Finally I managed to finish a month with 4+ bb/100 hands.
I have been consistent, but with winrates of 2-2.5 bb/100, and this is the first time FR that I play 30+ hands with 4bb/100.
Maybe I am learning?!
I have been running decent enough not to complain, just some short-lived bad runs here and there, but I am satisfied with how I play...
I think I can count the number of retarded plays I made this month, whereas in previous months it was too many to keep track of.
Also I feel very comfortable playing now. I think money during poker has no value for me now, they are just chips. Its really becoming like a computer game.
So what did I do different this month?
One thing is for sure, I have been drinking more and going to pubs more often, especially at university.
Decent sleep... definitely. also lots of swimming and playing soccer.
So I think I keep on doing those things.
What's up. I got midterm week/a trip to Montreal coming up this week so I think today concludes my poker playing. Put in 1.5k hands today and busted some MTT/Freerolls cause I suck. This month has been really successful and I ran really well and generally was extremely lucky. Hopefully I don't lose it all too fast.
Obligatory SS/Graph.
Also, an obligatory hot fire jam. This Jam is from an old school cat who is dissing on all these new rappers who don't know how to behave, maybe you ignorant hick rock and roll lovers will enjoy it even. It's nifty: Craig D f/Marley Marl - The Day Music Died
Also, if anyone wants to help me win a PCA sattelite that would really be nice of you and I'll find a way to compensate.
Jesus my brother and I cant win shit in the past 2 days, down 3k in buy ins Stars/Tilt/Cake/Ap in 2 days. Biggest down swing we have had in awhile I went pretty deep in the 10$ 10minute levels yesterday busted 15th ran into A/A with A/J and shoved in ep with Q/JD with 7 big blinds same guy who had A/A on the A/j busted me again with A/A
Then my brother had a huge stack in the 20$ r/a and got sucked out by a big stack/fish/.
W/e wish me luck in the I "think" new tourny stars added 20$ 6max deepstack, might be old since I usually play at nights but Im in it today.
So I moved $150 to rednines to, you know, hang out with the cool kids and see what all the fuss is about.
Software
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The software is soooo foreign to me. Seriously, on stars I am so comfortable with the software I can do 20+ tables of random shit easily. On rednines though, I'm struggling with 3. There are some weird buttons too, and the slider is much harder to use. Overall everything seems useable and not terrible or anything, but is most certainly going to take some time to get used to.
added note - How in the world can I change the software to a four color deck, it's killing me.
Skill Level
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Alright, admittedly I'm just playing Nl5/Nl10 and some tournaments. Regardless of that fact though, Competition seems sick soft. People are doing a lot of things like limping AK and shit in multiway pots. This is admittedly somewhat throwing my game off, but people are also calling all three streets with middle pair and other ridiculous things. Maybe that happens on stars too, but I seriously never remembered that happening even at nl2.
Endnotes (Because I'm too lazy to type anything else about rednines)
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Overall? Rednines kicks ass because of rakeback. I calculated how much rake I put into stars this month and realized that I could have made more from rakeback than I do at my job.
Karma? Because I said rednines kicks ass I'm obviously going to win that ipod.
Me, Myth, and my roommate MARSHALL28 just played a .5/1 home-game, three-handed. We all bought in for just $100 to start, but the super aggressive dynamics of the game got us pretty deep fairly quickly. I can't remember the exact stack sizes, but the following hand absolutely owned me. Myth has officially become the sickest hero who has EVER lived.
Myth limps on the button. Marshall completes in the small blind, I check in the big blind with 97o. The flop is 776 rainbow, ding! So Marshall leads for $3, I raise to $15, Myth cold-calls $15, and Marshall calls $12 more. The turn is an off-suit 5. Marshall checks, I lead for $35, Myth shoves for about $150 more, Marshall folds, and I quickly fold my hand face-up to his obvious monster.
So Myth shows 42o for the single sickest play in the history of the world. I ended up tilting off a lot of money later by playing like a huge donk in typical CosMo fashion. But then I bad-beat Marshall for a HUGE pot with the most retarded hand in the world, ship!!! So I somehow miraculously profited on the night, despite Myth absolutely DEMOLISHING me in every pot we played.
