I havent blogged on LP since May where i basically wrote that ive been loseing most of my roll going on adventures on 25/50 and 50/100$ wich ended badly (lost almost 200k$ from peak that month only).
Since then i went to thailand for a month to cool off and get my mind off poker, i ended up playing some there and lost even more and when i got back home, spending alot on the trip itself i continued grinding 5/10 ish stakes and voila nothing worked for me, i ran bad, probably played alittle bad and ended up loseing alot more.
in July i was left with not much money at all, wich ive been liveing on since then as i contacted a few LPrs personally for a stake to kind of get out of my panicmode and secure the money that i had so that i could live my life and pay rent and bills and stuff without a problem for the rest of the year. I ended up getting staked by our very own Ket.
things looked good in the start, i won alot on midstakes and playing SH Ket gave me alot of freeroom to take 10/20 shots aswell as takeing HU variancegames if i felt i had an edge (with my pokerego thats basically every1 except sauce and kanu)
i ended up loseing a ton while playing HU and winning alot playing SH
these were the results from the time playing with Ket as a backer:
I lost another 10k on Ongame and since Ket pretty much stopped playing poker and dosnt have any money online anymore, we decided to quit the stake since he didnt have enough to keep me going on 2/4-5/10 / didnt want to risk loseing more, wich is 100% understandable
Playing around with HEM filters
Those results dosnt look to sexy, but imo there is more to it than just that, and there is some good things to look at from these hands i played for Ket. alot of my losses have come from HU deep matches that ended badly, for example i lost 35k$ to a very compitent reg on 5/10 in a single session.
these are my ringgame results filtering out 3 players and more:
as u can see i didnt do to well in my HU matches loseing 50k$ on 2/4-5/10 HU in about 30k hands.
HU variance is pretty brutal and loseing 40 buy ins or something in a HU match is something ive done multiple multiple times in a day, and normally i shake it off pretty fast (when being rolled for it)
My HU graph lifetime would prettymuch be 100 buy in ups and 100 buy in downs in pretty small samples, and its pretty standard when faceing the type of people who wants to play me headsup on HS.
anyways, i feel like i really fucked up with Ket, not really handeling the situation im in to well, i mean, playing HU against the best guys on the limit is probably not the way to go with those type of swings when being on stake, where the % of winnings are reduced u should really just look for lower variance bigger edge kind of spots. longple gonna longple i guess.
im not really trying to scew this to trick a (possible) future staker on this whole thing, u cant just look at the winning days or winning limits, then i would have even sexier graphs then ive been posting here the last couple of years, overall results says that im a breakeven bb/100 player over 200k hands lately, wich isnt to much to brag about. But im just trying to sell myself as the winning player i know that i am, and looking at it from the positive angle (wich is filtering out the HU matches) where u can really see a pretty solid edge.
More tricks up my sleeve + what am I looking for?
Since what im looking for now is really just a stake to play SH mainly 5/10 and stay away from both HU and 10/20 until im back on my feet again and have a big roll, because these past 6 months have been really fucking hard on me and i really need some help because i have alot of energy and freetime obviously and im eager to play and get out of this hole that ive put myself in.
To scew the angle alittlebit more, (i feel like its somewhat relevant) filtering out the 10/20 results this is how my graph looks like dureing these past months playing for Ket. (wich is the results for the stakes that i want a stake for)
With that 20k$ dip in the end putting the nail on the whole thing (i stopped played HU after talking it over with Ket the last couple of weeks, things looked great but the big loseing day put me about 30k$ in the Red for the whole stake, wich was where we decided to end it.
All im trying to show from all these filtered results is that there is some relevans to it, since what im looking for is a 2/4-5/10 ONLY SHORTHANDED stake.
Feels kind of crappy to putmyself out like this as a broke degenerate that hasnt been winning for the past 7 months, but i dont really care how i will look after posting this. Ive fucked up bigtime, loseing alot of money this year on stupipidity basically. I have to bite in the sour apple now if i even wanna keep playing poker, wich is what i wanna do for atleast 1-2 more years since i feel like there is still alot of money to be made, and i still have a decently big edge in the games. not as big as 1 year ago maybe, but still a pretty big edge.
