Bleh, got stomped HU today, I think I play an uneccesary swingy style hu but w/e. Ill probably make a writeup about todays play later but Im to tired right now.
In other news, I have decided to take on a more healthy lifestyle. Since last week I will be excercising 5-6 times a week. Running and lifting weights. I just finished my first week of doing this and my entire body is acing hah. Im also going to eat alot healthier and I have stocked up on beans, wildrice and other disgusting but healthy stuff. If all works out well I will look like He-man by the time I get to vegas this summer.
So ive pretty much stopped playing everything besides 3/6 6max the past week. I havent been doing very well and i wanted to buckle down and grind out some profit before moving back to other things.
I just cant seem to do very well. Im for sure running under expectation, but i also havent played my best. I had 1 -4500 session in there, which made me realize that i need to be a lot stricter about my stop losses. I hadnt had a 7-8 buyin loss in a session in a long time. Im reinstating the 4 buyin stop loss for 3/6 and 5/10 and ill use a 3 buyin stoploss for games at 10/20+ in the future.
Barely winning over such a large period of hands is really frustrating. I feel like Sylvester Stallone in Rocky 3 when he is training with Apollo for his rematch vs Clubber Lang. You know the scene, where rocky is taking punches to the head from Apollo but is having flashbacks to his first fight with clubber, but he isnt going down because the punches are so much weaker. (gotta click comments to see the video, dunno why videos arent showing up on the main blog page)
Thats how i feel at 3/6 6max. Most of the players are just so much weaker than opponents im used to playing and i see all these awful things but keep getting my head beat in. Im going to keep fighting and work through this. I will keep reviewing all my pots where i lose 30bb or more, look for things i can improve in my game, and keep playing high volume until im comfortable to move back into other things.
So ive pretty much stopped playing everything besides 3/6 6max the past week. I havent been doing very well and i wanted to buckle down and grind out some profit before moving back to other things.
I just cant seem to do very well. Im for sure running under expectation, but i also havent played my best. I had 1 -4500 session in there, which made me realize that i need to be a lot stricter about my stop losses. I hadnt had a 7-8 buyin loss in a session in a long time. Im reinstating the 4 buyin stop loss for 3/6 and 5/10 and ill use a 3 buyin stoploss for games at 10/20+ in the future.
Barely winning over such a large period of hands is really frustrating. I feel like Sylvester Stallone in Rocky 3 when he is training with Apollo for his rematch vs Clubber Lang. You know the scene, where rocky is taking punches to the head from Apollo but is having flashbacks to his first fight with clubber, but he isnt going down because the punches are so much weaker. (gotta click comments to see the video, dunno why videos arent showing up on the main blog page)
Thats how i feel at 3/6 6max. Most of the players are just so much weaker than opponents im used to playing and i see all these awful things but keep getting my head beat in. Im going to keep fighting and work through this. I will keep reviewing all my pots where i lose 30bb or more, look for things i can improve in my game, and keep playing high volume until im comfortable to move back into other things.
Played a sick long session against one guy HU. We played two tables for about 5 hours I think, pretty cool match eventhough I think villian wasnt all that good. He is probably a winner at 2/4 hu but not much more than that. He did pull a couple of big suckouts on me but I still ended up about 3k off him so I cant really complain. I ran good and also sucked out in a couple of key spots.
By the end of the session we where really deep and I was 3-betting like a madman so the game basicly played like 5/10 or even higher. All in all Im very pleased with my play throughout the session. I think I played my best Hu game ever in the beginning/mid of the session but sadly my game deteriorated a bit at the end.
So after the debacle that was yesterday (see previous blogpost for details, or don't, probably better for my overall reputation as a non-retard tilt monkey if you don't!!) the first thing I did after breakfast today was sit down and 4 table 2/5 again. I had decided that I would move down if I dropped down to 13k (I'm actually not sure exactly how much I have, because the £ sign can't be displayed on this computer without me rebooting and I have cashed out and stuff, but it was probably around 4 more buyins from where I was when I started today).
Anyway, I'm feeling alright, focused, brain working unlike yesterday, and 5 minutes in I get stacked QQ vs KK. But today is different, today I was not to be tilted. Felt nothing, reloaded, continued playing, and finished up after playing some poker that I was very happy with.
There were a few hands that I think I misplayed, but overall I am very happy with my decisions and such today.
(Note: for the majority of my session yesterday I was happy with how I played, just at the end I totally lost it, thankfully I had the presence of mind to instaquit after giving a buyin away).
So, graph from yesterday:
Today:
So basically today and yesterday cancelled eachother out (with a tiny bit of profit).
