Ive reached 4k br and took a shot NL200 and i hit superheater
but i secretely hope that im crushing it cos most people seem to be waaaaaay
overaggressive and just throw money your way whenever possible.
Im only playing two tables and pay attention to the action that is going on.
I also table select which i think boosts my winrate very significantly.
It is easy to table select when u have only two tables running.
What ive noticed though is that all the high VPIP tables have waiting lists of like
3 to even 10 people which is veeeeery ridiculous so i just open any table and see
if there is a fish playing, if not then i leave it and open other one instead
of putting myself on a waiting list which is too long and its usually fish that
leaves, with only regs left playing.
Ive also never broken 1k in a month before but this month ive jumped
straight to just over 2k month!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I hope i can keep this up next month and throughout next year. Id like to move
up to play at least NL400 where i can have substantial earnings thru poker.
ANYWAY WOOOHOOOOO MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR
Firstly i'll get December out of the way, after tilt withdrawing my bankroll I aimed to get from $50 to $2000 to play NL100 by the end of the month, didn't quite make it as I didn't put in enough hands, especially around the start of the month. Still I enjoyed beating the micro levels again, you forget just how bad the players are. Finished up at $1,400, a few hundred from tournies and the rest from cash.
My end of 2008 blog post.by Into Infinity, December 31
accidently deleted the first half of the post, whatever, basically said i went on a 300 dollar downswing at nl25, got a coach, won a bunch, hit 1k, played persona 4, got lazy at poker, regrind nl10 for like 10BB/100, the end
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF U GUYS <3<3 IM DRUNK AS FUCK NOW AND ITS 11.22PM
GOING TO TAKE A SHOWER
GET DRUNK
GET HIGH
DONT PAY FOR SEX...AT LEAST TONIGHT
<3<3 ALL
my latest attempt at nl25 yet again kicked my ass (-200).
so, i'm back to nl10 grinding back up, and this time I think I'm going to try to go way beyond 600 before attempting nl25 again. I seem to do ok at nl50 when i tried 1 tabling for fun for a bit, but that's not really indicative of anything, so I think i'm going to be a nl10 grinder for the next week or so until i hit like 1000 or something crazy so i can work on my nl25-nl50 game...
FAIL but it's okay because I came out +$200 ish from rakeback and bonuses
Had like $1 left on stars because I cashed out exactly $200
Didn't redeposit my $400 from Full Tilt because I was getting tired of poker, but my friend started playing so I hero grinded my way back up to $200 via NL2, NL5 and $3-$5 SNGs in like a week LOL. Run good in micro-micros.
Deposited $200 because of the PokerStars 2x promotion deposit bonus. Had about $500 now.
FAIL. That wasn't all at once; it's the entire time I played NL25 without the ability to beat it. I played SNGs in between as well to get my roll back up but I did end up dropping my roll to $150 at one point- FAIL.
Regrinded my roll to ~$450 playing SNGs. Ran good.
Donked around a bit again at NL25 and was slowly losing money, but around early November I was like "HAI LOWSTAKES FORUMS *flood threads*" and also analyzed every big pot I would lose.
Fixed three huge leaks:
1. Peeling the flop to a cbet all the time because I figured they always had missed overcards, then fold or c/f to turn bet.
2. Stacking off TPTK or any overpair against anybody vs any action (adjust from NL2-NL5 LOL)
3. Weak value betting with nuts (e.g. halfpot or even less sometimes)
Slow rolled while slow rollingby EXCELED, December 31
I played for quite a bit today and managed to make a nice 60BB win. Slow and steady goes the grind lol. At the rate Im going I should hopefully be playing .5/1 LHE by the middle of January or so, maybe a bit soon if I can clear my bonus. Looks like Im not going to make Goldstar Oh well.
