THOMAS HU SNG BLOG

+2K so far in December

2009-12-07T16:32:00.000-08:00

Hey what's up young guns.

Been strugling a bit in the 110s at FTP this month, running crazy bad the first few days. Happy about reducing tilt to a minimum. Last few days i've been running OK, so i'm +2K so far this month after 200 games total. I'm doing two tabling instead of 1-tabling at FTP now. Think it will give better hour/profit. However I feel its tricky to decide when to 1-table or two table. Two tabling when tilting hard tend to become really ugly.

Since I got a break from school in december i'm looking forward to play at ton. I will for sure play at least 1000 games total, but my goal is to get close to 1500 games total. If i mange to play that much without getting sick of it I might earn a ton this month, and im really hungry now. I feel the need to prove that i can easily make at least 10K/month when im not bothered too much with school. And I'm talking about clean sharkscope profit, not including rakeback. Follow my scope at FTP this month, i'm hungry and and ready to crush.

About the coming dance videos I'm afraid It have to wait till late december when I'm staying with my parents (and can borrow my dad's video camera). Anyway I think it will become a huge youtube success. I'm planing to do about 3-4 songs. Some rave, some M.Jackson, and maybe I'll do Hokie's favorite too.

thomasny.

Busy and sick - November +4K

2009-11-30T18:06:00.001-08:00

Hey basically not been playing at all last 2 weeks. Been really busy at school last few weeks and hand some bad hangovers from party hard!! Feel free to watch some photos here: http://www.facebook.com/#/album.php?aid=351315&id=885835577&ref=nf

Been jumping around quite a bit at discos the last few months and i think it's fair to say that i'm close to compleately OWN the dance floor now. I'm not sure everyone agrees to that, but i'm sure having a ridiculous amount of fun, obviously more advanced now than in the Thriller video. I tend to become pretty skilled in basically everything I invest time into, even though I lack talent. Within a month I promise to post a video dancing to this great ATB tune. Fkn amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF-asK0R75w

This one is also OK http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnRmwhaoDU8

School is basically done this semester so its time for 1 month with poker, party hard and making out with nice girls.

My poker goal in decemeber is make 10-15K at FTP playing 110s. I obviously have to play a ton and basically never tilt to achieve that. Running good helps too of course.

See you soon.

2006-05-14T21:20:00.000-07:00

Thomasny's Video Library

Rates
A video cost 20 dollars. Check out the free preview video.

Video format
All the videos are in full screen MP4 format, which runs in an updated standard windows media player.

Payment
Videos can be bought by transfering 20 dollars to my pokerstars handle: thomasny. Or my Full Tilt handle: EndgameP.
Email me to soonfm@hotmail.com to specify what video you would like to buy.

Delivery
Dowload the video online at filefront.com after payment. Send me an email at soonfm@hotmail.com after payment, and you will receive the download link in your email within 24 hours.

Video library

Preview Video: http://www.filefront.com/14860199/endgamep.mp4/

Video 1: Playing 200+10 HU sng at I-poker. 1 hour long video (20 dollars)

Free Hit Counter

+7K in October - PermaTilt

2009-11-03T05:28:00.000-08:00

As you guys have noticed I had a terrible 4K downswing in the end of October. The first three weeks in Okotober i had a sick run and was up 9.5K at the peak. But sudenly I hit the wall. I ran awfull several days in a row. I was able to hadle two losing days in a row but when I lost the third day as well I totally cracked. I was permanently tilted the rest of October and played hyper agro. When i played a game I wanted to crush my opponents skull with a baseball bat instead of playing solid poker. One day I lost 10 buy ins to a fish bowl by playing that way. Of course i ran insanely bad, however even tough i ran terrible i would probably have saved about 1K aganst that fish if i played more controlled and solid. Again, it was not enough to just beat that fish, I wanted to crush him, like 3xing every hand and c-bet pot, and when he finally makes a stand I got pocket kings pre flop and I 4-bet shove all in BOOM!!! FATAL DESTRUCTION!!! ...that was how I was feeling and thinking...

