-£100
lost £100 more yesterday, don't see things changing much at the moment. just to let you guys know, i probably won't bother posting for a couple of weeks. lost alot of motivation and feeling fairly depressed. i might play a bit but its gonna be a dull post (low levels and what not) so i'll update when i break even (or maybe get close to that), or if i decide to make a financial decision like selling the house or getting a decent loan.
with regards to the stake offer in the previous comments i'm going to decline as i wouldn't feel comfortable losing someone's money who i didn't know. thanks very much for the offer though.
with regards to the stake offer in the previous comments i'm going to decline as i wouldn't feel comfortable losing someone's money who i didn't know. thanks very much for the offer though.
posted by Ed Hollis at 4:24 PM
65 Comments:
Ed, what about the DTD trader route? Just a suggestion.
You could build back up from the lower levels on someone elses coin
good luck
L
Ed - take a look at all your previous blog titles...there's a trend here...see if you can find it
-£100
EMPTY
THINGS NOT GOING TO PLAN
LARGELY UNEVENTFUL
LOWEST POINT YET
GAMBLED
LOSE A BIT, WIN A BIT BACK
£1K GONE
CANT GO 20 MINUTES WITHOUT MAKING A CRAP DECISION
GOING DEEPER
This is a great blog to read. However, I cant remember the last time a positive post was put on.
Keep posting man, especially if you decide to use bankroll management. Seeing you play well with discipline at low stakes would be great.
FWIW, I don't think selling your house so you can gamble is a very good idea.
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Hi Ed.
A few things.....
1)Dont worry so much, money is not everything you know and feeling sorry for yourself will not help at all. You will be back with a decent win in no time.
2)Dont listen to the negative comments. They are posted by morons with no concept of poker ;-)
3)Get back to basics with your poker playing.Play TAG instead of SAG (Stupid Aggressive). You do not posess the Jedi Mind Trick to make them fold every hand.
4)Put things into perspective and realise poker isnt everything :-D
5)Good luck!!
wowsay. riverpho3nix arising from zee flames. sup river? sound advice there m8. Get ur roll going and start blogging again Dan. Ed, i aint gonna give you any advice lol. You dont need it. Shame we dont really chat on msn much anymore mate even though all you usually did was take the piss out me lol. Good luck mate
I'm just curious if you're actually aware that it is impossible to be a long term winner at poker with absolutely no bankroll management .. do you accept this fact or dispute it?
The way you're playing poker is just gambling ... and there's nothing wrong with that provided you can afford the inevitable losses.
hey hey - basically ed you need to review your whole game. you may not have noticed but being super-lag isn't really the most profitable way of beating the low stakes any more, the tag style of your opponants has been replaced! I don't think your poker is good enough to beat £25NL let alone the stupid stakes you try to play. You have no BRM etc. Basically, i don't think anyone would invest in you, and i don't think you should invest any more money in yourself - you simply don't know how to play this game.
gl mate - but really i think you should quit. 90% of my beats are outdraws, 10% of the time i get my money in behind. i think you're the other way round kid.
good luck in the gutter!
Anyone else think Gamblinpower sounds like a condescending twat?
Heres my suggestion to get yourself out of the whole you are in.
Ask for 5K from the guy who wants to stake you and use that to pay off debts and then just tell him you lost it playing 300/600, he'll believe you because you are an idiot.
Hi Ed,
I think its time to seriously think about a re-mortgage or even selling your house.i personally would do the re-mortgage option. the equity that you will have made in your property prob will be around the 10k mark. release the £10k, and pay off your debts to ur mates, and then use 4k to play £2.5/£5 limit. You can make hundreds at that level m8 if you just calm down a bit.
I dont need to tell you to stop being so aggressive cos u should know that. revove 10% of that element from ur game and realise u cant win every hand and out bluff every1 on every hand and you will soon be back to winning ways.
You need to give urself a head start m8. Losing £100 here and there is not helping your confidence and a poker player who doesnt believe they will win, will losse 100% of the time. Its also not helping ur finaces either cos £100 to you nowadays is a hell of alot more than it was 12months ago.
