Woke up this morning, played 3k hands of 100NL and promptly dropped 4 BI to more of the same from last night. It was only after that point that the gravity of losing ~30% of my bankroll in under 24 hours hit. Gotta admit I was pretty crushed for a few hours. Had a pretty great dinner though and it was back to the grind.
Still about ~350 in mistakes which at this point is really intolerable but it's a start. Nice to run good (nice to have reload donks too), but pretty hard to have most of my losses be at 200NL and make it back at half the stakes. Regardless, I also hit my 3k milestone during one of the sessions, so I'm basically back where I started.
This whole plan was contingent upon being at 200NL full time by Sept. 1 or this is just impossible. If yesterday hadn't happened I could have cruised to 20k in the next 2 weeks and all that coulda stopped me from there on was lack of work ethic and/or my eyes falling out. I'm not out of it, there's still 2 weeks left, but I've got a pretty steep climb ahead of me. Still, I'm not giving up. Worse comes to worse this will end up being a push to the 800k milestone instead of Elite itself. Not what I want, but not too shabby either. Anyway, bed.
1st in 8.8 on stars for 3.3kby lvcjarrett, August 15
Its been three months since a decent score. I finally took something down. I was afraid of putting up a thread on Rail Heaven(I didn't want to jinx it). I'm on my way out to get MESSED UP with my buddies. Cheers! Have a great night!!!!!!!! I'm really not tight with anyone on LP or in the poker community in general, but I'd like to trade some PS for FTP money. PM me or message me at zachyjsinatra on AIM. I'm willing to transfer first to established LPers.
time + motivation + luck/skill = success?by ParadoxPLZ, August 15
Hi Lp. I've played online before but I never really put much effort into it. The problem was I didn't really enjoy playing it that much. I've started playing again recently and I'm finding an enjoyment in the game I didn't have before, so that's new. It probably has to do with the fact that I'm thinking a bit more now.
Currently I'm at 10nl, but hopefully within a month I'll have enough BR to play at 25nl. I hear that it's a lot harder now so I'm a bit nervous. I might end up just having particularly tilt filled session and blow my entire BR in one fell swoop. I don't think I'd be that volatile but I won't rule that possibility out entirely since I've had that happen before. Controlling myself when I hit my first big cooler will probably be the first real test to see whether I'm capable of success.
I'm hoping that I'm the type of player that learns the game fast enough to move up the limits at a decent rate. My sessions are usually a couple hours long and on good days I have about 3 sessions I sit through. It's still not entirely unusually for me to feel like crap due to tilt at the end of an unlucky string of beats. Clearly I haven't been desensitized yet to all facets of the game. Still, after I let my emotions settle I start feeling like playing again and I do so with a clear mind so that's probably a good sign. Game play wise I'm pretty satisfied with how things have been going so far. I'm playing a lot more intelligent then I was when I quit. I guess a lot of the stuff that I thought I understood then I've internalized now due to the natural incubation effects of time. I've also noticed a decent rate at improvement since I've started playing so far, at least relative to before. Hopefully my game will continue to improve at this rate.
Well, thanks for reading my introduction. I'll be posting updates here whenever I feel I've gone a few more steps forward. My intention for writing this is that I hope it will be useful to me in the future as a way to look back on things. Other then that, if you have any insights to share about the current poker environment, or whatever, I'd really appreciate it.
Really drunk right now. Just returned from an afternoon of beer's at the café followed up by a night of beer's with friends. promised to put up some hands so here we go!
Filtered my hh's for the past week and came up with the biggest winners and losers. I want to show you the suckouts and shit as well as it is very boring to look through a bunch of coolers. In case i spewed horribly it's more fun so let's hope there is some of that as well... no idea what i'm going to put here but let's see.
wow, in retrospect this is so spewy by him. must have been an agressive match. i think i 4bet him a lot because he made a lot of those annoying small 3bets. when he 5bet i just shoved because i thought it would look weakest and there were a lot of flops where he would get away from whatever.. didnt expect him to stack this light.. http://www.liquidpoker.net/mytlnet/myhand.php?view=item&id=731327
ok some hands by me that are really really bad. a few of them i didnt remember and it's quite embarassing to put them here.. :S anyway. if you have any comments on how i could improve how i played these hands thanks a lot. hope you enjoyed looking through my winners and losers and good night.
Ok to cashout from FTP?by ShouldNotBHere, August 15
I live in the USA, I have seen a few threads about DOJ freezing funds etc. Am I ok to cash out via a check living in the USA from FTP? Someone let me know please
update results so far by piratematerial, August 15
Since i've set myself the challenge to attain 10bb/100 at 100nl Headsup i have played approximately 10 days. The first few days i've updated results daily. These are the results of the last 7 days.
I learned a lot this week. I've been watching a lot of videos and making some adjustments to my game. I blogged about some of them before. I think overall i've been playing really solid. There have been two villains who i've lost 6 buyins too. I think both of them were huge fishes and in the long run i should easily make 10bb/100 on them but it wasn't to be.
I think i should improve my game in 3bet and 4bet pots by a lot. As you can see in the hands i posted in the forum and from the commentary i got on them. Will work on it.
The results so far have been really bad. It's only about 10k worth of hands so the sample is actually quite small and some big hands have had mayor impact upon my results.
In the report section you can see though that i've been running pretty bad in the all-in situation. I don't usually pay much attention too any other lines then the profit line but i have a question about non-showdown winnings (the red line) it steadily goes down and shows a loss for me. This is just style dependent right? And i should be able to win whether it's positive or negative?
Hope to be able to show better results soon and in the meantime i am still trying to get better. Might make a video soon and if i have more time this weekend i will make a post about my 10 biggest losers and winners or something.
