The only reason I'm grinding is to save up for a lb of Carrots. We're talking like $9000 per lb right? Or have I been wasting my time these past few months?
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The only reason I'm grinding is to save up for a lb of Carrots. We're talking like $9000 per lb right? Or have I been wasting my time these past few months?
Hey nice work man. May the heateraments never end!
Okay little mini OP this week. Basically I really haven't put in as many hands as I would have hoped. I now have essentially 3 days to clear the 1900 VPPs I need to secure platinum star. I'm going to be getting back into a good regime this week including geting up early and exercising regularly again. Birthday celebrations and socialising have kind of gotten in the way of volume goals and Ineed to make sure the month isn't a total volume fail. I'll be up at 9am tomorrow and will ship $20 to the first person to reply on here if I fail to post by 9:30am, you know the drill by now.
I'll aim to play at least 6 hours a day over the next few days, if I can put in 8 or 9k hands total that'd be sweet and enough to clear platinums starz.
Later all.
ship it,
and GL
9:17am, up and ready to begin my session.
Mornin' Carrot Dude! It's 5:09am in the States and I haven't gone to bed yet. Frikken beer, major party, and YouTube are too much fun. Think I'll sleep now......Quote:
Originally Posted by Carroters
Thanks for the help in IRC, I'll be hanging around there more for sure.
Btw, 200NL gogogo and make that cash
FYP About
FYA (Fixed Your Avatar) Rabbit Man
OMFG play2win that's fucking incredible, ty sir! I'll be changing it as soonas I update this blog. FYI I've also started a blog on my website which you can checkout here Blog
The month of June is now drawing to a close and results have been both positive and negative. Materialistically I had a really good month and continued to run and play fairly well overall, netting about $3K. This is my best month yet in that sense and I'm happy Ican keep going forward.
On the negative side, I completely lacked any drive or ambition to stick to the quota of hands for the month and played just 20K when Iwas shopoting for 40k. This is really unacceptable and something I thought about a lot tonight and blogged about at my site.
Next month I have 2 pretty awesome holidays to look forward to including 4 nights in Barcelona then 4 nights away at a rock festival. That's basically 10 days of grinding time lost, but I'm still going to shoot for 30k hands minimum and really try to work on my game. I'll be updating on here to make myself get up in the mornings by offering money to people and also setting out a few goals for the day.
I'll jump right into tomorrow without any further ado.
Goals:
Do coaching in the morning and get up by 8:30am
Play 2k hands of poker minimum barring run bad or tilt.
Exercise for 30 mins.
Play pool with my friend in the afternoon, but not drink beer
Get to bed by 12am
June Garph
Think I may have finally fixed the red line and am doing stuff like cold 4 bet bluffing with a lot of success and finding spots to win pots I'd normally just give up on. This is a fine balacne with spew and something I need to keep working on.
http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/6500/june2010.jpg
Adios guys, I'll try to update soon both here and on my blog. TY for the support and awesome avatars!
In 4 the 20
dere's no 20 today since I have other obligations that will serve well enough to get me up.
Cool, I'm glad you like it. I wasn't really trying to get you to change your Av. I like the carrot-man. I just thought I'd play around with the rabbit photo (silly rabbit, lol) I found on your web site. If you do want to use it for a while, you may want to use this new version. I cropped it and resized it to the proper Avatar size and it should look better. Whatever you want to do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Carroters
Rabbit Man 2
I will check out your blog and GG on the month. :clap:
God I've been neglectful of this OP lately. This month has been slow and I'm still down 3BIs or so so far over a 7k sample or something. Been playing okay for the most part but making a few really silly easily avoidable mistakes. I think I might try to cut back on the fast tables and only play a maximum of 2/6 since they're causing me to make more errors imo. I'm going to get some volume put in later todayand tomorrow. Stay tuned for updates both here and on my Blog
FML, poker is far less fun when you aren't on a massive heater. Been running pretty poorly lately and making a few mistakes although nothing too drastic. I open folded TT again today, retarded fast tables all popping up at once, Ireally need to cut back on them. Stars was loaded with fish today and I just couldn;t run decently enough to take advantage of it :(
Barcelona on tuesday, that'll be fun. I'll try to get as much volume in as I can this month, but honestly it prolly wont be much due to other plans etc. Going to try to really string together a solid month of volume in August. Peace.
