PokerStars Game #50768512720: Tournament #318845413, $55.00+$2.50 USD Holdem No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2010/10/07 23:47:52 AT [2010/10/07 22:47:52 ET]
Table 318845413 1 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: ooyama (1020 in chips)
Seat 2: Hero (1980 in chips)
ooyama: posts small blind 15
Hero: posts big blind 30
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
ooyama: raises 30 to 60
Hero: raises 120 to 180
ooyama: raises 840 to 1020 and is all-in
Hero: calls 840
Showdown Hero: shows (two pair, Kings and Threes)
ooyama: shows (a pair of Threes)
Hero collected 2040 from pot
ooyama finished the tournament in 2nd place
Hero wins the tournament and receives $110.00 - congratulations!
Summary Total pot 2040 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: ooyama (button) (small blind) showed and lost with a pair of Threes
Seat 2: Hero (big blind) showed and won (2040) with two pair, Kings and Threes
I saw a video not too long ago whereby Ivey loses 2nd in chips at the FT of some WPT or EPT event. He gets it allin with AA or something, as a huge favorite. Potential 2 million dollars lay before his eyes. Then what did he do? He did nothing. He didnt run around the table hooting and hollering saying "one time! one time!". He didnt stand up and watch the cards get dealt. He didnt go to the rail to hold his buddies. He just sat there and let poker do its thing. He loses to a 2 outer. And his very next move, after being horribly sucked out on, was to simply shake hands, get up, collect his things, and leave. Either it didnt bother him, or he didnt let it bother him.
I want to be like Ivey. Just got back from another unbeatable table of fish. 3 BI's gone. Standard 90/10 coinflipping. I can only get it in ahead so many times. If this happened online shit would be breaking. Probably be out another monitor. Thank god it was live and the 20 minute drive home gave me time to cool off. I'm still on the verge of snapping. One wrong move and I'll lose it. Anyway, I am flat out done with playing in fishy games, just too much variance. At least fishy ring games where donkeys can threaten my entire stack. Gonna investigate the CAP scene, or maybe the 50BB tables, just anything where some fish cant quintouple up and then stack me for 100BB's randomly clicking buttons.
Exploiting low stake sit and go'sby bro, October 07
Now a week has past since I started playing again. The results I guess have been OK, however it feels like not much is happening and I was kind of believing it would be easier to beat these games. I'm of course aware of variance and all that but I do have to question my own play every day while playing.
I believe my strategy for this kind of sit and go's is good. It was quite a long time since I was doing single table tournaments, but I was playing a lot of multi table ones last year and these super turbo singles are basically all about pushbot play, which isn't that hard to pull off in a kind of balanced way.
Since this is low stakes though I shouldn't just stick to what is the proper way to play theoritcally. There's tons of weak players to whom I should adapt my strategy. I've started doign some observations and this is what I've come up with so far:
- Tighten your range when is villain opening/pushing, since most players at low stakes are way too passive
- You can easily get away with being more aggressive at the bubble
- Pushbot play should start when average stack is around 15 big blinds
I'll be thinking about more ways to abuse the lower level players weaknesses, my head is kind of empty right now. I was just thinking I could bring this up to reach out to you guys reading the blog, giving me some ideas of how to exploit players at low stake sit and go's, instead of just focusing on playing game theoritcally correct in every situation.
So I am ill again (talk about fucked up health lol. Working on it though), and had some time on my hands. So I went to youtube
Time Management from a real expert - a person with 6 more months to live (he is now dead).
It really highlights the needs to evaluate what we do, plan our time and focus on important things.
The overall goal in whatever you do should be to have fun.
[quote]If you can dream it, you can do it[quote] - Walt Disney
Tips:
1) Use to -do lists. Always do the 'ugly' things first
2) Do things from Important, Due soon-> Important, not due now. People focus on unimportant things due now way too much. Always keep opportunity cost in mind.
3) Find your creative times and your 'dead' times. Do boring/repetitive or easy things in your weak times during the day
Time is the most important commodity, that you never can get back. You can get money later, but time is gone once it passes.
It is useful to set up a time journal for 3-14 days, and see how you spend your time, and see how you waste it
Interview shortly before he died:
Values/needs in life
Every human has the need for:
1) Certainty - achieved through knowledge or skill or experience
2) Uncertainty - we want new things to happen
3) Significance - we like to matter, be it through money, power, influence or clothes
4) Love/ connection (with people)
5) Grow -we want to get better/further
6) Contribute beyond ourselves - we want to help others
Every person has a different map of needs and values, and will lean towards one or more of the above. Still every person needs all of those.
Obama
Pretty refreshing seeing an intelligent president that doesn't take himself seriously (and is not a complete retard like Bush - seriously, how fucked up a country must be to have voted him in the office. TWICE.)
Bill Gatesbefore his retirenment
Skip to 5:30 for pretty funny vid with a truckload of A-listers.
P.S. re my previous blog, there are easy steps for balancing nutrition and moving towards 100% Health (derived from a study of a 55,000+sample of respondents to a health survey). These are just a basic general changes, and my first step in the next few weeks before I will go into specifics.
