Just gonna use this to post my graphs and occasionally ask for advice on my stats or on hands
Anyway i started playing right at the end of July, The graph is missing the very beginning which was pretty dire on account of me only ever playing about 30 hands of poker in my lifetime before my deposit, there was a small downswing before i started getting the hang of it and moved to NL10
This is pretty much only NL10, and that little downswing at the end was a breif foray into NL25(thought the downswing was certainly not entirely my fault, got a 2pair allin on the turn vs my set and he hit an overboat on river. Then later some guy turned an overset in a different hand to take another (this time around 30$) stack off me.
In any case, whine over. Ive now recovered from that and back over 500$ so i could try it again.
Anyone got advice for moving up limits?
I found that if i made all 4 tables nl25 then an early swing can be pretty disheartening, I was thinking of maybe just adding a couple of tables. Also I could do it once ive drawn enough of a profit at the lower stake to stop me tilting
When I get sucked out or coolered for a buyin in the first few hundred hands it gets to me a bit, but when ive already made 6 or so buyins this stuff barely bothers me
Anyways if anyone wants to post some advice about my stats then feel free. I think im very passive postflop and i guess this is something to work on. Maybe PFR should be higher too.
I just started to build my bankroll up again since I took a long break from playing poker online. This was my first month of getting back into online poker and I seem to do well in the low stake. Hopefully I will move up to the mid-Stake quickly to play with the ballers that are making some good money. I someday want to be a baller like them and have wet dream about winning in poker. My goal this upcoming month is to learn how to play 6max and make some profit from them.
I played around 100k hands in August and hopefully I will play around 200k in September because I have no life. Im also going to try and hit SuperNova within this month because i want to be a Micro baller!!
I started the night off @ fullring tonight, but was getting alot of bad luck and decided to try something new.
I opened up 12 6max NL50 tables and started the grind. Too my suprise, I found that 6max fits my style way more because of my aggressive nature at the poker tables.
I used SakiSaki's NL400 6max video as a learning tool, and watched it numerous times about 4-6 months ago. This really helped my strategy as I had it memorized and I followed it well.
I read plaxyers very well during this session as well, and got back into the green for the day, up almost 3 more buy-ins.
I'm looking forward to playing alot more 6max, maybe even switching to be fulltime there.
During current Hold'em session you were dealt 2659 hands and saw flop:
- 199 out of 491 times while in big blind (40%)
- 88 out of 498 times while in small blind (17%)
- 195 out of 1670 times in other positions (11%)
- a total of 482 out of 2659 (18%)
Pots won at showdown - 51 of 106 (48%)
Pots won without showdown - 344
Playing at 18% is pretty fun, I really enjoyed it.
Handing variance at 6max is something I'll be training to be more acustom to, but I don't feel like it will be a problem at all.
Tons of bad beats were thrown at me during this session, but no sweat, kept composure and the tables swung up~
Greetings everyone, welcome to Chemical Imbalance blog! Thank you for coming. I am glad you are here, and I hope you will become a regular visitor and tell others to swing by so that I can achieve my quest for world domination.
First, a few words about the blog name. Chemical Imbalance started as joke among my family members and close friends. You see, I am a very happy person. I am happy most of the time and content the rest. Things that bother other people do not bother me. Obstacles that upset people just get me thinking about how to overcome them. I can see a positive in basically any situation. Losing a job just means you get a few weeks vacation, and what's bad about that? While most people spend their life wondering whether the glass is half-full or half-empty, my range is closer to half-full to overflowing.
This optimistic outlook on life caused those close to me to say that I have a chemical imbalance, just while for most people it means depression, for me it means an unnatural state of constant happiness. If they turn out to be right, I'll be pretty happy.
Now that the title is out of the way, it's time to talk about why I started the blog. Most blogs on this site seem to be just statements of fact--descriptions of what happened in the past few days/weeks/months. Each post gets a few comments, and that's that. The reason I am starting this blog is that I want it to become a learning tool for me and for those that read it.
