Road to MTT domination...

[ShipItHollaBallaaa]

Decent last trip report, gl on day 2.

at least you seem tobe better at poker than cod4

[youthnkzR]

Decent last trip report, gl on day 2.

at least you seem tobe better at poker than cod4

Cheers mate assuming you played cod4? What was ya alias?

[ShipItHollaBallaaa]

I never played seriously since you started I don't think, but was part of many Nye vent antics :p

prob played vs you but don't think I've played with you

[rfgqqabc]

XBL? <3 cod4

[ShipItHollaBallaaa]

Don't be silly

[shipitonetime]

Don't be silly

Its all about Haxball anyways.

[youthnkzR]

Without wanting to jinx myself, 'touch wood' and all that - things actually seem to be changing! I've been running pretty well since the start of 2013 - after a miserable 12 months or so previous to this.. Long may it continue!

Have played a fair bit of live poker recently due to my net being totally unreliable and therefore not being able to put in any volume at all online recently, this has been slightly annoying but a welcomed change to be honest, and I think I've finally got the 'live bug' out of my system, and have started to realise its actually quite boring, especially when your relying on it as a sole form of income (was much funner when playing poker as a hobby and donking ££ off with no thought).

Anyway on to the actual sessions...

Day2 of the £200 Genting f/o started pretty well and I have almost doubled my stack within the first two levels of the day. No real hands of note other than one i raise/called a 22bb jam with A10o and held vs A5o CO vs SB, other than that I'd jut chipped up by being pretty active and playing pretty well (for those few hours possibly as close to perfect as I ever have played). The table I was sat at then got chopped and that's when things started going massively downhill... I went totally card dead for the following two levels or so, which meant that instead of having a very healthy stack, I dwindled below average, then when I finally managed to find A10o, I was 'forced' to call half my stack off (12bbs or so) open jam from a fairly active player and didnt get there vs his AQo. Blinds went up again and ended up getting my final bowl in with KQcc and didn't get there vs A9o even though I managed to flop 2 clubs and had both my overs live... Sigh. I finished 34th with 25 paid, so that was a massive waste of time.

On my way out of the casino I managed to find £100 in one of my back pockets which was a bit of a bonus as I didn't think I'd taken a penny as I intended to win the tournament, so sat and had a spin at 1/2. After an hour i Managed to bust this but the game was absolutely amazing, so I decided to go home and actually get some money. (I only live about 10/15miles away from the casino so the round trip only took me <1 hour.) sat back in the game with £200 (though I had brought a fair few reloads as the game was that good!). After an hour or so I was up about 200 then the game took a turn for the worse. The three 'spots' decided to leave within a few minutes of each other and in turn were replaced by 3 very good, young Chinese lads (one of whom I think was called Tim Cheung?? -who I seem to recall either posting on here or having seen the name on some updates...etc). Although the game got harder I ran pretty well and played pretty well and ended up winning around 700 (even after POWing a hand near the end of the night on the river - I was really confused after the guy took a really strange line and admittedly got talked into calling the river).

Moving on to last night.... I was really desperate to put in a good session online yesterday but the net was playing up yet again, Witt the connection constantly dropping, so therefore I headed out to play live again. Playing 1/2 bust my first buy in when an absolute maniac decided to put his stack in with   and get there on me. Then reloaded and basically ran over the table. It was literally the table you dream about when walking into the casino. Very deep, with a lot of people who would get their house in when they made top pair, but also loved to c/f everything else. The main hand of was when I straddled to 4, UTG makes it 12., 6 callers so I flick it in with   (playing 700), flop comes   . Check to the opener who bets 35, gets one caller (her husband - who is playing 110 total and loves trying to best her in pots for some reason), so we c/r to 137 and she moves in for just short of 700 total - her husband folds after telling her he was gonna call me if she didnt. She Never has KK here as this villain specifically would NEVER do this, and obv we block both other sets ( which am 100% sure shed just limp anyway) so we make the easiest call ever and hope to do a hold, which we do as the turn and river roll off a   and she slams AK down on the table telling me 'that was a VERY BIG call with 23' and looking pretty angry. I just say unlucky and keep quite as I don't really want to offend the woman as I actually quite like her as a person, and also she's good for future games. End staying for a further hour or so in which we make another 100 or so and leave the game with around £1k profit. Not a bd past few live sessions for me

[youthnkzR]

Actually managed to put a few hours in online yesterday after the net decided to sort Itself out. Only managed to break even for the day but really felt good to get back into it. No great sweats other then a top 50 or so in the 8r 2xt with ~$10k up top but I can't really moan about not winning it as I've used up a fair bit of run good as of late, and lets face it - they are massive shit shoots lol.

Been meaning to do the post below for a while now but haven't really have much time to sit and do it (at least It didn't seem I had the time,  however when I actually think about it, it won't take that long, I've just been being lazy). Am about to take the girlfriend out for a meal somewhere so instead annoying her whilst she's getting ready, ill just post here makes my life much easier not getting moaned at for 5 minutes

As I mentioned in a previous post - I sometimes have 'confidence' issues when sitting down to play in games with people I know / with games I respect, however lately, before playing a session - particularly live - Ive tried to avoid as much stress as possible (a.k.a. avoiding the girlfriend for an hour or so before) also, I've been taking a few minutes to watch a couple of motivational videos on YouTube. As silly as this sounds, it's helped no end. It provides the perfect mindset for the game ahead, and also makes you focus more, as it makes you think about your goals - not only for the night but long term as well, and makes you realise that If you want this lifestyle then you have to believe you can achieve.

