Well, my goal for this year was to play more than in 2008 but so far it looks pretty much the same as it did last year. I know that in order to move up in stakes and win money I have to play as much as I can to achieve all the goals I have set. But damn, I really don't feel any eagerness nor am I motivated to play. Instead I choose to watch The Big Bang Theory all day not caring about any other stuff It might be good in some way but I gotta be consistent in pursuing my goals. Please tell me something that will motivate me enough to put in at least 10k hands more this month !!
And by the way, I wanted to take an exchange student from Germany for a week cause there's a whole group coming from Munchen (then in September or so we would come over to them) and a couple of my friends are going to take part in this.I don't know if it was a bad day for my mom but she said that she wouldn't serve any stranger. I guess I'll try asking her again tomorrow or on Friday. Hopefully she agrees, maybe my dad will make her change her mind cause as far as I know he approves of this.
Ok, that'd be all for today.
Well a few weeks ago I started trying to get into a Polyphasic sleep schedule, my reasoning was I could never get a full 8 hours anyways and I would find myself grinding when I was super tired.
And I have to say this is such a huge bonus. I'm not tired while playing and when I do start to feel tired it's because It's time for a nap.
I broke my day down to sleep for 4 hours, nap for 1, sleep for 2-3.
Although it's somewhat of a social restraint it isn't horrible. You can always adjust it as well if you think one way would be a little to extreme.
I've noticed that I get a weird sort of tilt going on when I'm winning. Not so much winning in a session, but when I've had several winning sessions in a row. I play a bit more apathetically, sometimes cautiously, but overall not as sharp. I also lose my drive. While losing I either get super driven to recover, or deeply discouraged and titly and angry. When I've been winning a lot I slack off and have less desire to play.
I think it happens because of a fear of losing. Things are going well and I am protecting my profits. I don't want to drop back down after finally recovering. This is especially bad right before reaching a goal. For example right now my big goal is to hit 6k. That has been a goal forever. But the closer I get the less I want to play. I get a weird feeling in my gut, kind of like butterflies but also kind of like someone is grabbing my guts and wringing them. I think this stems from the same fear of loss, fear of failure.
Weird. I've done a great job of learning how to deal with the more destructive forms of tilt - monkey tilt, robot tilt, downswing tilt - but this one I still have to work on. Hopefully now that I've recognized it and been honest with myself about what's going on, I will be able to deal with it. I need to teach myself that the risk is worth the reward, and that I will enjoy playing, cause I do. I have to remember that it's all about the long term and bankrolls fluctuate and are never at the same number for long, they always go up or down, but mine is more likely to go up cause I am a good player. So accept the fluctuations and have faith in the long term results and don't be affected.
I also need to set less goals. They are such a fuck up while playing poker since so much is out of our control.
After my first post on liquidpoker (http://www.liquidpoker.net/poker-forum/677528/New_and_on_.01_.02.html) asking some questions about a few hands I played I was offered advice as to how to play them better which allowed me to reevaluate my decision making process and learn a little bit more from my mistakes. I also took the advice to buy in 100bb and almost instantly started benefiting when I started hitting good hands. I've decided to create a blog so I can ask questions, record results, and review my play from each day. I do not have poker tracker yet so I am basically going to just be 2-3 tabling .01/.02 so I can take notes on players at the tables and use the observations to understand what their hand range might be. Once I start to get