feed from exhilarate blog 2008-10-02T14:16:30+01:00 fc 1.7.2 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://exhilarate.liquidpoker.net exhilarate

First shot at 200NL FR, basically the same shit as 100NL FR, just double the stacks, which affects me a bit psychologically, because the money is pretty big now. I realize I spew a ton to shortstacks, and don't give them enough credit for hands sometimes. But, most of the time it was a pocket pair against AK and I've lost every single flip. Sigh, I shouldn't be down, I got my money in good fairly often. Hope tomorrow is better. Ended up playing 11 hours to chase my losses, didn't quite get to breakeven, but only down one and a half buyin, so I guess I'll take it. [img]http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/fc8252456c77fcf00597fe8c5c9e83d7.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/1a9416ef6e32085c196c6453efba6c59.jpg[/img]

1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://exhilarate.liquidpoker.net exhilarate

Had a pretty rough month at 100NL FR in September. Started off pretty bad, went on several $1k downswings, getting coolered with everything possible, two outers, one card to a straight, one card to a flush, losing AA to KK, KK running into AA even against the fishiest of players, etc. I managed to end the month decent, though there's still room for improvement. One thing I realized this month is, I spewed a ton of buyins to regs/fish, possibly around $2-$3k, somehow I just couldn't find the fold button. I'd tell myself, "I'll bet turn, if I get raised, I'm beat." But instead, I just go fuck it and ship it in and lose anyway. I've been doing that way too much, and there are times where I should be pot controlling and I just stack off anyway. I think making big folds in FR is pretty important, and helps your winrate a ton, and also prevents further spewing and tilting. I'm also pretty disappointed in my play in the WCOOP main event. Playing 7 hours and 30 minutes only to bust out 447th, lost a flip with AQo vs 66, so close to being in the money. After losing this, I realize I need more tournament practice, so I've been adding tournaments to my daily grind, such as the $11+R, $5.5+R, $3.3+R, and all the big sunday tournaments. I final tabled an $11+R and took 7th for $2.2k this month so that helped too. [img]http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/b27d58d8e95e30da1b6a0369a4a5f450.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/d75fb9d2f92942b20d7275b95ac09449.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/c94e728b8c084a24358dce0c7cbfc321.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/4363f887d9920b77e6e1f5dfb91ae832.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/208a4ef743f1c7dce7eaeabb31049b1b.jpg[/img] Taking my first shot at 200NL today. Good luck at the grind LP.

1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://exhilarate.liquidpoker.net exhilarate

[img]http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/2bdc97b20aef4df29812b994146bd8ba.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/78a6f196a54a1b68fd63be593c4221c9.jpg[/img] I've started poker this year, near the end of January, from play chips to what I have now. I grinded 2NL 9 tabling, and moved up every limit with pretty nitty bankroll management, eventually switching to 12 tables at 50NL, to ensure I never have to go back and regrind play chips to build up a roll. After winning the 2x VIP status tournament, I thought I was destined for poker. But I realize, that most of the better poker players and poker ballers probably played a lot less than one million hands online and are already at mid/high stakes crushing the game for tons more profit. I feel that I am still light years behind those players. I've been going through a pretty rough downswing at 100NL to start the month, and it's just been pretty tough suffering some bad beats and cards just not falling the way I would like them to. During these bad runs I always question myself whether or not I can make it, and I'm really disappointed with my results this month so far, since I took this semester off school to concentrate on poker. I was planning to give 200NL a shot and hopefully grind there for a month or two, then try to move up to 400NL soon after, but these downswings have been holding me back. I will not move up when I'm on a downswing, cause it will just be like chasing losses at a higher limit, and I'm sure 200NL is much harder than 100NL. I look at the amount of hands I play, I know I can grind it out, but I just feel that maybe I'll never get to that skill level of some of the best online grinders in the game right now. Sorry for the whine LP, just going through downswing woes and questioning myself. I want to make it in the world of poker real bad, but it's very stressful at times.