October Recap -- meh

meh, im sure most have you have heard about my story and all the chaos that happened, whatever, post is here if you havent:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/58/heads-up-nl/how-i-lost-my-life-roll-robert-andersson-super-lc-333108/index1.html

anyways, on to better things, October recapped:

played 626 games despite only playing like 1/3 of the month, maybe got in 12 or 14 days or something:

2-4 man stats:

626 $29 $287 7% $18,448

2man stats:

549 $31 $281 7% $17,243


The sad part... my sharkscope is off +10,605 (too high) so that means I got RAPEDDDDDDDDD in 4mans this month, where if I stuck to 2mans only i'd have 17k profit (little less cause of selling action, prolly close to 14k) I ended with like $8.5k or so, this is just insanely brutal and makes me mad to look at it :-p.

but despite that, im insanely confident lately, my SS stats for 2 mans for the <3 months are this:

1,497 $25 $270 7% $36,822

which for a $270 average stake, means i've been crushing pretty hard, so im excited about that.

Profit from playing: $7,843
Profit from FPP: $2,283
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total profit: $10,126


but I cashed out 1k and 3k of it was from the first day of the month (which means it got stolen), right now I have a 5k loan and a little over 5k of my own in stars from playing.


November Goals:

have a HUGE month (15k+ from playing)
Dont lose $ in 4-mans :(
pay down $2k on each credit card
put in 800-1k+ games
Figure out if im going back to the states or not, for certain



gl all in November, hope everyone has a great month :)

Selling Action

so many posts / edits in a short time frame... really not like me

So this weekend the is a 2k euro ($3,000) tournament in San Remo, Italy (Friday -> Sunday). Almost every good MTTr is gone at EPT London and Alessio (from PS) tells me the field is going to be SUPER soft. My lifetime ROI in MTTs is ~100% over a pretty decent sample, ~800 games when I wasn't stake, and about ~60% lifetime including when I was staked/bad ;p. Anyways, that said im trying to sell off 50-67% of myself by tomorrow (Thursday), so if anyone is interested, im selling at 1:1, 5% = $150, 10% = 300 , leave a comment here, message me, or PM me on 2p2

last year had 180 - 200 entrants and first place was 100k euro ($150,000)

BALLER month, great move, bad decisions :( --- September recap

sigh, gonna keep this short, sorry for the lack of updates lately:


Dog -- Awsome :)

Apartment -- I promise i'll post pictures soon, I really feel like I can settled here and like the setup and neighborhood alot, so it's great :). also the dog seems to love it here compared to where we stayed the first 2 weeks and has alot better space outside, so it's worked out great


Poker:

The Good: I had had a REALLY sick month, my SS was off 9164 (too low), but despite
the poor SS graph, I still passed 50k on sharkscope, which is a big accomplishment for me and I felt great about it.

All in all, FPP included I made $17,488 which i'm amazed at, but alot of it came from the past 4-5 days im prolly +7-9k or so over them, so that helped a ton.


The Bad: I only played 479 games this month, which is very very low volume and I plan on more than doubling it in october

The worst: My stars account is -2k from where I started from this month, cause im a huge idiot and loaned out like 10k to a person I dont even know that well and am waiting on a bank transfer, and I spent a ton and cashed out and stuff, and it's just been sick, it makes me sick to my stomach that i've made os much and should be almost fully rolled for the 500s and still have to consider it taking shots becuase of my bad life-management (mostly loaning $$$ :()


so yes, im putting up a huge sign, PLZ SCAM ME


Goals for October:

Play 800-1k+ games
make $15k
Don't have a DS and move up to 500s being mixed into my games for good ;)
spend more time w/the GF so she doesn't kick me out :)



anyways, too stressed about waiting to get the 10k payed back, im not in a really good mood so i'll post more later, and put up pictures of the apartment soon



edit time!!!:

1: Seriously, if your looking for a blog that isn't 100% focused on poker / results (like almost all of ours are), check our Raj (Whaassuuppp)'s blog http://whaassuuppp.blogspot.com/ , the conversation's are alot more diverse than mine and I enjoyed reading through the few posts alot already, so i'm really glad he got it up


2: Just read through this interview w/livb, I dunno why but I REALLY enjoyed reading it, I liked it alot and think the answers were well spoken and alot more than what I had expected from livb even if the questions weren't as in-depth as I might have liked them to be

http://pokerigged.com/portraits/interview-with-livb112/


enjoy both links, and GL in October

Puppies FTW

obv I couldn't let Greg show me up, so I bought her:






























Totally JK about the reasoning, but an English Bulldog has been my dream dog for my entire life, me and my brother saw one when I was about 5 yrs old and both have wanted one forever. He got one 2-3 yrs ago and it's a great great Dog, so I finally pulled the trigger and got one. It cost me WAYY too much ~$3500, but i'm having a sick month and have exceeded the costs already, so im trying not to stress too much about the price and just enjoy having it. She is almost 8 weeks old and will be available Sept. 12th, and I think I will go pick her up the 14th. Gonna hafta take some sick long trains to get it (about 16-24 hrs total), which adds another $200-300ish to the price, but I think it'll do so much good for me now that im not in school and my gf will be starting full time school again on the 22nd which will leave me just around the apartment alone for the huge majority of every day.


Anyways, im really pumped about it and will post some more pictures of it once we have it and are settled into the new apartment.


WCOOP HU Event on Friday, will be super tired cause I will have just arrived in France the day before, but im really looking forward to it. GL everyone w/the rest of the month,

-Primo

August Recap

Alright, so ill be honest, I had a pretty great month which i'm excited about, especially preceding my move (Sept. 10th - .. end Sept. ?? =/ ). I really expected to play low volume this month, and shot for a pretty realistic goal of $5,000. However the month went on a quick upswing as I began taking some shots at 330s, and then eventually talked into 550s w/croix, knifefish, M@D, and a few others.

Anyways, I played 685 games, with only 275 of those being regular speeds, so all in all it was still a pretty low-volume month. I kept my 2 mans at 95% 220 turbos and 300 reg speeds, with occasional 200 reg speeds if action was slow or game selecting 330s. My results were as follows:

Profit from playing: $8,185
Profit from FPP: $2,193
Profit from bonuses: $2,000
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total profit: $12,378

Weird thing to note, my profit from 2 mans over this period was $7,492, and normally when I play 4 mans we sit 4-6 lobbies at a time and I stop playing any games on my own to focus for both my and my partner's sake, so maybe we just ran bad at 4mans this month, but the results were definitely pretty lackluster this month (only played just over 100 of them, so a small sample). But on an upside, I cleared 200k VPP and therefore got my $2,000 bonus, which was really nice.

Anyways, I jumped up in stakes a bit earlier than I wanted to, but it's gone great so far, and I am always ready to move down if I have to so i'll see how things play out for the next 2 months. September will be worse than this month for me in terms of volume I believe, as I leave for France on September 10th, and don't move into the new apartment til the 23rd, after which we still have to get internet setup, etc. so I really just don't see me as having a ton of time to play (even though I hope i'll find some). I don't have any real goals this month except to start to get accustomed to the new culture and get settled in the new apartment.

Things to do this month:

Play the WCOOP HU event (maybe even try to surpass my semi-deep run last year (top 16))
Buy my 50" 1080p for the new apartment :)
and making anywhere from just $3,000 - $5,000 in September would make me more than break even on all my moving expenses and probably put me in an even better financial situation than i'm in now (which im really comfortable with).


