Well, I made half as much money in june compared to may, but I can't really complane, because i've played less than half as much as well. I've had vacation from school in almost 3 weeks now. Ironicly I have less time for poker in vacations because i tend to travle a lot and hang lot with other people. Often staying at places with bad internet connection.
Now I've been staying in paphos in 5 days. Paphos have 60K inhabitants and got a really great night life in the summer season. A ton of people from UK her. Friday and saturday night I was absolutely drunk and wasted downtown paphos. But I mean, I can't even get a hooker. They got some "cabaret bars" here in paphos. A cabaret bar is basically a semi strip-club/hooker club. But as semi excpected, it has been such a rip off. Nice girls from estern europe will sit down with you when you enter the club. But you have to pay for their 20 euro drinks and i've not been able to get any good deals. Moreover me and a friend almost got beaten up in one of those bars, so you gotta watch your steps, and just run out if you got a bad read on the staff there.
All the cabarets are offering a naked dance show for like 50 euro or so. But that's ridiculous. Honestly I've would be more interessted in paying 100 euros to make out with a nice girl fully dressed than simply watch her dance naked. Of course I would not mind to feel her adam's apple after.
It seems like the cabarets are rip off places where customers pays a lot for drinks and lap dances. To get anything more than that i think you gotta pay ridiculously much. I did offer a nice russian girl 150 euro for 1 hour, but got declined. I'm not willing to pay more than 150 euro for 1 hour with a somewhat average+ looking girl.
Well, me and the russian girl had a nice time when she was basically using me as a chair for about 10 minutes. We got really comfortable and it was nice. But when I offered 150 for a real deal right now she said maybe to morrow. Then the staff guy came and told me that I had to buy her an another 20 euro drink if i wanted keep on talking with her. I decided to leave. I had payed 50 euros in drinks without getting any decent deal. They saw me coming.. huh.. It's pretty funny, i can't even get a hooker.
However the staff at that place was very nice, so I might join the place and talk to "nina" from russia again. But then I gotta make a better deal with the staff first. If there is no real deal I'll request cheaper drinks.
Enough!
Don't really like to write too much about this stuff.
Now, what about you guys in vegas. I know several sharkscope 100K+ players (and sharkscope ability index 90+ players) like PrimordialAA, skilled_sox, dibasio, scottybcash, leo2222 and thephoenom919 have been/still are in vegas. Cool if some of you are able to blog a review. And of course, I'll be happy to join the 100K+ club next year in vegas.
Yesterday ScottyBcash sat down (again) when I took a shot in the 230. I lost the first two games, both on huge suck outs bay the way. I didnt say anything. Instead i destroyed him the 3 next games. Long before that scotty was starting to crap talk obviously. And it was funny that Dibasio directly on the rail sugested I was the sucker in this duel ( according to Dibasio PrimordialAA was in the same room and agreed to this as well).
I mean, comon.. How can I possible be the sucker when scotty is the one the initialize the games as well as the chat. Any solid and objective player that railed all our games so far would confirm he got less edge than an egg against me. It's only an ego thing, and it's ridiculous.
I kinda enjoy the chat in this duels though. Remember when I played 13 games in a row vs cat5cane some months ago. Before that day he had a tendency to sit down once in a while and sometimes that messed up my sessions. I just decided to say "fk this guy" and make a stand. It was really brutal chat when he won the first 5 games in a row 200 regular speeds). Murder threats was all over the place. However I think one of my most powerfull threats is to tell them that I will push hokiegreg on them, or even more powerfull, "BCM11". When I finished cat5cane up 7-6 I told him that it was aaaall good though ;)
I might get really angry when I play, but its all forgotten when I've finally won a game or two.
Soh, going to stay in cyprus about 10 more days. Then I'm going to Cardiff in Wales a week. After that i will stay in Hungary, mostly budapest, until I travle back to norway 13. August.
I hope to be able to play about 500 HU sngs in july, and hopefully i will run good enough to make +5K.
I'll try to updated with some photos, maybe video in the next blog.
Thomas.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Thursday, June 18, 2009
+2.1K so far in June
Not really been playing much at all in june. I'm in vacation mode. Visiting family, friends, watching TV, playing chess, drinking, boat trips etc. Simply doing a whole lot different stuff than usual.
However I have been blasting off some cash lately, so I'm motivated to at least play about 300 more games this month, and run good enough to make it a 5K month.
