Looking forward to the weekend. Going to be rollin out to Vegas Fri-Sun it's obv gonna be entertaining, and hopefully get a nice poker lesson, get some drunk fun, and get some live poker in. Which for a weekend sounds pretty awesome haha.
So far school still got 4.0 this semester, Got 2 A's on my econ midterm and my history midterm last week so pretty stoked, now time to vent Obv Vegas ftw
I'm also looking to give the PCA qualifiers a whirl, any advice on best route to take to qualify?? see if i can't lucksack a free bad ass vaca
Edit: Hah~ love this pichttp://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/1aaaf.ChargerFanvsRaiderFan.jpg
Well like most people who quit poker im back 6 months later, and grinding up another roll.
Deposited $100 usd (about $110ausd or somethn) to stars about 2 weeks back, and im playing a 10bi rule till i get to $750 and ill do 15 for nl50 then 30 after that (since im pretty confident that i can beat these micro stakes).
So far have been running pretty super hot (despite bad ev), and I think im playing pretty well too. Have had a few spewwy situations and spots im unsure of, but considering the long break im overall pretty happy with how things have been going.
stats for the first 5k hands below. Comments/criticism welcome. (Obviously incredibly small sample)
accidently have the nl25 one selected, but the $'s obviously green, not red ^^. Nitty NL10 stats via some of it being FR.
it's my friend's bday in 2 days. she's a really nice girl and has shown some interest in me as well. don't want to get her anything that seems desperate but i think some sorta gift is in order. any ideas?
plz no suggestions of starcraft boxed sets or anything of the sort...
also i want to make a video of me playing mainly to get some feedback. i remember some links or rapidshares or something, if there is an easier way plz educate
lost like 5 bi today lol so standard ofc but for some reason I'm feeling crappy about it, I know the last 250 hands I shouldn't of even beetn playing. I wasn't outright spewing or anything but my head wasn't right anymore
I dont know what it was today but ppl were shit talking me all day lol Whether it was my name they were chirping or my avatar it was just all day chirps chirps and more chirps. It was really funny though and I loved it. I was literally tilting guys and not doing anything. One person would start then they would all join in. Literally I didnt say anything to make people shit talk me either so I was really confused. Whatever though I let me stack do the talking.
Things have been going pretty good at the tables lately though. The last two days Ive had pretty meh results though but I feel like Im playing really well and making the right plays a lot so thats all that really matters.
Im on pace to start taking shots at 100NL at the end of the month and Im really excited for this. I was taking shots at it about 2 months ago and felt really good up at that level and had decent results but Ive had to make a few really big withdrawls over the last couple months for school/getting shit face/weed etc. so its taking a bit longer then it should but oh well. Making it to 100NL has been a goal of mine for a real long time and Im really glad Im getting closer to reaching it.
Not much else really to talk about, just felt like doing a quick littel blog before I crashed.
- Live :
Nothing interesting really, played a lot more tennis than usual, i think i've more or less the same level as raszi. Tbh it's hard to judge because every country has their own rank system. Played my first match of the year and lost already, 3 sets. Didn't really like the way it's been played, even though i won the 2nd set, it was my worst set of the match because i didn't find it fun to play "safe and let him do unforced errors".
Still seeking a GF, hard to find someone who would be willing to understand ur handicap (i'm deaf) blablabla. I could join a deaf community, but i've been raised differently and now it's really hard to "join" because they are sometimes in their own world, and i don't want to talk with only deaf ppl. It's hard to explain. Whatever.
Poker wise, i've played my first "real" poker with real ppl (except obv with friends) and i've been running really good so far. The structure is like 20$ for 10 000 play money chips. Each wednesdays you start with 1000 chips with 5/10 blinds and the goal is to get the most (obv) by the end of the year. You can rebuy 1000$ chips only twice per night (to avoid allin on every hands)
Played 2 times : first i got to 5850 chips. It was my very first time playing with unknown ppl and my hands were shaking a little. It was pretty fun and a good experience.
2nd : got to 10 000 chips or 9960 exactly. It was huge because there were only 30 ppl playing 3 tables so 10k is like crushing half of them and all in only 3 hours. Made some sick call, like JJ vs TT on a 53823 3 colors board where i spotted some weakness not only because of his betting ways but also because he was somewhat hesitating whenever i 3betted him. And when he went allin on the river, i knew exactly that i was ahead and then won 5000 chips.
I don't know, maybe that's because i'm really deaf and thus i'm observing ppl a lot about their betting patterns and tells and everything, but maybe i should try to take a shot a some live casino ?
I think i'll try it once i get a more healthier bankroll.
