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Hi Pat
Enjoyed the read and will have a look at your linked posts. Life can be racing at a pace that doesn't give us time to stand back and assess and take pleasure from what is happening. If you get time, i found a book called 'One day my soul just opened up' by Iyanla Vanzant was good for putting me in that frame of mind. Have a look at the reviews on amazon ...you'll see what i mean. It can be a bit 'godified' in places. I'm not particularly religious and would say agnostic(sit on fence syndrome yes) but i would say you can replace it with any spiritual force from within yourself. Life is easy when things are going well. This book helped me when things weren't and i needed directions on how to go about feeling genuinely happy with my lot in life.
GL with your 'stuff'.
Nice work on the Poker. I can thoroughly recommend "2+2 forums", for improving all aspects of your Poker game - just google it. This is from one of my posts in this thread:
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At the very beginning of 2012, I wrote a list of Poker achievements that I wanted to make before the end of the year. I purposely wrote the list on a very small piece of paper so I could carry it unhindered in my wallet. Fast forward to March and I finally got started on working towards the list.
That brings us to last week. After countless hours of hard work and an emotional roller-coaster, many of the boxes were ticked. From a sharkscope star, to a Rolex Datejust. But one remained elusive, it was something that'd evaded me since the very beginning playing Poker. A four-figure score. I'd tried, failed, tried again and fallen short, on countless occasions. Recently, I was chip leader with 100 left in the Roller - An hour of being card-dead and helplessly shoving a low pocket pair into aces blind v blind later, I bubbled. Just this month I bubbled a seat into the £500 UKOPS high-roller from a £50 satellite.
Don't get me wrong, continuous DYM results kept me moving along nicely, but it just felt as though something was missing. Fast forward to last week and for the first time I was actually still down via DYMs midway through the month. Granted it was probably 'due', thanks to my results in October. But nevertheless it was unchartered waters for me to be in the red through DYMs on Sky, so late in the month.
Friday 16th November: So far in the month, I'd hardly played Poker at all. A mixture of University, a girl in my life and other commitments had seriously impacted my volume. I had a lot of catching up to do. So began by loading some FTP tournaments, with the intention of playing DYMs on Sky alongside. I registered in a total of 4 tournaments on the newly re-opened site. Hours later, I'd not only cashed in all of them - but won the $4 'Rush' tournament for $200, and got 8th in the $2 rebuy thanks to AQ > 1010 > KK, for a further $240 dollars. So close once again.
Mentally, I was exhausted. All I wanted to in the evening was go out with friends and enjoy myself. With 2 major University assignments due Friday and a wish-wash of people going home for the weekend, I had no option but to stay in. An hour or so later, I was bored out of my mind. The time was 9:50 and the £100+10 £5k GTD BH still had the option for late registration. With my other tournament cashes, and a variety of PLO wins, I was up around £400 for the day. Not bad at all. I really felt as though I was playing my A game and thus, the result could be so much better. Before I knew it, I'd registed in the BH and was sat down with a starting stack of 4,000 chips and a table full of unknowns.
The very first hand, I found myself awkwardly check shoving the turn with 2nd pair. My opponent tank folded and I was on average chips. A short break later and I took my first head prize after flatting 77 in the sb pre and calling a short stack's shove on a 622 board - Now I could loosen up. I piled on the aggression. My stack was fluctuated but my composure didn't. I felt 100% focused.
Players were going crazy for the bounties and it created a very interesting dynamic. I found myself on the losing side of a couple flips and I was the lowest stack with 20 remaining players. One individual's limp call with J3 on the button was not enough to crack my shove with KQ. Perseverance paid off and with a the help of a couple bounties I was sitting on average chips. 12 remained with the top 8 getting paid - Now I could really turn on the aggression.
Before I knew it we were down to the final table and I held the chip lead. My cards were cold, but numerous steals preserved my chip stack. I can't recall much of the final table, right up until we were 3 handed. It consisted of an unknown fish, me and Haysie. 3 handed was a real grind, chips weren't fluctuating too much and fatigue started to effect me. Finally Haysie took the fish's last chips and we were heads up.
Personally, there was an interesting dynamic between me and Haysie. Essentially on the bubble, I'd shoved 89suited into his JJ in the SNG Championship for a min-cash of 4th. After working so hard, grinding like I never had done before, I was devastated by the hand. I had to win this one.
Heads up was enjoyable for me and I truly didn't care about the money. Just the very experience of being heads up for a semi-major tournament was enough for me. I believe Haysie began with around 175k chips to my 125k. My aggression caused my stack to fluctuate, and before I knew it, Haysie held a 2:1 chip lead. One hand, gave me a real insight into Haysie's playing style:
After that hand, I realised that I could push my opponent around and really put the decision on him. So I went for a semi-suicidal bluff that I wouldn't consider vs most:
After Haysie time bank folded, I gained more confidence. I began to 3-bet and double barrel light. I created an unbalanced range and must have got into my 'tight' opponents head. Haysie was unlucky to run into a strong part of my range, and as they say, the rest is history:
I can't really say whether the 'score' has sunk in yet. But what I can say, is that I'd probably get a forum ban for describing how I celebrated on the Saturday. For now the money is safe in my bank. What I eventually decide to do with it however, is another story.
Patwalshh
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Hi Pat,
got a question for you regarding ROI,if you don't mind answering for me,please.
i think i'm right that ROI,stands for your return on investment.
although i have not been interested in my own,up until now ,that is.
i have always just though that as long as i am winning,that's fine.
as i don't have sharkscope,which i think will give you it,(-rakeback)i was thinking about how i could work it out for myself.
would this example be correct...
if in a month if i earned say; 5000 c4p i think that works out to £5000 invested.(£1 per c4p point)
then there is the 10% rake to add on,which we lose...making it £5500
so would i need to make a profit of £550 for the month(and i could also include c4p rake back here)
giving me an ROI of 10% for the month?
thanks Pat,
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