Road to MTT domination...

[youthnkzR]

Main is gg'd....

Starting stack 20k, was up to 44k within 4 hours but unfortunately this was our peak. We then ran a huge bluff down 4 streets (with straight and flush draws on the flop / turn) to go down to 25k. Then had  <  on  ... board running out bricks. Finally had  vs  on  for the rest. GG pretty annoyed with myself for running the bluff, doesn't seem to great looking back.

[aaron1867]

Surely time for an update!

[rfgqqabc]

Update

[JGill_DTD]

Update

Domination confirmed!

[youthnkzR]

Quick Christmas update whilst the girlfriend is bathing (and to stop me eating chocolate!):

December (up to now) has been the wildest month of my poker career so far by a mile! Not only have I had my second most profitable month, I've had the my most consistent month, It's been the month I've played my best poker in, and I've taken my biggest equity beat of all time:

PokerStars Hand #108991862918: Tournament #823266939, $2000+$100 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XXX (8000/16000) - 2013/12/23 22:25:58 WET [2013/12/23 17:25:58 ET]
Table '823266939 107' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: GaggleoKings (458557 in chips)
Seat 3: DEHELLHOUND (343050 in chips)
Seat 4: goleafsgo41 (1439692 in chips)
Seat 5: jobetzu (848061 in chips)
Seat 6: s00tedj0kers (1308703 in chips)
Seat 7: Face333X (566510 in chips)
Seat 8: Dimon_77_rus (703852 in chips)
Seat 9: lasagnaaammm (1116952 in chips)
GaggleoKings: posts the ante 2000
DEHELLHOUND: posts the ante 2000
goleafsgo41: posts the ante 2000
jobetzu: posts the ante 2000
s00tedj0kers: posts the ante 2000
Face333X: posts the ante 2000
Dimon_77_rus: posts the ante 2000
lasagnaaammm: posts the ante 2000
lasagnaaammm: posts small blind 8000
GaggleoKings: posts big blind 16000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to GaggleoKings [ ]
DEHELLHOUND: folds
goleafsgo41: folds
jobetzu: folds
s00tedj0kers: raises 16000 to 32000
Face333X: folds
Dimon_77_rus: folds
lasagnaaammm: calls 24000
GaggleoKings: raises 93559 to 125559
s00tedj0kers: folds
lasagnaaammm: raises 989393 to 1114952 and is all-in
GaggleoKings: calls 330998 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (658395) returned to lasagnaaammm
*** FLOP *** [ ]
*** TURN *** [ ] []
*** RIVER *** [ ] []
*** SHOW DOWN ***
lasagnaaammm: shows [ ] (three of a kind, Sevens)
GaggleoKings: shows [ ] (a pair of Jacks)
lasagnaaammm collected 961114 from pot
GaggleoKings finished the tournament in 31st place and received $10632.90.
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 961114 | Rake 0
Board [ ]
Seat 1: GaggleoKings (big blind) showed [ ] and lost with a pair of Jacks
Seat 3: DEHELLHOUND folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: goleafsgo41 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: jobetzu folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: s00tedj0kers folded before Flop
Seat 7: Face333X folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Dimon_77_rus (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: lasagnaaammm (small blind) showed [ ] and won (961114) with three of a kind, Sevens

^ This was in the $2,100 WCOOP series main event, for a top 5 stack with 31 left. $515k for the winner! Really annoying! Safe to say the punch bag which I have hung up in my room took a hammering for that (thank god that's there!).

Moving on the the good stuff however; this month I managed to take down my first reg speed major, in the form of the $200k GTD Sunday Special on iPoker for $34,500. Other notable results this month include (My 1st session being 15th December):
- 1st iPoker $10k $50 Re-entry - $2.3k
- 2nd (Chopped HU with chiplead) hot 100euro Stars.fr - $3k+
- 1st iPoker 50 euro turbo - $1k+
- 89th WCOOP series $215 Turbo Rebuy - $2k (Lost KJdd < Q3ss aipf for top 10 stack with $300k ftw)
- 4th iPoker $320 $15k GTD - $2.1k
- 13th .fr Highroller - $1.2k (AQ < 88 for double average)
- 31st $2,100 WCOOP series Main event - $10.6k ($515k ftw - JJ < 77 aipf for top 5 stack).
- Irish open 3.2k euro package won via ipoker.

All that totals a $46k profit for the month of December - making it my second winningest month of all time - and with Christmas here, it couldn't have come at a better time!

Will update in a few days to summarise year and look back at my goals for 2013 as well as my next ones for 2014!

[youthnkzR]

Oh and also Merry Christmas to all!

[CHIPPYMAN]

Oh and also Merry Christmas to all!

Well done and Merry Xmas to you n your family . May 2014 bring u more wins

[pleno1]

Goat

[tight4better]

Sick month, wp. Pretty brutal HH there

[youthnkzR]

Oh and also Merry Christmas to all!

