Been just a lil but since I last posted. The first shitty thing that happened to me is I spilt a miller lite on my keypad and destroyed my $1200 laptop. Didnt play poker fpr amonth. I had to take money out of my poker account and but a new high end laptop that can cater to my multitabling needs.
SInce it's been a while I will give my situation. I am a semi-professioanl poker player. The other shit I do besides poker is I go clean a gym after they close. This is for 2 hours every weekday night. So with internet poker and this job I am able to scrape by and call it a life.
-duval76
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Friday, May 7, 2010
warming my thrones when it's dire
Here's a kickin' beat-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ9KfKx8PmM
I think I played poker every weekday for 3 months. At least 100 sngs a day. I made money of course. Maybe just 3K (I make most of my $$$ in bonuses) I had a 40 buy in downswing a 1k breakeven stretch, the standard bullshit but did stayed focused and unmoved and pulled out of both funks. Yesterday I had a session that got to me though. Played only 55 sngs and lost 20 buyins. I must have bubbled 10 times. Annoying knockouts too. There are some regulars who steal my blind EVERY TIME. I have adjusted. If they don't push I re-steal 1 in 3 times. If they push I call with J9+ which is a VERY loose range, but correct, if not out of principle buy Im up against a random hand so mathmaticaly as well.
Anyway, a couple people who did this to me have learned to stop. Eventually these regs will too, depending on off they are quick learners or not. So these bubble bustouts were mostly from a few top regs brainlessly stealing my blind with trash, me calling with Q-high and them sucking out. What doesn't get throiugh to them is that I have a much looser calling range than a donk random. Yet they see me as a tight reg and so they steal. They give randoms walks when they have tighter calling ranges. Especially on the bubble. Donks bluff and at 100 chips pots early and steal the blinds and 50-100 level but tighten up like adrum on the bubble. Exact opposite of how to play an SNG.
Whatever, it's not a great situation for either of us, this BVB dick waving but hey they started it. Couple of the regs are too pig-headed to stop and they keep sucking out on me and culminated in horrendous display of injustice yesterday that I am taking today and the weekend off. Rarely, does poker get to me but it did yesterday. Usually after like half hour of a session I'm fine but I couldn't get my mind off the 20 buy in loss and the way it happened I drank. Today I spent much of the day on a bench in the park.
I'm getting close to the point where I can move up to the 60's. I 24-table continous 5-8 hours per day. I will be able to get a $4K bonus every month and will be able to play full time professionaly. I will certainly at least break even each month. If I do that I will make 48k a year. Well a little with milestones. Confident I can beat the 60's though and will make more.
Man,most people really are terrible at poker. I guess poker is not something that is taught in schools and most people can't learn by themselves? It takes inependent thought? There's all different types of intelligrence imo. I guess there is kind of an intuitve intelligence that is rare and these people play poker well. That mixed with an ounce of common sense and basic math skills.
I feel I will maybe go back to the park bench then I will drink tonight and tommorow and get back on the grind monday.
My fish died, she was four years old.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ9KfKx8PmM
I think I played poker every weekday for 3 months. At least 100 sngs a day. I made money of course. Maybe just 3K (I make most of my $$$ in bonuses) I had a 40 buy in downswing a 1k breakeven stretch, the standard bullshit but did stayed focused and unmoved and pulled out of both funks. Yesterday I had a session that got to me though. Played only 55 sngs and lost 20 buyins. I must have bubbled 10 times. Annoying knockouts too. There are some regulars who steal my blind EVERY TIME. I have adjusted. If they don't push I re-steal 1 in 3 times. If they push I call with J9+ which is a VERY loose range, but correct, if not out of principle buy Im up against a random hand so mathmaticaly as well.
