My Entire Poker career. Got about 5k hands NL2 CDpoker which hardly counts and some Facebook Poker which PT3 doesn't support for some reason.
As you can see I can only thank poker gods for sending a massive downswing upon my head when I attempted NL10 FR.This, and propaganda of many of you, especially Gororokgororok made me switch to Short-handed Poker and I never looked back since.
I went from $0.34/ hour at NL5 FR to $4.40/Hour at NL5SH. Had I not made this switch I might be a struggling NL10 FR reg by now.
This month is all about getting 7500 VPP to help me become Supernova easily this year (Currently at 2370 in May, but I will move flats and have exams so it won't be that easy to reach) , even if I stay at NL25. I am already rolled for NL50 after 10 days at NL25, and I think my NL25 standard if I'd run normal is around 5BB/100 9 tabling (This is my rate in luck-neutral sessions) , although with the heaters not being completely balanced by coolers its at 7.5/100 now, but it has always adjusted and I believe it will happen this time around as well.
I still plan to stay at NL25 until the end of the month, if I'd move to NL50 I'd have to 4table at first and the crucial VPP income would be lower + I still am waiting for a major downs swing and its better to have it when you sit at 66 BI's ;o
PokerStars Game #27908700518: Omaha Pot Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2009/05/06 23:16:44 ET
Table Dodona X 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: snyde66 ($2.65 in chips)
Seat 2: yanker05 ($16.50 in chips)
Seat 3: daveykid7 ($4.85 in chips)
Seat 4: LastKingOf ($39.80 in chips)
Seat 5: BlackJacki2 ($10 in chips)
Seat 6: ChrisL26 ($17.75 in chips)
LastKingOf: posts small blind $0.05
BlackJacki2: posts big blind $0.10
Showdown BlackJacki2: shows (three of a kind, Nines)
snyde66: shows (a straight, Eight to Queen)
snyde66 collected $7.50 from pot
Summary Total pot $7.85 | Rake $0.35
Board
Seat 1: snyde66 showed and won ($7.50) with a straight, Eight to Queen
Seat 2: yanker05 folded on the Flop
Seat 3: daveykid7 (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 4: LastKingOf (small blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 5: BlackJacki2 (big blind) showed and lost with three of a kind, Nines
Seat 6: ChrisL26 folded before Flop
Today I spent the entire day getting out of a big whole that I dug myself I played quite a bit today and just about managed to get even. Earlier today I played a monster 400BB pot which I lost that pretty much f*cked me for the day lol. I flopped an open ender with the nut straight, got it in, missed, gg. Oh well standard shit but It was my fault for still being at that table sittign that deep. Lesson learned. Heres the graph for today:
The following recent history of losses is a prime example of the legitimacy of moving up limits where players respect your raises. This is how I have lost most of my roll at NL2 recently. These are the hands that beat me.
This is why I cant beat NL2. Keep in mind I rarely limp, so these are all raised pots, meaning this is what is calling me preflop. Im sorry but this is just too damn loose. Who can compete against this? If this isnt a legitimate reason to move up limits where people respect your raises then I dont know what is. Cmon, not even Durrr shows up with this trash. #1 answer given when I ask someone about their hand "this is 1/2cent man". This isnt poker. I dunno what the hell you call this, but it sure as hell aint poker. Funny, I'm down like 2 grand in my lifetime playing NL2-NL50, and I'm up $1200 at NL200.
pretty satisfied coz skype didnt fuck me up now, d_zoo is really a good coach, def worth it. sometimes i just couldn't catch on to how fast he talked, its better though, since u get to cover alot of topics, im looking for a way of recording coaching sessions with him, camstudio is pretty gay , wasnt able to record/review last nights sweat. any recommendations other than camtasia or camstudio? i want one that has sound too.
if i get better at poker, i think ill have him coach me for like 4 times a month after this, just to keep me on my toes and not fall into that megatabling love again haha. gl
pls recommend video recording software which has good sound/video
That's my lifetime graph of NL / PL on pokerstars. I have some fixed limit on PS and some fixed limit on FTP, plus like a few thousand NL hands on FTP/Party. But I've pretty much played my entire career on stars and this is all of that.