I will talk about my game and what I am working on as well as how I plan on overcoming whatever leaks I am working on at the time. I invite everyone that reads the blog to comment and relate their own experiences as well as their take on the problem. I am a winning player now, and I plan on excelling at this game. I hope, my gentle reader, that this is a goal I share with you.
So, for the topic of my first post ever, I have picked the biggest leak I have at the moment: losing large pots on a good hand that gets outflopped. For contextual information, I play NL100 and often play on Absolute, where the max buying is 200bb.
Let me draw up a scenario. You hold AK in early position. You raise and get a caller. On the flop you make top pair. You get and get reraised. If the person is a nit or a tight regular, you know you are beat. They just hit their set. Fine. They can have this hand. But what if the person isn't? He can be an average player. Maybe even a regular who plays somewhat loose. How do you balance out between getting not losing value versus a weak hand (say AQ) and not sliding your entire stack across the table to an AT that just hit 2-pair?
This issue truly messes with my game right now. I have had great session ruined by 2-3 hands where I lost my entire stack paying off a flopped 2-pair or a set.
My immediate take on the issue is that, unless you have a very good read, you should not push over the raiser. That would just be dumb (and unfortunately I have done this on many occasions). Call and re-evaluate on later streets. But on later streets, they will bet TP2K probably just as aggressively as 2-pair. So what do you do? Please feel free to post your take on the situation in the comments.
In my next entry I will post my experience since this point, things I have found in other sources, as well as a summary of your responses.
I hope this blog turns into the learning tool I envisage it as, so I ask you to help me get it there.
well, basically it is. Im basically in school EVERYDAY str8 from 8am till 4:30pm with only a 45min break at 12pm. I haven't basically played poker and when I do I've lost the last 5times I did a session and lost a total of around 8k at 400nl which I know isn't much at all but Im just feeling shit. Maybe because of me playin when Im dead tried?
The Plan:
Well, plan is simple even though I have around 30buy-in for 400nl Im not feeling like doin 400nl anymore till Im back to running good and having fun while playin. I cahsed out my whole roll leaving myself only 10k abd Im gonna try grinding it up at 200nl to 5k and start doin 400nl afterwards.(basically Im gonna cashout 5k and I want to gring back 5k at 200nl) Im gonna try waking up at 4am and play around 3 hours a day in the morning before I leave the house at 7-8am. My classes have been also really really tough this week since Im in the workshop and I have to work with machines while standing up in heavy safty boots for for the whole fuckin 8 hours EVERYDAY. Hopefully its gonna be better since Im gonna do electronix stuff this comming week.
Wish me luck!
Edit: LOL I cant belive I left this out. The main reason I cashed out is that I email ps and they told me I can pay for my school as a one time offer with my FPPs so I will have around 25,000 credit to my PS account at a cost of around 1.5mil FPP to pay me back for my school tuition for this year and since Im gettin the school money from my parents anyway I will keep some portion of that 25k extra in my online roll
Back to school/debt gone/looking goodby BJLTNYK, August 30
Just moved back to Syracuse for my Senior year this weekend and things have been pretty good. Classes suck but that's to be expected. With no parents around I've been able to put in some good poker playing time. I've been absolutely crushing the $16 turbos and plan to continue doing so for a while.
I paid off a debt to my roommate and to nutshot who had basically staked me for the $16s and I'm now on my own which feels great not owing anyone money.
