So after getting bashed on a bit by a buddy of mine via messenger I did some thinking. Before I always looked at poker as - when I was winning I was playing good and things were supposed to be that way. And then these horrid downswings of mine were just plain bad luck. I will not deny that I do believe my downswings are worse than a lot of poker player's but surely not the worst. However, I believe that the true cause of my swings are the fact that - when I am winning I have huge confidence and make more aggressive and bold plays resulting in a lot more dead money profited that I otherwise wouldn't obtain. When I am losing and on a downswing - my negativity instigates a lot of absurd action (calling down lighter because "I cannot be possibly beat this many times." I will have to work very hard as I do not understand how to clear my mind when I am losing. I'm sure many can relate with the thoughts I possess - no matter who you are - when you haven't had your AA hold vs KK in a month it wears on you. Poker is so easy when you are winning. It's when you are you losing you are seperated from the rest. I could be grinding 2/4 by now if I had all those thousands of dollars I lost because I couldn't fold my 55-JJ to a 3 bet or by not following my plan ("If he calls my double barrel on this board I cannot fire the river." Instead I am playing NL 50 again. Time to turn things around and now that I am back in school I want to set a goal to be a 2/4 reg by time I graduate (Summer 2013). I'm tired of whining and not taking the bad with the good - How the fuck can I cry when I am "unfairly losing" money I won off a game in the first place - not to mention poker paid for my first semester of school. Long read, thanks, and sorry for spamming the blogs with useless nonsense and stupidly declaring I would quit poker.
My first winning session since December 5th. And no, a winning day did not spark this insight - It was last night that I realized how idiotic my logic was. Thanks Nightless.
Edit: I was just given a random $200 by FTP deposited about an hour ago.... Anyone know what this could be for?
started poker again, and used Holdem manager again wich was a great help to me,
started playing 2.25$ on demand on full tilt,
these tourneys run very good for me, there is so much fish around,its just search and destroy
soon ill hope grinding midstakes MTTS
also started 10NL full ring cashgames wich ran pretty bad (as always :s) Although it was RUSH poker, i got so much coolers and suckouts
my leaks are so much bigger in cashgames, dunno why, but it seems harder for me to lay down good hands in cash games.
I've decided I'm going to play some NL10 to build my personal BR on the side of the staked SNG action I'll be doing.
I've piddled with it a little and didn't do alot of reading and have spewed a few BI's in the past, but I'm going to take it much more serious now. Watching some video's on CR and going to really try and focus up this week while I'm inbetween SNG action and snowed in. Not going to put a volume expectation yet, but mostly just want to get in there and turn a profit for a bit. Starting BR of 200 bucks, looking to run it up to a billion. Go Go Gadget run good me.
I have only played rush-poker a bit for fun before, but yesterday I only had like 30 minutes to play, so I decided to try it out (and had a small success). Today, pretty much EVERYTHING went right. And I also had a lot of lucky jin-turncards as well...
BR now at 3,6k , probably gonna start 4-tabling nl100 soon... Im a pretty big lifetime winner on NL100 and NL200, so it feels kind of weird feeling that it's a big step. But the 18-19 buyins I lost last month on NL100 probably is one of the reasons.
And hand of the day, I'm not sure about the optimal play here, feel free to comment. I was pretty sure he had a flush, but will he valuebet it if I check (part of me wanted to c/r river, but considering my turn play I felt it would look a bit too suspicious).
