Operation: $$ accumulation

i like. thx for the link.

pics of my first trout of the season are on my girlfriend's camera, not mine. I'll post soon. A nice rainbow, close to 4lb, fed four of us comfortably.

House is interesting. Bank has been struggling with recognising poker as a secure form of income. Hell, i struggle with that sometimes. Seems promising though, the mortgage manager i am dealing with suggested i put an offer in today conditional on finance etc. Pretty sure he wouldn't be suggesting this if he didn't think finance would come through.

oh, and poker. Life has been crazy. I've played less than 15hrs this month for a meh hourly. I need to get this house deal sewn up and then get some fucking grind on. Settlement date would be December 14th, the more cash i have to hand by then, the more relaxed summer will be.

Originally Posted by daven

In interesting 'life-outside-poker' news, I went and spoke to my bank about house mortgage finance yesterday,

buying houses is more complicated than i thought.
Getting closer though. There is a signed sale and purchase agreement conditional on a few things i want to get before committing = building inspection and electrical report, etc. Should be all good though, I walked through the place (and got under it to check piles, and climbed over it, etc) with a friend of mine who is a carpenter on Sunday - he couldn't see anything wrong but suggested i get a formal building inspection done anyway. Suits me, suits the bank, suits the insurance company.

So, what does this mean for poker? well, assuming all goes ahead, it means that i'll have to grind more than i have been... it means that i'll have a mortgage to pay. Actually, it doesn't really mean much for poker - i'll still keep a few months of living expenses in reserve. Now those living expenses will include mortgage payments, but it's not that much different really. It has more impact on life i guess, i won't be able to take three month trips overseas on a whim anymore. Or maybe i will, guess i'll find out! Exciting times. Pics of house once everything goes unconditional. I need to track down the 'cool things you've bought with poker $$' thread in the commune and get m2m to post car and house pics, dustin to post a pic of a big bag of weed, and then post some house pics myself.

first trout of the season, i felt obliged to eat it

looking goood!

An apple for desert and a penny for good luck?

Originally Posted by daven

buying houses is more complicated than i thought. Getting closer though. There is a signed sale and purchase agreement conditional on a few things i want to get before committing = building inspection and electrical report, etc. Should be all good though,

wrong. Finance was all sorted, but i got into doing decent dilligence. Spent about $1k to save myself buying a nightmare - basically all alterations to the house had been done without appropriate consents and permits = a legal minefield. Walked away. Guess it's time to look for another place...


poker is blah right now. I need to get things sorted. I played (averaging) 21-tables across 3 stakes mixing in plo, plo-8, and nlhe for a four hour carnage session which was probably a good way to start getting my head straight again.
climbing is great right now. Getting out heaps. Getting stronger. I had a bouldering project for the summer. Dispatched. Heading north for some limestone crankage again tomorrow morning. Some psyche climbing vids that some friends made: Welcome to Rocklands on Vimeo, 2011 Flock Hill - The Season Begins on Vimeo
fishing is fun right now. A friend and I are trying to become competent fly-fishers. And we are somewhat competitive. And we both like eating fish.
bike-riding is deadly right now. Two truck vs cyclists in this small town during the last two weeks. I'm getting involved in some work with land transport and the council - it's pretty cool. I'm pretty anti-truck driver right now though. Mostly the ones who say things like 'well they (cyclists) shouldn't be on the road anyway' after running a stop sign and parking on top of a rider (dead now obv) who had right of way AND was in a bike lane. Careless driving causing death, bullshit. Manslaughter.
gardening is neat right now. Ya know, i always wanted to be a hipster. So I planted some vegetables. I had to do a lot of digging first though. Now that's where my salads come from.
politics is interesting right now. New Zealand's general election is tomorrow. Outcome is uncertain, we have a proportional representation system modeled on germany's. Ima gonna vote.

some links
kiwi music and pretending it's the early 90s
Railway Surfing - Headless Chickens, NZ music - YouTube

and cos, ya know, it was cool twenty years ago - and cool don't fadeaway
DLT and Che Fu - Chains - YouTube

and cos, ya know, i used to get messy drunk in 1990...
Th' Dudes - Bliss - YouTube

also, FTR seems pretty dead right now.
It kinda seemed to be heading that way when regs started posting then deleting honest comments on hand histories - seeming to think that providing legitimate advice was counter to the spirit of this community
e.g. bikes in this thread
http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerfo...er-186253.html

e.g. bikes in this thread
triple AK overs on Q river?

wtf why do that?

sorry your house didn't work out! you'll find a better one soon though

...
time for another drink.

