Degen Chronicles

Well, I've always considered myself a much better sng/tournament player than cash and I've always enjoyed them since I played the playmoney games on stars like 3 years ago. I've had this account for my entire poker career and I've suffered through the good and the bad times of poker, if you notice my first huge downswing that was me starting to try to understand push/fold, I've never really read anything SNG related, I still probably have bad ranges in some spots I just go off of what my brain tells me is right and it apparently is pretty correct.



I think I have it down pretty well, I've got restealing mastered, I think I'm pretty much perfectly playing A game SNG now.

I'm not too proud of some of these ROIs, a lot of it is learning as this was my first account.



My 16s ROI is almost purely my recent play as I just started playing them, and I'm making a living off of them as of right now paying truck payments, insurance, and whatever else there is like beer and gas. As of right now I'm cashing out $25 every day, but I might start cashing out more since im playing the 16s now and not the 6s. Poker is fun right now, I think I might make a switch to cash for a while for some bonus hunting on sites with rakeback like Cake Poker, I'm not totally sure at the moment though SNG are going pretty well (Ive made over 1k in a month) Anyways though thanks for reading or whatever.

Cheers everyone

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I'm down 8 buyins at nl25, wtf?

SNG are my crutch. I'm cashing out $25 a day to live on right now, seems to be working well.

wtf though, i beat nl10 at 20bb/100

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I deposited $50 on wednesday to pokerstars. It was a pretty big hassle because I don't have a credit card so I had to deposit on an account I created for my mom. I got it on there now though. I'll keep this fairly short, I would HIGHLY appreciate some comments on my PT stats even though it is a relatively small sample (this is fullring). I should probably also note that I now have to pay $300 a month for insurance+my truck payment(I got a 2003 black chevy shortbed, I'll probably take some pictures of its sexiness and upload in the near future) It has really changed my outlook on money and poker. I have some new found discipline that I very much so needed and hopefully I can stick with it.






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I also enjoyed this hand a lot. The table had got down to just me and this guy for about 20 hands. I won a hand off of him with middle pair for about 50bbs. He insta went on tilt and I made sure to never get out of line with him. This hand was about 25 hands later when some more people joined the table and I dunno I just found it to be rather interesting.



Submitted by : CrownRoyal

PokerStars Game #9788637808: Hold'em No Limit ($0.01/$0.02) - 2007/05/07 - 01:18:58 (ET)
Table 'Jimarnold' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 3: mgunter11 ($5.94 in chips)
Seat 4: khoos ($4.05 in chips)
Seat 5: alexnever ($3.05 in chips)
daniell_77 will be allowed to play after the button
mgunter11 : posts small blind $0.01
khoos: posts big blind $0.02

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to mgunter11
daniell_77 joins the table at seat #8
alexnever: folds
mgunter11 : raises $0.08 to $0.10
khoos: raises $0.08 to $0.18
mgunter11 : calls $0.08

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $0.36)

   
mgunter11 : checks
khoos: bets $0.36
mgunter11 : raises $0.64 to $1
khoos: calls $0.64

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $2.36)

   
mgunter11 : bets $3
khoos: calls $2.87 and is all-in

River (Pot : $8.36)

   

Showdown
mgunter11 : shows (high card King)
khoos: shows (high card Ace)
khoos collected $7.70 from pot

Summary
Total pot $8.10 | Rake $0.40
Board  
Seat 3: mgunter11 (small blind) showed and lost with high card King
Seat 4: khoos (big blind) showed and won ($7.70) with high card Ace
Seat 5: alexnever (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)

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So today was my buddy's 18th birthday and he wanted someone to go to the casino with him so we got a few people rounded up drank some and headed to the casino after baseball practice. I was planning on just blowing 40 bucks or so on the slots but the casino we went to has running poker tables at all hours of the day so I headed upstairs to the cardroom and found out they had a 3/6L, 1/2NL and .25/.50 "budget" Limit game running. I signed up for the 1/2 and the budget game and about 10 minutes or so later i got called up for the 1/2 nl game.

