Ye, so after my pathetic work out yesterday I was still in absolute bits today. Forgot how sore it can be when getting back into the gym. So needless to say I didn't make it back down to the gym today. Had to force myself out of bed to even grind. For the first time during the bet I watched something on my 2nd monitor while playing, I never usually do it when I'm playing 20+ tables. And I was also on skype chatting, so I was just never going to win today. But like I said had to force myself to grind today. Probably would have been better taken the day off but oh well.
March 6th
Games played: 150
Profit/loss: - $80
Hours played: 6
Cashes: 11
Had to go in and see my Mam so finished my session slightly early. But 11 cashes in 150 games is still pretty bad to be honest. Lost HU every time today. One of them was to one of the guys in the 2's prop bet, who is now winning. He's played like half my volume and winning by a couple of 100 dollars now. His user name is 'Hanzaz' I think. He's got reaaaaal heat. But yer it sucked losing that one. Going to go down and grind in Kevs tomorrow. Makes it far easier grinding 180s when your in the room with someone else. Just makes the hours pass by that bit quicker.
I've given up on the bet with Abe, make-up is too high to be cleared by Friday from purely playing 2s to be honest. I could mix in 8s and 3rs or maybe play Mtts but to be honest. I just want to get out of MU and use this month to grind my own roll up. So yep, I'm going to have to coach some random and own myself in the MTTc.... Booo... Paiiiin.
FINALLY, I got up and joined the local gym. Although when Kev and I got down there it was a pretty pathetic work out. Firstly we learned, I can't skip. Had never tried it before, not as easy as it looks I'll tell you!!. So yer after my failed attempt at a warm-up, we pretty much continued to fail. Did some work on the chest, but we only did like 3 excercises and I was fucked. Oh well. At least I went down and should go back down tomorrow.
Poker wise it was the best I've felt I've played since switched back over in to 180s. Could have been because I felt better getting up earlier and actually going and getting a bit of exercise. Or maybe just because I'm starting to learn from my mistakes due to the volume. I only made one pretty lol bad shove all day imo. Again of course it was committing ICM suicide. But hey. I like going all in.
March 5th
Games played: 200
Profit/loss: +$297
Hours played:8.5
Cashes:29
Today could have been the best day so far, but things just went against me on FTs. Obviously can't complain because some of the days recently I've just ran God like on FTs. If I wasn't in the 2s only prop bet, I would definitely be mixing in at least 3rs and mostly likely 8s by now. Which I feel would give me a good chance of clearing make-up by friday. But because there's $1800 up top in the 2s bet I'd really like to win that, so I want to keep all my volume in the 2s for now.
On a side note - Lost to Kev in our nightly 2 legged game of Fifa. 6-5 on aggregate. Andy Carroll hitting the post in the 90th minute for me was just heart-break. It makes me need songs like this to chill out...
So.. Umm the healthy buzz and not drinking didn't last long. I'm far too easily swayed and unfortunately for me Kev knows this. Went to 'Home' and just went bananas on the dancefloor for an hour or so. Almost ended up visiting Paris's main attraction the Eiffel Tower aswell, but wasn't meant to be.
So yer it made today the biggest grind ever. Have been starting at the very latest 2pm lately. Didn't get started to around 5pm today. Regging through to nearly 1am was just horrible when it's just $2.50 180s to be honest. Proud of myself that I manned up and did it though. Wanted to play 300 games/day at the weekend but only got 200 in both days. What can you do. Still decent volume and as far as I know I'm still crushing the prop bet.
March 4th
Games played: 200
Profit/loss: +$11
Hours played: 9
Cashes:22
It was funny, I sat down at the start of the day and said to Kev. It sucks I have to play today because I've been running to hot and it's bound to catch up with me. And if I hadn't committed ICM suicide on so many occasions today I probably could have had a decent day again. But I wanted ALL THE CHIPS :)... I got slow rolled by one of the guys in the bet on a FT today as well. I'm going to dedicate the win to him at the end of the month rather than spite/slowroll him.
Actually have to go to the gym tomorrow with Kev. Keep coming up with excuses and it's just about getting into routine. In before I give a reason I didn't make it tomorrow. Sigh.
Going to make it quick because I'm the most easily led person in the world. Kev has convinced me to come out tonight. So much for not drinking. And yerp. Immmma get fucked up.
March 3rd
Just ran absurdly hot on FT's. Got heads up 8 or 9 times. Won a good few. Bets looking good so far, seen as total profit for a similar bet last month was around 1k.
So after lasts nights session, I got my real grind on. Fifa12. In division 1 but haven't won it yet. Was feeling good last night, then twice in 3 games I got disconnected from EAs servers. I RUN SO BAD!!! So I need to get 11 points from the last 7 games just to stay up now. Shouldn't be a problem.
Trying pretty hard to get into routine of getting up earlier, managed to get up at around 11 this morning. Going to need to get this down to 9.30 every morning if going to start hitting the gym properly again.
