Plans for rest of Januaryby gawdawaful, January 20
Well, I'm going to call it a month early yet again. Last time I did this was in September mired in a month where I simply couldn't win. This time, I'm still up for the month (prolly something like 3.8k) but again, I'm in a long downswong/breakeven streak where I swong down from my peak of 8.4k about two weeks ago.
This really makes me think I'm a results oriented nit, but w/e, I like money. For the rest of the month, I'm going to watch CR vids, catch up on school readings, and watch 3 seasons of Lost. I'm picking them up off a guy from craigslist tomorrow for $100 and I plan on watching all of the episodes before the 31st when the 4th season picks up again.
My gym resolution has been going well. I think I've went 3 weeks in a row where I went at least 4 times a week for anywhere between 40-80mins per session. oh my god my mom just brought me cookies, fucking ship
I dont have the memory card reader or I'd take a picture of this plate of cookies. Fuck I love these things. Its those round biscuit like things that are salted and not too fattening like chocolate chip ones. Delicious
My caffeine and fast food cutdown hasn't exactly taken off yet though. I've had trouble sleeping as usual and have had a couple redbulls since the semester started on the 7th (I have class 4 days a week, so 2/12days) and same for junk food, twice since the new year
Heres the section I'd like to call whoring myself out:
Since I won't be playing anymore poker this month, or don't plan to at least, I'll offer my services for anyone below 100NL to sweat, hand review, w/e, for the low low price of $30/hr. (In comparison, I'm still at $87/hr this month) If you're interested, lemme know. Btw, whats LP's charge, like 15%? If I get anyone interested in my whore services, I'll find out and ship. No worries, not something on the top of my agenda. BTW offer good until Feb 1st.
A little about my poker background. I suck. I'm not that smart either. Fuck, in fact, I'm one of the dumbest people you'll ever meet. But if I can make it, so can you. I spent a shit ton of time grinding 50 and 100NL because I cash out fairly regularly. Life time, I'm probably a 4bb winner at 50NL, 3bb winner at 100NL and 2bb winner at 200NL. /endwhore
In my previous blogs, I've showed off a couple of my hockey jerseys. Now I have a full blown addiction. I've spent several nights deep into the wee hours of the morning looking on eBay for different jerseys. I'll be posting some jerseys here that I'll be selling and such. Right off the top of my head, if anyone is interested in a white Luongo vintage stick in rink design (brand new with tags) or a St. Louis Blues Starter authentic size 46 Pavol Demitra jersey from the mid 90s, or a brand new Sidney Crosby RBK Edge authentic jersey, PM me. I also have some basketball jerseys I'd like to move.
Lastly, I might be in the market for a new phone. (keep in mind milkman, i-Phone isn't working here yet that I'm aware of I think) I'm not the biggest technology guy so w/e. Lets set a budget at like, $300.
qqqoooqqq : checks
Loser18: bets $200
qqqoooqqq : raises to $376.40 and is all-in
Loser18: is all-in $175.30
Returned uncalled bets $1.10 to qqqoooqqq
Showdown qqqoooqqq : shows (High Card Ace)
Loser18: shows (A Straight, Six high)
Loser18 collected $997.60 from Main pot
Summary Total pot $1000.60 Main pot $997.60 Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: deflecker folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: bahamas1 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: qqqoooqqq (small blind) showed and lost with High Card Ace
Seat 4: Loser18 (big blind) showed and won ($997.60) with A Straight, Six high
Seat 5: kick_nutz folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: mistertwy folded before Flop (didn't bet)
WELCOME TO TILTVILLE, POPULATION: ME
All tables closed, time to sleep.
Playing with an att to steal of 48 and having your AA win the blinds - EVERY SINGLE TIME (seen flops: 0 OK?) is the most tilt inducing thing in the whole god damn world.
Ghjjjjjjjjjjjjjffffffffffghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
AA = 100% winrate, 43$ profit in 5 goes (1000 hands).
KK = 100% winrate, 63$ profit in 5 goes. Again, right around 0 flops seen.
QQ = 83% winrate, down 16$, 6 goes, saw like 1 flop and lost to 93o.
I don't really care so much about all of the above, it's just that one last hand - so completely 100% pointless. Just giving the money away..
Barely played any poker at all this month, and handled every beat without feeling tilted, and now today this fucking mess.. I just shouldn't have played today, felt tilted from the moment I woke up
Btw, before anyone thinks I'm busto or something, I only lost like 3 buyins.
