This last year I've been running so bad on nl 25 it's unreal. So bad that it's really depressing. It has tilted me so bad so I've also been playing worse, but still. I've practically just been going up and down between nl10, and im SO sick og nl0 (where i've also been running pretty bad, but atleast im still on the plus side) I just want to vomit. It's starting to get really depressive. I'm just never gotta get out of the micros it seems .
anyways here's my ev graph for nl25: http://img864.imageshack.us/img864/7342/nl25downswing.png
I'm over 40 bi under ev, and yes I know I havent been playing that well on nl25 all the time, and I'm only bare on the plus side in ev. But it seriously tilt the shit out of me .
NAPT Bounty Shootout Day 1 today for me!!by Joeingram1, March 11
Just got my table draw for the bounty shootout today and went and got picutres taken for the bounty chip that you give to who busts you. Buyin for it is 10k and get 2k for each bounty, 40k for winning first table and final table is 10k for each bounty and 171k for first place
Hopefully I can get at least 1 bounty and not 0 it out.
Have position on my fellow sne grinder george lind, should be exciting. Starts in about an hour, can follow along at www.pokernews.com
lol i was only joking when i made this post
Table 2
1 George Lind III
2 Joe Ingram
3 John Hennigan
4 Ali Eslami
5 Allen Kessler
6 Joe Serock
7 Dr. Sameer Al Janedi
8 Dennis Phillips
9 Alex Wice
The game is too sick and I am not very good at it at least if my ev line was looking prettier but no, easier to tilt for me as well... + Show Spoiler +
I have played around 47000 hands of PLO and I'm down $570 after being up around the same amount I am doing something wrong and I switched back to NL again lol
Playing both games at the same time and was break even at NL but then this month I started to win a bit. The two sharp swings you see are some 50nl.
My bankroll is finally at 2K since I hit 1K in oct it was at 1,7 then down to $600 at one point and I almost moved down rakeback has kept me in it and I'm going to try and play more 50nl soon. Slow painful climb lol I think I need coaching at some point but not yet I guess.
Sharkscope also has me down around $570 in tournaments which are my ftps and iron man points should I just do the safe thing and use everything on bonuses?
So I decided I'm going to label all my little progress journal entries with - [limit] just so it looks nice and sorted when I go through my blog posts. These will be about whatever random hand histories or poker theories that have been going through my mind. Take it all with a grain of salt though.
So I've played 3 sessions since my last blog post, and I'm going to try and space them out so I don't make too many NL25 blog posts before I move up to NL50 (unless I go busto lol).
Swongs! I'm probably going to have to get used to 5-10bi swings in short sessions if I'm going to play this loose. If it starts feeling massively -EV or too hard, I'll probably tighten up or cut down some tables to think a little better. For now I'm having a lot of fun though. Cliffs of the three sessions (starting with the -6bi):
First:
-Jammed for value into a lot of sets
-Jammed as a bluff into a lot of sets
-Got jammed on my bluffs a lot
-Did not backdoor random two pairs enough with my crap hands
-Didn't win any important all-ins
Second:
-More big pots shipped out than in
Third:
-Played 4 tables only and let my poker club sweat me.
-Almost all bluffs worked.
-Big pots went a bit in my favor.
-Happy that I didn't look like a donk and lose in front of everyone.
I posted two hands that I felt were somewhat educational/interesting:
PokerStars Game #58909970484: Holdem No Limit ($0.10/$0.25 USD) - 2011/03/09 8:15:40 ET
Table Summa IX 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: aavoron8311 ($18.29 in chips)
Seat 2: Filcei ($29.49 in chips)
Seat 3: FTPreg ($25 in chips)
Seat 4: Gleb Budakva ($22.18 in chips)
Seat 5: edzwoo ($25 in chips)
Seat 6: RiverBeavers ($28.37 in chips)
Filcei: posts small blind $0.10
FTPreg: posts big blind $0.25
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to edzwoo
Gleb Budakva: folds
Gleb Budakva leaves the table
edzwoo: raises $0.50 to $0.75
RiverBeavers: folds
aavoron8311: calls $0.75
Filcei: folds
FTPreg: folds
edzwoo: checks
aavoron8311: bets $12.04 and is all-in
edzwoo: calls $12.04
Showdown aavoron8311: shows (high card Jack)
edzwoo: shows (high card Ace)
edzwoo collected $35.12 from pot
Summary Total pot $36.93 | Rake $1.81
Board
Seat 1: aavoron8311 (button) showed and lost with high card Jack
Seat 2: Filcei (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: FTPreg (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: Gleb Budakva folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: edzwoo showed and won ($35.12) with high card Ace
Seat 6: RiverBeavers folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Fun little hero call. I think a lot of people will just give up turn, but you won't have much FE on this type of board texture since everything is basically two overs. A good standard to go by is assume fish are going to flat your cbet with two overcards so you need to adjust by value betting extremely thin. You could call the turn bet a thin value bet and just to protect. River I check because I can't really vbet anymore, and call because I don't think villain would randomly do this with midpair or worse. His range to the river feels like it should have a LOT of air, so much that it overshadows the times he rivers a 9 or slowplays some type of hand. So I think a call is justified.
