Some people insist on calling it luck. People wait for change when they should actively be creating new avenues of possibility. Today I caught myself thinking negatively about a situation which could have cost me 30 more minutes on public transport over a 30 cent discrepency.
The cashier had run out of change and instead of worrying or fuming about the situation I quickly ran for the train as I felt waiting would cost me more than 30 cents. I was able to snap out of the mode I was in during the morning as I was hit by 3 or 4 instances where I had just missed or the timing wasn't right for buses, taxis and other plans for travel. I made the express train just in time.
I had realised or percieved that I was not flowing through life in my normal state. Some people call it God mode. You know these people in life for whom things seem to work out for. These people are not gifted something in life other than a positive attitude and a will to make it happen.
I see seemless transitions during my day as the norm not the exception. I was really challenged after a night on the tables where I would rate the result as avarage despite getting my money in as a 75% favourite 3 times and losing a few hundred. We can let past events in our life over shadow some future endeavours. I think we can shape the future by setting realistic goals for real life transformations.
On Saturday in bowls after being 15-1 down against our round 5 opponents we managed to claw back to a 20-19 lead with 8 ends to play. We continued on our winning way extending the length of the ends and our lead to win by 15 shots on our rink. Our whole team is hoping to win as many rinks as possible throughout the Pennant season.
We found a way to win. We changed our strategy. We never lost our focus, we believed in ourselves and the team. I think by having a team working together and believeing in one another it pushes us all individually to work harder. We really didn't want to let the team down and we were pretty confident of an overall victory. This enabled us to take tactical risks which payed off. We scored 33 shots to our opponents 2 over the last 10 ends.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Pennant Update
After our first round win against Northmead we were promptly advised by the Sydney North West Zone 10 organisation that we would be stripped of our 6 points and that they would be given to Northmead. This was due to an error in player transfer form processing.
Needless to say we are undefeated after 4 rounds and are sitting close to the top of the table despite losing our first round points. We have only lost one rink in 4 games and our side has pulled together and knows the job we have to do.
Needless to say we are undefeated after 4 rounds and are sitting close to the top of the table despite losing our first round points. We have only lost one rink in 4 games and our side has pulled together and knows the job we have to do.
Friday, March 19, 2010
When You Want Something You Have Never Had You Must Do What You Have Never Done
This idea struck me as a way to instigate change. I think we need to learn the lessons from our past and move forward. I generally believe that if you are successful in one area, some of the skills in your first area of success are transferable to future projects. New specialised learning and mentoring from experts in the new field is also required. There are just some things you can not teach yourself!
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
"Hearts a Mess" Goyte
Pick apart
The pieces of your heart
And let me peer inside
Let me in
Where only your thoughts have been
Let me occupy your mind
As you do mine
You have lost
(Too much love)
To fear, doubt and distrust
(It’s not enough)
You just threw away the key
(To your heart)
You don’t get burned
(’Cause nothing gets through)
It makes it easier
(Easier on you)
But that much more difficult for me
To make you see…
Love ain’t fair
So there you are
My love
Your heart’s a mess
You won’t admit to it
It makes no sense
But I’m desperate to connect
And you, you can’t live like this
Your heart’s a mess
You won’t admit to it
It makes no sense
But I’m desperate to connect
And you, you can’t live like this
Your heart’s a mess
You won’t admit to it
It makes no sense
But I’m desperate to connect
And you, you can’t live like this
Love ain’t safe
You won’t get hurt if you stay chaste
So you can wait
But I don’t wanna waste my love
The pieces of your heart
And let me peer inside
Let me in
Where only your thoughts have been
Let me occupy your mind
As you do mine
You have lost
(Too much love)
To fear, doubt and distrust
(It’s not enough)
You just threw away the key
(To your heart)
You don’t get burned
(’Cause nothing gets through)
It makes it easier
(Easier on you)
But that much more difficult for me
To make you see…
Love ain’t fair
So there you are
My love
Your heart’s a mess
You won’t admit to it
It makes no sense
But I’m desperate to connect
And you, you can’t live like this
Your heart’s a mess
You won’t admit to it
It makes no sense
But I’m desperate to connect
And you, you can’t live like this
Your heart’s a mess
You won’t admit to it
It makes no sense
But I’m desperate to connect
And you, you can’t live like this
Love ain’t safe
You won’t get hurt if you stay chaste
So you can wait
But I don’t wanna waste my love
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Non Poker Ramblings (ok there is still some poker)
I am pretty bored with my writing about poker. I have other interesting things that go on in my life too:) I think I may start rambling on about other fun and interesting topics. Let's see how many poker references follow.
The bowls pennant season has started and I am skipping a rink. We had a convincing round one win against Northmead. We have pretty cool new pennant shirts as well (great material and styling).
We were all very happy with our 6-0 victory. I feel like I have been waiting so long for this opportunity and it has finally arrived. It is great to be a part of this team. I put down approxiamately 500 bowls in preparation this week. They were delivered in 4 quality sessions with team mates. We practiced and drilled hard and had one person setting up game scenarios and calling shots. It really gave me the confidence to call tough shots in the game that I had seen my third nail dozens of times in training and vice versa.
