-Results, no. of hands: Whatever. In fact, I want stop posting results all together.
-My Only Results Goal as from now: Play 3bb/100 at NL200 in One Year
-Have FUN,
Oh and of course, continue taking out RB to have something for the hustle.
P.S. WHAT TO DO WITH £250 ($410) VOUCHERS?
I kinda ran out of Ideas of what to buy at Amazon. Got a phone, watch, 23'' LG Screen (I LOVE IT SO MUCH OMFG-.-)), sme DVDs a couple books and some other dumb things like poker posters.
I will maybe get a Wii (although I will never use it most likely)and of course some kickass executive chair, but after that I have no Idea.
(The £250 Voucher Offers 60 FPP/$ at present exchange rate - Only the milestone Cash Credits from 200,000 give better ratio)
July went pretty well, fell a bit short of my hands goals (mostly due to partying a bit too much at the end as well as my allergies hitting me really hard over the past week) but still managed about 8k total profits. It's about what I was hoping for but i did have a -15 bi run to end the month so it ended on a sour note, 5 digit month would have been very nice.
In any case, gonna go for a 150k hand month for august. That should be between 3k and 4k in rakeback so with that and potential winnings I'm hoping for a $15k month, it'll depend quite a bit on when I'll be able to move up to NL200. Needs to be a pretty huge month though since sept is going to be extremely busy, going to Korea for APPT Seoul and vegas for mine and my gf's birthday (on that subject, why the fuck are hotels so expensive the weekend AFTER labor day?). It's kinda cool but mostly lame that we were both born on the 9th but whatever, it's her 21st so obviously the trip is going to be mostly about her. Gonna be a huge strain on my wallet but hopefully if I bring a good amount of money with me I can win a lot of it back playing live donks.
On the subject of my gf she's really taken an interest in becoming good at poker. She's helped me a ton with my motivation to play (fox can attest to this, she's basically a surrogate supervisor) and has started to pick up on things herself. I'm a little skeptical about teaching her because winning in the online world is not easy at all and she seems to have a bit too much gamble and not quite enough patience but so far she's taken to it very well. The plus side is she can grind really fucking well, she enjoys poker far more than I do and has a natural workaholic mentality, she puts in 3k-4k hand sessions like they were nothing. In any case, if any micro stakes players have played with her on stars (her sn is bluegirl09) and can tell me what you've seen from her playing style I'd appreciate it. I'm still unsure if she can get past the massive NL25/NL50 cockblock even with months of coaching but we'll see. If she can she has more than enough drive to go SNE next year.
This blog is mostly just for me to remind me wtf i was doing this month, my goals for the month, how it went and my goals for August.
July Goals:
1. [ ] 20k hands
2. [x] 1k profit including rakeback
3. [x] Move up to NL100
4. [ ] Run 15 times
5. [ ] Watch 8 CR Vids
1. 20k hands: My goal was to play at least 20k hands, I played 18k, which is kind of lazy. But I went on a four days cruise with my family with 6h stops in Riga and Visby. There was a nice buffet on the boat and you could drink as much wine and beer during the 2h buffet as you wanted. Which usually meant two glasses of white wine for me, just because they had so much sea food.
The average age on the boat was probably 45 but it was okay anyway, still had a good time going out drinking with my brother, his girlfriend and my sister every night.
2. $1k profit: I don't usually set monetary goals, but I wanted to set one this time, a low one that i'd make almost every time. As a confidence booster from last month when I broke-even and had the worst month in about a year. The month started off slow and I broke even for about the first 4k hands, the following 8k hands I won 10BI, then hit a downswing for 14BI in 3 days x.x
I ran bad, but also made some huge spews which is annoying and retarded. I should just be able to tell myself that losing is part of poker and that's that. I probably would have made about 5 more BI if I hadn't spewed this month. In cg I was break-even before yesterday but had a heater on the last day and made $500 in 1,1k hands. It's always nice to at least profit! Even though I ran below expectation this month I think I would've made twice as much if I just hadn't spewed. And making $1k in a month on cg isn't bad at all! I really need to work on not spewing, cuz I'm definitely not crushing NL100 and I need every $ I can get.
