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September Progress
  lhr0909, Oct 10 2014

Although this month my job has been very brutal and been working till 8pm on average, I somehow managed to be able to play just a little bit more poker than last month. Played just a little shy of 8k hands for the month and was up almost $50 (2 sites combined), which I think was pretty okay for my shitty noob level

Change of this month is:
* played much less on Seals (just not enough tables on the stakes I want to play at, and time issues)
* took shots on 10NL Bovada
* played more zone (anonymous zoom) than normal tables

I think I could have won a bit more, but my stats were very swingy, and I had to jump up and down between 5NL and 10NL because I was right on the edge. I would win up to $210, then lost a whole bunch, back down to $175 ish and I would need to play 5NL to build it back up a bit until I was comfortable with my play, then I finally said "fuck it I would play with 17 BIs on 10NL" and managed to come back from another huge loss at 10NL, which put my BR down to $179 from $210 again.

Graph to show the swongs:
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I think zone helped me improve in a way because every opponent is essentially readless (all you know is how much money they have behind them) and I have to play every single hand the same way (not exploiting opponents). I started to fold more 1pair hands (top pair especially) on the turn and river and was a lot more conservative vs 3bets preflop. Although I do miss exploiting opponents, especially on Bovada where player pool is super soft, I think playing zone helps me in a way where I can get my fundamentals down and I can practice more on hand reading, narrowing opponents' ranges the right way etc.

Posting some stats for the month and hope to get some pointers so I can move up faster :O

Bovada (sorry no positional stats on this one)


Seals


Hope this month I can play a little bit more and start playing more consistently, and hopefully don't have to look back at 5NL bovada shitshow again!





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Taking shots at 10NL on Bovada!
  lhr0909, Sep 08 2014

So I have been very close to have 20 BIs on Bovada for 10NL for months (hovering around $150 since July) and I finally got pretty close ($185) yesterday. Played a session in the morning and I had a massive dip in the mornging to put me back to $174. In the afternoon, I got nothing going on, and it is Sunday, so I decided to do a Zone Poker (Bovada Anonymous Zoom Tables) session. Then this happened:

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So I got it to $198 after that session. Pretty good huh? I feel like I am ready to do the shots-taking on the next level, so I did today:



Really not too shabby! I think I am still very bad though, so I post my VOD here and I am ready to get torn apart on my fishiness. At the same time I am ready to learn if anyone can give me some constructive criticism

http://www.twitch.tv/lhr0909/b/566628753


P.S. shameless plug for my stream lol. I usually do hearthstone on stream and some other games. Poker is really an off-and-on thing because I stress myself out when I stream (yeah while no one is watching)
http://www.twitch.tv/lhr0909



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Poker Progress August
  lhr0909, Sep 05 2014

Need to write one before I slack off. This month was not good for me. I played only half of the volume compared to July, and "variance"/"downswing" are ruining my motivation to play.

I started to play on two separate websites, SealsWithClubs (bitcoin poker waddup) and Bovada. I have around 500 chips (0.5 BTC, which is around $250), and I am playing 10NL/20NL there (which is in USD around 5NL/10NL), and still building up the bankroll on Bovada at 5NL. Multi-tabling-wise, I started off doing 3 tables of Bovada and 3 tables of Seals and I found myself not able to keep up with the actions. So I dialed down to around 4-5 tables, depending on traffic. Session length is about the same from last month (~2 to 4 hour sessions every day, split between a morning session and an evening session).

I think all these little changes made my game unstable last month.

1. I am playing half anonymous tables, half normal tables
2. I am mixing stakes
3. I am playing more tables than before

So I ended up playing around 5k hands for the month, which is LOL. I was a bit busy with work, and just finished moving to a new place. Was quite a hectic month :O

Graphs:
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I think my problem is still calling too much I kept having this thought where people are always raising/betting with weaker hands, and I just want to figure out and call them down with TPTK/TP/one pair hands trying to bluff-catch.

