Last few days have been fun. decided to take the rest of November off and continue the partying in Vegas. Happy thanksgiving and see you in December!
Friday, 27 November 2009
Obligatory hot asian girls post
For Mr Origami who believes this will fix everything... lets see if you're right!
Last few days have been fun. decided to take the rest of November off and continue the partying in Vegas. Happy thanksgiving and see you in December!
Last few days have been fun. decided to take the rest of November off and continue the partying in Vegas. Happy thanksgiving and see you in December!
Monday, 23 November 2009
Taking a few days off
I've decided to take a couple of days off and chill out. I don't feel like I have a good poker/life balance at the moment and this bad streak is getting me down way too much. The repeated losing sessions are crushing me - The last 5 days have felt brutal, relentlessly running terrible in good games.
It's pissing me off working/concentrating super hard each day and feeling like I'm getting hit with a stick for each correct decision I make. I know that some months you run good, some months you run bad but when bad variance keeps going over an extended period of time it's just crushing. The last 3-4 months have sucked ass.
Graph since leaving London for Japan...
EV doesn't cover half of the shit. Kick the trip off with $10k worth of ridiculous coolers and it never picked up from there. It's just been brutal.
So I do feel some faults creeping into my mindset at the moment...
I was hoping to get a lot of volume in and make a bunch of money to hopefully run up to my end of year goal. I feel frustrated at being down so much in EV. I'm pissed off my bankroll was $Xk and is now $Yk because of fucking variance. I'm pissed off that poker is making me pissed off. Shit I'm just gonna go kick a baby.
I know this whole post is full of terrible mindset and that's why I'm not playing right now. I won't play another hand of poker until I've blogged back about how I've fixed all of the leaks. Headed to Taco Bell then gonna pick go up a hire car. Peace.
It's pissing me off working/concentrating super hard each day and feeling like I'm getting hit with a stick for each correct decision I make. I know that some months you run good, some months you run bad but when bad variance keeps going over an extended period of time it's just crushing. The last 3-4 months have sucked ass.Graph since leaving London for Japan...
EV doesn't cover half of the shit. Kick the trip off with $10k worth of ridiculous coolers and it never picked up from there. It's just been brutal.So I do feel some faults creeping into my mindset at the moment...
I was hoping to get a lot of volume in and make a bunch of money to hopefully run up to my end of year goal. I feel frustrated at being down so much in EV. I'm pissed off my bankroll was $Xk and is now $Yk because of fucking variance. I'm pissed off that poker is making me pissed off. Shit I'm just gonna go kick a baby.
I know this whole post is full of terrible mindset and that's why I'm not playing right now. I won't play another hand of poker until I've blogged back about how I've fixed all of the leaks. Headed to Taco Bell then gonna pick go up a hire car. Peace.
Saturday, 21 November 2009
Go suck a bag of dicks November
$10k down in all-in EV this month... goes nicely with the $10k of EV I was down over the previous 2 months in Australia. 100k hands breakeven but still surprisingly confident with my game and playing well. I know I'm not entitled to the sklansky bucks, I'm just frustrated and unhappy. Tomorrow's a new day. Zero C-game.
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Booking the win
When you've had a rough few days there's nothing like booking a green session in HM to bring back your confidence.
There was one sexy hand where I shoved T6o on 997 200bb deep, dude calls with Ahi (lolimage) and I 8ball the river. So dirty. Shoving every hand pre for the first 5 orbits gets you a pretty bad rep.
There was one sexy hand where I shoved T6o on 997 200bb deep, dude calls with Ahi (lolimage) and I 8ball the river. So dirty. Shoving every hand pre for the first 5 orbits gets you a pretty bad rep.
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Vegas #1 - Partying, the Game of Life and Cada wins!
Australia was beginning to get a bit boring and wasn't really working out like Chris/Martin/I had planned. Staying in hostels/hotels just gets old after a while. So Martin/Chris are in Surfer Paradise at the Gold Coast right now while I opted to fly on to LA early and connect to Vegas for a month until Martin arrives.
Caught Vinny from Entourage at LAX while waiting for Vegas flight which was cool!
