FreddieBeach33: nice fuching miracle
Moik420: turn amd river miracle SON
FreddieBeach33: calling a $4 raise with that &@$$
Moik420: You ok??
Moik420: How does that feel though??
FreddieBeach33: whats that SON
ME: moik you played it well
ME: he's just a dumass who can't take a beat
Moik420: Dude flopped a set got lucky i agree but still
FreddieBeach33: why dont u smoke his pole (to me)
Moik420: wow so angry
FreddieBeach33: take a bet ???
the luckboxer moik420 had around 130$ at a 25 PLO table who kept on getting lucky. aka, i get fucking pissed when ppl berate a bad player. makes the rest of us win less money.
First update in a whileby beethreekay, November 18
This is my first update in about a month, and things have been going pretty OK. I've moved from 4-tabling to 12-tabling (and my ptbb/100 has gone up somehow as a result!) and have crossed the threshold into 50NL. It's not all that different really. Players are a little nittier and float less, which kinda suits my style a bit (I c-bet a lot).
I also got my first royal flush (and got paid off!):
http://www.liquidpoker.net/hand/hand.php?hand=317766 - Carrotsnake apparently plays much higher, but was messing around in lower stakes (supposedly drunk), and was on a little tilt having been the victim of a number of coolers on the table (including QQ vs. KK aipf against me the previous hand). I lol'd pretty hard when I flopped it and he bet 3.5x pot into me. The rest took care of itself.
I expect next week to be quite intense poker-wise. I'm aiming for ~10k hands or so, which is a lot for me.
This is my new best day ever but it's actually just $40 more than the previous one (which happened yesterday lolz).
The session started sick bad and I lost over 1k in a few mins (AK < AQ allin preflop, set vs set and some smaller pots) but then I started running pretty hot, had some beats in between, but ended up having a very good day. I had some interesting hands but I'm kinda too lazy to post them so I might do it later or sth.
My weekend was pretty boring and I spent most of it just playing and studying. The following though should be fun though. I'm going out on Tuesday and Friday for sure. Maybe sth in between as well. I'm still gonna play a lot and I think I might hit 50k this month for the first time ever. That should give me a nice RB + nice profit from playing (hopefully).
I feel like writting a bit more but I can't think of anything else. But yeah, it looks like Friday is gonna be awesome.
So this week turned out to be ok, I finally passed my $100 bank roll twice (had a downswing).
I fixed a few holes by not raising with hands such as 55 hoping to hit a set etc... I also redefined my betting patterns, instead of doing 4xbb+1per limper I do 5xbb+2per limper and I have gotten paid off a lot more. I think my reading of opponents are getting better since I have been able to fold TPTK when they have 2 pair, or hit a set etc...
Here is my pokertracker picture since I havent gotten PokerGrapher to work, I have yet to see a graph of my success T_T.
Any advice on what I can do to improve my game would be great.
On a note besides poker, I have just bought a new mouse and a new keyboard for my starcraft / poker playing. my old mouse literally has stains (probably from oil on my skin bleaching the paint) and it has lasted me 6 years. So I thought it would be better to get one, plus i got them for free.
until next time... Good Luck for everyone reading this horrible blog
since i just got paid on saturday i decided to do a random buy in for $20 on rednines and luckboxed my way up to about $240. just doing 1 table for 1 buy in wasn't too bad. had a couple of good folds (two pair vs set, overpairs, etc) and overall just ran pretty good i guess.
i'm thinking now i'm gonna stop being risky now that i have 12 buy ins for 10/20, so wish me luck
and i want to get a PS3, but do i have to get motorstorm? or should i just get the 40 gig model ?
I've decided to take a break over the weekend. Monday I've got approx. 100 million errands to run, Tuesday me and a friend will be going shopping for a 4 day thanksgiving trip to the dunes, Wednesday we leave. When I get back, I'll be buying Mass Effect and holing up myself up with my xbox for a while. In other words, this could very well be my end of the month post.
In any case, a breakdown of November.
-$5,735 playing NL400 and NL600
-$2,500 random crap (gambling, drunk poker at friends house, tourney buyins)
+$12,000 value for PCA sat
+$9,000 value for Sydney APPT sat
Total: $12,765 in value.
Unfortunately, I've also had to loan my mom $6k and the complete idiocy of American Family Insurance will be costing me another $2k.
