walchy's blog

Sorry for the late entry i know i said tomorrow but as it turns out my 21st celebrations began a week early and will continue till this Sunday. Going to be
absolutely fantastic. A quick shout out to all the drinks i have drunk, the drinks i will drink and the drinks i will throw up to

OK so onto part 2, if you read part 1 i am sorry. It was not very interesting, but this tale improves as one continues.

***********Part 2*************

I left off having just deposited $50 dollars onto full tilt. I had a vague idea what to expect but unfortunately know one to guide me through. I did not have some one who had already been there and that had a large bearing on what follows.

That is my good readers, the one tabling of 1-10 dollar SnG's as my bankroll allowed it. I followed chris ferguson's bank roll building guide that he used for his 0-10k challenge. Looking back i do not know how i even made it this far. However at one point it did look bleak, as i had lost close to 1/2 my bankroll in a short time. I did not know however that this was just variance, i doubted myself, cursed full tilt and swore...alot.

All over losing a coin flip or a 60/40. Then as one can imagine my luck changed, i came 3rd in a 3.30 90man. Followed quickly by a 2nd. Variance had court up with me, but at the time i thought it was because i was Gods gift to poker. For i had made 230 dollars!! from 414 games.

The months that followed where similar. I did not withdraw from my bankroll at any stage in these coming months, as i did not want to be set back in my journey.

February: 328 $1 $10 14% $422
March: 403 $4 $19 21% $1,553
April: 439 $3 $23 14% $1,328
At the end of April/beginning of march i won my first tournament. a 24 dollar 12k guaranteed for 2.6k, before that i had played somewhere in the realm of 20-30 tournaments. I still remeber the winning hand where i flopped a set, he turned a straight, the money went in, i swore and the board paired. My friends however were none to pleased as this tournament ended at 5 in the morning, i did not care, i was again feeling on top of the poker world.
May: 521 $5 $50 9% $2,760
June: 433 $8 $53 10% $3,386

Those first 6 months while profitable were hindered by my lack of experience. Firstly i did not have rakeback, frankly i did not even know rakeback existed until 4 or so months in. GET RAKEBACK!!

While i think it helped my development, i definitely feel i 1 tabled for to long. My pursuit up the ranks took an extended period of time as my hourly was so low. So a word of advice to all up coming players, when you are comfortable with your game. ADD TABLES. I must stress though that you need to be comfortable. Many a player has began with more tables than he can handle and as a result he would hemorrhage money in spots where he should not.

So please any up and coming player who would like some help, get in contact with me i am more than happy to offer advice or what ever is needed.

Part 3: My first real downswing and the result it had on my psyche. A downswing that made me want to quit for good.

I have heard fabled tales of the party poker days, a time of immense growth in the poker community. Where superstars were made and bankrolls created. But alas like all things in history one has to be in the right place at the right time. This was not the case as i had never heard of poker in those days, apart from playing 5 card draw every now and then.

I bluffed to much, called to much and had no idea what was going on. Granted no one of us did, so good times were had by all. My first real taste was the play money tables over at Poker stars. Where Australia's hero Joe Hachem played.

On those free money tables i built a bankroll in the many millions. I was a play money pro, with a fool proof strategy even before i knew what ICM or anything like that was. My strategy was to play super tight, wait for everyone to donk themselves out and then shove aces. Ground breaking really.....haha

It was not until i read about Chris Ferguson's 0-10k challenge that i was inspired to play. So began my career as a free roll grinder on Full Tilt. Where i would play the free rolls everyday in the hopes of winning that 15dollars to start my Challenge. I did luckily bink one of these, got it up to 40 dollars and then lost it all. That day was the end of my career as a professional free roll player.

Dec 26th 2007: I finally deposit 50 dollars. Never once have i needed to deposit again. The interesting part of this story will come tomorrow. If you call 1 tabling 1 dollar SnG's for the first month interesting then you will be in for a treat.

The month so far, minus today's as it is not being tracked

As i write this i am sick as a dog and hating life. I have not been able to leave the house and have not felt like playing poker. This has been going on for the last week or so which sucks. Good way to end June/Start July.

So July is my favourite month. so here is to hoping its a huge one.

June results:
Poker: 816 $16 $125 12% $12,878. Would of liked some more volume but i started the month off on a downswing, nothing much could be done about that. When i am on a downswing i struggle to find the motivation, so i feel it is best to take a step back from the game. Unfortunately i did not make my Goal of 15k but i am still ahead in my prop bet.
Rakeback: $1600 in rakeback
Total profit. $14,478

As my Birthday is coming up i thought i would give back to this growing community. So if any one would like me to do a free hand history review of their play give me an email. walch6@hotmail.com

My goals for this month are:
1) 1200+ SnG's
2) add the 500s to my HU slate
3) Organize my Uni for the semester and attend everything i need to attend
4) blackout somewhere on my 21st

I am sure i have some more but at the moment my head is killing me and i need to go back to bed/watch some more Lord of the rings.

gl to everyone for July

walchy

Except when i make an awesome blog post and i hit refresh because i constantly spazz click. Pretty frustrating. Well it was not an awesome post but whatever.

