turbo for a decent chunk as well so all in all a great start to be honest, built my confidence up loads as I've gone pretty deep in all the events I've played over this weekend:
Buyins: £218 which were all backed total won: £1350 profit: £1132 What a ridiculous 1st week I guess, did however lose a buy in playing 50/1 the other day when a guy called my £85 reshove over his £35 checkraise with 6's on J32hhx I had AKhh bricked off oh well. Nottingham is such a good city as well really like the place to be honest so really happy at the moment maybe another reason I feel like im playing good :) Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on September 30, 2013, 03:30:54 AM really thought I was going to win the super 50's back to back had a 150k flip for double average with 20 left AK<JJ think if I win this I can push on and really control my table, but these things happen went and played a little 1/1 after this had a pretty sick hand where I called of a £104 river bet with AK on 52A28 think this is a horrible call most of the time looking back really shouldn't have called but the guy tables A2 NH sirrrrrrr, still up a chunk for the session feeling gooooodddd........
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 05, 2013, 06:29:02 AM Another deep run sigggh think I've finished in like the last 30 of every tournament I've played since moving to nottingham this can only be promising surely, bit gutted about today though got a guy in 983 with K9 and i had AA for the king to bink on the turn built a stack up after this but some cooler situations led to a min cash sigggggggggghhh.....
Really enjoying playing at the moment wish I'd have played in the deepstack to be honest would have been pretty sweet but to poor to buy in -_- ball so hard....... Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 06, 2013, 05:43:44 AM My mate made a bit in the tournament first cash for him so far so was nice to see him run deep, i made a chunk playing the cash as well so was a really good night overall had some absolutely amazing banter with some new people, not sure of names on here but apparently reads this diary at least someone does i suppose, tournament did go pretty badly for me though to be honest played pretty well to say i was card dead managed to get up to 18k to then lose AK<J4 for like 10k then get caught stealing for my last 8k with K5cc<AQss siggggh some people just know how to get there i must learn this!! super50 when i wake up today though feeling good bit of run good needed late on though.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 07, 2013, 05:04:00 AM Feel pretty down about tonight to be honest played really well in the tournament i thought was really really card dead till i found a little run to get me on nearly 20k for the guy in the small blind to think I'm stealing when i have AK I open to 2500 he 3-bets me to around 8500 and i jam at this point with 16,000 he says hes pot committed and calls of with 74cc and the flop drops J57 and bricks out for him to scoop GG. Then sit down in the cash games first time i think I'd actually spoke to rexas and im sat on his right look at KK first hand hijack opens to £6 and button flats I make it £24 and button calls flop comes jc 3d 2c i bet £42 and he calls the turn is the 6c check check on the turn and the river is the 6h i check and he puts me all in i look at this now and realise im never eveeeeeeeeeeer good or i don't think i am but i couldn't see this when i was in the hand and call for him to have the 6d 6s for quads nice hand sirrrrrrr nice start! I then proceeded to get my JJx2, 99x2 along with a lot of AK AQ sort of hands crack by 95,84,82 sort of hands that were being played down a decent chunk for me overall lot of lessons learnt not playing till the headhunter on Thursday this should be really fun!!!! lets hope i scoop this and the deepstack please. Run good needed!!
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: DrDreh on October 07, 2013, 05:59:44 AM Your face when he whipped over the 4c 7c was priceless. Was nice to have met you today. p.s. I didn't get disqualified by Andy on the bubble because I didn't get there
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: flushthemout on October 07, 2013, 10:10:45 AM Good Playing with you mate, Not literally lol. flopped the world 4 times and got rivered
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 07, 2013, 03:56:22 PM Your face when he whipped over the 4c 7c was priceless. Was nice to have met you today. p.s. I didn't get disqualified by Andy on the bubble because I didn't get there Okay so him turning this hand over just didn't make sense, I'm sat here now still wondering why you'd price yourself in the 4c 7c. But poker aside was nice to meet you too. you playing the headhunter thursday? Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 07, 2013, 03:57:19 PM Good Playing with you mate, Not literally lol. flopped the world 4 times and got rivered Yeah nice to meet you too. wish we'd have both ran a little better lol Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: verndog158 on October 07, 2013, 10:49:07 PM difficult spot v raggy with the KK. having played at the table for about 4hrs in your seat,( before rexas stacked me, the luckbox) he had the cards all night!! i think he shows up beating our KK alot there in general, flushes, straights, sets, even quads! KK just seems like a bluff catcher there. unlucky, am sure the run good will come!
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 08, 2013, 12:10:01 AM difficult spot v raggy with the KK. having played at the table for about 4hrs in your seat,( before rexas stacked me, the luckbox) he had the cards all night!! i think he shows up beating our KK alot there in general, flushes, straights, sets, even quads! KK just seems like a bluff catcher there. unlucky, am sure the run good will come! Yeah felt pretty sick when i realised how bad a call this was pretty much beating nothing that he plays this way except if he goes for ridiculous thin value out of AJ for some silly reason was a trivial fold looking at it now :/ Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: DrDreh on October 08, 2013, 04:08:14 PM Your face when he whipped over the 4c 7c was priceless. Was nice to have met you today. p.s. I didn't get disqualified by Andy on the bubble because I didn't get there Okay so him turning this hand over just didn't make sense, I'm sat here now still wondering why you'd price yourself in the 4c 7c. But poker aside was nice to meet you too. you playing the headhunter thursday? Yeah, not sure if I'm playing on Thursday, want to but there's a society tournament. Due a win there after 7439999 tournaments without a win. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 08, 2013, 05:31:36 PM Your face when he whipped over the 4c 7c was priceless. Was nice to have met you today. p.s. I didn't get disqualified by Andy on the bubble because I didn't get there Okay so him turning this hand over just didn't make sense, I'm sat here now still wondering why you'd price yourself in the 4c 7c. But poker aside was nice to meet you too. you playing the headhunter thursday? Yeah, not sure if I'm playing on Thursday, want to but there's a society tournament. Due a win there after 7439999 tournaments without a win. Well whatever good luck whatever you end up playing! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 08, 2013, 07:07:35 PM decided to have a bit of a tourney day on stars since i got up in the hot $22 and the big $11 turbo on 10,000 average 6k in the $22 then in the $11 average 10k ive got 12k in the SB blinds are 400/800 button makes it 2000 i ship Ad 4d over the top and he snaps me off with 8s 3s people are so good at this game must have known what was coming when the 8d dropped on the flop and held GG. see if i can finally have a stars sweat in the $22 run good one time!
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 08, 2013, 07:24:22 PM sigh okay so that lasted long jammed AK suited on both and got called by 10's he won the flip and then KK and obviously no A came siggggh
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: verndog158 on October 08, 2013, 09:20:40 PM Mr polerization, do you have any idea what a full stop is? The longest sentences I have ever seen!!
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 09, 2013, 01:37:22 AM Mr polerization, do you have any idea what a full stop is? The longest sentences I have ever seen!! I honestly hadn't been concentrating on my punctuation, I'll write properly in future. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: david3103 on October 09, 2013, 08:55:55 AM Mr polerization, do you have any idea what a full stop is? The longest sentences I have ever seen!! I honestly hadn't been concentrating on my punctuation, I'll write properly in future. That Dickens bloke had a similar lack of concentration.. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 09, 2013, 09:19:25 PM Mr polerization, do you have any idea what a full stop is? The longest sentences I have ever seen!! I honestly hadn't been concentrating on my punctuation, I'll write properly in future. That Dickens bloke had a similar lack of concentration.. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. I was just being lazy hahaah :) Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 10, 2013, 02:24:54 AM Had my first ever sweat on stars in a tournament, playing the hot $0.55 funny tournament both me and my friend have gone deep before so playing it and was building a stack just bust 4th out of 8582 pretty sick but last hand SB vs BB i've got AA and know the BB is a fish who will not let me steal so min+a bit he jams over the top and i call so Ac Aspades vs 6c 6s flop Q99 turn 6d you absolute beauty. Sick sweat though never ran deep in a stars tournament so felt good plus made couple of hundred quid to lose in cash games tomorrow as well seems like a pretty good ROI as well....
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 10, 2013, 11:47:15 AM Never gone into even double figures in a stars tournament before and in last 10 hours I've came 4/8582 and 40/3540 losing as a 80/20% favorite on one and losing a flip in the other promising! :)
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: verndog158 on October 10, 2013, 01:21:18 PM Had my first ever sweat on stars in a tournament, playing the hot $0.55 funny tournament both me and my friend have gone deep before so playing it and was building a stack just bust 4th out of 8582 pretty sick but last hand SB vs BB i've got AA and know the BB is a fish who will not let me steal so min+a bit he jams over the top and i call so Ac Aspades vs 6c 6s flop Q99 turn 6d you absolute beauty. so that is possibly the longest sentence i have EVER seen! can donk it all to me in the bounty hunter later!! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 11, 2013, 05:50:17 AM Had my first ever sweat on stars in a tournament, playing the hot $0.55 funny tournament both me and my friend have gone deep before so playing it and was building a stack just bust 4th out of 8582 pretty sick but last hand SB vs BB i've got AA and know the BB is a fish who will not let me steal so min+a bit he jams over the top and i call so Ac Aspades vs 6c 6s flop Q99 turn 6d you absolute beauty. so that is possibly the longest sentence i have EVER seen! can donk it all to me in the bounty hunter later!! You didn't even stay in long enough for me to luckbox you ;) Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 11, 2013, 05:52:39 AM Had a pretty mad night to be honest, got 2nd in the headhunter felt i messed up the heads up but oh well. Next went to Gala where i managed to get up £200 then back down to basically even, lost a pretty sick hand again with KK when the guy calls my £17 3-bet pre with 67o and the flop comes J67 sigggh......
Well pretty tired so can't be arsed to right much more but hoping my grammar is better for everyone! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 11, 2013, 05:53:15 AM *write I'm so tired.....
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 13, 2013, 05:35:36 PM Wasn't even going to play yesterday, late regged the super50 though and managed to get 3rd seems good then sit down at a really soft 1/1 game, managed to lose like £120 really annoyed me because was going to play solid then ended up playing really lose and missing a lot! Find it really annoying when i sit down at a table and no one wants to talk think my game works better when i can manipulate people into calling or folding, so find it really hard when people are quiet and i have to luckbox my way through.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 14, 2013, 02:21:31 AM feeling really really down beat at the moment feel like i didn't do much wrong to be honest but still had my biggest losing day ever, lost some huge pots AA<AK for £180 AIP and the flop comes 10JQ when the guy says i talked him into calling, i know that's the point! then against the same guy i had 9's 3-bet him pre to £23 he calls, flop 857 i best £38 he calls turn 8 he check raises me to £84 i call Q river he checks i jam thinking he has J's and will fold but he snaps me off with QJ NH WP SIR...... then lost £100 all in on the turn of A245 the guys got 45 just after my KK was cracked by 2's for like £40 really really bad day should be on +£250 with the aces but ended up down.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 16, 2013, 01:08:42 PM Just started watching breaking bad this morning and managed to smash through the first series, it's actually really good not what i thought it would be at all but i love it. Pretty dull few days not really done anything apart from lose chunks online which is just frustrating, missed the OFC comp last night which i really wanted to play will be a must next week need to work on my game a bit though first.
As for hold'em kinda nice weekend coming up with the 6 max which I'm really looking forward to, love playing short handed it's a lot of fun and allows me to be more aggressive (play more like a fish). I'm going to take down the headhunter tomorrow as well which will be nice, then hopefully play a bit of cash after but feeling a bit funny about this after the other night ran bad but feel down about it stupid game! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: pleno1 on October 16, 2013, 03:48:52 PM so how come youre playing nl10, whats your online background?
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 18, 2013, 02:59:48 AM so how come youre playing nl10, whats your online background? Pretty terrible if I'm honest keep cashing the tournament's on stars at the moment but not enough really, want some sort of backing for online really as i just keep chucking like $30 at it and losing it obviously tournament's are high varience. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 18, 2013, 05:34:19 PM Last night didn't go to well to be honest managed to stack off like 60BB with AKo which was frustrating also managed to get JJ in against QQ when i said he had it. Really happy with how i played on cash eventually lost the £60 i chucked at it but i made some really nice folds, felt like i got cold decked a lot and managed to get away from it in sick spots was also fun playing with rexas for the first time and me a few new people :) fun times. Need some run good in the 6 max tonight try and win it take down like £12k yes please.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 19, 2013, 04:31:05 AM Played the 6-max tonight went okay for the most part. Then managed to get up to 65k A5>67. Then with 4 hands left i lost a flip against verndog 10's<KQ when he spikes the Q on the turn majorly tilting to only have 15BB going back. Quiet comfortable with my 10-15BB game so don't feel to bad when i go back still in with a shout, be nice to take it down for the 12k or however much #rungoodplease
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: flushthemout on October 19, 2013, 10:30:28 AM Unlucky T, I seemed to do good last night, big fold with queens from on an open shove on sb with the Apples, whilst sat in bb, nearly was close to being a two tray Man!!!
