I've started taking shots and at about the same time got doomswitched. I'm not getting the money in behind often, but it's not paying off. Moving down again because I lost 360 trying it. A lot of money to me atm, about a week of running good at 25nl.
I also lost 100 at 25nl. It just wasn't my day today.
Ronan wrote this song because his g/f died. He's never and still has never wrote a song for another person.
Saddest song of them all..
/Drinking
It's colder than before
The seasons took all they had come for
Now winter dances here
It seems so fitting don't you think?
To dress the ground in white and grey
It's so quiet I can hear
My thoughts touching every second
That I spent waiting for you
Circumstances affords me
No second chance to tell you
How much I've missed you
My beloved do you know
When the warm wind comes again
Another year will start to pass
And please don't ask me why I'm here
Something deeper brought me
Than a need to remember
We were once young and blessed with wings
No heights could keep us from their reach
No sacred place we did not soar
Still, greater things burned within us
I don't regret the choices that I've made
I know you feel the same
My beloved do you know
How many times I stared at clouds
Thinking that I saw you there
These are feelings that do not pass so easily
I can't forget what we claimed as ours
Moments lost though time remains
I am so proud of what we were
No pain remains, no feeling
Eternity awaits
Grant me wings that I might fly
My restless soul is longing
No pain remains, no feeling
Eternity awaits
My beloved do you know
When the warm wind comes again
Another year will start to pass
And please don't ask me why I'm here
Something deeper brought me
Than a need to remember
My beloved do you know
How many times I stared at clouds
Thinking that I saw you there
These are feelings that do not pass so easily
I can't forget what we claimed as ours
Moments lost though time remains
I am so proud of what we were
No pain remains, no feeling
Eternity awaits
Grant me wings that I might fly
My restless soul is longing
No pain remains, no feeling
Eternity awaits
Moments lost though time remains
I am so proud of what we were
No pain remains, no feeling
Eternity awaits
Grant me wings that I might fly
My restless soul is longing
No pain remains, no feeling
Eternity awaits
Moments lost though time remains
I am so proud of what we were
No pain remains, no feeling
Eternity awaits
Grant me wings that I might fly
My restless soul is longing
No pain remains, no feeling
Eternity awaits
6max game is coming along fairly decent, ran into a few crazies last night (ONE OF THEM IS HERE ON LP <3)
anyway, the majority of 6max 50nl people are realllllly bad at extracting value (good for me)and some are just too laggro.
enjoying the move from FR to 6 max, the games are ALOT funner and you can open your game up alot more (vs most general players), course when people outdraw you and hit and run thats really hard to keep your head on straight, but meh
been exremely swing, but im really happy because it hasn't been me playing bad, generally it's just the cooler hands where i bet hard for value, but later realize that i'm coolered , which ill post a few hands later on tonight when i edit this later, i'd love to hear some advice and all the fellow LPer's who creep 50nl 6max players can see how i play. huk huk.
BR is flucuating from breakeven, to down 2-3 BI's, then up 6-7 , then break even again. I've only played about 12k hands tho, and i'm still learning, but im definetly comfortable / confident at this level. The only things that chop up my profit is when i get into coolered hands which are tough to get away from, which , like i said earlier, i will post.
Hand #1:
Got waaaaaaay too fucking greedy with regards to making money. My thought process was if he raises this bet, he either has me crushed or garbage, my image was fairly loose so i felt that re-popping again was great for value if he had KsXs, or a 2, or even AQ. Of course, in the back of my mind, i said "if he shoves all in i am fucked", course, the thing im worried about occurs and i puke call because i commited myself. BAD WILS.
Hand #2:
Standard 3bet cooler. I end up in my dream situation with the hand i 3bet with but lose the race, nothing bad, but definetly cut into my profits. I would still snap push this all day every day if i was the one to 3bet.
- proper bet sizing ALL THE TIME (and not getting lazy and just mashing pot button when im tired)
- being able to establish image cheaper to set up bluffs and value later on in the sessions.
6max is infested with ratholers, it's disgusting and makes my skin crawl. also most of the regs are much better. On the positive side, the really really bad fish seem to prefer 6max.
