Got some decent volume in this month playing after work. I usually tried to do a 2 hour session every day, 4-tabling on Bovada. It is not a whole lot, but that's how much I am playing. Work is very draining sometimes, and I tried to play tired after work and it usually ended up very shitty sessions because I was just yawning the whole damn time folding hands lol.
I think my flop play has gotten tons better thanks to Lemon. He told me to keep around 60% cbet flop and I started doing that, and I think I have a much better time dealing with turn/river by cbetting less on the flop because the pot is much smaller when I don't flop huge. I still had a lot of trouble on the turn and river, especially facing a raise. On these readless games I think I just tended to call a bit more than I should have. I really need to plug this leak ASAP.
Bovada's anonymous tables really got me at first because I couldn't do stuff I used to do on SealsWithClubs when I have 1000+ hands on a given villain. I felt like I could exploit just a bit more against certain villain, and on Bovada I had to play slightly more defensive most of the time. From the graph I think it took me about 2k hands to adjust. From then on I think I started getting a hang of it and winning more and more. So at the end of this week I am netting +10BI with 8.63bb/100 winrate. So much rake on Bovada though!
Other than that, everything is going well, except for work lol. On a nasty project that couldn't get away with. Kept having production issues and couldn't have my code running. I needed to keep going back trying to fix bugs, and it takes a week to see my bugfixes go live, which sucks balls. Oh well we will see this week.
I am writing a plugin that allows SealsWithClubs players to use HEM/PT HUDs which I am going to sell for 60 chips a pop (60 chips = 0.06BTC = $36). That way I can use the money for playing bitcoin poker on Seals from time to time lol. On the other hand, I am also planning on writing a plugin for Bovada that enables HEM/PT HUD use. Although it is not going to be as good because the of anonymous bullshit but I think it will still help quite a few people online if they want to see more stats/import their hands on the fly. the Bovada converter from acepokersolutions had issues importing to HEM2 so I am pretty pissed about it. Not sure if they are going to fix that any time soon.
Posting my Bovada cash game graph here. You can also checkout http://lhr0909.github.io/poker to see my progress on various games if you wish haha.
need help with windows language settingsby bigredhoss, August 08
alright, so i've had this problem for a while but never bothered trying to fix it because because i know some spanish and it wasn't a big deal...but lately i've been trying to teach myself some stuff, and running into more technical language in spanish can be a pain in the ass sometimes.
Just over two months ago now I made the decision to start putting some serious time into poker. I decided I no longer wanted to use my free time spent at home on a less productive hobby. I play for fun and for the excitement of piecing together the puzzle of how to become a consistent winner in today's poker climate. One really interesting and yet disturbing trend in my game that I've noticed over the past two months is very poor results in 3-bet pots. Here are some graphs, I'd love to discuss with whoever is in the mood about how to rectify what I think is a fairly significant leak in the way I play the game. Although to be honest I've already taken some steps and done some tinkering with how I handle these situations.
Plausible Explanations:
1. Calling too wide vs. Strong PF 3-bet Ranges. Even weaker players aren't especially 3-betting trashy hands.
2. Calling without positional advantage on a regular basis.
3. Not stacking off enough on flops where I have better equity than I realize.
4. Stacking off too much on the wrong type of boards for my AAxx hands.
5. Taking poor post-flop lines in general
Here Are Some Stats & The Graph - The majority of All-In's are happening on the flop, so EV is decently accurate I suppose. One potential issue of course is we don't have any calculator for determining how lucky or unlucky we're getting in terms of just what we flop vs. what villains flop. So luck becomes impossible to estimate in some ways. When we are getting all in though, it's not going so well.
since i have been in vegas i have earned income in the mid 30kish range with something
like a ratio of 21k poker 9k earned from job and some bitcoins monies. i'm using when I arrived here in oct as my calendar month so i have 2 months left to claw out a pretty average, high variance income with questionable sustainability. i moved into the meridian apartments a couple of months ago and its a pretty convenient location. but id say id attribute my savings rate mostly due to a lack of paying taxes. I drive a shitty car and I also feel skeptical of finding a woman of sufficient standard.
