Meh, I bustoed as 211th from 1291 entrants when the bubble was at 150 players.
I don't know what to think about my bust yet. I made a pretty loose steal with a short stack. Sucks to play so long and bust in a marginal spot like that. At least I ran well in cash today, so my happiness level isn't down the drain ;).
I posted the hand on CR for some feedback.
Friday, 23 May 2008
MTTs
Poker has been treating me well this month so far. I'm up decently playing 2/4 and 3/6 cash. I don't know the exact results, but I've chosen not to check it, because it isn't really all too relevant as long as I am reviewing my sessions.
Today is the first event of the ECOOP II. It's a 200$ NL Holdem event with a 250k guarantee. I'm missing a garden party of a friend, which sucks, but at the same time I'm not gonna give up on an opportunity like this, plus if things don't go too well early on, I can still go to the party.
I'll report back on how it goes.
Today is the first event of the ECOOP II. It's a 200$ NL Holdem event with a 250k guarantee. I'm missing a garden party of a friend, which sucks, but at the same time I'm not gonna give up on an opportunity like this, plus if things don't go too well early on, I can still go to the party.
I'll report back on how it goes.
Tuesday, 20 May 2008
Dubai Trip Report
Hi guys and gals. I came back from Dubai on Saturday and I had a really great time. Dubai is a really interesting place to visit. Naturally it's a different culture, because it's a state in the UAE (United Arab Emirates), but at the same time there are a lot of Europeans and Americans there, in the heart of the city that work in Dubai.
Petrol is really cheap in Dubai, I believe we paid about 30 euro cents per litre. Which is nothing compared to the 1.50€ we pay in central Europe.
Most of the people there are very wealthy and I saw a very high rate of upper class vehicles. I'd see atleast a dozen Porsche's each day and then the occasional Enzo, Gallardo etc..
The only "poor" people are the workers, which consist mainly of Pakistanis and Indians. There are also some Asian immigrants.
There are no taxes in Dubai which naturally makes everything a bit cheaper, but you have to be carefull where you shop, because some places have high prices relative to the fact that they don't pay taxes.
Driving in Dubai is like madness, 50% of the cars are Jeep size or bigger and we were driving around in our rental Ford Focus Limousine so we didn't have maximum road respect. Sometimes people will just try to push you away by cutting into you.
There are speed limits now, but people will still drive very fast in areas that are known not to be controlled. Up to 2 years ago there were no speed limits.
I'm lucky to have had an appartment available to me from my friend whom we were visiting and who works in Dubai.
All together with shopping, flight, food and everything I'd guesstimate I paid about 1k euros which I think is very reasonable considering where I was.
These were just some random impressions with no specific chronological order. I really have so much to say about Dubai that I'm not going to bother writing a whole blog entry about this matter :P. If you have any questions AIM me or something.
Below are some pictures I selected from my stay. The guy im sitting next to with the hookah is the guy I was staying with. I may add some more pics at a later point.
Petrol is really cheap in Dubai, I believe we paid about 30 euro cents per litre. Which is nothing compared to the 1.50€ we pay in central Europe.
Most of the people there are very wealthy and I saw a very high rate of upper class vehicles. I'd see atleast a dozen Porsche's each day and then the occasional Enzo, Gallardo etc..
The only "poor" people are the workers, which consist mainly of Pakistanis and Indians. There are also some Asian immigrants.
There are no taxes in Dubai which naturally makes everything a bit cheaper, but you have to be carefull where you shop, because some places have high prices relative to the fact that they don't pay taxes.
Driving in Dubai is like madness, 50% of the cars are Jeep size or bigger and we were driving around in our rental Ford Focus Limousine so we didn't have maximum road respect. Sometimes people will just try to push you away by cutting into you.
There are speed limits now, but people will still drive very fast in areas that are known not to be controlled. Up to 2 years ago there were no speed limits.
I'm lucky to have had an appartment available to me from my friend whom we were visiting and who works in Dubai.
All together with shopping, flight, food and everything I'd guesstimate I paid about 1k euros which I think is very reasonable considering where I was.
These were just some random impressions with no specific chronological order. I really have so much to say about Dubai that I'm not going to bother writing a whole blog entry about this matter :P. If you have any questions AIM me or something.
Below are some pictures I selected from my stay. The guy im sitting next to with the hookah is the guy I was staying with. I may add some more pics at a later point.
Thursday, 8 May 2008
Survivors
The higher I've moved up in my poker career the more stressful poker has become for me.
I think a lot of people will agree with me when I say that having the perfect poker mindset isn't realistic, but I definetly think an approximation of it is possible.
Maybe I should summarize briefly what I mean by the "perfect poker mindset".
What I think about when I say this, is a poker player that is emotionally unattatched to the money he is dealing with and will at all times be able to make the decision that maximizes his expectation in the long run.It would be great to be able to play like this. We wouldn't have to worry about emotional tilt ever and could just keep on playing in good games assuming we are not ill or tired.
I'm sure a lot of you are aware that Phil Ivey once said that he thinks all players play worse when they're losing. I never used to believe in this, but I was also playing lower at the time and as I said it was less stressful and ergo easier to manage emotions. I certainly think that this now holds truth for myself. My game does deteriorate slightly when I'm losing. It is harder for me to keep the pressure on when I'm down 11 buy ins as the line between tilt and good aggressive play becomes thinner and harder to determine. The result of this is that I subconciously protect myself by playing on passive tilt.
