(no particular order of suckiness)
- Lost 60e at our homegame at 0.10/.25 NL. Climax was losing getting it in with TT against AQ agsinst my 60/40 roommate, running it 3 times and losing oin all 3 boards.
- Down 1.5k on NL100 the last two days, a cool 10 BIs under ev.
- My granpa died
- My gf is mad at me, because she mistakenly understood that I would rather watch football than hang out with her.
13 winning sessions out of 14 since I started playing HU roflsick
Two line checks:
I think I messed this up. Obv trying to rep a draw but I don't think he's raising Ax, so that leaves him with draws and air... smaller raise? + Show Spoiler +
Submitted by : edzwoo
PokerStars Game #34918921350: Holdem No Limit ($1/$2 USD) - 2009/11/04 14:16:02 CT [2009/11/04 15:16:02 ET]
Table Bancilhon VII 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: edzwoo ($303.60 in chips)
Seat 2: Marlow15 ($201 in chips)
Marlow15: posts small blind $1
edzwoo: posts big blind $2
Holecards Dealt to edzwoo
Marlow15: raises $4 to $6
edzwoo: calls $4
Flop (Pot : $12.00)
edzwoo: bets $8
Marlow15: raises $16 to $24
edzwoo: raises $188 to $212
Marlow15: folds
Uncalled bet ($188) returned to edzwoo
edzwoo collected $59.50 from pot
edzwoo: doesnt show hand
Summary Total pot $60 | Rake $0.50
Board
Seat 1: edzwoo (big blind) collected ($59.50)
Seat 2: Marlow15 (button) (small blind) folded on the Flop
Sizing good or bad? He's a winner at these stakes but he's been pretty weak throughout the match. I would assume he wins because he plays very solid against players that might get frustrated and spew. + Show Spoiler +
Submitted by : edzwoo
PokerStars Game #34918099929: Holdem No Limit ($1/$2 USD) - 2009/11/04 13:56:49 CT [2009/11/04 14:56:49 ET]
Table Hippokoon X 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: edzwoo ($200 in chips)
Seat 2: Marlow15 ($200 in chips)
Marlow15: posts small blind $1
edzwoo: posts big blind $2
Holecards Dealt to edzwoo
Marlow15: calls $1
edzwoo: checks
I've been running much better at PLO than I have at Hold'em recently. I don't have any graphs because I have yet to get any of the tracking software, but here are a few hands.
Submitted by : superfashion
PokerStars Game #34917549327: Omaha Pot Limit ($0.01/$0.02 USD) - 2009/11/04 14:44:13 ET
Table Sabine V 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 2: superfash ($4.11 in chips)
Seat 3: Ashot808 ($1.14 in chips)
Seat 4: fonsa10 ($3.30 in chips)
Seat 5: B3nderBR ($4.95 in chips)
Seat 6: garcia7788 ($7.93 in chips)
Seat 7: knivenkd ($2.31 in chips)
superfash: posts small blind $0.01
Ashot808: posts big blind $0.02
superfash: checks
fonsa10: bets $0.30
superfash: raises $1.64 to $1.94
Ashot808 leaves the table
fonsa10: calls $1.64
Showdown superfash: shows (a full house, Kings full of Jacks)
fonsa10: mucks hand
superfash collected $4.77 from pot
Summary Total pot $4.97 | Rake $0.20
Board
Seat 2: superfash (small blind) showed and won ($4.77) with a full house, Kings full of Jacks
Seat 3: Ashot808 (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 4: fonsa10 mucked
Seat 5: B3nderBR folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: garcia7788 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 7: knivenkd (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Submitted by : superfashion
PokerStars Game #34917694870: Omaha Pot Limit ($0.01/$0.02 USD) - 2009/11/04 14:47:23 ET
Table Sabine V 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 2: superfash ($6.77 in chips)
Seat 4: fonsa10 ($0.66 in chips)
Seat 5: B3nderBR ($4.86 in chips)
Seat 6: garcia7788 ($7.91 in chips)
Seat 7: knivenkd ($2.27 in chips)
garcia7788: posts small blind $0.01
knivenkd: posts big blind $0.02
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to superfash
superfash: calls $0.02
fonsa10: raises $0.07 to $0.09
B3nderBR: folds
MrPeter82 joins the table at seat #1
garcia7788: folds
knivenkd: folds
superfash: calls $0.07
superfash: checks
fonsa10: bets $0.37 and is all-in
superfash said, "i have quads, thanks for the money"
superfash: calls $0.37
River (Pot : $1.35)
Showdown superfash: shows (four of a kind, Sevens)
fonsa10: shows (two pair, Aces and Sevens)
superfash collected $1.30 from pot
Summary Total pot $1.35 | Rake $0.05
Board
Seat 2: superfash showed and won ($1.30) with four of a kind, Sevens
Seat 4: fonsa10 showed and lost with two pair, Aces and Sevens
Seat 5: B3nderBR (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: garcia7788 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: knivenkd (big blind) folded before Flop
Well like I said in my last blog I started off the month -15k mostly in 25 50... so I decided to just focus on 5 10 for the month and hopefully grind back everything and then some.