Well done and Merry Xmas to you n your family . May 2014 bring u more wins

Thanks Frankie! You too mate! Have a great new year too!

[youthnkzR]

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Year 2013 in review~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Life:

2013, for me has been the most uneventful year of my life so far I'm disappointed to say. The three remotely interesting things I have done this year outside of poker were the three holidays / breaks I went on; twice to Ayia Napa in Cyprus (once with my friends and once with the girlfriend), as well as my trip to Prague earlier this month. I feel like I have actually 'wasted' one of, which are the supposed to be the best years of my life, and for that I'm pretty ashamed of myself. Next year will be different - that is a guarantee!

Poker:

Poker, on the other hand, has been pretty exciting this year in regards to me feeling like I've achieved so much. I set myself some clear goals at the beginning of this year - as were detailed at the start of this thread - and I'm happy to say that I managed to achieve the Majoity:

My goals:

#1 - Improve my game (Im happy with my game at present as i feel it is very solid... however i always want to improve and be the best and therefore this will be my #1 goal)
#2 - 5 figure score (closest to date: $9,717)
#3 - $100k profits (sharkscope) by Dec 31 2013
#4 - Supernova!! by Dec 31 2013 (Although i realise this will be fairly hard to achieve)
#5 - Get out of make-up asap and earn enough $$$ to be rolled to play med stakes MTTs  on my own dime by 2014.

#1 - Throughout 2013 - particularly towards the end of it - I feel like I've dramatically improved as a player. I've been working hard both studying my game - as well as putting much more volume in then I did previously (although still not huge amounts compared to some 'grinders'). I look back at how I was playing when I wrote my #1 goal and there's no comparison to the way I'm playing at the minute, and although I do still make mistakes - they happen no where near as frequently as they did before, so for that, I class this goal as being achieved. [ x ]

#2 - 5 Figure score - At the time of starting this diary, I was at a really low point in regards to poker. I was playing really badly (in comparison to what I knew I could at the time), and my confidence within the game was at an all time low. I remember being nervous when playing live poker - particularly in what I felt at the time were intimidating places / environments (in poker aspects) such as DTD (as well as other places which weren't my home casino). This was something I thought that if I achieved - would help me break the mental barrier and become a lot more confident within myself when playing; therefore this was a very important goal to me - which I can happily say I managed to achieve a total of 4 time this year! [ x ]

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The above are prizes for finishing positions: actual results are - TCOOP was chopped for $58k and Big $109 was chopped for $17k

#3 - $100k Profits on Sharkscope by December 31, 2013. Today.

This is the goal which although wasn't the most important to me at the time of setting, in hindsight should have possibly been my first or at very least second most important goal - as barring some incredible 6 figure bink - meant one thing; consistency. Again, it's to my great pleasure that I can say that this particular goal was achieved within the last two weeks. Now, I've no doubt in my mind that I'm good enough to make a living, for the foreseeable at least, playing this game that I love but hate so much! [ x ]

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#4 - Supernova by December 31, 2013. Today.

This is what I feel to be the most unrealistic goal I set. I'm not one of these mass multi tabling wizards like so many of the online grinders are. I prefer to be able to play comfortably and take time to think about my decisions and therefore have made a conscious decision to never have more then 8 tables open at the same time. The buyin level I played at (particularly at the beginning of 2013), was nowhere near sufficient when coupled with the volume I play in order to achieve this goal - and with the additions of other sites I have made recently - this was totally unachievable. [   ]  

#5 Get out of makeup ASAP and be rolled to play med stakes MTTs on my own dime by 2014.

Looking back I feel the above was a pretty silly goal of me to set, as what it basically means was I needed to either bink or be super consistent over a long period of time, and then make a conscious decision to put that all back on the line after being broke for so long, and playing for myself. I think I need to face the reality that whilst playing MTTs full time, it's very unlikely that I do off my own back as the swings are too harsh to cope with (for myself at least) - I don't think I could handle that mental pressure at the minute - I'm not ready for it. On the plus side to this goal, I'm currently in very little makeup - virtually none - and if I really wanted to I could afford to play low/med MTTs on my own - however I'm not going to as of yet. I therefore feel I have achieved this goal. [ x ]

...2014 Goals coming soon...

[pleno1]

Happy new year bro!

[youthnkzR]

Happy new year bro!

Happy new year mate!

Also happy new year to everyone!

[lucky_scrote]

Good stuff, will check out this diary throughout 2014.

[BorntoBubble]

toms currently on the FT of the 25/25 series event in blackpool. 16k i think for the win.

Seat One - Thomas Ambler - 995,000

Seat Two - James Colley - 933,000

Seat Three - Terence Etin - 2,042,000

Seat Four - Kerry O Connor - 279,000

Seat Five - Howard Plant - 804,000

Seat Six - Lee Tatters - 341,000

Seat Seven - Phil Pearson - 1,003,500

Seat Eight - Jason Barton - 816,000

Seat Nine - Yusuf Erdum - 1,560,000