So far I have been limiting myself to shorter +3-6 BI sessions and then stopping to play again later. It has gone really well doing this so far as I have been playing a morning/afternoon/night session. Here are the results for that so far.
As you can see most of the sessions are super super short with the exception of the one where i got stuck alot right away and had to grind back up to even. I have done this in the past before with awesome results each time so hopefully I can continue with it this month. I somehow booked about 2.5k more in action against me hitting 10k but I am pretty sure I will not be getting anymore action. Total I have around 8k in Props now so hopefully I can take them all down.
I have a few volume prop bets also this month but at this rate I feel like i wont hit them playing nl100 because I really don't want to potentially have a big bad session so I will most likely put in the hands at nl50 6max or nl200 FR.
I really don't know how/why I am winning so much right away at the start of my sessions. Usually I will just load up 10+ empty tables and then join other tables when I start my session and the players that sit with me to start tables are super bad and I win alot right away. I see how jrockhaf has been able to win so much at his sick winrate by doing this. I have been working on my HU/shorthanded game alot lately and feel my progress is going really well. Hopefully can keep studying my game/watching videos and get better.
probably the worst run prelim event I've ever played. nothing spectacular within the first 2-3 hrs except for 2 hands.
1st hand: everyone folds to me otb with ATo at 75/150 with eff. stack of 16k. I opened to 500 cuz the bb is an old guy who defends his bb pretty wide and plays quite straightfoward. BB 3bets to 1600 and I flat with intention of using my postflop skill to take down the pot later.
Flop (3275) Kd Qs Js
bb cbets 2k and I made a gay raise with my flopped nuts to 4475 and bb tank called.
Turn (12275) Tc
bb checks and I bet 4k and he instant crai for the rest of his chips and i knew we were chopping..
bb turns over AQo for the chop. well played sir.
2nd hand:
After the 2nd break, I had around 11k left and blinds were 150/300/25
prior to this hand, I have 3bet-allin pre 2 hands w/ 99 and 77 respectively so my table image is def not as tightish as I was in the first 4 lvls.
utg limps, and co (who wears a 2009 bracelet but i have no clue who he is cuz I own him postflop pretty bad and he's been getting out of my way) made it 1100 to go. I looked down and saw AdAs and decided to flat and go with my hand on pretty much all flops. Blinds folded and utg also called.
Flop (3800) Ac Kh 4h (uber nuts baby!)
utg donks out 1400 and pfr raised to 4800, I thought for a min and shipped the rest of my chips and utg folded. pfr instant called and turned over Q8hh. one time plz!
turn was a 5 and river was a 10 of heart and sent me to the rail.
cliff notes: played very well and solid and got my money in way good but couldnt' hold up. fml
Does anyone here remember learning in school about the March of the Bonus Army in 1932? If so please let me know.
Here is a youtube video on it, it is in 3 parts
Personally I can't recall even any mention of this and I'm pretty sure I would remember something like this. A shame if you ask me.
I am reminded of Rage Against the Machine
Who controls the past now, controls the future
Who controls the present now, controls the past
Who controls the past now ,controls the future
Who controls the present now?
Now testify
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Pokerwise, June '09 overall was a very interesting month to say the least. Started out bad but ended really good. I now play on both Stars and FTP and I got hands in everyday in June except for 3. I am very happy with the overall results.
I am debating how I am going to go about July '09 pokerwise tho. For a few different reasons, I am conjuring up and debating doing a small challenge to myself. Basically to keep things interesting and the need of the grind sharp I am envisioning me cashing out and starting over on one of the sites (most likely Stars) and grinding and blogging about my overall monthly grind. There is a part of me that would like to blog more about poker this month but another part of me that says there is no need to tack yet another thing onto my list so I'm not sure yet.
I have a pretty packed 4th tho so I do not think I am going to start getting tons of hands in until around the 7th. I'll mule it over until then. It pretty much revolves around the cashout.
