My poker journey begins...by Pokemyface, January 17
Hmmmm where do i start, ive actually gone busto twice before my now serious shot at poker. Once was with the lp 75 promo where i had no clue on how to play nor had i heard a thing about bankroll management, so as you may have guessed, it wasn't a pleasant suprise went i went busto. The second time, an lp was kind enough to lend me $5 on stars, i proceed to grind it up to around $30+ then go on monkey tilt, to bring it down to 0.
6 months or so pass, where im dying to get an oppurtunity to start over. The chance was given to me when there was a thread about getting a free start with no deposits, so i had a look. Someone suggested that i4poker.com had a 5 euro free start promo going, so i decided to give it a shot. About a week or so after i get the money on i4poker, i had grinded it to 50 euros playing 6max .02/.04, because those were the lowest games on offer. As soon as i hit 50 i withdraw, due to the fact that 50 euros was the min withdrawal (the software was so bad i was dying to go to stars).
(23/11/06) So i arrive on stars with a fresh $65 with the bonus pending. A bit of grinding 5nl and i see people on lp saying that sngs are much more profitable at the low stakes than grinding the pennies. So i took my 75 dollars i had and gave it a shot at the 3.40's, then me being the genius that i am, thought that 20buyins was more than comfortable for 6.50's, due to this being the case for cash games. Anywayz, after grinding out sngs here i am sitting on a bankroll of roughly 1.2k, currently dabbling a bit on 25nl 6max and the 16's.
First day has passed and so did my first hours of poker playing. I must say, that at the beginning I coulndt handle even 4 stupid tables (wtf? ). Everything was beeping around and all those graphic shits (oh ye, the dealer and his chairs) was really annoying (I must use new modification for this)
Anyways, after some time playing 4 tables NL10, I've started 9 tables mass games. Let's be honest, I did suck, horribly and terribly. I've tried to played ABC solid rock-a-like poker. Afraid of betting too low, I decided that I will try to bet strong (nearly all the time bet the pot)which I'm not sure if it was a good idea.
I've won few allin showdowns, got terribly sucked out on pf allins (JJ > KK) but managed somehow to raise my BR by 1/4 which si quite good.
I've also played 3 sngs, 4th place, 3th and 2nd. I've sucked but SNGs are really "printing money company". Maybe I should concentrate more on those, but I dont like it because it's not poker, its just sitting and waiting for coinflips to come..
17 january 07
BR : 108$ (+20$)
stakes : 0.05/0.10 $ (+ 3 games speed 3$sng)
At the advice of Oxy (thanks a bunch) I started playing 5+50 SNGs instead of 10NL to build my bankroll so I can get to 50NL and start to play real poker. The nice thing about the non-turbo tournaments is you can play them much more like a cash game early to mid game it seems. Ended up $43 ahead, which I believe figures to 71% ROI, while 6-tabling. (11 games...2 1st($22.50/game),3 2nd($13.50/game), 2 third($9.00/game)) If you can play a decent cash game style early-mid game you can bust fish pretty easily. They will call with anything just about. Plus, the tournaments get me fpp faster than 10NL was, so Im that much closer to clearing the astounding $50 deposit bonus. In light of today's success I think I'll stick to these SNGs for a while and hopefully get rolled enough to play 50NL.
I started playing mid November 2006 with a $30 bankroll.
Through the help of a few lp members, I was able to learn how to play the .01/.02 games.
I did horribly.
For the next three days or so, the $30 in my account turned into a mere $9. This was around the time of the Anytime vs Nada finals, I remember playing during the game.
Anyway, through a magnificent stroke of luck, I was able to turn it back into $40. Through many weird swings, I was finally able to master 2nl. Yay
I continued to do decently when I reached 10nl. I had a $240 br when I switched. I did ok for the first few minutes, up about 2 buyins.
Then wtf?
One of the stars' anniversary hands happened to land on my table! I was it with a pair of jacks, and my br was boosted $250 to about $520.
That's when it happened.
I've been slow ever since. I went up to $600, then started losing a bit.
A friend recommended 6max; it was a lot more fun and I seemed to be more in control of the game.
Through a series of bad beats, my br went down to $310.
I was kind of pissed, but whatever. It happens.
I took a 4 day break
I started 10nl FR again a few days ago. I'm doing better.
I'm planning on playing fullring while I continue to move up.
PLEASE!!!
