The day that Rush poker came out I moved from .02/.05 nl to .05/.10 in order to be able to play (with a BR of 140$)
As you can guess it started well until I got the infamous doomswitch, my first ever, actually. Ironically I only started running really bad when my play improved.
Both Pride and the unavailability of lower limit Rush games proceeded to drive me Busto. I always thought the doomswitch was about to end, because how could it go on longer? (a really tilted way of thinking).
HOWEVER, I'm surprisingly happy with the past few days. Sure, I lost my roll, but I have more than 10K hands worth of rake coming in, so I should be able to start micro stakes again.
I think I've improved more in the past few days than I have since the day I began poker. The ability to play so many hands and therefore learn faster has allowed me to drastically reduce my spew and realize how much of an emotional, impatient fish I am (Was!).
My leaks:
I was constantly trying to bluff micro stakes fish,trying to steal the pot whenever my hand didn't connect with the flop, ignoring the fact that it was unprofitable because it felt so good to successfully steal/bluff.
I couldn't put down TPTK unless the flop was super fag, and I played small PPs badly.
Now I'll have a workable roll to begin micro stakes (along with the 3400 FTPs I have no idea what to do with). I will start again, playing solid, patient poker.
Poker Prisoner's Dilemmaby blackjacki2, January 23
Let's say there is a situation in poker where it's something like $1 in the pot with a royal flush on the board and you're heads up. You're first to act. If you shove, a call from your opponent will be -EV since he pays more in rake than he will get from the chop.
Do you shove and hope he makes the +EV play so that you can pick up the free pot?
Or, if you check, do you fold if your opponent shoves or do you call out of spite?
I could never fold in this spot, even if a call is -EV. I'd probably lose more from the tilt of letting the guy get away with that.
Ok, so I deposited $50 today to half-stack NL10 rush on FTP. That's 10 buyins, seemed adequate for one-tabling anyway, already tried full stacking it for fewer buyins but the variance at me up. So what I sacrifice in value I make up for in surviving.
The list goes on, and ultimately im busto, again... A lot of the rags in there are just tilt after some monkey limp calls my iso raise and gets it allin with bottom pair on an AK9 flop and stuff.
So where do I go from here? Well everyone says you want loose fish calling you with rags. Since I cant handle this online as I get too impatient/tilted, I'm gonna take another shot at live. Since the lowest limit offered in my city is NL200, I cant afford it right now. With my wife currently job seeking and all the bills falling on me I'm just stuck in a rut poker wise. Too broke to play higher limits, too tilted to play lower limits.
Once the money starts rolling in though I hope to be able to take a few lucky shots at live and build a roll from there. I cant beat fish at NL2 because I get too tilted at the shit they stack me with. But the good thing about live is that it forces you to keep your composure (at least for me), since I'm not gonna act like a jackass in front of 30 people. Combined with the calming effect of the social atmosphere, alcohol, and fewer hands = fewer bad beats, I never get spewy. There's still variance, so it might take me awhile before my 2 BI shots turn into a real bankroll, as I fully expect to bust the first few times. Or maybe ill get lucky and just run good the first night and walk out with 5+ BI's.
Whichever happens, I'll have to wait a long good while before deciding when to reload online again. The only limit I can take seriously is NL200 and up, but I certainly need a bankroll there since I'm outclassed by the player pool. So unless I absolutely demolish live tables for 2-3 months straight, I'll probably never have enough funds available to use from my live roll to play online with again, since I just refuse to play anything less than NL100 anymore.
On a side note; Rush poker has been an interesting experience. I learned to play poker from an AI simulator, and the cool thing about that was it had a "next hand" button to just fast forward your way through the crap and find good spots to play in. This is exactly how rush feels, so I thought I might pwn at it since I'm used to playing with blinders on and just quickfolding my way to position with some kind of playable hand. Unfortunately rush changes things a bit. The simulator continues to act like a normal ring game, but rush players are making all sorts of adjustments which make it a little more complicated. The fish are still there jamming and calling off their stacks with garbage, which even the simulator never did, but the light 3betting is something I still havent quite figured out how best to play vs. Since I'm no good at 4betting I opt to just call most of what I suspect are light 3 bets, take a flop, and try to play from there. I figure if they're bluffing they'll lead the flop and I can just raise and rep something that calls a 3bet with, or I can even cbet if they just check it to me, or delay my bet for the turn to look a little more defensive but believable etc etc. But I just couldnt get enough hand volume in to figure it all out. From what I recall light 4betting really does seem to be the best answer, but I just wasnt willing to run into 5bet shoves and folding hands like 98s and KJo, where I could probably either win a large or small pot with once the flop chills everyone the fuck out.
