I was chip leader in a small satelite with chip lead 4 seats worth $2100 and 5th gets 450$ cash money. so i was just toying around 'trying' to abuse the bubble thinking there is no way i will bubble
Submitted by : Robinson47
PokerStars Game #37505562591: Tournament #226086769, $10+$1 USD Holdem No Limit - Level XXV (30000/60000) - 2010/01/01 23:51:57 WET [2010/01/01 18:51:57 ET]
Table 226086769 9 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 2: smurph31 (480080 in chips)
Seat 3: Parky13 (503590 in chips)
Seat 4: dartboard2 (391612 in chips)
Seat 5: Robinson47 (1298838 in chips)
Seat 8: paul-marrow (1060880 in chips)
smurph31: posts the ante 6000
Parky13: posts the ante 6000
dartboard2: posts the ante 6000
Robinson47: posts the ante 6000
paul-marrow: posts the ante 6000
smurph31: posts small blind 30000
Parky13: posts big blind 60000
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Robinson47
dartboard2: folds
Robinson47: raises 1232838 to 1292838 and is all-in
paul-marrow: folds
smurph31: folds
Parky13: calls 437590 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (795248) returned to Robinson47
Showdown Parky13: shows (two pair, Sevens and Deuces)
Robinson47: shows (a pair of Deuces)
Parky13 collected 1055180 from pot
Summary Total pot 1055180 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 2: smurph31 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: Parky13 (big blind) showed and won (1055180) with two pair, Sevens and Deuces
Seat 4: dartboard2 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: Robinson47 showed and lost with a pair of Deuces
Seat 8: paul-marrow (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Submitted by : Robinson47
PokerStars Game #37504951015: Tournament #226086769, $10+$1 USD Holdem No Limit - Level XXIII (20000/40000) - 2010/01/01 23:38:35 WET [2010/01/01 18:38:35 ET]
Table 226086769 9 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: karsiyaka (276967 in chips)
Seat 2: smurph31 (181970 in chips)
Seat 5: Robinson47 (997541 in chips)
Seat 8: paul-marrow (242110 in chips)
Seat 9: Prinzes Nala (299100 in chips)
karsiyaka: posts the ante 4000
smurph31: posts the ante 4000
Robinson47: posts the ante 4000
paul-marrow: posts the ante 4000
Prinzes Nala: posts the ante 4000
Prinzes Nala: posts small blind 20000
karsiyaka: posts big blind 40000
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Robinson47
smurph31: folds
Robinson47: raises 953541 to 993541 and is all-in
paul-marrow: folds
Prinzes Nala: folds
karsiyaka: calls 232967 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (720574) returned to Robinson47
Showdown karsiyaka: shows (a pair of Eights)
Robinson47: shows (a pair of Eights - lower kicker)
karsiyaka collected 585934 from pot
Summary Total pot 585934 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: karsiyaka (big blind) showed and won (585934) with a pair of Eights
Seat 2: smurph31 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: Robinson47 showed and lost with a pair of Eights
Seat 8: paul-marrow (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 9: Prinzes Nala (small blind) folded before Flop
Submitted by : Robinson47
PokerStars Game #37505498435: Tournament #226086769, $10+$1 USD Holdem No Limit - Level XXV (30000/60000) - 2010/01/01 23:50:33 WET [2010/01/01 18:50:33 ET]
Table 226086769 9 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 2: smurph31 (243040 in chips)
Seat 3: Parky13 (623590 in chips)
Seat 4: dartboard2 (511612 in chips)
Seat 5: Robinson47 (1880318 in chips)
Seat 8: paul-marrow (476440 in chips)
smurph31: posts the ante 6000
Parky13: posts the ante 6000
dartboard2: posts the ante 6000
Robinson47: posts the ante 6000
paul-marrow: posts the ante 6000
smurph31: posts small blind 30000