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: pleno1 on October 19, 2013, 10:33:06 AM so how come youre playing nl10, whats your online background? Pretty terrible if I'm honest keep cashing the tournament's on stars at the moment but not enough really, want some sort of backing for online really as i just keep chucking like $30 at it and losing it obviously tournament's are high varience. What would you want backed online for? Nl10? Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: verndog158 on October 19, 2013, 03:49:13 PM in a way, your lucky only doubling me up. if K2 doesnt peel a 10th of his stack to a 3bet and i win the pot then i stack you :P
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: DrDreh on October 19, 2013, 06:15:19 PM in a way, your lucky only doubling me up. if K2 doesnt peel a 10th of his stack to a 3bet and i win the pot then i stack you :P but then the card would've been shuffled a few seconds earlier and some of them not dealt out and therefore the shuffle would've been different and therefore that hand may/ may not have happened in this wonderful world of hypotheticals chrisfish Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 19, 2013, 06:42:33 PM in a way, your lucky only doubling me up. if K2 doesnt peel a 10th of his stack to a 3bet and i win the pot then i stack you :P but then the card would've been shuffled a few seconds earlier and some of them not dealt out and therefore the shuffle would've been different and therefore that hand may/ may not have happened in this wonderful world of hypotheticals chrisfish I was thinking this, but say it does play out the same way do you call off 65k with KQo? Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 19, 2013, 06:43:40 PM so how come youre playing nl10, whats your online background? Pretty terrible if I'm honest keep cashing the tournament's on stars at the moment but not enough really, want some sort of backing for online really as i just keep chucking like $30 at it and losing it obviously tournament's are high varience. What would you want backed online for? Nl10? Yeah either 10nl or a serious role to play the tournaments on stars up to the hot $8.80 Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: pleno1 on October 19, 2013, 07:10:10 PM if youre serious about wanting to become a professional poker player then you should deposit enough into stars to play seriously and devote your time to it. Playing nl10 randomly will serve almost no purpose. If you want to just enjoy living life making a little bit from the game and enjoy the social side absolutely continue to play live tournaments in DTD, in fact I would recommend it.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 19, 2013, 07:45:54 PM if youre serious about wanting to become a professional poker player then you should deposit enough into stars to play seriously and devote your time to it. Playing nl10 randomly will serve almost no purpose. If you want to just enjoy living life making a little bit from the game and enjoy the social side absolutely continue to play live tournaments in DTD, in fact I would recommend it. The whole point of me coming here to play was to become professional. The only problem with putting enough money online to play what i wanted to start t which was 25nl is that i don't really have enough spare money atm, this was the point in saying i could use some staking but i do know what you mean need to get playing online to make some serious money. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 20, 2013, 05:12:57 PM bricked absolutely everything today 6-max, stars tournaments maybe the super50 tonight. Running bad this weekend can't remember winning a flip all weekend.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 21, 2013, 03:29:43 AM bricked absolutely everything today 6-max, stars tournaments maybe the super50 tonight. Running bad this weekend can't remember winning a flip all weekend. So i may have mispoke as long as i get it in ahead i win shipped the super50 again wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: Rexas on October 21, 2013, 03:32:02 AM Stop winning everything! Lol :) Wpsir :)
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: verndog158 on October 21, 2013, 03:36:07 AM it must be good to run good for a change *sigh*
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: redsimon on October 21, 2013, 11:16:04 AM Nice effort moaning it in :D
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: millidonk on October 21, 2013, 11:22:02 AM mbn to win something.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 21, 2013, 12:06:30 PM Stop winning everything! Lol :) Wpsir :) Thanks man :) Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 21, 2013, 12:07:36 PM it must be good to run good for a change *sigh* You came over to me like twice yesterday to say you won your biggest pot ever and you actually won more than i did -_- Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on October 21, 2013, 12:12:26 PM bricked absolutely everything today 6-max, stars tournaments maybe the super50 tonight. Running bad this weekend can't remember winning a flip all weekend. So i may have mispoke as long as i get it in ahead i win shipped the super50 again wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii (http://i.imgur.com/ImlYX.gif) Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 21, 2013, 12:46:45 PM bricked absolutely everything today 6-max, stars tournaments maybe the super50 tonight. Running bad this weekend can't remember winning a flip all weekend. So i may have mispoke as long as i get it in ahead i win shipped the super50 again wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii (http://i.imgur.com/ImlYX.gif) A* Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 22, 2013, 04:21:47 AM played the most ridic 50/1 ever in history today. Went to Gala to try this comp that has amazing value to be donked out when my 14k shove is called and he gets there. Was an amazing game though with some absolute hero's, Stato, Alex, Fred, Shaun, Rehman and others was a hilarious few hours unfortunately i was down but felt like i made a pretty sick laydown to stato. If he was telling the truth anyway. Best moment of the night by far, Fred 6-bet jams Stato to then show KQo when he folds, Stato then quietly stands up walks to the cash desk and comes back with 10 £100 plaques just to cover Fred this made for such a fun game dynamic, pretty much everyone was gunning for mr wise. Fun times!
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 23, 2013, 02:26:40 AM Days like today that make me hate this game, lost AIP AA<AK for a deepstack seat basically. Then just lost a £400 pot AA<99 AIP board comes KKQ93 siggggggh
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: verndog158 on October 24, 2013, 12:50:25 PM back to gala tonight old boy?
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 24, 2013, 04:53:41 PM back to gala tonight old boy? Nah pal going to play at dusk tonight shorter trip plus fancy the headhunter Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: verndog158 on October 24, 2013, 05:22:27 PM disappointing, well odds on we shall see you at some point!
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 26, 2013, 04:06:30 AM Guess it was just going to happen on a bit of a downswing on cash atm can't seem to win a hand AA<89 AA<J4 QQ<99 and thats just tonight all big pots and i just seem to be losing them everytime. I haven't even got the role to play cash after how much it's been brutalized recently. I don't even think I'm doing much wrong just seems ridiculous when i am steaming ship £50 with QQ the guy calls with 9's and both me and nay tell him the 9 is coming and of course it does.
Sorry if this seems like a rant just sooooooo down + grammar is terrible i know put it down to the bad mood. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on October 27, 2013, 11:56:11 AM played the xxl last night and plyed pretty well i thought but lost a 2 flips in a row and i was out siggghh....
Playing the 100 today be nice to win it please some decent run good please! Good luck to all the blondes left in the sky main, verndog or rayfish for the win! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on October 27, 2013, 12:18:32 PM Is my 7th favorite British poker player still in the main?
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: flushthemout on October 27, 2013, 12:47:55 PM Gl Today Fella, went down to a pony then had another bash at Vardias, left with the milkman with a full tray.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: verndog158 on October 28, 2013, 02:42:03 AM tomson, i hope you were referring to me? :D
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on October 28, 2013, 09:56:08 AM tomson, i hope you were referring to me? :D Of course, you've got a long way to go to reach the dizzy heights of Adam Picken and Tommy Bingham. But a few more min cashes and you'll be battling for the top spots. @OP Nice to meet you btw. Please ditch the hoody, it makes the place look untidy. Shoes and black tie in future please. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: verndog158 on October 30, 2013, 02:21:36 PM tomson, i hope you were referring to me? :D Of course, you've got a long way to go to reach the dizzy heights of Adam Picken and Tommy Bingham. But a few more min cashes and you'll be battling for the top spots. @OP Nice to meet you btw. Please ditch the hoody, it makes the place look untidy. Shoes and black tie in future please. haha thanks tom, was fun playing with you. ha ill take a few more min cashes, beats bubbling every tourny thats for sure! good luck in IOM this weekend, ill bubble the 300 in loving memory of you! :D Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on November 06, 2013, 03:37:25 AM wiiiiiiiiii. Played the $11 rebuy on poker770 with the free money you get on the site and binked 2nd for $1.7k nice little boost was getting really frustrated with online poker. Will start posting more again just not been much to write about apart from 3rd in the xxl25 but was nothing to tell really........ feeling good
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on November 06, 2013, 02:50:22 PM Just keep moaning it in like a boss....
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: verndog158 on November 06, 2013, 03:07:37 PM after spotting the writer of this blog in the 15 freezeout on sunday, his new name is 'bowlerization'. thoughts everyone? rotflmfao
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on November 06, 2013, 03:12:03 PM (http://www-static.weddingbee.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/23/dramall.jpg)
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: redsimon on November 06, 2013, 03:13:48 PM after spotting the writer of this blog in the 15 freezeout on sunday, his new name is 'bowlerization'. thoughts everyone? rotflmfao Bankroll management ...? Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: verndog158 on November 06, 2013, 03:45:17 PM after spotting the writer of this blog in the 15 freezeout on sunday, his new name is 'bowlerization'. thoughts everyone? rotflmfao Bankroll management ...? ha true, more than most of us thats for sure!! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on November 06, 2013, 04:27:35 PM after spotting the writer of this blog in the 15 freezeout on sunday, his new name is 'bowlerization'. thoughts everyone? rotflmfao Bankroll management ...? ha true, more than most of us thats for sure!! Didn't want to play the £58 comp with like £300 to my name -_- Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on November 06, 2013, 04:28:02 PM (http://www-static.weddingbee.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/23/dramall.jpg) Just amazing Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on November 06, 2013, 04:34:18 PM after spotting the writer of this blog in the 15 freezeout on sunday, his new name is 'bowlerization'. thoughts everyone? rotflmfao Bankroll management ...? ha true, more than most of us thats for sure!! Didn't want to play the £58 comp with like £300 to my name -_- Where's your heart??? Ask plenop about bankroll management, you basically have to have enough to buy in. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: pleno1 on November 06, 2013, 04:54:30 PM after spotting the writer of this blog in the 15 freezeout on sunday, his new name is 'bowlerization'. thoughts everyone? rotflmfao Bankroll management ...? ha true, more than most of us thats for sure!! Didn't want to play the £58 comp with like £300 to my name -_- Where's your heart??? Ask plenop about bankroll management, you basically have to have enough to buy in 100 times. fyp Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: Rexas on November 06, 2013, 05:28:51 PM (http://www-static.weddingbee.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/23/dramall.jpg) Just awesomesauce fyp Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on November 06, 2013, 06:02:10 PM after spotting the writer of this blog in the 15 freezeout on sunday, his new name is 'bowlerization'. thoughts everyone? rotflmfao Bankroll management ...? ha true, more than most of us thats for sure!! haha wp sir. How did the UKIPT go guessing you didn't win? Didn't want to play the £58 comp with like £300 to my name -_- Where's your heart??? Ask plenop about bankroll management, you basically have to have enough to buy in. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: david3103 on November 07, 2013, 06:37:36 AM after spotting the writer of this blog in the 15 freezeout on sunday, his new name is 'bowlerization'. thoughts everyone? rotflmfao Bankroll management ...? ha true, more than most of us thats for sure!! Didn't want to play the £58 comp with like £300 to my name -_- Where's your heart??? Ask plenop about bankroll management, you basically have to be able to borrow enough to buy in. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on November 09, 2013, 01:27:56 AM Had a really good few days at home didn't realize how much i actually miss my family. Had a mad night last night where i don't even remember 90% but i was so drunk but it was epic..... back to the office starting tomorrow.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on November 09, 2013, 03:43:28 AM sigh thought i was going for a deep run in another comp on poker770, was pretty card dead throughout made a lot in my good spots though. Then were on the bubble and a fish with a lot of chips like 25BB at the time open ships UTG, I'm on the button with QQ flick in my 10BB he has AJo i sigghed at how bad his shove was then watched as the board rolls off 4 clubs for him to have a jack high flush and I'm bubbly boy waaahhh....... promising run in a card dead tourney though.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on November 11, 2013, 12:09:41 AM waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah............... satellited into the $215 sunday special on poker770, played so solidly throughout making some good folds and made a ridiculous hero on someone, Ahrt 8h in the BB he mins UTG i peel the flop comes 7c 8d Qc i check called, turn 7d check check, river is 3h i check he puts me all in i put him on AQ and call he had AQ for me to triple up. Really disappointing to be honest managed to get up to little above average but was so card dead for the last hour and it was to much really, SB vs BB he mins i shove 10BB with Kd Js over the top he calls with Ad Qc to hold. nice cash for $420 since i was in for like $18 but still bit tilting how card dead i was.