That's it for now
peace~
I have never really posted here, but as I decided to quit it I realized that it would be nice to summarize my time playing poker and share it with those who wanna read it.
I started playing 2 years ago. First freerolls, but never more than once a week and such. The true beginning was typical - deposited 30$ in December last year, played NL2 and built up. I was still learning the game multitabling FR playing typical ABC. I was doing fine and I really enjoyed playing as well as reading everything I got my hands on, watching every single piece of poker television ever released and listening to countless poker podcasts. I didn't play that many hands and was more devoted to learning the game, but still as the time went by I moved to NL10 after about 2 months and in March last year I shot at NL25 with 20BI. My first 3 days were awesome. I had 900$ and was having another great session and then bam, in 40 minutes I lost set over set to rivered quads 2 times, AA vs KK twice and 6BI was gone. I didn't really understand how this could happen, but quit that day and decided to play NL10 again the next day. Unfortunetely nothing was going ok and after 3 months of struggling I was almost broke. I withdrew my last 50$ and decided not to play for some time.
Three weeks later I was ready to play again with a fresh mindset. I deposited 200$ and played again FR NL10. After a day I was down to 30$. I decided to try sitngos I was always doing good at and built back up to about 500$ in a week. Started playing NL25 and NL50, as I thought I couldn't beat NL10 anymore. It went great and after running well for 3 weeks I was up to 1500$. I continued playing with some swings down to 800$ and back to 2000$ withdrawing like 400-500$ every month in the process. Then I made a shot at SH NL100 and got on a heater (first 4 days of November). After a week I was up to 4000$ and happy that I can finally play and enjoy it again. I remember saying "Wow, now that I have not been getting suckouted on every single time I will have to pay for it with a large downswing". Said it as a joke, because after so many months of running extremely bad I didn't really believe it could come back. I thought that it was a one time deal and I will just play poker with normal swings like everyone else.
Then came November, 5th. I lost a few buyins. Next day the same. A day after that again. I quickly moved back to NL50, but it didn't help and by the end of November I was down to 2k in disbelief. I decided to change the room to IPoker and play at Chili. I moved 1k$ there and played NL50 for some time. I didn't win a single hand playing cash games there. It just didn't matter if I had the guy down to 2 outs, to 3 outs, to 5 outs, to 9 outs - the result was always the same. Then I played one table FR sitngos and didn't cash in 25 in a row. I took me a month to go broke there. Every day I would sit, get suckouted on 3 times, quit for the day, come back the next day and the same thing over and over again. I've had enough.
I didn't play at all during Christmas. I came back in January to my old pokerroom where I had built my bankroll previously. I played NL25 and NL10 with my last 1k and it wasn't that bad. I had 13 straight winning days. I was still running bad, but the level of play somehow made me get a BI or half a BI a day there. Then I withdrew half of my bankroll and left myself with 600$. A losing day, another losing day and another one. I made a trip with my friends to play live. I won some money in cashgames, won a very small tournament and was happy. Came back ready to own, but I still couldn't win and almost didn't play at all after a few days.
Around April I decided to move to FTP to get a welcome bonus and play there. I couldn't believe it, as I played the nitty NL10 FR there and was running kings into aces 3-4 times a day. After 4 days I was down a few buyins, mostly because I lost 18BI KK vs AA and never won it even once. Then I ran with AA vs KK 4 times in a row and lost all of them. I was just pissed off and left FTP.