March 2nd
Games played:200
Profit/loss: -81
Hours: 9
Cashes: 18
Kept the tables down to 20 again today. I don't think I played much differently to yesterday. Felt good. I think one mistake I'm probably making is shoving too wide in to regs deep, just getting picked off so lighty even in 2s. I'm still trying to adjust back to 180s, and alls I can say is I'm glad I didn't jump straight back in at 8s/3rs. Because I'd probably have gotten crushed. I think clearing make up by next Friday is nearly impossible at this rate if I don't start mixing in at least 3rs. I'm going to try get in 300 games tomorrow and Sunday and I'll see where I stand. If it's close for the bet between me and Abe will definitely play mtts on Thursday!!
Getting really excited for Tomorrow Land all of a sudden. I know it's not until July but it's going to be UNREAL. Marc and Kev confirmed. Trying to get a few others in. Mttc in Belguim. Yes please.
So ended up playing Fifa last night until all sorts of hours which really didn't help for getting up the gym this morning. Woke up at 10, sent Kev a text knowing full well he wouldn't reply..... More sleeeeeeps. So ye, wasn't the best start. Finally dragged myself out of bed around half 11 and feeling guilty forced myself into going for a run. Even picked up some fruit on the way to snack on in the 5 minute breaks rather than sweets and shizzle. I'm not sure what it is about that 5 minute break, but I ALWAYS need to snack on something.
March 1st
Games played: 200
Profit/loss: +475
Hours: 9
Cashes: 30
So I made a good start to the bet. I really had to force myself to grind it out however. It's funny how a swing can play on your mind. You start to second guess yourself in the most obvious of spots. Like as extreme as today, I was thinking maybe college wouldn't be a bad idea again. It probably wouldn't, but for now. Fuck that. Dream.
I dropped tables down today, and had 20 going constantly all day. I don't think it made much of a difference however results would obviously suggest other wise. I think I just ran a little better on FTs today, which may have had something to do with me tightening up a little bit on them. It's something I need to get better at in mtts and 180s alike. Changing gears and toning down the aggression.
Yet again I have failed in an attempt to keep this blog updated. After this post I'm going to keep the entries short and sweet, and hopefully daily so I it easier to keep updated.
So the last two months.....
Poker wise it hasn't been great to be honest...
January
February
I also played my first decent sized liveament this month. Played the UKIPT down in Galway, buy-in was 770e. I had a seriously good weekend, although it wasn't the greatest poker wise again. I played alright, made two mistakes which in the end pretty much cost me making day 2. Bust in the last few minutes of day 1.
I was going to do a full blown trip report of Galway but..... Nah.....
Cliffs;
- Marc is a tall German
- Marc wins monies in 109s
- Fintan does a better German accent than Marc
- Fintan can't handle his drink and shouldn't be allowed near places he used to work drunk
- Hungover, with 20 other poker players = Mega hang over the next day.
- Credit Card roulette is the way foward
- When you've picked up girls, start taken numbers
- Some people are just not what you expect them to be (Mement and p3cr4)
- Old womiiiinz can check raise rivers as bluffs too.
- I owe 2+2 for introducing me to a lot of cool peeps.
- Aces on the river hurt.
I might write a full trip report sometime, but I couldn't really post it here, as I'm not quite sure who knows about this blog etc.
Anyway, so yer. For the first time I find myself in make-up. It's really shit timing, because my contract with 'Gavarov' was just about to be up and have a few different options. One of which was grinding it out on my own. The idea appealed to me after seeing the likes of Marc, Jono and Corry grinding. They all did it on their own at one point at least. I think it could be an important learning curve.
I've decided rather than allow myself to get buried in make-up, I'm going to hit the grind hard for the next 2 weeks and hopefully clear it in 180's. I actually started it in the last 3 days, back at the 2s because havn't dabbled in them in a while. 500 games, dropped 250 buy-ins. Solid effort.
Props to keep me going:
1. And most importantly, volume vs Marc. Marc is 2 for 2 in volume bets vs me. And I can't let him make it a wash. So terms are, I have to play 2500 games in March. If I play more than 2500, he has to pay for a return flight to Malta for me, if I play less I have to pay for a return to Dublin for him.
2. To clear make-up by Friday week. This is vs Abe. I only have 8 days of playing, so this one is looking pretty unlikely but I'm going to grind as hard as I can and I might play mtts on Sunday or possibly next Thursday to try and make it. Loser has to go into the Mttc and announce themselves as the best 2s player to ever play the game and offer 1 hour of coaching to first to claim it. We will also troll the shit out of several members of the community so it could be quite fun :) Awice, shen etc...
3. Profit for exclusively 2s. It's on 2+2, $200 winner takes all. I'm not sure how wise this is as I havn't played 180s lately, but looking up the people I'm vs stats I'm pretty confident. Here's a link where you can follow this bet - 180s 2s bet.
I've joined yet another gym, but this time it's local so I really have no excuse but to go. Kev's a member aswell so should help in getting each other to go. Might think of a prop bet there aswell. Like I said diary from now on, gym and poker will be updated daily.
Other problem with the bet is going to Bristol in 2 weeks, (day bet ends with Abe) so will be taken 4 days off. But who cares. At me you come.
