i moved my money to ftp yesterday and against some of your advice started playing nl25. im rolled for it , its not like im playing superhighstakes and im okay with it even when i luckboxed my way up there.
1st session - what can i say , im probably just running hot:
i started 4-tabling and ended up 9-tabling most of the session. ftp feels much more loose and aggresive but i think thats only because of that betpot button. the fish just slams it from time to time and leaves me in weird WTF-moments whereas on stars they just minbet because they are too lazy to bet.the fish is just more active in general and thats probably quite good for me :D
one of my biggest leaks is that i cant fold my marginal hands to those damn 3bets that appear alot now at nl25. its too tempting to flop big and stack him because people NEVER EVER fold 3betted hands there...
anyways cant wait to get my 1st rakeback on friday - wooot!
Ok just ended a greaaaat session, not. 3K hands and down 8BI. Just see some results, made some bad 'tilty' plays and calls near the end. lol should've quit around 2AM not 4 I guess.
Nice QQ stats as you can see. Most of them pre all in vs KK/AA idk if those were foldable i hardly ever fold QQ pre unless w/ crazy nitstats which none of these had.
On a more lighter note:
Not the best guitar performance imho but still very relaxing after this shitty session. Luckily I'll be getting these losses back from RB so NL25 is still very safe.
Greets Ted
Decided to finally buy a gi and start adding it to my training. Spent the day figuring out it's a completely different game when a gi is involved, the extra grip the added control of having sleeves/collars you can grab on to and it was slightly annoying having to readjust my top and belt after each roll cause people kept pulling on it. Surprised me just how much it shrank in the washer it went from an over sized blanket to a solid fit in one wash cycle.
In 9 days I went from $410 to $1070 + like $50 equivalent in RB while taking a NL25 shot at 30BI - by running hot, watching a vid before each session and especially applying brutal table selection techniques at 4 tables.
Table Selection
I set myself a goal of having a strong catalyst at the table or at least a very aggressive player/reg to my right who gives me IP action, and the results are WAY different from 9 tabling random free tables.
Shots in the past
When I took a successful shot last time to NL50 I did it with 20BI. I know I could do the same this time and that I would be at 80% successful unless I'd hit a cold deck (I still consider NL50 my regular limit, and I think I am in a shape to beat it at 6bb/100 as I did for about 60k hands before I started working and having the hypertilts issues, which I have tamed for 9 days now.)
Lesson learned
But I will not do it.
I set myself a very cast in stone 30BI rule. I believe that this will train my discipline and make me think less about higher limit and let me focus on my play, hand by hand.
I am also still prone to tilts as my working hours are getting longer and longer, as my stress levels and tiredness are quite high, and I need to go through at least 60k hands and at least one decent downswing where I spew only couple BIs and don't stop thinking about all my plays before I can start taking focus off my tilt issues.
Plan
I will stay at NL25 until I reach $1500.
13K FPP to go to my $800 bonus, and when I get it by the end of the month I will be seriously over rolled for NL50 when I move there, which can't be bad if I don't start spewing around as I will have 40BI again.
View on NL25
I found the limit much harder to own to its core for me than NL10. At NL25 people start first experimenting with aggressive bets and play, but they do it in such random ways its unbelievable. At NL50 there comes logic at least into the aggression of regs to a certain level. But at NL25 its sick how weird hands people showdown with. I was actually bluffing way more at NL10 than I do at NL25, because you never know who will try to discover the raise option with completely illogical hands.
I think almost any good player can run at 10BB/100 long term at NL10 as people play so straight forward, but NL25 is best beat by simple solid style, and I doubt it can fetch more than 7BB/100 for the best players.
Okey, since I wrote last, three days ago I think, I've been impressed of the swede Isildur1 who have been playing durrr alot the last days, and I met a guy from a swedish forum who played HU against me and said that I was doing well. I have like never played HU before, so I decide to try it out. When I find out that I didn't got a book who explained HU in a good spot, I choosed to get an account on dueces cracked. That's one of the best thing I ever done, I meen, it look like its gaved me an edge at the HU tables already. I've been playing 10 guys HU at ongames NL20 level and showed profit against everybody of them. Its not that many hands, maybe like 2000 or so, but its fun. Its really fucking fun haha.
I know that I have been runnig good as hell, when I showed a profit of around $180 which is 9 buyins. So I think I will try HU out for the next week and se how it is then. Are there anyone else who have tried HU in microstakes and know what a normal bb/100 is there? How much should it be before you can say that a player crushes a level?
Well, in my last post people said that my english wasn't that bad. Please make a call to my english teacher and tell her that. Or maybe my english in this post is one of the worst youve ever reading. Whatever, I think I'm learning alot of writing a blog in english.
