God I've been having a hard time, and I feel like I've definitely run bad for the duration of the month. The last 7 days or so (36k hands onwards) I have been feeling pretty good though. I do need to keep working on not making any tilty plays.. just took a look at my biggest losers this month and am like wtf. Really disappointed in myself with that.
I have a small prop bet with the cleaner, some things are still tentative but I think we're doing $500 on who plays the most hands from the 4th - the 18th. PoorUser the Magnificent is escrowing for us. The prop probably isn't thread worthy unfortunately
I planned on playing like 40K hands this month and only put in about 7,500. School work has been insane but winter break is coming in a few weeks. These next 2 months will be my last shot at getting back up to NL 50 again. If I do not succeed, I will stick to just messing around with poker and not taking it too seriously, just a hobby.
Overall my plan will be to play 2 2-3 hour sessions a day. This will include playing and then immediately reviewing my session to see what I did that worked or what was helping me suck. I don't plan on using a stop loss. This is because I tend to play what I have been told is a very high variance form of poker and I plan on toning that down.
I plan on playing 4-6 tables of NL 5 to get back into the poker mindset, then if that goes well I will increase tables as long as I feel I am still playing well.
Once I hit 20 buy-ins for NL 10 I will play 4 tables 6 max and to once again see how it goes.
With the 2 above limits I will probably play some small guarantee tournaments just to keep from getting bored with one type of game. This will also include PLO 10, that has been a good wind down game for me recently.
I would like to play NL 25 once I hit $550, that way I will have been playing well or one a nice heater. I plan on playing 6 max NL 25 to ultimately get up to NL 50.
The next 3 weeks are going to be pretty busy with finals so my plan will begin around mid December when I get home.
If anybody out there wants to exchange MSNs and talk poker, PM me and hopefully we can help each other out or whatever.
the last 2 months have gone a lot better though. i think ive fixed some leaks in my game and my tilt control has definitely gotten better. i used to have decent tilt control, but i really broke down this summer and got tilted by every little thing. things are turning around though.
Just completed my first 20 bi downswing everrrrrrrrrrrrr! Which means I clearly got carried away with the whole bluffing thing. Works great with a good image. But not so much when people see you get sucked out on in massive pots. Anyways I estimate I should only be down 10-12 buyins and the rest was probably bad play due to bad bluffs with bad image and being too loose oop which happens when u dont lose for 3 weeks. On both of my -10 bi days the 10 bi were all lost in a span of about 250 hands or less. The rest of the session had little variance. So I am clearly not adjusting my bluffing frequency correctly when my image is bad. Also im losing some massive deepstacked pots where im 300bb+ and so far I have had the best hand each time but cant get the job done. I just need to stay mindful of my image after losing a big pot like that and probably just nit it up ceasing any and all bluffing operations.
The good news is I do not even feel the slightest temptation to move up stakes and try to get even. In fact just the opposite. I feel compelled to play 25nl until I start winning and feeling confident again even though im still well rolled for 50nl.
Just a minor bump in the road. No big deal. I will go over my play and accept what happened like a mature adult and not like a spoiled child.
Spent all day today moving - insane how my entire life fits into the back of a uhaul... and a small one too, haha.
Was the biggest move I've ever made as I spent most of my "independent" life floating from apartment to apartment with just my bed, desk, computer and clothes. The desk was just a folding table so I could fit everything except the bed in my car, and I'd just borrow a friends truck to move the bed. This was my first uhaul experience and it went quite well.
I've been living in a 2 bedroom townhouse with my girl for the past year and a half. It was pretty big with a living room, separate kitchen with a small dining area, and bathroom on the first floor. The second floor had a full bathroom and 2 well sized rooms, one which we used for my "poker office". Then the basement had a lot of space and a washer/dryer. All for $625 a month. Sick value. I posted pics of it in a past blog.
The only "bad" thing was the thin walls and the rowdy neighbors. At $625 a month you can imagine the type of people we got living near us. Cops were called to our townhouses quite often and there were a lot of interesting altercations that went on. But also a lot of bad vibes - the first neighbors we had fought like crazy and the girl had to call the cops on the guy quite a bit. If they weren't fighting the guy was having never ending parties but the parties were just a bunch of 20 something guys who didn't graduate HS and just sat around drinking, smoking and screaming about the good old days.
We didn't move out cause of the neighbors though - we moved out due to travel. Asian travel. Yessiree bob. See in 2 weeks we're starting the "Family Xmas tour", an annual occurrence. We fly to Washington DC for a week and then Michigan for another week to visit family on both sides. We'll get back at the end of the month and then in mid January we fly to Thailand for a backpacking journey into Cambodia and maybe Laos, Vietnam and Burma.
So since we're not gonna be around much before we leave we figured it's best to move out now and save money on rent by crashing at my dads place for a bit. 2 weeks here, 2 weeks on the Xmas tour, then 2 more weeks before we head out on our Asian adventure. Seems like a really short amount of time left in the USA to me but I'm looking forward to every second of the next few months.
We plan to be in Asia for at least 1 month, at most 5 months. After that we'll come back to CO and find a new place and jobs and so on. Hopefully I'll be able to just grind and find a part time thing like I was doing before. The part time gig is nice for the mental stability of knowing money is coming in even if I have a downswing month, but it also helps deal with that feeling of not contributing to the world and just being alone, isolated and hermitish in my room staring at a computer all day by myself. Interacting with other humans face to face is good.
So I'm really tired and for some reason that has lead me to write a longer blog than I intended, cause my mind keeps wandering. The point I was trying to make is that we moved and I'm exhausted. I wanted to play poker but I don't let myself play tired anymore, so I guess this ranting blog will have to do.
