Look on the bright side :) by piratematerial, August 13
Crushed a guy today who was up on me quite some buyins. He calls 90% of opens so it wasn't meant to last forever. and it didn't! Perseverance pays off. It's nice though he gives me action almost every day, hope it continues now that i'm up.
I did my internship at a large dutch publishing company. The mothership of 80% of well known literary publishers here. At one point my department set up the site for this writer called Arnon Grunberg. He may or may not be translated into your languages. He lives in NY, but he visited the Netherlands to do a tour with a goat on ship. I met him at the kick-off party of his tour through the Netherlands.
And i'm sure he doesnt remember this. I still read his blog now and then. I came upon this post that is pretty funny. Think of it, when you're having a bad day. It goes on for a little bit but you can read about that in his full blog.
A while ago a friend sent me an e-mail. “Somebody called me a professional loser,” he wrote.
“Who is this person?” I asked.
My friend answered: “A wise man. I'm paying this man to talk to me.”
“You mean a psychoanalyst?” I asked.
“Yes,” my friend answered.
“Listen,” I wrote back, “the most important word in this sentence is ‘professional’. You are a professional; you know what you are doing. You are much more than the average loser. Losing is what you are good at. You should concentrate on the word ‘professional’.”
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So this is the beginning of my poker blog. As of now I'm not telling anyone about it, whether I publicize it later is to be decided. If someone manages to find it, well, good for them. This, unlike a lot of vanity blogs, is not meant public consumption and verbal fellation.
So here goes: It's August 13th. I have 290k VPPs. I'm going for Supernova Elite.
I realize this is marginally insane and probably impossible.
But from here on out, its 5k vpps/day. I have a mere 14k bankroll. On the surface, this is stupid. But, here's my case (to myself):
- I am not good enough to play and "get better". I firmly do not believe it. At least not now. Therefore, volume is the only way to make my goal of lots of manies.
- I am under enormous strain put on myself by the weight of the student loans and credit card debt I owe which I feel is usury. The debt load atm is $46k. This affects not only my real world interactions, but my poker play as well -- I care too much about the money, fold too much, don't make plays I want to, then spazz out eventually from the nittiness and stack stupidly. This is, clearly, bad. It is also a cycle I have not been able to break.
- The value from here on out is $88,000 in rakeback/milestones/whatever alone, plus whatever I make (or lose) on the tables.
- If I do 5 (five) 2 hour sessions per day, I will make out around 10k hands. For someone playing 1/2NL, this is not enough. This will be made even more difficult by the fact I'm going to grind out a mix of 0.50/1.00NL and 1/2NL for probably the end of the month. I will play 1/2NL full time at 20k br (hopefully starting September), dropping back to a mix at 18k. From there, I will play 1/2NL exclusively (barring horrendously bad tables) until $35k br (sometime in early November) at which point I will start mixing in 2/4NL tables, moving up to 2/4NL full time at $40k br (hopefully end of November).
- I anticipate this to be possible just be sheer attrition and zombie grinding. I NEED to have 800k VPP by the beginning of December or this is all for naught and I'm just going to cherry pick holiday games and cruise to whatever milestone I'm closest to.
- We be lookin at 1.4 (best case) to 2.0 (worst) million hands in 4.5 months. Adjust vomit bags appropriately.
This will be a daily log, good or bad, of what and how I do. Hopefully I can be a pokerstars success story and ball out at the PCA come January. GL me.
Main Event Trip Report Part 1by BJLTNYK, August 12
x-posted from 2p2...tl;dr...this is part 1 which is through the end of day 1. If there's any interest I'll continue writing.
Goodness…where to begin? I was offered a stake ~3 weeks prior to the Main Event to play and given I was pretty busto at the time I jumped at the opportunity. I quickly booked a week in Vegas at the Bellagio and bought round trip tickets for me and for my girlfriend to visit me the second weekend. Neither of us had ever been to Vegas and we were both quite excited. I’d been wanting to play the Main Event since Moneymaker on TV and this was going to be my chance.
A little about me…22 years old from NYC. Awful SSNL cash game grinder with enough live experience to feel comfortable. Recently former roommate of MTT superstar nutshot2. The largest buy in MTT I had ever played prior to the Main was a 3k deepstack at Borgata. The amount of the buy in was a little overwhelming but not playing on my dime eased much of the nerves. I was ready to go. I was planning on flying in early morning on Sunday the 5th and playing day 1D on Monday. Rumors of caps had me worried I might have to play day 1C on little rest but I was ready to play regardless.
I spent the 4th of July boozing with my girlfriend and her brothers and their friends. All I could think about was Vegas and the ****ing Mirage. Everyone had a ton of questions for me. Unfortunately I ended up slicing my foot open playing wiffleball barefoot resulting in a 1 inch gash on the bottom of my foot that would require stitches. Being that I am one of the unemployed masses…I had to bear the pain/bleeding for a week in Vegas. Limping around was not fun.
