7-2 game on high stakes pokerby Gsr_01_integ, April 10
Im looking for the episode where i cant remember who gets in the big pot against the KK and bluffs off a stack almost does anyone know the episode this is or send me a link?
I'm down like 17k since feb 1st and I'm currently on a little 17-18 buyin downswing at 2/4 6max no big deal but most of my losses since feb is from tournaments/HU and a little flipping so can't be doing that anymore
so today started off like any other day the past week or two but I managed to get up somehow now all I need to do is stop spewing and I'm good to go
I bought HEM, but then had to reformat and i have NO idea where my registration code is. I need to get HEM asap for tax related things, so I'm wary to wait around while holdemmanager e-mails me back.
I quit poker a while back for what must have been the third time. I was playing NL50 and doing pretty well over a sample size of around 10k or so. Overall I was pretty happy to have progressed from NL25 to NL50, and to have managed a reasonable win rate at NL50.
More importantly, by the time I quit I could confidently say that I was better than most NL50 players on FTP at the time. Although beating NL50, and having a theoretical advantage at NL50 is not really a point of pride for me, I want to acknowledge that it's possible for me to have run good over the 10k hand sample(or any finite sample size) and achieve a much higher win rate than my actual expectation. Since actual win rate doesn't necessarily reflect expected winnings, and expected winnings are the true reflection of a player's ability, I think that it's important to have some theoretic idea about how your game compares with your opponents' games. Incidentally I think theory is a much more certain and cost efficient way to learn games of uncertainty than to play to whatever you can to consider a significant sample and then compare your win rate to what people suggest is a good win rate. I'd like to hear opinions on gauging your game by theoretic results versus actual results over a long sample. To clarify: I don't mean ALL-IN EV versus winnings because it's possible to run really hot card-wise and of course ALL-IN EV can't reflect the possibility that you're basically playing the top of your range all day long).
Anyway, I quit like half a year ago... Probably some time in September. I'm such a mercurial asshole that I became obsessed with Starcraft for a few weeks and abandoned poker for that. Then when I recognized I hated every job associated with my undergrad in economics, I decided to get a Ph.D... so I studied for the GRE etc and worked up a bunch of applications. In the mean time I pretty much forgot about poker.
I was reading LP about a month ago and I saw the big hand between Greenstein and Durrr in some thread. I bought Ace on the River years ago with my first PS points and finally read it like a year ago, so naturally I'm a pretty big Greenstein fan and automatically had to see the Greenstein versus Durrr pot... I was really impressed by Durrr's ability to take a 500k beat so I watched all the episodes of High Stakes Season 5 and was motivated to start playing again.
I suddenly remembered that I had around 1.3k sitting around on FTP. I'm not rich so I have no idea why I was just letting 1.3k sit for half a year on FTP. Anyway I'm totally irrational so as soon I remembered the money I thought "LOL 1.3k that I didn't remember. Certainly won't care if I lose it all. Let's go play NL50 like I'm Durrr!"
I used to be on the nitty side of TAG so I decided that I would just double my VPIP/PFR. I told myself that if I spewed a few hundred $ I'd probably feel a lot like cashing out the rest. So anyway it's an ongoing experiment but here are my first results:
I've been playing only a couple tables so my volume is low, and of course that makes running a bit under ALL-IN EV to be sort of a bummer, but it's not too discouraging since I'm still winning. My last few sessions have also been gay as I've had to fold way more than I like and my red line has plummeted accordingly. All-in-all though, it's liberating to play a more loose game on less tables because I enjoy the game and that makes up for the lower income per session.
I guess I'm finding that my desire for money (barring a massive windfall) is pretty low so I'm content to play a lower volume. This is sort of a surprise for me as I'd always imagined that I'd want more money as I grew older and "toys" became more expensive. Just the opposite has happened however as much of what I want is actually pretty cheap. Well anyway, I'd love to hear people's opinions on loose play at low stakes and on evaluating play from a theoretic perspective rather than a statistic perspective.
