So Lupe Fiasco's CD came out a week or so ago and ive been listening to it a lot lately. Overall the CD is very very good.
I am not happy with how many beat samples he had, and his hit single "The show goes on" has a hook that resembles Float on by Modest Mouse way too much. He wasn't original enough when it came to how the music sounded IMO, but having said that the CD is still very good, and every song has a powerful message and I respect Lupe and how he goes about making his music a ton. Its tough to get into mainstream nowadays as a rapper if your not rapping about weed money and woman, and its exciting to hear somebody like lupe that goes outside the box and has actual lyrics to the music.
If you haven't heard this song yet, your missing out.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Money Money Money
I am mixed with emotions about how the past couple of months have been going for me. I feel my poker game is improving at a high speed, and I never felt better about how I am playing and approaching the game. Everything else, including results in poker, have been awful.
SNG wise im on a STD downswing, can't really complain as I have been there in SNGS a bunch. But god have MTTS been a disappointing. I feel I am playing at a very high level, just to get fucked late in MTTS. I am on my biggest downswing right now in MTTS, and combined with my SNG downswing im on over a 10k downswing which has never happened to me before. At the stakes I have been playing, it happens to everybody, so I won't really bitch about it, but poker really is very hard mentally and be extremely frustrating at times. I have 25k in cashes for my bap with 30k in buyins (roughly). I have some ok 1-3k ish scores while this BAP has ran, but I just haven't been able to get anything going consistently, or a huge score to put me up a decent ammt. It sucks but it is what is it.
My one roommate Adam moved out in mid Feb about a month ago, because our lease was ending at the end of Feb, and his dad is rich and bought him a house so he moved there. Dave and I chose to do the 2 month extension which puts us here till the end of April, to help give us more time to figure out what to do, and I personally am struggling to figure out what to do.
Dave is hands down one of my best friends, I love the kid to death, but he is impossible to live with. Hes cheap, he doesn't clean up after himself, and he can't be alone. I hate living with him, and he hates living with me. My schedule is weird, and he has alone issues so that sucks for him. With Adam, he was a neat freak. I would do my part, clean the two mutual rooms, do my dishes, clean my pots, and just let daves sit. Dave and Adam got into so many fights about it, because Adam couldn't stand dishes or pots in the sink and ended up cleaning up Daves stuff cause Dave literally just doesn't clean up after himself. Now here I am, stuck doing what Adam had to do and bitching about it. I wont even get into the cheap part because its redic at how much the kid mooches. We need a 3rd roommate, or living with him with just us 2 is not a option. Im pretty sure he feels the same way so it shouldn't be hard news to break or anything. Were great friends, nothing is going to change that, but we both know were not compatible to live together with just us 2. Clock is ticking though and I need to figure out where I am going to be living in a month and a half.
Moving on,
I just got back from a 1 week trip to Atlantic city. Atlantic city had the Harrahs WSOP circuit there that week, and I went out there with 3 buddys, 1 who plays poker semi prof, and the other 2 just went to have a good time. I don't want to drag this post on with the storys I have from AC, so ill keep it short.
Poker wise I got 13th in a borgata 120$ tourney for about 400$. The next Day I won a 120$ tourney at caesars for about 3,250. I played 2 circuit ring event 350$ buyins, another 120$ caesars, and I also played the main event for 1650. I only risked 700$ in the main cause I had pieces sold, So in tournaments I won about 2k. I also won about 1k in cash games which puts me up about 3k for the trip in poker. Due to degenning in blackjack and roulette, plus somewhat high expenses, I walked away from the trip up 100$.
I felt great with how I played live, made 2 deep runs, and played my first big live buyin, which i played amazing in. I built up a big stack quick and then lost a bunch of flips and 60/40s when blinds got a bit higher, people were making light light shoves on my aggressive image, and everytime I got it in it was a flip or I was a 60/40 favorite, I lost all 4 showdowns I was involved in. Nothing I could have done about it, I feel I played 1 hand bad that whole tournament, which was a pot i won with aces, and just overall loved the way I played my first big live tournament.
I want to practice live for the real show, which is Vegas, so me and a poker buddy of mine (bigbluffzinc) are going to go down to st louis april 1st - april 10th to play the WSOP circuit down there.
Shout outs to the people I met in AC, especially phillycoach, AJ, and Rooney. Nice meeting all you guys.
But on to the end of this long post, and the thread title says it all... MONEY MONEY MONEY.
I have to pay my taxes, move into a new place and probably upfronting 6 months of rent, staying in st louis for 10 days, and living in vegas for 5 weeks. Not too mention the bills I already have. Did I also mention this is all happening within the next 2-3 months?
Luckily I have a good ammt saved up, but this is really going to hurt me a lot. I never get more motivated in my life with poker then when I need money though, so I am planning on everything working itself out with a sick work ethic grinding bread and butter games.
I am grinding 16$ 18 mans right now for a prop bet that I can get 20% ROI over a 5k game sample before the end of April. Just a small friendly prop with a few closer poker buddys. I am getting some shit for it because A - they think its money down the drain and its not possible, and B, and more importanly, - they think its a waste of my time, and Im better off just grinding the 27-114's.
