I just got a $26 token from the FTP academy and wanted to take a chance at the higher stakes. I was thinking the $16,000 guarantee because guarantees have been easier in my very limited past experience.
I've decided to skip out on the 3 smaller bonuses to get at the big one. Normally, I play anywhere from 20-35k hands a month. I started this month with a little over 103k FPP. 72 hours and 16k hands later, I sit with 110k FPP. The most frustrating aspect of grinding at 50NL is that VPP's come so slow. I 20-table for what seems like an eternity only to find out that I've made a few hundred VPP in 1 session. If it wasn't for Platinum status, i'd be killing myself right about now. Will it be possible for me to reach 150k FPP by the end of the month? Any tips/advice? Stay tuned for more updates as the month comes along.
played like 60 11$ turbo sngs or something like that for 180$~ profit , meh, good change of pace to refresh my mind
played a little bit of PL50 for fun for a week as well - competition was INSANELY weak but i felt i was stagnating and not improving my play at all. Ran about 4 BI -EV at PL50, cant complain tho -_-;;
took my shot at NL100 about 6 days ago , doing alright i guess. I don't find any of the regs particularily hard except for a select few , but not sure if they're just running well vs me or not. I've made a few adjustments to my game the last 10k hands and ive grown alot more confident. Playing much more aggressive in select situations has been paying off. NL100 graph is missing about 5k hands where i made something like 2 BI. http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/0a967e13e61ca2d336bbf75f5795c5b2.jpg
Short Term: 6k BR without rakeback. w/d 3rd week of june's rakeback cheque for RL poker , gifts, etc.
Midterm: 1/2 reg by end of july , beg of aug.
Longterm: 10k BR after w/d'ing to pay back student loans. ONE TIME PLZ
My first shot at NL25 this month: 38k hands @ 2.5bb/100
NL10 for almost 11k hands @ 6.1 bb/100 (14-16 tabling out of boredom), ran at 8-9bb/100 when 8-10 tabling last month =/
Considering this was my first shot at NL25, I'm pretty happy with the results but feel like my game needs to improve quite a bit before I try NL50
Had 1 $26 token left from getting rid of FTPs. Been posting tourney beats all day in the hands section. Play one last $24+2 KO. Get to FT 2/9, fall to 8/8 and then run like god himself. I know it;s only 6 buy-ins, but I've never won a non-satty MTT before. LOOOL sharkscope:
Around game 400 is where I started grinding SNGs for FT points, everything before was from last year when I was a fish.
Thanks to Howard Lederer for the rungood. Thanks to Neilly for inspiring me to fire up one more tonight (he doesn't know it, but I get a little jealous when any of you ship big scores). And finally thanks to the FTP points store for sucking so much that I have to get part of my rakeback by playing tourneys that I'm painfully over-rolled for. Run good everyone.
Tried to take a break, tried HUSNG's, did STTSNG's, and everything just ends in me tilting really hard. This is so depressing. And I finally got some courage to clear my mind and try NL5 again, which I lost 2 buyins ($5) to the most retarded donk shit ever.
I remember some really nice LP member offered to sweat me but I have just been in the worst tilt/mood ever and nothing has been going right. My 6-max isn't terrible though. I know it has some leaks but I feel like my understanding is pretty solid for NL10.
So that being said, I tried NL10 with 20 buy-ins.. did pretty good. But one night some fucking piece of shit would call me deep with A3 UTG and hit a A33 flop. Fucking pissed me off so much I tilted to 15 buy-ins and its been going down hill from there. I tried doing other fucking things and nothing is going right.
So going to try NL10 again with 10 buy-ins. Who gives a fuck really. I have a bigger chance of going broke but no one gets anywhere at NL5 or NL2 because that shit isn't even poker.
Going to go to sleep, relax a bit, and take a shot. Wish me luck.
