Pretty weird day rythm, but I'm working on that, think I woke around 02:00
My mate had this really interesting poker book, so I borrowed it. So I read the first chapter when I woke, before I got out of bed.
It's called The Poker Mindset, looks to be a really good book.
Made some fish and rice, went down to the computer and sat and read through some old notes I've written down about poker, after that I opened up some tables, session wasn't that long though, 1 hour 30 minuts or something, but so little tables, I was at the only tables running, and I ran pretty well this session too, so not complaining.
For the first time I got my roll over 2200, which is awesome, but I ended just under 2197,86, but went up 2 and a half buy ins on 20nl.
I'd like to post hands and stuff, but I can't get that submit hand thing to work anymore, I do what I've always done, post in the data, but I get these error messages instead. Weird, have to find out what's wrong.
Think I'm gonna go pee, then watch the 3rd vod in that protege series, bbl <3
**** First Update ****
Done some reading, written some notes, then I got to a pretty interessting post called "5 Most important things for crushing SSNL"
So I decided to write down all the things which looked pretty smart and cool (Even though most of them are like, a hum, yeah, I knew that, mm, obvious!! So forth xD)
- Isolate Donks
- Be Aggressive
- Value Bet
- Avoid FPS (What's FPS? first person shooter ?)
- Utilize position
- Valueshove
- Hand reading. Always always always try to put your opponent on a range of hands.
- Understanding equity
- Avoid tilt
- Remain disciplined (best for pvp yo)
- The number one thing I think decent ssnlers miss is river value bets
- Table selection
- Put pressure on regulars in position
- Adjusting your styles to the games condition
- Be aggressive on more streets, forget about pot controle when in position vs fish etc
- Don't limp
- A strong fundamental understanding of the game (Bleh, I hate answers like that lol)
- Get reads on oponent, write down propper notes
- Work on finding leaks
- Read a lot
- Put in good amount of hands every day
- Try thinking about poker all the time
- Talk with good players (Hmm, should get more on my msn, just got 2 good ones!!)
- Being able to sense impending trouble (I want thiz one!!)
- Maintain focused
All seemd really good, and when I was done I started thinking bout these sick posts I read ages ago, first time I Started reading about poker, and I wrote a compilation, so I started searching through my computer to see if I could find it, I did, and I read through it. Got a chill when reading it, really motivational and good stuff.
Thought I'd paste it here as well, it's pretty long, so I wish I knew how to do that trick I've seen some people do, so you have to klick "Show spoiler" or something to see it, so people don't have to see all that text.
(Actually, I changed my mind, it's so long, so I'll post it in a reply instead, hehe)
**** Mini Update ****
Thought I'd go through all the hands I've played last 2 days, I got really surprised, because I usually just look at the biggest losing hands, and there were so few, I usually look at pots where I lost more than 8 euro. So I must have been running very good lately.
Gonna focus on having it stay that way, and when variance switch and I start to get the short end of it, don't tilt, fuck up, and lose the minimum.
That makes a lot of sense, I think
And oh, the new Bleach manga is out!!
Sick, Barragan the Lich!! Hehe, seem sick strong!!
**** Update ****
Oh, got some rakeback today, happy about it, but a bit annoyed I got screwed by the affiliate I have, think I was promised 50% rakeback, never gotten more than 30%. So T_T to that =p
Was for last two weeks, not played that much so was okay
**** mini update ****
oj, sick, I guess he didn't screw me over anyway xD Checked just now, and I got another 350 euro extra, that's awesome. Roll over 2500 now and I can make stabs at 50nl. Siiiiick
**** Update!! ****
Took a session on 50nl, pretty cool, decided to play just as I'd play on 20nl, and try and don't play scared at all.
Felt I ran pretty good now as well, but close to the end of the session I lost a hand I maybe could have gotten away from, I 3bet with AK and got minraised, and I 5bet, came a flop, low cards and a Q, and I shoved for the rest of my stack, and he had QQ, so that's the biggest pot I lost. But even still I'm up 1 buy in or a little over, so not complaining at all xD
Good session, just short of 2 hours, with 60 euro up <3
- Don't let shortterm results affect your judgement
- Be honest with yourself
- Train yourself mathematically, statisticly, make the neccesairy investments.
- Get the hands in. Look at those hands objectively and change what needs to be changed. (going to try n get 100k hands by end of march, then look at them objectively).
- Recognize patterns. Act on them.
- Recognize how different types of people play and exploit the mistakes they make.
- Ask yourself how people exploit your mistakes.
- Don't play scared. Don't be affraid of variance. Embrace it, as it is what keeps so many players believing in the idea that they are in a supposed downswing and not just losing players.
- Teach yourself how to read hands. (I'll watch more cts movies, master of reading hands guy, and ill guess more frequently on wich hands ppl are on in interessting pots.)
- Think about the game, read about it, discuss it. (I think about it alot, sometimes dream of it, talk about it to Erling & Bork, will discuss more, I read, but should read even more.)
- Ask for critisism. (Haven't had the chance to do that often, ill try in a littlewhile, when I played some more hands and they have something to go buy, i should write down questions wich pops into my mind when im playing on a sheet of paper).
- Give something back to the people that helped you get where you are at. (I do that, when i can, or I try to occationally <3)
- Play every hand the best you can, while not for
- Don't alter your play when you're losing. If you can not do that, take steps so that you can. (Ok).
getting metagame and longterm importance.