My friend knew that I was really good at Sitngos so he decided to put me on stars to play 6.50 turbo sitngos as I didn't want to deposit anything again. I shipped him the rest of my FTP money and got on a nice deal at stars. I was going to multitable sitngos and just going to go for goldstar. I was running ok for some time at steady 20% ROI getting to battle of planets high orbit top40 every week. My friend told me to give him some of my money as we decided on at the beginning and to keep the rest and build up again. Then I started running bad. One week, second week, third week. Every single time I had a good turbo shoving hand someone had aces, kings etc. I could never steal blinds, as every nit on the blind woke up with aces. I was getting coolered over and over again and when I was the favorite it didn't matter, as it was like a coinflip between losing and winning. I was constantly losing to underpairs flopping sets after getting it in pf. I decided to start counting flips as I was playing (turbo is obviously kinda flippish) and I won 283 out of 1000. Then I moved to normal sitngos. The level of play was awful and there were no regulars there. I guess people are more into turbo sitngos where they just use shoving ranges in their favor and play tons of them to get more fpps. At the beginning I was building back again, but then it again got bad. I've had enough and decided to quit it and go back to playing cash games. Today after getting it in good 20 times in a row, I busted the rest of my bankroll.
I've been running terrible for 8 straight months. Nothing helped. Reading books didn't help. Watching training videos didn't help. As I was watching leggo videos I realized that I wasn't doing anything wrong in general. I obviously had a few minor leaks, but nothing that would cause constant losing for a year. I consider myself to be a very bright and intelligent guy with a good feel for games in general. I tried to make myself believe that I was just playing bad and I had a lot to fix, but it just wasn't the case. I used to never go on tilt. Nowadays every single hand tilts me to death. I don't have streaks where I get 3 of my hands to hold up in a row. I have had streaks of 15-20 lost flips in a row (23 is the record) on the daily basis, but I didn't win 4 flips in a row for a year now. Anywhere I go I can't even get one good winning session. I have played a few tournaments to score sth big to make up for all the wasted time playing, but I was only able to mincash a few times thanks to playing good without showdowns and maybe getting one hand to hold up in the process. After the bubble period I have never won a major flip, got my hand to hold up or just run KK vs AA. I have met people through poker who noticed that I was pretty good and kept persuading me that everyone has downswings and it will turn back on in my favor soon. I obviously know that. But I just can't win.
I used to love poker. It gave me a chance to compete and earn some money (I am extremely competitive) at the same time. Nowadays I hate poker. I don't consider it to be a game of skill anymore. I believe that it has never been a game of skill. Statistics is not mathematics. There are just people who run better and people who run worse. Those who play well just maximize their winnings or go broke slower. I devoted every minute of my free time in the last 2 years (aside from school obviously) to learn the game and play it well. It backfired badly. I wasted so many hours that it is just painful to think about. I am mentally destroyed, I can't keep my mind straight anymore. I am an atheist, I don't believe in all the paranormal shit, but I just think I am cursed. I don't think I can play the game anymore. I can't think straight, I am scared of taking flips or getting money in as a small favorite. I don't believe I can ever win again. As as student I liked a few hundred extra bucks a month for small expenses. Now I think I would be better off just finding myself a part-time job.
To all the beginners: think twice before starting to play this game. You may be successful at it and earn some money or destroy yourselves in every way possible. Don't take anything for granted. Never.
regards, hope you don't hate me for wasting a few minutes to read it all, as I tried to make it as short as possible (and yeah, it's not really written too well. I am better at english than that),
Tomasz
This is exciting and sad at the same time. I'm gonna miss my girl like crazy and already feel it, but at the same time this is my first trip to Vegas and I've been preparing for it for months. I even started playing live poker, which I used to hate, so that I wouldn't be a total fish when I showed up in Vegas. At least now I understand how things work in a casino - at least a little bit.
Mostly done packing and I'm sure I forgot some stuff, so hopefully I remember what it was before tomorrow morning. Gonna be doing an 11 hr drive (according to mapquest, but I have heard it only takes 9) from CO to Vegas. I've got a friends place to stay at once I arrive but I'm hoping I can find an LP couch to crash on later so that I can spend more time with other poker players.
Trying to do this all on a budget, hence the couch surfing. I'm also gonna be on the subway 5 dollar footlong plan unless I can figure out another cheap way to eat while I'm there. I have this fantasy that I'll get some comps for the buffets, but that's probably from watching too many movies about Vegas, haha.