Ive also started playing more plo just starting at 3 6 for now and its been going really well. I might look into getting a coach since I only know the very basics but thats all it seems to take at the msnl level.
Anyways this is only today on ipoker and stars... <3 ipoker so far just put money on there and doing really well
Halloween in a poker room tends to be less festive than in the rest of the casino, where a good chunk of people show up dressed up. Poker players, being the most serious of gamblers, generally don't dress up. Neither do most dealers. The waitresses do, though their outfits tend to lean in the PG-13 direction, with Batman, Bugs Bunny, and Al Capone, transforming into sexy Batman, sexy Bugs Bunny, and sexy Al Capone.
I sat down across from the dealer with $500 planning to just play standard TAG splashing around in late position, when possible. To my right was an old Greek guy who limp-called every single hand. Everyone at the table called him the "Greek guy." To my left a crazy middle-aged asian who just did random things at random times and kept getting dealt QQ. Across the table, to the right of the dealer was another asian guy. This one wore sunglasses and disagreed with the principle of Halloween because "what if they really trick you if you don't treat them!!!" He played super tight to the point where even stations became sheepish when he entered the pot. To the dealer's left sat an old guy who basically fell into the category of 5th-year senior. He's the type that's been playing poker all his life but somehow still manages to not be much good at it. He will also keep dropping little comments about old-school times and pre-historic forms of poker to show how old-school he is. All together though, not a bad person to chat up since he can have some good stories (from the old-school days, of course). To the right of the Greek guy, was a manly-looking unshaven stationy man who always sat at a 45-degree angle to the table and kept an unlit cigarette in his mouth. He was dressed in all-black. To his right, a younger-looking unshaven man that played tight and stayed very focused on his chip stack. To his right, sat a rotund young man who wore very large and very dark sunglasses, listened to his iPod, and put his chips in the pot with a careless hand-flicking gesture as if spreading the seeds on a freshly-plowed field. On my left, past the Crazy Asian sat a gentleman of stereotypical lumberjack look. He played poorly but was good-natured and probably enjoyed long walks on the beach.
The evening started out slow with me folding a bunch of trash and missing completely a couple of times when I did play. My stack dwindled slightly, but nothing significant. My only source of profit during the first couple of rounds were people who did not know what to do if you did not split the blinds with them. Basically, everyone else at the table would just throw away their cards and take back their blinds if no one from non-blind positions entered the pot. The first few times I had looked up from checking out my cards only to find the other person tossing away their cards without having looked at them and thereby forfeiting their blind. Once people caught on that I intended to play my blinds, they started looking at their cards before folding to my raises. Additionally, whenever a new person joined the table, the person next to him would lean over in a confidential fashion, point at me and inform the newcomer in an undertone, "He does not split blinds." It seemed that my abnormality was categorized somewhere between the Flat Earth Society and people who talk at the theater.
A few orbits later, the anti-Halloween asian picked up his chips and left to be replaced by a non-descript, though clean-shaven, individual who believed that any hand folded is a hand lost and, therefore, never folded pre-flop. He bought in for 400 (80% of max buyin) and was the first person to give me a big pot. I raised in middle position with AhTs after a few limpers, and he called on the button. All limpers folded. Flop came J82, all hearts. I continuation bet $50 (about 2/3 pot). He gave me a look and announced a raise to 150. I was done saying "all-in" before he reached his chips. He went into the tank. After some time talking to the ceiling, to me, and asking me to show, he folded. I showed him my cards, prompting a "good hand" and a paternal look at the pile of chips in the center that promised his prodigal wealth a swift return home. He also spared a less kindly look for me. There was a person who was never folding to me again.
