Best Month Ever -- New Record :)

wow... pretty sick month. Alot of stuff has been going on, BOCP HU and ME were sick and I played INSANELY good, incredibly happy with how my live game has been, so couldnt ask for more there. Stuck in France due to some ridiculous laws with the puppy and the lame french government, so wife is back home in states at our new house and im here til Dec. 16th or so =/.


Anyways, online has been ridiculous, I think I set the record for most HU SNGs played in a month (obv largely due to FTP's super turbos).


Profit for the month from playing: $44,140.06
Rakeback from FTP: $7,155
Rake Race (2nd): $2,500
Rakeback from Stars: $1,081.84

Total:
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+$54,876.90



Obv super sick, my best month previous to that was +35k, so a big jump, very very happy about it, even though most of it goes to taxes for the year :P.



Some graphs:


FTP Unfiltered (off some cause of 4mans, but not that much cause of FTP's chop feature, which makes it easier to even the score out):

























FTP Super Turbos (Remember these are $1/game in rakeback, so adds alot):
























Stars (Swings are amplified out of proportion in both directions (upwards and downwards), graph is off for sure though, had a few days SS had me -4k where I was +2k, not sure how much it's off, but it is, although I think my FTP is a bit too high as well considering my monthly profit from playing):












Anyways, not really sure on my goals for next month, just going to take it easy and see how it goes, really can't wait to get back to the states and move into the house :), so hope everything works out here, and hope your all had a great month as well, in both poker and life =].





Also, if anybody is interested, here are my figures for each day of the month, dont think it will be that useful but im sure some people wanting to move up might find a look at the daily swings interesting. Also I took off a few days so there aren't 30 of them ;p:


+3483 38 games
+$1,368.32 53 games
+$1,368.32 53 games
+1778.65 69 games
+1008.66 5 games
-227.01 47 games
+685 17 games
+380 2 games
+$61 319 games (super turbos started)
+799.66 (stopped tracking # games)
+2434 13 normal games & 10 super turbos
+1002
+210
+706
+536
+2564
+460
+1720
+3852
+9460
+421
-1706
-745.66
-350.34
+1520
+10,719.99
-2803.35
-2866
+2864


(bolded 3 biggest winning days, and italicized all losing days)


23 winning days, 6 losing days

biggest winning day: +10,719.99
biggest losing day: -2866

Crushing / Belgium / Pictures!

Crushing
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So a few updates. It's been a super super sick month so far, I started +12k in first 5-ish days, and have taken a couple days off since then and been traveling all month, and am now currently:

+20,742.42


Really hoping the rest of the month goes even remotely this smoothly (obv). I've had one losing day so far, for -227. I'd say this month has been 70% 4-mans, 10% 2-mans, 20% super turbos. I'm up about 4k on super turbos, the majority of the rest through 4mans, and then a few k from 2mans.



Belgium
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Off tomorrow v early in the morning to belgium, going to hang out w/Spamz0r (Mientjeuh) and hopefully learn a bunch, grind a bunch of HU SNGs, and crush his soul in Tekken :).

Then it's offff to the BCOP and the ME and Team HU Event. I have 100% of myself for the Team HU, so it will be by FAR the biggest buyin ive ever played (about 4k) out of my own pocket, hope we shippp!!!!



Pictures
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few random pictures of the place I visited the other day in Switzerland (Grindelwald) and also of the new puppy we just bougth when we were in Hungary (100% english bulldog, champion Male, going to breed him w/my other female who ive posted pics of many many times =] )

October

Ok, going to be brief cause i'm a bit tired (In France atm).


Started the month -11.6k , largely due to being -7k of buying action, recovered so im super happy about that, here it goes:


Graph THROUGH 23rd of Oct (when I came to Europe and my laptop didn't have HEM):












Final Stats for the month:

Profit before rakeback: $5,543
Profit from Rakeback: $3,721.10
Total Profit: $9,264.10


EV would have put me at $15,715.55 for the month, but I can't complain, def. gonna top it next month.


Exactly 1 year ago I was scammed for all my $$$ basically and then I recovered with a 35k November, I grinded a TON that month and this month i'll be in Europe traveling, so I doubt i'll be able to repeat, but my goals are:


[ ] 15k month (rakeback incl.)
[ ] Enjoy Budapest / europe w/wife
[ ] buy foosball table / TV / surround sound for house
[ ] Have everything at my house setup so I can move right when I get back
[ ] CRUSH the belgium team HU tourney w/spamz and mjw006 :)

Live Streaming of The LittlewoodsPoker World Heads-Up Poker Championship 2009!

