You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' by DustySwedeDude, January 18
Ok so out of 4 different exams I took last week I'm fairly sure I aced one, passed on, probably past a third and fucked up a forth. For the last one I just tried to read stuff that looked important (was like +800 pages of stuff for it, and considering all the other stuff I had to pick and choose) and picked the wrong stuff.
Started watching a fair bit of ”Black books” which is a great TV-show, mostly thanks to this guy:
It's awesome! I really love the show which is kind of ironic since I try not to drink much anymore. Probably going to give up everything except maybe wine (but only with food) and whiskey, which is God's gift to to Irish and Scottish, and co-incidently the most awesome thing made on those otherwise God-forsaken islands. Dunno how long I'll hold to that but whatever, trying to get in shape. Hoping to lose 15ish pounds or so before the summer. Will be doing BJJ or Thaiboxing 5 days a week which is really awesome and I'm eating super healthy right now. The interesting part is if I can keep it up...
Anyway, here's a clip from that show:
Other then that I had the first lecture on my economics class today, and man, those student are stupid. At least the ones tries to answer questions. My roomie said some stuff I've made fun of him for all day and he was probably the least retarded as far as statements goes. The teacher tried used an example that was clearly to show one specific point he'd talked about for 10 minutes and the next 15 minutes are spent listening to retard ass students who starts a sentence with; ”But if...” and tries to change the example just to show fuck all. I've said my fair share of stupid crap in law school, and heard even worse, but if someone tried to pull that crap there I'm fairly sure the teacher would just ask him to either shut up or leave. At least most of them.
Poker's going decent, not really taking off but I'll probably have a solidish month. Lot's of swings though so can't say for certain. Omaha is a cruel game but I'm getting the hang of it, or at least some of it. It's ridiculous how fast I learn, mostly because I (like almost everyone else) suck something horrid at it to begin with.
Also I'm like halfway sure that some girl I'm getting to know either is a ghost or has like a secret identity to protect her from crazy stalkers. I will update if I encounter ninjas.
Needed that. Gotta shell out 3k to various people because they are full of fail and are basically fucked without me. last time im doin shit like this. feel like im gettin taken advantage of but its family and thats what they'd do for me. right? right?
Sigh. I just ended my session running 6 buy ins below EV sitting to the left of some of the biggest fishes ever. Felt like nothing was working and I just tilted near the end of the session because of it, so obviously I decided to stop.
Like this punk trying to give me a full buy in with K high... + Show Spoiler +
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Full Tilt Poker Game #17695381115: Table Loretta (6 max) - $0.05/$0.10 - No Limit Hold'em - 6:20:03 ET - 2010/01/18
Seat 1: ZonZa ($23.20)
Seat 2: jackgck ($11.07)
Seat 3: reedorweep ($9.86)
Seat 4: fcb910961 ($13.58)
Seat 5: kozikoa ($11.86)
Seat 6: okerhai ($3.85)
kozikoa posts the small blind of $0.05
okerhai posts the big blind of $0.10
The button is in seat #4
ZonZa checks
jackgck bets $1
ZonZa raises to $2
jackgck has 15 seconds left to act
jackgck raises to $10.57, and is all in
ZonZa calls $8.57
jackgck shows
ZonZa shows
jackgck shows a pair of Nines
ZonZa shows a pair of Kings
ZonZa wins the pot ($20.81) with a pair of Kings
jackgck adds $10
Summary Total pot $22.29 | Rake $1.48
Board:
Seat 1: ZonZa showed and won ($20.81) with a pair of Kings
Seat 2: jackgck showed and lost with a pair of Nines
Seat 3: reedorweep didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: fcb910961 (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: kozikoa (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 6: okerhai (big blind) folded before the Flop
I thought he'd stack with any 6x there and apparently he's cool stacking with worse. :/
Regardless of this session, the month has been pretty good. I should be putting in more hands, but I've also been working so sometimes it's hard to grind when I know I'll just be playing my C game tired instead of resting and playing better later.