I wish u all the luck in the world m8.gl
Raiser153
Yeah, a re-mortgage would be a great idea! Because now is a great time to be getting a double helping of mortgage:
1 - You have no income
2 - You are losing money hand over fist at poker because your head is up your ar$e
3 - The housing market is probably about to drop like a stone and interest rates are higher than in years. Interbank credit squeeze has ballsed up mortage repayment rates as well.
But sure ignore this just like you've ignored everything else - remortgage, go for £200-400 and GAMBOOL.
Or:
- Take a break
- Get your head straight
- Realise there's more to live than poker
- Sell the house, go to uni, live a little (live a lot with money like that lol)
- Poker isn't going anywhere.
yeah thats right pk...go to uni and piss his house up the wall on a degree that he doesnt even need! lmfao.
Ed, in a 9-5 job?! u really are havin a laugh. Ed is in a perfect position to be a pro poker player.A job that we all dream doing.
His biggest mistake is that he bought his house and played 100/200. He wouldnt be in this position if he had the same roll and could comfortably play 10/20 or 15/30.
Players at the highest limits think and play differently to those at 1/2 or 2/4 and thats why ed is finding it so hard to get started again.
The only way he will get back is if he has 10k to play 5/10 or 20k to play 10/20.
Ed -
You've got the audience so keep posting regardless of the limits you're playing (if any). Honestly, many of your readers are simply anxious to see how you'll get yourself out of this hole that you've dug for yourself.
I hope that your current financial situation opens your eyes a bit to the dangers of gambling the way that you have.
I'd say stick with the lower limit tables and work your way up but it doesn't really matter: you wouldn't listen to the advice and, thankfully, you don't have the bankroll to even sit at the higher stakes tables.
Good luck getting it all back. I really hope that things work out and I look forward to reading any posts you put up.
pk speaks sense. Raiser does not.
Why can't Ed work a 9-5 job? He's still very young, so let's not right off his abilities!
A degree is generally useful to further your career. Not just that but an education and the experience of uni life is a great thing for many reasons. Ed hasn't proved he can make a living from poker. In fact, I think there's more evidence to the contrary. If he doesn't think about getting an education now, it's going to be very hard for hard for him to do so in the future.
I seem to remember he doesn't have A-levels, but that shouldn't stop him from getting to uni, he'll just have to do an interim course perhaps. What did you do Ed between leaving school and starting poker? You must have some experience of something or interest in something?
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And why does raiser think he'll have made 10k from his property already? Surely it's more likely he's lost on it so far having paid fees, stamp duty and moving costs and in today's property market probably already at it's peak?
jus my opinion guys....lol
I jus cant see Ed working now he has done what he's done. no way would i be happy working 9-5 after the earnings he's pulled in.Nor do i think ed would be either.
To say that ed is not a winning poker player is stupid. fair play, he is in a little bit of trouble now, but that is only because he bought his house and left himself with a bankroll that didnt fit the limits he wants to play. However, any1 who can say they have bought half a house through poker in my eyes is a winner regardless of the measly £5k he has lost over the last few months.
I am in no doubt that ed will pull it back, as i am in no doubt that ed will not go to uni, will not get a 9-5 job and will always want to play poker.
Gl ed lad. Hope it all works out well for you m8.
i agree raiser ;)
Dude,
Don't listen to ppl that's telling you to keep playing/posting whatever, just quit poker (not forever maybe). But quit, this is RIDICULOUS. You lost a bunch of money and you want to keep loosing a lot more? Doesn't sound like a good idea. Get a job, or get married with a rich girl, but don't play poker anymore (only home games) and stop bloggin about how bad and spewy you are at poker while you blow your life away.
Can I just remind everyone that Ed's win of about £125k so far from high stakes cash games is by no means whatsoever proof he is a winning poker player. Anyone who says it is simply doesn't understand the nature of the game. Ironically, I bet many of the same people who say it is also have said people like Moneymaker were just lucky when they won the WSOP for millions.
crazy u really do talk absolute rubbish m8. How can any1 get to a 200k bankroll from scratch through luck?!!
