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15 separate Sessions, 50-70 minutes long
Starting limit: NL50
Move to up: 6+bi won
Move down:6+bi lost
I will keep track of them and input a short review after each session.
I will vary 4 and 6 tables (1hr4, 1hr 6) to break the routine and see the difference maybe.
Its time to stop fucking around, I need some proper regime or I can say bye bye to my goal of being a pro when hardcore year 4 of uni starts. Hope this experiment works out, I am looking for balancing the most volume with the least danger of tiredness of mind and hyper tilt.
And to make this more fun, I will post 1 chick pick per review so you you can keep coming back. First in 2h22 minutes :o
PokerStars Game #37839809000: Holdem No Limit ($0.25/$0.50 USD) - 2010/01/08 11:26:33 ET
Table Laodamia V 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: TOSnail ($84.80 in chips)
Seat 2: marce423 ($41 in chips)
Seat 3: 3kplayer ($58.55 in chips)
Seat 5: DoC.LemOn ($87.40 in chips)
Seat 6: Chriz D. ($93.10 in chips)
TOSnail: posts small blind $0.25
marce423: posts big blind $0.50
Holecards Dealt to DoC.LemOn
3kplayer: folds
DoC.LemOn: raises $1 to $1.50
Chriz D.: folds
TOSnail: folds
marce423: calls $1
marce423: checks
DoC.LemOn: bets $5
marce423: folds
Uncalled bet ($5) returned to DoC.LemOn
DoC.LemOn collected $16.45 from pot
DoC.LemOn: shows (a pair of Kings)
Summary Total pot $17.25 | Rake $0.80
Board
Seat 1: TOSnail (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: marce423 (big blind) folded on the River
Seat 3: 3kplayer folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: DoC.LemOn collected ($16.45)
Seat 6: Chriz D. (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
If anyone wants to sweat me add LP-LemOn on skype, preferably not people playing on the same tables.
SESSION 1
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Session2
During this session I didn't feel good at all. I was playing 6 tables, unfocused and I made some large spews.
I had a big dinner and watched a movie, perhaps I should have had the session earlier in the day, my redline was horrible.
The result was a very unfocused session where I lost 1.4 buy ins just by bad play and redline.
I think I have to have the 6 tabling session at my peak performance time before lunch and in the afternoon, and 4 table when it gets late/ after meal
Sesion 3
After watching a video last night at Blue fire poker, I must agree with the author that LAG is a good style for NL50-NL200.
What I misunderstood previously is that you have to run big bluffs and fight for your stack all over the place, which is not true at all.
The goal of LAG is to appear to have a crazy image preflop and steal many small pots, but never pay off with the worse hand or stack off light.
So I tried to apply the philosophy this morning and its hard, very hard.
A) because I was tired after last night (thats rigfht I wake up tired now lolz)
B) I find it hard not to stack off light and I make many mistakes
Overall a break even session, but I will push myself to play as many hands preflop as possible in position, its a good trend.
Being aggressive changes the dynamic from avoiding mistakes to forcing them upon others (and is more fun)
Session 4
Terribad, my head hurts, I am tired and feel bad. I paid off nits where I shouldn't twice - Its so hard to play aggressive when I am not in my top shape
1.4BI down for today, I will tighten up or play loose when I feel better.
When you play 70% steal and 34/27 there is absolutely no room for FPS, big bluffs and hero calls, and doing any of those destroys the whole point of LAG.
Session 5
6 table chill for a bit. Still got my headache and continue playing bad... I will get some Chinese Takeaway and go for another grind.
Made some huge spews, but am on track towards my weekend goal.
And I run hot, which is never bad -.-
I also need an aspirin, because of my headache.
My diet is very bad, Chinese instant noodles every day , I really miss my gf
Session 6
This one went well at first, The Chinese Takeaway was closed, so I had to cook myself. Some Brocolli, Tomatoes, Beef, Salad with Soy and Oyster sauce and steamed rice on the side. Decent/not as good as from my gf
Also took some aspirin and went for a grind.
The session went well from my perspective. I was 4 tabling and for the first time this weekend I was not playing my C game.
I went on fishunting, and won some nice $30, ship it.
One negative thing was certainly that I got distracted by fellow LP member, and I never say no to a potential discussion about poker
This cost me some 20Big Bets, I have to make sure I avoid IM ing when I am having one of my sessions. Its only 60 minutes for gods sake.
