+7K in October - PermaTilt

As you guys have noticed I had a terrible 4K downswing in the end of October. The first three weeks in Okotober i had a sick run and was up 9.5K at the peak. But sudenly I hit the wall. I ran awfull several days in a row. I was able to hadle two losing days in a row but when I lost the third day as well I totally cracked. I was permanently tilted the rest of October and played hyper agro. When i played a game I wanted to crush my opponents skull with a baseball bat instead of playing solid poker. One day I lost 10 buy ins to a fish bowl by playing that way. Of course i ran insanely bad, however even tough i ran terrible i would probably have saved about 1K aganst that fish if i played more controlled and solid. Again, it was not enough to just beat that fish, I wanted to crush him, like 3xing every hand and c-bet pot, and when he finally makes a stand I got pocket kings pre flop and I 4-bet shove all in BOOM!!! FATAL DESTRUCTION!!! ...that was how I was feeling and thinking...

So how is it even possible that an experienced and consistenly winner like me get in such a retarded mental state?

The reason is that i got spoild until late October. I won pretty much every day and every session and was up 9.5K after the first three weeks. That's a better run than ever so I was feeling higher and more confident than ever. I had forgotten how to deal with consistently bad luck and BS.

So my expectation about the future was flawed becuse of my insane good run the first three weeks. It was surprising and disappointing with several days without making money. Thats why i went on permatilt and lost 2-3K more than I probably would have lost if i were able to accept and deal with the bad run without tilting. So in the future i have to be aware about that even though i'm winning every day several weeks I gotta excpect and accept that I might experience several days in a row with bad luck.

Anyway I did end October with +7K which is fine. If I manage to improve my game and my psyche I should be able to make a lot more in the future.

Now i'm taking a break from FullTiltPoker. In Noveber I will play at i-poker with the handle thomasny123. So far this month i'm up 2.5K there, mostly playing the 200s. I got 60% rakeback there which means I get 6 dollars in rakeback from every game i'm playing in the 200s. Thats 6K in rakeback every month if I play 1000 games. I will try to play about 600 games there this month and evaluate my total profit included rakeback in the end of the month. It might be more profitable to play there compared to FullTilt because of the huge rakeback.

Now, lets not forget PrimordialAA's appearance at the World Heads Up live championchip. Some days ago I was reading about the championchip and the live streaming in he's blog and it was cool that he some hours later got interview live. It was an highly socially skilled interview and it was fun that your name got mentioned like every hour later in the broadcast. "We are hoping to get Bryan Pellegrino for more commentaries later on" etc. Great publicity for HU sngs generally and for HUsng.com spesificly.

Hopefully live HU tournaments will become more populare in the future. I look forward to join this tournaments. It's a fun game, and if you got the skills, psyche and business smartness it's guaranteed richness in the long run.

Later, thomas.

Blowing my load over the entire 110 game

Ok, it's saturday night now, I'm drunk and about to leave for a party. My goal is to become absolutely retarded monkey drunk tonight, because I've not been drinking at all the last two weeks, so it's gonna be a nice break .


My monthly profit is going steady. Seriously I can't remember last time I had a losing day. In fact it's hard to even catch a losing session. It has nothing to do with running good. I'm totally over-qualified for the stake. I crushed the 110 one year ago as well, andI'm a better player now. It's a cool feeling to just sit down in the 110s and collect money every day and pretty much every session. Yesterday I won 2-0 against one of the other top 110 players with the handle: "uship this way" After the second win I declined the rematch at told in the chat "one word.......: OWNED". Rofl.


+8.5K so far in october (that's clean game-profit, no rakeback). I excpect to make around 11-12K this month. Nice to finally get solid results after sacreficing a big part of my youth on this game. It's sick how i've managed to slowly but for sure improved slightly evey month. 2 years ago I could not even beat the 6's even though I had a ton of experince (3000 HU sngs games played). I've been coaching a player with the handle doblew at FTP lately. He had a bad run in the 6s so I wanted to help out and played some games on he's account in the 6's. Some hours later i had won 20 buy ins. The same thing happend a week later. And I promise you my edge in the 6's turbos is just insane now. I would predict about 70/30 edge long run, which means i would win less if my opponents went all in every hand. Sick that i some years ago strugled hard to figure out how to beat that game. The difference between then and now is millions of small details that i've learned by playing and reflecting over millions of hands that in total adds up to an huge edge. I will start climbing the stakes at FTP in 2010. How far is it possible to reach in this game when you got no talent at all? Is it possible to reach the top?

