getting back into poker. I started out with $3.99 on Cake. Lame, i know, but i can't get my credit card to work on any site to put money on, and i had the said amount on cake from Rakeback after i went busto... So, since i have time when i'm sitting in study hall, or personal finance, or in my hotel room on road games, i'm going to grind. So far, in about a week playing .02/.04, i've got about $25, 3 tableing.
Pretty cool, wish i could track my progress on something, but cake is gay.
So I finally got mo money to invest in this crazy poker scheme I have of going pro. I took a quick 5 BI shot at NL50 HU for no other reason than just to see if I could. Well I cant, so enough of that story. Before I juice the poker economy any further I decided to sit down and watch some poker sessions via the HEM replayer. Not just partial sessions, entire sessions from start to finish, every single hand. It's basically like watching a video of yourself really. So I'm watching my pwning sessions, and my losing one's too, to try and see whats happening with me.
I must say doing this is pretty interesting, I can feel the game flow and dynamic evolving as the session progresses, and can almost read my thoughts at the time from sessions as old as a year ago. One of the first things I'm noticing though which I dont remember doing at all is spewing off like a fucking loon during my losing sessions. Not from tilt, but goddamn fancy play. And I'm pretty sure I know why, because I start to get that creeping feeling possessing me to do it as I watch.
For instance, I'll have some shit like A6o in MP, notice that the CO and BTN are both 16/15 TAG's, and say "well they're not going to do anything fancy if I raise here, so if they fold I can steal the blinds from MP! If they call, well then I'll either shutdown or just cbet any flop queen or higher. If they raise or 3bet I just shut down completely, EZ PEAZY!" This is just so recklessly out of control I'm at a loss for words. I'll even do this UNDER THE GUN, with the same logic that b/c everyone is so tight I'll get a free pass, and they'll tell me if I'm beat, because my hands are so junk I dont have to worry about any difficult decisions.... That is until I flop top pair and wonder if it's good or not, then pick up a concealed open ender on the turn that doesnt complete, all the while getting value towned as my hand improves every so slightly. I'll even raise 86o in the CO, get 3bet by the SB, and call because we're 100BB deep and be like "he aint ever gonna see this shit comin if I hit". THAT IS SO FUCKING FISHY OMG. That is exactly what fish probably tell themselves every time they enter a pot with what they know must be junk "never know what the flop will bring! Imma stack aces with T7o!"
I'm still playing pretty loose in my pwning sessions, but it's more of a controlled aggression. A lot more willingness to fold to 3bets, mostly saving my air range for the BTN instead of CO, no fucking around from UTG or MP, minus the 1/100 times I raise like 9To just for table image, and just taking very light controlled shots at the pot on the flop. See, I keep outleveling myself. I'll think some shit like "well he knows I'm capable of floating the flop or c/r'ing on a bluff, so I have to follow through on the turn too otherwise I'll become an easy target". Well, that might be true vs the best players in the world, but vs tag grinders at NL200 it's just not necessary. I mean I may even be losing some pots to good level X thinkers on the turn or whatever, but thats not important. It wont hurt my winrate to let that slide, and I'm better off just being a loose bitch preflop and on the flop and not much more beyond that. And truth be told, it's probably not happening as much as I think it is anyway! And the real beauty in playing loose is to sneak in there with hands and cooler people to death, rather than looking sketchy with a WTSD of 2% and AF of 5.
Anyway, I'm gonna play some NL200 live this week just because I can, and because it's like NL2, which I expect to be able to beat. Then I'll probably take a stab at NL200 online again and see if I can recreate the rhythm I had back in the day after observing myself play and finding the magic again. In fact, watching my losing sessions might be all I really need, because they are just filled with FAIL and "things not to do".