Maybe there right, maybe Im in over my head and think the 16's are way softer than they actually are. I dont know, time will tell to see how good of a idea this was, or if it was in fact, a complete waste of time.
I still plan on doing 100 or so MTTS a week too, so who knows what can happen there.
Its going to be all work for me, life and poker, from here till the end of April. The ST louis trip will be somewhat of a vacation I suppose, but I still plan on playing poker 12+ hours a day down there, whether its live or online, so I wouldn't really classify it as a full vacation.
But yeah, I am motivated, I am ready to grind, lets do this.
SNG wise im on a STD downswing, can't really complain as I have been there in SNGS a bunch. But god have MTTS been a disappointing. I feel I am playing at a very high level, just to get fucked late in MTTS. I am on my biggest downswing right now in MTTS, and combined with my SNG downswing im on over a 10k downswing which has never happened to me before. At the stakes I have been playing, it happens to everybody, so I won't really bitch about it, but poker really is very hard mentally and be extremely frustrating at times. I have 25k in cashes for my bap with 30k in buyins (roughly). I have some ok 1-3k ish scores while this BAP has ran, but I just haven't been able to get anything going consistently, or a huge score to put me up a decent ammt. It sucks but it is what is it.
My one roommate Adam moved out in mid Feb about a month ago, because our lease was ending at the end of Feb, and his dad is rich and bought him a house so he moved there. Dave and I chose to do the 2 month extension which puts us here till the end of April, to help give us more time to figure out what to do, and I personally am struggling to figure out what to do.
Dave is hands down one of my best friends, I love the kid to death, but he is impossible to live with. Hes cheap, he doesn't clean up after himself, and he can't be alone. I hate living with him, and he hates living with me. My schedule is weird, and he has alone issues so that sucks for him. With Adam, he was a neat freak. I would do my part, clean the two mutual rooms, do my dishes, clean my pots, and just let daves sit. Dave and Adam got into so many fights about it, because Adam couldn't stand dishes or pots in the sink and ended up cleaning up Daves stuff cause Dave literally just doesn't clean up after himself. Now here I am, stuck doing what Adam had to do and bitching about it. I wont even get into the cheap part because its redic at how much the kid mooches. We need a 3rd roommate, or living with him with just us 2 is not a option. Im pretty sure he feels the same way so it shouldn't be hard news to break or anything. Were great friends, nothing is going to change that, but we both know were not compatible to live together with just us 2. Clock is ticking though and I need to figure out where I am going to be living in a month and a half.
Moving on,
I just got back from a 1 week trip to Atlantic city. Atlantic city had the Harrahs WSOP circuit there that week, and I went out there with 3 buddys, 1 who plays poker semi prof, and the other 2 just went to have a good time. I don't want to drag this post on with the storys I have from AC, so ill keep it short.
Poker wise I got 13th in a borgata 120$ tourney for about 400$. The next Day I won a 120$ tourney at caesars for about 3,250. I played 2 circuit ring event 350$ buyins, another 120$ caesars, and I also played the main event for 1650. I only risked 700$ in the main cause I had pieces sold, So in tournaments I won about 2k. I also won about 1k in cash games which puts me up about 3k for the trip in poker. Due to degenning in blackjack and roulette, plus somewhat high expenses, I walked away from the trip up 100$.
I felt great with how I played live, made 2 deep runs, and played my first big live buyin, which i played amazing in. I built up a big stack quick and then lost a bunch of flips and 60/40s when blinds got a bit higher, people were making light light shoves on my aggressive image, and everytime I got it in it was a flip or I was a 60/40 favorite, I lost all 4 showdowns I was involved in. Nothing I could have done about it, I feel I played 1 hand bad that whole tournament, which was a pot i won with aces, and just overall loved the way I played my first big live tournament.
I want to practice live for the real show, which is Vegas, so me and a poker buddy of mine (bigbluffzinc) are going to go down to st louis april 1st - april 10th to play the WSOP circuit down there.
Shout outs to the people I met in AC, especially phillycoach, AJ, and Rooney. Nice meeting all you guys.
But on to the end of this long post, and the thread title says it all... MONEY MONEY MONEY.
I have to pay my taxes, move into a new place and probably upfronting 6 months of rent, staying in st louis for 10 days, and living in vegas for 5 weeks. Not too mention the bills I already have. Did I also mention this is all happening within the next 2-3 months?
Luckily I have a good ammt saved up, but this is really going to hurt me a lot. I never get more motivated in my life with poker then when I need money though, so I am planning on everything working itself out with a sick work ethic grinding bread and butter games.
I am grinding 16$ 18 mans right now for a prop bet that I can get 20% ROI over a 5k game sample before the end of April. Just a small friendly prop with a few closer poker buddys. I am getting some shit for it because A - they think its money down the drain and its not possible, and B, and more importanly, - they think its a waste of my time, and Im better off just grinding the 27-114's.
Maybe there right, maybe Im in over my head and think the 16's are way softer than they actually are. I dont know, time will tell to see how good of a idea this was, or if it was in fact, a complete waste of time.
