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Zaza
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Hey guys, I'm officially moving to Malta on March 20th. Even though my hand is still a mess I'm pumped about it. Hopefully my final exam goes well and I can start using it again very soon.
I'm gonna be living with Kyle( Shipit2kg on 2p2) , Simon (flipity) and Josiah(Azn1nvas1on 2p2) .
We will hopefully visit a few places the 20th upon our arrival and I will update this blog with some pics for once.
Malta was a spontaenous decision as we were looking at Belgrad or Budapest before we decided to choose Malta.
Poker has been going ok , I was having my best month in February before hitting a massive downswing but I still ended the month on a still decent note. My volume has been really bad since february. I've been struggling with my broken hand and also still getting used to the bigger swings you encounter at games like 1k 2k.
I've got a few goals I wanna achieve this year. I think most of my problems are due to self-destruction and a lack of discipline. if i take a look at the people who play as many tables as i do, the vast majority of them are pure bum hunters and wont ever play shorthanded nor HU. So not only have i been playing multiple opponents Hu while 20 tabling at times, but i've been doing it vs people who might be better than me and play way less tables than I do. Combining the two, makes for a disaster. i've been trying to be a bit more selective and almost entirely dismiss multiple tables of hu play if im playing alot of tables. I could definitely work on my overall game selection as well. There's a big difference between someone using a autoseat script which most regs on stars at 600+ use imo, and someone just starting tables and playing 3 handed a lot. I'm not going to complain about the conditions of the games on stars anymore because I dont see any improvement any time soon in that area.
Even though the swings become biggger and winrates smaller if you are being careless, I still believe I have gained so much from some of those sessions where I masstabled and had some sick battles with some of the regs. I believe it is valuable for me to learn how to deal with people who consistantly put me under pressure. Despite not studying alot this year I've definitely improved a lot, and its definitely due to that.
So am I going to become a guy like sublime? I very much doubt it and I'm not even upset about it. My biggest goal for now is like I said to become more professional about picking my spots, make a rule of only playing hu if i play a max of 12 tables, only play Hu when starting a session and I need to get games going. If I can stick to any of these things i really believe that my results can become steadier and i can hopefully get rid of those multiple sessions per month where I'm almost drowning in the adrenaline and the action. This is what it feels like to me to 20+ table in many Hu and shorthanded games.
So that is my biggest challenge, i guess, leave the ego on the side and focus on picking my spots more carefully.
Dont get me wrong, I cant complain at all. The year has been swingy but it has been a great ride thus far, the only regret I have is it coulda been that much better had i been a bit more careful. But i guess i needed to make that mistake to truly understand it.
I especially enjoyed making the last few leggo videos. It has been a learning experience for me as much as it has been for u guys. Quite honestly a typical vid for me goes like this. If its a live vid its obviously fairly easy to get some tables going and start babbling. I truly enjoy those vids even though i gain the most myself from doing a hand history review video. it is truly surprising how weird it is to sometimes gather all those thoughts together in a coherent manner. Im usually too impulsive when it comes to typing and chatting about hands on skype or rather too impatient. I can come across rude very often which is most of the times not my intention but just part of my persona. People who really know me can get passed this usually if we survive those few first weeks.
To come back to my initial thought about video making, it s almost like practicing for me since i never really get to take a peak as in depth into my thinking process as i ll do when i make videos for you guys. i feel like that the thought process that I portray in my videos is much different to the one where i answer to hands of friends through a one-liner. It is a truly surreal feeling because when you are playing as many tables as i do I guess all of the processes are just so automatised that u are not even aware of them. You could say it's like being in some sort of transe to some degree, on some days more than on others for sure. Im not even sure where I was going with this. Same as my vids my blogs are always unprepared and i try to be as spontaneous about it as i can. i think this is definitely something that comes through from my vids in general.
To end this lil entry, i wanna say that i appreciate all the support i have been getting from you guys, wether through comments, ratings or pm's. It's one of the more rewarding aspects of this whole experience. I'm gonna take a break from videos to focus on my move and my grind essentially. This is a really important year and I really need to get my shit together as far as my volume goes.
