been doing some self reflection, and upon reading manyards blog everything seems much clearer
what is poker to me? money.
sure, its fun to learn and improve at the game, and sure, i enjoy the challenge of competition, but in the end, if there was no money in poker i'd still be playing stacraft. poker has given me the spending money to get through the last few years of uni. although ive never made it as big as most of the respected regs on these forums, ive still been able to fund whatever i wanted to buy and not worry about depleting my savings. but ever since i started work a year ago, the spark to win at poker just hasnt been there. ive had a few disaster sessions where ive lost a few k, and afterwards, instead of studying my mistakes i'd just write it off as running bad
i read somewhere that you shouldnt think of money as just a number, but things you can get with that number. so in my life, what do i need money for? in the next year i want to be able to purchase a decent place to move out in, as well as go on an overseas trip. considering the house prices in Australia this is impossible on my salary. in short, until i earn enough at work (hopefully within 2 years), poker is going to have to supplement my income.
i played about 5h of poker so far today, which is probably the most ive done in a LONG time! time to buckle down and grind out another few hours! FOCUS!!! i know if i work hard i can do this.
GL at the tables everyone (if you managed to read this far)
... so 6122 hands 6.5 hours 242$ up. Towards the tail end I started paying off all these short stacks with small pockets, which is just fucking awful. This one fish won all the pots he played vs me doing some crazy nonsense. We were sitting over 4 buyins deep, and he left after bout an hour, so I called it a session.
Heres some hands of this debauchery. He was 3betting so crazily it was awesome.
Submitted by : ChrisKim47
***** Hand History for Game 28123413078 ***** (Full Tilt)
$25.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, February 12, 01:20:01 ET 2011
Table Upset (6 max) (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: Zeus691 ( $25.00 USD )
Seat 2: dogura ( $32.34 USD )
Seat 3: AlexGerasim ( $28.88 USD )
Seat 4: owwwwn ( $47.94 USD )
Seat 5: matti93 ( $9.35 USD )
Seat 6: Hero ( $189.37 USD )
dogura posts small blind $0.10 USD.
Hero posts big blind $0.25 USD.
Poker Blog: I am thinking about getting back into the swing of things. I haven't played in about 2 and a half years, but I've recently come into some money and am thinking about giving it another go. I wouldn't know where to start, like what site and how much I should invest in this, but I have recently come into some money, and although it's not much, I am a college student, and I'm trying to make saving money a priority. Nonetheless, after being snowed in and bored out of my mind for the last 12 days, I'm really wanting to get back into the swing of things, even though I'm not too sure if I'll have the time to dedicate into becoming the poker player I'd like to be. Small goals to start out.
What is the general progression of a player? Not so much time-wise, but 5nl, 10nl, etc, and is there any difference when moving up to when i should play fr or 6max?
What should I deposit? and also where should I play?
Other Things blog:
Life is going great. I've got an awesome girlfriend who supports me, however we are unfortunately in a long distance relationship, but I'd rather be with her than anyone else. I've also recently joined my university's newspaper reporting staff, and have written a couple of articles. I've changed my major to Mass Communications. I hope to be on sports talk radio as I really enjoy any form of competition. My favorite sport is Baseball, but any kind of competition (except nascar) I am always willing to debate and talk about.
I live in a small town, I have a job to support myself at a local recreational center mowing baseball/softball/soccer/football fields. It sucks, but hey, whatever pays rent. I enjoy the work. Since it is winter I've been working the concession stand at our basketball facility. I actually get to do that today, Saturday, for about 8 hours. :/
Anywho, I guess to feed my craving to play poker before I nyquil myself to sleep. Nothing like a little fake money
Started the month playing rush like a super huge aggressor. Worked briefly until people started adjusting hard. Lowered tables to 2 instead of 4 in order to pay more attention to quality of play over quantity. Been putting an effort to post hands and get feedback more this month. It's helping a lot. http://i840.photobucket.com/albums/zz...NL25recoveryinfebruary.png?1297483899
+ about $60 rakeback
= $85
Not great. Definitely room from improvement, but at least I haven't lost anything. Roll at about $760.
wasted a couple of years of my life I guess, got hardly anything to show for it except a permanently stress-shriveled brain really.
going to take an indefinite break could be short or long
variance is the farthest thing from mild in this game.. just a headsup
damn I tried so hard
bleh I could be back quickly but im not going to try to make any predictions.
now to face infinite shame as I try to rebuild every aspect of my life as well as face my peers.. i only hope I have the strength of mind left to get back on my feet
i might come back and blog a bit about my time spent as a poker player but idk if I have the energy
thank you to all of you who put forth encouragement, hand advice, etc. over the years.
