Hughezy the Hero

Hughezy runs good. Good is an understatement. In the last two months he has completely turned his graph around from looking like Darvin Moon's lifetime graph before his lotto-like 4.5$ million dollar bink, to a solid grinder (he isn't crushing like me, but better). I dislike typing, so I lucratively outsourced this blog post to Hughezy. I'd like to turn it over to him. I asked him to tell us a little about his history and what he has enjoyed about the coaching thus-far.

Take it away Tim:

"I'm a 42 yr old retired Police Officer and in keeping with my generation, a complete computer idiot. So, having to write, save and send this is a real pain in the ass...Thx OMG! I started playing poker in 2007. I have always been a casino goer and used to enjoy blowing thousands at Blackjack.

One Friday night I noticed a large crowd sitting down for A £10 r/b and sat down...10 rebuys later I was pretty muched hooked. For the fist 15 to 18 months I only played live and was the biggest fish ever. I played like a rock waiting for premium hands and had limited success. In Sept 2008 I got hugely lucky in a £250 live f/o final tabling and eventually finishing 2nd for just under £5k ( at that time 10k us ). I thought at that time that I had made it and was a good player ( how wrong I was lol ) and from the confidence of the win went and bought in 2 weeks later to the GUKPT ME (£1k buyin) and the Gala CBMT ME (£1.5k Buyin) some weeeks later. I busted out of the first with a real donk play but folded my way into Day 2 of the second before losing with AA v KK. Anyhoo..The first table I sat at in Blackpool I was sat next to this 6'5" german kid who clearly knew what he doing. We got chatting and had a real laugh. He had qualified online for the event and my £5k bink impressed him. During the course of the conversation he asked where I played online..I hadn't even considered playing online and he went on to recommend the usual sites and I began to enter the online world.

Once again I hit it lucky.I managed to FT the 5$ 20kgtd on stars and chip chopped 4 handed for $2.1k and the same day FT'd a $24 on FTP for nearly $800. "This is fucking eeeezy" I thought. Unfortunately those were the only notable successes. My donk play was catching up with me and I was almost alwasy the biggest fish on the table. I couldn't multi table and playing 1/2 tourneys for a min cash, if I was lucky, ceased to be fun. It was around this time that I accepted that I wasn't a poker genius and invested in Harrington On Holdem. I read both books and didn't understand wtf he was on about..I realised I didn't know the first thing about poker whatsoever. In March this year I was surfing the net and came accross a certian well known SNG grinders site. I was inspired. I knew I had to 'go back to school' so to speak and learn how to multi table for volume purposes. I started on the $4.40 180's and $2.20 180 turbos on stars.

I read strategy articles and started posting hands on 2+2. I immediatly started on a heater racking up over $1k at these stakes. It was posting of hands on 2+2 that led to me making contact with OMG its LUCKBOX. I was posting 4/5 hands per day there and a member thought I was taking the piss by asking such elementary questions and flamed me. OMG cam to my defence and contact was made. I had made the jump to 90 man KO's on FTP. I started adding tables in order to get my volume up. At the start of this coaching contract I was barely able to 5 table..over 1000 games later in I can easily handle up to 12...Such a difference.

Prior to starting the contract I had discussions with OMG and Addicted19. When they said they felt confident that could make me, a donk, into a winning player I jumped at the chance but stated I wanted to sart at the lowest levels and learn from the ground up, so to speak.The guys have the ability to explain in lay-amns terms the principles, strategies and reasons behind them for the 90 mans so much so that even I understood them. They're also great ppl to just 'chew the fat' with.

I look forward to each coaching session and always learn something new which I am able to apply to my game with positive and immediate results. I have become a winning player after only 1000 tourneys aking my Sharkscope from red to black. I now aim to play 40-60 tourneys a day and my goals are to keep climbing the stakes. I starated with $280 in my FTP BR and am now nearly rolled for 12's allwith OPM (other ppl's money). I am proud to say I am a winning player and its alldown to Addicted19 amd OmG...I cant thank you two enuf....

Peace"

Hughezy1's lifetime graph:

Hughezy1's SNG graph since coaching:

Congratulations Hughezy1, we are both very pleased with your progress and are excited to keep seeing you crush for the rest of the contract.

Good luck at the tables,

LUCKBOX

New Student! Welcome LOL DARVIN MOON.

I wanted to welcome our second student, LOL DARVIN MOON. Although he isn't really Darvin Moon, in less than a week he'll be better than Darvin(not a huge brag, just like being able to count to 10, but it is still a brag).

We are starting him from ground zero and he has very little poker experience. I am confident that within two months we will have him crushing the games. I'm actually a little jealous because it took me 4 years of teaching myself how to play sng's before I met Alain. He tweaked some major leaks in my game and has pointed me in the right direction. It is going to take Matt(LOL DARVIN MOON) four months to get where I am now.

He is going to be playing the 1$/45s and then moving the fulltilt when his roll will let him. I'll update his own page soon.

Welcome Matt.

Downswings, Darvin Moon, and Obama

I've got some great news and some horrible news. Unless you've been living under a box for the last two years, you have undoubtably heard the name Obama. Now I don't want this to turn into a verbal war of subtle blows between the President of the United States and me. If you don't know anything about Obama <=== click here. Not only has he tried to turn our country into Socialist Cuba, he has convinced Full Tilt that we need to redistribute wealth.

I've seen some sick downswings, but I've never experienced it first hand. This month I lost 80+ buy ins in a row. The important thing is, I'm not busto. One of the best things we can do as poker players is to use our bankroll management skills and just play through it. If we just try to play through it without analyzing our game, we are making a huge mistake. When we can't seem to win, we need to study more than we normally do. Besides coaching Hughezy1 and going over hands with Addicted19 almost daily, we should also go over hands on our own. Making our own decisions is more important than getting advice from other winning players. When we make our own theories and bounce them off other players, we are all going to profit in the long run.

Before I reveal the visual proof of Obama and Full Tilt and their Socialist ways, I'd like to remind us how important bankroll management. I have a manager at work who is really into sports gambling (I don't support it, but I guess you can make informed decisions based on statistics slightly like poker?). Last month he cashed 5k, which isn't a bad month by any stretch of imagination. The only problem is when he bets, he will put at least 1/2 of his bankroll in play on one game. If he loses two games, his account is busto. If you are going to gamble, you need to have some bankroll management rules. If I didn't drop down limits, my account would be completely busto:

On a much happier note, I'm pleased to inform you the addition of our second student to our coaching program. His username is LOL DARVIN MOON on fulltilt where he will be playing the 90 mans once he grinds up his roll on pokerstars playing the 45mans. He has never played online poker before, and has very limited live experience. He is starting from scratch. It is going to take him 4 months to get where it took me to get in 4 years.

Things seemed to have clicked for Hughezy1. This is a picture of his roll, we started coaching him at game 1,000:

Last night we had a 3 player lockdown and I will be posting the results within the next few days. Good luck at the tables.

Luckbox