Hi everyone
So far playing 2months as some of u may know..
Made about 2500$ so far mostly at 25 and 1 good tourney..
Been running like Apeshit for 1week+ everytime the worst card come off , losing 90% of my flips and 50% of my 70-30..
so i decided to rest for a week .. do some thinking
maybe i just ran bad , maybe i suck dicks .. i dunno
GL everyone though
LP ftw
Can someone explain if it's possible for me to run two 22" monitors off my laptop? I don't mind if my laptop screen is blank while this is happening, and I don't mind buying extra peripherals if need be. I have a Dell Latitude d620 with a 2ghz intel core 2, 2gb of ram, and an Nvidia Quadro NVS 110M graphics card if any of that is relevant. Thanks!
How I'm giong to recover 'n stuff.by Night2o1, March 04
Weeee so I thought I would outline what my plan is to sort of 'recover' from how shitty I've been playing the past 6k-10k hands. I'd also like to put a brief emo whine because I can. Its my blog damn it.
I am such a pussy and I suck at getting over my ex-gf and I should emo wrist my face off with a chainsaw tied to a pogo stick. Seriously. Its been FOREVER.
But ya this is messing me up poker-wise the past days.. dunno why but it popped up in my head again -_-.
Emo part over.
Poker:
So yeah, I think I've gotten really lazy the past 6-10k? hands at nl100. When I was crushing and then for the 10k hands I was doing well at nl100, I was table selecting a lot, and I was luckily mostly playing during the only good hours at Cakepoker, where you can actually get 1 fullstacked fish per table instead of just nitty regs.
But overall I just got lazy with it. I started c-betting flops I know I shouldn't, but I was sort of falling into a really weak auto-piloting play. I experienced a little variance and I too quickly let my confidence slip. I was folding to more bluffs because I stopped being confident in my reads, or not valuebetting when I ought to.
The whole not-trusting-myself problem was exactly what I 'got over' at the start of this year and got me out of nl10. So I need to refocus on that. I really think my success all boils down to my confidence and trusting my thoughts.. you know?
So I have a plan. Its pretty brief:
-4table for 10k hands at nl100
-restore my confidence
-watch some videos
-Change sites by the end of march (I most likely FTP unless I bonus whore the evil UB :/ which I actually feel bad about considering.. ). I need to change sites so I can have some amount of table selection.
-Get in the gym again to give myself a break from the computer and get back in shape/increase confidence as well.
That's pretty much it.
Also I got a loan secured against my bankroll from my grandma(<333 gma). My roll is at 7k ATM and I got a 5k loan. Hopefully I'll come back +money though
Any thoughts on if I should play any 2/5 at all? I'm going to poker probably an average of 8 hours a day for 6 days. I'll start at 1/2. When should I move up? Should I at all with a "short" roll? I imagine if I'm on point I should crush the games, but there is ofc fewer hands played and variance will play a large role.
So LAPT Punta del Este is in 2 weeks and I'll be going there. I want to sell 50% of my action if anyone is interested. Selling 50% in both main event and second chance. If I don't play the second chance I will obviously give the money back. This will be my second LAPT. Played in Nuevo Vallarta and cashed like 7k in the 89way chop (lol).
LOL I just shipped a satellite into the 1.5M Garuntee SCOOP event. I dont really have the urge to play in it right now. I won $W so if there is any way I can sell these etc. please tell me how.
Yo guys, today was the first day in March that I could play some poker, because my internet company has cut me off the Internet for 2 days. Im doing really good so far on NL25, and i hope to continue with it.
I got a small question regarding HEM, I have a different folder specified so that the progressed and imported HH's move there, and there is already tons of it in this folder, so I wanted to save some disc space by zipping these hh's, but in this folder, there are not only HH's, but also a lot of .tmp files, which are very small, maybe about ~1kb a bit. Do I have to store these or do you think it would make any harm if I delete them?
EDIT: I just openened the .tmp files with the Editor, and now I see that those are parts of HH's when I wasn't yet dealt in the hand, so I guess its safe to delete them aight?
so i woke up, played some sc, then played some poker, and then i had this funny idea of making a joke post about the players that use pee bottles, do they use poo cans or something too? noticed nobody was laughing, changed it, then an lp admin shows up and says im getting banned, and i try to plead my case, but hes nowhere to be found
so i guess cya guys later? my blood pressure is like a billion, cant believe u would show up, say something so severe, then disappear. i think the post was marginally in bad taste, but judging the pee bottle thread, it can't be considered so much worse, and now im stressed as shit because lp is like the only thing i ever do these days.