I was playing 2/5 today and was having a great session. Had a hilarious time where I came back to the game, randomly decided to post and picked up KJo. I raise and some nitty asian girl calls me. I'm 1.2k deep and she covers. Flop is JJ3ss, I bet she calls, turn J, I mentally fist pump and bet, she flats. Turn is Qs. I bet, she minraises, I shove for 600 more. She tanks for 5 minutes and calls w/ AA. Sick I'm rich now right?
Right after that hand some random guy sits to my left w/ $150. We're in the blinds and he's like, "if it folds to us, lets go flip blind". I'm like ok. It folds to us and I shove, he calls. I flip 73o and I'm like, "Fuck I'm doomed". He is like YES! and flips 52o LOL. I hold. EZ LIFE. My heater is infinite.
Then some really fat weird guy sits down and tries to buy-in with $200 in tournament entry chips. Its explained to him that he can't so he takes out $200 cash. He open raises his first hand to $100 and calls the shove for $100 more. He shows KJo and loses.
Awesome right? No. He lost the money to someone else. He gets up and is leaving when I'm like, "Whoa whoa why is he leaving?". Well he ran out of money.. so I had the dealer call him back and I bought his $200 in tournament chips from him so he could stay LOL. He busts his last $80 to me like 10 hands later
Great day, right!?
Ok, wrong. Table breaks and I move to a table w/ some asian guy who has my 2.4k covered (Asians win a lot cuz they're terrible nits). Like 2 orbits in I raise 97s in the CO and he reraises to 60 from BB. I flat cuz we're deep obv. I flop gin 97Jss. He bets and I raise. He flats, pot is now ~$750. I'm like sweet I'm going to be so fuckin rich. Turn A so I check behind cuz he's gonna fold if I bet, river.. A. FML I check cuz he isn't going to fold now I think. I lose to his KK. He berates me for a full minute about some shit I can't understand cuz his fucking asian nit accent. FUCK MY LIFE WHAT THE FUCK IS COUNTERFEITING THAT SHIT IS SO GAY.
Whatever. I'm still rich right? Table breaks eventually and I move to another w/ my fat stacks. ten hands in I decide to have fun and I squeeze an old guy and his flat caller. I have 43s. Caller inbetween folds. Flop QK8ss so I cbet/he makes a small raise all-in and I'm forced to call. He fucking owned me so fucking hard. The board bricks off and he fucking shows me AQ WHAT THE FUCK HOW COME I CAN NEVER GET PEOPLE TO SPAZZ OUT WHEN I WNAT THEM TO AKSJDFIOJAVWE$IOTJ49itjrdg0o9ijaert good bye $700 more dollars.
So that's how an awesome session turned into a merely good one. SUICIDE.
DoC.LemOn: bets $3.05 and is all-in
Uwe21111986: calls $3.05
Showdown DoC.LemOn: shows (a pair of Aces)
Uwe21111986: shows (three of a kind, Jacks)
Uwe21111986 collected $19.15 from pot
Summary Total pot $20.10 | Rake $0.95
Board
Seat 1: DoC.LemOn (big blind) showed and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 2: -bob1er- folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: superlatif folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: Uwe21111986 (button) showed and won ($19.15) with three of a kind, Jacks
Seat 6: bigrick998 (small blind) folded before Flop
happening all over the place last 3 sessions.
I am still not used to fold to $2 bets in a $10 pot when I know I am 95% beat with 100bb, because all the monkeys at NL10 that raise with middle pair
Finished March decently (+12k or so) although I was up to +16k at one point near the end of it.
Haven't really played much in April so far but I've been running like a hero in cash and a zero in tourneys. Played a bunch of SCOOP events and random tourneys only to bubbleboy most of them from gay setups.
I had a pretty solid day today at the tables. I manged to get in about 4k hands which is great because the more hands I can put in the more rakebac I get and I can clear my bonus faster.
