Shots at NL10 from a week ago did not go very well, remember aces being cracked at 6 max and me quitting before tilting, and FR I don't recall anything specific. I would then proceed to run bad and tilt all the way down to 40$ before getting back on my feet.
I switched from FR to 6-max because at NL5, I don't know if it's just me, but high action tables would last only about 5 minutes before they turned into a nitfest and it was getting boring.
On a sidenote I was watching the big game season 2 and Phil Laak is freaking amazing, I find it so entertaining to hear him talk. And Elky so good.
Also called go (japanese/english term), weiqi(chinese term) or baduk (korean term), is probably the most complex/deep/amazing board game. (Chess and others are up there, but in my opinion and this only my opinion, baduk is better. )
For the past year go has been my main hobby. (outside of school, social life etc.) My study of it has been erratic, putting in lots of hours at some points and not playing for a week or more at others. For the past two weeks I've been focusing more on poker but I can't see how someone who enjoys poker (and starcraft) could not enjoy this game so I highly encourage you to check it out.
My handle on KGS (english go server) is nFo and I am currently 4 kyu.
Anyways I'd love to play with anyone who already knows the game or teach someone who wants to learn it (maybe even trade some poker insight vs go insight who knows?)
Lee Sedol (top korean player) vs Gu Li (top chinese player)
Poker :
So after running hot on sit n gos, tripling my bankroll and thinking I'm the boss, I learned that I wasn't.
#1 Mistake : Following only the moving up part of BR management, although I stopped throwing my money away before it was too late, and I'm not the kind of guy to make the same mistake twice so lesson learned.
#2 Mistake : Playing tired or tilted, I don't tilt really bad and it hasn't really happened for the last week (the first cut is the deepest you know), still working on the tired part, I don't like going to sleep for some reason. I love sleeping and I don't want to get up but going to sleep just seems like a waste of time when I could be awake and doing something.
So anyways I'm switching back to grinding 2NL, and taking things slowly, I enjoy poker and I want to get better so at least I know I haven't lost my motivation after 2 weeks (which happened with pretty much everything except go until now)
Seems like the best way to improve except for playing is to post hands you have trouble with, so I'll try doing that. The spots where I lose most money right now is when I have top pair or Overpair and get trapped, hard to figure it out since at this level everyone jsut keeps on calling even though they have midpair and end up paying you off. When I am the one with a set or better I often end up trapping people who overvalue top pair just like me.
Lastly I've been reading Phil Gordon's little green book, (only applying the very basic stuff, since almost none of my opponents (and myself) think that much so it's pretty much value betting or folding with some occasional steals for now.) Was wondering if this book is good/average/great? WHat would be other interesting/better reads?
Music :
So recently I've been listening to a lot of Bonobo, he's a british musician who does some kind of music I don't know how to classify. (Hmm wiki calls it Downtempo, Trip Hop and Chillout) . But anyways I've been listening to it while playing poker/go and I find it's very good music to keep focused.
So far I've been pretty much only lurking this forum, just like I do on teamliquid, but figured I might as well start posting a little.
Great website and seems like a great community.
Hey guys I got a month or so before school starts and no job so i decided I might as well do something that I enjoy and that *might* be useful, so I decided to start playing poker semi-seriously.
With only 40$ on PS i figured I should start at 2NL and work my way up from there.
So after 3 days and being up only 3 dollars, I decided I wasn't patient enough to grind it out and decided to switch to SNG.
After 4 days of 8-12 tabling (bout 80 games a day) 1,50$ turbo and turbo knockout STT, I'm up to 115$ and now 8 tabling 3,50$ turbo sit n gos.
I have 2 questions.
First of all I'm using the 60 day trial of pokertracker, but there's something wrong with it, reports my net winnings for STT at 31,40$ but I'm up at least 70$, plus i lost about 10-15$ at MTT so it should be around 80$, do you have any idea why it would report my net won so low?
Secondly, I've seen a lot of articles have different opinions, what do you think is a good number of Buy-ins to move up?
Ah and while I'm at it, at what level do cash games start being a little more fun? I don't really like the 0,01$/0,02$ because it seems the only winning option is to be tight as hell and wait it out because everybody is calling as soon as they have suited connecters or any rag ace. Plus it's kinda hard to take a 6 cent raise seriously sometimes.
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