Submitted by : SpasticInk
Full Tilt Poker Game #27834514844: Table Supercharger (6 max) - $0.25/$0.50 - No Limit Hold'em - 10:50:33 ET - 2011/02/02
Seat 1: Royalize ($135.25)
Seat 2: TBone Ya Heard ($38)
Seat 3: TSnyder81 ($81.30)
Seat 4: Hero ($304.50)
Seat 5: ogera1 ($22.80)
Seat 6: the whiz1 ($226.90)
Royalize posts the small blind of $0.25
TBone Ya Heard posts the big blind of $0.50
The button is in seat #6
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
TSnyder81 raises to $1.75
Hero calls $1.75
ogera1 folds
the whiz1 calls $1.75
Royalize calls $1.50
TBone Ya Heard folds
Royalize checks
TSnyder81 checks
Hero checks
the whiz1 bets $6.50
Royalize folds
TSnyder81 calls $6.50
Hero has 15 seconds left to act
Hero has requested TIME
Hero calls $6.50
TSnyder81 checks
Hero has 15 seconds left to act
Hero has requested TIME
Hero bets $18
the whiz1 calls $18
TSnyder81 has 15 seconds left to act
TSnyder81 has requested TIME
TSnyder81 calls $18
River (Pot : $81.00)
TSnyder81 checks
Hero has 15 seconds left to act
Hero has requested TIME
Hero bets $81
the whiz1 calls $81
TSnyder81 folds
Showdown Hero shows a flush, Ace high
the whiz1 mucks
Hero wins the pot ($240) with a flush, Ace high
Summary Total pot $243 | Rake $3
Board:
Seat 1: Royalize (small blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 2: TBone Ya Heard (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 3: TSnyder81 folded on the River
Seat 4: Hero showed and won ($240) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 5: ogera1 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: the whiz1 (button) mucked - a flush, King high
Since my last blog post I have been tirelessly grinding MTT's. I've had like 3 +$200 days and 3 -$200 days, which means I haven't increased my BR very much since then. I've been thinking about some goals that I would like to achieve this year in poker and I'm going to write them in here so I can look back on them.
Goals
1. Play 4,000 tournaments this year.(I would like feedback from people who have done this.)
2. Have over 15k in profits this year.
3. Make atleast 5 good poker friends to discuss MTT's with.(PM me if you want to be one of these 5)
Non-Poker Goals
1. Lose 10 lbs (I'm 6'3" 215 right now)
2. Eat Healthier
3. Sleep for a minimum of 6 hours per night.(At least 6 days a week)
4. 15% ROI in the stock market this year.
Instead of playing a bunch of the $1 - $5 multi entry tournaments I'm going to replace them with $3.30 90 mans for the time being. Small sample but heres my graph from $3.30's last night. 3 wins in 34 tournies, I ran really good heads up.
I still have a 750k ticket that I'll probably be using this weekend. I decided not to use it this past sunday since it was multi entry. Thanks for reading.
so sundays epic degeneracy was an epic backfire. i dusted every tourney on bubble or earlier ;-)
woke up monday with $5 on my account...to deposit from my depleted bank or say fuck it and man up and grind. (kinda need most my $ in bank right now, gotta smoke n ski! =)
takin my time, 100bi all the way up, doing $1 45 mans/$1 90 mans and $1 MTTs til $200, then I get to unlock $2 MTT's with my $1 sngs, although can't start the 180 man $2's til I have $300 since the variance is a tad higher in those turbos. Get to start $3.25s at 300 too! this is gonna be really fun, i have a goal of 50k by end of month, 10% of that in this short month would bring a smile to my face =)
Dec 31 - BR Start $5 - BR end $130 : Hrs played 3
Jan 1st - BR Start $130 - BR end $170 : Hrs played 3
"Had a realization" - copywrited and trademarked by NeillyAA.inc
Its been 6 years in the game and i've never done 100bi all the way up and stuck to it. its finally time :-)
Instilling discipline is one of the final things that have been keeping me from being a dominating force in the scene "in my opinion, as we all have our own"
So yeah, doing that and getting back into pure grinder mentality.
Boils down to prize pools not mattering at all, sticking to roi and earning / letting my firsts come =)
Just did a nice cashout before this, skiing a ton this month and gonna do my best to get atleast 3-8 hrs of grinding in daily 5-6 days a week
omg just got a new drum, circle on sunday, can't wait !
lolhaters, this is / was all calculated. the degen session was made after paying back 2-3k in debts this month on the last weekend of the month. even made a post before the session started -_-
I bought this new 32 inch flatscreen television to watch tv in my room.