Things I am going to work on:
1. fold more
2. call less
3. play more hands
4. play fixed amount of tables (4) and fixed stakes (5NL on Bovada until I can take shots, 10NL on Seals for the whole month)

Going to start selling the plugin I wrote for Seals that enables them to use HEM/PT (currently only tech-savvy people like me and someone else can do this lol, going to see if I can capitalize it and make some money for playing poker haha)

Cheers



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Small Live Victory
  lhr0909, Aug 16 2014

TL;DR - I took some flu drug before going to a poker room with my buddy and somehow got a heater lololol

There are a couple things that I don't like about my state:

1. no online poker
2. live poker has no NL (only spread limit, although big casinos do something like $2/$5-$500 spread limit, which kinda feels like NL)
3. there is an admission to go to strip clubs and you cannot buy alcohol there (although dancers can be bottom-less :O)

But anyway, so my buddy Tao likes to play poker. He is more of the gambler type, but recently he said he started to read some tournament books and wanted to try it out. More importantly, he just quit today for another job in Calif. and this is his last weekend here. Despite the fact that I had been sneezing all day and didn't feel too well (left work at around 2pm because I didn't wanna just sneeze in the office and somehow get everyone sick), I decided to go with him and play a $50 small tourney (4-5 tables MTT) because that is the only NLHE you can get. Before I go I took a pill of this flu drug I got from China, and it is called Contac NT in English (picture in spoiler).

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At about 6pm, we arrived at this poker room we usually go to. Interesting to see there are a bunch of holdem cash games running (usually there is only one game going because tournament starts at 7pm), and when we asked to join the tournament we found that it is the poker room's 6th anniversary and there was only cash game for the week with awesome high hand bonuses and whatnot. With only $50 in my wallet hoping to play a tournament, I was like, dang it but let's do it. Went to ATM and got $300 and sat down at a $1/$3-$20 spread limit holdem game.

If you haven't played these kinds of low spread limit poker before, it feels like a shit show. You don't really want to bluff much because you can't raise enough to get people out of the pot. $20 raise? ez pz call. by the time we get to turn/river, it is just like a $5/$10 limit game where you just do $20 big bets lololol. I didn't have much success prior to this, breakeven at best. But today I sat down at this juicy juicy table. Oh boy, this guy with a sick mustache is a real drooler with sick luck. He would get in with some A2s and got trips on the turn, and he pretty much turned the game into a $10/$20 limit game preflop. Fun times! From 6-9pm my whole table was just juicy. My cards were pretty good as well, flop went to my way quite a bit when I opened/called in preflop. My buddy Tao and I took a couple of huge pots vs the mustache drooler guy and I was up about $200 by that point, while Tao was up $300. (he has tighten up a bit and applied what he read into the game which I think it is a big step for him haha). chip counts in spoiler:

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Around 8:30pm I felt a very weird high, didn't do anything but staying hydrated with water and getting some Chinese food by the table. My body felt warm and I was a little bit dizzy, but still pretty concentrated still. I put my hood up and just sat there folding hands, waiting for another big pot to come. At the same time I was just enjoying myself, chit-chatting with people around me, etc. but the droolers started to leave one by one, and more and more grinders started to join the table. Had an interesting hand with this big nerdy dude, he called my EP AQss open with pocket pair and made a set on the flop. I had one spade and two overcards on the flop so I decided to c/c, but bricked turn so I decided to give up. He was suddenly all excited and was like 'good fold buddy'. I was like, 'well sure'. About maybe an hour later, he opened from MP and with 2 callers, and I decided to 3bet squeeze with AKo. He called 3 streets and was like "woah I have never seen people 3bet AKo before, I thought you didn't have the ace man". I lol'ed. I was so into arranging my chips at one point in time for some reason. chip counts in spoiler:

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The high was still going on, and my hands were going strong. But I started to play small because of the table is full of grinders now. Taking down a couple of small pots here and there, but the weird high started making me feel sick, so I decided to stop playing at around 10:30pm. Cashed out with $777. Didn't try to make that number, just kinda happened haha. Then I was just waiting for Tao to finish his game (he was my ride because I am a cheap-ass). He moved to another table because he recognized some fish he wanted to catch. At the end of the night he was up about $200. Not a bad day at all. final chip counts in spoiler:

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When I got back home, this weird high is still going strong, so I decided to look up the drug I took, and realized that it was pseudo LOL. Apparently the drug is an upper and I was playing my A game because of it, while I thought I was sick and playing my C game and got insanely lucky :O (or maybe a bit of both because I am fish). Fun night! 8/10 will do it again (without the drug next time LOL)



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Poker Progress July
  lhr0909, Aug 10 2014

Got some decent volume in this month playing after work. I usually tried to do a 2 hour session every day, 4-tabling on Bovada. It is not a whole lot, but that's how much I am playing. Work is very draining sometimes, and I tried to play tired after work and it usually ended up very shitty sessions because I was just yawning the whole damn time folding hands lol.

