Operation I Am Not a Grinder

last night was a success in pretty much every aspect.

grinded today, was up close to 1k for a while, played great, ran bad at the end to end up +500.

at least the ship feels more steady now. back at it tomorrow.

HEM wasn t working perfectly for some reason and didn t tally 250 in profits, so +750 for the day in cash. still alive, getting deep in an NL Omaha tourney, hopefully it s bink time.

FT of the NL Omaha, 6 left, 1st is 800.

gl go go go!

meh, was chip leader w 2-1 lead, 5 left then lost 2 huge flips and busted 4th.

still +320ish, so up about 1050 on the day, good comeback overall.

ok here goes.

i have 1 single goal this week : wake up every day at 8 am. if i can do that, everything will fall into place.

how fucking hard can it be?

apparently really hard. i ve tried doing this like 10 times since i was really sick last spring and never been able to.

It's really hard for me too I have this dream of being able to start at 8 am every day because then I could play a sick donkament schedule, but that means being able to get out of bed between 7 and 7:30 every morning. That's a pipe dream right there...

I can't even start at 9 am every day, nevermind 8 am. Sighhhh

So why is it hard for you guys to wake up at 8am?

Is it cause you go to bed too late, or don't get enough sleep when you actually do go to bed?

you shut the alarm off when its going off? hmmm

I'm a morning person, so I'm on the opposite end. don't know how people stay up so late!

since i had mono, my body s tolerance for going without sleep is just shot. if i push myself to wake up early one day, i almost almost feel like i m getting sick if i attempt the same thing the morning after.

of course, living a lifestyle where i m pretty much never forced to wake up early combined with the fact that my appetite for pushing myself through disciplined suffering has all but disappeared over the past couple years makes it just such a long shot that i ll push myself into deep exhaustion 3 or 4 days in a row...

that being said, 7:57 am and guess who s out of bed.

well, can t complain about my productivity today, been going pretty much 15 hours straight, put in a long session (almost 4 hours) where i was running terribly and playing meh but hung in there and brought it all the way back to +400 then got KK into AA deep to finish off the session break even

felt extremely calm, comfortable and confident after the 1st shaky hour or so.

phew.

up at 8 am 2 days in a row? ONE TIME DEALER

when i mentioned running terribly at the start, i meant shit like this (final table of a qualifier for the sunday mill) :
Hold'em No Limit - Match Round II, Level III (25/50) - Table '355557588 1' 10-max Seat #9 is the button


Seat 2: remusma (2070 in chips)
Seat 3: SUNPERCH23 (2121 in chips)
Seat 4: Emma1979 (2265 in chips)
Seat 5: Genitruc (1455 in chips)
Seat 6: frol992 (1682 in chips)
Seat 8: n6th1ngman (1485 in chips)
Seat 9: agresor (2457 in chips)
Seat 10: 69bailsvp69 (1465 in chips)
69bailsvp69: posts small blind 25
remusma: posts big blind 50


*** HOLE CARDS ***


Dealt to Genitruc

SUNPERCH23: folds
Emma1979: calls 50
Genitruc: raises 150 to 200
frol992: folds
n6th1ngman: folds
agresor: folds
69bailsvp69: folds
remusma: folds
Emma1979: calls 150
*** FLOP ***

Emma1979: checks
Genitruc: bets 200
Emma1979: raises 300 to 500
Genitruc: calls 300
*** TURN ***

Emma1979: bets 1565 and is all-in
Genitruc: calls 755 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (810) returned to Emma1979
*** RIVER ***

*** SHOW DOWN ***
Emma1979: shows (four of a kind, Sevens)
Genitruc: shows (a full house, Queens full of Sevens)
Emma1979 collected 2985 from pot
Genitruc finished the tournament in 8th place
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2985 | Rake 0
Board [Qh 3s 4s 7h 7s]
Seat 2: remusma (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: SUNPERCH23 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Emma1979 showed and won (2985) with four of a kind, Sevens
Seat 5: Genitruc showed and lost with a full house, Queens full of Sevens
Seat 6: frol992 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: n6th1ngman folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: agresor (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 10: 69bailsvp69 (small blind) folded before Flop

Wow.. I mean.. that must be the worst suckout possible... like literally, I think that must be it? perfect perfect with the only two cards in the deck?

Actually no thats not true, cause he can run 5/6 turn and then 5/6 river. Running 8 8 vs 88 would be the worst possibly.

it's 7:57 a.m. bitches rise and fucking shine

2 for 2.

the big push i made last night leaves me feeling a little indulgent in the face of my usual reluctance to grind. have had a terribly productive day - pre poker - and am now gonna go do some hard core database studying in an attempt to get ahead of the curve playing various mediocre regs at nl200. whether i grind or not remains to be seen, but hopefully 4 or 5 hours of studying will pay dividens down the line. prob fire up some donkaments regardless...