Been in Vegas for a week now and very settled in around here now. Got a room at the Rockin' Seville House and the place is real sweet... HUGE 9 bedroom place set up for partying! Hot tub, 2 beer pong tables, 3 poker tables, massive living room with plasmas and wrap around couches, etc. Nice big back yard where I'm chilling in the hammock right now. Everyone staying here is real cool and have sick Vegas hook ups to get us into clubs, parties, etc.
Arrived at the house around midday, dumped my stuff and was immediately introduced to the "Game Of Life". The deal is that if you answer a question from someone else in the game with the word "mine" at any point... you have to do 10 push ups on the spot (10 jumping jacks for girls). You've got to do them WHEREVER you are, with no hesitation. Once you've joined, you can't quit, you're in for life. So obviously I get owned within like 30 seconds of joining and am doing pushups on the kitchen floor. I still suck ass at this game and haven't got anyone yet despite being done in the carpark at Harrah's, at after hours dinner last night at Double Plate and at a Mexican restaurant this afternoon while eating a burrito. Sweet fun but not for the easily embarrassed!
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So I crashed out in the afternoon after arriving with all the jetlag and was awoken at 9pm by people BBQ'ing and playing beer pong downstairs. Headed down to join the fun and hung out with a ton of cool people, was a blast. Getting initiated with beer bongs Hank Da Tank style was pretty sweet fun we wound up partying til real late. A couple of vids Adam took... girls making out and beer bong.
Flip cup!
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Following night a bunch of us went out to rail Joe Cada at the WSOP ME final table heads up. He used to live here for a bit so a few of the guys know him. We managed to get great seats to rail the HU final the following night at the Rio to watch Joe take down the $8.5mil. Ended up playing a bunch of beer pong with his crew the night after at O'Sheas.
Me, Adam and Dan at the Rio
Played a bunch of live poker - mostly at Venetian and MGM - and have remembered why I hate it so much. It's just too slow and the variance seems too high due to the lack of hands being played. Vowed not to play lower than 5/10 live for the rest of the trip. Played online MSNL/HSNL tonight and it felt so damn awesome... good to be back to the grind.
Been going out quite a lot here... the bars/clubs are fantastic and everyone is out to party which is a ton of fun. A ton of us were out at a bar called Stoneys last night where we had a table, driving back at around 5am our car tyre blew out on the freeway. We changed it over, got back in the car then realised that we'd left the lights on while changing it and the battery was now dead lol. Was like 6am. Had to get the AAA out, we all dozed a bunch in the car as the sun came up and the AAA guy finally arrived on the scene. He managed to get us going at around 8am after which we all felt the need to head to the nearest bar and have a bunch more drinks.
This weekend gonna watch a bunch of american sports on TV with the guys - I've still never watched a game on NFL yet. All of the NBA coverage rocks though, I'm loving it. Really need to get a ton of grind in too as my "crunch time" is going brutally badly so far with hardly any pokers being played!
So here 'til whenever Martin arrives then might check out Cali for a bit before heading to NY just before Christmas. Pretty sure that I'm going to try to get a yearlong US tourist visa next year, buy a car out here and travel around a bit... really liking the sound of Miami, Hawaii, Cali and Vegas, maybe Canada too will see what happens. Will prob post about setting up a house in Miami soon.
If you're reading this and you're from the Seville house... you rock! Also there's a box of donuts I just picked up from Walmart in the kitchen, go get'em.
Pic Katelin took of Dan, Mike, Lois, Dave, Magen and I playing online on one of the tables in the poker room at 5am last night...
Caught Vinny from Entourage at LAX while waiting for Vegas flight which was cool!
Been in Vegas for a week now and very settled in around here now. Got a room at the Rockin' Seville House and the place is real sweet... HUGE 9 bedroom place set up for partying! Hot tub, 2 beer pong tables, 3 poker tables, massive living room with plasmas and wrap around couches, etc. Nice big back yard where I'm chilling in the hammock right now. Everyone staying here is real cool and have sick Vegas hook ups to get us into clubs, parties, etc.
