So I haven't been playing very much poker lately because of school, since I need t get As in everything to continue going to school and I've really focused on studying a lot more. Every once in a while though if I had a free hour or something I'd play on this nice little facebook poker application and win, and I got myself up to a #167 world rank and 13million chips by friday from like 4.7million chips on wednesday. Then the fun part...
I had been selling my chips off in small amounts, like 100k-500k, for the past month or so and had made like $100 doing it, and I put another ad in the application forum last night to see if there would be any more buyers. When I got home from work today at 2, I checked my messages and saw that one person was asking how much I could sell 10million chips for, and I told him $600. He told me it was a deal, sent me the money, and I gave him his chips. I also sold 1million to someone else for $80. After PayPal fees, I was up $654 from selling fake chips to people on a fake poker application where no one ever plays seriously, or at least well, lol.
I have about 2million chips left, and considering how easy it was to get to 13mill I might just try again and sell my chips until I am rolled for like 50NL or have a deep 25NL roll or something, or maybe even more. It is much faster and easier than 10/25NL and there is no risk, so we'll see how that goes. lol ship teh moniez!!!
Even though I've been running relatively bad/breakeven lately (running only 1.13ptbb/100 this week over ~13k hands 24-tabling 10NL) I think I am getting much better at poker by playing so many hands. I feel like my hand reading has improved dramatically and I've also started realizing how to properly manage my image and metagame, etc. (although it might not matter so much at 10NL, it obv will matter down the line as I move up). I know I'm playing great right now and I'm just hitting a few roadbumb breakeven sessions, but when I am running good again I think I'm going to be winning a lot of money.
Here are some examples of how confident I am in my game...I was really happy that I was able to pull both of these hands off and be right about them while 24-tabling FR. That tells me that reads/plays like this are becoming more second nature to me:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/351633 - Here I had made a standard raise preflop and a standard cbet in position of a HU pot. The PSB on the turn didn't make much sense to me...I didn't think he would play 55-77 this way, and an overpair probably would have raised/bet by now. Also, a boat made absolutely no sense, because why would be try scaring away a FD that is drawing dead but might not know it yet? I thought the only thing that might beat me here is a 3, which also didn't make much sense in a raised pot, so I shoved for value.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/351670 - This one is against a fellow LPer, so I already had some kind of idea going into the hand of how he might play/think, and who that for that reason he probably isn't an idiot. I noticed that he was sitting on a few of my tables as well, so he knew I was multitabling. We have a little bit of history as too, and he had been playing very tight and aggro, so I thought that if an A came I might be able to win a lot more than just 3betting preflop. I call on the flop to float and try repping the FD if it hit because I was sure he'd fold to it and because I might also have showdown value against his range. Turn wasn't a good card to bluff with. On the river he had checked again, so I thought AK might actually be good here and if not it would fold out some of the hands that beat me. I had my mind made up that if he raised then I would 3bet all-in, because I thought that he might put me on a missed draw that he thought I would bet, and since I already thought he was probably weak, a CR bluff would be his play often enough on the river to make a 3bet bluff profitable. Even if he had some kind of hand he might fold thinking I now have a boat or the nuts after showing such aggression on the last card. I was right that he was weak throughout the hand, but he managed to straight up on the river, yet I was able to make him believe that I boated up because he didn't think I would make such a bluff on the river while 24-tabling.
I was 100% sure that both of these plays would work, and I'm actually proud of myself for making them accurately. I think the AK hand might be one of the best hands I've ever played, and I hope I can keep it up. As for the rest of my play, I've been constantly getting my money in good and I've been really good at avoiding nit-coolers, but lately people have been hitting when getting with with bottom pair when I have an OP or something. This obv won't last forever though, and I can't wait to run good again...I think I am completely outplaying my level and playing the best poker I've ever played. I can't wait to just win enough to move back up to 25NL (if it weren't fo an $80 cashout I'd pretty much be there now).
My bro said that he wanted to learn how to play poker and he got me a PC mic for Christmas, so I thought I'd make a training video for him or anyone else who'd want to use it. I decided to 4-table 2NL fullring. Check it out and tell me what you think!
I'm pretty sure it works...there should be sound and it shouldn't be zooming around with the Zoom-n-Pan feature that Camtasia likes using. I tried to include as much info as I could that would help someone who is just learning the game and I hope it's helpful. Thanks for watching and any feedback would be great!
to 5-star "Knights Of Cydonia" on expert in Guitar Hero 3. It's my favorite song in the game and it's pretty hard, but I want to be able to nail it. I also wanna get good at "Cult Of Personality", "My Name Is Jonas", and "One" because those songs are awesome as well and fun to play.
I also got done watching "Alpha Dog" OnDemand just now, and that movie is amazing, especially the ending. I highly recommend it.
lol I am so drunk right now@! it is so good to be over wit finals tht I decided to just get trashed after all my roommates left. I went to the frat nd got hammerd! I even met a future coworker for the Soring semester! lol fun nite. goodnite alll! XD
This isn't really poker related so I don't know why I am writing this here, but I guess I need to just get it all out so I can clear my head or whatnot. The fact is that I am basically failing at life in general, and don't know what to do about it. Sorry about it being long too.
