Curious, what do you guys think - what is a good range for drinking? I mean, what crosses the line as too much and what is still considered casual? And I'm assuming that drinking means anytime you have 1 drink or take 1 hit of weed, but not getting bombed. Personally I feel like getting totally wasted is like a 1 time a month deal. But anything from 1 drink to enough to be tipsy is what I'm after.
I play like shit when its cold. I play awesome when its hot. During the winter, I was breakeven / losing money. Last August I made 30 buy-ins. September I made 20 buy-ins. October I was up 20 buy-ins then it got cold / snowed and ended the month in the negative. Breakeven in November/December/January/February/March. April has come, the weather has warmed up, and I am up $$$$$$$$$!
When weather is hot, I run hot!
I think this means I should transfer to a college in the south...
BR was at 2.2k when i came home from vacation, showered and sat down to play a sesh and proceeded to get shat on in every conceivable way. Ran fairly below expectation in AI pots, and found myself getting into sick coolerish hands. But i wasn't going to let losing 5-6 BI's in 2k hands get me down, and grinded out another 4k hands of break even.
Took a day off, and started playing again today. Put in another 4.5k hands, and the first 10 hands started off with an awesome simulatenous double 2 outter on 3 tables, fastest -3 BI ever. But i've gotten to the point where i have to think, im good enough to get through this annoying downswing - just gotta keep grinding it out and my luck will turn around. Today's session i feel i played pretty well, again wasn't able to hold as a 60-87% favorite in 4-5 big 100bb AI hands, but whatever, i win in the long run if i can mentally survive it.
BR knocked down to 1750 or so. 100nl will have to wait till i dig myself out of this which shouldnt be a problem as long as my head is on right
[X] - Session where you play very reasonably well, even deviating from your normal arsenal by making marginal plays to keep 400bb deep fish in action with me , and get it in 50/50, win the flip, and got our stacks 200bb deep. Guy leaves cus he knows i'll slap his face so whatev. Click sit out all tables, get dealt ak last hand high on andrenaline, shove over bluffy c/r get snapped by slowplayed set. FUUUUUUU!!!! Last table to close, hit TP QKo, decide to play pot control line so I can leave to detilt asap. Fish hits 2 outer set on turn with underpair, very last hand. From +1bi session of playing well to -2bi in last 5 hands. FOOTPalm!!!!!!!!!1
Venetian $2,500 main event reportby thewh00sel, April 25
Well I joined this tournament an hour or so late on thursday because I didn't even know about it, but whatever they give you 20k starting chips and 90minute levels. So I got there at the beginning of 50-100 with 19,500 in chips. I had Allen Kessler to my right and soon found out that he's the biggest cry baby nit ever. A hand actually went down at 100-200 where the cutoff raised, allen defended the BB and check folded on a K82 flop. The cutoff flashed AK and allen actually said "Well at least I made a good call preflop." The cutoff gives him a confused look, and allen explains "Well I had the best hand preflop so I put all the money in when I was ahead and you got lucky!" He was legitimately upset and cried about that simple hand for a few minutes. I officially hate him. After he busted out apparently he text one of his friends at the table that he hit a $40k jackpot on his way out of the casino... So tilting...how does a guy like that who's a sick nit even make $2,500 in his life... let alone play a slot machine with his nitty nature.
Anyways on to the tournament. My starting table was meh, I mean your standard fish but a couple of online guys too including Matt "All in at 420" Stout.
Only interesting hands of my first table were me getting it in with AQ vs AQ on AQ3 with two clubs flop vs matt. The other hand was silly because I had 10k at 100/200/25 and someone opened and allen kessler 3-bet his first 3-bet of the tournament in the cutoff and since I'm not fond of folding AK I shipped it and he had QQ. He called and said "Oh great i'm not too good at these." To which I instantly responded "Oh, Awesome because I'm SOOOO good at these you have no idea" And of course flop is T93 all hearts and I have the heart so I binked it and scooped back up to my starting stack of 20k or so after chipping down a bunch. He whined a lot of course and talked about me never being ahead there...and I'm looking at him like "rly? you know i play online and you expect me to fold AK??? Ever???" Another interesting but standard hand that went down at 200/400/25 with 18k to start the hand, I pick up two black kings utg and raise it up to 1100. I get 4 callers and we see the flop 5 ways. It comes down Kh 8h 2h. I c-bet 3400 and it folds to the 3rd caller who raises all in and I obviously call and he flips up 67hh. I boat up and our table breaks shortly after with me having 40k or so in chips.
The rest of the day I chipped up a lot without showdown at a table full of fish to about 80k. Then the last orbit of the day I managed to get owned and drop down to about 55k.
