So I got jaw surgery coming up, I'm booked in Saturday morning on the 2nd of Feb. Because I consider this to be fairly major event in my life, and because I want a quick and complication-free healing period afterward, I'm deciding to not play any more poker until the surgery is done and probably won't play for at least 2 weeks afterwards. The reason for not playing prior to the surgery is, it would be really gay to go on a 10bi downswing, mentally feel like shit, and then go under the knife. I'm happy with my poker progress this month so far (+$2k in approx 35k hands), so I'll just let it stay that way.
The purpose for the surgery is I have a very big over-bite, meaning my top teeth protrude over my bottom teeth. Because of this, when I bite down fully, my teeth only touch at the back molars, and the front teeth make no contact whatsoever. The gap at the front is so large that I can bite down fully, and still poke my tongue through with ease.
These pictures kinda show what is being done, I'll try to commentate exactly what each picture is trying to show.
-This shows a side-on view of the skull only. The black line shows the cut they will be making into my maxilla to adjust my upper jaw. The result is to bring my upper teeth lower and backwards.
-This shows a frontal view of both the skull and mandible. The cut-lines are in red this time, and show how they are cutting directly back into my maxilla (upper jaw), and how they are cutting my lower jaw on both sides to adjust the angle, bringing it upwards to cause my lower teeth to move higher and more forward.
-This shows a top-down view of the mandible (lower jaw). It's hard to explain exactly how the cut looks, but it is basically a really shallow-angled cut through the bone on each side. The red line shows the cut-line they will use, and the green shows the surface area they have of each piece of bone on which to manipulate it and adjust the angle. The goal is to tilt the bone upwards, so that my lower teeth will come up and forward.
I'm getting kind of nervous because post-op is going to suck and be painful. Apparently it's standard to lose 5kg post-op, due to the trauma of the surgery and the fact I can only eat limited amounts of soft food afterwards.
edit. The pics don't work directly, so you'll just have to make do with links.
30k hands nl50 = 1.5bi down = i suck = worst postflop play ever = bad beats, coolers, bad call downs = too nit = too aggro = so much tilt = frustration = readin books or articles or watchin videos is useless for me = stupid shoves pf w AK knowin that i wasnt ahead = hilarious skill to control pots = value betted all the time = mediocre player = dissapointment =
So my new roommate uses his 46" Sharp LCD as his computer monitor and he had an extra Dell 24" WFP that he let me buy for real cheap.
Wow so sick, so great for pokering!
Can easily fit 6 tables with no overlap and at a good enough size so PAhud doesn't look like shit, and use the other monitor for surfing web / lobby / instant HH / winamp.
Regardless of the sick setup, Stars decided it would show me what a sick setup was and I dropped multiple BI's today
By playing 6-max. 8-tabled it for a couple of hours and made 2,5k so now im only down 1,5k for the day.
I realized something today about my HU game. I always tend to lose at the beginning of the session. I start out bulding a nutty image and try to beat myself and my opponent into deep stacked play, where I am really comfortable and most opponents arnt. This usually works out pretty well when my opponent stay long enough for my deep stacked edge to kick in. This is basicly what happened yesterday, I lost like 1,5-2k in the beginning and then just steamrolled the guy and ended up over 3k on him even though he pulled some really ugly suckouts for multiple buyin pots.
Today on the other hand, started with me playing one guy HU on three tables. Kinda solid but way to tight and gave away tons off buttons. I lost a couple of pots, some because of bad play and some coolers/beats.
When he had convinced me to open yet another table we where getting pretty deep and I had a really good idea of how he was playing. Then all of a sudden he just instaleaves, leaving me down like 2k and being a saaaad panda.
So I played this other guy and he ran like god himself in the beginning. He just hit every flop and I was way to impatient thinking "fuck he cant have it all the time"
and I actually tilted off one or two buyins. Kinda sucks to do that because Im usually a strong advocate of not letting a small sample of hands determine your action and dicipline is sooooo important HU.
