So I was messing around with my HEM database, checking out the reports tab. Under, "Winnings Summary," one thing caught my eye. Over 32k hands of NL100 6max, I was a totally breakeven player.
End results were -$22.70. I think I might be a really bad player since I could only breakeven over 30k hands, but that's fine with me. I graphed it and it was pretty funny, and seeing as I haven't played 6max in a long time, I figure I'd share it with you guys.
Wassup. I've been back in England for 5 days now and I'm enjoying it so far, feels good to be in my room once more, be around my "stuff", my friends and family. I think my mind has been a lot clearer and, in general, I've been playing a more solid game. Unfortunately I've been wasting it continually, playing a TON of 100NL just trying to make my stats pretty -_-. On that front, I have been making progress though, I was -20 buyins at 50c/$1 6m and -6 buyins at $3/$6 HU a week ago and now I'm -0.5 buyins at $50c/$1 6m and -1.5 buyins at $3/$6 HU so my stats should be in the green soon, and then I can go back to playing $3/$6 6max and working my way up in games I should be playing. I'm just too neat and OCD, I hate to see my stats in the red lol
It's really annoyed me how I've managed to be breakeven over 30k hands of $0.50/$1, I mean almost all of the regulars are bad and there's a huge amount of complete station donks. I've ran really bad overall, tilted a lot, etc but I feel like my long term edge in those games SHOULD be a minimum of 6ptbb/100, and that's just not been the case so far. I guess it doesn't help that I find it hard to take the money seriously since I've basically been playing stakes 10 times as big regularly for almost 2 years. Despite that, I think that these hands may have actually had a positive effect on my overall game, I've had to go back and reevaluate a lot of the basics and I may have even improved from playing idiots, as funny as that sounds.
Here's some updated stats since I restarted playing early April:
Can't win without showdown at 50c/$1 heh, people never fold -,-
A few days ago I used up over 100k FPPs buying stuff, I got 3 £250 amazon.co.uk gift certificates with which I bought a shitton of DVDs, music CDs, some Sennheiser HD595 headphones some other gadgets and also got a 32GB iPod Touch, which hopefully arrives before I go back to Korea on June 7th. Also got a couple of xbox games, Resident Evil 5, which I didn't like so far mainly because of the controls and also got Street Fighter 4 that I've played a lot with my brother, beat him like 11-2 in best of 3s, and enjoyed the game a lot so far. d.Apollo is coming round mine in a couple of weeks, there's def gonna be a lot of drinking, pokering, pool and probably some birding on his part, though finding a good looking girl in Mansfield is like finding a needle in a haystack. Got a friend's birthday party coming up in a week in Nottingham too, which is a much better night out than Mansfield, though it's still a really rough area, might be able to get some pics from the night out that I can upload in a future blog, will have to see.
I staked Myth for 12.5% of the big WSOP event coming up so fingers crossed that he does well on that, it's the first time I've really done any kind of stake for more than $500, so Corwin fighting!
If I had never tried to make any $0.50/$1 videos I would have never lost money and thus my stats wouldn't have been in the red in the first place, and I wouldn't have been playing there for the last 30k hands trying to make my winrate positive, so I'll leave some of you with that feeling of guilt!
It's the end of my 2nd week of playing on Full Tilt Poker and I've had my ups and downs (ups being close to $2000 and downs being $500). But in the end, all that mattered was that I was even and one other thing ...
ENOUGH FTP FOR POKER CHIPS!
I'm ordering the 500 Piece Custom Set sometime soon, but the problem is, how long does it take to get to me? I live in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and if my parents are home when it arrives one thing will happen.
I'm going to get shot by my dad.
So I guess this is just really a blog on asking does anyone know roughly how long it would take? I might as well put some stats down here as well because it is a blog ...
