So today's session went a lot better thanks I'm sure partially to luck (thanks JSquids haha), but also no doubt because I applied the advice Steal City, SpasticInk, Almebeast and Carthac gave me. Thanks a lot guys. I really really appreciate advice.
I tried to stop pushing borderline edges and reads post flop when it was unlikely I was gonna get a fold, I tried to stop double barreling when a scare card hit the turn, less fancy 3bets from the blinds, etc etc.
In addition I started opening way more when folded to me in the SB and a bit more when it was folded to me on the button. I probably was pushing it a little bit since I was raising some trashy hands on the button/sb but it seemed to work as most of the time I got folds (I wasn't raising trash in sb against any 50/8 BB's or anything either.) This helped my red line from completely tanking while letting me push my blue line up.
I opened alot more IP, cut my AF in half, 3bet a little bit less, and doubled my att to steal. Hopefully I can keep running good and improving. Any advice or comments always appreciated. Again thanks guys.
Went to Griffith Observatory on Sunday. Previous trips never panned out, as we would get there in the afternoon and the parking situation is ridiculous. We showed up bright and early before the doors opened at 10 AM and managed to get a space in the actual parking lot. From that altitude we were able to gain a beautiful, sweeping panoramic view of LA and smog in its natural habitat. No seriously, it was nice to see some scenery for a change. Some very cool exhibits inside. The pendulum was a bit of a snoozer, but I really liked the interactive displays. A number of cameras and gadgets were not in working order but it didn't detract from the overall experience. We caught two movies in the planetarium; there's a projection overhead and you get to lie back in a reclining chair and listen to the narration. Pro tip: sit at the back, best view, easiest on the neck. The narrator's voice was very strange. Imagine Dory the forgetful fish attempting whale speech, now just say Ellen Degeneres was born in India and has a thick accent.
I found an awesome sweatshirt in the giftshop: an image of Pluto on the front, with a sort of epitaph: "1930-2006: Revolve in Peace", and it was immediately added to the wardrobe.
I tried my hand at $2/$4 8-game over the weekend and broke about even. I am weakest in 2-7 and Razz, I think. I gather these games are more about accurate technique than anything else; I think I need to read up a bit on them. My impression is that 8-game is mainly populated by stud and HORSE players - people who often have no real concept of how to play pot limit and no limit, and they often nit it up for 36 hands and then just spew off their stacks in the last two games of the rotation. I think I would have been down instead of even if there were not so many players in the games who are truly terrible at PLO and NLHE.
Monday and Tuesday I began an experiment of playing my sets as half $25+2, half $15+1. 9 of each during the 3r, and 12 of each the rest of the time. I broke 100k chips in the 3R on Tuesday with 1400 players still left in it, but I managed to spew hard and bust in 800th. I can only blame myself. I caught cards well, and just lost it getting outplayed by another deep stack, when I had no reason to be getting fancy and bluffing, since there tend to be so many spots in the tournament where you can just get all the money in the middle in good shape.
Despite that, I managed to profit about $200 on Monday and $700 on Tuesday, bringing the BR to $3192, after transferring $80 to Carol to get her started at micro stakes limit. (If you see "icanhazdnuts" on Stars, be gentle.) She doesn't seem to handle making mistakes very well, but my style of communication is probably not helping (I have Asperger's). If I can bite my tongue and save comments for after the session, I think she will do better.
It now looks as if I might make Supernova very easily, but that is easy to say when I have not yet had much of a downswing since setting this goal. To complicate matters, I am strongly leaning towards taking two music classes and tutoring students, to be doing something to develop myself as a person, to have some human interaction, and to be some kind of benefit to society. If I am not too ambitious in the number and difficulty of pieces I work on, I think I could have time to put in the volume to make SN, especially at the $25+2/$35+3 level. 14.4K VPP so far this month.
does anyone know if there are decent not so expensive driving schools to learn drifting and stufF?
and before i get flamed for being a poser, or w/e it's just something i like and a hobby i wish to pursue. people spend money on golf and stuff, so i don't see why spending money on cars is any different.
So life update. I haven't played poker in more than a month. I've got a job at sony retail stores working 30-40 hrs a week. Its going well, so if you guys ever have questions about consumer electronics (tvs, laptops, sony products, etc) I'm that guy. It really does feel like I've extra time on my hands without worrying about poker. I've officially quit the game and cashed out my entire bankroll to repay student loans LOL. A career in sales is what i'm focused on atm.
i get this funky email today from stars
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Ship the $16. if anybody wants to flip me for it let me know since ive already cashed
will still lurk LP until I lose interest. toodle loo gents
I have played a few sessions of live poker recently (1-2 NL) at the local casino, and I'm looking for ways to really crush it.
I am beating NL10 online so I understand basics of position and pf raising.
My strategy right now is to build a tough image with tight pf play. This includes folding SB and late position with weak holdings in limped pots, and betting 4/5 pot when I do see a flop. I do keep mental notes of players, but I do not trust my live reads to see if players are strong or weak.
I find my biggest leak is c-betting the missed flops. In the long run, is c-betting the flop with AK/AQ/air profitable at 1-2? If so, at what number of people at the flop does it start to be unprofitable?