Ahwell, I slapped myself in the face, focused and kept playing. I played really well from there on and I grinded down more than half of what I had previously lost to him before he eventually left. I think my deep stacked edge was really obvious in this match. I didnt get it in bad for 120bbs+ once I think whereas he managed to twice put tons of money in with like 20% equity. Unfortunately he managed to suck out a few times, some of them where pretty huge but w/e, ship the sklansky bucks.
This is a hand that just shows so perfectly why HU is so much fun. He was 3-betting ALOT and I was calling alot of 3-bets. Probably calling a bit too much but I felt I had a big edge over this guy postflop. Elected to float and take it away on the turn since he c-bets his entire range on this flop. Now, betting the turn I know he isnt giving me much credit at all so I wasnt suprised to get raised here and I definitely didnt put him on a queen since I think he leads turn w/ it 100% of the time. I think his raising range in this spot is superwide and I just knew he was going to do someting like this so I called and obv took it down on the river.
This is like one of the biggest misstakes people do HU I feel. They make moves in so predictable spots. Like, it just so easy to tell that this guy has had enough and is going to raise with his entire range. A good player is going to exploit that sooo much. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/368949
I've just switched from stars to FTP and I'm finding the appearance of the tables fairly difficult to get used to. What settings do you guys use to ensure maximum clarity? At the moment I'm forced to one table because I just don't notice when it's my turn to act.
so i dropped 9 buyins over the last 3 days at 50nl because of good playing too. bluffed off maybe 1.5 buy ins and lost everything 70% favorite, getting shoved against by ppl with naked flush draws and them getting there, and then have ppl shove top pair against my AA. blah so nasty. plz gimme insight on how long should i stay away from playing? maybe a 3 days? help. sick sick down swing, fulltilt's doomswitch is like clockwork, always..... pisssssssssssssssss coming out my assssssssssssssssss. fuck.
that's my first blog post here. Im playing for more than a few months, started with FL, went to 6max NL and tried grinding it. I was beating NL25 quite easy then went for huge downswing, and Im back at those shitty NL10 and I can't get out for last 3 months... So I moved to PLO for a while, just to have a break. PLO is quite a simple game, and Im really beating PL20 now on ipoker. Whatever!
About NL: Generally I suck when gets to turn and river and I know that. Im really trying to improve my game mostly by posting some hands and watching CR videos. Everytime I put a guy on a flush draw fe, and I fire second barrel I get raised. Im getting floated too often I think. Im basicly break-even (ok a small winner) at NL10 after 50K hands which is sick sick sicko. My stats are 19/15/3.5 went to showdown 22, won at sd 52 etc. Everything seems okey. I really DO HAVE positional awarness and that's also not the problem. Funny thing is I don't have the roll for NL25 but when I take some shoots at it recently it was eazy shipping, exactly like the time before my downswing. Ofc I wont play it without bankroll coz everyone knows how it will end. I've made a short conversation with one of the CR main members and he agreed that NL10 is now much harder then it was before because there's huge poker boom in europe and everyone wants to try and the basic of pf and flop are quite easy to understand and there's SO MUCH sites where u can really learn the basics. I don't know what to do, so Im playing PLO for a while, maybe I will get the roll for NL25 or NL20 and play it then. If anyone is interested in some session reviews, or coaching me how to get out from the sucking micros I will be glad.
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.. to play 6 4 hours of poker a day for the rest of my life the year.
Maybe I'll make it less when the new monitor arrives and I can play more tables, but this is getting ridiculous, a new low point discipline wise. Probably not played more than 9k hands this month, and less than 6k of those were at the 2/5.
I should probably get an excell sheet or something setup and document everything to help me make sure I do this and mark days off etc..
4 hours of 4 tabling should allow me to get in about 1.5k hands a day (I think), and therefore 45k hands a month, which is an acceptable amount.
