So it's official... I am the most indecisive person in the world. Ever. But finally starting to get things sorted out a little bit. I thought it about it for quite a while, but I've decided to get backed again. I'm going to be backed by Marc and Bogan. I'm still unsure whether it's the best decision for me, because if I wanted I could grind out a roll for myself playing 2s and 3rs. However, in the long run I think it will be best for me to play a higher average buy-in and take advantage of the coaching on offer from Marc and David.
Also confirmed moving in with Marc come May the 1st, unsure whether I mentioned that previously. We're going to get a place local to myself for 3 months, then head off to TomorrowLand, and then possibly onto Bristol. Getting a place to rent for 3 months, for two people who are playing poker full time isn't the easiest. People just turn their noses up straight away when you mention poker. So... Here's the plan. I'm now a 'Risk Analyst for Tech-Matic' (My Dads company) and Marc will be Zeee German who is here on business. How could that fail?? :)
Since I start playing for Marc and Bogan it's been a lot of close calls. On the first day, I won a small 5c and small 2r (Which I tried to punt hard, then ended up with a stack, so played Fifa for a few hours came back and had 10bbs, got AA, quaded up and won it. Yep.. Skill game).. Since then I've made a few FTs and a good few around the FT bubble, on Saturday, stone cold bubbled a $25 hyper and like 12th in the Hot 33. Would have been pretty cool to ship either of them, think was like around 5k for fist in both. I've been trying really hard to cut out spewing deep in Mtts, and working to some degree, except one hand, where on the FT bubble of a 27.50 capped, I 4b jammed 10-8o like 30bbs effective when Marc told me the reg was a nit.
Going to update this again at the end of the month, will put in my total 2s graph, where I gave up on the bet and my overall graph. Going to hammer Kev in Fifa now hopefully, and taken tomorrow off to go for scoops with Jono (Gawa9). That should be fun. Updates to come.
Instead of a video I'm just going to post this - Jono's trip report, tomorrow will be fun!!!
Monday, 26 March 2012
Sunday, 18 March 2012
Day 18 - Have no idea what I'm doing.
Pretty much didn't sleep a wink last night. Went home after beating Kev on away goals in our 2 legged nightly Fifa game. Was derlissssh. Nando in the last minute for Chelsea to take it on away goals!! Nom!!
Bogan booked an hour for me with Squee. I'm ridic excited for that. I hope he tears me apart, which he probably will. But listening to people like him will only do me wonders.
Had to get up at 10am to go into my Mam, it been Mothers Day and all. So by the time I went and chilled with her for a little bit I was absolutely wrecked and didn't want to grind. Came down to Kevs anyway, and decided again...... I was going to go for the 2s bet. I only got 100 games in before I was just too tired to keep regging.
March 18th
Confirmed with Marc today that I'm 100% moving in with him from the 1st of May until at least the end of July in Dublin. So I think I'm going to grind 180s on my own dime and get some pretty much variance free dollar. I still have no idea if I will make a run at this bet or not. There's still plenty of time left to catch the guys and $1800 would be pretty sweet. But I really, REALLY need to make up my mind by tomorrow or else leaving it too late.
Bogan booked an hour for me with Squee. I'm ridic excited for that. I hope he tears me apart, which he probably will. But listening to people like him will only do me wonders.
Love her. Love the song. Run gootz.
Saturday, 17 March 2012
Day 16 & 17 - Decisions...
Didn't have time to update it last night as decided I was getting fucked up :).. Was in a pretty bad way, ringing Gawa and Dan because I got so excited there going to be in Dublin at the end of the month!!... Should be a fun night!.
So after all I've decided I'm not going to go for the 2s bet. At the moment I just don't have it in me to grind every day. I still need to get 1k games in this month to lock up the bet with Marc but that won't be a problem.
I've decided, backed or un-backed. I'm going to get my grind on in the 3rs big time. I think they'll improve my end game even more in Mtts, plus everyone says they are the softest of the 180s. Obviously they suck for RB and hourly, but easy money is easy money.
Cory (ProdigyXII on stars) told me he'd go over some HHs, in exchange for some drinks in Nottingham. He was once regarded as the best 3r player when on the serious grind, so that will be pretty sick. Reason I'll be in Nottingham is I shipped a satty tonight. :D. I felt a little out of my depth when we got to the FT as I have no satty experience. But it was fairly comfortable in the end. Hopefully I will get to girls and some the guys I met over in Bristol. Just need Kev to bink some money so he can play as well, that would be sweet.
