Yesterday was pretty much a disaster. At one point i was down 9 buyins and then crawled my way back up to -3 buyins. After losing QQ vs AK AIPF I got QQ at the SAME TABLE 2 more times in the next 10 ten minutes. Each time i flopped top set in a 3b pot and BOTH TIMES I WAS FLATTED ON THE FLOP AND BOTH GUYS HIT THEIR GUTTERBALL WITH K10s!!! I immediately shut down Stars. Aside from that,i ran -8bb/100 all-in through 3100 hands. Finished down 7 buyins, went to bed frustrated.
On days like these I always end up buying myself something nice to make me happy. Perplexing - lose 7 buyins, spend a lot of money?
Quality Hourly Rate.
Played a short session this morning and got it all in right away on the button with AK vs the SB's AA. QJ10 flop - Ship the new day!
Month so far - all 50nl:
PS...
University of Kentucky basketball SUCKS!
The $EC SUCKS!
Ramel Bradley SUCKS!!!!
Since i run terrible the last days i was trying to find some leaks to improve my game.
I made a 2 table session trying to see how different things work out.
1. How often should you 3 bet on micro stakes Nl20€ ( Nl 30$)
3 Betting preflop could obviously be a good source of money income ... otherwise at higher stakes there wouldnt be so much light 3 betting.
in a small 207 hands session i 3 bet 16 times preflop.
I got called by the original raiser 9 times ( 56% )
I won the pot with a big continuation bet on flop 3 out of the 9 times.
So overall i won the pot 7 times preflop = + 5,60 euro
I won it 3 times on flop = + 9 euros
I lost it 5 times on flop wheres 2 times i check/fold and 1 time i won vs midstack = ~ - 16 euros
so overall first impression is that 3 betting light preflop doesnt really have a big influence on how much youre winning.
sample size is really small though and i will continue to do research on that.
2nd stuff was 3 beting Flop or turn when the board seems dangerous and i have the feeling villain is not an agressive player.
this might actually be a real goldmine though you have to be really careful vs which villians u do it.
Its absolut horror for u if u do it vs stations !
u can only do this vs tight "regulars" who play abc poker 19/16/3
but it works kinda good vs them.
another leak is that i overplay play AK preflop.
I tend to call all-ins and or shove over 3 bets way too much and end up vs KK AA almost always.
from a mathematical point of view at micro limits this is just bad.
when people 3 bet they have QQ KK AA AK and that is 98% sure on NL20€ ( Nl 30$)
so i am either totally fucked or have a coinflip ...
- EV
would be nice if someone can explain to me , why 3 betting light is so good on higher stakes and if there is a chance u can apply this on lets say Nl50$
Christ, my body hurts. On Monday, I had a pretty nice day. My mom dropped by, Bart Spijkers came for a cup of coffee and I went to the hairdresser. Tension was building up though, cause I knew punishment was inevitable. At around 6.45pm I went to Rotterdam’s athletic court for the training. Bas, friend who plays tennis and trains there a lot, was waiting for me there and I was pretty nervous. I hadn’t worked out or did anything with sports in years. My stamina used to be insane when I was involved in boxing for a couple of years. My overall condition and
stamina plummeted since then though, time to get it back in shape.
Sick life. All I have to say. It was one of those workouts where you’re almost throwing up cause it’s so intense for you. There were tennis players and athletes. Most of them are top in their field so everyone is hungry as hell to improve. This is good, cause it gives you incentive to try your best and not slack off. IM FIGHTING FUCKING CLUBBER LANG AND I NEED EVERYTHING I GOT.
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Fuck Ryan ‘BigBalls’ Daut for using a rocky video too. He stole the idea from me. Anyways, working out felt great but it was intense. My muscles hurt more than anything I ever experienced. I can hardly walk down stairs or get out of bed. It’s getting a bit better luckily, and I don’t mind much. Muscle aches always show you improved a lot. I did have some time to work on my rap career. Last time I shared my lethal lyrics with you. This time I just wanna show you guys how easy it is to be a famous rapper. A studio invited me and I did some rap masta blasta dubbings. Check it.