Updataments: Barcelona was fun times. Was fucking mad hot, crowded, touristy, overpriced and semlly as shit, but apart from that it's a really swell city, but not somewhere I'd ever wanna live. Almost made me smile to getback to the ravagingly cold feeling scottish summer.
Been catching up with people for the last few days, going to hit the grindage tomorrow. If I'm not up and on here by 10:30am, Im'a ship the first feesh to respond some monies in the usual realms of $20.
My goals for the rest of the month are to study and really think about poker and make sure every session Ip ut in gets my all even if I can't amass any great volume.
Going to sonisphere festival next week and am prety fucking psyched about it. It involves the likes of Alice Cooper, Ramstein and Iron Madien who I'llbe going to see for the 5th time. Getting stoned and drunk for 4 days stright whilst camping and listening to metal can never be less than an awesome thing. I'll try to update both here and on my blog on my own site tomorrow, provided I can think of something interesting for y'all to read.
SHIP!
Here's to sleeping in!
so long as you don't wake up, roll over, and realise you're sleeping next door to Alice, Alice?Quote:
Originally Posted by Carroters
Hahaha very true. 10:01 that's me up
Saved my losing month today with an 8BI day. Played for 4 hours which is longer than I've managed lately, more of the same to come hopefully, although time is short this month.
One thing I did today that Ireally hate is make 2 terrible calls in small pots where my hand was reasonable yet a bluff catcher in a spot where my opponent is like hardly ever bluffing. When I settle into the session, I play a bit better, but I felt kinda rusty and not on my game at first today when I started each session. I think I need to do more reviews, watching vids etc just before I start grinding to eliminate this.
Hey guys, just made a post that I think is worth a read for y'all in my Blog
It's about changing your thought process to make sure you consider some unconventional creative lines and avoid subtle autopiloting.
I'm just gonna play a session now and get in as many hands as possible today.
Peace.
Okay defo time to get into the habit of not checking my session results and not checking my BR. Since next month is hopefully going to be a high volume month, I want to get myself into all the right ways now. I'll report back here to say how this goes.
Yo dawg, I see you on the 2nd page, I hope you be grindin so you save yourself 100 bones. Na'mean
Just slept for 13 hours to recover from my 4 days of Sonisphere Festival. Feeling a little zoned still and not sure how I'll be playing this month. Going to do some studying and video watching anbd get back to the grind and try to rack up a winning month after the meh -3BI of July and volume fail.
One thing ius certain, CBAT will be getting no 100 bones from dis Carrot Man.
Ya, you are already in the hole my man.
Played 745 hands so far today and ran pretty well. I've been getting a bit more aggro preflop with regs that 3 bet and 4 bet a ton and so far it's been going really well.
Going to shoot for 2000 hands today and just try to play my A game. Still feeling a bit bleh with this cold, but it's the sort of shit where I feel better as the day goes on. This month will not be a volume fail; fucking determined about that.
In real life news things are a bit fucked since my scatter brianed girlfriend has decided to move to another city to do a college course. This leaves me with having to find some random fucker to share this flat with and I don't overly love the prospect of that. Hoping I start running better IRL soon.
Later.
A good week so far, sticking to volume goals and playing like 75% aswell as I possibly can. I need to work on a few key things that have stood out lately.
1. Playing back at villains and finding good spots to do stuff other than c/f or take weak ass lines postflop when I flat out of the blinds. I feel like I autopilot give up too much and likely don't experiment enough vs different regs.
