(at least for me)
play your A-game and minimize spew in order to maximize winnings.
i can't even tell you how many dollars i just spew like a god damn retard doing shit like surfing web, watching tv, facebook, MULTITABLING LOL!
it always leads to a grueling fucking grind back up. i guess i did this 1 too many times. i'm swearing on my life to never ever ever ever ever half ass poker like the way i have been doing
play your A-game and minimize spew in order to maximize winnings.
i can't even tell you how many dollars i just spew like a god damn retard doing shit like surfing web, watching tv, facebook, MULTITABLING LOL!
it always leads to a grueling fucking grind back up. i guess i did this 1 too many times. i'm swearing on my life to never ever ever ever ever half ass poker like the way i have been doing
My graph section and reports section are reporting different amounts of monthly earnings. Im guessing this is because of euros. Which section shows the correct amount of winnings?
Today I had a really bad session -150 $ first really big lost and i dont know if im playing bad (overall, I know I played like crap today) or not but I was looking at other people graphs and doesn't that red line look strange???
Dammit I am on such tilt right now. These last couple days have been such a pain in the ass. I feel like I'm just sitting there getting sucked out and coolered having all the worst cards come every time. Here's the last 2 days. I really didn't think i'd have a big downswing like that considering I seemed to be crushing for the last 100k hands. Its at like 20 buy ins now from my peak
PokerStars Game #45774680458: Holdem No Limit ($0.05/$0.10 USD) - 2010/06/20 23:23:06 CET [2010/06/20 17:23:06 ET]
Table Nephthys VIII 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 2: Joey1073 ($29.80 in chips)
Seat 3: FriskyPirate ($10.30 in chips)
Seat 4: rato922 ($20.46 in chips)
Seat 5: italian_maus ($8.65 in chips)
Seat 6: vdmartu ($10.25 in chips)
rato922: posts small blind $0.05
italian_maus: posts big blind $0.10
rob122150: sits out
Showdown rato922: shows (two pair, Tens and Nines)
vdmartu: mucks hand
rato922 collected $6.76 from pot
Summary Total pot $7.10 | Rake $0.34
Board
Seat 2: Joey1073 folded on the Flop
Seat 3: FriskyPirate (button) folded on the Turn
Seat 4: rato922 (small blind) showed and won ($6.76) with two pair, Tens and Nines
Seat 5: italian_maus (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 6: vdmartu mucked
PokerStars Game #45763363024: Holdem No Limit ($0.05/$0.10 USD) - 2010/06/20 19:18:19 CET [2010/06/20 13:18:19 ET]
Table Rosa 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: Paluma88 ($18.42 in chips)
Seat 2: H0$$E!N ($5.83 in chips)
Seat 3: rato922 ($10.10 in chips)
Seat 4: Nivellen ($14.77 in chips)
Seat 5: lorde_notas ($14.30 in chips)
Seat 6: MaggotVadia ($10 in chips)
MaggotVadia: posts small blind $0.05
Paluma88: posts big blind $0.10
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to rato922
H0$$E!N: folds
rato922: raises $0.30 to $0.40
Nivellen: folds
lorde_notas: calls $0.40
MaggotVadia: folds
Paluma88: folds
Showdown lorde_notas: shows (three of a kind, Fours)
rato922: mucks hand
lorde_notas collected $4.90 from pot
Summary Total pot $5.15 | Rake $0.25
Board
Seat 1: Paluma88 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: H0$$E!N folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: rato922 mucked
Seat 4: Nivellen folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: lorde_notas (button) showed and won ($4.90) with three of a kind, Fours
Seat 6: MaggotVadia (small blind) folded before Flop
PokerStars Game #45763029224: Holdem No Limit ($0.05/$0.10 USD) - 2010/06/20 19:10:39 CET [2010/06/20 13:10:39 ET]
Table Marcelle III 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: rato922 ($10 in chips)
Seat 3: panchovila67 ($7.11 in chips)
Seat 4: lauremi ($10.30 in chips)
Seat 5: merck4819 ($8.96 in chips)
lauremi: posts small blind $0.05
merck4819: posts big blind $0.10
r0mB1: sits out
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to rato922
rato922: raises $0.20 to $0.30
panchovila67: calls $0.30
lauremi: folds
merck4819: folds
Showdown panchovila67: shows (a flush, Ten high)
rato922: mucks hand
panchovila67 collected $5.09 from pot
Summary Total pot $5.35 | Rake $0.26
Board
Seat 1: rato922 mucked
Seat 3: panchovila67 (button) showed and won ($5.09) with a flush, Ten high