a general feel quicker for what to do I will add more tables but until then I really want to get a better understanding of the plays my opponents are making and the plays I should be making in specific situations. I am going to be posting some hands that I have questions about in each blog post asking for advice and will be deliberately practicing using odds and outs until they become second nature. Currently, some of the villain's actions are not very hard to understand. They are usually either playing with nothing and calling/betting/raising incorrectly, or raising strong hands preflop and then not being able to let them go when nothing hits. Here are a few hands I played last night, please tell me what you think I could be doing differently:
Submitted by : ayreon
PokerStars Game #25071301494: Holdem No Limit ($0.01/$0.02) - 2009/02/18 1:17:59 ET
Table Salli 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: Hero ($5 in chips)
Seat 3: tutis ($3.62 in chips)
Seat 4: katydid21 ($4.67 in chips)
Seat 5: In a Pig ($3.11 in chips)
Seat 8: rafin19 ($6.24 in chips)
Seat 9: XyRaL ($7.27 in chips)
SimonAndo will be allowed to play after the button
rafin19: posts small blind $0.01
XyRaL: posts big blind $0.02
TreFL1P: sits out
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
Hero: raises $0.06 to $0.08
tutis: folds
katydid21: folds
In a Pig: calls $0.08
rafin19: folds
XyRaL: folds
Hero: checks
In a Pig: bets $0.28
Hero: calls $0.28
River (Pot : $1.15)
Medic_SES has returned
Hero: bets $0.50
In a Pig: raises $0.50 to $1
Hero: calls $0.50
Showdown In a Pig: shows (two pair, Aces and Sevens)
Hero: shows (two pair, Aces and Sevens - King kicker)
Hero collected $3 from pot
Summary Total pot $3.15 | Rake $0.15
Board
Seat 1: Hero showed and won ($3) with two pair, Aces and Sevens
Seat 3: tutis folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: katydid21 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: In a Pig (button) showed and lost with two pair, Aces and Sevens
Seat 8: rafin19 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: XyRaL (big blind) folded before Flop
Villain was making bad raises and bad calls on previous hands so I wasn't exactly sure what he could have. Was checking/calling bad? Should I have lead out with a bet?
Submitted by : ayreon
PokerStars Game #25071621689: Holdem No Limit ($0.01/$0.02) - 2009/02/18 1:36:42 ET
Table Salli 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: Hero ($6.40 in chips)
Seat 2: TreFL1P ($5.24 in chips)
Seat 3: tutis ($3.59 in chips)
Seat 5: In a Pig ($2.32 in chips)
Seat 6: SimonAndo ($2.17 in chips)
Seat 7: trunks62 ($2.62 in chips)
Seat 8: rafin19 ($6.20 in chips)
Seat 9: 2xb1xo ($1.50 in chips)
SimonAndo: posts small blind $0.01
trunks62: posts big blind $0.02
Holecards Dealt to Hero
rafin19: folds
2xb1xo: folds
Hero: calls $0.02
TreFL1P: folds
tutis: folds
In a Pig: calls $0.02
SimonAndo: calls $0.01
trunks62: checks
Flop (Pot : $0.08)
SimonAndo: checks
trunks62: checks
Hero: bets $0.05
In a Pig: folds
SimonAndo: folds
trunks62: folds
Uncalled bet ($0.05) returned to Hero
Hero collected $0.08 from pot
Hero: doesnt show hand
Summary Total pot $0.08 | Rake $0
Board
Seat 1: Hero collected ($0.08)
Seat 2: TreFL1P folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: tutis folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: In a Pig (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 6: SimonAndo (small blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 7: trunks62 (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 8: rafin19 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 9: 2xb1xo folded before Flop (didnt bet)
I was trying to protect from flush draw against more than one opponent so in case one called the other would be getting incorrect odds to call as well. Is that correct to do? Or should I have bet .04 making it incorrect for the first one to call but if he does call it's making it correct for the second one to call. Do I try to make the odds incorrect for all players or only the player to act after me and how often should I be worried that my opponents hit a flush on the turn or river if I am HU?