been playing poorly of late and I have had a bad session today. I have noticed that alot of people burn out nearing the completion of 1 year, and I am going to being my 11th month out here now. I mean even if I do everything right long term, what can I accomplish? I am starting to meet and talk to more regulars and also starting to see how the 10/20+ level winners operate here and they seem pretty beastly. It is also difficult meeting all of these rich tourists and rich locals at the wynn and not introspect upon myself and feel some sort of anger/drive/guilt/envy etc. I really would not like to be one of those grinders turned dealers despite it being rational in many ways. I love what's going on in downtown las vegas and I want to be a part of it but I wonder if I have the savvy and will have the financing from poker to accomplish something noteworthy in that arena. still got 30k but its distributed all over the place in multiple checking accounts, cash, ira, bitcoin, etc.
Why you should be prop betting!!!by Joeingram1, August 01
I was driving to the gym this morning and I got inspired to write about why prop betting is important and why more people should be doing it. I also said on twitter that if I failed to write this today I would be paying out 1kusd to some lucky retweeter. This is a prop bet (more freeroll) that I will not be losing
What is a prop bet? In the poker world it is considered anything you might side bet on doing against another person. For example, some of the prop bets I've done are playing 50k hands in a day, playing 600k hands in a month. The bets don't always have to be as extreme as those, they can be as simple as you betting another person on who plays more hours that week (I did a bet like this before with some poor soul who did not have a chance )
Why do people prop bet? Some people do it because they see a chance to make a large amount of money assuming they are wiling to take on a good amount of action against. Some people want to challenge themselves. Some people want to try to make a name for themselves.
Okay, now that we got the basics out of the way, lets talk about why prop betting in poker is important for you to consider doing. The number one reason I initially did my first prop bet is because I really enjoyed the challenging of trying to do something that no one else had ever done before. Every prop bet doesn't have to be as dramatic as this but trying to do something where you are actually going to have to bust your ass to do can be an incredibly positive long term choice. If you are able to win the bet, your confidence will be super high and in the future you will feel much better taking on anything. Even when you fail at winning the bet, assuming you worked you ass off and tried your best, you will have a better understanding of what hard work in poker is. The confidence I have gained myself is something that will probably stick with me forever.
The easiest way to get a prop bet started is to come up with an idea and ask your friends what they think about it and if they want to make a small/big wager against. It might be something that you can compete against each other and that way you both push each other. Another way to get action is to post on the poker forum that you frequent and see if anyone is interested in betting against you. You will need set in place rules, a reliable escrow to hold the money, and a judge(s) to handle any problems that might come up for most prop bets. I think coming up with challenges that you and your friends can do is one of the best sources of motivation that exist in poker (outside of someone saying you don't understand the game you frequently play).
If you are at the small/micro stakes level and want to get your name out there, doing something crazy is the best way to do it. I know some people don't play poker to get any sort of recognition and only play for the money but I think most people enjoy being recognized for something. It can be a great way for you to meet new people that might be following along or that play in the same games you do. I met my San Diego roommate (without him I never would have moved to California) during my first prop bet when we started chatting on twoplustwo and then on Skype when we found out we lived close by. Networking like this can be important for your growth as a poker player. It can also be stepping stones to having a podcast that people enjoy watching .
I don't think most of this will be new information for the mid/high stakes guys out there but for the recreational/micro/small stakes guys this should be something you seriously consider doing more of. I think even for the more established players, taking on something very challenging could be what you need to bring back the passion for the game you once had. If anyone has any questions about anything, it could be a prop bet you have in mind or you might need a judge for your prop bet. Feel free to message me here in the comments, private messages or on twitter @joeingram1 or on facebook.
I also have a standing prop bet offer to anyone in the world for any type of PLO volume competition on Pokerstars
By the time this script is published, the uploaded hands are not going to be listed by default so we can really use this extension without flooding our hands section.
Next Version (lolwut):
1. Adding some menu shit other than just saying hi to Benjamin1, having some settings on it.
2. Making it so that it will list the first hand, and add the rest of the hands into the first hand as a comment.
3. Suggestions welcome.
Well, the BR now stands at a somewhat acceptable 2030. I'm working my way through learning 25PLO. At some point recently things started to click as I made major changes and thought I'd figured it out. The last 3-4 days though I've seemed to lack the same strength of focus and maybe that's why it hasn't been clicking as consistently. I find the hardest challenge in learning to beat this game is figuring out what's actually working for me.
