So far this month I've played like 18k hands mid stakes hold'em and maybe 1-2k hands of 1/2 omaha just to get FTP-points for my CR-subscription. I think I've played my A-game maybe 1/3rd of the time, which is a lot more then I usually do, and since I didn't play many hands at all for the first week of the month due to my exams (which I did decent enough on, I think) I'm very happy with the amount of hands and somewhat happy with how I've been playing. I was down a bit in the beginning, then hit a big rush but lost maybe 10 buy ins today and yesterday. Overall I'm up a couple of buy ins and I've also raked a shitton due to how many hands I've played which owns since my rakeback will be huge in the end of the month. I hope to play 75k hands this month, which would be like 20k more then I've ever played before. I also feel that I might start table selecting a bit.
And since some regs seems to read this blog:
Utregfan: You sucked ass before, please start spewing like a retard again. The new you is annoying. Also, I'd like to state that I respect you for actually trying to start games by playing HU. Most retarded good-for-nothing waste of space regs either hit n' run or just sits out when someone tries to start something. Also, even though you're an evil luckbox (AKo vs AKs !!!!) it's superfun to play you.
after playing nl 25 again for a while, pretty happy with my success. i got owned with one ridiculous set up though, it involves me raising AK and getting a limp/call.
flop: AK2
donk leads, i raise, donk shoves, i literally giggle and call
turn/river: xx
i see pocket 22 and i want to cry. but for some reason i still find it really funny and can't help but laugh out loud. this hand pissed me off only because i thought about all the AQ AJ, KQ KJ, QJ, JT, QQ JJ hands that may call me, but i completely forgot about 22's (not like i was gonna fold but still).
anyway at nl25 everyone folds to 3 bets -_-
so my plan is to 3 bet light and just call with AA KK QQ JJ vs Reraising. (if this is bad please tell me why its bad)
also despite the previous hand i ran really well with AK. i played it alot differently than i normally do however. instead of always reraising AK i started calling pf more often. I'm starting to really like this hand! it completely dominates AQ AJ KQ KJ KT QJ which i find are the fishiest hands ever. i mean i've known this for a long time but never really appreciated it i guess.
anyway my question is why do we raise AK? if it folds weaker Ax and Kx are we not just strengthening the range of our opponent? pocket pairs prob still call to set mine but that's 50/50 i guess. i mean factoring out the power of position, why do we raise AK? i love getting 3 streets of value with this hand with a K high or an A high flop against AQ or KQ. well here are some reasons (please correct or modify).
Basically i'm trying to figure out at what point does value betting become bluffy (in general not just AK, obv when more hands beat you vs lose to you)
-they gonna call with AQ AJ KQ KJ KT. i feel this is partially true depending on opponent. if opponent folds these hands do we still reraise?
-AK is so awesome why not put more money in the pot? i think that's a pretty good argument. it's +EV
-AK will sometimes fold lower pp so less risk of getting set mined.
i think it's also hard to separate the reasons from raising in general vs specifically raising with AK
obviously raising usually implies position which has a plethora of advantages by itself.
Welp, here we are ten days into June. I'm having a grand old time on FTP playing NL25. I'm finding lots of places where I don't know what the best thing to do is, and also discovering lots of leaks I can fix. I'm really feeling like I'm progressing quickly and learning a lot while I play. I have been playing four tables now this whole time and I don't plan on changing that. I think that four is really the best number, any more than that and I can't manage to keep my finger on the pulse of the table, any less and it gets pretty boring and I feel like I'm wasting some EV for my poker time.
I'm headed out to my family's summer home up in Wisconsin in a few days, probably stay there four 4-5 days and see if I can't get a nice tan. That will really cut short my month, I'm going to try for silver iron man status anyway though. My basic play is now at a place I'm really happy with (if you'll notice before I was at 14/11 then 17/13 stuff like that). I'll post my stats for this month so far right below.
I'm always looking for people to talk about poker hands with, whether they play similar stakes or higher. Feel free to send me a message on AIM, I'm SpeedyJack123. My graph is looking kind of weird so far, at first the red line was going up, then it was even, now it's going down. Each stage represents a conscious decision to change my game play and I'm still trying to figure out what type of play is optimal to crush the stake I'm at. I find it really easy to manipulate my red/blue line ratio, so I'm having a bit of fun with it right now. I'm barely 1/10 of the way done clearing my bonus so I'm still enjoying randomly gaining nearly a buyin every now and then. The sessions I'm doing are also getting longer, before I had trouble playing a solid hour, now an hour feels like a breeze and two hours is getting to be easier and easier, I've had some 3+ hour sessions. I feel like I'm getting better at grinding.
I hope everyone is having good luck and a great summer, here are some pictures that I would appreciate any feedback on:
Best way to go about this + vegas trip.by TheTank, June 10
I'm going on a vacation to vegas during the WSOP ME, and plan on playing in some cash games...Will the lower limit cash games be fishy at this time or since the ME there's going to be studs there? I figure anyone good will be playing higher limits while fish who are there to watch would be at the 200nl tables...Your thoughts?
