Last 3 days have been brutal. Started another session today and lost 3 buyins real fast. I still have 40buyins for NL100 but I just can't win, FTP wont let it happen. All flips lose all 80/20s. Everything its disgusting and I feel depressed as I write this. Regind NL50 and win $1k I guess.
NL100 life time http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/dd130.feelinglikeafailure.jpg
Just wanted to say a big thank you to Loco and respect for knowing your shit. I've lost ~35 lbs in 3 months with very little to no excercise and eat as much as i want whenever i want. I've recieved many compliments about changes in my skin and i feel amazing. My diet post earlier in the blog should probably get revised too. I basically cut out cooked food entirely and now eat a 100% raw diet. My daily water comes from a water distiller and i'm getting a dehydrator delivered to me pretty soon to make delicious snacks out of raw foods while keeping the food in its raw state. So ya, thank you loco for being such a huge help and discussing things with me ^_^
This tune is so awesome. I love funk and all the awesome funk disco bands from the 70s like Earth Wind and Fire, Chic, and KC and the sunshine band, and its about time we get some good funking funk back on the dancefloor!
Hey guys, long time no see. In the last 2 months since I last blogged I've continued to play a decent amount of low stakes, the $0.5/$1 Stars and $1/$2 FTP games continuing to try and get my stats prettier on PTR. It's been up and down, though my $1/$2 winrate on FTP is getting closer to where I want it to be (At least 2BB/100) but I'm still a way off, and my $0.5/$1 on PokerStars is further away if anything due to running a fair bit below EV, running shit in general and subsequent tilt. Same old, same old huh?
Since getting back to England I've been playing World of Warcraft again, and that's severely cutting into my poker playing time. Poker is just extremely boring when you're constantly losing to morons and running bad and games are a good escape, the thing is I think I'm focusing harder and trying to fix my game more than I have the rest of the year when I am playing and I think the benefits are just beginning to show, I just need to put the time in. Over the last 2 days I've won 9 buyins at $1/$2 6max in only ~1k hands and although I ran pretty fucking well in this small sample my play has been much better than in the last few months, and this entire year as a whole.
I'm hoping that at least my $1/$2 winrate on FTP is above 2BB/100 by the time I head back to Korea (2nd January) and that my $0.5/$1 winrate on stars is at least closer to that target, even though I know it's not going to actually get there in that time frame unless I play a ton of hands or run insanely well, which is possible if I break 2BB/100 at $1/$2 FTP very soon but still unlikely. This year has been a depressing year pokerwise, I've spent a lot of time just trying to make my stats on a stupid website look good and not even successfully doing that, not doing well in my usual games due to running far below EV again and playing bad in stupid spots.
I think a large part of the reason I've done poorly at these stakes is to do with the fact that I'm trying to get those winrates up, I'm trying to hard to simply win that it often blinds my judgement. I don't care that this guy is 11/10 and he's called twice on a dry board and shove a blank river repping the nuts in a spot he's never bluffing, I care that I have an overpair and there's $400 in the pot and I want to win it, so I make a shit call that I would berate on the forums because It's obvious what he has, and I know it, even when playing, but it doesn't matter to me. I'm calling anyway. That's something I never used to do in my usual games, I used to simply go with my gut. I head into the river saying I'm gonna bet/fold, and I follow through, but nowadays I don't do that, and it's cost me a lot of money and a huge chunk of winrate. Same thing when it comes to bluffing, I have nothing and he is folding some hands, so I do my best to think of the worst hand he can possibly have and go "Aha! he's folding something!" so I bluff, and don't even considering his entire range. Same with thin value betting, I end up talking myself into going for too thin value saying "Well this is a spot I could be bluffing in! He has to hero call me, surely!" without thinking about the fact that he simply doesn't have any hands in his preflop range that gets to the river to even make a hero call, or that the villain is a nit that he would fold the same hand I'm trying to value bet. It sucks because when I analyse hands after the session, I look at my hands and just shake my head, and it happens again and again. I'm not fixing these errors, I just continue making stupid plays against extremely unbalanced players and their exploitative plays are just raping me because I'm not focusing enough on exploiting their exploitative plays.
That's another thing, I think I've worried far too much this year about "balance". I used to watch cts and sbrugby videos a few years ago and balance never seemed to be the main issue when making a play, but then you watch a lot of other philosophical thinking video makers and they harp on about balance far too much. I think that's gone to my head way too much and I need to worry more about exploiting other peoples balance, and worry about my own balance second. Realising things and doing them are 2 completely different things, and even though I think I'm playing better and following through with my plan far more often lately, I could still be doing better.