Last month I and my cousin went to the Bahamas for the PCA after he had won a package in a $700 satellite. Unfortunately, there were only 4 Poles (well, 5 including Lukasz who lives in NYC) besides us.We spent the first 2 days on walking around the hotel, because it was HUGE. I don't really feel like describing every single day so I'll make it brief. When it comes to how Maciek (my cousin) did in the Main Event, he ended day 1 with about 100k in chips, day 2 with 300k, and busted in 99th place ($23,500) on day 3. He was the only Polish guy to make it to the money. So speaking of Polish guys, we met Goral (PS Team Pro), NegPL, Borys313 (Supernova Elite) and some other dude whom I don't really remember. Goral is a really nice guy and I gotta say he deserves his place in the PS Team. He shared a room with NegPL (Krzysiek) who got us a laugh all the time. He was stoned every single day - he said he couldn't handle playing for 10 hours straight without smoking at least 2 joints .
I saw a lot of famous poker pros, such as Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Mike Matusow, etc. etc. I even got a photo with our LP hero Elky and the Fossilman. I wanted to get Ivey's autograph so badly but I pretty much failed. He was like a ghost and I couldn't catch him during the breaks. I got extremely exited when, as we were walking to our table in a casino restaurant, I spotted Jayde Nicole (<3) hanging out with Adrian Grenier (Vincent Chase from "Entourage" ). Earlier, in the same restaurant, we had been sitting two tables away from Ivey .
The weather could have been better though - I got sick of sitting in the hotel all day long. I got to swim only on 3 days. Ok, I guess that's all about the Bahamas.
I'll leave you with some pics from the trip and my prom night: + Show Spoiler +
Under blue moon I saw you
So soon you'll take me
Up in your arms, too late to beg you
Or cancel it though
I know it must be
The killing time
Unwillingly mine
Granted, it's not all A+ poker but I've played pretty good. All in all about 27k€ under equity in 10 days. I will, however, consider this a brag rather then a whine since I've actually made money during this period if I include the rakeback/cashback/whatever they like to call it I'll get for it.
On the whole I don't care for this running bad business though, and I'm worried that the fact that I've encountered it might actually make me more prone to run bad again. Earlier I just assumed that getting sucked out, missing draws and such was what other people did but that it didn't really apply to me, and as the great philosopher Pratchett stated; "It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a halfbrick in the path of the bicycle of history."
hello, i'm definately playing this, going to start searching for a stake right now even tho this wont happen next sunday.
let me know
stars: Thyrandaal (québec)
ftp: Thyrandaal (L) (yeah it wasnt that in the last thread but they gave me a rushpoker bonus and since i have no roll on ftp the switch was ez)
I've had my best poker months when I'm not in school, but as soon as i'm in school my winning decrease. I had shit months last year Dec, and this years Jan and Feb. I'm in school, plus a lot of homework, plus 26 hours each week of clinical at the hospital. I think I have too many things going on so I'll quit playing until I finish in April 13, and then i'll refocus. No point in playing if I can't play my best. I mean I think i'm a great 100 and 200 nl player, and just haven't been playing at my best, so finishing school should be my main goal, and the extra time should be to relax. I also want to thank Tom, he has so much patience with me when he teaches me how to play, and I know thats not always easy for him. On a side note, i weigh 218 now, so 13 more pounds to go by april 13. Good luck to you all and thanks for reading.
Didn't like the place where my computer was put, therefore decided to move it to another room. But since i didnt want to ruin the room, decided that i should be able to hide it whenever needed. If anyone has similar problems you may do something similar like i did
so i been playing the hyper turbos on full tilt, took my 2k roll up to 8k in past 2 days
then this morning i thought it would be a good idea to lose $6000 OF THAT, lost $2000 on pokerstars last night and just done $1500 on roulette, so thats like $10000 in 24 hours. Super tilted right now, time for call of duty.
thanks to exhilarate and spicy for railing/witnessing the run good of a sun god. seriously binked a million flips and even an insanely crucial QJ > AQ. i feel incredibly dirty, but i was by far the best player in the remaining like 100 players in the field so w/e. i had 15 knockouts too lolol.
need 10k stars$ i have FTPby marllboro, February 10
hey guys need to move 10k from FTP to Stars,will send first to a long time poster and also i can do increments for lower amounth,will give a vige for the help.Thanks
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