Fin. Finito. Nada mas. It's over baby and it's good, yeah, real good, good like the top side of set over set deep.
Actually got things done pretty smoothly and quickly, but when moving there's no such thing as too quick. Still have some unpacking to do and I want to sort things out a bit. Got lazy and did a lot of "just throw it in a box and we'll figure it out later" moves.
Been a busy last 5 days or so. Started moving on Wednesday, then flew to San Fran on Thursday and went straight from the airport to the thanksgiving festivities, had a relaxing day on Friday, and then flew home on Saturday. Sunday morning began the big move and today we grabbed the last things laying around the house, cleaned it and turned in the keys. I'm so glad it's over. I'm fucking tired.
Haven't been able to grind much cause of traveling and moving. Before this went down I was getting like 10k hands a week. Gonna try and keep that up for the next 2 weeks and then aim for at least 5k a week while traveling.
I havent played any hands online this november. I focused entirely on the various live games in my city ranging from NL50-NL1000, but NL200 was my cutoff. Sadly I failed, playing a hyper aggressive game vs a bunch of live tards trying to push every edge I had. Honestly I feel I just got sucked out on 100% but I'd need HEM to be the judge for sure. So I am absolutely 100% officially done with live play. My style just does not fit it.
Sadly, my style doesnt fit online either. In all reality my style probably sucks, but I think I know what I'm doing, it just only works at higher limits, you know the ones where people fold T8o in the small blind to a 6x BB raise. But then again I probably dont have to make it 6xBB to get into a favorable spot. I've always done well at higher limits. My HEM graphs is all positive from NL200-NL400. It's the micros that kill me. I probably know how to beat them, but I dont have the time to nut peddle all night across 20 tables and win 1 buyin per day before I can move up, and thats not even counting when variance sets you back 10 BI's. Micros are like this horrible slow grind, up and up and up, and then BOOM, you go way down when some fish gets his money in bad. Then you repeat the process, and if you have enough patience, eventually you come out the victor.
So where can I play to maximize fish's mistakes and remove them from the equation at micro limits. I have deemed this to be possible in SNG's. You see, in an SNG, some retard mother fucker can only fuck up so many times before his ass is gone. The way I see it, if I play a 1 table SNG, im not playing vs 9 fish, im only playing vs 3 or 4. The rest will knock themselves out, all the while giving me equity for nothing. Now theres still variance in SNG's. But as long as I can capitalize on my superior poker playing skill vs these 3 or 4 fish I encounter, it should be a cake walk. The other fish self-destruct, and I get to play for payouts vs hardly anyone at the table.
So where does this leave me? Well b/c I cant afford to play NL200 online right now, which I would do with about $1000 bankroll or more, I need to work that shit up. Hopefully I can grind my way through the SNG circuit to about a $200 bankroll or so and then take shots at NL50, the first limit that isnt completely filled with total idiots. It'll still be a struggle b/c theres still plenty of fish also taking shots, but the bulk of NL50 players and up consist of new grinders, people who have read a few articles, seen a few forum posts, and maybe even read a book. As a result, they are trying to curtail their game to a more profitable style, and that includes folding dumb fucking garbage that stacks players like me when we hit TPGK.
My goal is to quickly get into NL100 and above, where I can play my 40/30 style and actually do some range finding postflop.
See it's funny, everyone says the higher the limits, the bigger the bankroll you need, because the players are better. But I see it as the opposite. The higher the limits, the less likely you are to be busting your ass because you know and respect these players, so you arent getting it all in every 2 fucking seconds, because that would be stupid because they arent either without a really good hand. At micro limits, you have to just run with your hands so often because there is zero range finding vs idiots, and then you find yourself getting rivered so often that you need a huge 50 BI bankroll to recover from the suckouts.
[] get coached
[x] get flaked on by coach
[] use new found knowledge to win
[] run good
[x] lose a bunch of money
[x] run like dog shit
[x] cut roll in half over past 4 days
OK month, again, didn't play enough, but its okay. Made about 1.5k on stars, but it tilts me how HEM shows the Euro hands in US dollars so won't post a graph. Ran a little bad but that just makes last month fair.