Sorry the post above is a bit rushed, will edit it properly tommorow before I start my session - however as rushed as it may be - I feel the content will / could make a difference for a lot of people if they'd try it!

[cambridgealex]

Examples of motivational videos? Would like a bank of them for pre day2/3 pump ups!

In before thin

[paulhouk03]

What motivation vids u watch

[youthnkzR]

can guarantee your sundays have not started as badly as mine... updates to follow @ breaks

[youthnkzR]

I was gonna do this update at the break following my previous message, however i just knew that it was a sign for what was to follow so i thought I'd wait until ~the end of the session so i could do one rant instead of a few smaller ones.

Today actually started pretty good. I went to the gym in the morning, followed by a chill watching the final of the Haikou World Open (Snooker) where i had a small financial interest (although that lost), then took the girlfriend out for some lunch. Pretty decent morning / early afternoon. I then arrived home to find the dog (German Shepard - so not a small dog) piss wet through and absolutely caked in sludge - turns out my dad decided to walk it through what must have been a swamp - and obv being the excitable moron it is, it decided to jump up all over me and ditch me. So i go upstairs, get changed and then the girlfriend manages to bang her nose and have a nosebleed, marv. Sort her out and then start regging up for a grind. 30 Mins into my session she decides to go to the toilet, which is filled with toilet paper from her nosebleed earlier. She tells me its blocked, so i tell her to flush the toilet. She tells me shes already flushed it, to which i reply 'Ok well don't flush it again...', Obv she flushes it again and floods the bathroom with toilet water - thank god it was tissue from a nosebleed which was the problem rather then actual sh*t!

Anyways mid way through my session, this really isn't what i need, however the bathroom was pretty flooded so i had to sit out everything for a minute and sort her out with a mop and bucket. 5 minutes later she walks back up to me complaining that she cant unblock the toilet, so can i sort it out. So AGAIN im forced to sit out in order to stick my hand into the U-Bend. Finally get that sorted and then 15 minutes later get into another arguement with her over why she can't use the shower (as apparently its not been properly grounded or something and therefore keeps giving us small electric shocks - which seems pretty dangerous - although she didn't seem to understand this). Arguement ends up spiraling and we both end up really pissed off - again just what i need when starting a Sunday session....

Other then these problems, both me and my money seems to have ran fairly horrifically today. Think I've cashed like 1/30 so far (Big $109 where i finished 230/4500) for like $280 - and have took pieces of multiple people in different things - all of who seem to be having as tougher time as me - pretty unavoidable though, just seems to be one of those things (would definitely take pieces of all i invested in today again - i just think my money is cursed today)..

I'm still one tabling the Milly however (8114/13443 - 6309 Paid) so a daysaver here would be much appreciated if only the poker gods would care to oblige!

$1.24Mil + Change for 1st... It's still on the cards

[youthnkzR]

nvm bust.. nn gl all still playing.

[MC]

Hard to believe anyone ran worse than me today but I think you win!

[youthnkzR]

FT $11r.... Villain in this hand is a supernova lol - $4k FTW / $265 for 9th... so am a bit annoyed

PokerStars Hand #95219278874: Tournament #710010265, $10+$1 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XXII (4000/8000) - 2013/03/08 19:05:17 WET [2013/03/08 14:05:17 ET]
Table '710010265 45' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: KOSTASx10 (135278 in chips)
Seat 2: capotinha (317768 in chips)
Seat 3: VictorAlv. (166600 in chips)
Seat 4: HERO (413212 in chips)
Seat 5: light_rk (387397 in chips)
Seat 6: philgrim69 (440214 in chips)
Seat 7: grigorq77 (552233 in chips)
Seat 8: calin-poker (395821 in chips)
Seat 9: alejandrin50 (476477 in chips)
KOSTASx10: posts the ante 800
capotinha: posts the ante 800
VictorAlv.: posts the ante 800
HERO: posts the ante 800
light_rk: posts the ante 800
philgrim69: posts the ante 800
grigorq77: posts the ante 800
calin-poker: posts the ante 800
alejandrin50: posts the ante 800
light_rk: posts small blind 4000
philgrim69: posts big blind 8000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to HERO [As ]
grigorq77: folds
calin-poker: folds
alejandrin50: folds
KOSTASx10: folds
capotinha: raises 8000 to 16000
VictorAlv.: folds
HERO: raises 29555 to 45555
light_rk: folds
philgrim69: folds
capotinha: calls 29555
*** FLOP *** [ ]
capotinha: checks
HERO: bets 34777
capotinha: raises 93223 to 128000
HERO: raises 238857 to 366857 and is all-in
capotinha: calls 143413 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (95444) returned to HERO
*** TURN *** [ ] []
*** RIVER *** [ ] []
*** SHOW DOWN ***
capotinha: shows [ ] (a full house, Fives full of Fours)
HERO: shows [As ] (two pair, Aces and Fours)
capotinha collected 653136 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 653136 | Rake 0
Board [ ]
Seat 1: KOSTASx10 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: capotinha showed [ ] and won (653136) with a full house, Fives full of Fours
Seat 3: VictorAlv. folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: HERO (button) showed [As ] and lost with two pair, Aces and Fours
Seat 5: light_rk (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: philgrim69 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: grigorq77 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: calin-poker folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: alejandrin50 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

The peel pre is so lolbad grrrr Marv... just the way i wanted today to go.

(P.S. love having a diary to moan in - apologies for venting blonde hehe)