I think overall I'm playing fairly solid but... I still tend to overplay monster hands and big pairs in key situations and lose huge pots that are easily avoidable or at the very least don't allow it to snowball, but overall things are looking good so I'm happy about that.
played for a few hours today. all nl2. about 1100 hands, 4 and 3tabling. first session was really swingy. dropped like 2 or 3 buy ins ($3 BIs, never bought in for full amount of $5) within first 15 minutes and spent an hour or two bringing it up, only to lose a flip for around 350 BBs, which tilted me enough to spew off another BI. so ended down like $9 that session. took a shower and ate, and 3 tabled + played psp / watch dragon ball z (mostly the bojack movie and future trunks bringing the rape to freiza). up $6.90 after 220 hands, but still down like $2 or 3 from earlier.. i think i'm done for today.
after the first session, i downloaded PT beta 4, so my stats from that session got deleted, but as of now, i'm running 9.4/6.7/2.1, w$sd is 87.5. hopefully i can keep this good session going on tomorrow (and maybe later tonight before i go to bed)
1st session:
2.5bi
2nd sessione like 50 bucks lol
so end of the day i make 300 and i wanna play some 100nl again but won't. argh
im prolly good with 100nl for the day already. not going to bother fpp whoring or getting bonuses and shit playing that limit. im more concerned with my winrate and personal $$$ goals for the month which i am a little behind of. BR is 8300ish and i want a 12k by the end of the month to get to 200nl by then. so i have to be making like 350 a day to get there. really bad,results oriented pokering lol
i hate playing 50nl. i just run soo bad/breakeven here almost every fucking session. played real well won just 1 1/2 bi then when i was about ready to stop and closed almost all tables except 1, got setup for a bi with ak vs qq on a RR pot kqx flop with fd. fuck you 50nl! lololol
it was like lee saying "wait...you forgot to leave 1 buyin you nit!" hahaha
I woke up somewhere in the afternoon all happy. I had a very simple plan for sunday.. play video games in my bathrobe while eating sandwiches and not picking up my phone. Best time ever yo. I played a lot of Virtua Tennis again. It's a very fun tennis game that Michiel Brummel (Utreg) introduced me to. He kinda rapes me, but I'm getting better and I rediscovered the game. Also I have this new addiction.. achievements. The word says it all, I want to achieve goals in games. XBOX supplemented achievements in every game they put on the market. By doing certain stuff and passing certain milestones you get an achievement worth some points. Every game has 1000 points in it. I'm completely nuts about getting guitar hero achievements. Maybe it's just to tell myself I rock or something, but i think it's the competitive drive in me.
Anyways I had some nice lounge day on the couch scratching my belly and then I decided it was time to play poker again. I started playing some sundays (ON SUNDAY LOL THE COINCIDENCE). Playing 2 tables most of the time was quite relaxing. Watching some poker movies with it.. from the big televized cash games in english.. please put me in those.. what the fuck lol. Next day I wanted to do sports, but I woke up kinda late, which is ok. Here is a video of me doing martial arts. Kinda brutal.
Anyways the sunday tournaments went alright and I finished 5th in the PLO 75e rebuy on T6 Poker. I play under Buck3thead there btw. Fifth was good for 6000$, so that's nice. Last hand I repotted from the bb with {Jh}{10h}{8d}{7d} to get called by {Ac}{Kd}{Ts}{5h}.. yyaaa nice hand. Was kind of a big pot so I had my question marks, but decisions like this is what god me 5th in the first place, so fuck it. Rest of the evening I had some minor cashes but nothing special.
Monday
Monday I went to the casino with friends. Ive been playing a ton of lowstakes poker in the casino. It's kind of fun and it feels like gambling. They have a 60 euro 20-man sng every night. I was fed up with playing after 4 hands and went no looky allin and busted vs some dudes {Ah}{Qh} which was fine.
I went to bed.. or at least I thought so.. My god I'm addicted to reading. It seems like nothing in my life can be in normal proportions. Either I don't do it, or I don't do anything else. Same with these books from R A Salvatore. I used to read George RR Martin's (whats up with the cool initials of fantasy writers) Song of Ice and Fire, but I've been waiting a long while for the new book in that series. In the mean time I picked up Salvatore's books, a series called Forgotten Realms. It's fantasy too and it's about Dark Elves mainly (fuck u haters). I just love reading it and I basically can't stop. Last 5 months I've read 22 of these books. That's a lot especially considering I only read before I go to bed. It's basically crack on paper.
Ok that was crack in a video. I know I posted it before, but I did it again, simply cause I wanted it.
