So I just deposited $600 at FTP and it's waiting to process which is kind of new to me as I'm used to pstars instant processing. Can anyone fill me in on how long this takes usually? So not in the mood for waiting around
May was bad or nonexistent or w/e you call it. I had a couple of bad days in the beginning of the month and then decided to study and do other stuff instead of trying to grind it back. So I only managed to play 6k hands and ended up with a few BI loss.. Guess May has never been an inspiring month for my poker..
BUT!
Right after my final exame now on thursday this will change!
I will try and kick the summer off with a lot of grinding. Hopefully I can get a bet in with a friend who can get the most hands in during week 24. That would boost my grindingmode and my pokermood tremendously!
Then hopefully its Vegas baby! I have dreamed about it for a while now and it would be so much fun to go there! If its on I guess I will go at the end of week 25 to somewhere in week 29. No exact dates decided yet though.
Guess most of it depends on where I´m going to stay. I want to sleep in a nice house etc, cant do it 3-4 weeks at an hotel!
I talked with pinball if I could sleep at their place but I havnt gotten an answer yet. That would be sick fun since I know atleast Sakii too will be staying there!
If that doesnt work out, do you guys have any suggestions? Do any of you want to rent a house or does anyone has a room/bed etc to spare?
I will be deciding my Vegas-plans sometime in week 24. I´ll keep you posted!
Well I was fairly busy during May, I think I probably played no more than 40k hands total, I had a few days off due to helping my uncle doing the renovations in my new house and preparing the 25th anniversary of my parents.... I still managed to play enough and despite not living up to my goal It is still a decent month of +95 000$ here's my graph on party for the month http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/4082/swingymay.jpg
as for WSOP, well I'm not showing up in vegas at all this year, new house, 25th anniversary of my parents, my dad's turning 50 yrs old on july 7th as well... so yeah kind sucks but I'll see a bunch of you at the next PCA I guess, I definitely don't plan to miss next year's WSOP. Good luck to all those who are participating.
Some bad news here, I got told 1 week ago that my mother had breast cancer, she's starting chimo in 2 weeks, we're all still pretty positive and hope It's all going to be fine, I have a friend who I have been friend with for 10 yrs who lost his mother from the same cancer about 9 years ago.... he told me he hopes for the best and to spend the most possible time with my mother while she's alive or else I might regret it, I will definitely follow this advice. I still really hope she's going to heal.
Anyways, I'll be kinda busy in June too, I'll still try my best to make a 6 figures month.
It was just too much variance and people are much bigger stations than I ever acknowledged.
I will cut back on Cbets a little bit, and prefer to have at least some gutshot when attempting them, or a very obvious board. I will not double barrel without at least 8 outs.
I cut tables to 6, raise 4BB+XBB again and apply brutal table-selecting methods (45tables in 3 hours total today-one fish minimum).
From now on, I am also completely Ignoring Results and judge a hand only by my line and EV prior to shoves.
You will not see me posting results unless I want to brag.
Life and Stuff
I am moving in with my girlfriend on Friday for the first time. We got ourselves a nice £430 per month flat.
Fairly big Bedroom, open plan Kitchen/lounge and a friendly private landlord, meaning no fees or extensive paper work.
Looking forward to it really, my life was such a mess when I was living alone past 3 years.
I still don't have the intern ship so my main goal after I move will be finding a job.
I also hope to achieve Supernova before I get it, as poker is much more pleasant when you have a decent rakeback and you have those sexy red stars at NL25.
So I have finally planned out my trip to vegas for the wsop. Basicly I feel sick motivated to play a bunch of donkaments and I am planning on taking this trip pretty seriously. I mean, last time I was in vegas I woke up at 3pm everyday and played 5/10 at the wynn all night and/or got drunk somewhere. Not saying it wasnt awesome but I just feel like taking the poker a bit more seriously this time around. Ive also been working out alot lately trying to lose some weight and I definitely dont wanna ruin all of that by degening it up completely in vegas so Im probably gonna try and find a good gym where I can blow of some steam and stay in shape.