Anyway peace out fellas GLGLGLGL
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Hey, guys, just a small entry this time. I went to the doc and it looks like Im gonna have to become a lefty as far grinding goes.
On another side note I had my best day yesterday, thought KI'd share it with u guys.
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hello guys, so its been awhile. I wont be able to write too much since I'm writing with one hand after breaking my grind hand. It wasarather stupid way to do it. I punched awall on tilt and broke it that evening. Sinnce my friend was at my place and we were ready to go out I thought it might not be too big of a deal and I still wanted to go out. So after one blurry night and one hung over sunday >I decided to go to the emergency room to get it checked out. Resulted in a shitty plaster for a week and on tuesday im going on mynext check up.
I was pretty frustrated at first since i didnt see any way i could grind with my left hand. That bneing said Ive been playing up to 12 tables with it in the last few days so its not as bad as i was afraid at first. Things have breen okish this year, I've made my complete transition to 1k and have been playing some 2k games as well this month.
Overall id say that it wasagood decision to aim high from the beginning of the year and I havent regretted it so far.The swings have been bigger than what I'm used to but I'm getting used to it. Adding 2k has been helpful in that area as well , as 1k seems like a much smaller game psychologically.
The only negative so far isthe fact that I dont review enough and dont post enough hands. supernova elite grind has been interrupted by my accident, but I^'m still not giving up on it , it s too early and ive already amassed 110k vpp. So im not that far behind pace.
My last video for some time is coming out soon. Its going to be ahand history with hand varying from 1k-2k nl. I'm pretty pleased with that one so check it out guys and give me some feedback on some of the more complex hands in the video.
Anyway this is it for now, gl everyone.
peace
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Yoooo, so we are here finally, 2013, I'm chilling in bed and trying to recover from a nice night out. I had a funny encounter , which most of u guys can probably rely to. I had dinner with my girlfriend and her two friends and the boy friend of one of them unfortunately thought it might be a good idea to give me his wisdom about online poker and poker in general.Let's just say, catchy things like, how do u know they arent cheating/colluding? how do u know they are real? how can u tell if they are bluffing or not if u cannot read them like u could in a live game. Just a lot more of these , but ye fortunately he got I wasnt too much into the topic and I went on to spend a nice evening!!!
So let's move on to the real topic of this blog entry, 2000001111113333333333 goals and plans.
To be honest, I've been thinking about it for a couple of months now, and I think the best way to go about this is to not drive myself all too crazy about getting x number of vpps. I'm obviously gonna try to grind as much as I can in the first months of the year in order to be able to relax a bit more during the summer time, and attack again at the end of the year. I've made about 400k vpp in the last 6months of 2012, and this despite taking off half of december and 3/4 of november AND going 2 weeks on holiday in august.
I have been playing 20-24 tables lately, basically any 6max table running from 400 to 600 for the majority of december. I have gotten used to the pace, the only thing which I gotta work on is to definitely add some sort of table selection to my game. I definitely gotta stop always sticking around at tables that are breaking. To start out the year I'm gonna stick to that pace I think, and if things go well, for the 1st month , Im gonna probably gonna cut down to 16-18 tables and add 1k into my regular volume. Ive already tried it a couple of times, and it didnt take too much of my attention away. I've been considering cutting out 400nl and just grinding 600 and 1000 nl as well, but as I said we will see how the year develops, all I know is that I wanna grind steady 100-120 hrs a month and work more on some things off the tables, like more session reviews, as I havent been doing any of those really. I have seen some people move up lately successfully even into 2k nl games, which gives me a lot of confidence because it's people I know aren't better than me for sure. I think to some degree luck plays a factor in moving up to those stakes, since the volume u can play is definitely lower, so if u shot a few times, u gotta hope for some sort of a good run to begin with.
Supernova Elite, ahhhh how often I considered it last year, spending time calculating the number of hands or hours i would have to play and making plans through what type of games/stakes I would play in. I think the best way is to focus on playing well as much as I can and I should be able to hit supernova elite.