1) Reduce wheat consumption to 1 serving/day (White bread, pasta, pizza)
2) No refined sugar snacks. At all.
3) Stop adding extra salt to food.
4) Refined foods = max 1 serving/day (white bread, flour...)
5) Eat 8-10 servings of vegetable/fruit per day
6) Lower consumption of red meat to max 2 servings/week
7) Eat fresh oily fish at least 3 servings/week
8) Eat fresh, raw seeds 3 times per day
9) Drink 11 glasses of water minimum every day
plos been tilting me pretty hard so I'm gonna stop playing it and grind NL so if anyone sees me playing PLO for the rest of this month I'll ship you $100
I've been doing a shitload of research on Marijuana and this is one of the charts I came across which I think does a great job of illustrating some of the insanity behind our ridiculous war on drugs:
Hi, pretty much got drunk everyday and party a lot but in poker did pretty well has i expected made about 2 buy-ins or so playing 1/2 had some sick hands like i grab kings and some dude flop quads and i flop full house in which i turned into river quads also :D PLayed like 32/17/65 imo isolating limpers a lot. But out of all i think i proved to my self i can play live has well has online :D (smallish sample thought only played 3 days) But ended up which i am happy for!
Running bad
Today was the same except that this guy Asul showed up and donated 12bis to save me. After that I still swinged dozens of bis up and down. Today: + Show Spoiler +
Whatever, I'll bounce back as usual :D
Can't even go through today's hands, so much bs
EDIT: here's a nice one, no one raises the flop on a 3bet pot for value, especially not to 475, silly fish... + Show Spoiler +
Submitted by : player999
PokerStars Game #50724172415: Tournament #318547422, $55.00+$2.50 USD Holdem No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2010/10/07 3:00:07 AT [2010/10/07 2:00:07 ET]
Table 318547422 1 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Tsifleet (1540 in chips)
Seat 2: Hero (1460 in chips)
Tsifleet: posts small blind 15
Hero: posts big blind 30
Holecards Dealt to Hero
Tsifleet: raises 30 to 60
Hero: raises 120 to 180
Tsifleet: calls 120
grind grind grind grind grind. time to rebuild from the pennies i have left in my account, forgot how easy nl2 and nl5 is and lol at my old posts complaining about it, i must've been worse then i thought
also, i ended up passing on the 17 y/old because she's fucked up in the head, i.e. cuts herself and does a shit ton of weird drugs. basically something i wouldn't want to get involved with. but she told me she's dtf and she also fucks girls so could be my ticket to a threesome or something. i dunno we'll see
some of the founders of this thread who are good players/well respected/good posters/old timers should start posting more. ive been a member here for a while and i notice this site has been plummeting in quality over the past few months. im thinking of quitting this site altogehter, although that might be a good first step in improving this site lol
but save this site please
I got into poker around six years ago, playing homegames and watching WPT/WSOP like most of you bros. Since I was not 18 yet I started playing on free money accounts in fake names, going through the risk of losing my entire bankroll by chipdumping to friends whenever I wanted to withdraw my winnings.
One day this was going to bite me in the arse. I was using another faked account with the $50+$25 free money deal at PartyPoker, finding myself on the final table in a $33 tournament. Somehow I ended up winning this for a $7.5K profit. I tried to chipdump most of it to my friends, some of it getting stuck after getting denied by the support who realized something was up and some of it being lost trying to somehow beat midstakes levels, despite my actual limited knowledge of the game.
Anyhow, I managed to withdraw a couple of thousand which gave me a nice bankroll to start with. I started grinding NL$50-NL$100 on European sites and didn't really win any money in my first year. A big failure considering how easy the games were back then.
It really took me until early 2008 - when I had already moved out from my parents and gotten my own place, paid from poker winnings - until I managed to start beating midstakes. I rushed up in stakes and was at NL$2K at the beginning of August when the worldwide financial crisis started and when the "poker boom" seriously started declining at the same time.
At this time I had already booked myself up with trips abroad for the rest of the year. Starting out by going to Asia and Macau for the Asian Poker Tour, then a stop in South Africa for a tournament in Johannesburg, before going back home again for a couple of weeks and then leaving for a three months trip to Japan.
I continued doing quite well but my economy got crippled by a huge downswing and my baller lifestyle so during 2009 I was mostly playing staked, while still traveling all over the place and not really making any profit from poker, finding myself pretty much busted by the end of the year.
When 2010 started I decided that if I hadn't managed to find my way back from low stakes to NL$1K by the end of August I would stop playing poker full time and dedicate my time for getting a job or studying.
My mission failed and here I am, an almost broke 21 year old with zero education and no real job experience. I was going to start studying this fall but I've been keeping it on hold because of a new project I've been involved with, not wanting to be tied up and be able to leave for whatever this project will need me to do.
At the moment it's still at the stage where time can only tell how it will go and how my life will look like the next upcoming year, so I've just been slacking with some SC2 and hanging out with my bros until now.
Unfortunately slacking won't give me any income whatsoever so to be able to have any sort of freedom in life and do what I feel like doing at the moment I'm back at the poker tables, probably not full time, but kind of part time until something else will come up, just to make sure that I can avoid having to stay in Sweden for another two months of -20°C.
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