I need help on my game.
Whenever I post a hand, please feel free to criticize it, because I have much to learn. Every hand I post here is posted because I'm unsure of what to do.
Here is a graph of the past two weeks of my play - the most striking thing is less so the $ change than the amount of hands I've played: far too little.
My goals as a poker player are to be able to beat 4-6 tables of 50 NL 6-max at 5 bb/100 by May. Currently I'm about even at 25 NL, though I swing around a lot.
I play three tables (used to be two) at a time, which while giving less raw results allows me to spot my mistakes and improve upon them - and I make many mistakes.
So my goal for the next little bit is mostly going to be to play more; unfortunately, I have weird tilt. What does that mean? It means that me tilting = me logging off: instead of getting upset and shoving all in or whatever, I just quit PS for awhile. But wait, there's more to my tilt: I don't tilt because of bead beats, ever. I tilt when I get outplayed, and I really get upset and log off. It's not a terrible type of tilt (and is probably occasionally +ev), because I'm able to quit if I'm playing against someone better than me, BUT getting outplayed is part of the growth progress and I need to deal with it, learn from it, and improve. Quitting after getting outplayed in a big pot, though, stops that, and so I don't play many hands.
Anyway, I will come up with a more concrete goal (#hours/day) sometime later and edit this post.
Since LP added the blog feature and everyone seems to be doing it, I thought I'd create one for myself.
The purpose of this blog may be slightly different from others: my goal is not to share how I'm doing or such with others (although that's great as a side benefit), but more to act as a place in which I can record my progress for myself.
I played some 100nl yesterday too bost my confidence a bit. Had moderate sucess but I have to say 100nl is alot softer than 200nl. Most of it is probibly psycological though.
Just finished a rollercoaster session of 4-tabling 200nl. I played alot more loose than I use too, felt like i could do it since I was only playing 4 tables. Started of pretty bad, lost a couple of pots to bad beats and some to bad play. Mostly small to medium pots.
After I had established my LAG image playing about 30/27 on all tables but one I was starting to make some hands and the cash started to roll in. I forgot how lovely it is to have a loose image when you actually hit hands n shit. People started playing back at me in the most random ways, some which are illustrated in the hands below.
After this short but delighting heater I started loosing again. None of these losses where nice bad beat hands that I can post and whine about. Meaning I made a misstake somewhere in all of my loosing hands. Mainly being overagressive against players playing back at me, and making crying calls on the river where I knew opponent had drawn out on me.
Ended the session +400$ so its all good. No huge profit but I think I learned ALOT this session and that feels really good. Havent felt that in a long time.
Now I'm off for a run after that I'll kick ass in another session.
Just kidding,
but there is one situation when minraise is the best move
check this little sweetie out.
(even if it's a omaha8 hand, this apply to all poker)
Submitted by : 0x64
PokerStars Game #7976208614: Omaha Hi/Lo Pot Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2007/01/16 - 21:16:22 (ET)
Table 'Cloelia III' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: kawa99 ($3.90 in chips)
Seat 2: 0x64 ($22.50 in chips)
Seat 3: blackeleven ($30.30 in chips)
Seat 4: BEERANCH ($13.05 in chips)
Seat 5: matukac ($24.75 in chips)
Seat 6: undeuxtrois ($28.85 in chips)
Seat 7: FISHMAN77 ($23.65 in chips)
Seat 8: ICYerNutz ($15.50 in chips)
Seat 9: JBH55 ($41.35 in chips)
BEERANCH: posts small blind $0.10
matukac: posts big blind $0.25
Holecards Dealt to 0x64 ]
undeuxtrois: folds
FISHMAN77: folds
ICYerNutz: calls $0.25
JBH55: folds
kawa99: raises $0.85 to $1.10
0x64: raises $0.85 to $1.95
blackeleven: calls $1.95
BEERANCH: folds
matukac: folds
ICYerNutz: folds
kawa99: raises $1.95 to $3.90 and is all-in
0x64: raises $10.35 to $14.25
blackeleven: folds
Flop (Pot : $20.7)
Turn (Pot : $20.7)
River (Pot : $20.7)
Showdown kawa99: shows ] (HI: a flush, Jack high; LO: 7,6,5,3,A)
0x64: shows ] (HI: a pair of Aces; LO: 7,6,4,3,A)
kawa99 collected $4.95 from pot
0x64 collected $4.90 from pot
Summary Total pot $10.35 | Rake $0.50
Board
Seat 1: kawa99 showed ] and won ($4.95) with HI: a flush, Jack high; LO: 7,6,5,3,A
Seat 2: 0x64 showed ] and won ($4.90) with HI: a pair of Aces; LO: 7,6,4,3,A
Seat 3: blackeleven (button) folded before Flop
Seat 4: BEERANCH (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: matukac (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: undeuxtrois folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: FISHMAN77 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: ICYerNutz folded before Flop
Seat 9: JBH55 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
~3h poker - almost even session ( two big mistakes, every for buy in ); did some weight training, A6W and HIIT; learning for ~30 min. so not even close to what i should be doing; meditation before sleep, now zzzzzz...
