I have yet broken another record regarding how much i suck at catching good cards
After playing for 3 hours rock solid poker this is how i go out.....
Edit - Note how many chips i have........ ITS A FKN 5K tourny FML!!!!
During current Hold'em session you were dealt 131 hands and saw flop:
- 8 out of 14 times while in big blind (57%)
- 2 out of 15 times while in small blind (13%)
- 12 out of 102 times in other positions (11%)
- a total of 22 out of 131 (16%)
Pots won at showdown - 0 of 2 (0%)
Pots won without showdown - 8
Submitted by : killaherni
PokerStars Game #28606198188: Tournament #165726366, $10+$1 Holdem No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2009/05/25 13:29:18 CT [2009/05/25 14:29:18 ET]
Table 165726366 32 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: killaherni (3690 in chips)
Seat 2: C U Walken (20348 in chips)
Seat 3: Simurg (7480 in chips)
Seat 4: MrMisch (13975 in chips)
Seat 5: Deuces_Full (17270 in chips)
Seat 6: pokersgonmad (4536 in chips)
Seat 7: Saint-JJ (29300 in chips)
Seat 8: Mann-allin69 (2820 in chips)
Seat 9: Maverick 36O (1951 in chips)
Simurg: posts small blind 75
MrMisch: posts big blind 150
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to killaherni
Deuces_Full: folds
pokersgonmad: folds
Saint-JJ: folds
Mann-allin69: folds
Maverick 36O: folds
killaherni: raises 300 to 450
C U Walken: folds
Simurg: folds
MrMisch: calls 300
Showdown MrMisch: shows (a pair of Fives)
killaherni: shows (a pair of Threes)
MrMisch collected 7455 from pot
Summary Total pot 7455 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: killaherni showed and lost with a pair of Threes
Seat 2: C U Walken (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: Simurg (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: MrMisch (big blind) showed and won (7455) with a pair of Fives
Seat 5: Deuces_Full folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: pokersgonmad folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 7: Saint-JJ folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 8: Mann-allin69 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 9: Maverick 36O folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Today:
I profited a little bit again and am 99.99% sure I didn't make any big mistakes, so that's good. I can hopefully just keep coasting along until the deck hits me in the face (nicely) for a couple of sessions, instead of smashing my balls between cement blocks as it is known to do lately
Flirted with by some hot girl, gonna run into her tonight but its unlikely to lead anywhere. But I think I failed one of those girl-tests when she took me from the poker table to go hang out in the pit with her (she wasn't looking for me to pay for her gambling btw lol). Was fun tho.
Primary focus is poker.. I hope some amazing shit happens soon so I can be like yay :D
I quit my job about 2 weeks ago due to various reasons, and in Malmö its kind of hard to get a job here (i will not work at mcdonalds). If I nit up I can manage the summer with some I got saved up. On the other hand, my dad has gotten me an interview in stockholm next week, which sucks because a.) I have my girlfriend in malmö, and she gets really upset about the thought of me moving to Stockholm. B.) I moved from Stockholm to Malmö to be with my friends, and c.) getting an apartment in stockholm is hard, and I dont want to pay 2k/month, or live in a ghetto.
The good thing about moving is a.) its good job, a big company with a bunch of benefits, and I will most likely be making an ok amount.
I really really like my girlfriend, and I dont want to move from her. But on the other hand, I need to think about my future too...
I started playing some poker recently and its been going ok I guess. Will start grinding again next week. Mtts, cash game?
Got some friends over at www.husarrest.com that are dj:ing here in Malmö. Check them out, here is a youtube vid from one of their gigs in lund at the university.
On May 23 2009 08:53 byrnesam wrote:
1: how long have you been together?
2: is it possible she could move with you?
3: why did they build the entrance way around the trees rather than chopping them down
4: is 8 miles of tiled stairs a good idea at a nightclub when theres drunk people around?
1.) About 6 months
2.) She just go an apartment in central malmö (which takes 3-4-5 years), and is working in Copenhagen.
3.) The nightclub is right by the beach in southern Sweden.
4.) Probably not.
On May 23 2009 09:29 Twisted wrote:
If you are serious with the girlfriend, fuck the job. You can be anyone/anything you want as long as you are happy.
Fairly serious..
On May 23 2009 12:34 TheGuru wrote:
Stcokholm > Malmö so obv move and if take gf with you? What kind of place do you really need if you are going to have to spend $2k a month? Penthouse at Karlaplan?
The club seems nice, gl!
When I lived in Stockholm I lived inbetween Östermalmstorg and Karlaplan, and I would not want to live outside of tullarna...
Anyways Im going to up to Stockholm on Wednesday, and staying until thursday or friday..
I decided to start out playing $5-$6 hu sngs played only 25 sngs winning a whole $6.60 which idk is any good but profit is profit gonna continue to play these for awhile and build up a decent size bankroll before I expand my horizons a little...
