Fun fact, I was $1700 over EV this month and now I'm even LOL. The best part is I've never had such an epic losing session and felt so good about myself, so I guess this is a brag post.
Not trying to brag, but I like to keep a record of these things. Some people don't trust graphs http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/0b7cd0eeabe95859325f8ce7859144fc.png
1/3 of the way through Slowhabit's Poker Blueprint. Seems very basic so far, but you'll get my full thoughts on it when I'm done. Right now I have a huge lab report to finish.
I might crack and maybe spend some FTP points :o
Hopefully I can finish it tonight, all nighter GOGOGO
I played a few days without a tracker so the number will come to roughly 30K.
What Was it
Jan sale at Stars made me masstable. And lose money, where I played like 5% A game.
I decided that I will just fuck it all, rebuild from NL25 and play 30k hands at NL25 and NL50 before doing some other business.
I needed to prove to myself that I have the self control to play a steady 4 tabling poker with my A game at least 50% of the time.
And that I simply can win.
Results
As this challenge was not about money at all, but about my discipline, I will break down the results to categories
Number of tables
Score: 9/10
Yeah baby, I was in the zone!
I 4 tabled about 85% of the time, 12% 6tabled and only 3% 7+ tabled 2 days ago.
Tilt Control
Score:8/10
I played my A game some 70% of the time. A massive increase when compared to the past.
I played my still winning B game for some 22.5-25%
My C game accounted for only some 5-7.5%, and it of course cost me some 8 buy ins in total, including 2 today.
What are the rough categories?
A game:
Realise and take note of 90%+ pots that happen on all tables
Only make decisions for a reason with considering all alternatives at all times
Ideal table and seat selection - playing only the best tables.
Never spew
B Game
- Realise and note big pots that went to sd
- Make solid standard decisions
- Leave -ev tables
- Never spew
C game
- Note nothing
- Raise 30%+ hands regardless of oposition
- make spontaneus decisions that oppose my own mind and thinking processes
- Just spew away stacks for no reason, open more tables, quit way too late.
I largely avoided my C game by:
- 1 hour fixed period before coming from work and starting tables
- Taking mandatory brakes at the latest after 80 minutes
- Attempt to avoid playing when I am tired/have eaten too much/am too sleepy.
Whenever I breached the rules my C game occured in about 50% of cases. Sick.
Betting Patterns
8/10
This is what you interned kids call playing poker.
I thik I beat NL50 now.
What helped me a lot was playing 500 bb deep with one of the biggest fish I have ever seen.
The answer is simple: Call more, Limp more and generally see more flops.
There are only handful of people that play like me that widen their 3 betting range when a fish limps and reg isolates, or that isolate with large frequency. I found it more profitable to limp a lot of suited connectors or mediocre value hands behind fishy players, as my postflop edge is just massive and by raising preflop with weak hands I was just allowing them to play good preflop.
This will not apply for NL400+, where regs start to be very much aware of different rangesand will raise a huge amount of hands when you limp beind a fish or isolate small amounts with very wide ranges, but that just doesn't happen here.
I was also experimenting with overbetting with good sucess, and playing OOP with emphasis on donk betting, and thats an area I have to focus on.
I also have to study advanced math concepts, I just suck in that area.
And obviously I made hundreds of mistakes, but I go by the philosophy that its much better to play loose, try new things and learn by trial and error than by being a nit that never really evolves or adjusts.
Highstakes is my longterm goal, not grinding midstakes 40 hours per week.
Results
10/10
I ran extremely hot. Not in All in EV, not so much in setups, but very much in timing of my runs.When I played my B and C game, I almost always had periods of +EV, and the biggest serial suckouts and bad beats came when I was playing my A game.
When I am focused, cards have 0% impact on my game. There were sessions where I lost 8 flips in a row, but It didn't get to me at all. But when I am tired/tilted from work or whatever, I don't even have to get a bad beat and I start spewing. And I ran hot when that happened, reducing my tilt category a ton, and being a great help.
Whats next
- Get into NL50 HU here and there, move up after I make some 10-20 BI. If you want free money by playing me at those stakes pelas esend me a pm.
- 20K hands NL100 6max, shots at soft NL200 tables if my winrate will be above 2BB/100 at NL100
- Mass table NL50 in last few days of the month to keep my SN (I just love Stars too much not to at least try to keep it)
Skype
Sorry for being out of touch with you guys. There wasn't much to talk about when I was playing NL50 and just battling my own tilt and masstabling demons.
This will now change as I move up /move to HU and we should have stuff to discuss
If anyone wants to discuss hands or get some Sweat sessions going add lp-lemOn
Just started playing .01/.02 and I had a couple of questions.