Anyway, a couple people who did this to me have learned to stop. Eventually these regs will too, depending on off they are quick learners or not. So these bubble bustouts were mostly from a few top regs brainlessly stealing my blind with trash, me calling with Q-high and them sucking out. What doesn't get throiugh to them is that I have a much looser calling range than a donk random. Yet they see me as a tight reg and so they steal. They give randoms walks when they have tighter calling ranges. Especially on the bubble. Donks bluff and at 100 chips pots early and steal the blinds and 50-100 level but tighten up like adrum on the bubble. Exact opposite of how to play an SNG.
Whatever, it's not a great situation for either of us, this BVB dick waving but hey they started it. Couple of the regs are too pig-headed to stop and they keep sucking out on me and culminated in horrendous display of injustice yesterday that I am taking today and the weekend off. Rarely, does poker get to me but it did yesterday. Usually after like half hour of a session I'm fine but I couldn't get my mind off the 20 buy in loss and the way it happened I drank. Today I spent much of the day on a bench in the park.
I'm getting close to the point where I can move up to the 60's. I 24-table continous 5-8 hours per day. I will be able to get a $4K bonus every month and will be able to play full time professionaly. I will certainly at least break even each month. If I do that I will make 48k a year. Well a little with milestones. Confident I can beat the 60's though and will make more.
Man,most people really are terrible at poker. I guess poker is not something that is taught in schools and most people can't learn by themselves? It takes inependent thought? There's all different types of intelligrence imo. I guess there is kind of an intuitve intelligence that is rare and these people play poker well. That mixed with an ounce of common sense and basic math skills.
I feel I will maybe go back to the park bench then I will drink tonight and tommorow and get back on the grind monday.
My fish died, she was four years old.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Brooms lean in vacant rooms
Sup. This is my favorite rapper,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rYyXk1CV_c&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3hAplTqIjI
______________________________________________________
Been grinding sng's as usual and hope to make supernova this year. With my 10 hour a week job and sngs I barely get by. This is the life most pro or semi-pro poker players live. It's reality. Saw the most disillusioned post on 2+2 the other day. The OP is lamenting about poker being a shitty way to make a living and how he's been grinding 6 years or so. Some idiot responds that if you have been playing winning poker for 5 years you should be set for the rest of your life. Then he went on to ridicule the OP for investing too much time into poker/ no social skill/ too much time on the internet/ don't you have friends- you know the standard shit people spew.
The fact is most poker professionals make in the neighboorhood of 25k-30k a year. Basically it's a profession with the average salary of a teacher or cab driver. Of course there are people who make millions a year, but it a very small percentage- the upper upper percentile. I guess the guy who made that ignorant post only hangs out with Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan. To be honest if it weren't for sponsorship deals these guys couldn't even make enough purely playing poker in 5 years to be set for life. I guess when someone thinks of a poker pro they think of the poker celebs on TV who win huge amounts in big tournies or mammoth pots on HSP. All poker pros are millionares!!! Everyone making less is a joke!!! Ok, whatever. The reality is much different. I plan on really stepping up in volume and play poker professionaly. I will not make over 100k. I will make enough to get by and be happy with it. Having the choice of making 60K in an office or 30K playing poker on my computer and being my own boss I will take the 50% pay cut in a heartbeat. And by putting in enough volume, like 2000sngs/ per month I can easily do that with bonuses and all.
I'm not a person used to making a lot of money. Never in my life have I made over 30K per year. I've had the shittiest jobs out there. The shit jobs I've had are endless. I just kind of drift from one horrid job to another. As far as a career goes or education, I have no ambition. None whatsoever. The whole idea of it. Getting a degree for the sole purpose of getting a high paying job. Climbing up the corporate ladder. fitting into a mold- the whole mess of it makes me sick to my stomach. If I can avoid all of this and make enough to pay my rent and feed myself and my cat by playing poker- well then thank God for poker. Some people need to be rich to enjoy their lives. Not me.
Let me tell you the story of my introduction to poker. I knew a friend of my older brother who played poker for a living in the late 90's to 2004 or so. Looking back on this story it is far from glamorous but it fascinated me nonetheless at my impressionable age that this guy made his living going to a casino everyday.
