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I need BR management discipline :( |
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Endo United States. Jul 28 2011 04:28. Posts 953 | | |
So I traded for some Hero $ earlier, got $100, and was just playing around on NL25 HU, which I find for the most part to be really really soft. Really quickly into my first session, and a couple of check/raise all-ins later (most of which are snap called with the nuts or TPTK against my FD/SD) I find myself with only $33 left.
Then I seem like I cant lose, run it up to $250 or so (oh baby, going up 10 buyins) and play this massive fish at NL25 who I take like 4 BI off of in maybe 50 hands.
He sits out and I'm just browsing on the HU tables when I notice he's sitting on some NL100 tables. Same guy. And I'm just licking my chops, thinking "Oooooo free monies".
You can see where this is going...
I had told myself that I was already underrolled for NL25 HU, and if I did well I would not move up AT ALL until I was fully rolled for NL50 HU (meaning 20 BI). I've always done very well at HU online in the past, but always had BR management issues. No moving up. No matter what.
So what do I do? I sit down at the NL100 table and he posts his blind.
YESSSSS. HE'S PLAYING ME.
AK, 4bet preflop, he calls. Flop comes KJ3. He checks, I bet, and he snapjams over. I'm like FIST-PUMPING CALL right then because I know I'm good and he flips over QJs. Rivers a Q.
I'm like -.-
About 20-30 hands later, I'd chipped up a bit and we were both with $170 stacks.
QQ, 3bet preflop, he calls. Flop comes Q56. I bet he calls. Turn is a 8. I bet he jams and I'm thinking REVENGE!!! SO SWEET!
He flips 77. Rivers a 4.
At this point I'm like --> 
Im mega-tilted and absolutely fucking refuse to leave the table and acknowledge that I've lost money to a huge lucksack. The only way I was leaving the table was if either of us went bust.
...That's a very bad idea btw, challenging a known lucksack to a who-busts-first battle when you have 60bb left in your BR. He KO'ed me soon after.
And kids, that's what happens when you play HU massively under-rolled, even if you think its way +EV. 
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it's ok man. at least you had fun playing today. look at the bright side. it's not like you lost your real whole bankroll. it's just 100 bucks worth of entertainment man. think about it.
*talking in my big lebowski impersonation. |
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Eluflop Estonia. Jul 28 2011 05:53. Posts 3835 | | | |
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NewbSaibot United States. Jul 28 2011 14:02. Posts 4943 | | |
A good way to talk yourself out of moving up in HU is just recognizing how much money you can make even at NL25. I've always had a hard time playing ring games lower than NL100 just due to the whole monetary aspect of it. It's just a waste of my time to grind for happy meals. At least winning a stack at NL100 = nice dinner downtown or something. It has nothing to do with risk, it just has to mean something for me to take it seriously.
I play NL25 HU on Hero too (if you call 250 hands lifetime "playing" , and I am completely content making $100/day in about 2 hours time. Not that I make that, but it seems like I could. |
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chipsOwner Czech Republic. Jul 28 2011 16:45. Posts 529 | | |
been there, did that, same result :D
good thing poker is nowhere close to my living money  |
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Endo United States. Jul 28 2011 21:34. Posts 953 | | |
NewbSaibot: I'll try that in the future, lol.
chipsOwner: Degen club, ya? haha |
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NeillyJQ United States. Jul 29 2011 12:08. Posts 8947 | | |
been there, good realization, stick to it, grind up n own ;-) |
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waga United Kingdom. Jul 30 2011 15:30. Posts 2375 | | |
It was probably a ++EV move if you can afford to lose 300$ irl ... |
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chris United States. Jul 30 2011 15:59. Posts 5503 | | |
who was the guy? coldasice22? andrzejL? caviarchamp? |
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Endo United States. Jul 31 2011 21:50. Posts 953 | | |
waga: I mean losing $300 still hurts but I keep my poker money separate from my living expenses.
chris: I no longer remember =P. I really should start tagging all the fish, lol. But those names don't sound familiar |
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