SPOILER: Blog post contains epic pictures of VITAL FUCKING MYTH below.
Yea, so my New Years Resolution about keeping my blog updated is not going so well as you can see. The playing 2500 hands each day minimum was going well for about 3 weeks, then I realized I'm lazy. I started going to the gym, then stopped, then started again, then stopped again, and now I'm just too busy to get my ass back up to go again. I'm pretty bad with time management and organization in general so that definitely is probably contributing to my so-called laziness. Other than that, this year has been a successful one already for one simple reasons: THE LIVE POKERS!
There is a card room in San Diego called Palomar where they run a 5/10 game with a $2k cap buy-in, with the occasional 10/20 w no cap buy-in. I knew about the place when I first came down here to San Diego, and visited it once or twice at the beginning of last year, when I didn't really have the motivation or discipline to play live poker yet so I never really went back. After a year of practice on the live tournament circuit, and losta time spent in the Vegas live cash games I came back to San Diego with more of both motivation and discipline. So starting last November, I started to dedicate atleast one day a week to the Palomar grind. At the beginning of this year, I was going 2-3 times a week. Starting March I upped it to 4-5 times a week. Basically it would be spewing money not to go, the games are THAT juicy. It really is the sweetest mix of loose/passive random middle aged guys, super old super nits, and gambling loose aggrotards. Very comparable to the Commerce games during LAPC (Really, nothing on earth will surpass the goodness of the live games are Commerce during LAPC). From Jan 1st to the present I'm up ~$65k playing live 5/10 and 10/20 (which breaks down to 21k at Commerce 10/20, and 44k at Palomar 5/10). Pretty funny since most of my time is still spent playing online NL 6-max / HU, and I'm up but not close to those numbers so far this year.
All the practice has really made my live poker reads really sharp, mainly because I get pretty good insight into how different people think about how to play hands. Before I'd always think "Shit this guy is so stupid, none of his logic makes any sense" but now I realize that most people actually attempt some sort of reason to their play and even thou it is incorrect the majority of the time, now it makes a lot more sense to me on why they think these ways in certain spots. Can't think of a better way to put it, here is kind of a basic example of what I'm trying to say: Player A never realizes the pot size in any hand. Therefore, when he faces a $50 bet to him and has the decision between calling or folding he only sees the size of the bet. He reasons that his opponents hand is probably weak because he only bet $50. If his opponent bet $250, he reads the hand strength as strong. So he ends up calling looser in single raised / limped pots, and folding big (seeing ghosts in the closet) in 3bet pots, assuming that his opponent is adjusting his betting sizes to the size of the pot (surprisingly some people don't adjust their betting sizes either because most of them think like Player A). Just one of a dozen things that run through the head of your average live player. Live poker so ez lol...
So far this year, went to LAPC which was a bust tournament wise (Direct yourself two blog posts down to my 10k Commerce event recap), followed by a trip to Rincon which is an hour north of San Diego (even thou they call it WSOP Circuit in San Diego, but in reality that shit hole is nowhere close to SD). Only played the main event there and ended up getting 8th for $24.5k which made up for all the LAPC buy-ins I dropped which was nice. Last hand was a coinflip to the ever so aggressive shaundeeb prodigy, Esther Tayor (E-Tay) for a top 2 stack. Decided to skip the Bellagio series because I got lazy and decided to do real life fun stuff with my friends, here is a short recap with pics:
On Oahu with a couple high school buds of mine, this is the backside of Poli
On top of Diamond Head over looking Honolulu & Wakiki
Going snowboarding for the first time @ Big Bear
On the lift... before I bruised my tail bone on a rock
My boy Noah and I on Valentines Day with the girls in LA @ Geisha House
Some girl smiling at the camera before I smashed her skull open with my pool stick. GTFO bitch it's my picture day imo.
That's VITAL FUCKING MYTH!
That's VITAL FUCKING MYTH ONE MORE TIME!
