I am done with cash games for the near future. I just cannot seem to be a consistent winner. All my decent poker winnings have come from SnGs and MTTs. Cash games I have always lost money in the long run. Its a shame, because I love playing them, I just cannot win consistently. Days I will feel like I make good plays, and end up being 8 BI down, or days I play good, make 2BI. But in long run I am loosing more than winning, and it just depresses me.
So I have decided to back to the building blocks and I am dedicating all my Poker time to playing lots and lots and lots of SnGs. I have done all right in these before and I feel more comfortable there. I am gonna be starting off right down with the drags of the poker society and grinding $2-5 SnGs. I have a huge bankroll, but I am going to need it, if I want to make the correct plays.
I am off for 10 days untill I go back to work, and within that time I hope to have played alot of games. Right now I do not know what I can achieve per day, but over next few days I am looking to gauge that and set myself some targets.
If anyone does see me playing Cash games, please pester the hell out of me. Considering to exclude myself from cash games, but do not want to, as I want to at least have some self-control and not play them. If I cannot discipline myself to not play cash, then maybe I should not continue with poker.
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----- Original Message -----
From: cjduncan5@gmail.com
Sent: 2009/12/19 19:20:28
To: support@pokerstars.com
Subject: website problem
>It has been brought to my attention there is widespread use of a site "
>pokertableratings.com" where anyone can go on and look at my detailed
>playing statistics. Is there anyway i can have my information blocked?
>
Well, I was thinking about the approximate possibility to use the live poker habbits in online gaming.There are few bigger spots I would like to mention/and read other people's opinion on these subjects.
One thing I prolly don't understand is why it is so 'fishy' to play 1-2 tables.Maybe I haven'r reach the moment when variance will go against me, but my experience so far shows that when playing less tables, you could take advantage of it going on levels you couldn't afford with current BR.And with deeper reads my win ratio is about 1.5BI per 200-300 hands.I would be happy to read any analysis and thoughts on this subject, cause I really don't see what's is so significant in multitabling except the rake ofcourse.I'm talking mostly about 50-200NL games.I play with 3-4 BI and most of the time it's more than enough for 1-2 tabling.
I was going to post a bigger update with Nov/Dec results but I'll do it later, now I just wanted to share with you guys that I'm going to the PCA with my cousin who won a seat (I played in that satellite too but my AJo lost to T4o... I'll play another on Sunday though) so see you there I guess !!
First they give me a virtually free Supernova, and now they let me keep it easily with reduction to 7,500 VPP/month needed.
You guys can't imagine how much this change means to me, I was going to try to hold SN with having a fulltime job and grinding NL50/NL100.
Less pressure to multitable, less pressure to play tilted, but still enough pressure to keep me playing decent volumes.
And the extra bonuses just mean that I can hit my goal of $10k BR in 9 months with just rakeback. Sweeet.
Xmas
Merry Christmas everybody,
I am spending Christmas with my Girlfriend. I will be cooking some traditional Czech food, clean the flat, have long phone calls with my family and most of all don' play a single hand, don't look at any hands posted and check LP only if there are more presents for me :o
The Start. The degeneracy. Oh well.by MadJukes, December 24
I was definitely an online poker degen. I admit it. Having to make the transition from live poker (where I'm a pretty regular winner at NL50 and NL100) to online, I crashed and burned several times. I've donked off my bankroll maybe 10 times now. In my opinion, there are several crucial differences between live and online play.
1) The body language. Call it tells, call it reads, but everyone gives off something as they play. How they put their chips in, how long they took to study their cards, whether they're looking at you intently to see if you'll just raise or call, etc. Live poker provides an abundance of information to make your decisions to the point where you can play your opponent and not even your cards. Raise them when you feel they're weak. Online, there are far fewer "tells". (Sure, you can argue timing tells, but everyone will admit that there's less to work with). Therefore, online, you can only play solid fundamental poker to be a winning player.
2) Bankroll management. Being a live player, I'd usually bring 2 or 3 buyins to a table game and leave if I lost it all. Online, if you're playing a stake with 2 or 3 buyins, you're going broke in no time. The variance is much higher (arguably because there's more unknowns).
3) Multitabling. For experienced online 9-max grinders, getting into hands out of position and with marginal hands spells death. In live, position matters just as much, but playing marginal hands can be hugely profitable.
So, being brilliant me, I start playing online poker with at a 4 BI stake, trying to run bluffs and representing hands without having an image, and playing marginal hands and being dominated preflop by the multi-tablers. Easy to say, I lost my first 200 very quickly. Rinse, repeat, being a marginal losing player.
Four days ago, an experienced poker player (and the admin of the school's poker club) set me up with a few starters and rules. Holdem Manager, $20, and multitabling 9-max at ONLY .01/.02 tables on pokerstars.
Cool. Easy. Penny poker.
Except I'd be making more money at ANY job. So after slowly grinding up to $33 at an painful pace, I decide that I'll take a shot at NL25. Cmon, they're not that tough. 20 hands later and a bad beat later, I'm sitting and staring at an empty bankroll yet again.
