So since I cant seem to win anything at 2/4 and my self esteem is at an all time low I have decided to rape 1/2 for a while.
I will be playing 50k hands on 1/2 before moving back up again. I will update my blog after each session, talking trough some interesting hands and discussing diffrent conceps which I hope people will find helpful. Hopefully it will help me plug some leaks aswell.
I might make a video on 1/2 if I feel like it but I havent decided yet.
Its a phrase that is tossed around alot but I feel it is not far from the truth. I have always been serious about taking responsebility for my results, and I definitely know I havent played all hands perfectly but I still think Im playing really good. Mostly Im thinking way ahead of my opponents and my dicipline has gotten alot better. I dont think most of you guys can even comprehend how frustrated I am right now. I dont mean to sound like a jerk, I know Im not special. We all go through the same variance and bitching about it wont help.
But I am actually break even/slightly down on FTP 2/4 over around 100k hands, this after consistently beating higher games for several months before this. When ever I sit down shit just rains down on me and todays session was no diffrent.
And after school I went out and got drunk. Now it seems like ive lost some radio equipment worth over $1k while being drunk hitting on semi hot chicks. 1k isnt really a big deal, the humiliation is another thing. Im retarded, so standard, I hate when bullshit disturb my hitting on chicks flow.
I played only 6-max today and I think I played really well. I completely owned some regulars and thats always a good feeling. I also played alot with a guy who Im sure usually plays 25$/50$, Right now I cant remember his name but I have definitely seen him alot at high stakes. For the first time in a looong long time I felt completely owned. He just buldozed me until I almost begged him to stop. Its very inspirational to see a player like that in action but also really scary. I cant believe the mindfuck swings of playing 25$/50$ against players like that all day long.
In other news, tomorrow is my day of from my fuckall workout routine. Apart from taking a long walk before breakfast I will rest the entire day and thats great because it feel like my entire body is on mad tilt right now.
By playing 6-max. 8-tabled it for a couple of hours and made 2,5k so now im only down 1,5k for the day.
I realized something today about my HU game. I always tend to lose at the beginning of the session. I start out bulding a nutty image and try to beat myself and my opponent into deep stacked play, where I am really comfortable and most opponents arnt. This usually works out pretty well when my opponent stay long enough for my deep stacked edge to kick in. This is basicly what happened yesterday, I lost like 1,5-2k in the beginning and then just steamrolled the guy and ended up over 3k on him even though he pulled some really ugly suckouts for multiple buyin pots.
Today on the other hand, started with me playing one guy HU on three tables. Kinda solid but way to tight and gave away tons off buttons. I lost a couple of pots, some because of bad play and some coolers/beats.
When he had convinced me to open yet another table we where getting pretty deep and I had a really good idea of how he was playing. Then all of a sudden he just instaleaves, leaving me down like 2k and being a saaaad panda.
So I played this other guy and he ran like god himself in the beginning. He just hit every flop and I was way to impatient thinking "fuck he cant have it all the time"
and I actually tilted off one or two buyins. Kinda sucks to do that because Im usually a strong advocate of not letting a small sample of hands determine your action and dicipline is sooooo important HU.
Ahwell, I slapped myself in the face, focused and kept playing. I played really well from there on and I grinded down more than half of what I had previously lost to him before he eventually left. I think my deep stacked edge was really obvious in this match. I didnt get it in bad for 120bbs+ once I think whereas he managed to twice put tons of money in with like 20% equity. Unfortunately he managed to suck out a few times, some of them where pretty huge but w/e, ship the sklansky bucks.
This is a hand that just shows so perfectly why HU is so much fun. He was 3-betting ALOT and I was calling alot of 3-bets. Probably calling a bit too much but I felt I had a big edge over this guy postflop. Elected to float and take it away on the turn since he c-bets his entire range on this flop. Now, betting the turn I know he isnt giving me much credit at all so I wasnt suprised to get raised here and I definitely didnt put him on a queen since I think he leads turn w/ it 100% of the time. I think his raising range in this spot is superwide and I just knew he was going to do someting like this so I called and obv took it down on the river.
This is like one of the biggest misstakes people do HU I feel. They make moves in so predictable spots. Like, it just so easy to tell that this guy has had enough and is going to raise with his entire range. A good player is going to exploit that sooo much. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/368949
Bleh, got stomped HU today, I think I play an uneccesary swingy style hu but w/e. Ill probably make a writeup about todays play later but Im to tired right now.
In other news, I have decided to take on a more healthy lifestyle. Since last week I will be excercising 5-6 times a week. Running and lifting weights. I just finished my first week of doing this and my entire body is acing hah. Im also going to eat alot healthier and I have stocked up on beans, wildrice and other disgusting but healthy stuff. If all works out well I will look like He-man by the time I get to vegas this summer.
Played a sick long session against one guy HU. We played two tables for about 5 hours I think, pretty cool match eventhough I think villian wasnt all that good. He is probably a winner at 2/4 hu but not much more than that. He did pull a couple of big suckouts on me but I still ended up about 3k off him so I cant really complain. I ran good and also sucked out in a couple of key spots.
By the end of the session we where really deep and I was 3-betting like a madman so the game basicly played like 5/10 or even higher. All in all Im very pleased with my play throughout the session. I think I played my best Hu game ever in the beginning/mid of the session but sadly my game deteriorated a bit at the end.
I feel Im really playing better than ever. Over the holidays I have been playing alot of HU and its sooo profitable, geez theres alot of easy money in the HU tables. People just dont know how to play. Since I will probably be playing 2/4 for the following months I definitely expect to be one of the biggest winners on both HU and 6-max.
Bah! I feel like dropping out of school again. I went back studying because only playing poker destroyed my sleeping schedual and just fucked with my social life in general. But now, Im starting to wonder if this really is better. Im studying journalism and it just bores the hell out of me. I feel that they dont teach me anything and school is just robbing me of time to do other things I would much rather do. There are tons of books I want to read that arent part of the school litterature, and I want to play tons of poker.
At the same time, I dont want to play poker for the rest of my life, I also dont want to start educating myself at 30 when all my classmates will be 20~. Another downside of dropping out is that my parents definitely will panic, and as they panic so will I.
I guess the most important thing I have realized in all this is that I really dont want to become a journalist, not like I have a good alternative but I just feel journalism isnt a profession that interest me at all.
Im 22 years old and I dont know what I want to do with my life. Surprise?
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