Games have been going alright, my coach came to Finland late April, and we been crushing since then. Scoop 2013 is almost behind the door. Just couple days to go. Ive decided to make a run for it yet again.. 100Millionth time the charm right.. Also leaving to see family on Friday, so got still today to grind hard and make money until wrap up the week and comeback on Sunday.

Weather is getting just warmer and warmer, yesterday was almost +20C. But today guna be same and rain/thunder. We prob guna sign into some beginners golf class. Noone havent bought my car yet
.. Oh coffeemachine just beeped.. gotta go. Gl to the tables everyone

Heres cool song that I found while ago, also some other songs too from Ed Sheeran

Piratos

Im once again trying to change my sleeprhythms into waking up in the morning. There was MicroMillions mainevent last sunday which caused me to slip from the sleep. Been quite unhappy with my how Ive treated poker and things related to it. Been almost as unprofessional as one can be. Afterall, Ive decided to play it professionally because I love to play it and battle with other players. And also to earn monthly income from it. And still what I do most days, is play Fifa13 or sleep or skype or just sit at computer spending spare time. I decided how I shud try to spend my days,atleast most of them and came up with this sort of plan. Id split the 24hrs after 9hrs sleep into 3 pieces. 3 pieces of 5hr blocks which can then be used whatever increments needed. Meaning 2 of the pieces will consist of work, aka poker, either by playing or studying, and the last piece of other stuff. Thus I will be using atleast 9-10hrs every day to actually work and have just 5hrs to do random stuff. I think past years its been almost the otherway. That just 1 piece has been poker,rest have been nothing, just blanks.

Well thats for that matter, looking already forward to spend some time with my current husng coach who will probably be living during summer at my place. Since after I kicked out my old roomie/pokerstudent, I got plenty of room to be used. Also its almost April knocking on the door, weather is getting warmer and birds singing etc well but roads are finally starting to melt and cant wait to fire up my car, beeen almost half year since I last drove it. Have to just hope that there wont be any bad rubberhoses been dry after the winter. It wud be the worse having to start season preparing the car atleast for me..

What comes to the poker world. Im not even sure if Ive made that much money past months. Surely some thousands, but not enough to save for the house, Im looking to invest. So even tho summer is going to be hardest time of the year to grind poker since every single beginner will be out of schoool and on holidays to play poker. But im not worried at all, my game has gone forward big time in past months. Should be nice things coming soon. If not other, atleast the summer and warmth and light. Been so dark whole winter, didnt even go to abroad for the winter time. Sighhhh..

Guna look for some nice song to post now then, Happy easter to everyone, Take care and enjoy.
This a nice finnish rapsong I had posted once to forums.. The song title in english is “the butterfly effect”

Good luck to the tables aswell

Piratos

Waiting currently for my download of 2nd half of Arsenal-Stoke to end. Been trying to get to proper sleep schedule past week. But failed mostly due playing fifa late in morning. And then having to get my sleep at early noon. Finally grinded alot yesterday and stayed up 22hrs. And been up like 5ish hours soon and its 5am. Will get small 3-4hrs nap soon to “wakeup” at 8-9am which I want to make my permanent waking up time. As if ppl who go to work or school. This lets me manage my days more efficient and also to get some wake on time when theres some daylight. Anyways. I kinda promised myself not to get any takeaway food either for the month of February.

Pokerwise the start of the year wasnt that great. I managed to win 5k in few sessions of 9-18mans. Then donked it all to Tcoop and sunday majors. Ended up January just couple grand in the green. Its acceptable regarding hours I put in. But its def no way near what I need to make to be able to start saving for the house or new car.
I started blogging on finnish forum. I have kinda made up my mind on purchasing a new car. Thus the topic. Been drooling of the Mitsu Evo 8-9′s. Car Evo.

I started recently playing the hu hypers. I didnt have great memories of the 6max hypers. But these seems like its a tough challenge to expert. Its no where as easy as I had thought. Been rollercoasting mentally alot aswell. Since hu is alot personal, because we only play 1 guy at time and often its ego thing, whos guna be better. And its just adjusting back and forth. (in ideal world ) But with my great coach, I feel that I can really make it. Have kinda setup mini goal to be at the 200s. In early summer. Which shudnt be that far fetched. Its just alot of work and playing hours []x. So far Im like 0.1% roi after some hundred games. Still making alot of suboptimal plays. But guna have alot studying with ppl I kno on skype and overall just put alot of work to it.

