Hey, I got memebership for 3 sites atm. I'm usually watching a vod here and there, but thinking it might be smarter to find one player, then watch all of his. Or is that stupid, if so, why?
I really should watch more video's, since I'm at 25nl / 50nl stakes, to up my game further.
I did love Phil Galfond's movies, but sad to say, it's way over my head, even if I get all the stuff he's doing, it won't work on micro limits either I feel.
The only one I'm watching at bluefirepoker is Niman, because he has a bit lower stakes, still pretty deep shit I feel.
I got membership at Blurefirepoker, deuces and leggo.
Could you guys list your favourite teacher, and maybe what would suit me best. I'm in the stakes I said, but beating it slowly but surely. (2,9BB/100 or something)
And on deuces, sooo many series, which ones should I dl. I've seen both seasons of the coaching tree and real life micro grinder.
- Mix up ur starting range depending on the table, if a lot of loose/passive guys, make it tighter. If a lot of tight people, open up more hands.
- Bluffing less often (including semi bluffs), and value bet thinly with 1 pair hands, in loose games.
- In tighter games, exploit oponents tendency to fold more, semi bluff more as we find more fold quity.
* Loose players will search for an excuse to call, whereas a tight player will look for an excuse
to fold.
Table Selection
- Look for players that play to many hands, anything over 40% is great, 30% is fine too.
- Stacksizes: Full stacks to your right, short stacks and nits to your left.
- Losing/Break even Regulars: Feel free to join tables with them, develop strong reads. Don't play more than 4-5 tables. Avoid winning players.
- As a general guideline, better to play with a bunch of passive/weak/tight players than one super fish with 80% vip and 4 other regulars.
“Poker is simple, as your opponents make mistakes, you profit.”
- Against Loose/Bad players, generally you wnt to play straight forward solid poker
- Against Tight/Good players you want to mix up and play a more deceptive style. Do not make the mistake that every 20/17 multi tabling tag is tight AND good.
* Against these types of players you want to lean toward looser pre flop, and solid/tight postflop
* Let them make mistake, forcing them is not necessary.
Preflop
UtgUnder The gun (Utg)
- Your Utg range should be the tightest of the four non-blind positions.
- General starting range on a table of some fish and some regulars:
* 22+ (all pairs)
* ATs+ (meaning ATs, AJs, AQs, AKs) (s meaning suited)
* AJo+ (meaning AJo, AQo, AKo) (o meaning offsuit)
* 98s+ (meaning 98s, T9s, JTs, QJs, etc)
* KQo
* KQs
* KJs+ (KJs and Aqs [which was already covered]) (meaning suited 1 gappers)
- This will account for 13% of hands and is a conservative but very solid and profitable preflop
raising range.
Adjusting
Loose games
- Add hands like KJo or ATo, because you can make 1 pair type hands and extract value from
players calling with weaker top pair hands or second pair hands.
Tight games
- Include hands such as 65s+ or A5s. These hands widen your range against likely better players and make you a more difficult and tricky opponent.
Stack Sizes
- Against short stacks, avoid 22-55 89s type hands, replace with Kjo, Qjo, A9s etc. Because these players simply looking for top pair and pushing all in
Middle Position (MP)
- Very similar to UTG, but you can incorporate a few more hands
This accounts for about 15% of total hands. Just like UTG this range can be manipulated
based on the game quality.
Adjusting
Loose games:
- You generally want to avoid things like A9o, as its potential is very small. Just like UTG you
can still profitably raise 98s and T9s, just do it less frequently.
Tight Games:
- These games you can open up more from this position, include;
* 65s+
* A8s, A5s
* QTs
Isolating
- Have to be careful to isolate from this position. Even the fish are at their tighest range when limping utg
- Look at the table, if 2 aggro people behind you, err on the side of folding, to avoid marginal spot.
- If there are fishes in the blinds, and you don't get 3bet, played back at a lot behind you, go for it
3 betting:
- In general you should be 3betting far more in position that OOP.
- The only person you can 3bet in MP is UTG. You need to be very cautious when 3betting an
UTG opener, because this is where their raising range is likely the tightest.
The situational are very marginal, and player dependant, and you should be more inclined to do it in position.