Will post my August graphs and September goals tomorrow when the month ends but it definetly feels great officially getting the weight off my shoulders.
today i moved up with 20 buy ins for plo 20 and nl 20 coz i know nl 20 and plo20 i dont have to add how bad they all are.
at the beginning i ran pretty well and was happy not to fail the shot coz of badluck blah. and stopped with 2,5 bis up. then restarted another session where i dropped buy ins in plo 20...just variance (str8 lost on river vs fh in turn was the money in, or double fd which made me to a fav coz of a gutshot too not hit vs his bottom str8 and lost QQQ on a Q49 coz the guy have to call me down with KK42, river came the K obv;P) but its ok it had to happen coz i won in 6 days like 16 buyins which is nice so far...
tomorrow pay day in form of rakeback hopefully a bunch of $$$
today i go partying n stuff and look forward to crush my old limit(nl 100).
it helped me really to withdraw all to have a solid nl 10 br left...dunno what changed in my game but i win a whole week which never happens the last 30 days before.
thx for reading
i wish u all luck when u wish me luck
gg no re
lucas
edit: one hand confused me rly and think it was a fold...cant post hand coz idont have pt for omaha :/
i had KJTX DS
flop came KTX two of my suits and went broke on flop
no improve by me and lost to KKXX
So, I started the cleanse Tuesday morning. My last bite of solid food was Monday night ~8:30 PM.
Why?
My brother has done the cleanse twice so far, and he had nothing but good things to say about it: sinuses clearing up, skin feeling better, smoother BM's, easier breathing, more energy.
I decided to go for it because I have a lot of vices. I eat red meat 5-7 times a week; I consume 10-15 alcoholic drinks a week; at least 1 cup of coffee a day, and smoke on occasion. Also, it's only 7-10 days out of my life, and has no lasting effects. During the cleanse, the only substance I will be ingesting is the lemonade, and saltwater flush (no booze, no food, no caffeine, no smoke).
I've read multiple articles from sceptics, and everything they say makes sense. But, once again, I have first-hand testimony that it has positive effects, and it's only 10 days. I can do without for 10 days (I think).
Although I am not doing this as a diet (I would consider myself somewhat fit), I'm tracking my weight as a point of curiosity. Started Monday night at 183.5 lbs (5'11" ). Weighed myself this morning, and I was 181.6.
What?
So, when I wake up, I drink a salt-water flush consisting of 1 qt. of lukewarm water, and 2 tspns of uniodized salt.
It's really crazy what warm saltwater will do to an empty stomach. Literally 10 minutes after I take the flush, I'm on the toilet. And the only time I have a BM is after I've taken the flush.
I've gone without solid food for 48+ hours now, and my movements are still containing solid material. Kinda makes you think.
On to the Lemonade! This is basically what I live off of while I'm on the cleanse.
The lemonade contains fresh squeeze citrus (lemons and limes), grade B organic maple syrup, and water. The sugars in the syrup have enough calories to keep me going throughout the cleanse. I probably drink ~1.5 gallons of this stuff throughout the day (~1,200 calories).
The theory is that drinking the lemonade through the day moves all the impacted matter/toxins around, and the saltwater flush gets it all out.
Popular forms of the diet call for an herbal laxative tea, but I've decided to forgo the laxative completely. Seemed unnatural to me.
Feel?
The first day was kind of rough. It's just so natural to stop for a coffee, or a bagel, or a sandwich. Or snap open a beer after work. I was hungry/cranky all day long.
What's worse is that I decided to paint my master bedroom this week, so that just added to my frustration.
Today (day 3) has been much better though. I've got a nice routine down, and my hunger pains are all gone. I'm noticing a slight lack of energy (it's super hot here right now), but I'm still able to stay focused at work.
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Anyhow, just thought I'd blog about it. I may post some pictures of me making the lemonade/saltwater/poop if I get motivated.
I have develop my hand ranges further more when I say developed I mean narrowed and learned to pick my fights even better this is the result of it my ptbb was high even before like 7-8 but this is just sick imo...
I know the agression factors dont show so imma write em here.
Flop AF 6.81 Turn AF 1.44 River AF 1.24 Total AF 3.26
Luv ya all...
Day you'll get your poker skills back no worries!!!
EDIT: P.S. forgot to write I didnt play for like 1-2 weeks cuz had most important exams in my life but now that I'm back after 2-3 days of just playing solid I feel I play real good atm...
I began my career as a cash game player last night with a bankroll of about $250, 4 tabling NL25. I ran pretty good and ran it up to about $440 over 1k hands. I put two sessions in today, about 1550 hands total, and basically broke even. Bankroll currently stands at $465 and change.
This is the first time I've ever tried cash games with a proper bankroll and some focus/discipline. I've played SNGs and MTTs almost exclusively to this point, except for some retarded huge shots at cash games that I had no business being at.
I feel like reading a bunch of stuff on LP and constantly looking over hands here has really helped me absorb the difference between cash games and tournaments, but there's obviously no substitute for experience.
So, I'm going to put in my time starting now, and really start dedicating myself to learning cash games, and putting in a lot of hands at the tables whenever I can.
You'll start seeing some cash game hands posted by good old nutshot from now on. When you see me fuck up a hand, don't pull any punches. Criticize the shit out of me, I need all the help I can get.
My boys Trey and Brian (BJLTNYK) have been awesome support for the last couple months when I've sort of been trying to figure out my role in the poker world, and what I want to do with it. I'm constantly sending them hands, asking questions, and annoying them, but they always have time to help. I don't thank them cause I ain't gay yo, but this is their chance to see they're appreciated. They also know that they're in for some shit when we all head up to TS in October and I dominate them HU.
So after I finished my whine post, I infact started running well again, and managed to go up a few buy-ins for the day on a midnight heater.
Heres my stats from tonight;
During current Hold'em session you were dealt 1905 hands and saw flop:
- 146 out of 265 times while in big blind (55%)
- 41 out of 270 times while in small blind (15%)
- 145 out of 1370 times in other positions (10%)
- a total of 332 out of 1905 (17%)
Pots won at showdown - 41 of 70 (58%)
Pots won without showdown - 159
Feelin much better and looking forward to playing tomorrow afternoon.
Gotta go to the dentist tomorrow afternoon for surgery in my mouth, something I'm definately not looking forward to, but oh well.
GL everyone,
Ryan (DReaMe)
7,226 FPP til SuperNoVA
1,366 FPP to maintain PlatinumStar until I hit SuperNovA
So apparently I'm very bad at poker. I wish I weren't bad, but its obviously true at this point.
I started w/ 50$ and worked up to very very large, happy, healthy BR. I was easily rolled for 3/6, but i stuck at 2/4 due to comfort and ease. At this point, i took a break and wanted to work on my starcraft game a bunch. Happily, I improved a ton and was satisfied .
However, when i came back to poker, about 6 months later, I started to totally blow. Has this happened to you, where you take a long break from something when you were peaking, and when you get back, you feel invincible?
That's basically how I rolled. I felt like some "master of the cards" who would win no matter what. After an extensive period of slowly draining, I tried to take a step back and really examine my game. At this point, I just began to run like shit and, consequently, play like shit. After alternating bad playing and bad running, i soon discovered that i am, in fact, not a good poker player at all.
Thusly, i am now playing at 100NL trying to rebuild back to a reasonable level. In starcraft, I would practice like a machine. I would regularly play 14 hour days and the like (i went 53-0 on WGT in 1 sitting haha, how's that for being a loser?). Therefore, in poker, i'm easily able to play 10k+ hand sessions (as i did today!). If i learn how to stop sucking, this means i will be a millionaire in ~1 week haha.
this obviously does not include all the big pots that i lost
these posts are purely the posts which irritated me alot and the like.
recap of the day: won no coinflips, had bad timing with bluffs vs players who'd been making lots of moves, overcards either got no value or lost.
things to work on: getting better timing on when to check the turn to extract more value on the river or to induce more bluffs; not calling out of spite (ie he minraises a v.bet w/ a better hand).
its a miracle i broke even for the day 8].
and so i shall battle again tomorrow. 15k hands here i come
I've played 10k hands of breakeven poker since I've moved to NL50 and its been driving me nuts. The constant never-ending string of coolers/badbeats/setups are so annoying..jesus...
