I decided to play fullring for the first time this month, and I'm already regreting...
I'm not running bad but the game is so ridic, everybody is nit and nobody pays you off when you have the goods
This month I'm gonna play 100K hands 18tabling
january was the worst month so far... I started grinding at the 8th because I was @ my parents for the holidays
Since my shots at NL25 weren't sucessful i decided to play NL10 again and start learing a bit how to play 6 max, because i guess it's easier to do this at the low stakes than later. I found 1 or 2 articles on the internet but they arent really good. So if any of you guys has a some tips or maybe knows some articles about transitioning from FR to 6 max i would be very glad.
Hero: checks
Mae90: bets $1.70
Hero: folds
Uncalled bet ($1.70) returned to Mae90
Mae90 collected $2.41 from pot
Mae90: doesnt show hand
Summary Total pot $2.51 | Rake $0.10
Board
Seat 1: romanasu28 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 2: kckcmartin folded before Flop
Seat 3: 54pokerlove (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: norton376 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: Hero (big blind) folded on the Turn
Seat 6: Mae90 collected ($2.41)
I think this misses most of his range and I think I made a really bad laydown. His big bet on the turn confused the hell out of me.
This brought back a hand from yesterday where a player limped UTG and reraised me with KQQ4 and ended up hitting the nut 9-k vs my double suited aces so I was really wary of calling him down with only a pair. Thoughts?
He has 900 posts so I dont want to accuse him of scamming me just yet. About 2 weeks ago I transferred him $568 on FTP and was supposed to receive the same amount via cake. I never received the money and he said he emailed support to find out why. He hasnt contacted me in over a week, I have sent him 3 pm's during that time.
I was asking for a transfer of $1500 and he replied saying he only had $568 which seems very odd if he was planning on scamming me. What do you guys think? Do any of you have a history with this member?
this is a concept i have been battling with ever since i started trying to play poker profitably. i played about 130K hands at 10NL and i found out the best way to beat these low limit steaks is to simply value bet big when you have it, and cbet small and bluff small when you do not. it is very ez to win playing face up at these steaks (no squeezing, no trying to outplay IP, ect)
i have moved up to 25NL a few nights ago. here are a few hands that i think may be borderline spew.
this first one i think is played fine. im showing this too illustrate my understanding of equity.
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PokerStars Game #39095759840: Holdem No Limit ($0.10/$0.25 USD) - 2010/02/01 21:12:43 ET
Table Benda X 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: leftturn ($16.25 in chips)
Seat 2: cheeeeech ($24.65 in chips)
Seat 3: Bionk ($61.35 in chips)
Seat 4: Ali Raizer ($23.95 in chips)
Seat 5: skip01210 ($25 in chips)
Seat 6: JohnnySquids ($25 in chips)
JohnnySquids: posts small blind $0.10
leftturn: posts big blind $0.25
Holecards Dealt to JohnnySquids
cheeeeech: raises $0.75 to $1
Bionk: calls $1
Ali Raizer: folds
skip01210: folds
JohnnySquids: raises $3.10 to $4.10
leftturn: folds
cheeeeech: folds
Bionk: calls $3.10
Flop (Pot : $9.45)
JohnnySquids: bets $4.25
Bionk: calls $4.25
Turn (Pot : $17.95)
JohnnySquids: bets $16.65 and is all-in
in this hand i know my villian can have any PP (his pf action call, call lets me know this), or really 2 spades with the call on the flop.
i bet the flop with the intent of shoving a non space, ace , king turn. is this correct thinking? or should i check/call and check/fold a non spade, ace , king river? im pretty positive that the turn shuv was correct.
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PokerStars Game #39097020494: Holdem No Limit ($0.10/$0.25 USD) - 2010/02/01 21:47:45 ET
Table Horus IX 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: obi2kanobi ($31.90 in chips)
Seat 2: The Assassín ($44.35 in chips)
Seat 3: rebelslady1 ($14.05 in chips)
Seat 4: ThePayne04 ($11.20 in chips)
Seat 5: JohnnySquids ($25 in chips)
Seat 6: jennyYkt ($37.05 in chips)
JohnnySquids: posts small blind $0.10
jennyYkt: posts big blind $0.25
rebelslady1: posts big blind $0.25
Holecards Dealt to JohnnySquids
obi2kanobi: folds
The Assassín: folds
rebelslady1: raises $0.50 to $0.75
ThePayne04: folds
JohnnySquids: raises $1.25 to $2
jennyYkt: folds
rebelslady1: calls $1.25
Flop (Pot : $4.25)
JohnnySquids: bets $3.50
rebelslady1: calls $3.50
Turn (Pot : $11.25)
JohnnySquids: bets $8.75
this hand i 3 bet my JJ OOP to his late raise hoping for value or a call and dry flop fold from him.. if i flop the overpair i am willing to get it allin. can his flop raise/call be spades or a 10 enuff for me to get value? im sure he has other PP's and stupid shit lots of times to make up for it. he is not full stacked which makes me beleive he is a fish. so i shove these players all day in similer situations. correct?