Here is the worst beat Ive had in a while lol:
Submitted by : EXCELED
***** Hand History for Game 23439716239 *****
$0.25/$0.50 Limit Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, December 31, 03:14:11 ET 2008
Table Titan Real Money
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: Hero $13.75 USD
Seat 2: Daroz $11.75 USD
Seat 3: Vincentamc $3.85 USD
Seat 4: ADXzz $191.40 USD
Seat 5: pitbullslady $12.80 USD
Seat 6: clue375 $20.45 USD
Hero posts small blind [$0.10 USD].
Daroz posts big blind [$0.25 USD].
Hero bets [$0.50 USD]
ADXzz raises [$1.00 USD]
Hero raises [$1.00 USD]
ADXzz raises [$1.00 USD]
Hero calls [$0.50 USD]
ADXzz shows
ADXzz wins $6.70 USD from main pot
Hero doesn't show
Thats what I get for trying to slow roll. Guess I was behind the whole time.
Tonight is going to be a total shit show. My buddies are throwing a huge kegger at there place. So many people are going its going to be nuts. Im pretty pumped. It will be nice to see people I havent seen in a long time. Anyways hopefully I have some stories for you guys in my next blog lol.
Yesterday i played my second session of NL10 after making the decision to move down and start over at the 6 max micro stakes. I think i played ok but there are some spots where i would like to get some feedback on.
I am a little bit puzzled on this hand i would really like to get some feedback how i played this, here are my thoughts:
- Standard opening raise with a pretty strong hand
- No info on the opponent, he just joined the table
- Foldig preflop after his re-raise felt to weak so i called
- I hit a dream flop for my hand
- He bet really weak so i raised
- He re-raised me and i thought i had that many outs and i should get it on
- He obviousley had top 2 and i did not hit the flush
I think i played this hand ok, but i think i could have gotten more value if i got it in on the turn. I think he put me on a draw and check folded the river because of that reason. Does anyone c-bet this flop?
I think this is pretty closed between raising and calling flop, however because of the fact that the flop was pretty dry, i elected to call and he paid me off with two pair. Ok play?
I hate myself for not betting the flop, i thought it was rainbow but i noticed i was wrong on the turn, i dont think he raises me on the river with hands i beat so i folded. bad fold?
I think it should be possible to sustain this winrate at these stakes, i really felt if i played some hands diffirent i would have been way over 10bb/100. But well, we will see in some time...
I am going to my girlfriend to celebrate the New Year with some friends and we will go out after. Probably my next update will be this coming friday, thats when i can play a lot of hands i think.
So I guess this is the day to write a long and boring wrap up on 2008. My year didn't go anywhere near planned and I am really hoping I can change that next year and hopefully be better at reaching my goals. I only just set myself some goals after September this year because before all that I had a lot of personal life drama that affected me in my entire life including poker but also my study and everything else. Even after the summer break I had a solid amount of crap remaining constantly screwing up my plans. It's getting better now and therefore, I'd do better at reaching my goals in 2009, still getting my life in order though.
My 2008 goals (after September that is) was to play 100k hands until the end of the year and realize a roll to start taking 100NL shots with. I played like 45-55k hands since September and ran bad/played bad a lot overall so I also definitly need to improve and try not to force things too much. I really notice that I have that urge to win too much and let it affect my play, if I just keep on putting in hands things will be alright and I shouldn't try to force a winning streak because it won't work. Bad runs will happen and you just need to grind it out instead of whining and making bad plays to try and catch a luckshot and win some back because in the long run that will only make things worse.
Apart from poker I had the goal to finish my 1st year in college so I can continue my studies there and I didn't even made that although in October it became clear that I will go to another college after the next summer break because my current college sucks balls and I don't like it there. On top of that the education sucks and I barely learn anything new so I am going to move to a both nicer city as enrolling myself in a college with a better quality of education. For the Dutch people, I am currently studying at Fontys (Eindhoven) and it's literally filled with retards so I am leaving the damn place and will be going to study at the University of Tilburg and I will also most probably making a slight change in the major I'll take. I am currently studying business economics and will probably switch to econometrics. Not sure about that yet though but still have a couple of months to totally figure that out.