Light 3 bets
* 56s-QJs
* Axs (x should = 5 most often, as you will be able to flop gutshot+FD+over type
hands,but 4-T are all fine as well)
* 22-77
* KQo
* Ajo
- It will generally be more profitable to call with small pocket pairs, but once in a while they make good light 3 bet candidates
- You generally want to 3bet an UTG opener with 56-T9s or Axs because with the SC's
you will generally avoid second best hands and have tremendous flop potential.
* The Axs
hands will block combinations of AA and AK (which will help avoid him 4betting you)
* Avoid all other hands as they will form second best hands
often and get you in marginal spots.
- We want to 3bet with a 80/20 ratio, 80% for value, and 20% for bluffs.
Stack Sizes
- Just like UTG adjust your raising ranges depending on stack sizes, avoid hands like 22-66 and 98s, and instead substitute in
hands like KJo, QJo, A9s, ATo
Example: How many combinations of 22 and 55 on an A25 flop?
Solution: 3x2/2 + 3x2/2 = 6
Common Low/Mid - Stakes Leaks
- Most obvious reasons why low to mid-stakes players are worse than high stakes players is that they can't read hands well.
* Less aggressive and don't fight as much for pots.
- As you become better you'll realize no one ever has anything and you should battle for more pots.
Limped pots
- Rarely do players in early position lead out.
* They check and when late position player bets, they fold and move on to other tables.
- 90% of low-stakes players do not fight for limped pots. They check-fold if they don't hit anything.
- Limped pots are the easiest in the world. No one fights for them, no one cares.
- Steal any pot which isn't coordinated or draw heavy. If you get a call and a high card falls on the turn, fire again. (People usually never limp with J,K,Q,A's
Image
- Players don't use image enough
* Especially nits
* Nits should semi bluff more often
* Also two and three barrel more (Since nits never bluff in big pots, when they do, it's hard to call them down.)
* Nits should also fold TT and JJ more often when facing aggression. (When you're a nit, everyone knows you're a nit.)
- Generally, the majority of players should treat JJ like 99 and give both same value.
* Most of the times when we get either of these hands in on the flop, we are either against sets, overpair or a draw that has atleast 40% equity.
Pot Patrole
- Next time you're in a hand and want to check back the turn with top pair, medium kicker or an overpair, BET!
- Good players peel a lot of flops, because they want to steal on later streets. But almost always they have 5-9 outs, therfor you should bet.
- Betting the turn also makes you a tougher player.
- A common thing among low to mid-stakes players is checking behind on the turn after betting the flop on an open ender or flush, because they want to see a free card.
* Like saying "I want to lose 38 out of 47 times"
- When you check behind on the turn after betting a draw heavy flop. Villain will know your range is weak, and can play well vs you.
* With a draw himslf, bet the river to move you off your hand.
* If he has a good pair, check call your bet.
- High stakes players like to bet enough on the turn so that they'll have the correct odds to call if they get check-raised all in.
* In addition, by betting, leaving small amount behind, it shows you're committed and discourages your opponent from making a play at you.
* If he does shove all in (doesn't happen often). You can call and hit your outs and tilt him.
Balancing
- The idea behind balancing is to make yourself a tougher player so people can't accurately put you on a hand.
- No point balancing when people choose to ignore it.
- In short, up to 3/6 against almost everyone, just play.
* Bet when you tihnk an opponent's range is weak (strong) and check (or fold) when you think it is strong.
- Start balancing 5/10 and higher.
Playing Out Of Position
- Poker is a game where you make money by avoiding difficult spots with marginal hands.
- Nevertheless, people still like to play hands out of position.
- The reason it sucks is because we don't have a lot of choices:
* It's hard to manage the size of the pot
* Infinitely more difficult to run a three-barrel bluff oop than in position because villain could be flatting with the nuts 3 streets.
*Harder to extract value
*Can't choose to see a free showdown on the river and we win fewer pots.
- Simple advice: Fold!!
Showdown Value
- On a T28r board we should be more inclined to showdown with AK than A5 because AK dominates more hands if it improves.
* It also has twice as many outs against top pair.
- We should bet A5 because this causes A6+ type hands to fold and we rarely improve.
Leveling
- Players try to out level themselves too much
* If he's a nit, he's got the nuts, 2nd nuts or in rare cases 3rd nuts.
Backdoor Draws
- Players don't value backdoor draws enough
* Often we'd rather have a backdoor flush draw by the turn than a one pair hand.
* The main reason is the equity we have against villain's calling range on the turn.
* Can continue putting pressure if we miss river.
