I have some updates on my poker grind and wanted to share.
2012 is going ok so far, nothing spectacular tho, but looks like am making some progress.
First off, I need to rant about ipoker - got sick of not having proper rakeback at party where I play most of my volume, so decided to deposit on ipoker where I got sweet rb deal. But the software is bad, even small stakes games are reg infested, + i just couldn't win there + busted quite some BIs at PLOl there.
But I guess I'll keep trying cos it feels stupid to play only on party w/o rakeback.
In other news I am rolled for 100NL so played some hands there - so far so good - just cant flat pre as liberally as at lower stakes cos players seems to be much more squeeze happy.
Trying to work on my game
- play more optimally vs unknowns (randomize hands for making moves and calldowns better)
- being aware of my whole range in most spots (opening, defending vs 3bets, defending flops etc.) and my opponent's range (thats obv more difficult, so at least be aware how strong/wide his range is)
- conscious effort in observing other players,as soon as I sit down at the table, start getting feel for their game, what ranges are the playing, how they play made hands/draws/bluffs..
- struggling with opening wider ranges on the button - feels like am getting crushed when opening 40%+, lots of regs restealing like 10%+ from the blinds (and 3betting 6% on the button lolz).
I should be able to get the best of them when they keep 3betting shitty ranges oop, just have to improve my play in reraised pots with wider range.
thanks all LP green stars for posting interesting hands, blogposts and commenting on small stakes players HHs.
Watched new Longple's vid yesterday night, it was good fun especially the 2nd half. It will def make me spew some buyins trying to outplay peoples but its all good))
Introducing myself and my poker staking historyby Invertible, March 26
I hope the title grabbed you,
About me
My name is Adam and I've been playing poker as my sole source of income for 2 years now. I was at uni studying maths before I dropped out because I was too lazy to keep up. At the time I was playing $0.5/$1 and making decent money so I ended up quitting my weekend job and playing full time. After about a year I had quite a bit of money saved up and I decided to put a bit aside for staking.
Staking
Poker staking isn't as easy as it first appear's, trust me, once you start staking out a lot of your net worth to people you have never met before, it can be pretty stressful. Luckily I ran pretty hot at the start and had 2-3 every good players that were moving up pretty quick. It wasn't long before I was staking 5/10 and even a bit of 10/20.
By this time I had already set up my own poker staking website and It was getting very serious, I was staking out roughly $120k a month and I was bringing the site I was working with a lot of traffic. Then of course black friday hit and everything started to go tits up. The poker site I was staking on was on the Merge network and I was very worried they were going to be shut down as well as PS, FTP and UB. I started moving my focus on to another site and as soon as I did, the site I was working with basically decided to take all my players on themselves and I pretty much lost everything I had built.
That was almost a year ago now and I'm ready to start again. grinding 200nl just isn't the same when you have had $40k months before. As the title says, I want to start my own poker room, but to get there I need a player base. Quite a lot of this will come from my poker staking website hopefully. I will also try and develop my skills on a few smaller sites. To make things harder, the site I will be staking on is a brand new site with little traffic. This should help me develop the skills I need to run my own room.
Goals
- I still want to play enough poker to get me supernova by the end of the year
- Build my player base (twitter/facebook/mailing list)
- Network with other people in the industry, this should help me in any future projects
- Work on my writing skills
I'll be posting updates on these points as soon as I start to see some progress, feel free to leave any comments, I'll respond asap
I wanna get a tablet to travel with and use on campus, but I hate using apple products (don't get me wrong, they're usually quite good but I just don't like their approach, it's a preference thing). So, from what I've see over the last 4 months while occasionally researching on the web, that leaves me with either the Samsung Galaxy or the Asus Transformer Prime.
I think Samsung is coming out with a note 10.1 and that Asus is preparing a special edition of the Transformer Prime with a better screen and a fix to some gps problems.
That's the jist of what I know - what do you guys know / think about the tablet market, and what's the best non-apple choice right now? And is it worth it to wait for something that's coming out, like the note 10.1 or special edition Primes?
If any of you sickos wants to stake me for the Sun Mil in two hours,PM me. 80/20 in your favor, no makeup obvs.
From top to bottom: 180 stats, mtt stats, overall stats
Post in here, or PM to confirm. http://imgur.com/NZpzE http://imgur.com/9UwpG Graph for last month
Recommend good basic books for stock tradingby whamm!, March 25
I'd like to know the best books to get introduced to the whole thing. I have very minimal experience and knowledge and I'd like to start by reading a lot of good basic info. I know there are a lot of LPers who are in the industry or know how to do trading so I'd really appreciate a point in the right direction for a newb like me.