Spots I know I need to work on:
1. Paired Boards
2. 3-Bet pots - particularly as the caller, and absolutely need to 3-bet good hands more
3. Lots of rivers and turns where I need to continue with my betting to get the fold instead of giving up sheepishly
Goals for Next Month:
1. 60-80k hands
2. Think more deeply about spots where I'm leaking and plug those leaks
3. Continue to develop my ability to focus for 2-3 hours straight on my A-Game
4. Reach PLO50
5. Cross the 50k FPP barrier, sitting at 31.5k now
im up on carbon, but down on bovada. i fucking hate bovada, yet it's the one with zoom. i'd instantly quit them if carbon adopted the concept, but they don't seem to want to. maybe playing anon zoom isn't a good idea, even though im making the right moves more often than not. i just dont get it.
well, not exactly robin hood but whatever
some crazy variance going on, 2nd month in a row that im beating 80% of regs im playing and losing to random fishes
also, decided that I will sell all my stuff, break up with gf and move to southeast asia in October, prob Thailand, still not sure, so I'll backpack and see some countries and decide later, but will avoid the nerdhookergrinder lifestyle that most pokerplayers in Thailand have
Im getting old for this travel shit, I'm almost 28 now, have to travel the world while I still dont have kids
Saturday-that wedding.
Monday -shitfaced, talk about wedding, falied chat up bartender, home 4am
Tuesday - 2 beere, chill
Wednesday - 4pm go for one beer, 6am come home after heavy clubbing - pal got engaged
Saturday (today) - go for one beer, then to local club in my hometown. Got wrecked again. Home 7am
-plus managed 7 times gym in 7 days, one 2 phase day one rest day :D
Dunno where this productivity comes from
Prolly no fap for over a month+TI4 over+shitloads of low weight high rep gym+sprints+taking multi vit supps+BCAAs+meditate (esp when drunk, sooo much fun bitches poking into you+you ignoring them :D)but I'm this testosterone fuelled rage monster. I'm at 84kg, 103 when I got here 10 months ago fuck yeah :D
Loving it really
Chicks are fucking racist man, the moment you get fit suddenly so many want you out of nowhere. My childish charm was here all along...Hello... Why can't the fat race prevail? oO
Well...thanks for reading.
I mean
Week was crazy as fuck...decent volume too.
Prolly won't be able to keep it up tho :D
It's been 2 and a half years since my last blog post. I come to LP every now and then and check out some non-poker related threads, and it's awesome to see familiar names keeping the community going. I dropped a hint/some wishful thinking in one of my last blogs that I was quitting poker to pursue a career in software development (as in, mostly building web applications), hoping to end up as a junior in some startup in San Francisco somewhere.
Unlike some of the great players here, I never truly loved poker. I was too emotional and unstable to accept the swings, and that's not okay as a mid stakes 6max/hu player. I liked being good at poker, but I always knew I had to do something else, before I ended up like those old Armenian chain-smoking Commerce regulars who berate young internet pros, try to hit on cocktail waitresses, and live simply for the thrill of the bad beat jackpot.
A couple years later, I'm happy to say that I work as a software engineer for an amazing, fun, fast-growing (I joined around ~15 employees, we have 42 now) startup. My days start at 11 am, I get paid very well (zero variance!), I'm mentally engaged most of the time, I lift weights 3x a week, I have a fantastic girlfriend, and am only getting better at what I do each day. Two years ago I was just a college dropout who only knew how to play poker and not much of anything else.
I can't think of a time during my poker career where I could just post a brag like that and not have to post any beats. Back then, I never could say that life was great, but it is now. I hope everyone here finds something similar, whether it be in poker or not.
I still miss some of the poker thrill though - my buddy Aaron just placed 36th in this year's WSOP ME and it was really exciting sweating him all week. Right now, I live out my thrills through a 50nl home game with coworkers, a far cry from the thousand dollar pots I played for not too long ago. But I found that the boringness of a salary makes me much better with money - with poker money I just spent it partying and on dumb shit. With a salary I actually save and spend mindfully (feel free to ask me about this sort of stuff) - my hopeful goal is to be able to retire by 35 (I'm nearing 26).
