tips for improving as a playerby genjix, October 06
Is there anything cooler than being a professional poker player? You play a psychological game where you must keep your emotions in balance otherwise if they're not in check... then a bad month means money lost. The only job, where doing bad means losing money.
I want to define a few things that have worked for me. Not for anyone else, but for me.
1) Having a good dose of skepticism when reading advice is paramount. Everything you will read will be contradictory and a wave of popular opinion will be against your own. Taking what you read and being _able_ to apply it based on your own experiences will allow you, like a scientist, to see what works and what doesn't.
As a teenage boxer at competitive level I had to travel to surrounding towns because my own town was too small. New clubs and new trainers, each teaching a different style and a new technique. A few times a trainer might say that *something* you did was wrong and this is the right way. Usually they were right, having more experience. But often enough there was no right or wrong and it was just a matter of style.
Being able to improve as a poker player means being able to take a new piece of advice and see how it works. Is this bad advice? What can I learn from this? Maybe it tells me more other regs and what they might do. Even great players I respect, say things that make me shake my head in disbelief. There's a lot of noise out there and diamonds among the ruff.
2) Imagining scenarios is a nice way to streamline your play. This other move may have caused a cascading alternate reality and have faarrr off consequences. The ability to make abstract reasoning and future predictions is what makes us so intelligent as humans. You using these tools better than your opponents is what makes you the better poker player.
The most elementary mathematics- use of weighted averages and probabilities is another tool.
You can use to formalise your thoughts into a solid representation. Having the solid form of your thoughts down allows you to move them, manipulate them and come up with new exciting possibilities. Not essential but a *powerful* tool in the poker players toolkit.
3) This last concept is the most useful IMO. Playing lower limits time to time. A lot of the guys here make fun of playing micro limits... somehow they're above small money (?).
If you're tilted and losing money, why not play a lower limit and lose *less* money? Or you're playing too loose bcos of that HU session you had earlier- a 5nl session will screw you in tight tight! You'll recede away from bad bluffs like a slug being burnt as you get called by Ace-hi.
Even trying out new moves- players are still trying to win at 10nl+ but they're just so bad that they can't! Players range from super nits playing JJ+ AK to super stations playing 75% hands A gold mine of player types to test against.
Need 1K to be transfer from ps to ub. Will swap with well known lper only. Can send first if this condition is filled, possibility of making it by increments. see you
Sup LP? Its been a while since Ive been blogging here. Ive been super busy with school/poker/partying and what not but I think being able to blog helps my game and helps me get other htings off my chest so Im going to start it up again.
One problem Ive been having lately is getting on some sort of schedule. It seems like there just isnt enough hours in the day. I have some pretty long days at school so I think that If I can get on some sort of schedule and stick to it Ill become a lot more organized in every aspect.
So Im going to do a day to day breakdown right now:
MONDAY
- No school. Wake up at decent hour (before noon)
- Make a healthy breakfast
- Hit the gym
- Get home, shower up and check out whats due this week for school
- Work on school work until complete
- Grind Grind Grind Grind
- Crash
TUESDAY
- Wake up, shower, eat breakfast
- Class 8-4
- Hit the gym
- Come home, shower and make dinner
- Work on school work until completed
- Throw on a DC Video
- Grind
WEDNESDAY
- Wake up, shower, eat breakfast
- Class 8-5
- Hit the gym
- Come home, shower, dinner
- Homework
- DC Video
- Grind
THURSDAY
- Wake up, shower, eat breakfast
- Class 8-4
- Hit the gym
- Come home, shower, dinner
- Homework
- DC Video
- Grind
FRIDAY
- Wake up, Shower, breakfast
- Watch DC Video
- Class 12-5
- Hit the gym
- Come home, shower, Dinner.
- See what up for the night
- Most likely get shit faced
SATURDAY
- Recover from friday night
- Watch DC Video
- Grind
- See whats going down Saturday night
- Shit faced again
SUNDAY
- Recover from Saturday
- Get proline for Football
- Watch games with the boys
- If the boys arent here then GRIND GRIND GRIND
- Win proline (?) lol.
