if you're making anything less than 200BB/100 at PLO25 on Sunday at Pokerstars you're doing something wrong. These people practically want to give you their money.
So I'm in the Main Event Race Final on Full Tilt Poker right now and I decided to post my tournment progress during each break. Along with that I'll post some of the big or cool hands I run into. Wish me luck! ^^
Tournamet ID: 91713291
Starting Chips: 2000 Chips
Number of Entrants: 758
Full Tilt Poker Game #12409634759: Main Event Race Final (91713291), Table 33 - 25/50 - No Limit Hold'em - 16:54:49 ET - 2009/05/24
Seat 1: Dave4112 (1,635), is sitting out
Seat 2: Maruchi (1,990)
Seat 3: OffensiveFoul (1,835)
Seat 4: Traumverwalter (3,440)
Seat 5: 2--_-VeNoM-_--1 (1,610), is sitting out
Seat 6: Vladd2 (2,485)
Seat 7: brotcast (6,650)
Seat 8: serial_mama14 (1,730)
Seat 9: Hero (5,645)
Dave4112 posts the small blind of 25
Maruchi posts the big blind of 50
The button is in seat #9
*NSFW* THE LOVELY VIDA GURRRA + UFC 98by TremendousGats, May 24
WOW ! UFC 98 , CROWNS A NEW CHAMPION, LYOTO MACHIDA. I HONESTLY DON'T THINK THIS GUY CAN BE STOPPED. HE HAS NEVER LOST A ROUND IN A UFC FIGHT, NOR HAS HE EVER TAKEN A POWER PUNCH FROM ANY OF HIS OPPONENTS. WELCOME TO THE LYOTO ERA FOLKS.
so far.
Allthough i am not a 50 year old who has studied 30years of martial arts i think i gained some knowledge in all of the styles and have sparred with enough people from those styles (both with white and brown/black belts) to be ablte to review them a bit for beginners.
traditional japanese Jiu Jitsu is a self defence System heavily relying on stand up lock techniques and throws.
It is designed to defend yourself in the streets vs 1 attacker (armed or unarmed) by using wrist,body,arm,Joints and shoulder locks from a standing position while also adding some throws to escape clinch situations to your arsnel. Kicks and punches to vital Points ( testicles,throat, Eyes) are also part of Jiu Jitsu allthough the skillz for proper powerfull striking and kicking are not really thaught too well in traditional Jiu Jitsu
Training methods are very traditional and often u train the movements and tequniques into air or with a 100% cooperating partner.
In general u are supposed to learn to react properly using a defensive move against an attacking opponent.
he acts offensive while u react to defend.
My Conclusion
traditional japanese Jiu Jitsu is looking great in theorey but rarely ever works in reality.
The trainig methods are just not realistic enough to simulate a real situation.
Not often will someone who has trained japanese Jiu Jitsu for 10 years get heavily beaten up in a streetfight by a Boxer who only trained for 2 years.
However if u are a really athletic person who trains hard on his jap. Jiu Jitsu showing great dedication u might be ablte to defend yourself vs most drunken idiots and wanna be brawlers pretty good while not taking any damage yoruself.
Some of the techniques tought are really good to defend yourself vs. people of same size and strength in a RL street situation. + U Also learn some stuff to defend yourself on teh ground. Allthough the Ground fighting part is very very limitied
it can still make the difference and save ure ass in a real self defence situation.
Ju_Jutsu
Ju Jutsu is a modern sports martial arts especially popular in central Europe. Intension
Learn realistic fighting without risking your health.
modern Ju_Jutsu is like MMA for pussies
It has all the elements of Stand up and ground fighting but with a lot more rules to protect the fighters
-No full contact hits to the head ( neither punches nor kicks to the head are allowed to do any visuable damage to your opponent)
-No punches or knees on the ground except for non contact point fighting punches to the head for points are allowed.
- Shin protection is mandatory ( which basically makes low kicks almost pointless
- No ellbows or knees to the head
here is a Video or modern Ju_Jutsu competition in Germany in which a friend of mine participated
Ju Jutsu also has a Self Defence programm within their martial arts.
Training methods vary a lot from Trainer to Trainer and there are also many bad Dojos that claim to do JU-Jutsu but actually are far away from being a modern light contact MMA style
Conclusion :
Its fun
U learn a lot of things that are helpfull for real fights but on the same time u must be aware that there is still a difference
in what u do and what real fights are. Game becomes a little different when its allowed to hit as hard as u can ^^
Still this can be a very good style for both self defence and having fun
Reviews of the other martial arts will follow in future blogposts
LPer's rolling the Brisbane Casino in Ausby LiLZhiMiNG, May 24
Hey all,
It's been a while since my last post due to more failed attempts at NL50, but this month things are looking good and I'm slowly making back all those losses from shots at NL50. Anyway I will post graphs at the end of the month.
