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The last few days Ive really been playing bad. I havent lost all that much really and I still think Im probably up for the month but Ive just been playing piss bad and unfocused/tilty etc.

Doing this is killing my winrate and just burning money so Ive decided to cash out alot of money and leave myself with a roll for 2/4. My reasoning is, I shouldnt play 3/6 and 5/10 when playing bad and unfocused so the right thing to do is to drop down and regain some confidence and most of all dicipline. Im a very solid winner at 2/4 HU over a large sample so my thinking is that by the time I have regained confidence, dicipline and momentum on 2/4 I will have a roll for 3/6 anyways.

I also need to start saving up to buy an appartment and this cashout will get me started on that aswell.

I have had problems in the past with dropping down when I still have a bankroll for higher games so hopefully this will force me to stay on 2/4 and keep a grinding mindset which is something I really need to get better at maintaining.

This is also a way for me to punish myself for tilting and playing when Im not 100% focused and I will keep doing this whenever I feel like Im playing very bad or tilty repeatedly so hopefully I will learn from it and get better.

Dont have pt stats because of a long and boring story Im not going to bother you guys with so none of that in this post.


Keep it real sportsfans!


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at 25NL!!

wooo i'm gonna tutor someone in calculus nowwww

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omg shipit


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8th daily 50k in a row I busted out with pair vs hand with 1 overcard all-in PF about 100 outside the money. Today it was my JJ vs Q4. And every time it's a pot where if I win I get propelled to top 40-30 stacks. Where the hell does all that EV go??

At least HU people insist on donating money...


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Submitted by : lazymej

PokerStars Game #18676907975: Hold'em No Limit (5/10) - 2008/07/08 - 16:19:46 (ET)
Table 'Priska II' 9-max (Play Money) Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: tomspecial (998 in chips)
Seat 2: RonnyB14 (1163 in chips)
Seat 4: Schnüss (4005 in chips)
Seat 5: Mr.Tdi (710 in chips)
Seat 6: bigguy80 (1000 in chips)
Seat 7: daemonazazel (3832 in chips)
Seat 8: Hero (3750 in chips)
RonnyB14: posts small blind 5
Schnüss: posts big blind 10

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to Hero
Mr.Tdi: calls 10
bigguy80: raises 80 to 90
daemonazazel: folds
Hero : raises 200 to 290
tomspecial: folds
RonnyB14: calls 285
Schnüss: calls 280
Mr.Tdi: calls 280
bigguy80: calls 200

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $1,450.00)

   
RonnyB14: checks
Schnüss: checks
Mr.Tdi: checks
bigguy80: checks
Schnüss said, "fast table ???????"
Hero : bets 1100
RonnyB14: calls 873 and is all-in
Schnüss: folds
Mr.Tdi: folds
bigguy80: calls 710 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (227) returned to Hero

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $3,743.00)

   

River (Pot : $3,743.00)

   

Showdown
RonnyB14: shows (high card Ace)
Hero : shows (a pair of Jacks)
Hero collected 326 from side pot
bigguy80: mucks hand
Hero collected 3580 from main pot

Summary
Total pot 3906 Main pot 3580. Side pot 326. | Rake 0
Board  
Seat 1: tomspecial (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: RonnyB14 (small blind) showed and lost with high card Ace
Seat 4: Schnüss (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 5: Mr.Tdi folded on the Flop
Seat 6: bigguy80 mucked
Seat 7: daemonazazel folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Hero showed and won (3906) with a pair of Jacks

PokerStars Game #18676806851: Hold'em No Limit (5/10) - 2008/07/08 - 16:15:29 (ET)
Table 'Priska II' 9-max (Play Money) Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: tomspecial (1682 in chips)
Seat 4: Schnüss (4065 in chips)
Seat 5: Mr.Tdi (840 in chips)
Seat 6: bigguy80 (1705 in chips)
Seat 7: daemonazazel (2925 in chips)
Seat 8: Hero (1970 in chips)
bigguy80: posts small blind 5
daemonazazel: posts big blind 10

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to Hero
Hero : raises 30 to 40
tomspecial: folds
Schnüss: folds
Mr.Tdi: calls 40
bigguy80: calls 35
daemonazazel: calls 30

