I'll keep this one short and sweet. So after making $800 profit in a single session of live NL200 last week, I took the plunge and bought in for a single table at NL400 online because fuck it, thats why. Ran it up to $1700 because I'm a good player. Next night all the NL400 tables are full with long waits and the only open table i could find was...... NL1k lol. But whatever, a buyin and a half has worked before right? Besides this could really jumpstart the ole bankroll.... for when I take my single buyin shot at 25/50. Unfortunately I ran into a 200k winning reg who must have been tilted or something b/c he put me allin with 99 preflop once, 3 barreled air and rivered bottom pair for the win, plus a couple of other spots I cant really remember and wiped me out. Pretty sick really, cant complain since he crushes the game across multiple sites but his play still seemed way out of line.
But I did accomplish my mission, that being playing NL400 and doing well lol. I played live last night and soul crushed everyone. I think they were even starting to get mad because I must've played something like 70/50 raising almost every hand I was dealt. 2 people even left to go to another table and 2 others switched seats at my table. And while I assume variance is a little softer at live stakes due to fewer hands dealt, I got it in preflop QQ vs KK, nut flush vs boat, and a couple of counterfeit hands where the board ran out a straight on me for a split vs some TPNK bullshit I had dominated. I even laid down top 2 vs a fish getting 3:1 on a 80BB pot when he donkbet a paired turn and then showed me nothing more than an OESD.
So now I cant decide what I want to play right now, live or online. My hourly is better online but of course it's a lot more mental work playing against people out of my league. Live is such a haul and backbreaking, but it's also relatively easy. If I want to play tonight ill come home smelling like cigarettes which I'm not really in to, so that has a certain factor too.
Finally I find out that some new poker legislation is going into effect in Florida allowing uncapped buyins which will ultimately turn it into the next gambling epicenter as far as I can tell. I'm within driving distance of all of these casinos if I wanted to make weekend trips out of it. But I fucking hate where I live right now and could see myself moving there! Especially since right around the time this happens the UIGEA will take on some new twists, and I'm deathly afraid of investing heavily into online play just to have the christians finally win and be banned for life. I could def see myself beating 5/10 live for a living once I built up a roll and got used to living in a casino. So many things to consider!
Oh, and sorry for not keeping this short and sweet.
Man the Right side is pretty good.by YoMeR, May 12
Well not quite as good as the left side but still. Funny thing happened today tho.
note: shameless brag
ONEGOODPLAYER,
Nice going. By being smart enough to park yourself at a Bad Beat Jackpot table, you've won a nice chunk of the latest jackpot that was popped at 16:58:54 on 2010-05-12. Here's a look at the details:
Bad Beat Jackpot: $214,956.76
Players' Share: $281.45
Your Cut: $1,688.70
And the fact i made a few buyins too during the session makes a nice fat session to dampen my massive spending. The food here in philly is absolutely amazing. Def gotta load up before i get back.
10 episodes gods vs titans vs heroes, by the history channel. gotta love the weird series of the history channel
norse,greek etc. just plain good storytelling and play by play battles lol
I was playing a long MTT session yesterday. It had been a so-so day, with one FT but no wins. I rather foolishly decided to play the $11 SCOOP at 1am GMT. Since i started grinding at 2pm i was being a bit over ambitious in thinking i could grind it out. At 1am i was feeling great. Playing good and really up for the long session. Then around 2:30am i was sooooo tired, couldn't keep my eyes open. So rather reluctantly I decided that I could not play any longer as there was no way I could last another 8 hours at least for FT.
So rather than just quit and fold out I thought I would have a bit of fun. I got some black tape and put it on my screen to cover my hole cards. Yeah. I was gonna play blind.I wanted to see how it would develop.
Before I hid my hole cards I had about 13k stack, with average stack of 19k. I actually did not think I was gonna last too long. My plan was just to play in position and use pure aggression to fold out hands. It was really quite interesting. I would give myself a range of cards that I believe the villain would put me on and go with that. Rather surprisingly I was running rampant lol. I managed to chip up to 30k stack, with average of 21k. I was then starting to think, hey maybe I should just keep playing. But nah I was super super tired, and It was just not worth it busting out in 100th for stupid amount of dollars. I lasted a bit longer, keeping up the aggression. I also discovered I had folded KK UTG. xD Anyway It came to an end about 45mins after playing blind, by getting called down. I had 3bet and was repping AK hand and he didn't buy it and called me down with TT. Doh!