This guy lived in Atlantic City, but in reality he lived at a nearby casino. For 12 to 16 hours per day/ 6 days a week he would sit at a limit poker table and play like a rock. Strictly taking advantage of clueless tourist by playing standard ABC poker. He ate every meal at the casino with comp points. He had a studio apartment in a seedy part of AC where he jsut used for sleeping and spending his depressing empty Sundays with alcohol and his analog TV. His rent was $450/month and he was able to cover this with his poker winnings. But he had rats! I don't know how much he made a year but it wasn't much. I remember him never having money when he would visit my brother at our house. I was still fascinated by hime and his life as a gambling pro as I thought of it back then.
Now there are still poker professionals out there who live like this, but jsut as phil Ivey, durr, and PA, they are at a the micro low percentile of poker pro salary. I guess what I'm getting at here is that in most cases being a poker pro is not nearly as glamorous as it made out to be. Remember that we hear about the winners but not the losers. People losing money playing poker tend not to brag or blog about it. The majority of people are incapable of not losing money playing this game. If you are realistic about what you expect to earn, stay disciplined, have some card sense, and study to master the winning strategy of whatever stake or form of poker you play, you can make money at this game and perhaps make a living doing it. What holds most winning players back from becoming pro is lack of discipline on regards to putting in the hours. But by God don't listen to these idiots who think any poker pro making under $100K is a joke. Most poker pros make under that, well under. So if you want to play poker for a living, don't expect fame and fortune. In fact it is detrimental to your game if that's what you're after. You will most likely take too many shots and not play within you're bankroll. You will go busto a few times then quit out of frustration.
That's the mentality here,
That's the reality here,
That's why we don't call it Detroit,
We call it Amittyville.
PS. What happen to my brothers friend the poker pro?
After 6 years the games became too tough for his rocky ABC strategy to be profitable. He became a losing player and ended up jumping off the Mount Hope Bridge in Rhode Island and was successful in killing himself. Talk about a guy who refused to "make it in the real world." He was a cool guy and super nice with a good heart, but I could always tell he was doomed. He just wasn't comfortable in this world and it seemed like he wanted out with his apathetic grin and apologetic manner. So this is the guy who got me into poker. lol, no wonder I never set my expectations too high.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rYyXk1CV_c&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3hAplTqIjI
______________________________________________________
Been grinding sng's as usual and hope to make supernova this year. With my 10 hour a week job and sngs I barely get by. This is the life most pro or semi-pro poker players live. It's reality. Saw the most disillusioned post on 2+2 the other day. The OP is lamenting about poker being a shitty way to make a living and how he's been grinding 6 years or so. Some idiot responds that if you have been playing winning poker for 5 years you should be set for the rest of your life. Then he went on to ridicule the OP for investing too much time into poker/ no social skill/ too much time on the internet/ don't you have friends- you know the standard shit people spew.
The fact is most poker professionals make in the neighboorhood of 25k-30k a year. Basically it's a profession with the average salary of a teacher or cab driver. Of course there are people who make millions a year, but it a very small percentage- the upper upper percentile. I guess the guy who made that ignorant post only hangs out with Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan. To be honest if it weren't for sponsorship deals these guys couldn't even make enough purely playing poker in 5 years to be set for life. I guess when someone thinks of a poker pro they think of the poker celebs on TV who win huge amounts in big tournies or mammoth pots on HSP. All poker pros are millionares!!! Everyone making less is a joke!!! Ok, whatever. The reality is much different. I plan on really stepping up in volume and play poker professionaly. I will not make over 100k. I will make enough to get by and be happy with it. Having the choice of making 60K in an office or 30K playing poker on my computer and being my own boss I will take the 50% pay cut in a heartbeat. And by putting in enough volume, like 2000sngs/ per month I can easily do that with bonuses and all.