Day 2 started at 2pm on friday and I had an interesting table with a couple of aggressive regs and a couple of big fish. So there was an interesting dynamic going on of me 3-betting aggressive guys and getting like cold called by the fish lol. So that led to some awkward spots that I don't really remember to be honest but my stack fluctuated from 55k to 30k to 75k back to 50k then back up to like 100k by 1k/2k/200. After that I got moved to Corwin Cole's table and Patrick "Bigred0000" Stemper's table and they were both to my left but corwin was pretty short and went out with QQ vs AK shortly after I got there.
I built up my stack steadily to about 190k and played a couple of hands vs patrick. One that I remember was I raised up A4dd in EP and he flatted on the button. Flop came down K42 rainbow and I elected to check and give patrick a chance to bluff at it and just kind of decide where I wanted to go with the hand. He fairly quickly bet out 8k. I called after not much thought thinking that he had me on a mid pocket pair up through QQ. The turn was a 5 and I checked again, Patrick fired out 13k almost instantly and I called after about 10 seconds pretty much thinking that patrick would be 3 barreling me a good chunk of the time here and I also had a slight timing tell on patrick that he was betting very quickly thus making me think that he was bluffing more often than value betting. The river was an interesting card, an offsuit Ace fell. I thought for a few seconds and checked and patrick bet 19k. I obviously instantly called since I have pretty much the nuts here and he showed down AJ and he told me later that he'd be 3 barreling and putting me in a tough spot on the river so I think the hand was played well by both of us.
I don't remember a lot more hands in this tournament except that I doubled up a TERRIBLE player when he limp raised after i raised AQs vs like 4 limpers to 20k at 2k 4k 500 ante and he limp raised to 44k and I shoved 200k effective and he had kings. I flopped a flush draw, turned a straight draw and still missed, crazy shit. I had 20bb after that hand and lasted until the end of 3k 6k when I shoved AJ and ran into Kings. Finished the tournament in 19th place and made a laughable amount for 2 day's work. First place was 200k, not bad for a 280 man field. Good luck to Basebaldy and Mossified84 who are at the FT today.
That's about it for that report, hopefully it wasn't too boring. TTYL blog.
Yesterday I got a trojan called trojan.fakeavalert. I immediately locked my poker accounts, set my registry back to default values, restarted in safe mode, reran virus scan, deleted the bad stuff, and then restarted normally. Now my scans are coming up clean. Is there anything else I should do? Thanks guys.
I was soooo close to being successful with the strict spending limit thing. We went out tonight (myth/his gf/frinkx/a friend of his/me), then frinkx and I hung out with some azn poker players and had korean BBQ(which was awesome btw). Everything went really well until eventually when we should of gone home, frinkx is like "lets goto a strip club" We ended up at the Rhino cuz everything else was dead at 7AM.
Then my life just got fucked again. Damn you, FrinkX! ^^
(I ended up being the last degen there by far, I just got back at 2pm
After 350,000 hands on nl100 I think I'm finally moving up for good to nl200. I've logged 40k hands on nl200 tables and know how the game somewhat plays, my total profit on nl200 is 2k, not a huge winrate but this was 3 months ago. I feel I've improved a ton and as a result my red line is starting to even out. Because I live from my roll it's not been easy to save money in the Stars account. Finally my bankroll is over 10k which was my aim for a nl200 roll. Here is the graph of las 100k hands which is the past 2 months. http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/40daa0e405b06b0c12e72dcb195ad76e.jpg
On average i've been winning 30 bi's a month, I hope I can continue this on the 200 tables!
I got a project to write until Wednesday and a presentation for Friday at the uni, So I am gonna take a week break.
After the pause I will take a shot at NL25. As I had only few K hands at NL10 (Although I don't see any difference from NL5 apart from more bluffboxes and 100bb) and this may be risky, I will set myself a 5BI stop limit under which I move back to NL10 and grind it some more.
I plan on playing tight fish exploiting ABC on 4tables first 10K hands or so, and if it works well and I get to know the pace of the limit I will attempt to open up like I did at NL10.
My BR: $810
Potential move down Back to NL10: $700
Looking to transfer my huge bankroll of $101 from PS to FTP, any volunteers?
Willing to ship first as I have no reputation here, but I'd really prefer if you were at least a bit known around here just to make sure my precious moneys don't go in to the wrong hands. =P
edit: jmurdah volunteered to do this, sent him and waiting for him to transfer me on ftp now.
I don't know if I can do thisby thestoryteller, April 25
So after running bad (2 x KK v AA, 2 x top set v runner runner straight, 1 x set over set, 1 x mid set v runner runner FH, 1 x QQ v 55 rivered set etc. etc. etc.), I am supposed to eat this for lunch:
There's a site online I'm sure some of you know about that tracks results.
Well it's been upgraded today, and it's complete horse shit. I can't believe people's personal information is provided with such detail. This really needs to be made illegal.
Hollly shit this is tilting.
The guy who owns this site is rocking a really low karma score...
Well I'm off to a bar to get shitfaced then I'll crawl back home. I hope I don't play any poker when I get back :[ I lost like 1k the other night because that shit. Maybe I need to get even too drunk to find my computer.
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