Ok so my reads on villan was that he was pretty decent, protected his hand alittle to much/big and that he def was capable of folding big hands. Played with him for over an hour and i never had done anything crazy or to bluffy (in his mind i would think)
He had been doing this minraises all the time since it become 4 handed.. Wich is kinda strange since we are all 200bb deep..
Anyways
So I decided on this river turn my AK TP into a bluff cuz his betsizing on both turn/river looked alot like AT/AQ or some other random 2pair combination. Maybe TT or 22 that i def would think that he would fold those kind of hands to my riverbluff.
RIVER $ 112
check,
TSX bets $56.25
longple1 raises to $143
TSX calls $87
longple1 shows
TSX mucks his hand
longple1 wins $389
handhistory is little fucked up but w/e
Really wish i could see what he had, he left a couple of secounds later so.. (cant see in HH what the other players muck) but i guess he (kinda?) soulread me and called with AJ?
Hey guys. Been a while since last blog, figured now is an appropriate time to do so as I'm going through a few different things recently that I wanna talk a little bit about.
I got back in to playing poker about a week ago, when I first started I approached the game much differently than in the past. I played more passively, I called much more preflop, I 3bet much less, I tried to keep pots small, I reduced my bet sizing dramatically etc and it seemed to be working at first, as I made $4k in about 2k hands of $3/$6. However, things quickly started to go downhill and within the next 3k hands I found myself stuck about $4k since restarting poker. I wasn't able to effectively bluff when I wanted because the bets were too small to fold anyone off anything, but at the same time when I wanted value, I wasn't getting that much because my bets were small. People 3bet me more preflop, made more c/rs postflop because my bets were small and they either figured it was weak, or they needed to get more money in the pot with strong hands and in general I just felt much less in control of the flow of the game. I continued to lose money and hit a peak of about $-8k since restarting poker, for a total downswing of 13.333 buyins, which I hit today.
I think that experimenting with your game is invaluable and absolutely necessary to improve, however the style wasn't working out for me and today I went back to my old style, 3betting a shitton, betting much bigger, pissing people off etc. I felt much more in control, people seem more reluctant to bluff me because it costs them so much of their stack, they dunno what to do with medium strength hands because I'm making them commit so much money all the time, and it worked out much better, I feel like I'm controlling the way people are reacting to me a lot better, almost like how I used to back on Prima over a year ago where I crushed 5/10 for 8+ptbb/100 over 100k hands and multiple other limits for 5-7ptbb/100 over significant samples also. I really hope I can refind that success and am simply happy that I'm enjoying the game once more, if you don't enjoy it, don't think about what you're doing and just grind out hours day after day you won't improve as a player and you'll be depressed quite frequently.
The reason I stopped playing poker about 4 months ago was due to what I was talking about above. I was struggling to win, wasn't enjoying the game as much as I have in the past and had other things on my mind. Due to this disinterest I had to find something else to spend all this spare time on, and, probably for the worst I ended up playing a shitton of WoW. Here are 2 of my characters that I have been putting a fair bit of time into over the last 2 months or so: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Scilla&n=Pyretic http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Scilla&n=Departure
also, I have a level 74 warrior on a European server and a level 34 Paladin I started lately on the same server as the 2 characters above. Lately I've even became bored of WoW and that's probably why I'm playing more poker over the last week. It's a good thing, really, if I'm gonna waste a ton of time in front of my computer, it's a much better "waste" if it's spent (potentially) making money in poker than wasting away time "having fun" in WoW.
Speaking of computers, I got a new one 3 days ago, used Stars Concierge Service to get it, it cost about 3.5 million won which is approximately $2.65k. It's a beast and I want to sleep with it in my arms. I got a 25.5" monitor TV/Monitor/whatever with it, which is OK but I kinda wish I had my 30" Dell monitor that's currently sitting by itself in my room in England.
Not too much more to say I guess. I went to Artosis' birthday party yesterday along with lilsusie, nevergg, tasteless, PuertoRican and chilled out a bit. The poster "Uptown" on this site may be visiting me here in Korea at the end of this month so that should be cool, and I'm off travelling myself this Friday - hitting up Cebu, Phillipines. Probably gonna take some pictures and may make another blog post out of it. For now I'll leave you with a hand that I played today that made me feel good, when things like this happen, you know you are doing something right:
Submitted by :
I got him tilted so bad, he was at the point where he was calling every single 3bet I made, or if not calling then 4 betting and never folding post flop. Obviously I bet the river small to induce and it worked perfectly. There was another hand that was even more awesome imo, but I can't get it to show up properly when I link it from HEM's replayer T_T
Hi, if you havent read any pokerbooks you can just ignore this
but if ur some1 who has been reading a couple of books/heard of any i would appreciate ur help alot!
Ive been given 2 pokerbooks for free as a VIP thing and if some1 could look through this list of books and give any advice if you've read/heard if any1 of them are any good?