It was like all our birthday's had come at once!
It seems like all my mates birthday's are happening at once. This means many big nights out. One particular night we went out to Manly on Valentine's weekend. Our accomodation was less than stellar, as the demand for accomodation that weekend was high, but we all managed and didn't really spend too much time in our room anyway. The birthday boy was so sick he had to be driven home immediately after a game of bowls in the morning and I had to get the ferry and train home!
We meet some pretty cool people on our night out. There were the horse trainers and the CSU CSI people. I mostly just chilled whilst everyone got right on it! We had some good food and the drinks kept flowing! It is my birthday soon, and everyone seems to be doing pretty well so I am expecting some pretty awesome presents from all!
One of our teammates has booked next weekend for Manly again and I might as well book it for the following weekend as well! Manly or Darling Harbour...I think we might go out in the city for my birthday instead of Manly for a change. It will be easier for poker friends to join in on the celebrations. I don't want those guys
to miss out. We have all worked really hard together to improve our games and any gains I make are in no small part due to our collaboration through discussions, calculations and hand history revisions. I don't think you can discount the generally aura awesomeness transfer either! It seems like when someone goes well it spurs everyone on.
Europa
I didn't manage to get over this Summer. I still really want to go to Europe. Etihad have some great return tickets to Germany. The airfare is less than 2k return, I have plans to travel there in May. Ship me my club incentive payments please. I'd like to
not have to take out any money from my poker bankroll as it is building steadily.
The bowls pennant season has started and I am skipping a rink. We had a convincing round one win against Northmead. We have pretty cool new pennant shirts as well (great material and styling).
We were all very happy with our 6-0 victory. I feel like I have been waiting so long for this opportunity and it has finally arrived. It is great to be a part of this team. I put down approxiamately 500 bowls in preparation this week. They were delivered in 4 quality sessions with team mates. We practiced and drilled hard and had one person setting up game scenarios and calling shots. It really gave me the confidence to call tough shots in the game that I had seen my third nail dozens of times in training and vice versa.
It was like all our birthday's had come at once!
It seems like all my mates birthday's are happening at once. This means many big nights out. One particular night we went out to Manly on Valentine's weekend. Our accomodation was less than stellar, as the demand for accomodation that weekend was high, but we all managed and didn't really spend too much time in our room anyway. The birthday boy was so sick he had to be driven home immediately after a game of bowls in the morning and I had to get the ferry and train home!
We meet some pretty cool people on our night out. There were the horse trainers and the CSU CSI people. I mostly just chilled whilst everyone got right on it! We had some good food and the drinks kept flowing! It is my birthday soon, and everyone seems to be doing pretty well so I am expecting some pretty awesome presents from all!
One of our teammates has booked next weekend for Manly again and I might as well book it for the following weekend as well! Manly or Darling Harbour...I think we might go out in the city for my birthday instead of Manly for a change. It will be easier for poker friends to join in on the celebrations. I don't want those guys
to miss out. We have all worked really hard together to improve our games and any gains I make are in no small part due to our collaboration through discussions, calculations and hand history revisions. I don't think you can discount the generally aura awesomeness transfer either! It seems like when someone goes well it spurs everyone on.
Europa
I didn't manage to get over this Summer. I still really want to go to Europe. Etihad have some great return tickets to Germany. The airfare is less than 2k return, I have plans to travel there in May. Ship me my club incentive payments please. I'd like to
not have to take out any money from my poker bankroll as it is building steadily.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Melbourne Aussie Millions Trip
It is great to play cash games during any big buy in tournament series. The Aussie Millions at Crown was no different, thousands of people from around the World came down under to be a part of the action. We only decided to go down to Melbourne a few days prior.
The Monday before our trip Ryan McKay 'iChipd' on Pokerstars came 8th out of 8885 entrants in the Sunday Millions for around 20k USD. This is certainly a great effort and a big start to the year. He is one of the members of our newly formed 'Team MTG' which is mostly made up of former Magic the Gathering players who have morphed into highly profitable Multi Table Grinders online. For more information see www.ashtoncartwright.com.
After Ryan's win I suggested we go down and play cash games and tournaments. He was definitely keen and I had one bowls trip to go enter before leaving. I travelled to Raymond Terrace in Newcastle to play in an NSWIS team for the weekend. We managed to finish in 1st place for 1k each. That afternoon we got back to Sydney and I didn't waste any time flying out that night with Ryan to Melbourne.
We have great group of friends in Melbourne. They are mostly poker players but a few are into various sports. We had some great nights out and I was a bit more balanced in my approach this time around and only played poker every second day. Last trip I made fantastic money. This trip I was up modestly live and breakeven online except for a step 6 ticket which I won which is worth a live tournament buy in of 2100USD. I will probably offer people percentages of this and play the ANZPT in Sydney again.
There were 2 big pots that went against me, one I played badly and won the minimum (actually there were a few) and some where I feel I adjusted badly to live play. Playing live is mostly more passive, I feel I needed to play more aggresively with my high potential hands; I like the way I played this one despite losing the pot in a 3 way all in on the flop.