Two hands later, I picked up AQ of hearts in early middle position and raised. I picked up 4 callers despite a sizeable raise. Flop came KQJ rainbow. I checked, and so did everyone else. Turn came a T of spades, completing my straight and putting a spades draw on the board. I bet 80% pot and everyone except for the Monster Sunglasses folded. Rived came 7s, completing the spade flush draw. He checked to me and I quickly shoved for about pot size to get off a split or to, perhaps, get hero-called by a two-pair or a 9. Sunglasses thought for a bit and folded. My stack was starting to look decent, and I was up around 300.
After the blinds passed, I was in late position, and few people limped, and I looked down on Aces. This was perfect timing for this hand, as I had just shown a semi-bluff and then shoved river on a scary board and never showed. My credibility had to be suffering. Joyous, I raised, and two people called, including the lumberjack. Flop came a rather unpleasant A62 rainbow, giving me a set of Aces while ensuring that no one else had a anything. Great. When it was folded to me, I still figured it was better to bet since I had been being aggressive, and maybe someone would spazz out. And they did. I bet about 1/2 pot, and the lumberjack immediately announced a min-raise. I called after thinking for a bit, hoping he would continue with his bluff, but he went no further after the flop. The hand still netted me nearly $200, but not nearly as much as it had potential to on flops that gave my opponents a piece of the action.
At this point we got a new dealer, a guy. He was wearing a puffy bright purple shirt with ruffles, a small white tie, tuxedo pants, and a doctor Dolittle hat. "Hah!" said the tight unshaven young man, "what are you supposed to be?"
The dealer's eyes widened a bit. "This is my normal outfit..." he said.
An orbit later, I was on the button and was dealt 93o. People have not been defending their blinds at all, so when the action got to me, I raised as if I was the first opener. Unfortunately, I had missed the ninja-style under the gun limp from the old-schooler. The lumberjack in the big blind called, and so did the ninja. Luckily for me, flop came 932 rainbow, giving me 2 pair. I bet 3/4 pot when it was checked to me, and both opponents called. Great! Turn came 4th suit 8, and the old-schooler confidently bet out $100 into just under $200 pot. My mind started screaming alarms at me that he has 98 here every single time. But he only had 150 behind, giving him only slightly more than half stack pre-flop, and I don't know how to fold 2-pair against short stacks. Plus, often he could just be playing something retarded that way. We got it in, he had 98s and I did not re-suck on the river. My stack went almost all the way back to its original size. Still, I don't see a fold there ever given my hand, stack sizes, and general tendency of players to make plays that do not make sense.
Another orbit later I was offered a chance at redemption. The mainly cigarette guy raised, the Greek guy called, and I looked down on Kings. I re-raised. Manly folded, and the Greek called for about 1/3 his stack, which had dwindled down to about $200 after his bleeding chips for a while. Flop came 3 Aces. I cheerily went ahead with planning how to trap my opponent on a flop where, once again, no one could have anything. My trap worked perfectly. After I checked behind on the flop, the Greek guy bet his stack off into me on turn and river. The plan faltered thereafter, as he showed A9 for quad Aces and dragged the pot. For some reason, losing chips in live play feels more substantial than online. The beat did not end there. Horseshoe has Bad Beat Jackpot but, unlike some other brick and mortar poker rooms, Aces full of Kings full house does not qualify. Go figure.
Around this time, crazy Asian guy decided to leave our table. He picked up his chips and moved to a table next to ours. Moving tables without floor approval is a no-no in most poker rooms. Several floor personnel immediately descended on him and tried to explain to him that he could not move tables. Crazy Asian guy proceeded to completely ignore them, waving his hands and engaging people at his new tables in random conversations. Faced with their target's back, floor people got confused. They mulled around for a bit longer looking helpless and then left.
The crazy Asian's place at our table was soon taken by a Hot Polish Chick (henceforth referred to as HPC). Her appearance caused most guys at the table to become very concentrated, as they furiously thought of something cool to say. Even manly broke his brooding posture and changed his position so as to be sitting at a 60% angle to the table, facing the HCP squarely like a compass. Old-school immediately started talking about his days of playing Stud. Lumberjack leaned over to the HCP, pointed at me, and informed her in an undertone, "He does not split blinds." I knew I had to do something cool and manly to salvage my ruined reputation, so I ordered hot chocolate because my hands were getting cold.
