I'm cool

Lots of variance.

Need to find leaks in my game, im sure im playing too aggro in position, need to tighten up a bit on the button maybe. Also i dont give short stacks credit enough, when maybe i should give them a little credit.

Maybe ill get some coaching or something to try and plug the leaks, becuase im sure if i can plug a few leaks ill be tearing up nl25.

Maybe the leaks arnt so bad and its just a really bad run for me, virtually breakeven over like 18k hands is a lot for me. I did have some major coolers, i might start leaving tables when im at 2+buyins stack, i seem to get coolered for 200bb a lot and that eats a huge chunk of my profit. At least if i was only at 100bb then id only have 100 to lose, right?:/ I know its not the most profitable but it would lower my variance and thats a good thing imo.

Good news is i got silverstar today which is pretty nice, only been playing about 10 days on stars, where ive actually played poker for about 4-5 days tops. Been busy irl.

Dunno why im spamming so much nobody gunna read it anyawyzz lolzz. Heres a graph for my personal amusement.

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I seem to go on huge heaters, and huge coolers, very often 5+ buyin swings in a 2k hand session for example. I dont know why this is? Am i played too aggro? playing at 20vpip/13% pfr in 6max or so.

Just seems odd becuase i read a lot of blogs and theres people who never seem to have any variance, or well like 1 buyin up 1 buyin down for a session.

My graphs go up down up down up down like mad, even in longer term (20k) u can see big swings in it.

Is there something i can do to lower variance in my game?

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So yea i entered a few tournaments yesterday, ran like shit in almost all of them, busting as favourite each time aipf. No matter though! I entered one tournament and well, luck was all on my side.

Gathered a commanding chiplead with around 200 players left, and then just kept ploughing through the field until final table where i had 1 million chips, with 2nd being at 600k. Damn everything was looking right for my first victory.

Started off well, eliminated two players. Then all of a sudden my luck changed, got bad beat twice AIPF and my chiplead was gone! Then with only 4 left i made a move at the huge blinds with A9, and got pushed over for my remaining chips, not a lot i can do but call hoping it was a low pair, AK, gg me! Busted in 4th. Not bad i say though. Nice payout.

Oh, did i forget to mention which tournament it was?

10c turbo yeaaaaaa.

Payout of $9 after playing through 2100 field. GG.

Only ~100-150 tournaments to go until i final table again apparantly!

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Ill just say this.

Fuck you pokerstars.

-5 buyins to setups coolers and suckouts, g_G

BR at pokerstars: $512
Stakes: Nl10

Edit: antoher bad beat, deposited my roll onto pokerstars like 3 days ago, now they do this promotion and i cant cashout roll+redeposit or i become ineligable for the bonus rofl. GG me

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Hmm, well, ive barely played poker over the last 1.5 months. I just got bored of it really. But, now i think im ready to restart playing again.

Over the last months i've played some sit-n-go's and some tournaments for varied results. In the sit-n-go's i generally did well but the sample size was too small to mean anything, but then i just fed my winnings into MTT and lost the majority in those. Came 3rd this week in Liquidpoker weekly which was more due to flukey luck than skill but hey still happy with that one, bit disappointed in my final table performance, shuda done better considering i had a big chiplead entering the final table, nevermind. Busted out with QKs vs my AQs but i let myself get way too low on chips so nothing to complain about there.

Signed up for titan promo thing so thats a free $50 to add to my BR effectively.

So, my BR is currently almost $600, slightly under. So i'm rolled to play nl25 but i may jsut play some nl10 to get back into the swing of things since im not confident on nl25 yet (break even over 15k hands), i consider myself to be a winning player at nl25 but ive ran very poorly and so my winrate has been tiny/break even.

In other news the latest heroes episode was shit:
+ Show Spoiler +

Ah well hf

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Jesus how crap is this game, i accidently signed up for a tournament of it only $6 buyin but still annoying that i only realise after its started its limit and not NL.