Tuesday
Brummel (still Utreg) dropped by early in the afternoon. He sporadically drops by and plays poker here, plays xbox and we drink a lot. This time was no different and we had tons of fun. He was playing poker on his laptop in the living room and I was playing guitar hero. We bought some alchohol earlier and started drinking early. Maarten also dropped by and we went to the casino. Maarten played a 10 euro sng, which he came second in, yay. Me and brummel started playing 10-20 Limit hu and later people joined. Then we wanted to get a 5-5 NL table started, so we played hu there. We agreed on playing 50% of actual stakes. No real point to play hu as friends when you're drinking so we chopped the stakes in half. I ran like god for the most part. I was getting completely hammered from drinking vodka and other friends of us arrived so we quit and played some roulette. Bad beats rained down upon us. It was chinese newyear and PACKED in the casino so we went to my place.
There I played some poker and I won like 2,500$ at 3-6. I went to bed at like 8 am, but again I stayed awake till 1 pm reading those DARNED books.
Today
I woke up at 6 pm and I basically done nothing today. Pretty sweet to be honest. I played some guitar hero with Evelyn and then came the tilt. Ok, so I explained the principal of achievements earlier. mehh so you have this achievement in guitar hero, you get it if you score 500,000++ points in 1 song. That is a pretty sick amount and I never gotten it until then. We played this song:
I like the song a lot, but OF COURSE I GET 510k IN AN ONLINE MATCH. That doesn't get you the achievement, you have to do it in single player. Completely on tilt, but on the other hand happy I made it. We played it again in the next match and now Evelyn scores 519k, also not getting the achievement. Sad times. If you get a song perfect 100% notes hit, it puts 5 golden stars next to it, also a sick thing to do, especially on expert. So the next song we played My name is Jonas, I 100% on expert. It also doesnt give the me the 5 golden stars, again cause it's online battle. Mehh I guess it could be a confidence boost though. I'm gonna head to bed now. Not to sleep.... but to read.
It's so much harder to make a blog post while losing rather than winning. For me at least. When I'm winning or even just having minor losses I enjoy posting up a storm, but in a downswing the last thing I want to do is air thoughts on the blog. I guess I'm ashamed of my losses or just feel overall shitty and have no desire to share those feelings with others.
Of course the fact that I'm making this post makes it clear that I am winning. The last few sessions have gone OK with some minor wins. Then last night I finally started running hot again but I was upset cause I squandered it by making several stupid all in mistakes. I came out winning a bout 2 buyins when it could have been 4 or 5, so I wasn't too happy with myself. Today went much better as there was only 1 big all-in mistake and otherwise I made a bunch of good folds. The downswing has taught me that I really need to start making more good folds, cause during the downswing it felt like my biggest source of profit was avoiding spew.
I also am getting back into my routine of exercise and poker study. Big thanks to sniderstyle for his help with advice and doing some sweat sessions together. Hopefully my new found hotness will transfer to you as well! But yeah, shout outs aside, moving into this new place really killed my poker routine. To top it off the only poker I played was mass multi-tabling to try and get FPPs to buy a TV in the pokerstars store. I really wanted that damn thing to finish off our living room. I made the FPP's but lost about 8 buyins in the process, which was basically the cost of the TV. Stupid.
Throw the loss of focus and mass multi-tabling on top of running cold as shit, and it lead to my biggest downswing ever. About 15 buyins at the bottom and I've never gone past like 8 or 9. Luckily I'm very deeply rolled for NL100. The biggest hit was to my confidence and overall happiness. Eventually I got control of my emotions and learned how to still enjoy life during the downswing. I think that has helped me recoup. I've also started to remember the basics that I'd forgotten and how to make GOOD FOLDS. God, the good fold has eluded me like crazy in Feb.
So, let's do a halfway through the month status check that will show you how much I do NOT crush NL100... But hopefully the dozer is coming back and when I can get going on that 10K goal!
Hoping it continues: http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/f9271caeeb4f18b55238213cadb310f6.jpg
Been table selecting like a demon and 4 tabling.
The games on stars seem sick soft after wasting my time on FTP. I can easily find 4 tables with 3 or 4 massive fish, and most of the regs are pretty easy to bulldoze too.
I feel I've improved as a player although turn and river aggression are not totmidian level yet... need to work on that.
In the process of rewatching alot of old vids with a new perspective. mostly looking for how pros handle game flow. Jonny Cosmo's NL100 vid helped me alot (see cosmo's blog for details) basically just been trying to emulate that sick hero. And I rewatched Mez at NL200 and picked up on alot I missed before.
going to cash out a little to pay for courses and car repairs so that will certainly turn the doomswitch back on.
after that... only 26 more buy-ins to win before NL100 whooo!!!