Also, should I open-limp with low-mid pairs in early position? What about suited and semi-suited connectors?
It looks fucking horrible and even the EV line is in the negative but I feel like it doesn't even cover how bad I felt like I ran today. Even if the EV line covered it all I am running 10 buyins below EV. But that's not the case. I just could not catch a break and seemed to be running into monsters I thought they couldn't really have due to preflop/flop actions when I had second or third nut type hands. Or I would 3bet pre, get called OOP, half pot flop, half pot turn setting up for a river shove, and then have the fish river two pair for his A7 or some bs. Add this to consistently losing flips and 70/30's and it just sucked today.
It's even worse because I kept taking little breaks to relax and keep my cool and I was telling myself to just play solid and that downswings happen. I was pretty non tilted, at least in the monkey tilt department. Even now I feel pretty calm about it but fuckkkkkkk.. the graph just looks awful and I'm wondering if a winning player can even run this bad at NL5. :/.
Anyone have any advice? Kill myself? Hahaha. Does this just happen sometimes? 10,000 hands isn't impossible for a swing like this, but I know the bigger your winrate the less likely this stuff happens... :/. Ok well I'm going to bed.
Played live last night, and almost lost my shit after some call-station brags about how he would have folded TP HU if "someone so much as breathed on the pot", a mere 3 hands after calling off about 50BB's with bottom fucking pair. Seriously? You call flop and turn with A3s on a QJ34 board, and then claim you would have folded JQ to a river bet on a J7289 board. Go fuck yourself old man. Fish just love to show how disciplined they are laying down monsters or whatever the fuck. "Look im not as terrible as even I think I am, I'm going to muck KK preflop because someone 4bet me, I have sick reads".
An otherwise crap session running cold all night. Maybe try again later this week.
My fiance and I wen't to a wedding yesturday, and they did a nice little dance right after the bride and groom walked down. My fiance was the one on the very left. My shitty camera work, oh well i tried my best with all the people in my way. Enjoy.
I quickly need 100$ on Paypal, i give 120$ on moneybookers.
I send first to a "trusted" LP member (dont have 10 posts).
I already made a lot of small transfers on LP, i'm not a scammer, just an honest person.
im gonna play crazy music and probablu complain that it doesnt play loud enough. im gonna tell you that i went out in the gayest part of england and yet did not suck any cock.
I've got 1 left. Anyone want it? PM me your email.
Basically its sort of like a streaming version of itunes and last.fm. The invite i can give u will let u use the free version but theres adverts. Premium with no ads is £5/month o $7.5/month and theres a version with even better sound quality and no ads thats £10 or $15/month..
Roll boosted to $2500 yesterday, so I decided it's time to play some NL50 with a 6BI move down rule. Didn't went too good, heh. Mostly a mixture of coolers and bad play:
Well, time to go down once again. This time I'm going to grind those stakes until I reach $3000. The reason for this conservatism is that I find NL25 really soft here and, even though I don't desperately need money now, I'll need some in the not-so-distant future, so I can't really afford moving up and down numerously with a constant bankroll. I don't think I'll have any problems with motivating myself to play overrolled, because I've already made $600 here and didn't really feel the urge to move up. I just wanted to take a shot and see what happens.
Although not everything went as planned, I'm still confident in myself. Grinding a ton at the moment (as you can see from the graphs; the time span is just seven days) and willing to continue putting a ton of hands at least until the end of the summer break (that is until 4th October), so I'm expecting to hit that $3k pretty damn soon, rofl.
I can't really say why, but the struggle to finally win some money during the past few months made me more motivated than ever. I'm 100% positive that I will reach those fucking midstakes sooner or later, no matter what. Good luck me!
Here are the statistics. As you can see I've played on all different currencies on iPoker, skill-wise they feel about the same, but too short sample to tell. Perhaps the pounds-table was a bit harder, but probably marginally.
What can be said about NL50 then? The majority of the players are actually regulars, but they seem to be pretty bad most of them. Biggest mistake I see by them is not valuebetting enough, and polarizing there range heavily. Makes it a lot easier to call down with 3rd pair if you know they only valuebet with a thin range of hands.
I have some small specific tips to help beat the level, and especially in the face of all the regulars. There are still tons of fish who donate their money to you though, so don't worry. But sometimes the tables were all filled up with 20/18 guys 3-betting like 10+%. A common thing they all have is that they pretty much 3-bet all the time in the SB and BB against a BTN/CO-raise. So, for all using HUD, it's pretty a MUST to check specifically from which position people 3-bet.
My general idea in the 3-bet department is to mix it up a bit more positionally; it's a great idea to once in a while throw in a 3-bet from the HJ against a loose UTG open with a hand like KJo. Also, to 3-bet the regulars who just won a big pot probably had a success rate at 95 %.
Against habitual squeesers in the BB, you should once in a while flat a raise with a premium hand in the SB to trap them. It will not work everytime of course, but it's a good idea to do and not just habitually 3-bet like a robot.
Time to try NL100 now. BR at 2000 euros which seems sufficient enough to try (will move down if I drop 5 buyins). Next goal is NL200, which I feel I need at least 30 buyins for. Feels good to start playing again, and hopefully the good run continues.
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