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Villian 1 ($515) AcAs
Hero (MP) ($965) Kh9h
Villian 2 ($550) Jc10s
CO ($1461)
Button ($650)
SB (
BB (
It was full ring 2-5NL but I can't remember all of the exact stack amounts, I just remember thinking these guys are playing terribly post flop I need to play any two cards (haha)
Preflop: Hero is MP2 with Kh 9h
1 fold, 1 limp, 1 limp, Hero calls, 1 call, Button calls $5, SB calls, BB checks,
Flop: ($50) Jh, 9c, 5h (2 players, 1 all-in)
Villian 1 bets $50, Hero makes it $150, Villian 2 raises to $550 (All-in)
Villian 1 tanks and says he is worried about me and calls $515 (All-in)
Hero calls $550
Turn: ($1635) 6c (3 players all-in)
River: ($1635) 2s (3 players all-in)
Villian 1 had limped in with black Aces and wins the pot.
and Villian 2 had J10 off suit
So aces held and I had great equity in the pot. If I was up against a set and the nut flush draw then it would have been horrible but I had basically ruled out the nut flush draw. I really thought the guy behind me was stronger than J10, it seems to me to be really a terrible move. The call by aces well, if you are going to limp pre flop hoping to re-raise but everyone calls and then there is significant flop action...I would suggest folding.
The guy with aces was a top guy and did actually think for a bit before calling his stack off. I have a have a hand for the next entry that I play poorly where he is sitting in the same position and he makes the same bet in the flop where I have a set.
Against 2 hands (J-10 and K-9) his hand is a dog, most likely 30% as he was here but more than likely less than 20%. It is like dry aces in Omaha.
My hand was just under 50% to win and slightly less if someone had a re-draw to a full house with a set. 50% to triple up, all day.
The Monday before our trip Ryan McKay 'iChipd' on Pokerstars came 8th out of 8885 entrants in the Sunday Millions for around 20k USD. This is certainly a great effort and a big start to the year. He is one of the members of our newly formed 'Team MTG' which is mostly made up of former Magic the Gathering players who have morphed into highly profitable Multi Table Grinders online. For more information see www.ashtoncartwright.com.
After Ryan's win I suggested we go down and play cash games and tournaments. He was definitely keen and I had one bowls trip to go enter before leaving. I travelled to Raymond Terrace in Newcastle to play in an NSWIS team for the weekend. We managed to finish in 1st place for 1k each. That afternoon we got back to Sydney and I didn't waste any time flying out that night with Ryan to Melbourne.
We have great group of friends in Melbourne. They are mostly poker players but a few are into various sports. We had some great nights out and I was a bit more balanced in my approach this time around and only played poker every second day. Last trip I made fantastic money. This trip I was up modestly live and breakeven online except for a step 6 ticket which I won which is worth a live tournament buy in of 2100USD. I will probably offer people percentages of this and play the ANZPT in Sydney again.
There were 2 big pots that went against me, one I played badly and won the minimum (actually there were a few) and some where I feel I adjusted badly to live play. Playing live is mostly more passive, I feel I needed to play more aggresively with my high potential hands; I like the way I played this one despite losing the pot in a 3 way all in on the flop.
... (
... (
Villian 1 ($515) AcAs
Hero (MP) ($965) Kh9h
Villian 2 ($550) Jc10s
CO ($1461)
Button ($650)
SB (
BB (
It was full ring 2-5NL but I can't remember all of the exact stack amounts, I just remember thinking these guys are playing terribly post flop I need to play any two cards (haha)
Preflop: Hero is MP2 with Kh 9h
1 fold, 1 limp, 1 limp, Hero calls, 1 call, Button calls $5, SB calls, BB checks,
Flop: ($50) Jh, 9c, 5h (2 players, 1 all-in)
Villian 1 bets $50, Hero makes it $150, Villian 2 raises to $550 (All-in)
Villian 1 tanks and says he is worried about me and calls $515 (All-in)
Hero calls $550
Turn: ($1635) 6c (3 players all-in)
River: ($1635) 2s (3 players all-in)
Villian 1 had limped in with black Aces and wins the pot.
and Villian 2 had J10 off suit
So aces held and I had great equity in the pot. If I was up against a set and the nut flush draw then it would have been horrible but I had basically ruled out the nut flush draw. I really thought the guy behind me was stronger than J10, it seems to me to be really a terrible move. The call by aces well, if you are going to limp pre flop hoping to re-raise but everyone calls and then there is significant flop action...I would suggest folding.
The guy with aces was a top guy and did actually think for a bit before calling his stack off. I have a have a hand for the next entry that I play poorly where he is sitting in the same position and he makes the same bet in the flop where I have a set.
Against 2 hands (J-10 and K-9) his hand is a dog, most likely 30% as he was here but more than likely less than 20%. It is like dry aces in Omaha.
My hand was just under 50% to win and slightly less if someone had a re-draw to a full house with a set. 50% to triple up, all day.
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