2. Playing in 3 bet pots and yeah just planning how many barrels I'll fire if any and what my plan is for the hand. I need to always think through spots before I'm in them and have time to come up with the best lines in 3 bet pots. I get too muddled still in these situations vs aggro regs.
Going to focus on these two things tomorrow and especially try to avoid any fail or autopiloting in these spots. Another 2k hands due for tomorrow, volume volume volume imo.
So, I've become a station again for no good reason in large pots. Need to nip this in the bud now, shitty old habits creeping back, not gonna let it.
I don't care if I drop a few BIs, short term results are irrelevant, playing well is not. Play as well as you fucking can, jfc.
Okay I offically fail miserably at not looking at my session results. Even though it's just not important, I simply can't help but feel a compulsion to know how much I lost/won. Sometimes I'll even do this in the middle of the session, although this has reduced significantly from how often I used to do it. It's usually a sign that I'm getting tilted about something or other.
Things that tilt me these days are shit like getting 4 bet 67 times in a row or getting 3 bet 1002 times in a row. That sort of thing is the way I've been running this month, although I've been running okay in all ins and stuff.
Volume wise I'm played like 10.5k hands and it's the 11th. Got 20 days to play another 21.5k hands and this should be fine. Ideally though I'd like not to just stop at 32k, but aim to play lots and possibly exceed this. If anyone has any idea how the fuck to train yourself not to check session results daily then, I'm all ears.
Good stuffQuote:
Originally Posted by Carroters
keep your tracker minimised while playing is a good start.Quote:
Originally Posted by Carroters
I check results after each session cos it's part of my routine and it's fine, so long as i do it post-session rather than during the session...
Blah month is basically breakeven so far, but I'm doing okay for volume for a change. Guess you can't play loads of hands AND run like god. Going to really work on my emotional game for the rest of the month, basically staying chillaxed and grinding through rough patches of variance. Going to work hard and just make sure I'm focussed and playing as well as Ican be at all times. The reuslts will take care of themselves when variacne decides it's that time again.
Just cashed out $1k to help pad my real life money situation for the coming month. Feel a lot better now since things were looking really tight on this front. It does mean that it'll now be 10BIs longer before I reach 200NL, but that's not neccesarily a terrible thing. My game lately has been okay in parts, but I feel like I could fine tune it so much more and basically just avoid making a bunch of mistakes that are defo mistakes, but justifiable for some dumb reason to me at the time. If I can leak finder myself a little bit then some extra time at 100s to do this wont hurt. Last 30k hands have just been break even and that's fairly shitty following a crushing 30k before that. I'm not playing a lot worse or anything but just not getting paid when I have strong hands and running into the tops of people's ranges time and time again. I can defintietly ease the damage running like this is causing though by plugging a few leaks that keep popping up.
I'll make my 32k hand target this month pretty easily I'd imagine. My main focus like I've already said is going to be on tilt managment, emotional managment and just making sure the only thing going into decisions I make is my logical analytical skills, that are more than competent enough to beat 100NLs easily. I'm not going to check session results, even at the end of sessions, but just play through whatever variacne I encounter be it good or bad.
Excited to be coaching a few new students this month and looking forward to making some extra monies from that since I really enjoy helping others and teaching.
Gotta go win 30BIs now and hit up dat 200NLz.
Peace for now.
Meh still BE this month, playing meh in some spots, well in others. Kinda frustrating when Ido things for no reason that I just plain know are not the best play.