Beyond that I dont really have much else to say about rush, other than I officially take the side of ring game players saying normal poker is more +EV compared to rush, no matter how you play it.
Oh, and about moving to vegas, well the idea was just a long shot, with my wife being unemployed for so long and my job future going nowhere, we thought we might just start looking for employment in las vegas (doing normal white collar shit), which would give me the opportunity to calmly play live in a legal environment without all the ghetto'ness of playing in my city at peoples houses and shit. We're fascinated by the Vegas landscape and culture and think we might actually enjoy living there regardless of playing poker. But it would be a huge undertaking to acquire a new job out of state like that to secure our futures if we ever really decided to move.
i decided to download WC3 and TFT on my netbook thru b.net and found out i can herp derp my way into the korean version. does the korean version have the same hotkeys as the english version? would playing dota affect anything as well?
Another positive sessionby halflinggenius, January 22
Most hands played in a session so far, 1.2k. Was 7-8 tabling.
Hands:
Lots of losing hands to consider today.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/792133 - $8.02 - Slight underdog here. Okay at these stakes since people will often have trash hands / weak draws I think.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/792159 - $11.65 - Thought I could bluff him off. Probably not a wise play but his turn raise made me think he hit the straight and wasn't on a flush draw, hitting straight with a flush draw would probably just call I think.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/792161 - $6.16 - Blah, don't know why I called river. I guess I didn't expect a two pair or a set to play the way villian did.
Played slightly looser (played more 3 card broadway + x hands etc), worked out well overall I think. Got a lot more action and if it weren't for bad beats/good rivers for villians, I'd be up more.
Graph:
I'll be honest I don't think EV line for Omaha given by HEM is an accurate indicator of luck. There's a large number of reasons that people smarter than myself have posted online, so google if you're curious. Either way my allin luck was slightly bad today.
I just downloaded ftp because of the rush poker craze that has struck. I'd like to put $50 onto the account, however, my debit/credit card is being declined. I'd like to start playing tonight if possible, i don't want to wait a week for the instant "e-check"... Are there any ideas that i am not thinking of?
I don't mind depositing $50 onto stars and then doing a transfer but unfortunately i'm paranoid of scammers, so one stipulation is that i would like you to transfer first, but i seriously doubt anyone would be willing to do that. I am willing to take screenshots of anything you want to make sure it's legit.
edit: obviously i'd put the $50 onto stars before i asked you to send it to me and take a screen shot to prove it, etc.
ideas?
ive played poker for few years
all its done is bring me to tears
the whole time i was a nit
and i always get badbeat
by some fucker thats plays wild
taking my dough like im a child
hey arsehole stop that shit
i think its time for me to quit
this game treatin me worse then drugs
riding highs im happy as fuck
till the doomswitch hits me in the face
and the devils game puts me back in the place
so fuck this game to me i say
its time for me to have my way
inspired by isildur
gamble shit up instead of being poor
playing outta my roll
im gonna reach my money goal
but as always goddamn luck
beat me down and hit me in the sack
so jsut like LP's resident neilly
i got badbeat for my bankroll, i failed
so now i am bust
AJ suited was my last
Sick heater, averaging 200$/hr playing 23$ HU the last 6 hrs. And that's cause I lost 4 buy ins(more actually since I wouldve won the matches) due to diconnection while 4tabling.
Fee's Robusto Guide (notes)by Mariuslol, January 22
I always have loads of pages saved up, so I never close them. But the list was starting to get so long, I have to close some of them, And some of the really good poker articles I don't like closing, so I just took the important notes of one of them, and paste it here, so now I can close a few more. =]
Enjoy
- The key is using your time efficently and becoming consumed with the game.
- If you are just starting out play 2 tables. After you become adept at ANALYZING hands move up to three. If you cannot analyze hands at 2 tables go to one table. After you master three tables move to four. DO NOT MOVE BEYOND 4.
- if you can follow this piece of advice you will be in good shape, the biggest leak/cruch of unl-SSNL players is their penchant to multitable. You will never learn anything playing that many tables, learning the game has a FAR greater value than any RB/bonus/hourly of grinding SSNL ever could.
- Review your sessions! You need to know your game AND your opponents game. Get used to analyzing your play with an opponent and the dynamic you guys create (obviously this requires pokertracker of some sort). This isn't as important until like 100-200NL but knowing how to do it is crucial because this is what actually makes you think deeply about how to play hands and your overall game plan.
- Play SOLID. Do not run any type of big bluffs until 400NL. Just that simple, do not make moves. You will be extremely tempted constantly to run the bluff, the more in control of this urge you are the faster you are going to moveup, plain and simple, these guys are waiting to give away their money, you just need to be patient and understand how to play solid.
