Ah, a winning session. Even though it's only 10 bucks, for me the first winning session of the month is the toughest. I won't be taking a stab at 50NL until I can recover from my 4 BI nightmare Wednesday.
Anyhow, I got started late today because I'm trying to get Tank to take a shit outside in the mornings. He's such a pussy when the grass is wet, he doesn't like to stand on it, and he prances around like a fairy.
Finally learning some real pokerby Tycho, April 06
So I've played around enough on Omaha / Omaha Hi-Lo / Stud etc cash games and tourneys and said goodbye to full ring, and I'm never going back.
I think I've played around 40k 6max hands now, mostly on NL50 and NL100. I ran good most of the time and my BR went from 3.5k to 6k in like 1,5 week. I find it pretty sick, variance will probably kick in alot harder on 6max, but I love playing more hands and keep pounding on fish in position.
So I'm giving NL200 some shots now, moving down back to NL100 when I lose a few buy ins. I know I'm overrolled for NL100, but I feel I've played so little hands there that I'm not ready for bad runs on NL200. So when I'm running good, I'll continue playing NL200 6max, and while running bad, NL100. Sounds pretty solid in theory.
I hate the UB hand history software (HH's keep closing themselves etc etc), so I don't have a nice graph or stats, I'll just finish off with my biggest pot in my (short) poker career!
Submitted by : Tycho
Hand #40567688-53798 at Newburgh (No Limit Hold'em)
Started at 06/Apr/07 10:13:20
PretenderTUW is at seat 0 with $376 .20 .
LittleJimmyT is at seat 1 with $208 .25 .
PkerGod2 is at seat 2 with $361 .20 .
Artcruiser is at seat 3 with $192 .95 .
pink bull is at seat 4 with $198 .20 .
In_Your_Ace81 is at seat 5 with $188 .75 .
The button is at seat 3 .
pink bull posts the small blind of $1 .
In_Your_Ace81 posts the big blind of $2 .
pink bull checks . In_Your_Ace81 checks .
PretenderTUW bets $20 . LittleJimmyT calls . pink
bull raises to $80 . In_Your_Ace81 folds .
PretenderTUW goes all-in for $368 .20 . LittleJimmyT
goes all-in for $200 .25 . pink bull goes all-in for
$190 .20 . PretenderTUW is returned $167 .95 (uncalled) .
Turn
(no action in this round)
River
(no action in this round)
Showdown
PretenderTUW shows .
PretenderTUW has : two pair, kings and jacks .
LittleJimmyT shows .
LittleJimmyT has : a pair of kings .
pink bull shows .
pink bull has : ace high .
Summary
$3 is raked from a total pot of $622 .70 .
$3 is raked from the main pot of $602 .60 .
$0 is raked from side pot #1 of $20 .10 .
PretenderTUW wins the main pot $599 .60 with two pair, kings and jacks .
PretenderTUW wins the side pot $20 .10 with two pair, kings and jacks .
Oh yea, I'm still clearing the UB - bonus, I'll probably leave the site for either FTP, PS or Party to play NL200 6max. Which site would you advice and please state why in the comments section .
I have no discipline in poker, I keep going busto and never moving up stakes because I lack the ability to play correctly within my limits. Thus, I am challenging myself, starting with play money to play correctly and move up stakes and be at nl50 within two months (i'm insanely busy at the moment, i have baseball and senior trip and a bunch of other shit going on in my life)
As of right now I have made 970k playchips which took me all of two days, I figured that would be the longest part. I'll probably note the differences in the levels and try to make some type of guide as i move forward for players who are just starting or something, thus far I have noticed that the players in playmoney sng are significantly worse than the $1 in the early stages of sng, but on the bubble they are SIGNIFICANTLY better than the players in the $1 sng (this is of course regarding the 80k buyin playchip sng). The playmoney ring is pretty much just terrible, and all in all I really just found it pretty uneventful and im glad that portion went quickly
anyways, i'm trying to sell my playchips and (i think) that i've got someone to buy them so next step, nl2.
this was probably pretty boring, but i just wanted to make it known publicly for some random reason.
However, I refuse to move down to 10nl despite my puny party roll, so tomorrow I shall play on more 25nl, or perhaps even 50nl. We'll see how this goes. If I go busto, I'ma stay to stars then.
In other news, I made 300 some at stars, so my day wasnt completely bad
Down 10 buyins ...7000+ hands ...time to analyzeby tere here, April 06
This is the type of player I am. I play and bluff like crazy....Super Agro Donk is a perfect title for me...
Take a look at these hands and please give me some advice on how to control myself...
Playing AA too passively
In this hand I did the stupid thing of thinking, if I push flop I let my opponent play perfectly...So instead I wanted to push turn,,,but when opponent bet so weak something in my head said dont push turn...I'm absolutely retarded...and instead I just called and ended up calling an all in on river...HORRIBLE call...
QQ calling almost buyin on Axx flop One of my problems I have noticed is that I cant let go of hands... I just call down like an idiot sometimes...Not often, but that 1 time you do it, is more than enough to cost you a whole buyin, which is a lot...
AK all in on a KT8 all hearts flopTo be fair this hand felt like I had a read...felt like I knew he was on draw and if he was on draw ie the Ah draw, then I had his heart outs and most likely he was drawin to 9 outs...Turns out this guy had the 2nd nut flush draw...which really pisses me off because if he just considered I might have the flush draw then he has only 3 outs...In any case thats a bitch....I'd like to know what ppl think about this hand...
AK on A74 flop vs a set... This hand is sad because it felt like he had a set. and much like the QQ hand I have a major problem of not being able to get away when I'm beat. I actually sat there during the flop and said to myself 'whenever I get raised on the flop I am beat...I should just fold now.' Instead I opted to call 'just in case' he had AQ. When he bet so weak on the turn I still didnt trust my instincts and just pushed...no control...
AK vs set on KsTs8 flop I think Ldonnie played this great. of course to be fair I could have folded...but I rationalized to myself he has a flush draw ...and i couldnt get away...
The theme is very reoccurring...
88 on TcTs3c flop Reraised pot...going all in This hand is pathetic...The fact the guy had AcQc makes it just look like my call was good. When I got pushed I just said to myself theres no way the flop improved him otherwise he wudnt be pushin all in...so I called. I think I called thinking I was beat and I STILL CALLED....'I cant get away from hands...'
JJ reraised opt... still going to the felt <-- Here I actually FEEL like I am beat but I just want to SEE it...That 'cant let go theme is so friggin prevailent...its a huge problem in my game...Its such an ego thing...
An Introduction to Tere Hereby tere here, April 06
Welcome Lp.net. Since this is the first post for my blog I'll introduce myself a bit and how I got into poker.
My name is Tere Here. I started playing poker with my friends in grade 9 to 12. Funny thing was I hated poker. I really hated how long it took and how we would do it instead of going and looking for girls. The weekend would roll around and instead of doing something in the world, we would be cooped up in a friends house playing poker.
Plus I hated the fact that I would lose money. Even though I hated poker, and I never got good at it, I learned something about it. I learned that I could win whenever I really wanted to. With the right amount of patience, and simple knowledge of ABC poker, you could outlast your opponents who would make mistakes because of their lack of patience / discipline. The problem was, because I hated poker so much I never really wanted to stay around long enough to win. I won here and there, and although it felt easy enough, I never actually could sit down and do it.
Fast forward to summer 2006. In summer 2006 I met AntonChan who introduced me to Talentedtom. I moved away from tourny poker and went into cash games.
In september 2006 I had about 1000$ in my bankroll which I built it up from messing around at sit n goes from the summer. With that 1000$ I played 50NL until I hit around 2500 and moved up to 100NL. I stayed at 100NL from October to December until my bankroll reached 5500. I then moved up to 200NL. From December to near the end of January, I had a good enough system that made me win at 200NL.
My bankroll at this time had reached 9700. Close to the 5 digit number but not quite.
Then something bad happened. I believe it just had somethign to do with life tilt. On Jan 27th 2007 my bankroll fell from 9700 to 1500 as I lost 2700 at 200NL and isntead of quitting moved up to NL400 where I proceeded to lose another 4000. I moved down to NL100 and continued to lose.
In the end I was at 1500.
In February I gathered myself together and grinded NL50 till I was at 2000. I grinded NL100 till I was at 4000 and moved to NL200.
Yesterday, my bankroll was at 6800. Today it is back down to 4300.
A look at my graphs (50NL-200NL) are usually a straight diagonal up and to the right except at the beggining. It's like I learn how to play after the beginning and I start winning. That is, until Jan 27th. Since that day, my play has been attrocious. And I dont even know how before that date how I was capable of winning money at 200NL.
I am making this blog because I would love help from fellow 1/2 NL players or higher. I just don't understand the leaks in my game.
When I win it seems like I have to play short sessions around 500-1000 hands.
But if I were to lose a buyin within the first 500 hands, I'll stay there, making the session longer than my short sessions...But then instead of gettin back to break even and over, I will tend to get close to break even, fall back down and then hover down 3 buyins, back to break even, back down maybe even 5 buyins, back to break even,
but never over...then I will end up givin up, either down 10 buyins or more or I will luckily have hit break even...
In other words, if I lose a buyin early, I will just lose and play really long until I give up down 10+ buyins...
But if I win a buyin early, I don't play any longer. If I do, I end up losin that buyin and end up in one of my long losing sessions...
What makes no sense to me is that I saw one of Capaeno's graphs at NL200 and for 3000+ hands he just steadily rose.
Where as I can only steadily rise for 500-1000 hands. Any more and You have a graph going everywhere...
Capano's graph tells me its not bad luck that is owning me, its actually my play...
This is my first post and immiediately after this one I will analyze my most recent session which saw me going from 6800 to 4300...
Below I've attached my NL200 graph to give you an idea of how I run at NL 200...
Yeah that's true. I played a decent session on party 6max today and won $350. I didn't play very well but sucked out once or twice. In the evening I felt like playing some HU on FTP. First hour went ok, and I broke even after running quite bad. Then I played against a guy that was calling me with everything, i.e. 1 overcard on flop and turn, hitting the river or with gutshot on flop and turn to hit his str8 on the river etc. He put me on tilt and I blew like 2 buyins. Ended up losing $370 during this headsup session. I'm not angry about the bad beats. I'm angry on myself. First of all I tilted which should never ever happen and what's more I shouldn't have played in the first place as it was already late and I was kinda tired and I'm still sick so that wasn't a good combination.
I've got no discipline. Just 2 days ago I wrote that from now on I'm going to stay 100% focused, always play my A game, never tilt, not mess around and I failed again. I love poker and I want to be a good player but my discipline blows. Also my roll dropped from 6k to 4,3k due to some cashouts and spewing money around. I need to tighten up my ass and finally stop acting like a retard. This is probably the last chance I'm giving to myself. Otherwise I'd better cashout my roll and drink till I run out of money lol.
From now on I'm getting 100% serious about the game and I'm not going to play anything except for 6max nl100. When I get to 6k and I'll feel that I'm finally playing good I might take a 5buyin shot on nl200. I'm going to start every day with either watching a video on CR or browsing forums, posting hand histories, analyzing my game in PT, talking poker with others on msn and this kind of stuff. I'm going to 4table only, 100% focused, MSN switched off, no internet explorer, simply nothing - just poker. I want to play 1,5k-2k hands everyday, analyzing my play on a daily basis and hopefully it will work. I know I said almost exactly the same a few days ago but as I said this is the last shot I'm giving to myself. I know I can do it, I just need to get everything together and put 100% effort to succeed. That's it for now and wish me luck guys. Hopefully in 2 months I'll be laughing at myself that I struggled for such a long time at nl100 and that I was such a donkish retard, holla!
Ya heard right.
Had 2 session up until now. Before i met myth i was running constant 12BB/100 on 25k hands. First session and this happened: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/169642
Other small suckouts and beats are not worh mentioning lol...
Just a little excerpt of what happened after first words spoken with myth. So fellas: next time you actually talk to him make sure you got some garlic and holy water around you - cuz hes got LVL suckout aura hehe.
Well we are down about 3 Buy ins in the Sessions. Playing by myself has been running at 9BB/100.
Regarding my play Myth said that he was surprised how solid I play preflop and postflop(majority of time). Need to fix my winrate with medium hands and cutting the losses with them parallel.
