Kick, Push

So I dropped down to 200nl...

and wow, this is so amazingly ridiculous easy money. Everyone just seems to be a huge weak tight passive nit if they're a reg, otherwise the place is filled with huge donks. Lately I've just been killing w/o showdown here (hadn't really been running well when cards were actually shown..), and today I actually had my first losing session at 200nl since dropping down, had my big pairs pf run up against bigger pairs 4x within a 900 hand scope and was really sad. Played another session after that (It's 5 AM I have class in several hours sadface), and went on a massive heater and made 12 buy ins in an hour and 30 mins lolol. I really didn't NEED it though, 200nl is just so ridic beatable it's crazy. It's not even like I'm table selecting either, who knows. I played a lot of hilarious hands (so many huge fish here omg), check these out:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/420401 - Uhh, did I just value call K hi?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/421353 - Time to play.. who is the biggest spewtard?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/422085 - This guy was not folding any top pair for any amount of money, ship it

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/422084 - Same villain as above, dude just HATED folding, so I massive overbet turn in a limped pot

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/423002 - "why were you in with a 2-4"

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I don't know why this happens but at the start of every month I'll run good/feel good for the first several thousand hands then go on an immediate losing streak. I can't say I played that well but the constant straight over straights, flush over flushes, big pair vs big pair preflop in squeeze situations can really just straight up ruin everything I've worked for this past few days. Meh, -3.2k today, hope I can bring it back up soon




glllllllllllll everyoneeee

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I decided to start my blog a while ago because I was going through some rough times poker-wise. I felt I was a winning player, just that I was running pretty terribly, yadda yadda. Well, you know that saying "you'll always run worse than you've ever imagined?" Well, either that's true or I'm no longer as good as I once thought I was.

I've tried to keep this blog interesting and regularly updated, since as far as I know we don't have that many MSNL players here (it's usually skewed to a lot of micro stakes players and a handful of high stakes players who have all the attention). I've tried to establish an image here of an aspiring MSNL winner, and I think over the past couple months some of you have enjoyed my "essays", fun hands, etc.

Well now I'm going to swallow my pride and take full humility in the fact that March 2008 was the worst month of my life, as not only had I lost 6k flipping (running absolutely terrible), but I also managed to somehow break even at 400nl for 30,000 hands. You'd have to believe me when I say this is unprecedented in my career. Here's my March graph:



Now that that's over with, I want to look forward to better things. I'm currently getting coaching from one of the most prolific and talented players in the world, the one and only ae mother fucking jones. I used to believe my preflop play was amongst the strongest at my limits at FTP, and that was pretty much the only reason why I was winning since I kinda suck balls postflop, but wow, the amount of information I've learned just about preflop so far from aejones has been extraordinary. I'm very very excited about getting coaching from him and it's going to do a lot for me, guaranteed.

I've stuck with my PT database since January of 07, when I first started grinding. I don't know why I never bothered to make a new one, but it's finally time to end it. I'm making a new database now, to commemorate the end of my year and a half of learning, struggling, and retarded degenerate flipping. This new database will begin logging hands in what I hope to be the middle of my 400nl career, and be with me as I hope to journey into higher stakes. All I'm really doing is making a new PT DB, but I feel very excited about this for some reason. This is my new start. And with that start, I promise no overexcessive degenerate flipping .

So, farewell to March 08, the absolute worst month of my life, both in poker and real life (although I did get my new car that month). Here's to a curbstomp of April .


P.S. I also want to shoot a link over to TL, thedeadhaji's "Top 100 Game Music" thread: http://teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=68847
For those of you that played the old Japanese RPGs and stuff and enjoyed them, you'll want to check this out, it makes for good background music while you're grinding if anything .

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This guy I know photoshopped me (more like an MS paint job but w/e). It was in a forum post on a private forum so it had some context to it but nevertheless I thought it was pretty hilarious hahaha



i'm such a yellow asian :o
original pic: http://pub.tv2.no/multimedia/na/archive/00262/Jamie_Gold_poker-vm_262123c.jpg

that is all

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Her name is Ivory.