I was writing up a long blurb about betting weaker hands, but I think I wrote a little too much and got really off subject, so I'll save that in another entry.
I must be doing something wrong.by ahole-surprise, March 11
Anyone want to offer coaching for 6max on PS? Or maybe someone to just watch my sessions.
I was properly rolled for NL25. After what seems like endless bad beats and coolers, I am no longer properly rolled for NL25. I am now playing NL10 and things have continued as before. It's like one day I'll make +1 BI, the next day -2BI, the next day -6BI, -9BI, +2BI, -9BI.
I am constantly getting sucked out on. I am constantly getting coolered. But maybe I'm putting myself in situations for that to happen? My bet sizing is proper, I just get fucked over and over. But maybe something is wrong. Over 150k hands this can't be just bad luck unless PS hates me and fucked my account.
I'd like coaching but what I really want right now is an experienced player to watch my sessions and see what I'm seeing. I need to know that this shit isn't just me.
Sources: Poker is Rigged - Will be closed downby YouGoTGoT, March 10
Confirmed: See below
Submitted by : YouGoTGoT
PokerStars Game #59003910438: Omaha Pot Limit ($0.10/$0.25 USD) - 2011/03/10 22:54:06 ET
Table Sputnik X 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: Miss_Azazel ($7.75 in chips)
Seat 2: MWaterman11 ($41.17 in chips)
Seat 3: capt_trip37 ($30.46 in chips)
Seat 4: Hero ($37.24 in chips)
Seat 5: hsun85 ($50.20 in chips)
hsun85: posts small blind $0.10
Miss_Azazel: posts big blind $0.25
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
MWaterman11: folds
capt_trip37: folds
Hero: raises $0.50 to $0.75
hsun85: folds
Miss_Azazel: calls $0.50
Miss_Azazel: checks
Hero: bets $1
Miss_Azazel: raises $3.52 to $4.52
Hero: raises $3.52 to $8.04
Miss_Azazel: calls $2.48 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($1.04) returned to Hero
Showdown Miss_Azazel: shows (a pair of Nines)
Hero: shows (a straight, Nine to King)
Hero collected $14.83 from pot
Summary Total pot $15.60 | Rake $0.77
Board
Seat 1: Miss_Azazel (big blind) showed and lost with a pair of Nines
Seat 2: MWaterman11 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: capt_trip37 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: Hero (button) showed and won ($14.83) with a straight, Nine to King
Seat 5: hsun85 (small blind) folded before Flop
Miss_Azazel said, "yes wp..another prik raises with junk and hits the nuts"
Miss_Azazel said, "it should be on jokerstars advert...come to play prik fish who always hit..."
Miss_Azazel said, "we ahv total rigged software and we dont mind rippin u off!!"
capt_trip37 said, "all losers say its rigged"
hero said, "rofl"
capt_trip37 said, "dont be a loser"
Submitted by : YouGoTGoT
PokerStars Game #59003995834: Omaha Pot Limit ($0.10/$0.25 USD) - 2011/03/10 22:57:33 ET
Table Sputnik X 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: Miss_Azazel ($9.45 in chips)
Seat 2: MWaterman11 ($46.83 in chips)
Seat 3: capt_trip37 ($28.61 in chips)
Seat 4: Hero ($44.67 in chips)
Seat 5: hsun85 ($43.75 in chips)
Miss_Azazel: posts small blind $0.10
MWaterman11: posts big blind $0.25
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
capt_trip37: folds
Hero: folds
hsun85: folds
Miss_Azazel: raises $0.50 to $0.75
MWaterman11: raises $1.50 to $2.25
Miss_Azazel: raises $4.50 to $6.75
MWaterman11: raises $13.50 to $20.25
Miss_Azazel: calls $2.70 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($10.80) returned to MWaterman11
Showdown Miss_Azazel: shows (two pair, Kings and Fours)
MWaterman11: shows (a flush, Queen high)
MWaterman11 collected $17.96 from pot
Hero said, "lol"
Summary Total pot $18.90 | Rake $0.94
Board
Seat 1: Miss_Azazel (small blind) showed and lost with two pair, Kings and Fours
Seat 2: MWaterman11 (big blind) showed and won ($17.96) with a flush, Queen high
Seat 3: capt_trip37 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: Hero folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: hsun85 (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
hero said, "lol"
Miss_Azazel said, "and ppl wonder why i say anythin....trust me..one day this site will be closed down..the stuff happening here is illegal"
hero said, "we dont wonder"
Miss_Azazel said, "u will see oone day gullable dikheads"
hero said, "what kind of time frame are we talkin about with the closing"
goin to mohegan tmrw for the night, getting there around 9. i have tickets to see elton john at 8. should b fun and i hope to crush teh weak 1/2 games. also get drunk.