5hrs of studying ya right lol!!!

ha we ve just spent 2 hours going through 3 regs!

long study session last night - was actually kind of fun. got some pretty great reads on a few regs that always seem to be playing.

after that was over, instead of passing out i played a few donkaments on stars, +260ish.

the big news though is that i m 3 for 3 so far, including an impressive 7:15 am wakeup this morning. hopefully i don't crash and can put in a sick session this afternoon. 1.5k hands mixed between NL200 and PLO100 would be good.

awesome, good job on the waking up!

may your efforts be rewarded today in the form of USD/euros!

let's see... you're est... so you got out of bed 7 hours earlier than me today.

damn

Originally Posted by courtiebee

let's see... you're est... so you got out of bed 7 hours earlier than me today.

damn

I told courtiee to buy one of these:

BioBrite Light Therapy Products

i m pretty attached to my slightly annoying cellphone alarm

played 1k hands, played kind of meh, ran kind of decent, lost about 250 but made most of it back playing qualifiers on stars.

just gotta grind more though.

My constant attempts at motivating myself probably seem absurd, futile and hysterical, but here goes another one :

lots of non-poker stuff happening today so gonna attempt to put in 8k hands between friday and sunday, which should get me right back on track for my mini-op that ends Feb 10. my strategy will be to attempt 2 2hr sessions of cash on fri, culminating in a cash + donkament bonanza starting around 7 or 8 pm. wash, rinse, repeat on saturday which should get me to about 6.5k hands.

then sunday will be a ton of donkaments (including a high-roller event i bought into with poker points).

here goes mini operation within slightly larger operation within meta operation pay-back-some-debts.

it s like inception!

if anybody is interested in a free rail between friday and sunday, send me a PM and we ll set things up. i have a terrible time getting myself motivated unless somebody else is involved.

fwiw it might be worth your time if you re working on NL or - probably even better if results mean anything - transitioning from NL to PLO.

and btw i m talking about you ghosting me for this particular offer.

good luck putting in the volume! I probably won't be around to see it as I begin my traveling odyssey saturday and haven't begun to pack

btw 4 days in a row of getting up at 7 am bitches.

huge accomplishment for me... sleeping in tomorrow and starting the operation within the operation within the operation.

nice work on the early rising, that shit ain't easy.

ya it s sick how difficult it is to give up a simple pleasure like sleeping in when you don t absolutely need to

Originally Posted by Genitruc

btw 4 days in a row of getting up at 7 am bitches.

huge accomplishment for me... sleeping in tomorrow and starting the operation within the operation within the operation.

haha mad levels.. inception styles!

good job on waking up. Definitely way more time in the day if you wake up earlier!

its past 9am... you didn't feel the kick? We need to get genitruc out of limbo imo

haha done

session 1 is in the books. played pretty well i think, ran kind of terribly, lost maybe 70$ or so in 2 hours. toughest hand was this i think, villain is pretty bad just based on seeing him limp a bit pre and not show much aggression :

$200.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, January 28, 04:30:10 ET 2011
Table 34347266 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: NikDaDon ( $156.75 USD )
Seat 2: Genitruc ( $238.35 USD )
Seat 3: Sautron666 ( $363.25 USD )
Seat 4: MosesFa ( $386.31 USD )
Seat 5: Jamia218 ( $484.19 USD )
Seat 6: bulletproofJ ( $245.20 USD )
NikDaDon posts small blind [$1.00 USD].
Genitruc posts big blind [$2.00 USD].
Dealt to Genitruc
Sautron666 calls [$2.00 USD]
MosesFa calls [$2.00 USD]
Jamia218 calls [$2.00 USD]
bulletproofJ folds
NikDaDon folds
Genitruc checks
** Dealing Flop **
Genitruc bets [$9.00 USD]
Sautron666 folds
MosesFa raises [$18.00 USD]
Jamia218 folds
Genitruc raises [$43.00 USD]
MosesFa calls [$34.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn **
Genitruc bets [$74.00 USD]
MosesFa calls [$74.00 USD]
** Dealing River **
Genitruc checks
MosesFa bets [$258.31 USD]
Genitruc folds

off to work out then back for session #2 in about 3 hours time.

pretty disgusted, finished a pretty long 2nd session, down 700, so down about 750 on the day.

there s only 1 hand that i think was questionable but i really like the way i played it in hindsight.

