Been playing on Bovada's "Zone Poker" tables, which is their equivalent to rush/zoom poker. Of course being bovada means all the players are anonymous too, so there's zero reads/tells other than stack size and preflop activity. Not even a HUD can be used for tracking. That being said, I've had some success half-stacking these games. 50BB is the minbuy, and it seems to me like there's not much point playing fullstacked or deepstacked because you have no idea who your opponents are and what they payoff with. By avoiding fullstack play you deny them the odds/opportunity to effectively draw against you, and can more comfortably stack off with top pair since you have no idea who you're up against and how they play postflop. Any time I double up I just reload the table to buy back in for 50BB's.
My understanding of deepstack poker and even draws for that matter is entirely predicated on if your opponent pays off when you hit. With no reads I just dont see how you can draw effectively because you never know if you're getting paid off anyway. But the risk of getting oversetted or AA/KK and stuff seems much worse 300BB's deep against random players who cover.
If every hand is essentially in a vacuum, does it make sense to buy in for less to limit your exposure to big losses?
There is a casino near my town that opens 1 or 2 poker tables (mostly only one) at around 9 pm but sadly I can't get there in time because i'm busy so the table always happens to be full when I'm there.
But there's a blackj's table near it : 4 decks, stand on 17, double allowed, 3 to 2 odds when you hit a Blackj, there is no surrender and finally you cannot double on splitting aces, only one card hit after that. It's european's style so there is no peek.
Considering all of this, and that I learned the wizz.rd of odds' chart, what are my odds to win/lose against the house while I wait for a poker's seat, if you happen to know it ?
I don't plan to play BJ's professionally, I just want to kill time. But if I can win then so be it (I really doubt it though).
Edit : btw there's also another casino that gives 2 to 1 odds, but there is one open poker's table only on a specific day. Still not bad I guess ? But I fear i'll get banned in no time if I get to play there using that chart ?
how people can make such a buggy software
every fucking week there's a new bug in that shit and the bug keep coming, I wish I could beat the shit out of the programmer who made that piece of crap
I posted in their forum last week and the guy gave me 98 possibilities to solve my problem, so I have take 3 fucking days trying EVERY single step he gave me and become a computer genius to solve what they couldnt do right , and If I follow all their two thousand and twenty one steps and my holdem manager still dont work, I can contact them again so they can give me more eighty three new steps to try to play a goddam game
Another one bites the dust.. long busto post.by JohnnyBologna, November 05
I've been around poker for a while now. probably over couple million hands played. supernova on stars every month back then when it was still around. money wise, ive probably lost this much when i took shots at 5/10, 10/20 once or twice only back then for -15k. However, I played like a complete aggro spewtard and lost all of it in a day swearing i would never do that again. Fast forward to today, ive been losing for 2-3 months now feeling all shooken up to that point where you question yourself about your game.
It all started early in the year. I was doing quite pleasingly well despite being out the game since black friday(April, 2011 for those unfamiliar). i deposited 1k on bovada and grinded up to 20k or so using my 1 check cashout limit for 3k each month. I remember saying this is pretty cool. "im gona play and get a paycheck at the beginning of each month like a normal job" Then it all started.
So here I am winning, feeling all confident about my skills and whatnot, take a shot at 5/10. Thinking "It's probably the same game just more money to be won." I enter two table cautiously, maybe a little too cautiously that i already feel like im playing scared money fml. But i dont want to go crazy like before and instantly drop a few buyins.
I still remember the hand that started it. I get JJ in the small blind "okay not so bad." utg+1 limps hi-jack isolates him for a pretty big raise like 60-65. Of course everyone is anonymous and i dont know what the hell is going on and just smooth call like the girl i am cuz i dont want to raise and get it in. Long story short I lose like half my stalk if not more to A-7 offsuit. not too long later i get stacked by some running straight of the sort and am stuck two buyins.
Okay, these guys are too good for me time to go back to my 2/4. grind all night and lose 3k there. log off and mope around for a week feeling depressed now (yay for poker). Dust off my shoulders and say im okay lets go again. play another 10+ hour session down another 2k. rinse and repeat till im down to like my last 1600 bucks. Time to swallow my pride move down $1/$2
Days go by and im ready again. Nope, i cannot win this tug-o-war and i see myself slipping nearer as i lose 1100 at $1/$2 today. O-joy i got 500 bucks left and fire up nl .5/$1 and lose about 100 dollars there after another long session. Maybe you only remember certain things you want to remember when you lose, but all i can remember is 3-bet pot, flop set, guy check folds. i got K-J on a J-x-x bored and crying call river and losing of course. I raise, get re-raised i fold etc etc.
Replaying all the hands that went to showdown in my head, the money won@showdown was not just not there. And unless you can play like isildur, what can ya really do?
So here I am now. 390 bucks left on this account probably soon to be busto. Don't plan on depositing again if it does bust. Hopefully I get my ftp money back soon and stars can come back so I can play on there again. Anyways, just another sad story here. Pre-black friday poker was so good and profitable for me. Quit for 2 years to play a little live, haven't quit got the hang of that yet either lol, come back to these anonymous 4 tables max and run like this.