So to recap. This month I've had my worst run playing 6max NLHE ever (in terms of cash lost, not buyins down). I've had my two biggest tourney scores by far in winning the sats. And my bills and extra expenditures for the month have been 5 times more than I'm used to. This month has been a huge headache, but I feel like I've done more growing up this month than I have in the past year.
So in case any NL100 regs on stars are wondering where the hell all their luck went, you can rest easy - it all went to me!
Weird I run looser on stars NL100 than I do at Prima NL200.. Maybe because everybody raises you on there and everyone just calls calls calls on stars
Pretty close to goldstar again on stars, so I can finally use my 40k fpps for something, most likely a Wii =]
And I REALLY love stars software, I wish I could keep playing on here but it just doesn't make sense if I ever plan on paying taxes (which I kinda want to do once I start earning real amounts of money, so I prefer playing on a EU site) =[
Hand that I'm not sure about from the 1/2 session: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/317582
The guy was 30/16/1.5~ and I'd been at the table for about 2 orbits (I'd played 2 hands, rest krablar). I had seen him raise UTG, check call a K75 flop vs UTG+1, check a K (or 7 turn) and bet out on a 7 river (or a King river, I forgot the order), losing to QQ.
I think he bluffs turn A LOT, just from instinct, but this is like a really bad card for him to do it on isn't it? Probably wouldn't be horrible to just check/fold turn. I dunno.
So, the most bad beats, but also bad play from me have reunited this month, sometimes I just felt like cashing out and starting fresh at another site, but I love it here so anyway here is my graph
Thanks to Balzamon and Papiniano who railed and supported me with nice words :$
SPECIAL THANKS to:
RODO for being so great at sit n gos, without his teachings I would've missed a lot of chips
BONGKY for being there to support even tho I didnt do what he said in his advices :$ but they turned out to be good so I missed some value there :$ sorry!
I LOVE YOU BOTH GUYS!!, thanks for the 3 hour rail and support!!
So this is my first blogpost. I felt like creating it now to reflect abit over things so i can look back at it when things (hopefully) turns around.
Had a pretty hot run hole summer and all the way to november where it crashed, or not really crashed but i've lost 20 buy ins on nl400 which is a limit im fairly new at so it hurts, my peak was at -25 buy ins:
It was a very intense period with 60k hands over 15 days (i was doing a rakerace) and i felt very frustrated a couple of sessions and had my first tilting sessions for perhaps 5 months which im very not proud of - thought i was way ahead of that stage but clearly not.
Tho with rakeback and winning $2k in the race i just lost $2000 in total which is nothing but still after 80 hours it feels like shit !
Even tho im still very well rolled for nl400 im gonna go down to nl200 to find my A-game again, win a minimum of 10 buy ins and then move back up again. I feel im way ahead of the average player on nl400 ipoker but i found myself having BIG leaks when under great pressure and i probably could've cut this loss to half with the right discipline.
No biggy but always nice to book a win after a downswing.
Also congrats to Locoo that won a "VIP"-invitetournament at the same site which i play (Ipoker - Noiqpoker). A 10man Sit&Go where top 3 won tickets to EPT, i was also in it but with my november luck I busted out first, shame that extra 8k euro would've been great ! But at least a LP-member took it down!
I'd like to start off by saying that I realize I've just been complaining a lot lately and it is probably pretty annoying, so I'm sorry if that's the case and I'm going to stop starting now.
The last month or so has just been a disaster, ever since taking a shot at 50NL and just getting raped there. This came after running really well at 10NL and especially at 25NL the month before, and I didn't know what I was doing wrong or how to fix it when I started to just lose constantly. I've tried a bunch of different stuff to try and start winning again...switching from FR to 6max, playing less and less tables, then playing a lot of tables and nutpeddling, trying to find easy tourneys and satellites, etc....and nothing has been working. I've just been losing steadily, and since last month my BR has gone from about $1200 to the $145 it is right now.
This whole time I've been trying to find leaks in my game to explain the problem, and I've realized 2 things that really kill me in the longrun: 1) I overthink marginal hands WAY too much and try to be some kind of hero at microstakes, where even if villain's line makes no sense I still think myself to believe they are bluffing and stack off with marginal hands when I know I shouldn't, and 2) once this starts happening during a session, I get myself going on some really bad tilt, and then I just keep playing really bad poker until I've dropped way too many BIs. This didn't happen during my upswing, which probably means I was just running good and not getting in enough of these marginal situations to lose a lot, or I just wasn't playing them as badly as I am now. Either way, I KNOW I never went tilt-monkeying until now, and it really kills anything I win when actually playing well. I don't know what happened to get me on this kind of lifetilt, but I know I'm on it and it has to stop. Even if I really am just running bad over the last month, these issues have really magnified it's effects.