things are just so fragile right now that i can t afford to have 2 or 3 more of these days where i play well run meh and lose a few buyins. going back down to nl100 would be so fking soul-crushing...

all the same, gotta be happy with how much i grinded so far. gonna fire up some donkaments with a buddy and get going for a night unstucko session.

grinded some amazing PLO tables while firing up a few donkaments, continued to run gross and play really good.

results for the day... one more of these and it s back to NL100 i think:



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about to get going. plan for today is to stick to 8 tables spread between nl200 and plo100 for this 1st session. if i drop 600$+ then i ll replace nl200 with nl100 later this aft.

just put in 1.2k hands, played very aggro and ran hot. was up 1k at one point but plummeted at the end of the session to book about +450$.

break time then back at it this afternoon.

i m tempted to keep playing (the games are so fking good it s scary) but i m totally fucking beat.

managed to book a small win (maybe +300ish according to HEM) despite some hands that came straight out of the twilight zone, like these two beauties :

$100.00 USD PL Omaha - Saturday, January 29, 10:32:39 ET 2011
Table Trooping The Colour (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: Genitruc ( $105.25 USD )
Seat 3: NinethGate ( $167.28 USD )
Seat 4: Yooobrother ( $16.85 USD )
Seat 6: baxi79 ( $146.60 USD )
Genitruc posts small blind [$0.50 USD].
Yooobrother posts big blind [$1.00 USD].
Dealt to Genitruc
baxi79 raises [$3.50 USD]
Genitruc raises [$11.00 USD]
Yooobrother folds
baxi79 raises [$32.00 USD]
Genitruc calls [$24.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop **
Genitruc bets [$69.75 USD]
baxi79 calls [$69.75 USD]
Genitruc shows
baxi79 shows
** Dealing Turn **
** Dealing River **
baxi79 wins $210.50 USD from main pot

sick flop call, realized he miraculously had 18% equity with his back doors and binked it

$200.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, January 29, 09:55:43 ET 2011
Table 34382673 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: KingPenguin ( $214.00 USD )
Seat 2: Genitruc ( $200.00 USD )
Seat 3: Yankes ( $356.05 USD )
Seat 4: MadSmurf111 ( $124.90 USD )
Seat 5: Pokerhontas85 ( $239.00 USD )
Seat 6: r123456a ( $84.75 USD )
KingPenguin posts small blind [$1.00 USD].
Genitruc posts big blind [$2.00 USD].
Dealt to Genitruc
MadSmurf111 folds
Pokerhontas85 raises [$8.00 USD]
r123456a raises [$84.75 USD]
KingPenguin folds
Genitruc calls [$82.75 USD]
Pokerhontas85 calls [$76.75 USD]
** Dealing Flop **
Genitruc checks
Pokerhontas85 bets [$154.25 USD]
Genitruc calls [$115.25 USD]
Pokerhontas85 wins $39.00 USD
Genitruc shows
Pokerhontas85 shows
r123456a shows
** Dealing Turn **
** Dealing River **
Genitruc wins $230.50 USD from main pot
r123456a wins $252.25 USD from main pot

fk me.

more grind time tomorrow, maybe even tonight if i muster up the energy.

+ another 220ish playing some late-night PLO, almost 1k on the day whee.

feel absolutely destroyed after the past few days of 8-12 hours of grinding, playing a couple donkaments for now and that's it. maybe i ll fire up some cash later on but it seems unlikely.

down to the last 10 of PKR high roller sitting in 3rd, 1st is 5.5k and field is super fishy ONE FUCKING TIME PLZ

fk busted 6th for 1k, a little tilting not to bink it when i had a bigstack with 9 ppl left, made a pretty close shove with ATo and 10bbs left... there was 20k in the middle and i had 85k so not really a decision but pretty fucking annoying.

oh well can t complain about 1k on a freeroll.

back at it tomorrow.

extremely happy about discipline, routine and prospects for february, pretty fucking disappointed at jan results (+3.9k overall after being +3.5k through 6 days) but meh, i m putting in good hours playing well and i just know things will fall into place soon.

welcome to betfair :