Im not sure if posting it this way will either shoot me in the leg or end up being a winner since i feel like i somewhat are talking around facts by showing different filters in HEM, and i probably have enough trust and faith from the LP community as a winning player that i dont need to show these filtered results. But im really tired of messing around like this, these last months ive been thinking alot about poker and life and yadda yadda and im tired of doing this now, i just wanna bumhunt for a while and get back on my feet, cuz my head hurts, i havent won anything this year and just gone on stupid rollercoasters takeing the thoughest HU and 3 handed games my whole carrer. I dont want that anymore, im getting old
im desperate for help since the only option i have other then getting a stake, is falling back on 0.5/1$ or something and spend 100s of hours grinding my way back up. I really think investing those 100s of hours playing my maingames even if not getting 100% of the winnings (possible winnings i guess) is a better way to go.
any1 interested? cuz im all out of personal contacts to ask for help.
if so, hit me up with a PM and we'll excange skypes and talk more there.
Alot of earlier results and information about me can be found earlier in this blog, im also pretty sure that there are some "big name" LPrs that are willing to vouch for me aswell if some1 wants that
Well I ended up getting EQ the other day after hearing it was free to play - didn't really remember dick about how to play my ranger so I started over with a mage.
fast forward to now, I have a level 30 Magician on Cazic Thule and have a full sub for EQ (cap is currently 95, moving up to 100 in a month). The nostalgia level is fucking huge, and the leveling is a breeze so far with the new merc addition.
Let me know if anyone would be interested in joining me - I really enjoyed end game raiding in EQ back in the day. I hear they also have progression servers (basically they start the server off as vanilla 1999 EQ, and through community votes they progress to the next expansion pack - really cool idea imo so i might just transfer over. Although you cant transfer off once on.
5 reasons to love Longpleby DustySwedeDude, October 23
1. He's a lot like Pinball. Pinball was cool as hell. They both do thaiboxing, own up NL and tends to be happy. I seriously get confused sometimes when I talk to Longple and try to call him Pinball. I'm not very good with names.
2. He seems like a genuinly good guy. While altruism is something I don't hold in any esteem he seems to be one of those who genuinely like helping people out. If he'd be a monkey he'd be the one who made stuff work while all the other's threw poo at each other.
3. He's a mean Anti-Mage, just let him farm for 20 min and then he wins the game.
how much worth my bnet account?by ilbh, October 23
wondering how much worth my bnet account, cause I have no idea and
I want to know if its worth selling it or not.
it has:
- SC2 US server
- Diablo 3 US server
- WoW Pandaria
more details:
- SC2 I have the kerrigan portrait for zerg and Colossus for Protoss
- DIABLO 3 US SERVER SOFTCORE
Demon hunter level 60 with 170k DPS with sharpshooter. can easily farm act 3 Inferno.
Monk level 60 undergeared, but can easily farm act 2 inferno.
- WoW
mostly my toons are on brazilian server and i know that sucks lol
- 90 HUNTER (BR SERVER - horde) full PvP honor gear + Conquest shoulders, 600 skinning and 600 LW
he is honored with golden lotus so I have all golden lotus LW recipes.
I have all hunter's crafted PvP gear recipes and some other PvP's crafted recipes.
- 88 DRUID (BR SERVER - horde) full PvE pandaria Gear that I got tanking dungeons and question.
he is 600 alchemy and 600 Jewelcrafting. can do some pandaria meta gems, all red, blue and yellow gems and some others pandaria gems. can also do almost all cata and wotlk gems.
October results + vacation!!by player999, October 23
Wont play much anymore, since Im heading to the US in a couple of days. Cant wait to not play poker for a whole month So will have to stop the MTTs till late november
Just got a gold star @ sharkscope, now number 5 on the "any game up to $100 bi" leaderboard!
Not playing for a month will prob make me lose it, but I will work hard to get it back in december, thats my main goal. also currently #3 for the year in hypers, since 2 of the top4 guys play turbo/regular speed
Ugh. I'm a big Cardinals fan. The Giants just finished wiping the floor with the Cardinals and that's fine. We had an unbelievably lucky 2011 playoffs so I can't complain that much. What really makes me mad is the national media narrative that this series was won by the Giants rallying after Scutaro was slid into by Matt Holliday. Vogelsong absolutely dealt that game and in Game 6. I'm pretty sure the Cardinals only had one starter pitch past the 4th inning. These are the reasons San Fran beat STL. The Fox pregame compared Marco Scutaro to HOFer Paul Molitor. He's a comparison of their regular season avg/obp/slg
Scutaro: .276/.340/.391 over 11 years
Molitor: .306/.369/.448 over 21 years
Does anyone understand a playoff hot streak? Scutaro is 36 years old. Please hope your GM doesn't sign him to a 3 year deal for $8 million a year.