* Also balances your overall game. Players will think you are a crazy aggro maniac when you are just playing your equity.
Equity Equity
- Example: 55 on a 9TT board, your equity is horrible
* KJ on a 9TT our equity is decent, and rarely drawing dead.
- We often see players C-Betting 569 with AT or KJ. You do have overcards, but will need to fire 3 barrels because whatever handscall the flop aren't going to fold the turn very often.
Not All Fishes Are Alike
- Against the overly aggressive fish, you can start to call more with marginal hands or wait for the nuts
- The loose passive are bad at extracting value and genrally play passive.
* When this type of fish bets, fold.
* Since they call a lot, make thin value bets.
* Don't bluff them.
- Against those who never fold preflop, figure out what amount they are willing to put in with rags. (5x,6x,7x,8x etc.) until they fold
* And raise the highest you can with your premium hands
- Be more inclined to bluff the passive fish who are willing to fold when scarecards appear
* Increase your river bluffing freq. vs them.
- Against fish who like to show bluffs, and is doing it again, he will do it over and over. (Don't out level yourself thinking "he showed a few bluffs a few hands ago, to get payed off on this on). They don't think like that.
Weee, man I'm up early again, it's 07.00 here on x-mas morning.
I feel really good, yesterday my sessions were so good, not been that good in a long time.
First I had one 1hou30 min one, ended up 2bi, then later in the evening I had one with 7bi up. So 9bi yesterday, felt really great, even though it was just on 20nl xD
I'm just gonna stay with my siblings and dad for the x mas, and in the evening go visit my mom, eat some rib and spend the time with my family, maybe I'll get a session in when nobody's looking. I'm also thinking bout going to the gym now, since everyone is sleeping :x
Man, I'm so happy about one of the presents, I don't have to much money, and one of my mates, Tiltyboy/Dokosoko has everything and nothing I'd buy him would seem enough, so I made him something instead. I collected all the best high stuff material and made a huge book, finer details of combonotorics or how you spell it (I don't understand that shit lol) polarization, best chapters from the Cole South book, best stuff from that Tri guy, the most famous Obama quotes, and it ended up 83 pages, and I got one of those perms, and made hole, and put it in this thingy to be read, and I spent 1 hour drawing on the cover to write Poker kinda cool. Maybe a bit corny, but atleast it's a present lol xD
I'm gonna go do something now <3 Have a blast ya'll
- There’s no comfort in the growth zone and there’s no growth in the comfort zone.
- When you get comfortable, you get stale. And when you get stale… Someone else who “gets it” passes you by and leaves you in the dust.
- It can be uncomfortable to grow.
GOOD!
The tingle means it’s working : ) That feeling of being uncomfortable means that you are growing.
- I believe hand reading is a function of your mental / emotional state at the time more than anything else.
(Ever noticed that some days you can put people on hands right and left, other days you´re just fumbling in the dark? They haven´t changed, you haven´t changed, your skills have not diminished. But you are probably not in that same emotional state you were in when playing the first game.)
- The reason you struggle with the more subtle technical aspects is that they usually require a good and clean state of mind whilst playing and analyzing.
- If you are on constant subtle tilt you will never understand your own image, your opponents projected image vs the way they actually play, what your history with a specific opponent really means and CORRECT adjustments (as opposed to a couple of 3 bets and now you´re waiting to shove any 2)
- what all this basically boils down to; hand reading and putting your opponent on accurate ranges, and knowing what to do with those ranges. These qualities will separate a 2 ptbb winner, from a 5 ptbb winner.
- Good idea to review yesterday's hands at the start of a new day, as prep game, and at higher stakes, take notes on specific regulars when not playing to prep.
- Check list on every hand someone calls or raises you, ask yourself his range of hands.
- Common mistake to be "on the ball" first 5 minuts, and then go into Droid mode for the rest of the session.
- Just start out by doing this every time you have any preflop decisions. Then extend to the flop. Then extend to asking yourself about your perceived range (2nd level).
- The absolute most important thing when faced with a big decision, is to first breathe and relax for a couple of seconds.
- The greatest lesson that can be applied to your poker game is the buddhist lesson of being mindful and aware of one´s thoughts and actions at all times.
(Hmm, I should find out more about meditating)
- Optional (Before every session, make a short little goal for that session). To play very tight first 15 minuts, don't spew or go overboard.
