up to NL 20 and month summaryby PplusAD, October 29
Since i destroy everyone at NL 10 left and right ...
i hardly feel anything but boredom playing Nl10
after almost a year of Poker ....
I mean i still suck at Poker after 1 year of practice ^^ ( i have no talent at card games)
but NL 10 is nothing than a joke for someone who spend time Pokering this long.
I was playing PartyPoker NL25 with a 750 $ roll at the beginnig of the month getting ready to take shots at NL50 in the middle of the month.
Well then i hit an incredible downswing.
( well you people may think i have seen nothing yet ...)
but I couldnt play a single hand without getting crushed.
down 3 buy ins after the first 40 hands was standart ..
I just got setup after setup and it just didnt end.
lost ~ 18 buy ins ...
and decided to take a break from Poker and especially partypoker.
took a 2 week break
then
deposited 150 $ on NoIQpoker last week
made it up to 220 $ in 5 K hands.
I moved up to NL 20 giving it a short shot with 11 Buy ins 3 tabling after i returned from my MMA training today.
run pretty medicore and got 2 really annyoing bad beats and 2 setups.
ended up 10,50 $ tough in 400 hands. ( 7 BB/100)
could have been more + $ , but i decided to not make difficult descisions directly after a grueling 2 h of MMA training ...
opponent was pretty lose and could have had anything ..
I think i played it good but i am not so sure about the turnbet.
River is okay ? since when i bet out bigger only hand that calls me is a flush or maybe a set.
when i bet out less he can bluff the flush and i lose Value if he had like 76.
Well October is about to end and this is good moment to summarize all the [censored] that I went through.
Those who read my blog probably remember me for crazy Star's experiment of playing extremely under-rolled and jumping fast through stakes. The experiment failed (obv.), I decided to abandon the operation for the reasons stated in previous entry, went back to where I started, unloaded my roll that I started with, with only profit being using my FPP points to get a T-shirt and "Mathematics of Poker" (they have a good chapter about BR management ). The book is awesome, there's a lot to learn and think about and this was by all means very good choice - will be studying it hard.
In the mean time my (life) busyness was still going slow and since the money became the issue I had to turn to Poker. Very soon it became the race between real-life job consuming my time with profit being 'somewhere in the future' and Poker. I went back to my good old fish and basically used any available second to play. I stopped reading forums, watching TV, having life - just play, play, play ... I played HU (used to crush it), limit (limit players SUCK, all the sharks of old went to NL waters long ago) and my home since introducing 6max tables - shorthanded cash, NL50 and some NL100. Funny thing, when starting long ago it was "maybe I can win something", then after learning ABC it was like "wow, maybe I can make enough to by some " and now it's more like "I need the money, time to grind".
Aaaaand ... October was my best month ever - more than 1.3k and counting. Due to life issues I was withdrawing every week and in the end everything I made - I spent. So, I'm finally crushing and can't grow the BR. Good thing is that slowly I'm making a little more than I can spend. Don't get me wrong, I've suffered some ugly coolers in the process, I understand what running hot is and how cruel variance can be. But I also understand the difference between being lucky and outplaying opponents. And I'm pretty honest to myself when it comes to sucking out on others (rare, but happens).
In the end it's "ummm, fine" - didn't really 'moved up in stakes several times' or something, but then again this was my best month ever and it's not even close. Hell, I've made more than in my first year and a half! And my confidence is hiiiigh. No reasons to complain.
I watch alot of online poker and have been watching P3achy_keen play for awhile..I seen him mention this forum in stars chat so i checked it out and hope to learn and have some fun..
Well today after playing a fuckton games of Go a cool japanese game in which I suck even more then I do in poker,I decided give poker a go playing a small session of like 1.5-2k hands.
And I've decided to open hand range cuz I am fairly sure I devastate anyone on NL10 technically postflop.
The session ended being up 4.5 buyins.
Here are some hands that basically describe how I changed my style,these are basically best examples...
Anyways, this month has been crazy (Refer to last blog post), basically couldn't win flips and shit. According to PokerEV PS owes me $20,000 in equity over like 80k hands. Anyways everyday was hell and went something like this.
6am Wake up, eat
9am Uni
7pm Get home
8pm Dinner
9pm-2am Poker Lose $500.
Rince repeat for 30days. Life sucks. Anyways realized I had fallen into a, Run bad --> Play bad --> Tighten up --> Play too passive --> Run bad cycle. I tried to change it and just play my game, focus on the decision at hand on every table. And amazingly today I broke even!