Holy shit, this is so inspiring, emotional, and flat out amazing. In 18 days these people were able to remove a 30 year dictator through mass protests and true people power. Democracy attained by the people, not by the barrel of a gun. Dictators the world over are shaking in their boots.
Watch the livestream, it's fantastic. An hour since the announcement and they're still celebrating like it just happened.
... ran pretty good made little over 8 buyins ($206.90). 3169 hands and 85$ in rake wow. Most I've been raked so far. Will put in another session later tonite, but will chill and play some BW on iccup first.
= +10.1k month. Good overall I guess. At least I'm keeping the 5 digit streak going.
Feb I planned to grind like mad, but with that downswing and with college starting again (I had no idea it started on the 3rd already I was even planning on make the sickest prop bet ever for february), I have little time to play, so SNE is getting impossible. I still have hopes tho, will try to get to 100k this month and take it from there. Also breaking up with my gf last sunday didn't rly help my mindset
Hi, Been lurking around for a month or so now and figure I should make a blog. Mostly this post is just to say hello and introduce myself but gonna put my Poker goals for the year down here at the bottom so I can look back and see how close I came or how far I surpassed them at the end of the year.
I'm currently playing 10nl 6max, I was a 100nl player and probably winning a bit because of rakeback about a year maybe year and a half ago. Then I moved up to 200nl got owned and sort of ragequitted. But I guess I'm an addict cause I'm back to give poker another go. Hopefully I won't make the same mistakes as last time and be successful.
That pretty much sums up me and my poker history. Cya at the tables and gl hf.
2010 Poker Goals
-Be a winning 100nl player at the end of the year
-Learn basics of other Poker games(omaha/stud/whatever else)
-Stop calling river check raises against players who never bluff its so fucking bad
-Stop playing if you get tilted.
Haven't been feeling to well the past 2 days so the volume hasn't really been there. Feeling better today so hopefully I'll get in a big day.
Since the starting the stake over Tuesday:
Played: 25 $6.60 90 man KO's
Profit: $9
Got one win in there and one small cash. I feel like I've been bubble boy alot which I'll chalk up to variance for now. Plan on a big session today though.
That being said I've started playing WOW again. And I'm actually really proud of how I'm handling it right now. I know that sounds dumb, but if any of you have played it, you know that its easy to find yourself on 15 hours straight and not even realize it. I've been playing but in moderation. I absolutely have to make sure I do not get involved with raiding, because that is what eats your soul the most.
So it's week 2 since I've begun. (Look @ Previous entry if you dont know)
I was going to update on Week 1 but I was at my girlfriend's and felt lazy to do so, so I'll recap here.
Anyways, I've gotten off PlayMoney and finally started cash on PS.
Depositing $15 to start with @ $0.02/$0.05NLHE I'm not doing TOO bad.
Been only been playing about 3 hours now and I'm up $4.00.
Though in those 3 hours I've dipped to about $7ish but I've managed to scrape my way back up - your right though, cash and playmoney are 2 totally different playstyles.
I'm continuing to read up on articles here and there, familiarizing myself more with fundamentals and such. Times I lose hands are when I'm an idiot and decide to call with losing hands - which brought me back to the basic rule (@ this stage) of "Winning by playing less hands". Playing real tight and overlooking the process as a bigger picture.
Yes I know the math is google-able but I still don't understand just by reading it. I'm more of a practical person - or maybe I'm just a dummy who can't do simple poker math?
Anyhow, it's 4:30 in the morning and I'm going to stop playing for tonight before I start losing, and will pick up tomorrow afternoon&night again.
NOTE: I'm still trying to figure out the math in all this though - right now I'm kind of playing by sense and strong hands, not really knowing the percentage & math of this.
If anyone would be kind enough to take their own time explaining it to me over MSN or something? Would be greatly appreciated!!!
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