So how is it even possible that an experienced and consistenly winner like me get in such a retarded mental state?

The reason is that i got spoild until late October. I won pretty much every day and every session and was up 9.5K after the first three weeks. That's a better run than ever so I was feeling higher and more confident than ever. I had forgotten how to deal with consistently bad luck and BS.

So my expectation about the future was flawed becuse of my insane good run the first three weeks. It was surprising and disappointing with several days without making money. Thats why i went on permatilt and lost 2-3K more than I probably would have lost if i were able to accept and deal with the bad run without tilting. So in the future i have to be aware about that even though i'm winning every day several weeks I gotta excpect and accept that I might experience several days in a row with bad luck.

Anyway I did end October with +7K which is fine. If I manage to improve my game and my psyche I should be able to make a lot more in the future.

Now i'm taking a break from FullTiltPoker. In Noveber I will play at i-poker with the handle thomasny123. So far this month i'm up 2.5K there, mostly playing the 200s. I got 60% rakeback there which means I get 6 dollars in rakeback from every game i'm playing in the 200s. Thats 6K in rakeback every month if I play 1000 games. I will try to play about 600 games there this month and evaluate my total profit included rakeback in the end of the month. It might be more profitable to play there compared to FullTilt because of the huge rakeback.

Now, lets not forget PrimordialAA's appearance at the World Heads Up live championchip. Some days ago I was reading about the championchip and the live streaming in he's blog and it was cool that he some hours later got interview live. It was an highly socially skilled interview and it was fun that your name got mentioned like every hour later in the broadcast. "We are hoping to get Bryan Pellegrino for more commentaries later on" etc. Great publicity for HU sngs generally and for HUsng.com spesificly.

Hopefully live HU tournaments will become more populare in the future. I look forward to join this tournaments. It's a fun game, and if you got the skills, psyche and business smartness it's guaranteed richness in the long run.

Later, thomas.

Blowing my load over the entire 110 game

2009-10-24T10:03:00.000-07:00

Ok, it's saturday night now, I'm drunk and about to leave for a party. My goal is to become absolutely retarded monkey drunk tonight, because I've not been drinking at all the last two weeks, so it's gonna be a nice break .

My monthly profit is going steady. Seriously I can't remember last time I had a losing day. In fact it's hard to even catch a losing session. It has nothing to do with running good. I'm totally over-qualified for the stake. I crushed the 110 one year ago as well, andI'm a better player now. It's a cool feeling to just sit down in the 110s and collect money every day and pretty much every session. Yesterday I won 2-0 against one of the other top 110 players with the handle: "uship this way" After the second win I declined the rematch at told in the chat "one word.......: OWNED". Rofl.

+8.5K so far in october (that's clean game-profit, no rakeback). I excpect to make around 11-12K this month. Nice to finally get solid results after sacreficing a big part of my youth on this game. It's sick how i've managed to slowly but for sure improved slightly evey month. 2 years ago I could not even beat the 6's even though I had a ton of experince (3000 HU sngs games played). I've been coaching a player with the handle doblew at FTP lately. He had a bad run in the 6s so I wanted to help out and played some games on he's account in the 6's. Some hours later i had won 20 buy ins. The same thing happend a week later. And I promise you my edge in the 6's turbos is just insane now. I would predict about 70/30 edge long run, which means i would win less if my opponents went all in every hand. Sick that i some years ago strugled hard to figure out how to beat that game. The difference between then and now is millions of small details that i've learned by playing and reflecting over millions of hands that in total adds up to an huge edge. I will start climbing the stakes at FTP in 2010. How far is it possible to reach in this game when you got no talent at all? Is it possible to reach the top?

I'm thinking yes, based on the insane amount of time I will spend on this game when i'm done with school in a year. However time will show, maybe i will be satesfied and settle down with like 200K/year and spend more time on other things.

