May has just been a disaster so far. To be fair, I can't complain that much given how good I was running prior months, but 5/10 has been my dream stakes since the day I started playing, and I'm down like 6.5k this month there in like 2k hands. Yeah yeah sample size blah blah but it's not like I'm a 5/10 reg, I take like shots at 1 or 2 tables when they're soft, so it feels like a "lot" to me
So...a pretty big hole I've dug myself here. I think I'm going to stop with the 5/10 shots for a WHILE, stick with 2/4 and MAYBE some 3/6 shots (where I'm doing pretty well actually). Maybe even grind 1/2 again during off hours. It's going to take a lot of grinding to dig myself out of this one, GL to me.
OMFG what a sick short session I just played. Nothing worked. Straight vs runner runner flushes, straights vs higher gutshotstraight, set vs set, overpair vs runner runner flushes, set vs runner runner straight and so on...
I blame all on Jocke, my friend who came over tonight from Uppsala to play a shitload of poker with me. Shitload was an hour for me, now I quit for the day..lool!
Hate when poker is like this...back to start for the month almost, but have some RB to rely on atlest..lool.
borrowed a friend 350$(he lost it all, now he has to pay me back in real life,) after i cashed out majority of my roll + running bad once again on nl25 got my bankroll down to 200$ lol. now i have to grind nl 5.
feels so crappy to be back again where i started in february. but its all my own fault.
i need to get a fucking job so i can fucking quit cashing out and get somewhere. sooooooo dissapointing though, i can only run bad on NL25 its like this shit is cursed, and yes i know how soft this limit is supposed to be.
Someone point me in a direction......by PowerHausAA, May 08
It's kind of sad to put all my stuff up on craigslist right now. I'm excited/scared/anxious/nervous/happy/sad every emotion i can possibly feel right now. I've been living in NY for over 15 years and just to pick up and move to Vegas and not know anyone or even have a place at the moment. I'm planning to sell/throw out everything and have laptop and one luggage to my name when i go there. I just feel that if i stay in new york my poker career will go no where. My online career is been a success to this point in my opinion but the thought of just doing this over and over was eating me up inside. What will change when i move to vegas........maybe nothing maybe everything, but all i know right now is that i have to take a step in any direction. You could say that this takes a lot of balls but in my opinion it takes more balls to not do anything.
Anyhow, as most my friends do not understand my lifestyle i thought id just vent/holler in cyberworld and for this i thank everyone here.
I actually forgot that the topic was "Someone point me in a direction......" if anyone could point me a direction to live or possibly room together in vegas thatd be greatly appreciated.
I'm glad I came out here and am staying with myth. I frequently randomly ask him various poker questions and he teaches me so many useful things.
Like today. The internet in the apartment was taking a shit, and it got me thinking about how the internet randomly quits out on you during important hands in online poker.
Me: [revelation]You know, live poker mis-deals are like when the internet goes out while you're playing online!
Myth: Totally, its like when you have Aces and a 7 comes on the flop.
Me: You're right! Aren't 7's like the 2nd most commonly dealt pocket pair?
Myth: Common misconception-- they are actually the 3rd most.
Me: Ohhhh.. That's because someone at the table always has 72o [atleast, someone always has to complain about 72o as they muck preflop], so its less likely that 77 is dealt, right?
Myth: Incorrect.
Me: ?
Myth: Sometimes, poker seems counter-intuitive. Just stick with me and you'll learn a lot!
Then the internet came back!
Other than that, I saw the Wolverine movie today and enjoyed it a lot.
Pokerwise my goal is 10k for the month and I haven't played as much as I ought to for various reasons. I'm at 1.8k so far, so I'm almost 1k behind pace for 10k. I have been really experimenting with some play styles and in other spots have made some REALLY horrendous spews. I feel comfortable experimenting a lot (mostly being really laggy and messing around with a LOT of different turn lines), but I really need to stop a couple of really spewy calls and a couple of bluffs I've made. Luckily I knew they were fucking horrendous calls/or bluffs, I just have to follow through with the fold or whatever.