Anyway tonight dryath, lachlan and LilDeano89 and I went to go play 2.50/5 at the Brisbane casino. It was pretty cool having a bunch of LP'ers go to casino together. I felt like biggest fish out of us all...Since everyone is a 1/2 player except me...But yeah it was cool how everyone ended up...How much everyone won I won't share...I don't know if they would want me to share but it was 50BB max BI so let your imagination run wild...However Lachlan did want me to post a picture of his winnings..so you guys can count that if you want to...
Highlight of tonight for me was me tilting this guy who seemed to me like a fairly competent player. In a frame of 30-40 mins these hands happened
Hand 1
I raised KJs utg, I got 3-4 callers. flop comes JJ2 rainbow...so I check, with everyone else checking behind. A turn, and I lead for 70% of the pot with trip Js and the nut flush draw and everyone folds and I show the Kh.
Hand 2 (vs him)
I get dealt KK utg I raise to 30 as there were 2 people who posted, and this guy 3B me on the button to $92.50 (hate weird betting amounts like that) so I min4B him expecting him to shove the rest of his stack in or flat and me shoving any flop without and Ace. At this time I think I had a stack of about $300 and he had $600. He makes a fold while showing one Q, so I decided to show him one K...Soon after he said he had QQ and I just said across the table that we were flipping if he had called.
Hand 3 (vs him)
I raise AK in SB over 3 limpers, he limp/calls in middle/late position and then flop comes all T74 rainbow and I check, he checks behind. Turn comes Q, I check and he bets $55 into a $80 pot and I minraise him to $110...he starts counting like $300-400 worth of chips putting it in front of him looking like he was going to put me all in (hollywood actor!) then folds...and I show him AK...
After this hand I was waiting for me to hit something evil so I could stack him...But then this guy absolutely nitted up and I was never in a pot with him again. But dryath was telling me how he was eying me off and how it looked like he was flaming and wanted to stack me real bad..
But yeah it was a bummer when he left and moved to lachlan and LilDeano's table and sat to the direct right of lachlan...hope lachlan or LiLDeano made some money off him..
Dryath had a few sick hands on the table too...I'll mention 2 of them I found interesting...well for you who know or play with dryath, it's pretty standard I guess as he is a aggro monkey...I specifically remember was his 83o in the BB. Whole table limps and he gets to see a flop...he leads on a 79J board, folds around to SB who calls him. T on the turn, SB check calls Dryath's turn bet. Then river comes a T and SB check raises the rest of his stack and says "send me home!"...Dryath calls...and he shows QT and Dryath shows him the straight...His response was good though "I didnt even see a straight there!" and rebuys more chips hahaha
Another hand I don't really remember but Dryath having J9o...and he double barrelled on a all low board...then river comes a J and he check/calls and I was just thinking that definitely gave everyone on the table that he was a fish...ahaha
But yeah I had an awesome night at Casino and just chilling listening to some 1/2 players talk about some poker at Hungry Jacks (Australian equivalent of Burger King i think) and surprising lachlan that I could win as one of his comments at Hungry's was "I can't believe you won" -_-;;
Apparently next time the 1/2 ballers want to play the one 50BB BI minimum table...and as much as I'd like to join them I probably won't...as a NL50 player I don't think sitting on a table full of 1/2 regs is a good idea...haha
Ah, christ, I hate whining so damn much. I'd much rather be posting productive or atleast non-negative things vs always spamming beats/coolers 'n such. Atleast when I post HHs I get helpful analysis (thx!)
Today's session I played 8 hours, pretty standard. Started out as another struggle to break even :/ My 4th hand of the day I'm deal TT and raise and receive a delightful 4 callers. Whatevz. Flop is K88r and I check, guy to my left bets $10 into the $85 or whatever, everyone folds so I'm all like.. whatever 2 outer odds. Turn is a T and the rest is history. Like my whole stack in that hand when he flips KK over. Well I eventually turned the session into +150 profit. I think I played well today, atleast!
If anyone likes single player RPGs you really need to play The Witcher, btw. It has some software problems (probably crashes once every 2-3 hours for me, bleh), but I haven't encountered any ingame bugs or anything. Anyway, its really good. CHECK IT!
I'm still praying that I can somehow make this month break-even. Ugh. just thinking, "I hope I can break even for the month" makes me feel sick lol.