I think I played pretty well over all the last few days and had some deep runs, today I think my only deepish run an Mtt was the 11c and Felix (in my old stable) was down to the last 2 tables with. Was one hand, which I thought was lol bad, where he shove 16bb over my utg+1 open with K2 and got there vs my JJ. I would have berated him a little even if I held, as I just didn't get it. He cited 'x' and 'y' why it isn't that bad. And maybe I need to look into my re-shoving range from EP openers.
I can't post a graph from the last 2 days, because for some reason it's still including the MM cash. I played approx 150 games and broke even apart from the package I shipped. So plus about $1k. I've also decided once and for all I'm too far behind in the 2s bet to win. I'm about $700 behind. I'm not sure if I said this in the last post, hopefully not. But ya, I could possibly push for it. I feel I'm playing well at the moment but just the week off and chilling out in Bristol has took my mind off the grind.
I'm going to talk to Bogan in the morning pre my session and decide what I'm doing once and for good. They signed up my good irl friend Karl (chips1234), so just gotta get Kev and Greg in there and have the irish connection. It's a bit of a disgrace I didn't go out on Paddys Day been Irish and all that, but oh well. Destiny. Let's ship the UKIPT :D
So after all I've decided I'm not going to go for the 2s bet. At the moment I just don't have it in me to grind every day. I still need to get 1k games in this month to lock up the bet with Marc but that won't be a problem.
I've decided, backed or un-backed. I'm going to get my grind on in the 3rs big time. I think they'll improve my end game even more in Mtts, plus everyone says they are the softest of the 180s. Obviously they suck for RB and hourly, but easy money is easy money.
Cory (ProdigyXII on stars) told me he'd go over some HHs, in exchange for some drinks in Nottingham. He was once regarded as the best 3r player when on the serious grind, so that will be pretty sick. Reason I'll be in Nottingham is I shipped a satty tonight. :D. I felt a little out of my depth when we got to the FT as I have no satty experience. But it was fairly comfortable in the end. Hopefully I will get to girls and some the guys I met over in Bristol. Just need Kev to bink some money so he can play as well, that would be sweet.
I think I played pretty well over all the last few days and had some deep runs, today I think my only deepish run an Mtt was the 11c and Felix (in my old stable) was down to the last 2 tables with. Was one hand, which I thought was lol bad, where he shove 16bb over my utg+1 open with K2 and got there vs my JJ. I would have berated him a little even if I held, as I just didn't get it. He cited 'x' and 'y' why it isn't that bad. And maybe I need to look into my re-shoving range from EP openers.
I can't post a graph from the last 2 days, because for some reason it's still including the MM cash. I played approx 150 games and broke even apart from the package I shipped. So plus about $1k. I've also decided once and for all I'm too far behind in the 2s bet to win. I'm about $700 behind. I'm not sure if I said this in the last post, hopefully not. But ya, I could possibly push for it. I feel I'm playing well at the moment but just the week off and chilling out in Bristol has took my mind off the grind.
I'm going to talk to Bogan in the morning pre my session and decide what I'm doing once and for good. They signed up my good irl friend Karl (chips1234), so just gotta get Kev and Greg in there and have the irish connection. It's a bit of a disgrace I didn't go out on Paddys Day been Irish and all that, but oh well. Destiny. Let's ship the UKIPT :D
Friday, 16 March 2012
Day 15 - Bink
[14.03.2012 21:54:35] Fintan Hand: Fuck it I'll play mtts until Monday.. Then go back to 180s end of the week..
So decided to go for the bink rather than the grind....
40,000 players later I had my biggest bink to date. Got 4th in one of the Micro Millions events for about 6.3k. 1st was 17k, would have loving to binked a 5 figure score. Wasn't to be as my AK < KQ for quite a big pot. Still delighted however, as I cleared make-up and netted myself a bit of profit. I played pretty well throughout I thought, apart from maybe one hand where I 3b a guy for the 3rd time in quick succession with K10o when 4 handed, and the short stack woke up with AQ behind. Marc thought it was silly to be light in that spot, just because he was probably getting fed up with me. I'm more into the, pound away until he shows he will put up some resistance. I was just trying to apply some pressure with the ridic pay jumps. One of the players on the table was literally begging for a deal. I also FT'd a $2r on my first day back to Mtts, and took 9th....... Bawliiiin..
Here's the sweat thread from the FT, I really wanted the prestigious hat that stars are offering for binking one of these Micro Millions. - <3
So decided to go for the bink rather than the grind....
