Meh, just had a really bad downswing...if one of these hands went the other way i would have broken even, oh well
I did have a success though, a table broke and I was HU with devonx (xlper whom i used to fued with constantly) and decided to just sit out and keep my ego out of the game, so many other players to take money from
This is one of the first times I've had to use a stop loss, and am pretty proud of myself that I stopped between 2-3bi which is what i set my stop loss at for every session now.
So I decided to play some 200nl mostly to test the stakes and compare my winrate to my regular 600nl winrate. So far it's going nicely and I'm hoping I can sustain it.
sarganaga: bets $39
ApocalypsPLZ: raises $86 to $125
sarganaga: folds
Uncalled bet ($86) returned to ApocalypsPLZ
ApocalypsPLZ collected $177 from pot
ApocalypsPLZ: doesnt show hand
Summary Total pot $179 | Rake $2
Board
Seat 1: simona75 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: ApocalypsPLZ (button) collected ($177)
Seat 4: jdog_fl (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: Your_A_Sucka (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 6: sarganaga folded on the River
PokerStars Game #24667067110: Holdem No Limit ($1/$2) - 2009/02/06 16:03:58 PT [2009/02/06 19:03:58 ET]
Table Ornamenta VIII 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: DBL_J_22 ($200 in chips)
Seat 2: John deVries ($460.55 in chips)
Seat 3: BaggieBoyyy ($77 in chips)
Seat 4: Bazuko ($229.05 in chips)
Seat 5: HerrPferd ($216.90 in chips)
Seat 6: ApocalypsPLZ ($282.90 in chips)
ApocalypsPLZ: posts small blind $1
DBL_J_22: posts big blind $2
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to ApocalypsPLZ
John deVries: calls $2
BaggieBoyyy: folds
Bazuko: folds
HerrPferd: folds
ApocalypsPLZ: raises $8 to $10
DBL_J_22: raises $20 to $30
John deVries: folds
ApocalypsPLZ: raises $50 to $80
DBL_J_22: raises $120 to $200 and is all-in
ApocalypsPLZ: calls $120
Showdown ApocalypsPLZ: shows (three of a kind, Aces)
DBL_J_22: mucks hand
ApocalypsPLZ collected $399 from pot
Summary Total pot $402 | Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: DBL_J_22 (big blind) mucked
Seat 2: John deVries folded before Flop
Seat 3: BaggieBoyyy folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: Bazuko folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: HerrPferd (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: ApocalypsPLZ (small blind) showed and won ($399) with three of a kind, Aces
Gonna keep playing till I get at least 10k hands and evaluate my winrate then.
Been playing 2-4 tables on stars this week and have been killing it rather nicely running at around 30ptbb/100. Decided to go for 25nl with 16 buyins and it appears to have worked out quite well. Im playing a pretty aggro 22/20 style with 10% 3bet and 4 agg factor. It really seems to be destroying the games. I didnt think micro players would ever fold a hand but they do actually seem to give respect and play back at the worst possible times. I have decided to give up mass tabling because I cant do it without going on autopilot and I think my winrate is so much better on 2-4 tables that it cant be made up for. And I really just play so much better and stay focused on 2-4. (Also I had a 2buyin misclick last week where I thought a shortstack pushed for 20 cents but it was 20 dollars that sucked)
so im like totally in the process of overhauling my shitty weaktight game so i can continue to move up from nl100, yes i know, har-har, so baby stakes still. anyway, im like positive its not a fluke and im finding goodish spots to pick up some pots where i was playing a lot too weak before.
i hope my redline will go from something like -50% of blueline to like -(0-10%) of blueline, although i realize the green line is most important. i just think nl100 fr is soooo nitty i have to be looser.
spoiler alert, i included allin ev ;_; so you guys would believe me im not just spewing around like an idiot. but i realize lots of people are running alot worse. it will change.
but for the record, including my non-changed gameplay im over 100k of breakeven so its probably really important i do something proactive to get out of this rut.
