Amatay's Blog

Quick Post (the last few weeks)

Published on 2010-08-22 12:25:00

Can't be bovved to write this shit atm/anymore but i'll put some quick words together just for my fans boys, first up some poker news...My success on the PLO tarbs as mentioned in my last post soon became a small nightmare. The variance in that game is sooo huge its blinds you and i reckon its very difficult to estimate ones skill level and edge. I believe you need to have played at least 500,000 hands and by that stage the game would have prolly evolved and got tougher etc anyways, esp if it t

Grinding Hard

Published on 2010-07-30 18:22:00

Since Sunday i've randomly been playing .5/1 PLO and doin ok making $1.2k with an additional 450 in bonuses with more on its way. I don't think i've grinded this hard in yrs tbh, the only day i had off was Wednesday when i went shopping, saw the missus and watched that new film Inception with Adamski which was really good. Bit disappointed with today sessions actually because i was up about 600 and flying then lost it all then made it back and then fkin lost it all again to finish even for the d

Porn Links Return!!

Published on 2010-07-20 12:17:00

Don't worry fish, the porn links are now back on my blog and can be found in the normal place (just scroll down, bottom right). Been on a nice five day relaxing hol with my bird to Spain and came back to a few comments and emails asking me where the links had gone. I had wondered why hits were down to an all time low tbh. Anyways, i'm not sure what happened but its all fixed now so no need to bombard my inbox. JJay, Adam and my thousands of other fanboys can now return to www.amatay.blogspot.co

Late Night Donkaments

Published on 2010-07-13 21:15:00

My Twitter account on the right just about sums up my recent stint on the cyber felt in the last few nights, a story of near misses with one mini bink. I played Saturday, Monday and Tuesday regging for 9pm until 12pm, usually finishing up around 3am. As is usually the case with donkaments i could have easily been looking at anything between a $4-7k profit but i think i broke about even which fkin sucks. The two major disappointments were the 9th in a $50f $15k gtd on PP when my kings couldnt hol

Looking For Work

Published on 2010-07-08 17:27:00

After two and an half yrs of Poker providing my only source of income i'm actively searching for employment. Obviously this is not on a full time basis, i'm not that fucking crazy, i'm just looking at anything from a 0.6 contract to basic scraps, an hr here an hr there etc. For those fish who don't know i quit a decent job as a Lecturer in Sport & Exercise Sciences in Dec 2007 and decided to turn to the darkside and play Poker for a living. Its something that at the time i gave a great deal

I Miss This...

Published on 2010-06-27 18:03:00

Two months back in the UK and already i'm getting itchy feet again, WTF is wrong with me? Arrrgh i dunno, life i good its just i don't know what i want from it, i never have done. Feel crushed about the World Cup today but its just a game etc at the end of the day, blah fkin blah. Poker motivation is low and me and the missus are a bit weird atm aswell. Arrrrgh, i should STFU, i'm a lucky bastard huihgouihufxdertfgtg. Check this out.... Highlight of my trip, wat a fkin buzz. Bungeeeeeeee!He's my

My World Cup Routine...

Published on 2010-06-21 18:24:00

Been an absolute bum the last 10 days since the World Cup started, the Amatay of old. No exercise (apart from a few rumps) and no poker (until today for about one hr) and my diet has been relatively poor, been a bit of a slob tbh. My daily routine looks like this atm...Wake up about midday and watch the first WC game in bed, sometimes the first two usually squeezing in a nice wank in between the games. If the bird stayed round the previous night i sometimes muster up a little bit of energy befo

The Empire, World Cup and the Dreaded Man Flu

Published on 2010-06-16 13:42:00

Been laid up in bed the last two or three days with the dreaded man flu feeling proper ropee and haven't really done anything since Saturday night. Last week the volume levels were terrible, although i have made a decent ish profit this month given the amount of games i've played. Its not good enough though but meh whatever, zzzzz.Had that massive fish from Brighton Cogs round for a couple of days last week. On the Wed night we just smashed our way through a few 45 manners with me making $200 de

World Cup Betting

Published on 2010-06-11 05:54:00

Got quite a few small bets on the World Cup this year to keep my simple mind entertained whilst i 'grind' the high stakes mtt's ($26 45 manS) on Full Tilt...Raise The River Forum - $20 sweepy i got Holland and Ghana. Winner 50% of $320 prizepool, 2nd 35% and 3rd 15%. Also tiny top scorer sweepy $10 and only 5 of us little fish and each of us have 5 players lol. Got Rooney, Van Persie (injured?), Tevez, Forlan, Poldolski, $50 ftw.Blonde Forum - £10 sweepy i got England (weeee) £175 - Winner, Â

This is getting on my tits...