Will start to really push myself on moving up, that or at least learning PLO.
This is a friggin amazing game played recently, one of the best doubles matches I have ever seen, so if you have any interest in badminton, watch it - you'll be impressed.
Goals for next month:
o lose 4kg
o ~40k+ hands
o pass Operations Research (anybody the nuts at this class?)
Hey lp. I've been lurking here for a few months already. Just to clarify, I am no way related to the Rhaegar that you all know, and am not attempting in anyway to impersonate him ;P. It's only a coincidence that we both use a similar name. Infact, Rhaegar99 is usually my second choice name when Rhaegar has already been taken.
Like some of yous, I was (and still kinda am) a starcraft fan from teamliquid. I had a friend that started poker around 1-2 years ago, but I didn't really get around to it until the midyear break in July. From then, I grinded casually with the $2 Pokerstars to $100 on FL4 to FL20. I only started NL in October but didnt get many hands in due to uni and exams.
Right now I'm playing mostly NL5 and some FL50, and a solid winner at these limits. I've had 3 shots at NL10 and they've been pretty terrible, losing 6 BIs. Looking for a few more shots in the coming month. Hoping to be a winner at NL10 by the end of December ;D
I've been playing poker for a while now and I've decided the path I want to take is one of a massgrinder. I want to become the next joey/chiren80. Here is my 24 table graph of nl5 so far. Unfortunately I had to cashout and im left with $125, I'm going to grind some more and build up and hopefully take a shot at nl10, which will be a lot harder to beat massgrinding I believe. GL in your 50k hand prop joey, Im pretty sure its an easy lock for you.
On Karma and the Multiverseby Xervean, November 30
Ok lets begin by discussing Karma. What is it exactly? Well most people think of it in terms of if you do something bad it will come back on you say 3 fold (like the Wiccans believe). People tend to think of it as like a mystical thing imposed on us by the gods where you will eventually get what you deserve.
What karma actually is though is simply cause and effect. Every single thing that you do in life creates possible effects. So Karma naturally is the entirety of the chain of cause and effects. If you do good things your entire life, good things will be far more likely to happen to you. People will like you and you will have many more opportunities in life. And of course on the flip side if you do evil, people will hate you and seek to destroy you (or you will destroy yourself).
What is the multiverse theory? Well basically one interpretation of it is that in anything occurs the universe splits out into bubbles one for every possibility that can ever occur. Say you roll a 6 sided die. Well there is a different universe created for each possibility of what it lands on. This theory is a possible explanation of quantum mechanics basically. Check out Schrodingers cat. I copied this from wikipedia:
Schrödinger's Cat: A cat, along with a flask containing a poison, is placed in a sealed box shielded against environmentally induced quantum decoherence. If an internal Geiger counter detects radiation, the flask is shattered, releasing the poison that kills the cat. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when we look in the box, we see the cat either alive or dead, not both alive and dead.
Also I read about this sick quantum mechanical/multiverse russian roulette theory that if you play it you will never lose because everytime you pull the trigger you cease to exist in certain universes and only continue in the ones where the chamber is empty.
PS DONT TRY THAT AT HOME
If this is true what are the implications? It would mean that there is a universe where I have never lost a single hand of poker and I am the king of the internet. Also there is the universe I am in now... along with infinitely many other ones. I believe we create our own realities. Every single decision I have ever made has led me to this moment. Now dependant upon the decisions we make for say in poker the greater the probability that we end up in a great universe thats what we want.
So next time you lose a hand as a 99% favorite simply think that in all of those other possible universes you are a winner. Keep in mind that if you keep making good decisions you will eventually end up where you want to be. The secret of life is controlling Karma aka cause and effect.
This month I finally started trying to take poker seriously again after a several-month hiatus, a hiatus during which sometimes I had myself convinced that I had quit and probably wouldn't play again.