I'd love to try and help anyone who is or was in a similar situation - trying to figure out what to do post-poker, etc. For starters, I wrote a Quora answer on part of how I went from being a loser dropout to getting a job in a field I had no prior experience in: http://qr.ae/FjeM5 - the gist is, good poker players have a work ethic unlike most people, even if you're lazy as hell and only put in 20k hands a month.
I think about time, about moments. I am drawn to moments and treat the present (passing) moment like a drug. Addicted to moments, I find it difficult to move forward. I will exhaust myself in a moment, chasing the short term memory loop. I find unfettered beauty when I give my consciousness the opportunity to filter out the noise of living. No thoughts of food, of breath, of reality. Beauty can be found in every event, in every tear-wrinkled-cry. No matter, the cruel betrayal of reality dances on beauty like unrelenting rain.
Reality can crush the soul, turning minds to fraught...actions attacking from wayward direction... overwhelmed, selfishness can overcome and project from the mind.
So I live in a sexy spot in ottawa, 1 block away from a huge ass grocery store. I was grinding some HU and was like god damn I am hungry and I don't have any food in the house, lets go grab some shit fast and get back to grinding. What happens? Fucking retards happened.
You know how grocery stores are gay now? No longer have the nice carry baskets? you have to roam half way across the store to find the single 1 left? You are only picking up like 12 things and fucking navigating a sea of middle-aged-to-near-death seniors with a cart is so beyond -ev time that it feels unbearable? Well fuck I guess that is life, so I manned up and took the closest cart I could find.
Pwning corners, old people, dumb children, insane tight squeezes at full-speed, I am finally done picking up bagel fulls, delissio pizzas, havarti cheese, sun-rype fruit+veg drink, etc. etc. and make way to the biggest gamble of the entire evening, Do I go for a random cashier-line packed with endless people OR the self-serve which is literally such a fucking gamble IDK what the fuck half the people are doing trying to check themselves out.
The entire pain of my existence, the fucking Self Checkout, is meant for people with too many items to go to the quickcashier 1-8 but just enough to fit into 2 bags--at most. ALSO a minimum IQ 100< . Why? Because retards fucking the entire self checkout system up. There is only 1 reason why self checkout is slow-- retards. No retards, no delay. I wish I knew what the fuck they are thinking but I realize these are the same fuckups that will drive in the left lane on a highway going under the speed limit, merge at an on ramp at 1/2 the speed limit and completely fuck you if you are trying to merge behind them and eventually drive you to insanity (pun not intended). These retards are just so clueless to how slow they are and how much everyone else wants to murder them. So what do I do?
I pray to god when I am counting the shit in my cart that is under 9> so I can gtfo of this place and go to the speedcashier. 1, 2,3...7...who the fuck am I kidding of course I have more than 8, how the fuck do you go to a big ass grocery store with a huge cart and not pick up more than 8 things. Then I ask, is it low enough to fake the speedcashier and smile when she scans the 12th item? ROFL I am too much of a pansy obviously why do I always bother thinking about this. Time to GAMBLEZ, selfcheck baby, 1 time.
Shit starts out easy, 2nd in line, 3 people scanning their shit and all of them are near the end of scanning. Looks like a slam dunk. Then out of nowhere variable A for asshole comes along. There is always 1 dumbfuck asshole who can't figure out where the end of the self-checkout line is and always try to jump ahead of everyone. No Bitch, gtfo behind me or go gamble the other selfcheckout line. Once that bullshit distraction is finished I look back to see the progress and wtf is all that comes to mind. I have been god-fucked again, I literally am witnessing 3 full-retards and they still are scanning the same shit. All 3 of them, middle-age, 1 short-stalky man, 1 ginormous whale and 1 random women. The man can't stop staring at the screen and then looking at the clerk, then back at the screen. The random women has vegetables which she wants but has no idea what the name is so she can't scan them and the fucking whale is being the fat lazy stupid ho that she obviously is. Lets forget about the first two since they are going to be a while, and focus on the whale.