Albert Pujols left the Cardinals this year. Lance Berkman played 32 games this year. Chris Carpenter started 3 games in the regular season. Adam Wainwright is just coming back from Tommy John surgery. Rafa Furcal blew his elbow out right before the postseason. Meh.
Whatever, the future is really bright in St. Louis. Kelly, Miller and Rosenthal look like complete studs. It's been a hell of a ride this year and I'm already excited about next year.
Thanks for reading my drunken postgame sadness rant. I'm pretty sure no one like baseball here anyway.
Don't really know where to start with this, perhaps a warning to all readers that a very long and most probably very boring rant is about to commence.
I've not posted here in a long time, intentionally so, I withdrew myself from the community because of some shit I was going through irl. It all started last summer when I was in Korea trying to make things work with my then kind of ex kind of girlfriend at the time. It was an up and down roller coaster and stress levels were at an all time high, not helped by the fact I was going through a terrible downswing in PLO at the same time. To cut the story short, as I'm not here to tell tales, point the finger or talk shit about anyone, but it ended a year ago today and for that reason it seems like a reasonable time to talk about the situation. Both parties were at fault really, but I didn't deal with the breakup well. Shortly after the breakup I incurred some big losses which rounded off a $30k downswing overall in PLO which was something along the lines of 100 buyins given the average stakes I was playing, so I withdrew the remains of my battered bankroll and took to some quite heavy drinking for comfort to overcome the breakup and downswing.
I would frequently blow £100 on a night out, which is very easy to do in some parts of the world, but where I live, that's a lot of alcohol. 10-12 double JD and cokes was the norm, which for a 155lb guy is quite a lot, it was ugly and the follow day(s) were invariably a blur but it dulled the boredom and pain of life for a while. It went on from the end of October to the end of December last year, and on New Years I decided enough was enough. I got some money back online and started playing Hold'Em again, I drew up a workout schedule and started to figure myself out. Despite that, I was not over the breakup and the constant reminders of her on facebook were a major problem, it was clear from her posts that she cared not a jot about the breakup and that just rubbed it in and made it hard to forget even a couple of months on, so I decided to delete facebook for a month. This was fine for a while, she was no longer on my mind and January was a good month. I enjoyed the entire month, however deactivating facebook wasn't a good long term solution as there was a lot of stuff from friends that I wanted to see, so I reactivated, but went a different way about removing the constant reminders from her and instead decided to delete her and every mutual friend I had with her. This was a total of about 160 people, the vast majority of which I really really liked and most of whom I wish I still had contact. Unfortunately only 2 or 3 of those 160 people ever bothered to message me to see how I was doing or show any sympathy about my situation so in retrospect I probably didn't lose out on any real "friends", just acquaintances that were fun to be around at the time.
I'm not going to apologise to those people for doing what I did as they never showed me any sympathy and it certainly helped me overcome the problems I was still going through, but I do hope they'll understand my point of view. Naturally, the way I acted, shutting out so many people from my life including some friends I'd known for years just to avoid seeing anything of my ex on facebook sounds very naive, immature and unnecessary but, I was struggling real hard to overcome it and at one point was seriously considering the prospect of marrying her. I'm not here to try and reconnect with said 160 people or even apologise, but I do wish to explain my feelings at the time and hope that any of them that read this at least understand my thought processes at the time.
One of the reasons I felt inspired to post today, as well as the fact it's been a year since the breakup is due to the fact I was going through some old blog posts I made 3 years ago. I've cut off this community for a long time, but memories came back of how positively I used to be viewed here. So many people were writing in my blogs that have long since equalled or surpassed my level of success in poker and I do kinda miss the positive reinforcement from the community I guess. I don't expect any of that after this blog post, but still, it was nice to reminisce about the past and I have connected with a couple of LPers lately in Oddeye and sChOuA and have enjoyed interacting with them about poker and life and whatnot in the past couple of months.
