Barcelona was super tough and rough. Online/ongoing grind went even worse last few weeks. Business isn't going well for very long time.
Bad vibes are all around me...
Had a wisdom tooth removed yesterday morning. It went down pretty smooth, and I'm not in serious pain. I even went ahead with my Sunday session. There was much pain there tho...
So what do we do? We don't cry. Cause no one ever gives a shit. I have some new awesome bad beat stories but NO ONE GIVES A SHIT.
We fight. We fight hard. We have no other choice but to fight. This variance BS is what separate boys from the men. September, and WCOOP, is going be prob the toughest test I've had to go trough since going Pro gambling...
I believe I gonna make it. But even if I don't, I'll go down fighting.
Time to step up.
Many years from now I might look back at this period of time, and think I was young, dumb and Full of stupid optimism. But hey, I wont be thinking about it before I'm old and wise...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Work hard, get there
This post is shorter than normal, as it's 4:50 AM and I have a ME EPT to play (and win, later) in 7 hours...
Barca couldn't really started any worse for me. Nothing was going my way first few days. At the end of the day, like I always say, the good and strong must and shall prevail - The rest will fail and sometimes blame everyone else...
A.B is one of the most hard working ppl I ever met - I wish Id have half of his work ethics and his professional (sometimes over professional) approach to his job. Tonight he finally earned his long time earned big Bink. And he made us very proud on the way. His story (from being in some deep shit not that long ago) is gotta be not less than inspiring.
You should all Work Hard, Play hard
GN and GL Us!
P.s
Mrs Tilt,
I love you.
Barca couldn't really started any worse for me. Nothing was going my way first few days. At the end of the day, like I always say, the good and strong must and shall prevail - The rest will fail and sometimes blame everyone else...
A.B is one of the most hard working ppl I ever met - I wish Id have half of his work ethics and his professional (sometimes over professional) approach to his job. Tonight he finally earned his long time earned big Bink. And he made us very proud on the way. His story (from being in some deep shit not that long ago) is gotta be not less than inspiring.
You should all Work Hard, Play hard
GN and GL Us!
P.s
Mrs Tilt,
I love you.
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Barca timeeeeeeeeeee
Tomorrow I'm heading to my favorite place in the world, the Capital city of Catalonia, Barcelona!
Every-time I go I have the best time of my life... last time I was there I even got lucky and won my first ever poker trophy :)
Not sure yet about my plans and schedule of work there, but ill def do my best to win everything. Last few weeks were swingy overall, now it's time to join the winners circle again..
Traveling this time with a pretty big part of my poker group - Last time they were with me was in Prague, that trip ended well - Lets do this again!
Happy to see some friends I didn't see for a while - Sad Mrs Tilt isn't coming along this time around:(
Wont be able to go to Camp Nou for a game this time around (Barca is playing away in first round), unless I stay as long as next weekend (for game number 2 of La Liga) - That shall be the case only if I make a super deep run in the Main. So fingers crossed for that too :)
Lets get thereeeeeeeeeeeee
Barca, Barca, Barca!
Every-time I go I have the best time of my life... last time I was there I even got lucky and won my first ever poker trophy :)
Not sure yet about my plans and schedule of work there, but ill def do my best to win everything. Last few weeks were swingy overall, now it's time to join the winners circle again..
Traveling this time with a pretty big part of my poker group - Last time they were with me was in Prague, that trip ended well - Lets do this again!
Happy to see some friends I didn't see for a while - Sad Mrs Tilt isn't coming along this time around:(
Wont be able to go to Camp Nou for a game this time around (Barca is playing away in first round), unless I stay as long as next weekend (for game number 2 of La Liga) - That shall be the case only if I make a super deep run in the Main. So fingers crossed for that too :)
Lets get thereeeeeeeeeeeee
Barca, Barca, Barca!
Saturday, August 1, 2015
4200$ for a bag?? Snap back to reality...
We have been home for 3 days now, think I'm even over the jet-lag thingy by now..
33 days, 4 time zones, 1 deep run in the ME of WSOP (which showed nice profit, but overall did not get me to excitement levels I was expecting to feel), lots of fun, some disappointment and a heaps to reminisce about in the future.
It is hard to balance normal day to day life, with money you spend when u travel. After the ME, I said Mrs Tilt she has a nice budget to buy herself a bag, in a fancy place, as a birthday present.
She showed me just one bag (which she didn't even like, just to teach me a lesson), while being in Hawaii, which was 4200$ (Before TAX).
I mean, if something cost that much, I could only assume some one will consider buying it, right?
Who? Why?!
What would u do with an ugly 4200$ bag? Do u get a 2100$ worth of body guard to protect it and yourself while using it?