- Hide the view on your winrate and current online roll. (I struggle with this, i always wonder ,wanna watch how hands go, check if im up or down, and i play better when im up, and worse when im down it feels.)
- Do the best you can do, and never whine and bitch. (I do whine a little, to Erling, but not bitch, ill try and cut it all out, i also am prolly doing best i can <3).
- If variance bothers you, run simulations about standard deviations on winrates over a certain amount of hands.
- Don't play different when you're winning. (okz)
- Make sure that when you run hot, get the maximum you can get, in stead of settling for what is easy to get. (okz, i think i ran hot once, not sure if i did or not).
- Earn your money, don't just win it. (ok)
- Money won is money that you will inevitably give back when the rolls in the hand are reversed compared to the way you just stacked your opponent.
- Almost everything is variance, and clear cut.
- Try to get somewhere and keep track by keeping crystal clear records of how you get there, or failed to get there. (Im tracking everything I do now <3)
- Train your memory. (I'll do some investigating, find out the best way to train my memory, cos im not sure).
- Doubt yourself when you should and believe in yourself when you should. (okz)
- Learn how to recognize the difference between the situations where you would better do one of these, rather than the other.
- Understand the games' variables. (Working on itz)
- Understand position, stacksize, table image, reversed table image, pot odds, hand strength, implied odds, reversed impled odds, current state of mind, preflop game play, flop game play, turn game play, river game play.
- (Realise that every one anyone of these streets, one can be assigned a range. )
- Gather information, combine it, draw the best conclusion that can be drawn and leads to the best mathematical decision.
- Realise that a mathematical equation with many different variables of which most are intervals, and not set numbers, is always going to lead to different answers. Learn how these variables interact with eachother. See the patterns.
- Ask yourself why you do what you do and change it if you're not 100% on it.
- Be a perfectionist, not a person who whines and bitches.
- Become better and faster in doing these calculations.
- Realise that most of them are nothing more but estimations. Become better at estimating. Realise that your hourly rate is what is important at the end of the day/week/month/year/decade, and do whatever you can do make it a better hourly rate.
- Embrace variance. Take the initiative.
- Realise that almost all good players worked very hard to get to where they are.
- Don't ask someone to do something for you if you can do it yourself.
- Search for valuable input, because it is out there. (Im doing it!! Watching vods, reading, playing, nagging on Erik)
- Don't expect it to come to you. If it does, see it as variance, and realise that if you really want to achieve something, at one point or another, you have to do it yourself. Only
- Only play with the right mindset.
- Don't lie to yourself about downswings, upswings, winrates, level of play.
- Don't compare yourself to a fish, compare yourself to someone that is better than you. (I'll stop thinking im Odbjørn's level)
- Don't always be happy with what you have, and if you are, don't let that stop you from digging deeper, going further.
- Happy does not and should never mean the same as currently inactive.
- These little mental changes, such as taking a positive result as an encouragement and trying harder and try to become better, in stead of standing still because you are happy, and thus wasting your time instead of doing all you can do, at the end of the day, when added up, create the difference between a winner, a loser, and bigger winner.
- The big things are mostly common knowledge, and should be known, but are also almost always just a form of variance, something you can not control.
- It's the small things, changes in attitude, in actual play, that define your winrate.
- Realise that you can win 5 and run bad. Realise that you can drop 5 and play great.
- Know the difference between negative and positive variance
- Know the difference between playing good and bad, and not only the parts that are very clear cut, but also the tiny, subtle things, which at the end of the day are so much more important.
- When you can, table select. Don't let your ego get in the way of things.
- Force yourself to have a good work ethic. (Hard, but trying, I'm so used to being sick, sleeping, or being a Zombie on wow for tons of years, hehe. Yeah I know, excuses excuses!!! Grrrowl)
- Force yourself to be good for the game, and generate action.
- Be polite, and friendly to your opponents. If you do not have the discipline to do this, because of some short term thing that happened, you probably do not have the discipline to be a good poker player, and you probably didn't remember anything of what you should focus on.
- Work hard.
- Train your work ethic, your endurance, your motivation, your precision, your mental thoughness, your ability to focus.
- Don't play for money, or a winrate. Play for a higher goal. Set one for yourself. Every time you sit down at a poker table, know why you are there and what your objective is.
- Realise that the fact that you do not understand a certain play, does not always mean it was stupid, but can just as often mean you got outplayed and in a way that is so blatant that you do not even know it happened. Analyze. Interpret. Try your hardest.
- Think before you act. Don't tell yourself that you thought before you acted when you did not. (Oops!! I neeeever done that!!)
- Get to know yourself as precisely as you can. (I know myself very well, masturbated a lot)
- Get to know the game as much as you can.
- Know why you did what you did and what other options you had. Never let the variables which affect your decision out of your sight. Never let a variable that should not affect your decision in to your sight.
- Be objective, be precise, be analytical, be openminded, be smart, be hard on yourself, be honest about and to yourself.
Don't be a fucking fish.
- Ask yourself questions, in which the answer is already revealed.
That's gotta do it, I'm tired, getting ready for bed, gnight
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Chewits United Kingdom. May 16 2009 14:49. Posts 2539
I like the points you have made in these blog posts. It is always good to refresh some of the more basics, especially when you are not running so well.