Anyway moving on, working out was a real help in the first 3 months of this year. I went from 155lbs 20% body fat to 140lbs 12% body fat in that time frame, which ok, that's very light for a guy who is ~5ft 10, but the plan was to cut to lower body fat, then bulk afterwards rather than bulking from a starting point of 20% body fat and cutting later. Unfortunately, in March I injured my shoulder and until 2 weeks ago never bothered to get back into it. I'm really enjoying it again, and even after just a couple of weeks am seeing some progress again which is one of the most motivating things. It's an enjoyable process and that is more important if not more important than the end results. It's something I've spoke to Ket about a lot recently, and it's obviously key to spend as much time doing things we enjoy as possible. I've certainly been more productive this year than the last couple and that's the route I've wanted to take for a while and spent more time enjoying myself than I did last year.
Certainly, I've been more productive in terms of volume at the poker tables too. I've been aided quite significantly by the introduction of zoom poker, which has helped me get in a yearly total of a little less than 500k hands so far. That is probably double what I achieved in 2010 and about 50% more than last year and far more than half of those hands have come in the last 2 months where I've really made an effort to increase my productivity and reduce the procrastination to a bare minimum. Despite the positives, I haven't ran well this year, and off the back of the $30k downswing at the end of last year I immediately ran 50 buyins below EV at Hold'Em in the first 80k hands. It wasn't helping me in any way having to overcome more bullshit after the last half of 2011, but I got through it just seeing that my EV winrate was quite decent and seeing the unreal retarded plays people were making on a frequent basis. The first half of this year I was actually down money in cash games after running 25 buyins below EV @ 100PLO and, at this point, about 55 buyins below EV @ 50NL, eventually I said fuck it, said to myself "stop wasting time at these dumb stakes" and put more money online and started playing Zoom 100NL and 200NL. I immediately started running much better and in the last 2.5 months have made 5.8k at 100NL, 9.5k at 200NL, but unfortunately dropped 4k at 500NL, still, given an average of more than 1.5k VPPs/day I've made a decent bit of rakeback on top and am up over $10k in donkaments this year thanks to a 2nd place finish in some Sunday Turbo tournament for $15.5k. Overall, including rakeback I guess I'm only at about +~$30k for the year which seems abysmal for all the extra productivity, but I am about $4.5k below EV in cash games still and think I've ran pretty bad in tournaments in general, including the 2nd place finish for $15.5k where I started the HU with a 4:1 chip lead. Still, it's been drilled into my brain by constant self reinforcement that dwelling on the past is a complete waste of energy, and looking forward I have to say I'm confident about poker for the remainder of this year and the entirety of next year. Zoom NL is fun, I'm playing as well as I've played in a while, the games are very beatable and my productivity and general happiness levels are higher than they've ever been in the past year. In short, I'm well over the past and I'm looking forward to the future in every aspect of life. I may have alienated a lot of old "friends" and hope they can understand why I completely segregated myself from the community, I would not be against reconnecting with some of them, though the vast majority of the 160 people are not poker players and will never read this so that's not likely, either way, it's out there now and I'm happy with the direction things are going regardless.
Blue hoody girl in the rain??by Critterer, October 22
There is a picture. It is of a girl in a blue hoody in the rain.
It's one of the hottest things ever and i cant find it anymore? Anyone know what im talking about?
I remember being quite disappointed when i found out it was from a porn shoot but theres one particular picture that was quite popular as a wallpaper a few years ago...
Another look at my betting mistakesby The Dean, October 22
In poker then there is a reality that dictates that you are either ahead or behind your opponent at any one given time. If the flop is 10c-8d-2h and you have Ac-9c and your opponent has Ad-3d then you are ahead……if they have Qc-10d then you are behind.
Taking away the rare times when you are tied with your opponent then you are other ahead or behind. If you are ahead of your opponent then you need to assess how far ahead you are. This is relevant because it helps us to establish on whether or not we can bet or raise for value. For example if we have say 10c-10d on a 10h-4s-2d board then we are certain to be ahead……however the question is “can we bet for value”? For a bet to be a value bet then we have to be called or raised by a hand that is worse than ours.