I might change the number of tables Im playing thoughout the year, maybe I'll even move to some HU , since I feel like it's something I could very naturally transition to.
I feel a bit silly calling this rambling here my goals, but I intend to adjust as I move along , like I said. I dont think pressuring urself , at least in my case, is gonna be benefitial to my game and overalll well-being throughout this year.
I had been battling with alot of my demons at the end of 2012, and am finally in a better place and plan on stabilizing that even more.
I'm super pumped to start the grind tomorrow, or on the 3rd and get this year started.
Anyway I' m feeling a bit shitty again so I better wrap this up here, so ye Happy new year everyone and hopefully everyone isnt as hung over as I am.
Peaceeeeeee
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happy new year mofos, ,may everyone run as hot as they can and crush. Warrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
diazzz, ZAZA out. peace
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hello everyone,
I felt like blogging today, and no I'm not drunk this time. 
Unfortunately that's the most of laughing I'm gonna be doing in this blog post.
I just had my biggest losing session yesterday, 7k and while I obviously ran bad, I also played bad in certain spots. Mainly bluffing in spots I usually dont bluff in or calling down in spots where I dont expect people to be bluffing in. This seems to be the theme of my D-game whenever I just lose myself in the heat of the moment.
I think the biggest mistake most people do or at least I usually do is playing too loose while running bad, or when u feel more annoyed than usually while grinding, so it's almost like u r just setting urself up to make more mistakes, and ultimately start really tilting. Because at the end of the day this is what the process loooks for most of us with mental game issues. At first it's this aggravating feeling , it starts out like it isnt a big deal, but it can turn into monkey tilt in a few hands, where u suddenly misplay a hand.
I remember once a good player and a guy with a naturally solid mental game , told me, he would play tighter and try to really focus on playing solid and not making too many moves while ur in a fragile state of mind, Some people say u should quit, to those people I say, if that would be the case , most of us or I would have to quit every session within 20-30min.
This sounds so obvious when u say it, PLAYING SOLID, since u are always trying to play well even when ur emotions are clouding ur judgement. but I reallly believe in actively nitting it up and trying to avoid 3betting a marginal hand or flatting a marginal hand to a 3b.
People always say u should make the most +ev play, but in reality we are human and noone plays optimal all the time, especially in a slightly negative state of mind u are less likely to make the best play but rather the less optimal line. So passing out on a very marginal spot can save u some additional $ in those situations long term imo. This should obviously really only be when u are feeling that ur emotions might get the better of u that day. At least for me this seems to be the right way to go about it for now, and this is what im gonna be doing, Im probably gonna be quitting my sessions after 2hrs tops, since even when running bad i feel like its only past a certain treshhold that I lose my ability to play winning poker. Like I ll run bad for 2hrs and still feel like im gonna be plus ev in the game, but past those 2hrs i think Im either gonna drop alot more BI or if Im lucky catch a break and make a comeback. Last month or so I was lucky enough to usually catch a break and had a few of those sessions where I'd make a comeback, so its always hard to make urself quit while down.
I think my future goal is definitely gonna be to try to recognize as soon as i can that Im slowly getting to the point where Im about to literally explode, and better take a break or quit, usually best to quit for the day, since very often the anger is still buried inside and it can come back within 5min into the ssession if u start out bad, This is what happened to me yesterday.
I remember playing extremely well despite running reallly bad , and somehow ending the session up by winning a few big pots with very marginal hands where my opponents made some incorrect herocalls vs my bet sizes. So even tho I ended the session on a high I was still upset inside. So my Tilt threshold was lower for the 2nd session of the day and after 2hrs into the 2nd session i guess i just fell apart, by playing too many tables, 4x 500zoom and 10 x 400nl. I guess the amount of hectic involved in playing that many tables is also a recipe for the emotions to take over and to lose sight of the rationality when making decisions.
