at the cow palace outside of san francisco. Grimiest rave i have ever been to easily with condensation rain falling from the ceiling and saw at least five people OD. Too packed to move they probably should have sold less tickets but still pretty sick.
Boyz noize set was beast. Benassi disappointing. Armin van Buren was good to see live (not going home might have been the best beat all night).
Hadn't heard of infected mushroom before but they were a live band that did psytrance beats from Israel. Only saw their first song before leaving but they were pretty sick.
Got the blunts and molly in safe and didn't get wrapped so it was a good night but its 2 days later and im still feelin a bit sad from Mdma
Last time I did a session review I wrote off a lot of my losses to bad beats, and they sorta were, but at the same time I feel I may have been overplaying a lot of hands, namely the TPGK type stuff. I ingeniously sorted my HH's by those hands in which I won money, and those hands in which I lost money. My winners are sets and flushes. My losers are TP, or a quality PP like JJ or QQ that gets outdrawn.
I figured raising small PP's and SC's is really a deception tactic reserved for table precedence, after you have grinded it out with some regs for awhile you need to mix up your play. Since rush is like playing a bunch of new faces, theres no deception in raising a PP. The only hands calling a raise by an unknown are hands that are just folding on the flop unless they improve, or I'm gonna get 3bet by a better PP. Might as well just limp most of my playing hands and just raise AJs+ and JJ+. And when I flop TP I need to keep some pot control in mind, namely value betting 2 streets and checking river a lot.
These adjustments have resulted in the following playstyle. I played a slightly shorter session by instituting a stop loss and this is where I ended up.
We'll see if this is optimal or not. I've been doing some thought analysis on it and at least at these limits where theres very little 3 betting or iso-raising, it does indeed seem to make a lot of sense. And these results are in perfect tandem with my session review, all pots won from sets and flushes, and a few TPTK stuff mixed in but not for stacks.
Honestly, I feel this is how I should always run at this limit. 72 wintrate may seem unsustainable but every time I'm in a pot I assure you it's with the best hand.
Gave some EV back this month. Wish I got to play more but was on vacation for like 2 weeks (where I barely played but still lost several g's haha). 8k this month which isn't bad, ~4k from cash, ~4k from tourneys/bonuses, etc. I got Supernova! Finally reaping those rewards. WSOP started, I'm selling action feel free to look at the past blog post if you're interested. Not much else to say for the month, haven't had consistent winning success lately maybe I should stay away from 5/10 and stick to 2/4 3/6 for the time being bleh.
Probably going to full-force start PLO later this year when I move in with my friend who's a really good plo player. If anyone at low/small stakes plo wants to talk hands, strategy, theory, blah blah pm/reply with your aim/msn
Hopefully it won't come crashin' down, I am going to take it easy and stay at nl50 until my roll is a little padded and hopefully my graph starts being more convincingly winning.
So I was going to barely play more poker for the summer... I had deposited 100$ since I had some spare money due to full time working. I played some 6$/11$ HU, but like less than 8 over the 4 days where I actually had money in my roll.
Saturday morning, after my night shift, I learnt I wouldn't get any more hours at work. Basically, it was an unofficial way of firing me.
Few hours later, I decided to play some more HU, ended down about 10$, but decided to enter the 11$ turbo 25k guaranteed, which i've won, my irl friend won, and that I FTed before also.
So yeah, I came pretty close to winning it, and got 1.3k, which lowered the financial pressure I just got that morning.
Now, I'm thinking of going back to full time poker for the summer, because I still have plans for school in september, but yeah I'm going to restart grinding for at least a week or 2 and see what happends.
May be I will find time to play more in June
May be I will play better than this month
May zerg is a nit
May onnaise is a godsend for the college student
May flowers aren't happening in Alberta
May is the month of the following graph: http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/0da8bc4d6bdd0154c0057c670cadc90c.png
May you all be blessed with luck at the tables, and
May this June be filled with joy.
Science suggests that telling people about your goals increases your chance of success.*
So:
In June I'll be on the grind. Shooting for a monetary goal:+ Show Spoiler +
$10k
Its concrete, and it incentivies me correctly: I must play Tip-top poker AND high volume to win this much in the month.
