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.
Feb 1, done with prop betby Pokerpoopy, February 01
Finished that prop bet finally, made my 300K vpps.
Finished up with +$20K profit total for the month, even though I lost a whopping 13K at the tables. Excited about starting the grind off nice and on pace this month so I don't have to lose all my $$ getting crazy volume in at end of month again.
Will be nice to actually win again, gl at the tables y'all.
cashed out my ap roll because somehow i run like complete shit there (some 30 bi below ev over like 40k hands) and started from scratch at stars. had $18 in my roll, now up over $200 and playing 10nl. trying to think a lot more and generally just improve my game. watching a lot of aejones, ansky, and galfond videos because i feel they describe their thought processes very clearly and i guess i just look up to them more than other instructors for whatever reason. was 12-16 tabling 5nl and jumped down to 4 tables when i got to 10nl and it moves a lot slower but this way i can obviously concentrate better on individual hands. one hand i'm pretty proud of from a session i just played:
Submitted by : superfashion
PokerStars Game #56925286821: Holdem No Limit ($0.05/$0.10 USD) - 2011/02/01 6:56:47 CT [2011/02/01 7:56:47 ET]
Table Prospero XIV 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: Skkiperbody ($8.77 in chips)
Seat 2: Gyu78 ($18.44 in chips)
Seat 3: pacmanjt ($12.18 in chips)
Seat 4: crusher6 ($11.89 in chips)
Seat 5: Greg fol ($13.24 in chips)
Seat 6: Hero ($19.38 in chips)
Skkiperbody: posts small blind $0.05
Gyu78: posts big blind $0.10
Skkiperbody: bets $4.97 and is all-in
Hero: calls $4.97
Showdown Skkiperbody: shows (a pair of Sixes)
Hero: shows (a pair of Sixes - Ace kicker)
Hero collected $16.78 from pot
Summary Total pot $17.64 | Rake $0.86
Board
Seat 1: Skkiperbody (small blind) showed and lost with a pair of Sixes
Seat 2: Gyu78 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: pacmanjt folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: crusher6 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: Greg fol folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: Hero (button) showed and won ($16.78) with a pair of Sixes
duno if that's a brag or whatever but since i'm posting a 10nl blog i had to throw it there because it's definitely my favorite hand since i got back to stars. either way i'm having a blast with poker for the first time in a long time and i hope everyone else is doing the same. for january i made roughly $200 between 2nl and 5nl and i'm looking to keep it up and get back to 25nl, which i feel is the first limit where you can make "decent" money (considering i make $10/hour at my job).
GL at the tables lp leeann and i salute you for reading!
NL25 Graph. Kinda wondering why I ever played on stars. Pretty nice playing on FTP and not having to find the 3 fish that exist at the 6 max tables.
Getting ready to move up to NL50 soon. I'm a little over 30BI atm, but I want to make sure my NL25 game is solid enough and is not short term variance. Any suggestions on the differences and adjustments I may need to look for would be appreciated
Expect my next blog to be something along the line of "Nl50 runbad," cause my first shots never seem to go well
Anyways, now that you read the ramblings of some micro scrub (Thanks btw!), heres the promised laughs. Enjoy!
I dedicated this January to learning masstabling and deciding whether or not I should go for SNE.
I wanted to get like 100k-110k VPPs minimum and have at least positive results if I were to go for SNE.
Unfortunately, the results were not satisfying at all. I really had big trouble playing more than 12 tables and even more than 9 was quite difficult.
After like 3 weeks of playing 15-18 tables and steadily loosing, I lost the believe that it will just turn and decided to just go back to playing 6-9 tables, mostly deep games (oppossed to mostly shalow tables when masstabling).
That resulted in making less VPPs than I wanted to and the results didnt get much better either. Partly because of running pretty poorly during the whole month and partly because clearly I need to get back to my A game.
In numbers, I lost $16.3k, ev-wise I lost $4.7k, which is like my 2nd worst month ever or so. At least I played 132k hands and made 91.7k VPPs, which translates to $5.1k in rakeback purely from FPPs (not counting stellar rewards and milestones), so I can comfort myself saying that ev-wise and after rakeback I made some pocket change
Anyway, as of now chasing SNE is not a priority. In February I will try to get back to my A game by playing mostly 5-9 40-100bb tables at midstakes (2/4-5/10). I still hope to make some 60k VPPs or so, so that I could still possibly jump back to the SNE race later, but like I said, its not a priority atm. Getting back the winning mindset is.
Thats it, hopefully my next progress update will be better. Hope you guys had a better start of the year than me.
Interesting start to the new year. I indulged in a lot of new poker theories after my '10 blowout where I finally gave up professional poker. Now I just play for lulz, which has been working out much better in the tilt department. It basically comes down to a lack of care, which interestingly enough is an ideal poker mindset to be in. If I make it I make it, if I dont I dont. Had a couple of humorous busto challenges trying to run up zero dollar bankrolls, but ended in failure due to poor BRM. So on with the results:
A little messy, but to be expected from an amateur trying to play LAG. Every one of those spikes was a learning moment lol, and I feel I soaked in a lot of good material about what works and what doesnt at the micros. The spikes were self-induced due to adopting a half-stack strategy whereby I'm basically pot committed after any 3bet or flop action, but as time went on I was able to curtail which hands I should plan on committing with before I get there. Eventually some tilt did get to me and I bled like crazy around hand 10k or so I guess. But because I take lots of silly 1 BI shots and shit, the following graph more accurately represents my forward play style at any given limit.