So it has yet to be tested, but this should work. Live streaming of the The LittlewoodsPoker World Heads-Up Poker Championship 2009! Dates and times for streams should be approx as follows:

12:00 GMT 29 Oct

16:00 GMT 29 Oct (Estimate)

12:00 GMT 30 Oct

12:00 GMT 31 Oct

18:00 GMT 31 Oct (Estimate)

[GMT is approx FOUR hours ahead of EST at the moment, it's typically 5 but cause of european daylight savings time it's only 4, so 16:00 GMT (when my match is), is noon EST, and 12:00 GMT is 8:00am EST]







Hrmmmm, it seems like the stream isn't formatting correctly in my blog, so please feel free to watch it at www.pokerineuropelive.com :)

5500 London HU Tourney

yo guys, have to run pretty quick, but wanted to give an update:

Only 42 players, so that was dissapointing, and a SICK hard field, players in this small field include:

Myself, The Camel, DiBasio, Dario Minieri, AlfiosNob, Sorel Mizzi (Zangbezan/Imperium), Roland De woolf, R romanello, and a ton of other FTP pros / english pros, i mean Roland and Romanello arent top HUSNGrs, but I still havent seen a super soft spot all tourney, which is ridiculous.

I got a bye round 1, and beat R Romanello (FTP Pro) in round 2.

Day off today

Play Rivermani on Thursday at 4pm (noon EST)

1 match on Friday (if i'm through)

and the final 4 / Finals on Saturday



So 2 more wins til i'm ITM, 4 more wins to win it all. Payout is something like 25k / 25k / 50k / 100k, so glglglgl me :). Both myself and The Camel are in it, DiBasio busted, and I didnt get to see the end of dario/alfiosnob's matches

I'll keep you updated =]

-Primo

Picture Blog

Made a picture blog of my puppy / WSOP 2009 HU Event, just a random assortment of a few pictures, but I like to post in both blogs, so it's here if anyone would like to check it out:

http://www.husng.com/node/1437

Bought a House / 5 Weeks in Europe

yo guys, I know I said i'd be more active, and I promise i'll try, im hoping to post a ton from Europe :). So yea, about that, I haven't posted about it yet but I have a 5 week trip to europe coming up on Saturday. My stops look like this:

London 1 week, France (wive's parents) 1 week, Budapest 1 week, Amsterdam 1 week, Belgium 1 week.

In London i'll be playing the 3300 GBP (~5500 USD) Littlewood's HU Championship, 4 wins til the $, $200k GBP for first. DiBasio is also flyin out and going to play the event as well, so it'll be really cool to hang out with him again, and this time his gf will be there, so it should be a good trip. Also really looking forward to finally meeting up with Radeh and some other HU guys around.

In belgium i'll also be playing in the BCOP (Belgium Championship Of Poker), which has some sick events. The most exciting is a 2500 euro (3500-3750 USD) HU event... BUTTT, it's not a normal HU event, it's a 'team' event, in 4 person teams (10k euro per team). Our team looks like this:

Myself (PrimordialAA)
Spamz0r (Mientjeuh on FTP)
Nathan (1690 AD on FTP)
Mjw006 (Rocky2810 on FTP)

so sick sick team, should be a ton of fun, really looking forward to hanging out with these guys, and def. looking forward to us crushing the field.

If anybody is around any of the cities i'm stopping by let me know and i'll def. try to at least say hey.


Other than that Poker has been pretty Meh, I had a sick time in Atlantic City, and got to hang out with a ton of good friends, including Livb112, who ended up winning the event for 900k+, so huge congrats to him on that one. I have a ton of cool stories from that trip, but im gonna have to save it for a different blog. Online poker went pretty Meh last month, and this month im running 10k below EV and also down 6-7k from buying action, which is really brutal, i'll post graphs later, but nobody really cares about my whining, so onto some pictures of the house :).


Anyways, it's nothing sick baller like BCM / xSCWx / or QiHu00's houses, but it's a nice starter house for me and the wife and i'm super pumped to have bought any house. Really really happy w/the decision. Nothing is in there now obv, but ordering all the appliances and furniture and what not while we're in Europe so hopefully it will all be there when I get back from Europe (around Dec. 1st).

Anyways, info on the house:


Bought for $185,000
1950 Square feet
2.01 acres
was an older house here, just got torn down and redone 100%
Sprayfoam insulation (good stuff, should make the house pretty energy efficient, my uncle runs a sprayfoam insulation business and I guess it's baller)
Radiant heating in kitchen / dining room floors, which is sweet as well
(In pics house isnt 100% done, i'll post more once furnished :p)


anyways, here is a tonnn of pics ;p



Outside:





























































































































Kithcen:















































































































Living Room:



























































































Random Half Bath / Laundry:





































Basement:













































Up to bedrooms / Bathroom:













































Bedrooms 1 / 2:

































































































































































Office / Bedroom 3: