So after having finished my exams and work re-entering the normal course, I thought of investing some more time in the game. It's been going pretty well, 4 tabling NL2 euro tables and after 5k hands I'm sitting at 23bb/100 (will post a graph later, when i get home). However, Im not feeling that great about my game. My winnings are mostly non-showdown ones, because of aggressive 3betting/4betting and aggressive post flop play - it's something around 90% to 10% showdown-winnings. And for like 1.3k-1.5k hands I've been only breaking even (been coolered twice pretty hard, one time in a 200bb pot running into aces with kings).
There are sooo many spots where I'm just having a really hard time deciding what to do. On one hand I like to play aggressive and thats where the winnings come from, but on the other hand, when I get to showdown, my winning% sucks balls. So don't really know what to do. I just fear that once I get to move up stakes, my play can be easily exploited.
Also there are so many hands that I would like to discuss and ask for advice, so if anyone want to help by a review session, I would be more than grateful. I'm really motivated this time to put in the effort and really succeed in moving up stakes and building a BR.
How do you know when to end a session? Moreover, how do you know when to end a losing session? Do you try to just breakeven once you manage to get back to the original level or you will accept a 1-2-3 BI loss without any problems? What about a winning session? Thing is my play is somewhat affected if I'm down a couple of BI's already and I'm less willing to take risks.
Okay, after all I finished 4th and it was only a 180 2.5$ SnG, but it was super fun. And one time worked several times. Also it gives a boost to my game, as lately I've been playing awful.
Work's pretty good - the "season" which we financial auditors have in the first 5 months of the year has officially ended so it's time to chill and focus on self-improving. Also these are the last 2 months before I'm getting married. #cantwaitthehoneymoon
Just a couple of mins ago I was having a shower and caught on singing a song by Linkin Park - i haven't been listening to that band for like ages. However, the lyrics really caught my attention - I've tried so hard and got so far, in the end it doesn't even matter. That wouldn't be anything fancy, but after having a 60 hour workweek behind me, with not enough sleep and just preparing to set off to uni, I'm really asking myself - is it really worth? I know that I can't achieve anything without hard-work and that I don't want to live the life of average Joe, but well, for sure I know that I don't want to go crazy and just have a schedule like - work, 1-2 hours of free time (free I guess, but there's homework, things around the house, etc), sleep, repeat. How do you balance this?
This happened back in the day, it's been like 3-4 years already - a regular Wednesday evening, right before sleep. Had a couple of $ laying in my Stars account and I've seen a hold'em tourney with only 50 players registered. Thought it would be a fast one. Oh boy was I wrong. After the first level of blinds, I found out that it was a Mixed Hold'em event. Had no idea about LHE, never played it before. So I thought, well I'll limit myself as much as possible to NLHE, just playing the obvious premium hands in LHE. Everything went better than expected, I've ran pretty hot, considering I didn't have the slightest cue about poker back in the days (not that I'm any good now, but I was even worse :D), and I ended playing 3,5 hours just to get to the FT. Was superexcited and it's a feeling compared to none other. At least it was for me. I was checking the lobby every 4-5 minutes to not forget about the prizes, haha. It was 40$ first, 27$ second. Even though I didn't manage to ship it, I finished second, which considering how many times I was at risk with 7-10 BB's at times, it was a super result. Also I had a big deficit going into HU play (4-1 dog, I think), and managed to pull back to almost to even. But the German guy won a flip in the end and shipped it all. However, I will remember it for a long time, not only cause it was my first FT, but everyone was chill and willing to chit-chat. All-in-all a super fun night and hey, my best placing in an MTT! Totally worth for feeling like a zombie the next day at the university.
Is it me or NL/PLO10 is muuuuuuch softer than 2/4?
In 2 days I made 75$ with around 3-4k hands. Maybe it's a heater, that was what i was thinking at first, but people make awful calls - like the last PLO hand of today - where he called a 5$ raise with a pair of sixes, when board was like K 9 10s Qs 2s.
The main reason for this I think is the mistake I made when first started. Thought I was too good for the lowest stake and felt like that money couldnt motivate me to tryhard. Will get back with some more figures (and a graph as well, iunno why HM2 isnt working).
Peace out, yo.
Also, almost silverstar. 40 vpp more.Should try to not waste fpp on random shit.
So here is my first almost 20k hands, all of 'em played in Zoom Poker @2NL. Been running pretty good, but made some mistakes which are obvious even to novice eyes like mine and which I want to correct asap. Basically I've been playing super-duper tight and I've reevaluated my poker standards, the way I look at any pair preflop or at draws. It's been a good couple of weeks of learning, however I have some questions:
- from the moment I started playing super ABC poker my non-showdown winnings started going down. Why is this so? The main reason I can think of is that I play almost any pair (Nazgul advice for microstakes) with a preflop raise of a maximum of 3-4BB or I push the action if no one raises. However if I dont hit my set I fold and get the fuck out. This is like the only one thing I can think of. Is this even a problem? (I reckon it is, cause I'm losing money after all, ain't I?)
- how much should be my #BB/100 hands in order to feel ready to move limits? My BR ain't there yet, but slowly it's getting there
- i fear that playing this tight is creating automatisms that will keep me back if i manage to climb some blind levels. For example if there's a 4-5BB+ from EP I dont even consider playing AJ and AQ only if suited, unless I have notes about that guy. Any advice on this will help me a lot.
- I almost never try to steal blinds. Iunno, many articles tells me to do it, but i just dont feel its profitable and i almost completely stopped doing it. It seems like a bad idea when there are many calling stations who are ready to defend their blinds with basically any 2 cards and then its just a coinflip.
LE: LOL, epic night till now xD I've ran into AA or KK with QQ/KK at least 5 times and I lost 3 times with AA vs KK/QQ.
LE2: JJ can't hold vs 10 10, its getting funny.
So I've been playing casually poker for some years now, but never been a good player not even on my shitty level. After losing the initial 50 bucks like 3-4 years ago, while thinking i was being good and the soft ain't good for shit, and losing some more additional 10-20 bucks every 4-5 months or so, I finally decided that I must put an end to this and actually start listening to guides and enforce patience on my game. Its pretty frustrating to fold away JJ or AQ offsuit, when I thought for so many years that those hands are huge. Slowly, but surely I think I finally managed to somewhat limit down my looseness. I've deposited 10 bucks on PS on Wednesday and am up to 85 now by playing 0.01/0.02 zoom poker, by winning some satellites (and unregistering) and by playing some 3.5$ 18-27 sit'n'gos (yeah, I know that this is way above my limit, but people seem even worse than I am).
If you have any advices, software for a a fellow TL'er (LP'er i guess now), I'm more than happy to listen to it.
P.S.
statistics for my last 1000 hands:
Hold'em (Real Money):
1000 hands played and saw flop:
- 35 times out of 166 while in small blind (21%)
- 37 times out of 170 while in big blind (22%)
- 88 times out of 664 in other positions (13%)
- a total of 160 times out of 1000 (16%)
Pots won at showdown - 22 out of 44 (50%)
Pots won without showdown - 122
An analysis on this would be nice as well, as I have no idea (besides that maybe i should play even less hands).
I'm really motivated this time to put in the effort and really succeed in moving up stakes and building a BR.