I'm not a person used to making a lot of money. Never in my life have I made over 30K per year. I've had the shittiest jobs out there. The shit jobs I've had are endless. I just kind of drift from one horrid job to another. As far as a career goes or education, I have no ambition. None whatsoever. The whole idea of it. Getting a degree for the sole purpose of getting a high paying job. Climbing up the corporate ladder. fitting into a mold- the whole mess of it makes me sick to my stomach. If I can avoid all of this and make enough to pay my rent and feed myself and my cat by playing poker- well then thank God for poker. Some people need to be rich to enjoy their lives. Not me.
Let me tell you the story of my introduction to poker. I knew a friend of my older brother who played poker for a living in the late 90's to 2004 or so. Looking back on this story it is far from glamorous but it fascinated me nonetheless at my impressionable age that this guy made his living going to a casino everyday.
This guy lived in Atlantic City, but in reality he lived at a nearby casino. For 12 to 16 hours per day/ 6 days a week he would sit at a limit poker table and play like a rock. Strictly taking advantage of clueless tourist by playing standard ABC poker. He ate every meal at the casino with comp points. He had a studio apartment in a seedy part of AC where he jsut used for sleeping and spending his depressing empty Sundays with alcohol and his analog TV. His rent was $450/month and he was able to cover this with his poker winnings. But he had rats! I don't know how much he made a year but it wasn't much. I remember him never having money when he would visit my brother at our house. I was still fascinated by hime and his life as a gambling pro as I thought of it back then.
Now there are still poker professionals out there who live like this, but jsut as phil Ivey, durr, and PA, they are at a the micro low percentile of poker pro salary. I guess what I'm getting at here is that in most cases being a poker pro is not nearly as glamorous as it made out to be. Remember that we hear about the winners but not the losers. People losing money playing poker tend not to brag or blog about it. The majority of people are incapable of not losing money playing this game. If you are realistic about what you expect to earn, stay disciplined, have some card sense, and study to master the winning strategy of whatever stake or form of poker you play, you can make money at this game and perhaps make a living doing it. What holds most winning players back from becoming pro is lack of discipline on regards to putting in the hours. But by God don't listen to these idiots who think any poker pro making under $100K is a joke. Most poker pros make under that, well under. So if you want to play poker for a living, don't expect fame and fortune. In fact it is detrimental to your game if that's what you're after. You will most likely take too many shots and not play within you're bankroll. You will go busto a few times then quit out of frustration.
That's the mentality here,
That's the reality here,
That's why we don't call it Detroit,
We call it Amittyville.
PS. What happen to my brothers friend the poker pro?
After 6 years the games became too tough for his rocky ABC strategy to be profitable. He became a losing player and ended up jumping off the Mount Hope Bridge in Rhode Island and was successful in killing himself. Talk about a guy who refused to "make it in the real world." He was a cool guy and super nice with a good heart, but I could always tell he was doomed. He just wasn't comfortable in this world and it seemed like he wanted out with his apathetic grin and apologetic manner. So this is the guy who got me into poker. lol, no wonder I never set my expectations too high.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Friday, October 23, 2009
le moon
back to the 80's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7CuJ8cR9sg
OK, so I didn't get fired for being drunk at work last week, thank the good Lord in Heaven. I'm surprised no one noticed I was drunk cuz, as I said, I only remember bits and pieces of working that night.
My last post I leaned too far into self-pity and fell into it. Sorry for that.
Haven't played any poker in two 1/2 weeks now(hate poker but respect the game and its pros). been reading and even writing a little which I have not done in years(writing that is). I don't have the money to buy any new books so I have been re-reading books I read a few years ago. Philip K Dick's flow my tears, a biography on Thomas Jefferson, and Jack Kerouac's Dharma bums. Just been reading all day and night. The only TV I watch now is sports (there really is nothing else worht watching cept for Cheers). Looking forward to the Celtics season which starts on Tuesday. Unfortunately I work at night from 8:30 to 10:30 and I miss all the Celtics and Red Sox games during the week. So the weekends are for watching sports and nothing else.