Collecting money every day in the 110s

2009-10-20T10:41:00.000-07:00

Been busy with school last week, but when I've played I've been winning every day and pretty much every session. Some days ago I had an absolutely ridiculous run, and won 14 games in a row. My 110 turbo stats at full tilt is now +10/game and 9% roi in a 1000 games sample. I don't think anyone can score significantly better than that, because it's only 50bbs starting stack and a game will typically only last about 5 minutes in average.

It's not necessary to play skyhigh limits to make great money on poker. It's funny to think about that it's theoretically possible to make 200K/year by only playing 110s. To make that happen I would have to play 50 games a day in average with +10 dollar/game in average profit. 50*10*365 = 180K. Included rakeback that is pretty much 200K/year profit. It takes only about 7 hours to finish 50 games by 1-tabling turbos at full tilt, so I mean, this is actually possible. However, the problem is that I might get compleatly burned out and sick of it when playing that much.

Anyway I don't feel the need to move up as long as i making great money in the 110s. My goal now is to make 10K/month consistently in the 110s every single month. If I in the future want to make more money I would have to increase my volume in the 110s or try to move up in stakes. I'm sure I could beat the 230s at full tilt now, but probably not much more expected profit than +10/game anyway.

Here's a video of Livb112 (adonis112) that is making pretty much a million dollar/year by playing HU sngs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsqPxieTm4c

Can't believe the video still only got 65 views. I guess online poker is not the way to go if your goal is to become famous.

Stats so far in october: Games played: 500
Total Profit: 7K

Steady grind towards the 10K October goal

2009-10-11T19:47:00.000-07:00

So far +4K in october and it should be easy to make the 10K monthly goal, and I excpect 10K months to be standard now. I'm way too experienced, skilled and hard working to be satisfied with anything less that 10K/month and 100k/year.

Here a 2 hour long video.

Even more videos

2009-10-08T08:22:00.000-07:00

Hey, some few more videos here.

+3K so far in October

2009-10-06T15:55:00.000-07:00

Satisfied with beeing up 3K after 6 days in october. I'm in great shape to make my 10K profit goal this month. I think my FTP profit will be quite consistently because of my big edge and large volume in the 110s. I'm taking some shots in the 230s but I don't feel any need to move up now as long as i'm sure I can grind 10-15K by simply beeing the best 110 player at FullTiltPoker.

In a long term perspective i'm not satisfied with grinding only 10-15K every month, because it's more interesting and fun when you by time develop and solidly push the limits. However It will be a solid and natural development If I manage to make 10-15K regulary this month and the coming months, so that's why i'm happy to stick to 110s at FTP, even though i'm probably skilled to beat higher stakes.

In long term my goal is to make 200K/year regulary some few years in a row. I would take even more of course, but I would be 100% satesfied with my poker carrier if I managed to make 200K/year.

Here yet another video. Feel free to zoom your browser up to 200% to get a bigger video image.

Playing a lot - Winning a lot - We play at FullTiltPoker.com

2009-10-02T16:21:00.000-07:00

Happy with +2K after the first two days of october. Been playing 99 games so far. I'll try to play somewhere in between 1000-1500 games this month, and i'm sure that will give 10-15K profit.

I've found my nitch now. The FullTiltPoker turbo HUsng format is a perfect match to my skills and temperament. It's more fun than ever to play because of the fast 1-tabling action. With 50 BBs starting stack you're pretty much playing for stacks the first hand. But it still takes the same amount of time to get to the 50/100 level compared to pokerstars. In fact you will play way more hands before the 50/100 level at fulltilt, because the cards are coming way faster. 1-tabling at pokerstars is kinda boring because of the slow dealing. Moreover I know when to gamble when stacks are getting short. Pretty exciting. And I can see my self as a pretty wealthy man in 2-3 years. When i'm done with my psychologist major in 1 year and can focus 100% on poker I gonna play twice as much as I do now. It's gonna be insane, and the cash will be so sweet. Or will it?