If there is no chance of this happening then you are not value betting but simply betting and if you are betting without a good reason then you are betting badly. So most of the time with very powerful hands then we should be checking to induce optimal value on either the turn or the river if there is no chance of us extracting it on the flop. However this boils down to us betting for value because either correctly or incorrectly then we deduced that we had the best hand.
If we deduce that we don’t have the best hand then we are either betting or raising as a bluff. However bluffing is the flip side to betting for value because if there is very little chance in our bluff working then we really shouldn’t be bluffing. You are only betting as a bluff if there is some chance that a superior hand will fold (or inferior hands fold that could have bluff raised back) in the same way that you are only betting for value when weaker hands can call or raise.
So it pays to remember in poker that there are only two reasons to initially place money into the pot and they are because you are value betting or bluffing and all of this is based on whether or not you are ahead or behind in the hand and by how much. Thats it for now and I will be playing another session this evening mainly NL50 cash at www.888poker.com
"Yesterday you had pain, right?
That was yesterday.
You faced it.
It’s gone.
It’s over.
You are a winner.
Why are you carrying it on to today in your memory?
Why?
Don’t you know the simple formula?
What was yesterday was yesterday.
It’s gone.
You faced it." - Yogi Bhajan
(NSFW)Hot blonde with big titsby SleepyHead, October 20
Come for the tits, stay for the poker!
I started playing at my local casino, and I decided to make this blog so I can give my thoughts and record live hands that I play. When you play online, you can post hands on forums and talk about them with good players. When you play live small stakes in a middle-of-nowhere casino with terrible players, it's harder to find solid players to talk to about poker. I think players can fall in to a lot of bad habits in this situation. Hopefully this blog will help.
I went to the casino for the 2nd time yesterday. I played 1-2 both times and have yet to see a decent player. None of them know how to value bet and they all play way too many hands in a way too passive way.
I played one kind of interesting hand. I don't remember the amounts or all of the action pre-flop but it was a hu pot where I raised in position and he called. I had 53hh or something awful. He checked in the dark. The flop was A high with 3 spades. I bet like 2/3 pot and he called and checked in the dark again. The turn was like Qc I think. I checked and he bet about 1/2 pot in the dark lol. I think this was his way of trying to steal position or something. The river brought a 4th spade and I raised 3x his bet and he sheepishly folded pretty quickly.
There was another hand where I raised with ATss and a loose 30 something half stack called out of the blinds. Flop was A66 two hearts. He checked and I bet about 3/4 pot and he called. Turn was a total blank, 4s or something. He checked and I put him all in for about 3/4 pot. He slowrolled AQ for about a minute and then jumped up and fist pumped when he won the hand.
These hands are out of order, but at some point this guy to my right raised on the button and I called out of the blinds with 9s9h. I 3bet him twice earlier and he grudgingly folded both times. HU pot, flop was something along the lines of 843 two hearts. I checked, he bet about 1/2 pot and I called. The turn brought the Jh. I checked and he bet pot. I didn't see him betting this strong with any made hand other than a flush, and his sizing on the flop was funny for a semi-bluff, so I tanked for a little bit and called. The river brought a 4th heart. I checked and he looked agitated and checked back. I said "flush" and turned over my hand, and he got really agitated and turned over 33 for a flopped set. I think my thought process was sound in that hand and he's just a weird bad player, but comments are welcome.
How frequently I am doubted. This is what happened to the last guy that called me out and tried to claim I am all talk and no walk. I even warned him before this whole thing started that getting into this would turn out bad for him.
About 2100bb's I won? That's all at 3/6 so that's a little shy of 13k. Including the 5k side bet we made, so that's a total of roughly 18k I took off him...almost 2 dollars per hand.
Spam Blogging (cool post-metal band inc)by nolan, October 19
Isis is probably one of the best bands of all time.
I'm not a metal fan per se, I'm not even a rock music fan per se. Somehow or another, I've been aware of this band forever and I really think this particular album is one of the best albums of this genre ever.
It has to be on account of I like it.
So sick. The entire album just flows so well. According to google the band also considers this their masterpiece as well.
Such a dope first track too. I think Carry or Maritime are my favorite though.
Anyone else familiar with Isis?
Also, everything elite in the world seems to be focused around the Northeast of the US. Quadrant 1 USA #1 region world, suck it scandis.
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So will have to stop the MTTs till late november
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