Looks like I will be staying with milkman, mezmerizeplz and their entourage in their house so this trip cant not be awesome
I will be arriving to vegas on the evening of the 14th of june, and here are the events i plan on playing:
Mon, Jun 15th No-Limit Hold’em (Event 32)$2,000
Tue, Jun 16th No-Limit Hold’em (Event 34)$1,500
Thu, Jun 18th No-Limit Hold’em (Event 36)$2,000
Sat, Jun 20th No-Limit Hold’em (Event 39)$1,500
Sat, Jun 27th No-Limit Hold’em (Event 51)$1,500
Mon, Jun 29th No-Limit Hold’em (Event 54)$1,500
Tue, Jun 30th No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed (Event 56)$5,000
Fri, Jul 3rd World Championship No-Limit Texas Hold'em (Event 57)$10,000
Total buyins: $25,000
Obviously(or rather hopefully) I wont be able to play all of these as they are 3 day events and im really hoping to get deep in some of em. I played pretty poorly in ept copehagen and it became very obvious how uncomfortable I am with playing live compared to online so I am definitely going to focus on not being such a nit/retard.
I only played about 1k hands today, but I ran really good and played really well. One thing that annoyed me a bit is that I missed a river shove for about half a buy-in. Other than that.
One thing that regulars never do at these limits is overbet the pot. I post a ton of hands where I overbet vs fish and get paid off by worse, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone else at my limit do this yet. There are also a ton of great overbetting spots vs regs for value or as a bluff; and the great part is, you don't have to balance it at small stakes. Once someone gets their ABC game down really well, they have to seriously stop limiting themselves to things that were once unheard of.
Two things people have to do:
1. Take the word, "standard," out of their poker diction.
2. Stop doing things robotically. Just because you ran a bluff at one table doesn't mean you're not playing robotically. Every single time you miss a +EV spot, it directly affects your winrate. Nitty 24-tablers have marginal winrates because it's impossible to keep track of every single +EV situation. There are so many that they just grab the biggest +EV opportunities and ditch all the marginal ones that require more attention. This means a low winrate.
The second article is essentially blueprints on how you can go about exploiting people.
Anyways, this post was originally intended to just post today's session, but I just ended up spewing my thoughts. Here's a fun hand and the results for today:
PokerStars Game #28847848371: Holdem No Limit ($0.50/$1.00) - 2009/05/31 21:18:02 ET
Table Pandarus IV 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: mule250 ($122.75 in chips)
Seat 3: KJSVail6 ($60.05 in chips)
Seat 4: Anatidae ($100.40 in chips)
Seat 5: edzwoo ($107 in chips)
Seat 6: Tixmaster ($100 in chips)
Seat 7: Upay4college ($101.50 in chips)
Seat 8: OleTripod ($104.85 in chips)
Seat 9: MizouClipper ($119.70 in chips)
Tixmaster: posts small blind $0.50
Upay4college: posts big blind $1
Wakegod: sits out
Upay4college: checks
edzwoo: bets $21
Upay4college: raises $63.50 to $84.50 and is all-in
KJSVail6 is disconnected
edzwoo: calls $63.50
KJSVail6 is connected
Showdown Upay4college: shows (high card Ace)
edzwoo: shows (high card Ace - Queen kicker)
edzwoo collected $201.50 from pot
Summary Total pot $204.50 | Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: mule250 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: KJSVail6 folded before Flop
Seat 4: Anatidae folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: edzwoo (button) showed and won ($201.50) with high card Ace
Seat 6: Tixmaster (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: Upay4college (big blind) showed and lost with high card Ace
Seat 8: OleTripod folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 9: MizouClipper folded before Flop (didnt bet)
So...yeah. I decided this might be worth creating my second-ever blog (the first was just a temporary thing about Rymarov LANcraft Spring 2009). Time for some pokeraments!
This is the first time I really got somewhere deeper than usual in a weekly donkament, and with my non-existant poker skill I thought it was at least somewhat brag-worthy (even though the grand prize of ~140 dollahz is like lunch money for the lot of you)
The best thing in the whole run is that I only sucked out once (10-9s > A9o thank you), won / lost flips equally (despite being really short somewhere), and lost some hands where I was dominating the opponent. I wasn't even THAT lucky.