Been listening almost purely norwegian rap lately, (i know,dont ask why). I can tell u the story how I fell for it. So I was listening Spotify and playing Tcoop, when this good song.. Supernova.. started playing on my headphones. I prob didnt really realise it as I was paying attention to the tables. But at the same time I happened to be allin pre with A2o vs smthing else. most likely mid pp. And on turn I hit 2 and river same. And then it just clicked and heard the song and got insta attached to it. Since then Ive been searching for new artists on youtube or spotify. Ive found so many great songs. Heres one or two of them. Ill also post a youtube playlist where u can find the rest. I will prolly be updating it as I find more. Without further a do. (not sure how to spell, i blame too many movies for the reference)

And heres the playlist.

Good luck on the tables.. Also I wanna share my desktop background that keeps me motivated for the grind..

Piratos

This pretty much sums up most my weeks last year and also this year, so far. Im not dissappointed. Cos I feel Id rather breath and take some time “off” from tables than grind long days without any joy or purpose. While Im writing this, Im listening to the song of the month, which is really good swedish pop-rock song. Uhhh.

We’ll I could write shortly what I been up so far. I continued in the early January with the same turbo 9-18mans that before. And did really well in them. Then I played some miniftops,other random series, and bunch of sunday majors and big mtts. Got really close few times but never to final table. Now Im on the edge of getting started in the world of hu sngs. Just like early 2012, I grinded lots of hu sngs. But then I didnt really have as much knowledge as I do now, also then I grinded mostly turbos, now its going to be hypers. Will be getting some coaching and nice deal. Prolly guna play under the deal for year. Which I hope is the best decision, and if It somehow, very unlikely, were to fail, I will keep good contact with my current backer so I always have some cushion or plan b/c to fall into.

I’ve been talking to lot of friends and fellow grinders bout how I feel im slacking with my grind and volume. When I started playing poker 6years ago, it was all fun and exciting and so much to learn. Lately, Ive been anxious to start grinding and been way too emotionally attached to the money thats in poker. And thus all my attempts to make goals such as Vpps per day,hours per day or games per day have kinda failed. I realised that personally the best motivator to make me wanna feel joy waking up in the mornings and grind poker for hours day in day out. Is to have really big and material goals, such as grinding an own house or saving money for a car.
So as of today, my 1st priority goal will be to save little more money, so that I can afford an Mitsu EVO 8 or 9, and sell my current e36 M3. All in all its not going to be waste of money, as I can only use my M3 5-6months per year, in summer. And with EVO I could prolly use it allround year. Unless its guna be built as really sick.
And after that, I will turn all my focus and strenght to get enough money to buy own house. Along this path, I will save up bunch of money each month, to pay out my 5k student loan, put money aside to possible investments, and whatever seems feasible.

Ive already thought of kind of backup plan,if poker for some reason gets really tough or I lose the joy of playing. Ive decided to look into some schools in the coming weeks, mostly thought of some kind of electric installer degree. Even tho the pay in normal non poker job is like 1/10th atleast if not less.. But hey having everything sorta planned out helps me to get most of myself.

Before I start rambling too much I shud post the youtube song. Its really awesome song brings alot of memories although the finnish midsummer tradition isnt quite same as in Sweden. But oh well, its so close..

Heres the lyrics in english. Coz Im assuming, most of readers are either finns who suck at swedish or english readers

Wherever I Go

Put your hand on my cheek and show me the way.
Do you recall it?
It feels so good to return home.
Cause when you see me, you get happy.
If youre feeling alone, open yourself.
Share (with?) the feeling, I’ll probably understand

If your heart beats, then I’ll be with you friend wherever you go.
If your heart beats, then I’ll feel your soul wherever I go.
Wherever I go, wherever you go

Your resting here on my shoulder (lit. Breast).
For me, your life itself, but i take you for granted.
Excuse me, I can be silly
when (the distraction thikens?)
Although I hear you.

If your heart beats, then I’ll be with you friend wherever you go.
If your heart beats, then I’ll feel your soul wherever I go.

Play our song now, take me by storm.
Cant we dance like before, the hole night long.
Become one with me darling.
I know that we can.
But later I’d want to hold your hand

If your heart beats, then I’ll be with you friend wherever you go.
If your heart beats, then I’ll feel your soul wherever I go.
If your heart beats, then I’ll be with you friend wherever you go.
If your heart beats, then I’ll feel your soul wherever I go.

Good luck to the tables, Will post more stuff in the coming weeks..

Piratos

Had some sad news while ago, when I heard that a friend I met at Malta couple months ago, a 20yo man had passed away, they had found him stabbed to death and are suspecting his father for it. Sick world. My prayers go to his family and I will miss him. He was such a nice guy.. <3 R.I.P.

