BIG WIN
i played bloeffer again today at $50/$100 hu, 2 tables and continued where i left off from yesterday except i was running much much better (and i was running good yesterday). i flopped full houses probably 7/8 times and trips 10/15 times and often he would hit top pair when this happened. the deck was incredibly kind to me and i stayed focused and managed to capitalise on this winning £55k in about 2 and a half hours. bloeffer's account was empty then and asked me if i would play him on loislane's account. i wasn't keen to play just incase it was lois (loislane is a regular $100/$200 and $250/$500 player, hu and short handed and very aggressive). eventually i agreed to play bloeffer under lois' name after much talk. we kept it at $50/$100 2 tables and then he became very aggressive, re-raising me alot preflop, so much that i had to ask him if it was really him but he assured me it was. as the match went on though his post flop play calmed down quite a bit (although not his pre-flop play) and i was able to build my stack a bit. i had been playing for just over 3 and a half hours and i wasn't overly keen on playing bloeffer under lois' name so i told bloeffer i would leave in 15mins, which he said was ok and i stopped then (after the 15), £15k up for the second half of the session. £70,400 up altogether.
if i at all make bloeffer sound like a shady norwegian then that is not how i mean it to be. he is always very nice in the chat whether he wins or loses, i even feel a bit bad for winning against him, but i don't like the fact that he wants to play me under a different username. i probably should be more firm and say no to playing him on other accounts and stop then.
the roll is now £125k. i've withdrawn a load from betfair to put into crypto and maybe a few other sites over the next few days. i guess i'm very lucky to be in this situation as running average or worse yesterday and i would have gone broke. i've got the crypto tourney tomorrow that i want to concentrate on. if i bust early i might go out and if i go deep then maybe a film or something afterwards, unlikely i will play cash again tomorrow, i feel quite exhausted after playing a few days of hu and 3 days of sport in a row. probably cash again saturday but no guarantees, see how i feel on the day.
if i at all make bloeffer sound like a shady norwegian then that is not how i mean it to be. he is always very nice in the chat whether he wins or loses, i even feel a bit bad for winning against him, but i don't like the fact that he wants to play me under a different username. i probably should be more firm and say no to playing him on other accounts and stop then.
the roll is now £125k. i've withdrawn a load from betfair to put into crypto and maybe a few other sites over the next few days. i guess i'm very lucky to be in this situation as running average or worse yesterday and i would have gone broke. i've got the crypto tourney tomorrow that i want to concentrate on. if i bust early i might go out and if i go deep then maybe a film or something afterwards, unlikely i will play cash again tomorrow, i feel quite exhausted after playing a few days of hu and 3 days of sport in a row. probably cash again saturday but no guarantees, see how i feel on the day.
posted by Ed Hollis at 8:03 PM
24 Comments:
Well done on the win.
Yeah i agree, take a day tomorrow and really concentrate on the tourny.
All the best.
amazing..i can hardly believe it but well i hope you stay with this attitude :)
Great comeback Ed, sounds like you are more focused now - which obviously results in better results.
Keep up the good form, and dont feel bad for talking someone elses money - whether they be kind or idiots.
Nice to see you finish on the high end of a day´s play - instead of tilting it all away on the final few hands.
Best of luck in the tourney.
You are legend.
Well done.
nice one Ed,
play strong, and no tilting or feeling sorry for anyone!
keep it solid for a few weeks.
well done
ccc
I'm just an amateur but from Ed's account I wouldn't say he's playing better than he has in the past. He is - as he points out - just getting unbeatable flops. Anybody can win with great cards.
I'm not trying to be mean to Ed; I genuinely feel for him when he loses and have commented before that I wish he would tighten his play and go into games that he can beat. I want to enjoy his success.
But he's not playing better - his cards are. And they won't forever. I hope he learns to play better before they turn on him because they surely will.
Fantastic results Ed,
I'm very pleased for you. But you're not invincible, so please take out £10-20 grand and bung it to your parents as a present or for safe-keeping.
still think you should cónsider a break... nice win, though...
Nice one Blue,
After having read all your previous exploits I feared you would go bust this week.