The new beginning called 2009:
I overall think it's kind of cliché to see the start of a new calender year as a time to change things drastically in your life, I mean, you might as well do it on March 23 or 17 May or 9 October during the calender year, it's the same thing. Still, even though I find it cliché I want to take up the start of this new year to change things around, set myself new goals and partially start over with things.
As far as poker goes, I started playing since October 2007 or so but only just taking it more seriously this summerbreak (let's say around beginning of August this year) and I decided I want to take it even more serious than I already do. I think this is the time to do so, I love the complexity of this game and the overall strategy involved in the game. I love that if you pay attention, be logical and stay disciplined you can out-think other people and make the correct decision a lot more than people think overall. A lot of this game isn't explored and done yet and if you are smart and put the time and effort into it, I think you can still make a lot of things happen. On top of that it would obviously be nice to make some money doing something you like. I am quite hesitant to set myself any monetary goals (although ''DJForever'' told me I could easily do so) as I don't want to fall back into my habit of trying to force things too much and just set myself a goal of an amount of hands I want to play this year and I keep in the back of my mind that (if the sample size is large enough) results will come in time if you keep on playing good.
I've been given the time to set my life straight again with all the personal crap I had to deal with lately and me changing college September 2009 really helps me with that since I won't have much responsebilities until then and that obviously brings a solid amount of time to dedicate to poker along with it.
As far as poker goes I got the following goal actually:
- Play 250k hands before the end of the year, this might not sound like a whole lot but I only play 4 tables upto now because I always aim at learning new things (as for now at least) instead of improving my hourly rate since I am only just still grinding between the 10NL and 50NL range and I think improving should be your number 1 goal for a long time.
Apart from my poker goal I obviously have some real life goals as well and since I don't mind posting them too much I will post them as well, just for myself mostly:
- Setting my life straight and have a solid base to build on again in a couple of months into this year. It's obviously really hard to set a deadline to resolving complex personal issues but I will do so anyway to give myself some guidelines. I will have resolved the drama in my life before April the 1st this year.
- Start of good on the new college and basically passing all my courses during the first two semesters.
- I also want to get in a better physical condition. I am nowhere near fat or anything, I am 1.88m tall and weigh around 79-81 kilo (LOL, metric system). Still I want to get into a better shape and I will probably go and compete in a walking competition (called ''De Nijmeegse Vierdaagse'') along with my mom (LOL, momma's boy) and in order to do that I obviously have to train and hopefully and get into a somewhat better shape.
Well, that's about it for my new year resolutions. If I find out I forgot something I will edit it in or make a follow up blogpost for whatever reason.
Anyways, tl;dr and a happy newyear from me to all of you LP !!!
I received my check from stars today so i can deposit into FTP to get bonus and rake, then this happened: WTF? Am i the only one who has to go through this or is this standard?
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So I've made like 5k€ playing omaha and lost most of it back playing holdem yesterday. Played good hold'em, ran bad. Played what I suspect to be horrid omaha and ran like god.
- Hit 20k
- No more NL400 shots; focus on beating nl200 6max
- Only play when motivated / not tired
- Watching more 6max vids and trying to implement more postflop agression in my game
- Play at least 35k hands
I played 33k hands, but also played some hands that I didn't import with HEM, so thats about right. I took no NL400 shots, and did beat NL200 6max (only a really small margin). I did have the feeling I wasn't running that good. I think this month I only spewed like 2-3 buyins because of tilt, so that's an improvement as well. I didn't watch alot of vids and stuff, and will probably be more inclined to do so next month. That's because next month it's NL400 time.
Below is the graph from this month and below that all my iPoker hands (= almost 3 months). I only played 1 month on FTP before that, so that's about my year. Before September I was really just messing around on not grinding much.
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