A night or two ago while scouting out the tables I saw the sickest player on Crypto was 6 tabling 2/5 tho, so I decided to stay away. By sickest I don't mean to say he's the best, simply because I have no way of knowing who the best highstakes crypto players are as I don't play high enough, but Gulkines is simply the craziest player I've ever seen. If you want to see some crazy hands I'd highly recommend checking out his hands posted here: http://www.pokerhand.nu/user/gulkines
Usually I see him sitting at every single 25/50+ HU table, but I guess he wanted a change of pace or something.
Ran into a highlight video of the headcoach and owner (I think) of the MMA gym I joined recently:
By the way, is solemnly vow or solemnly swear better? Google can't decide, nor can the dictionary
As you can see below I've recently started taking shots @ NL200. I've been very disciplined about it and followed a strict set of rules:
-3 tables max
-2 stupid mistakes and I quit the session
-1 tilty mistake and I quit the session
-Move back to NL100 if I lose more than 3 buyins.
So doing that I've been up and down a lot lately. I peaked @ a $6,500 roll, but then I cashed out $500 to cover some expenses coming up in Feb with the new apartment. Jumped back onto NL200 with 30 buyins and lost 3 and a half, so I went back to NL100. Worked back to $5,900 and tried NL200 again. Dropped 1.5 buyins, took a break, then won 1.5 buyins. So I'm sitting @ $5,900 and down about 1.5 buyins lifetime in NL200.
I'm getting better at it. That's for sure. But it's by far the hardest transition I've ever made and it has been quite tough. I am not giving up on it though. I really feel like I'm mostly just shooting myself in the foot with some horrendously bad plays. It's just much harder to get money out of people and I get frustrated and tilt it off. I'm also facing so much more aggression that ends up confusing me and also tilts me eventually. I really am my own worst enemy cause every single big pot I lost was by doing something I KNOW I shouldn't do, but I ended up doing it anyway because of either tilt or overthinking the situation, possibly even trying to overthink it cause I want to get a reason to be involved.
Anyway, I've been going over my hands pretty meticulously so that I can figure out how to improve and beat this limit. Just posted 2 new threads on the medium stakes forum which I hope get some replies. Here are all those hands again, cause I wanna try and get as much help as possible:
Here are 2 hands that I feel like I spewed but I got lucky and it worked out for me. The first hand especially fits into that description. I really need a LOT of help and advice on these hands and fully expect to be berated for my idiocy, so flame away. Hands are in the spoilers.
1) Villain is super nitty TAG (7.5/6/3) reg who plays LOTS of tables (not sure how many cause he hides from search, but I see him everywhere). There are 3 questions I have about this hand.
A. I'm gonna be OOP and he opened 3x UTG with SUCH a tight PFR range... I can't fold AKs but I think that 3betting here is wrong. I did it cause it's just how I've always played, but I wasn't sure I was doing the right thing considering this guys image. It seems to me like calling and taking a flop is best rather than 3betting. Of course when he 4bets it's the nuts from such a tight player and I should have folded.
B. If I had just called preflop instead of 3betting, how do I handle that flop? It's a good flop for me but the queen kinda sux since it turns one of the pairs that I'm beating into a set or counterfeits my ace vs AQ... but otherwise it's not bad.
C. Considering how it was played (yes poorly) what do you do with that flop? I figured shove was my best choice.
As an end note, YES I KNOW THIS IS HORRIBLE. I was a bit tilty at the time which lead to my call of his 4bet... but once I hit that flop with that big of a pot, I think I'm going all the way.
POKERSTARS GAME #14782428406: HOLD'EM NO LIMIT ($1/$2) - 2008/01/24 - 02:23:07 (ET)
Table 'Attica' 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: Bungalow8 ($349.35 in chips)
Seat 2: sexuelity ($204 in chips)
Seat 3: mocambique ($120 in chips)
Seat 4: NutPopper ($34 in chips)
Seat 5: AGGIE ($260 in chips)
Seat 6: k2o4 ($218.70 in chips)
k2o4 : posts small blind $1
Bungalow8: posts big blind $2
Holecards Dealt to k2o4
sexuelity: raises $4 to $6
mocambique: folds
NutPopper: folds
AGGIE: folds
k2o4 : raises $14 to $20
Bungalow8: folds
sexuelity: raises $48 to $68
k2o4 : calls $48
Flop (Pot : $138.00)
2) Villain playing loose @ 35/21/1.4 over 30 hands. How is my line here? I figure I'm 2 overs and a gutter on the flop. The turn puts me open ended. Was this spew or solid?
