What reaction do you get from this?by kantoiki, April 19
I suggest not watching it if you're feeling a bit down already...
I was shown this by a friend and whilst he didn't really get upset I felt quite a strong reaction to it.
My personal reaction went from curiosity at first to 'oh wait... no ... don't do it... oh good god...' and throughout and for a little while after felt quite upset. Not crying but just feelings of sadness I guess?
Wondering how each person feels/reacts when watching this video and why you think you react the way you do?
lol. Over the course of my last 4 NL5 shots I am 18bi under EV over 9k hands. Back to NL2 again, I'm thinking... I feel like I've been playing decently. My red line is break-even or slightly above across the shots, however my W$SD is pretty bad in the 40s and I'm prolly 3betting too much. But I still can't help but feel that I can beat NL5 and that this is just variance. 9k hands really isn't anything.
I do beat NL2 at 3ptbb/100 over 40k hands. Which still isn't much, I know. But these players are so bad -- Whinewhinewhine I know
I'm tempted to just deposit $250 + my NL2 roll, and just jump to NL10 and put in mad hands and make it or bust lmao ~_~ Tilted like mad. EV nonsense says that I should only be 8bi under breakeven (accounting for a total of 26bi negative) which I think is pretty accurate, because I've easily spewwed more than 8bi tilting from the fucking suckouts...
So, inspired somewhat by LemOn[5thF] and his insane amount of hands played, I decided to grind out about 2000 hands tonight... played probably about 4-5 hours... 4-6 tables 6 max.
Recently I've been trying very hard to find my inner fold button. I was making all my money without showdown, but whenever it came down to showdown, I was getting raped. Sometimes it was badbeats, but alot of the time, I was just getting it in bad because I was playing over aggressive.
Anyways, this is where I'm at right now. Trying to keep learning and figuring out the game.
The run-bad continues! The real problem is that I sat with this cute girl flirting for 2 hours and I didn't ask for her number before she left. After she was gone 3 guys on the table go 'did u get her number or what?'. I'm all totally like, "oops nope". They go 'LOL WTF?' Life downswing.. self inflicted now.
Poker downswong better end asaply then I need to find me a pretty ladyz.
New here, sort of a lurker on teamliquid for a while, been playing some poker lately after doing the no-deposit thing at full tilt.
So... I'm sorta making money finally after trying to figure out a good strategy that works for NL2, and losing too many buy-ins in the process.
Also playing some low-stakes PLO, wish there were more tables available so I could multi-table it, because I'm making lots of money at that, tons of fish there from what I've seen.
Not a single hand in 3 hoursby blackjacki2, April 19
So I went to play live poker last night. As soon as we sat down 5 handed I got some of the sickest cards back to back to back. First 5 card draw I got dealt trip 6s. Then 5card stud I got dealt an ace with an ace in the hole, which is a crazy good hand. Then Omaha I got quad jacks. I also got a few other pretty decent hands. I ended up winning 6 of the first 7 hands and I was up a buy in in 10 minutes.
Then I went on one of the coldest streaks I've ever seen. I couldn't even make a pair in Omaha. No draws, no nothing. For three full hours I didn't win a single pot. Luckily I very quickly realized I wasn't getting and hands so I tightened up and managed to limit my losses to usually no more than $1 per hand (not hard to tighten up when you get shit). So after three hours my $100 stack turned into $30 (buy in was 50) without winning A SINGLE POT. Then I one a decent pot from a 5card draw hand where my pair of aces turned into trips on the redeal. I lost a lot of that profit a few hands later in the same game where my kings up lost to a flush.
Then I didn't get any more hands. Finally we agreed one more go around of the table. With about 3 hands to go I was down to $15 and I got AAT4 double suited in Omaha. Basically 99% of the hands we play for Omaha, someone just bets a dollar preflop and everyone calls. So I checked and waited for someone to bet the $1, everyone called it, and when it came back to me I raised $3 more. The flop came 2 spades, giving me the nut flush draw. I bet the limit $3 every street and I was so confident that I was going to hit the nut flush on the river, which I did. That pot was about $37.