Agastia: bets $32.30 and is all-in
edzwoo: calls $32.30
Showdown Agastia: shows (two pair, Nines and Sevens)
edzwoo: mucks hand
Agastia collected $122.10 from pot
Agastia is sitting out
Summary Total pot $124.10 | Rake $2
Board
Seat 1: kingthe edge (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: Agastia showed and won ($122.10) with two pair, Nines and Sevens
Seat 5: edzwoo (button) mucked
Seat 6: evantair (small blind) folded before Flop
kingthe edge: checks
edzwoo: bets $20
kingthe edge: raises $20 to $40
edzwoo: raises $21 to $61
kingthe edge: calls $0.90 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($20.10) returned to edzwoo
River (Pot : $103.80)
Showdown kingthe edge: shows (a straight, Six to Ten)
edzwoo: mucks hand
kingthe edge collected $102.80 from pot
Summary Total pot $103.80 | Rake $1
Board
Seat 1: kingthe edge (small blind) showed and won ($102.80) with a straight, Six to Ten
Seat 5: edzwoo (big blind) mucked
Seat 6: evantair (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Might've been able to fold here I dunno.
Then I went 0/5 or so on 3bets.
Then I went 0/2 on 4bets.
Then I constantly got my cbets raised by passive donks and nits in every iso.
Then I timed out 3 river calls I should have made.
PokerStars Game #28959325044: Holdem No Limit ($0.50/$1.00) - 2009/06/03 17:57:43 CT [2009/06/03 18:57:43 ET]
Table Ganymede IV 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: ifoundnemo23 ($140.40 in chips)
Seat 2: lessharm ($100 in chips)
Seat 3: Ronfar3 ($100 in chips)
Seat 4: millers11 ($96.75 in chips)
Seat 5: edzwoo ($102.80 in chips)
Seat 6: covang80 ($61.45 in chips)
Seat 7: seven9 ($48 in chips)
Seat 8: justDgmt ($100 in chips)
Seat 9: Remwer ($36 in chips)
lessharm: posts small blind $0.50
Ronfar3: posts big blind $1
Holecards Dealt to edzwoo
millers11: folds
edzwoo has timed out
edzwoo: folds
edzwoo is sitting out
edzwoo has returned
covang80: raises $3 to $4
seven9: folds
justDgmt: folds
Remwer: folds
ifoundnemo23: folds
lessharm: folds
Ronfar3: folds
Uncalled bet ($3) returned to covang80
covang80 collected $2.50 from pot
Summary Total pot $2.50 | Rake $0
Seat 1: ifoundnemo23 (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 2: lessharm (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: Ronfar3 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: millers11 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: edzwoo folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: covang80 collected ($2.50)
Seat 7: seven9 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 8: justDgmt folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 9: Remwer folded before Flop (didnt bet)
PokerStars Game #28959725133: Holdem No Limit ($0.50/$1.00) - 2009/06/03 18:09:14 CT [2009/06/03 19:09:14 ET]
Table Erriapo II 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: platoniko ($103 in chips)
Seat 2: L3NGTHY ($107.20 in chips)
Seat 4: oll220 ($100 in chips)
Seat 5: edzwoo ($100 in chips)
Seat 6: Ronfar3 ($118.55 in chips)
Seat 7: gynisc ($127.40 in chips)
Seat 8: AlexB182s ($105.45 in chips)
Seat 9: 19Foxy76 ($94 in chips)
19Foxy76: posts small blind $0.50
platoniko: posts big blind $1
KUIvy: sits out
Holecards Dealt to edzwoo
L3NGTHY: folds
oll220: folds
edzwoo has timed out
edzwoo: folds
edzwoo is sitting out
Ronfar3: folds
gynisc: folds
AlexB182s: folds
19Foxy76: folds
Uncalled bet ($0.50) returned to platoniko
edzwoo has returned
platoniko collected $1 from pot
platoniko: doesnt show hand
Summary Total pot $1 | Rake $0
Seat 1: platoniko (big blind) collected ($1)
Seat 2: L3NGTHY folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: oll220 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: edzwoo folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: Ronfar3 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 7: gynisc folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 8: AlexB182s (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 9: 19Foxy76 (small blind) folded before Flop