So this is the second time that I've tried stepping up to 10NL and just started getting hit by coolers and setups and bad beats. You know those days when you never get there, and your opponents always hit their flush after three streets of hard betting, or they call down their inside straight against your set, and you just tell yourself its variance and continue on. And before you know it, you're down four buy ins after flopping top set and getting your PSB's called down by an 85o in a reraised pot on a 29T board, J turn, Q river------ and to stop yourself from going into massive tilt mode you close Stars immediately and then open up Party because you don't care about your roll there and you just need to steam it off, play 25NL with a 80$ BR, nit it up for half an hour and then get it all in on the flop in a reraised pot with 22 on a 542 two-tone board. The flush completes on the turn and the guy flips over 36o.
Yeah, its one of those days.
All the animals from last night are gone and they shit all over the yard and guess who has to clean it up.
Gross Session... But Kinda Funny.by JonnyCosMo, January 04
As some of you might already have known, my grandma passed away on Jan 1st at 5am after a month of treatment for her lung cancer. I spent most of New Years Eve with her and she just looked like she was suffering so much, so in a way I'm relieved she found her peace. On a side note --> Some of you might not have known, but smoking 40 years of your life increases your chances for lung cancer. So don't smoke. Anyways, that's the main reason I'm not in the Bahamas right now since my grandma's funeral service is on the 7th.
The plan for the weekend was to drive back down to San Diego to where I can get some decent internet, since the internet home just totally sucks. Plus my family isn't the most enjoyable to be around. So last night I stayed up all night and had the pleasure to sit with the European donks in the early morning hours. Plus I saw heads-up table between two of my favorite regulars to play against: Poly_Baller and xorbie. I'm starting to think Poly_Baller has a basic idea of how to play a good game of poker. xorbie on the other hand just might be the worst regular at NL400 & NL600. This guy is just bad lol...
Was up $1500, all was going good... then I got cold decked pretty hardcore for an hour. It all started off with this bluff I ran that was snapped off by the most ridiculous hero call ever: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/351988 / I pretty much felt super gross after that last hand then this happened: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/351978 <-- The post-hand chat on this hand was pretty funny. He says to me: "Sorry, I've been run over all day by you, gotta make a stand sometime!" Yup sir, gotta make them stands! That's good pokah obv! Finally, Poly_Baller demonstrates to me why he is one of the biggest winners at NL400 right now: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/351998 Pretty standard stuff.
Overall I only lost $800 so I can't really complain too much. Going to be playing a ton before school starts back up on the 16th, will keep my blog updated!
ok, so i had a $360 downswing on 25NL, and i have managed to recuperate it all except $98, which i am feeling pretty good about. before this massive downswing, my winrate over the 8k hands before this was approx 15 bb/100.
the downswing lasted for the better part for 10k hands. my numbers during these hands were 18.5/15.3/3.6
and i was winning my showdowns 59% of the time.
kk v aa
kk v aa
set over set
set vs straight
set vs straight and many many suck outs on the river...
the only thing i can say for myself, with regard to part of this being "my fault", is that i "let them get there" sometimes with the draws. but after reviewing my hands, it seems as though i played good over all, and only spewed/played like shit maybe $40 of this money.
RIDICULOUS BS!
is this just variance? or do i need to work on my game? PLEASE HELP!
The good run ends: http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/6884/graphzd1.jpg
Those 5 straight drops are as follows (all-in, most pf)
AA vs 68o
KK vs 55
AK vs QQ
AA vs KJo
and my personal favorite: 77 on 8A7AT board vs A8
There's also a QQ losing to 68s in there too when i was shortstacked.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/352147
I swear that the only time I have connectivity problems with red nines is when I have a set in a raised pot and someone is playing back at me...
upswing continues... 2008 goal(s)by jayluf, January 04
+15buy-in week at 50NL HU to follow my +20 last week.
plan was to move up to 100HU but hey, lost 1k in AC last weekend. ran cold played bad blah blah. did make 2FT. highest finish 6th. whoopee.
leave tonight for the caribbean for a week. looking forward to getting away from the cold here in dc.
so looking back, 2007 was my best year by far.
2008 will be monumental. rather than constantly cashing out for trips, investments, etc. i am going to engage in aggressive bankroll building and reinvest all(most) earnings. i have not worked out a comprehensive plan as of yet, but the groundwork will be something along the lines of reaching 1kHU by year end.
it will be tough obviously because i do have a full time job, girlfriend etc so i cant play 3+ hours a day, but i will be committed to rapidly rising in stakes. nows the time, those wedding bells are getting louder!!
My biggest problem is that i am being over aggressive with AA / KK, i am always 3 - 4 betting the usual raise and they have folded literally every time.