Originally Posted by daven

...
time for another drink.

Yea, I saw the original post. I was hopin' for a follow-up, but didn't really expect one. Good luck and shit.

more trout
garden is growing crazy
xmas is looming
training is heating up on two fronts - 1 = to cut some solid time off the next half-marathon, first was fun and slow, second should be fun and faster, 2 = to haul my arse up some more difficult pieces of rock. Would be nice to climb 27 this summer (about 5.13a in us terms).

playing some poker sometimes. All over the place with regards to sites and stakes.

Originally Posted by PlayToWin

Yea, I saw the original post. I was hopin' for a follow-up, but didn't really expect one. Good luck and shit.

wasn't really how it may have sounded. People i know seem to have died this time of year a bunch of times in the past. It's summer. People i know do shit. Some of that shit isn't always 100% sanitised and safe, but that's at least some of the attraction.

It's also the time of year i once turned up when a relative unknown had just been shot = the police stuff. Obviously wasn't charged with anything, but they had to do their job.

my current fly selection to hunt fish, kinda like a 19% range from UTG...

edit: fuck, seems that another earthquake has mashed new zealand as i typed this. Fingers crossed all are fine. Don't need to break any records (182 people died in the biggish one earlier this year)

2011 was interesting
2012 is underway
no poker yet this year, maybe in a couple of weeks from now
sunshine is nice

Funny. You say no poker yet this year but here there's almost 6hrs until the year you're in.

daven is from the future

still on holiday
climbing is good
summer is warm
river swimming is crystal clear
haven't played cards yet in 2012
back home in a few days. Then it's time to buy a new computer and get on the grind. Life is cool.

I have played my first sessions of 2012. I played at 10nl. Rake is a killer. VPPs are few. Games are very good at this level, but the hourly isn't great (*nor sustainable?). $20/hr or something, hell, i could probably get that coaching

maybe that winrate is sustainable.
10k hands at just over 10ptBB/100 and i think i'm back into remembering that a flush beats a straight. So it's probably safe to start moving back up.
I spent a few minutes talking poker maths in irc this morning, sometimes it's good to get back to basics. I'm looking at the role of fold equity again.

went climbing yesterday. Fell off some. Poker has been more or less like that the last couple of days. Tonight I party, tomorrow morning i get picked up early, sleep in the car, arrive at a climbing area, climb, eat, sleep, climb again on Sunday then back to work on monday. If I feel like playing poker that is.
climbing

then falling half a dozen moves later
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Dude I am so afraid of heights that I can barely climb up and down a ladder. I don't know how you do that.

i had a great weekend of climbing. Fell off at the last hard move trying to onsight something at my absolute limit. Big air. Frustrating, but i was absolutely stoked at the same time.

poker. I didn't play the first couple of weeks of 2012. Then i decided to play either 10k hands or + 10buyins (whichever happened last) at 10nl then 25nl before getting back into things. I ran pretty good at 10nl, and ran pretty awful at 25nl. Time for a few hands at 50nl I guess.

the internet is pretty funny. This http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerfo...ml#post2075723 = case in point, i asked a question, it was politely answered, i said thanks (well, 'cheers', but close enough), then everything turned to shit.

For better or worse, I'm going to play one of the $109 buyin TCOOP tournies.
Torn between the plo-8 hyper and the nlhe - both 100k guarantees. I mean, surely there aren't 1000 people who know the rules of plo-8?! but i'm better at holdem. hmmm. I think i'll decide based on weather - weather good tomorrow and i'll climb instead of plololol

Originally Posted by daven

I mean, surely there aren't 1000 people who know the rules of plo-8?!

ikr! go plo imo

the last two weeks i went cold turkey from things I had been consuming too much of:
alcohol
coffee
carbonated drinks
pies
chips (both fries and crisps)
confectionery
cheese.