A. What is the best poker tracker software that is free?
B. What is an average number of tables to be playing at once? Currently 4 tabling could add more but monitor is small.
Anyone wanna go half with me on a $100 pool? Its a pool on 2+2, will be 50 each you can just transfer to me. I'll pick everything. I have won my pool last 3 years and picked winner each year. Dont feel like spending 100 but I will if no1 wants in. Payouts are 65/35 and i think theres maybe 15 people so far so should get to 1k for first.
Dominican republic 25 yr old after having sex with me asks if I want her to be my girlfriend. And she is fucking fine. Shes like I like to cook, go to gym. No girl ever asks to be my girlfriend. She say she has a baby though a 2.5 yr old girl. in 5-20 years she'll lose her looks. I think it smarter to go after 18 yr olds than 25 yr olds especially when they are both careerless.
I am definitely getting old when I get excited about going to sleep. After working very hard, and losing an hour of sleep over the weekend, I was legitimately fired-up that I was going to be in bed by 7pm last night. Well, at noon a friend called me up and asked me if I wanted to go the the Celtics-Pistons game, and insta-refused, because of my-old man bedtime. He says "OK", and hangs up, then immediately texts me "don't want to say this out loud at the office, but these are courtside tickets".
Hmmm, that changes things.
I've never sat actually on the court. I've been ~4 rows back twice, and have found that basketball is infinitely more fun the closer you get, plus these seats are well over 1k each per game, so it's tough to say no.
I went, and was not disappointed. It was a blow-out, but it was a blast because, well, you actually get to talk to the players. I was still a little wide-eyed about it, but my friends were making full use of the occasion, and were jawing back and forth with members of both teams. It was a completely different experience than even just being a row back, tons of fun, and definitely something I would buy if I could afford the 60k per year or whatever it is for each seat. Apparently we were on TV a bunch, but in the highlights I could only see my back, and well I know what I look like so I don't care to look harder.
So I had some liquid assets to jumpstart my poker career past the micro stakes. I diverted some of this towards live play and ended breakeven after 3 weeks before I got rattled from a series of losing sessions breaking my confidence. I havent played since, which really sucks because I am too competitive of a player to let something like that get to me. It was just the monetary loss. The money finally meant something to me at NL200 so losing $1000 in one night was like "holy fuck".
Then, out of nowhere, I suddenly got the urge to buy a new car. Why you ask? Well a little dealer hustling, plus a lot of greed. I went to have my car serviced and decided to look at some new rides for my wife. I drive an 07 Altima which I bought brand new from the lot back in 07, and while searching for a car for her, I suddenly fell in love with a fully loaded version of what I currently drive. I was able to trade in my current car for the fully loaded 2010 model without it changing my payments at all, other than restarting them.
So I just bought a brand new 2010 Nissan Altima 2.5SL with leather heated + power seats, wood trim finish, 7" GPS nav system with DVD playback, bluetooth phone and streaming mp3, xm satellite, and all the other good shit that comes with a new car. Of course I couldnt go to the dealership and buy myself a brand new car and leave my poor wife still struggling with her piece of shit 10 year old saturn with leaking sunroof, mildew stank interior, sunbaked paintjob, and blown out stereo speakers. That would just be wrong.
So I bought her one too. Not quite as good as mine. But I bought her a 2010 Nissan Sentra, which is basically like a mini version of the altima, which is perfect for her, as she would look kinda funny driving a car as big as mine. It's not fully loaded, but it's mostly there. Bluetooth phone/mp3, ipod docking station, sunroof, no gps or anything fancy like that. But the electronics are well equipped. Cant even remember if it has leather lol, but probably not. It's a nice little car. She always wanted one in Teal, but unfortunately all they had was greyish silver. Hope she likes it, she hasnt even seen it yet lol. But I know my wife, and she'll absolutely love it, save for the less than stellar car color, which AINT ALL THAT BAD. I mean fuck, I kinda like smoke grey myself, but it's just not that femmy.
I was kinda feeling guilty about utilizing such a large part of my funds to just play poker with, at least with the potential for failure. I'd never get over myself for sinking 8 grand into poker and having nothing to show for it, especially when my loved ones need things, like a new car.
So where does this leave me? Well, since I took poker money and "cashed it out", ala "imaginary cashout", I still have some left to play poker with. I'm going to contact f4zi and get some HU training, but I dont really want to discuss that in case I turn out to be a huge embarrassment and waste of his time. Yea thats right, I respect the man so much that I would feel like i wasted *his* time paying him money to coach a loser. We'll see though.