I finished the night with exactly my buy in. Fortunately we also do this thing sometimes where people chip in $5 at the start of the night and whoever has the highest hand of the night wins the pot. My quad jacks held up over the night so I went home with $15 profit. Not too bad, but I wish I got some more cards cause I was playing pretty well and this is a really easy table to beat.
First off anyone played the new NHL Arcade game on 360? Its sick lol. I OWN at it. If anyone wants to play me in it pm me here and we can make a match. Maybe a little wager on it? Ok onto poker:
I had a really good day at the tables today. Ive been working on a few things in my game lately and so far its been working out and it showed today. It started off a little bit rough and KK was not my friend at all today. Out of my top 10 loisng hands today 6 of them were while holding pockey kings. Shittaay.
I knew I wasnt playing bad or anything so I didnt let it affect me and I kept diggin away. After a little while things started to really turn around for me and I managed to get up just over 2 BI's.
I took a break and made some dinner. While I was eating I was watching Urindanger play Gus HU at PLO. Those games are crazy man I dont know if I could handle the swings PLO brings. These guys really seem to think Gus is a huge fish and sometimes I believe it lol. When Gus is running hot watch out. I think Urin got the best of him today though it was pretty entertaining. I saw a crazy sick 241k pot earlier too with Benyamine got his nut flush cracked by a str8 flush. GROSS.
After dinner and watching all this Heads up I felt like playing some heads up too and did just that. Im glad I did. I had a massive fish at my table which was great. He was just spewing at everything and always betting over pot. It was so easy to trap this guy it was rediculous. I eventually got the best of him and made just about 2 BI's before I think I cleaned out his account. The best part was he was telling me how terrible I was etc. etc. I will for sure be looking for him in the future.
It definitly was a great day at the tables. I played really well and a bit more patient then usual which is what I think made the difference on the day. Heres the graph:
I didnt really have any plans tonight and no one was doign anything because it seems like everyone around here except me has exams/already done exams and gone home. I was bored and saw a pretty decent tourney getting started so I decided to paly in it. It was a 4k garunteed 6 max tourney. Ive been doing really well in these 6 max tourneys on UB lately and I did pretty well again tonight. I managed to come 18th for $40 woooo lol. I played pretty well and just ran out of time. I ended up running my 1010 into AA. GG lol.
So a $150 day for me. Im pretty happy about it. Tomorrow I got a shitton of school work to do which sucks so Im not sure how much Im going to play. I want to get some hands in but who knows.
Omg, i just did some instane revelations... i was out with some friends and we drank some and we tlke d about whateber stufff and he started talking about wold problems and all of a sudden, i relaise... it's the fucking end off the world... like, he studies that shit and told me that pakistatian people are pissed off at the western world and they want to nuke them and everytihng they stand for. Anyways, I guess that's all, he just told me that within now and 20 years the 3rd world war will start...
it will be europe + usa + candada + south america and mexico etc. against china, middle eastern asia like iran and pakistand and what not and the entire continent of afirca, we are going to be so fucked...
I decided to hang around at NL5 SH for a while, NL10 is cursed with stations and massive amount of midstacks and it turns into turbo SnG like shove/fold fest far too often.
I had one massive 1 day tilt a while ago, and thank god the luckboxed $26 win in my third MTT ever helped me to get back on track, win 10BI regularly + 14BI in a MTT SnG in 3 days.
But since the lucky second place I have become overconfident, which made me a degen playing 4.40 180 Mans when I didn't have the skills at all.
Whats next:
1) Attempt to play LAG on 20/10 tables (yes you can find these easily NL5 despite what most of you think)
2) Stop the tarded 4.40 SnG's. 1.1 Are enough for me.
I will read some poker strategy Articles on SnG's if I have spare time and Cash games bore me and maybe checkout some ICM trainer.
3) Slowly build roll for NL25. I still plan to do the last 7-10BI at NL10 to adjust to the 100bb weirdness.
4) Continue reading everything in Low Stakes, and get through the Advanced Articles.
Make it to Gold at Poker strategy and read all articles there (like 20 3+page articles)
I still didn't find any good SH videos, those at PS are not that good so if someone wants to point me to some site I'd appreciate it.
