88% Concentration blogger aka Bluescouse finally busto.

[MKKfish]

hmmmmm...

makes a load of super cashes online...

becomes one of the most talked about online players...

continues to run deep on the biggest online games....

and for good measure..... takes down the WSOPE..


yeah - she good.

I've had so so many arguments about this - all you Doyle/Chip/Amarillo/Phil/add as u please.... these guys played bigtime when the pond was small - A_15 has done it when there was a whole ocean of runners. I personally think she would rip these guys  a new A hole every day of the week.

[sovietsong]

Ed has just lost 40k GBP.  Looks like i was wrong about him...

PS

Wardonkey you were correct in your assumtion of is Alias.

[Tragic]

He got absolutely pasted tbh. Lost a flip or two but Gulkines (who I think is Bengt Sonnert) really did annihilate him last night I watched the whole session.

[sovietsong]

Were they playing Heads up?  I watched him play the other day and he pwned it.  The people he was up against kept laying down to him. 

[AlexMartin]

Alex[/url] Martin link=topic=18649.msg609342#msg609342 date=1197764137]
Im not buying all this table selection and bankrol mgt as contributing factors to a players "greatness". The ability to beat the best is what matters.

...and how do you do that with no buy-in?

nip obv

[Tragic]

He was playing Gulk HU for most of the time. A player who is impossible to bully.

[thetank]

He's intent on selling the house now.

Makes for painful reading.

[kinboshi]

He's intent on selling the house now.

Makes for painful reading.

Oh dear.  Not amusing if he comes away from it all with nothing to show.  If only he played within his bankroll.

put £10k borrowed money back in and spun it upto £44k on $100/$200 in the morning/afternoon. withdrew the £10k leaving my £34k bankroll. in the evening i played $250/$500 and lost it all. lots of small pots where i was behind, 35/65ish, and then a $60k pot to finish when i pushed with A10 v AQ on a QJ8 board and missed wide. after doing (running) so well this morning i feel very deflated about this latest loss. i can't hold a roll at all. as soon as i have some money i seem to lose any game selection or if i go on a soft table and it gets harder i still don't leave till i'm even.

He started with £10K that he'd borrowed and went straight on to the $100/$200 tables!  Utter madness.

[boldie]

He's intent on selling the house now.

Makes for painful reading.

Yeah I think we're past the "look at the guy who can't manage his roll" and went to the "look at a compulsive gambler self-destruct completely"..not pretty

[sovietsong]

I used to laugh when reading his blog, i feel sorry for the guy now.  If he had an ounce of discipline he would be dangerous.

[barhell]

bar my final £600 i've bust everything i've been lent.... so i've decided to sell the house. it's something that's been on my mind for awhile. whenever i'm broke it always seems stupid having money invested in the house but having nothing to play with. obviously it's a big decision for me but i'm pretty sure. it's gonna take several weeks probably to sell so i'm going to be skint for awhile but when i do finally get the money i think i will be able to hold on to it this time. although i'm not sure my confidence is justified.

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Somehow i'd rather have a house than a bankroll, i do think this guy is going past entertainment to trainwreck status.

[TheChipPrince]

He obviously has a problem and its cringe worrty reading it, but lets be honest, most people reading it are thinking ''what a stupid tw@''

[totalise]

one thing i often wonder about is how different is his attempts to get to the top compared to other people?   the fact that hes brutally exposed himself to his actions makes him look like the ultimate degen, but given the way people manage to go from 25/50 to 200/400 in a matter of weeks, it makes me wonder just how many other degens are spinning up their rolls in similar fashion, but their activities are under the radar as they dont use blogs...

[thetank]

Indeed, the textbook tells us gambling problems are synonymous with denial.

You come across many honest accounts of what people go through with their gambling issues, but they are almost always written retrospectively. It is very rare to see a blog like the one Ed Hollis writes, I can think of no other examples over a sustained period of time.

He sees what is happening, yet is still not only happen to proceed, but also to write about it.

An enigma, perhaps masochistic?

[totalise]

Indeed, the textbook tells us gambling problems are synonymous with denial.

You come across many honest accounts of what people go through with their gambling issues, but they are almost always written retrospectively. It is very rare to see a blog like the one Ed Hollis writes, I can think of no other examples over a sustained period of time.

He sees what is happening, yet is still not only happen to proceed, but also to write about it.

An enigma, perhaps masochistic?

thats the fascinating thing for me, its like he has an unwavering belief that it will all come good, he will sell his equity in the house, get his £70k or so, pay back the £15k loan, and ride the £55k into the depths of millionaire-hood... and its this belief that I am pretty sure all the other high stakes players have, and that most mortals dont have. Even if he fails, I will always admire him for having the balls and the gumption for having a dream and chasing it to the very end, too many peoples lives end with too many what-ifs, at least he has his dream, and he is chasing it.