Been thinking about this quite a bit, since I'm not that good of a player, and I'm playing microstakes, I must have hell of a lot of leaks. And I've been thinking of ways to identify and spot those leaks.
I do post a lot of hands, but I never really feel I find any leaks doing it anymore. I did at start when I played pocket pairs all wrong and stuff like that.
Ways I can think of to fix leaks atm is:
- Hire a coach to sweath you
- Get a friend to sweath you
- Ask people on here ways to find and plug leaks <3
- Looking through biggest losing hands in pokertracker, evaluate and rethink
I'm wondering if there's way to find leaks in the small pots, I never bother to look at them, and not sure where I'll start, so many. And even if I see I played something wrong, and I go "ahh, ok, should have done that, ok, mm" then move on to the next hand, it doesn't really feel like "YESS, ok, fixed that leak" it kinda just goes away in a haze and I don't notice it.
Any thoughts and feedback on this would be awesome
Just checked the tracker, and I've played 45hours so far this month, still feel I've barely played anything, maybe I'll reach my goal of 80 hours xD (weee)
With the training, I did good first days, but I'm struggling hard with my illness thingy. Fruktosemalabsorpsjon thingy.
But yesterday I got a 2 hour session with this super food nutrition doctor expert, and it was priceless to me, found out so much lol.
Found out that what I have will make people tired, and a word I couldn't find translation for in English. But if I had to try and explain it, it makes me extra lazy, fatigued, not taking initative, not being active, something along those lines.
What it is is, im allergic to sugar, half of the molekyle atleast, fructose, and if I get any, I can't go to the toilet, and my stomach gets painful and hard, and the longer it goes on, the more tired I get, the more I sleep, and the more fucked up everything gets.
But made me feel really good, to hear from the doctor that It's a serious condition, and I'm not THAT lazy after all xD
weee
Seen 4 poker vods or so, gotten to page 10 in one poker book, and page 30 in one, so some catching up to do there as well.
Last blog I posted that I would coach one lucky LP member for free, and I have made my decision. I chose mknybtlr for a few reasons, firstly his PM to me was by far the most detailed, informative and indepth response I got and he answered my questions better than everyone else. Secondly he is a friend of Ket, and since Ket got me into poker I thought it would be cool to kinda hand the baton on from Ket to me and from me on to mknybtlr. Ket assured me that he's a good guy with the motivation and intelligence to succeed and it does seem that way to me so far from his PM and the short chats we've had so hopefully we'll see some improvement pretty soon. He is in the process of creating and sending me a video for review and then I will attempt to work some magic, I will probably use this blog as a way to keep track of his progress.
On another note, I was looking through my laptop the other day and came across some old PT2 stats from when I used to play Prima, Crypto, Betfair and Party and it reminded me of how I used to roll. I do feel like I'm beginning to get back on track, albeit at much lower limits, but still, not as good as back then:
I seem to recall a -30 buyin downswing included at $5/$10 HU there too :O
Here are the stats this month:
Obviously tiny sample, but over the last month or so this is pretty much how it's been going. Things are looking up for me lately, and with me, hopefully for mknybtlr also. Stay tuned for progress updates!
i could do it in a shorter period of time for sure, but 5 hours/day i feel that i can play good too. im no joeingram i cant keep my head straight for 10 hours+.
goal is to pretty much breakeven but actually winning anything at my first ever 24tabling attempt makes me feel very motivated to do this.
will get 4000$ bonus + 800$ milestone during this challange. if i can win anything at the tables too would be very sweet.
will be starting off the challange at the new appartment @ the 10th of january, hoping to be done at february 23rd.
a 1bb/100 winrate over these 350k hands and ill be very happy.
poker overall for me feels really good right now, im very motivated.
wish me luck!
wont play much more the rest of the month, tonight ill get drunk as hell celebrating a friend of mine turning 22y old today.
ps. check out the epic kid in my last blogpost, lots of fun!
Whats up all, this month has been going pretty well for me so far after my recent prop bet victory. Have done a few interviews for poker sites and I've found articles wrote about my prop bet on a ton of differnt sites in every language, kinda cool actually and something I didn't expect from doing the prop bet. Thanks alot to one of my favorite sites, LIQUID POKER!!!, for putting an article on the front page about me, much love!
Icemonkey9 aka Sean Gibson is friends with the other guys that have a poker house out here in San Diego and came down the other day and interviewed me in person for a few sites he writes for. Very cool guy and thanks to him for writing my answers up in a nice way!