I made enough on rb and had some small tournament cashes to fulfill this month's goal of making $1k, but just barely, thank you 31th for letting me run good :D.
3. Move up to NL100: uhm.. done.
4. Run 15 times: I ran 10 times, which is still good, 15 times is sort of overkill. I've joined a soccer team which is tonnes better training than just running. The club has teams in the 8th, 7th and 5th division. Haven't played in a club for 10 years so I'm a bit rusty. But I've always had a talent for sports and might even play for their 5th divisions team at the end of the season (2 months). It's more likely that I won't though. If I don't get injured I will most likely be one of the starting eleven next season.
5. Watch 8 CR vids: Watched 5, atm I feel like it's more important for me to just play and get used to NL100 than watching videos. I mostly just watch videos after running bad to get back on track.
On a side note, I was accepted for my university course! it's a one year base course in natural science which hopefully leads to me getting a biologist degree. The course starts in the end of August, which means I won't be able to grind whenever I want to or as much.
August Goals:
[ ] 20k hands
[ ] Clear the $500 bonus on FTP
[ ] Go to every soccer practice
just started playing poker again, well...never really played it much but this time i think ill be more motivated to continue playing.
So i was doing fine with sng's and was up around $5-8 from playing $1 +0.25 in fulltilt..
Then i installed pokertracker and have been playing weirdly ever since. Just not used to all the figures etc but i do know that it will help me in the long term so i just need to learn all the functions n HUD.
got a Question though..which is basically the purpose of this blog post since i didnt feel like embarassing myself by creating a post just to ask this Q.
How do i calculate EV for any hand im in, can HUD show EV?
how do i graph EV in pokertracker or whatever program that people use for EV.
First day of getting seriousby AgentIce, August 01
So I have been slowly getting my discipline back and playing more poker, but I have been wasting too much time. So my plan with this blog is to make public my efforts, both good and bad, in order to hopefully motivate me more so I can write something good.
Today I had planned to play, but I got sidetracked when going out with my girlfriend to do some shopping and to go to her bank to get her half of the rent. Afterwards we were planning on going swimming. Because I knew I wouldn't play for a while I smoked some weed, a bad idea and it really didn't do much for me. I had the idea of looking at goodwill for cheap furniture, something I could have said no to and started working, and just an excuse to not play. Looking back its sad how easily I talk myself out of working. It started getting so late I did what I usually do and thought "well its so late, why not take the day off, it won't matter much.". I also said I wanted to buy more weed because the old weed was so crappy and unfulfilling. I guess its true, but more bullshit, I should have just decided to work in the first place. I shouldn't have smoked the crappy weed at all actually. I told jessica I worked the past 5 days, which is true, but I wasn't doing as many hours as I should have. Some of the days I only did like 1.5 hours. Eventually we came back to the apartments and swam, then went to walmart to get some stuff for dinner, then watched some tv. So I think basically I really need to focus on not making excuses and sticking to my plan. Having to write out and be honest with myself about how much I avoid working in a public blog like this will hopefully motivate me.
well, down 4-5BI in EV, which isn't half the story of all the fucktards hitting the nuts on the turn/river after making atrocious flop calls. but without further ado... Juliohttp://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/2dc51.july.png
Hey guess ill post an update on how im doing since my last blog, since then i bought HEM which definitely helps a lot and have tried out various things including 4 tabling, which seemed sick compared to what i used to do (20 tables FR, now i'm playing 6 max,and like i actually play people instead of 20 tabling fr and wait for aces to stack a drunk lagtard, recently i switched to 9 tabling to get more hands in but i think i might go back to 4 tabling to improve. Unfortunately though I've been stuck at nl50 this entire month and just today had a -400 EV down swing so im at 1300 total for my BR, and i will receive around 700+ in rakeback soon. so now to further improve my game i was wondering what you guys thought about some of those poker video sites like stox or cardrunners or something, seems like this would be really useful, sort of like watching a replay in sc i guess. Some good news about how poker is going for me is i deposited 100$ on ps and got 2nd place in a 1$ tournament and got like 450+ and also grinded a few 2.20 180 mtt's which i made a decent profit from, so i can withdraw this money and use it for coaching or videos or w/e. another thing i was wondering about is how long do you think is long enough to determine if you should keep playing poker player or not, currently i've been playing for over half a year and i feel like im a good player and can beat teh inter pokers but so does every other single poker player. also how long is normal to be trying to beat a limit as low as nl50? yeah so i guess that its for this blog give me your thoughts on some of those poker sites and if they are even worth it.
