So before I tilted off the last of my roll furiously attacking micro stakes players with the false assumption that if my hand is 2% better than theirs then I stand a good chance of winning at showdown, I decided to do something even more stupid, play HU baby. Now HU has always fascinated me, even though I have like a total of 500 hands in my lifetime at it. What few adventures I have stepped in have left me feeling like this could be my bread and butter one day, mainly because I get so hyper involved in every hand (which is what tilts me) that a game like HU feeds off my desire to really probe each and every single hand played. I had been warned the game is a variance fest, and now I see why. I decided to take my 3 BI's to the NL50 HU tables, and I courageously grinded my way up to 1.2 BI's vs some guy, feeling like I was doing everything right. Unfortunately I got coolered to hell twice in a row and BAM, bye bye chiplead. Wow, all your opponent need do is double up once, and suddenly he is a tremendous threat to your stack. So I left with like 9 bucks to my name, however not depressed. Whenever I blow my roll like this I suddenly get this new found level of respect for the game, and a sudden desire to regrind from the bottom up.
So back I am at NL2. I'm only playing 4 tables sine well, thats all I can afford heh. I definitely looked over the responses to my last blog, looked at what I was doing, and literally just straight out reversed it. Everyone basically said "do the exact opposite of everything youre doing now". Interestingly I'm not finding myself getting bored, nor am I pissed when I see ATo was the best hand in a 4 way pot against a bunch of idiots who got it allin on a gutshot and bottom pair. I simply abide by the motto of JLIG, "just let it go". I've had 5 winning sessions since, most of which are less than 1 BI days, however this also does not bother me. I used to be obsessed with the idea that I needed to piledrive my way through the limits the way you 10k hand-a-day grinders do it. Now I am simply satisified if I had a winning session. I even quit after a few hundred hands only being up about 15-20BB's, and oddly I felt proud about this. My goal at this point is to simply have winning session's.
So I've doubled my mighty bankroll to $18, which I guess if you think about it is pretty oustanding, because it's DOUBLE my bankroll. And im not shortstacking or anything like that. If I could double my bankroll at NL200 in a week that would be pretty brag worthy, so why not at NL2? Oh well. With a certain rakeback affiliate I use they now autocash your RB to your account every week regardless of the amount. At NL2 this is a godsend as it really helps replenish those micro losses. I should probably keep this to myself, but I also intend to embark back on that Negreanu 5 BI strategy where I move up every 5-6 BI's at the low limits. This could result in another "humbling blog update" in a few weeks but heh, so be it. I think as long as I can keep chill, and realize better hands in better spots will come better days, I can stay afloat.
lost 10% of my BR under 1500 hands
won at showdown about 28% almost all hands with big pots were really locks too
aaa vs quads again, qqq vs aaa on turn plus teh sickest beats evar
zero seks past month, plus none in sight for the next coming months
haven't started investing/reading up on my stock market journey up to now coz pokers was too good
was really planning on 24 hour lock just before shwong started and just play when d_zoo coaches me tonite
good news:
coaching was paid for already using my winnings so far ( freerollz ftw yay!)
im still up like 400 for the month
didn't tilt at all during the whole process, felt sucky only after it happened obv
i still believe that poker is not rigged
kinda detached from winning/losing/br lately, just thinking about the games and how to beat it
planning on going to the gym coz poker obv sux right now
this was not a single tilt session, split into two sessions, so i didn't really technically go on monkey tilt coz there was at least a 10 hour interval and didnt really tilt before playing
overall life is still good, i still feel something great's about to happen. funny how a split second decision can alter your whole perspective on everything in life and what you do, next time i make a life read ill just go with it and live with my decision. gl people.
Been playing HORDE a bunch in the evening, don't like w/ randoms very much. If anyone is interested in playing gimme your SN or add me on XBL - TalentedTom
It's been a while since my last blog post, but that's because I didn't play poker for a period of about 3-4 weeks. Summer is coming up in about a week, and I'm going to be playing a ridiculous amount then, so I've been taking a break from the typical 12-tabling grind... HOWEVER, I transferred about $500 over to FTP, mainly because I needed to give rakeback to some friends, and I kinda wanted to play some SNGs and heads up (watched the pr1nnyraiding series on deucescracked). The pot button is really nice when making a lot of 3bets.
rs.wisdom told me one way to get better at hand reading is to play heads up, and I definitely could understand why. It's pretty funny how some people will constantly do the same exact thing with whatever hand they have i.e. draws, nuts. It's REALLY funny when you can tell someone is going on massive tilt and spewing a ton of chip to you. NL50 HU on FTP is pretty hilarious in general, seeing as it's the lowest HU stakes and there are a ton of fish that just want to come in and essentially want to flip with you (fold until you have a hand lol).