I bought in for $200 and the very first hand I got dealt KK, I literally checked my cards 25 times in disbelief and I was nervous as hell. I was UTG and raised to 8 pf and got called by the BB. Flop was AK8, he checked to me and I bet 12, he folded. T_T perfect flop for kk.

didnt play very many hands for the next while, found myself in a huge limped pot with T8s and limped in on the button. Flop came T75 uncoordinated. I bet like 15 into a pot of 20 and got called by one guy, I put him on a 7 or 5, he looked pretty unconfident. Turn came a 4, he checked and I bet 25, he went into the tank for a bit and called, at this point I had him on some type of a draw, I couldn't really puth im on anything at all. River was a 6 giving me 2nd nut straight and im pretty confident the nuts, he checked and I bet 35 hoping for a crying call from whatever he had, he called, showed 33, i showed my 8 and took down a nice pot.

him 34567
me 45678

those were essentially my only two hands worthy of discussing, the players there were terrible and I had 0 room to make any type of plays, pretty much I would compare the skill in the room to a NL10 table. I plan on going back there a lot especially when i start my job and can completely afford to play and not necessarilly play like a nit like I did. All in all I think most of the people there think I was a retard and I tried to act like a clueless fish the best I could which is pretty good for my metagame. I hope I can go back this saturday.

start: $200
end: $275 + $15 in blackjack winnings.

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No poker in this blog, fuck poker i suck.

So last night was prom. Gay, I know, I had a lot of fun though. Who cares about the prom anyway, it's just a really good excuse to get drunk.

I picked my date up at about 4pm and we took what seemed like a never ending amount of pictures. Finally we got out of my house and we went to eat at Tokyo, which is a really fancy habachi japanese steakhouse place. Asian people are just really cute, I would love to work at that place just to be around the cute asian people. Anyways, back on track, we ate and believe it or not, took some more pictures because there was "really cute bridge omg" outside of the restraunt.

Then we went to my date's mom's house and... Took pictures. I hit on her mom like any sensible prom date would do, Moxy skills +1. We stayed there for a bit and then headed to the prom which i fashionably showed up to 45 minutes late. When I got there for some reason everyone was just being lameasses and sitting down so I instantly started breaking it down, straight up gangsta style - and by straight up gangsta style I absolutely mean like howerton off of fresh prince, that guy's a pimp. I did the typical dance stuff, you know, grinding with all of the girls while all the other guys sit scared at the back of the room, I never understood that but I was too busy enjoying myself to figure it out, so I just dropped it.

We finally left prom at about 10pm I think and i was ever so giddy to get back home and start the festivities. Things started out pretty slow though because we didn't have any alcohol except a half fifth (a fifth is 750ml for you non hicks) of jager which I drank about 3/4 of. I was off to a pretty spendid start and when the alcohol got there I continued the barrage of attacks at my liver, Leonidas himself would have been pretty impressed with my BAMFness. Yeah, BAMF.

My beer pong partner 4lyfe cheated on me and played with one of my other friends, I was totally planning on me and him making the hall of fame (winning 10 games in a row) Last night, but he was a jiggity jackass and so I partnered my friend craig who is basically billy bob from varsity blues made over. Me and craig played till he had to leave and at that point most people were gone except a few and I ran my prom date home.

Somewhere in there we did hang out although I didn't really mention her any, we played circle of death for a while and she can drink a lot for a girl, i was impressed. I got back out to the party and it was pretty dead except a little group of people who like me wanted to party hard until they passed out. My memories are getting pretty blurred here but about 30 minutes later someone told me that there was a guy at my prom date's house and she didn't want him to be there, coupled with the fact that she was drunk and it was 3am I was furious (me and my date are really good friends, it wasn't like a boyfriend girlfriend type deal) and I had someone drive me to her house and I sprinted in and the guy came out of her room. I don't remember what i told him other then that I was going to kick his ass off of this balcony type deal we were on. The faggot threatened me with a gun and when i got up in his face and said "shoot me then" the guy snap folded his bluff and tried to get me to shake his hand, what a fag.

We got mica and we left back to my friend's house that we were partying at and his parents made us all start going to bed (gay) I snuck off for a while with some of my friends but everyone was being gay and it was cold so I got back and the owner of the house, my friends dad was pretty pissed at me but I cuddled up in the floor and went to sleep.

We woke up at like 8am and they made us breakfast, awesome, it was great and like the champions we are we went back out into the garage after breakfast and continued drinking, I decided that KFC sounded pretty awesome, so we went and got KFC. It was awesome.

We got back and played some basketball, but then we went in the house and I took about a five hour nap, woke up, watched National Treasure and came home.