$1/$2 NL HE + $200
$2/$4 NL HE + $350
$3/$6 NL HE + $0
$5/$10 NL HE + $700
Tournaments, you ask? It's in the garbage, I'm so bad at those I basically quit, and I'm just sticking with tables for now anyway. ^^
wow just had the most depressing session ever, everytime i thought my luck was changing (i.e KK4 6 9 rainbow in a 4bet flop with AK) thinking 'thanks poker gods' WAMMM BAMMMMMMMMMMMMMM he turns over K4 and proudly types '' into chat, few mins later i get kings and im like yeh lets go baby w00, 4 bet villain he flats with aq, flop q 4 8 rainbow and he bets into me i shove and he calls rivers the ace 'BAAAAAAAAM TAKE THAT MOFO IF YOU THOUGHT THIS WAS EASY' screams a poker god. so yeh ill get a graph and see if i can find the motivation to go over my hands and pick out the redic aids ridden shit hands jus climbing back slowly and fuck my life as i do i raise with 9s and a guy insta shoves $10, cba with this shit :D. But my aims from now are just to build steadily and can someone comment if its best to play through a downswing like ive done tonight bopped off like 7 buyins or w.e or just when i am in the midst of one coming take a break???
heres the graph [img=http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/951/3daygraphmorning.png]
HOLY GNIUW SHIT
AFTER REVIEW IT SEEMS I ACTUALLY DONKED OFF A FUCK LOAD ON SOME SHIT REBUY TOURNAMENT
FFS
note to self - dont fucking play donkaments
thats just made me angry realising how much ive actually blown, my roll is sat at 205 and according to pt i should be sat on 265 ish ??????????????????????????????????????????????????? f-m-l
F9UIAVEUINING im actually mad seeing how ive donked what must be 50 on tournaments ? (Granted i flopped 2 pair just after end of rebuy and a 45k pot guy shoves flop with OESD Q_Q)
Are there any ways of limiting my account so i can't physically play more than one tournament a day and making sure it isn't a rebuy tourney? :x
cba
------end of rage atself rant-
After reflecting, it seems my cash play wasn't all too bad but just a minor losing session of -2 buy ins, and i blew most on tournaments but all is not lost i still have a healthy roll to crush micro and this kind of more motivation for me to go on and destroy nl10 and get into nl25 asap, just need to stay away from mofocking donkaments. But on a serious note i will ask the question again is there a way of limiting what i can do on my account tournament wise like i can/have done cash game wise? Thanks in advance
peace time to sleep get up haircut -------GRIND------
Trying to take poker seriously, problemby ChillSavior, May 13
Just started taking poker seriously, so i deposited $500 on to Fulltilt about a month ago. I started off not doing so well but then learned about poker tracker, watched dogisheadsup series on deuces cracked and before i know it in the past 10 days i've been up about $825. In 23 hours of play tracked, i'm up $825 from just playing $50 NLHE HU. I'm very proud of how i've been doing. I get home from college for the summer and tell my parents about how well i've been doing and they ban poker from my house... i try and explain about pokertracker, how poker is a skill game, how important it is to me, nothing works. They say "this is a gambling/gaming free household" they banned videogames when i was in highschool... which caused my forced retirement from starcraft a few years ago. So i ended up getting really angry and ignoring them and kept playing on my laptop which they noticed. So today they tell me they are going to put a firewall up so my computer can't get internet in the house... makes me so angry. They tell me if i want to play poker its fine i just have to move out... wtf move out? poker will help me move out but right now i dont have the biggest wallet. So if anyone has any advice, if there is any advice possible to give? it would be really appreciated or any other similar circumstance you've run into. Had the idea of playing at starbucks lol dont know how that would work out though...
Dont tilt dont tilt dont tilt dooooooonnnnnntttt !by NewbSaibot, May 13
Threw some tokens at the FTP slot machine today. Man this game just puts my stomach in knots so bad. I literally get chills every time I go to sit down, even at NL2. It's not the money, it's just the shame of losing it. I'm an extremely competitive person. I dunno if these are coolers are what. I mean how can I put these donks at NL2 on the nuts every single time? Theres no way I cant expect these fish to have soooo much worse in every one of these scenario's. If this happened at NL200 or above, I'd be out a 24" flatscreen, a keyboard, and down at Lowe's buying some spackle for the new holes in the wall. I have issues.
