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Archive Dec 2009: Confessions of a micro grinder
School's out!
by thebigeasy59 on 12/14/09
I think I played 2 tourneys between my last entry and Saturday night. Seems kind of ridiculous, but I had to try and do something other than play poker so I could study for my exams. I was kind of fucking the dog in all of my classes, so decent exam scores were kind of crucial. I told a friend of mine that I wasn't going to play any tourneys from Monday-Saturday; he responded by setting the Over/Under line at 60 tourneys in that time span, which is probably slightly higher than my average, non-exam line. He was clearly on drugs, as I buried my face in books and notes (and MLB offseason rumors and reports).
Exams went well. My first was simply 2 essays that we could write at home. They took me forever to write, but I feel like I got that one done well enough. I did well enough in the rest of the course that I didn't really need to do overly well to get through, so it was hard to be motivated to write, but I got it finished. My next was on Thursday afternoon; the prof gave us a list of 42 study questions the day before the exam and said that 4 of them will appear on the exam, lol. I was ready enough for them that I feel good about that one, though it could have went better. My final exam, the one I was most worried about, was Saturday night at 7pm. I had barely failed the midterm, but made up for it with a good essay, but I was still a little nervous about the final. He gave us a list of 8 study questions, we had to answer 3/5 that he gave us. I must have been generous to him in a past life, because of the 5 questions that we had the option of answering, the 4 that I knew best were on there, and I wouldn't be surprised if I got an awesome mark on that one.
We went to the bar afterwards to celebrate being finished school for 3 weeks, and all I could think about was playing a full day of tourneys. I was excited to the point of not being able to sleep, and ended up staying awake until like 5:30 am, an impressive feat given my drunken tendencies to pass out immediately once I get home from the bar.
I woke up and immediately fired up super turbo satellites for miniftops. I typically play these for the FTP Double Deuce every sunday, and win like 9 seats for the T$. For whatever reason, I couldn't win shit in these today, and went 4/48, which was a really depressing start to the day. Nothing seemed to go right at all for the first 6 hours, including busting the Stars $11/$250k on the second hand with AA<66. I was online messaging a friend, telling him about how this might end up being my worst day ever. Within half an hour of that, I was chip leader in 2 different tourneys and top 20 in 3 others. Overall, I ended up making 2 final tables (stars $5/12k, and a $3 turbo on ftp), taking 8th in both. Ended up getting deep in the UB $10/10k only to lose AA<QQ AIPF for the chip lead with 30 left, then busting with KK<AJ in 27th place. Came 40/2100 in a $4 turbo on stars, 33/870 in another $3 turbo on ftp, and got semi deep in a $10 6 max on ftp as well before getting coolered for a big pot. I salvaged the day by winning a seat to MFTOPS 12 (109 6 max), so we'll see if I can get anything going there.
The reason I'm still up at this hour (5:15 AM) is because I forgot to pay off my open liquor fine. They give you 60 days to pay it, and if you don't pay (or make arrangements to make payment at a later date or w/e) by the time that the 60 day deadline passes, they assume that you're contesting the fine, and a trial is automatically set. Long story short, I have a court date at 9AM, and the only way I'll be awake at 9AM is if I don't go to bed. I'm just going to go and ask if I can pay it without the trial, but either way, it should be an interesting experience.
I'm going to write up a Year-end review fairly soon, though that will probably only happen either after the new year or like a week after that, when I come back to school. I'm going to grind my balls off over the next 3 weeks, so I'll probably win twice what I won so far this year (that's the plan anyway), which explains why I'm waiting until after that to write. I'll include goals for 2010 if I can think of anything other than simply "Get as good at poker as possible" or w/e.