Thinking of that sort of brought a thought to my head earlier, and that was simply that the discipline to fold or to give up in certains spots was something I think I had conquered a lot better online. It is just something I need to reestablish my dominion over in live poker.. its cropped up again because live poker moves so much more slowly is all~
Well when I wake up its going to be Friday and I don't think anything interesting is happening this weekend, so I am going to try to put in 40 hours from Friday-Sunday. Hopefully it works out and I run good. I might let myself do like 30 hours if I go out on one of the nights or if I run sick good and have to quit before I winner-tilt half of it away. Anyway, hopefully I will have a monster weekend and I'll catch up to pace, since that is when most of the money is won anyway.
PokerStars Game #27947930551: Omaha Pot Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2009/05/08 0:30:58 ET
Table Ryba 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 2: monsieurmv ($2.85 in chips)
Seat 3: BlackJacki2 ($13.25 in chips)
Seat 4: Nuttin No G ($9.75 in chips)
Seat 5: QuantumXZ ($5.65 in chips)
Seat 6: X-Mac ($13.65 in chips)
Nuttin No G: posts small blind $0.05
QuantumXZ: posts big blind $0.10
MRobot: sits out
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to BlackJacki2
X-Mac: calls $0.10
monsieurmv: folds
BlackJacki2: calls $0.10
Nuttin No G: calls $0.05
QuantumXZ: checks
Nuttin No G: bets $0.70
QuantumXZ: folds
BlackJacki2: raises $2.10 to $2.80
Nuttin No G: raises $6.30 to $9.10
BlackJacki2: raises $3.95 to $13.05 and is all-in
Nuttin No G: calls $0.45 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($3.50) returned to BlackJacki2
Showdown BlackJacki2: shows (a Royal Flush)
Nuttin No G: mucks hand
BlackJacki2 collected $18.85 from pot
Summary Total pot $19.80 | Rake $0.95
Board
Seat 2: monsieurmv folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: BlackJacki2 (button) showed and won ($18.85) with a Royal Flush
Seat 4: Nuttin No G (small blind) mucked
Seat 5: QuantumXZ (big blind) folded on the River
Seat 6: X-Mac folded on the Turn
"But how much have you lost?" NSFWby TremendousGats, May 07
Don't you love it when you tell someone you play online poker, and they ask you how much you've won and you tell them. But then , they hit you with the "But how much have you lost?" Its hard to explain to them sometime.
When heaven and hell collides...by MasterofLaw, May 07
...is a good theme to sum this evening up. Came home from work pretty early today, only a 8hrs day ;-) and fully decided to play a shitload of poker. Made some burgers and watched an episode of national hu..to get in the right mood. Sat down and opened up 6tables as usual...and damn I got a real nasty insight from hell. Fought hard to not get sucked out everwhere and pretty fast lost about 3bi...took a short break and went back to the tables, determined that it was just unluck that made me lost in that first short 1hr session...OMG in 10-15 minutes I had lost over 2,5bi:s more...almost only based on lousy plays.
For the readers that have followed my blog since the beginning, that i'm on a new non-tilting mission since I have realized that the tilt is my biggest enemy and leak, heres a couple of questions:
1.What would the old MasterofLaw have done in this spot before?
Answer: Tilted biiigtime and played hu nl50-400 (i'm a nl20 6max reg at the moment)
2. What did the new MasterofLaw do?
Answer: LoLled a bit, then decided to watch a DVD instead.
The result:
Veery good, was extremely tired when a came home and directly after the dinner. But during the movie I slightly got more awake...SO after a 2hrs break I decided to give poker a shot again...
The session didn't start to well and I was down about 1bi, then I started to run pretty good and did some soul-reads etc (from my pov ofc ;-) ) and ended the session slightly more than +8bi:s and a total of +2,5bi:s for the day. Damn I'm proud over myself that I managed not to tilt bigtime. Lesson learnt today is never play when you are too tired.
Now i'm pretty awake as usual when I should go to sleep, 8hrs before I need to wake up again...