I still plan on doing 100 or so MTTS a week too, so who knows what can happen there.
Its going to be all work for me, life and poker, from here till the end of April. The ST louis trip will be somewhat of a vacation I suppose, but I still plan on playing poker 12+ hours a day down there, whether its live or online, so I wouldn't really classify it as a full vacation.
But yeah, I am motivated, I am ready to grind, lets do this.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Weeeeeeeeee
Since my last update, aside from the Winter Classic, it has been all poker for me basically.
First off, the Winter Classic was amazing, yea the pens got owned, but it was easily in the top 3 of the best sports experiences of my life. My camera broke during the game because i dropped it, so no pictures sadly. I still have the memory card so the pictures aren't lost, but for the time being I can not upload them. I have some really good ones too.
I am up roughly 3k in SNGS for the year so far. I have had a awful start to the games which are involved in my prop bet (16-35$ 4-6 tables, 16-35$ 2-3 tables), but have managed to kill the 60-114$ 18 mans, as well as 9 man non turbos and turbos. I have lost money in just about every other type of SNG though.
I managed to bink a 3k score for a 3rd place finish in the 27.50 30k GTD a few days ago for my first real MTT session in a looooooong time, which was nice. Then last night I plugged in my 2nd MTT session for the year, and I ended up making the FT in the 109$ Turbo, and the 215$ 2x chance turbo. I managed to win a little over 10k in the 215$ turbo for 2nd place, and got 6th for 2.7k in the 109$ turbo. I also finished 12th in the 5.50$ rubix, and 17th in the 33$ 18k. I played insanely well, but with 4 deep runs, one being a 5 digit score, obviously I ran pretty decent.
Heres a screenshot of the two FTS
But yea, I am starting off the year pretty well, as i expected to do so. I also have earned 20k VPPS and am on a nice pace to start the year. I may go for SNE if I am able to keep somewhat of a pace for it and get some cash game coaching to help with the VPPS. I banned myself from cash for the time being.
Thats it for now, I must get back on the grind :)
Thanks for reading,
Nick
First off, the Winter Classic was amazing, yea the pens got owned, but it was easily in the top 3 of the best sports experiences of my life. My camera broke during the game because i dropped it, so no pictures sadly. I still have the memory card so the pictures aren't lost, but for the time being I can not upload them. I have some really good ones too.
I am up roughly 3k in SNGS for the year so far. I have had a awful start to the games which are involved in my prop bet (16-35$ 4-6 tables, 16-35$ 2-3 tables), but have managed to kill the 60-114$ 18 mans, as well as 9 man non turbos and turbos. I have lost money in just about every other type of SNG though.
I managed to bink a 3k score for a 3rd place finish in the 27.50 30k GTD a few days ago for my first real MTT session in a looooooong time, which was nice. Then last night I plugged in my 2nd MTT session for the year, and I ended up making the FT in the 109$ Turbo, and the 215$ 2x chance turbo. I managed to win a little over 10k in the 215$ turbo for 2nd place, and got 6th for 2.7k in the 109$ turbo. I also finished 12th in the 5.50$ rubix, and 17th in the 33$ 18k. I played insanely well, but with 4 deep runs, one being a 5 digit score, obviously I ran pretty decent.
Heres a screenshot of the two FTS
But yea, I am starting off the year pretty well, as i expected to do so. I also have earned 20k VPPS and am on a nice pace to start the year. I may go for SNE if I am able to keep somewhat of a pace for it and get some cash game coaching to help with the VPPS. I banned myself from cash for the time being.
Thats it for now, I must get back on the grind :)
Thanks for reading,
Nick
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Ending the year on a high note.
Wow, what a way to end the year. 2010 was filled was a lot of ups and downs, overall I am pretty let down in the year as a whole, especially poker wise, but it was a very very needed learning experience to help me be more successful going forward.
And just a FYI, This is a pretty long read!
First I will talk about MTTS. For the past couple of months I have been mixing in MTTS very rarely and not really dedicating much time to them. I have been playing 1-2 high buyin / high risk MTTS along my sessions and it has caused me to rack in a bunch of makeup. Just like most days, I ended up mixing in a 109$ turbo MTT into my SNG session. During the dead hours there a few really nice turbo MTTS and it allows you to keep your tables up when game filling is slow. Well I ended up winning it for 5,002. I still have roughly 2.5k of makeup to work off, but it feels great to get the majority of that out of the way. Going into 2011 I plan on playing mtts a lot more regularly, but I will get into that later at the end of this post with my 2011 goals.
Heres a picture of the win.
Now onto SNGS.
December was by far my best month in SNGS. I ended up winning 14,300$ in sngs, on only 1,166 games for December.
Heres the stats copy and pasted off sharkscope.
Frenzuh Click for details 1,166 $12.26 $35 55% $14,300 - N/A PokerStars 12/1/2010 12/31/2010 SNG Only
Obviously winning 12.26$ a game is quite unrealistic, but it gives me great confidence going forward.