In this video without comentaries I play my hyper agro gear in 3 games vs a decent slightly winning player. My goal was to tilt my opponent a bit with raising a ton. Which worked in the end. Notice how i manage to get action when i pick up a big hand. I made some few really gutsy moves in big pots there that I can explain with any other words than soul read.

+1.5 in September - Going for 10-15K in October

2009-10-01T04:13:00.000-07:00

Aight young fellows.

Obviously not happy with 1.5K/month, however i feel ok about it after beeing down 5K early september.

I'm very optimistic about october. I'll try to play about 1000 games in the 110s and 220s at FTP. 10-15K should be guaranteed if i mange to reduce tilt to a minimum.

Here is a 35 min session at FTP, enjoy.

We play at FullTiltPoker.com

2009-09-29T19:02:00.001-07:00

Done with i-poker. After rakeback i'm down like 600 dollar there this month. Happy to be back at FTP.
As expected I continue to totally rape the 110s. I mean, its totally abuse. My style is way more agro than at pokerstars and I'm making moves I didnt believe I was capable of doing against nitty players. I mean even against some regulars i simply 3x every hand and bet pot, and i'm up 2:1 before the game really has begun.

Everything is going so pornographically fast at FTP, and i'm loving it. If you get a fish on tilt you can win 4 games in a row in like 5 minutes, because the rematch starts instantly without any break, and the cards are dealt way faster than at pokerstars. I think the speed at FTP is a significant advantage for players that prefere to 1-table. Maybe the slow pokerstars dealing migh be equally good when 2-tabling. Anyway I love to 1-table. And so do livb112/adonis112.

Full Tilt Stats

I'm about +2K in total this month because of my pokerstars disaster and i-poker misstep. But I'm ready to make 10-15K every month now at fulltiltpoker.com

EndgameP

Life Tilt yet Again

2009-09-24T13:48:00.000-07:00

Yet again I managed to tilt away 2K in some hours. This time at I-poker. For some reason I tried to earn some fast money in the 200 superturbo HU sng with blinds increasing every minute. I had terrible bad luck the first 5 games, followed by increda-tilt and donations. I'm sure i've basically donated away at least 5K this month. My goal is to make at last 10K every month which I should make easily now if I managed to play 1000 games a month without tilting when I catch a bad run. I'm beeing such a degenerative underperformer now.

I mean, 80-90% of all my opponents at 100 and 200 HU sngs are not even in the same country, not even in the same universe. They simply don't have a clue compared to my A-game. I can see their stats, their timing, their patterns, Everything. So I dont have to see their cards.

Unfortunately i've been playing my B-game most of this month. All I can hope for is to stop tilting, at least stop donating.

Here's a solid game from i-poker

+1.8K so far in september - Moving to i-poker

2009-09-22T12:19:00.001-07:00

I finally managed to turn the 5K downswing to +1.8K monthly profit, and I'm quite sure i will make at least 5K this month. Som days ago I donated the rest of the few dollars I had left at pokerstars, so I'm about -5.2K there now this month. Pritty ridic. However I'm happy about making 6K at full tilt and +1K at i-poker this month. I've decided to move from full tilt to i-poker because my condisions are a ton better at i-poker. It's quite frustrating that FTP can't offer me rakeback at all, because i love the HU sng action and format there. I've cashed out all my founds at FTP now, and informed FTP support about it. It was a demonstrative move. Anyway thanks for easy 6K that I smothly took out of the FTP system after only a week at the office

It's exciting to try out other sites. Besides i think it's clear that HU sng is slightly tougher at pokerstars than other sites. I'm sure i'll crush 200+10 turbo at i-poker. In fact i believe most players would earn more at FTP/I-poker than pokertars unless they are supernova elite. I won't return to pokerstars before i'm evetually shoting for supernova elite, because i'm sure i can make more money at other sites.

From october i'm ready to make 10-20K every month, and i'm quite sure I (everything included) will.
In some few days i'll screen-record some i-poker action.