Published on 2010-06-07 18:59:00

Final tables galore atm in these fucking $26 45 mans but i keep getting shafting. Last 7 games on the go last night and i'm at 6 final tarbs, mbn etc etc well its not fucking nice when i busto 6th 6th 6th 5th 4th and 2nd and then fire up 10 more games and busto the lot making a measly $110 profit. The same fooking thing happened tonight, final tarbs all over the shop and i busto 7th twice when QQ and KK cant beat Ax for a monster stacks in both and 8th in two other games ending up making a massi

Scorchio!

Published on 2010-06-03 12:14:00

Nothing better than some glorious sunshine, exercise, some run good and a nice bloway to get that feel good factor going again and three outta four ain't bad. The missus is coming round later as well so hopefully i'll end up with a full hoooouse before the end of day, starfish poseatay FTMFW! Volume wise the start of the month has been poor but i've been lucky to make $800 so far with an additional $200 from rb and tokens on its way so its been a decent couple of days. It could have been alot be

June Goals

Published on 2010-06-01 05:35:00

Gonna mainly stick with these 45 mans for at least one more month and the target is to play at least 1000 games with about 100ish 90 mans and 50 odd small buyin mtt's. I played a total of 854 games on ftp last month which is a crazy amount for a lazy bastard like me. Hopefully i can improve on that and win more than i did in May, lets gogogogogoooooo!

Lets Destroy My Monthly Profits!

Published on 2010-05-31 07:36:00

Live updates coming up....Currently playing 45 n 90 mans on ftps, already stuck :(Playing against the worst players in the world and losing, speaks volumes imo.5th in a $26 45 man, incred scenes!!2nd in a $13 90 man. Played HU like a penis.Hoping to use any profits from these gay things to play the some larger field mtt's including the $33r and $100f on pa pa pa parrrtay tonight. [ ] its goin well.6th in a $11 45 man. whoopeeeee.Trying to get back into top 100 on ftp leaderboard as it's worth a

Mega Pissed Off

Published on 2010-05-27 17:41:00

Didn't play this morn or arvo and wasted the day which sort of annoyed me, so in my already semi tilted mind i played a smallish session tonight and dropped $500 getting unlucky in spots but generally playing like a didn't really care. Fucking pissed off atm as i have basically broken even during the last two weeks. Monthly totals looking pretty shit now at about $3.5k. Don't think i can even face the grind tomorrow, need to get my lazy ass back in the gym Looking forward to a fresh grind in Ju

I Feel Violated

Published on 2010-05-26 13:42:00

Played for about 6 hrs yesterday and felt pretty hard done by but managed to break even after a torrid morning and early afternoon. Thinking today could not get any worse i was sadly mistaken, fml i had a shocker. Started at 8am and finished 11.5hrs later playing almost 100 games and at one point i was in for almost $1.1k which is a fair amount playing these shitty little things. I sat here for about 3 hrs in disbelief at the beats i was on the end of and the redic terrible plays by sooo many fi

I Thought I Was Gonna Die Today

Published on 2010-05-24 12:23:00

Whilst i was playing on the cyber tarbs today i think i had some sort of a mini seizure. I was blasting through my usual games in pure donk mode getting shafting here there and every fooking where when i came over all strange. After a small twinge in my chest I suddenly started sweating profusely, i felt really weak, like i was gonna puke and i couldn't breathe properly. Honestly i was quite frightened tbh and i still don't feel right even now, thats what the stress of these high stakes mtt's do

Volume>Skill

Published on 2010-05-21 18:19:00

Playing like a complete donk atm. I've lost/abandoned some of my subtle qualitays and i've just just turned into a shove monkey with no patience. Doing shit like open shoving Ax with too big of a stack, making redic 4 bets with filth having convinced myself they are on the shizz and i walk into QQ+ and also stacking off too light to 3 bets shoves with hands like 66-99 hoping for a race. Having said that i made about about $400 prof yesterday and in what turned out to be a frustrating day today

Women!!!

