So today I won my biggest pot ever in poka, I think... Was fun.

The situation was the following:

I had joined the wait list for my normal 5/10, 3/6 tables and saw a single 25/50 table going. Decided to watch the table while waiting for my tables to open. As I watched I realized one guy was tilting bad and another guy was a regular fish at my normal stakes (like uber fish). So, I was thinking this is definitely +EV to play.

Now I am in no means rolled for 25/50 as I believe in having 100bi rule at 5/10 and up, but I started the first 2 days of the month well, up about 10k and decided to play with that much variance on this table. As I figure that if statistically things go well this should be highly profitable.

In any case, about 10 minutes in this hand pops up vs tilter:

Submitted by : CamilaPunt

Holecards(Odds)
Hand #1550011924000076: Oslo (6-max) 11924
Seat 1: Avoc*** (7580.00 in chips)
Seat 2: ObeyMe (5000.00 in chips)
Seat 3: Ti N*** (11041.00 in chips)
Seat 8: Play*** (15155.00 in chips)
Seat 9: dzvd*** (11901.00 in chips)
Seat 10: Whyi*** (5060.00 in chips)
Avoc***: posts small blind $25
ObeyMe: posts big blind $50
Dealt to ObeyMe [ ]
Ti N***: raises to $175
Play***: calls
dzvd***: folds
Whyi***: raises to $725
Avoc***: folds
ObeyMe: raises to $2,275
Ti N***: folds
Play***: folds
Whyi***: is all in 4335.0000
ObeyMe: is all in 2725.0000
Whyi***: returns uncalled bet $60
ObeyMe: shows
Whyi***: shows
@@@ F_L_O_P @@@ [ ]
# # # TURN # # # [ ]
&&& RIVER &&& [ ]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
ObeyMe wins $10,370 with Pair of Deuces with Ace kicker

Ok so I want to do a ridiculous challenge for myself and would like to get some action from people here. I posted this in brazilian lp but I don't think I will be getting enough action from there.

Here is the deal:

Few years ago I went through bad health problem (cancer). Got treated, am fine now. During and up to now I stopped working out completely and gained insane amount of weight. Before treatment I was weighing in around 95 kg, my height is about 1'92 m.

About a month and half ago I joined a gym and started working out again. I weighed in at 125kg's. Yesterday I weighed myself and am now at 120kg. Dropped 5kg and I am not eating as best as I could, this in 45 days.

BET: Starting as soon as possible, I am to lose 15kg (33 pounds) in one month. It's an insanely high amount of kg's and I don't really care, I just want to challenge myself to my limits. I like it like that!

how to keep it honest:
1) I will video myself weighing in at my home or if people want I can go to some professional facility of mutual accordance and weigh in there. The video will contain me saying some password to guarantee that I filmed it that day and will be posted on youtube.
2) Escrow. Some trusty lp'er to take care of all the money.
3) For what its worth, I give my word. I have made a bunch of prop bets with many lp'ers and I think they can vouch for me paying/getting paid.

I am willing to accept bets up to 10k, possibly more. I have not thought about what are just odds. I read just now this guy who wants to lose 25kg in 3 months who is getting 2-1 odds. I think his bet is easy. For mine, I was thinking 1.5-1 odds, but maybe I am hustling myself.

I hope to get suggestions from people as to how to make things as just as possible.

Reason for this: I wanna get back in a good shape and making the bet motivates me 1000% more than normally.

Peace.


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First of all I'd like to say, sadly, that it's a no go for wsop me for me.

I am in Brazil, my student visa for the states expired end of last year and I was trying to get a tourist visa. Problem is the interviews for tourist visas are booked up to september. I tried getting an emergency interview, ps even sent a letter to the american embassy, yet they did not accept it. Apparently winning 12,5k to play in the largest poker tournament in the world is not an 'emergency'.

Anyways, I think it's for the best. Fact is, I get to keep the money and 12,5k less in my pocket right now makes a big hole.

Now to topic title. I'd like to thank tomson from lp! Weeee.

Here's the deal, close to a year ago I decided to get a coaching session and who better than tomson, I thought. I really enjoy his insights in the hand discussions, definitely one of my fav players to read comments on. We ended up having one session and I think it went really great at the time.

Then this month, as I told in the previous blog, things have been going great in poker, both in cash and tournies. And I thought to myself, why not make it better by having someone analyze my game and help it go up more. So I spoke to Tomson, and he readily agreed to give me another lesson. Now, since things have been going good, I got lazy in making the video and left it aside.

Last few days I have been playing an unusually large amount of poker and you can guarantee that my length of play is directly correlated to losing sessions. Nothing motivates me better than trying to end even. Eventually if I play enough I start losing focus and making errors... yadayadayada (we have all been there, right?)

So saturday I had my 3rd losing day in the month, and it hurt because it was a deep losing day. I have been playing tons of 5/10 6max and hu. Started the day by losing AA vs KK aipf and AA vs AK aipf, was one of those days. After that, a few mistakes here and there and I am down a bunch of bi's.

I decided to make a video of me playing. It ended up 1:30 session due to connections problems in the end. But watching the vid was really good to get that 'outside' perspective. I learned about myself and a bit of my thinking process just by watching the video. Things like me over-worrying constantly about my table image and just some other details. In the end the thing I took most out of it is that I was not 100% focused and that deteriorated my play. Now a days I really think of sessions less in terms of time, but mostly in terms of quality. I much rather short sessions with personal great quality than long sessions with poor quality. And as time goes by I always forget that and slowly start building up the amount of time I play, amount of hands until I reach a peak (this weekend) and eventually it pops and things start going bad. It something that requires my constant attention as it seems to naturally occur.

This vid helped me see this 'crash' beforehand and I am immediately made proper adjustments, or so I think hehe. Today, after taking a nice break and being really fresh to play more, I started one of the best sessions I have had in a long time. Things almost seemed easy.

Thus, Tomson, before doing anything is in someways responsible for this! Thanks Tom ! Anyways, I plan to make a new video for him and get that lesson for I am thirsty for some hand discussions.

peace


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