I am on track and will put in 2-3 more sessions today.
Session 7
This session was semi-decent.
I was first getting ran over by everyone, but then I got some nice fish on my tables and hit some sexy heaters and went up again.
What was bad was my weak plan against regs, where I checked flop with Midpair and then called 2 barrels and...they always hed sets or flushes lol. I play so aggressive at the moment (some 31/27 including 1 HU table) that I must appear very loose to everyone and it makes no sense to call down 2 streets just because I would do so.
I play with some 52% attempted to steal at the moment and it feels really good.
I also have to check fold flops more and double barrel much less without a hand, as people are just snapping me never thinking about raising with overpairs and top pairs, and my bets are too transparent.
I still feel like I largely suck and I make so many mistakes, but its fun and +ev in the longterm indeed.
I will try to put in one more session, which will leave me with 7 tomorrow.
Maybe I will put in two if I will feel like it in a couple minutes, it would be nice to have a relaxing Sunday
Session 8 & 9
Eight and nine?
Thats right. The Eight session started badly. I was playing on a table with huge fish and I got pwned multiple times.
I lost with set of sixes versus a set of deuces (turned quads), and with higher flush draw on turn All in.
So after 1 hour, I was deep with 2 fish to my left, and had another fish to my right, and I had good reads on both of them.
Staying was +ev, but this time I simply got attached to my money they had and wanted it back ;D.
BUT, this time Around I didn't continue grinding, I Actually sat out on all my tables, went to bedroom, and tried one of Tommy Angelo's breathing exercises. I came back fresh and played much better than if I didn't take out the 7 minutes or so. And I eventually stacked one fish for 170bb and took 100 bb from the other one
I see two options in my future.
1) spend 120k in vegas on hookers, drugs, skydive, and a gun with 1 bullet
2) buy land, start a pot farm and live a moral life which probably means becoming a terrorist
if life is a one time thing, i'm liking #1 option.
So how i'm going to decide between these two is I'm going to take a few hits of the most potent hallucenginic drug known to man: DMT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyltryptamine
within 3 seconds of taking a hit of DMT, walls floor ceiling break away, you are launched into an alternate reality where alien beings talk to you. At this point when alien beings start talking to me, if they say go to vegas i'll go to vegas, if they say start a pot farm i'll do that. If no alien beings show up, then i'm going to vegas, Unless it was such an awesome experience that I decide I must mass produce this drug. But quite frankly if intelligent beings don't show up and talk to me, i'll be dissapointed.
*** SHOW DOWN ***
ronaldo500: shows [6h 5h] (a straight flush, Deuce to Six)
ronaldo500 said, "CHINA STYLE BABBI"
ronaldo500 said, "I PLAY FOR CHINA NATION AND PEOPLE"
howieebub said, "U COME TO AMERICA YOU DIE"
maryhadalamb said, "ypou mlove noodles?"
howieebub said, "come to macau poker club you die"
ronaldo500 said, "U TALK FAST U DIE FAST"
maryhadalamb said, "i am coming"
maryhadalamb said, "in feb"
ronaldo500 said, "BRING U MOTHEER"
ronaldo500 said, "I SHOW HER CHINA STYLE"
ronaldo500 said, "MAKE U SIISTER"
ronaldo500 said, "NEW"
at the start it was ok then i almost went bust to the tune of 250usd lol then ran it back up to a grand then ran bad at 50nl losing 4buyins now my roll is at about 740 plus about 700 in fpps, then i just got exhausted multitabling this game. every session is like 10x the stress vs a nl game and i felt that the stress started to outweigh the fun i was enjoying playing it. vpps were great and i think i doubled my microstakes roll playing it for 10 days. once i concierge my fpps i might still do 50nl omaha and see how it goes or just go back to nl altogether. plus theres now a ton of shortstacking fuckers filling up tables and for some reason a lot of regs rather join existing tables than start new 50bb ones making it hard to see tables with no shorties.
check out this horror comedy movie featuring flightoftheconchords cast
Summary of Phil Galfond's Well part2by Mariuslol, January 08
Continued with the summary of the best bits from Phil Galfond's Well =]
Q: You also mentioned that when players have coaches, they often don't ask the right questions. In your opinion, what are some of the things most players should be focused on but aren't?
A: Along the same lines, a player should go through hands he's played or is playing and say "I (bet $x/called/raised/folded) because _____" Is my logic good?