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Guitar Hero
It’s going really well! This week I FCd 3 more songs. FC is the abbreviation for Full Combo, which means you hit 100% of the notes AND you kept your note streak through out the whole song. I FCd Messages from Velvet Revolver, Bulls on Parade from Rage against the machine and Mississippi Queen. I don’t even know who made M. Queen, but I don’t like him. God do I hate that song. I’m happy I FCd it so I don’t ever had to play it again. I have 9 songs FCd right now in Guitar Hero, so I’m happy, but I want a lot more. Again, to check out all my scores follow this link:
I uploaded most of my scores already, I just need to get the scores for all the bonus songs. My next FC’s-to be (I hope) are Sunday Morning by No Doubt, Don’t Speak by No Doubt and Dream On by Aerosmith. I’ll work a bit on those songs. When I’m actually gonna try and do hard stuff I might actually record a youtube vid of me killing it (or at least film until I kill it once) to put on the blog. I did have one bad beat cause Evelyn beat me on Through the fire and flames in an online match. I mean wtf, I lose to a chick on a metal song. Let the shoosting begin. I hope she realizes it was a pityfuck, so that she would want to play the song more. Hollaaaaaa.
Playing guitar hero all the time, I decided to buy a real Guitar. I bought a Fender Strat vintage hot rod ’62. It’s the same guitar Hendrix and Clapton use. Here’s a cool vid of some guy performing Cliffs of Dover on exactly the same guitar. That’s the one I got. I dunno how to play a single not yet, but fuck it, have to be balling out of control when we buy shit.
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Poker
I played some little poker again. However, I feel like playing again. This is a welcome change and I’ll definitely be putting in more hours. Next Saturday is a 1000 euro event in Holland, but I’m still unsure if I wanna play it or not. Monday EPT Warsaw starts. I’m not really sure if I’m gonna play this one or not, but I’ll decide this weekend. I don’t wanna mess up my nice rhythm and the working out by going on a poker trip. There is still some time before San Remo EPT and then the EPT Finals Monte Carlo, both of which I’m definitely playing. I’m gonna play a ton more online in the near future though. Also, I’ll be looking to upload more hands into my blog. If any eventful ones come by that is.
Last but not least I wanna give a shoutout to Pokernews TV, Redwatch and Scriptdude. Some of you might have seen the K4o video or heard about the jokes. So to give some background info; I 4-bet bluffed with K4o in EPT Dortmund to get slowrolled by Kings. Pokernews TV, nice guys that they are, decided to rub it in and make some prank interviews about the hand to diss my shit. They made a highlight video of it and how can I not put it on my blog :D. It’s actually flattering they did it. Also, nice of the other players to act along and big props to Kremser for doing that shit also live on the air. Enjoy the K4o story.
Hello, all. Recently I have focused on one of my major problems at play – the concentration. Wanted to know how does that work for you because I simply can not stay focused and play my best game for more than ,let’s say, two hours 4 or 6 tabling. I had a lot of leaks because I get bored after 500 – 600 hands; try to improvise too much, limp like an idiot, etc just to get action (same problem while was playing Starcraft). Ever since I made that conclusion I play no more than an hour and a half, but do it steady and concentrated, its going ok. But never the less since I make a break often (I don’t play that much time either) the deep stack game stays often out of my reach… So how do you do it – how do you keep concentrate over the long sessions and don’t you get bored? I will try to find some concentration techniques these days and share it with you if you have interest.
To answer frenchylucky – I have not played freerolls in b2be , but I have nice impressions from the PL Omaha VIP points tournaments at VCpoker : not many people, good prize pool and fun, you should try them
I suppose it\'s time to update..by KeyleK_uk, March 06
Hey all I'm really sorry about the lack of updates (Although I'm pretty sure noone cares)
To start off I'm going to the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) Leg 3 main event tomorrow which has like a £1060 buyin I think, looking forward to meeting Ket, Fazi and seeing TwistedEcho again. Nuros is going as well and I think we're trading 20% so could be good.
Hows poker going since my last update I hear you all ask?
Through December to February I was up about 70k mainly at heads up, the vast majority of it at 5/10, 10/20 and about 16k up at 25/50 (which sucks cos I was 20k up vs one guy, didn't play too much though). Which I'm kind of happy with but not really at all, I always said I wouldn't be annoyed at not making enough money if I did 1k a day on average which when you look at some of the games these days it always seems like it should be real easy, but the fact is it's just so difficult to play for like 8 hours a day (or even 3-4 I'd be happy with)
So anyway I bought a new computer which I'd been thinking about getting for a few days, and anyway I fired up my old blog where I was saying, "Oh there's no reason for me to move up atm because I can still make like 600-700 bucks an hour playing 3/6 stress free heads up" and I was like "wow, you make a good point,".