CLIFFS :
-Won maybe 1 or 2 sessions in last 3 months
-Run bad (So I say)
-Busto?
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Simulator for draw gamesby Forrest Gump, November 02
Hi, I want to do a draw poker simulator that covers triple draw and Badugi. With equity calculator for all in situations in tournaments and EV calculator for fixed limit with customized pre determined plays for each street. What do you recomend me to study before I start (programming software)? I dont know anything reelevant about programming.
I am a long time reader of lp.net but haven't been writing too much. I am more active on lp sister site tlpoker.pl where I've got 1k posts. link
I'm just a microstakes grinder who hasn't been doing too well lately. I have received hearthstone beta key and because a lot of lp ppl come from starcraft or other blizz games, I though someone might be interested in getting the key. I'm selling it because I've already have one and I'm able to play that awesome game.
If someone with 500+ posts is interested, I can send you the key first for 40$ to my skrill/pokerstars acc.
I hope this doesn't violates some rules of lp.net. Please don't ban me. I love to read this site.
Bought a new computer (had a shitty one before) and now i can actually have some nice graphics in games
Just a screenshot i took few minutes ago playing skyrim maxed out with a few mods
1680x1050 (still have old monitor) SSAA 16xAF everything max
Oficial HD texture pack
Tree texture pack mods
Water highres mods
Cinematic lighting ENB
Realistic Lightnig overhaul
OFC i am aware u can make skyrim even prettier by using more mods.
Still it struck me that after a long stagnation in Computer games graphics from early 2007 on finally in last year computer games graphics have improved a lot.
Also still pretty mindblowing to how games graphics have improved since the time we started playing.
I guess I'm too successfulby MARSHALL28, October 31
I have too much time on my hands lately. So I feel like I should get back into coaching. And I'm going to make it more affordable. I'm going to drop my rate to $200/hr so hopefully I'll be able to reach some of the guys playing 2/4 as their highest game. Also I'll do packages of maximum 5hrs for $900. I can't commit to spending anymore than 5 hours with anyone though. I doubt it'd take me more than that to teach anyone smart enough to hire me the things I know that they don't know anyways.
The strongest aspect of my game is my default game. This is why I'm so successful at anonymous tables. I have an edge over most because my game isn't built around making adjustments to others. The reason I have so much success has to do with the strength of my fundamentals built upon my default game combined with my extremely disciplined and regimented attitude with regards to my approach to the mental aspects of poker. I.E. playing when in a strong mindstate, undisturbed by any outside influence and with the intent to focus on getting each individual decision right every time. In a different manner of saying, I've become increasingly more efficient as a poker player.
I used to struggle on the mental game aspects of poker. It took me a long time, but now almost getting into my 8th year as a pro and with more than 5 million hands of experience I feel like I'm getting close to mastering them. I rarely at all, if ever, tilt anymore. I used to think it was BS if somebody would say they never tilt because there are so many different kinds of tilt and I had thought it was impossible to recognize them all whenever one of them started to creep up. The true cure to eliminating tilt though is twofold. One, you have to be extremely self critical. The things that constantly go through my mind are: 1. Was this last decision I made the right one?/Could I be employing a stronger base strategy? 2. Was there anything affecting my decision outside of trying to make the best play? The thing I've seen it come to as far as being able to eliminate tilt, you have to combine this mindset with being the best quitter. This is something I believe I'd have good advice to help anyone improve at. I know the words that you need to hear in order to get yourself to finally do what you know is best for your game because I'm one of the most stubborn people I've ever met and it's taken me so long to finally convince myself.
This doesn't mean I don't think I wouldn't have good exploitative strategies and advice to give to people who play non anonymous games as their main games. I still flourish in those at stakes below 25/50NL. It's just a different approach is necessary to have success there.
If you'd like to apply send an e-mail to marshall28coaching@hotmail.com
Just tell me what stakes you play, what areas you are looking to improve in, when you'd like to start, and provide your skype contact information.
Spen the last 2 weeks just chillin and working on not needing my medication
the first week or so was pretty terrible, the next week i was startng to feel i can grind without it - although it would be tough day to day, i finally decided to try today without meds OTG, did 25 mtt registrations - had some good results - but brokeeven with some higher stkaes stuff that died pre bubblez
things went ok - about a breakeven session so far after 2nd $27 KO for 800ish prior to taking my meds (got em today)
in just 2 mtts left right now and gotta bounce for 15 mins lol, when i get back im gonna load up another session
im thinking of doing a teamviewer session for ALL LP's MTT'ers - think this can pay it forward for what all LP has done for me
ALL LP Mtters thta wanna learn from what ive learned from years on the lp, pm me and we can make a lil group, its always fun to coach and mesh minds - dont realyl care how good u r tbh as long as u understand tournaments
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