P.S. My decision to Stay at NL5:
Maybe you might disagree with me, but NL5 is the best platform for learning poker.
What I still don't quite understand as I moved to SH recently and wouldn't be able to train well NL10:
-Second Barrel
-LAG style
-Floating
-3Bets/4bets
-Playing sc well
I suck at all these and NL10 its hard to do them without becoming pot committed. I tried, and I failed so NL10 forced me to play like a nit.
Yes, I agree that the way I am over thinking the limit probably hurts my win rate (7ptbbBB/100 overall and 9ptbb/100 after initial 15K hands), but what the hell- I am having fun, have the cool feeling like in BW when I read an strategy article and use it directly.
I love NL5 and leaving it will hurt my heart.
BR when Started: $50
BR: $552 (I once deposited $50 to get a bonus and withdrew it back two days ago)
FPP: used 1200 to buy a Tee for me and my GF, now I got 600 and am saving for the Porsche.
Several months back they started advertising for a new movie called "The Spirit" which was another graphic novel thing in the vein of Sin City and 300. The ads fucking blew. Just some guy running on super cartoony rooftops talking about his city bleeding or screaming or some shit. The movie looked stupid as hell and I had no desire to go see it. I don't know for sure, but I think it bombed at the theaters. I never heard a single person talk about seeing it and I don't remember it being in the theaters for very long.
But now they're doing new advertisements for the DVD release and they are pretty sweet. You've got some good catchylines, nice visuals, sexy shots of sexy girls like eva mendes, and cool music. It actually looks like it could be an entertaining movie. Probably won't be a sin city but overall it has potential to be a fun action flick. So I've put it on my netflix list.
I can't get over how big of a failure their original advertising campaign was. If they'd done the commercials they have now then I'm betting that movie would have done at least decently. I bet whoever advised that original advertising campaign got fired and shunned, and he deserves it. That decision basically set the movie up to fail.
This gets me thinking to how important advertising is. There are so many bad movies that do well cause they have the power of big money behind them pushing commercials and product tie ins all over the place, and there's good movies who either have stupid advertising like "The Spirit" or can't afford to advertise and then do mediocre or fail. Yeah, it's kind of a "duh" moment so everyone with a smartass reply can save it, but it's also a kind of "whoa" moment to realize that you are going to miss so many great things cause they weren't properly advertised. It's all about marketing.
Cutting down tables from ~12 to 3-4 has really helped my game. Feels really good pokerwise. Its a small sample of hands but it feels really good, running kinda bad all in pre, AA is a loser over that 6k handsample but what can u do right? Cant blame how im running postflop though
Im also playin a bit laggy compared to my old "style" allthough im not 3 betting as much as i used to do.. But def just pound on weak players isolating a ton ton ton IP..
this month has been so swingy for me and i can't seem to get past 3k in profits, really tilting me a bit coz i know i can beat 100nl and im really not concerned with any regs now unlike last year where i thought regs were like this elite circle of players who shouldn't be messed with. these days, i actually look for regs to fuck around with and play for stacks asap if i feel they're testing my "exploitability" and shit. i act mostly on feel and obv stats and so far ive cut down some tables sine i actually think things through and process a lot of info on big pots im in. My 200nl shot was just horrible but im not so concerned about it coz it was typcial moving up coolers mostly and i just dont have a lot of experience with most ppl there so i dunno where i stand most times and when i get it in waaay ahead i lose money and cry lol. but obv going back to 100nl after is very fun coz i get to mess around with ppl and just exchange coolers haha. lately ive been swinging hard and but ill try to end sessions with a win if possible and not grind mindlessly when im tired. graph so far this month:
Goals so far for may is reach 25k by start of june and fly to vegas and meet some lp ppl, maybe get some tutoring if i can. im happy to be at 100nl, and this time, finally beating it. gl ppl.
note: I WILL NOW TRY MY BEST TO END ON A WINNING +4BI session everytime and not play the rest of the day and see how it goes, no more "extra" sessions where i mostly just spew or tilt the day's winnings, this day will be my first attempt at that and I ended today at 5333 hands, up about 563usd or 5.5bi.
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