Submitted by : ayreon
PokerStars Game #25072113514: Holdem No Limit ($0.01/$0.02) - 2009/02/18 2:08:08 ET
Table Salli 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: Hero ($6.36 in chips)
Seat 3: tutis ($3.65 in chips)
Seat 4: katydid21 ($5.11 in chips)
Seat 5: In a Pig ($3.09 in chips)
Seat 6: SimonAndo ($1.52 in chips)
Seat 7: fogis49 ($1.75 in chips)
Seat 8: northernmine ($3.92 in chips)
Seat 9: 2xb1xo ($2.61 in chips)
2xb1xo: posts small blind $0.01
Hero: posts big blind $0.02
Pot Abductor: sits out
Holecards Dealt to Hero
tutis: folds
katydid21: calls $0.02
In a Pig: raises $0.02 to $0.04
SimonAndo: calls $0.04
fogis49: calls $0.04
northernmine: calls $0.04
2xb1xo: calls $0.03
Hero: raises $0.08 to $0.12
katydid21: folds
In a Pig: calls $0.08
SimonAndo: calls $0.08
fogis49: calls $0.08
northernmine: calls $0.08
2xb1xo: calls $0.08
Flop (Pot : $0.74)
2xb1xo: checks
Hero: checks
In a Pig: bets $0.06
SimonAndo: calls $0.06
fogis49: calls $0.06
northernmine: calls $0.06
2xb1xo: folds
Hero: raises $0.94 to $1
In a Pig: folds
SimonAndo: folds
fogis49: folds
northernmine: calls $0.94
Turn (Pot : $2.92)
SimonAndo leaves the table
Kenas Muepa joins the table at seat #6
Hero has timed out
Hero: checks
northernmine: bets $0.96
Hero has timed out
Hero: folds
Uncalled bet ($0.96) returned to northernmine
Hero is sitting out
Hero has returned
northernmine collected $2.82 from pot
northernmine: shows (a pair of Jacks)
Summary Total pot $2.92 | Rake $0.10
Board
Seat 1: Hero (big blind) folded on the Turn
Seat 3: tutis folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: katydid21 folded before Flop
Seat 5: In a Pig folded on the Flop
Seat 6: SimonAndo folded on the Flop
Seat 7: fogis49 folded on the Flop
Seat 8: northernmine (button) collected ($2.82)
Seat 9: 2xb1xo (small blind) folded on the Flop
Should I not have reraised preflop? I bet .94 to protect from flush draw but after he called my bet I figured I was beat so I just checked folded. Was this correct to do? He wasn't showing strength earlier in the hand and I wasn't sure what he had so should I have played it differently?
Sold my 5 million play chips for $40 on full tilt. I played a little over 2k hands yesterday with varying results. I tried different amount of tables and music and such to see what i preferred. The results speak for themselves.
Clearly watching Dirty Jobs centers the mind and allows me to make better decisions. I prefer 4 tables to 6 because if I have 6 tables on my screen I need to overlap some of them. I feel like I make plays based on the player a lot more when I play 4 tables. When I have 6 open I play the cards. Probably going to play another 2k hands tonight. Reply back with some things you do while playing that help you concentrate and play better.
So Obama just signed a new recovery/reinvestment bill for a bunch of money to try and get us outta this painful downswing. And what's one of the first thing he does? He launches a new website called http://www.recovery.gov/ where they're going to list all the money being spent, where it's going, when it is spent, how much is being spent, and so on. Pretty sweet if you ask me.
I'm sure cynics will find a way to berate this move as well, but to me this is more of Obama following through on what he talked about on the campaign - government transparency. And he's not just making some small token website that no one knows about. He blasted it out to his email list right away and is requesting everyone on the list to check the site constantly and to watch over the governments actions. It's a huge change from bush who always wanted americans to just go shopping and be lazy and don't worry about what the Gov is doing, we'll protect you, just forget about it, relax.... Obama is always asking Americans to get involved, work in their communities, hold the government accountable, share your stories, and so on.
I'm on the email list cause of the campaign, and I honestly figured that once the campaign was over the emails would stop. Not the case. They come in pretty consistently still and range from requests for me to organize service projects in my community to requests for me to share my story and suggestions requests for me to take part in holding government accountable. If you're not on the list you should join up just to see wtf Obama is up to, cause it's a very weird and different approach but very awesome imo.
started pretty bad with Nl50 6max on FTpoker
Well i simply didnt get hands + when i got hands nobody paid me off or i was beat by a monster ....
So what does an experienced agressive player do when he doesnt get hands ?