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $160.00)

   
bigguy80: bets 70
daemonazazel: folds
Hero : raises 140 to 210
Mr.Tdi: folds
bigguy80: calls 140

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $580.00)

   
bigguy80: checks
Hero : bets 520
bigguy80: calls 520

River (Pot : $1,620.00)

   
bigguy80: checks
Hero : bets 1200 and is all-in
bigguy80: calls 935 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (265) returned to Hero

Showdown
Hero : shows (two pair, Queens and Fives)
bigguy80: mucks hand
Hero collected 3490 from pot

Summary
Total pot 3490 | Rake 0
Board  
Seat 1: tomspecial folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Schnüss folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Mr.Tdi (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 6: bigguy80 (small blind) mucked
Seat 7: daemonazazel (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 8: Hero showed and won (3490) with two pair, Queens and Fives

ONly very short session today since i have exams tomorrow

overall i played like shit
i didnt concentrate enough except for 1 hand that i played really good imo ...
rest of the session i just felt under time preassure and butchered it pretty bad knowing i only have like 45 minutes time to make some profit before i have to quit ...

this really sucks
and i would never suggest to play a session ever , if u dont have at least 2-3h free time !

nevertheless i played the session since i set myself the goal to have more money than the day before each and every day in my life !

here is the graph for today ...
http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/7079/surrealww4.jpg
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/5127/surreal2af0.jpg

with rb and bonus this is 69$ net profit

and so again pretty nice profits for 40 minutes of medicore poker

Apart from that stuff posted above i read the newspaper in the morning. While i was reading the newspapers i really started to feel sad for how our world is in general.
Just way too many people suck way too hard in this world.
All the crime, hate and injustice ... its insane
All the people that suffer or die , cause some crazy fuckers decide to go nuts

Its really strange feeling that in such a world it seems that i was one of the few ppl that God made a shield with a hughe sign on it : Luckbox from Hell ... can succeed eazy in life if he just tries a bit ...

So i went in the garden , smokeed a cigarette and thought about how fucking good my life is at the momment ..
I can hardly believe that in a giant pool of shit ( our world) i got a place made of gold ...
And as i think about it i stand there in the sun, feel incredible free and incredible good !

I felt as good as i probably never felt before in my life ( except for having some great sex with a hot girl )

I Guess every poker player had this feeling the first time he really made some serious money

PLZ HoLd one time Lee!
<3


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Hi guys,

Well I really did have the best session I ever had yesterday (Monday the 7th July 2008 ). By best I don't mean a bit better than the others, or a lot better than the others. I mean A HELLUVA lot better than any other session I've had (in terms of money won anyway and the way I played anyway). The past few days I've been playing like 4.5k hands a day, and breaking even, or maybe winning half a BI or losing a BI. Sad, I know. But then I met PplusAD and after some time chatting with him, my approach to poker changed a lot. He taught me an important concept for my level - To not get into hairy situations when you don't have to with a marginal hand and to not try fancy things.

The reason why I was breaking even after those monster sessions was that after playing tight in the beginning and winning a lot, I would loosen up and try to outplay other players with bluffs, etc. Of course as most of you know well, this doesn't work too good on microstakes because people just love to call all day long with bottom pair lol. Me trying this on 8+ tables just made me spew like a joke. My lifetime graph will prove this:

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y152/lazymeJ/lifetime.png
ok so from 0-11k hands I was running pretty good. 11BB/100 average during that period following Grot's guide basically. Then from 11k-30k hands I had the driest streak EVAR. I just could not win for the life of me. My BR was always hovering in the range of 70-105~ dollars and it would never get above that. I reached NL5 twice, and had to move back down to NL2 twice. It was so frustrating and definitely discouraging. Then after 30k, I started winning again (finally!). I got my roll back to $90 then started playing NL5 again slightly under-rolled (if you consider 20BI standard for each level). Finally I began to crush NL5!!! Seriously I was so excited, so amped that I had started winning again. It felt amazing. I was getting my FPPs, and I eventually unlocked my $50 first deposit bonus. That helped me a lot too. Finally, two days and a few thousand hands later, I was past NL5. It was the best feeling to finally reach NL10 (I had been doubting I would ever reach it). Then NL10 I was having trouble winning again, mostly because of me spewing the money each time I won it. Oh right I was posting that graph to prove the spew, not tell me life story . Ya as you can see there are so many huge spikes in the 33k-50k hand range. And that is exactly what I'm talking about. Win a lot, graph goes up huge, then spew it all back, and graph goes back down huge.

Right at the end there, at 50k-51k hands, you can see that doesn't happen. I owe it to PplusAD for that not happening. No fancy stuff, just keeping it tight even after I won. And that 50k-51k hands was one of the best sessions I ever played. Definitely is in terms of money won and I only did it in 1.5k hands (my normal sessions were like 3k hands. sessions as in one go, without a break in between). The 1.5K hands I played yesterday were in 3 sessions, 2 hours in the morning, 2 hours in the afternoon and a bit in the evening). I played only 4 tables yesterday. So anyways I was hugely proud and I really need to stop blabbering because this is already a huge essay and I'm sure no one is gonna read this so on to the stuff that matters :D

P.S. Also a big shoutout to Andre, Madis, Jonathan, Eric and Oddeye :D

For yesterday:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y152/lazymeJ/playerstats.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y152/lazymeJ/playerstatss.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y152/lazymeJ/July7th2008.png
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y152/lazymeJ/asdf-1.png




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I cannot tell you how much it meant to me to hear all the positive comments in my last few posts, and a special thanks to all those who kindly messaged me on aim to leave encouraging words.

I feel so much more refreshed. I think I'm ready to tackle 10NL by being a MONSTROUS NIT!!!

ty so much everyone. i'll keep you fine gentlemen (and yugless) updated on my progress hopefully as a motivator to myself.

for those of you concerned, i'm not really in any sort of tough/drastic financial situation. i would never put myself anywhere near that sort of situation anyways. it was a bit of a surprise to me that i had to withdraw my bankroll, and the emotional hit was more that i'm not playing poker well at all.

i really enjoy trying to "be good" at games, so this will give me an opportunity to start from scratch and rework my fundamentals. i definitely think all those who commented are correct: i play soooo wrong for the stakes. i'm super excited to nit it up.

-Sean "fresh nit" Plott


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all i remember from it is waking up thinking to myself WTF? the only thing i recall is being @ a chinese restaurant and opening a fortune cookie that read nothing but: "dominated hands"

this comes right after a bad night of poker lololol.


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2 months, 200k+ hands, 600+ hours, my roll is $60 and i cant beat nl10


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First week of july kind-a sucks. Over the first 2 k hands a have been running really good but then i hit a downswing. I have never ever run so bad in my poker carrier although it is a short one and i really don't think swings like that should occur at 100 nl. So w/e here is the graph: Is this fckin standard or what?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/60851de7a90a5009d71be04caad37a3e.jpg

take care and gl all


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I've never been so close to quitting poker than now. I really don't know how this is happening. Emo post incoming.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a162/sirasoni/icantwin.png
My July

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a162/sirasoni/icantwin2.png
Since May

I only have hands since May because I don't have hands prior to that on this computer. If I were to check though I'd imagine the 2/4 shit stretch to be even longer (150k hands ish). Note pics are in bb/100 not ptbb (halve the figure to make it into ptbb).

For 4 months I've just been running like dog shit. I've constantly re-evaluated my game. I talk poker with some of the best players in the world, my coach is one of the greatest players to play this game, etc etc. I just really can't figure out why I can't seem to win anymore. I could easily be wrong, and maybe I'm just spouting crazy talk, but I honestly felt at one point I was good enough to be a 5/10 grinder (not a great feat by any means though) - only that I could never build a 50bi roll because of cash outs and because I could never run hot and have the 20k month I've always wanted. Sure I'll have a session where I'd run good, say maybe a 5k stretch. But it's always sandwiched inbetween huge stretches of running like trash. Almost every form of running bad that can be listed is happening to me: 1 outers, set over sets, nonstop flip lose stretches, overpair vs overpair ai pf coolers, always the 2nd best vs the pure nuts, etc. It's really, really astounding to me how so much of this shit can happen. It's not even "the shortterm" anymore because I've been complaining about the same issues since like February or March now.

Overall since coming to Stars I'm down at least 7k there in mostly 1/2. One fucking two. The limit I decided that 8ptbb/100 was sustainable at, my stomping grounds. It's not as if the players have gotten better, sure there's less fish, but the games are filled with so many tagfish it's amazing. Players with no concept of game theory, of hand reading, of anything, but manage to win flips and cooler and have hands hold. Effectively, that's what it comes down to in order to sustain a 5ptbb winrate for these players it seems.

