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
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.
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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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