I did not play any major pots from that point on, though I kept winning some small to average ones by raising pre-flop and either picking up the blinds and limps or taking the pot down on the flop with a continuation bet. M stack grew steadily, and I was soon in the green again. HPC, in the meantime, played tight and bled chips in small pots that she seemed unwilling to attack. After a while, she was in the big blind and down to less than $100. I was dealt K7 of clubs in small blind. When everyone else folded, I just shoved all-in. She gave me an angry look and declared, "I call only because it's you, and you don't split blinds!" and called me with A9 off-suit. Any good poker player knows that winning close races is a key skill, without which one cannot hope to ever achieve anything. Luckily, it was a skill that I had, apparently, mastered. Flop came 77A. Nothing changed by the river, and I took down the pot. HPC reloaded, looking dejected and told me that I can only win by getting lucky and she hoped I would lose. I promised to try and raised on the button. Everyone folded.
Around that time, the old-schooler had finished talking about stud and started on limit holdem. I joined in. Eventually, we got to discussing a situation where, because in limit you cannot control how much you bet, there are situations where one person is correct to value bet his hand, while the other is correct to call with a draw because of existing pot odds. The resulting situation is one where both players are playing correctly because of the existing pot size, a situation which rarely occurs in no limit. At that point HPC, who apparently had been playing poker for a while and dated people who also played poker, interjected, "That is only true at low stakes with bad players."
The old-schooler clamped up, and we both turned to her. "Bad players," she gave me a significant look, "always think they have the odds. That's why they are bad players. Good players know better."
I tried to explain that betting $200 into $1200 pot creates the same pot odds as betting $2 into $12, which are perfectly sufficient to draw to, say, a flush. HPC gave me a look of pity, "I really don't think so. It works different at high stakes." I looked at the old-schooler. He shrugged.
We were rescued by the return of Manly, who had popped out for a smoke. HPC turned her attention to him.
"I can't believe smoker will put up with going outside in the cold and rain just so they can keep smoking."
Manly spotted his opening, "Would you ever kiss a smoker?"
HPC made a face, "Duno...maybe with a lot of gum."
Manly pursued, "What if I quit smoking?"
HPC looked surprised, 'You would do that for me?"
Manly pounced, "For you, I would walk on water."
Silence stretched. After a while, the lumberjack shifted and wondered aloud about the logistics of water-walking: "Maybe with a good running start." I mentioned guys water skiing on bare feet. Conversation gradually resumed its course.
I was getting tired, so a couple of orbits later I took off. Net profit for the night was about $400 and some priceless math lessons.
1st breakeven session :by craimeariver, November 04
yea had my 1st breakeven session today. it all started pretty good. i was up 22$ until i got doomswitched and eventually had to stop the session after a 5BI downfall in a matter of 3-4 minutes...
i will take sanai's advice and do this: "Stay on Stars till $500 while grinding NL10. Switch to FTP, get bonus, get rb, play NL25."
couple of hands im unsure of:
medium overpairs! played correctly against "normal" NL5 players?
I'd been winning so far this year. Nothing too special, but enough to think I was making genuine progress in my game. However, for the past 6 weeks for every winning session I've had, I've had 3 losing sessions, and I feel like I don't understand anything, again. I'm sure just looking at the graph you can see there is something wrong, simply by the variance.
So, I started with a NL2 Roll, and worked my way up to NL5 and felt pretty good about it. I was enjoying NL5 a lot, NL2 is such a cesspool that NL5 seems tame. What I thought was just standard variance downswing, came and never went. And now I'm sitting here with my initial deposit 115k hands later wondering where I went wrong?
I certainly didn't wait until now to start looking for leaks, but I'm feeling extremely lost. As such, Here is what I got heh
Since my knowledge of the game, as well as styles of play have changed vastly of the course of the graph above, I'm not really sure what sample size is best for some of my stats.
Over my last 50k hands i've been running 11/9/3.8 5% 3bet, 28% WTSD 50.9%W$SD 26%agg and 20% Steal. at NL5 I would steal more than 20%, my steal % stats can't be very accurate, as I spent a long time not stealing enough. Although, at NL2 20% is prolly not too far off because I figured the wider calling range/less fold equity would mean that my steal range needs to be more weighted towards value.