Keep the grind going i guess loving the tourneys on this site they are just so soft. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: cambridgealex on November 11, 2013, 01:04:41 AM after spotting the writer of this blog in the 15 freezeout on sunday, his new name is 'bowlerization'. thoughts everyone? rotflmfao My first post itt, just needed to say <3 this Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on November 11, 2013, 01:50:24 AM after spotting the writer of this blog in the 15 freezeout on sunday, his new name is 'bowlerization'. thoughts everyone? rotflmfao My first post itt, just needed to say <3 this haha chris is a douch -_- well done on big game win alex Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: verndog158 on November 11, 2013, 02:23:34 AM after spotting the writer of this blog in the 15 freezeout on sunday, his new name is 'bowlerization'. thoughts everyone? rotflmfao My first post itt, just needed to say <3 this haha chris is a douch -_- well done on big game win alex haha glad to see this is catching on. i now have 2 heroes, alex and tomson on board, who knows what heights this can reach!! #bowlerization Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: cambridgealex on November 11, 2013, 02:49:35 AM after spotting the writer of this blog in the 15 freezeout on sunday, his new name is 'bowlerization'. thoughts everyone? rotflmfao My first post itt, just needed to say <3 this haha chris is a douch -_- well done on big game win alex thanks. I've learned from lurking itt that it was possible to consistently win live tournaments so I'll be hoping to emulate your success there. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on November 21, 2013, 02:07:59 PM Not posted in ages because nothing has really been going on, be a bit boring if i just put stayed in all day and slept on my diary haha. Just had a bad 24 hours playing and thought i would post, really annoyed ran so badly and haven't won when i've been 70% or less its so frustrating not won a single flip, in the 6 max micromillions guy limps i ship 15BB OTT he snaps me off with KJo and hits a jack was pretty mad but it's poker, on a life front was thinking of getting a job dealing at Alea thought it would be a good idea :)
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: verndog158 on November 21, 2013, 02:24:42 PM gala looking for dealers too, and it seems a much better atmosphere if you were to deal there
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on November 25, 2013, 04:34:11 PM played the hot $4.40 (turbo) on stars just bust 8th siggh, lost a couple of bad spots 2 tables left AJddvs 44 on A22 4 on the turn stuff like that then 2nd hand of the final table get AKdd on my button UTG+1 mins it i ship 8BB he calls about the same with QQ and i lose the flip ssiiiigggh 2.7k would have been nice.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on November 25, 2013, 05:14:05 PM If you want to ship us the HH I will have a look through it for you?
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: Rexas on November 25, 2013, 06:07:25 PM If you want to ship us the HH I will have a look through it for you? Definitely a good plan, of all the people who you could get looking through your hh, this guys gotta be one of the best. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: JGill_DTD on November 25, 2013, 06:35:22 PM If you want to ship us the HH I will have a look through it for you? what a life! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: TL900 on November 25, 2013, 07:04:49 PM If you want to ship us the HH I will have a look through it for you? Definitely a good plan, of all the people who you could get looking through your hh, this guys gotta be one of the best. call, have u never played with this guy?! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on November 25, 2013, 08:20:34 PM If you want to ship us the HH I will have a look through it for you? This would be much appreciated to be honest, I'll get them off stars for you. email? Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on November 25, 2013, 08:40:03 PM call, have u never played with this guy?! Don't you be ratting me out in here Langley. Just cause you know I don't know what I'm doing doesn't mean it needs broadcasting to the rest of the world!!!! For those who wish to see some proof that I do know what I'm doing, please see the link below: http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6083402_C78C91F1D3 (http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6083402_C78C91F1D3) This would be much appreciated to be honest, I'll get them off stars for you. email? somerville.poker@gmail.com Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on November 25, 2013, 08:50:20 PM call, have u never played with this guy?! Don't you be ratting me out in here Langley. Just cause you know I don't know what I'm doing doesn't mean it needs broadcasting to the rest of the world!!!! For those who wish to see some proof that I do know what I'm doing, please see the link below: http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6083402_C78C91F1D3 (http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6083402_C78C91F1D3) This would be much appreciated to be honest, I'll get them off stars for you. email? somerville.poker@gmail.com sent them :) + that was a great play with the 79o will remember it Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on November 25, 2013, 08:58:50 PM Just realised the email version doesnt work in Universal Replayer. Any chance you have the original HH file on your comp somewhere (from PT4/HEM)?
If not ill just flick through on PT4, but loads easier for me if I can use UR.... Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on November 25, 2013, 08:59:42 PM decided since this morning i had $1.79 in my stars account ive spun that up to like $212, so I'm effectively freerolling so I am going to play the big $162 wish me luck.....
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on November 25, 2013, 09:00:30 PM Just realised the email version doesnt work in Universal Replayer. Any chance you have the original HH file on your comp somewhere (from PT4/HEM)? If not ill just flick through on PT4, but loads easier for me if I can use UR.... For some reason my HEM isn't saving hands properly need to get this sorted so i can't sorry Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on November 25, 2013, 09:29:58 PM I can't get it to work on UR or PT4. Does anyone know of any alternatives? I could have used the PXF replayer but I would have to resubscribe.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on November 25, 2013, 11:45:11 PM wow really tilted right now played the big $162 ws killing it early on. I expected a serious high level of poker and all there was were people sticking 30BB in KQo vs 88 stuff like that went pretty card dead and folded AKo with 20BB when there were 2 all ins in front of me, i figured that i was against something like 10's and AK/AQ so not in amazing shape didn't feel a need on reflection shouldn't have folded. Then shipped 10BB with A3dd called in BB by A9ss and he holds :(
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: SuuPRlim on November 26, 2013, 02:36:51 AM AK hand really depends on the stack sizes of the ALL-INs in front of you, if the first guy shovs 9bb and someone with 21 BB isolates them by going all-in as well then you have a very very easy All-In, you crush one range and do fine vs another getting a gd price (first guy AI with KTs etc and the guy will re-iso a lot of pairs AQ, AJs etc) also what positions they doing this from, if its UTG1 shoves 10bb and 19bb in shoves nextt position its a lot different to CO shoving, and BTN isolating as the btn's range will be lot wider given there is significantly less risk off running into a big hand cold.
If it's something like Raise to 3bb, shove all-in for 14bb and then someone else shoves over the top for 25bb's then you have a definate fold, given the first shover will be shoving tighter persumably given they have more bets and over an EP opener (more chance of them having a better/calling hand) and this will. in turn make the 2nd ALL-IN's range very strong as his hand need to be ahead of the first shover's range, and there is the risk that the initial opener has a good hand too, AK does ok vs the first range and pretty meh against the second. Need to pay real attention to these things in game as they are hugely hugely relevant.. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on November 26, 2013, 06:08:53 PM AK hand really depends on the stack sizes of the ALL-INs in front of you, if the first guy shovs 9bb and someone with 21 BB isolates them by going all-in as well then you have a very very easy All-In, you crush one range and do fine vs another getting a gd price (first guy AI with KTs etc and the guy will re-iso a lot of pairs AQ, AJs etc) also what positions they doing this from, if its UTG1 shoves 10bb and 19bb in shoves nextt position its a lot different to CO shoving, and BTN isolating as the btn's range will be lot wider given there is significantly less risk off running into a big hand cold. If it's something like Raise to 3bb, shove all-in for 14bb and then someone else shoves over the top for 25bb's then you have a definate fold, given the first shover will be shoving tighter persumably given they have more bets and over an EP opener (more chance of them having a better/calling hand) and this will. in turn make the 2nd ALL-IN's range very strong as his hand need to be ahead of the first shover's range, and there is the risk that the initial opener has a good hand too, AK does ok vs the first range and pretty meh against the second. Need to pay real attention to these things in game as they are hugely hugely relevant.. yeah i did at the time the original shove was for around my stack between 15-20BB the second shove was for around 40BB if i remember rightly UTG+1 and UTG +2 i was on the button, so both shoves are pretty strong in my mind, i think there was a blind level jump about to happen as well so should really just have gone with it. thanks though :) Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on November 26, 2013, 10:19:28 PM Just sort of had an epiphany about playing that tournament last night really happy i played it to be honest, yeah it cost me $162 which I'd played all day to win but it's also given me a lot of confidence in my game i outplayed a lot of people at that level and in the end got a little unlucky. Also just playing the big $11 now and realized how much more confident i am maneuvering my stack about and abusing people haha. Also got a seat in the last sat on stars for a UKIPT package 2 guaranteed about 20 people in wish me luck hopefully I'll be playing it..... you'll all know i guess.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on November 26, 2013, 11:11:14 PM Just a quick question if anyone wants to answer: I'm playing 80BB villain is playing 35BB he min open i 3-bet pretty small on my button with 9s Ts am i just giving him a chance to shove here and losing the equity that my hand has so should flat or is this a standard 3-bet he opened hijack im on button?
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on November 26, 2013, 11:13:54 PM Just a quick question if anyone wants to answer: I'm playing 80BB villain is playing 35BB he min open i 3-bet pretty small on my button with 9s Ts am i just giving him a chance to shove here and losing the equity that my hand has so should flat or is this a standard 3-bet he opened hijack im on button? Can of worms question. You can do either profitably I would suggest. I would flat sometimes and 3b sometimes. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on November 26, 2013, 11:49:26 PM SSOSOSOSOSOSOOSOSOSOSOSOSO MAAAAAAAAD!!!!!!!!!!!! playing UKIPT sat on stars and also big $11, i blew up a bit in big $11 this affected me in the sat as well i was cruising in sat then messed up a few hands due to tile! went down to around average then with 12 left get AQcc in SB playing 30k blinds 1250/2500 guy makes it 7500 out of a 40k stack i shove he calls with J10 of clubs flop comes 892 ccx so im huge takes some of his outs but gives him straight outs he binks an offsuit Jack. How the hell does he make the calls or the raise in the 1st place its just suicide. About 5 mins before in big $11 had AK in BB playing 80k average is 75k and blinds are 1k/2k i think guy shove MP for 18k, button flats; thought process here he could be huge but mostly good players do this and he was TERRIBLE, SB calls so dead money now basically i have to shove i shove button snaps with QQ and wins a flip to go chip leader in the tourney wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii whats a life.........
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on November 27, 2013, 01:17:50 AM Only just realized that was my last chance to get in the UKIPT. Bit gutted i got bad beated now :( anyone got a spare £1100 hanging round to put me in?
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on December 02, 2013, 06:11:03 PM Was just sat playing the big $8.80 (bowl comps for life) thought I'd put a quick post on here not been up to much recently apart from playing tournament's on stars, i have ran deep a few times and came 202nd in the sunday million yesterday which was sick! As for live poker nothing going will be playing the xxl25's wednesday and thursday try win the big game seat. As for life feeling good (need to lose weight!) but Saturday going back home till after christmas should be nice spending this much time with the family! Also getting absolutely mortal saturday which will just be amazing! /
On a side note thought i'd say what a lot of people are thinking hope you get everything sorted alex so you get the diary back soon! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on December 09, 2013, 12:00:00 AM played so much OFC atm, nays ran absolutely sick for so long up like 800 points through 10 hours or whatever! he just showed 4s 5s 6s 7s 2h
Ac Kc Jc 7c 4c 9s 9c 2d so sick playing with the guy! Should be coming over next week with all these sick xxl and super50's on saturday £20k guarentee and 4 seats i will be winning that hopefully! hope to see some blondes there might get chicken first if anyone is up for it let me know..... Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: verndog158 on December 09, 2013, 12:02:00 AM im no OFC pro, but if he showed that, isnt that a fouled hand?