Like I said in my last blog, I'm planning on playing a 24 hour mtt session along with some friends. It will more than likely begin Tuesday when I wake up (~1PM?) and go through the night and in to Wednesday morning. A friend of mine planned a 24hr marathon a month or so ago, but ended up quitting after 21hrs and like 5 FT's, so hopefully I can equal (surpass imo) that feat. Probably going to live blog that one, which I can only assume will be boring as shit. A few friends want to play a day of tourneys and donate 5% of their winnings to a worthwhile charity, so I'll likely do that for my 24 hr session.
-grady
Exams went well. My first was simply 2 essays that we could write at home. They took me forever to write, but I feel like I got that one done well enough. I did well enough in the rest of the course that I didn't really need to do overly well to get through, so it was hard to be motivated to write, but I got it finished. My next was on Thursday afternoon; the prof gave us a list of 42 study questions the day before the exam and said that 4 of them will appear on the exam, lol. I was ready enough for them that I feel good about that one, though it could have went better. My final exam, the one I was most worried about, was Saturday night at 7pm. I had barely failed the midterm, but made up for it with a good essay, but I was still a little nervous about the final. He gave us a list of 8 study questions, we had to answer 3/5 that he gave us. I must have been generous to him in a past life, because of the 5 questions that we had the option of answering, the 4 that I knew best were on there, and I wouldn't be surprised if I got an awesome mark on that one.
We went to the bar afterwards to celebrate being finished school for 3 weeks, and all I could think about was playing a full day of tourneys. I was excited to the point of not being able to sleep, and ended up staying awake until like 5:30 am, an impressive feat given my drunken tendencies to pass out immediately once I get home from the bar.
I woke up and immediately fired up super turbo satellites for miniftops. I typically play these for the FTP Double Deuce every sunday, and win like 9 seats for the T$. For whatever reason, I couldn't win shit in these today, and went 4/48, which was a really depressing start to the day. Nothing seemed to go right at all for the first 6 hours, including busting the Stars $11/$250k on the second hand with AA<66. I was online messaging a friend, telling him about how this might end up being my worst day ever. Within half an hour of that, I was chip leader in 2 different tourneys and top 20 in 3 others. Overall, I ended up making 2 final tables (stars $5/12k, and a $3 turbo on ftp), taking 8th in both. Ended up getting deep in the UB $10/10k only to lose AA<QQ AIPF for the chip lead with 30 left, then busting with KK<AJ in 27th place. Came 40/2100 in a $4 turbo on stars, 33/870 in another $3 turbo on ftp, and got semi deep in a $10 6 max on ftp as well before getting coolered for a big pot. I salvaged the day by winning a seat to MFTOPS 12 (109 6 max), so we'll see if I can get anything going there.
The reason I'm still up at this hour (5:15 AM) is because I forgot to pay off my open liquor fine. They give you 60 days to pay it, and if you don't pay (or make arrangements to make payment at a later date or w/e) by the time that the 60 day deadline passes, they assume that you're contesting the fine, and a trial is automatically set. Long story short, I have a court date at 9AM, and the only way I'll be awake at 9AM is if I don't go to bed. I'm just going to go and ask if I can pay it without the trial, but either way, it should be an interesting experience.
I'm going to write up a Year-end review fairly soon, though that will probably only happen either after the new year or like a week after that, when I come back to school. I'm going to grind my balls off over the next 3 weeks, so I'll probably win twice what I won so far this year (that's the plan anyway), which explains why I'm waiting until after that to write. I'll include goals for 2010 if I can think of anything other than simply "Get as good at poker as possible" or w/e.
Like I said in my last blog, I'm planning on playing a 24 hour mtt session along with some friends. It will more than likely begin Tuesday when I wake up (~1PM?) and go through the night and in to Wednesday morning. A friend of mine planned a 24hr marathon a month or so ago, but ended up quitting after 21hrs and like 5 FT's, so hopefully I can equal (surpass imo) that feat. Probably going to live blog that one, which I can only assume will be boring as shit. A few friends want to play a day of tourneys and donate 5% of their winnings to a worthwhile charity, so I'll likely do that for my 24 hr session.