Oh yeah so last Friday was my 24th birthday. Fuck I'm old. We've discussed that if you're 21, you are the average age for an online poker player. At 24, you reach your mid-life crisis. At 28+ your like grandpa (or grandma) to all these young-ins. We ended up having a chill dinner in Mission Beach at this bomb place called Mizu's where they are like "FUCK YEAH!" if you sake bomb. So we sake bombed all night, then headed to Bar West in PB which is also pretty ill. PBDrunks round-house kicked one of our grey goose bottles to the floor. Smooth.
For the weekend me and my "kinda" girlfriend Anna, went to Vegas to see Dave Matthews Band two nights in a row at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Let me mini-rant first: Wynn's ticket service people can suck my fucking left nut. Other than that is was an awesome weekend. Boyd Tinsley on the violin is the illest. Dave Matthews Band absolutely rocked the entire house. I'm def a big fan of all the new stuff they have coming out too. Can't wait til the new CD comes out in June.
Here is some random youtube clip of my favorite song 'Dancing Nancies' played on the second night (Note-> Boyd Tinsley rocks socks):
And a pic from weekend:
Fixing my laziness! Maybe post something more enjoyable to read soon...
SPOILER: Blog post contains epic pictures of VITAL FUCKING MYTH below.
Yea, so my New Years Resolution about keeping my blog updated is not going so well as you can see. The playing 2500 hands each day minimum was going well for about 3 weeks, then I realized I'm lazy. I started going to the gym, then stopped, then started again, then stopped again, and now I'm just too busy to get my ass back up to go again. I'm pretty bad with time management and organization in general so that definitely is probably contributing to my so-called laziness. Other than that, this year has been a successful one already for one simple reasons: THE LIVE POKERS!
There is a card room in San Diego called Palomar where they run a 5/10 game with a $2k cap buy-in, with the occasional 10/20 w no cap buy-in. I knew about the place when I first came down here to San Diego, and visited it once or twice at the beginning of last year, when I didn't really have the motivation or discipline to play live poker yet so I never really went back. After a year of practice on the live tournament circuit, and losta time spent in the Vegas live cash games I came back to San Diego with more of both motivation and discipline. So starting last November, I started to dedicate atleast one day a week to the Palomar grind. At the beginning of this year, I was going 2-3 times a week. Starting March I upped it to 4-5 times a week. Basically it would be spewing money not to go, the games are THAT juicy. It really is the sweetest mix of loose/passive random middle aged guys, super old super nits, and gambling loose aggrotards. Very comparable to the Commerce games during LAPC (Really, nothing on earth will surpass the goodness of the live games are Commerce during LAPC). From Jan 1st to the present I'm up ~$65k playing live 5/10 and 10/20 (which breaks down to 21k at Commerce 10/20, and 44k at Palomar 5/10). Pretty funny since most of my time is still spent playing online NL 6-max / HU, and I'm up but not close to those numbers so far this year.
All the practice has really made my live poker reads really sharp, mainly because I get pretty good insight into how different people think about how to play hands. Before I'd always think "Shit this guy is so stupid, none of his logic makes any sense" but now I realize that most people actually attempt some sort of reason to their play and even thou it is incorrect the majority of the time, now it makes a lot more sense to me on why they think these ways in certain spots. Can't think of a better way to put it, here is kind of a basic example of what I'm trying to say: Player A never realizes the pot size in any hand. Therefore, when he faces a $50 bet to him and has the decision between calling or folding he only sees the size of the bet. He reasons that his opponents hand is probably weak because he only bet $50. If his opponent bet $250, he reads the hand strength as strong. So he ends up calling looser in single raised / limped pots, and folding big (seeing ghosts in the closet) in 3bet pots, assuming that his opponent is adjusting his betting sizes to the size of the pot (surprisingly some people don't adjust their betting sizes either because most of them think like Player A). Just one of a dozen things that run through the head of your average live player. Live poker so ez lol...