I saw ppl gambling 5 figure bets red/black on the Roulette in Vegas. I've seen ppl begging for a piece of bread in the subway in NYC. Such a weird world we are living in sometimes...
Next adventure is already set, but till I'm back to my favorite place in the world, I'm back to full time grind and hard work. Snap back to reality.
33 days, 4 time zones, 1 deep run in the ME of WSOP (which showed nice profit, but overall did not get me to excitement levels I was expecting to feel), lots of fun, some disappointment and a heaps to reminisce about in the future.
It is hard to balance normal day to day life, with money you spend when u travel. After the ME, I said Mrs Tilt she has a nice budget to buy herself a bag, in a fancy place, as a birthday present.
She showed me just one bag (which she didn't even like, just to teach me a lesson), while being in Hawaii, which was 4200$ (Before TAX).
I mean, if something cost that much, I could only assume some one will consider buying it, right?
Who? Why?!
What would u do with an ugly 4200$ bag? Do u get a 2100$ worth of body guard to protect it and yourself while using it?
I saw ppl gambling 5 figure bets red/black on the Roulette in Vegas. I've seen ppl begging for a piece of bread in the subway in NYC. Such a weird world we are living in sometimes...
Next adventure is already set, but till I'm back to my favorite place in the world, I'm back to full time grind and hard work. Snap back to reality.
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
66th
ME WSOP, biggest event of the year. My first ever 10k buy-in MTT...
Played for 6 days.
6420 started, and I got 66th. Earned some money to cover my expenses for this big trip.
Made some good plays, made some bad, happy with my professional performance overall. Learned a lot about myself and about live poker in the US.
Worked my ass off for over a week, feel super tired.
Should feel happy with my overall performance... But on our way yesterday to Hawaii (our penultimate stop of this trip), I almost started crying...
I mean, most ppl come to Vegas, lose a lot of money, and get back home super happy.
I came to Vegas for the first time, made decent money, and felt like it's the end of the world.
I imagine only poker players can understand this feeling. So close, yet so far. Feeling it but not quite getting there. It's been like 24 hours now, and I'm next to the pool laxxxing, so mood is improving slowly - guess ill feel happy and accomplished again soon ...
Within few days Ill start thinking about future plans.
I wanna thank everyone again for the support, it was amazing - I do feel blessed being surrounded by so many cool ppl/friends/colleagues.
I know I've put this song here few times before already, but it just inspires me again and again, and makes me think Ill be able to get there soon...
Played for 6 days.
6420 started, and I got 66th. Earned some money to cover my expenses for this big trip.
Made some good plays, made some bad, happy with my professional performance overall. Learned a lot about myself and about live poker in the US.
Worked my ass off for over a week, feel super tired.
Should feel happy with my overall performance... But on our way yesterday to Hawaii (our penultimate stop of this trip), I almost started crying...
I mean, most ppl come to Vegas, lose a lot of money, and get back home super happy.
I came to Vegas for the first time, made decent money, and felt like it's the end of the world.
I imagine only poker players can understand this feeling. So close, yet so far. Feeling it but not quite getting there. It's been like 24 hours now, and I'm next to the pool laxxxing, so mood is improving slowly - guess ill feel happy and accomplished again soon ...
Within few days Ill start thinking about future plans.
I wanna thank everyone again for the support, it was amazing - I do feel blessed being surrounded by so many cool ppl/friends/colleagues.
I know I've put this song here few times before already, but it just inspires me again and again, and makes me think Ill be able to get there soon...
Saturday, July 4, 2015
This might have been the longest day of my life..
All started well and amusing at the SF airport... We quickly got a car at around Noon (could have been the top story on it's own, that process, but on such a day...), and started making our way towards Highway 1... Normally this drive should take just over 1.5 hours, but apparently Americans love to drive on 4th of July weekends, so we got to Monterrey (more or less the start of the amazing pacific road) at roughly 4:30 PM...
Had a quick lunch, were told by the locals we will be driving 10~ more hours (instead of 6-7) cause of traffic, started considering our options and decided we gonna go trough with it, as it kinda sucks skipping a pre-booked hotel...
Highway 1 is AMAZING. It's perfect. I'd spend a week there ez. I might just do that before November 9 (which I'd be a part of, ofc). Also traffic got way better quickly, and by 8PM we were already out and on our way to LA with 4 hours of driving left according to our GPS.
What I didn't anticipate at this point, is not having a single gas station over the course of the next 2.5 hours...
In the middle of no where (highway 46 if anyone knows), we started running really short, and I started getting super worried... Than BAM - Gaz station shown on the GPS. Got there. Gonna laxxx now.
Shit, Card doesn't go trough and store is closed.