Ok, this is mainly for our sweet swedish members, but I was browsing around on the website of one of swedens biggest newspapers and I come across William Thorsons blog. For those of you who dont know him hes a swedish donkament player and a pokerstars pro. I always though he was pretty solid for no real reason but GOD. He has commented on the hand from high stakes poker where durrr does some epic soulowning and makes eastgate and barry fold the best hands.
This is the most retarded thing I have ever read. This is all in swedish but ill try to translate some of the gems from this "analysis"
"In general people play tighter live than online. Durr might play K2s in this spot online but he would never do it live"
"On the flop durrr isnt thinking at all and just tries to make everyone fold, once eastgate and barry calls he realizes that they have strong hands, but he doesnt realize how strong they are"
"the turn comes and durrr throws out a desperate bet of 105k and just hopes that they will both fold"
"I dont think there is more though behind the bet than that barry and eastgate are the weakest players on the table and he hopes they will fold something decent"
"Once he bet he realizes that it was terribe bet and that eastgate has a 2"
"durrr would never bet 105k on the turn with A2 or TT, he would bet smaller because he isnt scared of anything"
I could go on forever but I dont really feel like spreading this insult to durr more than I already have. Its fucking laughable that this guy even dares to comment a hand played by a player that is way way way way way better than this donkament fish will ever be. I really feel the urge to argue with this guy but its probably no use seeing as he is still on the 1st level.
Well, maybe not as dramatic as it sounds. Basicly I dont have any motivation to play anymore. I had a goal to earn myself enough money to buy myself an appartment before I went back to school. Well, winning the sunday mill sort of took care of that. After the mill win I wanted to give 5/10 a real shot, with my new nice bankoll. I to this day think Im definitely good enough to beat most 5/10 games and definitely most HU regs on both ipoker and prima. Its kinda sad that I am quiting right now as I have such a deep deep understanding of this game. However, my shots at 5/10+ went soso, went good in the beginning but I kinda crashed and burned after that. I ran pretty shitty in alot of key spots and ended up playing my B or even C game way to often. This in combination with my horses running really shitty resulted in my bankroll dwindling and Im not rolled to play 5/10 anymore.
The dream of beating 10/20+ was the only thing motivating me and the hands on 2/4 and 3/6 ive played the last few days have been poorly played overall. Basicly, I have lost the love of the game. To be honest I think I probably lost it a long time ago, but ive keept going because poker for me was a necessary evil, I had to put in a couple of hours a day to pay the rent or to validate my existence or whatever. Well guess what, poker is not a necessary evil anymore. I have money and I have a plan for my life. I see no reason to push myself to play bad regs on 3/6 anymore when all it does is cause me stress and makes me unhappy.
Ive always been happy when running well and feeling bad when running like shit, but what made it all worth it above everything else was that playing poker in it self, regardless of results, made me happy. I enjoyed it imensely and poker is the one single thing I have spent the most time in my life on. More than starcraft, more than any other game/sport/hobby/job.
I have let myself completely drown in poker. During the last 3 years in general but the last 6 months in perticular, I have lived poker. I think about/play/study poker and that is pretty much all I do. Everything else that I do during my days has indirectly been connected to poker, things i deemed necessary to do to keep myself on my A-game. I think its this obsession that has made me as good as I am today, but it has also made me define myself as a poker player, both to myself and people around me. Everyone around me except my best friends and my family view me as "that poker guy", and this puts me on tilt. I remember years ago when I though it would be so cool to be able to say to people that I play poker professionally. Now, I am very reluctant to admit it to new people I meet, because A: people dont understand poker and B: I dont want to be that poker guy.
I have defined myself as a poker player and I want to be more. Poker has made me neglect things I used to do regularily. I have put all my self worth in my ability to destroy people in this game and I have neglected to develope other important characteristics. I dont read as much as I used to. I dont work out as much as I used to. I dont play the piano as much as I used to. I dont spend as much time with my family and friends as I used to. As much freedom as poker has given me, it has also chained me down in other ways. Im kinda like the guy/girl that where the most good looking/most popular in high school, neglecting to develope character and qualities because they are the king of the world and then five years later you see them working in the supermarket.
When you define your own life and person through poker, your selfworth and your self confidence will swing along with the natural swings in the game and that is for me unacceptable. I dont want to work in the proverbial supermarket.
Now this blog post probably makes things sound worse than they really are, but I made my decision 2 hours and I have been feeling genuine happiness since then. I am quiting poker. I leave about 20k online for now, uninstall all my poker programs and move on to other things. I wont go back to poker until I have found the love to play the game again. Until I feel the urge to play the game and not the urge to just win money I wont play a single hand of poker.
I will keep coaching, I will keep backing my horses and I will still frequent these forums alot so not much will change in that department. I just wont play. As for ept and Vegas I am still undecided. I might still go and I might not.
I dont normally post any poker content but bear with me:
For the past 2 months ive been watching videos, reading articles, reading hand histories, changing my whole philosophy towards the game and actually having a feeling like i was moving forward and gaining skills - lookin at all this different shit actually trying to get better at this shitfuck game.