I've had lots of mixed feelings during this month. As some of you may know, 100nl 6max was my regular game before. So in order to ease myself back into the grind I started playing 50nl 6max 4 tabling and my plan was to win 20 bi at that limit. I put that plan in place for a couple of reasons; for a discipline aspect, and in order to prove to myself that I could still beat the limit consistently.
However I ended up failing in the discipline aspect. Since I was crushing 50nl so hard, I decided to take a shot at 100nl with only 10bi won. Well, that was disaster and I ended up spewing my whole month's winnings (40-50 hours of 4 tabling 50nl) in a single hour, in a glorious mixture of run bad, play bad and fancy play syndrome. 40-50 hours, destroyed in a single hour. Strangely I didn't feel that badly about it and set out to rebuild the next day.
Well since going to rebuild things have been going fairly well, and I'm playing 100nl again. I had a big winning day yesterday which was very nice. It was a +5.5 bi session in only 3 hours. I definitely ran well, but more importantly I'm happy because I feel I played pretty well.
Can't say the same about today where I was just shit on repeatedly postflop and had to make a lot of folds. This results in a shitty red line which really annoys me to no end.
Hi guys,
The first half of November I played 0 hands of poker because uni exams went for the first 2 weeks. After that I started playing NL100 Full Ring on Stars, 24-tabling, a game I haven't played in in quite a while. Anyways, I was pretty pleased with my effort in 2 weeks:
At the moment my VPP count on Stars is 145000, so my plan for December is to grind around 175k hands of NL100 Full Ring to reach the 200k VPP 2k milestone bonus. If I make it it will be my biggest month volume wise, and it will be tough, but I feel motivated to reach it.
November has been my best month in poker to date by far not just in winnings but in play time and learning as well. I broke even at cash games (NL50 and NL100) but I managed to play 40k hands while I was working full-time. Luckily I cashed huge in a tournament so that's where all my monthly earning came from and rakeback. Here's my graph, can anyone tell me what happened to my red line? :[
November is basically over and that means exams are up next in university... always a fun time, lately I cant find any drive whatsoever to put forth an ounce of effort into school which is pretty pathetic. After this semester I have 1.5 semesters left so I dont think dropping out would be the greatest decision. School also keeps me somewhat sane in this poker lifestyle so I guess thats a good thing as well.
PCA is coming up soon and Im just about to book plane tix/getta package should be an awesome time, I went last year and really enjoyed it. A week and a half on a beach in the middle of winter sounds pretty sweet to me, I will probably be selling off about 50% of myself for the 10k at 1.1 to 1 in the near future.
Pokerwise I grinded a fair amount in November, got off to a brutal start losing -15k in the first day in a 25/50 shot, ran really well towards the middle of Nov then cooled off.
Im in the process of learning how to play PLO starting at 1/2.. I got a coach who seems awesome so far and hopefully I'll be up to the 5/10 games within a month or two. PLO is a pretty sick swingy game but it seems to be pretty profitable to be well versed in both NL and PLO so hopefully that works out well.
Hellooooooooo there.
What a month it was. Didn't play quite much as I wanted, but apart from that it was great month.
Started to play Omaha. PLO2 PLO5 first, now PLO10 as a standard. Much more fun than Hold'em.
Swings are bigger, but games at these super-ultra-shitty-micro stakes ale sweet light.
Goals for november were:
[X] +$100 profit
[] +30k hands
[X] less looking on cashier while playing
I played 12,5k hands of hold'em, and 4k hands of Omaha.
At the beginning I didn't had _feeling_ of playing Omaha. (dunno if that sentence was right :/) Hold'em is the first poker that I ever played, and Omaha felt different. But after Hellomaha series from DC and first 1k hands it was "woooooooooooo its sooo fun ;d".
I had to withdrew $50 from my roll to rl to pay back my loans (I smoke cigs, plus I don't have money in real life ;p ).