Decided to play some PLO50 HU after gettin crushed in hold em tonight. Sit down at a random table and start a lil HU battle. After about 5 hands im thinking, wow this is gonna be easy this guy dont seem very good (too early to tell right?) Wrong. I check his PTR.
I take 3 buyins from him that included baffling hands like this:
Submitted by : YouGoTGoT
PokerStars Game #41223082677: Omaha Pot Limit ($0.25/$0.50 USD) - 2010/03/15 21:15:19 ET
Table Ucclia 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Hero ($140.05 in chips)
Seat 2: mr.breeze999 ($50.95 in chips)
Hero: posts small blind $0.25
mr.breeze999: posts big blind $0.50
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
Hero: raises $1 to $1.50
mr.breeze999: calls $1
Showdown mr.breeze999: shows (a pair of Deuces)
Hero: shows (a pair of Kings)
Hero collected $14.50 from pot
Summary Total pot $15 | Rake $0.50
Board
Seat 1: Hero (button) (small blind) showed and won ($14.50) with a pair of Kings
Seat 2: mr.breeze999 (big blind) showed and lost with a pair of Deuces
After a while he quits. I get a new table. New guy has only 12k hands at PLO50 HU but hes winning at 13 ptbb according to PTR. I have no idea how, cuz he was pretty weak. Huge calling station always trying to trap, constantly checking and folding and more checking followed by more calling. Rarely ever 3b pf. If he donks out on the flop its the nizzles. Anytime he raises its the nizzles. Also, if he has AAxx and flop is AJ3 and he pots. If turn brings ANY possible str8, he gets scared and checks. Anyway, we get in one big pot which i win. He says NH. I say i got lucky (i got the money in ahead but was lucky to get there before that). He says no he played the turn bad. I say "true"
We get to talkin more, I ask him if he saw the games on FT yesterday. And convo goes like this (from memory)
Him: How did ilari do?
Me: Got crushed early made a comeback
Him: Cool. Hes a friend of mine.
Me: Shut ur face
Him: Seriously (this kid is from Helsinki)
Me: Face, shut it, liar
Him: He was here at my house for 10 days almost 2 weeks ago. he won 2 mill while here.
Me: Starting to believe....
Anyway he went on to explain they are friends and have many other mutual friends. Said he got him back into poker, specifically PLO. He also said its very hard playing 50PLO while watching zigg play 300/600 lol. he said he got to watch him play and even played a few hands. Also said zigg is not that crazy postflop but he plays very risky preflop. I dk, i actually believe the kid.
PokerStars Game #41225267416: Tournament #253143334, $33.00+$1.50 USD Holdem No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2010/03/15 22:13:58 ET
Table 253143334 2 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: Hero (2070 in chips)
Seat 2: 1337Cowboy (930 in chips)
1337Cowboy: posts small blind 10
Hero: posts big blind 20
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
1337Cowboy: calls 10
Hero: raises 80 to 100
1337Cowboy: raises 830 to 930 and is all-in
Hero: calls 830
Showdown Hero: shows (a pair of Tens)
1337Cowboy: shows (a straight, Six to Ten)
1337Cowboy collected 1860 from pot
Summary Total pot 1860 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: Hero (big blind) showed and lost with a pair of Tens
Seat 2: 1337Cowboy (button) (small blind) showed and won (1860) with a straight, Six to Ten
Submitted by : player999
PokerStars Game #41225630613: Tournament #253143334, $33.00+$1.50 USD Holdem No Limit - Match Round II, Level I (20/40) - 2010/03/15 22:24:11 ET
Table 253143334 1 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: catcher-ch (3000 in chips)
Seat 2: Hero (3000 in chips)
catcher-ch: posts small blind 20
Hero: posts big blind 40
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
catcher-ch: raises 120 to 160
Hero: calls 120
Hero: bets 1640
catcher-ch: raises 440 to 2080 and is all-in
Hero: calls 440 and is all-in
River (Pot : $6,000.00)
Showdown Hero: shows (a full house, Sixes full of Fours)
catcher-ch: shows (four of a kind, Fours)
catcher-ch collected 6000 from pot
Summary Total pot 6000 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: catcher-ch (button) (small blind) showed and won (6000) with four of a kind, Fours
Seat 2: Hero (big blind) showed and lost with a full house, Sixes full of Fours
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sup ppl, I want to know from those who play at Heypoker what are the minimum pc specs that I need for multi-tabling here without problems.
I tried it out on my old pc and I could even open 2 tables without having a lot of lag... what specs do you have on your machine while running smoothly? thx
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