Seat 4: lauremi (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: merck4819 (big blind) folded before Flop
PokerStars Game #45762567446: Holdem No Limit ($0.05/$0.10 USD) - 2010/06/20 18:59:41 CET [2010/06/20 12:59:41 ET]
Table Marcelle III 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: rato922 ($10 in chips)
Seat 2: bostonsteve4 ($8.55 in chips)
Seat 3: panchovila67 ($10 in chips)
Seat 4: lauremi ($11.05 in chips)
Seat 5: merck4819 ($11.26 in chips)
Seat 6: r0mB1 ($10 in chips)
bostonsteve4: posts small blind $0.05
panchovila67: posts big blind $0.10
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to rato922
lauremi: folds
merck4819: folds
r0mB1: raises $0.30 to $0.40
rato922: calls $0.40
bostonsteve4: folds
panchovila67: folds
r0mB1: bets $4
rato922: raises $3.80 to $7.80 and is all-in
r0mB1: calls $3.80 and is all-in
River (Pot : $20.15)
Showdown r0mB1: shows (a straight, Eight to Queen)
rato922: shows (a pair of Queens)
r0mB1 collected $19.16 from pot
rato922 said, "insane"
Summary Total pot $20.15 | Rake $0.99
Board
Seat 1: rato922 (button) showed and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 2: bostonsteve4 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: panchovila67 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: lauremi folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: merck4819 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: r0mB1 showed and won ($19.16) with a straight, Eight to Queen
PokerStars Game #45776128596: Holdem No Limit ($0.05/$0.10 USD) - 2010/06/20 23:53:31 CET [2010/06/20 17:53:31 ET]
Table Nephthys VIII 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: rob122150 ($30.17 in chips)
Seat 2: Joey1073 ($32.29 in chips)
Seat 3: FriskyPirate ($10 in chips)
Seat 4: rato922 ($21.97 in chips)
Seat 5: Drewzyy ($4.47 in chips)
Seat 6: vdmartu ($19.20 in chips)
Joey1073: posts small blind $0.05
FriskyPirate: posts big blind $0.10
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to rato922
rato922: raises $0.30 to $0.40
Drewzyy: folds
vdmartu: folds
rob122150: calls $0.40
Joey1073: folds
FriskyPirate: folds
rato922: bets $3.20
rob122150: raises $6.80 to $10
rato922: raises $9.57 to $19.57 and is all-in
rob122150: calls $9.57
Showdown rato922: shows (a full house, Eights full of Jacks)
rob122150: shows (a full house, Tens full of Jacks)
rob122150 collected $42.09 from pot
Summary Total pot $44.09 | Rake $2
Board
Seat 1: rob122150 (button) showed and won ($42.09) with a full house, Tens full of Jacks
Seat 2: Joey1073 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: FriskyPirate (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: rato922 showed and lost with a full house, Eights full of Jacks
Seat 5: Drewzyy folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: vdmartu folded before Flop (didnt bet)
I cashed out a little over 10k overtime in the last few months and my online roll is getting too light for the first time in a while ($4400). I usually keep around $8k online, but I took a little risk this month and cashed out down to ~$6500. Bad timing.
Just to show it isn't me going on severe -EV monkey tilt playstyle or anything, I pinpointed most of the run bad here:
I'd prefer not to drop down for a bunch of reasons, but mostly because I've been at the limit for a while and am pretty confident that I have a good winrate, and I also have a lot of notes and reads written down on the regs that I don't for NL100. I also read from some thread on 2+2 that you can get 60/40 stakes if you're likely to be +EV. Not sure how likely that is to happen but that would be nice.
I don't think I'll need this unless I have two more bad sessions (I have money offline and in other things like my Airsoft business, but I really don't want to take away from that), but if it's something that interests you let me know. It's probably good to have this sort of contact information anyway in case of emergencies.
Today I up and moved from my dad's to my grandma's (I probably mispent half my youth growing up here, hehe). It feels like an enormous weight is off me. Dad and I just weren't getting along very well, along with several other factors making life out there feel crappy. My grandma is awesome, extremely lively, and a little crazy sometimes.. but I hope this turns out as good as it is looking to. And I hope poker goes well heh, at least here I feel much stronger already.
