Hit 20 BI for NL25 yesterday but I was too lazy to type out an update. Apparently I was running way over EV through NL10 but it honestly didn't feel like it. I sucked out a few times pretty big but with all the coolers I took it didn't feel like I was running hot. I felt like I played the same game I've been playing since NL2 but with some small changes from what I've learned. Averaging $6.06 an hour over NL10 means that hopefully I'll finally be making above minimum wage at NL25!
Rush poker was introduced half way through my run through NL10 and at first I thought it was great. I played super nitty the first couple days and ran so good. But eventually I started running bad and decided that I'd rather play at normal tables than playing against unknown players every hand.
A big thanks to everyone who has been helping me out in the Low Stakes forum, it's much appreciated. I'm starting to see a lot more in every hand now. I have a pretty good grasp on what boards are good/bad to cbet and I'm also starting to see when it's good to float, c/r a cbet or double barrel.
Some of the more entertaining hands I had at NL10
Damn where's the bad beat jackpot + Show Spoiler +
Submitted by : phrenik
Full Tilt Poker Game #18030734609: Table Spiral - $0.05/$0.10 - No Limit Hold'em - 4:50:46 ET - 2010/01/30
Seat 1: CaptenC ($3.91)
Seat 2: Owningonyou ($4.65)
Seat 3: FlipFloppa ($16.93)
Seat 4: lili22013 ($4.65)
Seat 5: mickg2 ($10.05)
Seat 6: jmrayac ($10.56)
Seat 7: Showdown9 ($4.07)
Seat 8: Fischkovic ($6.90)
Seat 9: phrenik ($34.42)
mickg2 posts the small blind of $0.05
jmrayac posts the big blind of $0.10
The button is in seat #4
phrenik has 15 seconds left to act
phrenik bets $1.70
lili22013 raises to $3.85, and is all in
phrenik calls $2.15
Showdown lili22013 shows a straight flush, Queen high
phrenik mucks
lili22013 wins the pot ($8.92) with a straight flush, Queen high
Summary Total pot $9.55 | Rake $0.63
Board:
Seat 1: CaptenC didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: Owningonyou didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: FlipFloppa didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: lili22013 (button) showed and won ($8.92) with a straight flush, Queen high
Seat 5: mickg2 (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 6: jmrayac (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 7: Showdown9 folded before the Flop
Seat 8: Fischkovic didn't bet (folded)
Seat 9: phrenik mucked - four of a kind, Queens
Full Tilt Poker Game #17887400244: Table Velociraptor - $0.05/$0.10 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:51:31 ET - 2010/01/24
Seat 1: diheart ($27.30)
Seat 2: waar0 ($21.15)
Seat 3: kingofreggae ($4)
Seat 4: laser666 ($3.32)
Seat 5: quanlee ($5.39)
Seat 6: poker_luv_chick ($4.09)
Seat 7: ribera86 ($17.18)
Seat 8: phrenik ($42.86)
Seat 9: lanewalkerx ($10.19)
quanlee posts the small blind of $0.05
poker_luv_chick posts the big blind of $0.10
The button is in seat #4
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to phrenik
ribera86 folds
phrenik raises to $0.30
lanewalkerx folds
diheart folds
waar0 folds
kingofreggae raises to $0.70
laser666 folds
quanlee calls $0.65
poker_luv_chick folds
phrenik raises to $1.90
kingofreggae raises to $4, and is all in
quanlee has 15 seconds left to act
quanlee calls $3.30
phrenik raises to $6.10
quanlee calls $1.39, and is all in
phrenik shows
kingofreggae shows
quanlee shows
Uncalled bet of $0.71 returned to phrenik
phrenik shows a full house, Aces full of Kings
quanlee shows a full house, Jacks full of Kings
phrenik wins the side pot ($2.59) with a full house, Aces full of Kings
kingofreggae shows a full house, Kings full of Aces
phrenik wins the main pot ($11.30) with a full house, Aces full of Kings
Summary Total pot $14.88 Main pot $12.10. Side pot $2.78. | Rake $0.99
Board:
Seat 1: diheart didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: waar0 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: kingofreggae showed and lost with a full house, Kings full of Aces
Seat 4: laser666 (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: quanlee (small blind) showed and lost with a full house, Jacks full of Kings
Seat 6: poker_luv_chick (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 7: ribera86 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 8: phrenik showed and won ($13.89) with a full house, Aces full of Kings
Seat 9: lanewalkerx didn't bet (folded)
Ive been 16 tabling nl 10 and nl 25 and cant seem to beat it. Loosing all my confidene @ 6 max. Ive never had any trouble, maybe its that im playing too many tables, highest i played before i started this blog was around 4-6 tables. Gona try and Get a subscription To a video site and watch some videos. Anyways heres my fked up graphs
Have finally realized my sports betting is a problem and I'm actually going to GA for it (insert LOLs here). Haven't played poker since Jan. 14th. Will probably be starting that back up tonight. Need to stick to what I'm good at and stop trying to get rich quick through sports betting. :/
1) ftp you pos, what kind of getto ass update is this. Instantly makes me regret transferring the rest of my funds here.
2) poker makes more sense to me. i don't want to jinx it or say anything ridiculous like i finally get it. but it makes more sense to me.
3) this guy is so tight -.-
4)life is kinda hard, i sorta stress about it. pretty much done with college and have a pretty worthelss econ degree :/
5) i work 40 hours a week helping people lose weight. it's pretty exhausting although to be quite honest, i really do love helping people make permanent lifestyle changes. losing weight is just a giant metaphor for a true personal change in one's actual life.
6) kinda forced to work this much to help my mom and dad out. this recession is pretty tough and even though i voted for that pos obama for some change, the only change in my life is me and my dad both have to pay higher taxes.
7) i don't really have any close ties with my family, ever since i was in highschool i've pretty much always had a part time job paying for stuff. i mean don't get me wrong i'm grateful for all that my ma and dad provided me. because it's only because they have provided me basic things can i take on these new and abstract problems dealing with transcendentalism/existentialism. i guess i wish me and my dad or my ma could be closer. actually we don't talk about anything. they are pretty simple beautiful people.
8) because of work i've never really had that many friends in high school and it's never really bothered me i guess until i went to college and saw for myself how close friends can get. it actually really gets to me sometimes. i feel ridiculously lonely and just want to scream is anyone out there.
anyway end bitching. existentialism pretty overrated. listen to this song yo
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.
Submitted by : JSquids
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.
Submitted by : JSquids
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]
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a straight flush, Queen high
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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