Let's hope for a better September.
much love CARROTMAN, keep up the domination
Thanks bro.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vi-Zer0Skill
Pokarz update
Okay haven't updated in a lil while. Had a fairly meh August, but managed to salvage things a little bit towards the end of the month on what was a much overdue upswing imo. I ended up +1300 or so in cash then rakeback + live donkament winnings netted me a 2k month in the end. So, how's poker going? Well, my game is certianly still improving, I'm finding more and more spots to do different shit in and a lot of it is working out I feel. I'll hopefully manage to refrain from cashing out now until I've at least got 10kand a good foothold at 200s. This shouldn't be too long just need another 15BIs or so and then I'm moving the fuck up, no not taking a shot, that ain't really my style, but rather moving for good unless I drop like 20BIs at 200NL. Ofc I may move back down before this if I feel tilted and like I'm not up to playing $400 pots. All in all looking forward to the next couple of months pokerwise and just have a few simple goals for September.
1. Study - all play and no study leads to the formation of new bad habits. This is something I've found out first hand in August and something I'll be fixing.
2. 8 table - So far I've handled 8 tabling 6 max really well and still feel likei have enough time to make decent decisions. I also feel like the rush of playing 8 tables as supposed to 6 is keeping me focussed and leading to less refusal to fold inbad spots. because I'm bored and have had e fucking nough of some reg.
3. Play - Don't be a lazy shit, shoot for at least 20 - 30k hands depending how heavy uni is when it starts next week.
Okay IRL Update time
So the g/f has moved back home with her Mum etc and we've been seeing a lot less of eachother (used to live together ldo) I thought initally this could be bad and mayspell the end of the relationship due to drifting apart and shit. It's actually been totally fine so far though and we just had a really nice weekend together there. Confident there's plenty life left in this old horse yet.
Uni starts next week. I'mexcited about getting stuck into some more philosophy aswell as picking up ancient greek again and learning Italian (provided my advisor is cool with this) I think he should be since I obv proved I can learn languages by pwning the shit out of a dead and difficult one last year. Going to get into playing badminton more competitively aswell and join the uni gym and just get into better shape. I'm in okish shape just npw, but often my lifestyle doesn't help this and the drinking and eating crapcan lead to progress hinderance. Going to start going for runs aswell as doing musuclar shit this week.
Tomorrow
Not got any plans yet so here's a rough plan
Get up 10am at the latest, If I fail to post on here by 10am, my time, the first one to respond gets $31 shipped to them.
Grind at least 4-5 hours of poker and study 1-2 hours.
Go for a run and do some ab and arms work aswell.
Get to bed by 1am latest.
That is all for now gais. Wish y'all good luck in september, let it be a good month for FTR.
Peace.
Hi! Good luck man.
Jfc I run so bad at these lol
lol Dustin, that coulda tripled your roll imo.
EXACTLY :RAGE:
good to hear you're no longer running below EV in the real life. gl with the grinds
ty rpm sir. That's me up, 9:36am, my body really hates mornings.
Thats what your mom says after I get through with her.
lol at stoners having the energy to fuck anything.
Sex is better high yo.
dammit
Just hit 200k on this database, brag time imo. Gonna be moving up to 200s pretty soon barring anymore downswongz.
http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/3235/201khands.jpg
likin' the new avatar.
...oh yeah and that graph is mildly attractive too
^this and this
Ok the shit I jus experiecned is seriously gay. I went to bed there about 1am, it's now 4:23am. I;ve spent the last 3 hours, sleep walking, and then insleep paralysis with recurring pattern dreams I had no control over and felt as if they were real. This sorta shit is horrible and something I used to get a lot when my sleep pattern was all messed up; this weekend it hasn't been perfect.
Basicallt at like 2:20 I wake up in my room, standing up, holding the big ass mirror that hangs on the bedroom wall. I'd jumped out of bed (I assume) and took it down from the wall in a blind panic, although I have no momory of doing this. Anyway, I wake up holding it, my hearts thumping, I'm in the dark holding this mirror thinking I've just avoided some sort of travest as if it was possessed and about to kill my g/f who isn't here anymore as she went back home yesterday. I thought she was in my bed and was like muttering something bout how it was all okay and I'd saved the day from this bastarding mirror. As Islowly regained awareness, I realised I was alone and the mirror was not evil, nor was there any evil present. I was still sleepy so I turned the light on, re hung up the mirror, turned the light back off and went back to bed.