Hey all, I've decided to start writing in here regularly. I doubt any of you know who I am, though I've been around LP since its creation. I've just never tried to make a name for myself, and also have only had an off-and-on relationship with poker over the last five years. I'm finally trying to put a little bit more commitment into it, but I'm having a hard time getting myself to spend the time at it. So I'm hoping that keeping up a blog will help me stay dedicated to poker.
I'll also be using this blog as a means of expression a bit as well. I'm a philosophy/psychology major, so I've got a lot of stuff on my mind all the time. Kinda need an outlet to put all of those thoughts. Hopefully it will be interesting. Short bio of myself - I'm 20 years old, just finished first year of college, at home with my parents for the summer, plan on moving out after this next year, and I have no idea what I want to do with my life.
Anyways, a short summary of my poker experiences today - I decided to cut down to 6 tables of 25nl. I'm still in the microstakes and I had moved down to 10nl recently because of an unlucky day/tilt but I am very confident that I am a winner. I usually do mass-multitabling of 6max cash. Anyways, I had a negative session today, and I'm not happy at all with the way I played, however, I'm glad that I did play. I've had such trouble with putting in the time to put in hands that I'm glad to be making progress with that, even if I lost a little cash.
tl;dr version
new blog - trying to get more committed to poker
going to put a lot of my thoughts and stuff on life into blog as well
i hope to be blatantly honest with all of my experiences in poker in life, however much it humbles me
That's about it. I honestly plan to make this interesting. Introductory blog posts never seem too raise too much excitement though, but I'll build that up with each update hopefully. Thanks for reading.
Just read a great NYT article talking about the massive failures by Salazar and Obama to prevent this shit with BP because they didn't take enough action to clean up the MMR when they took office. They cleaned up a bit but left plenty of corrupt BS is in place and OK'd BP's plan to drill in the Gulf. Fail. Considering that the alternative is the Republican's who'd rather just not regulate anything (hello to even worse disasters where the oil companies pay nothing back after they rape our asses silly), I still choose the democrats. But just cause the other side sucks more doesn't mean failures like this are acceptable in any way.
Anyway, read the article cause it has lots of stuff in there and is much better written than anything I can do.
PRESIDENT Obama is not known for wild pronouncements, so it was startling to hear him liken the gulf oil spill to 9/11. Alas, this bold analogy, made in an interview with Roger Simon of Politico, proved a misleading trailer for the main event. In the president’s prime-time address a few days later, there was still talk of war, but the ammunition was sanded down to bullet points: “a clean energy future,” “a long-term gulf coast restoration plan” and, that most dreaded of perennials, “a national commission.” Such generic placeholders, unanimated by details or deadlines, are Washingtonese for “The buck stops elsewhere.”
The speech’s pans were inevitable, but in truth it was doomed no matter what the words or how cool or faux angry the performance. The president had it right the first time — this is a 9/11 crisis — and only action will do. The sole sentence that really counted on Tuesday night was his prediction that “in the coming weeks and days, these efforts should capture up to 90 percent of the oil leaking out of the well.” He will be judged on whether that’s true. The sole event that mattered last week was his jawboning of BP for a $20 billion down payment of blood money — to be overseen, appropriately enough, by Kenneth Feinberg of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.
That action could be a turning point for Obama if he builds on it. And he must. In this 9/11, it’s not just the future of the gulf coast, energy policy or his presidency that’s in jeopardy. What’s also being tarred daily by the gushing oil is the very notion that government can accomplish anything. The current crisis in that faith predates this disaster. In the short history of the Obama White House, two of its most urgent projects, reducing unemployment and pacifying Afghanistan, have yet to yield persuasive results. The dividends on the third, health care reform, won’t be in the mail for years.
I've been a major donk in the past on online poker. Me and my friend wasted tons of money on my account (probably around ~$3k). I took a great interest of poker in the mean time, however, and was able to recoup a fair bit of it in live games.
I've gone on and off again on online poker, and I've come to realize the importance of bankroll management and choosing appropriate tables. ie: depositing $50 and playing $1/$2 NL is just setting myself up for disappointment.
A few days ago I deposited $60 on the stars and started grinding 9 tables of 0.05/0.10 NL and found that it was actually much easier than I anticipated it would be. I've probably spent ~12 hours grinding so far and I've managed to triple my initial deposit.
What tools should I get to help me multi-table? I've seen so much software suggested, and I see a ton of people generating graphs based on play and I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction!
I streamed SC2 when the beta was up on teamliquid and I've been streaming my grinding a bit, too. Maybe someone who knows a lot would be interested in observing and giving me some pointers?
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