It's fun though re-discovering Kerouac and Philip K dick, wish I had some money to buy new books though from different authors cuz I have read all of Dick and Kerouac including biographies (ebooks of the former). And by God please read two different biographers of a famus figure. You always have to read biographies by two different biographers to balance bias and discrepancy.
Sometimes I worry my cat has gotten sick of me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7CuJ8cR9sg
OK, so I didn't get fired for being drunk at work last week, thank the good Lord in Heaven. I'm surprised no one noticed I was drunk cuz, as I said, I only remember bits and pieces of working that night.
My last post I leaned too far into self-pity and fell into it. Sorry for that.
Haven't played any poker in two 1/2 weeks now(hate poker but respect the game and its pros). been reading and even writing a little which I have not done in years(writing that is). I don't have the money to buy any new books so I have been re-reading books I read a few years ago. Philip K Dick's flow my tears, a biography on Thomas Jefferson, and Jack Kerouac's Dharma bums. Just been reading all day and night. The only TV I watch now is sports (there really is nothing else worht watching cept for Cheers). Looking forward to the Celtics season which starts on Tuesday. Unfortunately I work at night from 8:30 to 10:30 and I miss all the Celtics and Red Sox games during the week. So the weekends are for watching sports and nothing else.
It's fun though re-discovering Kerouac and Philip K dick, wish I had some money to buy new books though from different authors cuz I have read all of Dick and Kerouac including biographies (ebooks of the former). And by God please read two different biographers of a famus figure. You always have to read biographies by two different biographers to balance bias and discrepancy.
Sometimes I worry my cat has gotten sick of me.
Monday, October 19, 2009
I'll use the dark shadow
this must be the song you hear when you float off to heaven:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EyI4p0yjDQ
HAven't been playing all too much, but I was at $5400 and am now at $4600. Forty buy-in downswing. That's about as bad as it has ever gotten for me, but still it hasn't really bothered me or effected my game. I'm still able to withdraw $500 a month with bonuses and not have it effect my roll.
Still, I am basically living on very little, essentially in poverty. Luckily I have a wealthy dad to fall back on if shit hits the fan. I try to pay my own way though- not having much money to live gets to me thoiugh. I live on those 60cent tino burritos and brocolli crowns. I have food stamps but they go quick. kind of pathetic how my life has turned out. Given every opputrunity, from a wealthy famil and qt 30 I end up essentially living in poverty. lol
I think once I have the roll to multi table the 50's (assuming I can beat that level) and find the work ethic to put in at least 30 hours a week, I will have much more money coming in and live mroe comfotable. My therapist keeps telling me my metnal illness(schizoaffective) is the reason why my life is a monumental failure, but I cant blame everything on that.
I am a little worried I may get fired from my job for showing up drunk Friday. I hope my boss didn't notice, but I hardly remeber working. If you are new to my blog, I have a partime- job claeaning at night. I hardly have much contact with my boss so maybe she didn't notice I was drunk. Really have to stay off the vodka b4 work. Thats all drink now. Cheap vodka. But I live off this money and the poker money so im very nervous about getting fired. I'll find out tonight if anyone noticed and keep you updated.
all for now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EyI4p0yjDQ
HAven't been playing all too much, but I was at $5400 and am now at $4600. Forty buy-in downswing. That's about as bad as it has ever gotten for me, but still it hasn't really bothered me or effected my game. I'm still able to withdraw $500 a month with bonuses and not have it effect my roll.