I'm a sophomore in Aerospace Engineering at Penn State's main campus, and for the last 3 semesters I've just sucked at school. I could get good grades at will in HS without even studying ever and I tried bringing that mentality to college, and obv it doesn't work. All I would do is slack off and party freshman year, not go to class, etc. etc., and I ended up with a horrible 2.22 GPA by the end of the year. This year I was supposed to come back and bring it up again, and my parents even told me that if I don't have a 3.3 for this semester that they would stop paying for college and I couldn't go here anymore (my dad figured out that I would need a 3.3 this semester in order to have a chance of getting into my controlled major). I was looking at my grades and used our GPA calculator to see what I could possibly get this semester, and I'm CAPPED at a 1.75.
It's the same old story - skip class if I just didn't feel like going, therefore missing Econ pop quizzes left and right; starting homework at the very last minute thinking I could do it and ending up not finishing it or doing a shitty job, waiting to long to start studying for tests, blah blah blah. The worst part about it was that the whole time I KNEW what situation I was in and wanted to do well, but I had the "well, I can take a break this ONE time" over and over and over again, until it got to a point where I just fucked up another semester.
I just figured all of the numbers out so my parents don't know yet, and I don't know how or when to tell them. I know they are proud to say that their son goes to a big D1 school and is training to be an Aerospace Engineer, and I'm proud to tell people that, and I basically took that away from them. Now I'm just another loser who failed at college and has to be a regular person. I don't want to tell them because I know it'll break their hearts, and that it will always be in the back of their heads when they are with me that "he could have been somebody, but he threw it all away" or something. Even though I know they'll still love me obv and even if they don't show it, I know it'll be there.
I just don't know what to do. I don't want to leave because I love it here, and I supposed to have an apartment in State College next year, so I really can't LEAVE the city for at least another 2 years or whatever, but I know I basically can't fix what I have already fucked up. There is no way (barring some kind of miracle) that I will be any kind of engineer, so if I want to stay in college I'll have to find something else. I was thinking of switching to Economics because I think it is very interesting and that I'd actually be motivated to do the work (since it is easier and all that), and because you can still make a good living on an Econ background. However, this doesn't have nearly the same prestige as Aerospace Engineering, and I know my parents are still going to be disappointed in me no matter what happens.
I think the reason I haven't been as motivated in school is because I really didn't want to be an Aerospace Engineer, like it wasn't what I REALLY wanted to do in life. If it was, I'd be motivated to do as well as I possibly could all the time, instead of just telling myself that and then slacking off the entire semester. Maybe I could have that in Econ, but I just don't know. TBTH, the only thing I have been motivated like that for is poker (lol).
I know I am only a penny player right now, but when I was at 25NL I had a good enough winrate to be making a pretty good hourly wage for a college student at like $15/hour. That's a decent living even at 25NL. Hell, I am making $8 an hour playing 2/5NL right now. I guess I realized how much you can actually make at poker, and I know I have fun playing it, and I know I am talented/skilled enough to beat it regularly. The only problems holding me back in the past were psychological - having big tilt issues, not being able to take losses and therefore chase them, not realizing the true value of the money I do make, etc.
I think I have improved a lot in these areas, so maybe I actually CAN at least support myself/make a small living from poker, but if I told my parents that they would just think I am a crazy degen and be even more disappointed in me, thinking I am wasting my life by gambling all the time. Because of this, I still want to go to school, but I know that school and poker won't go well together, especially if I am trying to pay bills by playing. Of course it would be a different story if I was back to at least 25NL or even higher, but that is beside the point. Basically I think I have to make a decision between college or poker, and go all out on one and forget about the other.
Over winter break I am going to play A LOT almost every single day, and I am going to come back in the spring and finish out the year. Depending on how well I do over winter break will help me decide my future in poker, and whether or not I think I can become a big winner and do it for a living some day. During the Spring semester I'm going to try and do as well as I can in everything at school and limit my playing time to maybe 1-2 hours a day, spending the rest of the time studying. However, I already tried doing that this semester, and look what happened...
I don't know. I am just very disappointed in myself for fucking everything up and not living up to all of my expectations. The worst part about it is that I am a really smart kid and can definitely do all the work and cruise through college if I would just do it on time, but because I am just lazy and unmotivated I keep fucking things up. Hopefully everything works out. Sorry for spewing my guts out like this, but I just felt like I needed to get it all out. Thanks a lot for reading and putting up with my bitching.
I played 1 session today at 5NL and won 3BI in like 2k hands, but then in true nit fashion I hit a mother fucking wall when I got bored and decided to play again, losing 6 straight fucking buy ins to the 5NL retards who just get cooler after cooler, sukout after suckout.