- Playing solid is what poker is all about, you need to know how to play every situation without reads in a somewhat nitty/conservative manner so that you avoid spewing and making horrible players (bluffing a station, checking vs a weak tight, folding vs a spewy aggro monkey)
- Think of poker like a road, while you are going striaght you are playing your solid ABC game, later down the road you will turn left/right to adjust to your opponents game, but for the beginning of sessions/early levels play solid and aggressive and you will do just fine.
- I wish I could go back in time and just avoid using a HUD and play 4 tables and focusing with decisive reads, but alas I cannot, don't use a HUD, focus on your opponents line and what hand (s) he is representing and how he plays certain hands, where he is weak and where he is strong, this is far more valuable than knowing a regular is 20/17 or a fish is 40/2.
- EV graphs, won $ at showdown, showdown winnings, all that is bullsht just ignore it.
- Tilting. This is the hardest thing to handle, basically if you can play solid and not tilt you'll play 5/10 in like 8 months tops if you work almost every day. For everyone its different how results effect you and how you deal with it. One thing I can tell you is that one day you will, no matter what run worse than you ever thought was reasonable, logical, mathematically possible.
- just be constantly aware that poker is going to kick the **** out of you and you can take it kicking and screaming or take it like a man and rough it out.
hi guys
first let me introduce myself for those who dont know me. my name is Arthur, I just turned 20 and I live in Brasilia, capital of Brazil, away from my parents that live in antoher city. I live by myself since june 2008 working for the brazillian government at the morning. the payment is great, I can afford a very nice life, nice car, nice friends and stuff. to get that job I had to be aproved on a test where there was over 1k ppl/job applying, so I'm really the hard-working kinda guy. I started grinding online poker in august/2009 and I'm currently playing NL25/NL50. poker has always been good and thats not why I'm blogging this.
other than money, my life has never been very good. I seem to atract the wrong girls all the time, its just like a very sick bad run. last months my life has been shitty and everything seems to be going the wrong way. due the fucking hard depression I'm suffering I'm gonna start psycho-terapy tuesday 26, gonna get a license from work cause its kinda impossible to work with my current state of mind. I'm starting the treatment with a antidrepression medicine called Amitriptyline: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitriptyline . the treatment is supposed to last 3 months. wish me luck!
I love Rush Poker, it's really got me enthusiastic about poker in a way I haven't been in a long time. I guess I was always paranoid about being played back at or exploited, and now I get to play without that stress. I run much bigger bluffs than I normally do, because fuck it, only 1 guy tops is going to see me be a monkey. Stylistically there's some other cool stuff that I get to do comfortably that I couldn't do otherwise, though I don't really want to talk about it yet. On the practical side, Rush allows me to get in enough hands to fight against variance even though I work full time, ski weekends, and generally never have time for poker. So long as games continue to run, I don't think I'll ever touch the normal stuff again.
The thing is, I want to 6-table this bitch (8, maybe, someday...). I'm definitely playing 4 tables of NL100 6-max Rush, but what should I add for the other two? NL50 is a little small for me, but I'm much more comfortable with the table dynamics than at FR (must... not... fold... jacks... pre... must... 5-bet shove). I know (hope?) none of you know my particular game well enough to give specific advice, but what are people's thoughts about mixing FR & 6-max? Is it easy enough to figure how to play the first 3 positions in FR? Does folding AQo UTG hurt every time you do it, or do you get numb to the pain?
PokerStars Game #38555121948: Holdem No Limit ($0.02/$0.05 USD) - 2010/01/22 12:04:54 CT [2010/01/22 13:04:54 ET]
Table Dolios IX 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: VM.VINOMANIA ($4.97 in chips)
Seat 2: hollythew00d ($5.45 in chips)
Seat 3: Totosha16 ($6 in chips)
Seat 4: superfash ($5.88 in chips)
Seat 6: bgApache ($5.31 in chips)
superfash: posts small blind $0.02
JWT1: is sitting out
bgApache: posts big blind $0.05
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to superfash
VM.VINOMANIA: folds
hollythew00d: folds
Totosha16: raises $0.10 to $0.15
superfash: calls $0.13
bgApache: folds
Been playing NL25 fullring, these are my last 50k hands or so. Starting to consistently beat it, gonna be playing NL50 in a few days when i get my new cable provider, havent been able to put in as much volume as i planned since i have shitty intermittent internet during the day, but going well none the less, expect to put in another 100k hands in the next 7 days or so. Any comments or criticisms on my stats/graph are welcome.
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