With how well I did in December, I was able to win both of my SNG profit prop bets. I had a 1k bet with thrash370 for most profit in December, which i won by about 6k (he was up 8k or so), and I also won 4k off msusyr24 for the 2010 prop bet we made prior to 2010 starting. I ended up losing 2k to msusyr24 for the first half of the year bet, and i lost 500$ to thrash370 for a november bet we made, so Im only up 2,500$ for the bets total, but that money I lost earlier is gone so to me it feels like I won 5000 instead of 2500. It really sucks for both because I dont think I deserved to win either bet, especially the one with msusyr24. Ill be the first person to say he should have won the bet. Its unfortunate with how busy his life became for things he couldn't really control. Was a fun prop bet and it got pretty exciting towards the end and msusyr24 is as stand up of a guy when it comes to this shit as possible, would def do business / other props in the future with him in the future for how he handled everything.
But yea, December was great, heres how I ended up doing for the whole year.
The top 1 is overall, 2nd is sngs, and 3rd is MTTS.
Like I said earlier, I was let down with the year as a whole. Coming into 2010 I was expecting to make so much more money. I realized halfway through the year the shit I was doing wasn't working (which is where my downswing happened in SNGS) and that changes needed to happen. I am so happy that I did not get stubborn about shit like most of the regs (especially SNG regs) do. I changed my game completely. I stopped playing 30-40 tables and now i play 8-15. I got MTT coaching instead of thinking I knew what I was doing. I stopped playing cash games (for the most part) because I can just admit to myself that I am not a winning player in them. And I will continue to not try and grind cash until i receive coaching. I stopped a lot of my bad habits, and replaced them with good habits, which is why I think my 2011 will be way better then 2010 went. And I think how my December month went, is not only a sign of things to come, but also a example of what hard work and dedication can do for you. I dont feel I ran good for the month I had like some people are telling me, I feel I EARNED it.
Anyways, I am going to reflect on my 2010 goals that I had. This should be fun as I haven't looked at them since I made them and im sure i prob failed on just about every single one. Ill copy and paste the goal list... lets do this lol.
SNGS
- At least 3-4 leaderboards on sharkscope - Right now I am on 4 leaderboards, but 3 are average profit leaderboards lol. I made 1, which is 17th in 16-35$ stakes 4-6 tables.
- At least 75k profit (including rakeback)- Up about 60k with rakeback, another fail.
- Play on own dime By July - This did not happen, but with the December that I had I will be starting to own dime in 2011 for SNGS (which I could have done earlier, but I was only giving up about 15% of my SNG profit for a while so wasn't a huge deal) and MTTS too once I get out of makeup.
- Win the prop bet vs Alex (msusyr24) - First goal I succeeded in :)
- Find a coaching website, whether it starting my own, or joining somebody elses, and make some extra $$ by coaching and making videos. - I am happy to say that this is also accomplished. SNGReasons is doing awesome, and is by far the best business decision I have made with poker ever.
CASH
- Play 0 online cash games the whole year, this has cost me a good bit of money in the past, and i do not want to play any cash at all in 2010. (except live) - Yea i failed here
MTTS
- Hit at least 1 score over 10k - 14k in the 55$ cubed in June, boom
- Hit 10 scores over 1k - I hit a few, not sure if its 10, but its close.
- Play on weekends only (except turbo mtts) - Mostly
- Keep my volume in MTTS small, and focus on SNGS mostly. - yes
- Play in at least 5 events for wsop 2010 - Did not do.
Overall in MTTS my goals were small, and I am very happy with how much better my MTT game got and if theres 1 thing I can say good about my 2010 poker, it would be my MTT game.
LIFE
- Get my weight down to 170-175... i currently weigh 205, would do this by running 5-6 days a week, and lifting 2-3 days a week, plus eating healthy - I ended up getting down to about 190 pounds like right before I moved to southside in March with my 2 buddys, but I have done nothing but gain since then. I am up to almost 220 pounds right now, and this is by far the biggest I have ever been. This will probably be my main life goal for 2011.
- Pay off my car (about 8k left on the car loan) - Nope
- quit smoking, i do not want to stop immediatly, i would like to sort out some other things in my life first, but i would like to be done with smoking b4 June. - Did not do this either.
- Work on my relationship with my family - Yes... It still needs a lot of work, but It has improved so so so much and I am looking forward for it to keep getting better as family is by far one of the most important things in ones life, and should never be taking for granted.
Now I am going to put up 2011 goals, and see If ill be able to do these. My goals for 2011 are way higher as far as self expectation goes then 2010, but I am feeling motivated as hell right now and don't plan on that stopping for a while.
Poker goals
Win my prop bet (will explain at the end of the post)
Cash - play 0, I am going to email stars today and tell them to ban me from cash.
MTTS - 50k + profit, play in the WSOP, and have at least 2 scores of 10k+
SNGS - 75k+ profit, be considered one of, if not the best reg in my games.
VPPS - 400-500k minimum
Sngreasons - Keep doing what weve been doing, Its been going great and I expect that to continue. I would like to get a better website for it, but overall its been a very fun experience.
I really want/expect myself to make a name for myself in poker in 2011. Setting high goals for myself will help me stay motivated hopefully.
