Epic AIDS run at teh office continues

Allrighty,

really didn't felt like updating but since i wanted to do monthly updates at least here we go.

As you can guess from teh header stuff is still going horribly wrong, at least on teh poker front.

april

Fairly disgusting month, always under EV, getting coolered left and right and prolly making some questionable plays every here and there as well but if you run shit for too long it will affect you one way or teh other. If you take a scale from 0-10 where 0 is teh nutworst you could possibly run to 10 which is hotter than teh sun i'm on a constant 2.7 since beginning of march with occasionally having a day which is 0 and literally not a single real heater session and even if things going well you drop it all back next 10k hands anyways. In teh end it's part of teh game but it's tough especially if it continues for several weeks/months. I probably can be happy with teh run i'm experiencing that i still made almoast 2k at teh tables and a 4-5k in rakeback which covers at least teh expenses. Seriously starting to get a bit frustrated but not much you can do besides waiting bc games are good and there will come better days. Another good reg who is pretty much breakeven for teh year said something along teh lines of "I'm just happy when i run teh absolute nutworst for a long time i still manage to at least be breakeven + rakeback instead of guy x or y who drop 10-20k during their downswings" which is a very true statement. Even though things go terribly wrong during march and april i'm still up 8k-ish after rakeback with a 3bb winrate which is alotta money in Bangkok :)
As usual i made teh same mistakes over and over again which i tend to do while running shit: changing games, stakes and formats on a daily basis: SH midstakes in, SH midstakes out, NL100FR in, back to FR only, etc. I definitely have room for improvement here and should try to just stick to my strongest aka bread and butter games which is NL200 and NL400FR where i having almoast a 5bb EV winrate over teh course of teh year so far. The only issue with playing FR only is that you cannot play euro mornings bc there are just no games compared to you can play anytime if you mix in some 6max. I still haven't found a solid schedule yet (last week i was waking up early morning, going to bed 9pm-ish and before waking up at 6 in teh evening going to bed 11am). I think i will try out finding a compromise here with waking up in teh late afternoon and going to bed during teh wee hours which will still give me some daylight, alot of decent fullring action and it's quite a good schedule to rage as well. That's it for poker and april, goal for may is just to start running better which worked out well teh first day where i should be sick amount over EV mainly bc running with KK into AA several time and winning moastly - almoast feels like my account is slowly coming back into speed.

Regarding life even though poker isn't going too well i'm very satisfied and convinced i made a good call with Bangkok. Still a bit early to tell after being here for a month but cannot recall any other places i've been where i felt that good. City gives you like a permanent slight euphoria that i always catch myself just running around somewhere and smiling thinking "this is it, fucking BKK". Compared to basically all other places i've been teh biggest difference is if you ask people how satisfied they are and what there future plans are. If you ask this question in London you will get mixed answers which will range from "i love it" to "i have to get teh fuck out of this hellhole asap". If you ask people here in Bangkok they will smile and say "this is teh best fucking city in teh world, i don't want to be anywhere else". Compared to Malta teh striking difference is teh longer people stay in Bangkok teh moar they seem to enjoy it while teh longer people stay in Malta teh moar they want to just get teh fuck out of there :D
This is quite sick or better said interesting if you put into account that Bangkok itself is not a nice city, in fact it's probably teh ugliest and dirtiest place i've ever lived, even in the best aka highsociety parts of town it's stinks at every corner, if you walk down the street you'll see alot of fucked up people, there is alot of poverty, teh sun comes out every 10days bc of smog, there is no ocean and no views besides skyscrapers and concrete, etc. But what all those studies about teh moast livable cities in teh world don't take into account is how satisfied are teh people really, how inexpensive is teh city, and especially HOW FREE do you feel/are you. I can just laugh about seeing aussie capitals rank up high there every year bc people here are so much moar satisfied than somebody in europe, OZ or whatever possibly could be...
I would assume a major part comes also down to teh religion here which is Budism and hands down one of teh coolest religions which is out there. Those guys just don't give a fuck, it's your life, do whatever teh fuck you want as long as you hurt nobody else...