Stay tuned, thomasny123

2009-09-19T12:14:00.000-07:00

Hey, been running very bad lately at FTP, but I'm still happy about my result. I'm up about 4.5K at FTP this month. Hope to make a strong september finish and make around 5K more this month.

Here a little video with commentry.

Stay loose, thomasny

Crushing Full Tilt Poker

2009-09-15T19:45:00.000-07:00

Been running like Jesus in the 110 and 220 turbo at Full Tilt Poker last 3 days. I've played a lot lately and won 5K in some few day, so I'm basically break even in septemeber.

I mean, I love FTP. I'm able to play 10 games in an hour by 1-tabling, and the action is so fast. Sometimes you can beat a fish 5 games in a row in like 15 minutes because the rematch starts directly without any 1-minute break, and the dealing is so fast.

I play quite different at FTP compared to pokerstars. because of the fast blinds structure you gotta gamble a bit more. I play flush draws and open enders like the nuts because it's a ton of value in fold equity, also early in the game. Betting strong with draws instead of calling big bets with draws is such a long term +ev superkey. Especially when the blinds are higher than 15/30. Feels a bit stupid when you lose that way vs a weaker oponent, but its the play that in many spots will give best long term value. Only exception is when you are playing against a very weak passive calling/folding station that offers about 80/20 edge if you play ABC poker.

I'm confident that I will make around 5K this month, and I'm going for 10K months in october, novermber and december. And when I get 27% rake back i'm ready to play 16 hours day non-stop and becoming an millionaire on this game ;)

Here a video 19 min sesson on FTP. If the image is too smal i'm sure you can 2X your browser image to get a clear view.

Later, thomas.

-5K at Pokerstars -Moving to Full Tilt

2009-09-13T21:21:00.000-07:00

Had my worst downswing and life tilt ever at pokerstars this month. The disaster began when I two tabled 230s vs regulars and stuff. Pretty ridic, I never learn. I would have been fine in the 230s if sticked to playing 1 table and didn't rematch regualrs.
However It's a big problem that the lobby is clogged with regulars. Pokerstars should really learn from Full Tilt Poker and open more than 1 registration at once. It's totally nonsense and obviously reducing the action. I'm sure that it's a lot of fishy and mediocre players that do not want to play against dibasio anymore, but would like to try out an another player. Ridiculously often a player is sitting 5-15 minutes in the lobby before a game is starting. I'm absolutely sure it would be way more 230 action if they opened more registrations.

After a 3K downswing in the 230 I moved down to the "safe" 115 game at pokerstars. And I performed pretty bad poker wise and business wise by tilting a lot and playing a lot vs regulars. I guess i'm a bit cocky when I comes to the 115 turbo, and you cant really blame me for that since i've been putting my penis thourough the entire 115 game in a year now. Hardly ever downswinged more than 1.5K. I excpected to two table the game like a stupid packman game at autopilot and grind back the 3K i lost earlier this month. Didn't take me long to drop 2K. Obviously ran bad. But lost a lot more than I had to, because I had zero respect for my opponents or the the entire game. And I was still a bit tilted after the 3K downswing in the 230s.

After losing in the 115 game I experienced life tilt. Crushed my computer, crushed my mobile phone and spoiled some soda around in my room. Can't really remember last time I was that angry. I'm still pissed off by looking at the pokerstars lobby and recognize some of the retardednes that is going on there. So I've banned my self from pokerstars now and i'm not sure I will ever come back on a regular basis.
I got a great new laptop and a sony ericsson T700. Really cool phone. very slim and light. And it got a solid video camera. http://www.mobileincanada.com/images/store/sonyericsson-t700.jpg
I'm even more excited about my new secondary internet connection. It's mobile broadband connection. It's simply a stick that looks like a memory stick that you plug into the USB in the laptop and youre online all over the world. Only cost me 200 dollars/year. Looking forward to play HU sngs when ever i'm traveling. At airports, hotels, the train, in a car, etc. Moreover its nice to use it as a back up connection if my regulary connection fail.