So far this year, went to LAPC which was a bust tournament wise (Direct yourself two blog posts down to my 10k Commerce event recap), followed by a trip to Rincon which is an hour north of San Diego (even thou they call it WSOP Circuit in San Diego, but in reality that shit hole is nowhere close to SD). Only played the main event there and ended up getting 8th for $24.5k which made up for all the LAPC buy-ins I dropped which was nice. Last hand was a coinflip to the ever so aggressive shaundeeb prodigy, Esther Tayor (E-Tay) for a top 2 stack. Decided to skip the Bellagio series because I got lazy and decided to do real life fun stuff with my friends, here is a short recap with pics:
On Oahu with a couple high school buds of mine, this is the backside of Poli
On top of Diamond Head over looking Honolulu & Wakiki
Going snowboarding for the first time @ Big Bear
On the lift... before I bruised my tail bone on a rock
My boy Noah and I on Valentines Day with the girls in LA @ Geisha House
Some girl smiling at the camera before I smashed her skull open with my pool stick. GTFO bitch it's my picture day imo.
That's VITAL FUCKING MYTH!
That's VITAL FUCKING MYTH ONE MORE TIME!
Oh yeah so last Friday was my 24th birthday. Fuck I'm old. We've discussed that if you're 21, you are the average age for an online poker player. At 24, you reach your mid-life crisis. At 28+ your like grandpa (or grandma) to all these young-ins. We ended up having a chill dinner in Mission Beach at this bomb place called Mizu's where they are like "FUCK YEAH!" if you sake bomb. So we sake bombed all night, then headed to Bar West in PB which is also pretty ill. PBDrunks round-house kicked one of our grey goose bottles to the floor. Smooth.
For the weekend me and my "kinda" girlfriend Anna, went to Vegas to see Dave Matthews Band two nights in a row at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Let me mini-rant first: Wynn's ticket service people can suck my fucking left nut. Other than that is was an awesome weekend. Boyd Tinsley on the violin is the illest. Dave Matthews Band absolutely rocked the entire house. I'm def a big fan of all the new stuff they have coming out too. Can't wait til the new CD comes out in June.
Here is some random youtube clip of my favorite song 'Dancing Nancies' played on the second night (Note-> Boyd Tinsley rocks socks):
And a pic from weekend:
Fixing my laziness! Maybe post something more enjoyable to read soon...
Pretty weird day rythm, but I'm working on that, think I woke around 02:00
My mate had this really interesting poker book, so I borrowed it. So I read the first chapter when I woke, before I got out of bed.
It's called The Poker Mindset, looks to be a really good book.
Made some fish and rice, went down to the computer and sat and read through some old notes I've written down about poker, after that I opened up some tables, session wasn't that long though, 1 hour 30 minuts or something, but so little tables, I was at the only tables running, and I ran pretty well this session too, so not complaining.
For the first time I got my roll over 2200, which is awesome, but I ended just under 2197,86, but went up 2 and a half buy ins on 20nl.
I'd like to post hands and stuff, but I can't get that submit hand thing to work anymore, I do what I've always done, post in the data, but I get these error messages instead. Weird, have to find out what's wrong.
Think I'm gonna go pee, then watch the 3rd vod in that protege series, bbl <3
**** First Update ****
Done some reading, written some notes, then I got to a pretty interessting post called "5 Most important things for crushing SSNL"
So I decided to write down all the things which looked pretty smart and cool (Even though most of them are like, a hum, yeah, I knew that, mm, obvious!! So forth xD)
- Isolate Donks
- Be Aggressive
- Value Bet
- Avoid FPS (What's FPS? first person shooter ?)
- Utilize position
- Valueshove
- Hand reading. Always always always try to put your opponent on a range of hands.
- Understanding equity
- Avoid tilt
- Remain disciplined (best for pvp yo)
- The number one thing I think decent ssnlers miss is river value bets
- Table selection
- Put pressure on regulars in position
- Adjusting your styles to the games condition
- Be aggressive on more streets, forget about pot controle when in position vs fish etc
- Don't limp
- A strong fundamental understanding of the game (Bleh, I hate answers like that lol)
- Get reads on oponent, write down propper notes
- Work on finding leaks
- Read a lot
- Put in good amount of hands every day
- Try thinking about poker all the time
- Talk with good players (Hmm, should get more on my msn, just got 2 good ones!!)
