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edzwoo United States. Feb 18 2011 09:42. Posts 5911 | | |
As usual, I'm still mulling around these forums and talking to people on MSN about hands and what not. I'm kind of in the mood to play again, but at the same time I'm not.
In my spare time when I'm not hauling in 985 pounds of airsoft guns (not fun), I've just been browsing the internet for something to keep me entertained. I picked up playing a mod of Diablo 2 with my roommates which was fun a good month or so, but now I'm back to being bored. With LP as my home page and poker people on MSN, it seems like it won't be too long before I get back into it.
About a month ago, I made a blog post asking to buy 100k playchips. The reason is because my friends and I were all bored one weekend, and I brought up the idea that we play heads up on Stars playchips. Stars actually has 1/2 playchip HU, so why not just assign a monetary value and have a little gambling fun against each other? We all only had the default 1k chips, so we were having a bit of trouble setting up multiple tables and being able to reload.
I always wanted to work on my heads up game, but it's almost impossible to get a game running for an extended period of time. One of my buddies named Sam absolutely loved the idea of playing me heads up, so we 4 tabled some 1c/2c HU with no rake (at the end we'd pay each other in cash). I know to some it might seem stupid, but once you start playing you actually take it really seriously. Because there was no pressure to make money and only to make the best moves, I felt I made quick adjustments, picked up reads, and acted upon them much better than I ever have. I also felt like I improved as a poker player at a much faster rate than when I played FR or 6max. Sam is a recreational player, but I quickly realized it doesn't matter who you play against when it comes to learning. I might be able to beat him just by making better folds and bigger value bets, but in order to maximize my EV I still needed to pick apart his game. Most of all, I had a lot of fun 
Side note, if any of you low stakes grinders out there are interested in playing me in some 1c/2c HU, let me know. I'm not trying to hustle you guys or anything; I'd imagine I have an edge. But I think it would be a good learning experience for both of us.
Anyway, back when I was playing NL100/NL200, I think I forgot on how to improve as a poker player. I think I got caught up in this trap of trying to outplay regs, doing things like betting smaller to make them call, spending way too much time thinking about hands that occur once every 10k hands and would have no effect on my winrate. Yet you just look at someone like TalentedTom who crushes people, and he's just super blunt and straightforward most of the time. He's obviously smart, but he also seems to approach the game with a really simple mindset. Also, he doesn't bet 2/3rd pot.
I think my mindset about poker has completely changed since I've been thinking about this and played that HU match with Sam.
Meanwhile, when I was playing that Diablo 2 mod, I ran a character up to level 60 with my roommates. When they weren't playing with me, I would run a random new character up to level 20, quit, then do it again. I did it like 5 times because I was actually having quite a lot of fun doing it; I guess it had something to do with the game being really easy in the beginning. Similarly, when I played SC2 I think I had the most fun playing my placement matches.
All that being said, I'm kinda in the mood to play some poker again. Another thing that's pushing me in that direction is LP's own rockman255 coming back into the scene. He's kind of on the same boat and we've been talking a lot about poker.
I think I just want to have some fun and bash fish, because winning itself is just fun. So MAYBE this week I'll take that $25 I have on Absolute and grind some NL2 6max and see how far I can get. Maybe I'll just run that up, but if I'm having fun and feeling good, I'll probably deposit and play some higher limits.
Anyway, just felt like posting something in my blog and write out random thoughts, so sorry if none of this really flows together .
GL at the tables!
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LemOn[5thF] Czech Republic. Feb 18 2011 09:57. Posts 15163 | | |
wtf is this? You quit, not even a month later you are back to play 'degen' HU (you were playing putting in hours playing poker), and now you are back yet again?
Why not just keep your roll online, and play at your limits or sngs Mtt just a couple hours per week and have fun with it whenever you want to? You never really quit bro ;o |
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edzwoo United States. Feb 18 2011 10:08. Posts 5911 | | |
I didn't really quit poker, I just stopped playing it as a primary source of income. I think quitting would imply leaving the game altogether, but I definitely wasn't doing that.
I also wasn't really enjoying playing my limits, probably because it was getting a bit stale going back the same grind. Also I hate tournament poker  .
I think I only put in 4 hours of poker over 2 weeks in the random HU run. It was also like mostly 1-2tabling. |
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Chewits United Kingdom. Feb 18 2011 10:19. Posts 2539 | | |
Sounds like a good plan ed. Good luck |
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RoyCe 4otZ United States. Feb 18 2011 10:26. Posts 147 | | |
that's a cool idea though the no rake part i'm going to use it, anyways gl |
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dryath Australia. Feb 18 2011 11:08. Posts 1317 | | | |
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edzwoo United States. Feb 18 2011 11:31. Posts 5911 | | |
a wild dryath has appeared! |
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Acckerman United States. Feb 18 2011 13:06. Posts 725 | | |
race u at teh 1/2c tables
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you should just start a pyramid scheme, i hear those are pretty profitable |
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K40Cheddar United States. Feb 18 2011 14:08. Posts 2202 | | |
I'd take you up on .01/.02 heads up challenge anytime. Just bring it up if you are interested. |
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i'd love to play you hu too (1c/2c) |
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YoMeR United States. Feb 18 2011 14:26. Posts 12435 | | |
omg the d2 mod.
anyone want to get a group going? ;o
i really need to stay away tho. |
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YoMeR United States. Feb 18 2011 15:30. Posts 12435 | | |
goddamnit, i'm reinstalling d2 and downloading the mod ;( |
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Acckerman United States. Feb 18 2011 16:04. Posts 725 | | |
wow i just quit playin that mod and we needed a 4th person lol |
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NewbSaibot United States. Feb 18 2011 16:48. Posts 4944 | | |
I'll play you HU NL2 anytime. We can play on absolute or however you have been doing it. I think we should make commentaries of each other while we play and share afterwards. |
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mnj United States. Feb 18 2011 17:42. Posts 3848 | | |
| | On February 18 2011 09:08 edzwoo wrote:
I didn't really quit poker, I just stopped playing it as a primary source of income. I think quitting would imply leaving the game altogether, but I definitely wasn't doing that.
I also wasn't really enjoying playing my limits, probably because it was getting a bit stale going back the same grind. Also I hate tournament poker .
I think I only put in 4 hours of poker over 2 weeks in the random HU run. It was also like mostly 1-2tabling. |
best pocket change, don't make it your primary source of income though imo |
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edzwoo United States. Feb 18 2011 19:50. Posts 5911 | | |
| | On February 18 2011 14:30 YoMeR wrote:
goddamnit, i'm reinstalling d2 and downloading the mod ;( |
LOL if enough LP people start playing maybe i'd be willing to play again. I have some friends that are still playing atm.
| | On February 18 2011 15:48 NewbSaibot wrote:
I'll play you HU NL2 anytime. We can play on absolute or however you have been doing it. I think we should make commentaries of each other while we play and share afterwards. |
I would actually love to do this sometime . |
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