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.
So i decided to start over and build a roll from 20. I cruised through NL2 and NL5 has been no different so far. I am using a 20 buy-in rule playing anywhere from 11-15 FR tables. I had been running at what seemed to be expectations, the usual bad beats, draws hitting but tonight variance finally started to catch up at the end of my session.
I watched some Loose-ish NL200 vids on Pokerstrategy and I decided to start altering my PF betsizing.
All positions but blinds: 3BB+XBB
I decided to tighten up UTG and UTG+1, mucking even ATo and mixing low sc only very very rarely or when the games get deep. I was playing way too many of them before and the KTo kind of hands cost me more than won me.
I am very confident in my flop play and I feel I have an edge over the vast majority of the limit, thus 3BB+X even on 9 tables.
LP I want to get called because of position and my edge.
EP I want to get called because I play only premiums.
Blinds
SB- I raise to 5BB if I am first in. I don't want people to be calling and when they do I want larger pot for C/bets
BB- 4BB+XBB with limpers. I am OOP so I throw in an extra bb
Standard- if sb completes
3Bets
I still play 10% 3bet, but I will alter bet sizing now.
-Standard exactly to 3X raise when I am in position
-3bet to 3.5X raise to 4X raise (0.75 Raise its 4X, bigger-3.5x) +match dead money.
Same as before, I don't like to be playing OOP and it makes me feel uncomfortable, hence the bigger raise.
Yesterday I made a retarded spew session with -7BI when I was completely exhausted from National Floorball Championship I was playing over the weekend (I am a goalkeeper, but I found out that Poker grinder and high speed sport career is hard to sustain at top notch for both ;o) NO thinking, robot poker with retarded play. I still have tendencies to spew like this when I lose stamina and concentration and it costs me huge amounts of profits.
Today was the first day with altering bet sizes.
I actually didn't run very good being -1.5BI Under EV and I can't recall any obvious heaters, but I did get sucked out a few times.
I pick up loads of pots and my red line floated to around +1BI, pretty decent score with 24/20 stats. I made a huge 150bb spew though at the end as always. I really really suck when I am tired and lose focus-.-
As for my learning progress, I am moving to the NL100-NL200 resources and hand evaluation at Pokerstrategy and I I will be more active in the medium stakes poker section here (well here its just about reading really, the spots posted are much tougher on average)
I feel I understand the broad micro stakes ABC quite well and I am attempting to move to the more precise range guessing thought processes.
As for NL25 I plan to hang around for the rest of this month. I hold 6BB/100 as the retarded spewfest session was balanced by a 13BB/100 heater and they both cancelled each other out so the general trend copies today's session (talk about a business cycle lolz) and I feel I can easily sustain it at 9tables.
I will take a shot at NL50 when both these conditions are met:
A) I will be able to sit at a reg only tables and beat them steadily at 4BB/100 or so, the move to NL50 will not be a shot but rather just an easy transition as was NL10 to NL25 this way. I hate to gamble, I like to own.
B) Standard BR requirement: 34BI with 4expected to lose to the initial doomswitch (Happened every single time I swapped a game or stakes ;o)
Thats it for now, Please comment on the PF bet sizing folks
Ok so one of the most important aspects of poker is understanding where you are at in the hand. How players react to your bets is probably the #1 way of finding this out, when somebody isnt trying to be creative. I once stipulated that the only way to actually get any info out of a penny stakes villain is if you simply make the bets too big for him to call without having a legitimate hand, i.e. overbetting. Typical poker theory suggest betting the minimum possible to get this information, usually 75% of the pot for most people is enough to get them to give up if they dont really have good odds to hit anything. It also saves us money when we are wrong about our assessment of the situation. Betting less to get the same info is tactically smart. But I have long since believed this is simply not possible using normal poker theory at NL2. Villains calling cbet range is any PP, any pair, any draw, and AJ+. On the turn you can rule out AJ+ and thats it. This range is far too wide for us to ever be able to put villain on anything, since thats like half the deck (somebody do the math for me). This is why it's always said to be imperative that you have showdown value, because too often you cant really put villain on something without the insurance that your hand can win at the same time, in which case it doesnt really matter b/c youre already playing the best hand. As soon as villain calls your strong holding THEN you can start to put him on a range. I.E you have AA and he calls 2 streets on a King high board, villain almost always has the king.
