Well Looks like I'm withdrawing myself from the competition for the moment.
Although I believe by doing so I have increased my odds to fuck this hot chick we were all going after. Once the booze hit in my two other buddies who wanted to do this became all nice and shit to her, meanwhile I was being my complete dickhead self to her and it was totally working, ignoring her comments... Making fun of dumb shit she did. She ate that shit up : Also there were two other chicks the guys totally failed to even pay attention to due to the hot girl being the main attraction, I also kinda talked shit about the hot girl to them and even that seemed to work : fucking cunts are so stupid, I guess I'll be even more heartless and cold to them next time too xD
Anyways I got two of the three girls numbers before being like 'Not gonna lie, this is getting kinda gay, gonna peace.'
then the hot girl attempted to bribe me with food that she'd make, meh w/e she's either just genuinely nice, or she wants my dick : I guess time will tell. I guess now it's time for me to make some drunken calls to see what I can get... meh wish me luck lp xD
First Day Back and Advice From Subiime!by Masaki, October 18
First day back since not playing for probably a month. Did extremely well, I made at least 5 Final tables. Won one small $11 rebuy on Cake Poker, placed 3rd in a $5 rebuy on Fulltilt Poker, 3rd in another small $11 rebuy on Ipoker, a 7th in a $109 freezeout Ipoker and an 8th in a $15 Deepstack tournament on Absolute Poker.
Came very close to winning a Triple crown for Pocketfives.com. If you don't know what that is its when you win three tournaments on three different websites that have at least a $10k prize pool. If I won the $11rebuy on Ipoker and the $5 rebuy on Fulltilt I would of got the triple crown... Oh well.. Someday soon I hope .
In other news I had a conversation with Subiime, a very good online poker player, ranked 46th in the world right now on pocketfives for online multitable tournament players, he told me that he has cut back on the volume of tournaments he plays and just plays like 4 tables at a time where as before he was doing 20+. http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-...5602844_3306259_43205124_813811_n.jpg
I'm going to take his advice kinda... I'm going to drop all of the $33 dollar tournaments I play Party Poker, and play some of their rebuys instead. I'm also only going to play $55 buy-in+ and $3rebuys+... Maybe even drop some of the rebuys. I love rebuy tournaments, even the $3rebuys I love on stars. You can get close to $10k for first place but there probably not worth taking up my time playing. I'm going to drop some other tournaments on Ipoker that just don't bring in a large enough field.
As soon as Bodog allows Canadians to use moneybookers I'll be playing on that site as well, so my hands are going to be full. I really like Subiimes advice about cutting the volume down though. Definitely, going to do it... maybe I'll drop those $3rebuys. Maybe..
If I was a machine I'd be playing all the tournaments even the $2 dollar ones Shaun Deeb style, but I haven't been able to keep up. Once I get to 15 tables+ I'm stressing out and thats not good. I'm very comfortable with 12-15 tables, 15 is a stretch though.
Two Months Two Million has ended NOOOO!!!!! I mean it was a fun show to watch but as for Poker education there isn't much to learn from other than you should still have fun with your friends, and understanding the swings of the game. The one thing I didn't like is that they were very emotional and tiltish. At least Krantz was, and for professionals thats a little surprising. Oh well...
i'm not really sure but i think i'm about ready to quit the game. after reading a tremendous amount of blogging about bad beats and variance and downswings i found it pretty hard to believe that these things actually exist (having not experienced one myself). i figured most ppl who complain about variance tend to bring it upon themselves in the sense that they either are looking for spots to get their money in marginally (to prove that they run bad) or are just unable to take a true look at themselves and a true look at their game. anyway i myself am currently facing a down swing and am completely numb to all of it. the 2 outers, the set ups, the lost money, the tilt. all of it. i don't consider myself all that great of a player although i was beginning to believe that i had a much better grasp of the game than the rest of the regulars playing poker. but i don't really know how much i can make playing poker and i don't know if it's worth holding off life and not taking school more seriously. i mean 70K annually seemed like such a lock as it's just 200 bucks a day. that's like 2 effing buy in's at .5/1. anyway thats already enough whining/rambling. it's just too hard to sort out all my thoughts in a coherent manner. therefore here is a brief PERSONAL review of a movie that really resonated in me.
The movie follows a very standard plot line perfectly fitting within the constraints of the dramatic structure (exposition, rising action, climax,...) and therefore the entire plot was predictable. It was crass, base and unoriginal. However none of this matters as it stood alone in contrast to a steady preference towards more indie, artsy, quirkier movies. Instead the movie focuses on pure raw human emotion which spurred a massive personal recollection of memories and emotions from the past.