4-tabling some reg. Still up for the month though, which is pretty lol considering this. I really like HEM too, it's really good for spotting drowlers fast.
So I've been told the best way to improve includes the following:
1. practice
2. subscribe to DC or CR or both
3. read articles
4. post hands
5. chat with other poker players
I got everything goin' except 5. Anybody game to add me on MSN and talk about hands from time to time? :O
OR is there a better place to chat about poker in general etc. so that i don't bug you on msn. (be aware, i will bug you a lot if you add me, but only about poker )
VPChesireCat: checks
DoC.LemOn: bets $0.15
VPChesireCat: raises $0.65 to $0.80
DoC.LemOn: raises $1.17 to $1.97
VPChesireCat: raises $1.45 to $3.42 and is all-in
DoC.LemOn: calls $1.43 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($0.02) returned to VPChesireCat
I love all ya, appreciate your support, and I'm sure some of you will "think" allowing myself to play hu is a degen move or whatever, which is not the case. I am extremely profitable HU, I just never understood bankroll management years ago when I allowed myself to play it. I also chased loses like a motherfucker and I didn't time my cashgame sesions like I do now. I will always have 100+ bi for MTT and Heads Up. If I don't, then I will send anyone $100 cash money who would spot me on any of those tables.
Well, its back to NL2 cuz i suck at doing what i plan on doing....
also i busted a lil of my br on tourneys...so its back to NL2...I think Imma do NL2 and tourneys for awhile, even past being rolled for NL5 so that i can be super rolled for it and not worry about nething, and possibly play right...
On a side note, my internal clock is fucked. I've been all messed up for like a month...then tonight i was tired at 10 and it was glorious and i was like YES i can sleep like a normal person. Then i woke up at 1 am...and was like FML.. So i think I'll grind NL2 and see if i can run it up tonight....we'll see...
e.g. 3betting raises preflop. If I'm going to reraise somebody who has raised on the BU or CO, what's a good range to do so, and what stats am I looking for on villain?
Also, what kind of stats / situations am I looking for on initial raisers and callers when I'm looking to squeeze?
I realize both are entirely situational and should be used in moderation. I'm just wondering (generally) what circumstances are good / ideal / +EV for these types of plays?
Or I did. It was my birthday on Sunday and I hadn't played poker since Thursday because I worked all weekend, so I was drunk and eager to play on Sunday night and jumped on a bunch of NL200 tables. Ran like total shit with coolers and beats that were so ridiculous that I just laughed cause they were funny, not maddening. Kept playing and felt like I'd recovered to even so I kept playing, got coolered more and it finally got to me and I started to spew. I quit the session expecting a 2 buyin loss and it was actually 6.5 buyins............ FUCK.
Yesterday (monday) my GF and I went out to do birthday shopping and indoor skydiving so I didn't play at all, but I didn't feel like playing either. I felt down, scared, beat up. I'd had my biggest losing session @ NL200 and it all could have been avoided. It shot my confidence.
Today I had a full day alone to refocus on poker. Spent the morning setting up the new 23" monitor that I got for my Bday. Then I spent a bunch of time getting my confidence back. I felt like shit and didn't want to play and had to take a walk and talk to myself for a while. Eventually I felt good again and played a very good session and won nearly 3 buyins. On the road to recovery!
Anyway, here's the Feb results. They were good despite about 2 weeks of running horrible at the beginning. Ended the month moving up to NL200 and doing well there:
March has started shitty cause of Sunday night but today was the start to a recovery. Gonna keep grinding away and hopefully get to play NL200 all of march which could lead to a huge winning month. We'll see. I plan to do at least 100k hands @ NL200 before taking any NL400 shots, so it's gonna be a while =)
I also am planning to buy an ergonomic computer chair cause I spend so much of my time in front of a computer and already have lots of neck/back pain from sports injuries when I was younger, and this shit makes it so much worse. Has anyone done research on the best chairs to get? I'm gonna have to do a research session but if anyone has recommendations that would help me a lot so that I can make this process much shorter.
I had a bunch of other shit to say but I can't think of it now. Guess I will end up doing another blog soon when I remember it!
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