Pursuit of France

well even if we have one good reg changed into a fish, it should be about break even, without counting in the times when you get the part of the jackpot

I think it might be time to admit it.

Didn't update this blog, because i felt so weak, i have once again switched my game type, which currently is PLO, i have always loved the game, the only thing backing me away from it was the sick swings involved, but now i will try to overcome it.

Some pros why in my opinion PLO is kind of better than FLHE
:spade:more traffic
:spade:bigger edges gained long term
:spade:a little more interesting

So for now i will change the title of the blog, and hope that i will stick with PLO longer than FLHE.

A bit more about my poker ventures, so i finished with the Unibet open, failed to make it, as i said before, ran super bad in 60 BI and that's it.

Oh Oh Oh oh :f_cool: you can see my new shiny gold status, who's the boss now? ♠_love:

Now about the pull-up challenge, we didn't bet anything because my friend pussied out, so i did it on my own. I managed to kind of fail it while succeeding, i did 800 pull-ups in a weeks time, but there were two days, when i did only ~40 of them, so the next time i do it, i will be aiming for 1.4k per week and this will happen in a month.

For now i will be just doing ~50 daily, not to tire my body too much.

These two weekends i will be having bouldering competition, which i am not prepared for obv, but what the heck, haven't participated for some time now, so we'll see. And after that i will be getting my first tattoo ♠_cool: will show how it looks when i have it, tho i completely know what i want, and have wanted for the past half an year.

I switched again, no more PLO for now, even tho i like it ♦

Hate being so inconsistent with myself, but w/e as long as i do profit, I think it's ok, net better, nor worse.

Yesterday was in a bouldering competition, local Lithuanian championships, and finished 3rd, not too bad considering my physical form is definitely not best. I failed on the easiest problem, so that's kind of a bummer, could have been first.

I really wanted the prize for the 1st/2nd place, which was quite a lot of massage coupons :f_love: i'm too tight to spend my own money on it, but would love it

So the thing i'm playing now is HUcash, and i would love to hit an upswing, as i sit with about 30BI, so kind close to the edge, just to feel fully rolled. I feel like i can exploit many players and their leaks, as long as i do table select.

But i am a bit disappointed with the HU forums on pokerstrategy, really not much going on there, even tho a lot of people do play HU, so what;s the problem?

Forgot to mention the news with Tapie group, which is great, if i get my moneyzz back before summer, it will be awesome, as i have ~6,5k locked there, so i could feel really secured money wise.

everybody should get such a sign afterwards

So since the last update i have been playing consistently NL50 HU, it's awesome and i have at last reached my big upswing, after a long time.

Had a really awesome bouldering comp in which i finished 6th, which is a great result, from a total of 74 competitors, even tho i am in an average physical form, i did my best, tho failed a bit in the finals, but it's ok.

Already have a plan for the next month on training:

This week and the following one i will have a break, to heal my micro traumas. Then will do 700 pull- ups that week, then another week resting and then will go for huge 1400 pull-ups. Afterwards lot's of finger strength training, should be in my best form ever in a few months if i follow it.

About poker, will be focusing on HU as long as i can, because a really big edge can be gained and games are interesting.

lol, just got doomswitched after posting my bragging graph, couldn't hit a hand for like 300 hands vs a maniac, which sucks, lost 6 stacks i those hands ♦

I got a pullup bar a week ago and I can proudly say that I can do a grand total of zero pull ups!

In a few weeks hopefully I can increase that number to 1 and then you will only be 1400 times better at pullups than me

yeah, at pull ups, tho don't know where else ♦

And you should start working out a bit!

Yeah, for sure, that's the plan.

I'm starting with "walk-the-planks" which you might know, basically just the last half of a pullup, you step up and start at the top of the pullup and just lower yourself down, for n00bs only ♦

Sorry to hijack ♦

Btw what exactly is a bouldering competition? Rock climbing like in the OP picture?

first video youtube brought up, oh and i forgot to mention, i got the tattoo, love it, even looks better than thought it would, will post a picture next week.

There will be big changes in my life really soon, as i will be quitting university the next week and my parents are probably going to kick me out of the house, even tho i hate it, studying is definitely not an option for me, i have been feeling worse than miserable for last 3 months, i can't take it for another 3,5 years, i have somewhat of a starting money capital, which i can live off for some time, but will have to make profit playing poker or find a job, hopefully it will be the first one.

I have been thinking about it for a really long time and i understand, that there is a big chance that this will be the mistake of my life, but i am willing to take the risk. Already spoke to my mother and she says that i'm doing a big mistake, but i already knew what would she say, so will talk to both of my parents later this evening, will see how it goes, if i get kicked out, i already found a place to stay at/rent. It's hand both psychologically and mentally, but i am still willing to do it, now i will have the time to play either MTTs or HU cash games, will see in the next few weeks. I have talked to team moshman, and they wanted to give me a stake+coaching half an year ago, maybe they will still accept me.

Now if we talk about the money, i have for about 4months in my bank account and another 6months in my cashier(which i obv wouldn't want to touch, but as i said, i'm not broke).