Two weeks is over. I feel much the same as i did before = i still feel pretty damn good.
Anyone interested in talking poker hand lines etc:
http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerfo...ml#post2076390

last night i ate freshly caught trout again, well complemented by stirfried vegetables from my garden and some roast veg. It would have gone great with beer. It was tasty regardless.
poker is. just fine.

it seems that i have been banned from ftr
and nobody has deemed it appropriate to tell me why
beautiful
respect
good luck to everyone here with whatever it is they plan to do
davenout

edit, i note that the thread i linked in my previous post has been deleted. I guess that discussing poker strategy is frowned upon by FTR if nobody is getting paid for it?

edit 2 - i was planning on posting in a few other op threads to say 'best of luck' and sometimes something a little more relevant. It seems that this account is limited to 10 posts only, someone obviously ain't happy with something.
So, @ all of you, best of luck with everything you pursue. Don't dare offend the wrong people. They may get upset.

someone smart said this once:
"No llores porque ya se terminó... sonríe, porque sucedió."
my time on FTR has been interesting, i've gained heaps. The last month or so, well, who knows what's happening here at FTR...

a pm i sent to bikes, maybe why i've been banned? who knows. Judge for yourself. And stay here and contribute here if you think this place is a good place to be.

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I get it that you dislike me for whatever reason - fwiw I'm pretty much neutral about you right now. d0zer pointed out some reasons for the strat deletion in a way back when full ring thread and they make sense. You're good at thinking/understanding poker, and other than that you're pretty much just another internet identity that I haven't met. Well, slightly more than that. You're someone who has poker insight that I respect, and someone I have played against for $$ on two poker sites.

It's pretty toxic for ftr that any historic dislike spreads into threads/posts in the forum = I have been guilty of this and am going to think twice before posting anything that could be construed as a personal attack on you. As d0zer suggested, I'll raise any perceived issues via pm rather than via threads (e.g. that whole questionnaire blowup. It's a shame that the feedback thread didn't just end at the 4th or 5th post).

re kicking me from redshouse and now banning me - well, I guess you can do what you can do. I'm not sure exactly why you choose to do this, obviously red invited me in there ages back. I'm curious as to your reasons, and would appreciate hearing them.
fwiw stars does appear to be down straight after my question in there - Two Plus Two Poker Forums - View Single Post - Is PokerStars down / lagging?
this also seems to be affecting why ftr loading is slow at the moment (cos linked stars advertising etc).

cheers
davenout.
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harsh....guess thats what you get for being a solid contributer round here. later homie.

Originally Posted by WeaselT

harsh....guess thats what you get for being a solid contributer round here. later homie.

+1

i'm pretty confident a poll would show that the majority of regular posters on this site (well, those who actually have an opinion on the issue at all) would veto daven's ban if given the chance. i could be wrong though.

edit: myself included

Well that's a shame. Good luck and hope to see you on the tables again sometime.

It doesn't say "BANNED" next to Davens name like usual in these cases. Hope it's a level. Daven was/is an excellent poster and contributor.

Thanks to all those who wondered about why i would be banned from FTR. I'm still wondering, not holding my breath too much for answers in the short-term, but definitely hoping for information at some stage. I think I'm formally unbanned now, after being informally unbanned apparently...

I thought about taking a break from FTR for a while = I mean, that's what some people are after. Or not.

I went away for three days in wanaka - it was stunning sunning climbing. Good places, good people. Last week there was some madness on poker stars - games were good, I think server restarts meant that there were no MTTs or SNGs running so fish migrated to cash games. Wouldn't mind that happening a couple of times a week.

so far this month i suck at volume
I've been out of town climbing 3 days so far, and probably another 3 from tomorrow => I need to commit to more hours playing when i'm around internet.

In other news, i bought a house today. Well, the offer went unconditional, the deposit is paid, and there is a 'SOLD' sign on the house. Settlement is 8 days from now = the date when I get the keys and start moving in (plus start making regular mortgage payments).
Absolutely stoked. Things are good.

sick giraph

Congrats on the house, daven!

Originally Posted by davenbannedjustsayingbye

it seems that i have been banned from ftr
and nobody has deemed it appropriate to tell me why

I'm not in banned-land anymore toto

kudos to all those behind-the-scenes-in-mod-land at FTR for addressing my questions re the ban. The reasoning for my original ban, and the reasons for its reversal (plus answers to some other questions) have been posted in the commune thread here: http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerfo...ml#post2078047

thanks to everyone who wtf-ed at my ban. To those who feel i should remain banned, well, everyone is entitled to their opinion so fair enough.

change of subject.
I got back Sunday evening from another great weekend of climbing and camping. My fingertips are raw after completing over 50 climbs during a boulder comp on saturday, and then backing it up by climbing a few routes on sunday. My body is tired. On Friday I will get the keys to my new house and start moving in. I'll post some house pics in this thread once I've taken some photos. Poker is going well. Still mixing up stakes. Up about 30bi for the month so far over 20k hands. Things still good.

still a long way from a 100bi month
all this house excitement and climbing => not playing that much poker

decent volume for someone so busy. What's your setup?