- Being able to sense impending trouble (I want thiz one!!)
- Maintain focused
All seemd really good, and when I was done I started thinking bout these sick posts I read ages ago, first time I Started reading about poker, and I wrote a compilation, so I started searching through my computer to see if I could find it, I did, and I read through it. Got a chill when reading it, really motivational and good stuff.
Thought I'd paste it here as well, it's pretty long, so I wish I knew how to do that trick I've seen some people do, so you have to klick "Show spoiler" or something to see it, so people don't have to see all that text.
(Actually, I changed my mind, it's so long, so I'll post it in a reply instead, hehe)
**** Mini Update ****
Thought I'd go through all the hands I've played last 2 days, I got really surprised, because I usually just look at the biggest losing hands, and there were so few, I usually look at pots where I lost more than 8 euro. So I must have been running very good lately.
Gonna focus on having it stay that way, and when variance switch and I start to get the short end of it, don't tilt, fuck up, and lose the minimum.
That makes a lot of sense, I think
And oh, the new Bleach manga is out!!
Sick, Barragan the Lich!! Hehe, seem sick strong!!
**** Update ****
Oh, got some rakeback today, happy about it, but a bit annoyed I got screwed by the affiliate I have, think I was promised 50% rakeback, never gotten more than 30%. So T_T to that =p
Was for last two weeks, not played that much so was okay
**** mini update ****
oj, sick, I guess he didn't screw me over anyway xD Checked just now, and I got another 350 euro extra, that's awesome. Roll over 2500 now and I can make stabs at 50nl. Siiiiick
**** Update!! ****
Took a session on 50nl, pretty cool, decided to play just as I'd play on 20nl, and try and don't play scared at all.
Felt I ran pretty good now as well, but close to the end of the session I lost a hand I maybe could have gotten away from, I 3bet with AK and got minraised, and I 5bet, came a flop, low cards and a Q, and I shoved for the rest of my stack, and he had QQ, so that's the biggest pot I lost. But even still I'm up 1 buy in or a little over, so not complaining at all xD
Good session, just short of 2 hours, with 60 euro up <3
Wassup. I've been back in England for 5 days now and I'm enjoying it so far, feels good to be in my room once more, be around my "stuff", my friends and family. I think my mind has been a lot clearer and, in general, I've been playing a more solid game. Unfortunately I've been wasting it continually, playing a TON of 100NL just trying to make my stats pretty -_-. On that front, I have been making progress though, I was -20 buyins at 50c/$1 6m and -6 buyins at $3/$6 HU a week ago and now I'm -0.5 buyins at $50c/$1 6m and -1.5 buyins at $3/$6 HU so my stats should be in the green soon, and then I can go back to playing $3/$6 6max and working my way up in games I should be playing. I'm just too neat and OCD, I hate to see my stats in the red lol
It's really annoyed me how I've managed to be breakeven over 30k hands of $0.50/$1, I mean almost all of the regulars are bad and there's a huge amount of complete station donks. I've ran really bad overall, tilted a lot, etc but I feel like my long term edge in those games SHOULD be a minimum of 6ptbb/100, and that's just not been the case so far. I guess it doesn't help that I find it hard to take the money seriously since I've basically been playing stakes 10 times as big regularly for almost 2 years. Despite that, I think that these hands may have actually had a positive effect on my overall game, I've had to go back and reevaluate a lot of the basics and I may have even improved from playing idiots, as funny as that sounds.