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: Rexas on December 09, 2013, 12:06:49 AM im no OFC pro, but if he showed that, isnt that a fouled hand? nope, assume wild 2's, so straight flush, flush and trip nines for 46 points. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: verndog158 on December 09, 2013, 12:18:37 AM yeah just realised, cheers rexas ;kneelsucker;
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on December 09, 2013, 12:36:01 AM im no OFC pro, but if he showed that, isnt that a fouled hand? nope, assume wild 2's, so straight flush, flush and trip nines for 46 points. Yes they are and he's destroying us one outers for fun he's so bad though like sets hand like 8h Ts 5c 4d Qh Qd 3c Also matt chicken next week? Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: verndog158 on December 09, 2013, 12:49:45 AM am sure ill be about next week. ;) thanks for asking
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on December 09, 2013, 01:09:54 AM am sure ill be about next week. ;) thanks for asking haha obvs was an open invite :) didnt think you were playing for a while anyway? ;) Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on December 09, 2013, 01:11:21 AM am sure ill be about next week. ;) thanks for asking We'll play some OFC and go nandos? Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: verndog158 on December 09, 2013, 01:17:57 AM ha i havent, cant miss out on the odd bowl though can i ;)
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on December 09, 2013, 10:03:21 PM just completely spewed off the best ever spot in the big $11 sat on 40BB with the chip leader on my right playing 80/56 or something like that through 30/40 hands to then lose a 10-15BB all in 77<QQ standard but ended up getting my last 20BB in on Ahrt Kd Jd with Ac Td guy calls off with Kc Qs and turns a Kh wiiiiii MBN still more annoyed at myself than the cards.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: WotRTheChances on December 10, 2013, 12:00:10 AM just completely spewed off the best ever spot in the big $11 sat on 40BB with the chip leader on my right playing 80/56 or something like that through 30/40 hands to then lose a 10-15BB all in 77<QQ standard but ended up getting my last 20BB in on Ahrt Kd Jd with Ac Td guy calls off with Kc Qs and turns a Kh wiiiiii MBN still more annoyed at myself than the cards. Annoyed at yourself for getting it in with AT v KQ on AKJ? I'm confused.... Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: pleno1 on December 10, 2013, 12:07:27 AM yeah i thought the same and then thought i misread hh and clicked off.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on December 10, 2013, 01:17:44 PM just completely spewed off the best ever spot in the big $11 sat on 40BB with the chip leader on my right playing 80/56 or something like that through 30/40 hands to then lose a 10-15BB all in 77<QQ standard but ended up getting my last 20BB in on Ahrt Kd Jd with Ac Td guy calls off with Kc Qs and turns a Kh wiiiiii MBN still more annoyed at myself than the cards. Annoyed at yourself for getting it in with AT v KQ on AKJ? I'm confused.... was annoyed to be honest i didn't think about his hand at all and didn't really think i was ahead my mind just went blank happy when cards were on the back but it was more the 7's hand really. sorry for the confusion. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: OverTheBorder on December 10, 2013, 02:01:04 PM just completely spewed off the best ever spot in the big $11 sat on 40BB with the chip leader on my right playing 80/56 or something like that through 30/40 hands to then lose a 10-15BB all in 77<QQ standard but ended up getting my last 20BB in on Ahrt Kd Jd with Ac Td guy calls off with Kc Qs and turns a Kh wiiiiii MBN still more annoyed at myself than the cards. Annoyed at yourself for getting it in with AT v KQ on AKJ? I'm confused.... was annoyed to be honest i didn't think about his hand at all and didn't really think i was ahead my mind just went blank happy when cards were on the back but it was more the 7's hand really. sorry for the confusion. Secret of MTTs is smile nod and move on. For every suck out you receive you likely give one back. The mental side of dealing with variance is huge. Forget about previous sessions, start fresh and win. Don't beat yourself up. Nb getting 20BB in with A10 on that board can't be terrible, especially if you shoved on villain. Can't imagine losing 10>15BB with 77vsQQ could have been that bad either. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on December 10, 2013, 02:08:59 PM just completely spewed off the best ever spot in the big $11 sat on 40BB with the chip leader on my right playing 80/56 or something like that through 30/40 hands to then lose a 10-15BB all in 77<QQ standard but ended up getting my last 20BB in on Ahrt Kd Jd with Ac Td guy calls off with Kc Qs and turns a Kh wiiiiii MBN still more annoyed at myself than the cards. Annoyed at yourself for getting it in with AT v KQ on AKJ? I'm confused.... was annoyed to be honest i didn't think about his hand at all and didn't really think i was ahead my mind just went blank happy when cards were on the back but it was more the 7's hand really. sorry for the confusion. Secret of MTTs is smile nod and move on. For every suck out you receive you likely give one back. The mental side of dealing with variance is huge. Forget about previous sessions, start fresh and win. Don't beat yourself up. Nb getting 20BB in with A10 on that board can't be terrible, especially if you shoved on villain. Can't imagine losing 10>15BB with 77vsQQ could have been that bad either. thanks :) the 7's were annoying because i had such a good spot on the table the big stack was opening to like 6x etc then folding to 3-bets and i called off like half my stack with 7's against the tightest player at the table :/ Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on December 11, 2013, 04:24:35 PM just had such a funny spot were I'm in a sat and the top 25 get seats there's 27 left I'm 20th in chips.
button is 2nd in chips and shoves, SB calls all in (one of the shorties) I'm in the BB with Ad Ac erm... do i fold and get the seat? but it's aces :/ Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: millidonk on December 11, 2013, 04:26:47 PM fold. I wouldn't play another hand.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: rfgqqabc on December 11, 2013, 04:37:44 PM A man offered me $55 to fold a hand. Would you fold?
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: Steve Swift on December 11, 2013, 04:41:08 PM oh oh pick me sir, even I know the answer to this one, its a fold with a knowing smile :)
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: pleno1 on December 11, 2013, 06:43:24 PM turn the feature on stars where ur cards are face down, ldo.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on December 12, 2013, 05:50:38 AM feel pretty sick to be honest final tabled another $3.50+R was huge chip wise for a while abused the bubble so much when i had like triple average. Found a pretty bad spot when UTG ships like 4BB I've got Ks Ts in the cut-off rejam 10BB (the original raiser was jamming ATC in my mind) the button wakes up with Kd Kc waaahh...... was right though UTG had Jd 7c loool
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on December 12, 2013, 01:11:49 PM just had such a funny spot were I'm in a sat and the top 25 get seats there's 27 left I'm 20th in chips. button is 2nd in chips and shoves, SB calls all in (one of the shorties) I'm in the BB with Ad Ac erm... do i fold and get the seat? but it's aces :/ The way I look at this is if we fold every hand we get a seat 98-99% of the time, if we call, we get a seat like 85% of the time (or however often we lose as a % vs his range). feel pretty sick to be honest final tabled another $3.50+R was huge chip wise for a while abused the bubble so much when i had like triple average. Found a pretty bad spot when UTG ships like 4BB I've got Ks Ts in the cutoff rejam 10BB (the original raiser was jamming ATC in my mind) the button wakes up with Kd Kc waaahh...... was right though UTG had Jd 7c loool Sounds pretty standard for 10bb effective. UTG should be shoving like 80% of hands here, don't hate shoving ATC either. The variance in 180's is absolutely insane though so be prepared for a rough ride. The reason why I like stacking tables is so I don't have to see what happens, allows me to carry on grinding without getting affected by how the board runs / what cooler you've run in to. Once you have established that it was a good iso pre, the runout is basically irrelevant. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on December 12, 2013, 03:02:32 PM just had such a funny spot were I'm in a sat and the top 25 get seats there's 27 left I'm 20th in chips. button is 2nd in chips and shoves, SB calls all in (one of the shorties) I'm in the BB with Ad Ac erm... do i fold and get the seat? but it's aces :/ The way I look at this is if we fold every hand we get a seat 98-99% of the time, if we call, we get a seat like 85% of the time (or however often we lose as a % vs his range). feel pretty sick to be honest final tabled another $3.50+R was huge chip wise for a while abused the bubble so much when i had like triple average. Found a pretty bad spot when UTG ships like 4BB I've got Ks Ts in the cutoff rejam 10BB (the original raiser was jamming ATC in my mind) the button wakes up with Kd Kc waaahh...... was right though UTG had Jd 7c loool Sounds pretty standard for 10bb effective. UTG should be shoving like 80% of hands here, don't hate shoving ATC either. The variance in 180's is absolutely insane though so be prepared for a rough ride. The reason why I like stacking tables is so I don't have to see what happens, allows me to carry on grinding without getting affected by how the board runs / what cooler you've run in to. Once you have established that it was a good iso pre, the runout is basically irrelevant. yeah was pretty cool with the iso to be honest like you say he should be jamming ATC and I have good equity a lot of the time anyway, just frustrating it's my 3rd final table and i haven't had that lil bit of luck yaalll need Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on December 12, 2013, 10:51:09 PM fired up a few 180's with the last $70 in my roll on stars basically what i've spun up over a few days from like $8 playing the 180's.
Thought i had some decent sweats going on in $3.50+R which i think are my favorite 180's, but usual shit happened late on Ac Qd< Ad Th for chunks 5c 5d on KQ510 guys got Jc Ac, then 3h 3s Aspades flop i ship Ac 8d he calls with 6c 6d 6s on river :dontask: One sweat left in an $8 180 10/13 need some run good be nice to win! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on December 12, 2013, 10:53:26 PM haha 3/12 Ad 8d>> Ac Jd wiiii ask and you shall recieve :)
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on December 12, 2013, 10:56:19 PM wahhh Ad Jc<< Kh Kc cutoffvs SB all out
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on December 13, 2013, 11:00:10 AM (http://cdn.head-fi.org/6/6a/900x900px-LL-6a18ffb2_dealwithit.gif)
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on December 14, 2013, 02:44:50 PM managed to nearlly bubble a $2.50 180 with a ton of chips trying to play bully got unlucky a lot to though:
A9<QJ K10<QJ for like 7-10bb both times shipped Q8 in SB BB finds A10 last chunk shipped Q10 CO BB finds AQ waah got an above average stack in saturday micro but not even out of late reg yet! Any blondes around dusk tonight for the giant super50? Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on December 14, 2013, 11:53:39 PM such a bad day everytime i've been going deep in a 180 found a horror spot to bust. busted a double average stack earlier in 4 hands got it in way ahead 3/4 didn't win. But shit happens haha :)
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on December 15, 2013, 09:08:34 PM bricked all comps played really bad..... got 5% of nay in storm swapped 5 as a lol moment. in a $3.50+R 180 6/22 lets go be nice to win :D
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on December 20, 2013, 10:55:59 AM Pretty annoyed right now!!! played the big $3.30 was cruising got up to 100k then blind on blind SB limps so i squeeze him with 86ss he calls the flop is a beautiful J86 he bets i call turn A he jams turn i call loving life he had J8 WP SIR NH! then have 10BB left shove AK once again loving life to get called by 22 and lose hate it when people flick in with 22 like it's the stone cold nuts sigggggh!
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 06, 2014, 08:13:24 PM going to be posting a lot over the next few days i think might give me some motivation to play always helps!
Poker has been non-exist in my life apart from mess about game with friends! as for life been decent had a few good nights out! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 06, 2014, 08:13:49 PM oh yeah and happy new year everyone!
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 06, 2014, 09:30:38 PM played a few 180's done pretty good in them. If I'd ran better today could have gone a lot better.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 06, 2014, 10:24:09 PM wiiii took one down :) 57>K8
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 06, 2014, 11:04:26 PM just had such a funny experience on supercasino were you get the free £10 spun it up to £150 then had a sweat were 29 got me about £600 would have been nice so hard to cash in though so doesn't matter fun sweat though
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 07, 2014, 12:52:43 PM Going to play a decent amount of volume today i think. Going to go back through some hand history's and stuff after so I'll post a few funny hands or something.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: verndog158 on January 07, 2014, 01:23:51 PM Going to play a decent amount of volume today i think. Going to go back through some hand history's and stuff after so I'll post a few funny hands or something. oh wow im on the edge of my seat, hurry up, come on.... Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 07, 2014, 03:29:36 PM Going to play a decent amount of volume today i think. Going to go back through some hand history's and stuff after so I'll post a few funny hands or something. oh wow im on the edge of my seat, hurry up, come on.... Might not do it now -_- Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 07, 2014, 04:14:22 PM gonna cut this session short, not really feeling it not in the right mindset so probably good to stop regging. Started playing stacked rather than tiled so can do more tables was comfortable at 16 tables earlier so thats good for volume.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 07, 2014, 05:37:19 PM didn't go bad on the last 6 that i regged before not feeling it, min cashed 3 then got a 3rd were i was chip leader and lost A8<Q9 Q5<J9 just general bad spots oh well ill go again tomorrow i guess.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 08, 2014, 04:12:55 PM todays gone pretty sick to be honest ran pretty well when deep played about 40-50 S&G's, cashed so many and done about 8 final tables so going well got 3 left were im in the money with decent stacks legooo...
