Is it just me, or does this blow anyone elses mind

Iago

Thread from 2+2 where Kurosh has stated that he's turning pro and looking to make 60K in 6 months.

All very well except he seems to be playing above his limits and suffers from serious tilting issues...

I found it fascinating reading anyway..

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=4692104&page=0&fpart=1&vc=1&nt=10

Lafortezza

I'll read the thread when I get a chance but this forum definitely needs more challenges and prop betting. Some of the challenges that've been attempted on 2+2 are sick.
The_Metetron has one challenge where he needs to 10-table for 8 hours a day for 8 weeks to meet the required number of hands and win the challenge. He has thousands of $$ in prop bets with various forum members.

ianmc38

Iago wrote:

Thread from 2+2 where Kurosh has stated that he's turning pro and looking to make 60K in 6 months.

All very well except he seems to be playing above his limits and suffers from serious tilting issues...

I found it fascinating reading anyway..

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=4692104&page=0&fpart=1&vc=1&nt=10

To be honest, I find the whole story quite depressing and to me, it really highlights the sinister side of gambling.

handsfree

there is no way that this guy will do that on a $3000 bankroll, this guy is just too big for his boots. very few people can make a decent living from poker i'm talking 40K+ a yr

breadmonkey

Interesting stuff alright. What other threads are people referring to when they say that they love "Kurosh threads"? Has anyone who posts here ever played him?

Culchie

lafortezza wrote:

this forum definitely needs more challenges and prop betting

Agreed ... any suggestions?

Cianos

Fairly entertaining alright :rolleyes:

Just shows how differently people approach this game! You have to admire his determination and willingness to take a risk, but I dont see him completing his goal, more like trying to keep head above water

RoundTower

I think this is a great thread. Handsfree if you read the thread he has more than $3,000.

Cianos

Culchie wrote:

Agreed ... any suggestions?

My blog?

Culchie

Yes Cianos, I'm a regular reader ... keep it going.

handsfree

$3k is definitely low to start, but hopefully things go well early and you are able to stick it out. Keep the updates coming. GL.

thats a quote from the tread, hes definately starting on $3k. if he can do it fair play because there aren't many people who could.

Cianos

I could break it down into segments for the sake of props. Im easy, open to suggestions. :v:

fuzzbox

handsfree wrote:

there is no way that this guy will do that on a $3000 bankroll, this guy is just too big for his boots. very few people can make a decent living from poker i'm talking 40K+ a yr

How do you know that?

RoundTower

handsfree wrote:

$3k is definitely low to start, but hopefully things go well early and you are able to stick it out. Keep the updates coming. GL.

thats a quote from the tread, hes definately starting on $3k. if he can do it fair play because there aren't many people who could.

The guy who wrote that also misunderstood what kurosh had said. Kurosh said he had $3k on Party Poker. Later in the thread he mentions he has about $20k all told including at one point $6k on Pokerstars and $4k in cash. Of course he may only have $3k now, but everyone goes broke.

Norwich Fan Rob

he gave this up after 5 hours, he ground out a $70 loss at those stacks, jumped onto a 100/200 table and tilted off 6k

MrPillowTalk

Im going to try something like this, negreanu tried it a few years ago an experiment to see if he could turn $1k into $50k and how long it would take, to my knowledge he grew bored of it pretty quick.

I plan to start on the 13th of march, with the idea of taking a one time $5000 deposit and turning it into $40k in 24 weeks meaning a required profit of $1458 per week, no redeposit allowed, not allowed to play more than an average of 20 hours per week over the 24 weeks.

I think the success of the project depends on having the discipline tp play within the restrictions of the original deposit and not be tempted to take a shot at a bigger game no matter how juicy it looks.

I think this project is successful maybe one in three attempts, but that is based only on my own assumptions. Not sure how to make it into a prop bet but should be interesting anyway.

Marq

what do you believe you will gain from doing this?

(apart from discipline - there are plenty of more optimal ways of increasing discipline)

roryc

didnt Chris Ferguson turn $1 into $10K or something like that? I don't know if it was for a bet, but as far as I know he did it on his second attempt

MrPillowTalk

Marq wrote:

what do you believe you will gain from doing this?

(apart from discipline - there are plenty of more optimal ways of increasing discipline)

35k

MrPillowTalk

Cianos wrote:

My blog?

never read this one before, good read keep it up.

breadmonkey

Marq wrote:

what do you believe you will gain from doing this?

(apart from discipline - there are plenty of more optimal ways of increasing discipline)

I think this is quite negative. What's wrong with doing it just for the sake of a challenge? Assunming, of course, he's not going to go bankrupt in the process.

fuzzbox

MrPillowTalk wrote:

35k

lmfao

MrPillowTalk

Just managed to pull this experiment off.

Turned a $1000 deposit into $44000 in seven weeks.

one time deposit on 1st of March so took me 7 weeks, I originally thought it would take far longer but hadnt counted on how quickly the nl tables on tribeca can be crushed.

I was originally going to use vegas baby poker but there was not enough traffic at higher stakes so opted for tribeca.

ocallagh

congrats eoin! great achievement. what levels did you play?

MrPillowTalk

ocallagh wrote:

congrats eoin! great achievement. what levels did you play?

Thanks Niall.

I knew that the success of it would hinge on getting a big enough bankroll to play 5/10 and higher as quick as possible, started at 2/4 which I know I had nowhere near the right roll but I had to move up as quick as possible, took about 2 weeks at 2/4 3/6 to get to 8k then moved to 5/10 and got to about 14k in another week, stuck around that mark for a week or so then got to 18k and have been playing mostly 10/20 and some of the big limit games for the last three weeks.

Going to do a full report for the blog.

Im also going to set a new target/proposition now as I was amazed at how having something to work towards stopped me getting tilty and made me resist "donkey days" which I used to reward myself with if I was running well where I would basically make it 4xbb to play every hand for a session. Having a set out goal really helps break the humdrum grind of the cash game.

Anyone any sensible enough yet difficult ideas for a prop?

AmarilloFats

MrPillowTalk wrote:

I knew that the success of it would hinge on getting a big enough bankroll to play 5/10 and higher as quick as possible, started at 2/4 which I know I had nowhere near the right roll but I had to move up as quick as possible, took about 2 weeks at 2/4 3/6 to get to 8k then moved to 5/10 and got to about 14k in another week, stuck around that mark for a week or so then got to 18k and have been playing mostly 10/20 and some of the big limit games for the last three weeks.

That's impressive Pillow(post some hands!)...the initial stages of the challenge are the problem you played 2/4 with a 2.5 bankroll and could have easily gone broke....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_walk#Example

obviously You can't recover from zero, and you have a finite amount of time to complete the challenge, hence u needed to get to 5/10 asap.

shaydy

Great stuff Mr PT!! I was watching the wsop on player the other night and they were talking about prop bets and the biggest they;ve heard off was a prop bet of $100k for a guy to get breast implants haha it was hilarious the bloke actually got them and was showing them off on the show:eek:

Shay

fixer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Zembic

gerire

Excellent work Eoin, why look for a new prop bet? why change what you are doing try and hit the 100k by summer solstice

shoutman

congrats,
thats some achievement.

MrPillowTalk

shaydy wrote:

Great stuff Mr PT!! I was watching the wsop on player the other night and they were talking about prop bets and the biggest they;ve heard off was a prop bet of $100k for a guy to get breast implants haha it was hilarious the bloke actually got them and was showing them off on the show:eek:

Shay

I aint doing that not for a million! my man breasts are enough for me