EDIT: You guys know I don't do EV graphs, but 12 BI in 200 hands under EV that must be some sort of a record for 6 max.
Submitted by : LemOn[5thF]
PokerStars Game #40424923584: Holdem No Limit ($0.25/$0.50 USD) - 2010/02/27 23:21:15 WET [2010/02/27 18:21:15 ET]
Table Guinevere V 6-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: stiltonblue ($134.50 in chips)
Seat 2: Dolleman12 ($124.80 in chips)
Seat 3: kezako2009 ($271.60 in chips)
Seat 4: DoC.LemOn ($286.50 in chips)
Seat 5: jamesy1963 ($47.90 in chips)
Seat 6: koomo ($75.35 in chips)
kezako2009: posts small blind $0.25
DoC.LemOn: posts big blind $0.50
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to DoC.LemOn
jamesy1963: calls $0.50
koomo: folds
stiltonblue: calls $0.50
Dolleman12: folds
kezako2009: calls $0.25
DoC.LemOn: raises $4.50 to $5
jamesy1963: calls $4.50
stiltonblue: calls $4.50
kezako2009: raises $266.60 to $271.60 and is all-in
DoC.LemOn: raises $14.90 to $286.50 and is all-in
jamesy1963: folds
stiltonblue: folds
Uncalled bet ($14.90) returned to DoC.LemOn
Showdown kezako2009: shows (two pair, Kings and Fours)
DoC.LemOn: shows (a pair of Fours)
kezako2009 collected $550.20 from pot
Summary Total pot $553.20 | Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: stiltonblue folded before Flop
Seat 2: Dolleman12 (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: kezako2009 (small blind) showed and won ($550.20) with two pair, Kings and Fours
Seat 4: DoC.LemOn (big blind) showed and lost with a pair of Fours
Seat 5: jamesy1963 folded before Flop
Seat 6: koomo folded before Flop (didnt bet)
And of course, he is busto and TAGfish have my $300
A friend has recently forwarded me to Disney website (Its Canada by the way), and I found out about this movie:
I just love Tim Burton and it will be the best film based on Alice for sure.
Poker
Win - I still keep 4 tabling and its awesome.
Win- I tilted. A lot, even on four tables. 1st time I disobeyed my rule of taking a break after at least every 60 minutes. Standard stuff, but a good lesson.
2nd time I realised something very important - I spew huge when I play right after I come from work. My mind is still overwflowing with all the work stuff and I spew a shitton. Now I know I have to wait at least 60 minutes when I come home before starting poker.
I also decided to standardise my preflop raise sizing to be ready for higher limits. I use the positional systems with the following raise sizing at NL50 which I want to practice next month or so so it becomes my standard and I start changing PF sizing based on table when it gets to my blood.
UTG 2
HJ 1.75
CO 1.50
BU 1.25
SB 2
Also, I have 3 hands I need help with. Please post bet sizing to all bets/raises and your action if you get re-raised.
Wee, 15 days of strictly only 2-4 tabling.
My goal is to do this for 30 days, can I resist multitabling?
I purged all hands on February 4th, and in 15 days after that I played whopping 8293 hands and collected huge 2532 VPPs this month (VPPs from first 4 days included)
Low tabling is fun, and its the only way where I can do my usual crazy stuff and get away with it.
I am also experimenting with nitty (13/12 or so) Image to be able to pull huge bluffs. Its so hard to pass on so many +ev spots when building it though
P.S. I thought for a year that I am 23, but, in fact I was 22 and will be 23 in a week. I have been telling everybody that I am 23 too lol.
P.P.S. If I manage this test of discipline I am moving to NL100. It wont be really a shot since that limit is easier than NL50 for me and I will very comfortably rolled (60BI+).
EDIT: OMFG, my gf wants to see THIS SHIT:
Instead of this: ((
And Another thing: Whats the highest % of RB an UK Player can get on some euro sites or Ipoker?
PM me if you know or have an offer, I might swap sites when April starts if I lose my SN.
Oh man, its here again.
I don't know why Pokerstars must have the best tourneys in ages right on this day.
Needless to say, I don't do much for my GF, we don't go out often etc, so today I will not be playing but I am cleaning the flat (boo) and we will get some Pizza and Movie, get flowers, a card etc.
As Collegesucks said, girls just sacks of emotions, especially Asians. My GF and poker together was just an emotional roller-coaster for me too, but now when she cries, is angry, panicking or whatever I just take a couple of deep breaths, and resolve whatever banality caused it this time without feeling bad myself. Work wonders, and also works with poker (That sometimes is nothing but an ungrateful bitch), and it allows me to love them both without losing sanity.
Poker
I have collected 1362 VPP this month.