I´m really excited about it, and will be reading it the next couple of weeks. I think this book is aimed mainly at SSNL and MSNL players. Once I´m finished will give everybody a review on my blog.
since yesterday i'm already down 10bis in ev. i dunno why i run so bad at micros but its really killing my motivation to play. might just take the rest of the day off.
Now that I am playing poker again, Ive found all my all poker friends at much different stakes. I'm looking for some people who want to send hands to eachother and talk strategy.
I'm also going to start learning PLO. Seems like a really fun and great game that many of my NLHE will transfer over to. I'm going to start low, 25PLO, until I get better. I already know a lot about the starting hands and how 9987 is worse than 9877 for example.
Anyway, hit me up in the comments or in a PM if you play NL50-100 or PLO. I mostly use AIM but I can also get on MSN if that is more convienient for anyone.
So I was talking with joLin the other day about HEM. You know how it marks your winning sessions as green and your losing sessions as red? If it didn't do that, I would feel so much more neutral on how my poker sessions have been going. There's something exhilarating about that green color that signifies a winning session. Likewise, it feels pretty crappy when you see the red on a losing session. But I think the joy I get out of seeing green is more +EV (+EJOY?) than red is -EV (-EJOY lol).
Here's a summary of my progress since I started playing again in October:
ABA1907: bets $117 and is all-in
edzwoo: calls $117
Showdown ABA1907: shows (high card King)
edzwoo: shows (a pair of Threes)
edzwoo collected $369.50 from pot
Summary Total pot $370 | Rake $0.50
Board
Seat 1: edzwoo (button) (small blind) showed and won ($369.50) with a pair of Threes
Seat 2: ABA1907 (big blind) showed and lost with high card King
Showdown mannetjessss: shows (a pair of Nines)
edzwoo: mucks hand
mannetjessss collected $63.50 from pot
Summary Total pot $64 | Rake $0.50
Board
Seat 1: edzwoo (button) (small blind) mucked
Seat 2: mannetjessss (big blind) showed and won ($63.50) with a pair of Nines
To make other people feel great about their days and have awesome lives wearing fancy clothes with all of the money they receive from me and eating nice meals.
I hope everyone appreciates it.
On a side note, almost every single person (like 14/15) who has sat vs me heads up since August has left a much richer man. I'm talking about people who have never played poker before who are sitting down to give this poker thing a shot walk away feeling like champions.
October/November resultsby the cleaner, November 11
October was really good. Played about 47k hands of 100nl. Only had one 15bi swing in the middle of the month and the rest was smooth sailing. I also bought the 800$ milestone bonus and won a couple of 5400fpp satellites wich resulted in almost 8000$ for the month.
November has been a pain in the back. played about 35k hands so far and a bunch of 10bi swings. I will be buying the 200k vpp milestone bonus this month, and hopefully be able to move to 200nl by december.
on a sidenote: I got shitfaced drunk yesterday and posted the previous blog and a bunch of replies to posters. I apologize and hope i didn´t made to much of a monkey out of myself.
I like poker, I like money, I like crushing ppls souls, I like soulreading, I like games, I like using peoples minds against them,
I like deepstacked tournies, I like guaranteed tournies, fuck it, I like all tournies w/ fields under $162 competition.
I like to idealize my first huge MTT win over and over in my head. I like to think about what lifes going to be like in the future.
I like to think of things from every possible perspetive I can see possible. I like to play long hours when I'm breaking even or losing.
I like to quit my sessions to early when I'm crushing, feeling bored that its going to easy that day I assume this is from, I like to fix my flaws, I like to fuck with people, I like to smoke mad herb.
I like 3betting random garbage deepstacked as hell and shitting on people when they overcall with AQo OOP, and setting up sick metagame for later.
I like metagame and that I'm good at it to an extent but know that theres many that completely shit on my metagame by like sick levels.
I like motivation. I like basketball. I like movies. I like AA. I like giving coolers. I like laughing at sick coolers. I like playing.
I like stupid fish. I like to go to the park. I like to play vs anyone thats not a NL200+ Stars reg.
I like tournament money, I like to blow tons of money on drugs from tournaments, I like to blow money on single moms in Vegas, I like to check raise sets, I like to checkraise gutshots from BS raisers in LP from the blinds, I like Pokerz and the Pokerz likez me, for one reason or another, im gonna make like 2 mil, you'll see.
I just run really really good, like insanely good, better than all of you can ever dream, its good to be me, freerolling life 4tw. You can come visit and see how sick it is, if I know you. Btw I've been running really good all year which is why i have won 50k this year opposed to previous years where i never won anything. This all has nothing to do with my Las Vegas trip, my great teachers and re-learning of the game like many overlook. No, no, no. This is all just dumb luck, just wait and see kids, sure enough NeillyAA is hanging onto some sacred luckbox that nobody can ever touch or destroy because its guarded by Liquid Pokerz Cosmic Rays of Fury. Fuck with that kids, Fuck with that.
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