My bankroll is at 310 (it was 360 earlier ) and I'll start taking occasional NL25 shots around 475-500. For right now I'm gonna exercise, take a break and then come back in like 45 min to grind some NL5 to get my confidence back. I know that soon I'll need to hire a coach or get a strong player to sweat me because I feel unconfident in my game... I'm trying to play ABC but also think creatively at the same time... but there's clearly spots where I'm not playing optimally and I know I'm not thinking about every hand correctly. Honestly I kind of feel like I've just been running good recently.. which is why I know I need a coach or strong winning player to sweat me.
Everything has gone quite smoothly so far, though on the 2nd night I was here my uncle and I were chillin on the sidewalk drinking some beers at 4am when a street fight erupts 10 foot away! These fucking crazy thais are brawling, knocking over 4 street vendor carts and 3 motorbikes. They fall onto my uncle and I and our little plastic chairs just collapse, and one of those little thai palms half squished my right nut GOD DAMN IT. Luckily, I was running a pretty good buzz so the pain was dulled, and as of now I'm completely recovered from this dramatic incident.
Also, I should probably see some actual historical stuff soon. Baby steps.
ps brett, I still have no idea where I'm going to be when you arrive..will keep u posted.
pps I'm sporadicly using lan-cafe computers, so no one do any xfers with me or anything until feb 15th or unless you know me well and we can confirm somehow. just a warning
So I'm only a few NL10 BI's away from being rolled for NL25. Are there any tips you guys have for moving up? I know there's a lot more regs in NL25. I'm gonna prob play 9-max for 4 or 5 buy-ins to see how it is.
Sorry for two blog entries in the same day, but I had a good NL100 session (this being my 5th shot at NL100 so I'm pretty happy that I'm finally doing well, at least so far) and I needed to put up the world blogger logo anyway. I ran really hot, managed to stack 4 players in 3 pots, all at the same table, in less than 10 hands (I don't think I even played the hands too optimally). Ended up sitting at the table with 5BI :-). I know this is nothing extraordinary, but it made me feel good. Finished the session with a solid 4BI.
PokerStars Game #38325085477: Holdem No Limit ($0.50/$1.00 USD) - 2010/01/17 18:06:18 CT [2010/01/17 19:06:18 ET]
Table Thuringia IX 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: Hero ($103.10 in chips)
Seat 2: bantam222 ($100 in chips)
Seat 3: IHATEUANDU ($100 in chips)
Seat 4: ken aces ($100 in chips)
Seat 5: STICKMM ($178.20 in chips)
Seat 6: s1nriver ($28.80 in chips)
ken aces: posts small blind $0.50
STICKMM: posts big blind $1
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
s1nriver: raises $2 to $3
Hero: raises $9 to $12
bantam222: calls $12
IHATEUANDU: folds
ken aces: folds
STICKMM: folds
s1nriver: raises $16 to $28
Hero: raises $75.10 to $103.10 and is all-in
bantam222: calls $88 and is all-in
s1nriver: calls $0.80 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($3.10) returned to Hero
Showdown Hero: shows (a pair of Aces)
bantam222: shows (a pair of Kings)
Hero collected $142.40 from side pot
s1nriver: shows (high card King)
Hero collected $84.90 from main pot
Summary Total pot $230.30 Main pot $84.90. Side pot $142.40. | Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: Hero showed and won ($227.30) with a pair of Aces
Seat 2: bantam222 showed and lost with a pair of Kings
Seat 3: IHATEUANDU (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: ken aces (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: STICKMM (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: s1nriver showed and lost with high card King
PokerStars Game #38325148785: Holdem No Limit ($0.50/$1.00 USD) - 2010/01/17 18:07:39 CT [2010/01/17 19:07:39 ET]