I'm happy to try the 110 and 220 HU sngs out Full Tilt. The turbos at FT is quite different from pokerstars. Everything is faster. The cards are dealt faster, the blinds are faster, and the bet pot button, as well as the all in button, facilitates fast and tough action. And thankfully FT does not have that stupid 1 minute break before the game start. Even though I'm 1-tabling I manage to play 50 games a day, because an average game only last like 5 min.

So far i've been crushing it. I love to 1-table and I love the fast action. I believe HU at FT might be more suited to my abilities. Moreover I believe the game is overall slightly softer at FT compared to pokerstars. Seems to be less strong regulars and more unexperienced players at FT. Bay the way, my handle at FT is EndgameP (not thomasny)

My goal is to make around 10K month by playing 115-230s at FTP, and I'm working with getting a standard 27% rakeback deal.

September total profit: Pokerstars -5K
FT +2.8K

So I feel mentally stable now. Its enough tilt and self-destructive for a while. It's a fun game and I looooove money.

My goal is to play a TON at FTP the rest of the month and save the month. Happy if I make +5K total in september

Later, Thomas.

4K downswing in the 220s - Back to 110s

2009-09-06T08:50:00.000-07:00

Been running god awful last few days mostly playing 220s. I've also been sitting a lot in the 200 and 300 regular speeds, as well as the 330 turbo, because the 220 lobby is often clogged with regulars.

It's alright. 4K downswing is quite standard at this level. I'm happy with playing with an edge in most of the games. Amazing how many times i lost 3-4 games in a row, or like 2-7, against players that are way beneath my skill level. Sometimes it's difficult to beat idiots that are basically trying to lose. Crazy game.

Boring to lose several games vs. idots that are playing any two OOP as well as raising, c-betting, and 2-barraling any two from position. I'm getting sick of the fundamental awfulnes and never ending BS when I run bad.

I mean, this is typically experienced players that simply are too stupid to ever learn poker. It's hilarious that every single one of them think they are solid players that deserves to beat the game.

Anyway, happy to get more experience at high stakes. I'm more confortable there now.

Back to the grind in 115s now. Will probably take 1-2 weeks to get even again. I'll probably play a ton 115s rest of september. So i'm going for a standard +5K month, even though I'm down 3K so far in august.

To boost my game a little bit i will buy 2 more Hokiegreg HU videos. In october I will be ready to take another shot in the 220s and 330s. Hopefully i will be an established and consistently winning 220-330 regular in a few months. This move up will be a tough process, but i can feel it.

thomas

August +6K. Doing Ok in the 220s

2009-08-31T10:54:00.000-07:00

Been doing fine in the 230s the last week and i'm happy about making 6K total in august. This month my volume was 400 sngs. It's diffiuclt to find time and motivation to play more when I'm a student combined with drinking and party hard every weekend.
In september i will try to party less and focus more on getting more volume in the 200s. My september goal is to get a volume on 500 games in the 200s. That will however take a ton of time and energy when I'm 1-tabling and wating for lobbies.

September will be a very exciting as well as a potentially dangerush poker month, because i will only be playing in 200s. If i run terrible i might have my first losing month in 2 years. But i will make it as safe as possible by 1-tabeling and (hopefully) i won't rematch regulars or mediocre players that is a difficult match up.

I'm up 33K in 2009. My goal is to make 60K total (twice as much as in 2008).

It feels like i'm month by month, and year by year, slowly, as well as surely, getting towards my goal to become rich by playing online poker.

Moving up to 230 Turbo

2009-08-27T13:00:00.000-07:00

Ok guys. I've decided to make the move up to 230 turbo on a permanent basis now. I feel ready to make this move based on my great 115 stats in 2009. I think i'm statistcally one of the best players that have been playing mostly 115 turbo in 2009.
My scope shows 12% roi last 500 games, 8% roi last 1000 games, and 7% roi last 2000 games. My game has improved a bit every month, so I estimate around 8-9% roi to be my "true" long term roi in the 115 turbo if I kept playing the 115 now. Thats +10/game and great roi when two tabling a turbo game.