Life Goals
- Weight... I am aiming to reach 185-190 by june (30-35 pounds) and then losing another 15 pounds in the last half of the year. I want to be down to 170-175 by the end of this year (about a 50 pound drop in 1 year, which isn't the healthiest thing to do, but I dont care) I may prop bet this in the near future as well.
- QUIT FUCKING SMOKING
- Pay off my debts
Other than those things, I am pretty happy with everything else in my life. So another goal would just to keep on keepin on for the rest of the stuff.
As for my 2011 prop bet, i have about half of it sold and I am taking bets up until the end of tomorrow (Jan 2nd). I will run it regardless of how much sells, I am not motivated over the prop bet, I am motivated for diff reasons, so how much sells is not a issue. Heres the thread link for it
http://forum.parttimepoker.com/shooting-off-sponsored-truly-free-poker-training/794358-frenzuh-2011-prop-bet-interest.html
Or if your lazy, heres the standard outline for the rules of the prop bet.
What I need to do to win this bet:
- Top 5 on sharkscope for 4-6 tables 16-35 stakes for the year 2011
- Top 5 on sharkscope for 2-3 tables 16-35 stakes for the year 2011
- Top 3 on sharkscope for any game 16-35 stakes for the year 2011
- Must also be in the top 20 for 2 other categories... It doesn't matter what leaderboards, they just have to be for the year 2011, and must be in a NL holdem game of at least 5-15$ stakes. (avg profit leaderboards do NOT count)
- Sharkscope leaderboards include tilt players obviously, this is not rankings for pokerstars only. (I will be doing all of my playing for this bet on Pokerstars, if I am to make a leaderboard on tilt, which is extremely unlikely to begin with, It will not count)
All leaderboards are for the whole year, not if i get to em at some point in the year. At the end of 2011, If I am on all of the required leaderboards, I win, If I am not on all the required leaderboards, I lose.
As of now, I am ranked 17th in 4-6 tables 16-35$ stakes for 2010, I am currently not on a single other leaderboard (except a couple of average profit leaderboards for 180's). I was also ranked 6th in 2009 for 4-6 tables 5-15$ stakes.
This is something I have never even come close to doing, and making all of those leaderboards in different types of games / etc is pretty unrealistic.
5 to 1 odds, I am willing to put up my 5k to betters 25k.
Its a insanely hard bet, a lot of people think I am crazy, time will obviously tell.
Thats it for now, I need to get ready for the Winter Classic!
The game got moved back to 8 pm, which is actually awesome that way nobody is hungover at 8 AM on new years day to tailgate. We are starting to tailgate when the lots open up at 2:30 PM, and I got a bunch of stuff I need to do up to that point, so i need to get moving.
Will def take lots of pictures and upload them tommorow.
Hope everybody had a good New year and GL to the grinders in 2011!
Take care,
Nick
And just a FYI, This is a pretty long read!
First I will talk about MTTS. For the past couple of months I have been mixing in MTTS very rarely and not really dedicating much time to them. I have been playing 1-2 high buyin / high risk MTTS along my sessions and it has caused me to rack in a bunch of makeup. Just like most days, I ended up mixing in a 109$ turbo MTT into my SNG session. During the dead hours there a few really nice turbo MTTS and it allows you to keep your tables up when game filling is slow. Well I ended up winning it for 5,002. I still have roughly 2.5k of makeup to work off, but it feels great to get the majority of that out of the way. Going into 2011 I plan on playing mtts a lot more regularly, but I will get into that later at the end of this post with my 2011 goals.
Heres a picture of the win.
Now onto SNGS.
December was by far my best month in SNGS. I ended up winning 14,300$ in sngs, on only 1,166 games for December.
Heres the stats copy and pasted off sharkscope.
Frenzuh Click for details 1,166 $12.26 $35 55% $14,300 - N/A PokerStars 12/1/2010 12/31/2010 SNG Only
Obviously winning 12.26$ a game is quite unrealistic, but it gives me great confidence going forward.
With how well I did in December, I was able to win both of my SNG profit prop bets. I had a 1k bet with thrash370 for most profit in December, which i won by about 6k (he was up 8k or so), and I also won 4k off msusyr24 for the 2010 prop bet we made prior to 2010 starting. I ended up losing 2k to msusyr24 for the first half of the year bet, and i lost 500$ to thrash370 for a november bet we made, so Im only up 2,500$ for the bets total, but that money I lost earlier is gone so to me it feels like I won 5000 instead of 2500. It really sucks for both because I dont think I deserved to win either bet, especially the one with msusyr24. Ill be the first person to say he should have won the bet. Its unfortunate with how busy his life became for things he couldn't really control. Was a fun prop bet and it got pretty exciting towards the end and msusyr24 is as stand up of a guy when it comes to this shit as possible, would def do business / other props in the future with him in the future for how he handled everything.
But yea, December was great, heres how I ended up doing for the whole year.
The top 1 is overall, 2nd is sngs, and 3rd is MTTS.
