after the shitty november I've played about 13-14k hands and am down about 22-23 buyins in december which brings the total to about -14k at 2/4 - 3/6 nlhe and -9k at 2/4 plo since november 15th
definitely not playing my best but also running insanely bad which led to the tilt and bad play
I know its no use whining/complaining about this all I can do is try to play my best at all times and not tiltspew away buyins which is a disaster while you're running bad and in a big/long downswing but its definitely easier said than done
hopefully I can play better/stop spewing and then even if I lose I can't feel too bad
To run bad when the tables are full of fish. You make good moves and get screwed by variance, but still feel good cause there's lots of fish and u made a good move. You make more good moves and get beaten down even more and start tilting, but don't want to leave cause there's so many fucking fish!
Oh well, there's always tomorrow. Running like shit and made a spewy move that I wouldn't have normally so I'm quitting despite having some of the juiciest tables. Garh.
So apparently studying really helps a shit ton and the poker gods treat you well when you do it. New record cash day 8 buy ins. This gets me a little into the green for the month so it's all profit from here on out GOGOGO
24 tablers are so annoyingby Stim_Abuser, December 04
kes1981 is 24 tabbling and is literally time banking almost every single decision while there is a massive fish 150bb deep at our table. im talking about every single action of his even if its like just folding utg or w/e
just wanna reach through the monitor and stab him.
Yes, it's every bit as bad as it looks - got straight up demolished by some guy HU I was up a quick 4 buyins on him, coolering the hell out of him left and right.
Then it turns out I'm pretty shit at deep PLO and not all that great at dealing with 30% 3bet either. Guy played very well (in my opinion) and I might have to practice avoidance vs him in the future. Went from +800$ vs him to -140$ (+12.80$ on the session, ship the cheeseburgers). http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/3f0f0.bulldozered.jpg
Now, that was fun. I knew I'd be playing a little bad now (I tend to play bad when up a lot) but I'm never gonna quit someone whom I've won 4 buyins off in like 50 hands. He deserves at least a couple of hours IMO (even though I could tell he wasn't a bad player).
LOTS more 25 bb pots lost, his redline is basically a copy of Isildur's I think I played pretty well at 100bb and maybe even 150bb, but at 200+ I just got really, really, really raped. I sort of stopped 3betting because I didn't feel comfortable 3betting marginal hands deep, but then I just ended up check/folding or leading too much and I feel like I didn't really get much momentum playing this way.
I also should have 4bet A LOT wider (I actually 4bet folded a KK** hand once when really deep which I immediately realized what a terrible mistake that was, no idea what I was thinking, we were literally like 300bb deep), which is something I did a little bit of in the beginning when still reasonably shallow and at the end (IIRC) once shallow again.
So I think I'm gonna try to work in a lot more 3bets, I think it was difficult to play against. And, as above, work on incorporating more hands into my 4betting range instead of just calling.
There was a live 100nl game happening at a friends house last night, villain and myself are 150 bb effective, villain utg raises 4,button calls, I'm in the bb make it 16 total with AcKs, villain/button call(pot 48$) going to the flop.
Reads on villain: massive fish, bets strong with garbage,air,draws...he is stoned. Button: no reads, new player, seems like a station.
Flop 10c 4d 2d
Now I don't like that I checked in retrospect but wtv...I check, villain bets 39 and button folds.
I timebank 2 mins or so and based on a lot of info he was giving away with hand gestures,posture etc...I shove for 95 or 100 more I don't remember.
Villain snap calls and for an instant I think I'm fucked...if not for his next words: "I have nothing..."
Villain turns over KcJd...for a king high call with an immediate explanation that he put me on nothing since my pf raise...way to polarize hand ranges.
Turn Qs
River 9h
Mmmm yeah...CHIPS.
live poker + small online heaterby tutz_x, December 04
Hi guys!
This month I'm on vacation from work so I'm spending it at my parents city.
My set up is screwd up here... I thought wasnt gonna need to bring my 24's thinking I could just use my dad's 32' TV to play but seems that the TV does not support high resolutions, what sucks a lot. Given this I decided to grind a lot live poker R$ 5/10 (yeah its a lot higher than I usually play online) cause the games are sooooo soft and nobody gives a damn about monies they just wanna have fun playing cards. Online I'm playing almost nothing, putting something like 500 hands a day. To play in a 15' notebook screen sucks hard, to play 6 tables tops sucks 2x more. Whatever, I guees I'm making up for lack of online play by grinding live everyday from 20pm to 6am, but I'm probably not learning much.
basically I like playing HU and have made a nice profit but i dont like to play extended sessions. so im wondering what you guys think. Is it ok if say after 300-500 hands and ur up say 2-3 bis just to say fk it and run?