So now, my personal goal is to start fresh again from $20 and move up the stakes, addressing all the differences I mentioned earlier between live and online. 20 BI before moving up to the higher stake. Dropping when I have less than 20 BI's at my current stake. Playing better hands preflop. Playing in position. Multitabling.
We'll see how it goes! Here's the chart so far, after 4 days...
At around 5k hands, I tried taking my 10-tabling to 18-tabling. Bad leap-- I suddenly found myself with no time to make decisions and couldn't keep track of what was happening with what. Lost like 7 BI's. At the latest stretch, I've been finding myself with QQ vs KK/AA and AK vs KK/AA all-in preflop a lot. Another problem is fishies calling 3-bets with low pocket pair (anywhere between a .20-.30 preflop at a .01/.02 table) and hitting their set and stacking me. x(
I'm about 12 BI away from moving up to NL5! I'm hoping to hit it by the 26th (with no poker on Christmas, obviously). And happy holidays everyone!
Oh and PS: If anyone ever wants to give advice or discuss how I played, any leaks, etc, I'm more than happy to listen and chat.
Weee, man I'm up early again, it's 07.00 here on x-mas morning.
I feel really good, yesterday my sessions were so good, not been that good in a long time.
First I had one 1hou30 min one, ended up 2bi, then later in the evening I had one with 7bi up. So 9bi yesterday, felt really great, even though it was just on 20nl xD
I'm just gonna stay with my siblings and dad for the x mas, and in the evening go visit my mom, eat some rib and spend the time with my family, maybe I'll get a session in when nobody's looking. I'm also thinking bout going to the gym now, since everyone is sleeping :x
Man, I'm so happy about one of the presents, I don't have to much money, and one of my mates, Tiltyboy/Dokosoko has everything and nothing I'd buy him would seem enough, so I made him something instead. I collected all the best high stuff material and made a huge book, finer details of combonotorics or how you spell it (I don't understand that shit lol) polarization, best chapters from the Cole South book, best stuff from that Tri guy, the most famous Obama quotes, and it ended up 83 pages, and I got one of those perms, and made hole, and put it in this thingy to be read, and I spent 1 hour drawing on the cover to write Poker kinda cool. Maybe a bit corny, but atleast it's a present lol xD
I'm gonna go do something now <3 Have a blast ya'll
Hey guys its been a while. Well as you may or may not have noticed, I've been mia at liquidpoker for the past few months. Naturally, I've been playing less poker these past few months but heres a short run down on what I've been up to.
October was a great month of poker for me. I had been steadily growing my BR by patiently grinding and learning the game. I got the roll up to a peak of about 4.4k and was on the verge on taking shots at 200NL. from that point on, I thought to myself, "why not reward myself?"
From the middle of October till now I've been pledging for an asian interest fraternity for my University. as a poker player, life behind the 15.5" screen can get very lonely, very fast lol. In attending summer school at uni it wasn't much different than my earlier school days where just going to school/playing poker filled up most of my time. My 2nd semester at the uni was a chance to jump start my social life and a fraternity would do it. as the weeks of pledgeship progressed, the process got exponentially difficult. There was so much work involved in upholding every aspect of your typical fraternity, from wild parties to community service to philanthropy, and of course contributing to the fraternity itself. It was not unusual to give up 10 hours everyday for weeks on end to get projects done.
I made the decision to pledge for an extremely physically and mentally demanding fraternity. Do'nt get me wrong, I learned so very much about myself and interacting with others through this process and had more fun than the past year combined. No details are necessary but they are absolutely nojoke lol. after 10 long weeks, I found myself financially broke and borrowing against my bankroll to cover real life expenses with no income. This week was the final week of fraternity pledgeship, and after giving so much I quit at 95% of the way. It was not something I could see myself putting in any more effort in order to perpetuate their values. It hurt to swallow my pride in deciding to throw all that work away, all for nothing but I feel that personal integrity comes first.
So here I am, completely broke with a wrecked car and a $2k bankroll from poker losses/borrowings. I'm also a little bit wiser and aware of myself as a person. Succeeding with poker is a goal I set for myself first, and I'll let nothing take priority before this goal. I guess a small group of trustworthy friends is better for a poker player compared to eventually having to maintain a network of 1000+ people. I'm moving into the dormitories in 2 weeks to better experience other aspects of this huge university.There will be no shortage of awesome debauchery there
FTP gave me 10k in my bonus account and 360 days to unlock it, anyone else get this?
edit:
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-20bi because i moved down to nl5 and still getting beats everywhere.
First started with bad beats such as QQ vs AQ allin pf 2 pairs vs straight on river set vs overset and flush vs boats, i said okay np, shit happens, but after that it went downhill. The donks were just getting good cards everytime and they went like crazy while betting with absolutely retarded cards.
Then tilted a bit...
But please, why am I the only one to give money to losing donks with like 60/5ish stats and that appears to be full losing players according to table ratings ?
FFS.
Fuk this shit. Hope it'll be better tomorrow. Wanted to taste nl25 before the new eve, but seems like i won't be doing it...
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