So for the most part my schedule is the same during the week. I really need to stick to it because right now Im all over the place. I need to make time for both school work and poker. School work has to come first though or Ill probably end up regretting it. LAtely Poker has been coming first which is not the way it should be. I only have one responcibility in my life right now and that is to do well in school so there really is no excuse for me not to do so. It will take a lot of discipline on my part to stick to this type of schedule but in the long run by doing so it will prove to be very beneficial to my school work as well as my poker game.
Im going to try and do a blog post almost everyday. In it, Im going to review the DC video I watched as well as talk about the sessions I had for the day. Ill try to throw in atleast one hand that kind of threw me off and hopefully you guys will give me some feedback on how bad I played it lol.
But anyways, I already fucked my schedule up this morning but I do have a test today so I guess I should get back to studying.
Showdown superfash: shows (a flush, Ace high)
outill0r: shows (a full house, Kings full of Sevens)
outill0r collected $3.08 from pot
outill0r said, "haha"
Summary Total pot $3.23 | Rake $0.15
Board
Seat 1: 1965eplj (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: superfash showed and lost with a flush, Ace high
Seat 4: outill0r showed and won ($3.08) with a full house, Kings full of Sevens
Seat 5: Tract0or (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: rcawise (small blind) folded before Flop
Fighting w/ex + long day at work + poker= Tiltby PortugalFinest, October 06
FIghting again with the ex....She is a real pile of shit sometimes...Logged on to FTP, play in some FTOPS sats, only to get 3outed in 3 straight tourneys within maybe 5 minutes of each other....I've read on here sooooo many times about how fucking girls can tilt you soooo much...Truly understand it...then you had some bad poker...eh..
I cashed out for the first time last week for 1k, leaving myself with $200 to build up again. Down to $250 after tonights debacle + life tilt. Going to play way more, esp on weekends with the girl out of the picture. Hopefully this leads to bigger profits...
Best way to get chips from a lagtards?by RaiZ, October 06
Right now i'm on his left, but i'm never getting goods cards...
I was wondering what i should do since he 3 barrels MOST of the time and sometimes get the right card on the river ?
So far the best way i found was to play calling station and when i think i've almost the nuts i 3 bets. Sometimes he fold but sometimes he calls with mostly one pair..
I'm really confused here...
By calling station i mean : call and see if i've top pair good kicker at least on flop otherwise fold. 3bet or 4bet shove isn't an option because he'd only fold or call with AK AQ++ at the very least and QQ++
Edit : stats of the villain : 81/52 AF : 4,4 flop 4,4 turn 3.6 river 6.3...
What if tomorrow morning you woke up to headlines that yet another Chinese drone bombing on US soil killed several dozen ranchers in a rural community while they were sleeping? That a drone aircraft had come across the Canadian border in the middle of the night and carried out the latest of many attacks? What if it was claimed that many of the victims harbored anti-Chinese sentiments, but most of the dead were innocent women and children? And what if the Chinese administration, in an effort to improve its public image in the US, had approved an aid package to send funds to help with American roads and schools and promote Chinese values here?
Most Americans would not stand for it. Yet the above hypothetical events are similar to what our government is doing in Pakistan. Last week, Congress did approve an aid package for Pakistan for the stated purposes of improving our image and promoting democracy. I again made the point on the floor of the House that still no one seems to hear: What if this happened on US soil? What if innocent Americans were being killed in repeated drone attacks carried out by some foreign force who was trying to fix our problems for us? Would sending money help their image? If another nation committed this type of violence and destruction on our homeland, would we be at all interested in adopting their values?
Sadly, one thing that has entirely escaped modern American foreign policy is empathy. Without much humility or regard for human life, our foreign policy has been reduced to alternately bribing and bombing other nations, all with the stated goal of “promoting democracy”. But if a country democratically elects a leader who is not sufficiently pro-American, our government will refuse to recognize them, will impose sanctions on them, and will possibly even support covert efforts to remove them. Democracy is obviously not what we are interested in. It is more likely that our government is interested in imposing its will on other governments. This policy of endless intervention in the affairs of others is very damaging to American liberty and security.