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/366672 - Thank you, thank you sooo much CaptZeebo (if this doesn't make sense to you, I'm refering to the Zeebo theorem, ie, people never fold full houses, so overbet for value if you have a hand like mine).
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/366892 - One of my notes on him said "Doesn't like to fold", thought I was valuebetting all 3 streets not just the river
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/366893 - Couldn't decide if I should bet river or not, I sort of wanted to just because it's a card I'd use to 3barrel a lot, but meh.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/366897 - Ok, I'm not sure I love my play here.. Hm, the guy minbetting is really bad, I checked cause when he minbets and the other guy calls, I definitely have the caller (who seems like a good player) beat, and the donk can have a veeeeeeeeeeery wide range, and is probably calling a lot of that. But then he instaminraises me and I go wtf. I'm not sure what I'd have done in the moment on a complete blank turn.. Maybe I'd have wimped out but I think because of how bizzarre he plays I might have forced myself to call.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/366904 - Don't like my play here. On the turn I think I instachecked (hoping he'd bluff some draw that missed on the river), then when he bets 20 on the river I was really confused about what to do.
It kind of looked like he wanted to bet 200 but typoed? I'm not sure.
Eitherway I ended up making a stupid minraise hoping he'd do something spazzy, which I think was kinda stupid .
Better to raise to like 180 or something, I think he might call it reasonably light since he might think he induced it.
I guess two other options would be to felt the flop or bet/call turn, but I didn't think he was gonna go apeshit bananas with like AJ here (obv AJcc).. MAYBE AQ? I dunno. Anyway, I think I played it pretty poorly on the river
In other news.. Had second MMA class today (meant to go twice before but the first time I couldn't decide if I was going at first and then suddenly it was too late to get there in time, oops, the second time I read the time wrong on the schedule, double oops).
Anyway, I did some MMA a few years back but quit cause of time contstraints (which is a nice way of saying I wanted to get into the top 32 in the TLTour ladder.. got like 38th or 34th or something, booh). I missed it but always put off going back for some reason, so it feels great to be back.
Also awesome that unlike last time, I'm not dying of exhaustion after the training, I guess running paid off (still not in great shape obviously). Takedown/throws fucking kills you tho, grappling, standup, it's not THAT exhausting, but having to do that and then get up and down/throw people is sick hard on you.
New Years resolutions, status update:
- Sleeping schedule: FIXED (god I feel sooooooo much better sleeping at reasonable hours).
- MMA: started =]
- Go: Ehh, need to get to this one..
- Poker.. ........ I bought a wii. And I've been lazy. I think I've managed 6k hands this month. Hopefully when my 30" monitor arrives from the PS store I will get my shit in gear and do some serious playing
I'm really happy with how I've progressed just between this and last month. I managed to implement many things that I wanted to, and it's really showing in my play I think (ie my att to steal is much, much, much higher than before, my W$WSF has shot WAY up, and in general I'm playing more poker and less 'make big hand, win money, make no hand, lose money').
I think I should work on defending my big blind a bit more tho, right now it's pretty low, but not entirely sure what's optimal.
So to summarize, while I haven't played much, and certainly haven't been killing the games in the tiny sample I have, I'm confident I'm on the right track now and hopefully I can get into a good rhytmn.
Ok, after this blog entry I swear to god I will never use another lame 2+2 phrase to title my blog posts, but this is just too fitting...
This is my January so far. Look's pretty fun eh? Anyone like that +15k upswing in the middle? I liked it! First 10k hands of the month I ran like death of shit. Then the next 15k hands I ran like God. Then I hit another little slump towards the end. To be honest, the past couple days I've been sloppy and not playing my best game. Pretty disappointed in myself for that, but I'm definitely going to get more focused in this upcoming week. There is still over a week left in January so I hope I can rebound from this little downswing.
Pretty sweet swings for the most part. I love this game lol...
Ok, after this blog entry I swear to god I will never use another lame 2+2 phrase to title my blog posts, but this is just too fitting...
This is my January so far. Look's pretty fun eh? Anyone like that +15k upswing in the middle? I liked it! First 10k hands of the month I ran like death of shit. Then the next 15k hands I ran like God. Then I hit another little slump towards the end. To be honest, the past couple days I've been sloppy and not playing my best game. Pretty disappointed in myself for that, but I'm definitely going to get more focused in this upcoming week. There is still over a week left in January so I hope I can rebound from this little downswing.