So now I can just move up to the 230, two table and play anyone, just like i have been doing in the 115. And I will make consistently money guaranteed

Not really.
I think a lot of players have done this mistake, me included. It's time to learn.

I noticed that a player with a name something like xxx_luis_xxx moved up from the 55 to the 115 some a month ago. He was killing the 55 turbo by 2-3 tabling. I noticed that when he moved up he played 2-3 tables right away in the 115 as well, and didnt seem to care about avoiding regulars (he even sat against me, hardly recognizing my name). As you might figure he got absolutely murdered, and dropped 6K in a 1000 games sample, not surprising at all.

Business skills is just as important as pure game skills to succeede in online poker. With business skills i mean a players ability to adapt to the the lobby environment, beeing aware of other good and bad players in the game, playing the optimal stake and number of tables to optimalize profit and make sure to avoid large downswing compared to previous profits and bankroll. Etc etc.
xxx_luis_xxx had the HU sng skills to move up, but not the business skills.

So, even though a player is crushing a stake, most players will experience a long and tough process when they move up to the next level. I remember this when I tried to move up to the 115 in 2008. I was lucky to have a good run right away when I first began to play 115, and grinded 4K in a week. Some days later I dopped 4K in one single day, which is still my worst downswing in my poker career. After that horrible downswing I made a great business decision by moving down to 55 and only game-select in the 115. Some months later I took some shots sitting in the 115 again, combined with controlling profit with game selection when i ran bad. I kept on doing this until I finally in december 2008 began to beat the 115 consistently and got increased respect from other regulars in the game. So it took me about 8 months to move from beeing a "115 player" to become a consistently winning and respect regular in the game.

I'll promise everone that this 8 month process was tough and stressful because I had to get used to 2-3 times bigger downswing compered to playing 55 or game-selecting 115.

To sum up, moving up is tough by a numerous of reasons.

1. The oponents are overall slightly more skilled.
2. Getting respect from a new set of regulars at the higher stake.
3. Getting mentally comfortable dealing with twice as much money
4. Handling downswings that are 2-3 times as big.
5. Handeling the fact that you got no previous big winning sample at the new stake (so its hard to be totally confident that you are playing a +ev game and will overcome the downswing and win money soon when experiencing a downswing).

I'll be back with more 230 stuff in a week or so.

August profit: +4.5K

Back in Norway

2009-08-13T06:23:00.000-07:00

Two months summer vacation has come to an end. It has been a pretty good summer, not amazing though.

The last month I stayed in Budapest in Hungary. I had a great vacation there because I have an Ameriacan friend that has lived there 1 year now. He got several female hungarian friends there and we did party a lot. The hungarian culture is quite different than the culture in europe and US. When ever you meet a girl there its quite standard with kissing at both cheeks. It's just common courtesie there. Even though it was a bit weird in the begining I kinda liked it. I mean, if you take a shot at a nice looking girl down town she will most often kiss you a few times before she finally rejects you and and leave (unless you mess up compleately of course).

I didnt really get any fourther than that. Hungarian people are pretty weak in English. But It should be possible to have a fk orgie there every week if you understand the culture, speak decent hungarian, and got an apartment down town in budapest. Would be nice in a few years. You can buy a nice apartement in the city center in Budapest for 100K USD.

I'm glad some of you liked my dancing video. Maybe I will make a new one soon. We'll see.

Some days ago when I googled the name "thomasny" I noticed that the video had been discussed at 2+2.
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/58/heads-up-nl/epic-thomasny-video-537597/

Thanks another_rack. All publicity is good publicity when you're an exibishonist like me. I'll leave you alone in the 115 turbo now. And let me know if some other regulars are messing with you there.

As for poker I have not played much this month. So if I'll be happy if I yet again can make an another 4K month online. Bay the way I won 1K playing live cash in budapest.

