tearing up PLO, up about 5 buyins this week which is good considering how little a get to play with 2 jobs and my workouts.
ARM UPDATE 2009.
So the doc called and explained what was wrong, which confused me b/c i didn't speak his language (the language of doctor). Basically, to my understanding he said..."We might need to go in there and clean some stuff up (scar tissue, etc))", then he said "but there isn't a tear in the labrum", and then said "continue everything like you normally do" wtf? so i need surgery, then nothings torn, then everything is fine?!?! but i gave the voicemail to my physical therapist and he said that what all the doctor lingo meant was that i actually have a small flare in my rotator cuff. So a small tear in the cuff...50/50 on whether i need surgery or not. My appointment with the surgeon is tomorrow at 8am. I'm set on not having surgery, so we'll see if he can convince me to have it, but to my understanding, if you take 50 MLB pitchers, 20 of them will have the same thing i have, a small tear in the rotator cuff, but as long as there is no pain, there is no need to fix it.
so go me. we'll get the official update tomorrow, until then peace, gl, ttyl.
Party and/or PayPal for PS or FTPby genjix, August 05
Hey, I'm looking to get some money on party poker. I also am trying to help Steal City get some money on Paypal bc he doesn't use a blog. Anyone who can help plz PM me or Steal City. Steal is sort of desperate and willing to give advice/lesson to anyone willing to help him out. Since he needs money on paypal he will have to trust the person who is sending.
Local cardroom runs a deep stacked $100 buy-in tournament. Start with 50k chips and blinds are 25/50 to begin with. I definitely have an edge in this tournament since everyone at the room is pretty bad. 1st place is usually around 2kish. Looking to sell up to 60% though if someone wants to buy less thats fine. Starts tonight at 7ish so please let me know ASAP. AIM - JCM3420 or PM me or comment I'll check throughout the day. I will ship any winnings through FTP.
a classic example of fish watching highstakes HU vids (by Krantz, deucescracked videomaker) and i guess misinterpreting the information and as a result stacking himself in the wrong spots instead of the right spots occurred when i started the last HU match of the evening.
villain immediately appeared very aggressive. taking the first 3 or 4 small pots down with a lot of force. i don't mind this at all but he immediately made me think he was a reg. no limping or any other fishy behaviour. now 19 hands in or so i 3bet him, for the second time or so, with KJo, he proceeds to 4bet.
KRANTZ TOLD ME: 1st 4bet is ALWAYS A BLUFF!!!!!
so i instashove my monster " that does well against his 4 bet call range: pairs and maybe suited aces but mostly because he has to fold. 1st 4bet!
ofcourse its not suprising at all that the nl100 reg instacalled with AKo en has me destroyed but what made the incident worthy of a blogpost was what villain said in chat immediately afterward:
"1st 4bet always a bluff "
i got SOOOOOOOOO levelled sick.
also today i experimented for the first time with flatcalling AA pf. i've literally never ever done this in my life before. but lately i have been using the tactics of 3betting trash and calling with good hands vs opponents who fold like 80% to 3bets and it was working out well.
i already knew about this but i heard Krantz :king remind me of the trick of flatting AA and what power this gives you postflop. i do c/r a LOT of flops with imo(plz tell me if im wrong and you happen to know this) a merged range and being able to include overpairs here sometimes is very valuable.
so whatever let's try it.
1st time
i flat AA
flop J 9 3 (rainbow)
villy bets, i raise, v raise, i shove
J9 obvio
so no big deal i felt good about it because i had been c/r this villain already a few times, so thought it was ok getting it in against his range.
not happy with the result though a few villains later(same pf characteristic of high folding to 3bets) i try the same trick
i flat AA
flop Q 9 6 (2 hearts or something, villain did play Ahi fd for stacks earlier)
i raise bla bla allin Q 9
this time i didn't feel so good about it afterward. but i was a little bit shellshocked from some punishment i had been getting but actually villain might have been too passive and generally nitty to get it in here so enthusiastically. so maybe my mistake.
i guess with experience i'll be able to judge better when i should fold aces postflop in a single raised pot.