I found myself falling in love with Em and each character portrayal was flawless (with the exception of ryan reynolds, i think its just because i will forever associate his character from van wilder/waiting). This movie is easily my favorite movie and i never thought a movie could reach so far into my heart.
I always wondered what was like to be on a heater
Now I know
What a sick feeling
Feels like its dirty money and you dont deserve it
One good lesson learned: even overaggro monkey bully fishes get dealt aces once in a while
I wonder however, if it's even possible for someone not somewhat "deep in the game" to even understand it in writing let alone on a personal/real level. I think the hardest part of the job is the way it effects your outside relationships, and unfortunately this is also possibly the hardest and (deservedly) unreasonable aspects to discuss with anyone not with you in the poker world. If you choose to be self-employed you choose to live a lonely life style. I'm surprised when I listen to rappers like Chamillionaire and Kid Cudi constantly talking about how lonely they are and how they can't trust and relate to normal people.
Good examples are in these songs:
Cham - Lonely at the top:
Cham - Life goes on:
Kid Cudi - Save my soul:
I obviously can't make blog posts without including rap songs. However, some of the similarities in these artists feelings in regard to poker are interesting nevertheless. It's also worth pointing out that cham/cudi obviously have way more money and are in the public eye way more than any of us including durr, and so their motivations/feelings are likely even harder to deal with than ours by quite a bit, but regardless, are somewhat congruent with a poker players' even at lowish stakes.
All this being said, I think that if you choose to play poker, or go it alone, you should do so being aware of how it will effect you. I think I was well prepared for this and it shows in my short lived results.
I was motivated to write this because I was recently at my universities homecoming and sort of blew up on a guy I used to live with who was attempting to congratulate me for a quick television appearance at this years WSOP. He had frequently clowned on me for being a poker nerd while we were in school, and I took this in an insulting way. I'm fairly confident that despite my own personal feelings I was in the wrong to lose my cool as dealing with things like this are part of what I chose in taking this path in life.
If you want to move forward you need to leave some things behind.
Anyone think I'm off point here? Not sure how others perceive these things.
Pretty much drunk already with a few buddies of mine.
Plan for tonight, we all act like complete assholes to every girl we meet. By the end of the night the first person to get laid wins 30 bucks. [10 dollar buy-in]
gambol gambol
I think my asshole game is pretty good after all the lurking I do on /b/ and as well on this site.
I'm an 18 year old student attending my first year of uni at an arts school, right now I'm grinding 6 tables of nl .1/.2 (kinda card-dead right now). I made about 2 mill in play chips before I decided to "borrow" my parents' credit card to deposit 50$ last night(if you want some il sell u 2mill for 7$).
The donkness of high play money and micro stakes seem to match. I'm following Jelle's guide on super-tight play (like folding AJ utg)and it seems to be working, I'm a bit bored being in robot mode since there's no point to analyze peoples play, most are terrible (although I can recognize when certain players have some semblance of strategy).
I have a question concerning turn play, I seem to have trouble getting max value from people, should i bet turn even if there are no draws?
I haven't wrote a blog post in at least a year, or really written anything of any kind of substance for that matter, but now is probably as good a time as any.
Poker has been fairly frustrating the past few months, as I'm trying to recover from a ~200k tiltswing that was a combination of me playing in some tough games that I shouldn't have been playing, combined with tilt and runbad. Whenever on such a big losing streak its never good for my game or my confidence, so I set up a goal for myself before I am going to be playing in any big games.
Basically I decided that I will start playing at $2/4 and once I have acquired 20 buyins I move onto the next stake. So far I've gone through $2/4 and $3/6, and am now grinding away at 5/10. I really like that I've done this and its great for my motivation to have a solid goal to work towards. I am much more motivated to grind lately now because I really want to get back into bigger games, but I've also really grown to like the 2/4 level, and ideally I think what I would do is get back to 25/50 and play when the games are good, but also have enough sick grind in me to play 5/10 or 2/4 when the games aren't so good at the high stakes.
I have always had ego/tilt problems, which in a lot of ways has made me a better player, since it has caused me to challenge myself in tough games, see more showdowns, see how people react differently under pressure etc etc. but it has also cost me a lot of $ most likely. I tend to play longer sessions when I'm losing even if I'm tired and the games aren't great. I've always just relied on my skill to carry me through my tilt. As it is today the players aren't nearly the same, everyone at the 25/50 level is much better at suppressing their tilt and quitting when they aren't playing well or the momentum isn't in their favor, and really the games to be looking to play in at the higher stakes is basically to notice which reg is on tilt and try to capitalize. I figure I'm pretty much through with my nosebleed days online, unless their is a real reason to be in the game. It's virtually impossible to get any kind of decent sample of hands at nosebleeds with a real weak spot in the game. I guess it's worth it though as long as it doesn't effect your ability to play your normal games. I guess I'll think about it more if the opportunity ever arises.