Variance is going to make it unachievable in some 30% of possible month-outcomes. So I expect to fail about 30% of the time just based on randomness. But its still the best type of goal I can imagine; for example, with a number-of-hands goal it's easy to autopilot and play pretty bad. Winrate over a certain sample goal is also apt to be abused. Are there any other kind of goals are there that are measurable; time dependant?
Anyway, obviously I'm wanting to sling mad volume and fat stack benjies, for this I need to whip up incredible focus: focus that will keep me keen to play, and focus that will keep me always thinking of how to make the most EV+ play.
I like to make concrete plans, and avoid anything with the wishy-washy weakness of “just trying harder” The plan for now: 1
Record in google calendar what I have done during the day. A kind of brief diary, this will be in the back of my mind when I am procrastinating by refresting LP and checking the ROFL thread for updates only to find another text post. If I waste half an hour pissing around, then I'm going to have to write that down: this does have a real damping effect on procrastiniation - I've done it before when studying. Also, by avoiding planning out my day in unreasonable detail, I avoid stressing myself when things don't go to plan, and I keep the power of freedom, which leads to efficiency.
It's easy to see if I have been keeping to this: a quick look through google calender will let me know if I am achieving laying this foundation subgoal. 2
Another key to my person getting as much cash out of the virtual felt as possible is an NLP concept: Frame control. This isn't some wishful thinking 'the secret' self-deception (thats been secentifically proven counter-effective). Its just means that I will be using whatever phrases on post-it notes, durrr challenge videos, aejones podcasts, neitzsche chapters, or nolan-blog-archive fire jams that will boost me up into that gritty prize-fighting state. When I sit down at the table, I want to be there to crush that specific guy sitting across from me, using all the information flowing from the table and the best concepts I have to maximise my winning.
An example frame is something like "I just bench pressed the world". I'll keep it flexible so it doesn't stale out on me. This is not a great subgoal because its not measurable, it's just something I will have to record how well I feel I am doing in G-calender: at least there will be a little specifying there. 3
Another prong is to have some social pressure to motivate me, and also to keep my ideas from flying off into la-la land. For the first week: posting articles, cardrunner-video-notes, concepts, session reviews and whatever else will improve my skill and schema. First week shapening the saw, then reduce to a post per week. Total ten posts over the month.
This is a specific subgoal, only trouble is that it's hard to pin down a measure for quality, number of words just leads to waffle. I guess something that takes about 3 minutes for the reader to get through.
OK, enough waffle. I Promise shorter and sweeter next time LP.
"I do not exhort you to work but to battle! I do not exhort you to peace but to victory. may your work be a battle! may your peace be a victory!"
* "Self-Reinfoircement effects: an artifact of social setting?" journal of applied behaviour analysis, vol 18, 1985
Well may ended up being I think my best month so far in 180's. Unfortunately I didn't put in nearly enough volume as I would like.. Oh well though atleast I ran good for my lil volume. Going to vegas next month not sure how long ill be there. Probably going to be playing a few venetians and maybe a 1k wsop I dunno I'll see. Its up to my staker though :D
I'm having to work 12 hour days every day at the burger bar I've started, but I was running out of money so I pulled an all-nighter, just like that. yay!
Been mixing NL10 and NL25 and I can't beat NL10 anymore for some reason, down around 80$ over 6k hands. Im doing well in NL25 though, up 290$ in just over 15k hands. Didn't play much due to my thesis and shit, and dont think ill be playing much more next month.
June goals:
- rape my upcomming finals
- rape NL25
my half year:
+5700
- 600 on another site
= about 5k total
2010 goals:
1. become a winning 200nl reg -> on track
2. make average 2k per month (24k) -> not on track, but still achievable
3. be taking shots at 400nl by end of year -> on track
4. get to c+ on iccup -> cannot login to iccup anymore, might be ip banned even though i've never hacked -_- fml
Anyone here play at Foxwoods regularly? I play 1/2nl and 2/5nl there fairly often and will be playing the memorial day tournaments (one of my friends offered to stake me). Was just wondering who else was gonna be there. I know a ton of people there and we could smoke / chill / discuss poker. Lemme know!
Here's Kanye's first single off his new album. I don't think it's finished cuz he sounds like a prepubescent teen to me. What do you think?
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