Here's some updated stats since I restarted playing early April:
Can't win without showdown at 50c/$1 heh, people never fold -,-
A few days ago I used up over 100k FPPs buying stuff, I got 3 Β£250 amazon.co.uk gift certificates with which I bought a shitton of DVDs, music CDs, some Sennheiser HD595 headphones some other gadgets and also got a 32GB iPod Touch, which hopefully arrives before I go back to Korea on June 7th. Also got a couple of xbox games, Resident Evil 5, which I didn't like so far mainly because of the controls and also got Street Fighter 4 that I've played a lot with my brother, beat him like 11-2 in best of 3s, and enjoyed the game a lot so far. d.Apollo is coming round mine in a couple of weeks, there's def gonna be a lot of drinking, pokering, pool and probably some birding on his part, though finding a good looking girl in Mansfield is like finding a needle in a haystack. Got a friend's birthday party coming up in a week in Nottingham too, which is a much better night out than Mansfield, though it's still a really rough area, might be able to get some pics from the night out that I can upload in a future blog, will have to see.
I staked Myth for 12.5% of the big WSOP event coming up so fingers crossed that he does well on that, it's the first time I've really done any kind of stake for more than $500, so Corwin fighting!
If I had never tried to make any $0.50/$1 videos I would have never lost money and thus my stats wouldn't have been in the red in the first place, and I wouldn't have been playing there for the last 30k hands trying to make my winrate positive, so I'll leave some of you with that feeling of guilt!
Wee, first update!!
Had two sessions since I started the blog, and weirdly enough I ran good in both of them, felt I got some good all ins I won, value from a few sets and such, felt really good.
Played 8 tables 20nl, around 2 hour each session. Here's a screen shot of the two sessions on pokertracker
I also saw a vod, and I'm going to start with this new trend, open up a wordpad, and each time they say something which sounds really important, cool or wise I will write it down and make a collection of them.
Yesterday a guy from bluefire told his protege something which sounded really important, sat talking about it for 5 minuts, and said it was probably the most important thing he would ever teach him.
It went something like this
- (golden rule in poker!!)
When you make a bet or a raise, you should know what you're gonna do against a raise, if you don't know, you shouldn't make that bet/raise.
Oh, not poker related, but found out my sister started blogging as well. Pretty cool, she just had a baby, then she started doing it.
Was really cute and I enjoyed reading through it, but maybe not much point posting it here, it being in Norwegian and all.
Oh well :-)
Off to make Fiskegrateng, a really tasty good Norwegian dish, but I bet none of you guys would like it
******** UPDATE ********
Still not gone to bed yet!!
Watched the 2nd part of Samouel's protege series on bluefire, think that series is rly good xD
Had a short one hour session, but kinda tired, not much tables running so just took 4 tables, but was mostly regulars, and some short stackers. Started off good with stacking someone, did a c bet, they called got straight, blabla all in. And I pushed all in vs the shortstackers here and there, think I lost most of the flips, and went break even for the session, which is fine!!
Did some reading, started at the top of that Master Sticky on low stakes!
#1 call the bet, if we make flush, need to get atleast one half bet or more to make our actions + EV
#2 if he 3 bet, it depends, if he has frequency over 15% we 4bet
on the turn er check call or check fold, re evalute on river
#3 call, if he checks the river and no flush got there, we shove, because he was on flush draw then
Tired now, think I might take a shower.
****** Oops, another UPDATE!! (that needs to be in caps I think) ****** (seen other people use these stars, so using them too)
Got three more "wise" words and sentence today as well:
- When you multi table, might be a good idea to just open a few tables first, then sit there for a littlewhile, then start adding more tables. Won't get as stressful, confusing, and you'll get more in the flow of things
- A lot of beginners / not so good people's mistakes comes from them being mentally lazy. If you just force yourself to actively think at the table, ur bottom line, and skill level will go up dramaticly!
- Most people don't realize the power of just trying to think stuff through more, push urself to do more, think more.
Ok, that's bout it, now I'm really going for a shower <3
It's the middle of the night, I spent most of the night watching Starcraft vods, listening to Tastless rant on (like doing that).
Played 2 hours of poker in total today, watched 1 poker vod, rest of the day just been wasting time really.