I'm excited to meet everyone. I've been talking to a lot of LP guys for ages and never met em in the flesh. Milkman, MiPwnya, Frinkx, Night201, SakiSaki, Wisdom, and a bunch more. I have a feeling this will be pretty similar to going to WCG, except everyone will be much more baller.
I'll try to post pictures here in my blog if anything exciting goes down while I'm around. And I'll probably be updating this quite a bit as I play and so on. I've been lazy on the blog lately cause I've spent a lot more time working my part time job for a non-profit than I have for poker (it's been pretty full time for the last few months cause I wanna help em out). But starting with this trip my life is gonna refocus on poker. I really want to be a 2/4 reg taking 3/6 shots by the end of this year. I feel pretty confident that I could beat 2/4 right now if I was rolled for it, but it would be for a very tiny winrate. I'm hopeful that spending time with a bunch of LP guys will allow me to learn and break through that wall. Plus if I run good I should be able to boost my roll quite well vs all the fish who will be in town.
Gonna spend tonight with my lady and then get up and I'm off to Vegas! Crazy to think that the time has actually arrived for me to do this =)
Wondering if there is anywhere else that has NL10 or lower since my rakeback provider doesn't know the fucking difference between a username and nickname and because Cellsino is rigged as fuck.
June is over and there are only 3 days left to my 18th birthday. I have already got myself a gift, which is a small upgrade of my 'nerding point' (or 'nerding station', whatever you like better). Here's a pic:
I bought new speakers - Logitech Z-5500 plus mouse/keyboard MX5500 Revolution pack.
Speakers are AMAZING, let alone the keyboard and the mouse, which feel really nice.
Summer has been great so far. In the 2nd half (well, basically the end) of June I won back some money and am now confident enough to play and (hopefully) win more in July. I need to build up my BR a little so that I could splash out some money later in London I'm sooo looking forward to this trip. One of my main goals there is to gamble it up in a casino for the first time in my life.
Speaking of trips, today we were canoeing in Zwierzyniec. Nothing hardcore, small river, couple of beers, it was fun
Pics + Show Spoiler +
Ok, June 2009 is over and it was the best month of my poker "career" so far (and quite by far too)!
I spent June partly in Vegas playing WSOP and partly in Barcelona playing WPT Spanish Championship, with only a couple days inbetween spent at home when I needed to play the last couple of matches of my futsal team (futsal = football played on a smaller pitch 5vs5 for those who dont know).
Made money in 2 of them, which is good I think, especially when one of them was a pretty deep finish (24th out of 2,640). Invested $11k, won $21.5k, which means ROI of about 96%, quite nice imo.
Futsal
Then I went back home to play the last 2 futsal matches. We won both of them and secured 3rd place finish in our league, which was our historical best finish so far, so I was pretty happy about it, eventhough it didnt mean anything since only top 2 advance to the higher league. Edit: I just got this hot news, that we actually advanced to the higher league due to some system changes or something, yay, great month!
During those couple days I managed to score another solid finish in tournament poker - I won a package in the WSOP Super-satellite at PS worth $12,000 or (since I wasnt really going back there) simply $12,000 in cash.
Barcelona
Few days later I was on my way to Barcelona, to play the WPT Spanish Championship 2009. It was a €5,300 NLHE freezeout and I expected it to have quite a soft field. I also expected about 260-300 players. I was quite right about the first one, but totally wrong about the second - only 172 players registered for this tournament. Still, a pretty solid prize of €277,000 was waiting for the winner.
Anyways, the tournament went quite normal from the beginning, I wasnt really getting many big hands, but I had quite enough soft spots at my tables to be able to at least slightly increase my starting chipstack, which meant, that after 2 days of playing I was still in, eventhough with quite a shortstack. Didnt mind it at all given I didnt have to win a single big showdown up to that point (lost 2 allins vs shorties though, once hugely ahead, once slightly).
