Had a pretty decent day today which put a positive spin on what has been another pretty ordinary (but at least breakeven) week. I really felt like I played well today and ive been able to control my buyins however I still get involved in the occasional 109, I guess I cant resist trying to clear this downswing all in one hit! Cashed in a bunch of stuff today (21% ITM, $38 ABI, 38 MTTs) including some stuff id love to win one day; $55 daily 90k on stars, $55 40k, $20 1r1a... Although I did manage this:
Dear ragenut,
You finished the tournament in 2nd place. A USD 2,490.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.
in the $55 500 cap. Top 3 finishes have been hard to come by lately, and hopefully I'll be able to emulate this soon in something a bit bigger! Looking back, I've had a couple of really deep runs go not as far as I would have liked in bigger shit, got a 21st in $109/125k gtd and 160th in the millball last monday, as well as bubbling for a 2nd ANZPT melbourne package on Friday night. I guess I just have to keep plugging away and hope something eventuates. Also the total doesn't include the two ANZPT packages i've won (shipped a Melbourne one last week sometime) so I guess things aren't quite as bad as they look. Ill def be playing the Sydney Champs ME ($1650) so hopefully I'll get my live rungood on!
In other more important news the mighty UNI BULLDOGS have managed to secure a grand final berth in both grades this Saturday! I kicked three goals in our semi the weekend before last, and went down the weekend just gone and got shitfaced on the sidelines watching first grade get up followed by the SCAFL preso night. Anyway regardless of outcome this weekend is going to be fucking massive, and im going to be super fired up for the game... So hopefully will see all you shit cunts there ;)
RESULTS:
Today: +$1529.51
OVERALL: -$19,795.75
Monday, August 30, 2010
Friday, August 20, 2010
A long overdue update and some hard decisions
I daresay the main reason for the lack of updates recently has been due to the somewhat vicious and unrelenting downswing I have been suffering.. I havent been in a great frame of mind (especially immediately after losing sessions)
Basically online it has been -15k almost straight down since ive been back from New Zealand, however I guess I should be somewhat grateful that I was lucky enough to bink live (including some swaps from the GC ty Rawks n Aycee). If not for that binkage I would be in a lot more trouble, although on the flip side I may have been a bit nittier in regards to bankroll management.
Regardless of how good/bad/ugly I have been running, I've had to make some serious financial decisions and come up with a solution to get me and this challenge (lol 100k) back on track. I have had to dissolve the small stable I had going to free up some online $$$ and I will have to be pretty nitty with it - really dont wanna bust it! I guess I'm going to work with another 400 or so buyins and try and play an ABI of $30-$40 (feel free to berate me if you catch me playing anything 109+) and hopefully we will see some results!
Anyway enough of the serious poker shit, more importantly we have footy semi finals tomorrow playing for a spot in the grand final. Should be loose night especially if we get up in both grades, my liver needs prepping for the barrage of pain that I will be inflicting on it with (hopefully) premiership celebrations followed by footy trip.
Reports back from the gold coast indicate that Rennie "smokebomb" Carnivale set a record for the worlds shortest trip to a poker tournament, was in and outta Jupiters within 24 hours! Had a great time myself, although one hand late on day 2 pretty much cost me a stack which I probably woulda rode in for at least a mincash; I spaz reshoved wayyyy too many bbs (its fucking hard counting live chips).
Pretty much spent the rest of the time up there either at the beach or on the piss/dinner etc, highlights included a all-star touch football game obv we had to explain the finer rules of the game to the Melburnites but end result was the superior athletic prowess of Wattage, Tollgate, Milf, Jules and Neilson prevailing easily over the spuds Rickwaa, Moffo, Jackovich, Weygang and Sammy.
Also met up with an old acquaintance of ours, Marty from the Cabbage Tree Hotel who now resides in the Gold Coast, someone who James Dixon would remember very well: http://thelifeofapone.blogspot.com/2010/05/me-and-woodleys-night-of-shame.html
Here is a quote aptly summarising the events of that said night: "...I am standing behind the bouncer, being a pest, dancing behind him and mocking him. Supposedly he turns around and says to me calmly "Would you like a slap to the face", to which I replied with "Yes please". BANG this bouncer backhands the shit out of me and i hit the deck." yeah wp dixon u fish.
PS forgot to mention I managed to win a seat to the next leg of the ANZPT tour in Melbourne in early October. Aiming to be robusto online again by then, but really who knows. Sure would be nice to bink another big score tho!
RESULTS:
Overall: -$19,334.65
Basically online it has been -15k almost straight down since ive been back from New Zealand, however I guess I should be somewhat grateful that I was lucky enough to bink live (including some swaps from the GC ty Rawks n Aycee). If not for that binkage I would be in a lot more trouble, although on the flip side I may have been a bit nittier in regards to bankroll management.
Regardless of how good/bad/ugly I have been running, I've had to make some serious financial decisions and come up with a solution to get me and this challenge (lol 100k) back on track. I have had to dissolve the small stable I had going to free up some online $$$ and I will have to be pretty nitty with it - really dont wanna bust it! I guess I'm going to work with another 400 or so buyins and try and play an ABI of $30-$40 (feel free to berate me if you catch me playing anything 109+) and hopefully we will see some results!