I think my flop play has gotten tons better thanks to Lemon. He told me to keep around 60% cbet flop and I started doing that, and I think I have a much better time dealing with turn/river by cbetting less on the flop because the pot is much smaller when I don't flop huge. I still had a lot of trouble on the turn and river, especially facing a raise. On these readless games I think I just tended to call a bit more than I should have. I really need to plug this leak ASAP.

Bovada's anonymous tables really got me at first because I couldn't do stuff I used to do on SealsWithClubs when I have 1000+ hands on a given villain. I felt like I could exploit just a bit more against certain villain, and on Bovada I had to play slightly more defensive most of the time. From the graph I think it took me about 2k hands to adjust. From then on I think I started getting a hang of it and winning more and more. So at the end of this week I am netting +10BI with 8.63bb/100 winrate. So much rake on Bovada though!

Other than that, everything is going well, except for work lol. On a nasty project that couldn't get away with. Kept having production issues and couldn't have my code running. I needed to keep going back trying to fix bugs, and it takes a week to see my bugfixes go live, which sucks balls. Oh well we will see this week.

I am writing a plugin that allows SealsWithClubs players to use HEM/PT HUDs which I am going to sell for 60 chips a pop (60 chips = 0.06BTC = $36). That way I can use the money for playing bitcoin poker on Seals from time to time lol. On the other hand, I am also planning on writing a plugin for Bovada that enables HEM/PT HUD use. Although it is not going to be as good because the of anonymous bullshit but I think it will still help quite a few people online if they want to see more stats/import their hands on the fly. the Bovada converter from acepokersolutions had issues importing to HEM2 so I am pretty pissed about it. Not sure if they are going to fix that any time soon.

Posting my Bovada cash game graph here. You can also checkout http://lhr0909.github.io/poker to see my progress on various games if you wish haha.





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handhistory batch upload
  lhr0909, Jul 30 2014

Decided to do this because of this: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/1039066

It is probably pretty useful for people who just want to just put their HHs into LP.

Wrote this as a Chrome Extension so I submitted this to the chrome web store (Google verifies (malware/virus check) the extension before letting anyone publish so should be clean): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/de...tory/fkgmcjenfjpflifmkehkedboehbmhakd

By the time this script is published, the uploaded hands are not going to be listed by default so we can really use this extension without flooding our hands section.

Video Tutorial on how to use this:


Live stream VOD on the programming process: http://www.twitch.tv/lhr0909/b/552979953
Source Code for the Curious (and proof of no virus LOL): https://github.com/lhr0909/LiquidPokerHandBatchUploader

Next Version (lolwut):
1. Adding some menu shit other than just saying hi to Benjamin1, having some settings on it.
2. Making it so that it will list the first hand, and add the rest of the hands into the first hand as a comment.
3. Suggestions welcome.




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Random Poker Stuff
  lhr0909, Jul 04 2014

TL;DR - Online poker is going well (got graphs below), did quite a bit of study and got paid off. Live poker is LOL good fun, and always been wanting to play poker for a living if I can ever get that good.




Online Poker

After my stars incident, went back and play on a bitcoin poker site SealsWithClubs (I live in the most northwest state other than Alaska and Hawaii in the US, so online poker is illegal as fuck here. I could play Bovada though, just not sure if I can cash out in this state, don't wanna risk it). It was rough at the first week.

Still bad at this game so I had been posting hands here and a lot of you helped me on various spots. Special thanks to fira, Devon, Lemon and Trav who helped me the most. Went really hard on myself in terms of BRM this time (got ppl pretty mad last time taking random shots at stakes I am not rolled/skilled for) - doing 30 BI for 20NL (0.02btcNL = 12nl). Playing a mix of 10NL and 20NL. I found myself most efficient 3-tabling (without losing focus), i usually do either 2x10NL + 1x20NL or the other way around. Playing about 3 hours every weekday (between 1-2 sessions) and more at the weekends.

Lost 10 BI in 20NL there at the beginning, but losing 20 BI at stars last month helped me prepare for this LOL so I reloaded for 200 more in the middle of the month and kept playing (so I don't play scared poker at 20NL while having enough volume of tables for me).

Read through a couple of thinner books for micros. Finally read through the Ryan Fee book that Devon linked me, and I read the BlackRain97's book as well. (Also read Easy Game but I wouldn't count on that book oops). Started actually folding more / overplaying less / calling less (at least pre, still got problems for calling too much). I play as ABC as possible and it has been going well for me at the bottom half of the month. Won quite a bit in 10NL and breakeven-ish on 20NL.