My stats are pretty tight, I know. From what I've learned that would mean lower variance, but I have anything but low variance All of this has led me to believe that my problem is Post flop. I'm not really sure how to proceed with a decent analysis of my overall postflop play over 100k hands. Here are some more of my stats: + Show Spoiler +
Focusing more on the last 40k hands of the graph, and I see my biggest losing hands are AKo and AKs. I'm not sure what exactly it is I'm doing wrong. Looking through my hands I see a few clear mistakes, a few clear coolers, and a few hands, where I know It's a fold against a 15/12/3.5 or less, but against the 65/25/3? ect.
After a closer look, It looks like I don't know how to play TPTK OOP against a wide range on a drawy board. OOP it seems I frequently 3bet AK preflop, and then cbet the flop, and typically if they haven't folded by the turn, I'm beat and pot committed. Is it a good idea to 3bet AK OOP preflop? From what I understand (notmuch) I would say that it is, because when I flop TPTK the stack sizes allow me to comfortably get it in... as well as isolating/squeezing preflop.
Theres like 10 of these, in my top losing AK hands... I 3bet preflop, flop a K or A heads up[, and there is either a straight or flush draw on the board. I Cbet 70% pot. Called. Draw hits or doesn't hit. I Cbet again. and I'm either 3bet shoved on or called down. In my AK hands, theres a good number of hands where i do this and win, but the general trend seems to be that when the draw misses I get my fold equity, and when it hits, they let me pot commit myself to death in the 3bet pot... Any Comments?
There are tons of leaks in my game, but if i knew what they were, they wouldn't be there. For now, it's just time to small ball AK up hardcore and hope I can not repeat my last 40k hands.
Feel like I had a breakthrough todayby AgentIce, November 04
Today I realized that I have been insanely bashing my head into the wall over and over with the hopes of getting a different result. I did the same thing at poker for a while, until I realized the only solution was to not let my emotions get to the point where I tilted in the first place. I had to identify my triggers that resulted in me getting in a negative emotional state. As soon as I really identified the types of negative thoughts which brought about the negative emotional state of tilt I learned to combat them right away and I was able to control my mood much better.
Well as far as keeping a good schedule or playing poker on a routine or not smoking too much weed, I realize now that I was doing what I did with poker to fix these areas. I was just blindly trying to use brute force to change these habits. Maybe I would play a decent amount for 2 weeks, but inevitably I would be back to smoking weed all day and not working. Of course that would happen because thats what I thought I wanted to do. I didn' realize this though, I figured it was a question of discipline and all I had to do be stronger. But how long can you really fight with yourself?
No it was a question of attitude and mindset and motivation. Today I wrote down all the triggers and negative thoughts associated with them that have lead to this destructive life style. I feel much better about these areas after doing this. I feel the 3 big areas that are triggers for me are mornings, just before I start poker, and at night when I smoke weed. Waking up late leads to starting work later wihch leads to less hours played and staying up later and so on until my schedule is screwed sort of thing. I feel like overall I just haven't really fully appreciated the consequences of my actions. That raised awareness I have now makes me understand WHY I should do things like keep a good schedule. They are in my best interest. I feel like now with constant vigilance I will be able to catch the negative thoughts when they start to happen and replace them with more sensible ideas.
Heres an example of some of the ideas I was writing down. I wrote down the bad ideas/mindsets, and then counterarguments to them. This is what I wrote down for Morning:
I don't need to get up - I've already decided that getting up on a routine schedule is the best way to maximize my productivity and enjoyment of the day.
I can sleep in - You can, but sleeping in leads to not being tired at the end of the day which leads to staying up later than usual. Once you stay up later than usual you will get up later and eventually your schedule is messed up. It's far easier and healthier to just stick with a consistent schedule.
I don't want to get up - The way to have energy is to use energy. If you are tired go for a walk and listen to some music on the treadmill. Get the bloodflowing. Focus on your goal of feeling more awake and having more energy, not on the feeling of tiredness. If you sleep in you will actually feel more tired when you wake up again. You sleep too much.
I'm tired - You are tired because you don't keep a consistent schedule and drink too much caffeine at late hours.
I deserve to sleep in - You deserve to be the happiest you can possibly be, and sleeping in leads to lack of productivity which leads to you not being able to enjoy yourself which leads to depression.