40,000 players later I had my biggest bink to date. Got 4th in one of the Micro Millions events for about 6.3k. 1st was 17k, would have loving to binked a 5 figure score. Wasn't to be as my AK < KQ for quite a big pot. Still delighted however, as I cleared make-up and netted myself a bit of profit. I played pretty well throughout I thought, apart from maybe one hand where I 3b a guy for the 3rd time in quick succession with K10o when 4 handed, and the short stack woke up with AQ behind. Marc thought it was silly to be light in that spot, just because he was probably getting fed up with me. I'm more into the, pound away until he shows he will put up some resistance. I was just trying to apply some pressure with the ridic pay jumps. One of the players on the table was literally begging for a deal. I also FT'd a $2r on my first day back to Mtts, and took 9th....... Bawliiiin..
15th May
Games played: 50
Profit/loss: +$6074
Hours played: 15
Cashes: 11
Now that I've cleared make-up I have to make up my mind on what I'm going to do. I'm ending things with Gavarov. They've been nothing but good to me, however I want to continue to work with Marc in some way or else go on my own. I'll make my mind up in the next few days.
If I had of binked the 17k, Kev and myself would have been on a plane to Bristol/Malta the next day. Dreams.
If I had of binked the 17k, Kev and myself would have been on a plane to Bristol/Malta the next day. Dreams.
Here's the sweat thread from the FT, I really wanted the prestigious hat that stars are offering for binking one of these Micro Millions. - <3
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Day 14 - I've lost it. tl;dr
So..... Bristol.... Awesome.
Got over on Friday night, the girls were all adamant we would have a quite one in the local pub. As on Saturday it was Laura's 20th. People would be arriving early blah blah and didn't want hangovers etc. Kev and I had other ideas. Dozens of Jaager bombs later, pure happiness, a party on a boat, we arrived home at about 5am and kept the girls up talking shite for hours.
Needless to say, the next morning we were nobody's best friends after ruining their plans... Got a couple of hours sleep, people started arriving and was time to do it all over again. All the lads Kev knew from Ibiza arrived down and the girls from Wales, where Laura is from arrived as well. The house was set up pretty well for a party, one of the girls bf's was a DJ and got his decks set up.
Considering moving over to Bristol in August full time with Marc, and possible Kev. And if Saturday night in the club in town is anything to go by, living in Bristol would make things easy for two young Irish lads. Seriously. We walked around the club for about 15 minutes, and everyone time we opened our mouths the girls were in love. I wish it were as easy at home. Again had a great night, everyone on the love buzz.
Feeling pretty rough the next morning, after everyone cleared off. I did my usually, 'Fuck, I've lost _____'. This time it been my passport. As the day went on, sort of realised I had actually lost it. Chose not to panic thinking it'd turn up, or else be in the club from the night before. We contemplated watching 'Shawshank Redemption' for the 3rd time over the weekend, as the girls had no channels and the DVD player was broken. Then Alice came to rescue with a few classics like 'The Jungle Book' and 'Notting Hill'. Manly as fuck DVDs obv. Didn't head out on the Sunday night, so woke up fresh the next morning, planning to charm my way onto the plane as I couldn't get through to the club and it hadn't turned up around the house. Ryan Air has a strict policy on passports however so it was obviously never going to work. So I bid Kev farewell and back to the girls house I went.
Laura and Amy were going to work, so Emma and I went off the club to lurk for my passport. And of course it was there, a bit worse for wear, but at least I had it. Instead of just getting a taxi, Emma insisted on walking all the way home. Was pretty cool though, seen a lot of the places were 'Skins' would have been filmed. And to be honest, that show has life in Bristol down to a tee. Tried to get Emma to come into a brothel with me, it been half 9 on a Monday and her sober, was a long shot. Ryan Air obviously scammed the fuck out of me for the price of the fare for the next morning. But what can you (in before don't lose your passport). At least I had saved on the more expensive price of an Aer Lingus flight and replacing the passport. All in all. Quality weekend.
However, got back and cheked out the 180 bet. My net profit stands around 1100 and guy out in front now has 1750 or so. I mean, I could catch up to it. If I run good and he runs average/bad and I mash the volume out of it. However, one of the guys had 3200 games played after 12 days, havn't checked since. So I'm never going to out volume him. So I think I'm going to throw in the towel and get back on the Mtt grind from tomorrow. I'll still update this every day however, as I think it's good for motivation and James gave out it hadn't been updated ha, so at least I know someone is reading it. Marc has also said that he will review with me on Monday if I'm struggling big time, ie no deep runs or anything over the next 5 days.