Pretty sweet swings for the most part. I love this game lol...
qqqoooqqq : checks
Loser18: bets $200
qqqoooqqq : raises to $376.40 and is all-in
Loser18: is all-in $175.30
Returned uncalled bets $1.10 to qqqoooqqq
Showdown qqqoooqqq : shows (High Card Ace)
Loser18: shows (A Straight, Six high)
Loser18 collected $997.60 from Main pot
Summary Total pot $1000.60 Main pot $997.60 Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: deflecker folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: bahamas1 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: qqqoooqqq (small blind) showed and lost with High Card Ace
Seat 4: Loser18 (big blind) showed and won ($997.60) with A Straight, Six high
Seat 5: kick_nutz folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: mistertwy folded before Flop (didn't bet)
WELCOME TO TILTVILLE, POPULATION: ME
All tables closed, time to sleep.
Playing with an att to steal of 48 and having your AA win the blinds - EVERY SINGLE TIME (seen flops: 0 OK?) is the most tilt inducing thing in the whole god damn world.
Ghjjjjjjjjjjjjjffffffffffghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
AA = 100% winrate, 43$ profit in 5 goes (1000 hands).
KK = 100% winrate, 63$ profit in 5 goes. Again, right around 0 flops seen.
QQ = 83% winrate, down 16$, 6 goes, saw like 1 flop and lost to 93o.
I don't really care so much about all of the above, it's just that one last hand - so completely 100% pointless. Just giving the money away..
Barely played any poker at all this month, and handled every beat without feeling tilted, and now today this fucking mess.. I just shouldn't have played today, felt tilted from the moment I woke up
Btw, before anyone thinks I'm busto or something, I only lost like 3 buyins.
It was just that one hand that makes me so furiously disappointed in myself.
I have a new love, and it's not ape smashing bitches at NL400 on stars. It would be a girl, but I have a new years resolution to keep-up so it can't be that! My new love started last Saturday when I went to a local Surf shop and finally got myself a fin for my 9 foot longboard. Strapped my board onto the top of my car and took the 10 min drive out to La Jolla Shores beach at around noon. Everyday since Saturday I've been out to La Jolla Shores surfing and wow... it's a fucking blast. At first I was pretty terrible, but now I can get up a ride a few of the smaller waves pretty well. My goal... even though it might be impossible... and a bit suicidal... is to be like this guy:
[Click Comments to View Videos] Laird Hamilton is easily the sickest man alive.
I have a new love, and it's not ape smashing bitches at NL400 on stars. It would be a girl, but I have a new years resolution to keep-up so it can't be that! My new love started last Saturday when I went to a local Surf shop and finally got myself a fin for my 9 foot longboard. Strapped my board onto the top of my car and took the 10 min drive out to La Jolla Shores beach at around noon. Everyday since Saturday I've been out to La Jolla Shores surfing and wow... it's a fucking blast. At first I was pretty terrible, but now I can get up a ride a few of the smaller waves pretty well. My goal... even though it might be impossible... and a bit suicidal... is to be like this guy:
[Click Comments to View Videos] Laird Hamilton is easily the sickest man alive.
Been doing very well this month up till about 2 days ago. I had 3 bad sessions in a row playing 3/6 6max and i did a lot of thinking/work on why i was playing bad. A lot of it was running bad but i definitely was not playing my best. I had about an 8 buyin downswing over the course of 3-4k hands, so i went through all the pots over 30bb i played and looked through PT to find some errors and i think i corrected most of them. So far ive won 5 buyins back and im going to play till i win about 5 more buyins before moving back into higher 6max games. Anyway, here are the pt stats for january so far:
Its not listed because its at the bottom, but ive started tinkering around at 2/4 hu. i really want to improve my hu game so im going to start at 2/4 and work my way up after i win about 20-30 buyins at each level. ive never really spent any time working on it and i believe being a good hu player is the key to moving past 10/20 and 25/50. ill probably spent some time watching all the hu videos on CR and going through sessions of hands to see how the game flow is going.
Outside of poker there are 2 new possible loves in my life. The first is mr townsends now ex assistant brooke. it seems she is no longer under mr rugbys wing and a free bird these days. as andrew proved in an earlier blog entry, her name along means shes hot so we should be on the search for her. lets track her down. i typed brooke into google images and these are some of the brookes who i dont recognize that might be her:
Any of these could be her.
Also, i never watch the show usually, but kathy daut convinced me to watch american idol with her the other night. I fell in love with one of the contestants, kristy lee cook: She trains MMA (sick armbar in the video), is super hot, good country singer and is going to be famous soon. if anyone knows how i can get in touch with said goddess let me know! check out her american idol video (YOU HAVE TO CLICK COMMENTS TO SEE THE BLOG ENTRY AND VIDEO FOR SOME REASON):
Been doing very well this month up till about 2 days ago. I had 3 bad sessions in a row playing 3/6 6max and i did a lot of thinking/work on why i was playing bad. A lot of it was running bad but i definitely was not playing my best. I had about an 8 buyin downswing over the course of 3-4k hands, so i went through all the pots over 30bb i played and looked through PT to find some errors and i think i corrected most of them. So far ive won 5 buyins back and im going to play till i win about 5 more buyins before moving back into higher 6max games. Anyway, here are the pt stats for january so far:
Its not listed because its at the bottom, but ive started tinkering around at 2/4 hu. i really want to improve my hu game so im going to start at 2/4 and work my way up after i win about 20-30 buyins at each level. ive never really spent any time working on it and i believe being a good hu player is the key to moving past 10/20 and 25/50. ill probably spent some time watching all the hu videos on CR and going through sessions of hands to see how the game flow is going.