So what kind of leverage must we use to curb villains into playing like you expect at higher limits? Well, if you play hard, and i mean HARD against them, it seems they WILL fold out all but top pair, and OESFD's, and the nuts. They also seem to interpret your strength as a hand you are willing to stack off with, so they frequently shove with TPNK and the nuts, giving you an easy fold, albeit you paid a lot to find out in the process. But so long as you stick to a relatively strong starting range of hands you arent going to be frequently behind on the flop spewing away with "information gathering bets". So now the question becomes how much money are we winning in the long run risking so much to achieve a certain result pending villain will fold. Is our FE through overbetting really worth not playing the top 5% starting hands. Can we ever play a LAG game at NL2 if we simply make it near to impossible for villains to play their rag hands? Well, I think the answer is yes.
I am going to attempt to really fight villains by hitting the POT button every single time I intend to bet. TPTK, OESD, FD, multi-way pots, IP/OOP, etc etc. In fact, I will probably only value bet less when I have the absolute nuts and I dont think villains will notice that my bet size has suddenly decreased (as I have been folding too many people on the turn/river when I hit and they donk out for .20 and I raise to $1.50)
I expect variance will be higher than normal, but nothing that I cant outlast with enough BR to cover the swings when someone is crazy and stacks off with bottom pair. It WILL happen, but not as much as I originally thought.
If anyone knows anything about AWD cars and using off-set wheels or anything in general about wheels and AWD cars, please PM me. I got myself in a little pickle here.
Just beat the LOST video game last night. took me forever cause I kept playing while I was high or drunk and unable to concentrate. Overall it was a really short game that wasn't very good, which is what I expected when I bought it. Well, i expected it to not be very good but I thought it would be longer. Also the ending is really fucking weird and I don't see how it mixes in with the show. If you've played/beat the game then check the spoiler.
Ok wtf is up with kate/jack being captured at the black rock? And then us shooting at dynamite? I can't figure out when that would have happened in the original shows timeline and how it coulda happened without it being mentioned in the original show. Plus, shooting the dynamite is ridiculous cause EVERYONE WOULD DIE.
Then you get on the boat and the plane crashes and you wake up on the beach? So was that time traveling or was everything that happened in the game a dream?
I haven't seen any of season 5 so please don't talk about anything going on in there. I'm waiting for season 5 to finish so I can power through the entire season in a day or 2, which is my preferred way of watching LOST.
Not so well. The very next day(or yesterday in common speak) after I made the promise in my last blog(which yall should definitely check out- it's quiet epic, mostly thanks to Ryan) my computer got fucked. Surely it seems like not a big deal but I am a man of principles and breaking a promise tilts me to no end. This seems to be the latest of the negative things I had to face in the last couple of months. I can only hope that the brutal life-downswing will come to an end soon. An upswing is definitely in order.
Also if somebody didn't notice Krantz has posted a new Duel video on DC, against some Russian called Durrrra1000. Which is quiet epic, like everything Krantz.
Also while trying to find out who durrrra1000 was i stumbled upon russian mirror of PTR which is titled vigorish which in RUssian means "Burn out" or, go bust, as opposed to vyigrish which means money won. Just an interesting tid bit i thought.
To finish up this blog im gonna post a video that always helps me keep on going.
My last blog I talked about moving up to PLO25 from PLO10 because I was running terribly at PLO10. I decided not to "move up" but I did take a couple shots over the last few days. I think it's possible that people at PLO25 play worse than people at PLO10. They play so incredibly bad it's hard to imagine. I'm up like 5 buy ins in 200 hands compared to down 10 buyins over the last 2 weeks in PLO10. Of course I'm running extremely good in PLO25 and extremely poor in PLO10, but the skill of my opponents still seems much lower at PLO25.