Arrived at the house around midday, dumped my stuff and was immediately introduced to the "Game Of Life". The deal is that if you answer a question from someone else in the game with the word "mine" at any point... you have to do 10 push ups on the spot (10 jumping jacks for girls). You've got to do them WHEREVER you are, with no hesitation. Once you've joined, you can't quit, you're in for life. So obviously I get owned within like 30 seconds of joining and am doing pushups on the kitchen floor. I still suck ass at this game and haven't got anyone yet despite being done in the carpark at Harrah's, at after hours dinner last night at Double Plate and at a Mexican restaurant this afternoon while eating a burrito. Sweet fun but not for the easily embarrassed!
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So I crashed out in the afternoon after arriving with all the jetlag and was awoken at 9pm by people BBQ'ing and playing beer pong downstairs. Headed down to join the fun and hung out with a ton of cool people, was a blast. Getting initiated with beer bongs Hank Da Tank style was pretty sweet fun we wound up partying til real late. A couple of vids Adam took... girls making out and beer bong.
Flip cup!
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Following night a bunch of us went out to rail Joe Cada at the WSOP ME final table heads up. He used to live here for a bit so a few of the guys know him. We managed to get great seats to rail the HU final the following night at the Rio to watch Joe take down the $8.5mil. Ended up playing a bunch of beer pong with his crew the night after at O'Sheas.
Me, Adam and Dan at the Rio
Played a bunch of live poker - mostly at Venetian and MGM - and have remembered why I hate it so much. It's just too slow and the variance seems too high due to the lack of hands being played. Vowed not to play lower than 5/10 live for the rest of the trip. Played online MSNL/HSNL tonight and it felt so damn awesome... good to be back to the grind.
Been going out quite a lot here... the bars/clubs are fantastic and everyone is out to party which is a ton of fun. A ton of us were out at a bar called Stoneys last night where we had a table, driving back at around 5am our car tyre blew out on the freeway. We changed it over, got back in the car then realised that we'd left the lights on while changing it and the battery was now dead lol. Was like 6am. Had to get the AAA out, we all dozed a bunch in the car as the sun came up and the AAA guy finally arrived on the scene. He managed to get us going at around 8am after which we all felt the need to head to the nearest bar and have a bunch more drinks.
This weekend gonna watch a bunch of american sports on TV with the guys - I've still never watched a game on NFL yet. All of the NBA coverage rocks though, I'm loving it. Really need to get a ton of grind in too as my "crunch time" is going brutally badly so far with hardly any pokers being played!
So here 'til whenever Martin arrives then might check out Cali for a bit before heading to NY just before Christmas. Pretty sure that I'm going to try to get a yearlong US tourist visa next year, buy a car out here and travel around a bit... really liking the sound of Miami, Hawaii, Cali and Vegas, maybe Canada too will see what happens. Will prob post about setting up a house in Miami soon.
If you're reading this and you're from the Seville house... you rock! Also there's a box of donuts I just picked up from Walmart in the kitchen, go get'em.
Pic Katelin took of Dan, Mike, Lois, Dave, Magen and I playing online on one of the tables in the poker room at 5am last night...
Friday, 6 November 2009
Monday, 26 October 2009
NZ Pics
New Zealand is absolutely stunning, beautiful scenery... even if you're not much into that type of thing (like me) you can't help but go WOW.
The people are the friendliest I've ever met anywhere. We step off the plane and the kiwis have a desk at the airport while you're waiting on our baggage where two little old ladies serve you free tea and coffee... legendary!
In Christchurch we parked up our car in the town center after a stressful drive and the traffic warden was checking out the meter next to us. There was an hour left 'til 6pm when parking was free but she smiled and said "don't worry about getting a ticket, I'm the last attendant to come past this way, I'll let you off with it". WTF!? That never happens.
Stayed in a converted jail for a couple of nights in Queenstown which I loved it but dodgy/chris not so much. Martin found out that his cell had previously committed suicide in the cell he got to sleep in... The woman then proceeded to bring up bloody pictures of the cell post-suicide. nothing like making you feel at home and comfortable :D
Other stuff... uhh, you can't skydive when there are fucking CLOUDS in the sky... that sucks. Everyone pussied out of bungee jumping, myself included. We did go caving though, that was pretty cool and got to do some abseiling too.
Wellington posing
Rappelling into pitch black caves in Waitamo
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Knocked out 2,500km in this bad boy
Lake Aviemore, it's raspberry ice pole flavoured
Waterfront at Queenstown
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