Hey, just gonna update from my last entry. More of the important stuff in the "The Poker Mindset" book, and continue from where I dropped off :-)
Overcoming Your Instincts
Actions and Reactions
- In poker, the link between action and reaction (or in this case, between decision and results) can be difficult to identify.
- Just because you are winning does not mean you are playing well, and just because you are losing does not mean you are playing badly.
- In poker, the laws of action and reaction do apply, but in a very different way than in everyday life. The results of your actions will be extremely volatile in the short term to the point where they are almost not worth worrying about.
- Make sure that when you make a link between poker play and its results, you are looking at the result of many, many trials.
Setting Goals
- Broadly speaking, setting poker goals for yourself can be good, but they should never be monetary targets. There are three important reasons why:
1. You have limited power to achieve monetary goals.
2. Conclusions are difficult to draw when you miss a monetary target.
3. Monetary targets detract from your true goal (making correct decisions).
- Setting goals in poker is important, but they should fulfill two important criteria:
1. You need to have the power to directly achieve the goal
2. The goal must not conflict with or detract from your ultimate aim of making the best decision as often as possible.
Is "Average" Acceptable?
- If you are an average player at poker, then you are losing money. Poker is one endavour where average is simply not good enough.
Risk Aversion
- No matter what attitude a poker player has toward risk in his everyday life, he must adopt a risk-neutral attitude when sitting at the poker table.
- A player who tries to play poker in a risk-averse manner may be prone to the following:
- Chasing opponents out of pots too often
- Not value betting enough
- Playing in less-profitable games
Greed
- When playing poker, you need to get rid of all pretenses that greed is a bad thing. Greed is not only acceptable when playing poker, it is vital.
Woolly thinking
- Woolly thinking is any line of thought that contains a logical flaw - any deduction that, when you break it down, does not make sense. The problem when playing poker is that every bit of woolly thinking will cost you money.
- Some types of woolly thinking in poker include:
- Considering irrelevant variables
- Misunderstanding probability
- Results-based thinking
- Spurious regression
- Acting on principle
- Superstition
Summary
- It is important that you break out of the pre-programmed thinking patterns and develop a new kind of intuition that we call the Six Truths of Poker Intuition:
1. Actions and reactions are only tenuously linked.
2. Setting short-term monetary goals is counter-productive.
3. Average is not an acceptable standard in poker.
4. Risk neutrality is the only acceptable attitude to risk.
5. Greed is good.
6. Clear logical thought is required.
so i saw this guy the hand before bet 3bb on the flop, the turn and river and then fold to a raise. it mostly means a bluff a large % of the time so hes either tilting or an habitual bluffer.
he completes, i raise- standard. he min3bets me back. based on the previous info i think hes full of shit and auto 4bet. he instantly 5bets. so he didnt think about the hand at all- if he had an AA/KK i think he would think how best to get money out of me and likely just call. if he had AK he would just shove cos he wants to see all 5 cards at once.
i assume i have some fold equity (evidently i didnt?) and that i beat his range. its a pot sized bet to shove. no previous history.
i asked a friend of who plays high stakes and eventhough i may know hes bluffing, i dont beat his bluffing range which includes 77, AT...
thx for comments.
Submitted by : genjix
PokerStars Game #28578691991: Holdem No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2009/05/24 23:54:26 WET [2009/05/24 18:54:26 ET]
Table Williams II 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: danwestch ($13.50 in chips)
Seat 2: midway112 ($19.10 in chips)
Seat 3: genjix ($50.25 in chips)
Seat 5: cKRIKRI ($25 in chips)
Seat 6: Gunsos_x ($33.50 in chips)
Seat 7: JJCO.9 ($10.35 in chips)
Seat 9: darehkhella ($25 in chips)
midway112: posts small blind $0.10
genjix: posts big blind $0.25
alecsus: sits out
coolkona: sits out
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to genjix
cKRIKRI: folds
Gunsos_x: folds
JJCO.9: folds
darehkhella: folds
danwestch: folds
midway112: calls $0.15
genjix: raises $0.75 to $1
midway112: raises $0.75 to $1.75
genjix: raises $2.50 to $4.25
midway112: raises $2.50 to $6.75
genjix: raises $43.50 to $50.25 and is all-in
midway112: calls $12.35 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($31.15) returned to genjix
Showdown midway112: shows (a pair of Threes)
genjix: shows (a pair of Threes - Ace kicker)
genjix collected $36.30 from pot
Summary Total pot $38.20 | Rake $1.90
Board
Seat 1: danwestch (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 2: midway112 (small blind) showed and lost with a pair of Threes
Seat 3: genjix (big blind) showed and won ($36.30) with a pair of Threes
Seat 5: cKRIKRI folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: Gunsos_x folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 7: JJCO.9 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 9: darehkhella folded before Flop (didnt bet)
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
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