Soon I was feeling myself slipping into sleep paralysis which for those of you lucky enough never to have expereicned it, is a state of semi conscious, paralysis where you have distorted semi dreams/thoughts usually of a un pleasant nature. While you cannot move or fully wake up, you often feel like there is an evil presence in the room with you, or there is some evil scenario playing out that you cannoy fix. Lol this is the semi funny part I guess. I'm thrashing about trying to snap out of it, because part of me knows what's happenig, when I find myself in the middle of a HH discussion not quite on a thread but not quite in the room physically with me either. There is a fishy weakvulnerable guy, I know he's a micro guy and he's in some turn spot where the flop has checked through and hios opponent led the turn as pre flop caller I think. He has some marginal hand like 88 on Jxx. This is the wierd part, his opponent is in this discussion aswell and he's just laughing (the evil presence of this SP episode) His name is "Ins4ne Troller" LOL. No joke this is his name and I know it's his name. Now he tells me that he already bet the turn as a bluff and showed it and then time was turned back and the cards may now be different and his opponent doesn't know if he's on the level where he's doing it againas a bluff or the other level with a value hand. I'madovcating a fold saying there's noway he's bl;uffing for the 2nd time in this exact fragment of time as we revisit it. The fishis wanting to call though and is getting [anicky about Ins4ne Troller sniggering and being a dick. So I'm like "that's why I fucking went and adjusted the mirror! It's because ins4ne troller was being evil in this HH and that was how to stop it" I had no urge to get up and take the mirro downagain though. Instead I battled out of bed and onto the computer where I was on a thread with this HH, Ins4ne troller was againposting nastyshit here and the interwebs was allscrewy, like the toolbar was the wrong colour and shit. I realised I was somewhere not quite right and may not be fully awake, so istarted thrashing as I wa sstanding next to the desk. I thrashed enough to wake myself up (for real this time) and stared at my phone. While enduring one week of shitty constant SP once I'd read online that looking at a bright light would snap me out of the horrible cycle. I was too tired to actually get out of bed though, so chose to stare at it for a couple of minutes. I drifted back to sleep and the SP episode continued. Now Ins4ane troller was laughing harder and the fish was shouting at me "Im gonna call Im gonna fucking call" and I was like "No man shit think about this ffs" So after more battling with my thought s and deciding ins4ne troller (still no face or physical non forum form) had done shit to the mirror earlier on and caused my sleep walking episode. I blamed him and this HH fully for whathad happened with the mirror. I got up at this point (in my episode still, physicalme still lying paralysed in bed) and ran towards the light. I would turn the main light on in the bedroom and stare at that to bannish this epdisode and wake up fully. I hit the switch but the light wouldn't go on. So I pannicked and feeling like ins4ne troller was behind me I ran to the kitchenand the light went on there, somehow I knew that light would work, it was too detached from the bedroom to be affected by the episode or some shit like that. So as it went on I relaised I was still asleep and dreaming and thrashed and thrashed. The thrashing is my dream body trying to like communicate with my physical body that I'm still asleep and need to move to wake up. So the physical me starts to gain awareness, feels like I'm suddenly plunged back into my real body, and this time I KNOW it's real and I canwake up out of this soon. So I thrashsomuch that Ican move fingers and toes IRL and eventually cansit up and my head is cleared with the evil presence and the pannicky fish victim gone. I get up and decide I need to fucking write about this before I forget it all.
A really fucked up part is that in the middle of this episode I thought shit like "I need to go see a sleep doctor, I need therapy and help to stop this shit happening to me" Idk how I feel bout thatnow or whetehr there'd be any point, guess I can look into it. The fact my mind conjured a fucking troll as my image of evil is also worrying. Think I may spend too much time on the interwebs.