POKERSTARS GAME #14779242843: HOLD'EM NO LIMIT ($1/$2) - 2008/01/23 - 22:54:22 (ET)
Table 'Circe' 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: bones42 ($205 in chips)
Seat 2: 2PCME ($326.65 in chips)
Seat 3: mrcrgl ($200 in chips)
Seat 4: Swanie1 ($194 in chips)
Seat 5: k2o4 ($202 in chips)
Seat 6: jongreenway ($473.80 in chips)
k2o4 : posts small blind $1
jongreenway: posts big blind $2
Holecards Dealt to k2o4
bones42: raises $5 to $7
2PCME: folds
mrcrgl: calls $7
Swanie1: folds
k2o4 : raises $23 to $30
jongreenway: folds
bones42: folds
mrcrgl: calls $23
Flop (Pot : $69.00)
k2o4 : bets $43
mrcrgl: calls $43
Turn (Pot : $155.00)
k2o4 : bets $129 and is all-in
mrcrgl: folds
And
These are some hands that I feel I definitely misplayed, but am especially curious about the value I missed, cause I think I missed some. I've been playing a bit scared lately and not making as much on my winning hands. I posted these all together cause they have a similar theme and I don't want to spam the shit outta the forum. The hands are in the spoilers. Thanks for any help!
1) Villain playing 15/13/4 and opening like crazy from the button and cutoff. The button was very loose. I thought this was a great spot for a squeeze so I went for it. I've noticed @ NL200 so far that lots of people tend to check the flop acting first after 3betting, especially on these types of 1 high card 2 rag boards, and go for a CRAI, or will lead the turn if there's a check behind. This guy seemed kinda smart so I figured that I'd use that line on him to represent a bigger hand. When the Q came on the turn I kept up with that line making the bet but also being on a semi-bluff. I expected to take it down right there and was surprised that he called.
Here's the main question - How do I bet this river? Did I miss value here by shoving?
POKERSTARS GAME #14782208541: HOLD'EM NO LIMIT ($1/$2) - 2008/01/24 - 02:02:25 (ET)
Table 'Medea II' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: k2o4 ($201 in chips)
Seat 2: Huha ($161 in chips)
Seat 3: agstremist ($360.85 in chips)
Seat 4: temberin ($252.20 in chips)
Seat 5: knsch ($225.70 in chips)
Seat 6: Chubsptrsn ($58.30 in chips)
k2o4 : posts small blind $1
Huha: posts big blind $2
Holecards Dealt to k2o4
agstremist: folds
temberin: folds
knsch: raises $6 to $8
Chubsptrsn: calls $8
k2o4 : raises $26 to $34
Huha: folds
knsch: calls $26
Chubsptrsn: folds
Flop (Pot : $78.00)
k2o4 : checks
knsch: checks
Turn (Pot : $78.00)
k2o4 : bets $49
knsch: calls $49
River (Pot : $176.00)
k2o4 : bets $118 and is all-in
knsch: folds
2) Villain playing 34/26/2.6 over 23 hands and no other info. Did I miss value here? I checked the turn figuring that a bare J would fold to a bet and that if a flush hit on the river I'd have a good chance to get paid off. Maybe I should have bet smaller there to look like a scared attempt to represent the A, which may keep a jack in the running and probably induces a flush draw to come along. On the river, I didn't think anything other than another A would call more than a pot sized bet... was that a good sized river Bet?
