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...
still not playing a lot this month, like the worst fucking month of my poker life this year so far. but yeah going to vegas for the wsop main event. arriving at the 25th and prob staying somewhere lol
hope i get to meet a couple Lpers there
Elendril001: checks
cmwalk612: bets 140
killaherni: folds
Elendril001: folds
Uncalled bet (140) returned to cmwalk612
cmwalk612 collected 260 from pot
Summary Total pot 260 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: xhamster (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 2: Elendril001 (small blind) folded on the River
Seat 3: Butty - OSA (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: cmwalk612 collected (260)
Seat 5: CoolRoad folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: killaherni folded on the River
Seat 8: taugonut folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Been reading through half of the book, and it's really good. So I thought I'd list down most of the important stuff I've been through so far (Most for my own benefits).
Understand and Accept the Realities of Poker
- You need to understand the Five Realities of Poker, but more important you need to accept them. The Five Realities of Poker are:
1. Poker is a game of both skill and luck.
2. In the short term, luck is king.
3. In the long term, skill is king.
4. Poker is a game of small edges.
5. Poker is a game of high variance.
Play for the Long Term
- If you are looking to make money from poker, you need to play for the long term and accept the short-term risks.
- A player who puts too much emphasis on his short-term results will be prone to the following errors:
- Playing to get even
- Protecting a win
- Tilting
- Getting mad at bad players
- Making rash changes to his game
Emphasize Correct Decisions over Making Money
- The big advantage of playing poker for the long term is that you can focus on the only thing that is important: making correct decisions.
- "correct play" is defined as the best play you could reasonably be expected to make given the information you have available.
- If you make correct decisions, your short-term results are irrelevant as you will make money in the long term.
Desensitize Yourself to Money
- It is difficult to make correct decisions at the table if you are scared to lose the money in front of you.
- You could fall into a number of traps by playing scared:
- Not protecting your hand properly
- Not value betting your good hands enough
- Playing too tight
- Not calling enough in big bet poker
- Not bluffing enough
- Two factors tend to contribute to how likely you are to play scared:
1. How strong is your bankroll?
2. What is your attitude to money?
Leave your Ego at the Door
- Your ego may lead you into several traps at the table, the following eight being the most common:
1. You might call bets that you shouldn't.
2. You might allow a personal feud to cloud or override your judgment.
3. You are likely to try too hard to get even.
4. You might play in games you can't beat.
5. You might make plays to impress your opponents.
6. You might not drop down a limit when you should.
7. You could inadvertently give away information to your opponents.
8. You might scare away players who you would rather stay.
Remove All Emotion from Decisions
- Many players let emotion affect their poker decisions, yet emotions should have no impact whatsoever on the decisionmaking process.
- Emotions can cause you to make sub-optimal plays that you would not otherwise make.
- Many types of emotions can affect your game such as anger, frustration, misery, fear, happiness, pity, pride and nervousness.
- A poker player has two defenses against his emotions:
1. Do not play when you are in an emotional state that may cause your play to suffer.
2. Acknowledge your emotions, but don't allow them to affect your decisions.
Dedicate Yourself to a continuous cycle of Analysis and improvement
- In order to ensure long-term success at poker, you must commit to an ongoing program of analysis and improvement.
- If you stop learning at poker, not noly will you not improve, but your game is likely to regress.
- There are many reasons why long-time players might become less keen on learning over time, including:
- Complacency
- Illusions of mastery
- Loss of enthusiasm
- Stagnation
- Top players may disagree on many things, but the one thing thta they will voice resounding agreement on is that they are still learning.
Oh crap lol, it got a lot longer than I thought it would, still got like 3/4 of the book left, I'll take more later lol. Wanna eat, my eggs are getting cold xD
Some coolers/advice please/Live handsby Night2o1, May 23
The only one I really think I could of done differently is the bolded part in hand 1, the rest are just whines/please kill me/ I think I'm going to go play in traffic hands. Though lemme know if you spot a mis-play in those.
1)
Stacks $400 effective
Limper fish UTG+1, I limp T8s from MP, 4 limpers behind me including button + big blind
Flop T84r
I lead for 10 into 18, 2 fold
Button who is an european online midstakes player (though didn't seem very aggressive) raises me to $30, big blind folds so its HU
I 3bet to $95, he calls
Turn 6r, pot is ~$200 we have $200 behind
I can't remember anything about how he was acting except maybe that he said "Hmm, 65 more?" and called after a short bit of time.
Do you give up here? Is 3betting the flop bad?