What the hell is the point in the game i cant understand it. Cant price people off draws cos they just check call check call, cant get any info on people either cos u can only bet like 200 into a 2000 pot.

fuck limit holdem

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So ill make a post with a march summary too!

Hmm where to begin...

After a really unsuccessful casino-whoring attempt (i must be the most unlucky fucker at blackjack, managed to bust on my first 3 casinos even despite following the charts (I think the % chance of that is like 0.01% or something sick but oh well)

Gave up on blackjack after that and went back to poker. Cashed out some and made a deposit back into partypoker of $100 on about the 5th of march. Over the next 2-3 weeks i grinded out about 28k hands of nl10 for an overall profit of ~$400 which is quite nice, ran at 7bb/100 for the whole time.

Towards the end of month been taking shots at nl25, im having difficulty adapting my game to 6max but overall im about break even after ~10k hands of nl25. Im not running very well at nl25 at all which is a bit sucky, but overall im not playing well enough to beat it either.

Hopefully i can get the hang of nl25 and become able to beat it consistently in future.

Ill get a picture of a graph up in a bit, imageshack.us being shit, plus partypoker's hand update thing has screwed around with my pokertracker a bit this month, i tried to do the fix on the website but i managed to mess it up and now my nl25 reads like -300 which is completely incorrect lol, o well.

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All i seem to get from nl25 is mass suckouts and coolers, i dont understand how i can run so bad, its retarded. I'm playing well i think but just runner runner straight, set under set, etc etc. Its really demoralising and i dont feel like playing poker anymore, i know its just variance but playing solid poker and losing to retarded 2pair combos, runner runner straights, runner runner flushes etc all when the money is in way ahead its just pissing me right off.

Another session ended just now down 2 buyins, pure fucking setups, shit like i manage to hit top boat and hes got 4 of a kind, great stuff. Why me?

Overall at nl25 im slightly up but its just retarded how shit my winrate is becuase of these suckouts. Im not enjoying 6max atm my variance is so much huger.

Heres some retarded hands, all within 1000 hands.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/163193
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/163176 i know i played this one bad but doesnt change the outcome
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/163168
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/163167 this is just plain WTF

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Unreal, just suckouts and coolers galore.

Every draw they pay way over odds but seem to hit.

Just one of those days, but ugh, great day to have a downswing when ive jsut moved up. Managed to limit my losses so far to just under 2 buyins, which is pretty fucking good considering the beats ive taken.

I think im playing relatively well, made a few spews ofc but mostly im playing solid...

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THIS IS FUCKING RIDICULOUS HOW CAN I GET FUCKING COOLERED SO MUCH ON MY FIRST SESSION OF NL25 FUCK YOU PARTYPOKER

ALMOST 4 BUYINS DOWN GGRRRRR

Hopefully my luck changes before my bankroll runs out though.

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Well, after restarting at nl10 2 weeks ago, ive played a lot of hands (by my standards), and ive run relatively well, had a couple of downswings (one epic one) but ive maintained a steady winrate and im now back over $600 BR so im going to probably start playing nl25 again.

I really feel like the game im playing is crushing nl10, but ive gotta move up now, i think ill play until i either move up to nl50, or hit $400 then ill move back down, whichever comes first. Hopefully ill make it at nl25.



I have been playing kinda passively since i find its really just not profitable to try and force people off hands at nl10 by aggression. Why bother when if ur passive and patient enough people will call your overpair down with just top pair +rag kicker?

Gunna post some of my favourite hands of the last 2 weeks here now:

Standard WTF hands?:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/155390 Nice flop call mate!
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/158596 Exactly what i mean

Coolers:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/159033
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/160009
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/159115
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/159660
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/160465
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/156105

Hands i just like:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/159693 No value for you!
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/160042
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/160432 first str8 flush
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/159072
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/158706

Wish my luck for NL25

BR: $600

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