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Full Tilt Poker Game #12202954884: Table Access (6 max) - $0.02/$0.05 - No Limit Hold'em - 19:41:38 ET - 2009/05/13
Seat 1: Hero ($5)
Seat 2: eightnine89 ($5)
Seat 3: xmvc ($5.16)
Seat 4: Mukimaki ($7.50)
Seat 5: pytys ($0.25)
Seat 6: Mucka_Mucker ($6.89)
Mucka_Mucker posts the small blind of $0.02
Hero posts the big blind of $0.05
The button is in seat #5
Holecards Dealt to Hero
eightnine89 raises to $0.15
xmvc folds
Mukimaki folds
pytys has been disconnected
pytys has reconnected
pytys has 15 seconds left to act
pytys calls $0.15
Mucka_Mucker calls $0.13
Hero calls $0.10
Flop (Pot : $0.60)
Mucka_Mucker checks
Hero checks
eightnine89 bets $0.45
pytys calls $0.10, and is all in
Mucka_Mucker folds
Hero calls $0.45
Turn (Pot : $1.60)
Hero checks
eightnine89 has 15 seconds left to act
eightnine89 checks
River (Pot : $1.60)
Hero bets $0.50
eightnine89 has 15 seconds left to act
eightnine89 raises to $1.65
Hero raises to $4.40, and is all in
eightnine89 has 15 seconds left to act
eightnine89 calls $2.75, and is all in
Showdown Hero shows three of a kind, Fives
eightnine89 shows a flush, Jack high
eightnine89 wins the side pot ($8.87) with a flush, Jack high
pytys mucks
eightnine89 wins the main pot ($0.84) with a flush, Jack high
Hero is sitting out
pytys is sitting out
Summary Total pot $10.40 Main pot $0.90. Side pot $9.50. | Rake $0.69
Board:
Seat 1: Hero (big blind) showed and lost with three of a kind, Fives
Seat 2: eightnine89 showed and won ($9.71) with a flush, Jack high
Seat 3: xmvc didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: Mukimaki didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: pytys (button) mucked - Ace King high
Seat 6: Mucka_Mucker (small blind) folded on the Flop
Full Tilt Poker Game #12203197402: Table Requa (6 max, deep) - $0.01/$0.02 - No Limit Hold'em - 19:55:54 ET - 2009/05/13
Seat 1: Jazzride ($4.44)
Seat 2: Rhythms ($2), is sitting out
Seat 3: Hero ($2.06)
Seat 4: ReverseTwilight ($4.07)
Seat 5: CjEnKsFL0PaA ($2.01)
Seat 6: ACRVC ($7.83)
ACRVC posts the small blind of $0.01
Jazzride posts the big blind of $0.02
The button is in seat #5
Holecards Dealt to Hero
Hero raises to $0.10
ReverseTwilight folds
CjEnKsFL0PaA folds
ACRVC raises to $0.32
Jazzride folds
Hero has 15 seconds left to act
Hero raises to $0.75
ACRVC has 15 seconds left to act
ACRVC raises to $7.83, and is all in
Hero calls $1.31, and is all in
ACRVC shows
Hero shows
Uncalled bet of $5.77 returned to ACRVC
Flop (Pot : $9.14)
Turn (Pot : $10.14)
River (Pot : $10.14)
ACRVC shows two pair, Aces and Sixes
Hero shows two pair, Jacks and Sixes
ACRVC wins the pot ($3.87) with two pair, Aces and Sixes
Hero adds $2
Summary Total pot $4.14 | Rake $0.27
Board:
Seat 1: Jazzride (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 2: Rhythms is sitting out
Seat 3: Hero showed and lost with two pair, Jacks and Sixes
Seat 4: ReverseTwilight didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: CjEnKsFL0PaA (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: ACRVC (small blind) showed and won ($3.87) with two pair, Aces and Sixes
Full Tilt Poker Game #12203196227: Table News (6 max) - $0.01/$0.02 - No Limit Hold'em - 19:55:49 ET - 2009/05/13
Seat 1: connmanJ ($2.11)
Seat 2: Hero ($2)
Seat 3: minirake ($2.04), is sitting out
Seat 4: go1975 ($3.82)
Seat 5: kefiros ($0.76)
Seat 6: ksantillie ($2.02)
connmanJ posts the small blind of $0.01
Hero posts the big blind of $0.02
The button is in seat #6
Hero checks
ksantillie bets $0.02
Hero has 15 seconds left to act
Hero raises to $0.11
ksantillie calls $0.09
Turn (Pot : $10.41)
minirake has returned
Hero bets $0.27
ksantillie calls $0.27
River (Pot : $10.95)
Hero has 15 seconds left to act
Hero bets $1.60, and is all in
ksantillie calls $1.60
Showdown Hero shows two pair, Aces and Fives
ksantillie shows a flush, Ace high
ksantillie wins the pot ($3.75) with a flush, Ace high
Hero adds $2
Summary Total pot $4.01 | Rake $0.26
Board:
Seat 1: connmanJ (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 2: Hero (big blind) showed and lost with two pair, Aces and Fives
Seat 3: minirake is sitting out
Seat 4: go1975 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: kefiros didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: ksantillie (button) showed and won ($3.75) with a flush, Ace high
Full Tilt Poker Game #12203140312: Table Epson (6 max) - $0.01/$0.02 - No Limit Hold'em - 19:52:22 ET - 2009/05/13