All in all I had a fucking awesome time, I wish that gay kid would have fought me though.

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I have no discipline in poker, I keep going busto and never moving up stakes because I lack the ability to play correctly within my limits. Thus, I am challenging myself, starting with play money to play correctly and move up stakes and be at nl50 within two months (i'm insanely busy at the moment, i have baseball and senior trip and a bunch of other shit going on in my life)

As of right now I have made 970k playchips which took me all of two days, I figured that would be the longest part. I'll probably note the differences in the levels and try to make some type of guide as i move forward for players who are just starting or something, thus far I have noticed that the players in playmoney sng are significantly worse than the $1 in the early stages of sng, but on the bubble they are SIGNIFICANTLY better than the players in the $1 sng (this is of course regarding the 80k buyin playchip sng). The playmoney ring is pretty much just terrible, and all in all I really just found it pretty uneventful and im glad that portion went quickly

anyways, i'm trying to sell my playchips and (i think) that i've got someone to buy them so next step, nl2.

this was probably pretty boring, but i just wanted to make it known publicly for some random reason.

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Anyone who is an experienced tournament player would you please add me to msn?

I'm not gonna ask you more than at max a question a week maybe and i'm a pretty fun guy all around, I'm playing mostly tournaments lately and i have some advanced play and super deep tournament questions that I'd like to talk about.

msn = caleb_012_@hotmail.com

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Down like $150 in sng this month. Down like $100 in nl25 this month. Down like $60 in nl10 this month.

I think im playing ok, especially in sng. probably being insanely too aggro at nl25. All in all i just really dont have any confidence and am really questioning my game. A week of losing sessions can do that i guess.

I think im going to lower my number of sng tables from 24 to 12 and my cash tables from 12 to 8. Maybe I can fix some of my leaks by doing that.

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Well, it's been a while. I went broke with that dollar, ran it up to 10 or something and i dunno, i dont really remember it's unimportant.

Whats new: I got staked about 2 weeks ago by ggplz (badass motherfucker) with 40buyins minus rake at the $3 10p sng.

I agreed to pay him back 240 when i reached 360, and if I went busto he was ok with it. No way was I going to go busto with someone elses money, but oh well.

I reached the 360 pretty easily, it was februrary 27th and I had one day left to earn 400fpp or so to earn for silverstar and ggplz agreed to let me continue playing the 6s so that I could accomplish that. I think that came up to something like 133 sng or so, whatever it was, i've played many many more in a day before so I wasn't too concerned.

I ran red hot that day and at about 10:40 PM with my newly found $500br I decided to take a little break, I had an hour left to go and only a few sng left to play. I get back, decide to earn the final 40fpp via nl25 since I was bored as hell with sng. Then bam, 11pm, PS resets and I have to earn 1500 more to acheive silverstar, central time zone < easter time zone

what the fuck, gay? 20fpp away or something, I also lost 2buyins in 300 hands. What a fucking bummer.

I shipped ggplz his 240 and I had 200 left.

Since then, ive earned TWO sunday million tickets, unregistered from both, cashed out $50 and besides that ran insanely shitty in sng (down $100 or something)

Played in a lot of MTT recently, I feel my game improving there a lot lately. Didn't hit any FT's tonight, but I got top 18 in two tournaments which is such a cocktease.

oh well.

edit - forgot to mention, i got absolutely fucking raped at nl10 for no reason this week.

during my stake from ggplz i was making well over 2buyins/1k hands.

I think i lost like 6 buyins in 1k hands or so the other day, I have no idea what the hell was going on. Probably going to play some NL10 tommorow, and after I get some confidence back there, switch it up to some nl25.

anyways, good day.

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I'm essentially broke, and have a dollar in my ps account.

I've been in this situation before, i've went busto 2-3 times and the grind in front of me is looking dismal.

Since ive done this a few times I have a pretty good strategy for getting back into action.

First of all, I'll grind .02/.04 FL until about $10 at which time I'll start playing the $1 sngs and i'll probably grind up sngs until im at $400 from there I can 12 table NL25 comfortably. I'll probably play in all of the microstake mtts I can afford too. The are so easy and can be a real jumpstart to my bankroll if i get deep enough.

As I write this, my bankroll is 1.08 as long as I don't get real unlucky here right off the bat I should be rolled for nl25 in about 2-3 weeks.

wish me luck

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