Me, Myth, and my roommate MARSHALL28 just played a .5/1 home-game, three-handed. We all bought in for just $100 to start, but the super aggressive dynamics of the game got us pretty deep fairly quickly. I can't remember the exact stack sizes, but the following hand absolutely owned me. Myth has officially become the sickest hero who has EVER lived.
Myth limps on the button. Marshall completes in the small blind, I check in the big blind with 97o. The flop is 776 rainbow, ding! So Marshall leads for $3, I raise to $15, Myth cold-calls $15, and Marshall calls $12 more. The turn is an off-suit 5. Marshall checks, I lead for $35, Myth shoves for about $150 more, Marshall folds, and I quickly fold my hand face-up to his obvious monster.
So Myth shows 42o for the single sickest play in the history of the world. I ended up tilting off a lot of money later by playing like a huge donk in typical CosMo fashion. But then I bad-beat Marshall for a HUGE pot with the most retarded hand in the world, ship!!! So I somehow miraculously profited on the night, despite Myth absolutely DEMOLISHING me in every pot we played.
I got some serious issues with BR management and ego, I've been takin time off of poker tryin to get my head straightened out after that last run I was on.
I talked alot w/ Radiohead and he stressed how much playing on 100 buy-ins is perfect, so its the only way I'm going to play anymore. 100 BI for cash, 50 BI for tournaments.
Been learning alot, I kinda still suck at poker but hopefully I'll get good soon.
I have improved a little though, and win alot more pots than I used to.
Hopefully I can become a winning pla<x>yer in the next few months.
** Game ID 1683999525 starting - 2007-10-24 04:23:51
** In My Arms [Hold 'em] (1.00|2.00 No Limit - Cash Game) Real Money
- JPLG9 sitting in seat 1 with $171.00
- jentao13 sitting in seat 2 with $88.65
- VIP81 sitting in seat 3 with $69.20
- qqqoooqqq sitting in seat 4 with $474.00 [Dealer]
- thomas76 sitting in seat 5 with $1150.95
- trinoo sitting in seat 6 with $429.42
thomas76 posted the small blind - $1.00
trinoo posted the big blind - $2.00
trinoo bet - $45.00
qqqoooqqq raised - $120.00
trinoo called - $120.00
River (Pot : $313.00)
trinoo checked
qqqoooqqq went all-in - $318.00
trinoo went all-in - $275.42
trinoo shows:
qqqoooqqq shows:
qqqoooqqq wins $860.84 from the main pot
End of game 1683999525
Thought he had exactly air.
I don't know if this was TRULY horrible (I think it most likely was tho), since I do have a backdoor diamond draw and he was check/raising or raising my cbets relentlessly, but it still goes to show how I've been playing last couple of days (well, last night and today, played fine before that).
Too fancy, too impatient, a little too unconfident at times (ie AK allin preflop used to be like 'YAY' now it's like 'maybe I can 4bet and fold to a shove...'.
Need to start sleeping better, don't feel sharp at all.
Had a few.. embarassing hands that I'll just not post, played them really really poorly!
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/301219 - I thought he had a flushdraw or some such but truth be told I might well have folded hadn't I been slightly tilted.
what's up. thanks for all the support through the banning. i'd like to thank naz/mods for not banning me for life cause it would feel like my mother disowning me as far as the poker aspect of my life is concerned.
i forget sometimes that i have controversial non-poker opinions so i'll try and keep those to the blog from now on for all you cowards, chumps etc.
had my best day ever (i think) ptbb/$wise in a standard (non-marathon) session on the day i got banned, so i guess it was motivational. check it:
so yeah the heater continues. i actually only played a real session one day since the ban because it's homecoming here and i've been working on a ton of school projects/exams that sort of all hit me at once. lost 1k cause i'm bad but just on a heater. been playing some heads up sng's in between class and it's some weird shit seeing how bad some of the $50-$200 heads up sit and go regulars are. I had a guy call his remaining stack (900 chips?) off with QJ to my A2 after I shoved over his pfr. It was weird.
I guess I'll show some hands from me heaterfest too, let me know if you hate them.
Hope all is going well. Probably won't get in as many hands as I'd like until after I hand in the rough draft to my thesis the first week of November.
Thanks again to Naz and Co. for not life banning me that would have been quite depressing, in fact I would have been so sad I don't know how I could have managed w/o a pill .
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