I finally got my money from the escrow on Tuesday so naturally I jumped into the highest games running/table selecting. I was doing really well a month back doing this but my downfall was when I started playing every 5/10 table running and not table selecting at all. Im pretty confident if I can stick to semi-strict table selection/not get it all in with 2 cards under 10, I should be able to do fairly well.
Here are my results so far for this month along with a few hands
Biggest Pot Ever won!!! Sick hold!
Submitted by : Joeingram1
***** Hand History for Game 36448311010 ***** Poker Stars
$5000.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, December 09, 04:59:10 ET 2009
Table Nolli Real Money
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 4: jullle $3761.30 USD
Seat 5: Value_King $1485.50 USD
Seat 6: Dokosoko $6642.50 USD
Seat 7: JoeIngram1 $5000.00 USD
Seat 8: ADZ124 $5225.00 USD
Dokosoko posts small blind [$25.00 USD].
JoeIngram1 posts big blind [$50.00 USD].
JoeIngram1 shows
jullle shows
JoeIngram1 wins $7545.60 USD from main pot
Was super unsure what to do in this spot, small blind was a pretty big fish and wanted to try to hit my draw and win a big pot! After PFR raises his donk though I don't really want to call OOP so went for some positive redline lol, thoughts??
Submitted by : Joeingram1
***** Hand History for Game 36449429099 ***** Poker Stars
$5000.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, December 09, 06:02:46 ET 2009
Table Nolli Real Money
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: ADZ124 $5994.00 USD
Seat 3: Bullitos $4925.00 USD
Seat 5: p3achy_keen $5813.00 USD
Seat 6: Dokosoko $8901.70 USD
Seat 7: splittle $6130.30 USD
Seat 8: JoeIngram1 $5750.00 USD
splittle posts small blind [$25.00 USD].
JoeIngram1 posts big blind [$50.00 USD].
5-Bet on the river results in huge pot! Not really sure why he shoves over my 3bet on the river because I dont think I ever play Kx, flush or straight like that.
Submitted by : Joeingram1
***** Hand History for Game 36533182862 ***** Poker Stars
$2000.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, December 11, 04:03:05 ET 2009
Table Maja VII Real Money
Seat 4 is the button
Seat 1: Jeff Langdon $3955.00 USD
Seat 4: yanick356 $3156.00 USD
Seat 5: JoeIngram1 $2477.00 USD
Seat 6: wobbly_au $2000.00 USD
JoeIngram1 posts small blind [$10.00 USD].
wobbly_au posts big blind [$20.00 USD].
Holecards Dealt to JoeIngram1 [ ]
Jeff Langdon raises [$55.00 USD]
yanick356 folds
JoeIngram1 calls [$45.00 USD]
wobbly_au folds
Flop (Pot : $130.00)
JoeIngram1 checks
Jeff Langdon checks
Turn (Pot : $130.00)
JoeIngram1 bets [$100.00 USD]
Jeff Langdon calls [$100.00 USD]
River (Pot : $330.00)
JoeIngram1 bets [$275.00 USD]
Jeff Langdon raises [$605.00 USD]
JoeIngram1 raises [$1150.00 USD]
Jeff Langdon raises [$3195.00 USD]
JoeIngram1 calls [$897.00 USD]
Jeff Langdon wins $1478.00 USD
Jeff Langdon shows
JoeIngram1 shows
JoeIngram1 wins $4972.00 USD from main pot
Plans for the month include, achieve 600k VPP to unlock 6k milestone bonus on Stars, go back home to freezing cold/snow Chicago for a few days around Christmas, Lady Gaga concert on the 19th with the girl/friend, New Years Beach Party with the girl/friend, book PCA trip, and prepare to pwn in the new year!!
I promised a few readers (newest SNE IntenseDawg!!! congrats) I would post a pic of the asian girl that I am in almost luv with lol, she said I could post this one and see what people say. This is a pic from the other night at some San Diego club that I had to get a table at for just the 2 of us and spend way to much fkn money
Anyways, I think thats all I have, thanks for reading the blog!
Hey guys, long time no see. In the last 2 months since I last blogged I've continued to play a decent amount of low stakes, the $0.5/$1 Stars and $1/$2 FTP games continuing to try and get my stats prettier on PTR. It's been up and down, though my $1/$2 winrate on FTP is getting closer to where I want it to be (At least 2BB/100) but I'm still a way off, and my $0.5/$1 on PokerStars is further away if anything due to running a fair bit below EV, running shit in general and subsequent tilt. Same old, same old huh?