Still, I am basically living on very little, essentially in poverty. Luckily I have a wealthy dad to fall back on if shit hits the fan. I try to pay my own way though- not having much money to live gets to me thoiugh. I live on those 60cent tino burritos and brocolli crowns. I have food stamps but they go quick. kind of pathetic how my life has turned out. Given every opputrunity, from a wealthy famil and qt 30 I end up essentially living in poverty. lol
I think once I have the roll to multi table the 50's (assuming I can beat that level) and find the work ethic to put in at least 30 hours a week, I will have much more money coming in and live mroe comfotable. My therapist keeps telling me my metnal illness(schizoaffective) is the reason why my life is a monumental failure, but I cant blame everything on that.
I am a little worried I may get fired from my job for showing up drunk Friday. I hope my boss didn't notice, but I hardly remeber working. If you are new to my blog, I have a partime- job claeaning at night. I hardly have much contact with my boss so maybe she didn't notice I was drunk. Really have to stay off the vodka b4 work. Thats all drink now. Cheap vodka. But I live off this money and the poker money so im very nervous about getting fired. I'll find out tonight if anyone noticed and keep you updated.
all for now.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
alcohol
song of the month
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhiy6yFzIbw
I'll have to say it was of the nicer songs to come out in sometime. Josh Ritter is a hugely underated musician. Here's another gem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqLssKusGzM
Such nice songs.
Poker is going well. Your amazing duval76 has turned $2 into $5300.
One of the things that I pride myself on is never going on tilt. This is a crucial ingrediant to becoming a successful poker player. However, I am prone to mini-tilt. I had the worst nigh last night playing. I was being sucked out on (esoecially on the bubble or 5-handed) over and over. I think 4 times i got sucked out with a two-outer on or near the bubble. This led to a mini-tilt which cost me one sng. At least I recognized my tilitedness and quicly close the mother fuckin goddammed pokerstars client.
I really don't seem to enjoy poker, but again, I hope to make my living doing this in the future. It sure as helll is better than working in an office. However, working outside on a farm was the best job I ever had. It didn't pay all that well, but I enjoyed it relativly speaking.
My job was basically feeding and cleaning out the pens of chickens. pigs, cows, and goats. Easily the best job I ever had. But duval76, did it beat working at a soap factory? Yes, lo it did. The soap factory job consisted of astnading in onbe place for EIGHT hours and picking up soap bars and putting them in a packaging box. OVer anfd Over I have had some horrid jobs and so being an sng grinder is bearable to me.
In other news, I have been drinking too much. I play poker drunk all the time. It helps me put in the hours. Some people say to never to play drunk, I don't think it matter I play the same either way.
duval76
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhiy6yFzIbw
I'll have to say it was of the nicer songs to come out in sometime. Josh Ritter is a hugely underated musician. Here's another gem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqLssKusGzM
Such nice songs.
Poker is going well. Your amazing duval76 has turned $2 into $5300.
One of the things that I pride myself on is never going on tilt. This is a crucial ingrediant to becoming a successful poker player. However, I am prone to mini-tilt. I had the worst nigh last night playing. I was being sucked out on (esoecially on the bubble or 5-handed) over and over. I think 4 times i got sucked out with a two-outer on or near the bubble. This led to a mini-tilt which cost me one sng. At least I recognized my tilitedness and quicly close the mother fuckin goddammed pokerstars client.
I really don't seem to enjoy poker, but again, I hope to make my living doing this in the future. It sure as helll is better than working in an office. However, working outside on a farm was the best job I ever had. It didn't pay all that well, but I enjoyed it relativly speaking.
My job was basically feeding and cleaning out the pens of chickens. pigs, cows, and goats. Easily the best job I ever had. But duval76, did it beat working at a soap factory? Yes, lo it did. The soap factory job consisted of astnading in onbe place for EIGHT hours and picking up soap bars and putting them in a packaging box. OVer anfd Over I have had some horrid jobs and so being an sng grinder is bearable to me.
In other news, I have been drinking too much. I play poker drunk all the time. It helps me put in the hours. Some people say to never to play drunk, I don't think it matter I play the same either way.
duval76
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