Graphs for reference:
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BR is sitting at healthy 700 right now and planning on moving up to 50NL at 1500 (wanna just to be safe and learn a bit more at the lower stakes this time around). Working very very hard on poker and the game is very fun for me. Not caring about winning but really just focusing on making the best fucking decisions whenever I play. I really hate myself for still spazzing around like a dumbass and I am going to try very hard to get rid of a lot of old habits and just play like a emotionless fucking robot and get those disciplined folds in.



Live Poker

Haven't played live for a long time, and my state is the worst to play at. We got casinos alright, but none of them are allowed to play NL. We play spread limit hold'em which you can only raise to a set amount (say if 3-20 spread, you can raise 20 on top, and re-raise is also max at 20 and there is a betting cap of 3 rounds iirc). Still soft as hell, so my bet sizing is super small (they do 1/3 so I would raise like 7 pre and add maybe 2 per limp). Not sure if I should play a bit more with pot odds since the bigger the pot gets the more odds you get for calling. Got myself into a very fishy habit of calling a lot when I play there.

I met some guys from my company at the card room and they invited me to a home game that they do. It is only 20NL but it is good and fun. People play super loose so I win some there from time to time.

The real NLHE I can play is MTT. There is a turbo MTT going twice a day in the cardroom I go to, but the field is a bit tougher than cash (lots of regs and some regs are pretty good, some kids like me here and there trying to be good and cool, you know how that goes). Binked one there once, with a 5-way chop ($55 buy-in and cashed $370). Don't want to get into that too much yet, but definitely will look into tournaments as I get better.

Today one of my poker buddy IRL is trying to get me to go play live. So I left work at 3pm and played till 10pm. Bought in for 200 for the 1/3-20 spread holdem game and just got played a couple of pots (some guy slowplayed QQ pre and slowplayed more when he flopped set and I got kinda fucked that hand since I wasn't thinking through at the river raise) and lost all of it.

Re-bought for 300 more and won 50 back. Bought in for the MTT for $40 and LOLDONKAMENT MODE ACTIVATE. Played very tight at the beginning, while trying to get my live HUD on. guy sitting on my left and right were not fish (guy on my left played till HU at the end) but everyone else seemed pretty fishy. Until this one hand when most of the people limped/folded to me and I decided to open 700 Ts9s (blinds 100/200 and everyone had 20k chips to start so pretty much lvl 1). My buddy called from the SB, so did rest of the limpers (kid on my left and guy on my right didn't call so coolio). Flop came 9h4h2s, my buddy donk bets for 2k chips. Folded to me and I was like, damn I know him pretty well and he loves his suited connectors. He definitely had 2 hearts. I was like, can't let him have it and didn't think about it too much. Shoved and got snap called by him. He showed QhJh. ugh.. Turn Jd River 2h LOL I was out. Thinking about it a little more I should have just folded (he had 15 outs so he was ahead), and would have probably just flatted/folded to an unknown. Well that goes my $40 for the night. Seems like I am the fish here LOL.

Well after finishing my dinner there, I went back into the cash action. They always had a 3/6 FLO8 table running with a kill (if you win both high pot and low pot you need to post for 6 and bets become 6/12). Going to give LO8 a shot because why not. Bought in for just $200 just for shits and gigs. While I was waiting for a seat, I did some quick readings on how LO8 works and it seems a bit easier than PLO (preflop determined a lot). And there is a new holdem table opened up so I sat down for an orbit and got couple of good hands vs a whole table of fish. Picked up 90-some in about 2 hands and I was up for FLO8, so let's go bitches.

My plan was just to play dumb and asked the dealer and other players like the rules and shit, and people helped me a lot. Then I just played like a nit. Fold pretty much all the shit hands and played only like 4 in a row, (A4)56 and like (AQ)A4. Limped in with hands like 6633 89TJ etc trying to hit something nice. Super patient overall and got paid off. Up about another 140 from FLO8 at the end (didn't get involved in a lot of hands so didn't win very very big). My buddy did pretty well at the MTT and got to FT, but busted around the bubble and didn't cash. Got him playing FLO8 for the 1st time as well (he doesn't play nearly as much poker as me so he is weak LAG at best) and he managed to lose a big chunk of cash. Oops.

Didn't wanna show the graph because I have like less than 10 sessions. But I am up about $260 live. Going to play more live if I can get a big enough roll from online for just live poker (I use my life roll for live so don't really wanna do it often as for now).