The whale has completed all the packing of at least 8 full size eco bags (WTF you stupid cunt don't you know the rules?) and is at the pay screen, so why the FUCK aren't you paying? I will tell you why, because she just got a text on her blackberry. She looks down at her clip on phone, pulls it out, scrolls a fuck-ton, seems satisfied and puts the phone back in the clip. Ok bitch you are testing my patience but since you are 10x more likely to leave than the other 2 I will let it slide but don't do anything else stupid because the consequences will never be the same. So what does she do? Ok, this is asinine, this women is a troll, she HAS to be a troll, this bitch just sinned more than a priest does when alone with children. Out of her skin-tight cause-o-how-fat-she-is jeans comes a wad of mother fucking small bills. OMG HEAD EXPLODE
I’m a winning recreational player up to 25nl 6 max, but lost all motivation and stopped playing last year.
Poker is not my main source of income but it is one of my favourite hobbies, so my roll was just sitting there and I hardly ever cash out.
This year tho after not playing for so many months I decided to challenge myself, to beat the zoom games. Not in a mathematical view of xxbb/100 but in terms of how many buy ins I can win.
I have the same feeling of motivation at the moment for this game as I did when I first deposited my first $30 on PS and wanting to build.
Even tho I’m over rolled for 25nl, I started the challenge at 2nl zoom.
Goal: win 50 buy ins at each stake from 2nl up to 25nl zoom games 6 max. LETS GOOO BRAAHHS
Hero: checks
marcator93: bets $3.20
Hero: raises $9.07 to $12.27 and is all-in
marcator93: calls $4.97 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($4.10) returned to Hero
*** FIRST RIVER ***
*** SECOND RIVER ***
*** FIRST SHOW DOWN ***
Hero: shows (three of a kind, Nines)
marcator93: shows (two pair, Tens and Nines)
Hero collected $9.98 from pot
*** SECOND SHOW DOWN ***
Hero: shows (a full house, Nines full of Tens)
marcator93: shows (a full house, Tens full of Nines)
marcator93 collected $9.97 from pot
Summary Total pot $20.89 | Rake $0.94
Hand was run twice
Board
Board
Seat 1: tomasz0208 (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 2: sawadabr (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: aspid_AA (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: Anne Rafaely folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: Hero showed and won ($9.98) with three of a kind, Nines, and lost with a full house, Nines full of Tens
Seat 6: marcator93 showed and lost with two pair, Tens and Nines, and won ($9.97) with a full house, Tens full of Nines
Submitted by : jvilla777
File: HH20140721 Klinkenberg #2 - $0.05-$0.10 - USD No Limit Holdem.txt
PokerStars Zoom Hand #119061410444: Holdem No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2014/07/22 5:58:50 AEST [2014/07/21 15:58:50 ET]
Table Klinkenberg 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Hero ($11.95 in chips)
Seat 2: Igorsss3 ($10.93 in chips)
Seat 3: yufeic ($10 in chips)
Seat 4: EasyRyderrr ($13.81 in chips)
Seat 5: vpokerok ($10 in chips)
Seat 6: Hertzog88 ($5.38 in chips)
Igorsss3: posts small blind $0.05
yufeic: posts big blind $0.10
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
EasyRyderrr: folds
vpokerok: folds
Hertzog88: folds
Hero: raises $0.20 to $0.30
Igorsss3: raises $0.60 to $0.90
yufeic: calls $0.80
Hero: calls $0.60
yufeic: bets $3.20
Hero: raises $6.15 to $9.35 and is all-in
yufeic: calls $4.20 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($1.95) returned to Hero
*** FIRST RIVER ***
*** SECOND RIVER ***
*** FIRST SHOW DOWN ***
yufeic: shows (a pair of Queens)
Hero: shows (three of a kind, Fives)
Hero collected $9.98 from pot
*** SECOND SHOW DOWN ***
yufeic: shows (three of a kind, Queens)
Hero: shows (three of a kind, Fives)
yufeic collected $9.98 from pot
Summary Total pot $20.90 | Rake $0.94
Hand was run twice
Board
Board
Seat 1: Hero (button) showed and won ($9.98) with three of a kind, Fives, and lost with three of a kind, Fives
Seat 2: Igorsss3 (small blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 3: yufeic (big blind) showed and lost with a pair of Queens, and won ($9.98) with three of a kind, Queens
Seat 4: EasyRyderrr folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: vpokerok folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: Hertzog88 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
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