I've been working on my heads up game to whole new heights, evaluating and reevaluating almost every decision on every street, and I was happy with my game in the past but now I'm really happy with it. One thing I've been thinking about is that if I'm playing a good player my AF is likely to be quite a bit higher than a real bad player, so if you're looking to play hu, against a good player your AF could and should well by higher than my average af as it includes the donkeys.
So anyway my new computer arrived on the 3rd March and I'd like to get at least 15k hands or 50k profit before playing 10/20 (I reserve the right to play 5/10). In theory it shouldn't take too long and it's a perfect environment to tweek my game a little bit to make sure I'm all set.
I've only played 2k hands since getting my new computer but here is the PT screenshot, if only I could run good all the time. My figures have changed a little bit, partly because of my change in my game but also because it's a pretty sample size I think. A brag yea but I know it's just a tiny sample size .
Now I was always going to try to do a series of hu stategy posts with in depth knowledge that hopefully all together would give people a real comprehensive guide to heads up. Well when I started doing this it just meant I was giving too much away, after reading through it when I'd just started I didn't want to give all that part away even. So I'm going to think of some other things to post that might be helpful.
Anyway updates to come as always ! (hopefully every 2-3 days really hopefully !)
After vowing last post to get into shape I have been eating 2x food/day (mostly unhealthy), not working out, and drinking lots of Guinness. Oops.
I don't normally give advice on here but here is a gem: A7os is the worst hand in poker. Just fold. This hand tilts me only a little bit:
Submitted by : franchise
FullTiltPoker Game #5506152903: Table Janell (heads up) - $50/$100 - No Limit Hold'em - 23:58:52 ET - 2008/03/04
Seat 1: Hero ($11,099)
Seat 2: EURO32PLYR ($10,000)
EURO32PLYR posts the small blind of $50
Hero posts the big blind of $100
The button is in seat #2
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
EURO32PLYR has 15 seconds left to act
EURO32PLYR raises to $300
Hero raises to $1,100
EURO32PLYR has 15 seconds left to act
EURO32PLYR raises to $2,200
Hero has 15 seconds left to act
Hero calls $1,100
Hero checks
EURO32PLYR bets $2,300
Hero has 15 seconds left to act
Hero raises to $4,600
EURO32PLYR has 15 seconds left to act
EURO32PLYR raises to $7,800, and is all in
Hero calls $3,200
EURO32PLYR shows
Hero shows
EURO32PLYR shows two pair, Aces and Sevens
Hero shows a pair of Aces
EURO32PLYR wins the pot ($19,999.50) with two pair, Aces and Sevens
Summary Total pot $20,000 | Rake $0.50
Board:
Seat 1: Hero (big blind) showed and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 2: EURO32PLYR (small blind) showed and won ($19,999.50) with two pair, Aces and Sevens
For the record I've never won an allin pot vs this guy ever.
I don't know why I always start off the month so well but I'm not complaining. Lets hope the doomswitch can be lifted off me as I feel like I'm running awful right now. I must add it's nice to be up so much while this is the case, I wonder what this graph will look like when I string together consecutive winning days for the first time in too long.
Also I'm stoked bc we're going to Vegas for Spring Break during tourney time and there are going to be tons(??) of sports bettor donks up in Bellagio. Also there is talk of living in Barcalona for a month after the semester ends, and then living in Vegas during the WSOP. And also there is talk of getting some beachfront property in Hawaii after that which is exciting. My tentative plan is to quit school after this semester. I will have like 18 credits left to graduate and only 3 in my major, the rest are nonsense classes like European History and Spanish, nothing I really care to bother with at this time. So basically if i ever needed my degree I could get it within 6 months, but I don't want to waste any more time right now as I am not a good dutiful student right now so why should I even bother...I am not one to do things half-assed (generally) and that definetly describes how I go about classes now. I've been landlocked all my life and really would love to live on the ocean at this point in my life, so why not? Anyways, this is all stuff I have to consider, and hopefully make a wise choice. I am still young. School is lame. Future...what is that? God send me a sign in the form of a massive heater!!
