i've had a nice little run the last few days, but have taken a few gambles that could have hurt me badly. I'm lucky to be unscathed by this, and it makes me think that I need to spend more time on the lower limits working on my discipline before playing in the bigger games. I'm pretty confident I can win in any game up to 2/4 on stars, but for now grinding nl25-n50 will be best.
So I'm going to take the safe play, cashout $3k and leave myself $1k to continue grinding nl25-nl50. (mass table nl25 or 4 table nl50)
Trying to learn from my mistakes and take ze monies when its there instead of degening it off.
So the last to say before I sign off, hmm...I still have so much to work on in the discipline department. I'm going to be putting myself on each limit for a long period, like 1 month at nl25, 1 month at nl50, 1 month at nl100, 1 month nl200 and stay at nl200-nl400 from then on.
ok first of all i see the term "squeezing" alot, what does this mean?
these are for 6-max NL5:
1 - how often should i bet 3 betting JJ? if i am 4-betted, i know it's mostly player dependant but am i mucking a majority of the time?
2 - what are optimal stats? i'm 19/12 right now, should i loosen up?
3 - hands like a6s, JTs, JKs UTG...fold or raise?
4 - is it bad to always limp and never raise with 22 in any position EXCEPT the button?
Now that I've built a nice little roll for myself from $350 to $2500 I moved to NL100.
First off, I bought PT3 from the LP store today and I haven't been able to get on the Postsgl server or w/e it is...its driving me nuts, I don't know what im doing wrong, it says i need to delete the file so i do, and then it says it can't run without it..
I'm going to continue troubleshooting for the next hour or so. Ok on to my session;
I had a great night 16 tabling NL100 for 9 buy-ins in 2000 hands.
I'm going to be keeping my sessions to 2000 hands or two hours, depending on what I'm doing.
I plan and hope to continue grinding NL100, now that i'm adequately rolled it'd be silly for me to take anymore shots at higher limits until i have 6-7k (NL200).
Its time for me to stop messing around with this game and to take it serious, hopefully I do well this time around. To be honest, I'll never stop til I make it to the top, I'll just grind my ass off and build my roll back up, and be a reg on 2/4 within a few months hopefully.
Accidently closed stars so i couldnt post my stats, but I ran at 12% hands played, 60% hands won (60/100) or something close to that, and 270 hands won w/out showdown.
Alright, I'm going to mess with PT3 for a little while longer, then I'm off to bed.
Not a bad run I've been on the last few days, lets hope I continue to play well and run well.
GL everyone,
Ryan (DReaMe)
PS - when i get pt3 figured out i will be posting graphs
i just got back from LA last night so expect some more whiny posts from me later, still looking for someone to help me transfer 80 from FTP to stars, please msg back asap
Been running real good lately and throughout May i grinded two fulltilt poker bonuses, one on my account and one on my friends account and unlocked them both. Each were like 500 bonuses or something. I think they both took 40k hands to complete total..i will post graphs below. I also hit platnium star and im 45k vpps from nova which i hope to get in June. Through may i was a 50nl grinder. I was winning but at a low low rate so i bought cardrunners and its been the best investment so far. Im now grinding 200nl 6 max and i got 25k hands in at that limit at like 5pt/100 which is obv good. I hope im not just running good like marshall was the whole time he was playing poker and im actually beating the limit and pokerstars isnt fooling me. It would be sweet to hit 400nl by end of summer but ive heard a lot of people say how much different it is then 200nl so il jus wait and maybe hire a coach or something if cardrunners doesnt help me beat the limit. I hit a 10k bankroll for the first time too which isnt too exciting for most people but it is for me considering i also cash out and now ive padded my savings account with enough money that i dont need to cash out anymore so ive built up stars and gave myself a nice bankroll. All in all its been my best month by a long shot and i hope to continue this run and like i said i hope it wasnt just me running good. If any of you guys wanna talk alittle poker feel free to hit me up on aim at "wakeboarrder180". Heres a few pics.
So sOah and his cousin Alex came to Malmö from Copenhagen on friday, and I took them out in Malmö. I hope they had a decent time, it was nothing special though
a friend to the left, sOah, a girl-friend of mine, and yours truly
I have been sending a bunch of house music to people from lp (hope they enjoy it). One of the mixes I've been sending around is Ozgur Can & AGS; their april mix which is one hour of sickness.
These vids are all really short, filmed it with my cell phone.