Table Thuringia IX 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: Hero ($230.40 in chips)
Seat 2: bantam222 ($100 in chips)
Seat 3: IHATEUANDU ($100 in chips)
Seat 4: ken aces ($100 in chips)
Seat 5: STICKMM ($177.20 in chips)
STICKMM: posts small blind $0.50
Hero: posts big blind $1
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
bantam222: folds
IHATEUANDU: raises $2 to $3
s1nriver leaves the table
ken aces: folds
trlyoutrages joins the table at seat #6
STICKMM: calls $2.50
Hero: calls $2
Showdown Hero: shows (a flush, Ace high)
IHATEUANDU: shows (a flush, Ten high)
Hero collected $213 from pot
Summary Total pot $215 | Rake $2
Board
Seat 1: Hero (big blind) showed and won ($213) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 2: bantam222 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: IHATEUANDU showed and lost with a flush, Ten high
Seat 4: ken aces (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: STICKMM (small blind) folded on the Flop
PokerStars Game #38325261399: Holdem No Limit ($0.50/$1.00 USD) - 2010/01/17 18:10:03 CT [2010/01/17 19:10:03 ET]
Table Thuringia IX 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Hero ($342.90 in chips)
Seat 2: bantam222 ($100.50 in chips)
Seat 3: IHATEUANDU ($100 in chips)
Seat 4: ken aces ($100 in chips)
Seat 5: STICKMM ($162.20 in chips)
bantam222: posts small blind $0.50
IHATEUANDU: posts big blind $1
trlyoutrages: sits out
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
ken aces: folds
STICKMM: raises $3 to $4
Hero: raises $8 to $12
bantam222: folds
IHATEUANDU: folds
STICKMM: calls $8
bantam222 leaves the table
schleppschis joins the table at seat #2
STICKMM: checks
Hero: bets $15
STICKMM: raises $15 to $30
Hero: raises $300.90 to $330.90 and is all-in
STICKMM: calls $120.20 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($180.70) returned to Hero
Showdown STICKMM: shows (two pair, Aces and Fives)
Hero: shows (three of a kind, Aces)
Hero collected $323.90 from pot
Summary Total pot $325.90 | Rake $2
Board
Seat 1: Hero (button) showed and won ($323.90) with three of a kind, Aces
Seat 2: bantam222 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: IHATEUANDU (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: ken aces folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: STICKMM showed and lost with two pair, Aces and Fives
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i feel stars giving out shitty vpp rates for micro/lowstakes fr players are having a negative effect on the games lately. i have played a lot of tables wehre people are just so super super tight thus giving vpps shit value. i used to get .20 per hand 50nl and around .10 at 25nl, now its like .12 for 50 and .08 for 25nl which is ridiculous. benefits will only be felt after a fucking year of playing this shit lol. i hope i can find another site to play at but all this shadiness in online sites is kinda risky.
that or switch to 6max or god forbid....PLOL haha
check out this jap 60's horror classic, great horror flic even now
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I'm just a lowly silverstar right now playing NL25 putting in less than 20k hands per month, but I'm going to try and start putting in a lot more volume and never play out of my BR or in games that games that I'm not good at (sngs lol). I'm going to try and work on areas of my game that are def weak, which include bluffing, barreling, image awareness, getting thinner value, squeezing, bluff catching more, and tilting. Also staying focused and being aware of what is happening in hands, since I usually just afk autopilot through hands like i'm macroing in starcraft or something, often forgetting who the PFR was, if the pot is multiway, or if there is a shortstack in the hand or something.