[] stay calm and wait till he gets hands
[] start making bluffs for stacks
>-<
yeha so i turned a -30$ session into a - 195$ session within 20 hands doing stupid bluffs when villians had the nutz...
luckily i noticed my muistake and insta shut down the tables and didnt play for the next 30 minutes
after i calmed down i decided i have absolutely no enjoyment if i played another nL50 6max session
so i returned to my regular NL100 HU limit.
went pretty cool
I won 2 1/2 bi
Getting back in the swing of things...by BiNK, February 18
So here I am a very broke college freshman giving online poker yet another shot...I've prolly given this game way too many chances but whatever I'm young and it's not going to kill me to lose a little money if I do. I started playing this game way back when I was 16/17 on good old paradise poker, such a ghetto site haha. I have had many alias's but some of you probably most know me as DonVale (twistedecho hopefully has some silly memories of me). I've played and moved up the micros just fine two times until i reach NL50 and all of a sudden I think i'm the man and make way too many moves on people, tilt, etc. I've cashed out about 2500 total but prolly could easy be 5k if i put my mind to it. I just don't want to quit on this game yet. I've become "friends" with a few people online (namely Shane- BigBluffer79, Chibuzo, and this crazy dude mfcmurray). The first two really helped me expand my game and I am thankful for that. So, to make a long story short, I deposited 50 bucks on dear old FTP and have doubled that playing their newly created NL2 holdem games. I was so excited to see these tables and they are incredibly soft. I have won about 25 BI the last 3 days and hopefully this hot streak will keep up until NL25. My ultimate goal would to be to grind at least NL50 for the summer instead of working as a janitor at my old high school. I assume I could do both (play and work) but probably going to be too lazy to do so as I'll have a nice workout regimen for my sophomore year of college football. Going to have to be in great shape as I am number one on the depth chart at my position and played a lot as a freshman. Well good luck everybody and hope all is well!
Started off tight/passive, but that didn't work. Went a lot tighter after 5k hands or so, and I stopped being an idiot and trying to push people out of pots with terrible boards. I'm up $17 overall now (joy!)
UGHHHHHH rewriting this entry cuz i accidentally clicked a link!!
basically i haven't played in close to a month nor have i done anything that remotely resembles any kind of productivity.
here is why.......superbowl and my birthday (my 26th, still in mid 20's thank god) are always few days apart. so i threw a joint birthday slash superbowl party this year........problem is that i didnt stop partying until 3 days ago. it's bad when your drinking just to get rid of hangovers. so monday i did some serious detox and cleaned my apartment to a standard human level.
so started the month with 1200 friggin dollars, still shaking my head........i have a 4k bonus pending so not overly worried, dropping down to plo100 until i get situated again. ON TOP OF THAT.........ive only accrued 6k vpp this month and if i dont make 50k vpp by end of this month, supernova elite expires.....WACK! guess im gonna have to put in some serious hours.
few hands from session..... http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/635257
-i really wish i could have this one back........knowing the villain im pretty sure he would raise the 5 on flop. he plays pretty badly and he couldve easily had ANY pair in his hand. he runs WAY too many bluffs but he got lucky cuz i had my attention somewhere in my ass when this hand was played out.
side notes:
daytona 500 was terrible (yes, i'm nascar fan) and dale jr DID NOT cause the wreck
A-Rod.....the price of your enormous baseball talent is balanced out by your general douchebag demeanor, hahaha ill still root for u though
Massive tilt... stop me from playing 1knl huby flounder44, February 18
argh just lost 4 buyins on 100nl 6max vs 50-80 vpip fishes. I am really considering just cashing everything out i suck at poker i have no real winrate. All of my winnings are from rakeback/bonuses etc. My br is down to 4.5k after losing almost 400 tonight in less than 1.5k hands.....
-8 buy ins. Yeah, eight. I'll post a graph later after I'm done crying.
I've never even had a 4 buy-in win session. On Sunday I had a -7buy in session and today -8. Why can't I win big but I can lose big?
Please no generic responses. I fucking bust my ass off for this game and I expect some results. I watch videos. I work full-time and still get 30-40k+ hands a month in.
Clearly I need to take a step back or something. Or study more. Or play more. I don't know what it is. Or maybe I need more down swings like this so I can just become immune to them. Who knows.
Anyone interested in swapping MSNs for hand discussions? Anyone NL50+ would be appreciated.
My week thus far....subract the long middle cuz its irrelevant 24 tabling to hit the 25k...which didnt happen...but yeah...lots of...crazy up and downness....
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It might be good in some way but I gotta be consistent in pursuing my goals. Please tell me something that will motivate me enough to put in at least 10k hands more this month !! 
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