It was just that one hand that makes me so furiously disappointed in myself.
after so many 2nd and 3rd place finishes, i finally beat one
Submitted by : Reload
PokerStars Game #14702112249: Tournament #74532229, $1.00+$0.10 Hold'em No Limit - Level XV (2000/4000) - 2008/01/20 - 17:32:35 (ET)
Table '74532229 1' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 7: b4rr0l (32680 in chips)
Seat 9: datho (34820 in chips)
b4rr0l: posts the ante 200
datho : posts the ante 200
b4rr0l: posts small blind 2000
datho : posts big blind 4000
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to datho
b4rr0l: calls 2000
datho : checks
Showdown datho : shows (a straight, Seven to Jack)
b4rr0l: shows (a straight, Six to Ten)
datho collected 65360 from pot
Summary Total pot 65360 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 7: b4rr0l (button) (small blind) showed and lost with a straight, Six to Ten
Seat 9: datho (big blind) showed and won (65360) with a straight, Seven to Jack
spent a lot of my time just grinding and watching cardrunners videos and tryin to improve my game. one of the biggest adjustments i made to my game that got me moving up pretty fast was switching to full ring. my style fits pretty good there and the players are pretty bad comparing to the 6max regs. the swings are also a lot better because of the nature of the game and that players just arent aggressive like 6max. my standard deviation for FR was pretty low, but i dont have a good winrate as a result. definitely a good tradeoff imo. I can open up more tables, i play anywhere between 12 to 18 depending on my mood and how good im running.
I definitely want to give 400NL a shot sometimes next week. the cardrunners FR videos helped me ALOT. i think the daut video was just a sick video. A lot of the 6max fishes tell me that daut run good and that his style was nitty and sux. I definitely do not think so. i watched that video like 3 times and i'd say i love the play. Daut didnt explain the logic behind his moves but i think I have somewhat of an idea of the style.
i played so much this month. im goin to take rest my month off to enjoy life again. lol, its prolly goin to be a lot of dota =D. definitely want to learn how to play HU properly and watch CR videos more. until then, my college starts 1/28/08.. meh, what can i say, have to finish school.
about the quality of 200nl games on stars/FTP, some of the play just fuckin tilts me. espcially those guys who limps AK after like 3 limpers and then u iso AQo and try to get 3 streets of value from those passive fish. but they c/c 3 streets for some reason... WTF
i seen plays such as limping QQ otb with like 3+ limpers, and then go on a check call mode, i hate myself when im value betting into better hands.
i also find afternoon games ALOT easier than evening games on stars, and FTP games alot fishier at night. so I probably will adjust to a 1 am to 9 am sleep schedule. next term school i have a few 6 am classes so i guess its good that im startin to adjust now.
So today i decided to dip into my bank account and invest in the stock market. I have about 25K in the bank and i took out about 10 K in the stock market. My father said he will match the amount so now i have 20 K to invest. These are the following stocks i have invested my money in Apple, BidU, CHS, and ATT. I have only invested aobut 9 K thus far and im holding onto the rest until i can find some better stocks to invest in. I know these stocks will do good...cant wait.
Hi everyone, had a pretty shitty session today, down about 5 buy is in the past 1000 hands so i stopped. I wasn't really even playing bad, just a lot of suckouts by the other players and ppl luck boxing. Here's a few, doesn't really matter to me but might as well tell ya what i was thinking.
Umm... Oh yeah, i also started taking a specific type of "medication" called Melatonin. You don't need a prescription for it. It helps increase total sleep time aspect of sleep quality in people suffering from sleep restriction or altered sleep schedule such as shift work or jet lag. Helps to reduce the time it takes to fall asleep in people with delayed sleep phase syndrome and to reset the sleep-wake cycle of circadian rhythm. So all in all it means if you go to sleep around 4-5am, and you want to start going to sleep again at 10pm, and waking up at 8am or so, take this since it resets your circadian sleeping rhythm. I only took it for about a week or so and it works great. I've been falling asleep like a baby every day for the past week around 10pm and for the longest time i usually went to sleep around 4-5am. I highly recommend this, and its cheap too, around $10 for a 2-4 week supply. It is recommended to take it 1 hour before bed time and go to sleep around the same time every day. Hope this information help somebody out. Also Melatonin is naturally created and released by the body so it’s safer and works better long term since your body is familiar with it. Now that i'm falling asleep 10pm regularly i no longer take them.
My bro (talentedtom), d_zoo, Frinkx, and myth are in L.A. atm, so i wish them the best of luck in the casino's. I wish i would of went, but i have school at this time and i cant take a week off for that sort of trip.
Oh by the way, here's a video if my girlfriend when we went to Niagra Falls about a year or so and she got attacked by birds. I think it cute. Enjoy.
Hi everyone, had a pretty shitty session today, down about 5 buy is in the past 1000 hands so i stopped. I wasn't really even playing bad, just a lot of suckouts by the other players and ppl luck boxing. Here's a few, doesn't really matter to me but might as well tell ya what i was thinking.