I'm going to attempt to sleep now and think I should be free from SP or more night terrors, although not sure yet. I have class in a few hours, I really need to sleep.
Fucking hate this shit.
Maybe you should stop reading the BC forum for a day or two..... We appreciate your help there, but... damn....
GL though.
Bllahhhhhhhghhhhhh.......stupid damn cold. Feel shit, jus put in a session though. Feel I played fairly well, one spot I'm not too sure about, but whatever, won a BI and quit. Next month is volume prop month, it's gonna be hectic both real life wise and poker wise. Hopefully I don't crumble under da pressures. If I feel better soon I'llbe fairly happy, this sucks. Peace.
I LOL'd.Quote:
Originally Posted by Carroters
Okay Gais short lil update. Started Octoboer by downswinging pretty hard, being coolered and sucked out on relentlessly, to make matters worse I've made a few really retarded river decisions in the heat of the moment that made pretty much no sense upon reflection. My aim for the rest of the month is to balance poker with uni and play 25k hands, while studying a bit of pokars and just taking extra care to make sure I'm thinking decisions through and taking my time to make sure I'm playing my best through this downswong.
Hoping the bleeding will stop soon. Taking a day off today for uni purposes, tiredness purposes and mental health purposes. Forcing hands every day while running bad has been a proven source of tilt for me in the last year.
Have also joined the gym at uni and aim to play a lot more badminton this year aswell as doing stuff like swimming, cardio, strength work. Socially things are kinda meh right now as a couple of my best friends have just moved far away from Scotland and other dynamics have led to less nights out, events happening within my group. Going to make more of an effort to meet some new people to combat this. Gotta go to class now, Laters.
Hitting the gym is a great source of stress relief!Quote:
Originally Posted by Carroters
This for sure!Quote:
Originally Posted by CBAT
Good luck working through it Carroters. Won't be anytime and you'll be killing it.
Hey guys. Haven't grinded much this month but I have a new long term poker and life goal that is basically effective as of now.
I need to make $12k by June 2011 in order for me to go travelling one month in California, visiting friends and then on to vegas and the other month in Australia exploring with an old friend who now lives over there.
I'll be blogging a lot more about this both on here and at my new blog site. I've transferred a post that some of you may have seen, but I think is fairly cool over to it for you to check out. I'm going to aim to make blogging a consistent habit and get at least one post per week out regarding poker or life. It's healthy to organise thoughts and give others stuff to read imo.
Here's my latest blog entry, stay tuned for more updates on life and pokars.
Ghost Equitees « Carroters
12k is such a fucking joke for you if you put in some volume. I'm pretty sure you can easily have 5-6k+ months if you actually put in the volume sir.
I'M FAMOUS!
Seriously, good luck carroters. Would love for some miracle to happen and be able to meet you and some others next June in Vegas. Of course I say this every year and have yet to go.
This^Quote:
Originally Posted by Icanhastreebet
You no good sorry excuse for a dedicated poker player!
You need to get that home page and about page changed on your site, it makes it look like you're playing $5NL and coaching $100NL lol
I worked out it was the other blokes page but it took me a minute and first impressions and all that.
Lol thanks for the feedback duck hunter, I'll defo get him to make it much clearer. And yeah guys (yaawn and cbat), I appreciate what you say about me being an underachieving slacker. it's all true. I just find it so hard to motivate myself to grind and play well for long periods of time when I have other shit going on in my life. You're right though. I'm putting in a good bit of volume later today after reading what you said. Time to stop neglecting something I'm good at just because of a standard 10BI downswing. Fuck variance, if I wasn't such a slacker variacne would be my bitch.
It'd be awesome to meet up with a bunch of you guys in Vegas for sure, let's make a serious effort to make that happen imo.
did someone say vegas this summer?
you engrish are making an appearance in vegas?
im in
Hells yeah, k need to not fail in making enough monies.