Gonna give ecigs another try, I was able to quit last time for 6 straight months. Also working out with my kids to get back in shape again, things looking really good after a long while I hope my recent run goot rubs off on everyone here who needs it.
I'm looking to buy an apple or android tablet but I cant decide what to get, I dont play games no more and I plan to use this almost exclusively just for internet, and basic computing needs
Had a deep run today at the Event 5 $500 rebuy, rebought once and busted 28/326, was doing good but ul at the end, meh, stnd donkament stuff. Payouts were terrible tho, payed 48/326, and I cashed $900, so still negative for the tourney lol.
Coulnd't play sat for the High Roller cause was deep in this one, so in the end because of losing my flight and stuff played only the $1.1k ME and this $500+$500, so stake finished with 2.1*1.2 = $2520 used from stake money, so backers are getting back 3960 - 2520 = 1440 -> + 900 = 2340, so we didn't lost it all at least
10/20$ VIDEO + rant, tattoo, resultsby longple, March 24
Yo
Ive felt alittle bad after promesing a video with commentary and then not delivering. Makeing the poll and all so i decided today as i woke up i had enough energy makeing one. So i just just recorded a video with commentary and as im rendering the project im writing this blog + cooking lunch.
its a live recording, just ranting and babbeling mostly but there are some interesting spots and i run like jesus (still) and win alot in the video, so atleast there is alot of big pots, lol
I talk about it some in the video, but i had this chat about life with Andrew, Highcard (on lp) for 4-5 hours or so last night and i told him that LP support really helped me gain enough confidence to move up to 5/10+ and just feel confident in those games, and i really do, i see nothing stopping me now, i have yet alot to learn, im not a perfect player or anything but i think i can do it, and thats thanks to all the attention ive gotten from LP. so thank you guys
I took myself completely on my own, playing my own wierd style from NL10 to NL400 but i kept failing at the 5/10 shots. About a year ago or so i posted my big post about how i got a good winrate on midstakes, and thats when it all started basically. The support and appriciation i got from that post from LP was sick, and i went up to 5/10 and started crushing a during that time, and by the 2nd half of 2011 i was takeing 10/20 and even some higher games then that, doing well and then busting on 25/50 50/100$ shots and other retarded stuff, u can read about that in older blogs if interested. (lol random combo breaker in my speech right there ), but now im back, and already im takeing 25/50$ shots again and im pretty sure im there to stay this time around, im not gonna make the same misstake again.
So LP helped me in that way, and after getting the greenstar and a ton of people responding to everything i post has given me that extra confidence i think i really needed. So this video is for you guys!
enjoy! DL VIDEO HERE: https://rapidshare.com/files/2240865890/ongamevideo.wmv
Its just sad LP kinda is dying, but ill do my best to keep it alive, we are still a decent group of people posting here regulary so lets go on for atleast a couple of more years!
as for life, got some issues atm irl but running well at poker and doing fun things IRL is really helping out alot, working out 4 times a week now with a close buddy, really love that ive taken up training and getting fitter/healthier. i really recommend all of you doing the same. get that laazy ass moveing.
And oh yeah i also finished up my tattoo last week, it hurt like fuck, 9 hours total of pure pain but im very happy with the results, what do u guys think?
Missed my flight among other stuff so took 32 hours to get here instead of 6, missed the first $300 Event but luckily arrived in time for the Main Event. Started really well, from 15k starting stack to 70k pretty quickly, but then hit a lot of coolers AK < KJ, 99 < JJ, AA < AQo, AA < KQo, always losing the minimum but then finally busted at the last level of the day KK < AA. I think I played great and the field was super soft, on the 2nd level I 3barrel shoved river 85s on a 4way T85r 2 4 and got snapcalled by JJ and KTo on the river (yes on that order, and river shove was 70bb+) and KO'd both.
Might play some weird $200 Event today on my own cause its the only one happening today, tomorrow we have the $500 2x chance that should be fun. Thinking about playing the $5k High Roller regardless of sateliting in or not, so $5k at 1:1. If I playing and win the satelite for it, the action belong to those guys who bought that and I'll send back to anyone who sends the $ for this one.
So 10% - $500, 5% - $250, 2.5% - $125
ship to hneves182 on PS
Hey so i've recently been playing SnG's and I much prefer them to cash games. I've been playing mainly the 45 man $1 ones, as I enjoy those.
I haven't played poker for 3 years but I deposited about £50 ($70~) a few days ago on stars, just to see if I actually enjoy playing poker or not still. I tried fullring NL2 and didn't really enjoy it as much as SnG's.