Here are stats since Sept. 1st:
Since getting back to England I've been playing World of Warcraft again, and that's severely cutting into my poker playing time. Poker is just extremely boring when you're constantly losing to morons and running bad and games are a good escape, the thing is I think I'm focusing harder and trying to fix my game more than I have the rest of the year when I am playing and I think the benefits are just beginning to show, I just need to put the time in. Over the last 2 days I've won 9 buyins at $1/$2 6max in only ~1k hands and although I ran pretty fucking well in this small sample my play has been much better than in the last few months, and this entire year as a whole.
I'm hoping that at least my $1/$2 winrate on FTP is above 2BB/100 by the time I head back to Korea (2nd January) and that my $0.5/$1 winrate on stars is at least closer to that target, even though I know it's not going to actually get there in that time frame unless I play a ton of hands or run insanely well, which is possible if I break 2BB/100 at $1/$2 FTP very soon but still unlikely. This year has been a depressing year pokerwise, I've spent a lot of time just trying to make my stats on a stupid website look good and not even successfully doing that, not doing well in my usual games due to running far below EV again and playing bad in stupid spots.
I think a large part of the reason I've done poorly at these stakes is to do with the fact that I'm trying to get those winrates up, I'm trying to hard to simply win that it often blinds my judgement. I don't care that this guy is 11/10 and he's called twice on a dry board and shove a blank river repping the nuts in a spot he's never bluffing, I care that I have an overpair and there's $400 in the pot and I want to win it, so I make a shit call that I would berate on the forums because It's obvious what he has, and I know it, even when playing, but it doesn't matter to me. I'm calling anyway. That's something I never used to do in my usual games, I used to simply go with my gut. I head into the river saying I'm gonna bet/fold, and I follow through, but nowadays I don't do that, and it's cost me a lot of money and a huge chunk of winrate. Same thing when it comes to bluffing, I have nothing and he is folding some hands, so I do my best to think of the worst hand he can possibly have and go "Aha! he's folding something!" so I bluff, and don't even considering his entire range. Same with thin value betting, I end up talking myself into going for too thin value saying "Well this is a spot I could be bluffing in! He has to hero call me, surely!" without thinking about the fact that he simply doesn't have any hands in his preflop range that gets to the river to even make a hero call, or that the villain is a nit that he would fold the same hand I'm trying to value bet. It sucks because when I analyse hands after the session, I look at my hands and just shake my head, and it happens again and again. I'm not fixing these errors, I just continue making stupid plays against extremely unbalanced players and their exploitative plays are just raping me because I'm not focusing enough on exploiting their exploitative plays.
That's another thing, I think I've worried far too much this year about "balance". I used to watch cts and sbrugby videos a few years ago and balance never seemed to be the main issue when making a play, but then you watch a lot of other philosophical thinking video makers and they harp on about balance far too much. I think that's gone to my head way too much and I need to worry more about exploiting other peoples balance, and worry about my own balance second. Realising things and doing them are 2 completely different things, and even though I think I'm playing better and following through with my plan far more often lately, I could still be doing better.
On another note, I'm thinking about coaching again. I don't mean I've coached in the past I mean I'm thinking about it again. I say this a lot and then never actually do it, but I have a little bit of motivation this time around. So I have a real life friend that I got into poker a couple of years ago, he started with $50 or so and over the course of 2 years has gone from a breakeven $0.01/$0.02 player to a breakeven $0.05/$0.10 player. Hardly the progress I was expecting from one of my more intelligent friends. I think my motivation for teaching is just to prove to myself that I can do it, that I can turn a breakeven or marginally losing player at a stake into a winning player at a stake higher than that he's playing right now. I think part of my problem when I sit alongside my friend and "coach" him is that I simply tell him what to do, and don't let him make his own play or mistakes first, he's basically just following instructions, and while he does win most of the time he's at my house or I'm at his, it mayaswell be me playing rather than him. Don't get me wrong, I do explain why I'm telling him to do whatever it is that I'm telling him, but I'm not sure if it's that I explain in too much depth, not in enough depth, if it's because I don't let him do whatever he would do himself and then tell him why another play is better or if he simply doesn't "get it". The thing is I dunno who I want to teach, what stakes I want to teach, how long I'd be interested in putting in to it or how long it'd take before my student would be expecting to see progress, I don't know HOW I want to teach either. I'm guessing just video review and some discussion over MSN or whatever, but I'm not sure that's the best for the student.