Yeahhhhh. Since my last blog I've pretty much started over on FTP. I started at AP originally.. didn't really do well, lost interest in my roll. Got a rakeback account on FTP and transferred 50 bucks there... played alot until I had finals and stuff and had to study... and basically only ended up playing 15000 hands my whole summer .
Howevvvvvvver I'm happy to say I am finally out of NL2 short of crashing and burning like I did around hand 5800... lol :/. I feel like I've gotten a better understanding of the game and am trying to play in position better than I used to.
Also today thanks to LP I took advantage of the PT3 micro stakes edition and bought myself a copy. Today it pretty much paid for itself with a crazy heater + helping me read villains better... but after playing so for so long without it I have to admit I feel like it is weird to go back (I used to have a cracked torrented version when I played AP and when I first started on FTP because I'm bad like that ) and I feel like I was enjoying playing without the stats. That being said, I know in general this is going to help me alot more.
One thing PT3 DOES do for me that I don't really know how to feel about is that it makes my red line shoot up. When I see player's "call flop bet" stats.. I pretty much abuse them as much as possible. On one hand, obviously its a good thing because my red line goes up, on the other hand I think I get myself into marginal situations on turn and river if I feel like I have an ok hand, thus I get out of line. So that's something else I need to work on.
I do feel good about that big jump in my graph though... the only reason it didn't keep going up was because I lost AA v KK for a pretty big size of my stack at a table and villain continued to run well against me and I didn't really know how to handle his aggressiveness. Should have probably just left the table
Anywaaaays, thanks everyone who has been commenting on my hand histories in the side bar, it helps alot to get your opinions. Please keep giving me criticism/advice. That's all for now.
Had some rough days past few days, stuff I can't really go into in a public blog, needless to say hopefully that's all handled. It should be. I did play a little bit the past few days, with good results, my new work ethic and way of approaching the game seems to be doing well. I actually am enjoying playing poker for the first time in ages It wasn't accidental either, I had a very toxic attitude about poker before. I've worked hard to change it, and I seem to be more patient, more relaxed, and more thorough with my new mindset. It's pretty exciting, it feels so much better to play now
I actually was down 8 buy-ins but it didn't bother me one bit. I didn't feel I had to stop, that I was playing bad, start berating myself, start worrying about shit that I can't control, or any of the other crap I used to do. I just patiently kept playing, and kind of went into "the zone" where I was in a trance like state actually. Next time I knew, I checked my balance and I was up 120$. A session that would have stressed me out before was actually quite pleasant! =)
50nl so far has been less than optimal, i feel too many times i've been sitting on the right of massive calling stations and unable to do anything, need to table select better in future
Well, while there's no GOOD time to have your worst poker day ever, this would be especially bad at the start of this undertaking. Not much to say on this, I bricked more than I thought possible, no one ever folded to cbets (or double barrels), it seemed I was OOP all day, 3 oversets, a flush < flush, 3 KK < AA, when I made the pure nuts it never got paid, when I made a hand they pretty much always had better, and when they didn't they sucked out. Also, was experimenting with table ninja and scripts and misclicked for stacks 3 times to start the session, that didn't really help. Got creamed by fish. Really pretty embarassing.
Didn't tilt too badly though, still pretty calm. Got the 300k milestone coming up which will take care of this, but it's pretty bad because I was counting on that to pay for RL stuff. Still probably will but will try to put it off as long as possible. Might put in another 100NL session later tonight, but that might be pushing my luck.
wow holy fuck floofy where are you i want to bet on nonsense and ur my fav and i miss you. Lets bet my .2 vs your 2 that i cant win a hu sng vs you when i cant have a k, or A in my hand again. Something man, i am so bored holy fuck kansas.
Btw if you live in or around garden city kansas, i will pay you massive vig to buy me the biggest bottle of crowroyal/evan williams you can find.
double btw, someone reccomend a game for me to buy/play. I dont wanna play a first person shooter.
Buying in for less than maxby blackjacki2, August 14
Why does it seem like there is such a strong stigma against people that buy in for less than 100 BBs yet the people that play nosebleeds on FTP almost never buy in for max? I've seen even Phil Ivey sit down with 30 BBs. I think it was Ferguson that used SSS to turn $0 into $100,000 or whatever it was. How come the pros get away from this stigma but everyone is a fish/donkey?
I normally like going away on trips and stuff. But this summer I have done that too much. Tomorrow is time for another one On the schedule is a bachelor party, a wedding, some days on a lonely island and some other stuff, things away from a computer.. hate vacation! (but love my friends so what can I do..)
I know I will have time to grind this autumn but when things are going well I want to continue the good streak. Well.. atleast I can be glad Im up more then last month..
i guess the reason i dont do this more often is i usually just stop if i dont feel like it, ive never really had a hangup about wanting to finish the day up, but it worked out this way, so here it is.
july+august suck. and i am playing like 10k hands a month o_o
laugh at least once a dayby ToTehEastSide, August 14
This mvideo had me rolling and I'd put it in the ROFL thread but I will mind my manners and do the best I can to keep any politics thoughts and discussion out of there
seems only right
In other news this semester is starting soon (I'm going to school to become a lawyer and yes I'm paying through it with poker) and there is a really good chance sometime within the next 5 months or so I won't be around LP anymore so you guys can breathe a sigh of relief =P
just giving the heads up now as I might drop off this site among others
with that I'm going to spam some political pics to end this post
I miss the days I just ignored politics cuz it was all bs...
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Have a great night!!!!!!!! I'm really not tight with anyone on LP or in the poker community in general, but I'd like to trade some PS for FTP money. PM me or message me at zachyjsinatra on AIM. I'm willing to transfer first to established LPers.
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