Sooooo, had the talk with my parents and after a long and really exhausting 2 hour talk i settled on this choice:
I will be studying till the end of this year, so end of this semester and another one and then i will take a year off uni, main reason being, that if i don't succeed i will have a solid back-up plan. And if i do choose to proceed my studies afterwards i could even change specialties, which is good. Not really that happy about it, but don't really see another choice, as my parents wouldn't want to see me for a long time if i chose to quit now.

Now about poker: didn't play yesterday, because i was really mentally exhausted after having the long and intense conversation, haven't been that tired for quite some time, even after a hard competition, so it's interesting, how concentrating and going through a lot of emotions can drain you out.

Another thing is that i have a small goal for december, which is getting another 2.2k VPPs, already got this month 1.7k, so it should be doable. Set this goal because i don't want to leave out the free 50$ ♦

aaaaaaaaaaannd as promised a pic of my tattoo

planning on getting another one on my back in a month or so

Meh, my best poker year were while I was still studying so I don't rly see a rush to quit something for poker unless you want to grind 24/7. Student life is also fun obv.

Cool tattoo, I've been wishing to get one too, just don't seem to ever make up my mind of what I want.

The thing about studies is, you can go back to them anytime. At no point in your life will you be too old to complete a course, and when you are older, it may be something you really want to do. It makes more sense then.

I went back to study at age 39. I was in a two year course with a total of 120 people, most of whom were 18, and there because their parents said they had to. The majority spent most of the time playing, socialising, going to Maccas, mucking up in class. In the second year, there were only 24 of us, a few older ones, and the younger ones who had chosen the course because they wanted it.

The rest wasted the year, in terms of study, but I bet they had fun anyway. And I'm sure, a few years later, they found their way. Or are finding their way. Or never did because they were never going to no matter what. Not everyone makes it.

When people tell me they need something to fall back on, I tell them the ground is always there.

Seems like a good compromise. This means when you finally take the year off you will have any even more solid bankroll in 6 months time or whatever. Much better to have enough in the bank to last you 6 or 12 months than 4!

Btw I'm picturing you bouldering on some giant cliffs like Mission Impossible 2 after watching that video!

yeah, the biggest point why not to quit now, was because university studies in lithuania are quite expensive(20k lt for 4 years) compared with average month salary (~1k lt) and now i am studying for free, because i got a scholarship or whatever you call it and if i quit now, i loose it ♦

Originally posted by aciddrop
When people tell me they need something to fall back on, I tell them the ground is always there.

i like this one, that was pretty much what my arguments were, that nothing too bad could happen, the absolute worse case scenario is that i waste like 2 years of my life working foreign to get moneyz for studies.

Originally posted by TerrorBlade
Seems like a good compromise. This means when you finally take the year off you will have any even more solid bankroll in 6 months time or whatever. Much better to have enough in the bank to last you 6 or 12 months than 4!

Yeah, hopefully i can just ship the sunday million this sunday and then quit without much thought ♦

On a more serious note, trying to grind as much as i can these days, both NLHU and MTTs

Originally posted by TerrorBlade Btw I'm picturing you bouldering on some giant cliffs like Mission Impossible 2 after watching that video!

don't rly remember those cliffs, haven't seen that movie for ages
and that's pretty much what we do in France :

Some short update coming right now:

1.Got TT in my skype friends, omg, omg, omg a legend in my skype friends, now i can die happy ♠_cool:

2. hopefully this sunday we do get some rly rungood and ship some mooniez

3.Tomorrow i have a bouldering comp ones again, this time in the broherland Latvia, i rly feel weak these days, so will start training next monday, have to improve, i am such a pussy compared to my buddies

already bought 10% in alficor1 SM, looking for some more

If you ship SM, I will fly you in to Tallinn for NewYear's Eve Party ♠_cool:

GL & HF

hoooooooly shit, now that's motivation to win, lol ♦ 2nd obv doesn't count, it's for loosers ♦

bought some more action, now i have 3x10% on SM

Oh and i came back from the bouldering competition, finished 1st, woohoo, had some rungood, tho sprained my ankle during 1st finals route, but who am i not to finish the whole thing? ♦

Might post some pics later on, but don't know if anybody was taking em

Good luck in millions shippament, neighbour country bro!
(I've seen you posting hands a lot on eval.forums and been active in mttsng and mtts as well, so I wish I had more time for poker )

I'm from Latvia. and currently grinding at uni. ♦

Wanna play this so bad, but will return to the tables more seriously after graduating uni this year, for sure.

GL and shipp itt!!!

yeah, those were the times i improved really drastically would recommend everyone doing it, tho i hate that ps HU forums suck so hard, so have to read at 2+2

Last few days have been running great @ HU, already tried opening nl100, but always got action @50, so still didnt feel the power ♦

as everyone might have seen, ran rly shitty yesterday, again 7mtts OOTM, tho today played a few of em, ran deep in one, but didn't make it 27/702, meh, it will come, tho i'm rly mostly concerned not about loosing the money, but more about that noone would ever stake me again of bad results, even tho everybody knows how big MTT variance really is ♦

That's it for now, going to put some more HU volume in, even tho i have 2 tests tomorrow, fuck em