After playing 2500+ hands and break even yesterday I have some questions to ask, I'd really appreciate the help.
How many tables should I play? I play four now but I don't really know what's happening on all of them all the time. I can't really get reads on the players' skill levels because I can't watch everybody all the time.
What is the optimal strategy to beat NL5? What software should I get?
I'm starting day 2 now with the help of some advice from Etherone.
recently i trained a bit MMA with a guy who i heard was very good at freestyle wrestling.
I realized he has brutal strentgh
Well to be honest i have never met anyone so strong in my life.
I talked with him a bit and he is very friendly guy.
He said that he is from cuba and was a very sucessfull wrestler there.
He now wants to get into the mma game.
Today i friend of mine googeld this guy.
OMFG lol
This guy is so much sicker than i thought
Yoel Romero
1997 2nd place Juior World Campionships Helsinki
1998 3rd place World Cahmpionships men Teheran
1999 1st place World Championships Ankara
2000 Silver medalist Olympics Sidney
2001 3rd place World Championships Sofia
2004 4th place Olympic games Athen
2005 2nd place World Games Budapest
2007 1st place Panamerican Games SanSalvador
Member of national team cuba / freestyle Wrestling 1997-2007
Lolz
man i realized this guy had talent and was good
but this is ridiculous ^^
Do I just suck serious ass at unraised pots? How are you guys playing unraised pots O_O. Fml. Can anyone in micros/low stakes post their graph of 2 players to the flop/no raise?
Just came back from ER after 5 or so hours. Got a CT scan, stool sample and blood draw.
Some of my symptoms: Blood pouring out of my ass in the form of diarrhea about 5 times a day, Abdominal pain and discomfort, Gas.
Doc gave me some antibiotics to help fight off infection. Most likely got Colitis from food poisoning was the diagnosis (Fucking restaurants). Hopefully the medicine will work and this shit, pun intended, will go away soon.
Month going well! I love the pro hunters on Stars!by Joeingram1, October 18
Been a few days since I updated the blog. Last few days have been very swingy for me at 5/10+. I have been getting a little more adventurous lately as far as playing 10/20 and 5/10, meaning slacking on game selecting. I will usually start out a session by game selecting a few tables that look good or have a good seat open but then before I know it I am playing all the 6max/fr games and depending on the 10/20 lineups, those games as well. Has a pretty fun session the other night where I was 6 tabling 10/20 and had 6k stacks on a few tables before I imploded and lost like 7k in a few hands by making pro moves and not folding.
Here is one of the hand against 2 of the weaker players at the table, probably should just fold preflop but once the preflop raiser checks the flop, I figure fanen can be taking a stab at it with any two here and I thought the turn was a good card to barrel. But when he calls the turn I pretty much knew for sure he had AxHH and was hoping I could make him fold the river Hate giving up on pots lol spew
Submitted by : Joeingram1
***** Hand History for Game 34100538166 ***** Poker Stars
$2000.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, October 16, 07:11:41 ET 2009
Table Bolzano V Real Money
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: SSter $1307.50 USD
Seat 2: 0Human0 $2227.00 USD
Seat 3: lovinAKs $2000.00 USD
Seat 4: myrpg $1440.00 USD
Seat 5: fanen $3007.00 USD
Seat 6: bryanfisher $3510.00 USD
Seat 7: groengras $2661.00 USD
Seat 8: JoeIngram1 $3215.00 USD
groengras posts small blind [$10.00 USD].
JoeIngram1 posts big blind [$20.00 USD].
JoeIngram1 bets [$1525.00 USD]
fanen calls [$1525.00 USD]
JoeIngram1 shows
fanen shows
fanen wins $4887.00 USD from main pot
My 4 other big losses from the session were hands I should have just folded but still dont have the dicsipline to yet but hopefully will be able to in the future. I did make one pretty move that worked out well, am happy I didn't lose 4k in the hand though lol. My plan for the hand once I called the flop was to try to take the hand away from him which he made easy with the sizing
Submitted by : Joeingram1
***** Hand History for Game 34100302062 ***** Poker Stars
$2000.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, October 16, 07:02:45 ET 2009
Table Janus III Real Money
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 1: serge95 $4202.00 USD
Seat 2: JoeIngram1 $4497.00 USD
Seat 3: SyrahJenNe $3169.00 USD
Seat 4: jasjas11 $2000.00 USD
Seat 5: groengras $2704.00 USD
Seat 6: bryanfisher $1742.00 USD
bryanfisher posts small blind [$10.00 USD].
serge95 posts big blind [$20.00 USD].
serge95 bets [$540.00 USD]
JoeIngram1 raises [$3557.00 USD]
serge95 folds
JoeIngram1 wins $3017.00 USD
JoeIngram1 wins $3227.00 USD from main pot
Finally got to play some with the living legend nanonoko today at 5/10 and the rumors I have heard are true, he is awesome and always has it. There were only a few 5/10 6m games running and nano was sitting at 2 trying to start games so I figured why not, I like a challenge lol. Lost a few flips, he always has a set and never bluffs before the tables finally filled up and I had to chase losses! I am enjoying playing many people HU to get games started as I think it is helping my overall HU game alot, even though it is defintly costing me in $$$. Just means I have to grind longer in my sessions sometimes. I also am amazed at some of the pro bumhunters on Stars, I don't know where these guys come from but they just insta sit on the fish left after you sit there for awhile alone trying to get games started. I've always heard about it but didn't actually realize how sick it is until lately. I admit that sometimes I will sit to a fish left quickly but I am also playing all other tables and usually trying to start games myself. These mother fuckers just tilt me so much, esp when I play a fish for a few hands and lose some, then dc_publius comes and sits on his left and then the fish either gives whoever the money/leaves when it gets 3 handed. Imeasy2read is the ultimate hunter though, never seen someone hunt for as many hours as he does. Tilting writing about this to. Mehhh
Heres my graph since I last updated the blog, swingyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy as hell. I'm getting my comfortable playing the games and in turn my redline is starting to go up/more variance. Also running kinda bad in AA aipf doesn't help but meh, it happens.
Well i have been running really good, which i'm completely stoked about, always nice to have a good heater backing you, only downside is i haven't been able to play as much as i would have liked this past week, due to school, the girl, and friends been rather hectic, but graph 10/7-Now, is the main bulk, probably 2k hands or so are from prior to 10/7
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?
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thanks
Hate giving up on pots lol spew
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