Ok that's about it for now. Hope you enjoyed it !
Untill then !
Failing again. Not gonna stop yet, just for today.
-4bi
Biggest losing day ever (-$200)
I'm surprise I'm not feeling like shit like I felt the day I lost 4bi's on NL25
Amazing that I run so bad when taking shots
Hopefully I will grind my way back!
I'm playing 4 tables while taking shots
Yeah it happened again... hypertilt. http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/82b49.KEKE.png
I find it really hard not to spew massively at least once in 10 days since I started working. Its like my energy bank is being drained until its really thin and the ice always starts to break and I experience burnout.
Its really easy to spew when your brain stamina is drained 40 + hours per week at your job. I am a spewmonkey at heart, but when I am alert I only use that to my advantage.
Take last Saturday when I was rested - I went on a 5BI downswing, fish were stacking me all over the place, it was pathetic. But I didn't spew once that day and finished 8BI richer.
The same case was on Sunday. I was card dead, and again was pwned. I finished the day break even after 5k hands. But I feeling great sense of accomplishment after going through my larger pots and I couldn't find one fundamental mistake.
I also never got angry whatsoever because of suckouts or one of the 3 KK v AAs.
The only thing that could make me angry was my bad play when I made an automated decision which swould be different should I think about the hand longer.
Same situation today, I encountered some minor troubles (losing 100% of flips).
Correct Adjustment to this is: Nothing. Blank. You don't change your game. Just like I managed at the weekend - at one point I was down 5BI and I felt really great about my game as I knew I played everything close to perfect with information at hand.
But today, 3 days of 24 hours of my job, one exhausting soccer session, 1HR of cardio and one heavy argument with my GF later, I crumbled.
I no longer had the brain stamina to think about what I am doing, and suddenly I was turning my head at every flip I lost. I even punched the desk a couple times when 70vp fish flipped over AA after shove.
Needless to say I also threw out about 2-3 stacks completely, and made some hyper obvious -EV decisions.
Although it was not a hypertilt of a magnitude 2-3 months ago (Yes I am showing improvement), but it was a hypertilt nonetheless.
I don't think there is much more on the poker side that I can do about this. My goal will be to avoid these burnouts completely and find a better life balance.
I am really fat for my standards (I used to to play a game called floorball/unihoc/innebandy for 10 years at the highest level there could be in a pure amateur sport, and I kept gaining weight ever since I stopped)
My sleeping patterns are not good (I don't have a fixed time when I go to sleep really. something between 10PM-2AM)
And I don't relax properly, any suggestions on a proper relaxing activities would be appreciated.
Barry G says that playing Poker successfully and having a busy full-time job is close to impossible, but I will never stop until I can prove him wrong.
P.S.Note: This blog is NOT A RANT ABOUT VARIANCE. Variance is the one biggest reason that we all here can make good money out of poker and anyone ranting about it is an oblivious fish.
yeah... i played 11.913 hands at 10NL now and im up exactly 40c. is it just me or is there quite a difference between 5NL and 10NL. everyone seems to play exactly like me, really nitty. isnt that the way you beat microstakes or is there something one has to do differently at 10NL?
Hello everyone, I'm a constant visitor to this sight and today was the day that decided that it would finally be the time to start blogging and becoming a more active user of the site .
Anyways, I am player on PokerStars and I'm working on becoming a stable NL.50 player with the hopes of achieving a 4-6.5 BB/100 rate in an at least 50K hand sample. I have invested a lot so far so that I can potentially move up to higher stakes and do this shit for a living. I bought HEM along with the Leakbuster program that you can also purchase with it, I subscrided to Card Player Pro on CardPlayer.com so that I can watch poker videos, and I constantly am thinking about stuff I need to improve on (even during school -_-).
Well lately what I have been noticing is that I'll be grinding out winnings through 10-20K hand streaks but whenever I get those FML run bad sessions I seem to tilt way too much and lose more money than I should be losing. I know this is common for everyone but it has been happening to the number of times where I'm starting loose hope in the possibility of beating the low stakes.
So the purpose of this post was to request inspiration from you guys! If it's not too much trouble, I would like to see some stuff like PT or HEM records showing people beating the shit out of the low stakes. People always seem to show records of winning sessions but I pretty much don't see anyone posting 50K+ samples of decent winning rates at a certain stake. If I could just see some records of some regular joe like me beating a stake it would really help me stay motivated and optomistic, and help me not tilt so much from time to time.
Played 12.5k hands this night. Mostly 2/4 and 3/6 with some 1/2 mixed in cause I ran out of tables (tried to have 10 up all time). Won 13.5k or so. Played some funny hands.
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