I'm thinking yes, based on the insane amount of time I will spend on this game when i'm done with school in a year. However time will show, maybe i will be satesfied and settle down with like 200K/year and spend more time on other things.

Collecting money every day in the 110s

Been busy with school last week, but when I've played I've been winning every day and pretty much every session. Some days ago I had an absolutely ridiculous run, and won 14 games in a row. My 110 turbo stats at full tilt is now +10/game and 9% roi in a 1000 games sample. I don't think anyone can score significantly better than that, because it's only 50bbs starting stack and a game will typically only last about 5 minutes in average.

It's not necessary to play skyhigh limits to make great money on poker. It's funny to think about that it's theoretically possible to make 200K/year by only playing 110s. To make that happen I would have to play 50 games a day in average with +10 dollar/game in average profit. 50*10*365 = 180K. Included rakeback that is pretty much 200K/year profit. It takes only about 7 hours to finish 50 games by 1-tabling turbos at full tilt, so I mean, this is actually possible. However, the problem is that I might get compleatly burned out and sick of it when playing that much.

Anyway I don't feel the need to move up as long as i making great money in the 110s. My goal now is to make 10K/month consistently in the 110s every single month. If I in the future want to make more money I would have to increase my volume in the 110s or try to move up in stakes. I'm sure I could beat the 230s at full tilt now, but probably not much more expected profit than +10/game anyway.

Here's a video of Livb112 (adonis112) that is making pretty much a million dollar/year by playing HU sngs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsqPxieTm4c

Can't believe the video still only got 65 views. I guess online poker is not the way to go if your goal is to become famous.

Stats so far in october: Games played: 500
Total Profit: 7K

Steady grind towards the 10K October goal

So far +4K in october and it should be easy to make the 10K monthly goal, and I excpect 10K months to be standard now. I'm way too experienced, skilled and hard working to be satisfied with anything less that 10K/month and 100k/year.

Here a 2 hour long video.

Even more videos

Hey, some few more videos here.

+3K so far in October

Satisfied with beeing up 3K after 6 days in october. I'm in great shape to make my 10K profit goal this month. I think my FTP profit will be quite consistently because of my big edge and large volume in the 110s. I'm taking some shots in the 230s but I don't feel any need to move up now as long as i'm sure I can grind 10-15K by simply beeing the best 110 player at FullTiltPoker.

In a long term perspective i'm not satisfied with grinding only 10-15K every month, because it's more interesting and fun when you by time develop and solidly push the limits. However It will be a solid and natural development If I manage to make 10-15K regulary this month and the coming months, so that's why i'm happy to stick to 110s at FTP, even though i'm probably skilled to beat higher stakes.

In long term my goal is to make 200K/year regulary some few years in a row. I would take even more of course, but I would be 100% satesfied with my poker carrier if I managed to make 200K/year.

Here yet another video. Feel free to zoom your browser up to 200% to get a bigger video image.

Playing a lot - Winning a lot - We play at FullTiltPoker.com

Happy with +2K after the first two days of october. Been playing 99 games so far. I'll try to play somewhere in between 1000-1500 games this month, and i'm sure that will give 10-15K profit.

I've found my nitch now. The FullTiltPoker turbo HUsng format is a perfect match to my skills and temperament. It's more fun than ever to play because of the fast 1-tabling action. With 50 BBs starting stack you're pretty much playing for stacks the first hand. But it still takes the same amount of time to get to the 50/100 level compared to pokerstars. In fact you will play way more hands before the 50/100 level at fulltilt, because the cards are coming way faster. 1-tabling at pokerstars is kinda boring because of the slow dealing. Moreover I know when to gamble when stacks are getting short. Pretty exciting. And I can see my self as a pretty wealthy man in 2-3 years. When i'm done with my psychologist major in 1 year and can focus 100% on poker I gonna play twice as much as I do now. It's gonna be insane, and the cash will be so sweet. Or will it?

In this video without comentaries I play my hyper agro gear in 3 games vs a decent slightly winning player. My goal was to tilt my opponent a bit with raising a ton. Which worked in the end. Notice how i manage to get action when i pick up a big hand. I made some few really gutsy moves in big pots there that I can explain with any other words than soul read.