Yesterday I decided that I would try to achieve Platinum Star. I needed like 4100 VPPs. So, I opened up 12 tables of 6-max midstakes, mix of NL200, NL400 and NL600, I took first available tables basically and got to the grind.
It was pretty sick grind, I had to play like 8k hands which took about 8 hours or something. Pretty sick session, I hated it. Also pretty bad result-wise - I started good and kept it till like two hourse before the end, since when I began losing like crazy, lost everything I won before and a lot more :/
So September is over. I didnt play much poker because I returned from the US trip only like a week ago. It started as a promising month, but because of two disasterous sessions in the end of the month, I ended up breakeven for September :/ Well I won a bit in live game, but thats only like couple hundreds, so not a big difference.
Only good thing is that I managed to achieve the Platinum Star status and will soon have enough points for Ipod Touch
I hope October will finaly be a good month for me. It was my best month of year 2006... And today I played my first october session and so far it seemed promising
So I made just over 5k and I'll get maybe 2.5k in rakeback and bonus. Pretty decent month and I'm happy to say that I played more then 50k hands which is a personal record. I also won the biggest pot I've ever won BB-wise (I think)today.
My september 2007 went pretty well for the most part. I started the month down around $1800, but grinded back. Got a lot of my confidence in playing back, although I found it difficult to make time to play a lot of hands due to school and San Diego life in general. Only dished out 28,409 hands in september and ended up +$7169.05 total. I also cashed in 2 of the 4 WCOOP events that I entered. I am kind of disappointed that these past weeks flew by, as I wanted to enter more events than I did. Whatever thou. Hopefully next month I can find time to play more.
New computer was purchased today. New limit has been reached. And a new personal record for bad beats in one session has been achieved. Sweet!
So this was a good weekend for poker despite a series of painful bad beats. I've never had so many sets lose, and had so many hands go painfully in 1 session. 8 tough loses in the course of about 2 hours left me on the verge of tilt. Somehow I was able to get myself together and make back the losses plus 1 buy-in for a winning session. That's what happens on laggy tables on a Friday night!
I've managed to keep the same Dell Latitude for the last 5.5 years... that's a long time for 1 laptop. But it is old and crappy now, and multi-tabling with PAH and PT running turns into a lagfest. It's time to upgrade and I was able to find a steal of a deal on the Dell Refurbished site. I wanted to buy something for less than $1,000 but the specs I wanted were not materializing for less than $1,300. I was about to give up and just go for something worse when I found this beautiful Vostro that had been scratched... that scratch saved me $800.
Here are the spec's on my new baby:
-Vostro 1700 Notebook: Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 (2.0GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB)
-8X DVD +/- RW w/dbl layer write capability
-Genuine Windows Vista Business
-9 Cell Primary Battery
-160 GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)
-Bluetooth Wireless Card 355
-17 inch Wide Screen XGA+ Notebook Screen
-2 GB DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz (2 DIMMs)
-Dell Wireless 1505 Draft 802.11n Mini Card
-256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
Back To Poker
So I hit a bunch of idiotic hands. Then I also hit a few where I don't know where I went wrong, or how to play it better. Let's look at those first... and hopefully someone will give some advice in the comments.
QQ Vs KQ / AA - Was this a bad push? Seems like it was a good idea to get the other guy all in if I was going to call the shortstack's push anyway... http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/284786
KJ Vs 85 - This is that damn "Call the flop, bet out the turn" pattern that I hate. I figured I was beat but the bets were small. Should I get away from this or stick it out? http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/284794
The weekend came out well though with a total of 6 buyins won in 2 sessions (Friday night and Sunday night) which brought me up to $754.00. That brings me above me benchmark for NL10 and signifies that I'm well enough rolled to move up to NL25. I feel confident enough in my game to move up the limit, and now I've got a solid cushion to do it. Last time I moved to NL25 I had $310 and within 2 days I was down to $12. I think I'll try and avoid doing that again.
Here's a SS of all my progress since I started playing NL cash games about 35 days ago with a roll of about $550.
Definitely winning over 29,000 hands. Been reading that you need to hit 100,000 hands to really get any idea of whether you're a winning player or not. So in about another 2 months I should see if I really am any good. I'm also hoping to get up to NL100 by January, and NL200 by March. But not setting any goals which are too concrete cause all I can do is play my best and hope that the cards come well enough to bring in the money.
So life is overall pretty good as of this update... moving up a limit in poker, got a new comp on the way, and played through a series of bad beats without tilting horribly. I'm excited to be at NL25 and hope I can keep winning like I have been.
To close this post out, I'm gonna put down the stupid, idiotic, moronic hands of this weekend so that I never forget em and hopefully never do them again. Some where minor tilt, others were just stupidity at its finest.
In my last blog (Friday) I was really tilted and depressed having just started up again after my break and dropped 1.1k immediately. I cashed out around 4k and made myself go down to 50NL until I win $1000 before trying 100NL again.