I've devoted the past 6 months to sharpening my abilities of playing a loose, aggressive poker style, now I'm starting to have second thoughts maybe I should just move back to FTP and grind 16 tables playing 16/12. It seems to work for those nits.

What can I do?

Edit: At the end of my March, I posted in my blog where I had the first losing month of my life. Ket replied with some encouraging words and I'd like to think they help, although this feels completely different than my March now. I really like to read it, so if you're interested I pasted it below.
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my br was 555 as of the start of today

it now stands at 188$

i'm just so embarassed and humiliated. i feel like i'm not good at anything anymore. i can't even beat the "supposed fish" down at the 25NL tables.

bagh god damnit i hate life these days.


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Hey all,

Played a lot of tournaments today. Got pretty deep in the $3R, but I busted 450/4.7k. I got really deep in it thanks to Obender, who is a very good tournament player. I hope to learn a lot from him.

Besides that, I busted in about 6 turbos with no money finish, and busted a bunch of other things which I really can't mention (been playing poker like 7 hours straight).

Take care kids.


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I am a good person in general. I am nice to people, I help people out. I think about karma. Somewhere someone likes to fuck me over. Time after time after time.

Variance can suck my dick. Should I stop being nice? Should I stop doing "the right thing"?

So how I ran bad this weekend, here is my story:

I had this soccer tournament in another town, so never mind about the tournament. During the evening all the teams and all of the girls were attending this big dinner. So I meet a buddy from my old boarding school (im supposed to stay at his place). So after the dinner, we're supposed to go to this place that has been rented for the people who were at the dinner. So we take a walk, since its supposed to take like 10 mins to walk there. Well he fucks off and my cell phone is in my friends car. So I spend the majority of the evening trying to find this place called H55, nobody fucking knew where that place was. It took me 3 hours to find it. So I get there, and our table that we had with like 8 bottles of vodka and 3 champagne bottles were ofcourse empty (RUN GOOD). So I get to be at the party for a whole 20 mins before everybody leaves.

So I borrow a phone to call my friend whom I supposed to stay with, and he is ofcourse at home throwing up. So I cant stay there, so I goto the hotel where all my friends are staying and there are of course no fucking rooms available. So I walk to the next - ALL BOOKED. So I goto the next one in line - EVERYTHING IS BOOKED. Luckily the 3rd one had a room free, so I check in at 5 am (I have to be out by 11am) and pay $200.

The day after my friend and I drive back to Malmö from Helsingborg and he drops me off at the trainstation. I proceed to walk to my bus stop and I notice that my wallet is gone, I forgot my wallet in his car. He of course doesnt answer his phone for the next 5 hours. So my body is acheing after the tournament (every single muscle), I am hungry as fuck, I have no way of getting home, I have slept for about 4½ hours, I can not contact anybody because my phone is fucked up, and I am pissed off. It takes my friend 5 hours to call me, and he says that he can be in town within an hour. After 1½ hours of waiting for him, he calls me up and says that he cant come and I have to take a cab to his place to pick my wallet up.

KARMA WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU?

"Do Good Things, and Good things happen to you"

UHM??????????????????????????????? ONE TIME PLEASE?

I hate life at the moment, I hate it alot.




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Here's a good read I just found on Huffpost. The greatest irony is that I read this while the Bachelorette was playing on the TV...