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 08, 2014, 04:30:08 PM http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6806054_400A8A7260
bleurrrggghhh had same spot yesterday on a ft with KK<43hh Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 08, 2014, 07:27:19 PM wiiiiiii, just won another and got a 3rd+plus a few min cashes up like $200 for today which is always good about 80bi :)
Going out round chesterfield tomorrow freerolling the night as nays student finance came in so hes paying haha should be fun! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 08, 2014, 07:28:05 PM + got average stack in hotter $11 legooo
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on January 09, 2014, 03:04:36 PM Get on skype you slag!
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 09, 2014, 08:54:31 PM yeah boi, in such a good mood going out with lads now should be a laugh cant wait for the grind tomorrow
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on January 18, 2014, 03:00:03 PM LETS GO......
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 20, 2014, 07:17:06 PM The update
As some of you will know I'm now staked to grind the 180 man S&G's on pokerstars by Tomsom94793793, this came at a time for me were i was feeling pretty down about poker and wasn't really playing a lot or as much as i should have been, so I'm thankful to tom for sorting this out. So since then poker has been really good gone on a pretty sweet upswing since i started on stake 10 days ago up about $600 playing the $2.50's and just started to throw in some $8 in the last few days; obv bink one first day playing them 8) really enjoying playing them at the moment even though the variance is absolutely brutal! So the plan is from now i can do updates on my diary on how I'm doing in the games, should be good for motivation, also I can get some feedback talk through things with some good 180 grinders on the site. Hopefully i can also help them as well with some spots, so now should be doing daily updates and being more active on blonde again. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: rfgqqabc on January 20, 2014, 07:32:40 PM You haven't experienced variance yet. Be afraid. Gl, tomsom is a really good guy and a stake with him seems perfect for someone with your enthusiasm.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 21, 2014, 02:57:42 AM Pretty brutal day today even though i final tabled 3 $8 only got 4th, 7th and 9th so nothing really went my way there, just found some sick spots. Oh well shit happens (insert cool deal with it gif).
Watched Uncle today new tv show on it's really funny, had me and nay in absolute stitches for the half hour it was on would really recommend it to everyone. Think I'm now going to watch through the first season of american horror story's which is a great series, I don't think people rate it highly enough to be honest. Will be back on the grind tomorrow can't actually wait loving the grind! Bankroll start day: $500 current bankroll: $377.72 vpp: 1762 Really want to try and make gold this month I've never done it and even though this is easy for most, it means playing like another 1000 or so games this month possible but is going to be really hard! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 21, 2014, 02:59:02 AM You haven't experienced variance yet. Be afraid. Gl, tomsom is a really good guy and a stake with him seems perfect for someone with your enthusiasm. Really am dreading the downswing I'll be honest, but yeah he is and I'm sure when I am on my downswing he'll tell me to shut up and just get on with it haha. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 21, 2014, 03:03:32 PM graph since the 10th nice to start on a heater lol
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: Steve Swift on January 21, 2014, 04:15:41 PM Missed it I am sure, do you work, study ? What time do you start your grind and do you have search on or off, o yes and btw GL.
Steve Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 21, 2014, 06:14:45 PM Missed it I am sure, do you work, study ? What time do you start your grind and do you have search on or off, o yes and btw GL. Steve Yes i have been doing quite a lot of studying at the moment going through HH's on my own and with Tomsom and also using sites. Don't have a set time to grind due to messed up sleeping pattern, but i try get as many games in a day as i can while i feel i am playing optimal :) and thanks Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: pleno1 on January 21, 2014, 06:30:45 PM he means do you have a job or are you a student i think.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 21, 2014, 08:26:10 PM he means do you have a job or are you a student i think. This makes sense -_- I don't at the moment applied for a job dealing at alea for now, then in the summer I'm going to uni at notts trent. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: Steve Swift on January 21, 2014, 09:02:37 PM he means do you have a job or are you a student i think. Correct and thanks. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 22, 2014, 12:22:19 AM so today was really really bad for me. Just couldn't get anything going and when i did found a cooler pretty much everytime so not good.Think tomorrow I'm going to study for a couple of hours and make some real effort at it, think i need to review a lot of hands and make sure I'm not just playing bad.
Made a really nice chicken dish with peppers and onions, so that was really good enjoyed that at least. Start bankroll: $377.72 current bankroll: $180.60 VPP's: 1916.74 Think i can make gold by this month at least going to have to grind a hell of a lot over the next week or so though. leggggoooo. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 22, 2014, 04:09:42 AM considering doing a staking thread for some of the XXl comps at DTD over the coming weeks, Not sure if this is something that people would be interested in, i do have a pretty good record in these though to be honest having a ridiculous run over September- early November time when i was playing them daily:
http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=297391 I would be thinking of playing all the XXl25 that are on at dusk every week and maybe the super50's as well I need to hit the 300 posts before i can do a proper staking thread i was just toying with the idea and wondered if it would have any pull. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: JGill_DTD on January 22, 2014, 04:29:26 AM 300 posts > SNE
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: Derbylad on January 22, 2014, 04:39:42 AM 300 posts > SNE This should definitely be a 'Blonde' t-shirt Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 22, 2014, 04:52:13 AM Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: Rexas on January 22, 2014, 04:57:52 AM Grind the PHA :D
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 23, 2014, 01:29:04 AM todays been such a bore day not really been in the mood to grind so not done a lot saving up all the run good for the TCOOP tomorrow :) Started playing a little bit of skyrim today which ive always been adamant was not a very good game, but on reflection really feeling it.
start roll:$180.60 current roll: $195.83 VPIP: 1979.32 (did not play a lot today, going to crush tomorrow) Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 24, 2014, 04:15:46 PM Didn't post yesterday as i forgot my sleeping pattern is all over the place right now, anyone else get this problem? good ways to fix it? (dont just say go to sleep -_-) sweated FIFA pretty much all night then a bit of skyrim, traffic runs really slow after midnight-1 o'clock so i try to avoid playing as this is tilting. Poker wise yesterday hardly got any games in but put in a small loss, TCOOP didn't go well guy couldn't let go of 1010 on KQ764 to a double barrel thought he had a queen guess he wouldn't have folded that either haha.
start bankroll:195.83 current roll:$461.51 (had a $300 top up) FPP's:316.83 (used most of them to play the TCOOP) will post again later this is for yesterday Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 24, 2014, 07:07:37 PM been a decent session to be honest really really enjoyed grinding today i don't know what made it that much different but didn't want to stop playing, but I've got to go to dusky and ship the xxl giant tonight so had to really :/ anyone else going to play?
start roll: $461.83 current roll: $455.61 FPP's: 413.21 so not a profitable day but enjoyable and felt like i played really well today so that's good just need those breaks. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: rfgqqabc on January 25, 2014, 01:51:03 AM For fixing your sleep pattern its all about pulling a really long session (as in staying awake). When i get into a bad rhythm I try to make 9-10pm and just sleep right through. For getting to sleep easier. get away from your screen for 30 mins and read, preferably something enjoyable but heavy reading, and you'll soon disappear into the night.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 25, 2014, 04:02:26 AM For fixing your sleep pattern its all about pulling a really long session (as in staying awake). When i get into a bad rhythm I try to make 9-10pm and just sleep right through. For getting to sleep easier. get away from your screen for 30 mins and read, preferably something enjoyable but heavy reading, and you'll soon disappear into the night. Okay thanks played the xxl tonight and i feel shattered though so might get some good sleep (Y) Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 25, 2014, 04:07:07 AM so i just stone bubbled xxl25 giant with 2 addons as well so that went well! Ran a pretty sexy bluff with 99 on KJ7104 were i repped AQ perfectly got the guy to fold top pair and told him his exact hand. Then i just went card dead for a few hours pretty much didn't play a hand for 2 hours which is not good! eventually jammed J8hh with 10BB guy with a huge stack iso's with KQ flop 7h 9h 3s and i brick ffs. Then had to wait for nay so also did my nut on roulette wiiiiiii. Realised even though i bubbled i enjoy poker so much and all i wanted to do when i bust was to keep playing!
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 26, 2014, 07:13:49 AM So this may be obvious but my sleeping pattern is absolutely tez atm, remembered that i forgot to post yesterday's update so will do that now. Went pretty well to be honest managed 2 wins in $2.50's and a 2nd in a $8 and a $2.50 so pretty good day finished about $300 up so out of make up, also put in probably my biggest session so far with like 200 games played so that's good. Had a pretty sick hand on the FT bubble of a $8 were a reg shoves UTG with like 5BB so he's super wide, then MP reg iso's him so still pretty wide, random in the SB then overcalls so not so wide anymore; we find the old Ac Ahrt in the BB BOOM!!! high fives all around to lose to 7d 7c on a 7h 4h Kh flop with a dry run out UTG had j9o MP had KJs so fairly standard but that was for like 60k and a big stack on the FT would have been nice! Sunday funday tomorrow be nice to take down the storm just saying.
start roll:$455.61 current roll: $433.45 (out of makeup) FPP's: 654.03 Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: verndog158 on January 26, 2014, 07:33:06 AM So this may be obvious but my sleeping pattern is absolutely tez atm, remembered that i forgot to post yesterday's update so will do that now. Went pretty well to be honest managed 2 wins in $2.50's and a 2nd in a $8 and a $2.50 so pretty good day finished about $300 up so out of make up, also put in probably my biggest session so far with like 200 games played so that's good. Had a pretty sick hand on the FT bubble of a $8 were a reg shoves UTG with like 5BB so he's super wide, then MP reg iso's him so still pretty wide, random in the SB then overcalls so not so wide anymore; we find the old Ac Ahrt in the BB BOOM!!! high fives all around to lose to 7d 7c on a 7h 4h Kh flop with a dry run out UTG had j9o MP had KJs so fairly standard but that was for like 60k and a big stack on the FT would have been nice! Sunday funday tomorrow be nice to take down the storm just saying. start roll:$455.61 current roll: $433.45 (out of makeup) FPP's: 654.03 cool story bro Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 26, 2014, 03:55:24 PM So this may be obvious but my sleeping pattern is absolutely tez atm, remembered that i forgot to post yesterday's update so will do that now. Went pretty well to be honest managed 2 wins in $2.50's and a 2nd in a $8 and a $2.50 so pretty good day finished about $300 up so out of make up, also put in probably my biggest session so far with like 200 games played so that's good. Had a pretty sick hand on the FT bubble of a $8 were a reg shoves UTG with like 5BB so he's super wide, then MP reg iso's him so still pretty wide, random in the SB then overcalls so not so wide anymore; we find the old Ac Ahrt in the BB BOOM!!! high fives all around to lose to 7d 7c on a 7h 4h Kh flop with a dry run out UTG had j9o MP had KJs so fairly standard but that was for like 60k and a big stack on the FT would have been nice! Sunday funday tomorrow be nice to take down the storm just saying. start roll:$455.61 current roll: $433.45 (out of makeup) FPP's: 654.03 cool story bro troll. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: SuuPRlim on January 26, 2014, 04:45:15 PM Good stuff mate keep it up!