Either way, I guess I'd like to start taking PMs from players who are breakeven at any stakes at or below $0.25/$0.50 with PT3 or HEM screenshots (Must have AT LEAST 50k hands logged with a maximum winrate of +0.5BB/100), screennames at relevant sites, what they would want from a prospective coach, what hours they'd be available and why I should choose them.
Thanks for reading, back to WoW for now I guess. . . -_-
Yes, it's every bit as bad as it looks - got straight up demolished by some guy HU I was up a quick 4 buyins on him, coolering the hell out of him left and right.
Then it turns out I'm pretty shit at deep PLO and not all that great at dealing with 30% 3bet either. Guy played very well (in my opinion) and I might have to practice avoidance vs him in the future. Went from +800$ vs him to -140$ (+12.80$ on the session, ship the cheeseburgers).
Now, that was fun. I knew I'd be playing a little bad now (I tend to play bad when up a lot) but I'm never gonna quit someone whom I've won 4 buyins off in like 50 hands. He deserves at least a couple of hours IMO (even though I could tell he wasn't a bad player).
LOTS more 25 bb pots lost, his redline is basically a copy of Isildur's I think I played pretty well at 100bb and maybe even 150bb, but at 200+ I just got really, really, really raped. I sort of stopped 3betting because I didn't feel comfortable 3betting marginal hands deep, but then I just ended up check/folding or leading too much and I feel like I didn't really get much momentum playing this way.
I also should have 4bet A LOT wider (I actually 4bet folded a KK** hand once when really deep which I immediately realized what a terrible mistake that was, no idea what I was thinking, we were literally like 300bb deep), which is something I did a little bit of in the beginning when still reasonably shallow and at the end (IIRC) once shallow again.
So I think I'm gonna try to work in a lot more 3bets, I think it was difficult to play against. And, as above, work on incorporating more hands into my 4betting range instead of just calling.
have been a good experience so far, feels like im playin really well, running well, winning some moneyz and so on. dunno if its me playing better, stars regs sucking or if im just running like sick hot? dunno maybe a mix
since its christmas month and all i wont be playing to much. + moving to a new appartment january 1st so we are gonna clean up and shit here in our appartment (living with 4 friends, sad breakup ) and be done with the appartment before christmas is the plan. move out all the stuff and such, so last 2 weeks i wont play any poker prolly.
hope ill continue this heater for another 10 days or so, would be sweeeeeeeeeeeeeT.
december 100NL first 10k hands of 6 tabling on stars so far!
im really pleased w my redline, ive always been a redline loser in SH games lifetime and now all of a sudden when i switch to stars its alot better.
anyways, enough bashing of how bad SSNL stars regs are. take care
50k Hands/20 Hours Prop Win for 33k! Stats/Graphs!
Joeingram1, December 04
I was going to wait until I officially recieved the money in my PokerStars account from the escrow fantasticcow but he is in Australia playing APPT and needs to verify his account in order to send me that large of a transfer, so until then I am pretty busto
Thanks to Liquid Poker for putting an article about me on the front page of the site!!! Much appreciation! I googled my name and actually found similar articles on about 10-15 other sites in just about every possible language, I really had no idea it would be that popular or I would have aimed for more hands!
I am happy to say that I achieved victory in my latest prop bet of playing 50k hands in 24 hours while showing a profit. It actually only took me 20 hours 2 minutes to achieve and after that time I was up approx 33 Buy-Ins from playing and $33,350 richer in prop bet money. I put up 13.5k of my own money getting 2.5-1 odds originally.
