So after messing around with the only live game in town I know of. I finally made enough connections to be invited to a few more. I now have 4 live NL200 games of my choosing to attend every single night of the week. Kinda neat driving around my city going from one game to another. All games have dealers + free food & drinks paid for by their 10% rake structure. So far I have not met anyone above NL50 level. Most people here who have played live in a casino or wherever know the typical adage, NL200 live plays like NL2 online. Nothing new there, they all limp garbage pre, chase any 4 outer draw, and call off 2 streets minimum with any pair. And a few think theyre hot shit buying in for $500 and bluffing 5x your bet with air.
Ran into 2 brutal coolers tonight. Family pot gave me an excuse to limp in with A2s, I flop the wheel and some cunt has 67 for the nut straight. Another hand I turn a flush with QJs and get rivered by a boat from A2o, but I managed to recover by simply having the best hand over and over lol. Few idiots tried to slowplay me with flopped sets checking even the river just to see me muck AK high etc.
I made some pretty proud laydowns, like folding TP on dry boards like T85 to severe counter-aggression, and everyone was nice enough to show me their aces every single time. Guess they were just so thrilled they had to let everyone know what they had. When donks werent slowplaying the nuts they were overplaying it, check-raising players with quads on random boards who were doing all the betting for them and just shutting them down, then being like "LOLZ I HAVE QUADS WHAT!!"
All in all pretty fun shit. Hard to keep track how much im up, since the last few times I just stopped by the ATM and deposited my earnings. Think im up like $400 maybe, so nothin much, but enough of a live roll to be able to play for a few weeks. I hate sacrificing my edge by not having enough to reload when I get coolered like in the aforementioned hands, but I can rebound with 50BB's and still have a good time.
Seems like in at least 60%+ of the MTTs I play in, I just stay at around or below average the whole time, and eventually lose due to a flip of some sort or get forced into pushing with unideal hands. Occasionally I'm able to muster up a decent stack and get ITM, but such times are rather rare. Also, I notice that many good tourney players, when able to get a huge stack from the get go, are able to pretty much guarantee their spot at final tables with their ability to continuously add to their growing stack. I'm oblivious in how to manage this and manage it well. I'm kind of an MTT newb, I play so many hands in similar ways as I would at cash tables, and I don't feel this is always ideal.
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some guy with the aim sw1x contacted me today. hes asking if he can have my esea account. this is an account i used for counterstrike over 6-7 years ago. he says he likes the name on it being stimmy and his handle was stimm. I'm not sure if hes trying to do this to try and get my email account or maybe hope i use the same password for it as i do my email or poker accounts.
obviously i just ignored him. but i figured id make a blog to warn others in case he is a scammer. he could just legitimately want it. not really sure. gonna ignore him either way.
Power hour - with the rule if you call out the name of the song or the artist you can give your drink to someone else.
Rubik's Cube Party - Everyone where 6 solid colors (like the rubik's cube) and try to trade until you're a solid color [lol probably not this one]
Mardi Gras in Fall Party - Basically for the hope of lots of chicks come and show boobs :
Toga Party - Pretty Self Explanatory
Any other ideas? It's pretty cold out now, 30~45 degrees Fahrenheit. So it'll have to be a theme that we can stay inside for. Anyways, what's your ideas? Girl to guy ratio will probably be pretty good... Usually is 3:1 or so... Keep that in mind xD
So far this month has been good. Started bad because of the major tilt on the end of september when I lost half of my NL25 month winnings on my frustated NL50 shots. First days I decided to play NL10 to build my confidence back again so I could feel better and grind a ton of NL25 again. I I cashed out $300 (my first cash out ever), my bankroll now is around $1.5K (yes, I'm a bankroll nit) and I decided that I'm only gonna give NL50 a shot again when I reach 2K and gonna move down again if I lose 10bi on it. I feel that I'm not playing nearly as much as I should be. I have to dicipline myself into playing long sessions when I'm winning and quit really fast when I'm losing. This month I had 3 losing sessions and they were the longest sessions I played this month so far. I guess this is a very common problem to poker players but not less important than any other, maybe even more important than a lot others that we have to deal with and improve. Now I'm also getting rakeback on FTP!
So I tried playing at work today (im so gonna get fired) without a HUD and constant phone calls and having to sitout randomly between hands to walk to other peoples desk's.
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL. Man. I didnt even realize I was playing like this. The worst part, I copied the HH's to a thumb drive and loaded them up here at home, everyone I paid off was like fuckin 14/12 uber nits lol. Im like "jesus christ how could I not see that".
Hijack vs btn, I look aggro pre yet have folded to some raises post. AK TPTK on A57flushdraw. I 3bet call it off for 80bb, he has a set.
yeah, maybe I should learn from daut.
Met up with some other NZ ballers: brynesam, vic, R_i and played guitar hero.
yeah ..thats right something got in my mind if u belive something truely it will happen. So if i get chips in miles ahead KK vs JJ etc and i start to swet and see in my mind j comeing on flop it always comes.
But if i am relaxed and so sure my cards will hold it also happens. So yesterday i went local casino trounament after 2 weeks. Since i got roll on FT i havent played live. In my mind i was
so fucking sure i gonna win ..i had no doubt and anything. I fucking won chipped up realy fast ..chipleader all the way. I made one mistake on tournament. While every players are usually so straightforward
and easy to put on hand there was one player tonights final table ..who stole alot and was kinda good. I usually never 3 bet anyone on those tournaments since everyone raises they have it. But that guy bluffed
alot and showed all his bluffs what was stupid. So i first 3 bet he folded. 2nd he called flop came out Acexxx, i leaded and he fodled and i showed K8 in his face.
Next i got dealt 44 and i raised 3bbs and he 3bet me... its easy to let it go but since there was big chance he wanted to bluff me so i said those magic words allin. Then i saw QQ in my mind flashed i get set on river.
flop was nothing,turn was blank.I still had no fear at all ...i was so relaxed and the boom 4 on river.
1 hour later i won.
Online i havent played much then first week i doubled my roll. then now i just have played those 300 chip hyper turbos where i am doing good and up 100$ this week. I should really focus and do some big 25nl session and get my roll to 1k. Looked my stats on PTR. It shows my agression is maximum at 25nl population on ft, funny.
Atm i am sitting at 700$ so its not bad
haven't had a good day like this in a long time. first 6.7k (about) is all nl10, had a really shitty 2nd session as you can see. 3rd session, decided to take a shot at nl25 and only played 12 tables (from the usual 18 or whatever) and did extremely well, although i did run somewhat hot
i needed this day, i'm feeling confident about my game now, gonna start taking regular shots at nl25. also, since i was playing less tables, i was able to make better reads and stuff and was also 3 betting and squeezing a ton more so it feels good man.
Whats up guys? Anyone planning on attending any of the events at Foxwoods in the coming month? Cash games should be pretty juicy and the events should have a decent draw.
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