You gotta be good to me, I'm gonna be good to you

Ahhhhh. New month, fresh start.. right? Atleast that's what I always think when the calendar turns to 1 again. Yesterday I started off grinding 5/10 and 3/6 eur. Not the best start I could've wished for.. actually the worst I could imagine to be honest. Wanted implement my new stoploss and stop at -4 buyins, but in the middle of closing down all the tables, it all rambles and I loose another one. Around -5.3 buyins for the day, which ofcourse isn't nice. But not that catastrophic either, I think I'll manage to cope with that.

Here's the most painful hands of the day:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2699445 - AA against a 69/18 superdonk. My line is akward, but I'm good here most of the time.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2699450
- This one is.. just.. sick. 5% for a win. There you go. I'm not even gonna mention his call pf oop.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2699448 - QQ vs bad regular with donky tendencies.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2699451 - AA against a legendary fish, I squeeze from SB. He shoves. Std? Frustration arises.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2699454 - QQ HU against a random donk.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2699444 - 22 flops boat. Could certainly make arguments for shoving turn, but in hinsight I think it's fine, considering he's got air and draws in his range. My rivercall is merely a manifestation of helplessness, tilt and stupidity. Oops.

Besides grinding.. I'm almost done reading The Poker Mindset, but I'll talk alot more about that when I'm done. I'm gonna continue reading Elements of Poker afterwards.

Btw.. as promised here's my final graph for May:


When trying to cope with a swing, It always makes me feel a little bit better when looking at my graph with a much bigger samplesize. 354k hands:

Soundtrack of Today: Al Green - Simply Beautiful

A spoonful of diamonds

It's been a week since my last post. I've been taking a vacation, visiting a summerhouse in Denmark with my girlfriend. I wasn't able to put in that many hands during that time, being on a 11" laptop combined with a very unstable wifi net isn't the best thing when it comes to massive grinding, and vacation is vacation. As I've mentioned earlier, I've had a bet with Flortsch this month. 60.000 hands in May. As of now I got 10 hours left to reach my goal, and I'm still missing ~7k hands. Slapinthefacewakeupandsrealizeshowfuckedupyoureallyare kind of day. I'm sitting in a train right now, so the time is running out. I could multitable like an autistic kid for the next 9 hours when I get back home, but I just don't think it's worth it. Besides.. Flortsch needs to know how it feels to win once in a while.

Past 2 days I've been visiting my coach in Århus along with fellow grinder Fredholm. It's been very educational. 3 poker geeks talking about poker certainly is fun and is intensely affecting my game. Yesterday they convinced me to go to a driving range. 2nd time golfing ever, and today my back hurts like hell. I wish I had it on tape. Mindblowingly display of talent. The white Tiger some whispered across the course.

I'm going to Vegas this summer in july, staying the whole month if I don't get sick of it. Which definately could happen. I've never been there before. I'm traveling with 3 friends, so it should be good times good stuff though. I think I pretty much have to give main event a shot, and qualify through a sat. But besides the main event, I think we're going to play alot of live. Which I truly hate. One table, 10 people, turtle dealers and 8 hands an hour. I really hoped I was able to play Boss Media from the states, but unfortunately that isn't allowed. So I'll figure out some other network to grind at, when I get tired of playing live.

May has been good, with some ups and downs, and some minor tilt once in a while. Logged a really solid month, so I'm pretty happy with that. I want to grind like a madman in June in order to make up for the Vegas trip. I'm gonna miss boss media, that's for sure. No bets on number of hands this time, no pressure, just good old grinding. Later when I'm back home I will post some hands, a graph and whatnot.


Btw, I was at the movies last week and saw the new Indiana Jones. Damn, it was nice to see him back in action. But seriously, the story was frustratingly bad. I have no idea what those two fuckups had in mind when they made this movie. The ending was so horrible I almost laughed. It kind of made me sad, cus I'm a megafan of the old movies. But I got what i expected.

Soundtrack of Today: Howlin' Wolf - Spoonful

Sometimes I'm so carefree, with a joy that's hard to hide

3 days has past since I was in Århus to get some coaching, and I've been grinding a fair amount since i got back home. I'm not gonna go into any details about the coaching, but all I can say is that it certainly has helped me in various ways. As I mentioned in my previous post, I've been thinking alot about a stoploss, and I've decided to get me one of those. 4 buyins. That should be it, nothing more nothing less. So I'm pretty excited to see how it turns out actually, I don't know how I'll react when im 4 BIs stuck to some 71vpip lunatic, should be fun though.

I'm not really into pokerbooks anymore, it's been a long time since I read any. I think I can learn more and evolve much quicker through 2+2, CR, DC and by talking to other players on msn and irl etc. But I actually got recommended Tommy Angelo's book Elements of Poker by my coach, so I've ordered it along with The Poker Mindset and i'm pretty anxious to read them. It focuses on other aspects of poker than just gametheory. Mainly tilt and how to get rid of it. Being able to quit when needed and so on. But we'll see.

I've been winning since I got back home, and that's always nice. I'm at ~45k hands for the month, so I still need to grind out 15k hands in order to reach the goal of 60k and not losing my bet with Flortsch. Should be manageable, although I'm gonna go out with some friends tomorrow at Nothern Europe's biggest carnivale here in my hometown, and poker on sunday is a big no no, since I'll be a whining little bitch with hangovers then. And monday till thursday i'll be at a vacation house on a little island here in Denmark with my girlfriend, so I will probably not play during that time either. Unless my new wifi broadband thingy can connect overthere. I highly doubt it though, since it is in the middle of nowhere. So it should be very tough to reach the goal, but i'll do what I can - that's for sure.