Also, i quit poker around last october b/c was in a tremendous downswing (~-$500 on 25nl, then 10nl and 5nl...pretty pathetic) and i was reallly busy w/ school and work. but i was wondering what would be the best way to rebuild a br... mtt, cash or sng?
trying to fix life issues still over the past month, tried playing again 3 days ago but moved down to 50nl to make money/confidence before going back to 100nl and 200nl shortly after. coaching has stopped temporarily after 2 sessions, didnt see the need to get coached when in a bad state, and since ive already paid for the whole thing, decided itd be better when im back to my regular limits again. br is kinda raped, life same, but now im feeling much much better and winning again, enjoying the whole game and the misery it accompanies. lol. gonna play like 20k hands at 50nl fr and just try new stuff, open up more and get more folds the break was worth it and it helped a ton. sorry 50nl ppl, this wont take long, i promise
Is soooo low as it comes to online-poker, but high lifewise. Damn it have been a pretty rough week, lost about 10bi at NL20. But yesterday things turned around. I decided to quit multitabling NL20 and instead focus on one-tabling NL50 hu, where I have a much higher winrate. Had luck and met a total retard. He made same line almost every hand, limp or call pf, minbet postflop and fold to a raise 4-6times BB, it was only a big LOL. Raped him for approx. 4bi:s before he left and I called the night.
Remember87 is still at my place and running his race for Vegas. He doesn't have very sound habits, eats only eggs and is awake until 6 in the mornings, about 2hrs before I go for work, lol. But think he does pretty ok, except for his tilt yesterday.
Me, myself and I have catched a real big cold, which pretty much sucks. Got a lot to do att work so I can't stay home and today I have a date planned with a really great girl I met last weekend. Don't wanna show up like a monster with redeyes, but i wonder if that's not exactly what I had when we met on my third day of partying =).
Right now I just want to sleep for 24hrs but instead I'm gonna analyse some legal-case consisting of 123pages...sigh.
Hey guys, just trying to keep my blog going, I haven't played as much as i'd like but I don't really get the time to mass grind. Im still working on my game, trying to spot mistakes and such but overall Im not doing thatt bad. Even though I expected to be up a bit more and get some more hands played things are going up.
MAGGGGGGGIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCCCCCcby jasper5408, June 09
magic manage to win game 3, it was a pretty exciting game. rafer was stormed the first quarter and shot really well. so did kobe bryant which pretty much neutralized the game. all 5 starters of the magic playing really well and all in double figures. however kobe and gasol doin there part of the work. ariza and fisher shooting 3's. pretty much everyone's canceling each other out. it was sick. 4th quarter last minute, high intensity game, pietrus manages to steal the ball and deny the lakers a shot at the last possession! SO MUCH DRAMA. it was pretty sweet.
It's a great day to be alive :)by GirlsRVicious, June 09
I Love Life......
does anyone know how to convert bodog hands or get the proper HH
they arent working
made a ft today first in awhile good stuff
Hope everyone is doing well
Make it Rain....
Nick
Ran pretty well, attempted to move up and proceeded to play like crap. Back down to 25nl and the grind session. On the upside I made back everything I lost and then some after I moved back down so. I'll give it another good soon enough, from the life standpoint things are just peachy. My brother's getting married Saturday so I'm keeping busy helping him make sure everything is in order. I also took the time today to fill out my cobra election and move my 401k into an IRA while I work on finding a job that doesn't involve selling insurance.....I think that may be a difficult task until the Acuity thing opens up. I got another offer to sell the shit today, but seriously who wants to sell insurance....
Up until now I regard my poker 'career' as pathetic, I've had small stints and made some cash, and then not played for months- this has happened repeatedly. I've always been thinking about the game, watching videos, reading forums, but what good is that without actually playing? I definitely enjoy the game so I don't know why I've been so lazy, it just reflects my last few years altogther.
Last month I at least put a fair number of hands in over a two week period, mostly to unlock the free 80k VPP from Stars. In all honestly I only ended up playing those hands because I thought I could put $400 on Stars and get the 7500VPP needed on NL25 in no time... I should have really checked that with some NL25 players T_T anyway I soon moved up to NL50 and got it done.
I cashed out most of my money (all from FTP, left about $500 on Stars) to go on holiday with around May 21st. I didn't have any choice in this, I'm not in a good financial state so I needed the extra cash. I decided that in June I was going to start taking my life and everything I do seriously, no more half arsed efforts. For poker this meant quitting or really putting some work in and seeing if I can make some serious money.
I restarted on June 4th so 5 days have elapsed so far. I started by padding my bankroll at NL25, quickly moved up to NL50 and continued there. I needed about 1.4k VPP for Supernova this morning and decided it would be a good idea to earn all of that today. Normally I like to 4-6 table full size tables and focus on all my opponents, I suck at playing 'robotic' mass tabling poker. Mass tabling actually tilts the hell out of me, I was spewing all over the place with my readless plays. I appreciate players like 20 Buck Spin on a whole new level now, crushing high stakes on tons of tables- I now realise more than ever that I suck at this game. So 16 tabling 6max today just to get Supernova resulted in a shit breakeven day (+$17 in 6k hands rofl) ruining my healthy winrate, thankfully I DID get Supernova and also the $160 cash bonus so it wasn't all bad.
So far in June + $1k in cash games and + $180 in bonuses, with Supernova unlocked. Hoping to move up to NL100 by the end of this week. I'm aiming for my best month ever and to have enough money to stay at whatever limit I reach since I will inevitably need to cash out more money at the end of the month.
I know I dont tilt a lot but today I couldnt resist it.. The whole atmosphere here was tiiiiltmode so it took control over my body and made me do things I normally wouldnt do at all.
After my morning grind I was up about 5BI but since I was hijacked by some tiltforce I made that drop considerable. So totally I ended down 2 BI for the day. Gahhh..
dont think I will play more tonight.. maybe after a good movie or w/e.. new update tomorrow!
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the break was worth it and it helped a ton. sorry 50nl ppl, this wont take long, i promise 
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