I've never had the doomswitch turned on me, but I think Feb is the month my cherry will be popped. Just played over 3k hands vs friday night donks and ended the session down 6 BI in expectation. I was down about 1 Bi for the session and then I hit 4 ridiculous coolers back to back to back. Here they are (plus 1 that happened about 3 minutes before):
k2o4: bets $38
thechuckness: raises $32 to $70 and is all-in
k2o4: calls $32
River (Pot : $201.00)
Showdown k2o4: shows (a pair of Queens)
thechuckness: shows (two pair, Queens and Tens)
thechuckness collected $199 from pot
Summary Total pot $201 | Rake $2
Board
Seat 1: k2o4 (small blind) showed and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 2: caliméro (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: Sen. Quack folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: thechuckness showed and won ($199) with two pair, Queens and Tens
Seat 6: nutorbluf (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
PokerStars Game #24679372521: Holdem No Limit ($0.50/$1.00) - 2009/02/07 1:43:35 MT [2009/02/07 3:43:35 ET]
Table Nolli VII 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: peterpiztole ($107 in chips)
Seat 2: myhouman ($66.85 in chips)
Seat 3: OSUGreg1983 ($218 in chips)
Seat 4: Lazer45 ($88.50 in chips)
Seat 5: k2o4 ($100 in chips)
Seat 6: jax12345678 ($92 in chips)
k2o4: posts small blind $0.50
jax12345678: posts big blind $1
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to k2o4
peterpiztole: raises $3 to $4
myhouman has timed out
myhouman: folds
myhouman is sitting out
myhouman has returned
OSUGreg1983: folds
Lazer45 said, "lets go gargoyle"
Lazer45: folds
k2o4: raises $9 to $13
jax12345678: folds
peterpiztole: calls $9
k2o4: bets $17
peterpiztole: raises $29 to $46
Lazer45 said, "last i saw this was a fast table??/ am i mistaken???"
k2o4: raises $41 to $87 and is all-in
peterpiztole: calls $41
Showdown k2o4: shows (two pair, Aces and Deuces)
peterpiztole: shows (four of a kind, Deuces)
peterpiztole collected $198 from pot
Summary Total pot $201 | Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: peterpiztole showed and won ($198) with four of a kind, Deuces
Seat 2: myhouman folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: OSUGreg1983 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: Lazer45 (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: k2o4 (small blind) showed and lost with two pair, Aces and Deuces
Seat 6: jax12345678 (big blind) folded before Flop
PokerStars Game #24679085089: Holdem No Limit ($0.50/$1.00) - 2009/02/07 1:23:05 MT [2009/02/07 3:23:05 ET]
Table Jacchia 6-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: k2o4 ($131.40 in chips)
Seat 2: beast9881 ($103.45 in chips)
Seat 3: HeBaTcH ($11 in chips)
Seat 4: yoyoboogie ($41.15 in chips)
Seat 5: sikwit2007 ($49 in chips)
Seat 6: Djordje S ($89.85 in chips)
HeBaTcH: posts small blind $0.50
yoyoboogie: posts big blind $1
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to k2o4
sikwit2007: calls $1
Djordje S: folds
k2o4: raises $4 to $5
beast9881: raises $15 to $20
HeBaTcH: folds
yoyoboogie: folds
sikwit2007: folds
k2o4: raises $111.40 to $131.40 and is all-in
beast9881: calls $83.45 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($27.95) returned to k2o4
Showdown k2o4: shows (a pair of Queens)
beast9881: shows (a pair of Kings)
beast9881 collected $206.40 from pot
Summary Total pot $209.40 | Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: k2o4 showed and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 2: beast9881 (button) showed and won ($206.40) with a pair of Kings
Seat 3: HeBaTcH (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: yoyoboogie (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: sikwit2007 folded before Flop
Seat 6: Djordje S folded before Flop (didnt bet)
PokerStars Game #24679421980: Holdem No Limit ($0.50/$1.00) - 2009/02/07 1:47:13 MT [2009/02/07 3:47:13 ET]
Table Nolli VII 6-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: peterpiztole ($199.50 in chips)
Seat 2: myhouman ($65.35 in chips)
Seat 3: OSUGreg1983 ($217 in chips)
Seat 4: Lazer45 ($190.60 in chips)
Seat 5: k2o4 ($100 in chips)
Seat 6: jax12345678 ($87 in chips)
OSUGreg1983: posts small blind $0.50
Lazer45: posts big blind $1
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to k2o4
k2o4: raises $3 to $4
jax12345678: folds
peterpiztole has timed out
peterpiztole: folds
peterpiztole is sitting out
myhouman: calls $4
peterpiztole has returned
OSUGreg1983: folds
Lazer45: calls $3
Lazer45: checks
k2o4: bets $9.50
myhouman: raises $15.50 to $25
Lazer45: folds
k2o4: raises $71 to $96 and is all-in
myhouman: calls $36.35 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($34.65) returned to k2o4
Showdown k2o4: shows (high card Ace)
myhouman: shows (a straight, Ace to Five)
myhouman collected $132.20 from pot
Summary Total pot $135.20 | Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: peterpiztole folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 2: myhouman (button) showed and won ($132.20) with a straight, Ace to Five
Seat 3: OSUGreg1983 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: Lazer45 (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 5: k2o4 showed and lost with high card Ace
Seat 6: jax12345678 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Lazer45: bets $46
k2o4: raises $35 to $81 and is all-in
Lazer45: calls $28.55 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($6.45) returned to k2o4