I lost some $1k since January 1st when I was multitabling, I purged all hands on February 4th, stopped multitabling and gave myself a February holiday from serious poker grinding. I played only 4k hands 2-4 tabling since, only when I really felt like it. Don't even have to mention the results.
Since this is not variance but a long lasting pattern repeated multiple times, I simply realise that I simply can't multitable when I have a job. Its bad when I am multitabling, but has severe impacts on my mentality at the tables when I do 4 table, like a disease.
2-4 tabling is also a lot more fun and I can get away with a lot of crazy shit (look at my recent hands) because of my heavy note taking and soul owning skills, which simply vanish the second I open the 5th-16th table.
I am not sure what to do next month to be honest. I should keep doing what I am doing since Feb 5th- Playing only my A game. Butif I don't make 7500 VPP I will lose my SN, which means leaving Stars. But I love Stars so much, I got SN Shirt, 2 Stress toys, The shark, Hat and beannie, T shirt, my GF has a Tshirt, mini chip set, I ordered the Hoodie and my RSA Token is for Stars - Why does this site have to be so cool
Well, I will see. I don't plan anymore short term, but I will prolly give NL100 a try after making another 5-10BI at NL50 and maybe I will take NL200 shots next month which will get me to 7,500 VPP even with playing super low volumes. If not, then I might leave stars, maybe forever.
Well, thats enough ranting for today, I have 2hours 15 minutes before my gf comes home, and I have to start doing stuff for Valentine's day right now or I will be faced with more negative emotion ;
Here are two love songs from my favourite artists of all time, enjoy:
Wu Tang
This song is one of the mushy gushy romantic cliché thingies. The sound of old raw Wu Tang Clan was and always will be the best hip hop sound ever. The new RnB shit all sounds the same to me.
Tiesto
All Tiesto's songs sound the same, but doesn't mean the guy is not a genius and that I don't love them (I am a hypocrite so what, who are you to Judge me?)
Lost almost 20BI past 40k hands or so at NL50.
Moving down to NL25 and will probably sacrifice February for my SN holiday month.
On the other hand today I am *really* starting to work on my health and life quality today properly(I was ill Monday - Thursday). I put a great deal of work into mindfulness and breathing techniques over the past two months, but that needs to be supported by nutrition, goal setting, exercise and relationships for me to to win at the game of life (i.e. do whatever I am doing to my maximum potential).
This is becoming a pattern... I started January 12+tabling because of the PS Sale, and ended the month with a loss of $200, taking me to break even with RB. I was tired almost always when playing poker and I stopped enjoying it at the end. I shall not multitable, stars are just evil.
I have also bought a 'Secrets of 100% healthy people' book and found out that I have seriously imbalanced blood sugar levels (The symptoms of which are weight gain, waking up tired, being tired in the afternoon and need for caffeine or something sweet after meals).
I will try out the low GL diet recommended in the book, its seems very simple and very realistic. Unfortunately that also means cutting caffeine completely - god help me.
One of the patterns of healthy people was also spirituality (mind over body baby -.-), and this coincidentally intersects what Tommy Angelo was advising for poker players. Apparently the chemical reactions triggered by bad feelings get stored in your brain and recalled when the situation repeats. Makes a lot of sense with when you look at kids not burdened by negative emotions at all and then you look at the angry grandma on the bus - the negative emotional stuff just keeps adding up and often prevents rationality.
So I booked me and my girlfriend for a 5 hour introductory session to meditation next Saturday, should be fun.
Februrary goals:
Go ahead with the low GL diet, Play 4 tables at least 50% of the time, 6 tables the rest and I am allowed to masstable only in last 5 days if my SN will be in trouble. Get some sweat sessions going again. No monetary goals.
Long term goal remains the same: $10k BR by the beginning of September,$20/hour winrate, be physically and emotionally fit to play 7-10 hour sessions with 5-10 minute breaks on a regular basis 4 days per week while studying 3 days per week for 9 hours each day.
FU STARS
Yeah, fudge you mofos. The PS Sale gave me a strong reason to multitable again.
I made my SN requirement of 7500 VPP in 14 days while playing 1 hr during weekdays and full weekends.
But who am I kidding, I can't keep multitabling when I have a full-time job... there simply never is the energy to sustain it. Needless to say, I have a break even month and I managed to wipe out all my 5BB/100 winnings from 4 tabling and 1BB/100 when 9+ tabling during 3 hypertilt sessions, -6 to8 BI each.
I have FPPs I need to buy what I want and I already have SN threshold for this month... I ban myself from playing anything else than 4 tables for the rest of the month, and then I can only multitable when my SN is in trouble. And what if I feel bored? I will simply move up up to 200NL, or not play at all.