Funded by degenerate gamblers all over the world.























<3

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Degenerate flipping. why would they even call it a "flip" if when I get in no matter what I'm 70% to lose?

Included one $1000 flip where I lost T hi vs 9 hi
last stretch was all $400 flips where I consistently lost putting it in at the very least 70/30 or better.

gonna go drive my new car around (pics soon) and watch OSL finals (flash vs stork) gnite folks

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So as you can see, starting from March 4 i've just been having non stop, massive losing sessions. Not gonna clutter this post with my whining or anything, just that my confidence is overall pretty much shot and I'm on the verge of either moving down (though I'm still heavily overrolled for 400nl anyway) or taking a long ass break.

THE GOOD NEWS is I'm getting my car VERY soon, maybe even tomorrow :D. For those of you who haven't been keeping up since the first post, I'm gonna get an Infiniti G37, Ivory Pearl exterior with Graphite interior. PICS! (shamelessly stolen from other people):









More pics here: http://myg37.com/forums/showthread.php?t=173895

So pretty much this car is just about the only good thing in my miserable life right now, hopefully it revitalizes my passion to play this ridiculously stupid game.

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My february graph. Not going to devote the entire blog to claiming how bad I run or anything, just decided to post the EV graph instead of a pokergrapher graph because this one looks a lot cooler. At around hand 24k is when I started playing like my old self (how I played at 1/2), which was roughly 25/23 and being pretty aggro and fearless overall. Prior to that, and in January, I was playing something like a controlled 22/19, but that ended up not being so fun. Good thing I took the initiative to open up my game that drastically too, because given how I ended up running the next half of the month, I would probably be up only a very marginal amount.

An utter disappointment this month though... I feel as if I played a lot better than how I played in January yet the results don't show it. The last 10 days of february, where I was motivated to do the best, resulted in massive breakeven stretches over time (I'd have a +2k day, then a -2k day, then a +300 day, then -1.5k day, then +1k day, etc.). I was really getting sick of it, as I wanted to make at least 15k in February.

I think that it's times like these where you really need to take a step back and objectively look at how you're playing. So many times in my career I thought I've hit a plateau in my skill level. It's just amazing how much better I am today than I was only 3 months ago when I had made the jump to 400nl full time. But really, if I was a perfect player, there should be nothing stopping me from destroying 400nl for 10ptbb and moving up to 5knl. Until I can do that, I can't slack in my improvement as a player.

If you guys read this weeks hotw thread I posted what I believed to be a great oop float turned shove induce with mid pair in a 3b pot. Naturally, I was verbally raped by FrEaK who (and I can't thank him enough for it) wrote paragraphs on why my play and thought process was incorrect and inconsistent. He ended up being right, my thought process at first glance seemed good, but if you delve further you'd see that it was littered with holes. So what it comes down to is, if I can be SO wrong on such a big hand, I definitely need to continue taking the necessary strides to improve myself as a player.

I know a bunch of 10 and 25nl players who just seem to be "stuck". They understand preflop decently well for their stakes, and they know how to value bet their top pair and up hands. Typically, my advice to those that tell me that they can't seem to be make much despite doing these things correctly is that "If that's all it took to beat micro stakes poker, then just about anyone in the world could be a winning player". And as we all know, poker is actually pretty damn hard. So if you fall into this camp, look to make the effort in really improving yourself. The 10nl/25nl stage is where you can actually learn the MOST at the quickest rate because a lot of the info needed to beat these games is readily available on various forums and videos etc.

So my goal for March is to make at least $20k. Going to try to make the necessary effort in improving my game, constantly, as everyone else should (whether or not you're losing or not winning as much). I have finals this month but I also have a week of spring break which is going to be me sitting at home playing poker for hours on end. Here's to a lucky March!

