Lemon

People said I ain't a grinder no more and it hit my heart. The minute I start multitabling, god sends brutal storm of coolers upon my head.

BAD BAD HABIT GODDAMNIT
400 hands of multitabling, 20 minutes, -5BI

I think this is the most concentrated sequence of bad beats (esp. the 2 owned fullhouses) that I can remember -.-

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It completely Screwed my graph since I started rebuilding at NL10.
I continue my never ending trend: Crush at 4 tables, get uber raped at 9+ (all three spikes down could be at about 60% would I stay at 4 tables)








I do that whenever I am extremely tired and my will is weak. I really need to improve my condition and find better balance in things.



I started reading Ace on the River from Barry G and this is exactly the thing that he describes as a distinction between winners and losers at the high stakes games he used to play seriously - he was winning only 50% of his sessions and 1/3 of the year was losing for him, but by always quitting under unfavourable conditions (he was tired/tables was -EV) he made it into a big winner as others always played even when not in top shape.

Love that book so far btw, let it be my inspiration, looking forward to chapter Poker and Family especially.


Now I hope I will pull myself together between the EPIC SATURDAY FREEROLS

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My Stats since I started Rebuilding:

Days Played: 15
Hours Played: 48.24
Total Hands: 20,683

Hands/Hour: 428.75
Hours/Day: 3.216
Hands/day: 1378


Fulltime Job, Fulltime GF I live with, no masstabling policy and supertight stop loss caused all this :/
Now I go to gym every lunch brake and get wasted once per weekend = even less hours for pokerz.
Did I lose the grinder status already?

At how many hours/hands per day I have to take it from my business card?


It sure does feel like I play very very little, I used to have 1000 hands/hour and 60,000 hands in the same period before :/

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BEHOLD, my 140 bucks exec pimp chair I just ordered.




Post pics of your beauties -.-






P.S. I also posted an order for Ace on the river, I hope it will be better than the bitter dissapointment called 'Play poker like the pros' from The Man.

In addition, look at my pimp cuffs:



Can't forget

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Here we go...

My rebuilding excercise was going well until today.
I was running good in the morning, but then I sat down when I came back from the town...

Got stacked 1x KKvAA, 2x AKv AA and lost all flips but one. But w/e thats poker. Unfortunately I lost it and started multitabling again... and fell 4BI's while multitabling and playing really bad. I just can't bloody control myself...

I KNEW I had hit my stop loss and I KNEW that multitabling is the worst thing to do. But nope... I still couldn't do it.


By my super strict rules, I withdrew to 1k and will move down to NL25 at 900 should that happen.
Poor tilt control and multitabling urges are the only things keeping me at NL50 for so long, and nothing less drastic will work.

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And I got my first wage for hard 4 weeks of superhard 7/5 work.

Ship the $2.3k net, not bad for a student imo (This job will count as a full year at the university, and I have full student status with low tax NI code and no council tax (normally about $200/month) - I just have to keep a diary, write a Strategic Appraisal at the end and endure visits from Uni inspectors once per 2 months or so)




Poker goals for today are accomplished, lets go get drunk I say!

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My Goals
NL25 done, it took me a week to double my roll at this limit. (Running hot is good :o)


I must say than I dodged my rule of cashing to 20 BI at a limit (If I lose 2BI AND I break my non-multitabling rule) by always first pwning a couple BI at 4 tables and then multi table once I get tired (4tabling is WAY harder then 9 tabling for me btw).


And As I set the stop loss rule for a day I managed to cheat myself this way. My spews obviously came during multitabling again, and I lost about 5 stacks where I shouldn't really. My red line also suffered by doing this, and I think its easily sustainable to have it just below 0 at NL25 and push standard winrate to 6bb/100 levels with decent tables.




A Hand
I will post interesting hands from NL25 later, just one from today
This is about the biggest rape I have been exposed to to date. 36/6/1 Turbonit Villain (with 10% WTSD and 40% Fold turn,) called, after I squeezed wide UTG/high fold to 3bet fold opener and him (who also folded to majority of 3bets)


I believe he folded every single time in situations like this before, even with much better hands.
I am always reluctant to really believe these people pay attention to table image, but this time I was wrong (I was fairly aggressive at the table). Dunno what it was, probably my timing tells and non call inviting bet sizing, but this dude completely raped me.