Bought myself a new 20,1" screen - LG2000CN. Now I can play up to 8 Tables... Prefer 6 though .
Besides than that - home alone - invited some people over and had a drinking festival. Been good.
Hopefully Myth can get rid of his curse!
So I started my session today right where I left off yesterday. I sat down at 8 tables, my AA got cracked by KQ in my $20+2 freezeout tourney, and I proceeded to lose 3 full buy-ins in my first 150 hands, all to bad beats or coolers. Shit was sick. So I thought about just stopping playing for the day after my first 400ish hands, then things started to get better... The clouds over my head parted... The sun came out and was shining bright once again. My iTunes randomly selected that song 'It's All Coming Back to Me Now' by Celine Dion. It was truely beautiful... I started to own bitches again.
See that guy on the motorcycle at the begining of this video? Yea that was me... So I played about 1500 hands straight at 1/2 this morning and here are some of the highlights:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/169544 - Kinda thin, nothing too impressive. Took a gamble on the flop by flatting this guy's donk lead with a player behind me. Not really sure if that's totally the smartest way to play it, but whatever it worked.
After my 1/2 session I got some coffee and breakfast then Steve (PoorUser) was nice enough to sit down with me and give me his guidance through a 2/4 session. Here are some interesting hands from that:
Up-and-down session this morning. I'm starting to feel more confident in my play, though.
I have lots of questions regarding a few of my hands, so please comment
Oh, and I took the day off work Tuesday for GIANT'S OPENING DAY. The game sucked, but I did meet this fellow; he was trying to raise money for his college education
Help a nice young niggar get too collage. My names BONEHEAD No checks pleas
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/169424 This guy was a robot. Limp in LP, call my PFR, check-minraise me. He must have pulled this exact move 4 times during my session.
Massive bad beats - How to react ?by Sheitan, April 05
Hi guys, im ashamed to post something about this but i seriously need some advices: you can insult me, piss on me whatever. As long as it improves my game. Ive been reading you guys for so long i decided today to create my blog and get some advices from you...
Here is my story: im a 29 yo male canadian blabla and i ve been playing poker for the last 2 months. I discovered the game back then when i was getting bored out of my mind by dota and spent 1 day playing dat shit. Never been playing dota since, i play like 6-8H a day since ive been on vacations in France for 2 months (oh boy!). Made my first deposit 50 bucks and managed to lose it all in 1 day because i thought i was a genius heh. Made a second deposit and decided this time i should go step by step: 30 more bucks.
Bought all books i could find and started the serious business, playing tons of hands, learning how to beat the game. I had many success and went from 30 to 300 $ in a heart beat, not following basic BR management, whatever i was a wild gun and would go all in with all my bankroll when i thought i was ahead... And it worked.
Then i started to lose some money and get massive suck outs/coolers one month ago. Reading shit on this site i started all over again with my BR down to 80 bucks. MTT on PP 3-4 tables NL10 so i can focus on my hands and get the best of it, i thought by this time i will quickly beat this level and start the interesting stuff (6max NL). I managed to reach 300$ slowly getting sucked out here and there but by the end of the day i'd finish making profit.
Then the nightmare began: i could not do one session without me losing to 2 outters, suck outs, coolers. I was thinking it was still ok that's variance so i don't give a flying shit as long as i play my A game. And it has been like this for 3 weeks now, 8H a day playing poker, 8H a day getting bad results, so today i decided to fucking beat the shit out of my keyboard when some random donk pop me with K5o vs my AAs all-in pf. No matter how hard i try, no matter how i play i'd get massively sucked out over and over and over. Yeah i know i sound like a whiney bitch but whatever i needed to let it out.
So 2 days ago i was like wtf im playing too much poker that's why maybe i don't realize im playing poorly so let's stop for a couple of days, go out do some shit.Today i went back to poker and did a session, won 2BIs and lost it all to J5 vs my QQ on a XXJJ5 board, then i played this hand:
Now im here, crying like a hoe, someone throw me a bone what am i doing wrong ? I'll post some of my hands and hopefully you guys will make fun of me and give me some advices, right now im down to 220 $
Havent updated this thing in a long time so I guess I should. I ran really bad at the end of march and played even worse. I was tilting and making monkey plays all over, a pretty horrid sight. Fortunately I got my shit together and bounced back up a bit. Im at my parents house now so I dont have my PT stats but I think I ended up about 25k for March. My best month ever and Im really happy about my results.
