I love when I get a chance to speak to Notgoingnewhere one on one about poker, we share many similar views and if we don't always agree we can generally appreciate the others opinion and agree that many things have more than one way of working out. I guess when we think about a situation, we both can put our minds in the bigger picture and see how each view could possibly work out equivalent or very similarly in the long term.
The foundation of our friendship comes from back in the beginning of poker. We were two fish with a dream of being baller poker stars. We both played some live poker in a poker club called 'the western' which also has computers their so you can play online poker if you bust their daily donkaments. I remember 'Notgoingnewhere' being somewhat popular amongst the regulars at the club but being a shy kid I never really had any interactions with him for a good few months. One day we both were playing online sitting on computers next to each other, and at this time playing 4tables at the club was deemed pretty sick I think we had both mastered 9 tabling at home by this point and was playing quite a few mtt sngs and stts and as fish do were talking about hands with each other. I noticed Notgoingnewhere had a very different/interesting view on hands to the regular fish at the club. Throughout our conversations we both mentioned we had joined online coaching sites, we shared information with each other about the sites we had learnt from and the main videos he had been watching were 'Jackals' sng videos on CardRunners and I had learnt from 'Beanmo's' videos on Sharkscope.com (now sharkscopers.com), this automatically explained why our thinking was on another level to the average fish. We both took each other with us on the next 3year Journey of being the mid/high stake heads up sng players from that day forth. We would ring each other up for months on end, saying how we busted yet another roll each couple of months, at times we both felt like quitting, the strain was a lot and the pressure from people around us was also becoming a lot we didn't know if we were just two deluded fish or if we had something unique and special. Then the day came where we both busted our rolls at the same time and this would be for the last time. I took a month away from poker, I don't think I played a single hand of poker in this month, but maybe some home games with friends, overnight I came home from a 9-5 shift in the office and got reading, watching and learning poker for about 4hours a night for the entire month. The quote from 'Pimpingdonks' which said something along the lines of, 'win the war before the battle begins.' This basically meant: learn everything you need to know about poker before you begin the grind. I came back with a plan and when meeting up with Notgoingnewhere it appeared he had almost given up on this poker success thing, I had some quiet words with him and told him to keep his chin up and that we were going to do it properly this time. I made my deposit of $130 and within 1month I had grinded the $5 $10 $24 sngs and my roll was around $3.5k I was in a very good mindset and decided in a 16tabling session I would also play $50 1r+1a tournament and a bunch of other smaller stake ones, I used to play the max amount FTP would allow me too which was 20games I think in total with mtts and sngs. I dominated the field massively in the $50 1r+1a to take the first place prize of $6k, this is what you call going robusto :). Notgoingnewhere had regained his confidence whilst watching this happen, he was really eager to rebuild his roll and do it properly, he had come across a site 'Husng.com' which was going to change our lives and make us more money than we could imagine. After his first deposit of $400 Notgoingnewhere had a robusto roll similar to mine in a month. Cutting to the chase… We have spoken strategy ever since that day 3years ago when we were 2 fishes swimming in shark invested waters, I have seen how both our minds have wondered since that initial day where our thoughts on situations were so basic but still so effective to now where our brains are commonly thinking a very high level of thought in every situation we are faced with and tend to come up with the same/if not an equally profitable lines in most situations faced with in poker.
So that's the history of us, I began writing this last night on my way up to 'Nottingham' to play a £300 donkament which we both busted out on first day of, we are re-reging for the tournament today and give it one more bullet, we are going to make our way to the tournament now so I will give updates after the tournament. I really enjoy live tournaments and I am pretty excited about taking a lot more shots at live poker. In my next post I will also give an in site to how I feel about FullTilt having their License suspended and $30,000 of mine being seized, I will have a plan of action of what to do in this waiting time and a longer term plan for my poker future, It's a hard time but I want everyone to understand that stressing about this will only cause a negative effect, thinking of a positive direction to target towards will be key.
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