Jason Kidd - Todays Session - Random thoughtsby kNkiDDa, February 13
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Well first of all, there has been a major trade in the NBA. Jason Kidd has finally been traded to the Dallas Mavericks. The deal included Devin Harris, Desagana Diop, Devean George, 2 future first round picks...
Read more here: http://www.realgm.com/src_fromtheraft...ding_the_deal_kidd_returns_to_dallas/
I am not sure whether I would grade this deal as "A". More likely a B. Now Dirk doesn't have to handle the ball so much, just as Terry has a marquee point guard to slash and run with. Shooting wise does Kidd bring an equal package as Harris to the table, but more rebounding, assists and an unparalleled ability to run the fast break.
Most importantly they could keep Brandon Bass, what they now need is another big man. To bad that they waived DJ Mbenga last season...
Lets so how they will do! I am excited, the arms race in the west is the SHIT
Todays session was okay result wise. But to tell you the truth, i ran like SHIT. I outplayed my opponents several times and they chose to steam / tilt and call their gutshots AI on the river and miraculously catch it. Some dude who had position of me flopped the f**king nuts all the friggin' time. KK / AA / QQ all beat by his homeless f*cking range. Everytime I would bust a buy I would end up losing the money won to that retard... http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/6176/feb132sm9.jpg
If poker keeps running like that I am considering to take a little break from poker and go for a start-up. For example grinding the NL200 tables for fix/variable costs and thereby establish a business. At low times you can still play a ton of hands and recover / fix leaks in your company. I have got some monies saved and am working at a business plan right now. Solid so far. Doubts started to emerge as the semester went on regarding university/college. Like the majority of poker players or people with a desire to be an entrepreneur/independent I am bad with dealing with authority...
Starting from scratch again on NL10, doing pretty good so far.. with the deposit bonus helping me out alot. Up 17 buyins so far from about one week play. (10-15,000 hands)
Basically 6 and 8 tabling while watching movies. I wish I had two screens for this. And sometimes I also try to play with all my focus.
Looking back on my past hand histories from last year I'm probably a lot more predisposed to play solid poker than I used to be.
As I'm much more disciplined, focused, healthy and 'data-driven' in general as these are qualities I consciously developed to allow myself to build and grow my business I've been working on for the past few months.
Of the things I now do and didn't a year ago that have made the most profound impact on myself as a person (and consequently also as a part-time, casual poker player)
I quit smoking almost 6 months ago (used to smoke a pack a day), I run every day as I'm preparing to run a 30k marathon in September, I medidate almost every day for an hour and also keep my brain healthy by reading regularly, eating more balanced meals with lots of vegetables, no more soda's or junk food (completely)... (Watch 'Super Size Me' the documentary) and I also took the habit to drink 3 liters of water a day as dehydration can cause a decline in cognitive abilities.
Remember, I took up these habits not for poker but to give myself the energy that was needed to grow my business as it's extremely demanding on my system.
I've read from a book (I fgot the source) that dehydration can cause a significant decline in cognitive performance.
Needless to say these habits have completely transformed my attitude and outlook on life in the short couple of months that I stuck with them, as a person first and foremost but, and as it so happens... when I play poker now, it feels like I am bringing a whole new game to the table.
And I can tell the difference, it is significant.
From the little disciplines I've cultivated from daily exercise, meditation and the rest, I now have the discipline to play solid poker with a clear-headedness that I never used to have before.
I have extremely high levels of energy but one of the most important thing is that I don't tilt like I used to. Which was one of the biggest cause of why I quit a year ago.
Without the emotion and my ego to cloud my judgement, it's allowed my game to improve DRAMATICALLY.
It's allowed me to differentiate from whenever I made a mistake in my play from when I did make a good play but got beat from a favorite position wheras before, I tended to blame it a lot on bad luck, now I see the folly of my ways and can immediately and consciously apply myself to start correcting it.
Poker for me now is like a gymnasium to exercise my brain cells to keep myself sharp.
well i won 200 bucks for getting 3rd in a shootout tourney last nite moving me up to over 1k so im going to start switching from 25nl to 50nl !!:-) I've been running pretty good lately and having fun etc.! I know for a fact i wouldnt be nearly as good a player if myth wouldnt have helped me on all the hands i post and for that i am very grateful too him and all of the other lpers:-D thank you all
Hi, im broke and looking to grind on Pokerstars. Looking for someone to stake me for 20$, will payback 40$ after a week if i make the grind. Anyone feeling generous? PM me
ill be using this blog, like most people here to start getting involved in hand disscussions and the like.
Thanks,
Mat
Ok this is without a doubt my worst session in my young poker career. Finished like 4BIs down.
got sucked out on many ocasions, my strong hands either got pwned or didn get any action. Some WTF moments happened, after i got pwned by idiotic hands even after betting properly PF.
