Sunday sucks
seweri, Feb 05 2007
My second sunday session didn't go as planned... My intention was to play for a couple of hours and grind a buy-in or two but from the beginning, things went real bad.
The high point at about 400 hands is where I stopped my earlier short session described in the post below. In the new session I found myself shortly after starting all-in with TPTK only to get called by two pair. After my break I've been more tilt resistant but I guess this made me tilt a little. I was thinking "why the hell did I do that, I'm such a donk" etc and that definetly had an effect on my play.
So I was on a minor tilt and enjoying a cold deck and the results can be seen on the graph. Anyway after 900 hands (500 hands in this session) I finally got myself together and started playing good. There were still some coolers coming my way though and maybe there were some donkinsh plays too, but I don't (want to?) remember those.
What I do remember is these two hands occuring at the same time, which can be seen on the graph at around hand #1500 and the lowest point of the session.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/142058
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/142059
Anybody ever fold that set? His line was strange so maybe, just MAYBE you could put him on exactly the set of 6's but I'm not folding that after being cold decked and down about 6 buy-ins :D
I didn't tilt from these however, this was getting ridiculous already so I just brushed it off and continued grinding. Party decided that I had had my share of beats for the day and I started going uphill from here. I don't know if I played well or anything, I can't remember any spectacular plays I made but maybe that's because I'm not used to sessions this long. Seriously I was exhausted after this session. I only play 4 tables so what might be a standard session for you 12 tablers was a 5h+ grind for me.
I finally stopped after fighting most of the money back, and even though maybe I would have been better off without this second sunday session, I think it was a good learning experience for me. The best part was that even though I tilted a bit for the first time after my break I managed to get my game back together and grind most of it back. So yay for me.
By the way, at the end of the session I had over 660$ on 4 NL50 tables, and I was still down
Quite a feat!
Hopefully my next session will go better and I manage to avoid tilt. Only time will tell... Until then, cheers!
Short session
seweri, Feb 04 2007
So I played a small session of just over 400 hands this morning before I left to visit my parents and it was geeewd. But how couldn't it be with players like this:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/141631
Well played sir!
This was also nice:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/141633
Ship it!
There wasn't many difficult situations, although in this hand I think I could've saved some money on the turn:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/141635
Usually I raise this but I was hoping the short stack would move all-in with QTs or some shit as they often do, but he didn't this time. The half-pot bet on the flop after the pf reraise was screaming for AhKh, especially after he instacalled my raise. That was my initial read on the flop but just couldn't check-fold that turn. I should trust my reads more, would have saved almost half a buy-in here. Oh well, maybe next time.
Overall I ended up 115$ in this short session so can't complain, but there's always room to improve, eh?
I think I'll put in another session today, 400 hands just isn't enough to satisfy my gambling needs
Playing sick
seweri, Feb 02 2007
I've been sick for the past couple of days but haven't let that stop me from playing poker. Actually I haven't had a single losing session while I've been sick.
Today I would have lost a lot of money I think if it wasn't for a couple of heaters, mostly this:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/140873
I kept the session quite short, at 720 hands cause I'm definetly not playing my A-game atm. Although it's a small sample size my won at SD % was a whopping 37.5&!
So thanks to a few heaters I was up over 3 bi at best, but then procedeed to donk it off with bad plays and quitting while I was still ahead. If you can call a 6.9$ being ahead... Bah, should have stopped right after those aces
Today's graph:
Quite a bumpy ride...
Thanks to my sickness I also missed an exam at school and a birthday party of a good friend so this is seriously -EV. I'm gonna watch a movie and cry myself to sleep or something
Poker so far
seweri, Feb 01 2007
So I was bored and decided to make a blog... I hope someone finds it interesting and hopefully posting here will work as a sort of anti-tilt tool for me.
Anyways, I started poker in late 2005 by grinding 1c/2c limit tables on stars with the 2$ I got from Muhweli. After a month or two, I got up to about 20$, true balla roll eh? I then proceeded to donk it all to the 1.2$ SnG's. After that I bought 20$ or so to stars from a friend, and donked all of that too.
After that I decided to get the LPnet promotion and moved to NL, setmining full ring tables. At the time partpoker had NL5 and NL10 tables open for only 45 days after you had created your account. In that time I made my roll into 500$ so I had 20 buy-ins for NL25 and moved there.
For months I was going up and down, not really getting anywhere, then I decided to give 6max a try and it worked out great for me. I quickly moved to NL50 and also moved my roll to stars because of a promotion they had back in october or something. NL50 was working great for me and it wasn't long until I had a roll for NL100.
Just after moving up there I luckboxed a few wins from 180p SnGs, one from 22$ and two from 11$ ones -> insta roll boost holla! After this my roll was sitting at a comfortable 4k$ for NL100 but then something went wrong...
I started tilting like a monkey and over the course of a month or so I managed to tilt my roll down to $1.5k.
I realized it was mostly of me playing badly/tilting so I decided to take a small break which turned in to three weeks of no poker. I wasn't even missing poker at all but then decided to give it a try and so far I've been much more tilt resistant and been playing good imo. I've suffered a few beats but still I've managed to make an ok profit, last two days I've been running real hot and I feel goooood!
My plan is to grind my roll to something like $2.5k and then take another try at NL100 with my new and improved tilt resisting skillz. I'll track my process and feelings about poker here and maybe post something totally unrelated to poker too.
Oh and here's my graph after getting back in business:
Cheers!
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