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NewbSaibot United States. Jan 23 2010 06:47. Posts 4948

Ok, so I deposited $50 today to half-stack NL10 rush on FTP. That's 10 buyins, seemed adequate for one-tabling anyway, already tried full stacking it for fewer buyins but the variance at me up. So what I sacrifice in value I make up for in surviving.

Here's an at-a-glance look at my play today:

The list goes on, and ultimately im busto, again... A lot of the rags in there are just tilt after some monkey limp calls my iso raise and gets it allin with bottom pair on an AK9 flop and stuff.

So where do I go from here? Well everyone says you want loose fish calling you with rags. Since I cant handle this online as I get too impatient/tilted, I'm gonna take another shot at live. Since the lowest limit offered in my city is NL200, I cant afford it right now. With my wife currently job seeking and all the bills falling on me I'm just stuck in a rut poker wise. Too broke to play higher limits, too tilted to play lower limits.

Once the money starts rolling in though I hope to be able to take a few lucky shots at live and build a roll from there. I cant beat fish at NL2 because I get too tilted at the shit they stack me with. But the good thing about live is that it forces you to keep your composure (at least for me), since I'm not gonna act like a jackass in front of 30 people. Combined with the calming effect of the social atmosphere, alcohol, and fewer hands = fewer bad beats, I never get spewy. There's still variance, so it might take me awhile before my 2 BI shots turn into a real bankroll, as I fully expect to bust the first few times. Or maybe ill get lucky and just run good the first night and walk out with 5+ BI's.

Whichever happens, I'll have to wait a long good while before deciding when to reload online again. The only limit I can take seriously is NL200 and up, but I certainly need a bankroll there since I'm outclassed by the player pool. So unless I absolutely demolish live tables for 2-3 months straight, I'll probably never have enough funds available to use from my live roll to play online with again, since I just refuse to play anything less than NL100 anymore.

On a side note; Rush poker has been an interesting experience. I learned to play poker from an AI simulator, and the cool thing about that was it had a "next hand" button to just fast forward your way through the crap and find good spots to play in. This is exactly how rush feels, so I thought I might pwn at it since I'm used to playing with blinders on and just quickfolding my way to position with some kind of playable hand. Unfortunately rush changes things a bit. The simulator continues to act like a normal ring game, but rush players are making all sorts of adjustments which make it a little more complicated. The fish are still there jamming and calling off their stacks with garbage, which even the simulator never did, but the light 3betting is something I still havent quite figured out how best to play vs. Since I'm no good at 4betting I opt to just call most of what I suspect are light 3 bets, take a flop, and try to play from there. I figure if they're bluffing they'll lead the flop and I can just raise and rep something that calls a 3bet with, or I can even cbet if they just check it to me, or delay my bet for the turn to look a little more defensive but believable etc etc. But I just couldnt get enough hand volume in to figure it all out. From what I recall light 4betting really does seem to be the best answer, but I just wasnt willing to run into 5bet shoves and folding hands like 98s and KJo, where I could probably either win a large or small pot with once the flop chills everyone the fuck out.

Beyond that I dont really have much else to say about rush, other than I officially take the side of ring game players saying normal poker is more +EV compared to rush, no matter how you play it.

Oh, and about moving to vegas, well the idea was just a long shot, with my wife being unemployed for so long and my job future going nowhere, we thought we might just start looking for employment in las vegas (doing normal white collar shit), which would give me the opportunity to calmly play live in a legal environment without all the ghetto'ness of playing in my city at peoples houses and shit. We're fascinated by the Vegas landscape and culture and think we might actually enjoy living there regardless of playing poker. But it would be a huge undertaking to acquire a new job out of state like that to secure our futures if we ever really decided to move.

THE END

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bye now

Last edit: 23/01/2010 06:53

terrybunny19240 United States. Jan 23 2010 12:05. Posts 13829

sucks that your wife can't find a job, lame. best of luck with getting all of the real life stuff in order :D

cuz I like you, I want to remind you that you have a totally wrong approach and thought process around poker. You seem like a cool guy, but you really don't seem to have a mind that is built for poker.. food for thought.

thumbz555 United States. Jan 23 2010 13:19. Posts 3281

I think quitting is your best option with this mindset

I click buttons.

Mariuslol Norway. Jan 23 2010 14:42. Posts 4742

On January 23 2010 11:05 Night2o1 wrote:
sucks that your wife can't find a job, lame. best of luck with getting all of the real life stuff in order :D

cuz I like you, I want to remind you that you have a totally wrong approach and thought process around poker. You seem like a cool guy, but you really don't seem to have a mind that is built for poker.. food for thought.

I wanted to write a similar reply, but I didn't want to come off as rude or mean, so kept erasing what I wrote then I just gave up lol.

When I read his blog, something's a bit off, really feel poker isn't his cup of tea. Not that there's anything wrong with that at all, or ment to be offensive.

Last edit: 23/01/2010 14:43

mnj United States. Jan 23 2010 16:29. Posts 3848

play 4 funs not 4 monies

ShaperofDreams Canada. Jan 23 2010 19:29. Posts 438

Night201 is right unfortunately.

The way of thinking "I am not winning at this, the problem is with its format so I have to find some other version (live) is simply a bad approach so poker.

ShaperofDreams Canada. Jan 23 2010 19:30. Posts 438

thats like believing your ex girlfriend when she breaks up with you and says "its not you, its me"

RaiZ France. Jan 24 2010 00:34. Posts 1503

I see nothing wrong with swimming against the tide... Maybe you're calling too much ?

Shin-il : Yeah it was very very very good for me too. Rekrul : YOU MOTHER FUCKING FUCKING SON OF A BITCH