Anyways, here are some graphs. That nasty -4bi session was mostly because I was 6tabling as opposed to 2-4 tabling. 4 seems to be my limit, which is pretty funny since I can actually play 24 FR tables. EV is accurate in the sense that I had this awesome suckout, but it's because I'm so awesome at getting trips or two pair allin vs a flush and spiking a boat or quads on the river. Probably happened like 3 times so far. Red line is sad because... fish try to win every pot!
Sooo, i just started playing in Pokerstars, MTTs only. And i have an issue... SO MANY PPL IN THERE! I am not used to playing against 1-4K players and it is a pain in the ass to make a good cash. Only top 15 or stg get paid fine with the top top getting huge sums. So, my Q is how often should expect to cash nice - top 20... I can only imagine how much luck i should have to reach a FT and i was kinda used to it in smaller fields - 300-400 plyrs on Cake. I don't know if i do stg wrong or i am just unlucky (i think it is d latter but still...) so if one of you who have played many of those can tell me stg like a % for how much u cash big and what % u don't do shit and stuff I can kinda get a feeling for what is normal and what is not in such huge fields. Thx.
Yup, came home after read a couple of answers that I had got from my last post.
Asked my self if I played like shit and did'nt have any self-confidence. The answer on those questions were no for both of them. However, I'm not that stupid so I don't realise that a big no on question number two to can lead to a false no on question one, i.e. to big ego can disguise for yourself that you play as a sucker. However I tried to answer the two questions honestly, and this second time the answers was more like no,not like shit but not an A-game either, and second question was still a big no. So I decided to play, lost some to start with, but then I exited from some tables and went down to 4-5 instead of 6 and all of a sudden I started to win. I think my dear friends Jocke and Remember87 might have been right all along that 6tabling doenst allow me to focus as much as I might need on each table and that I've recently developed a mechanic behavior at the tables when I'm multitabling... So from now on I might only play 4-5 tables for a while to see if that might change things around. I think i'm to eager to get a juicy rb but that eager will perhaps cost more then I'll get out of it if I only multitables and don't can stay focused.
SOme thoughts only..now time for some HSP episodes...
So I quit poker almost a year and a half ago and swore to get a real job and stop messing around studying crap I didn't care about. End of 2007 I moved to adelaide, enrolled in BMedSc at Flinders and have been studying hard and working ever since.
A few weeks ago I sat down and watched a bit of poker and decided it was time to get back to it. I have no BR of which to speak so I short-stacked NL10 @ 5BI to see if it's worth my time until I get paid and had some sick results.
Up until the last downswing I think it was 13PTBB/Hr but def got smashed in the end. Only ~6k hands over the last week but that's mainly due to my gf using my desk while I play on my laptop on the couch.
Should be set for BR next tuesday then it's ooooooooooooooooooooooooon.
Been a while since I blogged anything, but honestly that's just because nothing's been going on. I had a small dry spell in tournaments but sunday I put my grinding shoes on and was determined to put up some kind of a result. I almost had a great day but I managed to bring myself up to a profitable month, and now I should be freerolling the rest of FTOPs, which is good with the expensive WSOP coming up.
The first of my friends is coming into vegas on friday, and then the rest of them are coming towards the end of the month. This WSOP should be really fun since I can actually afford to play all of the events that I want to be in. I'm looking forward to a fun and hopefully profitable WSOP. Will update again when I have something to talk about, ttyl blog.
wow i never realized how bad rake is at FTP microlimits until now. example: i stack a donk for 100bbs, pot pushed to me is only 185 bbs... WTF? i can't do this shit!!
also, it does not help that i'm stacking off with ace high, calling flop because i have a read on some player, and then ignoring that read and calling turn (because WOW i CANT FUCKING BELIEVE THAT TURN GAVE HIM TOP PAIR CUZ HE ONLY POTS WHEN HE HAS TOP PAIR), and then the rest of it off on the river on a 772K7 board with A4s vs KTo.
i'm going to rage-join tourneys with this ridiculously small roll left. after i lose it, i'm shaving my head and studying for the cfa exam on the 6th of june.
the idea is to forget about doing anything else besides studying, until it grows back. it's so brilliant.
This month I have been playing a decent amount of poker so far, think i'm up like 10bi in RB. But my game have hit a serious downswing last few days, I have dropped 13,5bi:s.
For the month in total i'm down 3bi:s pretty exactly, excluding rb.
What would you have done?
If you feel you play pretty ok, maybe a bit to loose but can't win a shit when the money has gone into the pot. Taking a paus? Grinding on lower stakes? Grinding on?
Currently my BR holds 36bi:s...
Thankful for some advice what you more skilled and experienced grinders out there use to do in spots like this one. Ty
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