In 1400 hands i have seen AA - 4 times for +$3
and KK i have seen 9 times for +$3. The biggest pot, i had KK cracked by AKos for $6...
Man this is harder than I thought... I am struggling at this limit, because 50NL and 100NL are so much more aggressive.
Ah fuck sake what a cooler, i call a 75c raise with KQs, and hit top pr, then turn top set, cooled out by AQ... FFS
this shit is wasting my life and my patience.
at this intersection not far away i had to turn right so i checked left and then right. no one was coming so i drove out. then i looked in the rearvision mirror and suddenly a car was really close behind, and it turned out to be my boss.
since i had to drop my sister off to work first, i went a different way then came back to work. when i got there my boss was complaining about this "fucking p plate driver" who had cut him off at an intersection. i didnt know if he was serious or not or whether he knew it was me but he was actually serious so i didnt tell him haha.
omg this sux. breaking even lately. winning some losing some. ending up making bad decisions with my br. not taking poker seriously lately at all. it's both good and bad for me though. rakeback or fpp? i really don't and can't decide, i have like 2300 total br, think im pretty much better at poker now compared to last year, and i mean a LOT better. i lay down when i know im beat,tilt less,pot control on tough oop spots, float/lead obv cbets,calldown air AK with something, reads have improved and i get it in when im ahead. i really can't complain about my game anymore lately, it's just the timing sucks that i feel most confident in my game that variance and indecision hit me. i don't think loosening up at this level (50nl) will help, maybe i just have to plow through this and see what happens, oh well can't help but bitch when im bored
Very confident in my gameby JoeDeertay, January 04
Even though I've been running relatively bad/breakeven lately (running only 1.13ptbb/100 this week over ~13k hands 24-tabling 10NL) I think I am getting much better at poker by playing so many hands. I feel like my hand reading has improved dramatically and I've also started realizing how to properly manage my image and metagame, etc. (although it might not matter so much at 10NL, it obv will matter down the line as I move up). I know I'm playing great right now and I'm just hitting a few roadbumb breakeven sessions, but when I am running good again I think I'm going to be winning a lot of money.
Here are some examples of how confident I am in my game...I was really happy that I was able to pull both of these hands off and be right about them while 24-tabling FR. That tells me that reads/plays like this are becoming more second nature to me:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/351633 - Here I had made a standard raise preflop and a standard cbet in position of a HU pot. The PSB on the turn didn't make much sense to me...I didn't think he would play 55-77 this way, and an overpair probably would have raised/bet by now. Also, a boat made absolutely no sense, because why would be try scaring away a FD that is drawing dead but might not know it yet? I thought the only thing that might beat me here is a 3, which also didn't make much sense in a raised pot, so I shoved for value.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/351670 - This one is against a fellow LPer, so I already had some kind of idea going into the hand of how he might play/think, and who that for that reason he probably isn't an idiot. I noticed that he was sitting on a few of my tables as well, so he knew I was multitabling. We have a little bit of history as too, and he had been playing very tight and aggro, so I thought that if an A came I might be able to win a lot more than just 3betting preflop. I call on the flop to float and try repping the FD if it hit because I was sure he'd fold to it and because I might also have showdown value against his range. Turn wasn't a good card to bluff with. On the river he had checked again, so I thought AK might actually be good here and if not it would fold out some of the hands that beat me. I had my mind made up that if he raised then I would 3bet all-in, because I thought that he might put me on a missed draw that he thought I would bet, and since I already thought he was probably weak, a CR bluff would be his play often enough on the river to make a 3bet bluff profitable. Even if he had some kind of hand he might fold thinking I now have a boat or the nuts after showing such aggression on the last card. I was right that he was weak throughout the hand, but he managed to straight up on the river, yet I was able to make him believe that I boated up because he didn't think I would make such a bluff on the river while 24-tabling.
I was 100% sure that both of these plays would work, and I'm actually proud of myself for making them accurately. I think the AK hand might be one of the best hands I've ever played, and I hope I can keep it up. As for the rest of my play, I've been constantly getting my money in good and I've been really good at avoiding nit-coolers, but lately people have been hitting when getting with with bottom pair when I have an OP or something. This obv won't last forever though, and I can't wait to run good again...I think I am completely outplaying my level and playing the best poker I've ever played. I can't wait to just win enough to move back up to 25NL (if it weren't fo an $80 cashout I'd pretty much be there now).
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