Hope all of you had a good August, and I wish us all a great September,

-Primo


And for all of those struggling with the variance of this career, just keep working on your mental fortitude. Remember to think about how fortunate you are compared to 99% of other people you know, your age or not, and keep in mind whats important in your life. GL & Keep working hard

Mid-July / Wisdom Teeth

couldn't get the picture to show up larger without clicking on it and pretty tired, so stars are as below

198 Games
$37 average profit
$191 average stake
19% ROI
$7,227 Total Profit


if only this were the truth :(. Seriously though, the month has gone fantastically for me so far, my sharkscope is off a ton ($3,620) , mostly from $330/300 4mans with croix and some with psimalive.

so that leaves me +$3,607, and considering I really only expected / wanted to make about $5k this month, it's going great so far. However I also had expected to be mostly at 100s and some 200s, and i've played the majority of my games at the $220 turbos this month, as well as having started playing 330/300 4mans with some select players, all of which has been going fairly well. I still would probably prefer to play regular speeds, but my volume has been really low, and turbos are allowing me to get in a decent amount of games in a greatly reduced time-frame. Also I find the 220 action has been great lately, and the action fills much faster (in relation to # of regs playing) than the 200 regs do.

Tomorrow... the day im dreading ;p, all 4 of my wisdom teeth come out, so we'll see how that goes, I may not be playing for the next couple days due to it... or I could be back on while im couch-ridden tomorrow night or the day after (more likely). Just wanted to give an update, and give everyone a chance to wish me luck for getting my 4 biggest teeth ripped out of my mouth. Hope the month is treating you all well, and hope the rest of it goes well for all of us,

-Primo

July - Recap

Well, July has passed me by. Vegas is gone, doubt of me not being able to succeed is partially gone, and im back in New Hampshire for the remainder of the summer. I played this morning and absolutely demolished :). In reg speeds I didnt lose a single match, even in 4men, not one (excluding flips with my partner). And in turbos I only lost 2, both in 4mans, one of which we won and one which we lost, so I decided to stop for the day, call July a month, and make this post.

So my last post was ridiculously long, so I really will try to make this one shorter:

Monthly figured:


Profit from playing: $6,737
Profit from FPP: $1,364
profit from staking: $700
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Total Profit: $8,802


monthly graphs:


July-unfiltered: 720 $8.99 $107 7% $6,471






2 mans ( > 50): 455 $3.83 $107 4% $1,743






4mans: 255 $18.53 $112 14% $4,725







So a few notes on things above, my 2mans is filtered for >$50 cause I played some $10s with some students of mine. My records have my sharkscope as being off by $655 (too low) for the month, which is a surprisingly decent number to end at, cause it started off being off way more than that.


Anyways, I spent wayyyyyyy too much this month, and August will be better but September will prolly be close to the same figure (close to 5k this month, expecting 3-4k for Sept. but that includes rent, flight to france, new TV, etc.) but after that I want to curb it a ton. I talked to my new (soon to be) financial advisers yesterday, and that was a pretty cool prospect, I really am looking forward to learning how to be alot better with my money and having more put away outside of poker.


Other news, Mel (gf) is coming tomorrow, so im gonna drive up to Montreal to pick her up, and then we get to relax around here and spend time with family, say goodbye to my friends, etc. before we take off Sept. 9th. Other than that, i dont have anything big planned for the month, just alot of little trips and showing her around as it's her first extended stay in the states and the first time she'll be able to visit around New Hampshire and meet more of my friends and what not.


Goals for August:

make ~5k (good goal considering im gonna try not to play too much since the GF is here all month)

make at LEAST 13k VPP (putting me at 180k for the year, so will hit 200k bonus in Sept. for a free $2,000 and then have a shot at 300k for $3,000 by the end of the year)

Spend less than $2,200 (including my plane ticket to France for Sept., this still seems like a TON given im not paying rent at my parents LOL, but we may take a like 8 day trip through Canada and some other stuff, so who knows)



anyways guys, post ran long again :), but I hope you all had a great July, and that August will treat you really well. I'll try to make at least 2 posts in august to keep up to date. Good luck guys, enjoy the upcoming month =],


-Primo