Originally Posted by gingerwizard

decent volume for someone so busy. What's your setup?

swiss ball, laptop plugged into 2nd monitor on a spacious desk, pen and paper to hand, cheap logitech mouse, 8-15 tables tiled, hem, stars hyper-simple, 4-colour deck, no mods, no TN, no AHKs, pretty basic.

similar to my setup in bonn i guess
http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerfo...ml#post1880953

I'm finally studying 1-2hrs per day again. I was planning to do this with anyone who wanted to join in, but the BC thread (linked a few posts up) where i suggested this was deleted and still hasn't reappeared. Guess that's probably in my best interest, but that's hard to say for sure. If the thread re-appears I'll probably still be up for the study sessions as originally planned.

edit: the vast majority of hands in the last two graphs were logged at 25nl, a few at 16nl and 50nl.

poker: up 43bi so far this month. After playing about 30k hands of almost entirely 25nl. I was aiming for 100bi at that stake for the month (I have a bunch of reasons for this) but it's going to be really tough to get in the volume, plus staying at 25nl probably isn't max EV.

house: I did the pre-settlement house inspection this afternoon, settlement is tomorrow and I'll start moving in on Monday. I'm absolutely stoked about it, hell, i can check the surf from bed!!!

poker world: Daniel Negreanu has been slamming Full Tilt owners lately (see bikes' article here for a great summary), and it's hard to feel any sympathy for them.

taken from his blog at fullcontactpoker:

Originally Posted by Daniel Negreanu

...my comments about Ray Bitar, Howard Lederer, and Chris Ferguson, but they definitely got the gist of my vitriol towards them. I'm disgusted by them and what they've done to smear the game with putrid decision making. Ray is a buffoon, Howard is arrogant, condescending, and incompetent, and Chris is a liar and has the warmth of a snow pea....
...
...I hope you live with the shame you deserve for the rest of your lives. Your own personal, private hell. You deserve all the wrath you've received from the poker world, and much more. You are scum and each of you absolutely deserves a few swift baseball bat swings to the groin area, old school Vegas style.

Negreanu writes great blog posts imo

hand of the year, chat cos i like to understand wtf is going on sometimes - and who am i to argue with fish logic

$0.10/$0.25 No Limit Holdem
6 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG ($9.90)
UTG+1 ($9.75)
CO ($25)
BTN ($18.56)
SB ($25)
daven (BB) ($46.90)

Pre-Flop: ($0.35, 6 players) daven is BB
3 folds, BTN calls $0.25, SB calls $0.15, daven checks

Flop: ($0.75, 3 players)
SB checks, daven bets $0.50, BTN calls $0.50, SB folds

Turn: ($1.75, 2 players)
daven bets $1.30, BTN calls $1.30

River: ($4.35, 2 players)
daven bets $2.50, BTN calls $2.50

Final Pot: $9.35
daven shows two pair, Tens and Sixes

BTN shows a straight flush, Six to Ten


BTN wins $8.93 (net +$4.38)

daven lost $4.55
SB lost $0.25


daven: why no raise on river?
lolwatfish?!: would you pay it? I don think so
daven: fair enough

LOL awesome

mega!

Originally Posted by donkbee

LOL awesome

Originally Posted by kickass

mega!

cheers
i thought i was ahead on the flop, but had outs if i was wrong....
in his defence, my image was pretty dirty and i was about 30-25-8 since he'd sat down

$0.10/$0.25 No Limit Holdem
8 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG ($19.44)
UTG+1 ($28.08)
MP1 ($26.32)
MP2 ($33.01)
CO ($9.40)
BTN ($25)
SB ($24.64)
daven (BB) ($38)

Pre-Flop: ($0.35, 8 players) daven is BB
UTG raises to $0.50, 6 folds, daven calls $0.25

