Its been 1 month without poker. Its sucked pretty hardcore. But I still gotta keep up the school grind so I'll remain poker free for the next month or so. I havn't played any poker in the past month and I have also avoided picking up any new books. Hasn't been easy! But I'm hanging in there.
Anyway I figured since my pokerstars ban just expired I might as well blog about an update of the past month.
Been thinking about various "Soft Skills" regarding poker that I want to implement.
I have been thinking about the game daily. And I have watched a couple of the HSP episodes and I randomly caught some poker on TV.
Anyway.
I wanted to write a bit about what I felt was the coolest discovery I had during this time.
Something that always stuck with me was the fact that Good players seem to have excellent memory when it comes to poker hands. That they can describe hands they played years ago in really vivid detail. The way they seem to describe their hands is usually much more detailed than that of a bad player"
I think I read it some time ago in Super System, or maybe just general poker articles. It seems just common knowledge that this is the case. Anyway I was reminded of this fact when I caught a video of BoostedJ describing to an interviewer about a wacky hand involving a misclick. The hand isnt quite important. But the detail in which he was able describe the hand was impressive to me.
So I began to think about this. "How is he able to so vividly recall his hand?"
Then I tried to recall the last hands I played. And if I could replay even one hand as vividly as Justin Smith had. And I realized that the only hand I could do this with was a hand where I had JJ on the button. I opened for 3x. The SB and BB called. The villain in question was the SB. Effective stacks were about 250 Big Blinds.
I had seen him flat his QQ preflop and take a check-call Check-fold line on an ace high flop earlier in the session. Anyway flop came QdJd8c. Blinds checked to me. I cbet about 3/4 of the pot. He insta shoved his 250 bb stack over.
Anyway the hand is super easy to remember. But I remembered it in decent detail. No other poker hand, could I just recollect from my memory as well as this one.
I then asked myself why this was the case...No one is going to figure this out but this hand is actually from one of my earlier blog posts. Its from a LIVE session I played with a couple of friends of mine.
I realized that the reason I could recollect this hand was because after the session I blogged about this particular hand and had to describe every detail about this hand by writing about it. And that was the reason why I was able to remember it so vividly.
If this is the case, then this miraculous "ability to remember" better than other people is not simply the function of god given talent. Rather, it might just be that "Naturals" just have a natural tendency to have certain natural behaviors that allow them to better remember than others. Maybe they discuss hands constantly with friends and tell them how the hand played out. Maybe some other factor. etc...
But the points to take are 1) Your ability to remember and describe hands better can be improved 2) Just posting hand histories don't do your review sessions justice. As the hand converter and hand history take away the learning you get by simply describing your own hand.
So If this is the case, than through work, you can improve your poker memory and the information you get by seeing poker hands play out in action.
Yeah so after that moment, I tried to apply the philosophy. I had two opportunities in the past month (like I said I havn't been playing poker).
The first was when the 25k Highrollers event at the Venetian randomly crawled up on ESPN2. Sweet! Poker. I had been so deprived...Anyway I decided to implement my discovery in action.
Whenever I used to watch poker on TV, I would just see the hand. And Id kinda be like "Okay that happened." And It just wouldnt be stimulating. Or maybe to better put it, the information of the events that transpired just didnt have a "First person feel" to it as it is relevant to me.
Anyway after each hand that was played I tried to mimic what I did on the JJ hand. I retold the story. Trying to capture details as vividly as possible. And really, I feel likes its a great exercise and habit to develop. For example there was a hand that daniel negreanu led out in a multiway pot with 56dd on a diamond board (Don't want to retell the hand)...But before I retold myself the hand I was like "Oh that just happened." But after I retold the hand to myself I was like "Oh wow. Daniel will lead out a pretty wide range on that board into four players." I mean...its not the most profound of discoveries. But its a great babystep in my development I felt.
SO...Yesterday night randomly my friends text me and we play a really small buy in sit and go tourney! Sweet! first time playing poker in a month!
BLAH. Anyway I was going to describe some of the realizations I had in this session//ask some questions. But THIS BLOG IS TOO LONG!! And will be DR almost certainly if I don't stop soon.
Anyway yeah. Posting a nice little update. Can't wait to be back at the tables.