Anyways, I'm really settled at my new place now and as you can see i'm satisfied. Even though i have teh flat for myself i already had 4 visitors and wasn't really living alone for teh moast time since i'm here. As i poasted in my last entry i have everything directly around teh corner: gym, malls, cinema, supermarkets, restaurants and even nightlife is only a short taxi ride. And oh what a nightlife it is. I don't think that anything i've seen so far anywhere in teh world comes even remotely close to what you have here and while nightlife is sick for a couple of weeks/months in alot of places it's sick here all fucking year. There is so much variety, you can go out every night, etc. Potentially on a tuesday here you could experience teh best night of your life - in which city is that even possible?

Here's a couple of pictures of my current condo. I got 2 bedrooms and it's quite spacious so it will be always possible to have people staying with me. But if you plan to tag along please give me notice couple of weeks beforehand bc there seem to be alot of people coming and going (as mentioned i'm here 4 weeks and oreddi had 4 different guests^^):

I went out quite a bit so far but nothing overly crazy. Just don't really have a clear head during those downswings and don't want to go out 3nights a week if i don't feel it - that might change though. Was also cool to be here via Songkran which is Thailand new year and just sick. City shuts completely down for a couple of days and everybody is celebrating and making each other wet. Try to poast some videos about this but not sure if it works out.

Regarding future plans i will definitely be here and try to work alot during may and am thinking about going to Ibiza and Malta for 4weeks in midjune to midjuly. There is are some mates in Ibiza who drive teh Gumball so i could combine that and go to Malta for teh world cup after. But especially since poker isn't going my way i might postpone that, it's prolly 50/50 atm. There is not really any point for me in leaving just now bc everything i could every potentially want is just here right now. Plus it's a pain in teh ass of a flight. But yeah, if i somehow manage to make decent cash this month (which is questionable) i might just change my mind and book it. It's not like i couldn't literally book a flight to europe and leave teh next day :)

I also finally managed to buy a new gadget i was missing since my Malta days:

Finally able to push through long sessions once again...

Also for teh first time in over 7 years i got a new haircut which went surprisingly decent given teh limited conversation skills in teh english tongue of teh hairstylist:

Bought a Herman Miller embody for around 1.3k euros shortly after moving in to complete teh Bangkok shipping center which is definitely worth it's money if you are looking for a sick(expensive) chair:

In the gym there was a machine which was measuring body fat which has to be terribly wrong bc there is no way i'm anywhere close to 5.9 atm :/

Last but not least some party impressions. Failed massively in case of taking pictures so far but will try to step up my picture taking game a bit in future:

And finally some videos shot during Songkran and other nights:

Youtube screwed up a bit so might have to turn your head sometimes :P

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Time to hit teh gym,

peaze, TimStone out

Arrived in teh city of angels

Kinda bored and waiting for food so i figured i might write a short update which mostly caters to teh people who are particularly interested my life.

Left Bali on teh 7th via Singapore. While at teh airport getting asked for teh time i realized that my watch which stopped working around 2 weeks ago was going in full force again which was a good sign for teh trip. I basically scheduled teh stopover in Singy bc teh 2nd harddrive in my brandnew laptop was already malfunctioning and since teh shop i bought it from is there and Singy is somehow on teh way to Bangkok i figured it's best to get it done there. From Singapore i was flying with Scoot for teh first time which i can recommend if you travel middistance around Asia. They are a cheap subairline from Singaporean Airlines and use their old Boing's and unlike most of teh lowfare airlines they have a pseudo business class which is cheap like shit. Normal flight was like 70$ and Biz 110ish so it was a no brainer to book that and it was decent. Not teh most comfy seats but teh 39inches between seats easily made up for it.
In Bangkok at teh airport i tried getting a taxi from one of teh official stands where i got quoted 1.600THB which is around 40euro. Was reading abit Lonely Planet during teh flight where they wrote std fare is 500ish to my area so i turned her down with a "wtf u srs?". Price instantly went down to 950THB but i moved on before giving those fucking scammers any money. Kind of ridic because that was a big fucking official taxi booth - welcome to Thailand. Waved one from teh street then which costed me 500ish as expected.
Once arrived in my condotel (a mixture between condo and hotel) i realized that teh pictures of my place at Agoda weren't even close to what waited for me upstairs. This told me ones again if a deal is too good to be true it's unlikely that it's true or good or both. Place i'm living atm reminds me at teh tower where teh sport students in Cologne reside - pretty good view but that's pretty much it. I scored at least one of teh highest floors (43rd) so that it looks quite sick at night but furniture are lolbad and beds are uncomfy as shit. Since i didn't plan to spend much time here anyways i couldn't care less.
Tuesday and wednesday i went out with different agents and looked at places but it's quite tough to be honest. Definitely moar expensive that i would've thought it is and 90% of teh places are just supergeneric and have no style, soul, whatsoever. Only found one which i really liked and a couple which were ok but there was always something which crossed them off my list in teh end.
Signed a contract earlier on for this one:

It's not exactly teh location i originally aimed for but it had alot of other benefits which made me go for it and besides it, it was teh only one where i really had teh feeling i could spend some time in.
It's directly connected to teh BTS and a mall with a big cinema AND a solid gym (gym is 3mins walk from teh doorstep of my apartment :)). There is another mall directly next door which specializes in computer stuff and inhouse i have a Starbucks and an office of my future internet provider and some other stuff. Also there are alot of beautyshops downstairs so that i expect quite a bunch of decent chicks flocking around getting their nails done...
I haven't done any parties so far bc i hate being hungover while I have to look for a place to stay but that should change over/after teh weekend.
Didn't play much so far bc internet in teh place i'm staying atm is terrible with alot of discons especially during peaktimes but when it works i seem to run quite decent and win moar than i lose - one of teh reasons while i want to get out of here asap. If everything goes smooth i will have moved in at my new place on saturday where i have a pretty sick 2nd bedroom waiting for guests who are brave enough to come and try Bangkok.
Also quite amazed by teh food so far, everything i ate was outstanding and especially teh delivery service options are just sick and so good for a reasonable price. Speaking of this my food should be here any minute anyways so i finish here.
Will try to poast a better update with some moar pictures of Thailand New Year which starts sunday during teh next 2 weeks but will not promise anything.

rgds from Bangkok,

peaze

Teh TimStone charity in full force

It's been a time since my last losing month so one could say this was overdue. In teh past wasn't really blogging about when running shit but since i basically committed to update once a month here we go:

Let's start by looking thing from a bigblind won perspective:

BB one in march

29 stacks in 120k hands. Even if that cannot really be considered as crushing it's still decent and should result in some $, no?
Unfortunately not. Basically all my career i was blessed in running fairly decent in teh highest games i played and i always knew there will come a point where i will start running terrible at all my highest stakes at teh same time. This was definitely overdue.
So here's teh real deal for march:

garph march (for teh nonpokerplayers this is teh garph which counts)

As u can see something happend which rarely happens: I'm actually under EV and i'm under EV ay decent chunk. If calculate in rakeback i'm not down too much, maybe a grand i would guess. Still sucks to work teh entire month for no or better said a negative salary but that's poker and that's part of teh game. Almost was surprised that i had a positive EV because after a good first week of march i was running shit teh entire time. It's not necessarily teh EV thing atm, it's more that i barely hit any hands and if i do i get massive coolers or alot of snapfolds. I would say almost to a degree i have rarely if ever seen before in 5 years of playing.
Anyhu, to put all that into perspective: If i only would've played NL200 and NL400 i would've ended up with this pretty boy:

garph 200+400 only

While that doesn't help me to buy any stuff bc i'm still down 5k it helps confidence bc it shows i'm still crushing. It also brings us to another topic i want to write a bit about which is playing a wide mix of stakes.
I started playing teh month NL200 up to 2k. So you can read out of teh garph that i lost 16kish at 600+ in not even 20k hands which resulted in a negative month. So basically 15% of my volume is responsible for 100% of my results... After losing like 3.5k in a matter of 5minutes at 2k i put it out of teh filter immidiately bc i realized i cannot or better don't want to handle that kind of swings on a daily basis.
Playing a wide range of stakes has advantages and disadvantages but for me personally disadvantages are too big to continue like that so i decided to go back to 200-600 and grind it up there. A couple of guys playing like 200-5k and i have no clue how they do it, they either have an insanely good mindset or are huge degenerates, moast likely a mix of both. If i play 200 and 2k at teh same time for example i for once make my entire month dependant on how i run at 2k. I'm almost certainly massive +ÉV in teh games i choose to play there but still you can lose 5k in a matter of minutes without doing anything wrong. And grinding back 5k at 200 and 400 takes time and patience. Furthermoar as soon as 1k or 2k runs your NL200 tahles basically become play money from one moment to teh other. What do you care about a stack at 200 if you put teh same money on teh line with a preflop 4bet at 1k or a 3bet at 2k. Also if i run bad at those stakes i basically can feel how my entire game changes quickly from A or B to C or D because in your mind you start thinking "shit, now i have to grind it back, why do i play those stakes in teh first place etc." So for now i really want to stick to mixing only 200 to 600 which gives me alot moar peace of mind. Even if you lose a stack at 600 it's not a long way to grind that stack back at 200 and 400. Now you can argue that this is somewhat a weak mindset to have as a pro which might be right but after 5years in teh game i know how my brain ticks and it's not easy to change that. Just to give you an example, i would much rather take two 12.5k winning months instead of a 45k and a mins 15k even though i would've made moar money in teh second example. Alot of guys might think different about this though, but i rather "sacrifice" 5k and feel good about myself than being euphoric for one month and borderline depressive during teh next one... So if you currently mixing different stakes keep in mind that if you have a wide mix there will come a month where EVERYTHING will go wrong at your highest stakes and it will be impossible to win money that month even if you cannot imagine this yet - take care.

Since it was quite hard to get a decent session going at fullring only i decided to play some 6max again and tableselect a bit harder there which works out quite well so far. I also want to play moar peak times in future even though that means having quite awkward sleep cycles but it should be worth it. Still haven't find teh nutschedule yet and teh only real downside here is that teh timezone is just teh absolute nutlow for a grinder. In Australia you can at least wake up super early like at 6am and get all games, in Europe you can wake up in teh afternoon and get all games, South America in teh morning and start playing at peak but here whatever you do there is always a downside. Just to give you an impression how bad it is: Teh sunday mirrion starts 3.30am i think. So what you do here? You go to bed at 8 pm? You don't go to sleep and play tired? You nap from midnight til 3? Thank god i'm not playing MTTs and thankfully that timezone keeps alot of teh MTT donks away haha :)

On teh brightside this was my first month where i actually hit my goal of 50k VPPs so that i'm moar or less on track for 600k milestone and definitely for teh 500k one. Teh badrun was prolly one of teh reasons i could play a decent volume at least.

Goal for april now is to make some money for a change but given how teh month started already i'm definitely far from being out of that downswing which last around 100k hands now. Goes to a point where i can call turn and river cards and be right teh vast majority of teh time. For example if i get in JJ vs AK pre and flop comes down 278 i know despite teh odds that i'm not a favorite to win this hand. But yeah, sooner or later luck will turn around - no worries mate. I'm also rolled alot better compared to teh major downer which hit me last april where i lost like 50% of my online roll and was quite close to having to cash in money again for teh first time since being pro. While that would be no problem financially it still would be a weird feeling transfering a 5figure amount from my bank to teh pokersite but as being mentioned luckily i'm alot better rolled this time so that it's unlikely i'm coming that close to being online busto again. Never say never though.
Volumewise i don't know yet how much i manage in april. On teh 7th i have my flight to Bangkok and sorted a Junior Suite in a nice condotel for teh first couple of nights:

shortterm condo

shortterm condo

It's insane how cheap this really is lol. I'm paying 35euro a night for a 2bedroom which is quite modern and has a decent location, you could almost think about staying there for good for that price haha. Has over 70m² as well...
There's also teh big water festival in Bangkok which starts one weekend after my arrival which is supposed to be sick so that it's questionable how much poker i will be able to play. Goal for teh first week is definitely to find a nice 2 or 3 bedroom condo for myself but i cannot really tell how hard it is to find decent stuff over there and how long it takes to be finally sorted out completely. My goal is to have my own place and everything set up until 20th of april but i don't know how realistic it is in teh end... Definitely excited to finally get my ass off Bali for a change.