I am very happy that you have turned things around - you seemed to be set on a very destructive path only a few days ago.
I hope the good luck continues and you can build your roll even further.
All the best.
Ed, watched a little bit of your play last night - felt you were the better player at picking up the small meaningless pots so nice one.
I really think you need a game plan though. Not sure if you've been reading my blog but I've used you as an inspiration for taking shots at higher levels but I have some sanity in my bankroll management and more importantly an end-goal. Like you I'm trying to bring about 'unsustainable rushes' during my periods of play on the happy side of variance. However, you NEVER bail out meaning variance will get you eventually unless you stop at some point and adopt a proper bankroll strategy.
For example I have sub-$10,000 right now which I made grinding at SNG, NL25-200, etc. I'm now taking runs at NL$600, $1000 and if I can actually get a nice night for once I'll happily go to NL$2000 and beyond.
Critically though I have target points. The first is around $25,000 which is enough of a roll for me to consider going pro at NL$200-400 level. If I get to $25k though all this gambling I'll consolodate and begin building from $200-300 buy ins at NL$600. I'll gamble like hell with all money above $25k but never spend more than $300 at a time below it.
My next 'consolodation point' would be around $75,000 which allows me to go pro and pays for my wedding next year. I'd probably reduce my initial stakes to $600-750. I'd then shoot for around $150-200k and if by some amazing stroke of luck I ever made it into that range I'd consolodate completely, buy an Evo MR360, pay off my loan, spunk £10,000 for shits n' giggles and use the remainder to play NL$600 and NL$1000 for a living with a nice and substaintial bankroll.
What's your plan? You need to have one IMHO otherwise going broke is inevitable even if you were a top 0.5% percentile player.
It's good to see some more good news on here again. But this could just be a little bit of positive variance - don't be assuming that you've simply turned the corner.
I assume you have Poker Tracker ed? If so, load your hands back and analyse your play. You say yourself that you won't play until Saturday so why not?
You should do this for every session to some degree.
If you're going to stick to these limits you must lose the tilt factor though - it seems to be what is killing you more than anything.
Well done, Ed. You put half of your BR down in a HU NL game, willing to put the rest of it down if you lost that. Great strategy! I think you had a much bigger chance of going busto yesterday than building your roll, but the cards were obviously kind as you say. People are congratulating you on your attitude and your focus - God knows why, they must not have read your previous post. Now you have a load of cash you need a plan like others have said and you need to read those poker books you bought. I hope you get PT and analyse hands (there's been no decent hand analysis on this blog that I can see) and maybe you'll have a chance of surviving. Doubt it though as you seem happy enough relying on luck. Is it going to be 250/500 next?
Despite some other negative comments, I think you are a very skilled player, and yes, obviously, luck will always factor into your daily wins/losses.
Since you refuse to adhere to bankroll management, I think you should "steal" some of your bankroll when you hit a target.
What I mean is, say you hit 200K, go acquire a passive income earning investment like a house(I have no idea of the UK housing market/prices). Buy it, rent it out, and the income can further add to your depleted roll, or help pay for living expenses, etc.
This way, if/when you go busto, you will still have monthly income, still own appreciating assets, and still be able to rebuild.
When your roll hits another target, rinse and repeat. Do this consistently enough and before you're 30, hell 25, you'll own retirement assets which pay for daily life that few of us can hope to own by the time we're 50...
Really pleased for you Ed.A wee break to stay fresh seems a good idea.
All the best at the tables,
Acornman
Glad to hear it, hope it continues. Don't feel guilty about taking other people's money, you can be sure they would do the same to you!
notice that noone is questioning your methods now that your winning...
I still say; Your a skilled shorthanded NLHE pokerplayer, without BRM-skills, and a gambling addict... (I haven't said that until you started risking the "untouchable" 90k, then i started aggreeing with the theories first presented by Java)
It's great advice to put money in a property (although it's not the best time to buy in now, but oh well). But he's unlikely to do something like buy a house with his winnings. For people like Ed, money is only something for playing poker with. Even if he reaches £250k, he won't take money out of his roll because he'll need it to play the biggest games.