After feeling like absolute trash last night I tore through HEM and looked over a bunch of things for about 2 hours and watched a video. I noticed I was being too aggressive OOP in 3-bet pots and playing too loosely from the blinds, the typical mistakes someone moves up makes. I've tightened up my preflop strategy and am even using a hand chart just to double check things while I'm playing and taking time to think about spots more. Major thanks to my poker friends on AIM and MSN (namely joe and pano) for dealing with my non stop bitching.
Basically, this guy is running CUcharitablegames.com which is scheduled to launch mid-end of January. For those of you that don't know, the legal age to play poker at a charity casino is 18+, NOT the usual 21... and a college campus is a pretty big ocean.
I was teaching at a poker club meeting and he popped in at the very end. After everyone left, he basically talked about how he liked the work I've done and wanted to work with me. This happened just yesterday, and a lot of random things ensued like going to a bar and watching the tournament instructor on the club staff hook up with some Asian girl... because of Terrence LOL. I just met this guy and he's literally stopping girls and hooking them up with people from the poker club staff. But basically, this can actually be a career opportunity for me, which is obviously really amusing.
Also, Taylor Caby just gave the green light on shipping some chip sets for the poker club's "underground" NL10 and NL50 live games, which I'm obviously really thankful for.
I was just thinking about my poker life, which is actually in fact my life right now. Here's a quick summary:
-Played Starcraft with friends, wanted to be better than everyone else and found TeamLiquid
-Played random $1 SNGs with friends regularly, which eventually led to making play money accounts on Stars
-Free $5 from Stars
-Through TeamLiquid, read articles on LiquidPoker
-Grind that up to become a midstakes reg
-Currently out of school and playing poker and selling stuff on eBay (not doing that as much anymore); always have 6+ months of living expenses in reserve
-Start poker club
-Get offered a job and meet awesome people because of the club
-Currently loving my life
I think we can safely say Starcraft is an amazing game.
have been a good experience so far, feels like im playin really well, running well, winning some moneyz and so on. dunno if its me playing better, stars regs sucking or if im just running like sick hot? dunno maybe a mix
since its christmas month and all i wont be playing to much. + moving to a new appartment january 1st so we are gonna clean up and shit here in our appartment (living with 4 friends, sad breakup ) and be done with the appartment before christmas is the plan. move out all the stuff and such, so last 2 weeks i wont play any poker prolly.
hope ill continue this heater for another 10 days or so, would be sweeeeeeeeeeeeeT.
december 100NL first 10k hands of 6 tabling on stars so far!
A program or something that lets me view my housemate's monitor from my monitor. He's learning poker and I figure it's easier to sweat him on my computer. I know these programs exist but I dunno which are free and easy to use.
50k Hands/20 Hours Prop Win for 33k! Stats/Graphs!by Joeingram1, December 04
I was going to wait until I officially recieved the money in my PokerStars account from the escrow fantasticcow but he is in Australia playing APPT and needs to verify his account in order to send me that large of a transfer, so until then I am pretty busto
Thanks to Liquid Poker for putting an article about me on the front page of the site!!! Much appreciation! I googled my name and actually found similar articles on about 10-15 other sites in just about every possible language, I really had no idea it would be that popular or I would have aimed for more hands!
I am happy to say that I achieved victory in my latest prop bet of playing 50k hands in 24 hours while showing a profit. It actually only took me 20 hours 2 minutes to achieve and after that time I was up approx 33 Buy-Ins from playing and $33,350 richer in prop bet money. I put up 13.5k of my own money getting 2.5-1 odds originally.
I must admit that this was probably one of the easiest things I have ever actually done and I felt like I could have played for days more while profiting in the games. How did this all get set up some have asked?? Well it was really all a perfect storm that came together. Originally I saw the article on pokerstarsblog.com for innerpsy playing 40,000 hands and I was a little annoyed because I had a session earlier in the year where I played 41,000 hands in about 20 hours so I felt the record should have been mine. Then I got into a hand prop bet with someone from 2p2 where we bet who could play the most hands and most of those hands I played at the NL25 games. During this time I realized these where quite possibly the worst players on the face of the earth playing here and if I actually tried there was no way I could possibly lose. This got me thinking about a prop bet I thought of doing long ago which was 50k hands in 24 hours while showing a profit. With this in mind, I knew that tableratings would be tracking my NL25 sessions so during these sessions I put in 0 effort at all of actually making money. I didn't use a HUD and basically just watched TV all session to get in hands for the prop bet I was in. Doing this I found it impossible to be down more then 8-12 Buyins. Finally during my last nl25 session before the bet I lost 600 dollars . After seeing all this people were lining up to bet against me!! I don't think they looked at the sessions I would play right after where I made 5+ buyins at 1/2 6max or 10 buyins at .50/1 but more so focused on my bad nl25 results. How could I really be a 2.5ptbb/100 winner at nl100 6max and losing at nl25?? lol. Anyways I made the thread on 2p2 and the gates flooded with action! I was obviously trying to take the max amount I could possibly take because I figured there was a 98 percent chance I would win this without a problem. I wanted to wait until Tuesday morning to start to take on more action but I knew Chiren was starting his million hand challenge at NL25 then so I had to do it Monday morning.
