Veas Trip

Back now a few days from my trip to vegas to train in the rainman mansion, i have to say it was by far the hardest 10 days work ive ever had to do, anyone who thinks being an online poker player is an easy liofe is sorlely mistaken, between grinding and hand history reviews it was a 12 to 14 hour day, everyday.
the great thing bout being on pacific time is the games pretty much run from morning to evening, so a standard day was get up bout 7, star playing bout 8 for 100 games which usually took bout 12 hours if i took a break during the day then review hand histories for and hour or two, sometimes more if nick got on a roll with the replayer!!
the firs 3 nights i was in bed by half 10 completly shattered, the first time i left the house was 4 days in when we got out for a fat burger!! managed to get out another night for couple of hours to play some live poker at aria an tbh it was like pulling teeth, after pplaying 10-12 tables all day then sitting there at a live table waiting for your turn i was honestly struggling to stay awake!! we fit in a game pof bowling and went for a meal too but apart from that it was all work and the strip could of been a million miles away.
while i was there my goal was to play 100 tournaments a day which meant i had to up my tables to 12 at a time and was out of my comfort zone, and some days would question my ability to cut it with thwe other players, but after some good reviews and noticing some small errors that i was making ive been ables to pull things toghether ive dropped back to 9-10 tables and feel comfortable there which is an improvement since i was 6-8 tabling before i went out.
i would like to thank Nick Aaron and bodeye for all their help with everything, and the set up they gave us to work with, before i went out i bought a laptop and played on iy for a week thinking i would need to get used to it for the trip, but when i got there each student had their own set up with pc, and dual 22@ monitors which was pretty cool, and i would like to give a shout to all the lads in the house, i met a great bunch of lads who are all either crushing or are on their way to crushing the 180's for some ime to come, look forward to meeting up again.
heres a few pics from the house i'll be back on soon give a results update from the month, my graphs like an advert for varience, with the ups and downs due to adding tables and playing longer sessions than i was ever used to.
GL
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and lastly the man himself, mr mi_turtle......two tabling!!!

mays over!

May was defiantly my toughest month so far, igot off to a slow start with both volume and results, and i wasn't working as hard off the tables reviewing etc,
i started to review my hand histories and tbh i was happy enough with how i was playing and was genuinely getting unlucky at key points in the game,(not that i wasn't sucking out my own fair share) just when it got down to 12/13 players left i was loosing flips and running into big hands where another day i win the race and have a big stack going onto the final table.
Another reason for the lack of volume is that I'm still only 6/7 tabling,whenever i move up to 9/10 i feel out my comfort zone and start to make unforced errors, that's another thing i will be working on improving, i also have been trying out some new times for playin, since i'm in the eurozone i've been playing through the night, so i've been trying playing more normal times, but unfortunatly the games just dont run enough during the day my time so i guess i'll have to go back to playin more at nighttime.
then for whatever reason in the latter half of the month i started tilting over beats i was getting, when kings loose to jacks I'd spend the next 10 Min's bitching bout it when i have other games i need to concentrate on, before i just got on with it cause i know on another table i prob just cracked aces with my J7!!so that's something i defiantly need to eradicate.
another problem creeping into my game is my concentration, I've started to let my mind wander and on a number of occasions found myself looking at twitter or facebook when I'm playing or just thinking bout random shit that's nothing to do with the games I'm playing.

games played 1026
profit $771
on a positive note since Ive been bitching for the last rant! after all i did make a profit!!
i booked my flights to Vegas to learn from the main men nick, Aaron and bodeye, and also there will be a bunch of students there I'm looking forward to meeting, I'm flying out the 13th till the 24Th June and am pretty excited bout the trip, and tbh a bit nervous, theres some pretty high standards that have to be met out there.
i got a new 17" laptop yesterday for the trip, took me half the day to get it set up yesterday, so I'll be playing my games on that for the next few weeks to get used to it before i go, that's all for now gl everyone,
oh yeah, big congrats to the foxyshazam who took down back to back $36 180 mans last night, some achievement mate well done

Back to work

Well May hasn't started off to good, i started the month late with the log weekend ant then didn't play this weekend with my daughters Communion. so I'm down in both volume and results, also the week i did play i was getting killed in the 12's all week combination of running into hands at late stages getting 8th's and 9th's rather then winning them hands and pushing on to first or second, and also and prob a more decisive factor, just playing bad.
I ha vent been reviewing my hand histories and not been doing enough off the tables, all i was concerned with was getting games in and i ended up making mistakes but rather than correcting them i just kept playing do in the same things making the same mistakes, and when they say The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Lets hope I'm not going down that road!!
this week I'm looking to put in 12 hours a day except wed when i have Kaitlyn I'll get 8 in then, to spend an hour reviewing hand histories from the previous days session before i start and to give full attention to the webiners i attend, to put it simply, work harder, I'll only get out what i put in and that's been evident the past couple of weeks.
GL

Aprils over

had another stutter towards the end of the month couple of days with no joy put a bit of a stain on the month , but on the whole not to bad,and with my live score the other week ended up ok i guess, obv not where i want to be, and i'll just have to keep working as hard as possible to take that next step and get more consistancy into my game, thought i was gonna finish the month off with my first hat trick night, i took down a 3R 180 and in my last 2 games i was on two 12 ft's and felt really comfortaable, there was no regs and it seemed everyone was waiting for everyone else to bust, so as i decided to take advantage of this i ran into monsters lol!
gonna venture out into the real worl again today playin a wsop mirror tournament in the local card club same structure etc, difference being instead of 7000 runners ther'll be bout 50 and instead of bout 70 mill prize pool there'll be bout 10K!!! but hey its as close to the rio as i'm gonna be this summer so i might as well make the most of it!
GL

Internet oh internet!

Just a quick post for anyone out there who like me still hasn't had the good sense to get a back up Internet, go do it!
again last night mine went out, was having one of them nights were nothing was going right and was bout 0 for 30 or so, then as if the poker gods said the yd give me a little something something for my perseverance the cards started falling into place and i started building some stacks, had a bout 8 tables going with nice stacks building and 2nd in chips in 1 of them with 15 left, obv a lockdown at that point lol!
on the stroke of midnight the Internet went out! After bout 20 mins doing laps of the house and Clare wondering why i was getting some extra running in and not working i gave up and brought Ellie for a walk to clear my head, not to many people out at that time but the ones who were gave me some funny looks as to what i was doing walking around the estates at close to 1 am with a German Sheppard in tow!!
First thing on my agenda today is to hit the o2 shop and get hooked up with some mobile Internet
GL everyone

a live outing

yes believe it or not i left the house! needed to get out for a bit and take a night off from the computer, so for my first live outing of the year i went over to naas to the loft for their monthly tournament, when i got their i realised quickly that it wasn't a recreational tournament with a field of 50 of some the faces of Irish poker.
it was a really enjoyable night and i really feel from all the online play that my live play was much different, spots were opening up to me that i never would of seen before and overall i felt much more comfortable with reads etc only needing to suck out once throughout the nigh when my A7 clubs out ran AQ of the BB late at the final table.
so much for getting away from the 180s for a night as when i sat down at the final table Laoise Hammer, a 12 180 man reg was sitting next to me, could of made for some interesting bvb collisions but never happened!!
i got chatting to him at the break and on "my night off" spent the breaks chatting bout the 180's!!
ended up chopping it 3 ways with me and the larger stack taking 1700 each and the shorter stack taking 1400, so happy with my nights work! hopefully I'll get out again before jP's masters in the beginning of May
GL everyone