Bust-out hand because it's obligatory:
Submitted by :
FML, another dominating hand sucked out on
GL at the tables LP! I really learned a lot as a poker player browsing this site.
hmm, june 1st 2008 i took alot of pills and drove to work very irresponsibly only to have a seizure over concrete floor and nearly break my back/neck, land in the hospital for a week and recuperate for several months. my shoulders are both very screwed up still
but i do acknowledge that it would be really stupid, irresponsible, disrespectful to just go and get myself killed or whatever. boy i'm dumb :X
DON'T GO AND HURT YOURSELVES MKAY?
i only wish i can continue to have success at poker because its pretty clear to me i was really not acheiving anything for about the months of june until march of this year =/
i really think if i hadn't found lp i would never have come anywhere close to as far as i have so far with poker and i hope it can continue this way and i try to give back to this community as much as i can because.. i'd be nowhere without it.
this is a graph of the last 365 days. cheers guys.
If you go flying back through time and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye contact--
And now on to some other deep thoughts,
So a week ago I decided that I would force myself to finally break through the penny stakes barrier by simply putting in a massive volume of hands, relying on +EV moves to make up for all the bad beats and let long term statistics prove me the victor. But gosh darnit I just kept getting so tilted at all the bullshit that I finally said fuck it, I refuse to play with people who do not care about money. I need my opponents to give a damn about losing 20 bucks, it's the only way I can play. So I decided on the lowest limit this would be found at, which I feel is NL25. Oh there are still people who flat out dont give a shit, but for the most part these guys dont consider a $25 stack to be play money. Or least the majority of the table doesnt, which means I'm not facing 5 morons who just go "lol awww in!" with random bluffs and shit b/c they enjoy the thrill.
So I continue to embark upon my one-table strategy of making intimate reads and very player dependent bets in every single round, even hands Im not in I continue to observe and think about what they have. One good thing about playing LAG at one-table is that the pace of my learning seems to be 10x greater than that of multi-tabling where I cant really focus and have to see the same thing happen 50x before it finally sticks in my head. Each day I continue to fine tune my game, and learn something new.
So far of all the major player archetypes, the only one left that is giving me real problems are the calling stations and maniac fish. I find there are 3 levels of fish out there.
1) Loose passive - this is the easiest type. Usually runs around 25/5 game. Limps mostly, occasionally calling preflop raises, but for whatever reason is very timid on the flop, possibly even when hitting pairs. Cbetting works fantastic against them.
2) Calling station - this fish is of medium difficulty. They call so many cbets and random flops its really hard to put them on a range. Sometimes it's with a random pair or PP and they just "dont believe you", and will shutdown on the turn. Sometimes it's a draw, sometimes it's pure float. I havent quite figured out yet if these players can be played that aggressively against or not. You can certainly do well against them playing tight, but I dont want to have to completely change my table play based upon one player.
3) Loose maniac - mind you, this is not the typical raising maniac who is on tilt or gambling. This is the guy who literally calls preflop raises of ANY size with ANY TWO CARDS no matter what. You would believe it is their first time playing and that they dont even understand hand ranking. They do not fold any pair, they often dont fold ace high, king high, even ten high. They are usually playing at least 80% vpip. Some of them mix up a lot of preflop minraising in their game giving them a maniacal looking 85/55 stat, but in reality the minraises dont suggest they are a true maniac who is going banana's with JTo etc. These guys are still minraising the same trash they call with preflop, T5o, 23o, anything. This has been my nemesis for the past few months. These are the guys I blog about when I try to raise hands that are higher on the ole starting hand chart, albeit not that much higher.
I have severe tilt issues that only recently I have finally began learning how to control, the biggest of which is adapting to table conditions. Since playing lag pretty much puts you at the top giving you the freedom to do what you want, taking it down a notch and tightening up has always been hard for me, especially when i know how someone else is playing. So for the first time lately, I finally chilled out, met the #3 fish, and did the only thing I havent done yet in my trials, and that is just play straight up tag. Fold fold fold everything, make standard value raises with my good hands, if AK misses then it misses, and pot 3 streets when I hit. While I do potentially miss out on opportunities, and someone else may stack him before me, i have found it to be the only thing possible to do against a 80vpip person. This is a breakthrough for me. No outplaying, no FPS, no iso-raising and 4betting, just play ABC. This is the only player I play ABC against, and it may be necessary to employ vs level 2 fish as well, we will have to see what I can get away with there.