He had what I thought he might have, and I was 100% sure he would fold.


Pure pwnage, and I typed 'owned' to the chat myself, I was amazed somebody at micros could make such a read and actually alter their game.

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The Results







My Game



As I try to play completely reactive style, the weekend brought my VPIP and PFR way below my 'standard'. Calling Stations all over the place is not a place for LAG, although today and yesterday I finally got to some nitty tables and could employ full blown 34/30 with 20% 3bets.


Also interesting is how my stats don't get too much tighter in early position, the reason was complete lack of light 3bettors - I could open AXs utg profitably all the time and sometimes I was opening even hands like JTo as I had tables with 4 nits and one fish (regs at NL25 don't adjust and just let you exploit the fish forever :o)



Also what I can see there is that I don't 3bet on the Button and CO enough, and thats something I have to work at before I get to NL100.


-I almost perfected my 3betting from the blinds against exploitable opponents, and I learned a new move -> 3bet into check/fold with junk against nits with superhigh fold to 3bet, on boards that are not super great for 3betting.
I always was cbetting without really thinking about their range, which is rarely folding non scary flops and even turns.

-I found a good spot to 4bet bluff only three times, and 3barrel bluff only twice.

-I also learned that it doesn't matter that you are getting 6:1, the fish simply don't minraise with Junk


-I tilted, but as I was only playing 4 tables when running bad those were microtilts and I quickly pulled myself together ( I lost a couple 89% Equity spots and got once pwned with 200bb stack with 80% Equity shove on flop (which instantly pwned my stop loss and I had to quit fo the day -,-))



Conclusion

I had fun at NL10 and NL25. It made me remember that no matter what limit you play, it is still the same game and every person is different and can't be completely generalised.
Sure, you can play a standard game aimed towards the limit standard players only using stats, but this will never let you get to the core of every individuals mistakes and won't let you completely own the game.

I wish I could remember this every single time I start playing more then 4 tables and stop paying attention to every single pot, and avoid the evil of multitabling.



I am back at my regular limit, and I have learned a good few things in the process (I watched entire micro stakes grinder series while 3 tabling ). Losing over 70% of my BR was painful, but I believe that because of the things I learned it might actually be +EV In the long run.








P.S. If you ask why I only made $500 when it takes $600 to go from 24BI at NL25 to 24BI at NL50, my answer is simple: I cheated by donking $100 in Supernova Freeroll.

But don't judge me you punk, as I know you cowardly add your rake back to your BR while I buy Phil Hellmuth books and other junk for it.

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-Starting at NL10. $550


Move Up: 24BI up to NL100, Stop there until April 2k10
Move Down: 20BI , quit if I am at NL10 by april 2k10


Stop Loss: 2BI in one session, 4BI per day

Rule: Only 4 tables + up to 2 donkmants.


Breaking the rule of 4 tables and breaking stop loss in the process : I will withdraw to 20 BI at current limit and move down at 18.






Why?

Well Up24/ Down20 'Shot' seems to be perfect, 4bi should be enough while 24BI is not too little.

And as for the brutal withdrawal rule: I have to punish myself for multitabling, or I will never stop, and I would lose it anyway if I would multitable (If not in money terms, than at least in lost learning).


I never lasted more than 4 days at only 4 tables (and I have winrate average about 8bb/100 at 4 tables throughout stakes), hopefully I can make it this time around. My only goal still stands: A winner at NL200 in 12 months.


Wish me luck, I will make a post whenever I move up or down or break the rule.