Published on 2010-05-19 12:19:00

I fucking hate the cunts sometimes! Arrrrrghhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I had some stupid row with Kels last night which started with a redic arguement about who takes up most of the bed (definately her btw) and now i feel like shit. Had the worst sleep ever and today has been fkin awful, i feel terrible, proper bad :( I tried to play poker today but couldn't concentrate at all and donked off $150 before having the sense to log off otherwise i would have jizzed off alot more. Played all day yesterday and br

Winning Run Comes to an End

Published on 2010-05-17 15:24:00

I played a bit on Friday and won $300 (inc $70 rb) and also played a wee bit on Saturday this time breaking even. However, today saw me lose $600 which is no big deal and was too be expected i guess :( That's about it on the poker front tbh as i've spent most of my time since the last post with the missus. We had a couple of nice meals, a few good rumps ;) and spent a nice little day out yesterday visiting Madame Tussauds and then the London Dungeons which was a good laugh. Gonna be back on the

Still Playing Good and Running Insane!

Published on 2010-05-13 16:26:00

Its just what i needed after not playing much all year and doing my brains in Oz and NZ some nice solid profit. I ran redic hot yesterday making $850 after a very short lazy sesh but today was very different. I sat here for 8 hrs and ground out a $520 win after being stuck almost $700 half way through the day, so it was a decent comeback. Not sure what else to say except that i am enjoying playing poker atm. The longer i sit in front of this lappy playing poker the more money i win, its as simpl

Printing Money

Published on 2010-05-11 16:29:00

That’s how it feels sometimes playing these small field games, its like printing money. I’m still not playing a ton of volume but im doing ok and im playing good and running good which is obv a good combination innit :-) I don’t think there are that many fish out there that play these type of games better than me tbh. I play them differently to most of the decent regs imo, im not just all about blast folding im a bit more subtle than that at times. Also I don’t use any of the software bo

Start of the Rebuild

Published on 2010-05-10 16:31:00

Not exactly setting the world alight atm and its not helped that i keep losing connection which has limited my volume levels and also cost me a few bucks. One afternoon the connection went for over 3 hrs which prob cost me between $300 and $800 ish as i was deep in four 26 buck 45 man games which fked me right off. I'm only playing 45 manners to start with plus a few random 90 mans and other small tourns thrown in. I started playing Tuesday and by Wednesday afternoon i was stuck $800, however i

The End Of An Amazing Trip

Published on 2010-05-03 14:48:00

I've been home for four days now and back to realitay after what has been an amazing 14 week trip to Oz n NZ. Its ok being home, i'm fine with it atm and its been gd to see Kels and my family the last few days and hopefully i'll catch up my some of my mates in the forthcoming days n weeks. Its incredible to think of some of the places i have seen and some things i have done in such a short space of time much of which i havent yet blogged about but i will do soon. I honestly do not know where to

Sky Dive Taupo!

Published on 2010-04-21 04:00:00

Decided to jump out of a plane at 15,000 ft in Taupo yesterday, fuck knows what i was thinking but it was a pretty amazing experience and i'm glad i did it. The buzz it gave me was very different from the rush I felt from doing the Nevis Bungee in Queenstown a few weeks ago, it was a lot less scary imo and the kick I got out of it wasn’t as great although the Sky Dive was still incredible. With the Bungee its obviously you that has to throw yourself off and with a Sky Dive once you’re in th

The Difficultays of Long Distance Relationships

Published on 2010-04-08 02:55:00

A couple of real LOL incidents happened to me this past week that i thought were worthay of a mention in this shit blog of mine...The first one involved my bird Kels who i'd previously asked a few days ago to send me a couple of saucy pics of herself to errr keep me going whilst i'm travelling about in New Zealand. Basically we had been exchanging a few filthay messages to each other on the mob when i suggested that she sent me a pic of her tits n pussy via Facebook to my private inbox however,