$100.00 USD PL Omaha - Tuesday, February 01, 01:11:30 ET 2011
Table Luanda (Real Money)
Seat 10 is the button
Seat 1: HERO ( $99.00 USD )
Seat 4: stachu38 ( $133.15 USD )
Seat 5: crrazzzy ( $89.65 USD )
Seat 8: Mike060581 ( $109.10 USD )
Seat 10: astras1 ( $94.15 USD )
HERO posts small blind [$1.00 USD].
stachu38 posts big blind [$1.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to tekrepas
crrazzzy folds
Mike060581 calls [$1.00 USD]
astras1 calls [$1.00 USD]
HERO checks
stachu38 checks
** Dealing Flop **
HERO bets [$4.00 USD]
stachu38 folds
Mike060581 folds
astras1 raises [$12.00 USD]
HERO raises [$36.00 USD]
astras1 raises [$81.15 USD]
HERO calls [$53.15 USD]
** Dealing Turn **
** Dealing River **
HERO wins $187.30 USD from main pot
HERO shows
astras1 shows

played a quick session, +4 bi at plo 100, games look awesome and binking a 1 outer on my first all in has to be a good sign!

so since entering my op within an op within an op i m right on schedule to hit my goal of grinding 60 hrs in the alloted time.

betfair has a promo beginning today and ending feb 21 so i m gonna reformulate my objective from now till then : 100 hours of grinding between now and the promo's conclusion. i ll try to 6-table plo 1-1 5 max for the 3 weeks of the promo and possibly bump things up to 8 tables as i get to know the regs and get more comfortable with the software.

1 down, 99 to go!

good 2 hr session this morning. dropped 350ish but played well and i m amazed at the games, how easy the regs are to play and the big surprise is how incredible the rake is.

6 tabling for 2 hrs i just raked 160$... with rb deals, bonuses, profits and rake races, the sky is the fucking limit.

what a wild session. was just over 7 bi under ev at one point, made a bit of a comeback to only drop 200ish, so -550 on the day.

what can i say though, i had a great time, lots of fun interesting hands to play and i m really happy with my performance in general. raking 350$ in just under 5 hrs of play is pretty fun, especially 6-tabling a game i enjoy.

94 hrs to go.

+200 grinding late-night donkaments on stars

nom, donkaments

you sure make consistent profit playing donkaments. do you only play small fields?

Yah seriously geni, why not switch over to mega donkament grind?

or is this more of that beloved question which we don't hear about.. "but how much did he lose?". Though it doesn't seem that way.

it s a good question. i started playing poker as a sit n go/donkament player and i ve def never felt like i didn t have a big edge in any donkament.

biggest concerns are lack of rakeback, lack of fun postflop play, long periods of meh variance (i guess you could say the same about cash) and inability to plan hours of grinding.

but ya i m prob up about 7k in lowstakes donkaments over the past 2.5 months without putting in much volume or playing anything above 30$ buyin. something to think about i suppose.

and ya i play mainly small fields with terrible players courtie. PLO lowstakes tourneys are particularly soft, i think i ve final tables one of the two stars sunday PLO tourneys 4 of the past 5 weeks.

bam +8 bi in 1k hands, tyvm running hot.

lol omaha and gogog betfair!

92 hrs to go

so what's the fullring nlhe traffic like on betfair?

no idea. griffey and alexos prob know?

I'm about as familiar with fullring traffic as I am with sleeping with Jennifer Aniston.

89 hours to go after session 1 this morning.

ran a few buyins below ev and dropped about 350, opened up to 8 tables and tightened up a bit. i noticed my redline start going down as soon as i did that but i m not sure it s a terrible thing; generating more rake is always good and even if i m not killing the pots w out SD i m still probably making as much. more experimenting to come...

would love to see some PLO hands/strat from time to time. One time, from time to time?

k i ll post some strat tomorrow

played another awesome session stonight, EV one time plz!



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87 hrs to go

pretty disgusting session, down 8bi in 1k hands, ran a few bi under ev but that doesn t even begin to describe the grotesque ass-fucking i got from the deck, the fish, pretty much everything.

84 hrs to go.

Today's graph:

V is for VICTORY!

that's a beauty...

fuckin eh

79 hrs to go btw.

niiiice comeback!

ran flat out hot today over a short session, 1k hands +5bi.

77 hrs to go.

1st day in february i m taking away from the tables.

gonna suck up volume like a vacuum cleaner tomorrow, gunning for 7 hrs and 3.5k hands.

for now, time to lie around, read and have a great time.

Damn.. 7 hours haha. should be able to get more hands in than 3.5k in that time no? how many tables you playing these days?

plo hands take much longer but rake so much more. 6-8 tables is getting me about 500 hands per hour.

-3.5 bi, was down 8 at one point and made a nice little comeback. cpl interesting spots i might post later on.

74 hrs to go.

what a frustrating, exhausting day of poker. all in all 3.2k hands, down 6bi but really proud of my discipline and how i played and handled the swings.

right now it feels like variance is treating me about as badly as possible so i can t complain about the 6bi. i ran above ev but let s just say that that doesn t tell the story.

too tired to post hands but maybe tomorrow.

71 hrs to go.