Flop: ($1.10, 2 players)
daven checks, UTG bets $0.75, daven calls $0.75

Turn: ($2.60, 2 players)
daven checks, UTG bets $1.50, daven calls $1.50

River: ($5.60, 2 players)
daven bets $4, UTG raises to $11.75, daven raises to $19.50, UTG goes all-in $4.94

Final Pot: $38.98
daven shows a flush, King high

UTG shows a pair of Queens


daven wins $40.04 (net +$17.79)

UTG lost $19.44

february in a nutshell:
1 - withdrew a couple of thousand $US = about my month's profits?
2 - got unbanned from FTR
3 - went climbing heaps
4 - didn't run much
5 - bought a house
6 - moved into my new house, made first mortgage payments
7 - played some poker, not as much volume as hoped

march plans
1 - grind hard for two weeks
2 - take ten days off, fly north, go to a nice festival (WOMAD New Zealand 2012 » Festivals » WOMAD), chill with nice people
3 - grind some more
4 - get some climbing done
5 - ramp up the running training, ride my bike some, get in the water more - just in case i have to do a half ironman soon (fucking irl prop bets make the world go around)
6 - get a garden going at my new place, grow the community garden project that i've set up this summer so that it's producing enough for 20+ people next spring/summer

that list is quite long enough for now

sweet man, sounds like you're keepin' busy and productive. i'm interested in the community garden project. care to elaborate on what this means?

Originally Posted by rpm

sweet man, sounds like you're keepin' busy and productive. i'm interested in the community garden project. care to elaborate on what this means?

sure. The building containing the loft i've lived in since July 2010 (see photos here http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerfo...ml#post1971978) has a whole bunch of stuff going on. There is only one residential tenancy (mine, to be taken over by a friend of mine from next week), but also a plethora of community oriented things. Music teachers, band rehearsal rooms (e.g. these guys Knives At Noon // ThunderVeins (2011) - YouTube, Knives At Noon - Violins and Violence - YouTube, and these guys sometimes The Chills - Pink Frost - YouTube), two dance studios, a wind energy design company, other small businesses, artist studios, etc, plus a community learning centre. I wanted a vegetable garden, so converted a small patch of lawn when i got back from europe september last year. It's been producing heaps, a few zucchini every day, as much lettuce as i want, spinach to spare, tomatoes starting to fruit properly, radishes, etc. Simple stuff. Anyway, there had been talk about building a garden for the community learning centre to eventually maintain/take over for a while. Utilising some terraced asphalt area and a small patch of weed filled land. I volunteered to get it up and running, cos it's the sort of thing that i think is really cool. Someone else built a few planter boxes, i did some landscaping (getting on the sweaty end of a shovel is a good tilt release) and some planting. It's about 70% finished, the boxes are cropping well and I'm about to plant green compost crops (peas and oats) on the not quite finished area so that it will be ready to fire come spring.

Long story. Anyway, my vegetable garden takes up a small corner of a big section of what is currently lawn. I've been talking to the local organic shop people (shout out to Taste Nature if you're ever in dunedin!), some wannabe hipsters, and some gardening types + the manager of the building and we're (hopefully, fingers crossed, etc) looking at getting about 45 square metres of lawn turned into productive vegetable garden to start cropping next spring/summer. Not sure what we'll do with the food, probably donate to a couple of local organisations that do really nice work with poverty, or to women's refuge, or similar. I like that poker leaves me time to get this sort of thing underway, that i can afford to pour a few of my $$ into this sort of project, and that i don't mind volunteering in things that i believe in cos i have enough spare hours to not have to ration my time too much. I used to talk a lot and do less, now I'm trying to do the 'actions speak louder' thing, and i find it really satisfying.

plus i like to write about things i'm excited about. Long read/rant. Oh well, it's my op...

sounds awesome. good luck getting it up and running.

vs wannabe TAG estonian FPS reg who always jesus-seats me

$0.10/$0.25 No Limit Holdem
4 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com

Stacks:
CO ($25)
BTN ($34.57)
daven (SB) ($25.35)
BB ($25)

Pre-Flop: ($0.35, 4 players) daven is SB
2 folds, daven raises to $0.75, BB raises to $3.25, daven calls $2.50

Flop: ($6.50, 2 players)
daven checks, BB bets $4.50, daven goes all-in $22.10, BB goes all-in $17.25

Turn: ($50, 2 players, 2 all-in)

River: ($50, 2 players, 2 all-in)