As the word says it's tilt, but it's passive the best kind of tilt some say. It is however tilt after all and I think it is best for me to just take a break after I think I could be tilting passively and then come back in an hour two.
I think that the way people deal with there emotions in poker will vary from player to player and shoudl vary. Not all people are the same and knowing your own limits is vital to being a successful poker player. If you have problems with this, maybe you should try getting a friend to sweat you and tell you when he thinks you are doing something unheard of.
Now to the title of my post, survivors. I chose this title, because I think the best and most succesful poker players in the long run are suvivors. Imagine the best player in the world who beats the game for 10ptbb/100, but has know sense of tilt control what so ever. A small downswing of say 7 buy-ins could destroy him and eradicate his existence off the poker network he was playing on if he were uncapable of managing tilt and would monkey tilt off the rest of his bank roll.
In contrast to this take a 14/12/3 rock who plays 8 tables and beats them at 1.5ptbb/100 and never tilts.
Who will be more succesful in the long run? I am by no means trying to encourage people to be rocks, but I think you get the drift.
These were just kinda random thoughts I had floatin through my head and I thought somebody might find them valuable.
Dodgyken sent me this really cool link of an interview with Samoleus, punkety on Poker Stars, the other day. You should check it out it's pretty good imo.
I think a lot of people will agree with me when I say that having the perfect poker mindset isn't realistic, but I definetly think an approximation of it is possible.
Maybe I should summarize briefly what I mean by the "perfect poker mindset".
What I think about when I say this, is a poker player that is emotionally unattatched to the money he is dealing with and will at all times be able to make the decision that maximizes his expectation in the long run.It would be great to be able to play like this. We wouldn't have to worry about emotional tilt ever and could just keep on playing in good games assuming we are not ill or tired.
I'm sure a lot of you are aware that Phil Ivey once said that he thinks all players play worse when they're losing. I never used to believe in this, but I was also playing lower at the time and as I said it was less stressful and ergo easier to manage emotions. I certainly think that this now holds truth for myself. My game does deteriorate slightly when I'm losing. It is harder for me to keep the pressure on when I'm down 11 buy ins as the line between tilt and good aggressive play becomes thinner and harder to determine. The result of this is that I subconciously protect myself by playing on passive tilt.
As the word says it's tilt, but it's passive the best kind of tilt some say. It is however tilt after all and I think it is best for me to just take a break after I think I could be tilting passively and then come back in an hour two.
I think that the way people deal with there emotions in poker will vary from player to player and shoudl vary. Not all people are the same and knowing your own limits is vital to being a successful poker player. If you have problems with this, maybe you should try getting a friend to sweat you and tell you when he thinks you are doing something unheard of.
Now to the title of my post, survivors. I chose this title, because I think the best and most succesful poker players in the long run are suvivors. Imagine the best player in the world who beats the game for 10ptbb/100, but has know sense of tilt control what so ever. A small downswing of say 7 buy-ins could destroy him and eradicate his existence off the poker network he was playing on if he were uncapable of managing tilt and would monkey tilt off the rest of his bank roll.
In contrast to this take a 14/12/3 rock who plays 8 tables and beats them at 1.5ptbb/100 and never tilts.
Who will be more succesful in the long run? I am by no means trying to encourage people to be rocks, but I think you get the drift.
These were just kinda random thoughts I had floatin through my head and I thought somebody might find them valuable.
Dodgyken sent me this really cool link of an interview with Samoleus, punkety on Poker Stars, the other day. You should check it out it's pretty good imo.
Tuesday, 6 May 2008
Friday, 2 May 2008
Party oh party
I don't know why, but it seems as though I can't run well on Party Poker. I feel like I could even be down dollar wise on Party overall, but it's hard for me to tell, because I've had several PCs since I started playing there.
Here are my KK v AA hands for today:
KKvAA1
KKvAA2
Some QQ v KK:
QQvKK
This guy was a loose fish. I wasn't sure what to make of his minraise preflop. I decided to take a flop in position and play postflop as I think I can extract more value from weaker hands as opposed to putting in a lot of money preflop when he likely only gives me much action here from KK, AA.
The way he played the hand I was pretty sure I was ahead on the river, I guess not.
top set no good
This kind of cooler is standard for PP. I don't mind these I guess, because they won't be profitable for villain. It just adds to my can't win on Party run.
Here are my KK v AA hands for today:
KKvAA1
KKvAA2
Some QQ v KK:
QQvKK
This guy was a loose fish. I wasn't sure what to make of his minraise preflop. I decided to take a flop in position and play postflop as I think I can extract more value from weaker hands as opposed to putting in a lot of money preflop when he likely only gives me much action here from KK, AA.
The way he played the hand I was pretty sure I was ahead on the river, I guess not.
top set no good
This kind of cooler is standard for PP. I don't mind these I guess, because they won't be profitable for villain. It just adds to my can't win on Party run.
Pain
I'm in a lot of pain right now. I have some initial muscle tears along the back of my upper-thigh. I hurt myself playing football by myself whilst sprinting. No pain killers. Agony.
Can't do sport for up to 6 weeks. Have to give myself an injection tomorrow and I hate those things. The injection is against trombosis so no pain killing.
Can't do sport for up to 6 weeks. Have to give myself an injection tomorrow and I hate those things. The injection is against trombosis so no pain killing.
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