Will try to play some poker tomorrow night, must do some major clean up in my apartment first but then I hope I can play some and on Sunday to...Think I will take up some small MTT playing again too...
Now I gonna try to get a good nights sleep and dream about not-tilting moods!
I'm moving up to nl50 today (6max). I'm over rolled & lately i'm beating nl25 very easily anyway.
I wonder if you could give me some advice(s) about the modifications and the changes between nl25 & nl50.
If you have already taken the step from nl25 to nl50 your comment would be greatly appreciated.
I'm not too confident but i have to move on.
Monte Carlo
Day 1: We leave JFK (New York) close to midnight Sunday. We arrive in Paris at some point and wait 3 hours for connect flight to Nice. We get to Nice around 5PM and I get conned into taking public transportation. Bad move as it was pouring and a lot less convenient than I thought it’d be. The view is absolutely gorgeous as well as the resort. As we’re checking in all I see is extremely young faces. Nothing exciting, we unpack go down to the bar have few drinks and some snacks then I head to bed. A bottled water is like 7 Euros lol. http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/b273a9be638b413b1a1deb710f710608.jpg http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/606b609da9798662d93db83c8e069c6b.jpg
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Day 2: Unfortunately i wasn’t able to switch to day 1b so I’m playing on Tuesday. I get there early to check out room temperature and snack situation as I didn’t have time or thought to pack food. I’m the first one at the table I make some chit chat with the dealer and the seats start filling up. To my right is younger lad from Texas, very nice kid, from what I remember he won the supernova elite tournament which meant that he got supernova elite status with almost no work? To my left is Entropyxx and we have a kind of awkward moment when we realize who each other are as we played tons of hands with each other and plo200. Seats 1-4 were all Stars regulars. Day 1 I really didn’t get dealt anything. I remember getting kings twice one flopped an ace and second one I missed a huge value river bet. I thought the whole day I earned most my chips. At one point I was down to 17kish when I called on the button with J 10 Clubs and flopped trips and turned quads to double up against seat 9’s kings. Seat 8 was pretty much trying to steal every time and two times I actually did call him down he managed to catch backdoor flushes. Pretty much he would call in position with nothing on flop and try to out play turn and river. If it weren’t for him I think I’d easily be over 70k chips for the day. Day 1 ends with 41k. http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/1fd75917ca105446353f4d3c423f8398.jpg
Day 3: (Wed) the other day 1 is going so I have the whole day to venture. Amanda(My girlfriend couldn’t come so she got a bit lucky and called me at the exactly right time and went with me) and I went to the beach grab some unbelievable food. It was unreal how fresh the food was, but I guess that’s what a 70 euro lunch buys. I tried to keep the day short as I still had 3k vpp to go for the 50k vpp minimum for the month. Procrastination is my specialty; it’s funny because Entropy was in the same exact spot as me. So I return to the hotel room and setup my internet (20 euros/day) and of course the mouse I got at the airport only works when its right next to the USB thingy so now I have to cross my hand to the left side of the computer to play. UGH!#@!@! MrBIond and I have been planning to meet up the whole time and we finally do. I was scared he was going to be a total tool but he ended up being really cool and he gave me the best advice ever, to Email scotty from stars about my situation. http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/02cc1f3adae3e444524511fe86fec0a3.jpg
Day 4: So I wake up really early on Thursday for day 2 (this whole trip I barely slept). I start going at it cross handed multitabling and I just give up and email scotty. He hooked it up and gave me the 3kvpp I needed. On to day 2 of the main event. I end up at an awesome table, I actually had a lot of chips compared to most of the players at my table and the biggest stack was about 70kish. First hour I get up 80k, im getting dealt beautifully and im running over the table. DOOMSWITCH, table got broken up and of course I take the last table assignment card on the table. I get moved to the heaviest table in the tournament. Lee Nelson had about 330k and of course Entropy is to my right with over 100k, Eric Qu is to my left with