Then I had ~190 in roll. Next day, I had doubts of what I have done, so I started grinding to recover. Mission accomplished
Now my roll is $350, so my profit from november was ~140. Pretty good.
As for december I plan to have similar goals as in november, because from 18th I have holidays till new year. Want to play poker and go as high as I can.
Goals for november were:
[] +$100 profit
[] +25k hands
[] more vids about Omaha
Hah, and last thing. I found my old notebook where I used to note my roll before and after each session. I found entry from 30 november 2008 - $48.51 hahaha fun times from nl2.
Apart from poker. When I'm too lazy to play pkr, I play at kongregate.com, so if anyone would like to play any multi thing of something PM me
Oh, and when you are tilted play Music Catch 2 - greatest game to restore your cool
Also, I started to watch Rome, I'm in second season. Nice.
Oh, and for the end, my brag of pot where God blessed my cards, and cursed my foes
PokerStars Game #36070207250: Omaha Pot Limit ($0.05/$0.10 USD) - 2009/11/30 22:55:05 CET [2009/11/30 16:55:05 ET]
Table Xanthippe VIII 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: king nando ($2.65 in chips)
Seat 2: djtsha ($5.90 in chips)
Seat 3: Cassiis ($12.60 in chips)
Seat 4: DRose39 ($8.10 in chips)
Seat 5: nazztee93 ($13.70 in chips)
Seat 6: Hero ($15.45 in chips)
djtsha: posts small blind $0.05
Cassiis: posts big blind $0.10
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
DRose39 said, "lol i had the best hand by far i really dont care what you say"
DRose39: raises $0.25 to $0.35
Cassiis said, "ur just bad"
Cassiis said, ":D"
nazztee93: folds
Hero: calls $0.35
king nando: folds
DRose39 said, "you probably shove with trips which is why your saying this"
djtsha: folds
Cassiis said, "i didnt"
Cassiis said, "i layed the down the later winner"
Cassiis said, "had aces"
DRose39 said, "but its probably your standard play"
Cassiis: calls $0.25
Cassiis: checks
DRose39: bets $1.05
Hero: calls $1.05
Cassiis: raises $4.20 to $5.25
DRose39: calls $4.20
Hero: raises $9.85 to $15.10 and is all-in
Cassiis: calls $7 and is all-in
DRose39: calls $2.50 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($2.85) returned to Hero
Showdown Cassiis: shows (a flush, Ace high)
Hero: shows (a straight flush, Nine to King)
Hero collected $8.55 from side pot
DRose39: shows (a straight, Ten to Ace)
Hero collected $23.15 from main pot
Summary Total pot $33.35 Main pot $23.15. Side pot $8.55. | Rake $1.65
Board
Seat 1: king nando (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 2: djtsha (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: Cassiis (big blind) showed and lost with a flush, Ace high
Seat 4: DRose39 showed and lost with a straight, Ten to Ace
Seat 5: nazztee93 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: Hero showed and won ($31.70) with a straight flush, Nine to King
Something I have always struggled with is implementing a stop-loss rule. I was hoping you can give me some good advice on stop losses. Ideally, I always tell myself 2-4BI range, but it seems that whenever I get down that much its from coolers, making me convince myself to play from behind (and tilted).
Decided yesterday I'm going to move up to .02/.05 after going up 6 bi's at .01/.02...so far so good! No noticeable skill difference (probably would seem obvious there's not a big difference but as a .01/.02 player I always assumed .02/.05 would be at least a little bit better). Not really a big deal for most here but I'm working my way up
This doesn't even include the -700 i have on my laptop.
Overall, i'm -3k in november, worst poker month ever. Although poker has been bad, my IRL has been good. So even though I'm down around 60 BI, I'm in a pretty good mood. I'm looking forward to the break so I can focus on grinding up again. =)
Moved down to nl25, to rebuild some. Will move back to nl50 at 800, and try to grind it back up again. Hopefully December will be a great month for me.
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