So since my last update its just been a lot of poker, hanging out and all that fun stuff. Granted i need a tan, pretty damn badly. I look like Edward Cullen (lol twilight) minus the attractiveness and the sweet vampire skills. Unfortunately being winter here in Australia, it is such a bitch to go outside so i stay rugged up grinding. yay.

On a healthy front my diet has degraded with my tan. I really do want to improve it and one of these days it will be done. maybe tomorrow, maybe not.

Poker has been alright, crossed the 10k for the month so that is nice. Going to put in some big hours to close out this month as i don't have any commitments. Apart from the state of origin tonight! (Queensland v NSW). Go Queensland!

Next month is my birthday! so excited. 21 baby

For know one that has seen it, this is possibly the best thing on the internet. this is the be end and end all of the internet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwqNyTxPXMw

I'm a little spastic at the moment as i have had way to much V. When that happens i just ramble so i am going to stop now.

hope everyone is owning.

walchy

Obviously Phil Ivey got that 5bucks i sent him as he has now activated my
boomswitch. Thanks Phil.

quick update, time to put in another session. I will look to put up some hands in some coming blogs, i really think it helps my game when i go through the thought process. So hopefully i will have some interesting ones.

catchya

walchy

To start the month off on a downswing is always fun. In a downswing it is
important to be play orientated rather than results. So we will continue
making the +ev decision and not focus on the outcome. As soon as we
start focusing on what happened at the end of the hand, our game will suffer
and the downswing will continue. Except not through variance this time but
bad play and tilt.

All we can do is keep playing our A game and the results will follow. Sometimes you just have to lose money to make money in the long run.

peace

Results for May:
Profit: 885 $20 $117 16% $18,117
Rakeback: 1700-1900
Overall: 19-20k

Made my goal of 15k+ so i am super happy with how this month went obviously. Although i am displeased with myself for the amount of volume i put in towards the end of the month however. I really felt i lost motivation and did not want to put in the hours. I think that can be attributed to a one thing.

1) to much partying/drinking as the next day i don't do anything but chill and feel sorry for myself.

I did not go out and drink at the beginning of the month and my results really mirrored that choice. So i have to cut down on my drinking when i go out so i do not feel like death the next day.

June Goals
1) Poker: 15-20k
2) organize my 21st birthday (July 17th) any ideas appreciated
3) Make some videos for SharkScopers
4) Bink a tournament/ organize an MTT coach
5) gym 4 times a week, i have a bet with my trainer so i could stand to lose a lot of money if this does not happen.
6) Drink less

I think this hand is really cool.
http://weaktight.com/1166512 This hand is against a winning reg at the 200s, so we know he is a good player. I raise the flop here because there are so many hands he has to muck that are in his limping range. When he calls his range is something like a big spade, a weak ace (granted he would be raising most of these pre, so they make up a small portion), a 5 with a decent spade or decent kicker, straight draws without a spade (as i think he would try and get a straight draw and a spade in on the flop so we can rule out that) and all his made flushes, straights, 2 pairs etc.

Because i raised the flop i am barreling this turn a huge amount and obviously mucking if he jams. When he just smooth calls he is making his hand pretty transparent as now he does not have trips as they would jam, a hand like 45 would fold as it has now been counterfeited. i would think his straights and weak flushes would jam as my perceived range of a trip aces is never folding. So really his smooth call is telling us he has a 5 with a big spade and does not believe i have an ace. Or a full house that is letting me catch up (however they make up a small percentage as he is raising his pairs, aces pre flop), he has a naked big spade (j/q/k) or the nut/close to the nut spade flush.

On the river when i pair i check, as now i am never getting any value from hands that i beat if i bet. So i am turning my hand into a bluff catcher. Although i expect him to check behind a lot of his range with show down value. So when he bets he has a made hand or a missed draw with no show down value such as j10 with the j of spades.While i am not 100% sure how how often he bluffs this river, we are getting 3:1 on a call. So we snap it off. I actually did not expect to see him have the hand he bet on the river, as i cant imagine any better hands calling him. So i hate his 'value' bet.

Alright that is it for me from May, speak to you all in June.

Walchy

Drinking and being young go hand in hand. For a social gathering it is
drinks at my place, lets go clubbing and all manner of things that include
alcohol. My friends and i even have a drinking game centered around halo, us young people will drink with anything. Goodbye liver.

Granted alcohol does lead to a lack of inhibition and an increase in confidence.
Yet i do not have an off switch. I will drink until i wake up the next morning in
my bed, someones else bed or on rare occasions sports stadiums. God knows
how i got there or what happened that night.