Going to stay in Oslo until 25.june. Then i'm flying to our appartment in cyprus with my parents. My parents will stay there 2 weeks. I might stay there 4-5 weeks, depending on what is going on there, if you know what i mean.
Best, Thomas.
However I have been blasting off some cash lately, so I'm motivated to at least play about 300 more games this month, and run good enough to make it a 5K month.
Going to stay in Oslo until 25.june. Then i'm flying to our appartment in cyprus with my parents. My parents will stay there 2 weeks. I might stay there 4-5 weeks, depending on what is going on there, if you know what i mean.
Best, Thomas.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Oh honey! 2 months summer vacation
Today was my last day at school before the summer vacation. I still gonna play about the same volume, but I will be less tired and stressed when playing.
I'm going to cyprus in some weeks and will probably stay there a lot this summer. I'm not sure about the quality of the internet connection there, but I hope to play quite a bit there as well.
I've not been making much money so far in june. Been running a bit bad and not been focusing that much on grinding eather. I'll be happy if i manage to boost it up a little and make a 5K month.
* Bay the way, sick interview of skilled_sox at http://www.husng.com/node/711
* And if anyone wonder how skilled_sox looks like, there you go: http://www.pokerstarsblog.de/?p=2394
Happy summer.
I'm going to cyprus in some weeks and will probably stay there a lot this summer. I'm not sure about the quality of the internet connection there, but I hope to play quite a bit there as well.
I've not been making much money so far in june. Been running a bit bad and not been focusing that much on grinding eather. I'll be happy if i manage to boost it up a little and make a 5K month.
* Bay the way, sick interview of skilled_sox at http://www.husng.com/node/711
* And if anyone wonder how skilled_sox looks like, there you go: http://www.pokerstarsblog.de/?p=2394
Happy summer.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Sick hand vs. erichuongdu
Yo what's up.
Solid june so far. Happy with +1.5K after 4 days. I'm sure 6-10K will become standard monthly profit now. I've earned +7 dollars/game included rakeback last 3000 games in the 115 turbo, so monthly profit is mostly a question about volume. I mean, if I want to make 10K by two-tabling 115 turbo I gotta play 1500 games a month. I would be happy to do that if I played full-time. I'm still a psychology major and cant really play more than 1000 games a month.
Some hours ago erichuongdu sat down at my 115 table. Some days ago I railed him when he got the better of skilled_sox in multiple games. So i knew he was a great player that is capable of pulling off huge plays.
At the 25/50 level this hand happend. We had both been playing kinda loose-aggressive so far in the match with quite a bit re-raising involed.
PokerStars Game #28994947936: Tournament #169247055, $110+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level III (25/50) - 2009/06/04 17:51:01 ET
Table '169247055 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: thomasny (1630 in chips)
Seat 2: erichuongdu (1370 in chips)
thomasny: posts small blind 25
erichuongdu: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to thomasny [9c 8s]
thomasny: raises 50 to 100
erichuongdu: calls 50
*** FLOP *** [7c Ah Ac]
erichuongdu: bets 100
thomasny: raises 150 to 250
erichuongdu: raises 200 to 450
thomasny: raises 1080 to 1530 and is all-in
erichuongdu: folds
Uncalled bet (1080) returned to thomasny
thomasny collected 1100 from pot
thomasny: shows [9c 8s] (a pair of Aces)
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1100 | Rake 0
Board [7c Ah Ac]
Seat 1: thomasny (button) (small blind) collected (1100)
Seat 2: erichuongdu (big blind) folded on the Flop
Good or bad push?
I really don't know. Please give your opinion.
I shoved because I simply had a feeling he would fold. I think it's a +ev shove if he is folding 50% of the time. If he's calling I will win the game about 20% of the time in the end because I got some equity (backdoor flush, backdoor str8, live cards vs the 7) and still 260 chips left if i lose the "race".
If he fold i'm excpected to win in the end 73% of the times. And if I fold istead of shoving i'm excpected to win 43%.
So if he folds 50% of the times (and calls 50% of the times obviously) I will win 73/2 + 20/2 = 36.5 + 10 = 46.5%. Which is better than folding, because folding gives me only 43% chance to win. So my point is that shove is the best move if I believe he will fold to my shove at least 50% of the times.