Obviously pokerstove says that I'm a favorite if he can have any set (I never expect him to have an overpair or TT) and any 2pair, but do people/nits aka regs fold all worse 2pair (And possibly the rare T8) to my 3bet?
Board: Tc 8h 4s
Dead:
equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 64.180% 54.29% 09.89% 101583 18504.00 { T8s, T8o }
Hand 1: 35.820% 25.93% 09.89% 48519 18504.00 { TT, 88, 44, T8s, T4s, 84s, T8o, T4o, 84o }
2)
Stacks are $450 at 1/3. All I know about villain is that he's an online midstakes FR reg on cakepoker. Been playing with him for a bit and he hasn't been splashing around in pots or anything, just looks like a pretty standard tight reg-guy
I limp 77 from UTG+1. He raises MP over me + a limper to $16 (standard). Big blind calls, I call, limper calls.
Flop 79Qss pot $65
I lead $40, guy folds, Cake reg raises to $120. BB fold. I raise to $300.
Cake reg shoves for the $130 or whatever more, I call.
I hung out with this guy and his crew away from the tables and they said its pretty much a cooler, though the cake reg said that he might of folded all draws vs my 3bet due to "deepness". WHAT THE FUCK>??????? Myth also said to never fold. My question is if my lead/3bet is good, since it seems to turn my hand face up.
So when he raises my lead, is his range now..
Board: 7s 9h Qs
Dead:
equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 18.182% 18.18% 00.00% 4320 0.00 { 77 }
Hand 1: 81.818% 81.82% 00.00% 19440 0.00 { QQ, 99, JsTs, Ts8s }
If you add KK, AA I am only 60/40 and I'm pretty sure he's gonna flat call or fold KK, AA
Board: 7s 9h Qs
Dead:
equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 60.197% 60.20% 00.00% 35757 0.00 { 77 }
Hand 1: 39.803% 39.80% 00.00% 23643 0.00 { QQ+, 99, JsTs, Ts8s }
3) Stacks are effectively upto $400 I raise QJss UTG+1 on a pretty good table, though I get an unexpected 7 callers.
I say to the dealer, "Ok that's good, now could I just flop the nuts please?"
He says "We'll see"
Flop AKThh
Pot is $80, do you lead here? How much do you bet?
I lead for $50 and everyone instantly folded, then the last person to fold, a fish, showed me an Ace that they mucked??????
just having a really bad time after tilting alot of my roll its made me play differently..... i just cant hit anything and i dont know im spewing left right fucking centre and just getting outdrawn.
down time for poker, might take a week out or something cos its really getting to me when the same mofuckin person is outdrawing me all day over two tables, evenwhen im ahead flop or pf so yeah rage over
ill start playing again when i clear my head n stuffs, could i just be playing bad after being stressed out over exams or??????????????????? who knows
cu in a bit
peace
I played a lot of poker at the end of 2008, but I stopped a little before Christmas (withdrew most of my bankroll and used it to help buy Christmas gifts for my family and myself). I posted here at the end of November but stopped after getting annoyed by a downswing and forgetting to come back for a while. I didn't play during this semester of school because I was very busy, practice four days a week, lifting three days a week, going to tournaments every other weekend, I really didn't have time for poker. However I have lots of time this summer and I think I'd like to start up again. I left myself a small bankroll, enough for some penny level shenanigans; there I'll try to get my game back and improve on what little ability I had. I've been playing for the last few days a few hundred hands at a time and it feels great.
Nothing substantial to this blog post, just wanted to get in the rhythm of posting them. Take it easy.
yesterday morning, i woke up in the middle of a street in downtown new orleans at around 9 am, while being arrested for public drunkenness. i don't remember what i was doing the night before that when i passed out. i lost my wallet with about $250 in it, and my blackberry. i spent the entirety of yesterday on the cold concrete floor of the jail cell, drunk the first half and hung over during the next. my body is still sore all over the place.
i was a little surprised to see that my dad was there to pick me up (at around 10pm). he'd been waiting there for hours. and when i got out, there were no harsh words or judgment or criticism. i don't know why i automatically called my parents first when i got arrested. i'm no longer supposed to rely on them anymore for anything. i really can't handle them being so loving and supportive because i can't ever give them what they want. it makes me feel like i owe a debt that i can't repay and that sucks. all i've done is shown them how far i could go in the way of destroying my life. and i feel absolutely terrible about that, but at the same time, i don't want to let my guard down and let them tell me what to do either.
the whole situation should hopefully make me realize that i need to start taking care of myself?
ps, i really would like for this downswing of life to end asap
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