I must admit that this was probably one of the easiest things I have ever actually done and I felt like I could have played for days more while profiting in the games. How did this all get set up some have asked?? Well it was really all a perfect storm that came together. Originally I saw the article on pokerstarsblog.com for innerpsy playing 40,000 hands and I was a little annoyed because I had a session earlier in the year where I played 41,000 hands in about 20 hours so I felt the record should have been mine. Then I got into a hand prop bet with someone from 2p2 where we bet who could play the most hands and most of those hands I played at the NL25 games. During this time I realized these where quite possibly the worst players on the face of the earth playing here and if I actually tried there was no way I could possibly lose. This got me thinking about a prop bet I thought of doing long ago which was 50k hands in 24 hours while showing a profit. With this in mind, I knew that tableratings would be tracking my NL25 sessions so during these sessions I put in 0 effort at all of actually making money. I didn't use a HUD and basically just watched TV all session to get in hands for the prop bet I was in. Doing this I found it impossible to be down more then 8-12 Buyins. Finally during my last nl25 session before the bet I lost 600 dollars . After seeing all this people were lining up to bet against me!! I don't think they looked at the sessions I would play right after where I made 5+ buyins at 1/2 6max or 10 buyins at .50/1 but more so focused on my bad nl25 results. How could I really be a 2.5ptbb/100 winner at nl100 6max and losing at nl25?? lol. Anyways I made the thread on 2p2 and the gates flooded with action! I was obviously trying to take the max amount I could possibly take because I figured there was a 98 percent chance I would win this without a problem. I wanted to wait until Tuesday morning to start to take on more action but I knew Chiren was starting his million hand challenge at NL25 then so I had to do it Monday morning.
With many people following along in the 2p2 thread and on my webcam I was able to achieve my prop bet in 20 hours! I thought about going on for the extra 4 hours just to set a record no one could break but honestly my whole motivation behind this prop bet was to make the most amount of money possible in one day at NL25!
The world record was an afterthought that in the grand scheme of things really didn't mean to much. I mean Chiren played 6k more hands then me yesterday in 24 hours and he made $21 dollars. I did the same thing and made $34,000 lol. I am actually very glad Chiren is around because he really is the only person out there motivating me in these sort of mass volume prop bets. Some people think I am hating on Chiren but I really like him and am happy to see him putting in hands. It gives me a goal to shoot for in the future if I choose to do so. One thing I do find funny is all his WoW fanboys in the thread on 2p2 saying only Chiren can do 1 million hands and he is the ultimate grinder. I am going to be honest, if I wanted to play 1.1 mill hands in a month then I could do it without 0 doubt. Could I show a profit during it all??? I guess we will wait and see in a future prop bet
I am actually trying to come up with some ideas for future prop bets. I have been thinking about doing winning 10k at NL25 in one month, winning 13k at NL50 in one month, 1.1 Million Hands in 1 month with profit, 105k hands in 48 hours. All of these interest me but idk if I really want to put myself thru the hell that will come by doing any of these. After this recent prop bet I have more money then I ever dreamed I would have total in my bankroll so I don't know if it will be worth it to me to do another prop bet right now. Time will tell....
Many people have been asking me about my setup/hotkeys/scripts I use while playing. I will admit, these are things I would rather not give away as I feel like I probably have one of the most efficient setups with a combination of comfort playing/ability to utilize scripts and I feel like I could give most people out there my exact setup and they would see a good jump in there overall results.
My plans for December/January are to get myself back in great physical shape since I have been neglecting that part of my life the past few weeks. Book my trip to the PCA and meet a bunch of random online players that I have never met before. Try to make a profit in the 2/4+ games on PokerStars lol!! Continue falling in love with a certain asian woman currently in my life!!! LOVE!!!
Anyways here are my stats and graph for the epic session!
Thanks for reading this ridiculously long blog post and for following along on the challenge!
november was somewhat a fail for me, +0€ in pokerwinnings in november alone and my 200k hand challange as i started october 26th kinda died there at the end ^^
goal was 5k but i felt i played so fking bad and there is just so many regulars on 100nl on Bossmedia network, and they are pretty good (imo..)
i dont wanna play FR but almost all my winnings from this graph is of FR and im a loser at SH.
But i wanna play SH so ive decided to switch to stars.
I did pretty good the last week or so at november playing on stars and december have started off really good.
I wanna get better at poker, not just grind rakeback. the last 6 month or so im like a 2bb/100 winner at the micro/smallstakes on bossmedia with almost only rakeback profits...
old idea was just to mass volume for $$ profit. but i wanna get better, and i hate boss media client its so fucking tilting so im gonna try stars out for a bit, dont wanna play with same fucking players everyday in and out, i want new faces, new image. new start
always loved stars too
100NL on stars so far for december
feels great to start off fresh in a way
as it looks now vegas aint gonna happen in early 2010, maybe later next year =)
in short the new plan is basically to concentrate on my game playin 4 tables tops instead of just massgrind for rakeback profits month after month
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I was up a quick 4 buyins on him, coolering the hell out of him left and right. 
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