Answer: Everyone In the name of full disclosure, we will admit that we enjoy watching trashy reality shows as much as the next girls. We'd call it a guilty pleasure, but we don't really feel guilty about it. "American Idol" and "Dancing With the Stars" helped us through the winter, just like "Hogan Knows Best" and "Living Lohan" got us through many hard workouts. That said, we also think that reality television is bad for so many reasons. It is dumbing down society, promoting the absolute worst values we can imagine, and changing the entertainment industry - we'd argue for the worse. Quality programming is becoming increasingly hard to find, but "Top Model" marathons and back-to-back episodes of "The Hills" are plentiful. As a result, we know tons of smart, educated people who are completely addicted to these shows, but we're not worried about them. We're worried about the impressionable young boys and girls out there who hang onto reality stars' words as if they're gospel and who actually base their lives around these shows. These are the people whose lives will be forever changed by reality TV: #1 - Little Girls Thanks to "The Bachelorette," little girls grow up seeing that if they can't find a husband on their own, they can just go on TV and make out with 25 different hot guys to magically find their Prince Charmings. Teenage girls, on the other hand, watch those nasty brats on "My Super Sweet Sixteen" and then turn into them by throwing hissy fits when all they get on their big day is ice cream cake and a key to the family Honda. What about "Keeping Up With the Kardashians"? In order to "keep up" with them, little girls are taught that all it takes to be a celebrity is to become a glorified porn star. Then there are the dozens of "makeover" shows that hire plastic surgeons to make "regular" girls look like they're favorite celebrities. We're certainly not saying that all reality shows are bad, but these examples are teaching our little girls the absolute wrong things about themselves - that they should strive to be uneducated, slutty brats with fake boobs. We urge you to steer your daughters' eyes away from the screen during these shows or to at least take the opportunity to explain why those women are pretty much the worst role models one could pick. #2 - Little Boys We think that little boys should be out riding their bikes, finding treasures in the gutter, and daydreaming about they're cute little crush at school. They should not be glued to the TV watching Flavor Flav hook up with the most classless, scantily clad, cat-fighting women we've ever seen. And we don't want them to be obsessed with watching Tila Tequila to see if she's ultimately going to choose a guy or a girl to be her partner, either. Boys have plenty of time to learn about bisexuality; they do not need some MySpace whore in a sting bikini and stripper heels encouraging them to think about girls on girls. They'll waste enough time thinking about that when they're good and ready. #3 - Husbands Our friend's ex-husband never missed an episode of "Laguna Beach." He was completely obsessed with those sixteen-year-old rich kids with blonde highlights. It turns out he was also living a double life. When he wasn't talking about Lauren Conrad and her nemesis, he was banging some other chick the whole time our friend was planning their wedding. Complete and total coincidence? Could be. But we think that reality shows are kind of like strip clubs - if your man visits one occasionally (like for a bachelor party) that's totally fine and harmless, but these shows (and clubs) can also suck your man in by showing him an alternate lifestyle where there are no rules, no repercussions, and all the fake boobs and equally fake tans he can feast his eyes on. We'd prefer to keep our man with us in the real world, instead. #4 - Wives The women on reality shows can make even the most confident women out there feel like they are not beautiful enough, skinny enough, or tan enough, and especially like they don't have enough shiny things. Does watching reruns of the Real World make you feel good about where you are in life? And does hearing Denise Richards explain that she needs a $9,000 grill because she likes things that are "a little bit fancier" make you feel better or worse about your lifestyle? We don't think that anyone should try to emulate the people on reality shows, and it's very sad that watching too many of them can actually impact one's self esteem. Women who are addicted to these shows and take them too seriously should try watching the news about the rest of the world - it's sure to make them feel better about the $35 grill in their own backyard. #5 - Reality Stars Yes, it may seem counterintuitive to say that reality shows are bad for the very stars that are taking the jobs away from real actors (and writers and directors) and are becoming rich and famous from these shows, but think about where some recent reality stars have landed. "Newlyweds" surely contributed to Jessica and Nick's breakup, and we wonder if "Hogan Knows Best" had anything to do with little Nick's horrible car crash and subsequent prison time. No, there may not be a direct correlation between reality show and prison, but these shows do inflate their stars' egos and make them believe that they are omnipotent, immortal creatures. Dealing with celebrity is hard enough for people who have actually earned it with their own hard work and talent. It must be even more difficult to handle when it comes overnight and for no good reason at all.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jodi-li...ve-people-reality-tv-sh_b_110880.html


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NOT!

You know when you clip your shoulder walking thru a doorframe, avoiding the dog who thinks the best place to sit in your house is right in that spot? And just half an hour ago you had your 15th nosebleed of the week, simply from sneezing out the 14th blood clot. And in another 45 minutes you can be sure your going to burn yourself changing a lightbulb that clearly shouldnt be THAT hot. Just me?

Well that's what this weekend felt like - i'm going along ok ok ok then OUCH BABY YOUVE JUST CUT ME A LITTER DEEPER.