It was fun and really interesting. Sometimes when playing MTTs it is so easy to go into a nit up mode. I think I will def try to be a bit more aggressive with a medium stack.
On another note, good luck for the SCOOP ME all LPers. I will be playing the Low.
Some of the comments on my last blog said I looked like a smarter version of ADZ and I really have no idea what that even means. I base the way I act in this videos as a spoof of Chiren80/Athene. He acts very energetic/over the top and thats basically what I try to do in mine. For all that said they weren't going to vote, reconsider and vote please tyty lol
Just finished up making my first Strategy video on PokerStars which includes 3 NL100 FR games and 1 NL5k FR game. Should be out tomorrow and is focused around the art of 3/4betting.
After I made the video, I saw a 40/80 game starting out on FTP and decided to jump on it and record. Very good action was captured and will be making that into a video sometime soon. Here is my new biggest pot ever online
***** Hand History for Game 20773561082 ***** (Full Tilt)
$8000.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, May 12, 03:43:33 ET 2010
Table luckychewy (6 max deep) (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: SB ( $15920.00 USD )
Seat 4: Hero ( $7120.00 USD )
Seat 5: UTG( $16726.00 USD )
Seat 6: BTN( $18855.00 USD )
SB posts small blind [$40.00 USD].
Hero posts big blind [$80.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ Kd As ]
UTG folds
BTN raises [$240.00 USD]
SB folds
Hero raises [$720.00 USD]
BTN calls [$560.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8d, 6s, Kh ]
Hero bets [$960.00 USD]
BTN calls [$960.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Tc ]
Hero bets [$1440.00 USD]
BTN raises [$17095.00 USD]
Hero calls [$3920.00 USD]
BTN shows [Ks, Js ]
Hero shows [Kd, As ]
BTN wins $11735.00 USD
** Dealing River ** [ Kc ]
Hero wins $14278.00 USD from main pot
Was a fun session!!! Make sure to vote for me please
Anyone know Isildurs other screen names on Ipoker/Partypoker/betfair or any other site? I am mainly looking for his present Partypoker but all would be nice
In late 2009 I had like 100k hands at nl100 running ~3bb, then i took a break for a few months. Just 3 weeks ago I started playing again and im playing like total shit. I dont know if its tilt, but im spewing atleast 2 BIs a session on retarded bluffs and stuff. I dont know what to do, im losing so much confidence, I dont evem know if im a winner anymore at nl100.
Do you guys think I should move down? if so, for how long? I know im a winner at nl50 for sure -_- its supper easy, but i become a monkey when playing nl100. I tried cutting down my tables, im playing 9 now, I usually play 12-13.
idk what to do, should I maybe get a coach?
I cant help but do stupid stuff like this, I know its all REALLY bad lol. but I dont stuff like this alot lately
this was just stupid of me, i hate playing ak oop so much
***** Hand History for Game 43962321704 ***** Poker Stars
$100.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, May 11, 10:54:40 ET 2010
Table Siwa IV Real Money
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: DukeMuscle $99.15 USD
Seat 2: k4ir0s $265.80 USD
Seat 3: jaodc $206.50 USD
Seat 4: thegobby $128.35 USD
Seat 5: pokrates $292.95 USD
Seat 6: Takez0Kensei $274.90 USD
Seat 7: wweis50 $326.60 USD
Seat 8: Ronfar3 $111.05 USD
k4ir0s posts small blind [$0.50 USD].
jaodc posts big blind [$1.00 USD].
DukeMuscle posts ante of [$0.20 USD].
k4ir0s posts ante of [$0.20 USD].
jaodc posts ante of [$0.20 USD].
thegobby posts ante of [$0.20 USD].
pokrates posts ante of [$0.20 USD].
Takez0Kensei posts ante of [$0.20 USD].
wweis50 posts ante of [$0.20 USD].
Ronfar3 posts ante of [$0.20 USD].
***** Hand History for Game 43957839994 ***** Poker Stars
$100.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, May 11, 08:42:20 ET 2010
Table Melitta III Real Money
Seat 8 is the button
Seat 5: roscoe1965 $338.70 USD
Seat 6: k4ir0s $100.00 USD
Seat 8: bersekus $106.50 USD
roscoe1965 posts small blind [$0.50 USD].
k4ir0s posts big blind [$1.00 USD].
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