"How was poker today... did you get your redline up?"
Thoughts? lol
I've been playing poker lately, only focusing on HU NLHE. I am pretty sure I just suck at 6max. I think a lot of it has to do with attention issues. I find that HU keeps me much more focused on the game, and I find that I am able to adjust much easier. My results have been pretty meh, but I am becoming much more comfortable, and still actively trying to learn and improve.
One main issue I have is my graph, and how SD Winnings, Non SD Winnings, All In EV, and Total Winnings are all related. As you can see, my redline seems pretty atrocious. I know the sample is small, but this seems to potentially be a big flaw in my game. At the same time, my showdown winnings are pretty high. This leads me to believe maybe I am folding a good amount postflop, but seem to be doing ok when I do showdown my hands...? So maybe the redline is just HU variance? I dunno, what do you guys think? Maybe I need to be firing more 2nd barrels, c/ring more flops, doing more to win non sd pots?
Just wanted to thank you again.
I still need a lot of time to understand everything in your book.
I probably do play many hands not 100% correctly etc.
from time to time i probably do play hands completely wrong
but i have crushed my stakes so hardcore since i started implemeting strategies of your book
I am 100% sure that would have never happend if i didnt read your book ...
I am up +936$ the last 6 days and regained so much confidence in poker being very beatable game
reason is not the money i won but the 100+ profitable spots i do now realize
I didnt really even knew so much profitable spots do exist vs regualars
TY
ps: I know many people will hate and stuff
well GTFO
Randy and Lahey, STP, a party bus and poker! by SmokingDough, November 21
Sup guys? Been super busy lately with school and shit but this week was a nice break from homework and all that garbage. I had alot of fun this week so yea here it is. (All the pics of Randy and Lahey I took from my schools website and no Im not in any of them)
On Monday Randy and Lahey from the Trailer Park Boys. The boys and me started drinking at my place before the show. We watched the Leafs game and to no surprise... they lost... again. God there fucking terrible lol. Anyways around 9:00 we went down to the show. The show was at my school (Fanshawe) and when we got there the line up was fucking huge...
So after seeing this line we were all a little bummed becasue it didnt look like we were going to be able to get in. We were walking outside when all the sudden I hear "Hey Mitch! What up bro?" It was my buddy Mooney from back home. He was a bouncer at the school pub where the show was and he let me and all my buddies in the side door. SICK! We got in at just the right time. Literally right after I got a beer from the bar Randy and Lahey started. They were absolutely hilarious. The whole crowd was dying laughing and I had a great time. Heres a few pictures from it:
The show was great and if they ever come to a place near you should go see them if you are looking for a good laugh and a fan of the Trailer park boys.
On Thursday a couple of my buddies from back home came down to go see Stone Temple Pilots. Im a pretty big fan of these guys and they rock hard so I was pretty excited to see them. We sat around drinking and watching the leafs lose yet again! Around 8:00 we went down to the show. The show didnt start until around 9:00 but by then I was just shitfaced lol.It was a hell of a good show though. They played just hit after hit after hit. Sadly though I dont have any pictures from it. For those who dont really know who STP is heres a few of my favorite songs by them
Plush
Sex Type Thing
Vasoline
Interstate Love Song
Last night (Friday) my room mates buddy got us all VIP at this bar called the London Tap House. Its a really nice bar that you gotta get dressed up to go to but its fucking retarted expensive. ($6 a beer which is a lot here) So were all over at my room mates buddies place when he gets a call from Tap House saying they had an opening and they were going to send us a party bus. We all thought it was a joke and someone was pulling our leg. So Im taking a piss in there bathroom and I look out the window and see a HUGE Grey hound sized bus pulling in. They werent joking. The best part was that it was free too lol. The bus was pretty crazy. Lots of lights, boose, big screens everywhere. Ive never been in one before but it was pretty cool.
When we got to Tap house it was pumpin! The line was huge but since we had VIP there was no waiting in that lol. Everyone pitched to get bottle service which I have no idea how much it was but it was prolly fucking rediculous. Besides Tap house being way over priced it also gets WAY to crowded in there. By 12:30 I could not get from one side of this place to the other without getting elbowed, toes stepped on etc. My one toe is fucked now cuz some slut stepped on it with her hooker boots. fuck lol. But when you put all that aside it really was a great night.
Soooo now to poker lol. Ive really been slacking this month when it comes to getting in the volume but thats mostly because of school. So many tests... so little time it seems like lately lol. Cant really complain that much though becasue Im having pretty good results so far (knock on wood)
Life is good! Tonight I probably wont end up doing much. Partied pretty hard this week and wouldnt mind a breater lol. Most likely I will go on lockdwon and put in a huge session tonight!
Hope everything is going well for everyone else.
Cheers guys,
I know many of you like gororok suggested i quit poker. well, maybe you are right.
there is still nothing changed wih my plan of funding my studies through poker from next september, but still find it really hard not to spew when i am tired from work or because of other reasons.