Final Pot: $50
daven shows a flush, Ten high

BB shows two pair, Nines and Deuces


daven wins $49.35 (net +$24)

BB lost $25

playing some poker
doing some exercise
sorting some shit
life grind music

Minuit - Lock the Doors, Block the Roads (live) - YouTube

p.s. what's a box vs the best tag-nit etc

$0.10/$0.25 No Limit Holdem
7 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG ($25.18)
UTG+1 ($9.09)
MP ($23.90)
CO ($38.89)
BTN ($19.65)
daven (SB) ($26.87)
BB ($36.33)

Pre-Flop: ($0.35, 7 players) daven is SB
5 folds, daven raises to $0.75, BB raises to $2.50, daven calls $1.75

Flop: ($5, 2 players)
daven checks, BB bets $2.77, daven raises to $6.30, BB calls $3.53

Turn: ($17.60, 2 players)
daven checks, BB bets $6.77, daven goes all-in $18.07, BB calls $11.30

River: ($53.74, 2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: $53.74
daven shows a full house, Eights full of Queens

BB shows three of a kind, Queens


daven wins $51.74 (net +$24.87)

BB lost $26.87

first time in years i haven't had a couple of years living $$ sitting in the bank, i was saying to a friend a while ago that it would be good to be back to life busto for a while
funny that
life is pretty fucking cool

i'm missing out on seeing dj hype tomorrow, cos i'm off to a festival
DJ Hype - Ready Or Not - Drum N Bass Remix - YouTube

but who cares, cos i'm seeing the mad professor (not doc anger) live in a few days! woot!!!
Mad Professor - A Dub Lesson - YouTube
MAD PROFESSOR - KUNTA KINTE DUB '91 - YouTube

and i get to see minuit live too, cos, they fun
Minuit - Aotearoa - YouTube
and thumping the remix Minuit - Aotearoa (Hexadecimal Mix) - YouTube
and acoustic Minuit - Vampires (Acoustic Encore) (Als Bar 18-04-09) - YouTube

and paul ubana jones = probably my favourite intimate venues musician of the last few years
Paul Ubana Jones " I need a storm" - YouTube
Angel - Paul Ubana Jones - YouTube

and black seeds and etc. Might even get some juggling done.

and thus ends yet another week with not a hand of poker played. Now I'm back in dunedin, my house is still standing and things are looking good. Back to poker tomorrow I guess

Originally Posted by daven

and i get to see minuit live too, cos, they fun
Minuit - Aotearoa - YouTube
and acoustic Minuit - Vampires (Acoustic Encore) (Als Bar 18-04-09) - YouTube

they played both of these - aotearoa obvious way to finish a great set

Originally Posted by daven

Might even get some juggling done.

got some juggling done

ain't poker grand

life is stunning. I've been busy. Drinking more than i have for a while. Nice drinking, no hangovers in sight. Riding again too = nice. And had my first good surf in ages late last week. Loving watching the waves from my new lounge. Eating good food. Spending time with quality people. Psyched where my life is at, where i have been ('most everywhere ), and where i am going.
Poker is fun too, i'm in a nice routine, playing 3-5hrs a day and earning an ok hourly again.
Right now it's sunny out, i've worked my shift for the morning, reported two more collusion cheats (including a high volume 2p2 poster - stars have locked them), and now it's time to go fishing 'cos i want to eat trout for dinner tonight. Ahhhh. Loving it.

and a couple shot of my girlfriend and i drifting at a cocktail party last night, around 2am i guess

daven, just checkin in to say your blog/op has always been a personal favourite of mine, makes me wish I had more time to hang out in IRC (does yourself or anyone still do this, these days) and talk poker. Or at least go outdoors at some point in time.

Originally Posted by daven

now it's time to go fishing 'cos i want to eat trout for dinner tonight.

dinner that night was freshly caught trout, salad freshly made from my garden, potatoes from a friend's garden.

