Now the only question is what challenge? $50 deposit @ NL2? $1 HUSNG's? 180 man's? Learn micro-PLO? I havent put any effort into poker in quite awhile, just splashing around with whatever random idea to run it up comes to my head. I'm busto and have this entire week off, so figure I might as well make it a grindathon. Hopefully I dont waste too much time sleeping in, watching netflix, and playing vidya games.
In the words of the great Cassie McHigglesworth of UK fame Skins
Finally ran out of rakeback life support on full tilt, helped my wife win a $2 HU shootout so she xfer'd me with winnings and am back to playing on beloved stars, oh how I miss thee. Funny thing is, after playing 3 months of exclusively rush poker, normal ring games feel so good again! I mean damn is it ever nice to have actual legitimate reads on players, who you can iso, who you can bluff, who you can ship 300BB's aipf against. Wow, what a breath of fresh air! I do feel like rush has helped me a little, namely in regards to strengthening my reads in low information spots. Or perhaps it was all gained from greater hand volume. Whatever the case is it's so nice to feel in control at the table again. I wonder if my live play has improved as a consequence of rush.
Interesting start to the new year. I indulged in a lot of new poker theories after my '10 blowout where I finally gave up professional poker. Now I just play for lulz, which has been working out much better in the tilt department. It basically comes down to a lack of care, which interestingly enough is an ideal poker mindset to be in. If I make it I make it, if I dont I dont. Had a couple of humorous busto challenges trying to run up zero dollar bankrolls, but ended in failure due to poor BRM. So on with the results:
A little messy, but to be expected from an amateur trying to play LAG. Every one of those spikes was a learning moment lol, and I feel I soaked in a lot of good material about what works and what doesnt at the micros. The spikes were self-induced due to adopting a half-stack strategy whereby I'm basically pot committed after any 3bet or flop action, but as time went on I was able to curtail which hands I should plan on committing with before I get there. Eventually some tilt did get to me and I bled like crazy around hand 10k or so I guess. But because I take lots of silly 1 BI shots and shit, the following graph more accurately represents my forward play style at any given limit.
And finally my overall stats. I can live with that. Especially with the adjustments I'll be making. I went back and forth between playing half-stack and full stacked, and at the moment I still prefer half stack or less at micro stakes, just to limit the swings when I get it allin. I noticed when I moved up to NL100 I got ran over trying to play this loose with 50BB's, and before I realized it I was moving back down. I'm pretty sure regs dont give much respect to half stackers and immediately targeted me as a fish. I kept getting 3bet and squeezed without really knowing what to do. Because deeper stack requires a more intelligent level of play, I think sitting full stacked at the higher games will be optimal as it allows me to play more postflop without regs just jamming KQ high or something and making me fold. Since I'm really happy with my non-showdown results I think I can possibly do well in this regard.
My main goal this month is to focus less on the value of my current bankroll and more on just being patient and letting it grow. I get too greedy and want to add a few digits every few days, telling myself I can suffer a 1 BI shot at the next level if it lets me get out of my current one, but it gets pretty annoying having to drop so quickly when you dont immediately run well after moving up.
Whoever said you should ever value bet thin, especially at micro stakes, needs to suck a fat cock. There is no value in raising anything on the river if you have showdown value... go fuck yourselves midstakes regs.
PC must be powered on and running for 1 hour before any poker sessions begin. My sweet gaming rig has had a defective video card for the last year now, that seems to crash as the system warms up for the first 30 minutes or so. Entire system freezes and I have to reboot to clear it up. If it has sat for a good hour then it runs stably for the rest of the night. Nothing like getting home, opening a table, flopping the nut straight on a 234 board in a 4way raised pot OTB, just to have my pc lock up as I'm typing in my raise amount.
In fact, I've heard of people keeping a laptop on standby as a backup in such crisis as down internet or something. I'll keep my cellphone tethered to that too just in case.
Him: I got a message saying I needed flash updated, please update it
Me: Does the page load?
Him: Yes
Me: So whats the problem?
Him: Well I thought it probably needed it if it was telling me.
Me: Dont worry about it. Which browser are you using anyway?
Him: Internet Explorer
Me: Use Firefox, you wont get that message as often, if ever. Plus it is superior in a number of other ways. Why are you using Internet Explorer anyway?
Him: I dunno
Me: Ok, well use Firefox.
Contact Users: 1055 Active, 1 Logged in - Time: 03:17
,
,
,
,