So ive spent most of the month playing 200nl and i broke even...not sure what to make of that other than that i suck. 200nl has been a bit of an eye opener for me, though i still think alot of the players there are fucking terrible (im proly just worse lol). I got crapped on alot, but i also did alot of stupid things and the more i keep playing the more i realize i have so much to learn. I def need to work on my game. So i will be dropping back to 100nl for awhile. I dont really need to jump up as i feel really comfortable right now at 100nl and i can continue to build my roll and withdraw money at the same time. Im also almost supernova
Once i hit nova ill be buying bonuses to help boost my br. From what ive heard the concierge service is only slightly better than the 100k bonus as far as fpp goes and tournies can suck my balls for the moment...
On another note i just got a hold of my soccer team's new uniform. Lol funny shit. We will not now be called Las Tortugas for nothing lol...
i know A LOT of poker players use 2, sometimes 3 monitors.. and i wanted to see how you set them up so i can figure out what kind of desk i want to buy, obv the monitors higher than my keyboard
i just dropped about $300 on a 22'' LCD LG monitor that i plug into my laptop(until i get a desktop) so i use the 22 for poker, and the laptop screen for LP/myspace/etc... can't wait until i get my desktop so and another 22... my laptop has a huge black crack that runs down the middle of the screen from retarded tilt.
So heres the deal, I've been playing poker as a hobby for a few years now and not really taking it serious. Playing without proper BR management, no discipline and not really trying to improve my game. Last month, for some reason i decided to fiiiinally follow some BR management. Im using the Stairway to HIGH STAKES method of BR management.
I gotta say this method is amazing, last month I turned $40 into over $1500. I can't believe how dumb i have been all those years playing recklessly outside my BR. The best thing about having a proper BR is that when you go on downswings, you can still stay on even keel, as opposed to me going insane before every time I get 2 outtered for half my BR.
Anyways, I've decided that from now on I'm gonna take poker more seriously and really try to improve my game. Ive been reading some of the blogs of the high stakes players on LP and got really motivated. Which means time to set some goals...
JUNE GOALS:
-Play at least 30K hands
-Cash out at least $500
-Build my BR up to 1500 again
lookin forward to poker trainin in the summer with my students. exhilarate has been doin sickenin good and playin huge amount of hands. i taught him how to nit it up. its nice. multitablin full ring is fun.. gonna find a pic of stats now.
other than nittin it up myself i think stars games are extremely gay and nitty. full tilt ppl still think gutshot = nuts tho. but stars its the only place where 3/6 runs tho. 2/4 to 5/10 is huge jump and its gay.
microstakes quality shit post - msnl dont readby whamm!, May 31
changed this thread to: " i cant beat midstakes NL so now i just wanna be like rider lol"
ill try to shoot for a 10k month (5k is for pussies hehe)
day 1 - played about close to 10k hands
won - 465usd ( ran like the almighty obv )
so im ahead of schedule by around 150usd
I'll try my hardest to like go beyond 500 tomorrow if my luck still permits me to do so. anyway 10k hands is pretty small so I think I still have some room for another heater.
Im very lazy to post stats and graphs, but Im up $2252 + ~400 in rakeback
played 26/18.5/4 with 4K profit at NL400 and the rest was a lose at NL200. Im missing some data about a HU and some stupid games I played, but I played near 23K hands in serious games this month
For the next month my plan is to keep playing some NL200 (inpired by the Myth educational video) and NL400 games and learn PLO when the tables are tougher
If anyone is interested I'll post graphs and stuff
Ok so overall I'm having a pretty horrible day. I was playing a few hours in the afternoon and things were going soooooooooo slow. I was getting incredibly shit cards the whole time, only getting something decent ever so rarely. I was still positive though.
I was talking to Oddeye and he was explaining some stuff to me, especially about aggression and betting. So I tried some of the cbetting he was telling me about and scaring people out of the pot. This has not worked well for me at all. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Oddeye gave me bad advice - he is leagues and years ahead of me in terms of play, experience and gamesense. I guess I didn't understand how to employ it correctly and it is too advanced for my play.
So I started the day at $33. At the moment I am at about $17. I'm just pretty discouraged right now.
So i took another shot 1/2 stacking .02/.05. Much better this time. Probably going to stick to doing that for a little bit. Until i'm rolled to play fullstack.
What scares me at NL10...by thestoryteller, May 31
... is possibly finding out that all my "improvement" has been the result of variance, or worse, that I'm someone who just can't get past NL10... After making about $150 in 10K hands, I think I've given back about 5 buy ins in the last 5K hands (I haven't dared to look too closely!)
It's probably just bad for me because I only have time to play about 7 hours a week, so being down over about 3000 hands mean's I'm down for the week, which is a pretty depressing thought. Logically, of course, I know that it's a small sample size etc. etc. But then I am not a very logical person...
Thankfully, more and more of the hands I ask for advice on come back as being okay. Yesterday I also found that I was able to identify some players who play like me (cbet a lot, try to steal blinds, open up in late position etc.) and do all the things to them I hate people doing to me (floating, raising their cbets, 3 betting light PF etc.) So that's something, at least.
Occasionally I'll come up against some annoying player with a huge calling range who keeps bluffing me out of pots and I have no idea when to keep going with ace high. But maybe now's not the time to deal with that yet and I should just switch tables.
God, I hope I don't end up at NL5 for the rest of my life!
(pay no attention to me, I'm just griping illogically!)
So turns out this is going to be my first losing month so far. After my 3.9k hand session at nl100 ending down 2.5 buyins I decided it was pretty to continue playing nl100. Since I had 33 buyins for nl200 there was no reason why I shouldn't play it. I 4 tabled for 900 hands and ran horribly getting set over set/overpair vs set/set vs fd/set vs gutshot and such.
Anyway my BR is at 5.6k right now so I'll play nl100 till 6.5k and try nl200 again.
FINAAAAAAALLLLLLY
Most tilt inducing session of all time aaaaaaaaah (of all time should probably be translated to in a long time), but I think I ended +10$ 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
WSOP Event #2, 20 Minute bust-out ftw!by JonnyCosMo, May 31
Just got back to the Wynn after busting out from the $1500 event at the Rio today. I basically got put at an awesome table where I knew no one... in fact the only -person I recognized in the 10 tables around me was Shannon Shorr which was kinda funny. So how awesome was my starting table? The 2nd hand at my table, action gets folded around to the small blind. The guy who is in the big blind IS NOT FUCKING THERE. Small blind folds. /epic fail. Anyways here is my bust out hand:
Blinds at 25/50 with a 3k starting stack. Folded to the cut-off who makes it 150, I repop him to 400 on the button with KK (this was my second time I had repopped this same guy) . Both blinds fold and CO calls. Flop comes Jc-Tc-6d, he checks, I bet 700, he check-raises all-in for 2300 total. I call like duh obviously and he has KQo. Turn Ace, uggg... river 3 and I'm out.
Just met up with peachy_keen and brystmar to pick up my buy-ins so now I'm going to take a nap then grind 5/10 at the wynn for the rest of the night.
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Probably best to be able to switch things around.
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