Anyway enough of the serious poker shit, more importantly we have footy semi finals tomorrow playing for a spot in the grand final. Should be loose night especially if we get up in both grades, my liver needs prepping for the barrage of pain that I will be inflicting on it with (hopefully) premiership celebrations followed by footy trip.
Reports back from the gold coast indicate that Rennie "smokebomb" Carnivale set a record for the worlds shortest trip to a poker tournament, was in and outta Jupiters within 24 hours! Had a great time myself, although one hand late on day 2 pretty much cost me a stack which I probably woulda rode in for at least a mincash; I spaz reshoved wayyyy too many bbs (its fucking hard counting live chips).
Pretty much spent the rest of the time up there either at the beach or on the piss/dinner etc, highlights included a all-star touch football game obv we had to explain the finer rules of the game to the Melburnites but end result was the superior athletic prowess of Wattage, Tollgate, Milf, Jules and Neilson prevailing easily over the spuds Rickwaa, Moffo, Jackovich, Weygang and Sammy.
Also met up with an old acquaintance of ours, Marty from the Cabbage Tree Hotel who now resides in the Gold Coast, someone who James Dixon would remember very well: http://thelifeofapone.blogspot.com/2010/05/me-and-woodleys-night-of-shame.html
Here is a quote aptly summarising the events of that said night: "...I am standing behind the bouncer, being a pest, dancing behind him and mocking him. Supposedly he turns around and says to me calmly "Would you like a slap to the face", to which I replied with "Yes please". BANG this bouncer backhands the shit out of me and i hit the deck." yeah wp dixon u fish.
PS forgot to mention I managed to win a seat to the next leg of the ANZPT tour in Melbourne in early October. Aiming to be robusto online again by then, but really who knows. Sure would be nice to bink another big score tho!
RESULTS:
Overall: -$19,334.65
Friday, August 6, 2010
Great week lol
Thank god I slept in today. Played every day this week bar today, managed to sleep through my 4:45am alarm (standard start time FWIW) and didn't wake up til midday lol. If the trend had continued, it would have been another losing session... This week took the downswing to well over 5 figures, fun times!
Totally bricked a smaller session Tuesday, scraped a 3rd in an 11 FO on Wednesday for 2k ish and bubbled the $50 sniper on UB another fantastic 10th place finish! FTOPS (no Dixon this does not stand for Full Tilt on Poker Stars) started on Thursday so I felt obligated to play another session and bricked hardcore again.
Trying hard to stay positive, I'm still in fine shape to keep grinding away a $40-$50 ABI and I know there are guys out there on bigger downswings than me (hi dere Risk!) and hopefully It'll go my way soon enough.
In other news, my red card last week means I am suspended for this week, and as a result I am playing the NPL500 this weekend with the one and only Wennie Shhhteel. For those who dont know, this $2,200 event should be choc a bloc with your standard pub poker players, I dunno what out ROI's will be but I estimate something like 500% looooooooooooooooooooooool. Then Tuesday I head up to the Goldy for more liveament action!
RESULTS:
Tuesday: -$1,174.43
Wednesday: -$543.20
Thursday: -$1,141.49
OVERALL: -$11,476.92
Totally bricked a smaller session Tuesday, scraped a 3rd in an 11 FO on Wednesday for 2k ish and bubbled the $50 sniper on UB another fantastic 10th place finish! FTOPS (no Dixon this does not stand for Full Tilt on Poker Stars) started on Thursday so I felt obligated to play another session and bricked hardcore again.
Trying hard to stay positive, I'm still in fine shape to keep grinding away a $40-$50 ABI and I know there are guys out there on bigger downswings than me (hi dere Risk!) and hopefully It'll go my way soon enough.
In other news, my red card last week means I am suspended for this week, and as a result I am playing the NPL500 this weekend with the one and only Wennie Shhhteel. For those who dont know, this $2,200 event should be choc a bloc with your standard pub poker players, I dunno what out ROI's will be but I estimate something like 500% looooooooooooooooooooooool. Then Tuesday I head up to the Goldy for more liveament action!
RESULTS:
Tuesday: -$1,174.43
Wednesday: -$543.20
Thursday: -$1,141.49
OVERALL: -$11,476.92
Monday, August 2, 2010
welcome back to mondays
Another disappointing day on the online felt; got a ton of volume in, a lot of promising deep runs and then falling agonisingly short (yet again). Two FT bubbles today in really big Monday fields; 16th in $75 24k gtd on FTP (23k 1st) and 15th in the early 11r on Stars (18k 1st). Luckily I still feel like im playing well so the next result (should) be not too far away (and yes I know I just binked in a liveament but its easy to be greedy!)
In other news, made a rather average return to the footy field on saturday, ended up getting red carded for hurling a barrage of abuse at possibly the worst AFL umpire in the country... Still need to make major inroads on the fitness front; hopefully this will have a positive impact on my results as well.
RESULTS:
Today: -$1,428.96
OVERALL: -$8,617.80
In other news, made a rather average return to the footy field on saturday, ended up getting red carded for hurling a barrage of abuse at possibly the worst AFL umpire in the country... Still need to make major inroads on the fitness front; hopefully this will have a positive impact on my results as well.
RESULTS:
Today: -$1,428.96
OVERALL: -$8,617.80
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