I think I read somewhere that a lot of people get more creative, get ideas and think more diffrently in the middle of the night, something about the brain waves moves slower, but I have no idea what that means or if I actually read that somewhere or I'm making it up. Anyway, I thought, maybe perhaps I'll study harder, get better at poker, put in more hours if I have a blog, seems everyone have a blog lately, but I don't.
Well I just notice the blogs of the "famous" people, so at first I thought not much point of me making one, no one will read it, but then I thought, heh, that doesn't matter, if it makes me work harder, put in more hours, then that's a great thing!!
Hmm... I should look at blogs to check how they are suppose to look, maybe I'm doing this wrong.
Also wondering if I should put up a picture of me, not sure why, but people seem to do that too. (Crap, they also usually start with a life story, but I don't think I cba with that, not now anyway, maybe I won't keep updating the blog and I'll never write more than this first page anyway).
Anywho! I'm Marius, 28 from Norway, played games all my life, I was sick in sc first 3-4 years, then not so good after, was sick in Diablo first 2-3 years then stopped, and best dueller in WoW 3-4 years, that's bout it.
I'm shy of working, I avoid it, I get depressed thinking of it, makes me feel lazy embaressed and bad, but I really wanna make a living out of poker. I don't really care for the money, because everytime I fantasize bout having tons I just buy my dad a car, give some to my siblings and mom then go travelling.
Okay!!
So from now on, I have to watch atleast 1 poker vod a day, and atleast 1 session a day, and that's minimum, on average I'd like to have 1 vod a day and 6 hours of playing. But I don't know if that's stretching it a bit. I also want to make some good bankroll management system. I'm not 100% sure what, but I wanna be a bankroll nit, I hate playing scared, so something in the lines of:
Ok, don't wanna get delusional thinking I'll get much higher than that fast lol.
Atm I'm at 2000euro, so when I get 2500 I'll go to 50nl, and I'll keep being there till I fall under 2500 again then move down to 20nl, and up when im over, and keep repeating.
Fucking finally won a seat to the WSOP ME! I hate steps so much but theres so few MTT sats so what choice do I have? Probably spent about 4-5k in sats so feels great to ship the seat.
I was so tilted this sunday cause I busted 15th in a ftp sat where top 10 got a seat and then proceeded to bust from the sunday mill in 45th gah
Ive been very undecided about going to vegas after I sorta quit playing poker, and I felt that if I was to go it would be to play the main event cause I think that would be a really fun experience. So yeah, looks like im going Gonna have to start looking at the wsop schedule to decide which dates to go, I wanna play some smaller events prior to the ME to get a good feel for live donkaments and for the fun of it.
after my doomswitch about a month ago I put about 1/3 of my roll on this swedish site "svenska spel" to grind it up through the microstakes due to need of cash IRL. Building my roll for "bigger" games once again.
So i put up a goal to play 90k hands this month, so far its looking pretty good. im grinding like a crazy man, been playin like 7 hours/day pretty much this whole month. Def going really good.
running overall at ~ 25bb/100 at both nl100 and nl200 so im very happy with the results so far.
8sek = 1$
so 100NL is like $12NL and 200NL kinda like $25NL
alot softer playin these microstakes then playin on ipoker/pokerstars.
if ur swedish and microstakes player i def recommend you playing on svenskaspel to build ur roll for $100nl ++
My 90k hands in 30 days is looking really nice cuz ive almost played half of the hands in only 12 days. will take like 36hours break now and then finish this shiet goal up
also will start playing the NL500 (=$62NL) later this week as i reached a 12000SEK BR on svenskaspel now
I also want to mention that im making almost the same amount on $/hour in these $12 and $25NL games as i did ~2 months ago in $100NL on ipoker when i played there.
so my tip, swedish microplayers, try svenskaspel its so soft..
again ty theguru for tipping me about svenskaspel.
im so happy its all working out so easy building up the roll again
almost feels like im superman pwning these donkeys up
Got back from uppsala today after celebrating "valborg" with some friends in uppsala. Valborg is basicly a holiday that is celebrated hard core in uppsala since its a huge student city and it revolves around 40k students getting shitfaced in several diffrent ways for like two days. Its pretty fucking crazy, i didnt bring my camera but I might upload some images later if I can get my hands on a friends pictures.
