Moving Back Down To NL50
Jas0n, Nov 27 2009
Played NL100 for 3 days but I don't think I'm cut out for it yet. I think I might be a marginal winner at NL100 but I've still got a lot to learn. I ran pretty bad today, only played for 40 minutes but lost with all in pre KK v AA, AA v KK v QQ, and AA v KK and lost 3 or 4 flips. I know this is totally standard but I don't have the BR to take hits like this. I'm at 2150 right now ($150 profit playing NL100), gonna take another shot when my BR hits 2500.
Lol, just checked RB account, found $100
Racist Commnet At Casino
Jas0n, Nov 25 2009
I was at a charity casino with edzwoo and another friend the other night. There was a 3bet pot between this Korean player and this other player. The Korean player bets flop and the other player ships it. At this point, the Korean player doesn't really know what to do, so he tanks for a while, and this middle ages white guy who isn't in the hand says "I'm not going to call clock on you, but we want to play so hurry up." After the comment, the Korean player and his friend (who's also Korean) just starts bitching at the middle aged white guy for rushing him. The argument went on for quite some time; the Korean players kept saying how disrespectful it was to rush someone, and that if he was taking too long, the right thing to do is to just call clock on him. The middle aged white made a comment about how the Korean player's friend should have been raised and even asked where he lived like he was going to look him up or something. Someone eventually calls clock and the Korean player folds.
After the hand, the middle aged white guy points at all of the Asian players at the table, four with myself included, and says "I'm outnumbered here, so I'm leaving." At this point, us Asians at the table were just like "what the fuck?". The other Asian player and I didn't say anything during the hand, and we didn't know anyone at the table but I guess the middle aged man just assume we all knew each other or something. This other white guy sitting to my right asked me if I need some help jumping the middle aged guy in the parking lot, haha.
In retrospect, the Korean player did take a pretty long time. I don't think telling the Korean player to hurry up was a big deal but it looks like the Korean guys got real pissed over it. I just found the entire experience very amusing.
Also, I went up $112 playing 1/2. Not much but made me feel good, rofl.
Good Session
Jas0n, Nov 24 2009
Felt invincible around hand 1700. Managed to stack off against two 85/15 fish
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Suspended eBay Account
Jas0n, Nov 24 2009
I won't go into details, but an asshole customer of mine decided to report me for some bullshit reason. Ebay being the douche site it is always sides with the customer, so my account is now suspended which will cut heavily into my sales since it's fucking thanksgiving/black friday/cyber monday in a few days. Ebay doesn't even tell me how to get my account reinstated, they just sent me a really vague email saying "We need you to take action". I called up their customer support, and the guy doesn't know jack shit about what to do, so they tell me to email them instead. God, Google needs to come out with G-Auctions or some shit already because eBay and PayPal are absolutely horrible towards sellers, and the fees will rake an arm and a leg.
First NL100 Session
Jas0n, Nov 23 2009
Although some LPers told me I should grind NL50 some more because I needed a bigger sample size, others told me to take a shot at NL100 if I felt ready despite my 20BI roll. I took the latter's advice and managed to go up 3BI today. YEAAAAAAAHHHH. I know 3BI is totally standard, but I felt so damn good after my session. I played scared money a little bit, which I think cost me ~$100 after going over my hands, but I'm still really happy about the results.
I got into these two situations here and I don't really know if I made the right play.
Hand #1: villain was 0/0 over 9 hands. I think I played scared money here because I felt like I should have 3bet bigger preflop and either shoved or folded. My postflop game here was terrible, I really don't know what I was thinking.
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Hand #2: villain was 16/10 over 40 hands. Once again, I think I played scared money here. I feel like I should've raised or shoved the flop but I think I was right in folding the turn.
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Crushed NL50
Jas0n, Nov 22 2009
So I took my first shot at NL50 about two weeks ago after finally grinding my bankroll up to $1200 at NL25. I moved from PS to FTP when I started NL50 and I have to say, it seems like the players on FTP are a lot worse than the players on PS. FTP players are constantly stacking off with midpair and draws against me, which never happened to me on PS. This could definitely just be short term variance and I'm just running into really bad fish, but NL50 on FTP has been considerably easier than NL25 on PS.
So I have to give mad props to edzwoo, who sweat me on many occasions and is the main reason for my success with poker. He turned me from a 10/6 nit to a 16/14 winner. I've actually only played 8 sessions at NL50, but that was enough to bring my roll to $2000. I know I'm on a sick heater, running at 10BB/100, but I feel like I'm ready to take a shot at NL100. I am a little worried though, because I actually only got 6800 hands at NL50 and I don't know if I'm moving up too fast.
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Btw, has anyone seen that show, PokerStars.net - MILLION DOLLAR CHALLENGE, on FOX? It's definitely just a way for PokerStars to promote their site. They seem to announce a promo or tourney on pokerstars every two minutes or so, haha.
First Session of NL5
Jas0n, Nov 12 2009
Took my first shot of nl50 today and ran really well. Hit my sets and got paid off on most of them. Went up 3.5 bi which is a pretty big increase to my bankroll. Really wish I had the first time deposit bonus though, but I deposited $100 back in the day and wasted it. Here is my lifetime graph, I find it pretty amusing. You can guess where I started playing nl50
Got into a sticky spot here, should I have just flatted the river? Villain is a 50/30 fish
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Moving Up To NL50
Jas0n, Nov 10 2009
Just had a 7bi session at nl25 on stars today and also finally unlocked my reload bonus after 5k vips, bringing my roll to over 1k. Asking edzwoo to help me transfer my roll from stars to ftp, I deposited $100 back in the day so no bonus for me :-(. Hopefully I'll be taking my first shot of nl50 tomorrow. Thought it was time to start a blog. Been at nl25 for the past month with a lot of breakeven sessions. Almost took a break, but it looks like this was the session I needed to keep playing. Pretty excited about moving up.
nice turn for me
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