He was a good player then (qualifying for irish open / winning 200k online, and he is still a good player now. He just needs to adapt his game back to how the lower limits play.
As i said, 2/4 players play completely different to the 25/50 or 100/200 players so if u play the same, u lose. simple. And that is exactly the stage that ed is at now...making bluff after bluff against ppl that dont repect raises and will call u down.
I understand what ur sayin crazy about him getting deeper and deeper, however unless he gets a big BR and plays at the limit he likes he will only lose more and more because of his over aggressive style at the lower limits.
"crazy u really do talk absolute rubbish m8. How can any1 get to a 200k bankroll from scratch through luck?!!"
What, you think that's impossible or something? Have you even read his blog? He constantly played in games where he only had a few buy-ins to his name and went on many hot streaks. The swings have been huge. Besides, he hasn't got 200k now, he has something like 120k in equity. It would be interesting to see how many hands at each level Ed has played and the BB/100 at each level and the wins/losses at each level. I bet the biggest wins by far are at very high stakes and having played a tiny sample of hands. Who knows, if you were to calculate his overall BB/100 it may well be a negative. Who knows, all I'm saying is the jury is still out.
not sure why i sound like a condescending twat. the guy is getting pwned day-in day-out. he's in better shape on the roulette wheel. he needs to learn how to play poker. we could all sit on a 100/200 table with 5k and suck out a few times - this shows shit all.
i'm not trying to be condescending - i just don't see anything in this blog which points towards ed being a +ev poker player - therefore, i think he should hang on to his money and get out whilst he's still very much ahead.
Ed. Probably the best (and most realistic) advice was mentioned some time ago. Sell your accounts and start again. High stake pros would fall over themselves to be able to use your image and would pay plenty for the priviledge!
You know it makes sense!
I don't know, but that sounds like fraud and very dangerous to me!
Is it fraud ? Definitely not. Is it a lame idea? Yes. The reason its a lame idea is that anyone could create an a handle called Bluescouse / Charlatan etc simply by using one of the other Crypto skins that Ed wasnt using. I could do it myself now if I wanted to. Theres no reason to pay for the privelege.
James no u cant. What if i create the same alias on another skin, and me and ed are playing at the same time? lol
There is no way you can do it m8. Guarenteed.
Why do so many people try to give this guy advice? He obviously doesn't listen to a word of it!
Can't create an identical account on a different crypto skin.
There would have to be some slight difference whether full stop or comma or space.
The unique account Ed uses would be the one that fellow opponents would have notes on and would be the only one worth having.
You can create an identical account name. I know this because I have 2 identical accounts myself. I agree though the new account would be missing the notes.
james i myself have 6 skins on prima and i use raiser153 on all of them. that is allowed because it is me.
You couldnt go to another prima skin that im not on and have the alias 'raiser153'.
Agree with ukgatsby...no point having the same alias anyway cos the notes are gone.
Thats interesting raiser - that would explain it...
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sex sells!! sell your ass!!works for burnleymik!
With the greatest respect to our esteemed host, I really don't think its his notes that would be worth the $$...
Its not his notes its the other players notes on HIM
Selling his account just doesn't make any sense so stop going on about it. The buyer wouldn't be able to use their own debit card or neteller account, so they'd have to trust Ed with handling all the money and sending it on to them. If the site found out or became suspicious who knows whether some money would be seized. Plus, you probably are all over-estimating the value of a loose image. If a tight player played under Ed's name, opponents would notice they were playing tight! No one is going to pay good money considering the risks and the lack of benefits.
Hello mate,
I haven't had much time for the computer lately, so when I do manage to get on and see how you're doing I always seem to have missed a few posts and things are a hundred times worse than when I last read.
This isn't good. I dunno about everyone on here, but personally I want to see you succeed and get yourself back up. Good luck!
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Greets Peter
Who's Ed, Ed's Dead!
Whats goin on Edwin?
