Ok, i get pissed off little bit after playing NL10 and get called by any marginal hands. Started playing NL25 with really short bankroll as i have around 12bi right now but i`m trying do my best to get at least 25 and start playing two or more tables.
I`m looking for mentor who can at least show me the way. Great will be if someone at least can have a look on stats and say what i`m doing wrong. I know that my VPIP should be more close to PFR and i find out that i`m playing to many hands on weak tables where ppl easy fold to 3betting.
i have grinded low stakes to mid stakes poker seriously for 3-4 years now on mostly microgaming software and recently set myself a challenge to grind from $600 and see if i can finally make it to high stakes. So here i will start my first blog on my way to the top!!
Firstly i decided to change sites and change alias to start a fresh i deposited 600 dollars and started playing 1/2nl short stacked. my strategy here was to slow play my big hands ( hoping not to get busted ) and play fairly tight although with position in mind always trying to steal blinds with min raises and reraise agressive players with resonable starting hands. i find that this seems to work as regulars do not want to get involved with shortstakers when they have average holdings.
i have started writing this blog after just over 2 months of play, below shows my EVhttp://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/f9985.1.png
summary for last 2 months
1. i have taken afew shots at 3/6
2. not played much heads up , which i belive is one of my strengths, will hopefully progress to more when i get my roll up
3. once i got my roll up to 2k i started 6 tabling with full buy in
anyways i will continue this more in depth, with afew interesting hands and plays , i will hopefully try and give a day/weekly update
I have been getting back into Poker as much as I can these days. I have a very much so full time job, that has odd and long hours, and times when I am away from home for a week or more with no access to playing online poker. I love my job, and am really happy even though the hours are mad sometimes, Its something I have always wanted to do. However I do wish sometimes I had a little bit more free time to play more Poker! Because right now I have got a huge drive within me to play lots of Poker and improve, improve and improve!
Last week I was off two days there in a row (which can be pretty rare for me lol), and played alot of MTT poker. Finished 215th/9760 and 20th/2500, it was good but also hugely disappointing. I have been reading up on improving my late game play, and checking out videos. This has helped alot. I also have had great input from fellow LPers, and I do appreciate the comments. This weekend I was off again, (really rare, but its calm before the storm of being busy..), and played a few yesterday. It just wasn't meant to be, and although I managed to bounce back after a few suckouts, I ended up busting in 140th/2400. So no final table yet. But I am working on it!
As I do not have as much time to put in epic 10 hour sessions every day, on most evenings, I have been playing small multi table sit+gos. The 27man ones are decent, as they only take around 1hour 30mins - 2 hours to complete. Very soft. I have not an amazing ROI in them, but I have not played enough of them yet to get a realistic ROI. I would ideally play the 180man sit and gos, because I do feel I got a good edge over most players, as they are all generally really bad and have no concept of pushing ranges, but 4 hour sessions are just too long for me on workdays. I have to try and satisfy everyone, which includes my friends and my fiancee!
So it brings me back to my blog topic and video at the start of this blog. This song is practically on repeat at the moment. Such a tune. But its meaning is also interesting. "All things to all men". It is a quote from the bible I believe. I am no religious person, but do find these words really thought provoking. It pretty much means, to satisfy everyone. Which I feel is really important, especially for poker players. Because even after you have grinded for hours and hours a day, there is a point where you have to step back and do other things other than poker. You have to have a healthy balance, and you have to satisfy and give your time to other people just as much as Poker itself. I really think it is one of the most overlooked criteria for being good at this game, or any game even.
Because ever since I have not had as much time, and do other things in my life, I have actually seen my Poker improve by leaps and bounds. I seem to be way more focused when it comes to Poker and I have a much clearer head with loads of determination. I put in way more effort because I do not have all the time in the world.
Thought I would share those thoughts with you, and hopefully some of you can take them onboard and make something of them.
I'm feeling easily tilted atm so I'm keeping an eye out for that.. will end the session soon. Gay life..
Just haven't won a single hand all day it feels like. I've gotten shit on everrrrrry hand and I've spewed a LOT today.. REALLY unhappy with my mental state today
REALLY REALLY unhappy w/ my mental state and how hard I spewed in a couple of spots WTF!! http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/0328c.tiltedreallyeasilytoday.jpg
just finished session, actually down $1500 today. Can't let myself play anymore poker today I think.. really disappointed all around!
gl all
What is a good sample size of hands to know whether or not long term u are beating a limit? It doesnt matter to me about moving up or anything like that I just want to know what a good sample size of hands would be to know if that limit has been beat.
i was up 4 buy in, and then went down 10 buy ins. i was reviewing hands but all that was for not...cause my socks were on my feet.
playing with socks on is so god damn uncomfortable is subconscious tilt.
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anyway, i dunno if anyone watches the Ironman competitions, but i find them somewhat fun and interesting. Why are germans and aussies so effing good at that shiT? gogo america~
I can'r remember when I had a session as good as this one, its by far the best one since I started working.
6 hours of grind well spent
+I watched 2 DC vids
- latest 2m2m episode (by far the best one, if we discount the playboy ladies maybe), and what I seriously don't understand is why they didn't do the lock down right from the beginning.