Regardless, I have been violently swinging my NL25 bankroll up and down, but mostly just fine tuning imo. I feel very proud of my play, and my only losses this week have come purely from the level 3 fish. Now that I think I finally have some control of the situation, which means either leaving the table completely or adapting, I hope to see my swings level out, and hope to push it up to NL50 at some point in june. NL2? Done with it. NL5? Done with that too. NL10 you can actually make some pocket change with if you are content cashing out 50 bucks every few days. But I want more. I need to reach a point where I can cover my g/f's portion of the rent, protect myself from getting laid off from work, and reach the point where I can tell my faggot boss to fuck off and live off poker for good.
yea..about 9k hands at 100nl (at the beginning of the month) then the rest of the month at 50nl. didnt meet any of my goals for last month (become 100nl reg, regain confidence in my game, $1k month). but i think things are starting to look up. im feeling a bit better recently and with summer starting i intend to put in a lot more hours. i need to do more video watching this month too..ive been slacking off on that. at least i ended may in the green, but this is the worst month ive had since i started. cant complain too much though i guess.
I didn't really make any "goals" at the start of the month so this will probably be a rambling
Actually my only real goal for the month was to unlock silverstar
Started the month with about $550 in a slump at PLO10. Got out of the slump and moved up to PLO25 at around $750. Broke the $1k milestone about 2 weeks ago. Went on a $600 rush over 3 days immediately after that. Kind of bobbled around $1600 for the last 2 weeks. Hit silverstar and became more aware of the bonsues for pokerstars VIP and decided I could go for gold star to get into the end of the month freeroll as well as get the FPP for the $1M Porsche tournament. Ended up cashing in both for $208 and $180 respectively, which I am completely satisfied with since I don't even play hold'em and I've never played a MTT tourney that has had cash prizes.
I finished the month with $2k+, learned to 6table PLO with success, took some shots at PLO50, played at a live card room for the first time and won for a total of $160 live poker winnings on the month. Overall a pretty solid month.
Next month I will try for Platinum star, to move up to PLO50, 2 x bankroll, and maybe try out FTP.
so it looks like im going to take the job at health canada for resume padding purposes though the hourly is 26$ due to some sick connects cuz canadian gov't jobs for uni students is standardized at like 18$ for 3rd years.
i dont even think i can put in 4-5 hrs/week for poker starting june because for 7-3 job and im getting back into badminton and want to train for the toronto marathon. Anyone in Ottawa (kanata)/downtown toronto wanna play/train?
may was alright pokerwise, I crushed NL25 for 6ptbb the first 15k hands of this graph, and the NL50 swings just annoy me endlessly. Although it makes me kinda happy when edzwoo sweated me for the last 1k hands and said im not completely retarded lol http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/e05edc16176a2b31af40eb0c3d1e2e22.jpg
for alot of my NL50 hands i've been playing in the mornings eastern time and i think esp the 50bb min tables, its a huge nit/reg fest
Tonight i played for like the first time in the evening and the tables were so ridiculously loose i thought i was playing on another site. What times are good for FR on stars?
mmm did pretty well. Feel confident in my game, spewing less, tilting less, playing better, adjusting better, game selecting better.
Got my friend to ship me his NL50 6max database so I'll have notes and stats on the regs and know who to avoid and who's a fish.
Placed 8300th~ in the Turbo Takedown for $40, not bad. Looking forward to continue NL50 and then if I run really hot I'll hit up NL100. Also looking to hit Platinum Star this month (currently Silver), if not then at least Gold which I should easily hit.
PokerStars June Bonuses are already out, so remember to buy them! They also added $2400 for 150,000 FPPs I believe.
Also got a job working as a waiter at a Chinese buffet my mom owns, so I don't have to see poker as "OMG I need to win!" where now its just "I want to play to the best of my ability" and the burden of feeling like I needed to win for some small amount of income is gone.
BR is a little less than 4K atm. ran decently well last half of may, and was able to grow my br from 2k to about double that.
still have a long way to go as far as learning this game goes, but i'm excited and hope i'll have a great june. I've noticed i did the bestno days where i got a shitload of exercise, and was able to "clear" my head before every sesh.
i don't find nl100 any harder than nl50, rather i find it easier in a way that everyone plays like a mindless CR drone. still a tonne of idiots.
Also, i'm kind of looking for a NL200+ FR coach who is a good winner over a large sample size. Let me know what your rates are. I prefer a coach who is more familiar playing fairly lagish~!
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I have dreamed about it for a while now and it would be so much fun to go there! If its on I guess I will go at the end of week 25 to somewhere in week 29. No exact dates decided yet though. 
Good luck to all those who are participating.
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