Panic attack (first I had since December 8th, 2011). Mrs tilt tries to calm me down. I'm already considering calling for rescue.
Couple guys drive by tell me there's another station few miles down the way. We are not sure we have couple miles left (we are at 0 a while already).
Nothing works so we decide to gamble and go for it.
We find a station and manage to fuel-up literally on the 98th minute of injury time...
We get to our hotel in LA at 1 AM.
Totals:
13 hours on the road.
425 Miles I drove in one day - That's 680 KM~. <Eilat to Metula (south point to north point of Israel) is around 520KM~>
1 Panic attack.
1. Mrs tilt who needs compensation...
Funny that this is our official US trip song...
Happy 4th of July to all my American friends!
Had a quick lunch, were told by the locals we will be driving 10~ more hours (instead of 6-7) cause of traffic, started considering our options and decided we gonna go trough with it, as it kinda sucks skipping a pre-booked hotel...
Highway 1 is AMAZING. It's perfect. I'd spend a week there ez. I might just do that before November 9 (which I'd be a part of, ofc). Also traffic got way better quickly, and by 8PM we were already out and on our way to LA with 4 hours of driving left according to our GPS.
What I didn't anticipate at this point, is not having a single gas station over the course of the next 2.5 hours...
In the middle of no where (highway 46 if anyone knows), we started running really short, and I started getting super worried... Than BAM - Gaz station shown on the GPS. Got there. Gonna laxxx now.
Shit, Card doesn't go trough and store is closed.
Panic attack (first I had since December 8th, 2011). Mrs tilt tries to calm me down. I'm already considering calling for rescue.
Couple guys drive by tell me there's another station few miles down the way. We are not sure we have couple miles left (we are at 0 a while already).
Nothing works so we decide to gamble and go for it.
We find a station and manage to fuel-up literally on the 98th minute of injury time...
We get to our hotel in LA at 1 AM.
Totals:
13 hours on the road.
425 Miles I drove in one day - That's 680 KM~. <Eilat to Metula (south point to north point of Israel) is around 520KM~>
1 Panic attack.
1. Mrs tilt who needs compensation...
Funny that this is our official US trip song...
Happy 4th of July to all my American friends!
Thursday, July 2, 2015
You're gonna meet some gentle people there (and every homeless in the west coast)
*Super tired while writing this, sorry if spelling sucks*
Almost a week gone since starting our US trip.
Last 3 days we are in San Francisco. A place with a song. And hills. And a beautiful bridge. And a great bay. And delicious food. And... We wanted to run away on hour number 2.
I mean we come from a place with shit load of problems and issues... but I can't imagine we can ever meet the local reality here - Market Street (Cities main street - which goes trough the financial and hi-tech districts. Uber and Twitter HQ's are right there) is filled with endless amounts of homeless, junkies and random wierdos.... This happens apparently because SF is taking in all those ppl in need, from nearby cities/states (such as LA and Nevada). Some of them sell/buy drugs in day light. Some scream. Most of them just sit and look to get a quarter, so they can buy a beer.
U can't ignore them totally. U can do your best to look away, but there's just too many of them, at every corner of most streets. So u start thinking about it... Sometimes the pictures u see are just too much to bare.
Next week I'm going to play the ME WSOP. Makes me understand even way better how much is on stake. Those ppl might kill each other for way less than this events buy in.
We are having fun, don't get me wrong. We will be having fun till we get back. It's just that this trip goes through with so much mental weight. Gotta keep strong. We seen many flowers yesterday in local botanical gardens, and we are wearing some in our hair :)
Almost a week gone since starting our US trip.
Last 3 days we are in San Francisco. A place with a song. And hills. And a beautiful bridge. And a great bay. And delicious food. And... We wanted to run away on hour number 2.
I mean we come from a place with shit load of problems and issues... but I can't imagine we can ever meet the local reality here - Market Street (Cities main street - which goes trough the financial and hi-tech districts. Uber and Twitter HQ's are right there) is filled with endless amounts of homeless, junkies and random wierdos.... This happens apparently because SF is taking in all those ppl in need, from nearby cities/states (such as LA and Nevada). Some of them sell/buy drugs in day light. Some scream. Most of them just sit and look to get a quarter, so they can buy a beer.
U can't ignore them totally. U can do your best to look away, but there's just too many of them, at every corner of most streets. So u start thinking about it... Sometimes the pictures u see are just too much to bare.
Next week I'm going to play the ME WSOP. Makes me understand even way better how much is on stake. Those ppl might kill each other for way less than this events buy in.
We are having fun, don't get me wrong. We will be having fun till we get back. It's just that this trip goes through with so much mental weight. Gotta keep strong. We seen many flowers yesterday in local botanical gardens, and we are wearing some in our hair :)
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