I got to Vegas ~10 AM Vegas time Sunday morning and headed directly to the Rio to meet my staker and register after dropping my bags off at Bellagio. He directed me to the shorter registration line where I chatted up the structure with Gabe Thaler. He began to talk crap about anyone who sold percents of themselves in the Main Event. Cool. I ended up getting a seat for 1D in the Miranda room. I headed back to my room to relax and try to focus for the next day.
I got to the Rio early on Monday both excited and nervous. I did the typical donk crap like taking pictures of the poker room and having the dealer take a picture of me with my chips. Whatever…it was my first Main Event. My day 1 table didn’t break the entire day and this was its breakdown:
Seat 1: Random
Seat 2: 2p2er TheCamel
Seat 3: Irish 2p2er
Seat 4: David Oppenheim and his ridiculous watch
Seat 5: Bad young Italian
Seat 6: Me
Seat 7: Gigantic nit with wife on the rail
Seat 8: Tough Frenchman with a FT this year
Seat 9: derek8
On paper it didn’t seem like an ideal day 1 starting table but I was ready to accumulate chips nonetheless. On to some poker content!
50-100-0
Camel limps in EP and I check option in BB with AJo. Flop comes AKJr and after c/ring flop I get 3 streets of value and chip up to 35k pretty quickly. After I led the river, Oppenheim asked the 5 seat to lean back so he could stare me down…heh. Ended up finishing level 1 with 38,175 after misplaying one hand v. Oppenheim where he raised button and I flatted BB with K10. Checked thru to the river on a 1035A4 board and I led-called and lost to his 22 and felt like an idiot.
100-200-0
I raise J7ss in HJ and the BB (Seat 1) flats. Flop comes Axx with one spade and he calls my cbet. I check behind on the rag spade turn. River spade and he leads 1200 and calls a raise to 3500 and proudly turns over AJo and looks baffled by me having a flush. Oppenheim just gives me this long stare as I’m stacking the chips and says “Oh I understand now.” I give him an orly? and he says yes and that he and I are “going to work it out.” OK Opie whatever you say.
Opie limps in EP as he has done a few times and I raise 109ss next to act to 800. BB flats and Opie limp reraises to 3000. He’s about 80k deep at this point after stacking the awful Italian between us. I call because I hate folding and the BB folds. Flop comes Q9x with the x being a spade. Opie bets 3500 and I flat. Turn is the pretty 8 of spades. Opie checks and after a little deliberation I check behind. River is the Qs and Opie bets 7k. I go through flatting and raising in my head and eventually make it 20k with 13k behind prepared to puke if he jams. He tanked for ~5 minutes before eventually folding. The second break came shortly after and I finished the level with 59475 extremely happy with my play.
150-300-0
After shooting up to 80-90k quickly, Oppenheim slowly began bleeding chips off. He claimed to be playing on 0 sleep after a long high limit session. He said he had to be persuaded to play the event and was ready to get back to the cash games. Losing AK to a short stacked derek8s AQ didn’t help. A few times he seemed noticeably frustrated and a little tilty.
When I play live for too long or even online for that matter I’m due for a pretty giant spazzout and this level was time for my first. These spazzouts are why I was something like 1-20 lifetime in live MTTs after cashing my very first one. Irish 2p2er opened in EP and I called with 44 in LP. Raised his cbet on a K high board to 3k which he took his time before flatting. On a blank turn he surprised me by check raising my 5k bet to 15k. He owned my life with false tells this hand and I chuckled inside at my first awful spazzout.
Last hand before dinner break I raised bvb blind which I learned I could do because he was an awful nit who either folded or folded to my cbet. He flatted and I took a peek at my Q7o. Flop came 553 and I cbet 1200. He raised to 3500 clearly FOS and tired of me running him over bvb. After about 30 seconds I made it 7k and he turbo mucked. Nice try sir. Ended level 3 and entered the dinner break with 52675. I was exhausted still feeling the effects of the early cross country flight the day before and headed back to Bellagio for a quick bite and a chance to lay down for a little bit. I wasn’t that thrilled at having to come back and play 2 more levels.
150-300-25
Derek8 raises utg I flat 107cc otb and the BB comes alone too. I end up triple barreling the BB on 98xx9 and he tank calls the river with 97s. That expert move cost me 13k which was an excellent start to the last 2 levels of the night.
Midway through the level TheCamel who was still a random to me asked me what my Stars name was (I was wearing the Stars zip up). I told the table my confusing SN and Oppenheim asked what BJ stood for. I called him a dirty old man and hilarity ensued. I had undercover sleuthed that seat 9 was derek8 because I overheard him telling a friend on the rail about shipping a particular mtt recently so I had nutshot do some detective work which was fun.