It was a real blast and the weather was fucking awesome so I really enjoyed myself. So after two days of heavy drinking im sound asleep and all of a sudden im crudely awoken by a fucking bumblebee stinging me in my hand, it actually fucking hurt! I feel like such a wuss because the bumblebee is like the most pussy sounding animal in the entire insect kingdom. This was 14 hours ago and my hand is still swollen and it still hurts. What the fuck, it was a fucking bumblebee!? Anyways, I naturally beat the crap out the little fucker with a newspaper so its all good.
As for me quiting poker I have to admit I have been cheating a little bit. Ive mostly been dabbling around with some sattelites to the wsop as I really wanna play that this summer. No sucess so far though.
Owell, spring is here, hot girls are everywhere and its looking to be a really fucking great summer so life is good.
Hey guys, last blog post I made I posted that I had moved down to $2/$4 for a while, then built back up to play at $3/$6 again, well since then things have continued to go well, and I'm now up decently for the month, considering how much I was behind. However I've been playing at $2/$4 and $1/$2 HU a fair bit aswell as $3/$6 6max and this wasn't really my plan so I'm a bit disappointed that I haven't stuck to my plan, but results have been good in those games anyway so I can be happy about that. My bankroll is back up to $28k and be rolled to move back to $5/$10 when I hit $30k. Despite a really slow start, I feel really good about how I've picked my game up this quick and things are turning around, however despite the fact that I'll be rolled for $5/$10 soon, I think I'm going to ignore the bankroll requirement and continue playing $3/$6 before moving back into those games. I'm still negative at $3/$6 since restarting and would like to get these numbers into the green, and above 2ptbb/100 minimum before moving back to $5/$10
Here are updated monthly screenshots:
On the last day of my holiday in Phillipines I picked up diarrhea and some stomach pains, and since coming back from Phillipines over 2 weeks ago, I've continued to have frequent bowel movements and pretty bad stomach pains both after eating, and before needing to take a crap. I figured it was just some bug that would go away, but I guess that's not the case. Today, for the first time, I've been feeling a little bit nautious aswell and have taken a crap 3 times, one time was very diarrhea like and the pain in my stomach during that crap was worse than I've felt yet. It also felt like my ass was bleeding, though it wasn't and it's really annoying me, so I think I'm gonna have to go to the doctors tomorrow. I hope it's nothing serious.
Tomorrow the LP poster 'Uptown' is coming to stay with me, I've met with him before and had fun so I expect more of the same when he's here. I hope he can put up with my shit, ha ha ha. . . . . !
I made yet ANOTHER attempt at making a video today, despite posting that I would give up attempting to make one, and again it failed. After I save the video it compresses for a while and I eventually got an error message saying that it had a problem merging the video with the audio or something like that. I'm gonna assume that some settings are wrong, even though I copied all the settings from this thread: http://www.liquidpoker.net/poker-foru..._Free_decent_quality_size_videos.html apart from one thing: The K-Lite codec pack I installed didn't have the x264 component that that poster said is necessary so I had to use a different video compression method, maybe this is the problem I don't know. If someone could fix this problem I would make a $0.50/$1 video. I'm extra annoyed that it didn't work this time because I got into some really interesting spots that I think would help people out a lot, and although I actually broke even in the session I think I played great poker and people at these stakes would've learnt a lot about how to think about some of these situations.
I'm just really happy about how I'm playing right now and, although I'm running like a GOD right now I think I'm playing really good too and hope this continues.
Hey again. Seems I'm getting "addicted" to blogging about my success or lack thereof again, this was one of the reasons I had my blog deleted the first time, I spent so much time merely posting brags or beats and it's all a waste of time and space, but here I am doing it again.