Sometimes I feel these stakes are the hardest in the whole world because people are so unpredictable, make the most idiotic moves in the world. And all those moves finish up my ass.
so fuck all this, fuck myth(i dont really mean it) and everyone who says you should get into tough spots coz thats the only proper way. fuck that.
The proper way here is being a NIT and play 1123123 tables, fold everything except premiums, semi-premiums and PPairs.
I'll save my thinking for when I move up. Till then -- I, Robot.
I just wanted to start blog here @ lp.net so here am i. I think ill make my first post something like introducing.. so..
Im 24 yrs old living in Sofia, Bulgaria. I study mechanical engineering at the university here and try to play a lot of poker when i can. Actually poker is my main money income since ive started playing(like 1 year and 3 months ago). You may say wtf how the hell is this possible when u play 100nl - well its possible cuz the average salary here is like 400$ - so u can live pretty good life here with normal 100nl win rate. So ive started playing poker around November 2006 when i got lucky on some free rolls, collected like 100$ and with them started playing on 5pl tables in prima. At that time lp.net was already really big poker site and i could find a lot of information at the forums. I like the tight style of playing in the beginning cuz ive always liked to play 9-10 tables, and i play mostly tight now also. I have a very conservative bankroll management + i make constantly cash outs so im only a winning 100nl player so far taking shots at 200nl.
Now something about my current situation.
I have a normal to decent win rate at 100nl - like 180k hands i run like 3.5bb/100 so far. Thats not the case with 200nl ive been trying to pick that level up since January - no success there. Actually im getting pretty much owned there. Here is a picture of my February game on prima:
I will really appreciate any advice. Maybe some of you will share some experience with me about their way from 100nl to 200nl and what trouble they had there. Im really thinking to book some lessons too. Ive been thinking if i can qualify for myth's program if he run it again.
No, I'm not about to retire, but the subject has been on my mind for the last few days...why do people who go on sick sick runs (e.g. TexasLimitKing and Freedom25) just flat-out quit playing after a prolonged winning streak?
I have been playing HU limit holdem lately, and as you can see I've been having excellent results, even without that much experience. I think HU LHE is a facinating, non-stop action game where a strong fundamental and mathematical background are the key elements to a winning game. That certainly caters to my strengths as a poker player so I suppose it wasn't really surprising that I'd make a smooth transition from HU NLHE, but still I think my results are even too good to ignore. Back on point - the past couple of days I've felt for some reason that I was about to face an impending huge downswing for some reason, and thus have been playing a bit passive and gunshy...I dunno, it's hard to explain, but I really don't feel motivated to play. Yesterday I definetly noticed I wasn't playing well, and since I could see this coming in a sense, I did the smart thing: cashed a bunch of my money out and resolved not to play any limits of consequence for a while until my head is back in the game. Which is kind of like retirement. So ya, even though I've been playing incredible poker, the waiting for hours at high limits awaiting challengers, the stress of the actual playing, and the anxiety associated with keeping up that high level of play all wear on people, myself included, and it's easy to understand why people quit after beating up their opponents for a short while. Once they proved to themselves that they were able to play like that, they became content; the money was merely a side-product of their efforts.
I'm going to play low, meaningless stakes for a while until I get hungry enough to play my best, then go back at it at the nosebleed limit and HSNL games. Wish me luck.
This is why I make moneyby JonnyCosMo, February 13
younghov17 (2:36:18 AM): i regulary make
younghov17 (2:36:20 AM): much bigger folds
younghov17 (2:36:23 AM): for example
younghov17 (2:36:26 AM): 200 bbs
younghov17 (2:36:27 AM): utg raises
younghov17 (2:36:30 AM): i 3 bet aa on button
younghov17 (2:36:35 AM): tightish bb cold calls
younghov17 (2:36:37 AM): flop qxx
younghov17 (2:36:41 AM): utg folds
younghov17 (2:36:43 AM): i bet
younghov17 (2:36:47 AM): he c/r 2.5x
younghov17 (2:36:49 AM): i call
younghov17 (2:36:51 AM): turn blanks
younghov17 (2:36:54 AM): he bets 1/2 pot
younghov17 (2:36:55 AM): i call
younghov17 (2:36:56 AM): river blanks
younghov17 (2:36:57 AM): he shoves
younghov17 (2:36:59 AM): i instafold
younghov17 (2:37:17 AM): rly bets im looking at
younghov17 (2:37:19 AM): is a chop w/ aa
younghov17 (2:37:26 AM): cuz kk almost never makes that river bet
2/4 - 5/10 regular who has been winning consistently for the past 4 years, but constantly complains about his bad luck. sweet play sir
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