Crazyplay, it would make perfect sense. As for the bit about having to send someone else the money, that could easily be done. The company know that large amounts go in and out of his account, that wouldn't change, so why would they suspend the account? I'm sure someone would happily send Ed the money to fund an account (hence the offer from complete strangers to stake him!), and then trust him to send him any winnings that he withdrew!
I think you underestimate the value of a loose image, especially one like Eds. Yes of course anyone playing his name would soon pick up that it was a different opponent, maybe in as little as 1 or 2 sessions. What you fail to point out is that a decent player could easily have made thousands in that time! They wouldn't have to play super tight, simply a good bit tighter then Ed, which, let's be honest, wouldn't exactly be difficult! If I had the bankroll and the ability to play at the stakes he does, I'd offer myself!!
LOL at the suggestion that Ed must be a long term winning player because he's made £200k or whatever.
With Ed's bankroll management he could probably go from zero-to-millions in 50,000 hands or less if he ran hot. A winning player can easily lose over a 100,000 hand sample and a losing player can easily win over a 100,000 sample.
If Ed can post up pokertracker stats for all levels showing circa 250,000 hands at 3ptbb/100+ then I'll believe he's a long term winner. I can't even post up stats like that yet so - by the same logic - I have no proof that I'm a winning player.
Remember what we talked about last night fish. Snap out of it and stop being gay!
Who the fuck plays 250,000 hands? Ed, like me, is a single-tabler, and often isn't playing because he's busto, or waiting for money to return to his account. It would take him maybe 10 years to get that many hands in!
Smart Poker (blogger) played 139,000 last month alone. I'm sorry if you think that variance should give you special treatment because you are a single table player but unfortunately that just isn't the case. Whether you play 16 or 1 table, anything less than 100,000 hands is pretty meaningless and you can't be absolutely sure of your merits until you are above a quarter of a million.
Ed, you and some of your readers should take advantage of the ridiculous overlay to be had at mansion poker on their Guaranteed tournaments! Example being the $10k gtd at lunchtime (12.00 CET) which attracts only 70 runners and 10 get a share of the prize! Massive value, and a good way to build up your bankroll again!
http://www.mansion.com/?trackid=349465
They also give a first depo bonus of 100% to $500 so well worth trying some cash games as well!
Going through your affiliate link, naturally?
Hey Ed, give us an update please.
Hopefully you are well, and putting together a solid plan for the future.
All the best
Puffet
James, no one has to go through my link but everyone is more than welcome to do it.
Really the overlay is still massive on these gtd tournaments so fill your boots!
http://www.mansion.com/?trackid=349465
What was the link again?
Your fans are waiting Ed lol
Why do I still check this blog every day?
There must be more to life than this!!!
Tell me about it
read 'Smart Poker'blog if u already havent guys....its a great read and pretty funny in places.
Definately beats checkin this one everyday to find out he hasnt posted again....i guarentee the next time he posts it'll be to tell us he's remortgaged, played 100/200 with £10k and lost it all in 5 mins.
Added you to my uber ghey "tagged" list Ed.Apologies but I had to "tag" someone!
Check my blog if your interested in the details...
lol acorn, i dont think ed will join in on this one mate
You've been tagged.
i havent been to ur blog in a while... i see that ur goin thru some tuff dayz again... hope things turn around for u soon... and everyone coming to ur blog is giving u some great advices on BR management... well good luck ed..
Its been over a month.. plz give an update Bluey, no matter what the situation is we're all curious how your getting on.
Ed,
Hello my name is Mike. I have been a very big fan of you and your site for a long time. I wish you the best of luck, you are a real poker player. Hope you post again soon. Also I have just started my own poker blog. The site is:
http://system.squarespace.com/poker-project/
Please let me know if you can link me up. I have your site linked up. My main site already draws a good deal of traffic.
The very best to you,
Mike
This comment brought me to your blog ... "The owner of this site is Ed Hollis from Wales. The most entertaining poker blog I've seen."
http://system.squarespace.com/some-excellent-links/
And then I find you at a low point.
I then see that somebody offered to stake you and you declined.
Based on just these 3 things, I'm hooked on watching the turnaround ahead already.
Just remember ... Great things happen to Great people ... Take care!
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