There do seem to be a lot of people who really believe in Ed's skills. I'd be interested to know whether those people are winning poker players themselves. The high stakes pro players who I've spoken to haven't been too complementary.
i'd say the chances of Ed being a longterm winner are less than 5%.
Even if he is actually capable of occasionally playing good poker, (ie understands and executes fundamental poker concepts)he has NO bankroll management skills.
This is fact.
He refuses to take money out of the game and puts HUGE portions of his roll at risk.
And apparently he also tilts.
Since it hasnt even been established that he plays decent poker, he might be one of those guys in the top 1% of positive variance.
When the cards turn, his bankroll will be decimated in short order.
He seems like a REALLY nice guy but unfortunately, very delusional about gambling.
I love his blog, though, and hope he somehow finds a way to prove me wrong.
And the saddest part is that if Ed had even just the tiniest bit of self control, enough to buy a house and make some of the $$ untouchable, he could take shots the rest of his life and still come out ahead with his gambling.
Unfortunately, its a compulsion and hes helpless...
well done mate.
please buy something tangible with some of your dough.
ed burger
well said, gniz
"And the saddest part is that if Ed had even just the tiniest bit of self control, enough to buy a house and make some of the $$ untouchable, he could take shots the rest of his life and still come out ahead with his gambling.
Unfortunately, its a compulsion and hes helpless..."
Ed, you're been given yet another gift through good cards & good fortune- yet one more lucky opportunity to take a chunk of your roll and put it somewhere unreachable.
Don't blow it.
USe your imagination to remember what it felt like first to take the "untouchable" 90k and deposit it (maybe, hopeful and optimistic but nervous), then how it felt to watch it slip away. Remember how you felt when the 200k slipped down to 150k, then 100k, then 50k, then...
You have been granted yet one more chance to take a portion of your roll (which even you would have to admit, all of it is not needed on online poker sites at this point) and put it aside.
Your parents love you and have your best interests at heart I'm sure. Ask them to keep 50k or even 30k aside for you so if you go busto you can afford to take a 6-month vacation and then perhaps take another more reasonable shot at being a true poker pro someday.
I struggle like you do with a compulsive / borderline addictive gambling urge. The best way to fight it is to protect yourself from yourself by pulling aside what today feels like a "meaningless" sum of 25% to 50% of your roll, then allow yourself to gambool with the remainder if you must.
I know what it feels like to go on a hot streak... "This time will be different". I've managed to curb myself from busting myself only by setting guidlelines- let 50-75% of what you have RIGHT NOW be your gambling roll, protect the rest.
If you don't want to buy a house or whatever, that's fine. It's good advice, but obviously not for you. But shelter that money by putting it under the care of someone who has nothing but your best interests at heart. For me that was my supportive wife, she excells at reigning me in when I'm tilting, supporting me in downswings by pumping me up ande helping me manage the urge to always quickly get back to my previous peak. Let your parents help you do the same.
Poker is one long session.
Try, just TRY, the next time you are stuck and win a little back but are just short of even to STOP. I literally was incapable of stopping a session down a little. It sounds like you fight that urge to play more, faster, higher, longer to "get back to even". You don't need to. Play when you're a favorite, not when you're "almost even". It's taken me a year of work to get there and be able to quit down a bit. You can do it, I know it's hard to quit a small loser and admit maybe you're on tilt and should stop, but you can.
Beast of luck Ed, I come off harsh, but I assure you it's meant as help. I've fought the same demons as you, and I haven't erased or killed them, but they are under control now. Unbelieveable as it sounds, I'm have tendencies towards being a borderline compulaive gambler, but with the help of some strict guidelines and the support of my wife, I am a poker pro supporting my family through poker and I LOVE my life. I wish you all the best.
Playing tonight m8?
Ed
Following your blog for a while now. VUL 2nite that ace river vs your eights was a painful exit.
Just take £30K out, buy a £100k property (to let out) with a £70K non-status buy-to-let mortgage just so some of your avid readers can sleep a little easier! If anything do it for it for ya fans!
Be lucky mate.
Wow
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