Lol, it's not that easy to adjust to the 50c-1$ games. I find that there is a larger variety of players and you have to be careful to separate the good ones and not pay them off. I find that most people reraise really tight, so getting it in with JJ and even QQ on dry flops will not be profitable against them and 4betting AK will be a complete disaster. In fact I think its often best to just fold AKo to a reraise oop to a good player.
Another thing is - the game varies in difficulty a lot with different sites and different times. Playing at night at i4 I was up 6 stacks in 500 hands not really paying attention at all. But playing at other sites or during the day at the same site was very different. Some of the regulars in those games will definitely be winning players at 2-4 and 3-6.
And you have to put a lot of notes, as unlike play on higher limits, where people generally play similar, on the midstakes different players think very differently about the game. I mean, their thinking is mostly wrong, but its not that predictable. Like some player will play tight and suddenly reraise you from the blinds with 25o. Things like that.
My biggest mistakes were mostly getting it in weaker overpairs (JJ,QQ) and a curious river call here and there.
Ah, and some of the players play their hands so obvious, like theyre screaming at you they have a monster. I think you should be able to fold some pretty good hands against them. Saying "Yeah, it looks like he has it, but I cant fold it - this is 100NL" is completely wrong. Exactly because its 100NL you should find some more folds. Better players won't let you get away so easily.
Took another shot tonight and it went ok. I'm still making some significant mistakes, but I don't blame them on the new level... rather on my own complete stupidity. Trying to over think things. My first instinct keeps being "FOLD" then I start thinking too much and come up with reasons to do fancy shit that is completely idiotic because I don't think it all the way through. Stacked myself with QJs for no good reason. Stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid...
But other than a few mistakes for significant losses, I did pretty well. Actually had like 0 small mistakes. But I only played a few hundred hands, so not much time to do stupid things. I like keeping sessions a bit shorter though. Helps me stay in perspective.
I will post hands tomorrow. Pretty late here right now and I'm ready for bed. Just happy to be winning @ NL100 now rather than losing like I was last night, heh. Hope that the third shot helps me get solidly entrenched into the limit. We'll just have to see!
gonna grind 10-max $5 sng's hopefully until i have 60 buy ins ($300), then move up to $10. starting BR tonight is about $100. wish me luck yo. hopefully i'll reach my goal a week from today
i had just typed up a pretty long blog post about my trip to vegas and a few hands i played, but when I was just finishing up, i accidently pressed something that made the browser go backwards, I tried to go back to where I was, but for some reason I lost the entire post. I'll have to write the rest up in Word from now on and copy paste when I'm finished. Anyways, the point of the post was going to be that I had had some interesting discussions w/ a few players recently and that it gave me a good idea for a blog post, and that I should be writing it tomorrow if I have time (but might not since I have a bunch of stuff to do before Xmas). Anyways, gl and stay tuned.
Not very good actually, I've taken quite a few horrible beats but I'm questioning my play... Every hand I've played turned out so wrong and leave me perplexed. I can't close my eyes without seeing my bad beats and I just can't quit. I have this horrible feeling I didn't get since a big while.
Ahhh fuck this...
day 7: I played ~1,8k hands and I am break even. After I played half of my session I realized that I wanted to play nl50 -_-;;. So I played the hole session on nl25 and move up tomorrow.
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Is to start running good again.
I've been away from poker mostly for 3 weeks since i had a mental block about it, life tilt so to speak.
Cashed out most my roll, to try and give me some kind of feeling that i've actually accomplished something with the one year that ive now been playing poker. left myself with like $350 to play nl25 and rebuild with and well, downswing still raging on.
Dunno, i made a couple spews including one big one where i got it in with AQs preflop, but i dunno i still dont mind that play, but most of it this session was just missing my draws and getting setup. Didnt hit a set in 1k hands, and got flushed over flushed for over a buyin too. Nevermind though, ill just keep playing nl25 unless i drop to $200 then ill have to move down in my rebuilding.
Gunna buy a second monitor and dunno what else, but either way im still happy.
So couple of days ago I tried yet another shot at NL400 and failed terribly.... lost something around $1500 in about 400 hands :/
So after that I decided to try NL100 after long time, just to relax and see the difference between my regular limit NL200... I can say the level of competition there is a lot lower and I found out that it is quite profitable to play just ABC and 18-table I didn't do that before and my usual # of tables on NL200 is 8-9.... So I think I can beat it for decent bb/100 and get little more FPPs (I am about 1000 VPPs from completing 300k milestone).
Decided to also play some HU vs fish opponent who played 64/4/0.7 and I pretty much demolished him... You can see that my stats are pretty unusual on that HU session, but that guy was totally predictable and exploitable, and this style seemed to work best. I was valuebeting very thin and bluffing him constantly and he couldn't addapt, he just started to call me down even lighter... Here are some hands from HU
The best part is that Im playin good too. almost all my loses are either suckouts or like getting stacked by sets in reraised 1on1 pots. the most retarded players at 200nl keep hitting everyfuckin thing when I have a monster and whenever I have a draw they ofcourse call to the river with 2nd pair.