I guess that's enough about my lack of mental game LOL, but it's really encouraging even though it can be as devastating as yesterday, since Im still having decent results, so thinking about improving some of these tendencies should be huugggeeee in terms of my results for the future. I can only incite people to 4 table zoom 500 rather than masstable midstakes, since my game has skyrocket since Ive been just focusing on mainly 4 tabling it. I think alot of people try out zoom200 which has nothing to do with 500 since the player pool is so big and u barely get into any dynamics on any given day and it feels like u are just trying to make the standard plays day and day out.
Anyway , guess this is it guys.
Peace GL, Zaza |
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So I've just finished my best month of my career and have finallyl successfully transitionned to 400 500 600 nl. I've had the best month of my career in october, and its still been mixed with some weird overall weird feeeelings.
Poker has been going well lately. Ive changed my game around adn have been consistantly improving in the last weeks, much of this lately found taste to the game has been due to this sick skype groupe ive been posting in ,there s a few of the best players in there on stars imo, and battling them has been one of the best experiences ive had thus far. i stilll tilt very often unfortunately  : but my game has improved alot to the degree where even on tilt im still beating some tough games i play in.
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Hey , so Its been a lil while since I made a real update besides my milestone hand entry (yaaaayyyyy) , that one still doesnt get old. I felt a bit rusty coming off basically 15-16 days lay off after coming back in August. At first I was really worried about losing that feeling of control u have when things are going ur way, and ur confidence has been at its high. The biggest adjustment was the one I had to make to masstabling again to be honest. Everything else, just felt rather quickly like it used to when I was in grindmode.
My plan was to ease into it slowly and take a couple of days , but as it usually happens with my plans, I ended up dropping them and played some 500 zoom.
I was really happy to come back to the tables. There were times in the past where I woulda slacked after taking so much time off, but since Ive been working on my game so hard in these last past months, it has been much more easier to put in the hours. I'm still messing up with some idiotic things like skyping too much when playing, and the usual tilt call or spew I make when my emotions get in the way, but overall Im still on a better path thanI was even in that area, than I was a few months ago.
I have been talking to a few very good players, and exchanging some different strategies and gameplans with them , which is always insightful and refreshng at the same time. Im also in a few skype groupes, which has been helpful as well, since u get to meet some of the grinders, playing in the same games u play in , but also gain a better perspective on what most of the regs consider so called standard bluff or fold spots. I mean ur obviously divulging alot ur thought processes in those groupes, but if most of the members are active I believe it is worth it, as it is definitely a way to improve ur overall hand planning for certain tough spots u encounter in game, which u end up posting about and discussing with them later on. The only negative part is when u have alot of less active , or weaker players that tend to not contribute much , but take alot in.
As far as moving up goes, as I mentionned earlier I've jumped right into 500 zoom for my 2nd session coming off vacation.I think I've played most of my hands this month at 400-500 and some 600 occasionally. I've played in these games before, but never really solely focused on grinding them. I've been mainly mixing zoom 500 4 tables with 4-12 reg 400 tables for the most part. It really is hard to get rid of the tables once u get on alot of tables, since most of these 400 games usually run around a fish, I often find myself playing too many.
I'm very satisfied with my volume and the amount of hours Ive put in this month, since I basically started it on the 16th and managed to get in 80k hands.
Thoughts on the overall zoom 500 games, are mixed. I dont know if its cos I'm biased cos I ran bad at it at the end of the month or because I've made some really bad plays , on semi tilt, but I'm still unsure of how big of a part of my volume I want it to be.Its also tough to decide wether I should just 4 table it or keep doing what Im doing and still mix it with other tables. Thus far Its been going ok even tho it has been pretty swingy overall. I feel like I've definitely transitionned to it this time, and hopefully wont have to look back , and keep advancing and step up my game to the next level. I gotta thank a few guys, especially Chris(prologion) who'm Ive been discussing alot of different strategies with , and who's loveeee for balance and gameplans has sharpened my game a lot. There's obv a few others, like Adam who's just an awesome player and stand up guy.
So I guess is it for this time, I 'll leave u with the 2 weeks of grind in august. Overall another good month if I add the milestone hand !!!!
gl guys peaceeee |
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