Moving back to pokerstars cause for some reason I'm completely unable to 1) make good decisions 2) not tilt (well, I tilt but less), on any site other than pokerstars -_- This reminds me of when I played on UB for a 1 month, exact same kind of results.
Maybe it's because neither site has a good handhistory window (which I use extensively on stars, ie constantly going through them all when not in a hand, taking notes on the players -.-).
In either case, I'm just gonna cash out my bonus (if PT is correct it should come to about 1600$..) and move to Pokerstars I guess. Try to get supernova, fix my leaks and not tilt.
The initial free-fall came from 1 single session of 8 tabling where every single time I had an overpair it would go down in flames, sets would face 4 card straight boards and by the time that happened I was tilt calling.
Then I got cardrunneres, started 4 tabling -> recovered half. Then some patchy results, tilt, 8 tables, oops.
4 tabling again, followed by god knows what. 4 tabling again, playing pretty well..
Enter today around hand 29k. Played for what, 14 hours? Setup after setup after setup after setup after setup.
Should have fucking known today would have turned out this way after it took me 5 hours to fall asleep and I fell out of bed trying to unplug my alarm cause I was too sleepy to figure out where or what it was.
I have leaks, yeah, but I promise you that I can beat the retard who limps 56o UTG and calls a raise with them.
Not today. Huge whine post I know but I needed to vent a bit before sleeping.
The WCOOP is only a few weeks away, and I've been wanting to play in the 3 full-handed NLH events since the beginning of the summer, but I'm obviously dramatically underrolled to play in even the smallest event.
I've decided that I'm going to try and win my way into these tourneys by building a T$ BR. With the recent addition of rediculously easy $2 turbo satellites into the Sunday $100k, I thought it'd be a good idea to try an experiment and exponentially increase my T$ starting there.
I figure since winning 1 of every 5 of those tourneys is breakeven, and that I can win them much more often than that, that it is at least +EV to try them. Once I get enough T$ I want to try playing my way through the Super Tuesday and Sunday Mill satellites, starting at the $55 round 2s. About every 4.5 players gets a seat to the round 3 in these, so I think I have a good chance of making the next level. Then the ~$225 round 3s pay eabout very 5 seats so I have about the same chance. I figure since I can only spend T$ in tournaments, it's not very high risk to BR my T$ in these tourneys to try and make my way into the biggest online events of the year.
I've played these 100k satellites before and know I can win them at a profitable rate already. I haven't tried the Super Tuesday or Sunday Mill round 2s yet but I'm willing to invest my T$ and if I lose just make them back for another try. If I make a round 3 I might save my T$ and play round 2s until I win again, but that depends on how easy/hard they are. Hopefully I can get a $1050 Super Tuesday seat and buy into the first NLH event I want to play.
The $530 NLH full-handed event is on Sunday the 16th, so I have 2 tries at the Super Tuesday before then. Hopefully I can get into one of them and save my T$ for the WCOOP, but we'll see as time passes how this experiment goes. I don't think I'll be playing much ring until then so I can spend all my time trying to make T$. Wish me luck!
After moving up to NL50, my mission is going much faster.
I got 7,277 FPP until I hit supernova, and 1700 FPP left to maintain platinumstar for next month. At this pace I should hit supernova in 8-10 days. Woo~
On another note, my roll has taken some severe beatdowns in the last week, as I've managed to get sucked out on in just about every way possible, but I'm still comfortable at NL50 and hope it will swing up soon. I feel as if I could run fairly decent I'd be up 10-20 buy-ins right now, but I'm down some..
If I hit less than $1,200 I'll move down to NL25 and build back to $1,750 and try again.
I can feel a good run right around the corner, soon I hope.
GL everyone,
gonna go watch some TV n relax, cya tomorrow
Ryan (DReaMe)
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I will keep some portion of that 25k extra in my online roll 
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