I will make 7BI at NL50, then take shots at NL100 and NL200 if it goes well. I can push it real hard as long as I keep returning to NL50 at $5k.
POKER PRO
I bought Tommy Angelo's book, but I have to say its less enjoyable than Ace on the river, and Tommy's series on DC, because it lacks continuity and is just a bunch of advice, without the awesome music.
It has some epic passages though, lets see one of them:
[...]When a professional poker player runs out of money, it's not a shame. It's just part of the game.
The shame is if you get calling to spread your wings and fly, and you approach the cliff, but then you back away, and from then on you wonder what it would be like to soar the wind, even for a little while, even if all you did was flail around aimlessly and crash.
Think of all the people who have set their sights on being a professional football player, or sculptor, or any other challenging career that comes wrapped in pain. Think of how many of them have 'failed' or 'came up short' or 'didn't make it'. Were those people wrong to be blinded by their passion? Were they wrong to chase a dream? Is it better to have jumped and crashed than to never have jumped at all?
Its not possible for you to find out if you 'have what it takes' to go jobless and make living out of poker, except by quitting your job. You've been a poker pro for a while now, and you're being tested like never before. You're having the worst losing streak of your life by far. You bankroll is at all-time low. You're stressed most of the time and depressed the rest. Your closest relationships are either not as close as you want them, or too close. Your health is, well, its's all over the place, because you are.
But you love it anyway, goddamn you really do! You'd do it all again, even though now everything is totally fucked. You've had so many, many soaring times these last few years, just free, on the breeze. Waking up with not much, but plenty. Playing the game like the greatest player you have ever been. Stunning not just them but even yourself. New discoveries. New people. New places. New new new. What's next ? Who knows. Who cares. Who knew you could be so hungry and so happy at the same time?
Those thoughts fade, replaced by what's real. You're not soaring right now, You're spiralling.
Looking into the future, do you think you can predict how you will feel when shits hits the muck? What you'll do? Do you think you can predict what the world will look like to you then, as you look at it from behind a paycheck now? Do you really think you know which cards are coming?
Here's a catch 22 that has caught many. You can't play enough hours to get good enough at poker to be a pro unless you quit your job. And you can't afford to quit your job until you are not good enough to be a pro.
If only that dang job wasn't in the way, you'd have the freedom to really work on your game by playing whenever you want to and quitting whenever you want to and just bearing down on it, week after week, month after month. But if you had hat kind of freedom, you'd really be a pro.
To become a good enough at playing poker to make a living playing poker requires a tremendous amount of poker playing, poker thinking, poker talking, listening, reading, and writing. There isn't quite enough time in a normal life to hold down a normal job, maintain normal relationships, and be a poker monster.
Cliffnotes for lazy Eastern Europeans
- You can't go pro unless your quit your job.
- Is it better to fly and crash or not to fly at all?
- Although poker is cruel and a whore at times, only few that actually went for it 100% wish they'd never tried to give it their best
Personal notes to the above
Being a poker pro is awesome. Its so awesome its hard to grasp for me. I never really had the knowledge and didn't know why am I doing things until about 2 months ago. I never had time to play by then - only in the afternoons and on the weekends.
The problem with that is that you have a very limited time to play poker. So you play, you don't quit and you don't study, and whats maybe even more important - you don't think about poker when you try to be the best/do your maximum at your job.
Then the 14 days break came during the Christmas. Boy that was awesome... All I did was think about poker, live poker and breathe poker.
I could quit whenever I wanted, do something else BECAUSE OF POKER - Its very important that you relax properly and I just took my GF to a cinema or for a dinner for that reason, or I simply went to gym after reading an article and having it on my blackberry and reviewed it on a treadmill.
I watched 3-4 videos per day and I 4 tabled only, and I played when I felt like it. Huge fish keeps rebuying? Cool, I don't go to sleep tonight. I don't feel 100% ok? Sweet, lets do something fun that will make me feel better, I have all the time I need for playing.
I would just do whatever and I always got these random cravings for the game. I felt fresh and full of energy, I put in an hour here, an hour there, and it always came to 6+ on average per day.
I am now very strongly decided - I will finish my placement, I will try to get by by playing part-time during my last year of university starting September, and then, if I still feel my passion for the game, nothing will stop me from giving it 100% no matter what.
You know when you shouldn't play when you 3bet AK, bet and board comes AxQT against a very nitty player.
You are 4tabling and think long about every decision.
You know that he wouldn't bet any hands you beat, so c/f is the best option. So you check, and he fires a large bet.
Everything goes by the plan, you laugh at the nit. You look at HEM popups for a bit to pretend there is something to think about before you fold.
But you don't fold, you shove instead into his AT, and just stare at the screen in disgust.
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