After getting back from PCA i went back to 5/10 then said fuck it and threw down the gauntlet and started playing 10/20 and 25/50. I feel like I adjusted to the game really fast (having a bottomless bankroll helps with that) and I do feel very comfortable and like I'm one of the better players on full ring.
I think I can do fairly well in the 25/50 game because most of the really good players are a little weaker at 9max than shorthanded. Hopefully I get some good sh sessions with GP in soon. Got a funny story to tell but I'll leave that for tomorrow.
Yeterday I made a decision and I decided that from now on I would cash out every amount that I've spent that day from my BR to my NETELLER and keep it there so this way I can sorta pay for my daily expenses without taking a huge beat at my BR because a $100-200 swing is by no mean considered any amount in my BR while I'm playin 200nl. On the other hand if I add them up together I can say that I'm paying for my expenses
I also decided to pickup my stock exchanging career where I left it like 1 month ago. I'll keep this page updated about how that would go as well. And hopefully I'll get some feedbacks on that as well.
Ok time to talk some poker! I woke up 10am today so I couldn't do a session long as I wanted.
I ran bad at start and I wasn't really playing pretty well then I had a HUGE hot run for like 10min and after that, you can guess... Lost top 2 to a set. lost QQ to A4 all-in on a J high flop!!! and a couple of small pots and I was back to even 6th day in a row I'm running bad and not playin my A game
Why you should never eat at BK.by legendofxix, January 16
I was browsing the internets and I came across this hillarious topic on a forum. This was the story of a high school student and his experiences has he embraces the menial job that is fast food. A so called McJob if you will.
I can't say if any of this is true but its nonetheless hillarious.
I ran good today and actually outplayed some people at NL50 (I am usually unsuccessful at this, people don't fold, but I managed to show some good victories with air). I also laid down tptk versus a huge donk, I'm finally getting it through my head.
I have class in a couple hours and probably am done playing today. Gotta watch my Hawkeyes play the Hoosiers at 6pm and then time to study after that. I may put in a session after studying because my goal was to get 1,000pts for UB's promo by Thursday (currently at 600). I will update if I grind out another session.
Hi, Im PetrBlaha, some of you can know me from teamliquid.net forums.
I play competetively BW (as many ppl here do ) and I used to play poker for awhile...until I started another business which isnt here really important.
Somehow 14 days in a row I dreamed about playing poker (wtf?) so I said to myself that I should try it out once more . I deposited my last 88$ that I left for unknown purposes on neteller and started playing poker again on MIGHTY NL10.
ive had an interesting time in poker up to this point. it started about a little over a year and a half ago. prior to this time i had played poker with friends and messed around, at which point i met wired_c4 through my best friend. i taught him how to play poker(the rules n such) and he learned n shit. he then put some money on absolute poker and played there for a while. so after i taught him how ot play id randomly play whenever there was a game up until about a year and a half ago when he IMs me one day and basically tells me i should get into online poker. i still dont know why he did this, but i dabbled around in it for a lil while with no real intention of it getting to be anything more than just something to pass the time and enjoy. well i never really took anything seriously back then and it really hindered me to ever get better. i had some big tourney scores, cashed out a bit, and basically did the same shit i always did. fooled around and had fun. then some stuff all happened at once and it kinda shook shit up in my life. at this time i basically realized the woes of my ways and began to change my mindset towards poker. since then ive actually taken poker seriously, gotten a lot better(i like to think ) and ive build a pretty healthy bankroll. now i really enjoy playing and like talking and helpin ppl w poker.
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6th day in a row I'm running bad and not playin my A game 
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