I suck at this game as much as any noob ever didby eelnosaj, March 05
Took me 4 days but I'm back to 190, along the way it was frustrating to get here, but I'm glad of the lessons I learned. One of them being that I understand even more how much I need to learn. I'm still at the stage where I don't know if it is possible that I can be succesful at 100nl, much less 50nl, but for now I know for certain I can be succesful down here at 10nl. I see glimpses of the depth of how much skill this game requires, I really want to be good at it.
Showdown kman22: shows (two pair, Aces and Queens)
jso827 : mucks hand
kman22 collected $19.45 from pot
Summary Total pot $20.45 | Rake $1
Board
Seat 1: Beer1118 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: kman22 showed and won ($19.45) with two pair, Aces and Queens
Seat 3: NotInTheNuts folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: jso827 (button) mucked
Seat 5: jake jarmele (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: bruce 73 (big blind) folded on the Flop
whatever. good day. life is great again.
my poker performance dictates the quality of my life. sick beat, imo.
meanwhile, this bitch here:
mikie0426: u shouldn't put possibility in poker
mikie0426: when u actually play
mikie0426: u should just read players
aveclec0eur: lol.............
aveclec0eur: whatever fool
mikie0426: serious
mikie0426: probability is just numbers out there that FOOLS u
mikie0426: hahahaha
mikie0426: FUCK probability
i had a 37 dollar stack vs a guy who had a full buyin (50).
The game was going really slow i bought in with 25 bux and the table was breaking up. I min-raised to 1 dollar with 22 and like two people call.
FLOP: 2h4d2c
Player 1 checks, i Check, player 3 thinks for a bit and bets 4.75 on like a 3 dollar pot.....
In fear of him having FH and drawing the last 4... i reraise to 9 bux. He tanks for about 30 seconds before folding. Lol im such a donk i shoulda just smoothcalled... i cant stop thinking about the hand Lol..
I had an huge downswing before and didn't really update, however I managed to make all of it back with some extra. So it really just was a downswing! My roll is almost 70k (had like 51k at some point) and the cash out was finally issued for 40k (so 30k left) that was way too long and annoying to do, they refused my document and failed to receive it countless time but when I sent it by email instead of fax everything worked. Still haven't received it but it should be in by Monday.
I'm soon moving out of my mother's home, I'm looking for a 2 1/2 to a 3 1/2 to live by myself in Ste-Foy, I'd like to be close to the university but I really don't care (Québec city). I however cannot decide or not to give up my internship, it's not that I can't stand it (yes sure I'm annoyed to have to woke up early everyday) but I just don't plan on working in computer science any soon, so it would only be as a back up plan. It's 14$ an hrs versus 100$+ at poker. What do you think again?
During the last month or so I've managed to lose my entire BR, and put myself in debt to some of my best online friends.
I want to let everyone know that I will have everyone paid back in full soon. I made some big judgement errors and steared the wrong direction a few times after learning HU from Raszi..I thought i was unstoppable...
This was a big judgement error that cost me everything.
After losing my 8k roll + close to 2k in debt, i realize maybe this game isn't for me after all.
My aggressive br building in the past has caused me nothing but problems, so here I sit busto.
It looks like i won't be playing until i get paid next friday.
If anyone can stake me for NL2 PM me.
I'm willing to pay back 100% intrest and give my password to them so they can monitor my play, etc.
I put myself in a tough spot here,
I don't expect anything but will definately get everyone back that I owe as soon as i possibly can.
I wish the best of luck to u guys,
I know this blog will get flamed to an all-time high,
So I just realised I have basically no contact with LP outside of these forums, so if anyone wants to talk a bit of poker when they are bored, add me.
I'm a 100NL FR reg, just taking shots at 200NL FR now. (starting to mix in some 6max also)
Ideally it'd be good to have some people of a similiar or higher level to chat to, but I'm happy for anyone to add me and I'm sure we can help each other out.
If you have a weird msn name, prob best to post that you added so I know who you are ^^
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(same problem while was playing Starcraft). Ever since I made that conclusion I play no more than an hour and a half, but do it steady and concentrated, its going ok. But never the less since I make a break often (I don’t play that much time either) the deep stack game stays often out of my reach… So how do you do it – how do you keep concentrate over the long sessions and don’t you get bored? I will try to find some concentration techniques these days and share it with you if you have interest.
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