Ok so sometimes at my job I take the supervisor calls when we get enraged customers (I do tech support). I usually get major laughs with these calls because they are mad about not having a computer for two weeks or something. OR they are retarded and run a business off of one laptop. But this lady called in about a Nintendo Wii that doesn't work. Her warranty contract however has been expired for almost a full year. She said that the reason she didnt call sooner was that she had complications with a pregnancy in which she had to be hospitalized for months. At this time she said that her fiance left her with the kids and split. Then she says her child was very sick and couldnt leave the house for a long time. Then the house got flooded and they lost everything.
Now I told her that it was expired and is no longer covered by the plan and she began crying hysterically over a 75$ repair bill that she couldnt pay. She says that she had to buy her kids winter coats and she cant afford one herself. And that they will have nothing under the tree this year. She told me that if I deny this I will steal christmas from her kids. She asked if I would like to tell her kids that they wont get anything for christmas. All the while keep in mind she is crying hysterically. I of course have no choice but to flat out deny it. Normally im a cold hearted bastard but I think she was definitely being sincere and not making up random bs like most of our customers.
Thinking of it afterwards though I actually began to feel guilty that im going to go home and play online poker throwing 75 around like nothing, when this hardworking lady has had the shit kicked out of her by life and can barely afford to feed her kids. I felt like maybe I should have shipped her 75 in the christmas spirit or something. I didnt think of it at the time, and its clearly not my place to do so... Nor could I even do so now if I wanted to because I have no clue what her name was or anything.
Will be starting this prop bet tomororw morning between 10-12AM eastern and hope to play 50k+ hands in a 24 hour period and show a profit. I am putting up about 13k of my own money in hopes of winning 30k! I will be playing all hands at NL25 on PokerStars and am very confident in my chances here. I feel like I have a good game plan going into all of this and should be able to be victorious. I will post daily updates on my blog and in 2+2 thread tomorrow and hopefully set a new world record for most hands come Tuesday Morning.
Thank you for the support from the LP community! Alot of nice people out there!
Any nl100 for a small prop bet?by Night2o1, November 29
Wondering if anyone wants to have a 1-2 week prop bet at the beginning of dec. Put something like $500 on who plays the most hands at a given limit in that timespan.. figured it could be fun as a little motivator.
Anyone interested? Not really looking for someone who regularly like 16 or 24 tables cuz I'm not looking to just give away money
Cliffs for last 3 months:
Complete failure going for elite
Won 500 fpp sat to 10k fpp sat to EPT London, binked that, 3rd lvl mincash at EPT, ship 13.5k.
9.7k in 2 WCOOP events
Didn't play at all for like 6 weeks. Broke totally even when I did.
Realized not hitting milestones is incredibly stupid.
Realized I'm REALLY behind for hitting the 600k one (432k atm lol)
Grinding like I never have before
Running good.
small video from start of Final match in lightweight class
me dooging a few sloppy attemps by a very newb fighter ... and then taking him down and position myself
other videos need forever to be shown on youtube T_T
But yeah, I'm going to be grinding NL200 FR unless I have to move down because I'm 30k vpp away from SuperNova. I think I have to play somewhere in the range of 70-80k hands; if anyone has solid VPP/hand calcs at NL200 FR, I'd appreciate a more accurate count.
The most I've ever played in one month is about 45k hands, and I am a loser at NL200 FR in the small 8k hands I've played. I went over all those hands and it was a combination of running a bit bad (standard), and spewing horribly in many spots. I was waaaay overaggro during each shot. So wish me luck, because technically I'm going into the month shot-taking. I'm confident I'll be fine though, and if not, I'll just hurry up and regrind it back at NL100.
Wish me luck guys. In actuality it's not the monetary goal I want, but to prove to myself than I can really grind it out.
It seems like for a while it hasn't been possible to datamine observed hands on FTP (ever since they started using the new replayer that doesn't show an HH)
However, I realized that in the Isildur threads people are not only posting HHs, but are even showing graphs with EV lines? How is this being done, and if this is possible, then surely datamining is still possible? (How does PTR do it, etc.)
Not much to say but I'm pretty satisfied. Had three days this month where I made over 5k (well I also had a day where I lost 5k but let's ignore that). Just woke up all early to play the takedown and didn't even last 30 minutes so I'm calling my month here. So since I did a lot better than I expected this month I might hit 100k on the year afterall (well it includes RB which is sorta cheating but w/e).
20k Cash Games
1.8k Rakeback
2.8k Tournaments, etc. = ~24.5k
Can't believe there's only 1 month left of 2009, hope it gone as well as everyone planned. 2010 is going to be nothing short of epic though, in over a week I'm going back to Asia and living in Taiwan at least for the entirety of the year (coming back to the US for WSOP etc. of course since I'm finally 21), where I have a lot of poker-related plans etc. GL everyone
Wish I had some more hands to share but most of them have been in the previous blog entries, so I've only got one I haven't shared: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/771021 - 3 barrel on suicide board is good.
so I'm thinking of buying a new system because my current one is driving me crazy. It's starting to struggle with just menial tasks (which it shouldn't, but it does anyway) and it BSODed on me in the middle of a session yesterday.
I have no idea where to start because I don't know what the market is like for computers today in terms of component models etc. I'm looking for more of a value system, something that can run most games but I don't need it to run at 45435 fps, just be able to handle it.
It wouldn't really be a gaming PC either, just something that multitasks very snappy while browsing, playing music, playing poker, running HEM and autoimport etc.
I heard about intel i5 and i7 and i don't know what the difference is. Is intel > AMD now? ATI vs nvidia?
I just really want some suggestions on processors, motherboards and graphics cards since the other stuff is pretty trivial i guess.
Looking to do $5k from FTP to PS. Reputable people only. Can't put up with this ugly FTP software and riggedness any more. Willing to do multiple transfers if some people only have parts of it.
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