Parky13: posts big blind 60000
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Robinson47
dartboard2: folds
Robinson47: raises 1814318 to 1874318 and is all-in
paul-marrow: folds
smurph31: calls 207040 and is all-in
Parky13: folds
Uncalled bet (1637278) returned to Robinson47
Showdown smurph31: shows (two pair, Aces and Queens)
Robinson47: shows (two pair, Queens and Fives)
smurph31 collected 564080 from pot
Summary Total pot 564080 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 2: smurph31 (small blind) showed and won (564080) with two pair, Aces and Queens
Seat 3: Parky13 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: dartboard2 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: Robinson47 showed and lost with two pair, Queens and Fives
Seat 8: paul-marrow (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Submitted by : Robinson47
PokerStars Game #37505405871: Tournament #226086769, $10+$1 USD Holdem No Limit - Level XXV (30000/60000) - 2010/01/01 23:48:30 WET [2010/01/01 18:48:30 ET]
Table 226086769 9 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 2: smurph31 (375040 in chips)
Seat 3: Parky13 (755590 in chips)
Seat 4: dartboard2 (763612 in chips)
Seat 5: Robinson47 (1713538 in chips)
Seat 8: paul-marrow (127220 in chips)
smurph31: posts the ante 6000
Parky13: posts the ante 6000
dartboard2: posts the ante 6000
Robinson47: posts the ante 6000
paul-marrow: posts the ante 6000
Robinson47: posts small blind 30000
paul-marrow: posts big blind 60000
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Robinson47
smurph31: folds
Parky13: folds
dartboard2: raises 60000 to 120000
Robinson47: raises 1587538 to 1707538 and is all-in
paul-marrow: calls 61220 and is all-in
dartboard2: folds
Uncalled bet (1586318) returned to Robinson47
Showdown Robinson47: shows (high card King)
paul-marrow: shows (a straight, Deuce to Six)
paul-marrow collected 392440 from pot
Summary Total pot 392440 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 2: smurph31 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: Parky13 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: dartboard2 (button) folded before Flop
Seat 5: Robinson47 (small blind) showed and lost with high card King
Seat 8: paul-marrow (big blind) showed and won (392440) with a straight, Deuce to Six
Submitted by : Robinson47
PokerStars Game #37505585029: Tournament #226086769, $10+$1 USD Holdem No Limit - Level XXV (30000/60000) - 2010/01/01 23:52:27 WET [2010/01/01 18:52:27 ET]
Table 226086769 9 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: smurph31 (444080 in chips)
Seat 3: Parky13 (1055180 in chips)
Seat 4: dartboard2 (385612 in chips)
Seat 5: Robinson47 (795248 in chips)
Seat 8: paul-marrow (1054880 in chips)
smurph31: posts the ante 6000
Parky13: posts the ante 6000
dartboard2: posts the ante 6000
Robinson47: posts the ante 6000
paul-marrow: posts the ante 6000
Parky13: posts small blind 30000
dartboard2: posts big blind 60000
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Robinson47
Robinson47: raises 729248 to 789248 and is all-in
paul-marrow: calls 789248
smurph31: folds
Parky13: folds
dartboard2: folds
Showdown Robinson47: shows (a pair of Queens)
paul-marrow: shows (two pair, Aces and Fours)
paul-marrow collected 1698496 from pot
Summary Total pot 1698496 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 2: smurph31 (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: Parky13 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: dartboard2 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: Robinson47 showed and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 8: paul-marrow showed and won (1698496) with two pair, Aces and Fours
facepalm
and earlier on this weird hand happened...