Life in General

Watched a lot of PokerStars videos on YouTube and the team online pro playlist catches me the most. Lots of good stories there. Enjoyed Baalim's video a lot. Really want to try to play poker for a living. I am still bad, very bad at this game.

I have a great job, not even going to be humble here (not bragging either tho), my job is fucking great. But I enjoy less and less about it. I love programming and I chose it as my major for college and as my job after college. But suddenly, when you get to program fucking 40-50 hours every week makes you lost in it, especially working at a big firm. For me I think I enjoy programming for myself the best. I wrote a hand history converter in no time so that I can use HEM2 HUD on the bitcoin website I play at (people even ask me to sell it to them bling bling$$$$$). It fucking sucks when you have a boss that gives you a lot of attention when your project is going well but gives 0 fucks to you when he moves onto another bigger project (and at the same time your project run into a little trouble here and there). I feel like software engineers are just fucking tools, expensive tools at these big tech firms. I don't like that. I would love small start-ups a lot better but I wouldn't be able to (I am Chinese coming overseas to work and I need a big enough of a company to sponsor me). I have a prototype game that I need people to draw good graphics for me and it is going to be very very fun to play. I couldn't find a designer and I sucked at drawing. If I finished my game and got some success I would probably quit my job and go for that. Maybe I am just fucking bitching here and I should be grateful about my current financial situations and use it as a resource to learn to play poker.

I have seen a lot of software engineers that are good at poker. Last year WSOP ME there was a Facebook engineer got featured for a lot of episodes for Day 3 and 4. This year there is another software engineer that binked an event (forgot which one though, but one of the 1500 NLHE events). Not sure if Daut is a software engineer but he seems to know lots of programming stuff .

In terms of effort, I am pretty sure I can put in enough effort for poker. I still remembered when I started playing my first RTS - SC2 (yeah I am fish at RTS). Spent 2 years to get from the 30 APM, bottom 5% of NA server, to top 5% of NA server (APM around 180-200 ish because the game is easier than BW LOL). Was still in college when I played the game and I dropped a class one semester trying to get more playing time in (fuck school man was gonna go pro SC2 gg). If I want to get good at something, I put a lot of fucking time into it. Poker is no exception here. I love the game, love the challenge, and I just want to get good at it.

I tried to express this to my mom (she is Chinese) and she was like wtf you are not quitting your job for poker. It is gambling bla bla bla. Even a lot of my good friends and my coworkers in real life don't understand it at all, even if they are tech-savvy, well-educated and I have explained the whole deal to them. Have not even tried to tell my girlfriend about this (she is going to flip as well I'm pretty sure - also Chinese). The more I think about this, it's like, for me, I just want to be my own boss. I feel like I would be happy to be a indie game dev or software dev writing apps for a living, or playing poker for a living. You are pretty independent and you don't have to listen to almost anyone about almost anything (I listen to all of you for advice and shit LOL). You tell yourself what to do and you are responsible for yourself (and your family of course).

The compromise I am trying to give myself now is that, put as much time as I can into poker, learn the shit out of it, get very good at it, and if I get good enough, I will eventually just do it. At the same time, see if I can find a chance to stay in the US while trying to work for a smaller company or something.

Alright enough for July 4 lol. Have a wonderful weekend LP. Need to pick up my gf in 2 hours at the airport (yep I am in a long-distance relationship and she is in Northeast of the State, 6 hour flights). Going to take a short break from poker for the weekend haha.



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Me 0 - 1 Stars
  lhr0909, Jun 12 2014

http://lhr0909.github.io/poker/2014/06/11/gg-stars.html



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Just writing some code
  lhr0909, Apr 03 2014

My day job is a software developer. So I love tinkering things on a computer. Recently I hooked up my tracking program, fpdb (I am too lazy to buy HEM2/PT4), to my profolio page on the Internet, so it shows my poker graphs on a web page. Theoretically it should work for all tracking softwares, because they all use a database (PostgreSQL or MySQL, which are similar). With some sort of database reading software, I should be able to read the data out with relative ease.

So here are the steps I took to get this:



1. Get a server hosted on http://digitalocean.com (server is super cheap nowadays, and digital ocean offers even cheaper price! for $5/month you get a pretty good server with blazing fast network speed), then install a bunch of shit like LEMP (Linux, nginx (not sure why it is E), MySQL, and PHP) stack, phpmyadmin, and other shit.