Not going to bother posting hands. I think it speaks for itself that 4 of my biggest losing hands for 3 big 10-12 tabling sessions were AA, KK, QQ and AK.

I was feeling so confident too, having found NL25 FR was so so crushable, getting to a stage where i felt i was a few sessions away from being rolled for NL50. End of weekend I'm only a few buyins away from being underolled

Back to NL10 for a little while just to get some confidence. Had 1 short session this evening and the players were so weak and it's a very nice feeling when I'm playing 26/22 and am really able to play without scared money. That's definately something I need to work on when I move up stakes in the future.

Graph for month so far:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/1d893284432c11c97f303190974fcdbe.jpg

Cheers


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Hey, anyone know how to change the hotkey for calling within the Betpot v0.2 script? standard is set at ^F14 and I want it to be me something like F2.


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As many of you may know, I'm going to USC School of Cinematic Arts in the fall to study Interactive Media AKA video game design. As much as I love an action, RPG, or adventure style game, I've always had a passion for the competitive game, a game in which the joy comes from the discovery, finesse, and execution of the strategy rather than the story or mechanics. So, as i'm combing through my reading list of books on game design, I managed to find an excellent book about playing competitive games: Playing to Win by David Sirlin. (visit his website at www.sirlin.net

Though he covers a ton about the mindset of a good competitive player vs a scrub, Sirlin wrote a particularly memorable section about playing vs better or vs weaker players. In this section, Sirlin notes that many players have a desire to play only against experts in order to "see how the real game is played" or to "make sure there's a challenge." Though the player may get raped by the expert, the player feels as though he's learning hard lessons the fast way and avoiding "boring games vs newbies."

However, Sirlin notes that expert players are extraordinarily good at hiding their weak points and abusing the weaknesses of their opponents. Consequently, in the process of getting raped again and again by the expert, the player will quickly learn what NOT to do. However, since its so difficult to see the weaknesses of the expert, the player will never actually learn what he SHOULD do. As a result, its critically important to play vs the weaker opponents, so that you can explicitly see where certain mistakes arise. Eventually, you'll have a framework for winning that you can fine tune once you play vs an expert, rather than going in blind.

I found this resonated strongly with my experience playing StarCraft. On PGT, whenever there was a MOTW (map of the week), i would inevitably play only that map and get up to the A/A- range when the week changed. At this point, the MOTW would change and I would have to play on a totally unfamiliar map, and I just felt COMPLETELY uncomfortable playing against the other A/A- ranked players. Therefore, I would simply create a new account, start at D, and work my way up to A/A- again on the new map. The process would repeat on a weekly basis until i had 5-6 accounts. I always told myself I was "building my comfort" with the map, but Sirlin perfectly articulates my problem: I needed to play against weaker players to develop a framework for winning, a solution for the new map.

So, as I wrote in my last blog, I had to withdraw my entire bankroll except for 555$. Though many people were writing about a stake, I've decided it would be an exceptionally beneficial exercise to begin working from the ground up again. I've pretty much hung at the 400-600NL range on and off for a long time and the games have changed alot over time. Rather than try to "play vs the better players" at 400-600NL, i think it will be best to start from the ground up, as Sirlin writes, in order to build a better framework for the different games today. Hopefully it will be educational, exciting, and fun! (and hopefully I won't have too many comments on my 25NL hands of "why are you playing DOWN HERE?")

Now how's THAT for optimism

<33333 LP!!

-Sean


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Today i moved up to NL5. I was terribly short stacked, however i did double the bankroll i started with at NL2 so i figured i'd manage, given that i am tight as hell. I surely was nervous as hell about moving up, almost nauseous! And that made me real happy, me, a guy indifferent and oblivious to the whole world finally gettin a hobby i really care about!(since starcraft xDDD). The cents i was playing with werent mere pennies anymore, they turned into ladder points, measure of success! All in all i did pretty well!

Also today i finally used PT numbers to win a hand. I had AJ when board came J49 and the guy started 4 betting. To my horror the river came as a 9 too and the guy made some ridiculous bet that almost made me fold.... When i looked at the numbers under his name... 79% voluntarily put in the pot. I called, and lo and behold, the dude had pocket 10s. He coulda easily had something like 98 too, so maybe my play was questionable, however at least i started using PT numbers to my advantage!*pats himself on the back*


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