Don't ask how much it is in $ instead of BB - no need to embarass myself with my extremely low winnings for over 760k hands of play, so I'm not gonna tell you, hehe. It's taken me 1,302 hrs to play all those hands. Sadly I've put in that much work and still suck at poker, haha. At least I've gotten to a point where I can beat NL100. Hopefully it won't take me another 700k hands to learn how to beat NL200.
I've done a lot of multi-tabling, and a decent amount of those hands were done while playing 12+ tables. I think that I don't learn much while playing more than 8 tables, so there's a lot of hands in there where I was a mindless robot and didn't improve my game. Lately I play 6-8 tables most of the time so I've actually been IMPROVING, and that's nice. Still got a long way to go.
Other fun stuff:
Biggest winning session - 1,086 hands for a profit of $1,469.50 @ NL200
Biggest losing session - 1,737 hands for a loss of $1,268.55 @ NL200
Longest session - 426.3 minutes (7.1 hrs) playing 9,264 hands for a profit of $259.75 on NL50
As you can see on the graph I'm in a 60k hand downswing. The fucking pain. That's why I looked at the life graph, to get a sense of how it looked in the big picture. Still a big downswing, but not so bad when you zoom out.
I'm graduating from university on Saturday. My degree is in economics and I've got what amounts to a minor in math.
Overall I'm not real happy about it.
I applied to several Ph.D programs and none of them panned out. Either I was rejected or I declined at every school. My GRE quantitative was a 780 which is passable for top tier economics programs, but I'm applying from an obscure state university and my GPA is only just over 3.6. Plus I've got virtually nothing else going for me so apparently I don't measure up to the standards of top-tier schools.
I wasn't delighted at the prospect of getting a Ph.D in the first place, but it was basically the only route that seemed to make sense as jobs are scarce and I've got no source of income. Anyway after being rejected at or declining every university, my only option in academics is to stay at the same state university for another year while I pursue a 1-year post-graduate and reapply to Ph.D programs. This is a pretty shitty option as I've lived here my entire life, and I'm bored of it. Moreover the education I get here is generally poor, and in spite of - or perhaps because of the easy courses, I tend to lack motivation and thus both learn less and perform (relatively) poorly.
As I said, I live in Alabama and I always have. It sucks here for all the reasons you'd imagine, and education here is as poor as advertised and possibly worse. Lately I've been trying (despite often lacking real enthusiasm) to make up for lost time and do some self-education plus take the most difficult classes available in math and econ. Unfortunately there are no difficult econ courses here, so that didn't work. Also I've been forced to fill in some curriculum requirements as this is my last semester, and those filler classes were truly horrible wastes of time and energy. One of the math courses, on the other hand, was difficult. It was a topography / analysis course that ended up requiring my full effort, and even then I ended up a little short. I like to think that it was because I had several bullshit classes that wasted my time and sapped my will to study, coupled with my terrible math background, but even so I've never really had any trouble with an academic subject before. So it was a humbling and somewhat draining experience.
Several other aspects of my life sort of suck as I've gradually severed ties with a lot of friends and now only have a sort of core group that I've known all my life. Unfortunately even among my closest friends none of us are really similar enough to have a super solid friendship. It's a strange thing to think and I feel uncomfortable with it, but at times it seems to me that even among my closest friends we're only friends because we've known each other for so long. It seems like we’re dissimilar in every way. Among some of us there are ghosts of serious tension from the past and there’s almost never an atmosphere of relaxed goodwill. Among others there are just no mutual interests or anything like the spontaneity that characterizes healthy relationships. Probably worth acknowledging that I haven’t had a steady girlfriend in over two years, and more recently I’ve become so disgusted with the culture here and the kind of people that it attracts that in the past half a year or so I haven’t made the slightest effort in social situations.