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 26, 2014, 06:09:54 PM Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 28, 2014, 03:13:43 AM Last 2 days
So yesterday played the bigger/hotter $11 and the storm, which i do every Sunday to go along with the usual grind. I came 66th in the hotter $11 which was a bit disappointing after going so deep running JJ into KK against the eventual winner who was going sick on everyone opening every hand. Also cashed the Storm were i had a pretty big flip to go to 300k+ when the average was like 160k which would have been nice but he rivered a king oh well, finished about $170 up for the day which was nice and means i'm back to grinding profit. Today pretty dull day wasn't feeling it so didn't play many made like $30 or something but had two $8 left at the end with the lot and got coolered so shit happens. start roll: $500 current roll: $528.76 (this is for today) need to get about 500 FPP in the next 3 days which may not sound a lot but it kinda is to me need to play like 400+ games in the next 3 days so its doable i need to get my head down i guess. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 29, 2014, 04:42:15 AM pretty horror day to be honest, just couldn't get any stacks going and the only one i actually got over like 8k managed to lose JJ<77<55 aip, so just one of those days i guess played pretty well though i think except i didn't fold a set in a standard fold spot and other little bits but ill go over them tomorrow and tidy up. Worst moment of the day had to be jamming 10BB with AJ in to jamie's (tomsoms other horse) AK and we go suck resuck on a AQJKx board waah, really enjoying playing at the moment though no matter how frustrating it is and $700 profit in 19 days isn't bad for mainly $2.50's let the heater continue!
start roll:$528.76 current roll: $341.65 FPP's:1106.06 (need 457.7 in the next 2 days to make gold think i can make it?) Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: Rexas on January 29, 2014, 05:03:29 AM Is anyone aside from me not winning the lot right now? lol :p
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 29, 2014, 06:14:10 AM Is anyone aside from me not winning the lot right now? lol :p I lost yesterday i guess if that helps? Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: Rexas on January 29, 2014, 06:44:26 AM Is anyone aside from me not winning the lot right now? lol :p I lost yesterday i guess if that helps? Haha I'm not complaining, winning is good :p Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 29, 2014, 08:10:02 AM Is anyone aside from me not winning the lot right now? lol :p I lost yesterday i guess if that helps? Haha I'm not complaining, winning is good :p yeah i suppose :) its obv the run good skype lobby, didn't you book a winning session yesterday as well? Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 29, 2014, 08:15:37 AM So finding that I'm getting to sleep later and later, might just try stay up straight through tonight till about 11/12 tomorrow then go to bed then get up at like 10 and try grinding 1/2 till 12 or something. I obviously need something to do during all this time i have awake, apart from watching movies and trolling blonde, decided it was a good time to go through some HH and think I'm going to make a report on the recent 180's I've bubbled just gone through one and i folded Ahrt Qh with about 5BB; among numerous other stack size failures this is not good ever. I think this may be a huge leak in my game atm were i am overlooking how many BB I've got and just clicking buttons, leads to misclick folding 10's down a hell of a lot, so this is something i think I'm going to work on fo show. Feel like I've found a new motivation though, I don't know were it has come from but all i want to do now is grind (tez traffic is why I'm not) so roll on 4 o'clock and let's get the lot today.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: david3103 on January 29, 2014, 08:19:49 AM So finding that I'm getting to sleep later and later, might just try stay up straight through tonight till about 11/12 tomorrow then go to bed then get up at like 10 and try grinding 1/2 till 12 or something. I obviously need something to do during all this time i have awake, apart from watching movies and trolling blonde, decided it was a good time to go through some HH and think I'm going to make a report on the recent 180's I've bubbled just gone through one and i folded Ahrt Qh with about 5BB; among numerous other stack size failures this is not good ever. I think this may be a huge leak in my game atm were i am overlooking how many BB I've got and just clicking buttons, leads to misclick folding 10's down a hell of a lot, so this is something i think I'm going to work on fo show. Feel like I've found a new motivation though, I don't know were it has come from but all i want to do now is grind (tez traffic is why I'm not) so roll on 4 o'clock and let's get the lot today. Put the Ahrt Qh hand on PHA? Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 29, 2014, 10:31:38 AM So finding that I'm getting to sleep later and later, might just try stay up straight through tonight till about 11/12 tomorrow then go to bed then get up at like 10 and try grinding 1/2 till 12 or something. I obviously need something to do during all this time i have awake, apart from watching movies and trolling blonde, decided it was a good time to go through some HH and think I'm going to make a report on the recent 180's I've bubbled just gone through one and i folded Ahrt Qh with about 5BB; among numerous other stack size failures this is not good ever. I think this may be a huge leak in my game atm were i am overlooking how many BB I've got and just clicking buttons, leads to misclick folding 10's down a hell of a lot, so this is something i think I'm going to work on fo show. Feel like I've found a new motivation though, I don't know were it has come from but all i want to do now is grind (tez traffic is why I'm not) so roll on 4 o'clock and let's get the lot today. Put the Ahrt Qh hand on PHA? It wasn't even close to be honest there were 2 guys all in, in front of me but it doesn't even matter with this strong a hand and 5BB it was just i saw 2 people all in didn't look at my stack size and folded i think still just tez to be honest, need to concentrate more! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 29, 2014, 01:14:34 PM Dragged my ass out of bed for the first time before 12 o'clock in a long time haha, decided I'm going to get gold in the next 2 days fo show. Got a couple of nice hands to start the day off thought I'd start it good before venting tilt later ;)
http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/7177971_D5C572497C http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/7178037_9355B3324C (this is what i have to put up with sigggh) Feel like I'm playing well for the first few hours anyway made some sick calls and laid down JJ in a pretty nice spot as well, soul read a guy for AK with the Ahrt he had AK with the Kh so I'm not that great :/ Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on January 29, 2014, 01:57:26 PM i folded Ahrt Qh with about 5BB (http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3kmuje7tr1r9sq92o1_400.gif) Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 29, 2014, 01:59:35 PM i folded Ahrt Qh with about 5BB (http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3kmuje7tr1r9sq92o1_400.gif) imagine trying to do that to yourself, well i attempted it! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 30, 2014, 08:28:34 PM On charlotte Jackson's table in the £33 bounty on sky 12k guarenteed, she has a UKPC seat bounty on her head so praying i stack her wish me luck?
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 30, 2014, 08:45:40 PM IVE KNOCKED HER OUT FLOP 3s 4s 7s I HAVE Js Ts SHE HAD 8d 8h SHE OPEN SHOVES I CALL GUY BEHIND CALLS BOTH DEAD ON THE FLOP!!!!!! IVE GOT A UKPC SEAT!!!!!
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: TightEnd on January 30, 2014, 08:50:40 PM very well done!
big flop in your poker careeer that Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 30, 2014, 08:55:46 PM very well done! big flop in your poker careeer that thanks tighty, yeah hopefully it will be :) Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: mondatoo on January 30, 2014, 09:02:37 PM Congrats.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: Eso Kral on January 30, 2014, 09:03:07 PM Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: JGill_DTD on January 30, 2014, 09:40:41 PM IVE KNOCKED HER OUT FLOP 3s 4s 7s I HAVE Js Ts SHE HAD 8d 8h SHE OPEN SHOVES I CALL GUY BEHIND CALLS BOTH DEAD ON THE FLOP!!!!!! IVE GOT A UKPC SEAT!!!!! incredible stuff! Honestly absolutely chuffed for you! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 30, 2014, 10:09:38 PM IVE KNOCKED HER OUT FLOP 3s 4s 7s I HAVE Js Ts SHE HAD 8d 8h SHE OPEN SHOVES I CALL GUY BEHIND CALLS BOTH DEAD ON THE FLOP!!!!!! IVE GOT A UKPC SEAT!!!!! incredible stuff! Honestly absolutely chuffed for you! cheers mate so happy! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on January 30, 2014, 10:10:09 PM I'm at best ambivalent about this!
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: Rexas on January 30, 2014, 10:11:31 PM Well done on winning a seat for mr somerville ;)
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 30, 2014, 10:26:02 PM I'm willing to free up % for ppl if you want, I will only charge a 3.2 markup as i have experience with these types of tornos (XXL champ 2 times, super50 champ 3 times) anyone?
(This is a joke) Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on January 30, 2014, 10:53:26 PM Marris will take as much as his roll will buy him!!!!
But can you make the MU only 2.0 so he can at least have 0.1%. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 30, 2014, 11:19:01 PM Marris will take as much as his roll will buy him!!!! But can you make the MU only 2.0 so he can at least have 0.1%. will only for marris though! you still have to pay 3.2 Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on January 30, 2014, 11:36:02 PM Wow, we bust one woman and all of a sudden were the big dick player in town!!!
Great ethos. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: Rexas on January 30, 2014, 11:41:34 PM Wow, we bust one woman and all of a sudden were the big dick player in town!!! Great ethos. There was not a hint of innuendo in that last message. Also, BUST ;whistle; Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 30, 2014, 11:43:32 PM Wow, we bust one woman and all of a sudden were the big dick player in town!!! Great ethos. im sorry ill go back to moping about because i cant win a 180 :( Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on January 30, 2014, 11:56:38 PM Wow, we bust one woman and all of a sudden were the big dick player in town!!! Great ethos. im sorry ill go back to moping about because i cant win a 180 :( It doesn't matter which one you do, no one cares either way!!!! P.S. Much love xxx Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: shipitgood on January 31, 2014, 01:07:38 AM lol nice bink mate!
Must be nice What a nice flop :) 2 bounties too, why was I not at that table lol You got a shout out on the sky forums as well: https://www.skypoker.com/secure/poker/sky_lobby?action=show_static&page=poker_community_forums&plckForumPage=ForumDiscussion&plckDiscussionId=Cat%3a57795ac2-1793-4377-b4cf-e124b0f555f4Forum%3adf77f82c-151f-4bea-aae1-fb423dcae1faDiscussion%3a4559435e-c5ef-4410-973d-ff18f382e9b8 Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: tikay on January 31, 2014, 08:20:26 AM So, out of 10, how much did you like that all-spade flop? Wow, what a thing! Chuffed to bits for you. I'll reply on my Diary shortly as to the questions you raised there. The very first reply on this Diary, back in July, said..... Good luck with the Diary, & chasing that poker dream That poker dream just became a reality. Good luck mate. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 31, 2014, 06:47:25 PM So, out of 10, how much did you like that all-spade flop? Wow, what a thing! Chuffed to bits for you. I'll reply on my Diary shortly as to the questions you raised there. The very first reply on this Diary, back in July, said..... Good luck with the Diary, & chasing that poker dream That poker dream just became a reality. Good luck mate. I was going mental and charlotte hadn't even shoved yet haha. Okay thanks Tikay and lets hope i win it then it is a reality! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: verndog158 on January 31, 2014, 07:34:49 PM Clearly tomsom coaching you is working. Calling 2 shoves with jack high seems like a good move
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 31, 2014, 10:17:45 PM Clearly tomsom coaching you is working. Calling 2 shoves with jack high seems like a good move When did i call to shoves with jack high? if this is in omaha it does not count!!! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on January 31, 2014, 10:21:25 PM XXl25 giant did not go well to put it politely! couldn't win a pot then i squeeze 4x over a limper with AKo guy cold calls limper calls, flop 3s 4d 7c i cbet he calls, Ac fist oumping in my hoody, ship my last 5k only to get snapped by the cold caller with the old Ahrt 4c well played sir nh.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on February 01, 2014, 02:36:37 PM probably my fave dealer at dusk so thought I'd upload this since i told him he would not sure if he'll look at my diary though!
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: tikay on February 02, 2014, 10:37:14 AM This is the Sky Poker Lobby. It does NOT include those who have qualified on DTD. 3wheeler 30000 5kyRimmer 30000 72off5uit 30000 AceHearts 30000 AceSweaty 30000 AKismyname 30000 andrew1947 30000 ANGRYSWAN 30000 anoncowboy 30000 asif1989 30000 B8LLS0H4RD 30000 barneyk 30000 Barrie26 30000 beaneh 30000 beefy777 30000 Bernie02 30000 Berniebern 30000 bingopayzz 30000 bluemacaw 30000 BOOBOO81 30000 Brain_BS 30000 cardu 30000 chicknMelt 30000 Claytov 30000 ctbn 30000 daiw 30000 DazW0lf 30000 DiggerD 30000 DoctorNuts 30000 DoubleAAA 30000 Doudeau 30000 EBBERDON 30000 f3nix35 30000 fara 30000 fishyjake1 30000 g-master 30000 geordiepro 30000 gez_bear 30000 HANSON 30000 HappyHead 30000 HAYSIE 30000 HITMAN_RV 30000 IH8PALACE 30000 jakally 30000 JammyBee 30000 jamspangle 30000 Jonesy1066 30000 kcxyz 30000 kevcoke69 30000 lJAMESl 30000 LnarinOO 30000 Loopy50 30000 lucabrazie 30000 MacMonster 30000 matisback 30000 MD_575 30000 mewillows 30000 MIGHTYSVEN 30000 moonooo 30000 MSDOS 30000 MUZOWNED 30000 NooGooood 30000 noway 30000 nufc46 30000 oddball777 30000 ows86 30000 OXBOWLER 30000 P6 30000 peachy558 30000 pigeon1001 30000 pokerarda 30000 POKEY2011 30000 polerized 30000 pryce6 30000 rafgps 30000 rayutd 30000 ReadIT 30000 rivermunky 30000 RUNITSRANN 30000 sammy550 30000 sargent125 30000 SenorBegs 30000 shoegoal 30000 Sir-Gary 30000 Slipwater 30000 SoLack 30000 steve1312 30000 style2737 30000 SUPERSNEDD 30000 tanj 30000 TheCrilly 30000 TheSaw 30000 Tigerwing 30000 tomhot 30000 TommyD 30000 UNLV 30000 Walwyn 30000 WIZARDBOY30000 YorkyPuds 30000 yoyo 30000 Z1 30000 Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on February 04, 2014, 01:54:10 PM weird day yesterday, made quite a lot of FT's and just bricked everyone! but shit happens. Interesting prop in the pipeline for volume/roi in the 180's for feb with blondes very own borntobubble, so thats should be really fun and give me a lot of motivation to put in loads and loads of volume.