It all started with AA < KK within my first like 50 hands, when we got it all in on the flop after he might as well have played his hand face up, only for the river to bring a K. I got straight flushed on the river with my nut flush, blah blah blah, then I managed to tilt away the last 3 BI I lost on just stupid shit that I know iis retarded. This is how I went busto the first time at 50NL, and I'm not letting it happen again.
With finals on the horizon and me needing to get like a 100 on each one just to be able to enter my major next year (lol GG NO RE aerospace engineering major), and the fact that if I have another bad session close to this one I might go on lifetilt, I just decided to force myself into a 7 dday break until finals are over next week. I made it official by going into the "Responsible Gaming" option on stars and making them exclude me for a week. Now I can focus on studying and I even have some time for this girl I've been talking to XD.
Anyways, hopefully I don't go through some kind of withdrawal during the break, but I think it will do me a lot of good. I am starting to think that not NEEDING to play everyday to "get your fix" is one of the keys to becoming a winning player in the long run. I already experienced going busto and started recovering, and I know the value of the money I win as more than just some kind of play money because I use it to pay off certain things, so this next step should actually help much more than hurt (although I'm def going to miss playing for a week, but hopefully not so much after this is done =D).
I don't know how old this is, but one of my friends showed it to me, and I think it is one of the most amazing videos I have ever seen. Enjoy!
One of the most amazing things I have ever seen/heard. I wish PSU had guys like this out on the street on the way to class... I'd def ship a few bucks to hear something like this.
As any of you who read my blog may know, I almost went busto after "running bad" (more like playing bad) and cashing out a lot of my roll for expenses IRL. I also realized where my leaks/psychological problems were and tried my best to fix them, and was ready to start rebuilding with a ~$140 roll during my Thanksgiving break. I even got "No Limit Hold'em Theory and Practice" in the mail from the FPP store and completely absorbed it, so I was ready to grind again.
Well, it turned out that I needed to take an extra $100 out of my roll to put on my credit card so I'd have room for a down payment on an apartment if I got one, since if my balance went over my limit I start getting charged interest permanently (and it would have been like 20% on my $1800 balance....so I COULD NOT let this happen =P). Therefore my roll went down to just $40, and if I wanted to start rebuilding I'd have to do it at 2NL =[
I thought the best thing to do on such a short BR would be to play as many tables as I could at 2NL with a $2 BI and build that way. Once I had enough to 24-table the $3 BI option ($72, so ~$80) I'd do that, and the same thing for 24-tabling $5 BIs at 2NL ($120). I'd move up to 5NL when I hit $150 to 24-table the $6 BIs there (it also follows the 30 100BB buy in rule I had originally set for microstakes, if I should need to fall back on it). So I started doing this last week after finishing NLHTAP, and I have been absolutely crushing the game every time I play. Since break ended on the 25th I am up ~37.5BI in ~10k hands.
I know those stats are VERY tight-passive preflop, but I mostly like seeing flops and outplaying people postflop for big pots, especially with hands like small PPs and SCs. I know that this kind of strategy won't work as I move up, but I already know where I need to adjust (most likely), and I'm feeling very confident in my game right now. Even though it's a very small sample to go on, I think I can definitely move up the ranks to get back to 25NL in no time. I hope I can and wish me luck!
So I have this macroeconomics project coming up, and of course I haven't even started it yet let alone met my group...or even gone to class in the last week and a half we had it. I go onto the econ site after busting in the 100k to some retarded fishy donkeys obv to check who my group is and email about getting together this week and work on it, and as I am checking my course emails I see one from the project TA titled "Final project due dates." I open it, and lo and behold I have an 8 page paper on borrowing money and the Fed and all this econ shit outlined for me to do by 1:25pm EST tomorrow. I still have yet to read 4 chapters in my book equalling about 200 pages and still have to do the research and the required readings for the project, let alone actually type it, so I am basically fucked. On the verge of sick life tilt at this point.
I get to reading and finish that while I eat dinner in about 2.5-3 hours, then I get online and read the articles for about another hour, and when I am done that I email my group members telling them the situation. I told them that I would just do the project and put their names on it if they pay me back for the time somehow, and if they did it already then I'd try and make it up to them for the credit.
I get to doing the research, looking up all of these cool and incredibly fascinating articles based around econ and the Fed basically controlling the fucking world, and 2 hours into said research I check my facebook to see if one of them got back to me. I was incredibly relieved to see that I had a new message waiting in my inbox, and when I open it I read these wonderful words:
Hey ya im working on the project now actually and have it pretty much finished, i think they gave me the wrong email address for you cause i tried to email you and some other person emailed back saying they are not in the class, so im sorry about the confusion, since you did make an effort though, i think you should certainly get credit for it, so if you want i can just say that we split the work on the project. Let me know if thats okay with you.
Fucking right it's okay with me! So apparently I am off the hook for doing this project at all and I still get credit for the whole thing, saving 20% of my overall grade (which I needed badly because I have missed like half the quizzes and homeworks already). I only wasted a few hours and even got to catch up in the class by reading the textbook! So happy I didn't have to stay up all night and do that shit myself...luckboxing FTW!
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