Kevin asked me how bad can you run? Well, 2000 hands into the session here is the PT stats
Haven't posted here in forever, will try to update a little more now that I'm on break for over a month.
Anyway, October was another sick month for me, November was rough, and now after cashing out a bunch and having a rough downswing to start the month in December my roll is in bad shape and I'm rebuilding at $1/$2. I played a hand last night that I thought was pretty interesting, so I posted it on 2+2, where I'm a semi-regular poster in the SSNL forums. Basically, I called in position 200 BBs deep w/ AxJs, flop was Ks2x5x, checked through, turn is As and I call IP, river is 7s, he checks, I bet for value, he check-raises, and now I shove as a bluff. Thought that was a pretty damn good play, considering the range I put him on, but wanted to check-up on it since I've been getting raped lately. Nobody likes it, which is fine, maybe I'm wrong, but God, no one there can think outside the box or at least make a substantial post refuting my argument. They all go by standard lines like "OMG, trying to push him off two pair (the most likely hand for him IMO) is such spew." without any reasoning. Now yeah, if stacks were shallow, trying to get him off two pair there is retarded. But this deep, the guy has to be worried about bigger hands than two pair, I have the Js which takes away from flush combos he can have, and he doesn't have AK because that guy would have c-bet it on the flop every single time. I laid out the math, laid out his range, showed that I thought he folded more than the 60% I need for a push to be +EV, and I get one or two sentence replies with no substance. And just for kicks, the guy folded and showed A7 for rivered two pair. LOL.
I have been playing poker for like 5 years now, but I am so out of the loop on "getting connected." I think I am reducing my overall profits and increasing my variance by not learning what other players are going through and getting in their minds. So I joined this forum to learn what things like 23/17 mean and find out how my professional counterparts are doing.
First off, I play everything from .50/1 to 25/50, depending on how I am running. And everything from stud h/l, omaha h/l, to NL Hold'em. With my style of play, I am either running really really good or really really really bad.
Right now I am running really really really bad. It feels like I can't win a hand. Although I preach it, I am far from being a grinder, at least when I have a roll. So when I run bad, it hurts. The other day I shoved all in on an 8 high flop with KK and got called by unsuited AJ and lost a $2500 pot. The pot was only $350 when I shoved. I begin to second guess myself and stop trying to make reads. I hate other poker players, God, and most of all the poker sites and its support staff. I really need to learn how to be a grinder...
Running bad sucks,
Babygrand
P.S. The one thing you learn when you are running bad is that you must have the best cards on the river to win the pot. Right now I have no idea how to get the best cards on the river.
I busted just before the 100+9 was about to start, I tried unregistering then I saw you cant unregister within 10mins of starting, so I cued up 7 tables of 100NL 6 max to go along with it. Was chugging along goot, won a flip and then I get ownt in the tourney: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/339429 - I didn't think betting flop was a good idea given theres 2 faggots in the pot, but anyone bet turn? I felt river is way too trivial since it was a bet and a call. Maybe I'm nitting up tournies too much http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/339433 - Anyone get away from this? Or is there any merits to given he limped UTG2?
After getting fucked hard, I made a bad spew call on turn when I only beat a tiny part of his range and lost more money than I had to (like 75bbs) so I decided to call it a short session.
PS: I ran hotter than the sun god at 200NL though, so w/e lifes good cant complain thx for reading
Link:http://www.cardplayer.com/tv
Watch Ryan's interview after Day 4 of the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic and you will see FrinkX, [vital]Myth, and myself goofing off and trying to make-up some LP.net hand sign. LOL LP FIGHTTTTINNNNGGGGG
And like someone said before, PS wasn't being nice to me!
I ran pretty badly in big pots - lost several flips with a pair vs AK after pushing preflop. But the most frustrating thing was that I ran into 2 mega fish and was kicking them around, but then they both sucked out on me for huge pots and left the table. When I sat down they were both 2-3 buyins deep. Then I would stack them and we'd be about even. Then I'd get them all in with a huge lead and they would suck out on me for when I had 250BB or so.... then they'd leave the table. AHHHHHhhhh!!
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/339180 - ok, this isn't AS bad, but it felt painful after slowly taking pot after pot from him to double up, then lose it all and have to start again!
I also had the worst misclick of my life tonight - I'm sure many can top it but for me it was huge cause I'm taking a shot here and every buyin is a big deal to me. Here it is:
Overall I think I played pretty well... definitely made a few mistakes but most of my big losses were either bad beats, bottom set vs top set, KK vs AA, or flips. And I lost a lot of those types of hands.
I definitely feel fine playing @ NL100. Just need to run better and cut out a few mistakes... Not sure if I will keep playing NL100 or go back to NL50. I started with 22 buyins figuring to drop back down @ 20 buyins (nice quick shot). Right now I'm at $2,085... If I felt like I was being outplayed then I'd definitely run back to NL50, but it really felt a lot more like bad luck. Overall felt pretty standard. Dunno. Thoughts?
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I didn't do that before and my usual # of tables on NL200 is 8-9.... So I think I can beat it for decent bb/100 and get little more FPPs (I am about 1000 VPPs from completing 300k milestone).
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