FINAAAAAAALLLLLLY
Most tilt inducing session of all time aaaaaaaaah (of all time should probably be translated to in a long time), but I think I ended +10$ or something after grinding for 4 hours and being down like 2k.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/456558 - LOL T-6o http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/456555 - Pretty sure he doesn't raise top pair here cause he probably 3bets any good ace, and I saw him c/c a v good top pair w KT on TXX before, so a bunch of draws and bluffs here.. and 2 pair. Fuck. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/456553 - So I flop the nuts. With a straight flush redraw. Vs bottom 2. He's been running like god and continues to run like god, how the hell doooooessss heeeee hit. Life tilt. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/456631 - 99 vs 25suited on a 678 rainbow flop. WHAT HAND COULD POSSIBLY WIN?
I think I've been playing a bit passively lately, I've noticed my W$WSF has dropped a bit.. I need to probably incorporate more post flop aggression and perhaps a tad more preflop (I've been experimenting with not 3betting that much but I think I need to turn up the bluffing post flop if I play that way).
Meh, need to figure out how I want to balance things Probably best to be able to switch things around.
Also, I think playing these monster "GET BACK TO EVEN OR DIE TRYING" sessions really hurt your game after a few hours :D
Went broke yesterday, went and got a job, got depressed and drank way too much alcohol and couldn't even stand by the end of the night and STILL tried to get a girl to come home with me (pimp skills failed)
Basically I'm gonna get flamed but whatever
I'm a poker player looking for a stake.
I don't have many hands in my PT database cause the HDD went out of my laptop two months ago and these are all of the hands I have played (I play 6max or heads up, you can't tell it in some of them but fullring is gay)
I'm also a great sng player
I play tournaments too but my stats are basically break even there lifetime. I might be up 1k or something. I feel I have a huge edge in MTT but I've never gotten a single big score in one and I've played thousands so I dunno.
Previous staking history you're gonna wanna know about: I've been staked probably more than anyone else on this site, most all of them went well except my very last one with lostaccount where I cashed out stake money. That was a mistake, I know, everything is good between me and him now though and all debts are cleared.
I'm willing to play like 8 hours a day right now so I think this could clear very quickly. A stake for nl25/nl50 would be most desireable but I'll play just about anything poker wise because I love the game.
Been running veeeeeeeery well at 2/4, but I'm down at 3/6 (one buyin over a tiny sample :D) as a result of running QQ into AA, KK and JJ (that rivers a set zomg life tilt) and stuff like that. Pokertracker has me at 60% won at showdown, I think that's somewhat of a heater..
Gonna try to play more hands next month (it's actually not as lazy of a month as it looks like, I play 3-4 tables only nowadays , pulled more than one all nighter this month), especially HU. Would like to be able to take a few 5/10 shots over the summer (I want 50+ buyins before I try my hands on 5/10 I think, been going with 30+ since 2/5 but I feel 5/10 swings might affect me more).
Feel like I've been making some progress, in handreading, thinking correctly (or less incorrectly) in spots I used to not think through. Still need to work on some stuff (who doesnt) but still, I'm happy.
Oh and huge thanks to Day[9] for teaching me how to not spew money from patience tilt at HU ^_^
Hand of the day:
Submitted by : TianYuan
GAME #1004194232: Texas Hold'em NL $3/$6 2008-05-30 11:29:56
Table Ingersoll (No DP)
Seat 1: Antonelli2 ($457.53 in chips)
Seat 2: schulzcor ($157.00 in chips)
Seat 5: alvan0307 ($173.40 in chips)
Seat 6: qqqoooqqq ($600.00 in chips) DEALER
Antonelli2: Post SB $3.00
schulzcor: Post BB $6.00
Summary Total pot $151.00 Rake $2.00
qqqoooqqq : wins $151.00
loooooool
Btw how do people feel about flatting his open here? I'm not sure, I like it cause I sort of want to play AK vs a bigger stack but meh, nobody was very aggressive (I think the semi-big stack was more cally than raisy) at this table IIRC. I guess call and hope the other shortstack shoves so I can stack two donks with one hand..
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/455952 - How do people feel about cbetting this flop? I was gonna just c/give up here but turn came too perfect not to bluff yea? I'm not sure if I should be following through on the river here.
So today I move out of my apartment. I told the cleaning lady that I'd be packed up and all my stuff would be out by 2:00pm. Guess what! It's almost 12:00pm and I haven't done shit today. I have to haul my bed, desk, bike, surfboard, chair, and a few boxes of clothes over to the storage unit I rented. But I woke up at 7:00am this morning in a very sad mood ... I going to miss being in San Diego so much. I had such a fun year, and even though I know Vegas is going to be a blast for the next 2 months, I really am going to miss chilling with all my friends down here. WSOP for me starts on Saturday with the $1500 NLHE donk fest. Weeeee~!! That should be interesting. I'll try to keep my blog updated on a daily basis with pictures (once I get my camera fixed since it's having some lens issues right now).
RiKD finally gave me back my camera the other night and I got more pictures from our fun night out at Stingaree. Check out these gems:
RiKD, myself, and my two friends.