Here is some hands I played the past couple of days:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2654085 - Been tangling with this guy, he is pretty triggerhappy. 140bbs deep at 2.5/5 eur.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2654088 - I had been pounding like a madman on this guy, been barreling him alot, and got caught a couple of times doing spassy stuff in smaller pots prior to this hand. Holla @ valuetizzle.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2654102 - I played a bit 2/4 eur because 5/10 was really dry that session. This guy was spewing like I have never seen before, vpip of 82 or something. His turnshove is a huge overbet, but I just can't fold to a guy like this. Meh.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2654112 - I think I played this hand fine, and I think Minos played it like a donk.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2654119 - Guy is a legendary nit, and is certainly capable of making laydowns. I have alot of respect for his tableselection abilities, he is possibly the biggest fishhunter all across the net. One minute he is playing 2/4, the next he is playing 200/400. That's really something.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2654129 - This hand made me laugh so hard, I swear.. I don't know how to describe this. Just check it out.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2654134 - Crazy donk at 5/10 eur. Is this even possible.. I mean.. limpcall, checkcall flop. Good stuff.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2654135 - Same donk, same shit.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2654138 - Meh. I can't win a hand against vKrzychoo even though I consider him one of the worst regulars at 5/10 on boss.

That's it for now, I'll just post my graph for may so far:

Soundtrack of today: The Animals - Please don't let me be misunderstood

I never really enjoyed trainrides..

Untill now. Because I've just got myself a new wireless broadband mobile gadget thing. The internet is kinda laggy at times, but I'll take it. I'm on my way to Århus to get some coaching, and it is a fairly long time ago I've been there - so I'm really looking forward to it. Hopefully it'll get me more motivated, as it always seems to do, and strengthen my confidence.

I'm sitting here on the train thinking about all sorts of things I can do to improve my game, and yes there is always plenty of room for improvements. One of the things is a stoploss, I used to have that when i grinded lower stakes way back when I was extremely nitty. But the past 1½ year I haven't really used it. But how big should it be? 3 buyins seems really small, because when multitabling 6-8 tables it's just a couple of std hands and you're done for the day. Maybe 5 buyins instead? Or will that make me tilt? I'll keep thinking..

Christ.. Gotta get of the train. Gotta hurry up. I'll finish my thoughts later. Peace

I like my coffee cold..

Soundtrack of today: http://youtube.com/watch?v=SXOFHgHD6qI

Muthafuckaments.

Today kids.. we're gonna learn a little bit about a thing called variance, and a word called tilt.
The past 7-8 days have been extremely swingy, and I must admit I have tilted at times. I've really been thinking alot about having some kind of stoploss, but I'm not sure it would be sufficient when I lack disciplin. 3 or 4 buyins? I don't know if thats possible. Meh.

I'm at 40.5k hands for the month so far, and if I look at the bottomline, it's still a very good month, but these swings make me feel like a busto bastard. I know.. it's retarded, I shouldn't be complaining. But yet I am.

I'll just post a couple of hands, so you guys can see what I'm really whining about, and yeah I know - I whine too much.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2633480 - Fold pf? I should consider playing 12/10 instead. Wonder how those nits feel, I might try it out sometime.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2633491 - JJ. I get 3bet by a donk. eff stacks 175bbs. I call in position. Didn't like getting it in here that much, but whatever.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2633495 - Set gets fucked in the motherfucking ass. One time.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2633517 - Villain is a huge huge huuuge donk. 74/18. Imagine that. I 4bet AA. Check out the hand, it's really inspiring and fun and lovely and nice.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2633521 - KK vs QQ. This is just me whining posting stupid hands, but I wanted you to feel bad for me. Do you? I would appreciate that.

Here's my may graph:

Soundtrack of today: Little Boy Blues - Seed Of Love

Grinding Forever

Yesterday I played a bit over 4k hands, played decent for a change - and got back to square one, which was nice. Today I woke up at 8, had some breakfast and started grinding around 9. Played 2k hands that session and it went okay. Here is some hands from todays session:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2617772 - Guy is a nit, oh well.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2617775 - Had been tangling a bit with this guy, on turn he told me he had deuces and folded, wtf. I think a shove is fine, no need to get fancy.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2617778 - This hand was so weird.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2617782 - I really wish I could see what he mucked.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2617786 - This hand I think I played extremely bad, I know this villain well, and I knew I should've just folded river. He never has Qx there. Sigh.

Here's my graph for May so far:

Until next time...

Soundtrack of today: Brother Ali - Pay Them Back

Mr. Swingking

Today has been a rollercoaster ride, to say the least. Started playing this morning at 9 at usual, grinded for about 4 hours. Ended up 4k eur. So I was pretty satisfied with that. Then I met with one of my friends to get some lunch, and afterwards I went down in a techshop and bought this lovely thing. And when I got back home I wanted to start my second session, and use the numpad thingy for the first time. 10 minutes into the session I was making a bluffraise against some random guy, was going to raise to 125. But unfortunately I pressed 1225. "Please fold, please." And so he did. Phew.

I lost some big flips, and had plenty of coolers. TPTK + nut fd against set, etc. But after a couple of hours, I must admit - I started playing terrible. Ended -3k eur for the day. Then I took a break, and had some dinner with my girlfriend, which helped calming things down a bit. And after that I started grinding again for about 3 hours, ended up a bit, so bottomline is -1400 eur for today. Which is basicly evenish, but it feels like a slap in the face. Especially when I played like a retard at times. But tomorrow is another day, and I'm gonna hit the sack now. I'll post some of the biggest hands tomorrow, but I'll just post my graph for May so far:

Goodnight..

Soundtrack of today: Gnags - Mr.Swingking (danish 80's track)