I've played 81 of these 45 man and cashed in 13 (1st place - 3, 2nd place - 2, 3rd - 2, rest up to 7th), however that puts me at about breakeven. Are these even profitable? I only played these instead of the 2.50 180 ones because I don't think im rolled for those (guessing i'd need 100 buyins at least? I could deposit more to get me started playing those). But those are the ones i'd much prefer, or even the 90 man ones but I think those are turbos and I don't really know how to play them.
I also purchased HM2 today (small stakes version at discount was $25), so fiddling around with that, hopefully will make my game a bit better.
If anyone else plays microstakes SNGs/MTTs and wanna talk about hands/discuss poker shit, I just got skype. name is = m.chadders so feel free to add me. I'm not part of any coaching sites or anything but have a few boks like HoH and poker theory and of course LP.
I'll try and put some more volume into the $1 sng's and see if I can actually beat those longterm for the moment.
I'm having trouble multi-tabling HU because the action goes so fast. Any suggestions/recommendations? Mostly I can't keep track of how the meta/flow is going at certain tables and I don't notice small things like timing bets because tables flip around so fast demanding action. How does everyone else adjust for things like this?
No wonder people like Romney have a chance of becoming president of our country. Parents in the documentary trying to convince their children that global warming is not real. I don't even know why I'm watching this one, I just like watching documentaries on hulu, youtube, etc.
Set myself a budget of $1300 not counting any random things like wires or other crap.
CPU: i7-2600k--$280, $297 after tax...will OC to ~4.8ghz
Cooling: Corsair H60--#67..$52AR
Ram: 8gb g-skill-$50..43AR
Case: Thor V2--$130
PSU: Thermaltank 850W modular--$108..$78AR
SSD: Samsung 830 128GB--$140
MoBo:Asrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3--$122
Total so far: $862
Budget left: $438
GPU? Leaning towards AMD 7870 for $370..hopefully figure get it for cheaper, maybe 340 or 330.
Data HDD: Reusing other HDs, will have 1.5TB internal, 500GB portable external..will eventually upgrade internal since it is almost full. Maybe 2TB for $100 if I can find that later.
Anyone have any opinions or ideas for me on what to do for GPU. Since I don't need one immediately I am going to wait to see how Nvidia's new cards are and what the Diablo 3 specs are. Only requirement is that the GPU setup can run 3 monitors, so eyefinity or nv surround set up.
For anyone saying "y buy a pc now w/ ivy bridge just around the corver and y 2600k instead of 2500k"...Ivy bridge is only showing a 6-10% improvement over sandy and sandy prices likely won't drop to much due to ivy's release (intel is a bitch like that). Also I do enough CAD and other work that hyper threading actually will help me out.
I'm after a watch for multi-purpose - outings/business. I don't like anything too "bling bling" and I don't like anything all one colour "i.e all silver/all black/all gold etc". I want it to be slightly stylish but nothing out of the ordinary, where should I start as I know almost zilch about Watches. Are leather bands high maintenance? I don't want to have to go out and replace it so often.
My budget is <$800 AUD which is relatively close to <$800 USD.
Any help would be great, i.e brands/styles/pictures. I've had a look at the watch thread, but it was hard to tell the pricing on them.
"EDIT"
Ok, after a quick research, this is what I came up with:
Turned 25 yesterday. Spent the day with my family and my girlfriend. I did not wish for much so I got a new hoodie and a bunch of books. My gf got me a "one piece". I've yet to try it on.
Still feeling slightly stressed out due to a bunch of crap I have to do, mostly related to moving and such.
Actually finally up a couple of buy ins for the month which feels good. Learning to 15-table just to get my supernova status within a reasonable time frame and I'm doing surprisingly good with that. Started tightening up my game and upping the aggression to kind of adjust to playing more tables and trying to play hands in a "simple and solid" way rather then doing a bunch of FPS. It's really fun to play tight because you get away with all kinds of crap when you're having a bit tighter stats.
Hoping to get supernova, get even more solid with mass tabling and get a small mid stakes roll together at about the same time as I hit supernova and then find a good way to do a solid hourly with "reasonable" variance. Gotta acquire more monies to put into investment to get a passive income. I want to be able to live of passive income without doing much before I turn 40.
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), but now im back, and already im takeing 25/50$ shots again and im pretty sure im there to stay this time around, im not gonna make the same misstake again.
? Leaning towards AMD 7870 for $370..hopefully figure get it for cheaper, maybe 340 or 330.
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