But anyways its how the world runs, u cant really expect whats guna happen. And we shud be grateful of the moment and what we have
Had just heard this beautiful song by Delta Goodrem that I felt fits in here well. Its bout her friend that passed away couple years ago and she wrote it on his birthday. I'll link live version of it.

Good luck on the tables everyone and be happy dont worry <3

ps. I will post more comprehensive plans in the coming weeks. Have to get some sleep now.

But lets not dwell on past and worry bout things we cannot affect. Especially in poker, theres so many things we cant physically affect. Been watching bunch of series lately, most importantly shows called Arrow, which is based on some comic series i believe, guy stranded on island for 5years comes back to civilation to revenge or do the right things. Also the other series called Revenge, also kinda similar story, where rich girls father is framed and killed, then she comes back and tries to makes things right. Its definitely something diffrent than my normal series that are usually comedies Well, idk if its purely that or just comin to realise on stuff I been missin on since I started playing poker during military service. But its most certainly an easy route to escape the reality and just fall on the virtual world of games. Id feel that if it was some pc game or playstation game, Id probably realise it more sooner, but since its a passion, a hobby and eventually my job. It comes so much harder to see the line between whats real and whats not. So hopefully, once more, I’ll start doing other things and find other interests of socialising than just grinding poker and watching series,movies etc. Im sure theres tons of people experiencing these same feelings, so idk, maybe me writing about it would make others realise it. Because lets face it, the goal as poker professional is to make money from other peoples mistakes and trying to take advantage of every opportunity that seems sensible. We’re not really trying to make friends or have social life at the tables,well apart from live poker where its kinda mandatory to not look stupid,and i mean its supposed to be “fun” for the recreational players. But online, its diff, u dont wanna be chatting on the tables,mostly coz it takes out your time that u cud have used to make decisions,take notes,play other tables, etc.. But also coz it wud be stupid to give away the thoughts that u process during ur play. I hope this makes any sense, afterall Im writing this at 11am, just on my way to bed, since I cudnt get any sleep earlier last nite.

What comes to the poker world, pokergods werent really that accepting this month. Pretty much since the last week of the month before and whole last month, I been losing money. This is purely coz of me running bad, Ive had tons of coaching,talked to lot of players,studied myself etc. And its just a matter of time before I start making the money again, and I can tell ya, when it rains, it pours as a sidenote, expecting heavy snowstorm in here like 3-4hrs from now on I was thinking of posting the sharkscope graphs and all here but not sure I care too much, I could post hem graph too but it doesnt really track non-stt games,esp mtts at all. So Ill just tell that I ended November like 6-7k down.

I had been also promising to make this tv show “Cribs” style of video of our apartment, but having second thoughts on that. I mean, dont really wanna show off all the stuff Ive bought and where I live, also I shud be grateful to have what I got and thats whats most important. Its not really about how much things and money you have. Its how u use it and what u do. Something i have to admit, ive forgotten since i turned to a poker pro. Its not really what I used to be. Have also had some financial issues with my roommate,hopefully thats all sorted out for now,but u never kno, people take nowadays everything for granted, not even realising how lucky they are, and how much worse things are at other places.

So, Id like to end this wall of text,tldr, into words, love u all, and have a nice christmas , afterall just like 3-4 weeks to it. Gotta be nice, coz u never kno, santa mite be watchin.. Or atleast his trolls..

Think I will be taking my daily vpps on to paper so can keep track of it and hopefully thats guna give me motivation to grind harder. I had sick month in October. I was really crushing Last couple weeks I’ve dropped 7k atleast from all time high, but thats just variance. Also most of it is from mtts.
I got my projector and screen setup few days ago. Its really hard to get a good picture of it since it looks so unreal live. We had snow for almost a week aswell, but its so early into winter that it almost never stays longer until the weather really starts getting cold. Listening some good rap, Beanie Sigel,Styles P, etc. Prob guna be my song for this month aswell. Today is a great game, Man U – Arsenal in 9hrs. Last year the same fixture ended up in the biggest loss in history, 8-2. Hard times, but its all behind now and even tho past weeks havent been so great, I feel its guna be a great season for Arsenal, and mb get some trophy end of season [ ].
November is also guna be my step trying to grind huge bankroll for next years SNE chase. Lately I been averaging little under 1k vpps per hour. So it should be achievable. And also guna be a great practice to get lot of hrs in so will feel prepared to take the giant leap Been reading some PGC threads on 2p2. Some guys have really been impressive. Like grinding sick hours, or starting year with few k in their name and now being on sne chase. Makes you wanna try harder aswell.
Games havent been super great lately, probably coz everyone wanna finish their vpps before Xmas (1st time i said it) and I have planned aswell to take the December as half vacation half work.