Only got a bit over 30k hands in but I had a lot to do in school and I did my fair share of drinking so I guess it's somewhat ok anyway. After some really nice days in the end, despite very few hands played, I'm up a bit over 3.8k and I should get like 1.6k or something in rakeback, which will get my BR close to my old all time high. My new goal is to get my BR up to 20k in november and then I'll just cash out everything over that for a two or three months while playing 1/2-2/4 untill I feel ready to move up even higher. I'm not really happy about the way my skill has increased the last few months and even though I'm a better player now I'm not THAT much better. I need to think more about the game and start reading more and such.
Life is good right now and I'm pretty happy overall.
Satisfactory stab, NL200 6maxby T8Suited, October 29
As school work settles down I was ready to pick up poker again.
After suffering a mild -7BI downswing over 10k hands or so @ FR (nobody to blame but myself -- tilty plays) I switched to SNG. Had my share of glorious moments.
But I still think I could succeed @ 6max.
With no sweet tables @ NL100 tonight I made a jump to 200NL. Reduce the # of tables to 2 or 3. Table-select better -- leave when I don't see what I like in ~2 orbits.
Result was good
Ran @ 19/12 over 514 hands
AF 1.9 (3.71 if disregard preflop AF)
+$390
BB/100 +19
didn't get close to stacking anybody, though. Just picking up many medium-small pots against fishies w/ outkicking TP/bluff induction.
Although I'll probably move back down to NL100 (FR or 6max) next time I play
Well, this month overall has been pretty decent as far as poker has gone. I finally ended up getting out of my horrible 3 month downswing, and i got to play a decent amount this month.
Final results are (hold em manager is fucked atm, so no pretty pics for you guys D
Sample Size: 19.8k @ 25NL FR @ 6-8 Table
Initial starting BR, end of september: 195$
Ending October BR, October 29: 597$
Rakeback: 105~$ 2nd week of November
Bonuses: 50$ Bonus (20% cleared)
Gifts to self:
-22'' Viewsonic monitor (can easily fit 9 tables)
-finally got a cordless keyboard/mouse, no more tangled cords = VICTORY
Thoughts on play:
I played pretty ABC as far as penny FR grinding goes, i semi bluffed a bit too hard in some spots and ultimately bet myself out of the hand, which cause my winrate / profits to take a hit. That's one of my biggest weaknesses atm, as well as trying to think too high a level above 25nl grinders. I've been making really good laydowns however~ i always forget that unlike 6 max, FR you actually HAVE to make a big lay down when you have 2nd or 3rd nuts sometimes.
Goals:
-Hopefully mid november i can finally get back on the road of making decent coinage @ 50NL ( SO INSTEAD OF PLAYING FOR NAPKINS IM PLAYING FOR CHEESEBURGERS) with rakeback + bonus kicking in. My ultimate goal is to get back to 100NL where i belong D:, but that's still a ways off and ill cross that bridge when i get there.
-I'm going to stick to 6 tables. I tried over 6+ tables and found my attention to hand detail affecting me a bit, perhaps when i gain even more practice i'll add in one or two more.
-I've developed a great system to ration myself when it comes to playing sessions, i generally play around 500-1k hand sessions once or twice a day. If I drop a few buyins due to variance or whatnot, i'll take the day off. I need to do this more often. I dont think i'm suceptible to tilt, but i DO play noticabely weaker if i take a couple bad beats, subconciously i think i tilt.
That's october in review, maybe november will be great and i'll hop back into some live games for some LOLCASINODEGEN stories complete with MSpaint.
Back in the green for the month, very lazy month (20k hands) and due to being -800$ in NL100 (6 buyins dropped to guy who calls 4bets with K6o..) and about -1.5k trying to move back up to NL300 I was down until today :C
Up 2.5k at 1/2 for the month tho, so that's nice. 4bb/100 (5.5k$) over 35k hands isn't bad I think.. Maybe not great but I'm not unhappy.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/304597 - Saw him C/C OOP when he made the nutflush on the turn after raising and cbetting.
Soooooo, I thought 56 was veryveryvery likely and I was kinda disgusted but I think I have to bet/call T.t
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/304593 - Hm, I think I can call turn here without it being spewy. I was floating to bet turn if checked to cause I thought his halfpot might be weak, since he'd done that and folded to a C/R before (3 way).
I played really well for some parts of this month, then REALLY bad for some parts and the last few thousand hands I feel like I've been playing ok but not great.
NL300 was pure variance rape.