Outside of poker there are 2 new possible loves in my life. The first is mr townsends now ex assistant brooke. it seems she is no longer under mr rugbys wing and a free bird these days. as andrew proved in an earlier blog entry, her name along means shes hot so we should be on the search for her. lets track her down. i typed brooke into google images and these are some of the brookes who i dont recognize that might be her:
Any of these could be her.
Also, i never watch the show usually, but kathy daut convinced me to watch american idol with her the other night. I fell in love with one of the contestants, kristy lee cook: She trains MMA (sick armbar in the video), is super hot, good country singer and is going to be famous soon. if anyone knows how i can get in touch with said goddess let me know! check out her american idol video (YOU HAVE TO CLICK COMMENTS TO SEE THE BLOG ENTRY AND VIDEO FOR SOME REASON):
For those of you who haven't seen it yet, I made a NL100 video on http://www.DonkeyTest.com. Basically the video showcases what I would do normally while I play. If you're a standard ABC tight/aggressive player that is struggling to move up from NL100 (or NL200 for that matter) this is probably a must view. Lyric (creator of the donkeytest for those of you who didn't know) also put up a cute little profile for me:
I made a few mistakes in the video that I thought I'd point out. Mistake #1 comes early in the vid where I have 7h6h and I flop the nuts. For some reason I could swear I had 8h7h instead, so when I'm saying "I think I have the best hand here..." and the board reads 8-5-4, and your looking at the 76 and asking yourself "O RLY? It's the nuts?" keep in mind that I thought I had 8h7h. Mistake #2 --> The K9 hand vs the dumb fish, don't value bet the river. I didn't really look at his stack size too much so I folded to the check-raise, but that should of been a call if I value bet the river. Other than that I think the vid is pretty straight forward. It's my first real video, so give me a little slack. No I don't plan on making any videos above NL200 let alone the stakes I currently play now... that would be retarded. And finally, YES I REALIZE I AM VERY BAD AT EXPLAINING THINGS.
For those of you who haven't seen it yet, I made a NL100 video on http://www.DonkeyTest.com. Basically the video showcases what I would do normally while I play. If you're a standard ABC tight/aggressive player that is struggling to move up from NL100 (or NL200 for that matter) this is probably a must view. Lyric (creator of the donkeytest for those of you who didn't know) also put up a cute little profile for me:
I made a few mistakes in the video that I thought I'd point out. Mistake #1 comes early in the vid where I have 7h6h and I flop the nuts. For some reason I could swear I had 8h7h instead, so when I'm saying "I think I have the best hand here..." and the board reads 8-5-4, and your looking at the 76 and asking yourself "O RLY? It's the nuts?" keep in mind that I thought I had 8h7h. Mistake #2 --> The K9 hand vs the dumb fish, don't value bet the river. I didn't really look at his stack size too much so I folded to the check-raise, but that should of been a call if I value bet the river. Other than that I think the vid is pretty straight forward. It's my first real video, so give me a little slack. No I don't plan on making any videos above NL200 let alone the stakes I currently play now... that would be retarded. And finally, YES I REALIZE I AM VERY BAD AT EXPLAINING THINGS.
My right eye has been twitching. Now normally this wouldn't bug me much (or at all) but it has been twitching randomly all week. To make matters worse, I woke up this morning and started playing poker and something in my right shoulder has started twitching as well. WTF. I wiki'd this shit and all it says that twitching symptoms are caused by stress. But wtf am I stressed about? I've just recovered from a -8k downswing and now I'm in the green for the month, I'm on fucking winter vacation, and this entire week I've been chilling. How the fuck can I be stressed?
My right eye has been twitching. Now normally this wouldn't bug me much (or at all) but it has been twitching randomly all week. To make matters worse, I woke up this morning and started playing poker and something in my right shoulder has started twitching as well. WTF. I wiki'd this shit and all it says that twitching symptoms are caused by stress. But wtf am I stressed about? I've just recovered from a -8k downswing and now I'm in the green for the month, I'm on fucking winter vacation, and this entire week I've been chilling. How the fuck can I be stressed?
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