Like I said earlier, I was let down with the year as a whole. Coming into 2010 I was expecting to make so much more money. I realized halfway through the year the shit I was doing wasn't working (which is where my downswing happened in SNGS) and that changes needed to happen. I am so happy that I did not get stubborn about shit like most of the regs (especially SNG regs) do. I changed my game completely. I stopped playing 30-40 tables and now i play 8-15. I got MTT coaching instead of thinking I knew what I was doing. I stopped playing cash games (for the most part) because I can just admit to myself that I am not a winning player in them. And I will continue to not try and grind cash until i receive coaching. I stopped a lot of my bad habits, and replaced them with good habits, which is why I think my 2011 will be way better then 2010 went. And I think how my December month went, is not only a sign of things to come, but also a example of what hard work and dedication can do for you. I dont feel I ran good for the month I had like some people are telling me, I feel I EARNED it.
Anyways, I am going to reflect on my 2010 goals that I had. This should be fun as I haven't looked at them since I made them and im sure i prob failed on just about every single one. Ill copy and paste the goal list... lets do this lol.
SNGS
- At least 3-4 leaderboards on sharkscope - Right now I am on 4 leaderboards, but 3 are average profit leaderboards lol. I made 1, which is 17th in 16-35$ stakes 4-6 tables.
- At least 75k profit (including rakeback)- Up about 60k with rakeback, another fail.
- Play on own dime By July - This did not happen, but with the December that I had I will be starting to own dime in 2011 for SNGS (which I could have done earlier, but I was only giving up about 15% of my SNG profit for a while so wasn't a huge deal) and MTTS too once I get out of makeup.
- Win the prop bet vs Alex (msusyr24) - First goal I succeeded in :)
- Find a coaching website, whether it starting my own, or joining somebody elses, and make some extra $$ by coaching and making videos. - I am happy to say that this is also accomplished. SNGReasons is doing awesome, and is by far the best business decision I have made with poker ever.
CASH
- Play 0 online cash games the whole year, this has cost me a good bit of money in the past, and i do not want to play any cash at all in 2010. (except live) - Yea i failed here
MTTS
- Hit at least 1 score over 10k - 14k in the 55$ cubed in June, boom
- Hit 10 scores over 1k - I hit a few, not sure if its 10, but its close.
- Play on weekends only (except turbo mtts) - Mostly
- Keep my volume in MTTS small, and focus on SNGS mostly. - yes
- Play in at least 5 events for wsop 2010 - Did not do.
Overall in MTTS my goals were small, and I am very happy with how much better my MTT game got and if theres 1 thing I can say good about my 2010 poker, it would be my MTT game.
LIFE
- Get my weight down to 170-175... i currently weigh 205, would do this by running 5-6 days a week, and lifting 2-3 days a week, plus eating healthy - I ended up getting down to about 190 pounds like right before I moved to southside in March with my 2 buddys, but I have done nothing but gain since then. I am up to almost 220 pounds right now, and this is by far the biggest I have ever been. This will probably be my main life goal for 2011.
- Pay off my car (about 8k left on the car loan) - Nope
- quit smoking, i do not want to stop immediatly, i would like to sort out some other things in my life first, but i would like to be done with smoking b4 June. - Did not do this either.
- Work on my relationship with my family - Yes... It still needs a lot of work, but It has improved so so so much and I am looking forward for it to keep getting better as family is by far one of the most important things in ones life, and should never be taking for granted.
Now I am going to put up 2011 goals, and see If ill be able to do these. My goals for 2011 are way higher as far as self expectation goes then 2010, but I am feeling motivated as hell right now and don't plan on that stopping for a while.
Poker goals
Win my prop bet (will explain at the end of the post)
Cash - play 0, I am going to email stars today and tell them to ban me from cash.
MTTS - 50k + profit, play in the WSOP, and have at least 2 scores of 10k+
SNGS - 75k+ profit, be considered one of, if not the best reg in my games.
VPPS - 400-500k minimum
Sngreasons - Keep doing what weve been doing, Its been going great and I expect that to continue. I would like to get a better website for it, but overall its been a very fun experience.
I really want/expect myself to make a name for myself in poker in 2011. Setting high goals for myself will help me stay motivated hopefully.
Life Goals
- Weight... I am aiming to reach 185-190 by june (30-35 pounds) and then losing another 15 pounds in the last half of the year. I want to be down to 170-175 by the end of this year (about a 50 pound drop in 1 year, which isn't the healthiest thing to do, but I dont care) I may prop bet this in the near future as well.
- QUIT FUCKING SMOKING
- Pay off my debts
Other than those things, I am pretty happy with everything else in my life. So another goal would just to keep on keepin on for the rest of the stuff.
As for my 2011 prop bet, i have about half of it sold and I am taking bets up until the end of tomorrow (Jan 2nd). I will run it regardless of how much sells, I am not motivated over the prop bet, I am motivated for diff reasons, so how much sells is not a issue. Heres the thread link for it
http://forum.parttimepoker.com/shooting-off-sponsored-truly-free-poker-training/794358-frenzuh-2011-prop-bet-interest.html
Or if your lazy, heres the standard outline for the rules of the prop bet.
