First of all, let me preface this by saying that this only happens every now and then. So, I woke up this afternoon and sat down at my laptop and opened up some tables. About 10 minutes into the session, I had to take a major dump. But i was like fuck it, I dont want to sit out so I'll just play for like an hour then take a break. So an hour passes and go to take my monster slam... but i can't go. So I'm like fuck it, I'll go grind some more. Well, about 15 minutes in I have to take a big monster dump again, but this time I'm like fuck it... I'm gonna go shit RIGHT NOW. So I go the bathroom and, well... once again, I cant go. It happened 1 more time later, and I still havn't gone. Really the only time that this ever happens is when I walk into Best Buy. I fucking love that store. I always thought that it happened because I got too excited when I walked into Best Buy, but today it happened while i was trying to grind. Anyway, long story short, the bathroom is now my computer room. My chair is the toilet... ok that was a lie. But has this ever happened to anybody else while they were trying to grind?
i have 3 lines of stats, when i open HEM the stats box is so big that the stats of the player whos sitting next to me blocks one of my holecards, also the stats of the other players blocks how much money their sitting with on the table
is this problem because of the 3 lines worth of stats and is it possible to make the stats box smaller? i wouldnt want it to be so small that i would have hard time seeing it tho
haven't played this badly in a long long time I pretty much butchered every hand I played today but I ran really good and only ended down 2 buyins can't even continue cause I'm currently really pissed off
finally fixing some leaks in my game. Took a shot at 1/2 and started off up like 5 bi then ended up net down 4 buyins so (6m and HU) after some more shots. i dropped down to 50/1 again to fine tune my leaks. I dont think im gonna be playing 1/2 hu again the swings are so huge and i think i may have tilt problems hu. I think one of my biggest weaknesses is discipline and being too results oriented and levelling myself when people jam 3x pot or w/e and i have an overpair on a non 3b pot.
Today I played the longest session of poker that I've played this month ~1k hands for about ~1k profit, which is nice but not the main reason for my happiness. First of all, I was simply happy that I actually played a longer session for once, and that it was at $5/$10. My HEM stats have been set to "This Month" for the entire month and I'm really happy that I've only played $3/$6 and $5/$10 and not pissed around at $.5/$1 or $1/$2 like I did in previous months. Anyway I changed "This Month" to "All Hands" and saw that I've reached a milestone of winnings on PokerStars:
BB/100 = ptbb/100, I didn't like the bb/100 stat since I'm so used to seeing winrates in ptbb/100. In the past months I cared too much about my stats on PTR and played too much at lower stakes trying to make my stats pretty, but I should've never cared simply because these are the only stats that matter. I've already crushed $.5/$1 and $1/$2 in the past (The stats used to look much better than they do now =[ ) and I should only care about playing for the maximum success and profit. This is only Stars and a few FTP hands.
As long as I keep this up it'll be the 2nd 5 digit month in a row, the first time that's happened (If it happens) in quite a while due to inactivity this year and playing too many low stakes in the past months. If I can continue focused, put in a lot of hands and only play at reasonable stakes then I should still be able to salvage a decent year. At the moment I'm probably up about 25k or something for the year which is pitiful considering I made about 10 times that last year. I still have a few months left though and if I play a lot and play well I can still make the kind of profit I was hoping for when this year started. I'm not sure I can force myself to do it alone though, I don't talk poker to people anymore or hang around with poker players and self motivation has always been a problem for me. Perhaps I'll try and go to some live tournaments when I'm back in England in November, maybe visit some poker players too and try to get more involved with the poker community in general. I definitely have to do something, but this is a nice start and this blog post itself may help me, just as a reference point, I can look back on this, see that my lifetime stats are perfectly fine and I don't need to worry about proving myself or looking perfect in every possible database when they clearly lack a lot of hands and information and are thus not even worth bothering about.
I only wanted to write about poker today, I'm happy with how this month has gone in terms of results and in terms of stakes played, I just need to continue this momentum and start playing more. I guess that's all I needed to write for now.
pretty much sums up my day today haha
but oh well everyones got em, hopefully tomorrow gets better gl everyone
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PokerStars Game #31904505815: Holdem No Limit ($0.10/$0.25 USD) - 2009/08/21 17:52:08 PT [2009/08/21 20:52:08 ET]
Table Gabriella II 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: supergusto ($16.75 in chips)
Seat 2: KIGold ($29.40 in chips)
Seat 3: Hero ($34.65 in chips)
Seat 5: Big roj 67 ($27.95 in chips)
Seat 6: Noches Sturm ($23.60 in chips)
Seat 7: STYX 1259 ($24.50 in chips)
Seat 8: Unbrkbl ($13.20 in chips)
Seat 9: koala7403 ($5.90 in chips)
Big roj 67 said, "ak"
Hero: posts small blind $0.10
DonkeyKai: is sitting out
DonkeyKai leaves the table
Big roj 67: posts big blind $0.25
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
Noches Sturm: calls $0.25
STYX 1259: raises $0.50 to $0.75
jiangrui joins the table at seat #4
Unbrkbl: folds
koala7403: folds
supergusto: calls $0.75
KIGold: folds
Hero: calls $0.65
Big roj 67: folds
Noches Sturm: calls $0.50
Hero: checks
Noches Sturm: bets $13.60 and is all-in
STYX 1259: raises $0.90 to $14.50 and is all-in
Hero: folds
Uncalled bet ($0.90) returned to STYX 1259
Showdown STYX 1259: shows (a flush, Ace high)
Noches Sturm: shows (a pair of Eights)
STYX 1259 collected $55.40 from pot
STYX 1259 said, "nice"
Summary Total pot $58.20 | Rake $2.80
Board
Seat 1: supergusto folded on the Flop
Seat 2: KIGold (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: Hero (small blind) folded on the River
Seat 5: Big roj 67 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: Noches Sturm showed and lost with a pair of Eights
Seat 7: STYX 1259 showed and won ($55.40) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 8: Unbrkbl folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 9: koala7403 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
And I got my first wage for hard 4 weeks of superhard 7/5 work.
