I just finished my ongame skin. Due to lot of effort I put in to make it I want to get some wasted time back So if anyone is interested in my mod I can sell it for you for just 15$. You can contact me via PM, skype: Sadz1k or e-mail: sebastian.sadowski2 (at) gmail.com
These are my first 25k hands on Pokerstars 50NL. Is there a huge difference in skill between 50NL and 100NL? I have 30 buyins for 100NL and am trying to decide if I should take a shot.
Background:
I am an American English teacher living in Prague [my wife is Czech]. One of my students introduced me to this site, and I have found the advice in the forums very useful. I don't have a Starcraft background - the closest thing I guess to that would be playing DotA in CAL when I was much younger.
I guess my short-term immediate goal is to improve my hand reading so that I can be a consistent winner at 100NL, and it seems as if there are many LPers with similar aspirations. I am positive my biggest problem is calling when I should be folding, so that's something I will focus on the next 25k hands.
Those are the words that just slipped out of my mouth while browsing the Team Liquid VOD section for the first time. I rarely ever visited TL back in the day cause I was always more interested in the USA and Europe scene than the Korean one. My memories of the site are probably extremely outdated as I haven't visited it in at least 2 years.
When I used to play BW I'd think about how cool it would be to have a nice easy to access VOD section on a website to satisfy my VOD watching desires. I remember the days when watching a VOD meant hunting around a Korean website clicking random links till something started to DL. Then replays came along and that became the primary way to watch games, but VODs were always so fun with the commentators and so on. I remember for the Team Liquid league that they ran a year or so ago they had videos on youtube and I watched a bunch from their channel and loved em. And now I've found this VOD section and I'm probably gonna crack out on it for a bit and my girl is gonna be sick of my nerdiness real quick, haha.
Hi. Some of you may know me, I used to play under the name Birdstone44. I haven't played in a decent amount of time since I'm in college and most of my time is consumed by school and my social life. Anyway, I've had good results in the past and am looking to see if anyone wants to stake me now that I'm on winter break and have some time. I would be looking for a stake for 100-1k huplosngs and similar stakes huplo cash.
Feel free to check out my sharkscope for my past huplo results and if your interested let me know.
Hi. Some of you may know me, I used to play under the name Birdstone44. I haven't played in a decent amount of time since I'm in college and most of my time is consumed by school and my social life. Anyway, I've had good results in the past and am looking to see if anyone wants to stake me now that I'm on winter break and have some time. I would be looking for a stake for 100-1k huplosngs and similar stakes huplo cash.
Feel free to check out my sharkscope for my past huplo results and if your interested let me know.
pretty much a bump. Seeing if anyone want to stake me for nl50 HU for one night. We split profits + u get ur 50 back at end of session.. If i bust then.. ur 50 is gone.
Actually I may just quitby Sicks Macks, December 12
I may just quit poker. I don't need the money at all, and I'm not really having fun with it any more. I just had a really unfun session (see blog below), and I'm honestly not sure why I do this. I understand that I'm a winning player, but variance is so big that I can't rely on poker to be a nice way to blow off steam (which is what I use it for); despite the fact that I win in the long run, I either walk away from a session kind of pleased but very excited (not a great thing when I'm trying to relax) or very pissed off and very excited. Most of the fun I get from poker is from discussing hands, and thinking about theory, and I'm starting to realize that I don't actually need to play for that to be the case.
In fact most of the things that drive me to play are stupid in the first place. Here are the honest to goodness reasons why I play a given session:
1. I've run bad for so long (read my posting history and trust I understand what this does and doesn't mean) that I feel I need to grind towards the long run so my winrate looks like what I think it should.
2. I need 200 FTP points for Ironman that day. (I'm in like month 13, this shit is like crack)
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And that's basically it. Frankly, I'm such a stubborn person that this may be enough to keep me playing, but I ask you guys, do any of you just play for fun or competitiveness (I know fish do)? If there was absolutely no chance of poker money every changing your lifestyle, would you still play? What sort of events would you lead you to quit?
It's been about one month since I decided I wanted to give playing poker seriously a shot. The idea of building a bankroll from nothing really appealed to me so that's what I attempted to do. I started off inspired by a post on LP about selling play chips for real money and decided I'd try to grind up some play chips while playing a few freerolls each day on Full Tilt. I figured that the rakeback from Full Tilt would end up making it a better choice than Stars, but after recently looking up the rake structures because of an edzwoo post, Stars does seem slightly better (but it's too late now!). In the first few days I got up to about 150k in play chips by basically open shoving AK and JJ+ and getting about three callers every time. My first poker lesson was that surprisingly, people actually fold to pre-flop shoves at real money tables. By the end of the first week I ended up cashing in two Canada Freerolls, the first for $2, and the second for $5 and that was the start of my bankroll.