Then in the beginning of day 3 I finally used all the saved up luck from previous days to pull out this major suckout: an agressive Danish player with above avg. stack raised from the CO to 2.5bb, I found QJs in the SB and shipped it allin for about 20bb hoping to take it down uncontested or flip for it if called. But the big blind with about avg. stack announced allin too and I knew I wasnt going to be good. Even worse, the original raiser snapped the allin, oh well. My QJs vs BB's AK, vs. CO's AA! Tough one you say? Well, the flop came AK7, giving my opponents top two and top set and me the dreaded gutshot! I and couple players from other tables who rooted for me started shouting "Ten, ten, ten" in a rhytmic way and the river fullfilled my wish, easy game
Couple hands after that I got KK utg and raised, got a reraise from the button and the big blind cold 4-bet instantly. It was an older french guy that I didnt know but it was quite scary, but obviously I shipped it in hoping to see QQ. Button folded and french guy showed 99, wow. I held and suddenly had a big stack. Couple hands and steals/small pots later I was the overall chipleader with about 23 people left. I wanted to abuse the bubble but didnt quite get much of a chance since it was over sooner than I realised it. At least I was the one who busted it Then my super heater ended and with 12 left I was down to about the average stack. Later though, I managed to win a coinflip vs. a shortstack + some small pots against few weaker players, so in the end when the final table bubble busted, I had the chiplead back.
At the final table though I was super card dead, so I didnt really play any interesting hands at all, simply either a steal worked or did not, other than that I was just waiting around and folding, until we were 5 handed and I was already the shortest stack, so when Randall raised from utg and I found 77 in the SB, I didnt quite hesitate much to ship my 23 big blinds in. Got called quite fast, but was in a good shape flipping vs. his AQ. Unfortunately for me the flop came KJT and turned and river bricked and I was out in the 5th place.
Anyways, I won the prize of €50,400 (only 68% was mine), which is also a new Czech record in biggest cash in live tournaments ranking
Summary
Ok, lets get to the summary:
This month, I made a total profit of $74,857 (of which almost $50k is profit from live tournaments, yay), which is by far my best month ever! I am really happy about it since I wasnt doing very good this year so far and was way below my expectations. After this month I am back in the ok-ish range as far as yearly progress goes. I am obviously pretty happy about this month
Edit: I made some photos while travelling, if anyone wants to see them, they are published here:
My main goal for june was to make 10BI during the first couple of days to prove I was in shape and then go to Vegas for some pawnage. It started out well, I was at my goal at one point but then stuff happened, I started to tilt/play bad and I was somehow down 10BI instead for the month.
After a few days off I went back to the basics, thought about what I did in certain spots and decided not to do any autopiloting in any spots. It resulted in some interesting spots, especially when I flat a couple of big pairs IP pre. And most important, it gave results. It felt like I was sooo much better then my opponents and I ended the month at a peak with a bit more than a 10BI profit.
Due to some travelling etc I didn’t put in too many hands (Swedish summer is just sooo great at this time) but I managed to play 20k hands atleast. Including RB I won $3k in June. Not too bad but I will try to improve that tremendously in July.
Right now I’m at Dusty's to stay there for a couple of days, grinding, fishing etc.. Think it will be really fun
Hello everybody, strange to write something about himself...
i'm a low stakes grinder right now, i had deposit 250e on microgaming on september and build my bankroll to around 12ke playing cash game shorthanded.
I have cashed out 6ke for my living and let 6k to play nl100. Unfortunately i recently lost 2K5 playing nl100... dunno how i have done at this limit, but doesn't matter.
I still have 3K5 bankroll and will grind nl50 for a short time and hope to be back soon.
this blog is to work on my english, find support when i need to, to work on my game, share some hands etc...
(ps : wonder know how to make a "spoiler" , if anyone is able to tell me )
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