Anyways heres my sngs with 41%rb. Also got 500$ from Battle of planets Uranus early the month.

And heres my mtts. Obv have some Fcoop events but didnt scope them on this.

good luck in the long run [ ] pc

In poker world Ive been on really nice heater for some thousand games now. Although Im starting to believe its probably just the HEM ev thats not workin rather than me crushin Heres a pic of what did happen. (not)

I havent still had the time or real motivation to write down the study material for coaching. I guess that have to wait. Also dont quite have the money for it either. Atm my first priority is to get to the working mode where I put in 6-10 hrs day in day out for 5-7times week. As its what I been lacking since 2010 to be exact. Obv can just keep grinding especially when running so good. I guess its part of the hard work I put since mid April after I decided to make the transition to 6max sngs permanently. Maybe one day I will learn another format and try to be the best. Its definitely a great motivator to keep you going..

Lately I also did start the experimenting of polyphasic sleep, that means you basically have few options to sleep different amounts per day. Which is pretty cool. Here is the link to the article on wikipedia, also the pic. I also found nice blog about it and ended up ordering the same book as the blogger. Only was like 10$.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep#Biphasic_sleep

http://mindpetals.com/biphasic-sleep-keep-me-like-a-well-oiled-gear-always-up-and-running/

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0761142908/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&tag=flushthetoile-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=0761142908

So far Ive gotten only half of it right. I can now easily sleep the 4-5hrs at nite and wake up fresh in the morning to grind. But when it comes time to take the 90mins nap, I fail hardcore, ending up sleeping like 4-5hrs. And then not feeling so great for the rest of day. But guess it all takes some time to rub in. Its not like Ive ever been sleeping 6-8hrs

Well good luck to you all on tables, may you run aswell as I am currently. Heres something for all the haters..

just kidding, ofcourse I do

Peace

Piratos

Hey all. I havent been that active in past years here. Mostly right after blackfriday of online poker.

Anyways Im starting to make plans for possible stable in few months.
And thought Id pop in here and see if anyone is interested.

Little bout myself. Been playing poker since 07 last 3 years as pro.
Think Ive made like +200k online and little up live. Currently I play mostly sngs
at ms. Also mtts. Been mostly mtt player but sngs always been a solid source of income. Im 25yo and live with my horse.

What Im looking for is dedicated grinders who already are solid and wanna get better and move up stakes and finally be able to earn money from this.
Also will consider players who wanna learn the sngs and have motivation and dedication for poker. I can offer max 3$ sngs atm since I dont have huge rolls atm. And as staking is always very insecure area, friends scamming left and rite.

Feel free to pm here or ship email to piratosbeat(at)gmail(dot)com

Regards

Piratos14

Peace

ps. theres not really any strict rules for choosing or applying as some of u asked. But I will prolly do somekind of interview with the applicants to get better feel.

But before that alot of grind to do. Will start again tomorrow grinding 20tables of sngs to vpp-whore and maybe get down from this 4,5k downer which is 80% coz of mtts.
I havent gotten anywhere near the hours yet that Ive planned where is to blame that theres so much to study hhs each day and I dont wanna grind alot before Im as good as I can be to crush (been on be stretch last 1k gms LOL) also going to the Gsop Malta early sept to meet up with my old backer Simpledude16 on stars then stay week there and come back home to pack up my things and move. Def guna be busy month and last but not least WCOOP starts early sept. so have to play them too. Maybe I cud ft one of these again been while since last time

Heres some pics finally from our grindhouse. Took some time do it (like a year) but wait is over

Here’s our kitchen and huge balcony with door to sauna (ftw)

another pic with worse lights ;( (shud get one of those free photoedit progs)

finally the best pic of kitchen. Only lacking a chef

Here’s our living room with the hometheater couch barely seen on left. Obv must have fifa. Cant wait for 13

Here’s better view of it

Roomies side of our small grindroom (br) and wait foorr itt..

… aannd my side can find better quality thru this link

Pic of master bedroom (not where i sleep :O )

Another angle with poorer quality. (inb4 pro photographer)

And my bedroom with brothers cat stalking pedestrians. (just kiddin) not.

From the bed outwards. Not much to see here..

AAnnd the song Ive been listening on repeat for this whole time posting this. Heard it on movie I watched lately called Streetdance 2. (std dance movie <3)

Enjoy more news coming when I run better. So if Stars is reading this turn on the boomswitch plsss.

Adios

Piratos