If we were really interested in democracy, peace, prosperity and safety, we would pursue more free trade with other countries. Free and abundant trade is much more conducive to peace because it is generally bad business to kill your customers. When one’s livelihood is on the line, and the business agreements are mutually beneficial, it is in everyone’s best interests to maintain cooperative and friendly relations and not kill each other. But instead, to force other countries to bend to our will, we impose trade barriers and sanctions. If our government really wanted to promote freedom, Americans would be free to travel and trade with whoever they wished. And, if we would simply look at our own policies around the world through the eyes of others, we would understand how these actions make us more targeted and therefore less safe from terrorism. The only answer is get back to free trade with all and entangling alliances with none. It is our bombs and sanctions and condescending aid packages that isolate us.
Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act of 2009 H.R. bill 3642
Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this bill. Sometimes I wonder how we can, with a straight face, bring a bill up like this with the conditions of this country, especially financially. I oppose this bill for two reasons. One, we don't have the money. That would be a pretty good reason not to support it. And the other reason is I do not believe it's in our national security interests. I know this is being promoted as benefiting our national security, but I do not believe it helps us one bit. This bill was essentially voted on in June, and the vote was 234-185, which means that it is assumed at least 56 or more individuals in the Congress have switched their votes.
Now they say they have tinkered with the bill and changed it a little bit, but it's an authorization that could be $15 billion. So it hasn't had that much of a change. But today it is expected that these individuals will change and vote for this bill not really asking the questions.
Now, the bill is defined as fortifying democratic institutions. That is a good goal. But it never, never works. We are in 130 countries, we have 700 bases around the world, and we pursue this, and we are bankrupting our country by trying to maintain this empire. I have often made the point that the way we treat our fellow countries around the world is we tell them what to do, and if they do it we give them money. If they don't do it, we bomb them. Under this condition, we are doing both. We are currently dropping bombs in Pakistan. The CIA is dropping bombs, and innocent people get killed.
If you want to promote our good values and our democratic process, you can't antagonize the people by literally killing people over there, because if bombs were falling on this country, we wouldn't be all that happy with that. So this does not improve our conditions whatsoever.
I would suggest another proposal for our foreign policy, not using bombs and bribes, but what about neither one? What about just talking to people? What about reducing tariffs? What about trading with them? Instead, it is this form of foreign policy that will not serve our interests.
I was looking to get a new laptop but I dont know how big I should go. It will only be used for surfing the web, online banking, and poker. I just want it to be fast and have plenty of storage for what I need it for. Was looking for some suggestions if you guys had some spare time. Price range $500 - $1000. Ideas on virus protection would be nice also. Thanks
[P]: Huge Tilt, but running hot?by LemOn[5thF], October 05
http://www.liquidpoker.net/userpoll/draw.php?poll_id=924
Poll: You play bad and are tilted, but the cards just keep coming.Would you:
(Vote): Keep on trucking. You play bad but hey, nobody posts +EV graphs anyway.
(Vote): You look at your BR, set a point in time and play until you hit a stop loss.
(Vote): You keep playing until the luck starts running out
(Vote): You quit/take a long break and come back when you pulled yourself together.
(Vote): You quit unless some tables are so juicy they are still +ev with neutral deck
So today I came from soccer we play with other people in Finance Department, and I started some tables. I had a dinner during that time and then was becoming really tired and really tilted because of other reasons.
You know the feeling: Weak tight is your motto and at some random points in time you pull out huge spews here and there.
But the cards just keep coming.
Where I should run at -6bb/100 in my present condition, I run +10bb/100.
This situation creates the biggest leaks as you subconsciously see the TT shoved 4way winning you 300bb, or simply that people fold to your raises or that weak/tight is good as the cards will come anyway and there is no reason to lose/risk anything more. http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/39eac.KEKE.png
I know there are quite a few successful MTT players at LP, and I am searching for some help with my MTT play. Are there any videos showing how to play the more deeper stages of a tournament from any fellow LPers? I also have an account at 'decuescracked', can you recommend any series of videos there? I really find the search facilities on that site horrible to find anything regarding MTTs.
Think I got a CR login too, so any videos there too that you could recommend would be appreciated.
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A gold mine of player types to test against.
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