With many people following along in the 2p2 thread and on my webcam I was able to achieve my prop bet in 20 hours! I thought about going on for the extra 4 hours just to set a record no one could break but honestly my whole motivation behind this prop bet was to make the most amount of money possible in one day at NL25!
The world record was an afterthought that in the grand scheme of things really didn't mean to much. I mean Chiren played 6k more hands then me yesterday in 24 hours and he made $21 dollars. I did the same thing and made $34,000 lol. I am actually very glad Chiren is around because he really is the only person out there motivating me in these sort of mass volume prop bets. Some people think I am hating on Chiren but I really like him and am happy to see him putting in hands. It gives me a goal to shoot for in the future if I choose to do so. One thing I do find funny is all his WoW fanboys in the thread on 2p2 saying only Chiren can do 1 million hands and he is the ultimate grinder. I am going to be honest, if I wanted to play 1.1 mill hands in a month then I could do it without 0 doubt. Could I show a profit during it all??? I guess we will wait and see in a future prop bet
I am actually trying to come up with some ideas for future prop bets. I have been thinking about doing winning 10k at NL25 in one month, winning 13k at NL50 in one month, 1.1 Million Hands in 1 month with profit, 105k hands in 48 hours. All of these interest me but idk if I really want to put myself thru the hell that will come by doing any of these. After this recent prop bet I have more money then I ever dreamed I would have total in my bankroll so I don't know if it will be worth it to me to do another prop bet right now. Time will tell....
Many people have been asking me about my setup/hotkeys/scripts I use while playing. I will admit, these are things I would rather not give away as I feel like I probably have one of the most efficient setups with a combination of comfort playing/ability to utilize scripts and I feel like I could give most people out there my exact setup and they would see a good jump in there overall results.
My plans for December/January are to get myself back in great physical shape since I have been neglecting that part of my life the past few weeks. Book my trip to the PCA and meet a bunch of random online players that I have never met before. Try to make a profit in the 2/4+ games on PokerStars lol!! Continue falling in love with a certain asian woman currently in my life!!! LOVE!!!
Anyways here are my stats and graph for the epic session!
ever have a set of 4's beat by a set of q's?
how about a set of 8's beat by a set of k's?
what about a set of K's beat by a 1 outter for villian to catch quad 3's?
what about a flopped nut flush beat by runner runner full house, when all-in is on the flop?
What about having all of this happening within 15 hands? yeah... my life...
A great start of the monthby lolpetedotnet, December 04
Things has gone really well for me lately. I feel like I have developed my game as I am starting to really crush the games. I hope I can move up to 3/6 soon and 5/10 eventually but I want my roll to grow even more before that.
Last month I had a pretty good month and this month so far has been amazing, being up already $8,500.
If things continue to work out for me this month could be my best month ever. I really like my chances because December is probably the most action filled month of all months.
I have a goal for this month to play 85K+ hands and I have already played 10K hands the first 4 days and today i not over yet so I like my chances here as well. http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/f3f49.This month1.jpg
A lot of the hands I have played is on the £ tables so the $6,7K is not quite accurate.
After coming back from a trip to Poland I expect to move up. In a week with the winrate I was having. But the month was less than steller- it was me trying to keep my head above the waves. Little profit.
Anyway last few days made 1k (woop) and moved to NL100. Funny this Poker thing.
Now got to crack on and get 6k VPPs by Dec 31st to get SN.
been playing a ton last the 3 days and I have no confidence left. I'm getting run over. I can hit shit and Im just awful.
just gonna listen to drake -successful over and over again and hope maybe some day I'll be a winner. I hate not being a fucking winner. I have so much anger inside of my body built up that I need to unleash. I'm breakeven at NL50/NL100 for the last 70k hands now and I don't have any answers. I'm a fucking bust. http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/3ba76.sincenov1.jpg
Gonna win back 5-10 buyins at NL50(lol yeah right) and go back up. I have no way to describe the anger and pain I feel right now.
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8 buy ins. This gets me a little into the green for the month so it's all profit from here on out GOGOGO
Ahhhhhhhh, I need to borrow some of Freak's heart.
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