River (Pot : $193.60)
Showdown Lazer45: shows (a full house, Fives full of Nines)
k2o4: mucks hand
Lazer45 collected $190.60 from pot
Summary Total pot $193.60 | Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: peterpiztole (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 2: myhouman (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: OSUGreg1983 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: Lazer45 showed and won ($190.60) with a full house, Fives full of Nines
Seat 5: k2o4 mucked
Seat 6: jax12345678 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
That puts me 1.7k below expectation for the month. Basically 17 buyins. Watch out maynard, I'm coming after you for the most painful EV graph award!
I feel like I'm playing great too. I did spew a bit early in my 3k hand session vs donks in probably close to break even EV spots, but otherwise I hit a shit load of coolers and beats. The end of my session was brutal because it was like "yes hands!" and I'm thinking that I'm about to get into the green and then "NO SHIT!" and a 2 buyin loss turns into a 5 buyin loss. lolz.
Must weather the storm! I'll probably do a lot more NL50 HU to feel better about myself and not worry about the money.
Oh, also played 3 donkaments tonight and the bad beats continued there to get me knocked out about 100 from the bubble in all 3. woot! At least I should have more hands played than milkman now.
My friend/housemate is just getting into poker and can't really afford PT or anything like that with his current roll, but I think it'd help him to have a database for his hands to view stats and graphs and stuff (a HUD would be awesome too). Anyone know of a free software for this?
4.5 hours, 2.2K hands.
Agg factor is down, and W$SD% is up - which I always thought was a leak of mine.
Shoutouts to Silver, Neilly, rockman, PplusAD, Baal, fira, k2o4 and geometryb for input on hands, Fayth for telling me I suck (), EscapingR, Sicks Macks, and fenner for sympathy while I ran like gorilla semen.
dunno i usually only 6 table so dont need a monster and only looking to spend like 500 so if anyone else has any good recommendations theyd be very appreciated.
Return of my blog with Videoby ToT)MidiaN(, February 06
Hey guys, welcome to the return of my blog!
The reason most people will be reading this blog will be for the video which I posted at the bottom, so skip ahead to that. Below is simply a rant about life and how I think video games, poker and "internet fame" effects people, and has, in my opinion, effected me.
I got this blog deleted by an admin about 2 months ago for a few reasons, part of which was due to the fact that my interest in poker continues to wane, but mainly because of something that Ket told me that reminded me of how I used to be, and how I would still like to be. This all came to me when we were talking about poker and how it changes people, and I was thinking to myself that poker hasn't really changed me, but then Ket started talking about tjbentham and mig, who were 2 of the biggest, if not the 2 biggest winners from the liquidpoker community in 2008. He was telling me how, despite the fact that they win so much, they never post about it, they simply keep themselves to themselves and just play. That's how I used to be in life, and in older video games like Diablo2 and StarCraft and various other things in real life life that I was good or bad at, but never really bragged or whined about. I enjoyed people not knowing anything about me, I enjoyed my own time and space and learning about other people, but not letting anybody know anything about me. I think this started to change when I first caught online "fame", which is when I moved to the ToT clan in StarCraft in 2004 or so. Up until that point I was fairly unknown playing as iD.MidiaN, just doing my thing staying under the spotlight, enjoying the game and being really pretty good at it without anybody really knowing that much about me, those who did know about me knew that I was severely underrated by the community as a whole and that's what I liked. I enjoy being unknown and also enjoy being the underdog, however when I joined ToT people started messaging me all the time, there was random talk about me on TeamLiquid and gosugamers etc and I was beginning to gain "fame". For the first week I answered everyone who messaged me, every person who asked for a game, responded to most posts on forums, but I got frustrated by it all very quickly. My response was to start banning people from Op ToT) who continued to harrass me, not taking losses aswell as I used to, defending myself against people and on forums, where in the past I never did because it didn't bother me what people thought. I don't think I was ever really horrible in that respect, infact, I was probably one of the lesser arrogant and bad mannered top non Korean StarCraft gamer, but even so, it bothered me that I changed at all, and it still bothers me that for the last 4 years I've changed as a person just because of a little bit of attention I got from people over the "skill" I had in StarCraft. This in itself may sound arrogant, but in actual fact I don't think I was ever better than top 3 zerg outside of Korea and about top 10-15 overall outside of Korea and I think that's pretty realistic so I don't mean to sound arrogant, but there was definitely a lot more attention once I joined ToT and it definitely did effect the way I reacted to people.