Submitted by : JSquids
PokerStars Game #39097105318: Holdem No Limit ($0.10/$0.25 USD) - 2010/02/01 21:50:11 ET
Table Cydonia V 6-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: JohnnySquids ($25.55 in chips)
Seat 2: Rcx1958 ($45.20 in chips)
Seat 3: patanlexus ($48.45 in chips)
Seat 5: kbte ($9.30 in chips)
patanlexus: posts small blind $0.10
kbte: posts big blind $0.25
Holecards Dealt to JohnnySquids
JohnnySquids: raises $0.50 to $0.75
Rcx1958: folds
patanlexus: calls $0.65
kbte: calls $0.50
this hand is somewhat smiler but more difficult because he has me covered and i fear a raise. i also dont want to check becuase it seems very weak and i dont want to be bumped off the best hand. id rather bet, there is more equity in it. the reason i bet the flop is to tax the hearts and value smaller PP's who will call here multiway. the turn bet is as well to tax a heart draw and a strait draw. also to get value from PP smaller than i or mybe a weaker 10. when the jack comes on the river im almost positive that he does not have a jack so i go for a value bet.
this is more of a logic question here about betting for value. am i trying to bet to thin? should these be check calls? should these be played differently? thx for the opinions.
January was somewhat swingy with several short but brutal downswings hitting me as I added more and more NL400 volume. In the end, it turned out to be a good month though. I stopped playing ring games on FTP almost completely because, besides being rigged, FTP simply cannot compete with the new Stars rewards system. Just straight up points to concierge at regular Supernova at 6-max Stars comes out to 31% of MGR. Since the actual rake I pay tends to be quite a bit lower than MGR, my actual rakeback is quite a bit higher. On top of that, you add Stellar Rewards and Milestone bonuses along with other minor stuff such as deposit bonuses etc. and you are looking at something that is way way better than the 27% rakeback on FTP. Iron Man adds a tiny bit, but nothing really significant unless you play A TON on FTP alone.
In addition to my cash winnings online, I also won some during my two trips to the local casino as well as a couple of tournament cashes. Along with rakeback, the month came out to just over $10k, making it a good start to the year.
The goal for this month is to keep working on increasing volume while transitioning to playing almost exclusively NL400. I also need to get on the schedule where I swim at least 6 times a week and do drylands at least 3. Our practices start at 5:30am on weekdays, so it's easy to get out of the groove and miss a few if I do not maintain a fairly strict schedule. It is said that it takes 3 weeks to develop a habit, which is just under the length of February. So by the end of February, I want to have my workout schedule down. My goal is to be in top shape for Masters Swimming Nationals at the end of summer. Half a year is a good amount of time to prepare, but I need to start now.
Trying 45/90/180 mans for a change...by Fujikura, February 02
So I decided to try my luck at some of these 45/90/180 mans on stars, and am kind of liking my results. No doubt I am running good, but considering I know absolutely nothing about these games, I'm kind of happy with the results so far. I've been 30-50 tabling them, and kind of making some bad decisions in tough spots, but overall I am happy with results, and got some help from a few LPers about strategies and such. Here's a graph of the last few days where I run hot like fire. http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/5803/overally.jpg
And here's a pic of my last session which was an insane luckbox lol. http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/2395/jajajaps.jpg
All in all, I will try to grind out a bunch of these this month and see what kind of ROI I can achieve. If anybody has any general advice for these kind of games, I'd appreciate it. As always, good luck LP!
Dino
dumbest shit ever that i did ... all the years ive been playing this has to be the worst missclick ever... sorry dont know how to do hand history but yeah ne wayz.. still ended the day up like 70 bux most of it from rakeback. so glad i have rakeback.
