Time for necro!
This blog stopped being updated on Black Friday, April 15th, 2011 due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Scheinberg
Black Friday caused many of us to move overseas to continue our profession. You can read more about it here. http://www.pokernews.com/news/2011/04/a-closer-look-at-online-poker-black-friday-indictment-10224.htm
Before Black Friday, we lived in Aventura Florida playing high stakes cashgames and tournaments on PokerStars.com and FullTilt.com.
After black Friday we moved to Thailand for about a year, then Hungary for about 1.5 years, and then Malta for about a year. This period was very rewarding for me, to live in, and travel in each of these regions was an experience I will never forget. I wish I documented it a lot better than I did!!
Professionally however, declining game conditions, and burning out professionally started to add up. I decided that the personal challenge associated with "grinding" was no longer fun for me. I used to look forward to the challenge of putting up stats, smashing "24-tabling" 12 hour session, taking a shower, a deep breath, and then putting in another 12 hour session, on a frequent basis. I still enjoy this challenge at times, but it's something that I do not want to rely on for financial freedom.
I eventually moved back to Florida in April of 2014 to re-evaluate my path.
My family has always been involved in Real-Estate. I decided to get my Real-Estate license and start investing in properties to increase the performance of my portfolio and to try and build a much more stable passive income stream.
Gaming competition and theory is still my first love, and it is my goal for my Real Estate and Securities portfolio to get to a place where I can enjoy these things comfortably. I look forward to traveling frequently and playing in various poker tournaments/cash games as well as enjoying these journeys with those around me.
We will make some entries through the end of 2015 covering the following:
Real Estate: Performance and structure of our portfolio, Real Estate consultant business, and team growth.
Poker play - Our first love is still gaming, and poker. We will reflect on local B+M play, occasional online play, traveling play (goal for a 2016 Macau poker trip.)
Personal - Relationships, health and fitness, random thoughts
All the best.
Sunday, August 9, 2015
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Session 10
Well, once again today the action at highstakes was amazing, so I had to play it. And once again, I played really well all day. And once again I get fucked over.
Heres a graph
Ran under HEM EV a decent amount but I don't really care about that, I care about all the stupid plays I witness and how terrible I run overall. I have to be 300-500K under "actual EV" in my poker career now, and its hard to try and ignore this because it makes me bitter.
Let's take a look at some Pot's I lost:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6079614 - losing player 3 betting everyhand, never folding to a 4bet, obv flop
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6079616 - same player, stuff like QJo is in his range here (literally not joking)
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6079617 - another losing player, playing everyhand, obviously nuts versus me though
and etc etc etc etc
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6079619
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6079620
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6079621
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6079622
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6079623
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6079624
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6079625
un-fucking real, the list goes on and on.
I'm not even asking to catch a break in poker, I'm not asking to win the WSOP main, or anything, I just want to run at or near expectation. Given all the 10K's I've bricked, and how I've run at HSNL I would just like to cash in about 400K Sklansky dollars and go on my merry way. I really deserve this given how hard I work, but you just have to sit back and pray to run good in the land of HSNL and HSMTT. And those who run the best are the all-stars. The variance is so much different than masstabling MSNL it's really quite unbelievable.
Heres a graph
Ran under HEM EV a decent amount but I don't really care about that, I care about all the stupid plays I witness and how terrible I run overall. I have to be 300-500K under "actual EV" in my poker career now, and its hard to try and ignore this because it makes me bitter.
Let's take a look at some Pot's I lost:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6079614 - losing player 3 betting everyhand, never folding to a 4bet, obv flop
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6079616 - same player, stuff like QJo is in his range here (literally not joking)
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6079617 - another losing player, playing everyhand, obviously nuts versus me though
and etc etc etc etc
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6079619
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6079620
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6079621
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6079622
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6079623
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6079624
http://www.pokerhand.org/?6079625
un-fucking real, the list goes on and on.
I'm not even asking to catch a break in poker, I'm not asking to win the WSOP main, or anything, I just want to run at or near expectation. Given all the 10K's I've bricked, and how I've run at HSNL I would just like to cash in about 400K Sklansky dollars and go on my merry way. I really deserve this given how hard I work, but you just have to sit back and pray to run good in the land of HSNL and HSMTT. And those who run the best are the all-stars. The variance is so much different than masstabling MSNL it's really quite unbelievable.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Session 9
Intense!
