So basicly, I got my FTP acc. along with the promotion of 50$ free, here in LP.net a few years ago.Since then I haven't played much, but I wonder if there is a way to get rakeback for my acc?
2. going to start considering alternative sites to play on because stars is just too demanding, i HATE being forced to play hours after work every time it comes around to end of month
3. after suffering the biggest downswing of my life at the end of last year i feel like ive matured greatly as a player. going to put more time to study the game now i dont have to play a whole bunch to maintain supernova
the bad
1. another 3 months of breakevennesssss
mandatory graph with my awesome technical analysis skills say the next 3 months is going to be gooooooooooooood!!
Hi, looking for someone to trade 210 paypal for 200 stars, looking to get into poker again after quitting sc2 and want to start my roll from some winnings i have in paypal from sc2. Willing to send first if you're a known poster . pretty easy $10 imo!
Calling out an Online Tournamentby HeroPoker-CEO, March 30
Today, I had an interesting experience,
I ran a 1k free roll for the other poker community site that I'm focused on (we're going to run something for PL as well quite soon); and there were 93 runners. Late registration was for an hour, so I was still helping stragglers get into the tournament and I had opened about 6 random tables to follow the action. In about 30 mins about half the field was gone and by a little bit past the hour, we were already in the money with 30 players left.
Now there is a messaging system that I can use to message the players, the problem is that it messages all of my players; including those who are playing in the Freeroll tournament and not. My initial intent was simply to announce the where the auto muck button was and say thanks for playing. I am sure there is some way to message within the chat box of that tournament , but I simply wished to give out a single message.
THE EYE IN THE SKY
For Hero Poker and all Merge software poker clients, it has the ability to show animated smiley faces and other very lol type of animations (like a panda bear doing a victory dance-hard to explain) and when the players type in text, it pops up like cartoon speech box. Now for a serious grinder, these have no value at all, but since it was a freeroll, people were just trash talking each other and I could see all their conversations pop up on each table. So sometimes they would ask a question to the table about the client or something; and then I'd send out a message that answered it. Now, the players at first did not know I was observing all the tables, and so after I made the comment; someone would point that out, 'Oh, CEO Dave just answered that question'.
MUCKING AROUND
After a bit of time, I noticed that some players were really trash talking hard and there was one player who had this really offensive sexist screen name and there was a girl at the table, but she took it as a joke. But I ended up messaging everyone that the guy player with the sexist name was now restricted from chatting to women on the site. It got some chuckles, but then the players were like, is Dave observing the tables, then they starting to ask a few more random questions and I would answer them as if it was coming from above. It was just pretty funny in general.
I didn't keep cracking jokes because, (i) I'm not a funny guy, (ii) I didn't want to distract the other players on the site as well, but in the end I watched the entire freeroll for 2 hours and did some live updates on the forum as if I was some pokernews staff at a live event.
A LIVE POKER ROOM EXPERIENCE OF SORTS
The entire experience reminded me when I had started two poker rooms in Macau and simply getting to know the players, and because many of the players had PMed me before the tournament I did feel as though I did know them all and it was a bit unreal watching a nearly 100 person tournament and knowing everyone. I mean some local tournament directors of live rooms do know hundreds of their players, but for online, I don't think so.
There really is no clear business point to this post, other than I thought it would be fun to run commentary throughout at tournament and really interact with the players as they are playing, but that would only be possible in a freeroll, otherwise I think it would be annoying as hell. Additionally, if there was live commentary on those high stakes online games, or online final tables, on a more regular basis, I think it would be something different to consider in adding to this concept of a boutique poker site.
its one of those runbads where you just expect to lose every race. I also dropped a grand at ac playing the wsop circuits a few weeks ago.
yesterday, i deposited like $100 on hero poker to test it out after i read the ceos blog post on lp. compared to cereus, the players actually seem worse at the ultra turbo sngs. here are my results after a couple of hours. i started off at the 5$-10$ ultra turbo and now im just grinding the 36$ until i have about 1000$. im also a lvl 15 farmer now lol.
Just started to play online poker today after reading article after article & book after book on it. I wanted to study the basic idea before attempting it, obviously, so i started to learned how basic math & position play into each other and how to use it in FR.
Anyways this today's session was pretty good, up 3 buy-ins. I'm going to be playing a lot more in the future though it might be hard since a new season of SC2 just started... we will see.
i've just been grinding 1-6 tables from nl50-100 because at the start of the year i basically realized that i can't become a good poker player unless i cut down on the tables and start playing properly.