Submitted by : Robinson47
PokerStars Game #37485536230: Tournament #227463215, $315+$20 USD Holdem No Limit - Level II (15/30) - 2010/01/01 16:20:19 WET [2010/01/01 11:20:19 ET]
Table 227463215 1 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: camerofelix (1470 in chips)
Seat 2: omjuju (1485 in chips)
Seat 4: nixe13 (1430 in chips)
Seat 5: Thx4UrM0ney (1410 in chips)
Seat 6: Einoeloclee (1560 in chips)
Seat 7: IMAX 81 (1600 in chips)
Seat 8: Hichcock (3090 in chips)
Seat 9: Robinson47 (1455 in chips)
camerofelix: posts small blind 15
omjuju: posts big blind 30
Showdown omjuju: shows (two pair, Jacks and Sixes)
Robinson47: mucks hand
omjuju collected 555 from pot
Summary Total pot 555 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: camerofelix (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: omjuju (big blind) showed and won (555) with two pair, Jacks and Sixes
Seat 4: nixe13 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: Thx4UrM0ney folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: Einoeloclee folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 7: IMAX 81 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 8: Hichcock folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 9: Robinson47 (button) mucked
i need to straighten up my act and stop doing stupid shit, but i spend too much time with my boys down the bus shelter and lose my concentration, im ginger joe by the way, yeah man
permanently switching to PLOLby whamm!, January 01
Yeah i've thought about it thoroughly and saw all the tragic losses from myself and other even better players at NL than myself get burned at this god forsaken game OMAHAHAHA. The problem is, I actually enjoy PLO and feel that I really wanna get better and play nonstop without even getting bothered by results. This is something that NL has not done for me the past year, the lack of the drive to learn and really just the fun of it - which is probably why I tilt easily when I lose at NL because I have this feeling of entitlement that I used to beat 100nl FR blah blah blah and somehow just refuse to adapt or just can't for some reason. Atm PLO does this for me and I keep watching videos all day and check out my hands and really avoid making the same mistakes over and over. Bleh, all I have to say about it really. GL me and hope to post some 200nl hands soon enough.
I was having a discussion with a friend recently. Quick summary of when I started online poker :
Because I rule live poker with an iron fist and therefore must be a poker god, lol, I deposited $100-200 several times, each time running it up to $500-1600, before going broke due to poor bankroll management, overall spewiness due to being too aggressive, and also the variance gods were angry from time to time.
So I thought that running it up a bit and losing it all meant you had a LOT to learn; you lose it all in the end anyways. Good players keep what they make and keep moving up. (At one point during my degen days, I had $6 left and played a PS $6 HU, and only played HU sng's, increasing stakes every time I had 5 BI's for the next level, until I hit $1600 before losing it all in a $1k HU. Brilliant huh?) He argued that bad poker players couldn't win in the first place, so people like XBLINK and etc were actually good poker players, just lacking some fundamentals, such as BR management.
Any thoughts on this topic? Can degens be good poker players?
2009 was pretty rough overall for me. I was busto a few times and staked for the first 2 times ever. I played pretty awful in online cash games and didn't play nearly enough hands. I'm fucking lazy. I got destroyed sports betting during march madness and never really recovered. I had ok success in online MTTs and actually broke out a lil in live MTTs over a small sample. I had a nice run in my first WSOP Main Event and made my first live final table in a Foxwoods mega stack event.
Was staked for my 200NL #s and a some of my actual winnings at 100NL. FML I need to play better tho.
Online MTTs: +$13,591.18
Live MTTs: +$6,347.65
Live cash: +$8,347.00
Sports betting: -$27,646.62
Roulette: -$6,202.00
Overall total (counting cash games as breakeven due to stakes): -$5562.79
BOOOO....HISSSSSSSS
2010 goals:
Get better at online cash games ldo
50k hands minimum a month
30 online MTTs a month
20 live MTTs during the year
At least 10 live cash sessions
Play the main event again...this time satting thru to it
Never be staked again
Cut my awful sports betting/roulette habits down substantially
Focus on putting the most effort possible into the whole year and keeping confident that good things will happen as a result
Good luck in 2010 everyone...I'll try and update more this year...hopefully there's more good things to write about
has anyone here gone on a crazy monkey tilt after losing like 2-3 buy ins at a given stake? im just wondering if im the only one. in your opinions...does this mean im not cut out for poker? or it just takes some time to develop the discipline to take your losses? i am a profitable player when i actually control myself...but the minute i lose it, i can potentially tilt off my entire roll. it is a shame to let my emotions get in the way of doing good in poker. thoughts are appreciated!
Anyone wanna order PS shark for me? (please)by Balzamon, January 01
So i havent played anything on Poker Stars for years but i recently noticed they got the coolest stuffed animal ever in their store for 1300 fpp and i really want it! In fact i want two if possible (2600 fpp). I dont know how hard it is on PS, at ftp you can type in a new adress when you order stuff from their shop but at PS it seems like you have to use your registered adress?