Before starting to play on cash tables I downloaded the free trial version of HEM which I'm still using (I just haven't closed HEM for the last 20 or so days lol). I started off playing one table of full ring $0.01/$0.02 NLHE buying in for $0.50 (feeble attempt at BR management) but quickly moved to two and then four tables. Between bad play, tilt, and bad beats I was down to $3 pretty quickly. Lesson number two: tilt is evil. When playing one table tilting wasn't so bad, but tilting at four tables quickly ate up a large chunk of my undersized roll. After learning how to unclick Autopost Blinds when starting to tilt, my roll started moving in the right direction again. By the end of November I was up to about $30.
One memorable night I had was playing against a giant fish that ended up playing 78% of his 154 hands. Easy money right? Apparently not as he coolered me for multiple buyins. I had 2 flopped sets cracked by straights, and AKs owned by A5o for 300BB in total. This tilted me pretty hard and after spewing for a bit, I started closing down tables, but I still wanted my money back from the salmon. I ended up closing all my tables except the table the fish was sitting at. I was determined to felt the tard. Besides the fish, the rest of the table was pretty nitty, so I decided my strategy for getting my money back would be to raise to 5x every time the fish limped (my standard raise is about 3x) which he would invariably call and I would take by cbetting. I had missed out on this goldmine earlier because in my first hand against the fish, he hit something and called my cbet, putting his fold to cbet stat at 0%. I didn't notice the sample size and ended up not cbetting him at all until I realized my mistake down 300BB later. After chipping away for a while, I eventually won back around 100BB when the rest of the table decided they were tired of my overaggression and left, leaving me heads up with the fish. This was my dream scenario, even though I didn't have much HU experience, I was sure I could turn this fish into sashimi. Three hands later I had his stack and he quit. Now I realize this could have gone pretty badly considering how tilted I was, but luckily it worked out and I got the immeasurable satisfaction of felting a total and utter megafish that had the audacity to get lucky and steal my money.
Full Tilt Poker Game #16466649700: Table Panser - $0.01/$0.02 - No Limit Hold'em - 02:12:32 ET - 2009/12/02
Seat 1: Hero ($4.77)
Seat 7: benbennybb ($5.66)
benbennybb posts the small blind of $0.01
Hero posts the big blind of $0.02
The button is in seat #7
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
Hero raises to $0.10
benbennybb raises to $0.18
Hero raises to $0.50
benbennybb calls $0.32
Hero bets $0.29, and is all in
benbennybb calls $0.29, and is all in
Showdown Hero shows two pair, Jacks and Nines
benbennybb mucks
Hero wins the pot ($9.08) with two pair, Jacks and Nines
Summary Total pot $9.08 | Rake $0.46
Board:
Seat 1: Hero showed (big blind) and won ($9.08) with two pair, Jacks and Nines
Seat 7: benbennybb (small blind) mucked - two pair, Nines and Sixes
For some reason in December I decided that I should try limping in with any two cards that remotely connected and try to stack a fish if I got lucky and hit something big. This was a terrible idea. I got lucky with the strategy early on but that luck would run out pretty quickly. Soon I hit session after demoralizing session of pure losing poker. Who would have thought that loose passive is a losing strategy? I dropped from $30 down to a low of $18. Only when I started playing more TAGish poker did I start winning again. The last few days have been pretty big winners and I'm up to $47 (woo finally fully rolled). I'm up to playing seven tables on two monitors and I'm debating adding more. I could easily play eight tables without any overlap, but to add more I would either have to overlap tables or make the tables on my main monitor smaller than I really want. For anyone else doing the micro grind on Full Tilt, you might want to check out the Academy. I'm doing the Jennifer Harman "Sizing Up Opponents" challenge over and over since you can do each challenge up to 10x. The challenge basically completes itself through normal play unlike some of the others where you have to bet a specific size or something. The hardest part of the challenge is winning a hand preflop by reraising without a pair or an Ace. It's surprisingly hard to move people off their hands with a 3bet (people have called with some rediculous hands). I've almost got enough Academy points to buy a $26 tournament token, although I'm not really sure that will be of much use to me with my current skill level. But I figure I might as well get every bonus I can. Hopefully this wasn't too long and boring. I know $0.01/$0.02 is super exciting.
I started grinding hardcore about 4 days ago, played about 35k hands of NL10 24 tabling, only to show about a 40$ profit. Decided to switch things up today and play some 6 table nl25 shorthanded and it went pretty well. I've gotten about 1500 VPP over the past 4 days, and i hope to get platinum by the end of the month.
Here's my graph and stats from todays session. Any comments or critiques are appreciated.
Oh and shoutout to Dino for hooking me up with a holdem manager key, its helped me alot.
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So if anyone is interested in my mod I can sell it for you for just 15$. You can contact me via PM, skype: Sadz1k or e-mail: sebastian.sadowski2 (at) gmail.com
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