so today i've had some bad experiences with the new tricks i'm trying to work into my game. but i think in the long run i will become the better player for it.
thanks for reading.
peace.
ps. so far kept to max 2 tables. except if some 20bb ss joined my open tables, i may have left the tables open for a little while cause they are so easy and standard to play. and i 3 tabled against a regular for a little while (but this was all the same villain and thats a lot easier to 3 or 4 table then 2 different villains.) i only played the reg because no one was joining my tables and there were like 60 tables with regs sitting and waiting. thought i might as well find out which ones are any good. he was pretty good but i was lucky and quit him when the momentum changed after he won a 260bb pot and was clearly refinding a lot of confidence (aka hit and running).
for the small moniez, but yah, made some pretty elite suckouts when I make mistakes which is pretty cool
hopefully live treats me right when I get back tomorrow.. first stop is naked sushi to make my return to vegas as pleasant as possible:D
I'm also going to try to get myself on a more stringent schedule to keep my head clear & my game as sharp as possible for the rest of the month.. gl with that, lol
When i was getting ridiculously sucked out the last weeks and ran like 20BI below EV in 15K hands i always kept saying to myself
-> I will make such a shitload of money as soon as the gay riggendness stopps
I played okayish and i always lost money when i got it in as a favourite
I really looked forward to when suckouts would stop
Last 4 sessions i run pretty decent
just the average 2-3 suckouts in 800 hands ...
besides that i run sligtly above EV
Graph and rakeback
6max NL50 mostly some small Nl50 HU the last couple hands
rebuilding and struggling! by piratematerial, August 05
first i'll provide you with some background what i've been doing that i need rebuilding. after that i'll by outlining the gameplan!
ok so earlier this year i took some time off and left the Netherlands to spend some time in the great city of Buenos Aires. i picked up some Castellano over there and it was a good experience. Studying the language however took loads of time and the rest was spent meeting new people, that were also travelling and ofcourse the obvious partying.
However time spent on the tables was really cut down, money spent however not . More so then i expected before leaving so on my return i'm facing the problem of rebuilding.
and damn its frustrating
kind of have myself to blame because i think playing below the level i was used to is so boring that i tried rebuilding by learning other games. Think Limit HU (awesome, that is so much fun! try it), PLO HU (equally awesome) and SH Limit (also very awesome but sometimes you have to hold the monkey agression back a little bit)
ofcourse this results in either spewing or being a rakeback player :S since for some reason my NL skills don't instantly translate... so unfair!
but learing other game's is so much fun, i really wish i was less tempted.
other reasons it's not working out as well as i hoped are:
* impatience - playing too many tables to achieve my BR goals faster, resulting in less bb/100 and more variance or... SPEW!
* summer - i love the dutch summer. this is such an awesome country when the sun is shining. stay away octobre-march music festival etc.
* faded skills - in some ways i feel i'm a better player then ever. i picked up so much knowledge, not in the last place in the live events i've been playing; Mar del Plata in Argentina and some local event in the Netherlands.
But some of my HU experience has to come back a little bit. Being at the tables everyday and watching the latest video's makes you a lot more in tune i guess. i think this is coming back fast now though.
how dissapointing are my results? last year i was really crushing the HU games at 100nl and beating the 200nl games for a good amount. maybe 100nl for as much as 15bb/100. i did game select well though.
now i'm beating 100nl for 3bb/100 that's over 70k hands :S (sucks so much! if this doesn't go up it's not worth playing, and i love it )
i also got quite some sample of 50nl and i'm beating that for 15bb in 30k hands. so my data suggest i should be playing 50nl. it would make me more money/hour :S
BIG MISTAKES:
-playing too many tables, sometimes 4 diff HU opponents mixing 100nl and 50nl.
-playing too agressive. something i tend to forget when too busy running everyone over (right) is that it's a lot of the time better at least against some opponents to give them the room to bluff. i think it should be a big part of your EV at these levels. Part of the opposition is really capable of making horrendous bluffs. and missing out on these because you are cutting them off left and right is probably not compensated for by the extra pots i pick up driving them away.