I feel like with poker now if I can just get my work ethic really solid I can make a ton of money. I have been working on my game a shit load and I feel like I've improved significantly as a player. Last month at 50 NL I made 4.5k (not including rakeback) over 40 horus played with a win rate of 19bb/100. I did run good, but with my previous style I never got anywhere close to this win rate. My previous style was heavily dependant on luck of the draw. I also had huge leaks utg and in mp, and I was taking advantage of the button very poorly. My 3 bet game was incredibly weak too. I also never bluffed, and so far my bluffs are working extremely well. I must have watched 30-40 videos last month, as well as reviewed a lot of my hands and different areas of my game.
I plan on posting any interesting hands I play on this blog from now on. It's funny before I never really had any interesting hands, because I was playing like a robot and never bluffing or light value calling. lolz
Well, kind of. This is a public forum so I'm going to focus on poker only, sorry nothing salacious.
Didn't actually play more than an hour and a half of poker because frankly there are more interesting things to do in Vegas, but I found it fun. I stayed at the Bellagio and sat in at 2/5 on Sunday night. There was one guy who I could have sworn I recognized from blog pics or something, so if you're out there I was the brown-haired guy in the 7 seat with the vineyard vines sweater on playing from like 8:00-9:45.
The table was lol-amazing. Completely unlike anything I've ever seen online. Within the first orbit, there was a hand that goes as follows that personified the table:
EP limp
EP raise to $25
MP call
CO shove for $900
"Pro" snickers derisively
EP fold
EP fold
MP fold
CO shows aces and says "you'll have to pay to crack them"
Basically everyone limped pre and overvalued top pair hands post. If you showed any aggression preflop they let you rep aces no matter how many times you did it. I iso'ed maybe 15% of hands (a lot for FR) and took down EVERY SINGLE ONE with a either a cbet or preflop.
Some interesting hands that show you what a live fish I am:
I check my bb with QTss (best hand I had at that point, but had just iso'e twice before and was oop against stations).
Flop: AsKs4s
I check, bet of $15 from a crazy asian, call, fold, I raise to $50, asian calls, other folds.
Turn: 8c
My hands now visibly shaking (I was terrified I had misread my hand, but did not want to give it away by checking it again) I bet $120. He calls.
River 8s
Balls, I shove $280 more to try and get called by Js, but he folds what I imagine to be Ad5d or something. I show the Ts to try and pretend I was semibluffing the first two streets and overvaluing my hand on the last. Given that I had to be told to put a chip on my hand, was shaking, and was being very talkative before the hand I figured I could rep fishy well. With how the "pro's" played I wouldn't mind the image.
Here's another lol-I'm-a-livefish hand:
tourist limps, and I go to count out $30 to iso qith Q9o, but put $10 in front of me first. The dealer announces "10" and I say fml inside. I get 3 calls total (including two "pros"), and see a JJ4r flop. I say to myself, wow, this is exactly how a fish would play aces, and so I figure any sizing greater than halfpot folds everything from the pro's that isn't a J or greater and lots from the fish too. I do, and everyone folds, the "pros" smiling knowing that they made a sick laydown.
Here's a hand I think I may have screwed up:
Old nit opens for $25 UTG (had been limping a bit), folds to me OTB, I flat with JJ (he has 225, I have 600, blinds cover both). I flat because I figured I should 3bet very polarized (QQ+, AK, trash) given how straightforward people play. Crazy asian in the blinds calls. T94r flop, asian checks, nit bets 40, I call, asian folds. Blank turn, he shoves quickly and I fold. It just felt like he had an overpair trying to protect, especially because he was so seemingly nitty, but I feel dirty.
Also I played to the right of Hal Lubarsky, the blind guy. It was very weird to deal with a helper describing the action.
Ended up $280 or so, obv ran good, but I feel like those games are absurdly soft. GL everyone, and thanks again for all the vegas advice in the previous post!
*Computer question at bottom, if you get bored please read/answer that if you can*
I want to attempt to make weekly updates in this blog every week until atleast the end of this year. This is very hard for me because I am a very lazy person, I have tried keeping a blog numerous times and have always failed. A new start calls for a reintroduction.
About Me:
I'm 21 - 6'3" - 205 lbs
I was born in Detroit and currently live in a suburb.
I have played basketball since I was a kid, I currently play division 2 college basketball.
I live and die with Michigan football. (More dying than living recently)
My favorite musician currently is "Blu" of all time is "Scarface".