This usually leads to a couple things: checking if i have my wallet, whether that wallet has any money left and if i have my phone. Most occasions it is yes, no, yes.

Followed by trying to find my clothes, as my friends can vouch i have a slight habit of getting naked after a couple drinks. Usually i have lost my shoes or i have broken the buttons of my shirt.

And Finally the waste of an entire day due to feeling like absolute death and the in ability to function for the next 24 hours.

A standard night for me: Get clean, clothes on and out the door to a mates place for drinks. A couple of Vodka mix drinks or home made cocktails. I am such a girl when it comes to drinks (embarrassing yes). Cab to fortitude valley were all the good night spots are in Brisbane. Hit on girls, drink, get kicked out of a club, argue with bouncer, move along, hit on more girls (usually in such a state that i am slurring my words, as one can expect this does not work well, so i guess i shall use this space to apologize to them all right now).

Then hit the dance floor hard breaking out my best Usher impression. Fall down, jump back up and repeat. Drink some more....insert hazy memories of the rest of the night....and if i am lucky i Wake up somewhere near my house with all my belongings.

So in a nutshell i get to spend money and make a fool of myself.

I have not really put in any volume the past week since my last update which i am deeply disappointed in myself. Granted i have had a couple nights like the night above, so i guess i am fine with that, as relationships are more important than money.

I hope everyone is running well and playing better.

walchy xx

It was one of those nights last night where i just did not feel like sleeping. So what better way to spend an evening/morning than playing some tournaments.
Went to 7/11 and got some red bull and we were away.

I min cashed one of my tournaments, when i shoved KO with 12bb over a late position raise only to be time banked called by A5. Super standard. I proceeded to then busted out of everything else before i FT the 50k guarantee. For a little over 4k

Which is a little disappointing considering i held a small chip lead going into the Final Table and easily was the bet player there. Not a brag as this table was pretty bad. Unfortunately i did not pick up that many hands and did not have many spots to open.

The hand that crippled me:
i 4 bet shoved A9 from the sb over a 3 bet from the bb. He time banked called with jj. This guy had been very aggressive at the FT and had 3 bet me 3-4 times before so i think my play is fine in this spot. Spiked the ace only to see that miserable jack on the river.

This 5th place puts me at 14k for the month, just hoping to run hot over these next 10days and crack 20k.

On another Note my diet sucks. I live on red bull, V and all other manner of Junk. Granted i have fixed my diet a little bit as I am working towards a Ryan Reynolds esque body. With the help of my personal trainer and my ability to get some willpower i will be as sexy as him. one time.

Hope everyone is running well and playing better.

walchy

WALCHY’s FAILBAG:

I’d like to thank all my faithful readers for writing and emailing in. Down to business…

(Darren from Nashville) Rob Sneider is clearly the greatest actor of this generation but who is 2nd greatest?
Sneider’s talent and versatility is unmatched by anyone. His body of work including Deuce Bigalow 1 and 2 speaks for itself. I would have to go with Kevin Costner as 2nd greatest. He has such a range of emotions and brings such charisma to the screen. Waterworld is an underappreciated masterpiece.

(Jessica Alba) Walchy don’t make me beg!
Jessica you’re a married woman now. Please stop harassing me. You are hideous.

(Manager, Jupiter’s Casino Brisbane) Walchy please don’t come to our casino again, the recession has hit us hard enough, we don’t need ‘hurricane walch’ as you call yourself at the roulette table destroying our margins any further.
FOR SPARTAAAA

(Stephen Hawking) Would you rather be eaten by a liger or a tigon?
Well Stephen, I don’t want to insult your intelligence, but that’s a stupid question! A liger is a genetic freak. The heaviest, non-overweight liger weighs 900 pounds. I’ll break it down to the basics for you Stephen because you seem abit slow, a liger is a cross between a male lion and a tigress. A tigon is a cross between a female lion and a male tiger. A liger would end you.

(Obama [=Black President]) How do I create lasting peace in Israel/Palestine?
It’s abit of a secret and I know it’s not something you or your media team like to publicise or politicize. But why not inspire the Israelis and Palestinians with your racial heritage. The union of your black father and white mother and your subsequent success as the first black president©.

(Geoff from New York) Who would you rather be trapped in lift with for 3.5 days, Gordon Ramsay or Carson Cressley?
That’s a very tough one Geoff, the situation with Ramsay would inevitably lead to a fight to the death at some point before 3.5 days are up. But that’s probably preferable to 3.5 days of Carson Cressley critiquing my dress sense and style and encouraging me to moisturize like Hempenstall does daily.

Just crossed 10k for the month so that is pretty awesome. The key run well in Super turbos, always fun to be on the plus side of variance.

***Don't tell someone bigger than you that you are better than him. It will result in you getting hit. Plus side i cleaned up the blood, continued partying and used it as a pick up line. Downside it hurt. Funny side he spent his night in Jail. Sucker.

Peace