PokerStars Game #28959330876: Holdem No Limit ($0.50/$1.00) - 2009/06/03 17:57:53 CT [2009/06/03 18:57:53 ET]
Table Kale X 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: eYeLovErAgS ($102.15 in chips)
Seat 2: JumboDog2 ($103.25 in chips)
Seat 3: S500 ($114.70 in chips)
Seat 4: KAMASUTRHA ($110.05 in chips)
Seat 5: CitMan05 ($34 in chips)
Seat 8: edzwoo ($116.65 in chips)
Seat 9: TomyZ ($54.25 in chips)
S500: posts small blind $0.50
KAMASUTRHA: posts big blind $1
knn05: sits out
Yea well, after this little session (guess were I started today?) to calm my nerves I guess Lady Luck owns me good questions on the exam. I feel that I might sometimes be sitting in unnecessary hard games when I play 5/10. There's only like maybe 6-7 really bad regs there for my standards so now when I'm supposed to "go pro" or whatever it's called I think I'll try to play exclusively 3/6 for maybe 100k hands or so. Would be fun to actually get make sure that I win every month again rather then having swings of 20k every 2nd month or so.
PokerStars Game #28943508792: Holdem No Limit ($0.50/$1.00) - 2009/06/03 12:03:00 ET
Table Aquarius 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: mabumsel ($166.90 in chips)
Seat 2: LordAD85 ($175.40 in chips)
mabumsel: posts small blind $0.50
LordAD85: posts big blind $1
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to LordAD85
mabumsel: raises $2 to $3
LordAD85: raises $7 to $10
mabumsel: raises $17 to $27
LordAD85: raises $30 to $57
mabumsel: raises $109.90 to $166.90 and is all-in
LordAD85: calls $109.90
Showdown LordAD85: shows (a full house, Nines full of Aces)
mabumsel: mucks hand
LordAD85 collected $333.30 from pot
Summary Total pot $333.80 | Rake $0.50
Board
Seat 1: mabumsel (button) (small blind) mucked
Seat 2: LordAD85 (big blind) showed and won ($333.30) with a full house, Nines full of Aces
unfortunately before this hand i had lost a bunch to him
failing my bluffs
+ 361 $ 3/3 days into June
wont play much the next few days since i have a shitload of university stuff and will enter a grappling tournament in Coburg
on saturday : ( well i suck at grappling without GnP ... but its still necessary for MMA so i have to roll from time to time)
Usually my Groundgame is all about getting Mount of back mount -> go KingKong on opponent face.
I am not that good at submissions
And i really have problems breaking someones guard in a grappling match. ( In MMA its easier since u can just do some Fedor in guard striking and almost all opponents will open guard to dodge the punches )
P.S. Another Question -How do you size your bluff 4bets and why?
Submitted by : LemOn[5thF]
PokerStars Game #28944963709: Holdem No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2009/06/03 12:50:52 ET
Table Pamina V 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: Minusevvvv ($25.25 in chips)
Seat 3: vvv-venlo-01 ($38.75 in chips)
Seat 4: DoC.LemOn ($25 in chips)
Yannick PONS will be allowed to play after the button
Minusevvvv: posts small blind $0.10
vvv-venlo-01: posts big blind $0.25
Holecards Dealt to DoC.LemOn
DoC.LemOn: raises $0.75 to $1
Minusevvvv: folds
vvv-venlo-01: calls $0.75
vvv-venlo-01: bets $1.25
WTA50100 joins the table at seat #2
takeonmenutz joins the table at seat #6
DoC.LemOn: raises $5.75 to $7
vvv-venlo-01: calls $5.75
Op-Ed column from the NYTimes by Paul Krugman. This one is for you ToTehEastSide:
“This bill is the most important legislation for financial institutions in the last 50 years. It provides a long-term solution for troubled thrift institutions. ... All in all, I think we hit the jackpot.” So declared Ronald Reagan in 1982, as he signed the Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act.
