Today i woke up and finally my Pstars address has changed and I can play =D. It took 1-2 weeks to change it. They wanted my utility bill translated and notarized by a lawyer omg....

Now the only problem I have is that most of my poker money is stuck on FTP but I am moving to stars since I don't want to grow what is stuck. So it looks like I am starting with 450$ and am hoping to build up . It will be a big change from playing 400-600nl but 50nl should be fun too. Hopefully I can find someone who will trade me pstars for bahts.

Other than that I am trying to find someone to teach me thai a few times a week. Then I am also going to learn how to ride a motorbike and maybe rent one for a while. Thats about it..

Some pictures from my phone.


setup! have to have a setup pic.


View from new place


view out my window


tv room


Kitchen

I did try to do a video riding behind Matt on the motorbike going around the moat but it was way too shaky and long so ill try something else.

pce

So after Taipei I connected in BKK to CM I ran through immigration/customs and made it to the terminal with 1-3 mins to spare. Matt and Jordan got me from the airport in CM and helped me get setup with the essentials, water and bug spray . Then Jordan gave me a small tour of our street which is super convenient the grocery store is 3 stores down from me, many nice resaturates and Matts place is a 1 minute walk. One thing i noticed thus far humidity ownsss, I am pretty sure i got pretty dehydrated being in taipei-bkk and CM.

Some pics.

std bed


My balcony view. The building on the top left is Matts, today I am going to look at some apartments in the middle khaki colored building. Behind that you can see the mountains.


Setup already =) I connected to their TV.

I am going to try to find an apartment today wish me luck!

Hi! I am in Taipei airport waiting for my flight to BKK. Then i will jump on a plane to CNX and i'll be seeing Matt in 6ish hours. This is my first time in Asia its pretty crazy!

Its pretty humid compared to California and lots of Chinese people assume i speak Chinese its interesting. They say stuff really fast and i go "I'm sorry i don't understand" They say it again assuming they didn't say it loud enough. Then i just smile and they go ohhhh and then ask me in perfect English the same thing lol.

Anyways i hope to start blogging more often now that I am going to be living in Chiang Mai and playing a lot more poker! I haven't taken any pictures yet because my camera was in the overhead ill try to fix that when i land. PCE

I spent 12 hours+ grinding stars and i finally got my bonus! woot!!! I moved all my money off but i had FFP worth 600$ left in my account. So i used concierge and bought a i7 cpu, motherboard, ddr3 and i'm putting in a SSD into my desktop. Basically a brand new computer thats super fast... It should all be here on Thursday and i'm going to open up my computer and put it all together ship it =). I got it mostly for the games Starcraft2 and all points bulletin!!!!


My plan basically is to continue 6max even though my results are average..... For a while trying to unlock the bonus i played 12 tables and broke even the whole time. Before that my win rate was like 5bb/100 i don't know what i am doing wrong... i think its just small little tilts... I just need to work more on focus. I realized i play best with 6-9tables which is what i been doing most of the year but that means i for sure can not get SNE because at my stakes. That is like 12+ hours a day of play. My goal has been 8-10bb/100 which i kept in jan but feb i been slipping. I think its because in feb my play times have not been as consistent or structured. o well.

Other than that i got all my money back that i loaned and consolidated my roll so ill be playing 400nl again after i finish my comp so likely Friday.

I tilted pretty hard today i went +500 then tilted it all back so b/e for the day i guess is ok.... i am just so tilted with pokerstars and their unlock bonus thing. I have 1.5k stuck in this bonus and about 3k lent out to people that haven't paid me back way past the date they said they would. I intended to spend about 5k on stock earlier this week but didn't have the funds because of this bullshit...and i missed an easy opportunity to make $500. So basically fuck pstars I'm moving my roll to 3 other websites with just straight rb. I've already started playing on another site and i like it a lot more which adds to my hate toward pstars because i just wanna gtfo but i have to play 40 hours to unlock this thing. bleh need to work on mindfulness more lol i been trying for the last 4-6 months but its hard.