been a while since I've posted and since then I've had lots of ups and downs
the last little while I've lost about 120k being retarded including 50k flipping
I've decided to stop all degen activities for now and play strictly NL cash games for the next new months starting from 2/4 and moving up every 20 buyins
in other news I'm gonna move this month to downtown Toronto and hopefully get everything done soon and go to EPT Berlin in April
heres a graph of my 2/4 grinding so far was a bit rusty but starting to get used to 9-12 tabling again http://imgur.com/4Ulft.jpg
so i set some pretty big goals for myself poker-wise at the beginning of the year, but as it so happens every time i decide i want to invest some serious time into learning this game, real life got in the way (actually i've spent the past month and a half prepping for and applying to grad school). anyway, now that all that shit's done i think i really do have time to dump into something fun, so here we go! spent about 2 hrs playing earlier today 4-tabling NL5 and got in about 500~ hands. up a buy-in so far, felt pretty good about my play. spring break is next week and i'm not going anywhere so hopefully i'll be able to get some good volume in then.
To the No-Limit Hold Em variant of poker. Omaha is a ton of fun and all but jesus it makes my head spin and the longterm variance is pretty ridiculous. Seeing as I have been down swinging for about a year now I guess I gotta go back to what I know best and start making some cash money again. Also a huge factor was the state of Stars 6max games right now seem better than theyve been in a long time. Looking at my lifetime PLO graph is pretty hilarious and fairly tilting at how much Ive put into learning the game... Might as well post for some laughs
So easy to blame it on the PLO variance but I am clearly miles away from being a proven winner.. although I will most likely always play it to some extent when dealing with the crunch of paying for school and maintaining the cost of a house and gf (sometimes I dont know which costs more ) I feel like it is in my best interests to return to the game I know I can beat longterm.
So starting yesterday I dove back into the nit infested games of 1/2nl on stars and found them definitely to be better than normal.. A lot more fish per table and whatnot. After spewing off in the first hour or so I started playing slightly better but still rusty for sure. It will take a little time to get readjusted but hopefully shouldn't take too long
Not exactly what I had in mind when I started back but Im sure the NL gods of the pokerworld will be kinder in the future. Ive been playing a fair amount of live at Fallsview in Niagara Falls recently as well which has been actually fun somehow...And I am going to be headed to NAPT Mohegan Sun in early April so if anyone is headed there as well lemme know!
Im going to try and update this blog fairly frequently as it will probably hold me more accountable pokerwise. Enjoy!
EDIT
Friend of mine just sent me a variance simulator of my hands with my std deviation if I had a wr of 2bb/100 so ridiculous.
who's reloadin for PS bonus? =)by LikeASet, March 09
Probably me, extra rake back never hurts O=
Progress so far this year, bulk of it is really within around a 1 month time span. 6-12 tabling but I still need to work on a whole lot of shit obv including trying to not vent the tilt on the poker tables.
Time to subscribe to CardRunners to shake off them bad habbits that makes one only have marginal results.
14 sessions, 34 hrs played, 32,600 hands. Up 730$, and had a nice 4 hr session netting little over 400$ just now. Still running pretty bad overall. Under EV like little less than 500$.
Some of the worst sessions were these.
3/8/11 $7.45 EV $256
3/7/11 ($111) EV $71
Really hoping I can string together some more wins. I hope its not my game that sux.
Anyways glhf, gg.
Just got kicked out of Taiwan for teaching english without a college degree, sure as hell don't want to go back to the states yet, Thailand it is. (had $500 br at time *didn't know what poker was*)
Arrive at Thailand, go to Khosan Road, stay at the sawatdee inn, go across the street, meet a sweetass hottie n hook up w/ her that night. Few days I had my fun with her, then one night she goes fuckin berzerk on me. I'm like WTF!!! I run to my room and throw about 500-1200 baht at her. (15-40$ish) Party goes on a week on khosan, was fun, but too touristy. (gangja street was fun as hell tho, and only place to safely get green)
Stroke of luck was found. I found a dvd of Rounders and a DVD of Boiler Room for like $2 each on the street.
2nd Stroke of luck was found, met a fucking insanely hot girl at a club and went to her house w/ some friends n partied all night.
3rd stroke of luck was found - my br was at like $200, the next day i wake up and hook up with her. She loves me, I stay there for the remaining 20 days or so freez and live Thai life.
4th stroke of luck was found - Daut44 won a WPT title and inspired me to play poker with all my heart and desire
5th stroke of luck was found - Got to play in some WSOPs and lost to flips and bad beats 2/3 times
6th stroke of luck was found - Becoming a live cash monster while still MTTing and kickin the shit out of cashgames up to NL100 over the last 5-6 months.
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