Stage #1885431417: Holdem No Limit $0.50 - 2010-02-01 18:40:26 (ET)
Table: RIALTO (Real Money) Seat #5 is the dealer
Seat 5 - CUEPAS ($18.29 in chips)
Seat 6 - HOTCHIP_BRAT ($38 in chips)
Seat 1 - Hero($75.96 in chips)
Seat 2 - MR_JAYP ($65.50 in chips)
Seat 4 - RBLOW1981 ($55.51 in chips)
HOTCHIP_BRAT - Posts small blind $0.25
Hero - Posts big blind $0.50
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [Ks 8s]
MR_JAYP - Raises $1 to $1
RBLOW1981 - Folds
CUEPAS - Folds
HOTCHIP_BRAT - All-In(Raise) $37.75 to $38
Hero - Calls $37.50
MR_JAYP - All-In(Raise) $64.50 to $65.50
Hero - Calls $27.50
*** FLOP *** [6d 10d 5d]
*** TURN *** [6d 10d 5d]
*** RIVER *** [6d 10d 5d 2c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Hero - Shows [Ks 8s] (king high)
MR_JAYP - Shows [Qh Qc] (One pair, queens)
HOTCHIP_BRAT - Shows [9c Ad] (One pair, nines)
MR_JAYP Collects $54.03 from side pot-1
MR_JAYP Collects $111.47 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total Pot($169:$114,$55) | Rake ($3:$2.03,$0.97) | Jackpot Rake ($0.50:$0.50,$0)
Board [6d 10d 5d 2c 9s]
Seat 1: Hero (big blind) HI:lost with king high [Ks 8s - P:Ks,B:10d,Bs,P:8s,B:6d]
Seat 2: MR_JAYP won Total ($165.50) All-In HI$165.50) with One pair, queens [Qh Qc - P:Qh,P:Qc,B:10d,Bs,B:6d]
Seat 4: RBLOW1981 Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 5: CUEPAS (dealer) Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 6: HOTCHIP_BRAT (small blind) HI:lost with One pair, nines [9c Ad - Bs,Pc,P:Ad,B:10d,B:6d]
currently i'm experimenting with Sit and Go's. Once upon a time that's where i started out. It's fun to revisit the games. It's amazing how much higher i'm able to play them now just from my experience with HU cash and SH cash. Even when you get better at a completely different form of poker it still helps out a ton it seems.
I'm enjoying a lot of different formats. Results are pretty good so far (knock on wood). Though going back and forth through formats sometimes hurt me. For example mixing Double or Nothings with 6max SNGs is pretty hard. Hyper Turbo's are also a ton of fun.
i have also been busy writing for the dutch site of love2poker.com and recently i wrote my first strategy article for the site. I originally wrote it in Dutch but i made a translation:
so far the volume this year is really soso. With my current skills and life obligations i cannot ever make SNE but i will hit a few milestones. so i'm happy stars upped the lower milestone bonusses.
good luck to all of you and let me know what you think of the article.
Purchased these headsphones today ($80). I called up the company and said SHIP IT, they said "yes sir". The previous sentence is false, I ordered online. Went with wireless so I can get up and and piss while still enjoying the sounds of chips moving around. I can also walk around the house when im playin some random tournies and I can hear the alerts tellin me its time to act. PLus, i hate wires. On an unrelated note, i can also poop and listen to my TV/Music if i so choose.
I usually have the TV on in the background when I play even tho I dont watch it. Im gonna start listening to music while I play. I wanna start grinding hard and im hoping these things will motivate me.
Random things:
-Saw book of Eli, good shit
-Played the million takedown and the 1/4 mill yesterday, cashed both for a combined 150ishh. Thats a shit ton of money so I made sure not to spend it all in one place (see above)
-I weighed myself this morning, I stand at a wimpy 164 pounds. I got the flu about 6 weeks about and just continued to be sick for about a month. Before that I weighed 175. I got 3 months to gain 20lbs, easy.
Time to start over cuz I sucks hord.
Jealous of January success stories, HMPH!
Sucks to be a rakeback ho.
Fuck my writing intensive class, I have to read like 6 novels by the end of the semester.
Gawd fuck reading novels...
oh btw,
Is anyone else thinking about buying the Godiva Chocolates from PS for their significant other/GF ???
just bought a new 50 inch plasma panasonic full HD TV for about ~1800$
so epic, im gonna watch soooooooooooooooo many bluray movies from comp->TV through hdmi
im so happy, like the first time i actually bought something for myself from my pokerwinnings..
ive lived off it for about 1 year now, but paying bills and paying rent of it isnt very funny..
next i just need to fix some nice sound too! im so excited about my new appartment :D will take some pics later, its getting quite nice now 1 month since i moved in :-)
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i decided to play NL10 again and start learing a bit how to play 6 max, because i guess it's easier to do this at the low stakes than later. I found 1 or 2 articles on the internet but they arent really good. So if any of you guys has a some tips or maybe knows some articles about transitioning from FR to 6 max i would be very glad.
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$165.50) with One pair, queens [Qh Qc - P:Qh,P:Qc,B:10d,B
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