Anyway, for the first time in about 2 years I had to move down limits due to losing money. I've moved down limits before, but it was never because I was losing at a limit, it was always because I made a withdrawal, leaving myself with too little of a bankroll to play a limit, but this time it's because I continued to lose at $3/$6 to the point where my bankroll is down to $12k. I'm using 30 buyins to move up, then move down a limit if I drop to 20 buyins at that limit, so I had to move down to $2/$4. It served as a bit of a reality check to me, I haven't been winning in poker the last 50k or so hands I've played, including just before I took a 4 month break and I'm beginning to think that, although I have been running below average, it's not just bad luck. I have to admit that I'm doing a lot wrong, and so I approached $2/$4 with a little bit of a different mindset, a refreshed attitude and I started to have more success again. I've been playing 6 tables instead of 4, playing a bit tighter preflop, making extra effort to adjust to preflop situations where players are overly aggressive, overly tight or shortstacked players behind me.
I have built back up to $18k and will be playing $3/$6 again later today, hopefully I'll be able to maintain this surge through $3/$6 and bounce back to the games where I feel I should be playing, $5/$10 and $10/$20.
Here are some HEM screenshots so far:
My graph with showdown/non showdown winnings used to have me positive in both showdown AND non showdown winnings, but since restarting over this time my showdown winnings have been TERRIBLY negative. This is because I've been running bad overall and playing bad a lot too. Since moving down to $2/$4 some 8k hands ago or so, my showdown winnings have stabilised at approximately breakeven, which is a good start.
I had posted in the last blog that I would make another video, and I did exactly that. 3 times. However every single time I had a problem with Camtasia saving it, or producing it, despite changing the version of Camtasia and adjusting settings. I effectively wasted about 5 hours trying to make one and still don't have a video to show for it, so I'm not gonna bother. 2 out of the 3 videos I felt were really pretty good too, so I'm really disappointed, but at the end of the day I'm not gonna spend my time making videos that won't even save when I could be playing for myself at the stakes I normally play. I've tried to help people out a lot both back in the StarCraft days on TeamLiquid and here both by videos (I've posted 2 or 3 total) and on the forums so I feel like I've done enough for the community anyway. Sorry this video didn't work out, hope you enjoyed the $2/$4 one as that's gonna be the last one I make most likely.
Cutting down tables from ~12 to 3-4 has really helped my game. Feels really good pokerwise. Its a small sample of hands but it feels really good, running kinda bad all in pre, AA is a loser over that 6k handsample but what can u do right? Cant blame how im running postflop though
Im also playin a bit laggy compared to my old "style" allthough im not 3 betting as much as i used to do.. But def just pound on weak players isolating a ton ton ton IP..
Hey again guys, gonna write a blog entry almost exclusively about poker this time.
Last blog post I talked about how I'd been doing, how in general I was swinging quite a bit, but the trend was that I've been losing since restarting after a 4 month break from poker. I'd tried to experiment, but largely unsuccessfully, but also posted that I had started to recover the style that I used to play with some success, and this is how it's continued since then. By and large I've been playing much better poker in the last few days, and although results don't show it, (see below) I'm still happy with the improvement that I've been making. It's taken me a while to remember what I used to do well, why, and how it worked, but my confidence has regrown and I think that I can turn around this month, which I'm currently down 4.4k in, and bring it back into the green by the end of the month.
Despite the new WoW patch coming out just a few days ago I've still managed to put in a lot of hands (above is 15th April until now) and minimised WoW time to just raiding in the morning then not logging on for the rest of the day.
I'll leave with the note that I intend to make another video shortly, somewhere between 50nl and 400nl, but I'm undecided where just yet. I'm leaning towards 50nl or 100nl at the moment since I made a already 400nl one before (That I wasn't very proud of, but still ...). Leave comments if you're interested with what you wanna see, choices are limits and number of tables, up to a maximum of 4. The video will certainly be 6max.
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Gonna have to start looking at the wsop schedule to decide which dates to go, I wanna play some smaller events prior to the ME to get a good feel for live donkaments and for the fun of it.
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