Hi Guys. If anyone is interested in staking, Rocmar87 and Yovengo have started up a staking team. Please check out the link below for more details.
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/135/staking/team-crush-staking-husng-hyper-players-15s-30s-1331676/#post38493553
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I haven't posted anything in quite a while, and I haven't really played much either; I had a massive spewday at the 100s, which is the highest stake I've ever played. Fairly soul crushing. My intention is to start grinding again asap, however.
In my last post I wrote that I'd be heading to Asia in the beginning of March, and being ever the time optimist that pretty much meant in the middle/end of the month. Anyway, I wimped out and cancelled my first booking — I was absolutely petrified, but I managed to book another ticket and went anyway; so now I've been here for a bit over a month.
It's way less intimidating than I'd imagined after reading a ton of horror stories of people being scammed/robbed/whatever, though in certain ways it's quite a bit more miserable; e.g. walking late at night and seeing homeless mothers sleeping on the pavement with their toddlers and rats running about nearby, and children sleeping on the sidewalk with hookers standing besides trying to find a customer. It feels a bit surreal at times.
Pokerwise my motivation is finally starting to come back, and now that I've gotten my VPN up and running, grind is on the mind!
Hey guys… Rocmar87 here 
… So i don’t usually post a bunch of EV graphs… but i have been posting a few recently so i thought i would update you on the latest.. As you guys can see, iv now pretty much turned my most recent swing around. So super happy there
Iv also just booked to go to Las Vegas next month with my girlfriend! Im super excited to be meeting my brother ‘Giabest’ there… Ill also be meeting up with fellow husng grinder ‘Yovengo’ & he seems like a super nice guy and im really looking forward to meeting him… We have already planned a trip where we will take our girlfriends to see the grand canyon!
I’m also SUPPPERRR excited to meet ‘Bubbleoutcas’ as hes basically been my skype brother for the last few months, and we’ve became pretty good friends with some pretty similar interests (the main one being food) There are a bunch of other guys im looking forward to meet out there, but iv already met them previously so nothing new there lol…
I will be playing a few WSOP events in vegas while im there, and ill update you on how i do in those.. I’ll probs do a video blog…
Anyway guys just a quick update… I hope your all doing well and thanks for following
Rocmar87
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Hey Guys… Sorry to keep on posting EV graphs… but this most recent swing i had was close to my biggest one ever & for any1 who understands grinding, you will also understand how good i feel posting this graph 
Hopefully i can keep it moving in this direction now Will keep updating
Rocmar87
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As promised in the video below, here is my EV graphs for last few days…
The first is my last few days, and the 2nd is just my 300s in the last few days..
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As promised in the video below, here is my EV graphs for last few days…
The first is my last few days, and the 2nd is just my 300s in the last few days..
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Hey guys…. just a quick video update! I’m so sorry i haven’t posted in so long. Its been a pretty swingy year for me poker wise, and iv been grinding pretty intense volume.
Anyway I’m currently in Brisbane, Australia with Sean ‘Walchy18′ Walch, We made a little video blog together and had an awesome dinner and drinks. Here are some pictures from my trip here to see him, and the video we made is below! Just click the link!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-PtBJuMjzk
Thanks for watching/reading 
…
Rocmar87
Ps.
Follow Sean at walchy.blogspot.com
Elliot Roe: http://www.poker-hypnosis.co.uk/
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You’re in for a treat today eager readers! (And by treat I mean another essay length entry about stuff that you don’t even care about! This could be the biggest one yet!) To the two of you who have read it, you’ll remember that back in Feb I promised a double-month review. To the rest of you reading this, back in Feb I promised a double-month review. Now that we’re all on the same page we can deal with the pressing issue, and that’s that I haven’t really written anything since January. In my defence I gave you all warning at the creation of this blog to be prepared for disappointment. And I think being my seventh entry I’m already among husng.com’s most consistent blog performers anyway. But the truth is that since publishing my last post I haven’t actually played much poker. I began the year pretty motivated, I am currently as commitment free as I’ve ever been in other areas of my life, and I probably have the easiest study load in the history of study loads. I’ve never gone this long, and had this much time on my hands, and played so little poker. Which begs the question: just wtf have I been doing with my time??
I started the year with the goal of just playing $100s well and making some money. I’d also stumbled across the somewhat obvious realisation that I wasn’t going to make enough money from poker to retire and buy a mansion. It seems kind of odd but previous to this year I was honestly just aimlessly grinding to try and make money for what point I’m not so sure. To buy stuff? To holiday? To party? In the end it really just consumed my life and if anything actually prevented me from doing those things. Upon the realisation that I wasn’t setting myself up for an early retirement my mindset completely shifted to just making enough money to have a nice lifestyle for the next few years while I study and travel. Acknowledging that my life was by and large going to be the same whether I had $10k or $100k in my bank account led to feeling content to just grind the $100s where previously I was anxiously trying to rush through volume and build a roll to move up stakes.