-grady
Girl Talk TR+ Poker things
by thebigeasy59 on 12/02/09
I just realized that I forgot to write a Trip report for the Girl Talk concert that was at my school about 3 weeks ago. Let me start off by saying that this was a promotion put on all across Canada that involved the student body of every college and university in Canada voting on Facebook and Twitter to get a concert on campus for free. One of the conditions was that there would not be liquor served, which is fucking stupid. The concert started at 8 pm with The Stills opening, followed by K-OS, and finally Girl Talk. I started drinking at about 3PM, so as to be sufficiently shitfaced by the time Girl Talk hit the stage at ~10:30-11 PM.
Needless to say, my plan went through to perfection, as I drank an entire quart of Canadian Club by the time we left. Based on what people are telling me, there was a station in which you could get a picture taken with inflatable guitars and such, immediately inside the concert setting. I was obviously blacked out at this point; so much so that I completely forgot that I'm right-handed, as witnessed by me holding this guitar backwards.
By the time K-OS shut his stupid mouth and got the hell off my stage, I was ready for Girl Talk, and decided that there was nothing that was going to stop me from being at the very front of the crowd. After politely finagling my way towards the front of the room, I accidentally bumped in to a girl who gave me the dirtiest of looks. While I don't remember the exact conversation that we had, she continued to get mad at me as I obnoxiously took pictures of EVERYTHING with my cell phone on the terrible choppy camera that is built in. Zero of these pictures turned out, and I knew in advance that this would be the case, and I certainly verbalized this to her. After she pointed out that she "didn't give a fuck" I finally decided that I was going to slowly ruin this girls' night since she was being a snotty beotch for no real reason.
I explained to my roommates that I had a real snotjob to my 9-oclock and asked for everyone to try to remember everything I say so that they can re-tell the story later when I'm sober. I begin by asking her if she wanted to be in a picture for the 10th time. She said no. Then I asked if she would get her friend to snap a picture of the two of us. She said no. Then I asked if she wanted to hang out after the concert. She said no. Then I asked if I could snap a picture again. She politely ordered me to leave her the fuck alone. This went on for another 10 minutes or so, until I told her that she'd make more friends if she wasn't such a twit. I left her alone for a minute, but then came back and got my roommate to snap a picture of us.
She almost punched my roommate in the face.
Girl Talk was fucking awesome by the way, and if anybody ever gets a chance to see him, it's absolutely worth every penny and then some.
Haven't played much poker since I last wrote, but I made a final table on Sunday, taking 3rd in the giant $2 turbo on stars. This was my first final table on stars ever, other than a small one that I made on turbo night a couple months ago. I hardly ever play on stars, since it just seems cursed or something, but I happened to get deep in everything I played on stars on Sunday, cashing in 4/5 tourneys. Too bad for me that I swapped 50% of everything I played on stars with a friend, and he happened to brick everything. kaihdsf;ojad;fj.
I have 2 classes left in the semester, then 3 exams between now and the 12th. I'm also heading to a Dane Cook show this coming weekend, and am hoping to get some time in at the Casino that's just down the street from the venue, for a little bit of live 1-2 NL action, but it doesn't look like I'll be playing a ton online between now and then.
I'm pretty excited to be done school for a little while and just playing poker everyday. I'm planning on sticking in a ton of volume, mostly 90 man's on FTP. I'm going to be at my parents' house from the 14th until Jan 4th-ish, and other than Christmas and New Years, I'm going to have a pretty empty schedule for the entire Christmas break, so as long as I can stay motivated to grind every day/night I should be able to either bust my entire account or make some decent moneys. I'm intentionally waiting as long as possible to accept my Holiday bonus from ftp, since I'm hardly putting in any volume until school is finished with. Conversely, once school is done and I have nothing important left to do, I'm planning on being up all night and crushing idiots. I have plans to do a 24hr mtt session with a few forum friends, so I'll likely document that here whenever that happens. I'll be sure to include judgments that I get from my parents and siblings, who have no idea that I have the ability of playing any more than 2 tables at once, nor do they understand that putting in decent volume doesn't make me a degen gambling addict, since I'm almost the exact opposite, given that I'm a huge nit with money. Fuck families are retarded.