My favorite athlete of all time is Jason Williams. (They dont make this play with an english broadcast apparently)
Ok, now on to poker. If you read my blog in the past year you will see that I had a goal to make enough play money to sell for real money, and then turn that money into 10k in 1 calendar year. This started around September of 2008 and I accomplished the goal in about 8 months. My peak br was about 16k and my current br is about 7k. I switched from cash to tournaments/sng's at about the 3k mark and have never looked back. That was pretty much the best poker decision I have ever made. I realize it is a less skilled approach but I think the edge is very comparable to one of a good cash game player due to the greater concentration of weaker players in my opinion. Lately I have been multi tabling the $75 and $26 45 man sngs on full tilt, about 16 tables, with pretty good results. 10% roi over 200 sngs in the last week.
New Goal:
My new goal will be to turn my br from 7k to 20k by January 1, 2010. I will be updating atleast 1 time a week or maybe more. I am going to strictly play the 45 man sngs except on sundays I will play the 750k GTD and the Brawl and the 200k GTD alond with the usual 45 mans. I'm banned on Pokerstars in case you didnt read my last entry. If anyone would be interested in staking me in those I would be happy to sell 50% except in the 200k.
Computer Question:
I'm looking to buy a new monitor. 23" 2048x1052 resolution or something close to that. Will my HP laptop DV9500 with an NVIDIA GEFORCE 8400M GS video card be able to run the monitor at max resolution? what cords/software will I need to use a 2nd monitor? My laptop resolution is 1600x1200 if that helps/matter.
I'm kind of nervous posting a picture of me because I think someone who reads these forums might somehow know me or something. Kind of weird I know.
I know it's been a while, and I have been meaning to do this for a while, so I apologize to everyone. I hope this can be a pleasant surprise from the tilted blogs (I know I'm quite tilted too, my hot or not rating on PTR is 0. Thats right, ZERO. I run that bad rofl.
Anyways, I hope everyone can benefit from these, and so I'm here to give you all something!
permutations and combinationsby genjix, November 03
Hey,
I often forget this stuff and have to look it up. So am making a note here for myself.
Combinations are unordered giving the number of combinations for a prescribed size.
C(n,r) = n! / r! (n - r)!
An example would be a 2 card Poker hand from a pack of 52 cards:
C(52,2) = 52! / 2! 50!
Taking 2 letters from ABCD, we get 6. This is because AB = BA... Combinations are unordered.
Permutations are ordered remappings of a set.
P(n,r) = n! / (n - r)!
= r! C(n,r)
Given a 3 card flop, total orderings will be 3!/(3-3)! = 3!. This makes sense cos we have 3 positions for the first card (1st, 2nd, 3rd), then only 2 for the next card and 1 for the last... n(n-1)(n-2)...2x1x0
ABC
ACB
BAC
CAB
BCA
CBA
note:
With replacement, the combination formula becomes:
C(n,k) = (n + k - 1) / k! (n - 1)!
Multiple elements can be represented using 0's and 1's like:
11 0 111 0 111 0 1
A | B | C | D
where the 0's are separators for the slots (ABCD). Therefore the combinations will just be the total permutations of all 12 0's and 1's together. Or C(4,12). 4 choices but 12 samples.
Atm NL50 FR reg + $1.2k BR. here's my goals for next few months:
- next 2 weeks, cashout $500, move Amsterdam
- $2k BR and NL100, move UK
- £1.2k bank, move Tehran
- NL50 HU
When variances knocks me down I quickly get back up with no emotional marks. The competitiveness forges me across enemy territory. I think HU is the game for me.
some quick, simple questions from a newbby panzerfaust, November 03
hey guys I just decided to try this online poker thing out -- not for any delusional reason, I just always wanted to get better at the game because I play with my buddies every now and then and I don't do well -- but I find the game itself very fun regardless.
so I put in $20 on pokerstars and after playing for like 8 hours at the 1cent/2cent tables, i'm down to $17.50 -- which I feel pretty good about it since I feel like I learned a lot (and yeah, I know the micro tables are nothing like the higher stakes).
So basically, I'd like to understand the game more and have a few questions that I've had trouble looking up my self:
1.)What are the stats people are talking about when they say, "villain had x/y/z", and how do I gather this information on opponents I'm watching?
2.) What is BI? HU? vpp? nit? oop? ip? float? flatting?
3.) stuff like "3bet, 4bet" etc... just means the amount of raising? like someone bets, someone calls, someone reraises all equal a 3bet? iono lol
i'm really new as you can see, the articles i've read on here have been helping though.
if anyone can just quickly go over those questions i'd really appreciate it.
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