PokerStars Game #27855138505: Omaha Pot Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2009/05/05 15:44:13 ET
Table Petrina IV 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: erojas201 ($19.65 in chips)
Seat 2: jaydees23 ($27.90 in chips)
Seat 3: chillyman2 ($27.90 in chips)
Seat 4: BlackJacki2 ($23.20 in chips)
Seat 5: Sintakonte ($65.70 in chips)
Seat 6: bigo1968 ($49.35 in chips)
bigo1968: posts small blind $0.10
erojas201: posts big blind $0.25
bigo1968: checks
BlackJacki2: bets $13.10 and is all-in
bigo1968: calls $13.10
Showdown BlackJacki2: shows (a full house, Aces full of Eights)
bigo1968: mucks hand
BlackJacki2 collected $45.60 from pot
Summary Total pot $47.90 | Rake $2.30
Board
Seat 1: erojas201 (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 2: jaydees23 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: chillyman2 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: BlackJacki2 showed and won ($45.60) with a full house, Aces full of Eights
Seat 5: Sintakonte (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 6: bigo1968 (small blind) mucked
PokerStars Game #27855036880: Omaha Pot Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2009/05/05 15:41:40 ET
Table Komppa IV 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: Mesrone ($16.85 in chips)
Seat 2: BlackJacki2 ($27 in chips)
Seat 3: Grainy-x ($12.95 in chips)
Seat 4: pamie2709 ($19.40 in chips)
Seat 5: cacanekenn ($13.15 in chips)
Seat 6: Dazzlin Dar ($38.55 in chips)
pamie2709: posts small blind $0.10
cacanekenn: posts big blind $0.25
cacanekenn: checks
BlackJacki2: bets $8.25
cacanekenn: calls $6.65 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($1.60) returned to BlackJacki2
Showdown BlackJacki2: shows (a flush, Ace high)
cacanekenn: mucks hand
BlackJacki2 collected $26.45 from pot
Summary Total pot $27.80 | Rake $1.35
Board
Seat 1: Mesrone folded on the Flop
Seat 2: BlackJacki2 showed and won ($26.45) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 3: Grainy-x (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: pamie2709 (small blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 5: cacanekenn (big blind) mucked
Seat 6: Dazzlin Dar folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Hand 1 - How on earth do you flat on the turn with the nuts out of position! WTF
Hand 2 - How do you not raise that flop with the nuts with all that action in front of you? Letting 2 other people see the turn on that board without a raise is pretty ridiculous. Even if you're trying to pot control to give yourself fold equity, that's only useful if you actually fold when you get outdrawn.
I find the game interesting but it seems like I cant get it right when I decide to play. maybe Im a hugh fish who should stay away fom it but it just feels like everyone is soo bad and that I actually have an edge on PLO50..
what I do know is that everytime I play I loose a bunch of BI.. stupid omaha! cant the rig be with me for once?
Just took my first shot at nl100, played 300 hand session 4tabling and was lucky enough to have position on an uberfish (he bought in 4 1/2BI everytime and lost like 250$ in 40hands I think :d). So i'm up 1BI so far on 100NL. I think the fish are pretty much the same as on 50nl however the good players seem to be better and I feel somewhat uncomfortable dealing with people 3betting a lot.
What do you guys do when getting 3bet a lot? Just call lighter/4bet lighter? what hands do you call with IP/OOP? at the moment I mix in some SCs when I'm OOp with my big hands and check/raise a ton with them and also call with KQ and other broadways depending on how much they 3bet/what sort of hands I've seen them have before. IP i'll do the same but reduce my % of speculative hands and increase% of broadways.
So i really like to watch stuff like gom and 4-6 table poker and i was watching tv with my dad tonight which almost never happens i rarely watch tv. I felt sick and wanted to spend some time with my pops so we watched his favorite tv show, 2 and a half men and then he went to exercise. House came on next after it and i gotta say i really enjoyed it. I've been watching season 5 on hulu but im curious if i should start at the first season???
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( regularly had like -8BI or + 8 BI days while overall only doing small profits)
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