Later, thomas.

Happy with +4K in July

2009-07-30T22:58:00.000-07:00

Happy with beeing able to finish july strong and make another 4K month. That's pretty good when my volume was only 400 games.

As usual I've totally owned the 115 turbo. My long term ROI is getting better every month in this game. In my last 2000 games i've scored +7.1/game. Last 1000 games i've scored +8.5/game. If we included rakeback i'm getting close to scoring +10/game in the 115 turbo, which is quite ok when two tabling. It's cool to think about that i could make 100K a year right now by two tabling 115 turbo 10 hours a day.

It's kinda easy to crush the 115s when basically no regulars are sitting against me. I just run over a lot of fish that are playing eather weak/passive or ultra-agro in respons to my blind aggression. The 115 turbo feels just as easy as killing the 6 dollars in the old days. I excpect to make profit every single day, and i pretty much do.

I've also played quite a few game in the 230 this month. Been about break evenish. I will keep on taking shots in the 230 the following months. In a few months i should be ready to play more 230s and 330s.

I will get back with a more interesting update in a week or so.
In the meantime i recomend Tnixon on drums (Skilled_sox, PrimordialAA and some few others contributes in the video as well).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaOY6ADLhc0

Later.

Hello from Hungary

2009-07-24T18:09:00.000-07:00

Aight. The last week i've been staying in Kecskemet, which is a town close to Budapest (1 hour with taxi). It a nice quiet place with about 100K inhabitants. It's quite cheap here so I've been eating a big meal at mcdonalds for 5 euro every day.

The weather in hungary is great in the summer. Typically between 30-35 celcius (86-95 fahrenheits). But the hostel i'm staying at now is a bit ridiculous. Too hot for comfort inside, especially at night. And i can't open a window without a ton of different strange bugs getting inside. Looking forward to enjoy air conditioning when i travle to a new hotel in budapest city at monday. I've been to that hotel several times. Pretty big rooms there, so should be possible to practice some disco dancing as well.

As for poker i've had a decent run lately. +2.5K so far in july. Hopefully I will make another +4K month. That would be great after suffering from flu, bad internet connections, and low volume when traveling around.

I've played quite a bit 230s lately and my results are getting somewhat better now. Not many regulars are sitting against me in the 230s. I got destroyed against la_gachette some days ago, but that's because i kept on re-matching him. I don't mind to play some tough games in between the grind, but I don't need to re-match tough players to get tough games. Enough tough game will happen naturally in the 230s. I'm sure i got +ev in the 230 if i can controll my ego.

Several players have asked me about coaching the last month. From tuesday 28th I will finally have a good internet connection again (probably). So I will try to get in touch then.

Until then. GG.

Suffering from flu, finally healthy again

2009-07-19T01:54:00.000-07:00

Been having a a terrible flue lately, might have been a mild svine flu. It has been a nightmare to travale around from cyprus to irland and Wales (UK) with this infection. The retarded doctor that i saw in Wales gave me painkillers to go.

I arrived budapest international airport, ferihegy, friday morning. After beeing ill in more than one week i finally got antibiotica. Thankfully the hungarian medical system seems to be a bit more practical. Money for antibiotics, it shouldnt really be more difficult. I'm somewhat healthy again now, 2 days after i got antibiotica.

Hardly been playing at all this month because of this flu. It will be very hard to make much this month. I'll be very happy if i somehow can put together +3K

The night before I got the flu in paphos (cyprus) i made this youtube video. The video image angle is 90 degree wrong. Just flip your laptop 90 degreee to the right. 20 dollars at pokerstars or fulltilt if anyone manage to download the video and somehow edit and rotate the image correct without messing up the audio/video sync.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmnqFkRZr_c

Later, thomas.

***UPDATE*** SHARKSCOPE TOTAL PROFIT 50K!!! Of course that's, just the begining.

+4K in June - Hello from Cyprus

2009-06-30T15:25:00.001-07:00

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.