It's important to note that i would never do this play vs a fish. I would fold at the flop typically then. It's not because a fish never would fold to my shove. The improtant difference is that the chance to end up as a winner in the end is relatively higher if I fold vs a fish compared to folding vs an equal skilled opponent. Against an equaly skilled opponent you got 40% excpectation to win the game if you fold with 1200 chips left. Against a fish the excpectation is significantly higher. It's really sad to bluff off all your chips against a player that you often can beat by just betting big with strong hands.
But don't get me wrong here, I'm not a nit vs a fish, especially not a loose aggressive fish. I'm happy to 4-bet shove 44 at 10/20 level against those. And I dont think twice about 3-bet shvoing 22 at the 25/50 level. One leak some players have is that they overestimate the edge they got vs loose aggressive fish, by defending passivly, by calling istead of 3-bet shoving small pockets at high blinds etc. But putting my whole stack in with 9 high without a draw (like a did vs erichuongdu) is really bad vs a fish.
GL thomas.
Solid june so far. Happy with +1.5K after 4 days. I'm sure 6-10K will become standard monthly profit now. I've earned +7 dollars/game included rakeback last 3000 games in the 115 turbo, so monthly profit is mostly a question about volume. I mean, if I want to make 10K by two-tabling 115 turbo I gotta play 1500 games a month. I would be happy to do that if I played full-time. I'm still a psychology major and cant really play more than 1000 games a month.
Some hours ago erichuongdu sat down at my 115 table. Some days ago I railed him when he got the better of skilled_sox in multiple games. So i knew he was a great player that is capable of pulling off huge plays.
At the 25/50 level this hand happend. We had both been playing kinda loose-aggressive so far in the match with quite a bit re-raising involed.
PokerStars Game #28994947936: Tournament #169247055, $110+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level III (25/50) - 2009/06/04 17:51:01 ET
Table '169247055 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: thomasny (1630 in chips)
Seat 2: erichuongdu (1370 in chips)
thomasny: posts small blind 25
erichuongdu: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to thomasny [9c 8s]
thomasny: raises 50 to 100
erichuongdu: calls 50
*** FLOP *** [7c Ah Ac]
erichuongdu: bets 100
thomasny: raises 150 to 250
erichuongdu: raises 200 to 450
thomasny: raises 1080 to 1530 and is all-in
erichuongdu: folds
Uncalled bet (1080) returned to thomasny
thomasny collected 1100 from pot
thomasny: shows [9c 8s] (a pair of Aces)
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1100 | Rake 0
Board [7c Ah Ac]
Seat 1: thomasny (button) (small blind) collected (1100)
Seat 2: erichuongdu (big blind) folded on the Flop
Good or bad push?
I really don't know. Please give your opinion.
I shoved because I simply had a feeling he would fold. I think it's a +ev shove if he is folding 50% of the time. If he's calling I will win the game about 20% of the time in the end because I got some equity (backdoor flush, backdoor str8, live cards vs the 7) and still 260 chips left if i lose the "race".
If he fold i'm excpected to win in the end 73% of the times. And if I fold istead of shoving i'm excpected to win 43%.
So if he folds 50% of the times (and calls 50% of the times obviously) I will win 73/2 + 20/2 = 36.5 + 10 = 46.5%. Which is better than folding, because folding gives me only 43% chance to win. So my point is that shove is the best move if I believe he will fold to my shove at least 50% of the times.
It's important to note that i would never do this play vs a fish. I would fold at the flop typically then. It's not because a fish never would fold to my shove. The improtant difference is that the chance to end up as a winner in the end is relatively higher if I fold vs a fish compared to folding vs an equal skilled opponent. Against an equaly skilled opponent you got 40% excpectation to win the game if you fold with 1200 chips left. Against a fish the excpectation is significantly higher. It's really sad to bluff off all your chips against a player that you often can beat by just betting big with strong hands.
But don't get me wrong here, I'm not a nit vs a fish, especially not a loose aggressive fish. I'm happy to 4-bet shove 44 at 10/20 level against those. And I dont think twice about 3-bet shvoing 22 at the 25/50 level. One leak some players have is that they overestimate the edge they got vs loose aggressive fish, by defending passivly, by calling istead of 3-bet shoving small pockets at high blinds etc. But putting my whole stack in with 9 high without a draw (like a did vs erichuongdu) is really bad vs a fish.
GL thomas.
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