Start roll (yesterday): $490.53 current roll: $ 363.96 FPP's: 1667.81 only got to get 2.5k for gold this month so thats a easy aim, missed 10 days last month as well. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on February 05, 2014, 09:58:01 AM Got the prob bet set up with callum, doing half volume, half ROI for feb $50 for each! Sick thing is he just goes and drops a $600 day when im not playing cause im ill well played sir; game on!
Guess the whole point of the bet is for motivation on volume and it must be working woke up just wanting to start playing! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on February 06, 2014, 12:30:31 AM think my volume could have been a lot better this month so far, but with a few sick days and just general internet troubles im not to worried. Should start smashing it from now though try and actually win this prop lol.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on February 09, 2014, 01:40:57 AM Pretty sick few days to be honest, managed to dust of 3 bullets in the GP bust all 3 as an 80% favorite or better with the last one being Ts 5s on Aspades 5h 5d against Ac Kd and he finds the Ad on the river all in on the flop. Really don't want this to be a moan though had such a good weekend had such a laugh with all the lads, played a tonne of chinese with rey today when we somehow get drawn next to each other. One thing that has really missed out this weekend is the grind put in 0 hours of grinding the 180's, so going to have to smash it over the next few days.
One little moan and this one hurt a little, when I open QQ to 1600 at 400/800 guy shoves 10k,another guy cold calls i shove 40k to iso and he calls with 44 and binks a 4 on the turn. This hurt a lot going to like 100k so 125BB would have been nice, but shit happens. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: BorntoBubble on February 09, 2014, 01:54:25 AM Got the prob bet set up with callum, doing half volume, half ROI for feb $50 for each! Sick thing is he just goes and drops a $600 day when im not playing cause im ill well played sir; game on! Guess the whole point of the bet is for motivation on volume and it must be working woke up just wanting to start playing! nice and close! GL tomorrow 180 Players 02/01/2014-02/09/2014 223 £0.21 £2.58 -8.4% £47.15 55 - me 180 Players 02/01/2014-02/09/2014 231 £0.13 £2.18 26.2% £30.59 62 - you Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on February 09, 2014, 10:49:56 AM Got the prob bet set up with callum, doing half volume, half ROI for feb $50 for each! Sick thing is he just goes and drops a $600 day when im not playing cause im ill well played sir; game on! Guess the whole point of the bet is for motivation on volume and it must be working woke up just wanting to start playing! nice and close! GL tomorrow 180 Players 02/01/2014-02/09/2014 223 £0.21 £2.58 -8.4% £47.15 55 - me 180 Players 02/01/2014-02/09/2014 231 £0.13 £2.18 26.2% £30.59 62 - you glgl, what time you starting? Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: BorntoBubble on February 09, 2014, 11:54:19 AM Got the prob bet set up with callum, doing half volume, half ROI for feb $50 for each! Sick thing is he just goes and drops a $600 day when im not playing cause im ill well played sir; game on! Guess the whole point of the bet is for motivation on volume and it must be working woke up just wanting to start playing! nice and close! GL tomorrow 180 Players 02/01/2014-02/09/2014 223 £0.21 £2.58 -8.4% £47.15 55 - me 180 Players 02/01/2014-02/09/2014 231 £0.13 £2.18 26.2% £30.59 62 - you glgl, what time you starting? Not sure my Sundays are always a mess when I'm at home as I've got to make a roast probably play 2-5 then 8 till late! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on February 09, 2014, 01:44:21 PM on the grind now legoooo. This props mine ;)
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: BorntoBubble on February 09, 2014, 11:46:24 PM espically as ive not played all day!
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: verndog158 on February 10, 2014, 12:15:00 AM This is the Sky Poker Lobby. It does NOT include those who have qualified on DTD. 3wheeler 30000 5kyRimmer 30000 72off5uit 30000 AceHearts 30000 AceSweaty 30000 AKismyname 30000 andrew1947 30000 ANGRYSWAN 30000 anoncowboy 30000 asif1989 30000 B8LLS0H4RD 30000 barneyk 30000 Barrie26 30000 beaneh 30000 beefy777 30000 Bernie02 30000 Berniebern 30000 bingopayzz 30000 bluemacaw 30000 BOOBOO81 30000 Brain_BS 30000 cardu 30000 chicknMelt 30000 Claytov 30000 ctbn 30000 daiw 30000 DazW0lf 30000 DiggerD 30000 DoctorNuts 30000 DoubleAAA 30000 Doudeau 30000 EBBERDON 30000 f3nix35 30000 fara 30000 fishyjake1 30000 g-master 30000 geordiepro 30000 gez_bear 30000 HANSON 30000 HappyHead 30000 HAYSIE 30000 HITMAN_RV 30000 IH8PALACE 30000 jakally 30000 JammyBee 30000 jamspangle 30000 Jonesy1066 30000 kcxyz 30000 kevcoke69 30000 lJAMESl 30000 LnarinOO 30000 Loopy50 30000 lucabrazie 30000 MacMonster 30000 matisback 30000 MD_575 30000 mewillows 30000 MIGHTYSVEN 30000 moonooo 30000 MSDOS 30000 MUZOWNED 30000 NooGooood 30000 noway 30000 nufc46 30000 oddball777 30000 ows86 30000 OXBOWLER 30000 P6 30000 peachy558 30000 pigeon1001 30000 pokerarda 30000 POKEY2011 30000 polerized 30000 pryce6 30000 rafgps 30000 rayutd 30000 ReadIT 30000 rivermunky 30000 RUNITSRANN 30000 sammy550 30000 sargent125 30000 SenorBegs 30000 shoegoal 30000 Sir-Gary 30000 Slipwater 30000 SoLack 30000 steve1312 30000 style2737 30000 SUPERSNEDD 30000 tanj 30000 TheCrilly 30000 TheSaw 30000 Tigerwing 30000 tomhot 30000 TommyD 30000 UNLV 30000 Walwyn 30000 WIZARDBOY30000 YorkyPuds 30000 yoyo 30000 Z1 30000 do you think that some less intelligent players on sky think that thats actually phil ivey whos qualified for the event? Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on February 11, 2014, 10:02:22 AM This is the Sky Poker Lobby. It does NOT include those who have qualified on DTD. 3wheeler 30000 5kyRimmer 30000 72off5uit 30000 AceHearts 30000 AceSweaty 30000 AKismyname 30000 andrew1947 30000 ANGRYSWAN 30000 anoncowboy 30000 asif1989 30000 B8LLS0H4RD 30000 barneyk 30000 Barrie26 30000 beaneh 30000 beefy777 30000 Bernie02 30000 Berniebern 30000 bingopayzz 30000 bluemacaw 30000 BOOBOO81 30000 Brain_BS 30000 cardu 30000 chicknMelt 30000 Claytov 30000 ctbn 30000 daiw 30000 DazW0lf 30000 DiggerD 30000 DoctorNuts 30000 DoubleAAA 30000 Doudeau 30000 EBBERDON 30000 f3nix35 30000 fara 30000 fishyjake1 30000 g-master 30000 geordiepro 30000 gez_bear 30000 HANSON 30000 HappyHead 30000 HAYSIE 30000 HITMAN_RV 30000 IH8PALACE 30000 jakally 30000 JammyBee 30000 jamspangle 30000 Jonesy1066 30000 kcxyz 30000 kevcoke69 30000 lJAMESl 30000 LnarinOO 30000 Loopy50 30000 lucabrazie 30000 MacMonster 30000 matisback 30000 MD_575 30000 mewillows 30000 MIGHTYSVEN 30000 moonooo 30000 MSDOS 30000 MUZOWNED 30000 NooGooood 30000 noway 30000 nufc46 30000 oddball777 30000 ows86 30000 OXBOWLER 30000 P6 30000 peachy558 30000 pigeon1001 30000 pokerarda 30000 POKEY2011 30000 polerized 30000 pryce6 30000 rafgps 30000 rayutd 30000 ReadIT 30000 rivermunky 30000 RUNITSRANN 30000 sammy550 30000 sargent125 30000 SenorBegs 30000 shoegoal 30000 Sir-Gary 30000 Slipwater 30000 SoLack 30000 steve1312 30000 style2737 30000 SUPERSNEDD 30000 tanj 30000 TheCrilly 30000 TheSaw 30000 Tigerwing 30000 tomhot 30000 TommyD 30000 UNLV 30000 Walwyn 30000 WIZARDBOY30000 YorkyPuds 30000 yoyo 30000 Z1 30000 do you think that some less intelligent players on sky think that thats actually phil ivey whos qualified for the event? decent shout ill go in and just act like i am ivey? Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on February 11, 2014, 11:31:22 AM Anyone know why my HUD on pt4 is only picking up the hands i play on ipoker?
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on February 11, 2014, 11:54:46 AM lol, playing a 2 euro super turbo rebuy on the DTD site, a guy limps UTG+1 playing like 75vpip i jam 45hh on my button with 10BB the BB iso's for 20BB and he overcalls with K10hh BB has AJo, flop 24468 he puts in the chatbox, cancer deserving play rewarded. I actually cannot believe what ive just seen.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on February 11, 2014, 11:57:01 AM Anyone know why my HUD on pt4 is only picking up the hands i play on ipoker? Not like your backer knows anything about PT4 or anything..... ;whistle; I would also add, you need to be playing on another site for it to pick them up! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on February 11, 2014, 11:59:20 AM Anyone know why my HUD on pt4 is only picking up the hands i play on ipoker? Not like your backer knows anything about PT4 or anything..... ;whistle; I would also add, you need to be playing on another site for it to pick them up! thats a very good point, should have asked you lol and okay thanks. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: DrDreh on February 11, 2014, 02:55:42 PM Anyone know why my HUD on pt4 is only picking up the hands i play on ipoker? Not like your backer knows anything about PT4 Thin. And not the backer himself to avoid confusion. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on February 12, 2014, 04:18:52 PM i'd like to announce my retirement. it's been fun, time to end this diary, thanks guys
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on February 12, 2014, 04:21:09 PM I remember when I had my first beer!
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on February 12, 2014, 04:23:00 PM leave me alone, i've made my decision it's final...IREEVOCABLE, IRREVERSIBLE
its just so frustrating all i do is get my aces cracked by kings, i just can't beat this game, like what am I supposed to do!!! time to hang up the boots Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on February 12, 2014, 04:35:34 PM FUCK YOU THEN TYLER!!! FORGET IT!!! YOU CAN FUCK OFF IF YOU THINK I'M STAKING YOU ANYMORE, FORGET THE MU JUST SEND BACK WHAT YOU HAVE AND LEAVE IT THERE. JUST FUCKING GROW A PAIR AND LEARN TO DEAL WITH IT!!!!!!
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on February 12, 2014, 04:39:57 PM YOU WERE A RUBBISH BACKER ANYWAY, I JUST NEED SOME LUKE BARRADELL IN MY LIFE NOT YOUUU
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on February 12, 2014, 05:03:51 PM this is just lol bd grimming from massivefish, sure he can get banned for this right?
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: DrDreh on February 12, 2014, 05:07:28 PM any libelous comments about?
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: Rexas on February 12, 2014, 06:56:34 PM Actually laughed so much my drink came out.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: pleno1 on February 13, 2014, 03:01:16 AM lol, playing a 2 euro super turbo rebuy on the DTD site, a guy limps UTG+1 playing like 75vpip i jam 45hh on my button with 10BB the BB iso's for 20BB and he overcalls with K10hh BB has AJo, flop 24468 he puts in the chatbox, cancer deserving play rewarded. I actually cannot believe what ive just seen. is this part of the whole jokewith tomsom or did you really shove here?! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on February 13, 2014, 03:11:43 PM lol, playing a 2 euro super turbo rebuy on the DTD site, a guy limps UTG+1 playing like 75vpip i jam 45hh on my button with 10BB the BB iso's for 20BB and he overcalls with K10hh BB has AJo, flop 24468 he puts in the chatbox, cancer deserving play rewarded. I actually cannot believe what ive just seen. is this part of the whole jokewith tomsom or did you really shove here?! Its not a joke :O was my moneyz anyway, surely cant be that bad when a guys limping like 80% to shove here in a hyper turbo? Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: YEAHMAN123 on February 14, 2014, 11:22:27 AM tyler has no balls!