I'm trying to be a winning player at 10NL and I think it would be a good idea to seek out some other players who are in the same boat. It will probably be a huge benefit to us if we can collaborate on going over hands and thinking about strategies. I'm willing to voice chat with skype to make things easier. If anyone is interested, please reply here or send me a PM.
Its good to have Adam and AJ back playing because exams are over. Its been getting pretty lonely just me playing. We’re planning to do a Greedy Gamble “Lock Down” where we’re not allowed to leave the house for a week. We’re probably going to do this sometime in June/July.
In poker, I’m still waiting for another big scores. Some small ones here and there but nothing too big. Today I final table bubbled the $109 6-max on FTP. Lost ATs vs A9o. Oh well! That’s Poker!
Yes, I finally received my triple crown on www.pocketfives.com and yes its beautiful. Though, I feel kinda pathetic winning it in small events, oh well still counts suckers!
I’m excited to keep playing poker as much as I can. Its a challenge to myself to see how much I can make this year if I can make the $100k again. I have a feeling I just had a really good year and this year it won’t be so great, but I’m trying to stay positive. So far this month things haven’t been going my way, but we’ll see I’m a very patient man.
Things that are coming up in my life, I’m finally getting my Mini 2nd week of May, and I’m going to Cuba third week of May, with my girl friend, and Speedybanana and his girl friend. Should be a great time! It’ll be nice to relax in the warm sun after playing poker for a month straight.
I'm looking for a PLO Coach to teach me how to play 20-50bb(Preferably) or 40-100bb PLO, I tried looking on 2+2, but only found 2 and both were charging 200$ an hour which isn't what I'm looking to pay.
So with that in mind any1 know a decent coach for less than 100$/hour or who would coach for profit sharing (I can play 6+ hours a day)
If you're interested in creating poker videos, showing how cool your desktop looks, or whatever, check out Screencast-O-Matic (if you're not using software like CamTasia already which can be a little resource intensive).
You can directly upload vids on their website, export them, or directly upload to YouTube in HD. Accounts are free. If you want to make a video that is longer than 15 minutes and get other Pro account features (not sure what those are), you can pay a one time fee of $5.
At Youtube of course, unless you're Martin Scorsese, they'll limit your uploads to 10 min. So for longer videos or, any video for that matter, sevenload seems to work best. The only limit there is 2.5GB and I'm pretty sure they are tossing out free ShamWows on the side, for a limited time only. They also do HD and have some good options for embedding.
If you have any other suggestions please let me know, thanks.
I need to get about $1500 from Party to Stars. I will send first to anyone reputable, and if they are very reputable I'll give a small vig since it's a hard transfer route. I don't have any references as I don't normally do transfers, but I'll bend over backwards to accomodate a good offer from a good person since I need to get this done. Back from the pub in a few hours...
I play 100NL. I'm breakeven at the limit and I'm getting kind of frustrated with it. I beat 25nl and 50nl for about 7ptbb over the last 150k hands each. I'm looking for a coach who is a consistent winner at 200NL or higher. I'm looking for something long term with someone who is fairly flexible with their schedule. I'm determined to improve my game and have realized that I'm going to need some help along the way. I am willing to discuss coaching sessions and payment with anyone who is interested. You can either comment in my blog or PM me. Thanks
I just got an extra fresh sc2 beta key, i sell it 30$.
payment: pokerstars, moneybookers, paypal.
pm me -> first come first served
Only for LP "veterans".
im so completely crushed right now I cant explain this - I already lost that many bi in a session before but tilt was involved.. played my A-game today I won 1 single flip and 1x AA for 100bb, lost AA vs KK and AA vs AK (LOL) for over 200bb each ~~ lost countless AIs like flopped set vs running flush with TP or flopped str8 for 500bb pot vs flopped 2p rivering boat obv
im so completely crushed right now I cant explain this - I already lost that many bi in a session before but tilt was involved.. played my A-game today I won 1 single flip and 1x AA for 100bb, lost AA vs KK and AA vs AK (LOL) for over 200bb each ~~ lost countless AIs like flopped set vs running flush with TP or flopped str8 for 500bb pot vs flopped 2p rivering boat obv
Just wrote a sweet blog post and then the net timed out when I hit submit and I lost it. LP really needs to make it so that when you hit "back" in the browser, the text is still there!!!!!!!!!!
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