whats up with the new image uploader?by whamm!, August 01
i cant post images for some reason, i kinda liked the old method of posting pics coz it was faster, this thing doesnt work for me at all. on the poker front, things havent gone really great, just made 250 in a week grinding massive hands and running totally under ev over 40k hands, day 1 of stake was awesome since it was on a weekend and won 9bi at 100nl, the following weekdays that followed were just too brutal and swingy so i lost 2/3 of what i won, FML. stars has been fucking with me lately and after the start of the 2nd week, i ran completely like horseshit and started playing a little worse since i just couldnt hit good flops or at least textures at least to make cbetting not too -ev against regs. i believe ppl at 100nl have been noticing that ive been running terrible and playing at little to weak or spastic at times. so yeah i get 3bet a lot lately and it hasnt been great at all playing oop and losing a lot in those spots. im currently down about 7bi atm and it feels sick that i have to go back to 50nl to get my confidence back a little and so as to not ask money from staker for a reload coz i def want him to just breakeven at the worst from this whole stake and not lose money. im very thankful about this whole stake and i def know things will turn around soon. anyways i hope this image uploader thing gets fixed
good luck everyone
I started the month playing Fixed Limit still. Then I realized there's just not as much money in that game anymore and I can't deal with the variance involved. So after about 4 days into the month I switched to SnGs. Played those for about a week and then a friend of mine was visiting and he also plays poker. In short he basically was like "Lol why don't you play NL 6max cash.. it's the most profitable." Since then I've stuck to 6mad NL cash starting back at NL25.
It's kind of hard to swallow because back in February I was NL50 reg and about to move up to NL100. But I had some rough downswings + tilt and moved back to Fixed Limit and wasted 5 months, and here we are at NL25. I've gotten better though so I guess it doesn't matter which stakes I'm playing, I know I'll get to my end of year goal which is to switch to part-time at my job once I make 50 buy-ins at NL100.
I won't post an EV graph because it's kind of sick to look at how much I "could" have won. I'm trying to not use this function at all and if there was a way to delete it from HEM I would. I've been mostly 4-6 tabling on my laptop and I just built a new desktop to use later on I just need to get a monitor for it. It will be strictly a poker machine but I will still only 6 table at max.
About 10k hands at NL25 + another 10k at Fixed Limit and SnGs. 20k hands isn't too bad since I work full-time, my goal for August will be 30k. We'll see if that happens though because my birthday is in August and I'll be going to Vegas :D
another 3k hands played today, between 4-12 tables. 5.56 hours!
July was a flippin disaster. My June ended pretty badly but for this bullspit to repeat itself in July just drains my balls. I started the month off with a 6 buyin downswing - boom. Move back down to NL50. Grind some there, and still got owned with bad runnings + megatilt.
Deposited $500 on fulltilt to clear a bonus and busted it all in 7k hands running like poop.
It's 6-max with some HU. Mostly 2/4, some 3/6, one bigish herocall, one 500bb pot, some profanities and random zooming that I don't understand. Think it's fairly educational. Give me some comments.
Today was a great day. Stuck to 4 tabling 25nl. Made $212 and cleared a $50 bonus. I had this huge fish on my right on one table who was playing 96/78 and played every hand the same way. He would raise to .75, then fire .75 on flop, 1.25 on turn and 2.25 on the river every hand, it was awesome.
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