So I finally got to my new apt in tunica where I will be staying while going to tournament dealer school. Got to play casino poker for once. Found a 1/3 game that was five handed till I showed up. Everyone one was sitting on around 100-175 except for some fat redneck guy wearin 80s multicolor mirrored shades. He was sitting on 250 or so. He was to my left so I avoided him. He whined when I'd raise on his button and 3bet me one time and that was it.
I had a fun time chipping up quickly pretty lagish for the most part. I'd never felt quite so confident while bluffing as I did tonight. It was a fuckin blast. This poor stuttering fish didn't give me credit for a single hand after I bet a draw ealy for a medium pot. This worked out great since every hand that I got into with him from that point on involved me having him crushed and stacked him.
Some old rich looking guy sat down later with a "Nickel" in five tall stacks of five dollar chips and proceded to nit it up the whole time. He'd limp call then check fold...a lot. He asked me to chop a medium sized pot that he had hit mid pair and I had an oesd. I obliged which was prolly -ev short term but I'm hoping it pays off later somehow.
Big hand of the night inolved the tilted stutter guy and another rich guy. The two of them were two seats to my right. Tilty bumps it to 13 and gets a snap call from rich. I wake up with QQ and make it 58 from the cutoff. They both call. Flop comes Q75 rainbow and tilty bets like 45. Richy flats and I start spamming the bet pot button on the felt and make it 185 or something and get called by both of them. Turn comes a T and tilty ships his last 20 or so dollars and then richy calls and I ship another hundo on top of that..rich guy tanks and folds...lol. River is blank and tilty shows TT for an under set to my queens and goes busto by my hands for the 2nd time. Ship the monster pot and I left 30 minutes later with 585 after losing decent pot AK
I'm so tired of losing money in the tables. Time to win starting right now. I'll just delete my dbs and start a new one, FML this whole milestone chase will be my last lol
Haven't posted on here in forever. Tried moving up in stakes a year ago and got crushed and took my shattered ego and ran lol. Been grinding back up and am now mass tabling .25/.50 on stars fullring. Should be able to make nova by the end of the year. Came across a cool site http://phatstackspoker.com that helped me fix a few leaks. Other than that things are going pretty good now. Hope to see you all at the tables.
Sup LPers?!
just came home from my daily live poker grind and I just lost the biggest pot of my life
I'm on mega tilt right now
let me tell the hand, I'm on desperate need to share it
The game is R$ 5/10 NLHE
$1 = R$1.70
The table is 9-handed
ME: ~R$1,950
UTG: ~R$3,000
I'm on the SB and the UTG straddle for R$50, two MP calls, I was delt and raise to R$250. UTG calls the two MP fold. UTG is an old rich guy that loves to see flops and has no idea at all about what he is doing, he just wanna have fun. Ok, the flop brings: . I bet R$600 he snapcalls. Turn: , I shove for something like R$1K and he snapcalls again and shows: .
Final pot: R$ 4,100 (~$2.5K)
River:
Saturday we (Team Quest) had our grand opening (well reopening in a much larger building) anyways to mark the occasion Dan Henderson and Matt Lindland came out for a seminar and a bbq. Fun day, went over some technical clinch work and using gnp to manipulate positioning then just kind of goofed around as we had an open gym for the community to come check the new place out. We had a good turn out, probably around 300-400 people showed up for the opening, which may not seem like much for some places but for this little town that's alot. Bad news, my camera's batteries were dead so got very few pics (only cell phone and ones I took on friend's cameras). The local news came down and did an interview with Dan and Matt, and are going to be doing a piece on our fight team in the coming weeks so we're very excited about that.
stuck like 6bi for the month, played a solid 25 hours which is OK for 1 weeks work (probably spent 5 hours studying books + these forums so..). I guess -6bi is better than -16bi.
fucking worst reg in the history of poker runs like god vs me (like he *always* does) and wins 6 buyins from me
I was playing mega good earlier today, thought processes were clear, confident in my decision making (even when I followed through and hit the wrong part of their range or w/e, I felt good). I can't keep it up when I keep getting crapped on.. bleh atleast I didn't tilt really. I know the last 1/2 of today I wasn't exactly.. tilted, but I wasn't 100% either like I was my 1st session.
I'm going to go stay at my dad's for 2-3 weeks (tentatively, could possibly turn into longer but there are certain drawbacks to being out in the middle nowhere aka where my dad lives). He has an extremely nice house sitting on 13 beautiful acres so.. being out of this chaotic house will probably help me. Its hard never having more than 2 or 3 peaceful days over the past 2-3 months.. I'll still be grindin' and trollin' ya'll so don't worry about that
Forgot if I mentioned it but a week or so ago I went and ordered a new passport as well. cool imo~
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that incredible redline rofl wasn't bad play it was just me getting fucked.. I stuck it through playing OK and then get coolered by that fucking idiot reg twice for 2bi each time. annnnd that broke the camels back so here I am semi-ragingggggggg
I know I'm only down 4bi for the day but losing like 4bi in nonshowdown in 500 hands is extremely tilting, then getting hit 'n run HU by that retarded reg in our 1st hand for 2bi and on another table losing 2bi to the same cuntmuscle within 5 second. omg.
I don't think I'll be playing for the next few days. I have a plane flight to Taiwan on Wednesday afternoon and then the day after that I'm going to Macau for the Red Dragon Grand Finals (2.6k live donkament and a bunch of smaller donkaments, basically). Have a lot of things to take care of but before my mini break I wanted to declare my own personal victory.
In April my friend who crushes high stakes nl and plo and has always given me brilliant advice told me (as a stricly only 2/4 player then) that I should break out of my comfort zone and start shot taking 3/6 and 5/10. 3/6 went went well, and still is. I'm about 5ptbb at 3/6 since then, but 5/10 for the most part had been a disaster. Well, I can finally say that I'm a winner at 5/10 this year :D. Those who have followed my blog know my battle with 5/10, which so far has only lasted 29k hands (over the course of several months as there were times where I had given up completely, only to restart again), so I'm happy to report good news about it finally.
Also a quick hand to share: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/774688 - Ran good, near 600bb pot, I'd been barreling and overbetting him the last 3 hands against him (he even resorted to raising turns IP with made/marginal hands just to avoid getting river overbet on), knew that if he had any piece of this board he would put in a ton of money.
Just took my first final today - Pharmaceutical Biotechnology. Was a easy test probably aced it. I just got a e-mail from rakeabackpros.com saying I can get Fulltilt rakeback. On top of that I got a call back for a interview for a CVS pharmacy technician job. Awesome day. Need to get back to studying though pce.
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.
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and raise to R$250. UTG calls the two MP fold. UTG is an old rich guy that loves to see flops and has no idea at all about what he is doing, he just wanna have fun. Ok, the flop brings: 
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