The coach should ask more questions about what the player is thinking... "why is (bet x) better than (bet y) or c/r?" "What hands that you think he can have are you hoping will call/fold to that bet?" and listen to the players' response. For the first session, the coach shouldn't volunteer what he thinks the correct play is IMO.
Q: How long (hands/time) does it take you to identify fish in the games you typically play in?
A: If I'm paying full attention, not too long. If there's a new player that I don't recognize in a big game, I make sure to watch his play, and go back and look at any hand he showed down. That's where I get the most info.
Q: What are the top 3 or so indicators that first tip you off you are playing a fish? (what are the ones that first surface, as opposed to ones you only figure out over time)
A: If someone is playing a ton of hands, or open limping all the time, you can expect them to play badly elsewhere.
The second fastest is probably bet sizing. Usually regulars keep to a standard bet size style.
Usually what helps the most is seeing a shown down hand, and realizing that whatever logic he was using doesn't make sense. I know thats vague but I don't have an example in mind.
Q: What are the key reads that you find most important to use? or the ones you use most frequently? ie. how he plays draws? how thin he valuebets? timing tells? etc?
A: Flop and turn play are big for me. How light people call flop/raise flop is important. As is how often they fire turns, and with what hands. Are they pot controlling top pair? Are they checking the turn back with 8+ outs sometimes or always firing?
Q: What do you think is the most important game trait a HU player can have to be successful and why? Tilt control, patience, hand reading, aggression, game selection, etc.?
And what do you think was the most profound concept or tool you added to your HU game while developing it?
A: Tilt control is huge. Hand reading is important in all poker, but moreso heads up, because less hands play themselves.
I realize as I'm going down the list, everything is important, heh. You have the right idea. None are really more important than others I would say, and HU poker isn't THAT much different than regular poker.
I think though, understanding and adapting to an opponent is the most important thing I've learned to do for my HU game.
Q: What do you think the number one misconception about poker is? (On 2p2, not the general public consensus that its all about bluffing)
A: Ugh, so many. I basically don't talk to non poker players about poker. They're all so retarded when it comes to poker.
Misconceptions the average person has:
-they understand poker
-it's mostly luck, I'm gonna lose eventually
-tv pros are the best
-it doesn't take intelligence
-poker players are low life degenerates (becoming less and less true. I get personally offended anytime this stereotype is reinforced)
Q: 1) In a lot of your responses you mention the importance of having the right thought processes at the table. Can you please elaborate on what some of the correct thought processes are and what a player should be asking himself or thinking about at the table and during a hand?
A: Your question is a good one, but one that I would answer over 12 hours of coaching or an entire book. In short, you should be asking yourself why you want to make a play, ever play. If you have a good reason for it, better than your reasons for other plays, then you should make it.
Q: can you elaborate further around especially betsizing and timinig tells. Do you have any labels on patterns that you use?
Do you have any suggested reading covering this?
A: Betsize and timing tells are learned with practice.
The best general tip I can give on the subject is, there is always a reason everyone bets the size that they do or at the speed that they do. Often it's because they want you to do something, either consciously or subconsciously. Try to figure out what they want you to do. Then, don't do it.
Transfer $4k FTP -> Starsby hellokittery, January 08
Looking to transfer 4k from FTP to Stars. Will send first to known trusted members/in increments.
I know stars limited everybody's transfer limits or something but hopefully someone can transfer with me
New city, new job, new HU :Dby thundza, January 08
Been a while since I've concentrated on playing HU. Of course, HU is all I've been playing for a while (I suckkkk at 6+max), but this is the first time that I've been able to take more time to analyze my plays and make the best decisions in the moment. I believe the main reason for this is that I'm only playing 1 table at a time. While playing 2 tables, I seem to go into generic robot mode, and am unable to more finely dissect the tendencies of my opponents.
The other reason for my increased concentration on HU has been that I am recently jobless! Actually, I'm headed of to a new state and a new job, so I've had a bit of downtime last month and this month which has allowed me to have some fun and play poker. I will also be going to Vegas for an extended weekend next week :D
that is all. never gloating over a perfect bluff ever again. i musta shipped like 100 years of run bad from that shit. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU
Op-Ed Columnist
The Happiest People
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: January 6, 2010
SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica
Hmmm. You think it’s a coincidence? Costa Rica is one of the very few countries to have abolished its army, and it’s also arguably the happiest nation on earth.