Poker is also going poorly. Don’t really feel like there’s much to be said about it other than that I’ve been able to excel in most other aspects of life and it’s frustrating and humbling to be pretty unsuccessful at poker. I can console myself with the idea that I haven’t put in the time to really be good, but it feels like a hollow reason. Until I succeed at something I usually take lack of success pretty badly and possibly irrationally so, but whatever. It’s still frustrating and with everything else looking dim it’s just one more thing that’s bad rather than good.
Anyway this is really depressing piece of writing and I feel like it’s not even entirely appropriate to post publicly. I guess the relative anonymity of LP makes it pretty inconsequential so I’ll probably post it anyway. My main motivation for writing this was the hope that at some point I’d either see that I was being ridiculous or if I wasn’t being completely ridiculous, I was hoping to spark some idea of what I could do it improve things. Unfortunately no solution has really hit me.
I guess to conclude with a poker analogy, I feel like if life were an NLHE hand then I’ve misplayed it pretty severely thus far. Unfortunately open-folding / check-folding life doesn’t get the next two cards dealt unless you’re a Hindu. So ruling out the fold button really just brings me back to step one. Hopefully I’ll catch a lucky turn or something. But it makes me wonder how many people are in a similar spot and opt to fish. Gotta think that in poker if you’re drawing you mostly miss.
I think it's funny that geoff gets on WCG Ultimate Gamer and we have a thread about it here on LP, while Annie Duke is on Celebrity Apprentice and I just found out about it today when apparently she's one of the final 2! Maybe I just missed it but there definitely wasn't a super active thread discussing another poker player being on a non poker TV show, which I feel like we'd normally do. I'm guessing it's cause none of us have any respect for her? lol poor girl.
But seriously, did I miss the thread or am I right?
I personally am kinda curious to see at least 1 episode to get an idea of how she did. I wonder if it helped the image of poker players or detracted from it. Personally I'm in support of anything that makes poker players look good and gets fish wanting to be a poker player. More fish is what it's all about!
As some of u know i decided to switch back from HU to 6max some months ago.
HU Nl100 swings were just too big too not affect my RL ( regularly had like -8BI or + 8 BI days while overall only doing small profits)
So i decided to go back to 6max and regrind from bottom to get used to 6max again after having played HU exclusivly for 4 months.
took 270 $ out of my regular roll and started at NL10 in March 2009 to build a 6max roll
went from NL10 to Nl20 pretty fast then to Nl25 and NL50 by end of March. April was basically breaking even on Nl50 for whole month
overall have build it up to ~ 1,3K BR since than and play NL50 6max mostly.
Since i dont have enough time to grind 6max due to university i put in 4 really small HU sessions of NL50 the last 4 days
-> played only around 1h - 1,5h something on average.
went pretty good. made + 320$ in 2 K hands or so on NL50 Hu
I still have a ~ 3K roll online from my original Nl100HU BR besides the 1,6K roll ive build up from the 270$. Since 1 march
The main reason i stopped plaing HU Nl100 and got back to micro 6max was that i just was tired of having these sick swings. that can kill or add 20-30% of/to your bankroll in just 3-4h.
Poker has been so relaxed and stress free the last 2 months
I think my biggest losing day was -200$ . ^^ Thats pretty cool to have a steady stressfree income of money
However yesterday i was thinking i maybe shall return to NL100 HU
I was not decided on that matter before my dream tonight.
Dream
So in my dream i was sitting at NL100 HU table and some big mega fish joins.
We play for about 2 hours and i make a ton of money from him while he does some occassional luckbox for double up.
At some point i have a 1000$ stack and he has a 1000$ stack , too ( probably makes no logic ... but hey it was a dream)
he minraises button as he had always done during the match.
I llok at my hand and see 44
I 3 bet him to 12$
he calls
flop
4s4h7h
I bet, he raises ( i fispump) and call
turn Qh
I bet , he raises, i reraise he calls ( me mega fistpump thinking he has a flush)
river 7
I bet ,he raises and now i mega mega uber fistpump, thinking he has a 7 or QQ for FH 100%)
I shove all in for a gigantic 2000$ pot on Nl100 HU
he snapcalls and i make a 360c spinning backfist warrior dance !