Seat 1: Erycka23 ($2.16)
Seat 2: Hero ($2.53)
Seat 3: Scabo ($0.80)
Seat 5: jphaynes4 ($2.30)
Seat 6: lilradar21 ($0.43)
Erycka23 posts the small blind of $0.01
Hero posts the big blind of $0.02
Scabo posts $0.02
The button is in seat #6
Holecards Dealt to Hero
Scabo checks
jphaynes4 folds
lilradar21 calls $0.02
Haleb sits down
Haleb adds $0.80
Erycka23 has 15 seconds left to act
Erycka23 folds
Hero checks
Flop (Pot : $10.84)
Hero checks
Scabo checks
lilradar21 checks
Turn (Pot : $12.06)
Hero has 15 seconds left to act
Hero bets $0.07
Scabo folds
lilradar21 calls $0.07
River (Pot : $12.74)
Hero bets $0.21
lilradar21 raises to $0.34, and is all in
Hero calls $0.13
Showdown lilradar21 shows three of a kind, Sevens
Hero mucks
lilradar21 wins the pot ($0.84) with three of a kind, Sevens
Summary Total pot $0.89 | Rake $0.05
Board:
Seat 1: Erycka23 (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 2: Hero (big blind) mucked - two pair, Eights and Sevens
Seat 3: Scabo folded on the Turn
Seat 5: jphaynes4 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: lilradar21 (button) showed and won ($0.84) with three of a kind, Sevens
Posting day to day hands and progress from now onby GfOrcebOnd, May 13
I'm running so bad right now it's so sick. Not only have i been runing bad today, but basically running bad for the past month. Maybe i'm biased b/c i'm basically judging myself. So i'm posting all hands over 10 dollars. I play 10-25. I can maybe look back on this another day with a clear head and say did i play well that day or did i really run that bad?
Wee, first update!!
Had two sessions since I started the blog, and weirdly enough I ran good in both of them, felt I got some good all ins I won, value from a few sets and such, felt really good.
Played 8 tables 20nl, around 2 hour each session. Here's a screen shot of the two sessions on pokertracker
I also saw a vod, and I'm going to start with this new trend, open up a wordpad, and each time they say something which sounds really important, cool or wise I will write it down and make a collection of them.
Yesterday a guy from bluefire told his protege something which sounded really important, sat talking about it for 5 minuts, and said it was probably the most important thing he would ever teach him.
It went something like this
- (golden rule in poker!!)
When you make a bet or a raise, you should know what you're gonna do against a raise, if you don't know, you shouldn't make that bet/raise.
Oh, not poker related, but found out my sister started blogging as well. Pretty cool, she just had a baby, then she started doing it.
Was really cute and I enjoyed reading through it, but maybe not much point posting it here, it being in Norwegian and all.
Oh well :-)
Off to make Fiskegrateng, a really tasty good Norwegian dish, but I bet none of you guys would like it
******** UPDATE ********
Still not gone to bed yet!!
Watched the 2nd part of Samouel's protege series on bluefire, think that series is rly good xD
Had a short one hour session, but kinda tired, not much tables running so just took 4 tables, but was mostly regulars, and some short stackers. Started off good with stacking someone, did a c bet, they called got straight, blabla all in. And I pushed all in vs the shortstackers here and there, think I lost most of the flips, and went break even for the session, which is fine!!
Did some reading, started at the top of that Master Sticky on low stakes!
#1 call the bet, if we make flush, need to get atleast one half bet or more to make our actions + EV
#2 if he 3 bet, it depends, if he has frequency over 15% we 4bet
on the turn er check call or check fold, re evalute on river
#3 call, if he checks the river and no flush got there, we shove, because he was on flush draw then
Tired now, think I might take a shower.
****** Oops, another UPDATE!! (that needs to be in caps I think) ****** (seen other people use these stars, so using them too)
Got three more "wise" words and sentence today as well:
- When you multi table, might be a good idea to just open a few tables first, then sit there for a littlewhile, then start adding more tables. Won't get as stressful, confusing, and you'll get more in the flow of things
- A lot of beginners / not so good people's mistakes comes from them being mentally lazy. If you just force yourself to actively think at the table, ur bottom line, and skill level will go up dramaticly!
