I flop all my sets I always get drawn out.. i get my AA/KK cracked every single time i get them in pre OR postflop..
this is no tilt... its just incredibly bad runnning... luckily i made around 1k on nl100 playing on mates account for 1 afternoon.. which is so fking ridicolous... at least give me 1-2 good beats a session pokergod... wtf...
I turn 18 today.Im finally of legal age and can gambool and can open a bank account and go to clubs whenever i want and not whenever the face-control feels like.Have 2 hours free so felt like writing a blog ^_^
Well happy birthday to me
gonna be a long night
My sister seriously fucks up my life in untold ways. I've gotta get out of this house.
So my only goals
1. Get myself into a position to get the fuck out of here asap without hindering my ability to grow my bankroll and move up.
2. Figure out where to go and what move is going to be best for me, whether that means I move somewhere within the same city, or to another place entirely (ie back to Vegas or somewhere I've never been perhaps). Being near a casino with good regular live games from 5/10+ would be really nice, but that can wait until next summer @ Vegas too.
I am quite sure that the situation here at home is completely unsolvable so I have to be the one to leave.
I would really like to shoot for gtfo'ing Jan. 1st, and if I move to a college town or within my own city (we have a big university), that would be a perfect time. Problem is I think Jan 1st may be too soon $ wise (NO time is too soon otherwise LOL).
I'm calculating my *mandatory basic expenses* if I move out (ie including rent) at just over $1k a month right now though. Totally do-able right this second but I'd rather not risk getting stuck grinding nl100 for life.
Quick rundown; $550 for rent+utilities, $200 car insurance, $200 grocery/food, $30 gym membership, $50 gas = ~$1k/month in expense. Reasonable?
Sigh, probably just day dreaming until atleast Feb. or March.
Dealing with bad run of cards and not spewing excessively when you lose em' all is what will always divide the big winners from breakeven grinder zombies.
1) Strict Stop loss - 3BI or even 2BI. Why? When you run bad you obviously start thinking about it and any suckout's impact on your mentality will be much higher. Also, move down when you lose 10 or more BI at your limit, or when you hit a 'point of no return' when you are not comfortably rolled for your limit.
2) Cut down on tables - You run bad, your losses will just multiply
3) Brutal table selection on very few tables - You need to have as big of an edge as you can, and use it to your maximum potential.
You might get more tilted when the fish suckout on you a lot(as expected when you run bad), but overall the impact of a cold deck should be smaller if you run 10bb/100 against your villains under neutral conditions than when you play regs.
4) Focus on your play, not results.
-Don't look at your BR unless you are checking if stop loss is in place. Review your hands after the session and check if the suckouts were not in fact your mistakes that you didn't realise. (E.G. you have a straight and villain obvious fullhouse on a paired board, but you call anyway for 3/4 pot shove as you think that this can't happen again)
Disclaimer: I am reposting this as I was largely misunderstood in my previous post and people took me posting my graph as a rant about variance and not a mere impulse to write down some pointers for the times when you suddenly start to hit a run of bad cards/are doom switched.
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Listening to their music gives me orgasm like feelings.
havent listend to them in quite some time and just recently started to search my mp3 folder for TOOL songs again.
This Band is just incredible amazing ( I especially love the Albums Aenima and Lateralus)
Pokerwise:
Still studying SH book.
Have a long way to go till i understand everything and succesfully implement it in my game.
So far everything works pretty well though ... ( possible i am just on a sick heater allthough i get quite some bad beats and win most money without a big hand... i do remeber when neilly one time made like 2K in 20K hands on NL50 6max just by making everybody fold with his overagressive game just to lose 3K playing the same style the next whatever hands when his luck run out ^^)
So its possible that my downsing just ended the same day i started implementing the book into my game
up + 410$ from the point i first read the book 4 days ago
1,3K hands NL50 and 1,6K hands NL100 mostly 2 and 3 tabling 6max
Still small sample but i really want to take my time for this and pay a lot of attention to all the hands i play
I can honestly say that i havent been this excited about poker seeing so much possibilites/spots to make money since
my first Video subscription of Leggopoker over 1 year ago ( when i first made 1,5K a month at NL50 6max due to their video guides)
Hate it when :
- I have AA and raise to 4BB (my auto standard raise on nl2) and nobody calls
- I call/raise with pp and get set and nobody calls my raise flop
- When i get a set there's always a scary card on turn.
- When i'm still getting called they goes allin on river.
- Whenever i get TPTK, it never goes to turn / river
- Whenever i've QQ KK and goes allin I get called by better.
And most importantly : My highest revenue are from drawing hands by going allin. That's what scares me the MOST because it seems like pstars is rigged even though i'm getting lucky as of late...
I just don't like the way i'm playing poker right now, because it seems like i'm playing some lottery...
here to bring good neeews
FINALLY I had a great NL50 session, after 3 previous mega-fails (you can see then on my previous blog posts)
I dont know if it was the coaching with sniderstyle that helped me, or that after this time I really improved my game, or that I just didnt run like shit like the other times, anyways, I am finally feeling that NL50 is gonna work for me!
sniderstyle, I RECOMMEND!
Also played my biggest pot today, coolering two guys :D
I almost started praying so the board doesnt pair hahaha
Submitted by : tutz
***** Hand History for Game 16145227641 ***** (Full Tilt)
$50.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, November 19, 03:30:41 ET 2009
Table Alto (6 max) (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: Hero ( $50.25 USD )
Seat 2: Simplemind26 ( $11.90 USD )
Seat 3: basset69 ( $22.85 USD )
Seat 4: bucanero33 ( $31.10 USD )
Seat 5: TripleDouble13 ( $55.40 USD )
Seat 6: nonamem8 ( $50.00 USD )
Hero posts small blind $0.25 USD.
basset69 posts big blind $0.50 USD.