Me and my hawaiian friends! They so chill.
Finally more pics from my friend's graduation
Can you guess who isn't graduating this year?
Me and my best friend from SD at her grad dinner
This picture def needs a caption. LOL
At the end of the night I was smashed and I kind of went through my friend's stone table. Oops
And if you still don't know why I miss this place... check out 8:00am in the morning on Mission Bay. It really doesn't get more beautiful...
See you guys in Vegas! Hopefully I'll be there soon. Not too soon thou~
So today I move out of my apartment. I told the cleaning lady that I'd be packed up and all my stuff would be out by 2:00pm. Guess what! It's almost 12:00pm and I haven't done shit today. I have to haul my bed, desk, bike, surfboard, chair, and a few boxes of clothes over to the storage unit I rented. But I woke up at 7:00am this morning in a very sad mood ... I going to miss being in San Diego so much. I had such a fun year, and even though I know Vegas is going to be a blast for the next 2 months, I really am going to miss chilling with all my friends down here. WSOP for me starts on Saturday with the $1500 NLHE donk fest. Weeeee~!! That should be interesting. I'll try to keep my blog updated on a daily basis with pictures (once I get my camera fixed since it's having some lens issues right now).
RiKD finally gave me back my camera the other night and I got more pictures from our fun night out at Stingaree. Check out these gems:
RiKD, myself, and my two friends.
Me and my hawaiian friends! They so chill.
Finally more pics from my friend's graduation
Can you guess who isn't graduating this year?
Me and my best friend from SD at her grad dinner
This picture def needs a caption. LOL
At the end of the night I was smashed and I kind of went through my friend's stone table. Oops
And if you still don't know why I miss this place... check out 8:00am in the morning on Mission Bay. It really doesn't get more beautiful...
See you guys in Vegas! Hopefully I'll be there soon. Not too soon thou~
Ok, so I am new to LP, and first off, i would like to say that i love this place. I have only met great, friendly people, and everyone is there to help you not suck so much and tell you how they think you can improve.
I began my poker career playing cash games at .25/.50 in high school with 20 dollar buy ins. I sucked, but they were worst. When i first started playing, it was the "moneymaker era", he had just won the tournament in 2003 and Texas Hold'em was the thing to play. I downloaded Pstars (which i now refer to jewstars) and started hitting up the free money. Those guys are idiots and will do anything, as you know, because it's monopoly money. I was still about 16 years old and playing for real money, i was probably up about 200 total just playing on weekends. It was nice, and it paid for gas. Again, i still didn't really know what i was doing. For Christmas one year, i got a book about poker from my mother, Tom McEvoy "Hold'em" or something like that. I read it and it opened my eyes to a completely different game. Now i was dominating my friends who were still clueless. This lead to me wanting to play online for real money as well, figuring i could easily dominate people around the globe (later i would find out i was wrong).
I got away from poker for awhile, graduated highschool, went to college on a baseball scholarship, played in the dorm every now and then but it was hard because the cops would come in and bust up the game since it was illegal or some bullshit and confiscate our money... Anyway, Over the summer of 2007, i started playing at tournaments again for #10 buy in and my buddy's house. This was kinda stupid because we would have like 15 people playing and it would be 2nd gets their money back and 1st gets 140, plus the rules were kind of bogus and the blinds never went up. Needless to say, playing with a bunch of retards, i would usually finish 1st or 2nd, which i was happy with. Then, i was overcome by what i will call "winners crash". (I just realized this is the most god awful piece of crap paper i have ever written, sorry this is boring, usually i am an exciting person to talk to....) Anyway, playing with retards and seeing how they bet and taking teh moniez from them, i began to play very loose because i knew i could and win. I became an idiot, after being fairly decent for 3 years, and i had turned into the retard throwing the money at people like you guys! It's funny because i turned another guy onto poker, he is a fellow LP participant, and he brought me back out of my mental retardation. He taught me how to play poker again, and now i feel that i am better than ever.
Before, back when i was a stupid idiot throwing money around, i tried out the 'ole jewstars, and i got jewed, a lot. I would put like 20 bucks in, go to the .02nl holdem and try my luck. I would play hands like A8o and i would hit on a 3 8 10 board, and since no one raised or reraised my A 8 i would think i had the nuts. Who would call with a 10?? well fuckin everyone it seemed like. I got cooler'd out of a lot of hands, they would hit on the riv, and i would get jewed, a lot. This pissed me off, and i lose 70 bucks, (bought in with 20, 30, and another 20.) I it was no problem, and i would just stick to making money off live games, but thats when my buddy retaught me poker. I bought in with 30 bucks, played the .02 limit, grinded it out, made some money, got up to 100, made all my money back and decided it was time to move up the ladder of retards to the .05nl. This wasn't much of a change. The only difference was i had more money being thrown at me. It's quite easy when you just play premo hands. The only thing i would play were... Raise pp 10's or better, reraise AA KK AK AQ, just raise or call a raise with AJ, KQ. limp with PP 9-2. I had to be strict on myself. No longer was KJ a good hand. And all those times i was jewed when i lost my 70 bucks...shouldn't have been in the hand in the first place.