(ashamedly I do actually like this song, but I'm posting it so you can see the ridiculously hot girl omg)
I can't stop. I posted in my last blog that I had finally quit playing 50c/$1 and moved back to my regular games, and then 2 days later I was back at those tables trying to push my winrate on pokertableratings.com a little higher, god I hate that site. I ended up losing 12 buyins and running a good 24 buyins below expectation over about 8k hands and now my winrate there is back to breakeven. However, I have found an escape! I have withdrew all of my money from PokerStars and will be moving to a smaller site, this is something I did when my confidence was running low and I was running bad around about a couple of years ago, and I'm gonna be moving back to that same site - Prima, I hope I can access that site from South Korea or my options are gonna be really limited when I move back there on June 7th.
Right now my confidence is extremely extremely low, and it's not because I don't believe that my A game is still good, just that I have wasted many many hours, about a month of time and 50k hands playing 50c/$1 just to make my stats pretty on some stupid website when I shouldn't even care, and even worse - failing at even achieving that. Looking back over those 50k hands I can say that I played awful, I don't think I played my A game for longer than a stretch of a couple of thousand hands, and was often times tilted from the moment I sat down at the table. Many small things tilted me even further at the table, when I saw people raise my 3bb button open to 13bb from the blinds with 100bb stacks that tilted me, when people would slowplay on like the worst boards ever to slowplay like 77 on 678hh I got tilted, when people would check back top pair on dry boards I got tilted even if I ended up winning the pot, when people flat called 4bets with aces I got tilted. I saw a lot of things that I deem to be either bad in a vacuum and/or game theory wise, people at these limits don't care at all about balance whatsoever and play in a very exploitable manner, and I'm really pissed off that I didn't exploit them anywhere near as much as I should've. I played against a few low stakes LP regs and I'm sure they are wondering how I won at $5/$10 for 5+ptbb/100 over 100k hands and 7ptbb/100 over 30k hands at $10/$20 last year, and frankly, I'm beginning to wonder to, maybe I just ran like jesus. I mean sure I struggle to take 50c/$1 seriously when I play there, I get tilted easily even though the money means nothing, but even so I should be able to DESTROY those limits and I just ended up getting beaten by unbalanced exploitable regs that make senseless plays and don't seem to understand hand ranges at all, and even worse, often times losing money to the vast amount of complete retards (a la 80/10 types) there.
This new start is going to be good for me I think, I will jump straight into $3/$6 games and there are no tracking sites that I'm aware of that tracks Prima hands so I can have the anonymity I would like. I tried to get my ID changed at PokerStars cause I really don't like people knowing who I am at the table (Not that I'm famous or anything, but I just prefer to be unknown), but it's not allowed so I'm definitely happy to be able to get a new screenname and play where nobody knows who I am. Despite wasting so much time, energy and running below expectation I've still made $8k profit in the last month and a half since restarting poker and I know that I can still play a good game when I'm on focus, in a good frame of mind and caring, I just hope that I can regain that frame of mind and my confidence when I move sites.
I don't have any screenshots of stats etc, I deleted my database from PokerTracker since I don't intend to play on Stars for a while and there is no other reason to keep the hands in the database, but if you want a laugh you can look up my stats on that gay site PokerTableRatings.com. Look at me! I can't even beat 50c/$1...!
I feel like my last few blog posts have mainly been about those OCD tendency and my overcaring about my statistics looking pretty, but hopefully this is the end of it and I can get back down to buisness, I'm looking forward to it because I'm actually quite motivated to play a lot of poker lately and am starting to enjoy the game more than I have in the last 6 months or so.
I havn't had much chance to play, (particularly last couple of working weeks), due to uni work. I'm now into the exam period, but revision is a lot less intensive than coursework so I'm able to grind some.
If any low stakes (I'm playing NL50) LPers wana chat / help each eachother out when there's a big fish at the table, my msn is smallandblu@hotmail.com. or just send me a PM
Been playing some 2/4 this month 9 tabling 6max as usual and things have been going great. Still working out hhard 5 days per week and back to bench pressing 220 pounds 6 times as i did last year ( lost 30 pounds since then ). Also been working on my site with my brother which is http://www.pokermuscle.com . Its a poker forum website, took us 2 weeks to get the logo the way it is, lol. If you have some time check it out. Our programmer is still working on it but its %95 done ( in the hand section, the odds calculator doesn't work yet, buts everything else is functional ). Were always looking for new members. Anyways, take care, and in the future if you guys have any health related questions as well give me a PM there.
I'm still learning NLHE... currently a slightly winning player at NL10.