Damn i was playing poker and i must have made a bad move or something, my left ball started hurting like crazy, man im gonna die right here on the spot
http://img472.imageshack.us/img472/5933/september2007zd9.jpg
Bleh, toooooooooo lazy!! Sucky ending to the month, but still decent given that I played very sporadically (mostly 4 tabling tho, so there's a few marathon sessions in there). Dunno what I've made in rakeback but over 1k I'm pretty sure (cashed last months in a little early, and played thousands of hands last days of august so got a bit left over from there too).
Goals for next month.. Hm, 90k hands would be nice, but 4 tabling that might be a little high. So, eh, 60k? I'd like to make enough to play 2/4 on prima, and ideally enough to split my roll in half and put half on party (cause you can keep your bankroll in euro instead of the weak dollar).
I heard you can get rakeback for party, anyone know how/where?
Think I should re-install/upgrade my computer cause it's been a while and I'm good at cluttering things up.. Been acting a bit slow lately, and if I'm gonna get back to playing more tables - especially with prima's heavy software - I think for the sake of me not tilting, it's best if it doesn't lag
So I only played 12k hands this month, but I was starting school, and I'm taking 6 classes, so there was some adjustment time. My goal for October is 25k hands, and to move up into NL5 full-time.
For some reason, ImageShack hasn't been working for me all day, so no pictures, but general information:
NL5: 2,703 hands at 18.94/10.36/1.42 3.54 PTBB/100 hands $9.58 profit
NL2: 9,570 hands at 18.99/9.37/1.32 14.09 PTBB/100 hands $53.93 profit
Overall: $63.51 profit from cash, $30 loss from donkaments, 150FPPs earned (small bonus at 450)
Bankroll: $71.91
Got pwned in september nothing went right... everyday would be up and down... somedays even around the corner.. dunno wtf that was all about. Anyways I think I ended up dead even... But even worse than that was I was;
+6200 in 3500 hands of 2/4 HU
-2500 in 30k hands of 2/4 6m
-1200 in 6k hands of 3/6 6m
-2500/3k in 2k hands of 5/10 6m
some random PLO winnings on the side and a brutal month
Gonna start focusing more on HU I think... after I slit my wrists...
Haven't broken my biggest pot yet in NL5 but have come really close, since i'm 12 tabling NL5 with $10 on each table.
Aim for October: don't play too much since I have uni exams in about a months time. But I probably will play a bit anyway so wouldn't mind making my BR on pokerstars at $400, its currently at $225.
This is one of the sickest things u can ever come across of
This is so sick. Almost every single technic u can think of is used in this. SCHOOLED!
This is so sick too
Tryin to ID the songs here
1) Whole lotta love (Led Zepplin)
2) Fire (Hendrix)
3)??? cream: crossroads
4)??? girl you really got me now by the kinks
5)House of the rising sun (Animals)
6)?????
Hello there, just Short summary about September results:
- I've played like 100k hands for about 5 hours a day. Started with 500$ (NL25) and finished with 3000$ (NL100).
Followed the 15xbi ( - 3bi go down again) in moving between stakes.
-From NL50 falled down like 5x.
-From NL100 falled down like 4x.
Cashed out 1000$. Current BR 2300$. So iam rolled now for NL100 and going to play 8 table at towergaming. Hopefully ill be able to grind out bonuses atleast, which should lead for insane profit even if i'll be just breakeven (+-4,5k$).
No graph, neither statistics, because PO suck on Tower and its not accurate. It's usable in play but statistics are badly updated and incorrect when playin more then 4 tables .
Goals for October:
100k hands
Maintain NL100.
Be less aggresive!
Tiltfree :D
Bankin 30% of BR
Edit:Looking for Demonoid invite. Feel free to make me happy, thx!
Great session and september resultsby Question, September 30
I start with goals for september:
Build NL20 bank roll -Done Dont die in school -Done 25K hands -Done
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October goals:
-50K hands -win over 500 $ -Play and make good results in Multi table tournaments
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So when i started play NL10 at begening of september,I started 8tabling Full ring ang after 13k hands i have bankroll for NL20 so i move up,but i stayed on NL20 only 4800 hands So i must returned to NL10....since i play NL10 again my play started to be very bad and i played like donk.Finnaly a i made Bankroll again two days before today and i shoted to NL20.
After browsing the FPP store, and realising some of the baller stuff that can be obtained there, I was inspired to play a lot, and so played about 8 hours (or 3K hands 4-tabling) out of the last 24. Went pretty well, too:
There's about three separate sessions here, and I'm happy with how I played in two of them. I ran pretty good, and sucked out on people slowplaying hands on more than one occasion.
Some hands of note:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/284502 - I suck out good, although villain going broke with QQ in a re-raised pot on this board is pretty horrendous
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