Then the month starts and I start playing and in my first 10k hands im like ohlolz kewl ez now i mastered the micro limits. My play was pretty good. I was hiting hands but generally i was getting in ahead, and makin some good plays and stuff based around my recent study.
then it just fucking rains shit on me all day every day and now im so tilted off my fucking face back to the same sold story of just pissing money into pots when im obviously way behind. apparently anytime i flop anything no one ever has anything.
I cant quite describe just how disappointed i feel that after hours and hours for weeks and weeks reading/watching videos/studying/reading articles
Planing on switching to pokerstars, some hours on ipoker its hard to massplay sngs and cgs cuz of some low activity with only like 6-10k players online w like only a few sngs running at a time
what I wonder is about the "cash back" system. now I have a 27% rakeback deal and I wanna know if the bonussystem to switch "points" to cash is any good?
If I rake say 3-4000$ / month will I get like any cashback? cuz 1k rakeback is pretty nice for me and if I can get like close to like atleast 500-1k$ as a 20-30$ sng and 50nl, 100nl player?
Im to laazy to search around on pokerstars site with a calculator and shit ^^
just wonder if any1 who is like using the points for cash regulary can give me some nice info?
Is their bonussystem any good?
So I moved up from 50nl to 100nl about a week ago with some nice sucess until today..
played for 6 hours 9 tabling and ended up losing 13BI's
like 1/3 of my roll..
I even think I played good aswell actually.. dont even wanna count the set vs higher sets and overpairs vs middlepair sets/random 2pair / draw riversuckouts in 3bet pots..
by far the worse ive ever run straight withoug catching any breaks..
couple of days break time and guess ill get back to 50nl...
Yeah so I dont really update this blog anymore but meh. In recent news I didnt play almost anything in january, ended the month slightly in the red. February started out great, I finally in the mood to play again and I logged alot of hands playing 3/6-10/20. Peaked my profits at around 35k + an ept copenhagen package. Copenhagen was awesome, eventhough I busted on the first day it was a really fun experience and I loved hanging out with everyone there. Really made me wanna quialify for ept san remo and monte carlo.
However, after returning from copenhagen poker has really gone to shit. In a combination of playing sloppy/tilted/retarded and getting coolered and cold decked I think Ive lost around 30k, meaning ive basicly killed all my profits from february in like a week. So much of this was my own fucking fault, whenever I run bad it just creates a huge negative spiral for me where I just play worse and worse. Its so fucking pathetic how I can let losing affect me when I am basicly freerolling life.
I dont think I can ever completely stop myself from being affected by poor results, but what I can do is take good breaks when poker isnt treating me well. This would minimize the damage of downswings so much and it tilts me to no end that I dont do this more often. The main problem is that where I live right now there is really nothing much to do during the day. All I do is basicly work out/play the piano, play poker and play dota. I very easily get bored and feel useless if I dont put in a couple of hours of grinding. Playing retarded and tilty poker is an expensive cure for boredom though and I really need to stop doing it. So from now on I will be taking a break from poker alltogether for a week. Only exception being maybe some sunday donkaments but primarily the ept sattelites as I want to take every chance I have to win a seat.
Tomorrow im buying a guitar and some books to keep me ocupied. Wish me luck!
Played almost only MTTs and SnGs last month with some good sucess, but I really feel like I need to get the cg's going again.
So far Ive done good Moved up to 50NL pretty fast because I realised im to much of a nit playing 20NL with like 150 buy ins
Played around 5 sessions of 9 tabling 50NL and it feels just great Pretty high VPIP in 50NL but there is included one HU session of a couple of 100 hands.
Smallish sample of hands but 23bb/100 pretty sick when im running 150$ under EV aswell
The regs are so weak on 50NL so far, they play like robots and gives up to 3bets/squeezes supereasy.
Planning to play atleast 30k hands this month, I need to clear out my 600$ signup bonus + get a 200$ extrabonus for making 50k "cardozapoints" in 1 month.
Next month my 27% rakeback deal will kick in aswell
Feels so good to grind with bonuses and rakeback now.
On my last client I hadnt had a bonus to clear in over 1 year. Wich suxed pretty hard.
Im still pretty conservative and not 3betting to much, I really wanna try to go for a lower variance kinda style in the beginning.
But it looks like its not needed yet. Hope to continue to do good and become a 50NL reg this month
Bankroll now of ~3800$ almost 10xed it in 1.5month now :D
LP has been nice inspiration for me
lovesloves
ps. Any1 wanna get pwned 1on1 bw later? -.-
PS2 I found the most addicting game ever (worse then poker..) I played it for 4 hours last night omg ^^
would be funny to see how you americans do in this game. Goes some rumors for us euros that the average american pretty much cant point out canada on a map
Contact Users: 442 Active, 0 Logged in - Time: 14:41
,
,
,
,
,
,