Started with $10 about three months ago and currently at $220 now. There is still a WHOLE lot I need to learn but things are going fast in my opinion. That doesn't mean much since I'm at the incompetent level of microstakes where people donk it out with horrible hands, but whatever.
But also I want to eventually learn Omaha. From my old deucescracked membership I downloaded fyslexic duck's Omaha series (8 videos or something?) and still have them on my HD. Apparently lots of people are getting into Omaha since it is soft apparently? When do you think it is a good time for a poker player to open his game to other forms of poker or does it just really depend on the player? Like, you can't get worse at NLHE while working hard with Omaha can you?
In the words of the great Borat, Wowwweee wowow!! So as I desperately try to self-analyze my HH's and sessions, my mood at the time (I tilt so easily), and what I remember from the CR videos I downloaded, after my 150k lifetime losing streak, there has been only 1 constant whenever I have done well. And that has been playing just ONE TABLE AT A TIME boys. Im not gonna lie, when the concept of multi-tabling was first revealed to me I simply assumed I could do it. Rather than starting off slow like everyone says, I just immediately loaded up about 18 tables. I didnt find it particularly hard to focus per se, I simply played a 10/7/3.5 game or so. I had a brief run of success at this but for whatever reason deemed it a waste of time and focused on a more LAG game and fewer tables. I have progressively continued to drop tables as I continue to get hammered, all the way down to 4, where I again just assumed this was plenty low enough to focus. But you know, I still find myself completely forgetting about 1-2 tables as I just auto-fold everything that isnt obviously raise worthy. Then I'll catch myself doing this, suddenly start trying to play looser at the table, but without any reads since I havent been paying attention I fail. I'll try to make some range estimation based on villain stats and go for a c/r allin or flop 3bet, and then get all pissed off when they call with some weird draw/PP and hit and feel like I got sucked out on, when I probably wouldnt have played the hand like that anyway if I had been focused.
So I took my shattered bankroll and decided to do the most boring thing on earth, grind 1 table of NL2. And for the last 3 days have actually been up. I've also played a silly 35/25/3 game, but my EV is in line and I have had the best hands. With one table running I find myself constantly analyzing every single action and trying to figure out what I can and cant get away with. I think I have a fundamental misunderstanding of how to read player stats, so I've been keeping them to a minimum to all but the most very telling ones. How often they limp or raise, do they ever 3bet, and how often they steal. This basically defines when they have a good hand vs when they have mediocre crap you can probably take away from them with on the flop.
You know my hero Daniel swears by one table poker. Whatever my fishy obsession with his style is (even though I dont think ive ever seen him win money), he too confesses that he just cant hack it at more than one table. So if I can run 30BB/100 playing 1 table, maybe I can offset the hourly earnings that some of you get when you mass-table at 6BB/100.
There is one last tidbit to consider regarding this "style". And that is enjoyment factor. I am ultra competitive, and I play to win, not for money. So even a game like NL2 can send me into a fury since I dont like losing, even though it's only $2 here or there. Whenver I multi-table I find myself tilting very easily. There is not 1 second of the game I even enjoy. I feel like it's some sort of damn chore that I'm being forced to do if I ever want to be able to make a living at this. But, whenever I one table, I thoroughly enjoy it the whole time, even when I lose. Usually I'm only losing when I'm trying some fancy, so when it doesnt work, I blame myself. When I mass-table I genuinely try to play straight forward, so when I lose, I feel I got cheated and get pissed.
I know everyone starts off at one table, so maybe Im just simply not ready for more yet. I might, MIGHT try loading up 2 tables just to see if I feel as involved or if I start staring at one table like a deer in headlights.
movin right along....ObamaObamaObamaAAhmmmmrmm
Tons of things have happened since I was last here. But for the time and energy I have I will stick with something current that everyone is probably at least somewhat familiar with and where I don't have to say that much
"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist."
-Winston Churchill
I mean other than obvious props to Maddow here, what more is there really to say...
How fitting a political process this is to go alongside a preemptive war on "terror"?
Wake up?
Oh, ha. That reminds me, even tho this is apparently old, I'm slow and actually just saw this for the first time recently. A commercial aired by MTV
Remember, we are all in this together
Watch what happens when the government turns homeland security on full force.
That's just dumb irrational thinking tho right? Let's just turn the other cheek nomnomnom
cheers I'm out
peace
"Once a doctrine, however irrational, has gained power in a society, millions of people will believe it rather than feel ostracised and isolated." -Erich Fromm
It's been awhile since my last entry, been having some computer issue's and haven't been able to to put in my results like I wanted to but its all fixed and should be putting up a lot more results+hands and get some insight by some of you and improve my game...
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