What I need to do to win this bet:
- Top 5 on sharkscope for 4-6 tables 16-35 stakes for the year 2011
- Top 5 on sharkscope for 2-3 tables 16-35 stakes for the year 2011
- Top 3 on sharkscope for any game 16-35 stakes for the year 2011
- Must also be in the top 20 for 2 other categories... It doesn't matter what leaderboards, they just have to be for the year 2011, and must be in a NL holdem game of at least 5-15$ stakes. (avg profit leaderboards do NOT count)
- Sharkscope leaderboards include tilt players obviously, this is not rankings for pokerstars only. (I will be doing all of my playing for this bet on Pokerstars, if I am to make a leaderboard on tilt, which is extremely unlikely to begin with, It will not count)
All leaderboards are for the whole year, not if i get to em at some point in the year. At the end of 2011, If I am on all of the required leaderboards, I win, If I am not on all the required leaderboards, I lose.
As of now, I am ranked 17th in 4-6 tables 16-35$ stakes for 2010, I am currently not on a single other leaderboard (except a couple of average profit leaderboards for 180's). I was also ranked 6th in 2009 for 4-6 tables 5-15$ stakes.
This is something I have never even come close to doing, and making all of those leaderboards in different types of games / etc is pretty unrealistic.
5 to 1 odds, I am willing to put up my 5k to betters 25k.
Its a insanely hard bet, a lot of people think I am crazy, time will obviously tell.
Thats it for now, I need to get ready for the Winter Classic!
The game got moved back to 8 pm, which is actually awesome that way nobody is hungover at 8 AM on new years day to tailgate. We are starting to tailgate when the lots open up at 2:30 PM, and I got a bunch of stuff I need to do up to that point, so i need to get moving.
Will def take lots of pictures and upload them tommorow.
Hope everybody had a good New year and GL to the grinders in 2011!
Take care,
Nick
Monday, December 27, 2010
New Layout
No idea what im doing but I think it looks a lot better... Wanted to post some pictures just to have em up but some of em aren't that good so most will get replaced.
Also have a couple of new gadgets, letting anonymous people make comments, etc... will fool around with it more in the future.
Also have a couple of new gadgets, letting anonymous people make comments, etc... will fool around with it more in the future.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Such a good song
When i went to see the Wiz Khalifa show, his opening act was Mac Miller. I heard a couple of songs by him prior to the concert, but I didn't really hear too much of his shit. After the concert I did some research on him, and this song is fucking dope. Relates to my own life a ton, so i connect with the song more than most would, but I think most people would like this song anyways.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Happy Holidays
Yeah yeah, I really need to update this thing more often. The last 2 months have been going pretty great, and I have a lot to update.
First off, I went to the Steeler game a month or so ago in Buffalo. Nothing really exciting, but just wanted to post how surprised I was with the bills fan base. This team is literally the Pittsburgh Pirates of the NFL. They have sucked for so many years. My friends and I were full expecting their fan base to blow nuts, but surprisingly it was the best NFL atmosphere I have seen/been at (Although that is limited to two citys, which is Pittsburgh and now Buffalo, But Pittsburgh's fan base and atmosphere is insane too, so it does mean something). So hats off to Buffalo for not being bandwagons and rooting on your team no matter how shitty it is.
Also, last week I saw my favorite rapper, Wiz Khalifa, perform right here in Pittsburgh. The crowd was mostly teenagers, and a lot of them were coming up to us asking for us to buy them beer (we obviously said no), which was kind of annoying, but once Wiz got on the stage, the place was nuts. The venue only held like 2,500 people, which was awesome because it creates a more personal feel to it instead of a huge concert of 10k+. He played a ton of his classics, including my favorite "the thrill". The crowd for the most part knew every single one of the songs (the people i was with were bandwagons, knew black and yellow, and maybe 2 others, but the rest of the place was legit). I snuck in two blunts and there may be nothing better then getting high and listening to Wiz live. He had a ton of energy, the crowd had a ton of energy, and overall id rate the concert a 10/10 , was very pleased with it.
On to poker though.
I am very very pleased with how my motivation, and how I am playing the games has been going the past few months. I am fucking killing SNGS right now. I am up almost 12k alone for December right now, and I dont plan on slowing down to end this year. I have 2 big prop bets to win, and the extra cash would be oh so nice.
The first prop bet, which i explained in a blog post earlier this year, is with Msusyr24. The other Is with Thrash370.
The bet with Alex was for sng profit in 2010. We bet 2k on the first half of the year (Which he won, and he got his money in early July). 2k on the 2nd half of the year, and 2k for the whole year. If you won all 3, you would win 8k instead of 6k.
Coming into the Month I was pretty far behind, But with Alex being super busy (He just had a baby, among other things) and combined with me tearing up sngs this month, I actually have a legit shot at this now. I have a pretty big lead for the 2nd half of the year, so at worse the bets will cancel out and no one would owe the other anything. But if I am able to win most profit for the year, I will be receiving 4k from Alex (2k profit total for the bet, but that 2k i paid him is long gone, so Ill view it as a 4k profit at this point.)