Well, seem to be getting farther and farther away from the low variance grind. Today the action at highstakes was amazing. So I figured what the heck! I'm rolled for these games (kinda?), and I'm just going to keep my table count low and try to play every hand perfectly. I played really well today, (A-) but broke about even.
Here is a graph of the day
Today was really disappointing given how amazing the games were. Normally I filter out 50/100+ on Stars and FTP, so I end up playing 25/50 10/20 and such. But there is a sneaky limit that runs on FTP pretty rarely called "40/80" A good game was running with some regs, and an unknown player to me who I am pretty sure was Guy Laliberte (an incredibly successful man who owns Cirdce De Soleil, I love this show make sure you go see it if you have a chance.)
Well eventually I bought in for the full 200BBs (16K!! wow) and although I didn't play any huge or significant pots in terms of big blinds, every hand was really really intense, and it was fun (lol degen) I played a slightly lower variance style to keep my sanity, which most likely cut my edge a little bit, but I was still quite +EV in the game. I just didn't want to get into some ridiculous dynamic where I'm inducing light 5 bets and have to stuff in 16K with QQ. I'll give myself a B+ at 40/80 and an A for all the other games, unfortunately ran kinda bad overall and had a breakeven day.
GL Today!
Well, seem to be getting farther and farther away from the low variance grind. Today the action at highstakes was amazing. So I figured what the heck! I'm rolled for these games (kinda?), and I'm just going to keep my table count low and try to play every hand perfectly. I played really well today, (A-) but broke about even.
Here is a graph of the day
Today was really disappointing given how amazing the games were. Normally I filter out 50/100+ on Stars and FTP, so I end up playing 25/50 10/20 and such. But there is a sneaky limit that runs on FTP pretty rarely called "40/80" A good game was running with some regs, and an unknown player to me who I am pretty sure was Guy Laliberte (an incredibly successful man who owns Cirdce De Soleil, I love this show make sure you go see it if you have a chance.)
Well eventually I bought in for the full 200BBs (16K!! wow) and although I didn't play any huge or significant pots in terms of big blinds, every hand was really really intense, and it was fun (lol degen) I played a slightly lower variance style to keep my sanity, which most likely cut my edge a little bit, but I was still quite +EV in the game. I just didn't want to get into some ridiculous dynamic where I'm inducing light 5 bets and have to stuff in 16K with QQ. I'll give myself a B+ at 40/80 and an A for all the other games, unfortunately ran kinda bad overall and had a breakeven day.
GL Today!
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Session 8
Today was extremely frustrating. I played just under 5K hands at highstakes and won $3500. According to HEM I ran about 28K over EV. Now you might think this means I ran "good" but not exactly. I played my A-/B+ game, something that should return like a $300 hourly, (so yeah I guess I ran "barely good" cus I beat my projected hourly a little) especially in the games today. But my goodness, in 5 years of professional poker, and multiple millions of hands, thousands of sessions, I have never had so many coolers in one day. It was an absolute joke, and incredibly frustrating on so many levels. Usually the EV line is something I can use to guage my play a little bit, what I normally tell people is "it's equal to or more likely to be accurate than your actual winnings but neither of them are accurate for your expectation, obv" Like, if you get dealt KK for 4500 hands in a row, and someone else has AA, if u win half the time ur going to break even but your EV is going into the tank, and, thats literally what happened today, it was an absolute joke and the most extreme session of coolers I have EVER had. I don't make these absolute statements ever unless they are true and I am so tilted right now!
On the bright side I have a new career peak for PTR on Stars, basically what happened today is I would get some ridiculously stupid and frustrating cooler on FTP, lose a few thousand, then win a flip or two in the capgames on Stars. and repeat repeat repeat. I mixed in some showdown coolers on Stars too though.
In poker sometimes you hit an extreme that you did not think was ever possible before, and for me it just happens so rarely, nowadays, I have a great grasp on variance and whats "supposed to happen" and "how likely is it to happen" and "whats variance like" etc. I have just an incredible understanding of all of these things when it comes to cash poker but my goodness sometimes you just hit an extreme that blows everything out of the water. I played well today, not tip top shape like two of my other sessions, but probably my third best session or so in terms of how I felt about my play. And given how amazing the games were that I played in, and the fact that I never went over 12 tables, I should have crushed today. I even took a break and came back and played 100 hands then quit again because I immidiately lost some more big pots and many of them I had great hands and didn't even end up getting to showdown because of stupid turn/river combos.