Umm... Oh yeah, i also started taking a specific type of "medication" called Melatonin. You don't need a prescription for it. It helps increase total sleep time aspect of sleep quality in people suffering from sleep restriction or altered sleep schedule such as shift work or jet lag. Helps to reduce the time it takes to fall asleep in people with delayed sleep phase syndrome and to reset the sleep-wake cycle of circadian rhythm. So all in all it means if you go to sleep around 4-5am, and you want to start going to sleep again at 10pm, and waking up at 8am or so, take this since it resets your circadian sleeping rhythm. I only took it for about a week or so and it works great. I've been falling asleep like a baby every day for the past week around 10pm and for the longest time i usually went to sleep around 4-5am. I highly recommend this, and its cheap too, around $10 for a 2-4 week supply. It is recommended to take it 1 hour before bed time and go to sleep around the same time every day. Hope this information help somebody out. Also Melatonin is naturally created and released by the body so it’s safer and works better long term since your body is familiar with it. Now that i'm falling asleep 10pm regularly i no longer take them.
My bro (talentedtom), d_zoo, Frinkx, and myth are in L.A. atm, so i wish them the best of luck in the casino's. I wish i would of went, but i have school at this time and i cant take a week off for that sort of trip.
Oh by the way, here's a video if my girlfriend when we went to Niagra Falls about a year or so and she got attacked by birds. I think it cute. Enjoy.
all i did today poker-wise was play in a bunch of $1 MTTs and a $4 180. got like 40th in the 180-man, got three 2nd, a 3rd and 4th place finishes in the 45-man. the day started with my friend giving me a dollar on stars so i can play an MTT with him, so my BR went from $1 to $23 today. pretty cool. see you at the tables
Having these long and boring trainrides can help sometimes. I had nothing and coudn´t sleep because this kid decided that it´d be fun to run from one end to the other screaming HELLO! to every passenger. While supressing the urge to strangle her, i began going through the several leaks i have in my play.
One of the major problems i seem to have, other than just poor and inefficient play, is tilting. Often during a session i start feeling anxious and frustrated for several reasons. It makes me play worse and i need to get rid of it. Oh, and i started stopping sessions after losing 3 BI after i lost 10 BI in a single, 2000 hand session. Major tilt there...
First problem is that i am a fish. I lack knowledge of the real odds of winning. For example, i look at, sayyyyy AK vs AQ. My first thought here is "YEEEAAAAAHHH FUCK YEAAAAHHHH no way i´ll lose this, he has to be REALLY lucky to win this!", and when that Q lands or whatever once in 4 times, i get angry. I way overestimate the odds for winning, and if i keep this up i´ll end up like one of those pathetic people claiming sites to be rigged against them :| I have to study the odds to know where i really stand.
Second, i´m too results oriented. Even if i play "perfect", get the money in in a situation where i´m ahead and then lose, i start regretting my play. WRONG! BAD! DONT DO THAT! Sooooo, major alteration to my thinking is required. I should be focusing on the decision to call or whatever, since that is the part that matters. When all the money goes in the middle with full stacks, and i´m 75 vs 25 favourite, i make 5 bucks (NL 10). That´s it. Statistically, i make 5 bucks from that play. I might as well look away since whatever happens after that play, it doesn´t matter. Win, or lose, i just made 5 bucks. Screw you cashier, you don´t know shit.
One addition the problem is that i get really tilted if i keep winning all those 1 BI vs 1 BI situations and lose the 3 BI vs 3 BI situations. I don´t want to believe in luck but god damnit it´s hard.
Third, i´m too greedy. This is somewhat linked to the second part of this blog, it´s all about the money made. Like this one hand where i fold pocket 5s PF when 3 people go all in with AK AK AQ, and none of them hit and i would have just made 5 buyins, i got agitated. Whyyyyy didn´t i callllllllllll arrrrrrrrrrggggggghhhhh. Again, wrong way of thinking. If i had called, i´d have lost money. I have no idea on how to get away from this, money is awesome...
Can the more expirienced players comment on these? Did you ever manage to get rid of these? Did they go away with just expirience or did you have to train yourself mentally?
Oh and stop god damn looking at that damn cashier. I know when i´ve lost roughly the 3 BI to stop playing for the session, nothing else matters.
Minus being sick as a dog, we had a pretty good weekend here at Michigan State. I got diced in some cash games late in a session friday night, but other than that, fun weekend.