He was, as it happened, wrong about solving the problems of the thrifts. On the contrary, the bill turned the modest-sized troubles of savings-and-loan institutions into an utter catastrophe. But he was right about the legislation’s significance. And as for that jackpot — well, it finally came more than 25 years later, in the form of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
For the more one looks into the origins of the current disaster, the clearer it becomes that the key wrong turn — the turn that made crisis inevitable — took place in the early 1980s, during the Reagan years.
Attacks on Reaganomics usually focus on rising inequality and fiscal irresponsibility. Indeed, Reagan ushered in an era in which a small minority grew vastly rich, while working families saw only meager gains. He also broke with longstanding rules of fiscal prudence.
On the latter point: traditionally, the U.S. government ran significant budget deficits only in times of war or economic emergency. Federal debt as a percentage of G.D.P. fell steadily from the end of World War II until 1980. But indebtedness began rising under Reagan; it fell again in the Clinton years, but resumed its rise under the Bush administration, leaving us ill prepared for the emergency now upon us.
The increase in public debt was, however, dwarfed by the rise in private debt, made possible by financial deregulation. The change in America’s financial rules was Reagan’s biggest legacy. And it’s the gift that keeps on taking.
The immediate effect of Garn-St. Germain, as I said, was to turn the thrifts from a problem into a catastrophe. The S.& L. crisis has been written out of the Reagan hagiography, but the fact is that deregulation in effect gave the industry — whose deposits were federally insured — a license to gamble with taxpayers’ money, at best, or simply to loot it, at worst. By the time the government closed the books on the affair, taxpayers had lost $130 billion, back when that was a lot of money.
But there was also a longer-term effect. Reagan-era legislative changes essentially ended New Deal restrictions on mortgage lending — restrictions that, in particular, limited the ability of families to buy homes without putting a significant amount of money down.
These restrictions were put in place in the 1930s by political leaders who had just experienced a terrible financial crisis, and were trying to prevent another. But by 1980 the memory of the Depression had faded. Government, declared Reagan, is the problem, not the solution; the magic of the marketplace must be set free. And so the precautionary rules were scrapped.
Together with looser lending standards for other kinds of consumer credit, this led to a radical change in American behavior.
We weren’t always a nation of big debts and low savings: in the 1970s Americans saved almost 10 percent of their income, slightly more than in the 1960s. It was only after the Reagan deregulation that thrift gradually disappeared from the American way of life, culminating in the near-zero savings rate that prevailed on the eve of the great crisis. Household debt was only 60 percent of income when Reagan took office, about the same as it was during the Kennedy administration. By 2007 it was up to 119 percent.
All this, we were assured, was a good thing: sure, Americans were piling up debt, and they weren’t putting aside any of their income, but their finances looked fine once you took into account the rising values of their houses and their stock portfolios. Oops.
Now, the proximate causes of today’s economic crisis lie in events that took place long after Reagan left office — in the global savings glut created by surpluses in China and elsewhere, and in the giant housing bubble that savings glut helped inflate.
But it was the explosion of debt over the previous quarter-century that made the U.S. economy so vulnerable. Overstretched borrowers were bound to start defaulting in large numbers once the housing bubble burst and unemployment began to rise.
These defaults in turn wreaked havoc with a financial system that — also mainly thanks to Reagan-era deregulation — took on too much risk with too little capital.
There’s plenty of blame to go around these days. But the prime villains behind the mess we’re in were Reagan and his circle of advisers — men who forgot the lessons of America’s last great financial crisis, and condemned the rest of us to repeat it.
As I wrote yesterday today I had volleyball tournament so I didn’t have time for poker. Tournament was good. We had nice sunny weather and our team finished on 4th place. Tournament finished in the evening and after that we went to pub to drink some beers with friends, but every body was very tired so we went home early.
Tomorrow I want to play cashgame session and watch some more videos.
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