Submitted by : LemOn[5thF]

PokerStars Game #31625188845: Holdem No Limit ($0.05/$0.10 USD) - 2009/08/14 13:47:02 ET
Table Kalchas 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: ArjanB ($10 in chips)
Seat 3: PLAYTodd ($13.80 in chips)
Seat 4: DoC.LemOn ($16.45 in chips)
Seat 5: pineda1982 ($15.30 in chips)
Seat 6: seredadinamo ($7.10 in chips)
PLAYTodd: posts small blind $0.05
DoC.LemOn: posts big blind $0.10

Holecards
Dealt to DoC.LemOn
pineda1982: calls $0.10
seredadinamo: folds
ArjanB: folds
PLAYTodd: calls $0.05
DoC.LemOn: checks

Flop (Pot : $0.30)

   
PLAYTodd: checks
DoC.LemOn: checks
pineda1982: checks

Turn (Pot : $0.30)

   
PLAYTodd: bets $0.20
DoC.LemOn: calls $0.20
pineda1982: calls $0.20

River (Pot : $0.90)

   
PLAYTodd: checks
DoC.LemOn: bets $16.15 and is all-in
pineda1982: calls $15 and is all-in
PLAYTodd: folds
Uncalled bet ($1.15) returned to DoC.LemOn

Showdown
DoC.LemOn: shows (a straight flush, Four to Eight)
pineda1982: shows (a flush, Ace high)
DoC.LemOn collected $29.40 from pot

Summary
Total pot $30.90 | Rake $1.50
Board  
Seat 1: ArjanB (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: PLAYTodd (small blind) folded on the River
Seat 4: DoC.LemOn (big blind) showed and won ($29.40) with a straight flush, Four to Eight
Seat 5: pineda1982 showed and lost with a flush, Ace high
Seat 6: seredadinamo folded before Flop (didnt bet)

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NL100 to NL10 in 16 days


BR at $550

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So I started working full time two weeks ago.

And I love my job, I am an admin for Financial Risk and Governance team at one very well established UK Pensions and Insurance company.

Our goal is to basically control other departments, help them assess various risk and statutory procedures and present the progress and controls in place monthly / quarterly/ yearly to the Finance board.



Its fun because the team is very friendly, because I know about everything that goes wrong in the company from a dude in some minor team being sick for a month to £100m losses due to bad predictions.
Its like looking over everybody's shoulder I would say.

What more, Lloyds TSB bank , our parent company, has acquired second largest Scottish bank some time ago, and the integration is starting to kick-in, basically allowing me to see theory I studied being applied right before my eyes, in a post where I know about any issues.

-Ideal Placement for one year Intern ship I must say.


Well, everything can't be rosy, and one area in my life has been suffering tremendously: Poker


I love poker. Last 5 months I always sat down, started tables and didn't stop unless I was extremely tired or lost at least 1/3 of my BR. Average 100k Hands/month in first 5 months, that must be something.
But It was fun and I loved doing it because it was the only thing apart from extremely easy studies going on in my life, and I was driven by a great motivator - Money(I was completely broke with expensive rent on my neck)

But now not only I have had fun at my job, I also left a lot of energy there, but whats more - they even promised me hard cash for my struggle.Despite this I went on with both Work and Poker in the same way as before.

And as Work comes first, when I sat down at the tables as usual I had no energy, no fun, and no motivation.

What follows you can guess: 9+tabling zombie mode, and not giving a shit really.



I will just stick to the results, Since I started working:






Quit?

Bullshit. I'd sooner have sex with Barbra Streisand. I enjoy Poker a lot, even in zombie mode I am still entertained at least by some funny /great hands.Plus, my goal is still crystal clear and I just have to work around it : Be a solid NL200 Winner in 13 Months to be able to pay my last year of University.


But obviously I just can't do what I did - randomly sit at the computer and POKAAAA anymore.

Time is now a scarce resource for me, rather than the thing I have oh too much of, and I need to somehow get back my focus and stamina.



For Starters, I am starting to do something many of you grinders do, but us notorious multitablers never can force ourselves to comply with - set clearly defined times for my sessions.

Say I know I will play from 19:00 to 20:30, and I simply will quit at 20:30 unless I have some brutal heater.

I will try to see Poker as an activity that is somewhat special, and I will Play poker during my free time, rather than having some free time during endless poker grind.


Any Other Tips on how to cope with full time job and Poker would be much appreciated.


LemOn Out

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