The bet with Thrash370 is for 1k for most sng profit in the Month of december.
Heres a screenshot of the progress on both bets.
What saved me, SNG wise, is defintly lowering my tables. I see so many players, that are so stubborn (myself included before I made the change) that just wont lower there tables. Unless your going for SNE (and you 6-12$ grinders, this is especially true for you) and the rakeback you make is worth the lower ROI% and $$$ per game, then theres just no reason to 30-40 table. Play less tables, move up in limits, and you will make a ton more money. I wont get into how I play them as that would take forever, but let this screenshot be proof of how badly you can crush games (July 22nd is when I switched to 8-12 tabling, and I have not put in anywhere near the amount of volume as I could have)
MTTS have been a struggle lately, but the swing im on is super standard and I have been focusing most of my time on SNGS so I am not worried about it in the slightest bit. I will continue to play SNGS until the year is over, mixing in a couple of MTTS here and there, and i fully plan on crushing all games in 2011.
But yea, 2010 is ending, I am very happy with how I am ending it, but overall I am not happy with how the year went. This was the first year I played poker full time, and I learned a ton of stuff that will prepare me better for having a killer 2011 and so on. I don't have time right now, but soon I will make another blog post to see how badly I did on my goals lol.
But yea, the holidays are approaching. I hope everybody enjoys their xmas and new years eve,
take care,
Nick
First off, I went to the Steeler game a month or so ago in Buffalo. Nothing really exciting, but just wanted to post how surprised I was with the bills fan base. This team is literally the Pittsburgh Pirates of the NFL. They have sucked for so many years. My friends and I were full expecting their fan base to blow nuts, but surprisingly it was the best NFL atmosphere I have seen/been at (Although that is limited to two citys, which is Pittsburgh and now Buffalo, But Pittsburgh's fan base and atmosphere is insane too, so it does mean something). So hats off to Buffalo for not being bandwagons and rooting on your team no matter how shitty it is.
Also, last week I saw my favorite rapper, Wiz Khalifa, perform right here in Pittsburgh. The crowd was mostly teenagers, and a lot of them were coming up to us asking for us to buy them beer (we obviously said no), which was kind of annoying, but once Wiz got on the stage, the place was nuts. The venue only held like 2,500 people, which was awesome because it creates a more personal feel to it instead of a huge concert of 10k+. He played a ton of his classics, including my favorite "the thrill". The crowd for the most part knew every single one of the songs (the people i was with were bandwagons, knew black and yellow, and maybe 2 others, but the rest of the place was legit). I snuck in two blunts and there may be nothing better then getting high and listening to Wiz live. He had a ton of energy, the crowd had a ton of energy, and overall id rate the concert a 10/10 , was very pleased with it.
On to poker though.
I am very very pleased with how my motivation, and how I am playing the games has been going the past few months. I am fucking killing SNGS right now. I am up almost 12k alone for December right now, and I dont plan on slowing down to end this year. I have 2 big prop bets to win, and the extra cash would be oh so nice.
The first prop bet, which i explained in a blog post earlier this year, is with Msusyr24. The other Is with Thrash370.
The bet with Alex was for sng profit in 2010. We bet 2k on the first half of the year (Which he won, and he got his money in early July). 2k on the 2nd half of the year, and 2k for the whole year. If you won all 3, you would win 8k instead of 6k.
Coming into the Month I was pretty far behind, But with Alex being super busy (He just had a baby, among other things) and combined with me tearing up sngs this month, I actually have a legit shot at this now. I have a pretty big lead for the 2nd half of the year, so at worse the bets will cancel out and no one would owe the other anything. But if I am able to win most profit for the year, I will be receiving 4k from Alex (2k profit total for the bet, but that 2k i paid him is long gone, so Ill view it as a 4k profit at this point.)
The bet with Thrash370 is for 1k for most sng profit in the Month of december.
Heres a screenshot of the progress on both bets.
What saved me, SNG wise, is defintly lowering my tables. I see so many players, that are so stubborn (myself included before I made the change) that just wont lower there tables. Unless your going for SNE (and you 6-12$ grinders, this is especially true for you) and the rakeback you make is worth the lower ROI% and $$$ per game, then theres just no reason to 30-40 table. Play less tables, move up in limits, and you will make a ton more money. I wont get into how I play them as that would take forever, but let this screenshot be proof of how badly you can crush games (July 22nd is when I switched to 8-12 tabling, and I have not put in anywhere near the amount of volume as I could have)
MTTS have been a struggle lately, but the swing im on is super standard and I have been focusing most of my time on SNGS so I am not worried about it in the slightest bit. I will continue to play SNGS until the year is over, mixing in a couple of MTTS here and there, and i fully plan on crushing all games in 2011.
But yea, 2010 is ending, I am very happy with how I am ending it, but overall I am not happy with how the year went. This was the first year I played poker full time, and I learned a ton of stuff that will prepare me better for having a killer 2011 and so on. I don't have time right now, but soon I will make another blog post to see how badly I did on my goals lol.
But yea, the holidays are approaching. I hope everybody enjoys their xmas and new years eve,
take care,
Nick
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