Up until mid march i was grinding alot and we still were 3 guys in teh villa. My mate ValueH left to Tokyo two weeks ago though which left me with teh last man standing, a HU SNG guy. I would've loved to join for Tokyo but my parents were about to visit around teh same time that Tokyo was of teh table (for now).
Since my parents arrived volume decreased a bit and i also had my former malta roomie visiting for a couple of days. Did some tours around teh island which resulted in some pictures:

Jimbaran

Ayana Resort Rooftop bar sunsettaments

Uluwatu

Uluwatu temple

Monkey wit teh baby

Tehm parents and teh australian, Kickers Offenback represent yo

Balangan Beach

Jimbaran again

Monkey forest

Junkey monkey

Ubud center

Rice terrace near Ubud

Problem with those tours here is that you always on teh road for 1.5 hours forth and back even though it's only a couple of kilometers which is highly annoying but what you not do for your parents.
They were here 2 weeks and i have final dinner with them later on btw.
Yesterday was Hindu New Year here which means Nyepi aka day of silence. Everybody goes out teh night before and makes alot of noise to attract all teh bad spirits. Then teh next day everybody stays at home so when teh ghosts come and find an empty island they all piss off again. It's quite a unique day - everything is closed: Teh airport, every shop, every restaurant, no cars, no bikes, no lights and nobody leaves home for an entire day. I almost missed getting enough takeaway food teh day before bc all restaurants where already close but luckily i found a hotel where i got some stuff which brought me through teh day. Today everything is back to normal thankfully.

Another funny thing is that teh watch i bought last month is already not working anymoar. So much about "having a timepiece for life".
Gonna have a stopover in Singapore before Bangkok though where i need to sort my new laptop as well which second HD is faulty so that i will try to sort teh watch at teh same time. Running quite bad overall not only in poker as you can see...

After over 6 months Bali it's time to put a recap: Don't get me wrong, i had a good time here but in retrospect i stay way too long. If i was about to do it again i would stay absolute max 3 months, moar like max 8 weeks and definitely not during off peak season. Half of teh time here it was only raining (end november until end february) and teh island was basically empty. Alot of people warned me before
that Bali is moar like a holiday destination or something you settle if you are really into surfing but as usual i didn't listen too much to other people and had to find out myself. Especially if you are into nightlife you will be bored after a month because it's just so bad.
It caters to either australian bogans or gays and if you don't belong to one of teh two groups you are fucked. There are some good girls around here for sure but they are not easy to find. I'm still convinced i saw moar hotties on one night in one club in Bangkok than i saw here in sick months. Granted 20-30% of them had a dick but they still nice to look at. On teh flipside because of all that i was able to put in decent work and live moar healthy than every before teh last years - i mean i went drinking out 3 times this year so far, not
because i don't want to drink but because it's pointless to go out because i know i will be bored teh entire night. Anyways, had a pretty good group in teh villa here and alot of fun even though we didn't went out much overall after a while. I assume that will change a bit in Bangkok though. So if you want to visit Bali and you are no surfer i can only give you teh advice: Go for holiday: short holiday, long holiday, whatever you like but don't book anything for longer than 8 weeks (you can always reevaluate after that time) and don't stay here during november and march.

I also had bday couple of days before and celebrated it by going to bed at 10pm - i'm officially an old fart now :( Thank god Thailand is catering towards old guys like me... :P
Also got my phone stolen ones again which always seems to happen around this time of teh year. So i'm back on teh good ol galaxy cam which has android and can do everything besides calling and receiving calls. Since i never talk it's not a big deal and thankfully teh S5 comes out in a couple of days.
For now i'm just looking forward to take that flight next monday and start a new chapter of my life. Maybe i gonna have a belated bday party over there to my standards when i think about it :)

Gl to me and peaze out

TimStone for PokerCanChangeYourLife


PS: Originally wanted to poast teh bigger pots i played but too lazy to put them all online. In short i lost  3.6k at 2k in 5 minutes, all with Anna Kournikova which looks good but doesn't win too often. Think that they all were moar or less standard and not much i can do about it. Another 2 highlights i remeber was AA vs QQ on AQQxx at 1k pot limit and KK vs. 22 at 400 on K22xx. There were at least another 5 where i got owned with quads but at least not for big pots...

Teh 3 screen setup

sex offender pics for that thailand visa

possible new avatar if current one keeps running like a one legged hooker