Although these are probably my 2 biggest problems by far, I can't stop myself from doing them even though I know I am. Before every session I tell myself that I am not going to overplay marginal hands or whatever, but then I get caught up in the moment and do it anyway...then when I lose I go on tilt, and the cycle goes again.
I've decided to just take my BR back down to 2NL an start there from scratch. I'm going to try really hard to just take my time and think everything over during all of my hands, and think before putting too much money into a hand where I shouldn't. I'm not going to play tourneys anymore at all, and I'm going to limit myself to just 4 tables going at once. I'm not going to move up aggressively anymore until I am absolutely certain I have mastered my current level and I'm crushing the games there...I'll probably lock myself in until I've played like 50k hands at a particular level and then have to have a certain winrate (like maybe 4-5ptbb+) before even thinking about moving up, regardless of whether I am rolled or not.
I'm also going to increase my BR reqs for moving up certain levels, and progressively increase them as my levels increase. I'll probably have a 30BI rule for microstakes, 40BI rule for low stakes, 50BI rule for midstakes, and 60BI rule for highstakes (if I ever even get there), or something like that. That way a bad session won't hurt (or tilt me) as much.
Sorry for the long post, but I wanted to get all of this out so I can start thinking more clearly about my game and get started. If there is anyone out there who can help me control myself to not overplay all of the marginal situations or help me fix my tilt issues, please message me or something, I'd really appreciate it.
Wish me luck!
P.S. - and also, every post I make on LP form now on other than in my blog will be to try and learn something, not just complain or brag (like posting bad beat HHs in the "Hands" section that are really just standard situations), because I think it's just an annoyance and I don't want everything to just think I'm a dick or something
Hm played a few tournaments recently ( 5-8 or smth).
didnt go too well besides my 5th place in a 650 man 5$ MTT
I got kinda ITM small in most of them but didnt manage to make another "big" score.
The problem with tournemants is that the price structure is extremly bad.
you need to at least FT a tournament in order to make it worth money/h wise compared to cashgame.
And even the very best players dont acomplish more than reaching a final table 1 out of 12 Tourneys average. ( ofc they sometimes do over small sample size but i havent seen someone reaching more than 10% FT over a sample size of 100+ tourneys ... even the very best dont FT more than 10%)
ALso i am not sure about which strategies fit best for tourneys.
I thought agressive play and chips in the early midstakes are very important when i listend to some TV tipps like 8 month ago
However i did best by very tight abc poker that a 10 year old could do.
And as i watched some recent Tournament vids of very good players i realized most of them play tight as fuck , too
I was always wondering which secret stuff good Tournament players use and how their edge can be seen by completely outplaying opponents.
but after watching some good vids i was kinda dissapointed.
They just play standart tight abc Poker till almost final table >_< + get lucky in 2-3 situations which enables them to get a good chipstack.
then they make 1 or 2 good descisions in deep pots
and thats all.
Also played some HU cashgame ...
got river sucked out 4 times in 100 hands then villian run away ...
-> >_<
cashgame also isnt going too well
doing kinda break even now at Nl20
some days i win some money other days i lose some money
gotten lots of coolers and suckouts lately which kinda demotivates me a bit.
I mean you play some ugly card game for 2 hours just to end breakeven due to 3-4 really ugly suckouts for a whoel stack u get every session.
Halfway November Mark?by wakeboarrder, November 18
So my start back at cash game tables has gone ok so far. Im not going to get into my whole poker life or anything but playing 10nl sucks because i used to play higher stakes but i dont tilt so fuckin bad when i get a bad beat, plus my bankroll management is great. I started up 10nl on November 7th and so far my results look like....
I guess that isnt too badd but i still have a lot of leaks in my cash game play that will improve overtime.
Besides that can someone please tell me what kinda monitors to get...Im willing to spend around 450 bucks. Someone told me not to get a 24inch widescreen for poker and to get two 20 inch monitors. Idk what the fuck to do because i dont get why a widescreen wouldnt be suitable for poker. Someone PLEASE help. Il pay u =P
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