There are several ways of measuring happiness in countries, all inexact, but this pearl of Central America does stunningly well by whatever system is used. For example, the World Database of Happiness, compiled by a Dutch sociologist on the basis of answers to surveys by Gallup and others, lists Costa Rica in the top spot out of 148 nations.
That’s because Costa Ricans, asked to rate their own happiness on a 10-point scale, average 8.5. Denmark is next at 8.3, the United States ranks 20th at 7.4 and Togo and Tanzania bring up the caboose at 2.6.
Scholars also calculate happiness by determining “happy life years.” This figure results from merging average self-reported happiness, as above, with life expectancy. Using this system, Costa Rica again easily tops the list. The United States is 19th, and Zimbabwe comes in last.
A third approach is the “happy planet index,” devised by the New Economics Foundation, a liberal think tank. This combines happiness and longevity but adjusts for environmental impact — such as the carbon that countries spew.
Here again, Costa Rica wins the day, for achieving contentment and longevity in an environmentally sustainable way. The Dominican Republic ranks second, the United States 114th (because of its huge ecological footprint) and Zimbabwe is last.
Maybe Costa Rican contentment has something to do with the chance to explore dazzling beaches on both sides of the country, when one isn’t admiring the sloths in the jungle (sloths truly are slothful, I discovered; they are the tortoises of the trees). Costa Rica has done an unusually good job preserving nature, and it’s surely easier to be happy while basking in sunshine and greenery than while shivering up north and suffering “nature deficit disorder.”
After dragging my 12-year-old daughter through Honduran slums and Nicaraguan villages on this trip, she was delighted to see a Costa Rican beach and stroll through a national park. Among her favorite animals now: iguanas and sloths.
(Note to boss: Maybe we should have a columnist based in Costa Rica?)
What sets Costa Rica apart is its remarkable decision in 1949 to dissolve its armed forces and invest instead in education. Increased schooling created a more stable society, less prone to the conflicts that have raged elsewhere in Central America. Education also boosted the economy, enabling the country to become a major exporter of computer chips and improving English-language skills so as to attract American eco-tourists.
I’m not antimilitary. But the evidence is strong that education is often a far better investment than artillery.
In Costa Rica, rising education levels also fostered impressive gender equality so that it ranks higher than the United States in the World Economic Forum gender gap index. This allows Costa Rica to use its female population more productively than is true in most of the region. Likewise, education nurtured improvements in health care, with life expectancy now about the same as in the United States — a bit longer in some data sets, a bit shorter in others.
Rising education levels also led the country to preserve its lush environment as an economic asset. Costa Rica is an ecological pioneer, introducing a carbon tax in 1997. The Environmental Performance Index, a collaboration of Yale and Columbia Universities, ranks Costa Rica at No. 5 in the world, the best outside Europe.
This emphasis on the environment hasn’t sabotaged Costa Rica’s economy but has bolstered it. Indeed, Costa Rica is one of the few countries that is seeing migration from the United States: Yankees are moving here to enjoy a low-cost retirement. My hunch is that in 25 years, we’ll see large numbers of English-speaking retirement communities along the Costa Rican coast.
Latin countries generally do well in happiness surveys. Mexico and Colombia rank higher than the United States in self-reported contentment. Perhaps one reason is a cultural emphasis on family and friends, on social capital over financial capital — but then again, Mexicans sometimes slip into the United States, presumably in pursuit of both happiness and assets.
Cross-country comparisons of happiness are controversial and uncertain. But what does seem quite clear is that Costa Rica’s national decision to invest in education rather than arms has paid rich dividends. Maybe the lesson for the United States is that we should devote fewer resources to shoring up foreign armies and more to bolstering schools both at home and abroad.
In the meantime, I encourage you to conduct your own research in Costa Rica, exploring those magnificent beaches or admiring those slothful sloths. It’ll surely make you happy.
I said in my last blog I would post a follow-up tonight, and here I am. I am well on my way to making my goal of $40 this month, as I've made about 25 today alone. Like I mentioned earlier, I fully intend to shatter that goal, and I'm in good shape to do it as of right now. The 2/5 tables are treating me well and I'm running pretty good so I can definitely see myself going a few more hours today. Additionally, I mentioned I wanted to play at least 2 hours a day...so far, so good.
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