over a 120k (who ended up final tabling). Pretty much every other seat has a good stack size. Every other hand I come into the pot I get 3-betted. So I adjust my range to JJ+AK+. I’m pretty stagnant the whole time lingering around 60k. The only hand I showed down was Kings and that was when button shoved and I wake up with kings in BB. I am in the second dinner break and I’m starving. First group is in the middle of dinner break and were just about to take ours when middle position opens for 6500 (1200/2400 blinds) I have about 65kish left and I have A 10 H. I think about squeezing but decided that I can outplay him on flop. Flop comes K Q 4 two clubs. Check check Turn is 5 spades. I lead out for 11k he calls. He called pretty quick but I’m pretty much putting him on jack’s /tens as I’m pretty sure he would’ve lead out A Q here. River is 2 clubs. I realize that at best he might be on a weak q here or some lower pair. I put 23k in on the river. I’m representing pretty much K Q here or A,J, or A,10 clubs. In retrospect I should’ve definitely put like 7-8k on turn and valued bluff 10k on river. He tanks for about 6-8 minutes ( I don’t call clock as I want to miss the blinds before dinner break), he finally declares a call and flips over 9’s. at first I was baffled but made more sense that I have monster or nothing there and im definitely kicking myself for not value bluffing river. I have about 19k left next hand I get dealt 9’s. Entropy makes standard raise one off button and I shove. BB doesn’t see that I shove (I don’t know how) and tries to call just the 6500, the tournament director comes over and has to tell him that his options are fold or call leaving the 6500 he put in there already. So he opts to call. Flop is a 10 4 turn q river blank. BB has K,j entropy had k 10 I would’ve lost either way. I was somewhere in the 180-220th place range as I just picked up and left.
Overall I felt good about the whole tournament. Played well in my opinion minus few hiccups when I didn’t declare raise a few times. Anyways started instadrinking and went to an awesome dinner and ate a risotto that I’ll never forget. It was by far the best thing I had there.
Rest of my stay there was relaxing got pretty trashed Friday night, paid 80 euros for 4 beers and Nelly the rapper and his entourage were few feet from where we were all dancing. Actually I may as well tell you about my NELLY experience in Monte Carlo.
So Amanda and I are walking through the hotel lobby and I do a double take on Nelly. I turn to Amanda and I was like “yo I think that’s nelly.” She thought it looked like him but was like nah it can’t be. As we’re walking back up to the events center we see him taking pictures and what not. So of course I can’t miss this opportunity lol to meet nelly. So I give him one of the most touristy “HELLO” I’ve ever given. Of course his bouncer his setting me to the side asking him to give him a minute. So finally he agrees to snap a few pics. At first he got a little ticked about Amanda’s lens cap being on still, but nonetheless I got a picture with him. Later on the week I found him playing battleships poker with some kid and his bouncer brings him this big bag of mcdonalds and he pulls out a filet o fish box. Only a millionaire rapper named nelly would get a filet o fish in gorgeous Monte Carlo, one of the most exclusive places in the world. The story doesn’t end there. Friday night we go to Jimmy’z, (the 20 euro/beer place). Of course nelly is there with his entourage. Every so often he would get champagne with fireworks type of candles in the ice bucket (lol it was totally announcing that he got more champagne). It was kind of crazy, he was surrounded by bouncers and bitches, quite a scene. So I’m pretty smashed at this point and I’m sick of paying 20 euro beers so I go back to get a 24 euro room service cheeseburger. Amanda told me that when nelly was leaving that his bitches were having a squabble/serious discussion over who’s going back with nelly. Only adds to the hilarity of the filet o fish. So that’s my Nelly story. http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/b0baae58971108810f9575ba8f95af49.jpg
My monte carlo in general was amazing. Got to meet house_advantage, mrblond, entropyxx,bfl4me as well as a bunch of other players. I met a guy named Ted and his wife who I found out was Poker snoopy. It was definitely nice to meet others in person that do this for a living too. Somewhat of a redeeming trip for me as far as my poker career goes. http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/46bba9ec496e2bea2b46028a63dda69f.jpg
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