I made the switch to UB last week and so far it been alright. I definitly like Stars a lot better but I gotta be somewhere that I can get rakeback and UB was the best for me since I couldnt go to FTP. But so far its been a good pick.
For a start today I didnt dig myself a hole to climb out of all day which was nice. I was trying out full ring for a while but its just so boring and I really wasnt doing that well in it so I went back to my ol' 6 max. Good thing I did. Since then Ive made about 10 buyins in the last 3 days, 3 of those buy ins coming today.
I had to drop back down to NL10 because I went on a shitty downswing before I switched sites and I wanted to buy a few things so I kept enough to have a solid roll for NL10 and I also got the 111% deposit bonus which when cleared I will be rolled for NL25.
Ive been playing in a few more tourneys then usual. Watching all the SCOOP tourneys inspired me to improve my game a bit there. It would jus be so sick to take one of those puppies down. Would be life changing for sure. The tourneys on UB arent that grate. There no where close to as big prize pools as Stars but the fields are WAY smaller lol. I played in a 2k Gaurntee 6 max tourney today and did awesome. I managed to come 3rd for $280. I made a sick call vs a monster stack and he lucked out on me I would have had a 8 to 1 chip lead going into heads up but hey what can yea do. Im glad I did well in this tourney. I actually enjoyed playing a tourney for once lol. Im going to probably try and play in atleast one a day from now on. Hopefully Ill get a big score one day lol.
So with that win from the tourney I dont have to grind that shit NL10 anymore. I can get back to NL25 and start owning it up! This tourney score couldnt have came at a better time :D Im not sure how the NL25 plays here on UB but Im guessing its just going to be a fish pond with a few crazy nits. Should be fun.
Tomorrow Im going back home pretty early. My old man is going to be here at 10am and its fucking 4am right now lol. There no way Im going to get to sleep. I still got some adrenaline from the tourney going lol. Might just rip a bong and hope It does the trick. My old man got Toronto FC tickets for the game on Saturday. I love going to these things even though Toronto FC is garbage. The fans make the game lol there hilarious. Pretty pumped for that.
Anyways guys I gotta crash.
Hope everyone had a good day at the tables.
Time for change!
In order to make a progress. I decided to post my sessions with interesting hands/stats/analysis so any interested HU player can berate me for my weak play.
Updates include, graphs, description of the oponent, game flow and whatever else is needed.
Updates are intended to keep me out of the tilt when I get coolered too many times which always leads me to dropping another 10BIns in 10mins .
I made another movie today about the shift I had at work earlier. It was mostly because I was bored during a 2 hour time period with nothing to do, but I think it turned out okay. You might not get some of the inside jokes but you still might get a laugh out of it.
I've been 4-tabling 6handed NL2 as advised in the previous post. After about 3000 hands, I'm up $41. (It was more but I've donked away close to ten bucks in SnGs after a few beers). In the absence of statistical software, I do not know whether that indicates a hot streak or just incredibly squishy competition. So, again, I have a few questions.
Which stat (or combination of stats) is the best criterion for table selection?
What is a comfy BR for starting NL5? I'm thinking of going up at 100-120ish.
At what limit does statistical software like PT3/HEM become vital?
Uh... so I learned how awesome tilt control is.
The hard, and in some manners, fun way.
The second dip is the second day of 50nl and me monkey tilting after some disgusting hands. Then I saw my BR back to where it was so long ago.. so so long ago. And I went berserk and 16'd 25nl for a long time. The sun rose, birds chirped, and I stood victorious. God's luck.
50nl, fuck you, I am gonna beat you down so hard this time around.
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(three of a kind, Jacks)
I would have had a 8 to 1 chip lead going into heads up but hey what can yea do. Im glad I did well in this tourney. I actually enjoyed playing a tourney for once lol. Im going to probably try and play in atleast one a day from now on. Hopefully Ill get a big score one day lol.
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