On another note, I'm thinking about coaching again. I don't mean I've coached in the past I mean I'm thinking about it again. I say this a lot and then never actually do it, but I have a little bit of motivation this time around. So I have a real life friend that I got into poker a couple of years ago, he started with $50 or so and over the course of 2 years has gone from a breakeven $0.01/$0.02 player to a breakeven $0.05/$0.10 player. Hardly the progress I was expecting from one of my more intelligent friends. I think my motivation for teaching is just to prove to myself that I can do it, that I can turn a breakeven or marginally losing player at a stake into a winning player at a stake higher than that he's playing right now. I think part of my problem when I sit alongside my friend and "coach" him is that I simply tell him what to do, and don't let him make his own play or mistakes first, he's basically just following instructions, and while he does win most of the time he's at my house or I'm at his, it mayaswell be me playing rather than him. Don't get me wrong, I do explain why I'm telling him to do whatever it is that I'm telling him, but I'm not sure if it's that I explain in too much depth, not in enough depth, if it's because I don't let him do whatever he would do himself and then tell him why another play is better or if he simply doesn't "get it". The thing is I dunno who I want to teach, what stakes I want to teach, how long I'd be interested in putting in to it or how long it'd take before my student would be expecting to see progress, I don't know HOW I want to teach either. I'm guessing just video review and some discussion over MSN or whatever, but I'm not sure that's the best for the student.
Either way, I guess I'd like to start taking PMs from players who are breakeven at any stakes at or below $0.25/$0.50 with PT3 or HEM screenshots (Must have AT LEAST 50k hands logged with a maximum winrate of +0.5BB/100), screennames at relevant sites, what they would want from a prospective coach, what hours they'd be available and why I should choose them.
Thanks for reading, back to WoW for now I guess. . . -_-
So busted level 7 or so with 33 vs AK and A3. I think I played reasonable well and did a few really good plays. Made maybe 3-4 plays that I wasn't super happy with including a crappy fold pf when I totally misread some guy and another when I tried to use the logic of "There's no way she thinks I'm stupid enough to do this" on some finish lady. Table was fairly decent with some tight players and not to many really good ones. Most where decent though, and the finish lady was fairly good I think.
Did hang out a little bit with Gawuss (awesome, even though it was too short), Bohus and his friend who seemed like really great people, a bunch of bulgarian dudes (Zografa, Didi, Juli-dude and like 5-6 others, all awesome. Bulgaria is quickly becoming my favourite country in East Europe without me even visiting) and I meet a ton of people I've played a lot with. Just a few mentionings (probably will forget 80% of them^^). 100% sure I'll get to UO Bulgaria one way or another.
Filipius - Your cig's weren't as gay as you said, really cool to actually seem my old nemisis.
Fat German Dude (your new name) and Duckie: The greatest things Denmark has spawned since Tuborg!
DvkInfinity - Legendary grinder in the making
Bartboos - Only guy I know that's actually winning and does more random stupid crap then me.
Maffiosa - Seems to be the man to go to if you want someone to own up a dance floor.
e3ro + friends (mark levengood-dude, tall dude and that other dude). To qoute something: "Finlands sak är vår!"
The guy who busted me and 3napa form the tournament (can't remember your aka) and his friends the gym rats (2 of them) and the guy in green (flugan?). Nice to meet you guys.
Dennisen with his teacher chick - You guys are wise beyond my years.
Everyone else: I think I loved you guys too.
Had a ton of fun everywhere and really learned some new stuff and everything. Only bad thing was waiting 3-4 hours at the airport but fortunately some guy had a deck of cards so we got 6 people together and played some.
oh, and gratz to Mr_Jimmy who won it. He's a good guy.
PokerStars Game #36359032699: Holdem No Limit ($3/$6 USD) - 2009/12/07 5:34:25 ET
Table Themisto II 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: aatttt ($630 in chips)
Seat 2: Hero ($1535 in chips)
Hero: posts small blind $3
aatttt: posts big blind $6
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
Hero: raises $12 to $18
aatttt: raises $42 to $60
Hero: raises $84 to $144
aatttt: raises $486 to $630 and is all-in
Hero: calls $486
Showdown aatttt: shows (three of a kind, Aces)
Hero: mucks hand
aatttt collected $1259.50 from pot
Summary Total pot $1260 | Rake $0.50
Board
Seat 1: aatttt (big blind) showed and won ($1259.50) with three of a kind, Aces
Seat 2: Hero (button) (small blind) mucked
PokerStars Game #36359263364: Holdem No Limit ($3/$6 USD) - 2009/12/07 5:46:57 ET
Table Baize 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: aatttt ($600 in chips)
Seat 2: Hero ($2005.50 in chips)
Hero: posts small blind $3
aatttt: posts big blind $6
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
Hero: raises $12 to $18
aatttt: raises $42 to $60
Hero: raises $84 to $144
aatttt: raises $456 to $600 and is all-in
Hero: calls $456
Showdown aatttt: shows (a full house, Aces full of Eights)
Hero: mucks hand