2. Set your tracking software to take in that online database instead of the local database.

3. Write some code to surface the graphing data. This part is kinda tricky, because there is a query you have to call the database with, and you don't know what it is. So what I did is to make my database log all the queries, and as my fpdb refreshes the graph, fpdb will make a query to the database, and BAM! Copy-pasta, then code code code, and we got this (omitting a bunch of steps for the code/setting up the server to run the code and other tedious crap):



4. Then I graph the data with some javascript. There we have it!

As far as poker goes, I withdrew my 1 bitcoin from Seals and started fresh on Bovada. Not planning on taking the money out at all, but just sit down and actually learn how to play well. Cash graph (5NL only) seems break-even, and I think there were some bad beats here and there, and there were more hands that I just didn't play well at all. But since Bovada has more people, I got more game choice. I really enjoy playing Sit n Go's (I play $3-$4 SnG's with about $170 in the roll, should be decent BRM right?!) and from the graph, I think I am doing okay in it

As always, I thank everyone on LP that have given me help/advice and I will keep playing and getting better!



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Poker Blog (Feb 10 - March 11)
  lhr0909, Mar 12 2014

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Hi LiquidPoker,

I started playing poker in October 2013. At that time I didn't know what to do after work, other than playing starcraft 2, and the game really pissed me off because of shitty balance. So I drifted off onto other things. I know that Boxer (one of the starcraft gods) switched from starcraft to poker, made me wonder what is the beauty of poker to the starcraft pros (looking at Jinro and Fayth haha). As it turned out, I really enjoyed playing poker! It is competitive and hard, and more importantly you get some money on the side haha. So I decided to play seriously.

Started to read some books here and there, and played quite a bit on bovada. However, I lost my deposits very very quick, until February 2014, I was going to Hawaii for one week for vacation, and deposited 0.15 bitcoins to SealsWithClubs, and started playing then. After the week, I was stuck 20 chips overall, then I started using FPDB to track my winnings. Here is the graph:



Not looking that good, huh? At first I was playing pretty spewy, and overly aggressive on some of the hands. I posted hands I lost on here and people gave me feedback like "don't play like that", "fold pre", etc. I didn't understand why they said it at first, until devon said this:


  On February 19 2014 23:40 devon06atX wrote:
A word of advice. Stop playing like this, it will stunt your growth as a poker player massively.

I said that you gotta get over this mind-set because you're posting hands that are basically bad for you in the long run. That's why you're posting them.

People typically post 'boo hoo, poor me hands' or 'look at this shit, I rocked him with a stupid hand I shouldn't have rocked him with!' and as a relatively new player (in my guess), you should be playing STRICTLY ABC poker. Nothing wrong with a qjss 3bet from the button vs an aggressive cutoff or whatever, but before you go fucking around you should know the basics.

TLDR - Don't play like a tit at low stakes. Not the time, nor the place.



Then he gave me this awesome offer:


  On February 20 2014 23:54 devon06atX wrote:
If you're serious about getting better, I have no problem discussing any/all of your posted hands with you, but I want to know beforehand if you have the drive and commitment to be serious. I haven't offered this before.

FWIW, first thing I will do is link you to books. And also suggest you watch a couple series off of deucescracked.

To learn to beat the game will take countless hours of hard work OFF THE TABLES. If you don't have the discipline for that, then you best take your cash to the slots.

A sober Devon will probably regret this tomorrow.

edit - I mean this btw. I've had an extremely insightful night and am feeling quite generous. Take it if you wan't it. But I will be tough as fuck on you.



After Devon's words of wisdom, I started to play a lot more carefully. I started off by playing almost only premium hands in position, and I started to realize that this is a great way to win at poker, at the very least, at my level. There is no need to get fancy, no need to go overly aggressive. I started to fold some of the hands that I would have never let go months ago, and the results were pretty decent.

The 2 big jumps were actually from taking shots at 50NL. It was pretty scary, but I managed to win a couple of big hands there, which is fantastic. By the end of last week I finally broke even for the month! And tonight's session was great too (almost 1k hands with +22 at the end, playing 10NL and 20NL).

In addition to that, I went to a B&M cardroom for a NLHE tournament (40-man MTT, $55 buy-in), and I managed to stay at the final table even though I was stuck at 5bb for a long time (15 min levels and the blinds shoot up quick). When there were 5 people left, 4 of them wanted to chop, so I said okay, let's chop it up. Each of us get $370 back, which is great.

I play some home game with my coworkers too. I am still break-even on those home games (20NL) (I lost to this one LAG guy a lot, I need to play super nitty vs him next time). Here is the graph with the live winnings:



I hope I can keep up the trend and get better at poker slowly but surely!



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