And finally my overall stats. I can live with that. Especially with the adjustments I'll be making. I went back and forth between playing half-stack and full stacked, and at the moment I still prefer half stack or less at micro stakes, just to limit the swings when I get it allin. I noticed when I moved up to NL100 I got ran over trying to play this loose with 50BB's, and before I realized it I was moving back down. I'm pretty sure regs dont give much respect to half stackers and immediately targeted me as a fish. I kept getting 3bet and squeezed without really knowing what to do. Because deeper stack requires a more intelligent level of play, I think sitting full stacked at the higher games will be optimal as it allows me to play more postflop without regs just jamming KQ high or something and making me fold. Since I'm really happy with my non-showdown results I think I can possibly do well in this regard.
My main goal this month is to focus less on the value of my current bankroll and more on just being patient and letting it grow. I get too greedy and want to add a few digits every few days, telling myself I can suffer a 1 BI shot at the next level if it lets me get out of my current one, but it gets pretty annoying having to drop so quickly when you dont immediately run well after moving up.
I accomplished the goal of putting in some serious volume this month, at least from my standards. I made a couple hundred which isn't bad for only being at NL 10. I successfully managed to make a successful adaptation to NL 25 in my 3rd shot. Now I am at a comfortable roll and feel really good about playing the stake. Not scared anymore by the amount of money involved. Here is the graph for my full ring results for the month. Random jump in the graph is when I started putting serious NL 25 play in from NL 10. http://i840.photobucket.com/albums/zz329/k40cheddar/January2011.png?1296527290
I also took $25 that was sitting on poker stars and tried out some NL 50 heads up by buying in for 20bb to fuck around. Didn't go busto (although I did catch a runner runner flush to save my roll) so I guess thats a good thing. Here's my HU results for the month.
Goals for February
- Put in around the same amount of volume. Ideally above 35000 hands.
- Get roll up to 1K
- Start mixing up NL 50 with NL 25 once I get an established roll.
Gl to everyone else for February! Thanks for all the help!
This January has been a pretty intense month for me pokerwise. To start things off, I ended up taking down the 2010 PTR micro omaha POY. Huge confidence booster, scored a free year of PTR gold, and received a coaching contract with DragTheBar. This win meant a lot to me because it solidifies that I have accomplished something with poker (although I attribute the 100% of the win to campaigning skills). Still, it gave me the confidence and belief that I can go so much farther than I am.
Toward the end of last year, I was thinking about going Supernova for 2011. After much contemplation about what I actually wanted to gain out of poker this year, I decided not to go for SN and instead moved back to FTP and to get a black card (unfortunately this meant that my free PTR gold became virtually useless). As of today, I'm ironman for the month of January and on pace to get black card by the end of February.
Another motivating factor for me will be the prop bet I made with one of my friends. He laid me 1.8 to 1 odds, $540:$300 on first person to make 15k or highest earner by August31.
Okay now time for a graph
This is 40 hours of play 6 tabling.
Actually ran a bit bad towards the middle of the month. Was like 1.1k downswing and 800 below EV or something but kind of standard PLO. Also messed around a bit @ badugi up to 1/2 and lost like $50.
In the process of getting a fake ID as well. I'm not waiting 1 3/4 years to turn 21. Want to have the option of going to play live poker and a lot of my older friends are planning trips to Vegas and shit so I wanna get in.
Pretty clear that I haven't developed as a player the last year, while competition has become tougher. But still... ran pretty good at nl50 - couple of buyins above EV while running 10 buyins below EV on NL100, and that of course makes a bit of difference. But I would be lying to myself if I said that's the reason. It's pretty clear I have several leaks that needs to be fixed. Thinking about getting a Bluefirepoker membership or something.
Yeye, end rant. Still playing at FTP, and I payed fucking 3,4k in rake, while only getting 814 in RB (300 was a bonus too...) Makes me wonder why I abandoned my rakeback deal at iPoker. Oh well - got Iron Man thing, and got 50k points (and within the next two weeks I should have my Black Card!!)
Well January was pretty good to me.luckboxed some mtts and did alright in 180s i guess. Got pretty lazy for 2nd half of the month. Only made about 17k vpps for the month.25k is pace for 300k vpps which I'm probably gonna be shooting for. Intended to shoot for 200k but that should be pretty easy if i put in any type of volume
Also started 5nl midway through this month. I've always wanted to learn cash and I felt like my post flop game was full of 928232109 holes. I never had the discipline to build a roll before at the micros and learn. I probably still don't have the discipline to do both but I don't need to worry about the roll part anymore. So I decided to try to plug some of those holes by learning cash and hopefully working my way up to midstakes. Gonna be tough since I still plan on playing sngs/mtts so we shall see how that works out. Right now my goal is about 25k hands/month.
So this guy wants to stake me for a live game. He would give me 2 buyins for the limit id be playing. How does staking like this work, after the session how would we split profits. Btw this is a stake for one session, around 10-12 hours
Watch this and imagine what it would be like to be in that crowd of protesters. I fear that in America we've gotten too lazy to ever attempt anything as brave as this, no matter how corrupt our government gets. Respect to these guys for not letting corrupt government hold them down.
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. 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.
(a pair of Sixes)
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