Poker learnings been going well tc has been sending me 10-20 hands a day asking me what i think which has been great. Its a bit different because now he asks my opinion on hands so i can tell he thinks i got better. I am starting to understand a lot more and realize that what i was doing a year ago was right i just got owned by variance...... I then changed my entire game because i thought i had to because i was losing. Had i kept with what he taught me and built on it instead of watching vids and learning outside of the basics i could've avoided my 3-4month breakeven/downswing where i sucked hella bad T.T

But its ok recently i have been doing really well....

Thats about it ttyl!

Poker has been slow i made little over 1k this week. Its been ok playing 100nl because i lent out 2.6k and haven't cleared my 1.5k bonus yet... when i get this $s ill be playing 200 and 400 again.

I finished reading a 500 page book on buffets life, another on asset allocation/efficient market hypothesis...betas etc...(which is all academic bullshit wanted to know their ideas though) and a smaller value investment book which was great..

I also watched every single interview i could find by buffett, the mba speech he made was long and epic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfuXKpMFUjcthere are multiple parts.

I also watched all the interviews i could find on bill gates and steve jobs. Both guys are super smart but i thought i would like jobs more since hes innovative, from my area and i love my apple stuff. He was very informative in his Standford speech about his epiphanys through his fight with cancer. Steves speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

In the end i liked bill gates more his innovation skills aren't as good but he is a epic strategic businessman and thats why he won. He is more empathetic which i think are also traits that helped Microsoft win. This is a good speech by him about charity. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP5VIhbJwFs

I been thinking a lot about investing and focusing on taxations effects on longterm compounding. Its interesting because even if you know a 5-10% drop is coming(which it is impossible to forecast the market short term). It is actually going to be more +EV to stay in the stock if your goal is to own the company longterm because of the effects capitol gains tax has on compounding. Also when switching from one asset to another the one that is currently owned has a premium on the amount of 'principle' gained that is compounding that would be paid in tax if you sell and buy. So to sell something to buy something else it has to be substantially better. Also after 2010 it will make a lot of sense to incorporate my investing because of differences in law on dividend taxation. This is just stuff i been thinking about i have to go to a cpa though to ask questions later in the year to make sure....

Another huge thing i been looking at is corporate structures, salary and bonuses. In the financials you can have a super profitable business that is "cheap" but it still a terrible investment if the top people have friends on the board and are greedy. Its something i been studying closely. All the companies i have i know the management and try to find interviews they do and see what they pay themselves and say in annual reports/calls.

Beyond that TC, lorange and rob have talked to me a bit about investing and they have started studying too!!! woohoo It would be really sick if they got good we could do a partnership in like a year or 2 years. I have a friend managing 7 figures right now who i call a lot for advice and a few others who just got ibanking jobs. And i am meeting a guy who was managing 8 figures... So the future seems really exciting/fun....

So here is the brag section of my blog post! =). I recently had 3-4 people asking me to invest for them a few of them offered 25k+ sadly i turned them down because i am not good enough yet and don't have a ltd setup by a lawyer. This week tc asked me for my results so i found all the earning reports at Schwab for my account online. I started the acct at 18 years old in 2007. Before this i helped my mom from 16-17 years old make 5 figures in her account.(which i got to keep none of =(..) i should ask her for her statements for the account i helped manage. Below the s&p500 is with dividends reinvested so its a little higher % gained than if you just looked up the exchange on a graph. It makes it way more realistic though and my return against it lower. so here are my stock results /brag



GL alll!!!!!! Ttyl playing ftops 1 today ONE TIME PLZZZZZZZ =)

Its late and i can't sleep likely because i have too much on my mind so i guess i'll type it out.

In terms of poker this month its been a failure. I ended up playing only 60 hours(mostly 100nl) because i had the flu for 1.5 weeks. I played ok winning 4.5k. In general my attitude while playing has been very negative(since getting sick) and i am surprised i won at all based on it. The only positive is i played some 400nl and 600nl i felt like i played better than the other players at each table minus a few good players like nano etc.

The flu i got was amazingly bad i slept at one point for 36 hours and i was still coughing 7 days after my fever was gone which stayed with me like 1 week. Then it suppressed my immune system so my other infection got worse yet again... i am seeing a specialist which is ok, not expecting much. All this stuff has negatively effected my mood more so than i feel it should. I think its a very big weakness/flaw in my personality.