Anyways, with my new found ‘contentness’ and the enthusiasm that only the start of a year and fresh sharkscope leaderboards can bring I set off on the grind. By the end of January I was quite happy, I’d hit places on leaderboards on both SS and FTP, and coupled with rakeback I began the year $10k+ in the black.
However, while this was happening my somewhat already pessimistic views on money and society probably got a little worse. (Watching the TROM doco and Zeitgeist stuff, whilst not without their glaring faults and biases, certainly didn’t help my poker cause) The truth is I’ve always resented being asked what I’m going to “do” with my life and I hate how at times it feels like living in our society isn’t about living at all, but rather about finding a way to sell your time until you’re old enough to retire. I think about the countless hours of my life that have been wasted in a terribly inefficient education system and wonder if they couldn’t have been better spent. I’m worried about the same thing occurring once I leave uni. I guess I’m starting to look at poker the same way too.
When people ask me what I’m going to do with my life I tell them how I’d love to travel and live in different cities. I want to return to Chile one day and perfect my Spanish ("Chilean"), I want to take my Italian to Italy, I’m doing another exchange in the US next year, I’d love to spend a year or two going through south east Asia, and then maybe eastern Europe. I can tell them about music, or language, or my interests in physics and the universe. I’d love to study and learn a whole lot more about all of those things.
“Yes, yes Judy, but what are you going to do with your life?”
All anyone ever seems to mean by this is “What job are you going to have?” and all I ever want to say is “lol why would I want a job?” But with a lot of family, friends, potential in-laws and even strangers, and the knowledge that there’s an easy way and an incredibly frustrating way to proceed with this conversation, I take a breath and cave.
Put on fake enthusiasm, pretend this stuff interests me, smile, ready aaand go Judy go! “Well my degree could get me a lot of different spots in government. Maybe working in foreign policy. That’d be great too because I could apply for positions abroad and travel. Even look into becoming a diplomat or something. There’s a lot of options really, it’s a broad field and there’ll always be a position somewhere. But likely something along the lines of policy making, working in or interpreting the international system, some peers want to work in the UN and other international organisations so yeh.”
“Ooh”, “aah”, “how interesting”, etc. I pass the test but I’m dry reaching inside.
I remember reading “Hatchet” in primary school. It was a story about a kid who goes down in a small plane and lands in a forest somewhere. The pilot is dead and this kid is all alone, left to survive for the entire duration of the book with only a hatchet he had. I thought it was cool and since then I’ve constantly been drawn to this idea of becoming isolated in some accident and having to survive. “Castaway” did it again when I watched it, as did walking through a lot of the nature reserves in Patagonia. I don’t know if I should be concerned or not, nor if I’ve already mentioned this, but there’s a part of me that every time I board a plane wants it to crash, just so I can be the sole survivor and live on some tropical island.
These thoughts are quickly drowned out, firstly, by the much more rational part of me which starts screaming “FOR THE LOVE OF GOD THIS PLANE BETTER NOT GO DOWN” every time I hear an odd noise or feel a bit of turbulence, and secondly, by the knowledge that if such a scenario were to arise I would undoubtedly get rivered and wake up on my island with the world’s biggest douchebags or wake up on a rock with none of the beaches, sand, coconuts or fish that I’d previously envisaged. In any case, I guess my point with all of this rambling is that if anything I’m trying to escape the normal life, I don’t want to be a slave to money, and I would be quite content to just move to a cheaper country and teach English or something and spend my spare time learning about stuff.
With this type of thinking growing, and February’s downswing kicking in, I started to care less and less about making money. I became bored with poker in a way. I was playing cash games up to 25/50 because, well, why not? If I lose I don’t care. New Irish game? Sweet! I ran decently but to tell the truth I think deep down I knew I was going to keep playing til I busted haha. Thankfully I’d already withdrawn most of my bankroll, on both FTP and Stars, and what was left didn’t faze me. Because by this stage I’d stumbled onto another realisation: I had all the money I needed. I don’t know if it’s a brag or a beat, and I’m not even joking here, but the $15k-ish I’d already withdrawn over the start of the year was enough for me to live off of for the rest of the year. The savings I have are more than enough to cover me for exchange next year. I have everything I need to enjoy this year, to go and enjoy America next year, and then to come home and plan my next move. Perhaps I was just sick of the swings and sick of not having amazing success at poker, but all my incentives and motivation were rapidly drying out.