Ive been cashing out quite alot recently since Im going to Italy with my brother on saturday but I have been doing well in April so far so Im still well rolled for 5/10.
It looks as if Im going to vegas this summer for the world series. Im sooo psyched!
I though about trying to win a seat but thats probibly just a waste of time. I suck at tournaments so I would have to play loads of sattelites or get lucky to even get a seat, + Im not that eager to play the main event anyways so I would probibly just end up selling the seat. I might aswell spend my time playing cashgames and earning the vegas trip that way. Hopefully I can get in on jonnycosmos house renting thingy which would be so so awesome!
Party Bonus and Fixed Limit suckaments.by PplusAD, April 05
Yesterday i decided that i will clear my 25% reload Party Bonus.
Though i hate Party Poker I thought it was a good Bonus and easy to clear.
When i started with online Poker about 3 month ago i played Fixed Limit 10/20 cent and was okay at it. + 3BB/100.
Then i switched to NL 5 ; NL 10 and after some time i tried to play mainly SNG. Last week i decided to leave Party Poker and play NL 10 at Full Tilt.
But the Bonus offer sounded just too easy to not take advantage of it.
I cashed in 216$ ( dont know why 216 ... but i somehow felt like having to do something stupid
53 $ for 530 raked hands.
I started this morning 3 h ago at Fixed Limit 15/30 cent 4 tabling since it is the fastest raked hand producer at party.
But Lol i suck so much at fixed Limit ^^
- 26$ in 719 Hands ( 420 raked hands)
Then pissed as i was i decided to play 5 table NL 10 on Party despite of the shitty rake speed. ( only 40% raked hands and such a slow speed at the FR tables [60 H/hour])
Yeha but i guess i am a much better at NL than at fixed.
+ 28$ in 380 Hands.
So overall results for today ( i have to learn lots of University stuff -> no more Poker for today )
I played 2k hands today. Down 5 buy ins, made some very very bad plays.
One thing. I'm playing too many tables. Unless I can fix my ability to play SLOWER (I make plays way to fast because I guess I don't want to time out on the other tables...) I'll have to play less tables. I moved from 6-8 tables... not good.
I felt like I was improving, and when I started playing today I started getting sucked out, and started losing money real fast. I kept spewing too (I was looking at pokertracker and I was spewed 50% of the $$ I lost, the other half was suckaments). I blamed that part from being tired and playing instead of sleeping.
So I took a nap, and I was refreshed. In the next session I noticed that I was playing much better, but things quickly started to go downhill. I started getting tired and lost my patience, but I still wanted to break even for the day, I used the excuse of playing 2k hands so instead of being down 3 buy ins i was down 2 more. I played so bad this session, yuck.
So I started making some awful plays, plays which I only realized AFTER I made them. I was like, wtf. I know I'm beat, or that I should fold, but a lot of times I just can't (When I'm playing my a-game, I would fold easily, and would at least try not to pot commit myself).
Here are some hands which I played horribly:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/169242
Not only did I misclick fold. There was a noticable straight draw out there... I didn't even see it! I was way too tired to play and once that happens mistakes are made.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/169240
I put mike on a straight (not a flush). Knowing how he plays it was a pretty shitty play imo because he wouldn't call with shit like Q9, and even with KQ I would have beat him... terrible terrible flat by me.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/169171
This was a terrible terrible call. It just doesn't make much sense why I'd call this. When I have AQ and someone reraises me I should fold even with a draw there. It wouldn't make sense why someone would raise in an already huge pot just on a draw. Ugh, what was I thinking
I'm going to take a break from this game for a few days to possibly a week. I'm going to really study the hands that I played and how I could've improved on it. I'm going to study like mad, I'm determined to learn this game. The fact is. I'm frustrated not because I haven't made money in the last 2-3 weeks (I've been stagnating, basically from a lot of spews and beats) and I'm getting really frustrated more because I seem to not be learning from my mistakes.
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