In general i am really unhappy i feel like i missed a huge opportunity to buy into stocks in 2008 when i was 19... Realistically i shouldn't dwell on it that much but its hard not to when every time i read a financial report...i evaluate what its worth and its overvalued. Then i look at the 2008 price and go obv could've got it then.....I am actively writing down what i think each company is worth and just waiting.... and waiting for them to be a good buy. I did buy some in 2008 but i could have done a lot more with what i know now.

In 2008 I put 4k in and now its 12k but i was so afraid that i didn't know what i was doing that i didn't put in more.... And looking back i was right to not invest that much because i didn't know what i was doing and still don't know enough to be allocating a lot of money.

...What i fear the most is that if the stock market falls again i won't know enough to take advantage of it or won't have enough capitol to put my knowledge to use. So i been franticly reading this week i read 600 pages of textbook like stuff on stock which has got me closer to understanding things. My hours playing poker though have suffered.... Reading was so hard and took up most of each day that i wasn't pokering. I enjoy reading way more than playing poker and i am having difficulty with allocating time. When i play i am pretty unhappy but right now i need to be gathering capitol in case certain stocks hit the price i wan't to buy them at. The big problem is to make the most educated choices i need hours and hours of more studying and time to read financial reports. So... build capitol or study.... I think the answer is simply both its just so hard to compartmentalize. Once my mind starts going on one thing it passively focuses on it whether i switch or not.... meh..... i guess this just means I have no time to waste.... a lot to learn and things to work on in my personality. /endrant

So time to sleep good night all and i hope you guys are crushing or traveling/building memories etc. . GL

Have the flu haven't played in a week.... i slept for like 36 hours straight at one point....

Here is something to watch for http://www.pokerstars.com/vip/store/january-sale/ today 1/15 is the 1500$ bonus its a better value than a 4k bonus.

This week i did not follow through on all my goals set forth. I need to read more( i read about 50% of the days 1 hour) i did however invest some of my money. We will see how that goes till feb.

Its been 6 days and I've put in about 20,000 hands 6 tabling averaging about 7 hours a day of poker and 1 hour of review. In all i am looking to improve next week in the amount of hands i put in while maintaining/improving on my win rate which was 4ptbb for 3k$ won(with rb/bonus).

In review there were some marginal spots that i could've saved a buyin or a 4bet so i see 5ptbb+ possible if i can maintain emotional control and mindfulness 100%. (which isn't possible but, I'm trying!)

My other blog posts were a bit vague and i put a list of things i learned which were very general cuz i was so tired. I said " Poker should never be looked at as a HH, a single HH is flawed because it limits how many options we consider." This relates to the 5bet stack offs and 4bets i could've saved. So one was BVB vs a reg i had 88 he 3bets very high from BB so getting in 88 here is never really a mistake and never really a huge mistake folding. So if you open the HH and read it, you would be like shove ok, fold ok. And maybe i would go beyond the specific HH, looking at stats, and notes. But in this spot we had substantial history this session which i feel changed his range and i had to fold. Its only possible to see his thought process if you watch the entire session in HHs in order or a video of the session to know this is a clear fold. And i am starting to see that the majority of important decisions that are grey area are not simple enough that you can just spew stats on a person and give a stats image of yourself to get an accurate analysis from someone else or even an accurate answer from yourself.

Either way i have started experimenting with playing 8-9 tables and i had my best day today. I think its because i been playing so much my reads are really sharp and my focus is good.... I guess ill continue doing it till i feel like i can't make the best choices possible. If I 9 table and maintain what i'm doing I will be back on pace for SNE.

Enjoyed/had fun playing this week and realized poker is fun and there are a lot of random things to learn and consider that i have not yet. I just have to think outside the box, play a lot, not get rusty, be mindful(most important), stick to one game and be consistent. Thats it. gl everyone playing!

Won back the $ i lost yesterday. But since then have not been able to sleep. I don't want to play tired but i really want to play so bad because i think i'm learning so much.

I also checked my last 50,000 hands at 100nl and i won at 15/bb100. In my most recent sample both my red and blue line go up. In general i am not up that much because of my shot at 400nl which was terrible. I however feel great i am playing way differently than before and i am trying to increase variance as much as possible because I've realized that by shying away from variance i lose win rate. And by losing win rate i get more variance than if i play really aggro and try to ram and jam anytime its close to a break even play.

Thats about it. ttyl