-grady
Needless to say, my plan went through to perfection, as I drank an entire quart of Canadian Club by the time we left. Based on what people are telling me, there was a station in which you could get a picture taken with inflatable guitars and such, immediately inside the concert setting. I was obviously blacked out at this point; so much so that I completely forgot that I'm right-handed, as witnessed by me holding this guitar backwards.
By the time K-OS shut his stupid mouth and got the hell off my stage, I was ready for Girl Talk, and decided that there was nothing that was going to stop me from being at the very front of the crowd. After politely finagling my way towards the front of the room, I accidentally bumped in to a girl who gave me the dirtiest of looks. While I don't remember the exact conversation that we had, she continued to get mad at me as I obnoxiously took pictures of EVERYTHING with my cell phone on the terrible choppy camera that is built in. Zero of these pictures turned out, and I knew in advance that this would be the case, and I certainly verbalized this to her. After she pointed out that she "didn't give a fuck" I finally decided that I was going to slowly ruin this girls' night since she was being a snotty beotch for no real reason.
I explained to my roommates that I had a real snotjob to my 9-oclock and asked for everyone to try to remember everything I say so that they can re-tell the story later when I'm sober. I begin by asking her if she wanted to be in a picture for the 10th time. She said no. Then I asked if she would get her friend to snap a picture of the two of us. She said no. Then I asked if she wanted to hang out after the concert. She said no. Then I asked if I could snap a picture again. She politely ordered me to leave her the fuck alone. This went on for another 10 minutes or so, until I told her that she'd make more friends if she wasn't such a twit. I left her alone for a minute, but then came back and got my roommate to snap a picture of us.
She almost punched my roommate in the face.
Girl Talk was fucking awesome by the way, and if anybody ever gets a chance to see him, it's absolutely worth every penny and then some.
Haven't played much poker since I last wrote, but I made a final table on Sunday, taking 3rd in the giant $2 turbo on stars. This was my first final table on stars ever, other than a small one that I made on turbo night a couple months ago. I hardly ever play on stars, since it just seems cursed or something, but I happened to get deep in everything I played on stars on Sunday, cashing in 4/5 tourneys. Too bad for me that I swapped 50% of everything I played on stars with a friend, and he happened to brick everything. kaihdsf;ojad;fj.
I have 2 classes left in the semester, then 3 exams between now and the 12th. I'm also heading to a Dane Cook show this coming weekend, and am hoping to get some time in at the Casino that's just down the street from the venue, for a little bit of live 1-2 NL action, but it doesn't look like I'll be playing a ton online between now and then.
I'm pretty excited to be done school for a little while and just playing poker everyday. I'm planning on sticking in a ton of volume, mostly 90 man's on FTP. I'm going to be at my parents' house from the 14th until Jan 4th-ish, and other than Christmas and New Years, I'm going to have a pretty empty schedule for the entire Christmas break, so as long as I can stay motivated to grind every day/night I should be able to either bust my entire account or make some decent moneys. I'm intentionally waiting as long as possible to accept my Holiday bonus from ftp, since I'm hardly putting in any volume until school is finished with. Conversely, once school is done and I have nothing important left to do, I'm planning on being up all night and crushing idiots. I have plans to do a 24hr mtt session with a few forum friends, so I'll likely document that here whenever that happens. I'll be sure to include judgments that I get from my parents and siblings, who have no idea that I have the ability of playing any more than 2 tables at once, nor do they understand that putting in decent volume doesn't make me a degen gambling addict, since I'm almost the exact opposite, given that I'm a huge nit with money. Fuck families are retarded.
-grady