The final straw was perhaps the FTOPs HUMTT. All I want to do right now is go into an expletive-ridden, caps-locked, keyboard-mashing rage about how much I hate that f&%^ing tournament. But I will try to contain myself. The time of the mtt means I have to wake up early; anywhere between 2-5am. For those of you who don’t know me, this old lady HATES waking up early and ffs do I hate alarms. But I have been doing this, every few months, for the last 3 or 4 years; forking out the $535, picturing that first-place prize hitting my BR, and dragging myself out of bed, such is my commitment to shipping this thing. If I bust straight away, then so be it, ffs donks, I run so bad, etc. But I never bust straight away. I, along with most, usually get a bye and I’m forced to sit there in bed, laptop screen bright and tilting me, barely awake, barely sleeping, while the first round plays out. An hour later I’ll get my match and probably 2 hands into it run into a scheduled break. I’ll win this round and then for the next 30 minutes go back to my dozing on and off while the round continues. By the time it gets to the bubble I’ve been up for hours, I’m tired, but more awake and focused now and all I can think is JUDY IT IS BORDERLINE MATHEMATICALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO BUBBLE AGAIN, THIS IS IT, THIS IS THE TIME YOU WILL FINALLY HIT THE MIN CASH AND FEEL THE EARLY START WAS WORTH IT.
YET I ALWAYS F(*%*(&(*& BUBBLE
FUUUUUUUUUUUUAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
And there I am, too awake to go back to sleep, too tired to do anything constructive, and too tilted to do anything other than sit there and steam. Everything about FTOPs is designed to tilt me.
So ANYWAYS, I guess by March I’m not really playing much, and my motivation to get back into it has all but vanished. I still have 50+ buyins online but it's just sitting there. This leads us back to the introductory question: so just what have I been doing?
Well readers, sorry to disappoint but in a cliff-hanger not even worthy of a daytime soap I’m going to leave it there for now. Yes, I know, I set out to review the year and all I’ve done is spend 1500+ words saying that I grew less interested in poker and haven’t played it much. But due to already excessive length I have no choice but to split this entry and publish part 2 next week. Give an old lady a break though, this is practically 6 months worth of blog entries, just crammed into two. (And part 2 will be no less than my eighth entry on this site, surely cementing me into husng.com’s bloggers hall of fame. Although given my celebrity status it would be a crime if I wasn’t already there)
I’ve come across a lot of YouTube gold the last few months but given the lack of regular entries I’ve forgotten about a lot. I’ll just have to go through my history and leave you with a couple of recent highlights:
Cat on Roomba dressed as a shark
I'll be back next week with part 2, so get out the calendars and start the countdown.
Hey guys, so the first week of prop betting goes to Giabest with a 3.5%roi and Flippetyflop.with a -3.5%roi I didn’t finish it as I had a -5.5%roi on Pokerstars and -10% roi on ftp (22game sample) with 100 games to play and decided I wanted to chill instead today. Millz and Rocmar opted not to bet last week as we made agreements between each other we can opt out any Monday if u haven’t grinded yet. Giabest brought into flippety and my bet for $100 of the stake leaving $300 for the side bet. So as you can see I was the only looser this week. 
I will have my revenge this week. 
On some other news. I really wanted to put a video blog out for u guys today but my mac screen broke so I need to get it fixed because I cannot edit for my life on the pc, downloaded some software but I like my iMovie.
I booked my flights to Bali for May the 1st, where I will stay for one month to search for an investment possibility. So I am excited about that. I haven’t been blogging loads about poker mainly because I was stuck in a rut with it, I wasn’t excelling as much as I wanted and then started not caring almost. I have noticed this backwards fall in my attitude to poker and what’s optimal and I am ready to do something about it. I do see some clear mind grind sessions coming up along side some study sessions, OMG feels like years since I done one of those. I guess it happens easily to poker players. You get a bit of money and you get comfortable and lazy, but lucky I am still able and motivated too and noticed how my attitude has been and will take steps towards my perception of optimal again.
I will do a video post asap I promise.
Moca
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This past year I took two undergraduate classes in Toronto in statistics. There were a few topics I was interested in that I never got a chance to study in Chicago and thought this would be a good opportunity to focus only on what I wanted to learn at a university. I paid my own tuition and intended to go to every lecture, since that is essentially the product I was buying. It was because of this that I noticed some things about the university that I never would have cared about when I was going for my degree. When the professor was late for a lecture I felt cheated, since (s)he was employed by business that I’m funding. If we finished early, did review material, learned how to use software or did any number of other time wasting activities, I felt I was getting ripped off.
I realize I’m the minority here, because almost anyone in undergrad has either taken out student loans or gotten financial aid with the goal of a degree and not necessarily the best education. The problem there is that the professors have no incentive to put in their best effort if the students don’t genuinely appreciate the difference. Good course evaluations will be based primarily on the professor’s personality, leniency in grading and ability to make lectures fun among other things. The disconnect here was really damaging to my (second) college experience.
http://doanie.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/mean-professor-tells-student/
Above is an article a friend of mine shared the other day about an NYU Stern professor refusing to let a student walk into his class an hour late. I don’t have experience with business school but because of the strict selection process and the high price tag I can’t imagine it being worlds different from the University of Chicago. Professor Galloway wrote a snarky email to the student with about five paragraphs of condescending jokes and one paragraph of pseudo-quality advice. As much as professors seem to love giving advice on every topic in life, the students are only paying them to teach one thing – the topic of the class they attend.
