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sooon2b United States. Feb 12 2008 02:21. Posts 774

Like I said in earlier blog posts, i've been sick and just recently started getting back in the swing of things. My results were pretty poor to start, so i've been reviewing my hands and re watching cardrunners videos. One video that really helped me was cts's 1/2 video he made playing extremely aggressive. I watched that 2 or 3 times between yesterday and today trying to really absorb the content. I played 1500 hands today 4 tabling, focusing on playing nutso, and using my image to exploit players. It worked! Id post my poker tracker stats but I cant figure out how to print screen on the windows OS im running on my mac. My stats for the session were 30/26/5.5.

I basically kept doing everything possible to annoy the regulars and get the fish to think im crazy. I kept 3betting any iso raises from regulars constantly. I did do this normally, but only with decent hands. Cts said to not be afraid to make aggressive plays like that etc, so I wasn't. It paid off. Some shitty hands got shown down, most didn't though. I did force my opponents to keep trying to adjust. For example, I would constantly 3bet a regular that would iso raise the loose passive fish that kept limping in EP. I did that 3-4 times until he 4bet me. Then I started cold calling all of his raises and started floating or check raising flops. Once it was obvious he was completely sick of me, I tightened up a bit vs him and got paid off.

Pretty simple I suppose, and I thought so before too, but I don't think I was aggressive enough. I also started 4betting fairly light very often vs regulars I knew were 3betting my iso raises. This worked way more often than not as well. All in all, I ended up getting paid off by the most absurd hands throughout the session, and am sure I had quite a few people tilted. This is similar to what straate would do(although his annoyingness was a bit more post flop than pre if I recall correctly), but it had a very similar effect. I did run pretty decent today, a ton better than I had been, but honestly most of my stacking came from sheer stupidity of players that were clearly annoyed with me. My big hands were getting paid off a lot more than they had been. I also held vs most of the draws I got it in vs, and I remember 5 outting a shortstack. I ended up making a bit over 8 buyins today which was sweet. I was just saying to a buddy yesterday that I couldnt remember the last time I had won more than 1-2 buyins in a session.

Over the past 2-3 months, granted I barely played, I seemed to break even. I made a good amount at HU, but lost it at 6m. Like I said, I believed my 6m game was no where near as strong as I thought it was. I knew how to adjust my HU game based on my image, but it seemed like whenever I played 6m I would just auto-pilot it. Hopefully I can continue to develop and maintain this thought process for 6m, and become a much better player.

Another problem I have always had is playing out of my comfort zone. I was not necessarily under rolled(although sometimes I definitely was..), I was still not comfortable with the amount of money being played for. Most likely because I did grow up fairly poor. I have found my comfort zone to be around 50 buyins for 200nl to 600nl. I intend on continuing to grind 100NL to 600NL playing on a 50BI roll. I am hoping to be rolled for and playing 600NL by June(the start of summer vaca for me). I am going to continue to play NL HU, NL 6M, and also keep learning PLO as I think it can be a very lucrative game(moreso than the current state of the NL games), and a good friend of mine has been willing to help me out a ton so i might as well take advantage of it. I will also continue to be backed for all major online tournaments as I certainly play better when backed as opposed to when playing on my own money. Yea I know I have probably said a lot of this stuff before, humor me. I did say I wouldnt tilt this year, and can not remember a single time since the start of the year that I have tilted in any sort of costly way(sure, a tilty play here and there, but no spewtarding at all). Hopefully I will be able to stick to these goals, and will really start to treat this game more like a job.

fwiw I am still all jacked up on energy drank and adderol so I know this is all insane incoherent rambling that probably no one will read and thats fine but it felt good to type it out so i can look back and see what i said.

if you did read this thanks <3 etc. if not, I dont blame you tbh. anyways...

gl at the tables, keep it real, dont listen to girls, always wear condoms(pls pls pls trust me on this, birth control does not necessarily matter!)

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Silver_nz New Zealand. Feb 12 2008 02:30. Posts 5647

off to watch cts vid again

CrownRoyal United States. Feb 12 2008 04:47. Posts 11386

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SolarMusic Germany. Feb 12 2008 05:53. Posts 1218

Very nice to read!!!

kNkiDDa Germany. Feb 12 2008 11:58. Posts 83

Where did you get the vid? Can you share?
thx.

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sooon2b United States. Feb 12 2008 13:38. Posts 774

i had a very scary scare this past week. :- but found out thats how a lot of my friends got pregnant. the girls were on birth control, guys pull out etc, still got preggy

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