Originally Posted by Penneywize

daven, just checkin in to say your blog/op has always been a personal favourite of mine, makes me wish I had more time to hang out in IRC (does yourself or anyone still do this, these days) and talk poker. Or at least go outdoors at some point in time.

cheers bro. I haven't been in irc much for ages. I got banned/kicked from the cool kids club by bikes cos, who knows and who really cares. IRC has been pretty quiet since black friday, well it was for a while anyway. Getting outside is gold. People spend way too much time inside, and especially in front of computers - it's physically and psychologically damaging. I mean, think about online poker players who list internet and computer gaming as hobbies outside of poker. Think about their physical and mental state, if not now then in five years from now. Likely pretty unhealthy... I'm getting in a bunch of sunshine and outdoor life. Psyched for a cool climbing/hiking/maybe fishing trip with a few friends over easter.

oh, and poker seems to be going ok. Cos that's the point of this blog? right? edit: i'm not sure what my record for consecutive winning sessions is. One day i'd like to hit 20.

easter was an awesome trip - Friday we drove then climbed then camped, saturday drove to the west coast then went hiking to a remote-ish hut that was pretty damn nice. Sunday morning i went out and caught wilderness brown trout for late breakfast, then we headed back out in the afternoon rain. Monday was all about coffee and food and lake swimming. Yet another great break from poker, four of us roadtripping in my little corolla.

poker is all about 6ptBB/100 at stakes from 16nl to 50nl thus far this month. Things are just fine. Need to play more hands though.

i still don't understand merging, but i somehow successfully bet 3rd pair for value vs a reg on a four-flush, four-straight board today

I like it when other people don't understand things that I don't understand.

someone once said:

Originally Posted by wise words

stop being such a fucking nit you fucking loser

or something to that effect.
they had a point.
Full ring up to 100nl the last couple of weeks. Yeah, i know, volume fail etc.

good to see, amigo. keep it up

yet again, it's time for me to remember to be more like the moon...

Originally Posted by tom

The rain clouds have gone. Gambled away their transparent dimes and boxcarred out of town; spent, skinny, ragged, and broke. The moon, always a winner because it knows when to fold, stands on the balcony of the closed casino, looking as though it might light up a cigar. Stars blink at it,as if to say, "As sure as this is Seattle, there'll soon be another batch of big spenders rolling into town from the west." The moon is in no hurry. It wipes its flushed brow with a cirrostratus handkerchief that must have fluttered from some sucker's pocket when he turned it inside out.

yeah, yeah. It's my first time reading that book. etc.

Hi, Daven, I'm back playing. I'll be talkin' to you soon.

...i'm all wrapped up in glass slipper greatness
gonna journey to the moon...

...on the road and nothing
nature tastes dirt smells ocean....

...fire's depths and fascination
burn motherfucker, burn

last 100k hands, a mix of stakes. All Full Ring. I need to look into my preflop calling/limping/completing ranges. Some starting tables and 3-5 handed periods with regs after game-selecting regs left... Highest played in these hands is 100nl. Most volume 25nl and 50nl. Played terribly for about 25k of these hands. This is about the last month in my poker life. Time to up volume and up income. I've had a lot of cool days with no poker thus far in april...

i finally hit a stars milestone hand

Originally Posted by stars

Players dealt into a milestone hand win a cash prize of $60 for every VIP Player Point (VPP) they earned in the previous 50 hands played on that table. All players dealt in will also receive a base prize of $20, and any player that wins a portion of the main pot will get their prize doubled!

• Dealt into Milestone Hand: (# of VPPs in previous 50 hands x $60) + $20 = Cash Prize
• Win Milestone Hand: (# of VPPs in previous 50 hands x $60 + $20) x 2 = Cash Prize

Note: The 300 regular Milestone Hands will begin with hand number 79,700,000,000 and end with hand 79,999,000,000.

utg obviously open shoved for 150bb, 3 players wtf folded?!?!!? including a reg who was only 100bb deep and had been at the table a few orbits, then the rest of us lfdo went all in. Two pair on the flop looked good, a shame the river wasn't a blank though cos a blank river was worth another $1000 or so to me... definitely not complaining though, cheers for the nice little bonus stars!

Originally Posted by daven

i finally hit a stars milestone hand



utg obviously open shoved for 150bb, 3 players wtf folded?!?!!? including a reg who was only 100bb deep and had been at the table a few orbits, then the rest of us lfdo went all in. Two pair on the flop looked good, a shame the river wasn't a blank though cos a blank river was worth another $1000 or so to me... definitely not complaining though, cheers for the nice little bonus stars!

nh daven!!

the deep ante games are interesting, dunno why i didn't spend much time on them before. There is a whole bunch of interesting bet-sizing/action stuff that i've figured out during studying ante games, and now that is all spilling over into normal 100bb tables. Time to move up on the ante tables i guess, both regs and fish seem to get very confused playing against my style. Style is loose and fish cos i am fish and cos everyone else is just as bad on these tables. And once people know that i bluff more than some, well, anything can happen...