Also have decided that I'm 95% moving in with Marc come the first of May, unless he gets different life plans. So I really need to clear MU and stopping having ridic expensive weekends like the one that has just passed. The $1800 would be really sweet from the 2s bet, it would just suck so so so so much if I were to grind my ass of in 2s for the next 2 weeks and then not win the bet. Agh I'm so indecisive, I'll decide in the morning :D
Got over on Friday night, the girls were all adamant we would have a quite one in the local pub. As on Saturday it was Laura's 20th. People would be arriving early blah blah and didn't want hangovers etc. Kev and I had other ideas. Dozens of Jaager bombs later, pure happiness, a party on a boat, we arrived home at about 5am and kept the girls up talking shite for hours.
On a Boaaaaaat!!
Needless to say, the next morning we were nobody's best friends after ruining their plans... Got a couple of hours sleep, people started arriving and was time to do it all over again. All the lads Kev knew from Ibiza arrived down and the girls from Wales, where Laura is from arrived as well. The house was set up pretty well for a party, one of the girls bf's was a DJ and got his decks set up.
Seshwaaaan.
Considering moving over to Bristol in August full time with Marc, and possible Kev. And if Saturday night in the club in town is anything to go by, living in Bristol would make things easy for two young Irish lads. Seriously. We walked around the club for about 15 minutes, and everyone time we opened our mouths the girls were in love. I wish it were as easy at home. Again had a great night, everyone on the love buzz.
Feeling pretty rough the next morning, after everyone cleared off. I did my usually, 'Fuck, I've lost _____'. This time it been my passport. As the day went on, sort of realised I had actually lost it. Chose not to panic thinking it'd turn up, or else be in the club from the night before. We contemplated watching 'Shawshank Redemption' for the 3rd time over the weekend, as the girls had no channels and the DVD player was broken. Then Alice came to rescue with a few classics like 'The Jungle Book' and 'Notting Hill'. Manly as fuck DVDs obv. Didn't head out on the Sunday night, so woke up fresh the next morning, planning to charm my way onto the plane as I couldn't get through to the club and it hadn't turned up around the house. Ryan Air has a strict policy on passports however so it was obviously never going to work. So I bid Kev farewell and back to the girls house I went.
Laura and Amy were going to work, so Emma and I went off the club to lurk for my passport. And of course it was there, a bit worse for wear, but at least I had it. Instead of just getting a taxi, Emma insisted on walking all the way home. Was pretty cool though, seen a lot of the places were 'Skins' would have been filmed. And to be honest, that show has life in Bristol down to a tee. Tried to get Emma to come into a brothel with me, it been half 9 on a Monday and her sober, was a long shot. Ryan Air obviously scammed the fuck out of me for the price of the fare for the next morning. But what can you (in before don't lose your passport). At least I had saved on the more expensive price of an Aer Lingus flight and replacing the passport. All in all. Quality weekend.
However, got back and cheked out the 180 bet. My net profit stands around 1100 and guy out in front now has 1750 or so. I mean, I could catch up to it. If I run good and he runs average/bad and I mash the volume out of it. However, one of the guys had 3200 games played after 12 days, havn't checked since. So I'm never going to out volume him. So I think I'm going to throw in the towel and get back on the Mtt grind from tomorrow. I'll still update this every day however, as I think it's good for motivation and James gave out it hadn't been updated ha, so at least I know someone is reading it. Marc has also said that he will review with me on Monday if I'm struggling big time, ie no deep runs or anything over the next 5 days.
Also have decided that I'm 95% moving in with Marc come the first of May, unless he gets different life plans. So I really need to clear MU and stopping having ridic expensive weekends like the one that has just passed. The $1800 would be really sweet from the 2s bet, it would just suck so so so so much if I were to grind my ass of in 2s for the next 2 weeks and then not win the bet. Agh I'm so indecisive, I'll decide in the morning :D
Sums up the weekend perfectly.
Wednesday, 7 March 2012
Day 7 - Need a break
Not quite sure how many consecutive days I've played now. But I think I'm going to take tomorrow off, and with going away to Bristol on Friday-Monday. I won't be updating this for a few days.
I thought I played pretty well today to be honest, but things just didn't go my way. Abe beat me heads up, that was the nut low moment of my Day.
I thought I played pretty well today to be honest, but things just didn't go my way. Abe beat me heads up, that was the nut low moment of my Day.
March 7th
Games played: 200
Profit/loss: -$127
Hours played: 8.5
Cashes: 18
So still in make-up and obviosuly won't be clearly it before tomorrow so ye, Abe won one of the props. And about $400 behind in the 2s bet now. Hopefully it's not like 1k when I get back on Monday. Will be hitting the grind big time when I get back. Glglglgl
Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Day 6 - Pain
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.
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