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Been playing some pretty good poker lately, which is good considering I really need to make big strides this week if I want to end February with a solid earning. Currently at 11.1k over 36k hands right now which is a bit unfortunate but beggars can't be choosers (don't know if this even applies in this context but whatever).

Here are some pretty good calls I've made recently.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/392496 - KQ hi on A hi board
Kinda standard cbet flop, realize I'm ahead of draws on turn cbet, then bluff catch riv hand.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/392497 - JJ on K hi board 3 streets oop
Flop I mix it up between cbetting and check calling. Turn he is repping a decent amount of hands that beat me, but by river he essentially has to have KQ or a set here, and I've shown immense weakness up til this point.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/392500 - KK on A hi board facing a river c/rai
A fun hand here, against an aggressive, good villain and among the few I actually respect at my stakes. Flop I'm thinking he reasons I'm only betting here with air and the very top of my range (and checking back made pairs and A high), so he makes a standard peel. Turn is a supposed scare card but I know he's smart enough to know I know it's a scare card, so I bet for value planning to go 3 streets. His river c/r is a bit scary at first but reasoning through the hand I don't think he ever has a 4 in his hand here (unless 44 i guess lol), a slowplayed 77 is possible but I think he might've made a move by then. I also don't think he's capable of doing this with just a bare ace either. In the end, it was a really thin, ballsy bluff by him and probably made to fold me off a queen or an ace if he thinks I'm that weak tight.

Here are some good calls I make that I actually get punished for:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/391788 - 3b pot TT oop on A hi 3 flush board
Villain is aggro and I have a pretty aggro image as well. I think I just lost a big pot to something stupid prior to this so he might've also had the idea that I was slightly tilted (which is wrong because I'm zen as fuck and never tilt). His raise/call range here is pretty wide, and he knows that I am probably betting this flop with my entire range (lol I probably am). Because of this, I think he's capable of calling with a pocket pair type hand or just air intending to float, so I snap it off on the turn and get owned. He had decent equity though, but he was probably shoving a non diamond turn as well =/

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/391782 - 3b pot QQ on K hi flop facing a shove
Villain is some crazy donk who claims to be a poker pro and is a table coach and berates everyone. He's been 3betting me a little bit lately, and usually has a tendency to bluff (later developed some sick bet sizing tells on him). Knowing this, I choose not to 4bet my queens and just let him donk it off. Not that hard of a call on the flop since I mean he's just retarded and overaggro, dumb result though.


Well that's it. Hopefully I'll put up some more "essays" later since that seems like the things people like the most (browse through previous entries if you're interested).

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Well I woke up at 7 am today, started playing my standard morning session, realized the tables were pretty soft with a pretty big multitabling fish so I decided to skip my intro psych class and keep playing. Ended up playing for like 6 hours today, pretty good result. If I can just keep up these hours everyday I'd make SO much money, but I just don't have that discipline.

Anyway here are some pretty fun hands from recent times:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/388808 - I bluff called with 4 hi
was part of my tilt session last night, I think I was somehow very drunk or something because I couldn't read my hands. First of all I thought I had 22 here, and I also don't know why I minraised, I think I misclicked but I didn't realize while playing so it was just really confusing seeing him raise to 30. Also, made a good read on the river but when the pot didn't ship to me i was like wtf? did the board dbl pair or something? shit he has A high how come i didnt win? :[

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/388587 - Flop the nuts in a raised family pot, standard.
Pretty hilarious, haven't had a raised family pot since like, fixed limit pre-leg at party. pretty sick how i hold too

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/388266 - I value bet against 8 hi and get called
I really don't know what he was doing here. For what it was worth I was betting to induce a shove. Pretty sick call by him though if I had like 7 high i probably wouldve killed myself tbh

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/388268 - Standard call down with 3rd pair tbh
Was vs the multitabling fish mentioned earlier, ended up making 1.6k off this guy on the entire day

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