Anyway this all leads back to the conversation I had with Ket and why I deleted my blog. My blog used to be almost exclusively poker brags and beats with a tidbit of real life happenings here and there, and I realised this is not how I want to be anyway, it's not how I used to be and I never even enjoyed talking too much about myself or bragging or whining etc, I never have. This is why I got my blog deleted, so that I could stay under the spotlight, play poker or whatever and just do my own thing like I used to, however I realise now, after all this time it's not that simple. The fact that I'm even here writing this blog shows me that I'm never going to be the way I used to be, I'm never going to be the same patient, quiet, utterly humble guy that I think I used to be. It cannot be that way when you become part of a community, when you make a lot of friends, when you have people who rely on you and so on and so forth, you simply cannot just keep yourself to yourself. You have to put yourself out there, and although I kinda miss that, I have plenty enough time and space to do that with where I am physically and emotionally in life right now, so I can keep a nice balance between my own space and time to do what I want by myself and not have to talk to people at all, and still be able to keep up to date with friends and the communities that I'm integrated into. By the way I'm not totally saying that mig or tjbentham are the way that I'm portraying how I used to be, I realilse that what I'm effectively saying is that I used to be a complete loner who didn't speak, good or ill of people, and who did't care for how people perceived me to be at all and I also realise I'm saying I wish I was more like that now, so I guess I appear quite a sad individual right now, but over the years as I have began to understand people, life and "who I am" more and more, I have become a lot more open to people and even have started enjoying it in doses.
Obviously that rant is not really the reason why I posted this blog, it was just a few thoughts in my mind that I didn't write out or explain them as clearly as they are in my mind, but I guess I just wanted to write about the importance of modesty, good manners, patience and various other virtues that I believe I have lost to some degree over the last 4 or 5 years. With all that said, the actual reason I posted this blog was because I finally got around to making the video that I've been talking about making for a few weeks, so alas, here it is...
It's the first full video I've ever done with commentary so my thoughts are not as concise as I'd like them to be, there's a bit of umming and erring and misused termonology as I'm attempting to concentrate on one table while talking about something, but I think it turned out OK all things considering.
Here are the stats from the session for those who care:
It's really hard to talk effectively about ranges and stuff while playing since you don't have much time. For instance in the last hand of the video I basically just said his value raising range on the flop is 2 pair, set or combo draw, but there are probably few 2 pairs and few draw combo draws in his range since he probably doesn't call with A8s, A9s, 75s and a few other hands that make combo draws like many 8xs hands also I completed excluced pure bluffs in his range, and you can never completely exclude that. The fact of the matter is, on the flop there's very few hands in his range for value, cause it's essentially 98s 88 99 JcTc QcJc 7c6c 8c7c, I dunno how many bluffs there are in there so constructing a range when typing is 10x easier than in video. I just wanted to explain more thoroughly that I was never considering folding, was just trying to talk about his range and why c/r is worse than c/c and I think c/c is the best play because it's impossible for him to call me with worse unless he rivered a straight, but he'll vbet that himself anyway, and i get the chance to induce bluffs by c/c whereas I don't by betting.