A hand from my most recent session, this villain has proven to be particularly adept at folding to my bluffs and calling my value bets...
button in this hand managed the absolute soulread in chat
$0.10/$0.25 Ante $0.05 No Limit Holdem
9 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG ($35.89)
UTG+1 ($37.99)
MP1 ($32.62)
MP2 ($64.80)
daven (MP3) ($95.64)
CO ($25)
BTN ($62.50)
SB ($29.18)
BB ($50)

Pre-Flop: ($0.80, 9 players) daven is MP3
1 fold, UTG+1 raises to $1, MP1 calls $1, MP2 calls $1, daven raises to $5.60, 4 folds, UTG+1 calls $4.60, MP1 calls $4.60, MP2 calls $4.60

Flop: ($23.20, 4 players)
UTG+1 checks, MP1 checks, MP2 checks, daven bets $9.70, UTG+1 folds, MP1 folds, MP2 calls $9.70

Turn: ($42.60, 2 players)
MP2 checks, daven bets $74, BTN says "ha ha idiot", MP2 goes all-in $49.45

River: ($141.50, 2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: $141.50
MP2 shows two pair, Sevens and Fours

daven shows two pair, Aces and Sevens


daven wins $164.05 (net +$74.70)

UTG+1 lost $5.65
MP1 lost $5.65
MP2 lost $64.80


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for completeness, summary copy of my april results from the bc thread

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I withdrew $2500 from the poker economy last month. That was pretty much all of my profits before feeps and luckbox bonus. I still don't have 250k fpps, so no bonuses for a while yet...

a mix of stakes, some rungood, some runbad, some 1000bb pots, some HU4(%of)RLLZ that went badly, etc.

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Ship ship

yaawn made me appreciate J8s in this thread, specifically:

Originally Posted by Icanhastreebet

wat, (J8s) this a open on some CAP tables, let alone 100 fucking big blinds deep.

so, i took these words to heart and decided to start overplaying J8s every chance i could. Today's deep-ante edition, i mean, KJ is suck a small part of his range, especially cos he can't have KJcc and he almost always has a flush draw:

$0.10/$0.25 Ante $0.05 No Limit Holdem
7 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com

Stacks:
daven (UTG) ($67.21)
UTG+1 ($61.65)
MP ($43.88)
CO ($99.40)
BTN ($36.73)
SB ($66.38)
BB ($107.62)

Pre-Flop: ($0.70, 7 players) daven is UTG
daven raises to $0.60, 4 folds, SB calls $0.50, BB calls $0.35

Flop: ($2.15, 3 players)
SB bets $1.25, BB calls $1.25, daven raises to $3.80, SB calls $2.55, BB folds

Turn: ($11, 2 players)
SB bets $41.50, daven goes all-in $62.76, SB goes all-in $20.43

River: ($134.86, 2 players, 2 all-in)

Final Pot: $134.86
daven shows a straight, Eight to Queen

SB shows two pair, Tens and Nines


daven wins $133.69 (net +$66.48)

SB lost $66.38
BB lost $1.90

That's a really nice hand, Daven. Like your read.

I'd be curious to know villains thought process in that hand.

Originally Posted by Icanhastreebet

I'd be curious to know villains thought process in that hand.

i'm guessing something like 'he probably has AK, imma gonna stack that motherfucker cos i saw him shove one pair earlier'
or 'i has two pair, that's the nuts - but people always suck out on me so overbet!'

yet another climbing weekend done and dusted. Single pitch moderate sport climbing was saturday at this place http://www.queenstownclimbing.com/wp...4712836252.jpg, multipitch big climbing was sunday am, lakeside staunch sport climbing was sunday late arvo. Highlight was pulling the roof on ythe third pitch of 'get up, stand up' at kingston = this place http://www.queenstownclimbing.com/wp...4712449759.jpg. Good times. And yet another night of camping in a good spot with great people. And now i guess it's time to play some more poker...

i've decided to post occasional photos of my house and garden to remind myself what poker has allowed me to buy and to motivate me to keep on grinding so that the bank continues to play a diminishing role in funding where i live

some ghetto garden fence action behind the apple tree

and some checking St Kilda swell from one of the lounges