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LemOn[5thF] Czech Republic. Mar 15 2009 22:03. Posts 15163 | | |
My first month with poker:
6hours/day on tables average + at least 2 with reading etc.
I went from destructive nitting on iPoker (That site is unplayable NL2) to Pokerstars, which became my home and I don't even think about leaving.
I played mostly 4 tables all the time, and experienced many aspects of microstakes poker. I even had a massive 1/3 BR downswing once, which helped me to lift my play incredibly.
I started using technical approach towards ranges using tracker and Stove since the downswing, and concepts of many hands suddenly came into my mind. This showed me how to adjust to all opponents, what are my odds for c/bets and also all those awkward calls which I wouldn't make before if I wasn't the favourite in that hand (Ie. I was not calling many +ev situations)
It was all nice, but the improvement in understanding poker made me even more angry about the idiocy at NL2, where you can't really be sure about ranges at all, and I have developed a very weird patterns.
I Watched how the stupidest players were bluffing and have done the same for the nuts (ie. just call a small raise with set and then push it all-in on turn with huge success), and I have imitated many stupid moves like that, which are very profitable at this stake.
This made me SICK, and I decided today that I have had enough of NL2.
Having learned from my mistakes though, I know I couldn't go around by BR management. I set myself a goal of 30x 100bb BI's for nl5. I was close once before the major downswing, but again I am very grateful that I could experience it before moving up.
My day started normally, I went to 4 tabling as usual, posting losing hands here and counting equity for hands I wasn't so sure about. A learning mode you would say.
As the day progressed and I saw I go above 10BB/100 I increased the number of tables up to 9 and started grinding. I made myself a huge bowl of rice, put on some loud HipHop shiz to my 5.1 speaker system and went for the longest grind so far.
I reached about $148 and than it happened, I started to get tired as hell and whats worse, I didn't resist to the urge to check cashier every 5 minutes now, so hard I wanted to be on $150.
What followed is not surprising, I opened my range and started bluffing too much and I went down to $143 at one point.
I started to get fucking angry, and I realised that I can't play intelligent open game anymore
I was slowly adding tables, until I got to number 18, and started ultra hardcore nitting.
And Guess what, Its much easier to find the total idiots on NL2 this way. After exhausting grind I Stacked off with some nice sets and once one full BI with Ace high and... I DID IT!
$150 At least ! :D
And as for todays summary,
Many many hours.
The day went surprisingy smooth, with almost all coolers being offset by a heater or some retard calling with nothing on other tables.
And as for my first poker month:
As an ending note I would like to thank you all on Liquidpoker for your amazing support, the constructive criticism and advice I have recieved has been priceless.
I am going to take a break from poker for couple of days as I am so exhausted right now, and when I come back I will taste NL5 with 5BI max loss limit.
Thanks for reading, LemOn
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LOL omg 43k hands at 1c/2c, u got grind in ur genetics |
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TopGear United Kingdom. Mar 15 2009 22:27. Posts 663 | | |
thats some awesome grinding, keep it up! |
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why is CTS playing at your tables ?
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