If you have any comments or whatever just leave them here or in the Personal Poker Videos thread and I'll take a look and try to respond eventually.
me and my bruz, he just broke up with hs gf, we're chillin out by the pool drink some brewskize, load up some pokerstars, figure ill cheer him up by playing some NL400 with my 1.2k roll, we saw casinocasino sitting and had to play him =D.
Submitted by : Ftrunkz
PokerStars Game #24674329284: Holdem No Limit ($2/$4) - 2009/02/06 23:09:49 ET
Table Pleione V 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: Hero ($391.50 in chips)
Seat 2: casinocasino ($407 in chips)
casinocasino: posts small blind $2
Hero said, "im scaaaared monehs"
Hero: posts big blind $4
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
casinocasino: raises $8 to $12
Hero said, "and your keep on foldy mc folding"
Hero said, "and im like what"
Hero said, "what"
Hero said, "whats he doing"
Hero said, "whats he doing@?!?"
Hero: calls $8
Hero: bets $321.50 and is all-in
casinocasino: calls $321.50
River (Pot : $783.00)
Showdown Hero: shows (three of a kind, Fours)
casinocasino: mucks hand
Hero collected $782.50 from pot
Hero is sitting out
Summary Total pot $783 | Rake $0.50
Board
Seat 1: Hero (big blind) showed and won ($782.50) with three of a kind, Fours
Seat 2: casinocasino (button) (small blind) mucked
Ofcourse only the first sessions of this month were good, I knew I would lose everything eventually again. Today I got my rakeback from January, it was 195$. So my bankroll was instaboosted to about 400, but that doesnt matter since I already managed to blow off 4 buyins again, and now i am back on 300. FUCK this I think im going to move to PS soon, i am fucking CURSED on FTP.
I feel like I've played some pretty awesome poker so far this month but I'm just about break even so far... what's killing me is that I'm now -10 BI on the month in EV. Well, that's not exactly right since I've played NL50 - NL200 so 1k isn't exactly 10 BI, but pretty much.
Mostly ran bad @ NL200 on super bowl sunday, and then keep running bad everytime I do NL100 HU. Doing well @ NL50 HU though and NL100 6max has been ok, though still down in EV there too. I keep having sessions of 6max where I am about to have a monster win and then I get coolered/sucked out on left and right and come out with a 1 buyin win. Let me run even for a bit and god it will be profitable!
played about 2k hands so far today and gonna break for a bit till things start to get juicier. Think I'll do some donkaments as well mix it up btwn HU and 6max for the rest of the night. Hopefully the bad luck will go away and I'll heater it up. I've been hoping for a heater forever now, lolz. I wonder if it will ever come!
+11 bi today ($550) is more than I've made in any session at NL25 so far, I feel good and am going to take some time off, probably the rest of the night.
Had a lot of opportune bluffing spots today, and alot of light 3betters that i got to continously take advantage of, which was very nice
can't expect this winrate in the long run at nl50 obviously, but its nice to run hot and have my hands hold
I expect to be putting in a mass amount of hours, and attempting to get SN as soon as possible
btw, I have 15k fpp's now, should I just save them or use them for a sunday million ticket?
edit - (im going to save them all up and do concierge service or $1500 bonuses)
I'll wait til I am rolled for NL200 to start the sunday million.
on a side note, its awesome playing with so many fellow lp players, really makes the game more fun while playing and encourages me to play at my highest level. Especially you asdf2000 and uptown, gl to both of you, and stay out of my way :-)
Officially a big downswingby Night2o1, February 06
I don't know, I feel like I have lost my sanity atm. I am going to try not to play anymore today and just occupy my time otherwise.
I feel horrendous ugh.. can I really beat nl50? I dunno, I hope so. I need to take a day of nonpokering to center myself.
Also I got summoned for jury duty, reporting feb 25th. I have tickets and everything to goto vegas for spring break (like ~8th to the 15th).. What the fuck do I do?
I know I'm running bad, but I also know that my play is suffering big time because my red line clearly shows that I've starting making really bad decisions due to a loss of confidence postflop.
My roll is at $1400 flat after I withdrew $730 which I'll be using to buy a laptop (to play more poker and lose my money quicker I guess?).
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(two pair, Queens and Tens)
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(a full house, Fives full of Nines)
), EscapingR, Sicks Macks, and fenner for sympathy while I ran like gorilla semen. 
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