This hand best describes my 2nd attempt at NL300
Submitted by : TianYuan
** Game ID 1677657108 starting - 2007-10-20 04:27:45
** Mucianus [Hold 'em] (1.50|3.00 No Limit - Cash Game) Real Money
- qqqoooqqq sitting in seat 1 with $396.60 [Dealer]
- Babanyaro sitting in seat 3 with $852.49
- Stef_anus sitting in seat 4 with $787.91
- syvsoversen sitting in seat 6 with $283.50
Babanyaro posted the small blind - $1.50
Stef_anus posted the big blind - $3.00
Holecards(Odds)
syvsoversen folded
qqqoooqqq raised - $12.00
Babanyaro called - $12.00
Stef_anus called - $12.00
Showdown KwarK_uK : shows (a pair of Queens)
Rodrigobessa: shows (a straight, Five to Nine)
Rodrigobessa collected $21.65 from pot
Summary Total pot $22.75 | Rake $1.10
Board
Seat 1: thedrog88 folded before Flop
Seat 2: Rodrigobessa (button) showed and won ($21.65) with a straight, Five to Nine
Seat 3: AAdams (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: KwarK_uK (big blind) showed and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 6: potro1 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
You were probably right I should have quit, or something, too late now. I took breaks but I guess that doesn't do it. I didn't run any better but I could clearly have saved a few buy-ins. I might play again later but I should probably just cash out what I left and stop it.
Life will probably be really shitty from now on, I just hope I die in a car crash tomorrow morning when I go to school.
I made 3k in 3000hrs of play, great.... oh and I learned to play a game I suck at... I swear this game made me feel worst than when I abused drugs(I guess I should go back to that... ok no). It's kinda hard to describe the feeling here but I feel awkward and shitty, every fucking thought is painfull.
What pisses me the most is that I basically never touched the money, and now it's gone, can't buy the new computer I waited so long for...
Can't focus, can't feel good oh god I'm so tired of being whiner and feeling crappy because of this game, even determination didn't work - I swear I worked hard on my game but this shows I'm full of leak. Tonight I don't wanna see myself in the mirror ...
Had no fun, hope you did. Cya ~_~
You don't have to say anything it doesn't matter btw I just wanted to let the shit out...
Won 4.5 buyins good day, was up nearly 7 but then hit a bit of a downswing. Nevermind.
Ran pretty loose/aggro compared to other days but that was just because of the tables. I kinda feel like i'm able to change gears now which has gotta be a good thing, i feel im able to play anywhere between like 17/14 and 27/25 pretty effectively, altho usually i float somewhere around 22/18 ish
A few posts ealier I wrote I would post an update every week. I just didn't feel like that after a shitty start of this week.
On Monday and Tuesday I lost about 9BI without playing that much. I was really pissed off, cause it was all profit from this month. Then I told myself: " Man, you put a lot of time into this game and got like nothing off it. Buy yourself a gift. " And so I did. I ordered a PS3 and two games: Warhawk and Heavenly Sword on Friday. I hope I'll get them tomorrow or on Tuesday I'm so excited ^^ I've been thinking about buying PS3 for a long time and finally decided to buy it. There are a few really good games that will be relesed in November, i.e. Assassin's Creed or Ratchet & Clank. If anyone has some suggestions about must-haves for PS3 just let me know.
So coming back to poker, I managed to win like half of $ I lost ealier this week. I didn't play a lot of hands though.And here's one of my problems. Sometimes I'm too lazy or just waste my time doing other senseless things instead of playing poker. I just HAVE TO play at least 30k hands in November. This month, so far, I played about 15k hands, and after withdrawing some money for an iPhone (weee, I can't wait to have it^^) and PS3 I'm like even. But that's good, I feel pretty confident about my game but I still gotta fix some leaks in my game.
Btw. this Friday I had a conversation with a psychologist. My parents wanted me to do it, but didn't force me to it. My problem is that I can't control my emotions when I'm losing (even though it's not that much). The psychologist told me how does it all work (adrenaline etc.) and suggest me a few things. I won't get into details cause this post would be just too long
Today I won't post any stats and graphs cause it's almost the end of October so I will post them in the summary of this month.
Good luck to everyone,
Gawuss
EDIT: anon wanted me to post the details of my conversation with psychologist. I will post them soon, maybe tomorrow, cause it's a lot of stuff to write and I have to put some time to make it easy to understand.
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). The book is awesome, there's a lot to learn and think about and this was by all means very good choice - will be studying it hard.
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