I do have one thing I want to complain about, and all you tourney players should be on board with me here and writing PS support. I got involved in a hand late in a tourney on Friday in the 100 rebuy at the FT. There were only 3 of us left and I set my opponent up for a bluff and he bit. I was just making sure the board was clean enough for him to not have made a hand and logically justifying the call when, BOOM! Time bank balance was up. I had no idea. It ran out when I accidentally left for a bathroom break 1 hand before one of the breaks actually started. So I didnt know that I had used it. The hand would have most likely won me the entire tournament. 2/3 of the entire tournament's chips were in the pot. My mistake and my misfortune, but this is all beside the point which I am going to make. Should PS not renew a 60 second time bank at a FT? An entire new tournament begins at that final table. I need not really go further, I think you all understand the argument here. Final tables should completely renew the time bank for obvious reasons. Write support and they will change this eventually.
Other than that here are my lessons for the week...
Limit poker is still awesome. However, sharky waters may not be as clear as once thought. I have realized that there are several players who are sharks that I thought were total fish.
Overaggression is not a great idea in midstake games and an even worse idea in high stakes.
Tournament poker is where its at, I just have to stop running bad in them.
Theres a weird dream i have done like at least 5 times and i really hate it
i dream that i am unable to punch with strenght
i have something to punch (could be a dude or whatever) and i am totally unable to do it with any strenght
when i wake up i remember the dream and i begin doing real punches into something and i get so happy that the nightmare is finally over
wtf does this retarded dream means?
oh btw i also does the dream byrnesam did
I somehow make a hot girlfriend and it looks mad real and then wake up with "bad beat"
alois66: checks
Hero : bets $1.90
MachJ joins the table at seat #1
alois66: raises $2.47 to $4.37 and is all-in
Hero : calls $2.47
River (Pot : $11.26)
Showdown alois66: shows (three of a kind, Tens)
Hero : mucks hand
alois66 collected $10.71 from pot
so, that got me a bit anoyed as it was about the first chance i got to make some money today, and i went on losing a few more all ins very quickly, i stopped playing straight after the last one, and I'm just wondering if I made poor decisions on these or if its just bad luck?
hand 1:
Submitted by : Ftrunkz
PokerStars Game #14686130605: Hold'em No Limit ($0.02/$0.05) - 2008/01/20 - 01:16:10 (ET)
Table 'Utopia' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: IAMALLINT00 ($8.55 in chips)
Seat 2: yoyo791105 ($3.86 in chips)
Seat 3: CattDeizeL ($9.75 in chips)
Seat 4: Hero ($3.96 in chips)
Seat 5: Maxwell100 ($7.44 in chips)
Seat 6: sargeyboo ($11.11 in chips)
Seat 7: Pedro_MDQ ($4.06 in chips)
Seat 8: haxtun ($2.58 in chips)
Seat 9: STANLEYC ($14.40 in chips)
haxtun: posts small blind $0.02
STANLEYC: posts big blind $0.05
Hero : bets $2.21 and is all-in
Pedro_MDQ: calls $2.21
River (Pot : $8.24)
Showdown Hero : shows (three of a kind, Jacks)
Pedro_MDQ: shows (a full house, Sixes full of Jacks)
Pedro_MDQ collected $7.84 from pot
hand 2: (i think this one was pretty tilty, but this is against the same fish who called with TT in the other hand, so i thought it was pretty possible she had a straight or even just some pair... after all he chucked it all in with TT on a KJ board?)
Submitted by : Ftrunkz
PokerStars Game #14686156567: Hold'em No Limit ($0.02/$0.05) - 2008/01/20 - 01:17:52 (ET)
Table 'Eunike' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: MachJ ($5.90 in chips)
Seat 2: alois66 ($10.24 in chips)
Seat 3: buckeyecw ($2.83 in chips)
Seat 5: Hero ($5.10 in chips)
Seat 6: Marmel88 ($14.99 in chips)
Seat 7: STANLEYC ($10.30 in chips)
Seat 8: 23cyan ($10.77 in chips)
Seat 9: K9Circle ($9.95 in chips)
buckeyecw: posts small blind $0.02
Hero : posts big blind $0.05
Im happy today. I just made platinum star with over another 800 left in fpp now and im just gonna keep on playing until i get to supernova in june(hopefully by my birthday). KInda felt way overrolled for 25nl and since i couldn't beat 50nl yet, there seemed to be a lot of "dead roll" so i decided to
move 2750 to some gay site with rb and im gonna try to win some monies there playing 6max 50 to 100nl. i just can't let go of my pokerstars fixation lol. changed my icon to a cool saittou hajime, the guy from samurai x antihero. so that's really the reason why i left roll for stars, aside from the good 24tabling that i experience there which for me is soooo relaxing and addictive, just like playing sc before with the scripts and shit clicking like a motherfucker hahaha. peace out.
My brother really helped me put things in perspective today
Lately, I've been on a bit of a downswing, and well, this made me realize, no matter how bad its going, someone is going worse than you
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(A Straight, Six high)
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(a full house, Sixes full of Jacks)
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