However somehow showdown doesnt come ...
and money goes all to him ....
And i am like wtf he didnt have 77 did he
I desperatly try to search the Hand History but i cant find the hand.
MOney is gone though and he has a 2000$ stack while i am sitting out.
I think like : fuck he must have had 77 fml and then i wake up
GG
felt so real i even insta checked my cashier
pretty sure my subconscious mind warned me through the dream that i shall continue to take on the route of relaxed pokerz in may for a nother month before i get back to NL100 HU
I always always spew a couple BI at the beginning, no matter what. I don't think about my play too much unless its an interesting hand and am really unobservant.
So today I had a meditation session on the can and I was thinking over my strategy for the morning session.
I ran 14/12, around 3.5% 3BEt (against the usual 10%) Huge nit style. Whenever I suspected I might be beat, I stepped on brakes.
Of course I still made some retarded mistakes, but in the end I achieved my standard 6BB/100 Trend!
SO from now on, I will start my sessions in this huge nit mode and play my A game only after 1 hour or so.
So yesterday I think I played a decent amount of hands for being me. 6tables for about 2,5-3hrs. Ended the session with a profit of 3bi:s and is currently up 5 for the month. After playing on the new site for about 1 month now I feel I start to get a nice grip of the levels and players there. Really really believe I have an edge, but sometimes I become to splashy and draw-happy to really use it optimal. However it was long time since my old nemesis, the supermega Tilt, paid me a visit. Right now I feel much confident in my play and me getting rakeback have been a great improvement in my not-tilting mission. It a huge calming-factor that you don't have to win each and every month to be a winning player, eventhough I want to. I feels nice to get paid for the time I spend at the tables and I think my RB at the moment kills a lot of the variance and supports building my BR faster. My goal this month will be to get about 3-500E in RB. Think that is realistic since I never know how much time I have to spend at work and also theres a lot of parties and such coming up in May. Aiming at taking shots at NL50 in July or August when I have at least 30bi for that level, it will be a big step because I now play NL20 and have 44bi for that level. However I consider it as an advantage that I have played a lot of NL50,NL100 and even NL200 (ofc underrolled) before and won't be frighten of the amount of money going into the pot. Really looking forward to being a NL100 reg in the end of the year, but this time I let time and BR decide when to move up, not my eager to win a lot of money, poker is still just a hobby.
SO.....this is the biggest fuckin BS ruling I think I ever heard. At a 2/5 game effective stacks are 900 at mohegan sun in CT. he raises preflop to 25 i 3bet in the Sb to 100 flop comes down 562cc I check he bets 100 i call. turn is 7clubs I lead for 250 he calls river is a 5 off suit. I shove and he takes his hand and releases it to the muck next to the dealer and then grabs it back. At that point I immeditely looked at the dealer nad said he mucked his hand and despite what happens I want a ruling. After that point the old scruffy ass clown says I call my cards never hit the muck. The Floor then comes over and says it doesnt matter that he threw his hand toward the muck if he can retrieve it its still a live hand. WTF!!!!!!
So the floor tells me that there is a rule in the rule book stating that exact rule. He then proceeds to look for the rule for about 10 min and cant find it.....Im like Wtf that is the worst ruling Ive ever heard. The fuckin guy threw his hand toward the muck and just casue the dealer didnt see the cards he can get his hand out of the muck.......Fuck that and the floor said thats the rule everwhere IN AC and Vegas....someone please confirm deny this.
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(a straight, Eight to Queen)
I played quite a bit today and just about managed to get even. Earlier today I played a monster 400BB pot which I lost that pretty much f*cked me for the day lol. I flopped an open ender with the nut straight, got it in, missed, gg. Oh well standard shit but It was my fault for still being at that table sittign that deep. Lesson learned. Heres the graph for today:
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