I dont have a dvd player to go with it, but i have a HD that i can connect to the tv to watch movies i downloaded.
But i have lots of movies on dvd too, like 100+.
I dont wanna buy a new dvd player obv since i have a HD, but here's my question:
Can i rip the dvd's to my pc and put them on my HD?
With which program, and i what format should i rip them?
Easy money in poker?by DustySwedeDude, February 02
So a friend of mine needs some income. He's really smart and probably fairly level headed when it comes to these things. Knows very little about poker except the rules of hold'em. Reasonable math skills and good deductive skills. Doesn't have to be a high hourly, but it'd be cool if he could make like 10 bux/hour or so fairly fast. Obviously I'd have to teach him some stuff but overall I'd like it to be as simple as possible. Any ideas?
So i got accepted to all schools i applied for (wish i had applied for better schools now) But was really unsure where my GPA would get in. I highly overrated how schools judged College Transfer GPA, and due to my first 35 units of college being 2.3'ish cause i was miserable doing it, took me quite a lot to bring it up. but 3.17 overall transfer gpa is pretty solid considering the 2.3 35unit start haha.
Anywho for those of you who know a little about California colleges where would you choose
Small Jan results/Feb goalsby BJLTNYK, February 01
Not putting in nearly enough hours to get going on having a big year...but coaching ends in 2 weeks so I'm still optimistic about what's ahead. Plan on having a decent month and grinding my way out of small stakes SNG/MTT land.
Can someone PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF FUCKING GOD tell me: Is there some kind of switch that FTP has that they just turn on whenever they want? Once again then only time I flopped sets today it's on a FD+SD flop and either the opponent flopped the nuts or they flat and the worst turn always comes. I haven't touched poker since my last blog on Jan 11th and I figured I would give poker a 3 buy in shot today. The actual reason I did this was because poker followed the same routine as last year (Banking Aug-Nov and then never winning a session Dec-Jan and then making 40 buy ins in Feb). So I was hoping Feb would bring luck but literally I saw no change whatsoever since my last sessions. I am still losing the in most disgusting fashion. I posted a lot of hands today... Just look through and see for yourself. I have a buy in and a half left that I will play with tomorrow and if I lose that I will cash out my roll and never touch FTP again until sometime far far in the future.
Every time I log in and play now it never ceases to amaze me that this can still be going on. It just doesn't make any sense. When do bad runs end? Or does it depend on sources outside of poker? General luck/fate etc?
forgot my FTP pin, how do i recover/get a new one?by whamm!, February 01
so ijust realized i forgot my ftp pin, i tried to search for details how to get it back but it seems i only get unregistered to any tournaments but have no clue or directions how to get a new one or reset it, god i love ftp lol
Well, I've made the move and I've been settling into Poznan quite nicely for the past 3 weeks. I plan to make a post about more personal stuff soon, but for now I have a question.
Now that I'm living in Europe, I should have access to the euro poker sites and partypoker, so which ones are considered the best? I never cared at all in the past since I couldn't play them, but now I need suggestions . Also I need to find out more about funding my account. I assume I'll need some other bank account, or maybe I can use Moneybookers as I'm not in the USA anymore?
Weeeell I cleared the Iron man bonus (got $75 or something) and made $40 in a freeroll thing for rakeback, so I felt comfortable to take a 25nl shot!
...Didn't go so well. This is the 25nl only graph for the last week of me doing mostly 25nl without the bit of 10nl here and there when there were no decent 25nl games, with required allin ev for extra whine, now in orange!
well at least my redline is breakeven had some pretty sucky hands, but nevermind, gotta keep on going! I am pretty small volume too so it takes me ages to get anywhere Back to 10nl for now I think, regrind and reshot.
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- a flush, King high
. Also I need to find out more about funding my account. I assume I'll need some other bank account, or maybe I can use Moneybookers as I'm not in the USA anymore?
Back to 10nl for now I think, regrind and reshot.
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