But whatever, this is poker and I have been running soo hot past 2 weeks.
Today I didn't deal with it well as I was tired, and I continued to play at 9 to 12 tables, and I made one bad call when I had a straight, the board paired on he river and he obviously had it.
Anyway, as this can end tomorrow, but I also can be pwned by the deck for weeks, lets all pull together. DOOMSWITCH BUSTING GUIDELINES
1) Strict Stop loss - 3BI or even 2BI. Why? When you run bad you obviously start thinking about it and any suckout's impact on your mentality will be much higher. Also, move down when you lose 10 or more BI at your limit, or when you hit a 'point of no return' when you are not comfortably rolled for your limit.
2) Cut down on tables - You run bad, your losses will just multiply
3) Brutal table selection on very few tables - You need to have as big of an edge as you can, and use it to your maximum potential.
You might get more tilted when the fish suckout on you a lot(as expected when you run bad), but overall the impact of a cold deck should be smaller if you run 10bb/100 against your villains under neutral conditions than when you play regs.
4) Focus on your play, not results.
-Don't look at your BR unless you are checking if stop loss is in place. Review your hands after the session and check if the suckouts were not in fact your mistakes that you didn't realise. (E.G. you have a straight and villain obvious fullhouse on a paired board, but you call anyway for 3/4 pot shove as you think that this can't happen again)
Obviously its hard to focus on all these points when you have been crushing anything and everyone like Chuck Norris in the the past, but dealing with bad run of cards and not spewing excessively is what will always divide the big winners from breakeven grinder zombies.
Please add your points on How to Pwn doomswitch rules, and we can potentially move it to Main Poker if some good ideas are collected.
i was wondering if anybody wanted to chat about poker related stuff.
i am at a point in my poker game where i really don't know how much more effort i should exert into playing, because i feel like i'm not improving much right now.
i'm hoping that through discussion i could find some sort of motive to continue trying harder.
i played intermittently for about a year and a half and briefly played up to 200nl and i semi-regularly play live 1/2 and 2/5. i know i can't offer much but there's gotta be some benefit in talking about the game in general. i haven't had much non-forum interaction with other players in those couple of years so i think it would help me a lot if i could get some direct opinion from various players. hopefully it can open up my eyes and perhaps change an ineffective or outdated perception of how this game should be played.
so if you wouldn't mind sharing your msn, shoot me a pm? don't post it outright on this blog, obv.
Just read the entire blog between Neilly and Steal -- Laughed the entire way especially with the mafia threats and the "retard" pictures. And I admire you Daut for being professional about it. In other news got a free $25 on Absolute and ended up running it up to $650 since no one would xfer when I was at $150. Then just said fuck it and cashed it out. Playing NL 50 on Tilt now and running well.
Trying not to make a bunch of results blogs and such while I get myself back together, but I can't help it
I've been running a LOT better the past 7 days? and it all turned around when I made my sleep more regular, and started getting my life a little more balanced (still working on this). Slowhabit's book has also rejuvenated me. The support from all my friends on this site has also been a boon, thanks!
Two days ago I woke up and started a session where in less than 300 hands I was 9 buyins below EV rofl, but I didn't tilt for a second. I ended up putting in a normal-length session and by the end of the day I had a nicely profitable day.
Anyway, I wanted to briefly talk about my how my emotions roll in HU and how I'm trying to control it.
Yesterday I was playing vs some guy at nl100 HU, I think he's like a semi-reg as he has played over 50k hands HU and (was) up 17 buyins. I was running good, but the thing was he was on mega tilt. In 200 hands I won 9buyins from him. I could feel his desperation and could tell he was breaking down. As I slowly worked down his bankroll I could feel his soul crumble, his rage boiling while inside he held back tears. THAT is how tilted he was playing. And I felt bad.
I wanted to quit him around hand 150 because I couldn't handle how bad he was playing and how horrible his tilt was. But I didn't and I persevered until he surely rage-quit his poker client. Afterwards, I took an hour long walk where I thought about how I felt. I determined only that I need to become more alpha, more dominant in my thought processes around poker. My only comfort during this time was that he understood the risks going into the situation (ie playing poker). I know its a weird thing to be worried about, overall, so I'm working on instilling a better mentality so that this isn't such an issue for me.
This crops up a lot more in HU than ring games (for me atleast) because HU is so much more personal. Playing one versus one.. you can detect their thoughts and demeanor so much better imo.
Going to grind hardcore to up the $400 to $1000 before jumping back into 50nl HU. i want to be able to play 100nl ASAP so i'm going to put in some long days. Also at 175K VPP and it would be good to be back at 100nl to grab the milestone before the year ends.
As long as Stars doesnt come through with my bonus i'm grinding 25nl omaha or low stakes SNGs 10's 20s 30s.
the SNGs seem to be the fastest route to 1k or im just running good. Already played a few hours of PLO (maybe 3) and put in 40 or so SNGs.
I haven't lost a session since I figured something out about my game. Its been over two weeks now. Dont play a whole lot... just 1-2k hands a day avg. Just kinda cool I guess. Gonna make a prediction that i'll be crushing midstakes in 3 months for a good clip. Dont really tilt anymore. Almost 100% buddhist now. Anytime I feel bad beated or whatever I just think of death and how we can take nothing with us, and that the origin of all suffering is attachment. After that im pretty much instantly calmed down. Also think of my favorite Tao Te Ching quote "he who feels deprived once had privilege".
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