I would really love to see at least one true grinder of JoeIngram's calibre there.
-I also have seen The Poker Star
I must say that it was epic, best show ever and everybody has to see it. Not only I got a great lesson on how to read people when you are not at the poker table, but some seriously advanced theory was mentioned.
All under the command of the best Australian poker player!
Other shiz:
-My Executive office chair finally arrived. Its awesome as fuck and I can't believe I didn't buy one earlier
-What also arrived is my new phone. Its one of them 'smart' touchphones with QWERTY keyboard and MS software. Excel, Outlook, Diary, PDFs what have you.
Too bad that Pokerstars don't do mobile market just yet, starting a donkament and playing the final table on the bus/at college/work mens room would be awesome.
Here in Canada its Thanksgiving this weekend which means lots and lots of food and a long weekend!! Damn I love turkey and pumpkin pie. mmmm lol. I had a million tests this week at school so needless to say I am very glad this weekend is a long one lol. When I got home I checked my mail and saw that UPS came by with my shit I ordered off FTP but I must have just missed them. I decided to go pick up my Poker chips / Poker table cover before I drove home back to Cambridge. I gotta say they are both pretty nice. I cant to play a game with the new chips / table and take all my boys money muahaha lol.
I was driving home and my buddy Brent called me up and asked me if I wanted to hit up Octoberfest. Where I live they have a MASSIVE Octoberfest celebration every year. It is the second biggest one in the world next to the celebrations they hold in Munich Germany. Anyways basically its just a huge shit show and all you do is drink your face off lol. We hit it up every year and its a blast. Literawlly right when I got back home my buddy Brent was waiting at my house lol. I rushed in, got changed and off we went. We went over to my friend Cheryl's place to get a pre drink goin with her and her other friends. We headed out around 9:00 which might seem early but these events get so packed that if you dont get there before they reach capacity your fucked because the line up is retarted.
When we got there we had to wait a bit but thankfully the line wasnt big at all. It was a pretty shitty night out though and it was raining so waiting int he rain kinda sucked. This event was being hosted by a rock radio station called Dave FM so needless to say they played rock all night lol. They had these two cover bands play that were really good. The one band I think they were called No Guff or some shit but they were an ACDC cover band and they killed it! After that they had some KISS band play which was kind of a let down because persoanlly I dont like KISS at all. They should have had KISS play first and then had ACDC play after imo. The night was a lot of fun though and I just got compeletly shit faced lol. No big stories though unfortunately lol. Just a fun night out drinking with friends.
Poker wise things have been going pretty good for me despite putting in a really small volume so far this month. Ive just been really busy with school and stuff and its been hard for me to make time to grind it out. Ive played 7k hands this month and so far Im up $500 which is pretty nice lol. Ive been changing my game up a bit recently and the results are starting to show. Hopefully I can keep playing well.
But anyways, I got family and stuff here so I better go.
Later days,
Epic Session! 15k swing, 20BI at nl600!!by Joeingram1, October 10
So last night/this morning I probably played one of my sickest sessions ever in poker. Got to my place last night and loaded up some 5/10 and 10/20 games. I did not run very well in these games and quickly was down like 4kish, I kept on the grind but things were just not going my way and pretty soon I was down like 9kish, then the best player on stars supfoolio AA vs QQ'd me at 10/20 after 3betting me a bunch on all our tables and I decided I better stop playing 10/20. I was down around 11kish at this point and wasn't sure if I wanted to quit or keep at it, eventually I was stuck around 14.1k and started looking for some 3/6 games to play.
I closed down all my remaining 5/10 games I had open and my last 10/20 table where I had a 5.5k stack on and played a mix of 3/6 6m/fr and some 2/4 6m/fr. I really had no plan for what i was trying to accomplish by dropping down and continuing to play, I actually bought the 4k fpp bonus because I really couldn't run any worse, so I was not worried about the FPP Bonus Doomswitch. I never thought I would be able to actually chase losses by playing 3/6 but a bunch of hours later I had done it! 14k down was erased and I was finally up for the session. It sure was challenging playing all the nl600 6m games, and some of the full ring games while starting tables and playing a bunch of HU/SH but I was able to do well. Although I sucked at nl400
It was my first 10k hand session in a while and felt really good. Was an amazing feeling to actually get back to even and ship 20BI at nl600! I need sleep now though, need to play more tomorrow lol
Wanna buy something from LP clothing, seem to look good. I'm not sure about sizing, do they show EU sizes or US sizes?
I'm wearing "M" in Europe, any idea which size should I get?
Btw, just in case someone involved with those clothes reads this: you should have a version without liquidpoker.net writen on it, just the fish logo, would be way way cooler and I personally would wear it to University etc.
So I've finally managed to get in the green for the month (after almost 35k hands), I've finally understood what Bill Hicks says in this vid;
and I watched part two of ep 8 of two months two millions (up on pokertube). It felt so good, I could feel those feelings like he probably felt it and it was almost as cool as feeling them yourself.
I stopped @ the middle point and was up $550, figured WTF I should put in more volume so I played another session (which I have to cutshort to go out now Q_Q) and obv lost it all lol
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