This wold mean that I would play just weekends and a couple days during the week, some 20 k hands per month or so. it would suck as i wouldn't be puting the required hours in, but ot the other hand my thought process and knowledge are well above the required to be a winning nl50, even nl100 reg, its just the endless spews that started since i begun working full time that drag me down.
my goal is to be a nl200 reg by september next year and to do that i need to go from 2.4k plus 800 shipped soon to 10k,
this would be easily achieveable even with ridiculously low amount of 200k hands during the period(i played some 160 k hands in one month during my supernova quest)
id just play when i am not tired at all, some 12 hours per week and just play donkaments or watch vids when i am not at least at 90% of my energy.
id just pull huge sessions during holidays, otherwise its just strictly 4 tables.
tell me what you guys think, remember my oly goal is 10k roll in 10 months. I am starting to save some part of my salary and my parents wil hopefully help out a lil, so being a wining nl100 reg with 100bi taking shots at nl200 should help me to grind through my last year of uni when i come back from my placement.
I just have to set out the best strategy to get there.
P.S. I am loking for some longer term cooperation, if some of you NL100+ 6max regs would like to have a shot at coaching or frequent sweat sessions both ways, please pm me, and i just might buy a headset finally.
I think i could provide a lot of input, but i also need someone to tel me how retarded am i when i throw out my stack for no reason.
Fucking ridiculous day all I could do was keep losing =[
REALLY burnt out from this session, quite possibly one of the most frustrating sessions of my career. Everything wrong just happened. Gonna take a break imo.
This is my month though, clearly running well with that gigantic upswing before. With rakeback and some other degen shit I'm up like 16k on the month so I'm 100% satisfied. If my prior run good can keep going on I can definitely make 100k on the year, but we'll see
played like an asstard today , got yelled at by coach who was doing a video and saw me spazz turn KK into a stupid CRAI bluff on the river, so stupid =(
appreciate that he cares tho, its nice having a coach get upset that youre playing bad because he knows you shouldnt be doing stupid shit.
Thanks to my uber donkament score I'm rolled for NL100. Today was my first session. This may sound funny but there are seriously more super fish at NL100 than at NL50. I didn't have any problems finding tables with 1-3 fish. It was awesome. I didn't run too good but I'm confident Ill be beating it soon.
When I restarted this blog I said my aim was to very quickly roll myself for 400nl and return there and grind as much $$$$ as I can in the coming months to set myself a cushion as I move onto other things. I have still been partying madly in that time however so as always booze, drugs and women slowed things down. In fact I think I'm drinking far too much and it shows on my skin which pisses me off, as I am a little bit vain.
Anyway, today's session really felt like a grind. Nothing went my way, but I didn't get completely screwed and it just didn't feel easy, but when I look at my results now, they are reasonable which is a surprise. I'm glad I kept my composure through the testing times. One of the hard things about playing a very aggressive game is the the difference between a tilty play and a standard one is often negligible, and only a read or a feeling can be the difference. This means that you can excuse a tilty play to yourself because it is fairly standard within the style. But you know inside which one you have done. I don't think I did more than half of one today which is nice.
So I'm now rolled for 400nl with 2k to spare which was the target to reach by this weekend.
This is why you should be friendly with fish, as well as obvious moral reasons of personal manners:
xtremeclean: great game guys
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xtremeclean: thanks
hnylles: please stay lol
ReverendOly: np
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xtremeclean: had fun
ReverendOly: you ever play heads up?
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xtremeclean: your buddy got lucky
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ReverendOly: XXXX happens
xtremeclean: think you are brtter than me
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xtremeclean: i think
ReverendOly: ah, i just like the battle
xtremeclean: me to bud
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xtremeclean: i will through 100 at later just for fun love the game
xtremeclean: if you want
Glad you appreciate a good value bet Rocking Bastard!
Recovery like Pikachu in PokeCenterby killmepl, November 20
Shit 3k hands from 2pm to half past midnight, but this session was on great plus.My roll recovered from big drop.
Sad thing that my studies take most of my time that was reserved for poker, so november goal of 30+k hands is impossible.
Good (for me at least) thing is that I'm doing pretty interesting program as project for Real-time System Programing. I am going to make weather model program (not as complicated as normal ones that runs on supercomputers) with all this shit, which I can't talk about because I don't know English that much.
I have to do another project - pneumatic gripping device - with technical drawings and this sort of shit.
+ 748 $ last 5 days
mostly NL100 6max ~4K hands + some NL 50 6max ~ 3K hands
Just to clear things up
i get the impression u guys think the hands i post are my dafault ABC lines when 12 tabling robot mode ...
If u really think this is teh case then i dont even feel the need to comment any further
cause nobody can be retarded
I still play solid TAG ABC poker 90% of my session.
I only do this over agressive things like 5-8 times in 1000 hands after i got a very good picture of villain preflop and postflop play including different ranges + getting a picture of how he perceives me as a player.
So to some gayz it may look like the 5-8 % of bigger hands where i take an agressive line are my default lines T_T
well dont feel need to explain anything about my hands anymore in the future after what i wrote above.
Bottom line is
I am very happy right now + i have made a nice 748$ bucks this week allready
GL ALL
random girl pic since the stuff written above is kinda semi gay bad not entertaining
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)
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