Ship the $2.3k net, not bad for a student imo (This job will count as a full year at the university, and I have full student status with low tax NI code and no council tax (normally about $200/month) - I just have to keep a diary, write a Strategic Appraisal at the end and endure visits from Uni inspectors once per 2 months or so)
Poker goals for today are accomplished, lets go get drunk I say!
I'll be playing APPT Macau in several days, it's a 40k HKD buy in which comes out to 5160 USD (as of right now, 1 HKD = 0.129008 USD xe.com). I'll be selling at 1.1 to 1, I've been told I should sell for higher but this is my first big international MTT so I don't think it'd be fair charging more markup. I also want to reserve a lot of % for my friends IRL here (mostly since they can pay me in cash), so likely I won't take THAT much % from LP backers but I'll gauge the interest. Just send a PM or leave a comment, I'll take stars or FTP.
As for MTT experience I've won the FTP 50/50 early this year for 12k, I've gotten 4th in the daily 80 on stars for 9k, and I mostly play during FTOPS seasons etc. I'm primarily a cash game player though, ID attackyoustack on ftp.
Unrelated: pretty lol, was crushing the 50/100 (equivalent $6/$12 USD) at the grand lisboa today until I realized they were charging max 200 hkd rake (20+ us dollars), what a giant rip off. lol liveaments.
I have given myself a hand goal of 2500 hands/day for the next 25 or so days. I've been just about reaching it, but the internet at my timeshare is fucking TRASH SHITCUNT PISS and I can only grind from the hours of 12AM - 8AM. So I have that headache.
So I was grinding after I woke up at 3 or 4 in the morning to do so, and I took a break after my ~1.2hrs @ 700 hands and I was up 4.5bi. I felt really good and like I was playing well, so I convinced myself to go for my goal.
But then I forgot if I don't stop playing right then, the rule that I cannot win at poker ever will kick me in the balls
now I can't really continue grinding because the internet is starting its day of being incredibly fucking shitty and I get sat out on my tables every 10 minutes, regardless of if I'm in the middle of a hand of course.
This is fkn retarded........
Please take a look at my hand thread I posted in mistakes
lol, just got curious and asked a customer service rep, i need to clear ALL the points by the 19th of next month(if i clear 99% of bonus, i receive a jolly fuck all), and given the software its hard to play more than 3 or 4 tables an di can onlly comfortably grind nl5 or nl6 omaha, im clearing about 1% of my bonus every 2 or 3 hours im going to need to cyborg mode?
Anyone want to use their own money my acc and split the bonus when youve got it ?
paradise poker btw
lol
pz
Foxwoods Deep Stack Weekendby NewBornBaby, August 21
Hey all-
Long time no talk LP. Hope all is well to you all. Been busy with work lately and catching up on studying for my CPA exams. I'm leaving work early today to head to Foxwoods for the weekend. I'm meeting up with nutshot and BJLTNYK there and I'll be joining them with a buddy of mine for some grindaments.
Nutshot has been there all week playing the $340, $2k and will be playing the upcoming $560. My buddy Chris, Me, and Brian (BJLTNYK) will most likely join nutshot in the $560 donkament starting Saturday and ends Sunday. It's a decent structure with 20k starting chip stacks and 60 minute levels so there will be some sick deep action going on.
I hope PLO is running there so I can get in my sick PLO grind since it's a MTT filled weekend. Who knows.
Online poker-wise I've been grinding 100PLO on both Pokerstars and FTP and having a decent month. (Up 2k on FTP and PS) I just got more memory in my computer because it was running stone age slow so I will start using my HEM again.
Shout outs to all the hospitality from all fellow LPers during my week stay there in June. It was great times and I look forward to next year's bonanzas.
Will ship a nice trip report post Foxwoods success/debacle.
so im def at nl50 now, playing mix with nl25 tables slowing adding them in as i get used to bet sizing so on... but already confident im winner at this stake.
just need to stop doing fancy play cos i somehow assume everyones realised im moving up and/or everyone is now thinking 2 levels higher.
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+im planning a trip to NY
gl everyone
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