GOAL
-making 10bb/100 at 100nl
ADJUSTMENTS
-max 2 tabling
so never did this before. kind of just thrown my struggles out there. hope it sounds familiar or you learn something from my mistakes.
ps and mon more posting aonl liquiadpoapoker whielafe playing
In the last 35 days, I've played under 5k hands. Since I play a pretty significant amount of tables, you can tell I'm really not putting in the hours.
It's not that I feel like I've hit a wall, in fact I'm really confident in my game. I just don't really have the desire to grind out the hands. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely LOVE talking about poker. I'm constantly on LP throwing in my two cents on every thread that opens up, and the UIUC poker club is starting at the end of this month. I've even bought the domain and hosting for www.illinipokerclub.com. It's up and running, but it's just got an open source template up right now.
Lately I've been researching e-commerce and starting up a business. I believe this is something I can be really successful in, so I'm definitely going to give this a shot. I think it's pretty clear that if I could either go down a path of poker or business, the latter has much more opportunity.
I'm not leaving though! Sorry, but you guys are going to have to deal with me until I get on the wrong side of a mod .
Played 5.5 hours today, not a ton but not bad either. Made like 260 or so too so tomorrow should be less stressful. Had a bit of a scary start though insta losing two stacks v some idiot who can't fold Q9h and JT all-in pre v my AK. Always nice to get the loose action, just a lot nicer to win
Still NO improvements...=(by MasterofLaw, August 05
SO since I redeposited on 22 July I have been playing, for me, a shitloads of hands on NL10 6max. This level is really tilting me and right now I'm a huge loser...
I have been playing about 15k hands of NL10 6max and over first 5k hands I was up 16bi:s but now I have dropped to DOWN 19bi:s!!! It's sooo sick. I run about 4-5bi:s below EV but anyway. Don't know what I should to, have no confidence left on this level, maybe I still play a to highvariance game for this level. I often shove TPTK or nice combodraws to get loosely called by 2nd pairs and TP:s vs combodraws, problem right now, I don't hit or hold up.
However, I have doubled my roll since 22 July. Thank you God for giving me HU-games. I have been playing NL10-NL100 hu games in which I am a winner in all of them.
But I wanna learn 6max...Have no problem with 6max live but when it comes to online I just don't seem to be able to win in the long run. Any tips anyone how I can improve my game on lower limits?
+ Still up a ton this month.
+ Gotten a lot of experience with NL2k and such vs really good players and been able to hold my own somewhat decently.
- Lost a decent chunk of money today
- Losing a flip at 25/50 makes me slightly tilted in a "ohh well life is unfair could I please find a legitimate reason to be angry this is fucking annoying"-kind of way.
However, I feel that the game I sat in was probably softer then most 2/4 games, at least when the only good reg I recognized left to sleep (after stacking me) so I'm ok with my decision to sit, I feel that considering how good I've been running lately, the softness of the game and how much I've been winning the risk/reward both from a monetary and psychological point of view was better then I could reasonably expect to find within a resonable time frame as far as HS shots goes.
New plan: Grind 5/10 and lower for the next two weeks or so. No 10/20 unless the games are really good. I mentally put aside a bit of money that I'm ok with losing during my high stakes shots and there are still like 3k left of that, but I won't play with it unless the game look really good. No fucking 25/50 at all unless someone is openshoving each and every hand or something like that, then I might take a 2bi shot .
Need to get a fair bit of hands in anyway, so might as well get my grind face on. I also feel that I should dabble more with HU. I feel that it matches my skill sets pretty well.
Now I'll go read some Discworld stuff lesbo girl borrowed me. it's funny as hell.
Happiness rating: 7.2/10. - Overall really solid, but no longer in that rush I felt earlier this week. Actually, think it raised like at least 0.6 points just while I wrote this and got my thoughts together.
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we'll get the official update tomorrow, until then peace, gl, ttyl.
that does well against his 4 bet call range: pairs and maybe suited aces but mostly because he has to fold. 1st 4bet! 
but what made the incident worthy of a blogpost was what villain said in chat immediately afterward:
(aka hit and running). 
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