I think my biggest challenge in beating this game is that i find it insanely boring to play most of the time. I've been trying to make poker more enoyable by doing other shit but since the earthquake happened, the casino/gym and a lot of places which i want to go to have been closed ever since!
how i got a good winrate (8bb/100+)by longple, March 29
I just went through my whole database and came up with a couple of realizations
it probably will be tl;dr but if u are a struggeling nl50, nl100 or nl200 player i think it can be a good read
during most of 2009 and until the summer of 2010 (july 2nd to be more exact) i was a masstabling rakebacksmallstakesgrinder, i did a database check looking through all the sites i 12 table++ ed on, 80% of hands are probably from stars 24 tabling
July 2nd was the day that i cashed out my roll from stars and started 4 tabling
i thought i was good at poker, i had watched all the videos out there, read most of the books etc, though i was a decent thinker, making all that rakeback $, running under EV and whining about it thinking i should make so much more etc made me paralized and i kinda got stuck in my improvement
during these hands i made about 17k$ in rakeback and lost ~4k$ at the tables pretty much breaking even as u see in the graph under
(i sorted out all my hands on all my aliases before 3rd july 2010 and after july 3rd 2010, alot of hands before that from the 10nl 25nl days etc are lost, i have no hands from 2008 left in my database
where i basically posted a cry me a river graph about running under EV, and that i was doomswitched etc and i was close to giving up on poker.
After this blogpost i took a break, and then grinded out the last hands to achive my next 100k VPP milestone + FPP bonuses
after that i cashed out my roll from stars, i finally started 4 tabling on bossmedia and ipoker and found myself beating nl100 and nl200 at a pretty good rate and it felt good to feel like a winner again, and not a rakebackwinner. then i started to grind alot of my volume at a swedish site where i play alot today. (if u seen some of my hands lately/blogposts with graphs they are mostly posted with the swedish currency SEK, as the tables run with SEK on the swedish site svenskaspel as i speak of)
I started taking more notes, play more pots with fish, pound on weak regs and had more time to look through stats, even though im not really a stats guy. The biggest thing i done so far probably is started thinking on my own, reading hands and ranges from simple logic breaking it down from start to finish what my and villains ranges were instead of just looking on 2barrel and riverbet CBet numbers and trash like that
i pretty much removed my hud except for the basic vpip/pfr/3bet/fold3bet from haveing a shitton of numbers befor as i felt a need to have that while i masstabled to get an idea on the villain even though it only made it worse pretty much.
all i look at nowadays is what ranges people open from different positions (the raise 1st in stat) it tells alot about peoples ranges, some 23/19 regs open different ranges, notable positions is EP BU and SB especially, i guess the steal stat pretty much is the same as this, but pound on these guys who open alot in the SB, dont give up position
the biggest thing i came to realise for REALS is how important position is, position is everything, especially the deeper u get.
pounding on people who open wide in the CO and SB from BU/BB is something u really shouldnt skip just cuz he seems tight, look through his stats, u will find that even the ones with nitty stats opens wide enough in the SB for example for you to call and 3bet more from the bigblind
and ofc be prepared to adjust to his adjustments, if he starts calling more 3bets oop or if he starts 4bet more etc and adjust ur 3bet range accordingly
for my results after the 3rd of july i was really not expecting these kinds of concistent results, as u play fewer hands/session it feels like u have more swings then u actually have longterm, its sick really :D
i havent done a complete database check for a very long time and im happy to present it soooo
here it is: (after leaving the rakeback grind on july the 3rd)
winning at almost 10bb/100 with close to 0 swings. it has taken me many hours to rake in 340k hands obv 4-6 tabling, sometimes 1-3 tabling even, but in just 8-9 months ive moved from a retarded breakeven 100NL player to a big winner on 2/4 3/6 and probably 5/10 aswell (dont have as big sample there yet, but so far so good)
it has made me sooo much better, i cant really push enough on how much playing less tables have improved my game and as u see the results speak for themself.
ive moved up from 0.5/1$ to 5/10$ in less then a year by 4 tabling.