Anyway, grinded it out on the .05nl, got it up to 170, prematurely played the .10nl, and played tournaments looking for the quick fix win teh monies but it never happend. I tried to play .05nl again, rebuild the BR, but those idiots played everything and hit, Aces got cracked twice in one day by 93o to a raise...bunches of idiots. Thats when I went down to 110 at one point, floated around 110-130 for a while, had a bad beat, got pissed and went to .25/.50, thinking "you know what? i'm just going to go play the .25/.50, it's what i grew up on, i know how to play it." I bought in for 30 bucks, still pissed, and in the first 9 hands i got, in this order, 7's 4's 10's and AA. The 7's and 4's both tripped, and the 10's were higher than the board, so i won pots after the flop. This got me up to about 42 dollars, when on the 9th hand i got AA with a preflop all-in before my action, for like 4 bucks, i reraise, he reraises, i call, and the board is like 10 Q 3. I raise, he goes all in, has me covered, i call, scared shitless like "OMG HE HAS 10 Q WTF AM I DOING!?!?!?!?" I dodge on the turn and riv, guy who has me covered had KQo, and the idiot who went all in preflop for 4 dollars had J2s...(yeah i thought the play was better at .50nl...) Anyway, i took down an 82 something dollar pot, got back up to where i was previously, and left because my buddy was like "DUDE LEAVE THE ROOM, YOUR ACTING LIKE NEILLY PLAYING OUT OF YOUR BR GET THE FUCK OUT!!!!!!!" (No disrespect to neilly) and now i am dominating the .10nl again.
So far, i have turned 30 bucks into...#230.92, something i am very very proud of.
Well i only have 14 minutes of battery left, so my goal is... millionaire by the time i am 25. (i will be 21 in december). I think i can do it if i play enough. I am very busy working, going to school, and playing baseball, so it's hard to find time.
Here is mah graph of mah monies. Again, remember that i spent a lot on stupid tournaments, and i've won about 20 bucks on another guys puter so i couldn't upload the hands...
Well it was my mom's birthday and she decided to go to Cancún, so a few of my family went there and it was quite nice, i also went to meet with some friends that are visiting their families in the summer since they study in my city and they took me to some nice and fun bars.
They went to ChichenItza (i didnt, i rather got drunk yay!) which is the city in the movie Apocalipto, yep the Mayan capital so here are a few pics of the piramids to which sadly they just recently wont allow visitors to climb.
Dinosaur
the white sand beach
some party in the roof of an hotel, clearly im sober cuz im not raising my hand like a moron
I played throughout the night last night on a stake and managed to bust playing in some sick games, but wasn't completely on the respirator. I went to AC with the last $120 in my pocket and managed to win $300 playing 1/2 for a few hours.
ship ship
so i get home and redeposit $100 and after playing 1 table all day in the casino, i've found that i really want to work on the quality of my hands much more. ZngelDaY[9] has been helping me alot lately and had told me to never 4 table hu anymore, and to keep it to 1-2 tabling HU at most. I followed his guideline tonight 1-2 tabling HU (only 2 tabling vs the same opponent) and playing 1 FR NL50 table. I managed to play at 50bb/100 over a couple hrs to win a few bi.
I've been learning alot lately thanks to mbsalsa, zngelday[9] and the constructive critism i get from lp.
Hopefully i can learn to be a winning player soon or this poker kick will be all over for me.
people open shoving and have hands like QQ KK AA everytime they shove. and then you waste like 2 and a half hours playing a tourny to get beat by one of these monkeys on the money bubble. like i just got 30th when 27 are ITM. so lamEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Fuck life! so next time, if there's 3 left until the bubble and I am dealt TT and said monkey pushes like 3 hands in a row, I am middle position in like 14th place, and he has about the same stack as me. i raise, he snap shoves, is this a call? probably never since i'm flipping at best but hey, i like to answer my own questions and rant endlessly because tournies are fucking retarded
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Probably best to be able to switch things around.
... I going to miss being in San Diego so much. I had such a fun year, and even though I know Vegas is going to be a blast for the next 2 months, I really am going to miss chilling with all my friends down here. WSOP for me starts on Saturday with the $1500 NLHE donk fest. Weeeee~!! That should be interesting. I'll try to keep my blog updated on a daily basis with pictures (once I get my camera fixed since it's having some lens issues right now). 
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