-PettyAces- leaves the table
k2o4 : bets $39
dannynguyen1 joins the table at seat #3
dannynguyen1 is sitting out
Barrin6: calls $39
Showdown k2o4 : shows (a full house, Aces full of Jacks)
Barrin6: mucks hand
k2o4 collected $117 from pot
Summary Total pot $120 | Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: bones42 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: 2PCME folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: -PettyAces- folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Swanie1 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: k2o4 (small blind) showed and won ($117) with a full house, Aces full of Jacks
Seat 6: Barrin6 (big blind) mucked
3) Villain 37/15/1 over 90 hands. He'd been calling a LOT of my PFR and was also being a bit of a station postflop. At this point I had him on a flush draw that didn't make it. He had a high bet river percentage so I thought checking the river might induce a bluff from a missed flush. Should I have just bet for value or is checking good here? He may have been on a J or 6 or a 5 too and I might get a call from those hands... and 78 just got there and beat me...not sure what the best move was.
4) Villain playing 19/9.5/1/3 over 135 hands. I really wasn't thinking very much here. I guess I felt that since I had a boat I could allow him to draw at the flush free. I also thought that checking would encourage a bigger pocket pair to call a river bet. Maybe I was right but made the river bet too big? Overall not sure about my entire line... =
Huha leaves the table
k2o4 : bets $89
temberin: folds
Overall this month has been good in regards to NL100. I feel really confident in that limit and have done very consistently well. I am determined to be playing consistent winning poker @ NL200 in February the way I am doing it in NL100 right now. Let's close with a month summary up to this point:
Bleh, got stomped HU today, I think I play an uneccesary swingy style hu but w/e. Ill probably make a writeup about todays play later but Im to tired right now.
In other news, I have decided to take on a more healthy lifestyle. Since last week I will be excercising 5-6 times a week. Running and lifting weights. I just finished my first week of doing this and my entire body is acing hah. Im also going to eat alot healthier and I have stocked up on beans, wildrice and other disgusting but healthy stuff. If all works out well I will look like He-man by the time I get to vegas this summer.
waiting for my return to poker.by PplusAD, January 24
So i am still on poker break due to university stuff T_T
I did good in my last 2 exams and i am pretty sure i passed them
i still have 5 more tests to come from 30.1 to 8.2 >_<
after that i will return to poker and grind out like mad
At least thats my plan.
I also Intend to change from Pokerstars to Unibet.
Pokerstars Software ist the absolut nutz ( especially the fact that u can totally customize backgrounds)
However there are 2 things that i dont like
1. Its in $
1.1
Despite the fact , that lots of people claim the $ wont lose value anymore in the future
Its basically been on a free fall since i started online poker in December 2006.
The development has been steady fall from € = 1,25$ to € = 1,47$
thats a fucking 15% over 1 Year
here u can see the developement of the euro compared to the USD in the last 2 years. http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/5540/dollarnt1.jpg
to be honest i dont see this stopping soon.
I am afraid it will be 1,58$ or even 1,65$ in the long run.
1.2 Its a nice feeling to be independent from currency variance since when i play in € all the stuff i have to pay for here in ger is in euros anyways.
2.) Rakeback
Stars has FPP which are kinda okay ... still on low limits its not really as good as rakeback
since all u can do with your FPPs is buy in 10+1$ tournaments by winning 70FPP sattelites.
on Unibet i found one where u get
30% rakeback when u earn 100€ - 999€ rake a month
40% rakeback when u earn 1000€ - 2499€ rake/month
50% rakeback when u earn 2500€ + rake /month
planning to play like 30 K hands a month of NL30 ( Nl 20€) this should earn me ~ 150 € (225$) extra a month which is >>> playing 70FPP sattelites on stars.
3.) I am aware of the problematic that the rake cap on € sites is 3€ instead of 3$
However this will not affect NL30 since an all-in with fullstacks will produce exactly 2€ = 3$ of rake
therefore there is no difference to Nl25 stars.
And i plan to grind out NL30 ( Nl20€) for some month before moving up
ive really changed up my game a lot recently, still making countless errors tho
my roll is pretty much where it used to be before 'the cashout' so im now taking shots at 200nl AKA nit city -____-
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