It’s fantastic that Professor Galloway thinks he is an expert in good manners and demonstrating humility (although I certainly wouldn’t agree based on his choice to forward this email to the entire class). That said, his attendance policy does nothing to promote these qualities that he thinks are so important to master in the business world. Does he also insist that nobody leaves the class to take an emergency phone call or a bathroom break? In a class full of motivated students there will be a high frequency of late entrances and early exits with legitimately good reasons. Why does the professor think it’s helpful to interrupt his own class by addressing every student who walks in more than fifteen minutes late and insist that he exit the premises? If attendance is part of the grade he can simply inform late students after lecture has ended that they were given an absence for today. If your policy is on the syllabus there will be no confusion and students can make their own choice if they want to arrive late or simply skip class for that day when they aren’t able to make the first fifteen minutes of lecture.
Professor Galloway’s attitude seems to me like an unfortunate result of inconsistent incentives. The students are the customers here and if they don’t feel satisfied with the product they should be able to take their money elsewhere. The email response even jokes at how little he cares about this, when Mr. Galloway says he “hope[s] the lottery winner that is your recently crowned Monday evening Professor is teaching Judgement and Decision Making or Critical Thinking.” He has no reason to take his customers seriously because there isn’t any serious risk of losing his job to the competition. The students don’t feel like they have any control and the professor feels like he can do whatever he likes because he’s in control of the final grade. So why exactly are they paying him top dollar for this kind of service?
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just a quick update. finally I’m running hot 
that’s a good thing. I see flaws in my game however, both fancy play syndrome and situations where I know I could’ve played better..I kind of see the patterns and I’m going to work on that and hopefully fix my game.
Most of the volume came from the last weekend when I put in a lot of hours..I even managed to make into top 10 fulltilt high stakes heads’up sit-n-go leaderboard. Which is nice of course but setting it as a goal is not worth it IMO since reward is very tiny. however I need to set some volume goals. let’s say 200 husngs/week
husng graph update
p.s. my pokertracker doesn’t show profit in US$, it show that all prizes are $0 so if you know how to fix that please let me know
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Hi everyone! So I’ve decided to revive my old headsup blog dedicated mostly to husngs. ‘Who am I?’ you may ask. Well I’ve been playing poker for quite a few years now, had my first success with husngs few years ago and was beating upto $100s on fulltilt but since I’ve been playing regspeeds, my volume wasn’t that high. Eventually a devastating downswing happened (120+ buy-ins below EV) that’d have taken me forever to recover so I switched to cash games, rush poker mostly(6m/FR), but some cash hu as well(upto 200nl). After the black friday I moved to ipoker, still playing cash for the most part but also some husngs.
Now as Fulltilt poker is back, I’ll be playing husngs, between $20, $35, $60, hopefully having a blog will motivate me to keep volume high 
I’ve just came back from almost 3 weeks trip to Japan (mostly work, so, yeah I do have a job that prevents me from taking all the money at poker tables ) so haven’t played much this month!
Anyway, here’s my graph for 2013 from Fulltilt (played only a few husngs in 2012 anyway), stakes $20-$60. since I’m running ~35 buy-ins below EV, it’s in chips showing my EV line 
graph of all headsup sngs i played this year in chips with ev line
clearly it flattens as I start running bad, so I need to tilt less(ldo) and implement some sort of gameselection (right now I play everyone, never decline rematches, play few tables vs regs and sometimes pick on other regs in the lobby…yeah, pretty desperate for the volume). I’ll work hard on my game too! hopefully join/start a study group with like-minded grinders to have regular sweats and conference calls. Btw, IF you (whoever reads this) are up for it, leave a comment here
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Every week we will now have ‘roi’ bets between the team.
Millz_uk, Rocmar87 and Giabest will be putting up $100 each week against each other.
Flippetyflop and myself Moca Choca89 will be putting up $400 each week against each other.
Results every Sunday.
I will be giving a video update real soon, I have been very busy with things at the moment but am not going to forget my commitments to you guys who tune in. I also lost my phone and a lot of footage. Tomorrow I will be doing some graffiti work for a job in a photography studio. The spec is pretty much a graffiti style wall that can be cut into 2 feature walls, we suggested 1 graffiti word and some characters and it turned out to be exactly what he had in mind. We have the sketches ready, stay tuned for final piece.
Tagged: prop bets poker husng’s why not grind art graffiti 
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