If anyone would be nice enough to go thru the hassle to change it and order 2 stuffed animal sharks for me and then change it back i would be very gratefull, i guess if you live in Sweden you could order home and then send me without it costing to much... Oh well it would be a great xmas gift for me if anyone is up for it, im not sure but i googled some and it seemed like 1 fpp is worth 1.5 cent? So it would be $39 for 2600 fpp, i will give the one going thru the hassle $50, not sure if i can send it on PS after their new transaction limits since i pretty much never play there (but i have the money there) otherwise i can for sure send it on FTP.
I've lurked here for awhile reading mostly hand histories, but wanted to create a blog at some point to post videos of myself playing and talking about what I'm doing. Sort of a way to receive help from other players and at the same time be able to contribute to the site and give back to players who are stuck or just in need of watching someone else play for a confidence boost.
So with that said, I'm going to be making the videos anywhere from 25NL up to 100NL (my current limit). I'll probably be making a few a week or maybe more if it's really helping anyone, with the first one coming out in a couple of days or so. I would like to know if there's anything that players would prefer I do differently than say coaches at Leggo or CR do; for example, are the poker site sounds better to be off or on? Avatars off or on? 4 tables or 6 tables? As far as live or pausing to talk, I don't expect to have a hard time talking about hands in real time at all, but if anything warrants more discussion obviously that's easily done in comments. The only other thing I can think about is quality which I'm happy to change... they should be about the same size as coaching vids though (something like 200mb for 1hr).
If this blog helps even 1 person and improves me in only 1 spot - it will be worth it. So that's all for now until the first vid.
$25 on UB for Stars or FTPby ToT)MidiaN(, December 31
Hi guys. I have $25 left on my UB account which I released AFTER I withdrew from there stupidly so I want to exchange that for $25 on either Stars or FTP. I'd be ok with paypal or neteller exchange if there's no interest. PM me please!
Hey guys,
So December is in the books and I have some good news to report.
At the end of November I made a blog post about playing 175k+ hands of 100nl and making it to 200k vpps, in order to buy the 2k bonus on Stars. It was going to be hard, but I am super pleased that I managed to make it. It ended up taking slightly more hands than I anticipated, but I was still able to get there.
I ended up taking a shot at 200nl for the last 8k vpps, and playing around 20k hands there. My overall impression of the limit over that sample was that it was definitely a step up from 100nl in terms of the skill of the average regular, but I still think I have an edge over most regulars, and should be able to grind out some nice profits. So starting January, I will keep playing 200nl and see how I go.
Overall I'm so happy with December, it was by far my biggest month volume-wise, I was able to grind out some nice profits, got a taste of 200nl, and got a nice boost to my bankroll in the form of the 2k milestone bonus, as well as a shitload of FPPs, lawl. Hopefully January will be just as successful.
Thanks for reading, good luck in January, and Happy New Years!
Dean
Started watching Tommy Angelo's video's after recommendations from a fellow lp'er.
Was really interesting and cool to watch.
Here are my notes
Right view: (Anything that isn't wrong view)
- Seeing things as they are, having no delusions.
- Example of wrong view: When we are result orientated (When we base an alayzis of a decision on how things turn out, rather than basing it on the decision itself.) Happens when we analyze a betting decision, quitting decision etc.
- Right view: Not being results orientated (result orientated just an example)
Tilt
- "Tilt is any non A-game performance." (Tired, under bankrolled, emotional unstable, etc.)
- Anything that changes your good decisions, to making bad decisions, is tilt.
Being results orientated effects our evaluation
Example: We make a play, it didn't work out, and we think we made a horrible play, and can easily put ourself on tilt, even if the play might have been pretty good.
The professional:
- The little Angel/voice on your shoulder
- What if there was a guy, who had to make money of poker, or die
*All of his decisions will be based on his poker, what he eats, when he sleeps, what he thinks, anything in his controle, it's all metagame for this fictional character*
- What if all "my" decisions were based on maximizing my poker profits?
* Will influence on how I will behave (wouldn't badmouth the casino, want people to be happy, and come there, want players to come there and play. So last thing would be, say something bad about the Casino).