- Most people don't realize the power of just trying to think stuff through more, push urself to do more, think more.
Ok, that's bout it, now I'm really going for a shower <3
Im not a very big fan of european song contest. Its a very long and boring night where its just a handful of songs thats worth listening to at all - and of them its like 10% thats good. This year one of those great songs has reached the contest:
I cant get the song out of my head! Even when Im rehearsing for a musical later this week, Im humming on it Im wondering if me being a violinist has anything to do with it?
Well i played a bit a couple months back and started to check things out here thanks to apollo introducing me to the site but due to rl stuff i jus took off my roll and thought nothing of it as i didnt do anything with my money except withdraw after losing some as i had to.
But now im back on would appreciate it if people would be kind enough to look over some of my hh and comment on what i do wrong/leaks etc and ty those who already have. So yesterday i put on $200 to start the grind and thought id see how i do as i kept seeing graphs of people and thinking sheesh lets do this . Had a 4 hour session earlier which was pretty neat so lets see if i can keep it going! http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/1263/2daygraph.png
A bit bumpy at times but as long as it follows the same general direction of upwards all is a gooden i guess lol.
So my main goal is to try and beat NL10 within a few weeks and basically become a better player as i do it and try to prepare for moving up to nl25, but i can't expect to manage it overnight ofcourse.
Peace =]
p.s i seem to be running around 18/15 is this too nitty?
Been running really, really bad since thursday. Its really really irritating me. I'm down a little under 3bi for the MONTH. This just can't continue D:
Also yesterday I am like 99% sure I finally profited $500 for the session, but lo and behold I come back and count my money and I have $20 more than before. I'm pretty sure I lost the money or something somehow. I definitely don't have it though.. sigh.
Well, whatever.. I really hope it turns around soon. I mean.. I know I don't play perfect but I'm pretty fucking sure I am very +EV at 2/5 for god's sake. Obv trying to improve my game as usual along the way..
I guess I have to adjust my month's goal to +5k, or maybe to "I hope I don't lose my whole bankroll".
From thursday-today I've played 50-60 hours. Probably going to put in 150-190 more hours (like 10-12 hours * every day left in the month w/ two days off) by the end of the month and fucking pray I can win more than 1 fucking bet when I flop a hand worth a shit.
Played through my most frustrating session so far: started with me up a buyin or two from beating down some donks when two of the worst players I've ever seen seat at other tables.
Player 1's strategy was to raise any hand preflop to pot no matter what, or call any pot open, and then donk bet 100% and sometimes pot the turn too. Very exploitable, naturally, but he went on a sick run in which he made the correct turn decision 20 to 30 times in a row. No joke. If I ever had flopped a hand, he would not pot the turn, and if I had floated his donk bet or had a more marginal hand, he would fire the turn. 20 to 30 times in a row he got it exactly right without a mistake. I don't know what the odds of that are but it's slim and frustrating. Ended up down 2.5 buyins or so to him before he quit.
Player 2's strategy consisted of shoving A5 preflop over my AK open and hitting his 5. Pretty gross but shit happens. Unfortunately he then won another flip and took another half buyin off by hitting everything in sight.
Somehow I'm only down 3.5 buyins on the session; must have won a bit off the other donks before these two guys sat. By far the most frustrating session I've ever played though: I swear player 1 must have been drunk or something but just couldn't make a mistake. I don't even want to look at FTP layout right now.
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' into chat, few mins later i get kings and im like yeh lets go baby w00, 4 bet villain he flats with aq, flop q 4 8 rainbow and he bets into me i shove and he calls rivers the ace 'BAAAAAAAAM TAKE THAT MOFO IF YOU THOUGHT THIS WAS EASY' screams a poker god. so yeh ill get a graph and see if i can find the motivation to go over my hands and pick out the redic aids ridden shit hands jus climbing back slowly and fuck my life as i do i raise with 9s and a guy insta shoves $10, cba with this shit :D. But my aims from now are just to build steadily and can someone comment if its best to play through a downswing like ive done tonight bopped off like 7 buyins or w.e or just when i am in the midst of one coming take a break???
a flush, Jack high
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a flush, Ace high
Im wondering if me being a violinist has anything to do with it? 
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