Can't physically win.
Losing every flip, 60/40, 80/20 95/5 and so on and so forth.
You might say be patient, you FTed two donkaments now, but keep in mind i played over 200 donkaments during this week and the week before.
And i see people who barely play em luckboxing several wins in a row.
I dunno. It just seems like there is some sort of physical birth defect that makes me lose while ahead.
Super depressed about that.
Hrmmmm Well after a nice breakeven may I think I'm going to exclusively play Tourneys. And since I suck balls at donkaments I'm not even sure what limits I should start out at? xD
Low-Mid?
Micro-Low?
Today I played first NL50 session on Betfair. I decided to play tighter in the beginning to avoid some mistakes. I played 470 hands with result -1 bi (exactly -$57.64) and my stats was 16/10. It’s too low but it was first time I played on this site so I had some problems and I missed few hands and also made some misclicks. I also set up the HM and I was improving it during the session.
I think that in the session I could lose more money because I lost some hands against shortstacks. I was also a bit unlucky in session. Biggest pot I lost was set vs. overset when I had set on flop but my opponent caught his set on turn. My three biggest loses were set ups or bead beats. All in all I feel good about this session because I haven’t done any big mistake. I’m looking forward to my tomorrow session. I will also watch some videos.
This update is going to be short since I gotta bounce to Rio for the $2000 today. Just got into Vegas a couple days ago, played my first event yesterday which was the $1500 6-max and lasted about 6 hours. Value cut myself pretty hard in the first level and had to claw my way back to starting stack, then got my brains coolered out by a "live pro" which name I will leave out of this. Whatever, tournaments are stupid. Rio has had the most bomb ass cash games ever! They are running 5-10-20 with the 20 being the straddle on the button, action starting in the SB. Makes the game super juicy.
Pretty much the funniest thing I've witnessed so far was at a 5-10 game with Myth and PoorUser, where PoorUser is completely smashed and absolutely crapping all over this younger guy. Finally, On a board PoorUser like double pot shoved the river after betting all 3 streets. The kid turns over and obviously I'm thinking there is no way he's going to fold. Kid tanks forever as PoorUser keeps telling him "When you fold I'm going to show you JUST the Qd" and after like 3 minutes of thinking THE KID MUCKS THE 3RD NUTS. PoorUser insta shows the and we had a good ROFL for the next ten minutes.
Anyways, if you guys are keeping up with the updates on pokernews or the WSOP site, keep your eye on my boy Jake Kalb.
He has mountains and mountains of chips going into day 3 of the $1500. He's 2nd out of 36, so hopefully he can bring a bracelet back to Palooooomar cardroom. Weee!!!
Today i realized how much working in the real world sucks ^^
Especially with the degree i will have after graduating from university.
An old mate who finished the exact same studies at univerrsity that i do atm graduated 2 years ago and
is now a self employer sports scientist.
He works in cooperation with a health insurance company called AOK.
What he does is basically helping them as sport scientist in some research fields and studies while they arrange him customers for his private health courses ( They basically take care of 70% of teh costs customers have to pay for his courses -> he gets more customers ).
He gets 750€ a month for helping them out 20h a week on scientistit research concerning public health
additionally he averages another 700€ / month for giving this health courses ( health excercising etc ...)
He is only allowed to give a maximum of 20h health excercise courses a month or he will lose the cooperation with the AOK
So all in all
-> 1450€ month income ( 2000$) for 25h work/week
ALl in all if u are a poker player this isnt too bad
U have plenty of free time to make additional 2-5K a month ^^
+ u have a relativly easy job and do something that helps other people
If u arent a Poker player and find yourself in this situation
-> Fuck Your Life ! ( 4,5 years of university studies for a 1400€ job ??? >-<)
lol
GL ALL
off topic
Poker going good in June so far + 407$ 4/4 days in June played ~ 3,5K hands so far
I have always planned on going to college for Civil Engineering even though I know that is not the career for me. I think drafting/architecture would be best but I wanted to aim high. But in my recent struggle for happiness I am wondering what it would be like to become a professional dealer. I would be surrounded by the game I love all the time and the experience would improve my live game. Has anyone looked into this at all and does anyone know the cons and pros? Also I live in Texas so I would have to move to another state to pursue this profession.
So I've been running break-even for my last 20k hands or so and been complaining and feeling miserable overall (got some RL problems at home as well and poker ain't helping). But this week I've been talking to good old KTD and I really need to turn my mindset around and use all my energy for good things as much as I can so I decided to post some hands and try and plug some leaks with help from people around here.
Hand 1:
This hand was against somebody playing 4/4 over 30 hands. Before this point he didn't 3-bet yet, neither did he enter a pot postflop so I don't have any stats on that. Basically, because he seemed nittish and I opened UTG I think his range is AA-QQ and some JJ and AK. At the flop c-bet everything is still possible but on turn I think JJ and AK is out of the question and I am mostly wondering if he still fires QQ or if it's just AA-KK. Also, is my range at any point to optimistic (unlikely) or pessimistic ??
I thought this was reasonably standard (although maybe thinnish) but just checking. Sample size is smallish because it's just the 2nd orbit but this is already the 3td time he does this in 10 hands. If you need numbers, he is playing 80/40 and obviously 100% 3-bet.
This guy is playing 81/13 over 20 hands and generally has shown that he doesn't like folding so far. He seems reasonably aggro so far but ofcourse the sample size is really small.
Villain on this hand has been playing around 76/57 and seems extremelly aggro so far and doesn't generally fold, sample size is only 25 hands though. Thing I am mostly worried about here is his range. He can have both a worse and a better hand. Most likely either a flush or a 2-pair combination imo. Now I was wondering if a guy like this would insta-shove over my big raise on the turn with this same range or can we narrow it down more ??
Villain in this hand is pretty nitty preflop but doesn't like folding and gets pretty aggro postflop from what I've seen so far. Playing 14/7 with 40 AFreq and hasn't folded to a c-bet yet in the 3 pots he has faced on. Basically I think the turn either gives him 2-pair or a draw most of the time. Even if he has like 2-pair or in the worst case scenario QJ I obviously still have equity. Thought anyone ?? Also wondering if people prefer shoving on the turn instead of the route I took or maybe even prefer a fold somewhere in the hand?
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.
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board PoorUser like double pot shoved the river after betting all 3 streets. The kid turns over 
and obviously I'm thinking there is no way he's going to fold. Kid tanks forever as PoorUser keeps telling him "When you fold I'm going to show you JUST the Qd" and after like 3 minutes of thinking THE KID MUCKS THE 3RD NUTS. PoorUser insta shows the 
and we had a good ROFL for the next ten minutes. 
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