aatttt collected $1199.50 from pot
Summary Total pot $1200 | Rake $0.50
Board
Seat 1: aatttt (big blind) showed and won ($1199.50) with a full house, Aces full of Eights
Seat 2: Hero (button) (small blind) mucked
PokerStars Game #36358687151: Holdem No Limit ($3/$6 USD) - 2009/12/07 5:15:38 ET
Table Themisto II 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: aatttt ($617.50 in chips)
Seat 2: Hero ($1070.50 in chips)
aatttt: posts small blind $3
Hero: posts big blind $6
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
aatttt: raises $12 to $18
Hero: raises $42 to $60
aatttt: raises $90 to $150
Hero: raises $920.50 to $1070.50 and is all-in
aatttt: calls $467.50 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($453) returned to Hero
Showdown Hero: shows (two pair, Kings and Fives)
aatttt: shows (two pair, Aces and Fives)
aatttt collected $1234.50 from pot
Summary Total pot $1235 | Rake $0.50
Board
Seat 1: aatttt (button) (small blind) showed and won ($1234.50) with two pair, Aces and Fives
Seat 2: Hero (big blind) showed and lost with two pair, Kings and Fives
PokerStars Game #36358785958: Holdem No Limit ($3/$6 USD) - 2009/12/07 5:21:08 ET
Table Baize 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: aatttt ($922.50 in chips)
Seat 2: Hero ($677.50 in chips)
Hero: posts small blind $3
aatttt: posts big blind $6
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
Hero: raises $12 to $18
aatttt: raises $42 to $60
Hero: calls $42
Showdown aatttt: shows (two pair, Aces and Kings)
Hero: mucks hand
aatttt collected $635.50 from pot
Summary Total pot $636 | Rake $0.50
Board
Seat 1: aatttt (big blind) showed and won ($635.50) with two pair, Aces and Kings
Seat 2: Hero (button) (small blind) mucked
All within 200 hands, and then he sits out
I think I'm gonna quit HU. I don't see how it can be consistently profitable.
micro stakes frustrationby panzerfaust, December 07
im still a noob, sure, but i just cant advance on this 1cent/2cent tables. it's been over 2 months now and i'm back to the $20 i started on 0_o.
like im following good advice, playing really tight, betting properly,doing well, but then i just get brought back down because of how ridiculous these tables are.
my friend started the same way I did and got up to $150, but he's back down to $90 because of absolutely insane players 0_o.
iono, i dont understand what im doing wrong. i understand people have bad runs and my case is really petty compared to real players -- but i just cant be wasting this much time you know?
this is more of a rant, but any input would be appreciated. am i starting out the wrong way? should I deposit more money into my account?
Over 3k in cashes. I'll figure everything out and ship the money tomorrow morning if thats ok. It should be about 3x what you sent me.
I ran pretty badly in every tournament today except the 750k. I didn't run great in the 750k either, I got up to 15k basically without a showdown and then won like 5 60/40's and 70/30's in a row. More than anything todays tournaments proved to myself that I am fully capable of being a high stakes mtt pro. I'll probably be back next week with another stake offer. Thanks guys.
Still didn't run great (you're supposed to win flips half the time right?) but not the horrible death doomswitch of friday. Think I'm still down for the weekend but at least I got some hands in today and probably won some money (haven't checked results in about a week).
Didn't play at all yesterday cause I was overall feeling tilty from the friday suffering and knew that if I played and had any bad luck I'd go right into spew mode. Went to the "Sagittarius Ball" last night which was fun. It was at the Elks club and lots of old people came and got funky. Entertaining stuff.
The best part was the fundraiser they did - there were 4 middle aged women dressed up in some semi-slutty outfits who did a burlesque dance to "Hey Big Spender" and followed it up with calling people to come out of the crowd and sit for a lap dance ($20 for the dance). They were raising money for Africa or something like that, but all that mattered was how funny it was to watch these older ladies live out their stripper fantasies.
Off to game a bit, maybe watch more lost, not sure. Been on a rewatching lost spree which has been damn fun. Lotta stuff I totally forgot about.
If I go to a website that may be hosting malicious software, if I search for all files modified during the time I was on the website would I see something if I got something on my computer (virus scan came up empty)?
yea. so i dated a girl for 4 years, thought she was the one. i guess she isn't. its been 3 weeks. i'm trying not to be a bitch. i really tried not to even post this. but i need help. how to get over a girl?
well here's what i did
1) bottle all emotion, don't be a bitch
2) do not talk to friends, talking is for wussies
3) instead randomly yell "fuck" and "i still fucking love you" in the car.
4) spit @ douche bag @ sonny's bbq
5) receive black eye and receive ban from bbq
Weekend fish just completely own me. I can't stop shoving AK into KK/AA to small stack fish over and over, them hitting gutshots all in on the flop, and on top of that I'm getting set mined by regs in 3bet pot and obviously they hit all the time ldo. Kewl. Thanks for the one day tease Full Tilt. http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/b24c0.last2days.jpg
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