- What if all my decisions including what I say, were based on profit, what would I say, what would I do (How you can use "The professional" as a guide).
More examples of wrong view
- The whole idea by being bugged all day by a hand is something you want to let go
- Any time you think "I finally got a hand, I finally won a pot etc" let it go
- "There was this total fish at the table" (There's no fish/donk/at the table, wrong view) let it go (Look at them as trees instead lol)
- Having a big pair, waiting for an Ace to come (terrible view)
- Hating anything a fish(tree) /regular does is wrong view
Look at things for what it is, there's no room for fear
The gray area
That part of poker strategy evaluation, when you just don't know what the right play is or was, and you never will. And it's built in the nature of the game.
"The decisions that bother us the most matter the least."
(Decisions where your EV was 50% wether you would have bet or folded).
In our mind we're latched to take one side or another
- You don't want anything in/around the grey area to cloud/bother you mind. Don't get stuck in the quagmire of the grey area. All it does it bring us down
Belive and accept that a lot of decisions are very close, and neither would make a diffrence
- Suggestion: Recognize when you've come upon one of those, analyze them, and think what you should have done, then move on. FAST!
(Usually these decisions who get loooong threads on the forum, with a myriads of opinions who's right and wrong, and people fight to the death about it. When you find these, move along).
Interessting fact: 75% of all poker players think they play better than the other 75%.
The grey area is so huge, allows any of us to over evaluate our own play.
More on right view
- A good poker player wants to put himself in +EV spots, by evaluating profitable situations
- A guy who finds a table which looks really juicy, might say: Wow, a table full of fishes(trees) who sucks ass, I'm better than all of these isn't evaluating, he's juding
Judge versus evaluate
Judging is when you bring in type of words which move towards wrong thinking. When you attatch to those words, it detracts from your ability to evaluate.
Improving from the top up and the bottom up
A diffrent approach to how you spend the energy that you put toward improving your score.
- Improve not only your A game, but your C game aswell
- Conciously spend 50% of your energy improving your C game, so when you're losing/playing bad, you don't lose that much, and can get faster back to your A game.
Example of C game:
- You get stuck, and you start playing looser, chasing your losses
(A lot has to do with awareness)
Be honest with yourself, say to yourself (When Im stuck i play to loose, i need to keep tight).
- Bad beats
- When you play bad (compounding tilt)
(When I play bad, I'm very harsh on myself, and go on tilt)
- When too tired, when drunk, berating the fish, so on so on.
(Monster leak to critizise other players.)
Ungracious, un generous way to treat another human being. If your motive is purely profit, there's a much higher road to take.
Summary of Right View
Myself:
- To look at yourself with no delustions, no distortions. It means to be able to step out of ourself and observe ourself in a situation, and be able to objectively evaluate what we are doing without emotional entanglement. This is the rightest view of all, that can help us at the poker table, and anywhere we are. Especially if we find ourself struggling with strong emotions we wish we didn't have.
Example:
Driving, it's one of the most irritating thing we do. People who might be calm and compassionate, lose their cool when driving.
(Right view does not say, you should be good all the time, you should improve yourself. Right view is just the act of being able to view yourself, and being able to say "I am angry now" Without saying "there's something wrong with me for being angry"
- Better off if you can label your emotions
My opponents:
- They're an obstacle, in the way (Look at them as just tree on a golf course). And not hold them accountable, or be emotionally evolved with them. And will let you properly evaluate things.
My play:
- Be constantly aware that you have different levels of preformance. A B C game. What right view does, doesn't pretend your in ur A game all the time, opens your eyes when you're in their C game. Everyone has them.
- Being aware of the diffrent level you preform at, and being aware of which ones your in.
- Knowing your actual weaknesses and strengths within the betting strategy. (Calling big bet to bluff, not being comfortable being the one who bluff etc)
- With no delusions or distortions, step outside yourself to give a good evaluation
End thought
What makes something right view, is the lack of wrong view. (The lack of judgement, the lack of emotional attachment.) The thing added on to a "story". Just tell it honestly.
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