Lately I have just been playing very mechanically and just putting in the minimum effort needed to eek out a mediocre winrate by just eating up fish and playing a very vanilla game vs regulars (3 betting light in obv spots, cbetting in good boards, raising cbets in obv spots), never really getting out of line or ever pushing the envelope. I often take lines that are safe and easy to play, even when I know I am sacrificing EV. For example; a reg opens UTG, and I'm in the UTG+1 with AA, instead of flatting I just 3 bet, knowing that it's so obvious I have KK+ here since I am ridic unbalanced in spots like this, but not caring because it is ridiculously easy to play AA in a 3 bet pot and I don't feel like dealing with sets and crap. I barely even use my HUD anymore since I'm just following a simple strategy I've made myself that produces winning, although weak results. I did the same thing when I played SC, just blindly used a conservative BO for every MU with zero adaptation or innovation, but who needs strategy when you have over 200 apm and way better mechanics than others at your level. I'll never get past the C ranks playing like this, but w/e I can beat most of my friends and win 90% of obs games on US east, so I really have no drive to get better than this. I mean, I'm playing 16 tables while I type this, probably unknowingly playing HU on a few of them and missing tons of +EV spots, but who gives a fuck, I'm up 3 BI because people throw money at you at microstakes like people throw games at you at the D rank on iccup.
Hopefully making myself achieve supernova at NL25 and below will help me develop a decent work ethic so I can start making decent progress. Money is a good motivator, but I think MORE money + fun is an even better one
last 4-5 days ive been averaging about 50 bux with rakeback but mainly its becuz i was trying to incorporate 3b light and 4b light to my play. at first it was a bit shaky but i think i got the hang of it and know what particular spots to use those betting as well as squeezing. but ne wayz heres the graph.
anyways a hand question. is this a bad spot to 4b bluff? this guy is 20/17 and 3b/11 over 438 hands and hes been 3b me a lot on this table so i thought of tightening up or trying 4b bluffs, trying to figure out when to use it ^^. my stats are 26/15 so is this bad or is it ok to do? and is my betting size right for 4b bluff?
Stage #1858332062: Holdem No Limit $0.25 - 2010-01-17 13:23:22 (ET)
Table: OAKLAND (Real Money) Seat #5 is the dealer
Seat 5 - SEZAMOS ($35.40 in chips)
Seat 6 - HERO ($24.40 in chips)
Seat 1 - CH3RU ($24.35 in chips)
Seat 2 - MORITZZ ($33.34 in chips)
Seat 3 - SUICIDERYLTY ($36.05 in chips)
Seat 4 - WISLAKRAKOW ($6.36 in chips)
HERO - Posts small blind $0.10
CH3RU - Posts big blind $0.25
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to HERO [Js 10s]
MORITZZ - Folds
SUICIDERYLTY - Folds
WISLAKRAKOW - Folds
SEZAMOS - Folds
HERO - Raises $0.90 to $1
CH3RU - Raises $3 to $3.25
HERO - Raises $7 to $8
CH3RU - All-In(Raise) $21.10 to $24.35
HERO - Folds
CH3RU - returned ($16.35) : not called
*** SHOW DOWN ***
CH3RU - Does not show
CH3RU Collects $16 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total Pot($16)
Seat 1: CH3RU (big blind) collected Total ($16) All-In
Seat 2: MORITZZ Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 3: SUICIDERYLTY Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 4: WISLAKRAKOW Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 5: SEZAMOS (dealer) Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 6: HERO (small blind) Folded on the POCKET CARDS
So after going on a 15 BI downswing at NL50, 6 of which were due to edzwoo convincing me to give heads-up a try, I decided to switch over from full ring to six max. The main reason for this switch is because I am playing far too loose in FR (19/16) without the proper postflop play to back up my preflop tendencies. However, my preflop game seems pretty at home in 6m games after having given it a try. So far it's been looking good, and if I keep this up, I will probably switch over permanently. I also moved back to PokerStars to unlock their New Year's reload bonus, which I managed to do today, putting my roll over 2400. Hopefully, I will be taking my fifth shot at NL100 soon.
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) and I'll start taking occasional NL25 shots around 475-500. For right now I'm gonna exercise, take a break and then come back in like 45 min to grind some NL5 to get my confidence back. I know that soon I'll need to hire a coach or get a strong player to sweat me because I feel unconfident in my game... I'm trying to play ABC but also think creatively at the same time... but there's clearly spots where I'm not playing optimally and I know I'm not thinking about every hand correctly. Honestly I kind of feel like I've just been running good recently.. which is why I know I need a coach or strong winning player to sweat me. 
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