A little frustrated with my play to start the night I raise JJ UTG+1 and Oppenheim defended his BB. Flop came A96 and I checked behind not looking to get check raised what might be the best hand. Turn was the incredible jack. Oppenheim check raised the turn to 3500 and I had a decision between jamming and calling and getting it in on the river. I felt like he had a hand but wasn’t sure if it was one that could call a shove. He only had about 13k left behind and I ultimately ended up jamming. He tanked for nearly 10 minutes and I chatted him up which was probably a mistake but he was a nice guy and I was a little delirious from lack of sleep. He felt like he was behind but was ready to play the cash games so he picked up his ridiculous sunglasses and wad of cash and put his gaudy watch back on and stacked with A6dd. He didn’t river an ace and I knocked out the pro. Where’s my bounty and t-shirt? I was back up to 58150 after the hand…
…so naturally it was time for another spazzout! The new player on my right hadn’t been there long but had already been quite active both raising and 3 betting a decent amount. He raised and I flatted 44 so of course I had to play it like the nuts again. Flop came Q9x and it went check/check. Turn 8 and he check raised my 1300 to 3k. After a little thought I 3 bet to 7500. He wasted little time in making it 19k. Cool I play really well and read people really well. I laughed inside again and mucked wondering why I spazzed out with 44 twice. I finished the level at 39775.
200-400-25
Only one hand of note. I raise 43o in MP to 1200 and the nit to my left flats. The flop is the super dumb 443. I check expecting him to fire with an overpair and he checks behind to my surprise. Turn is a 5 and I bet 1500 which he quickly calls. River is a 9 and I think about how to get max value and look bluffy. I decide to bet 7k given how badly I had been running him over and after a little thought he called. Whole table seemed a little shocked with my hand but whatever ship the rungood. I ended day 1 with 50525. I was happy to make it out of day 1 and looked forward to a night’s sleep and a full day off before day 2B.
Fun derek8 notes
At some point in I don’t remember what level he flatted the BB against the supernit to my left and led all 3 streets on the 10968J board before the nit jammed the river. Derek proceeded to berate the dude for a good 15-20 minutes for jamming without the nuts claiming he could easily have led 3 streets with KQ and there was no way the guy had KQ. He said he had QJ and that he didn’t think Derek had anything which made him explode even more. Word…let’s berate the awful fish.
During the ante stages Derek was anteing most of the time with 100 chips to get 3 greens back and build a bigger stack. One dealer took exception to this and got into a verbal argument with him over it. After it seemed like it cooled down and we were in the middle of a hand, she randomly belts out “FLOOR ON 302.” Whole table was shocked and the floor man was like wtf why is she wasting my time with this. In fairness to Derek she was a terrible dealer but he just loved arguing with her.
i am about to make a transfer, and the other person just wants to know if anyone can vouch for my legitimacy, which is completely fine . so post if i am trustworthy i guess lol.
Real life expenses (moving, severe car trouble) left me with no choice but to cash out my 3k bankroll a few weeks ago. I play limit poker on stars and am looking to try another site with rakeback. I am looking for anything from a $1,000 stake for 1/2 Limit or $2,000 for 2/4 Limit. I am up for anything long term or short term. If more details on the situation are needed I will gladly ellaborate and I have a couple of players who can vouch for me. Am up for shipping 33-40% of my profits or perhaps more depending on the circumstances of the deal. Pm me or add me Opwestacct@yahoo.com on msn.
just wanted to let you know that in my quest to improve. i made some changes in the strategy. i implemented a stop loss. if i lose 3 buy-ins to a single opponent, i will quit him no matter what.
this took me a long while to decide because i think there are disadvantages. i'ts very much possible in a somewhat active HU to get 3 buyins behind to an opponent you think you have a very big edge on. and while losing you do gain some information about your opponent and you may have established a favourable image to get paid off in the near future.
on the other hand. i might be steaming a little bit more then is optimal. then there is the theory of the information disadvantage. i don't remember where i read this. i thought it was deucescracked. in a nutshell the article said that when you are losing hard to an opponent in headsup. it's very likely that he gains a lot of information about the "bottom of your range" in certain spots where you learn nothing about his because he is showing all "top of his range" cards that anyone would have played like that.
another adjustment is that i'm going to tighten up from the BB. i am defending a little bit too light i think. my range is probably good against opponents who open 80%+ on the button but what i found out the last couple of days is that most of my opponents actually open about 60%-65%. they are pretty tight in position. and i think i gave them too much action. i did tighten up against these villains but not enough.
Ok, so first one who writes up how I should fix this in a simple enough way for me* to get PLO-manager working to my satisfaction** will get 10 USD on FTP.
Got a working copy of HEM, then bought a full key (unrelated to the first one) from an LPer since he couldn't use it and I want to learn how to play omaha. Now I don't know what to do to make it work. Do I need to reinstall everything or something?
* You should consider me halfway to legal retardation while writing this
** Don't care if the HUD is messed up or something that is obviously an unrelated problem, but if I lose my db you can forget your money!
I'm moving to BFE tomorrow, going to a new school, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, or NWOSU. This is all because....................
my arm = ok!
The official diagnosis is a slipped bicep tendon, a torn pec muscle, and small fraying of the rotator cuff and labrum. (both not bad, and are normal when you've played baseball for 17 years).
So i'm moving tomorrow, going to live there for a while, meet some new peeps, not going to have a job so i'm going to have a loooooooooooot of time to work out and play pokerz and win teh monies.
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. so post if i am trustworthy i guess lol.
Two pair queens and tens Win: 109448.00
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