I've always been a pretty big advocate of taking shots as long as it doesn't effect your play at your normal stakes etc. What I find really sick is nanonoko. It makes me wonder if the high stakes is really worth it, which I guess it is if you can win solidly, but I really feel like putting in a lot of hands at lower stakes aswell will certainly add up, but I don't think i have the ability to go for SNE like nanonoko or those guys really. I've considered it and I think it would be very difficult and draining on me, but even if I giveup halfway through the year that could be very beneficial just to get in that many hands in the first half of the year etc.
Yea I didn't really know where I was going with this blogpost I just sorta decided to start writing and see where I ended up lol
I haven't really been working on my PLO game at all recently, due to wanting to get back to the higher stakes NLHE i believe. I'm going to do the same thing 20 buyin moveup in PLO aswell but i have a harder time taking it seriously at the lower stakes than I do holdem for some reason. I've played a fair bit of high stakes PLO and have done decently but I think i'm most likely terrible and have been running hot. I'd love to have a good PLO player to talk to about stuff (anyone successful at the 10/20+?)
Anyway I've also been thinking a lot about picking up some students, not really sure how i'd do it or whatever or if i am interested in long term or only short term, but I figure i would charge $400/hr and coach 2/4-5/10. PM me if interested
Tjbenthams well sorta got me in the mood so i'll answer some random Q's right now if anyone wants
On the negative side, I busted out of both freerolls again (well out of the 100fpp one because my GF forced me to go to pub with her -.-)
Well, cya you grinders, it was nice to enter your world once again after a very long time.
Now its time to leave the fish to you and go back to my 1k hands/day average -.-
RunGOODplz: bets $1.75
janeX14511: raises $4 to $5.75
RunGOODplz: raises $9.25 to $15
janeX14511: raises $11.50 to $26.50
RunGOODplz said, "sigh"
RunGOODplz said, "flush under flush"
RunGOODplz said, "again"
RunGOODplz said, "but whatever"
RunGOODplz: raises $11.50 to $38
janeX14511: calls $0.15 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($11.35) returned to RunGOODplz
Showdown RunGOODplz: shows (a flush, Jack high)
janeX14511: shows (a full house, Jacks full of Deuces)
janeX14511 collected $52.90 from pot
Summary Total pot $55.65 | Rake $2.75
Board
Seat 1: bros1987 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: RunGOODplz showed and lost with a flush, Jack high
Seat 3: swan42 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: parawiiin folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: teachergreg1 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: janeX14511 showed and won ($52.90) with a full house, Jacks full of Deuces
Seat 7: raffaelo73 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 8: Ferwan (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 9: MrFuzzzy (small blind) folded before Flop
This is the first day in about 3 months when I plan on having a huge grinding session.
Got to sleep early last night so I am finally rested, my GF is working and having a dinner with friends or sth, which means today is one huge grind.
Part 1: Weekend Swings:
Its not easy to change your thinking completely during the weekend.
I am currently at NL25, and FE goes WAYYYY down during this time.
Well, let this first part be a lesson to me, I must tighten up even further and especially not pay off the typical NL25 regs who call any 3bet/squeeze with small pps.
I also managed what I must do all the time: completely ignore my results. I had no Idea if I am down $200 or up $200 when I finished the session, and thats the way it should be.
The session was very swingy and I had set over set, lost to set over set, and had twice KKvAA at the beginning.
Well whatever, I don't get tilted from this that much any more. However I did identify one huge leak: Relying on stats/play when I saw villain play for only <100 hands (and acting on it completely).
This is a huge flaw in my game and I must stop making plays at villains when my reads and stats mean jack shit as the samples are so tiny.
I am going for a lunch break, and at 3pm begin the grind, escallating with free rolls (I didn't cash in SN freeroll in 10 consecutive weeks, and had only some irrelevant cash in 100fpp free roll)
I must say that I expect this grind to be isolated instance unfortunately, I never have energy/time to really play whole day anymore.
fucking had quads in a 400bb pot @ nl200, monkey OVERBET SHOVED INTO ME, IM ABOUT TO CLICK AND THE GODAMN SOFTWARE CRASHES AND I TIME OUT !@$@!$!@$!@$411 , HH ISNT RECORDED OBV SO I EMAILED SUPPORT HOPING FOR A REIMBURSEMENT OR SOMETHING DASDNADNADN
Variance:
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