TILT TILT TILT TILT
Going to play Starcraft again, maybe I'll start streaming. I have been playing much better lately and won some cool games today. I really like my PvZ and my PvP, my PvT needs probably the most work of the three.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Session 7
Session 7 was Saturday night/ Sunday morning for me.
I didn't really play a lot as Beatty's friends were over and there was sort of chaotic madness at the house. yesterday I ran quite well over an extremely short session in cashgames, and then ran quite badly at tournaments and actually stopped registering after the morning majors because I was too tired to play.
Heres a graph of yesterdays cash session.
BINK! Over EV finally. I gave about half of this back in MTT's though, but still, its nice to run over EV for a session. The pot around hand 200 was a 3bet with Kx sooted from the SB, a CBET on Qxx, and then I turned a flushdraw on a turn jack and double barrelled almost all-in, called off the rest and got there vs KQ. :D mad skills yo!
Most importantly I got some really good sleep yesterday and I feel ready to put in a nice long day today.
I didn't really play a lot as Beatty's friends were over and there was sort of chaotic madness at the house. yesterday I ran quite well over an extremely short session in cashgames, and then ran quite badly at tournaments and actually stopped registering after the morning majors because I was too tired to play.
Heres a graph of yesterdays cash session.
BINK! Over EV finally. I gave about half of this back in MTT's though, but still, its nice to run over EV for a session. The pot around hand 200 was a 3bet with Kx sooted from the SB, a CBET on Qxx, and then I turned a flushdraw on a turn jack and double barrelled almost all-in, called off the rest and got there vs KQ. :D mad skills yo!
Most importantly I got some really good sleep yesterday and I feel ready to put in a nice long day today.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Session 6
Yesterday we went to the Heat game, which was an absolute blast. The have so many playmakers on their team. Must've seen like 15 dunks, it was incredible. Something about watching a slam dunk get thrown down makes you feel so good.
This was my favorite play of the night, in person it was soooo sick.
The Heat game was a huge success, it was also my first time at that Arena, very cool. Poker on the other hand was not so successful. I'm not particularly thrilled about this session, just sorta feel blah.
I think I was not functioning quite at the efficiency I need to be able to 24 table. It seems like I'm only "in the zone" maybe half the time I try to masstable with deepstacks, lately. Today I think I'm going to try and open with some 12 tabling, its a super easy/comfortable tile for me and my hourly per table is still pretty near peak. Then if I feel like my level of intensity can handle more tables I'll fire them up, whether its 16 or 20 or 24.
Here is my month so far for cashgames only.
Blah :/
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Session 5
Brutal! Didn't get a review up right afterwards because I was kinda tilty and took a nap. Here is a a graph of yesterday.
I played about 10K hands of cash, here is a graph.
I added in some 6max SNG's yesterday, especially when there were not many cash games running, and because the SNGs were really soft.
As you can see, I ran like absolute crap in both game formats. Here is easily the worst beat of the year for me so far.
I started out playing pretty sloppy yesterday, felt like I was playing my C or D game, of course, I ran much much worse than my expectation, but my expectation surely wasn't great and what it normally is. I cleaned up my play as the day went on, and my results got a little better, but a lot of that is just variance too. Not much else to say other than overall I feel like I have played quite well this month with the exception of part of yesterday, and I'm 10K under EV in cashgames, and massively under EV in MTTs and SNGs as well. I'm hoping it will turn around, so we will have to wait and see.
My stats yesterday were 25/21/7/45 VPIP/PFR/3BET/WWSF, and I ended up losing about 5K in total. Hope to have more luck today/tonight.
I played about 10K hands of cash, here is a graph.
I added in some 6max SNG's yesterday, especially when there were not many cash games running, and because the SNGs were really soft.
As you can see, I ran like absolute crap in both game formats. Here is easily the worst beat of the year for me so far.
I started out playing pretty sloppy yesterday, felt like I was playing my C or D game, of course, I ran much much worse than my expectation, but my expectation surely wasn't great and what it normally is. I cleaned up my play as the day went on, and my results got a little better, but a lot of that is just variance too. Not much else to say other than overall I feel like I have played quite well this month with the exception of part of yesterday, and I'm 10K under EV in cashgames, and massively under EV in MTTs and SNGs as well. I'm hoping it will turn around, so we will have to wait and see.
My stats yesterday were 25/21/7/45 VPIP/PFR/3BET/WWSF, and I ended up losing about 5K in total. Hope to have more luck today/tonight.
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