As a tip to all of u out there who struggle at lower stakes, cut down on tables, play more heads up, take a shit ton of more notes, always try to rake in as much quality volume as possible
and seriously, playing heads up and 3 handed with good regs will not hurt u if ur a 100nl 200nl or 400nl player that want to improve
obviously it all comes down to what kind of goals u have as a player, but if u wanna get good, playing good players will get u there and not bumhunting.
but if u are happy bumhunting the lower stakes without much stress, without any ambitions on getting better at the game, go ahead
cuz exactly what gave me the opportunity to move up stakes this year is playing more deep tables, playing more heads up, and not to instasitout as fast as its 3 handed with 2 good regs
play, and improve, and u will be rewarded. there are no shortcuts in this game : ) except for MTT luckboxes obv ;D
to results, the graph with 300buy ins in 330k hands after july 3rd 2010 is played on 6 different sites, € $ and SEK, but i made some fast calculations and it ended up being about 85 000$
if any of you made it this far in the post, seriously, if u wanna get better u need to challange urself, dont be a bumhunter, crush the souls of every reg, they all suck, no one is good under 5/10 (no offence), some decent 200NL grinders, and alot of solid 400NL grinders out there for sure, but if they really were good they would have played higher already, and the good ones, that plays lower probably 16+ table to maximise their hourly so they are all just solid nits whom are not much to fear
but just get out of the mindset of getting xx$/hour on low/midstakes, as i did i calculated and only cared about the rakeback i could make. strive towards improvement and constantly try to move up and play thougher opponents, and if ur smart u will do just that
but obv u can make good money playing under 5/10, but imo alot of u guys should strive just as me to be the best possible player u can be, and for that u need to work really fuckin hard
cliffs:
-dont masstable if u wanna improve
-put down more quality volume try thinking about ur and villains
ranges in all spots instead of looking at stats clicking random
buttons
-u need to realise that u need to work hard to improve in this game,
be the best player u can be
-dont be a bumhunter unless ur happy playing the stake ur playing, then go ahead and maximise ur winnings on this stake or w/e even though bumhunting is kinda anoying
WELL after messing around with play money for a few years, I finally suckered -- I mean, convinced -- a friend to freeroll me some real monies into my account. I railed him till well after my bedtime (I work full time, give me a break) plus won a side bet so yeah, I deserved it!
I haven't been playing online as much as I used to so I'm starting this slow. Ended my first session in the micros up a little so that was kind of nice. Nothing noteworthy, other than the fact that I had a slight downswing and lost half my br at one point but s'all good now. Played an SNG and won that so was up a little more, then lost a couple but I blame a very unfortunate misclick for one of them. I really should start using a mouse instead of my mousepad...
I don't expect to be able to supplement my income with poker, especially at micro stakes, so for now this is just for fun. I don't have the patience or resources to dedicate too much time to poker at this point either. And why am I blogging about it? Bored at work I guess.
Almost. An employee looked like he was going to take a swing at me the other day after we got into an argument, so I filed a complaint with HR. Big mistake I guess, because he's best friends with the president of the company. President just called me into his office and chewed me out, saying if I complain or take it any further I'm fired, and that he shoulda let me go 6 months ago (not sure why he didnt then). I wanted to get into it with him but was pretty sure he would have fired me on the spot so I decided to bow out and just stand there getting yelled at. Pretty embarassing since I'm sure some employee's heard it, and office gossip will surely spread it around.
So back to the job hunt for me. At least I'm still employed, but obviously thats just borrowed time. He knows firing me within days/weeks of complaining about another employee would be an instant lawsuit so I figure I have anywhere between 1-6 months before he can get away with it.
Extra sucks that going poker pro is not yet an option for me. Lost 20 BI's in the last 2 days half stacking NL5, not even the worlds biggest heater could save me financially at these limits.
I havent played poker online for long time. But since i won that donkament for 1200. I am playing 10nl after work then i can. I just wanna prove myself that i am still winning player. But atm down -23bi. I know my leaks and have tried to avoid to get into those spots in most recent sessions.Atm -23bi down, since i lost few buyins on 25nl also. But mainly i am loosing 3bet pots vs huge station loosers who just hit every river mosly. They call 10$ to win 8$ pot with gutshot on turn and hit every fucking time or lower pair and get set on river. Lost 5 aa-s in row. Everyone aa was in 3bet preflop.
What i noticed ppl fold very easy to cont bet on 25nl. While noone gives repsect on 10nl and call any flop almost every time. I mostly 12 tabled sh. But now cut tables to 9 more easier to play. I still got 1k left i really hope i catch some break. Sound silly 100 Bis but i like it. Wanted to move 25nl then hit 1500$ but need alot of work.
lol finally gonna try to start learning ladder. trying 2v2, slowly makin my way up. Keep getting stupid allys who make like 15 workers then stop, or build build build and not do anything, etc etc. fk im getting all the passive lawl players.
here's what march turned out to be for me. fucking faggot nl 50 short stackers, why I oughtta...
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. pretty easy $10 imo!
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