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on February 14, 2014, 11:42:40 AM Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: YEAHMAN123 on February 14, 2014, 12:01:55 PM Wayne's world style- 'I love you man!!! Sooooo wana xxl it tonight at Dtd, valentines night so it should be quieter right? Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on February 14, 2014, 12:18:56 PM Wayne's world style- 'I love you man!!! Sooooo wana xxl it tonight at Dtd, valentines night so it should be quieter right? Yeah probably some decent value to be honest, don't think im going :/ you doing any UKPC/sides? Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: verndog158 on February 14, 2014, 12:40:17 PM Wayne's world style- 'I love you man!!! Sooooo wana xxl it tonight at Dtd, valentines night so it should be quieter right? Yeah probably some decent value to be honest, don't think im going :/ you doing any UKPC/sides? be an expensive week for 12 bullets patman if he lives up to his reputation in the UKPC! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: YEAHMAN123 on February 14, 2014, 12:41:04 PM love to but dont have the funds to try play sky ukipt, id love too. the 20x seats at dtd looks good but its £160 basically and not got money, im playing 25/25 comp in coventry end of month, thats £220, just frustrating but ive gotta accpet somethings i cant and shouldnt play if out of my bankroll atm.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: YEAHMAN123 on February 14, 2014, 12:42:58 PM Wayne's world style- 'I love you man!!! Sooooo wana xxl it tonight at Dtd, valentines night so it should be quieter right? Yeah probably some decent value to be honest, don't think im going :/ you doing any UKPC/sides? be an expensive week for 12 bullets patman if he lives up to his reputation in the UKPC! haha my twelve bullets was grand prix before this, i only actually had 3 :(((( so totally shamed myself chris. the april one is over easter weekend so im defo guna have sick amount of bullets. if i had the money id take my uzi to every big comp going ;) Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on February 14, 2014, 01:26:51 PM Wayne's world style- 'I love you man!!! Sooooo wana xxl it tonight at Dtd, valentines night so it should be quieter right? Yeah probably some decent value to be honest, don't think im going :/ you doing any UKPC/sides? be an expensive week for 12 bullets patman if he lives up to his reputation in the UKPC! haha my twelve bullets was grand prix before this, i only actually had 3 :(((( so totally shamed myself chris. the april one is over easter weekend so im defo guna have sick amount of bullets. if i had the money id take my uzi to every big comp going ;) Pretty sure chris had more than 3 bullets? :O and yeah they are ridic expensive comps Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: YEAHMAN123 on February 14, 2014, 02:01:54 PM Was so funny watching chris's face as Sylvia layed into him!haha think t was just very late and everyone had alot to drink, Chris must of had like 5! I kept seeing him coming off saying 'I'm out'
It's fun having a full magazine clip to empty on a comp, think we should defo pencil in Grand Prix April and start collecting chips,it's guna be mental haha Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on February 14, 2014, 05:06:25 PM Was so funny watching chris's face as Sylvia layed into him!haha think t was just very late and everyone had alot to drink, Chris must of had like 5! I kept seeing him coming off saying 'I'm out' It's fun having a full magazine clip to empty on a comp, think we should defo pencil in Grand Prix April and start collecting chips,it's guna be mental haha fo sho! needs to be a sick weekend. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: JGill_DTD on February 14, 2014, 05:14:33 PM Was so funny watching chris's face as Sylvia layed into him!haha think t was just very late and everyone had alot to drink, Chris must of had like 5! I kept seeing him coming off saying 'I'm out' It's fun having a full magazine clip to empty on a comp, think we should defo pencil in Grand Prix April and start collecting chips,it's guna be mental haha looool #heavyweightoftheworld Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: verndog158 on February 14, 2014, 05:43:58 PM Was so funny watching chris's face as Sylvia layed into him!haha think t was just very late and everyone had alot to drink, Chris must of had like 5! I kept seeing him coming off saying 'I'm out' It's fun having a full magazine clip to empty on a comp, think we should defo pencil in Grand Prix April and start collecting chips,it's guna be mental haha looool #heavyweightoftheworld 2 bullets friday night, one saturday, inc 2 chips. so shove it up your arse, both of you Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: Rexas on February 14, 2014, 05:49:08 PM Was so funny watching chris's face as Sylvia layed into him!haha think t was just very late and everyone had alot to drink, Chris must of had like 5! I kept seeing him coming off saying 'I'm out' It's fun having a full magazine clip to empty on a comp, think we should defo pencil in Grand Prix April and start collecting chips,it's guna be mental haha looool #heavyweightoftheworld 2 bullets friday night, one saturday, inc 2 chips. so shove it up your arse, both of you Confirmed lightweight itt! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: verndog158 on February 14, 2014, 06:27:32 PM Was so funny watching chris's face as Sylvia layed into him!haha think t was just very late and everyone had alot to drink, Chris must of had like 5! I kept seeing him coming off saying 'I'm out' It's fun having a full magazine clip to empty on a comp, think we should defo pencil in Grand Prix April and start collecting chips,it's guna be mental haha looool #heavyweightoftheworld 2 bullets friday night, one saturday, inc 2 chips. so shove it up your arse, both of you Confirmed lightweight itt! hmm lightweight in comparison to bowlerization and pompom! even patman has a bit of a guy going these days ;) Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: YEAHMAN123 on February 14, 2014, 07:08:55 PM Haha that's made me smile
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: verndog158 on February 14, 2014, 07:13:35 PM Haha that's made me smile sigh, was defo meant to say gut, cant alter it now though... ;frustrated; ;nemesis; ;madasahatstand; Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: YEAHMAN123 on February 14, 2014, 11:16:10 PM Haha that's made me smile sigh, was defo meant to say gut, cant alter it now though... ;frustrated; ;nemesis; ;madasahatstand; Defo got a baby on the way. We can't all be wafer think like you Chris! ;) I remember those days! Ok I gotta go back 10years but I do remember! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on February 15, 2014, 05:35:27 AM Haha that's made me smile sigh, was defo meant to say gut, cant alter it now though... ;frustrated; ;nemesis; ;madasahatstand; Defo got a baby on the way. We can't all be wafer think like you Chris! ;) I remember those days! Ok I gotta go back 10years but I do remember! same. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on February 15, 2014, 05:37:51 AM bricked comp literally butchered my exit hand! made it back+some dece profit on cash. Going to leave live now till then UKPC, got to catch up with the online grind my volume has been tez and my profit (which is minus atm) has shown because of it, so going to smash it now for the next week!
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: BorntoBubble on February 18, 2014, 09:41:06 PM Me - 180 Players 02/01/2014-02/18/2014 511 £0.01 £2.58 -9.4% £3.35 53
You - 180 Players 02/01/2014-02/18/2014 420 -£0.49 £2.15 -14.4% -£207 50 ROI obv close and ive got 90 ish games on you! looking like a good battle! GLGL in UKPC! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on February 19, 2014, 01:11:01 AM Me - 180 Players 02/01/2014-02/18/2014 511 £0.01 £2.58 -9.4% £3.35 53 You - 180 Players 02/01/2014-02/18/2014 420 -£0.49 £2.15 -14.4% -£207 50 ROI obv close and ive got 90 ish games on you! looking like a good battle! GLGL in UKPC! cheers mate glgl with the rest of vegas! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on February 24, 2014, 01:32:32 AM pretty good day won a $8 and a few more deep runs including a 3rd in a $8. Then got 180th in storm for $200 so something like a $700 winning day gets me out a tonne of MU but still frustrating not to get there in the storm.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: TheJokerKing on February 24, 2014, 06:59:31 PM still good work keep up the nice reading :)
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on February 24, 2014, 11:35:38 PM Had one of those days were you get in a whole and get out, always feels like a win in my opinion. Could have been a pretty big day made 4 $2.50 finals but only won one a 2nd,3rd and 4th wasn't the worst results though so its all good. Had a really annoying spot in a $8 that i might have to go over with someone, i had like 40k with 16 left (which is huge) I'd been abusing the guy on my left as he was like 2nd in chips so easy to put pressure on. I open 10's from the cutoff and he 3-bets but commits himself wondering if this is a get it in here? pretty sure it is but anyway he had A9o and we do a lose; next hand we lose AJhh<KQo<A10 lol and were out 16th wow variance!
This has been such a funny month started on like a $600 downswing and i've now upswung like $800 in the last 2 days, really feeling it now and have 5 more days to lock up these prop bets legoooo. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on February 24, 2014, 11:36:07 PM still good work keep up the nice reading :) tyty Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on February 28, 2014, 11:14:06 AM such an idiot, thought i had way more time on this prop -_- I just don't even keep track of what day it is lol. Going to play an absolute tonne today anyway try close this shiz out by midnight!
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: theprawnidentity on February 28, 2014, 11:37:19 AM Fish
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on February 28, 2014, 12:11:01 PM Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on March 05, 2014, 05:18:00 PM Not done a post in this for ages so thought i would do a semi-big one to sum up the last month goals etc. Basically as far as February goes it was the most mentally testing month of my life, literally felt i was getting crushed every time i played online (even though i felt i was playing good). Then there was the UKPC which i had such high hopes for, but obviously didn't go as well as i hope, i think their were a few factors in this i don't think prepared as well as i could have, i didn't adjust well enough to my table and this cost me. Then to cap the month of I've pretty much gone completely busto, which really does hurt! everyone says yeah it happens all the time to players, still when it happens it really hurts. Now the plan:
1) I have already started this I have left Nottingham temporarily, i have done this for work with my dad and also to sort of get away from the same routine. This will allow me to do step 2. 2) Build a roll, I'm working everyday and grinding at the same time; with no living expense due to staying with my dad. This may be 'sponging' of the parents or w/e, but i think i kinda need it now, So this adds up to me being able to create a roll. The idea is to save all the money (with no expense). 3) Come back to Nottingham and try and finish this year off strong (not calender year), I want to come back and play a bit of live cash 50/1 1/1 stuff. I had a week before the UKPC were i made quite a decent amount playing and i feel my game is pretty good atm. This may contradict the busto thing but this was because i was going sick on buying stuff, also the UKPC day when i bust i got pissed and did my whole roll. 4) Keep the grinding going online i haven't shown a negative month so far (variance lol) also i feel I'm putting in good volume, Tomsom also says that everything looks good apart from a few missed spots were i have to many tables open and not concentrating! So hopefully that's the plan! I've attached Febs graph which had a pretty decent downswing in the middle and i recovered pretty strong which made me happy still got $300 make-up to clear off from the GP, this is pretty tilting but I'm confident enough i can do this, feel I'm playing well with good volume already played like 100+ games for March LEGOOOO. Guess I'm posting this for advice and maybe support from people who've been here and people who are here. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: flushthemout on March 05, 2014, 05:24:55 PM Best of luck mate, cya soon
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: Rexas on March 15, 2014, 02:42:47 AM Fucking pussycat.
Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: BorntoBubble on March 18, 2014, 05:19:52 PM 180 Players $0-16 03/01/2014-03/18/2014 293 £0.01 £2.15 35.9% £3.77 62 - you
180 Players $0-16 03/01/2014-03/18/2014 61 £0.07 £2.53 22.3% £4.51 62 -me. Coming for you as of today! Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: Rexas on March 18, 2014, 06:04:51 PM 180 Players $0-16 03/01/2014-03/18/2014 293 £0.01 £2.15 35.9% £3.77 62 - you 180 Players $0-16 03/01/2014-03/18/2014 61 £0.07 £2.53 22.3% £4.51 62 -me. Coming for you as of today! Fucking pussycat. Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: polerization on March 18, 2014, 06:13:25 PM 180 Players $0-16 03/01/2014-03/18/2014 293 £0.01 £2.15 35.9% £3.77 62 - you 180 Players $0-16 03/01/2014-03/18/2014 61 £0.07 £2.53 22.3% £4.51 62 -me. Coming for you as of today! Fucking pussycat. No PT4 no TN2 fuck this fucking gaming Title: Re: confessions of a teenage grinder. Post by: Rexas on March 18, 2014, 06:17:24 PM (http://assets.dogtime.com/asset/image/50eeecd8b7a2a37931000115/column_Cat-meme_025.jpg)
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