orome\'s blog

edit: I just realized this is a pretty useless blog update, so I might as well post my NL50 HU graph so far to make it slightly more interesting.




50bb/100, obviously heaterish, but there seem to be almost zero good players at NL50 HU.
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I love playing fish HU. You don't have to share them, you can tilt them, you can take all their money, let them rebuy, then take all their money again.

You can 3-bet purely for value, because they'll call all your 3-bets with random trash and play extremely spewy postflop.

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first and second 3-bet pot against this guy

Submitted by : Orome

***** Hand History for Game 10712322340 *****
$50.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, February 18, 06:51:46 ET 2009
Table Nut heads up Real Money
Seat 2 is the button
Seat 1: Hero $67.55 USD
Seat 2: Allie Caulfield $53.65 USD
Allie Caulfield posts small blind [$0.25 USD].
Hero posts big blind [$0.50 USD].

Holecards
Dealt to Hero
Allie Caulfield raises [$1.25 USD]
Hero raises [$4.50 USD]
Allie Caulfield calls [$3.50 USD]

Flop (Pot : $9.25)

   
Hero bets [$6.50 USD]
Allie Caulfield calls [$6.50 USD]

Turn (Pot : $22.25)

   
Hero checks
Allie Caulfield bets [$7.50 USD]
Hero raises [$18.00 USD]
Allie Caulfield raises [$34.65 USD]
Hero calls [$24.15 USD]
Allie Caulfield shows
Hero shows

River (Pot : $99.05)

   
Allie Caulfield wins $106.80 USD from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 10712518660 *****
$50.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, February 18, 07:02:41 ET 2009
Table Nut heads up Real Money
Seat 2 is the button
Seat 1: Hero $50.00 USD
Seat 2: Allie Caulfield $131.20 USD
Allie Caulfield posts small blind [$0.25 USD].
Hero posts big blind [$0.50 USD].

Holecards
Dealt to Hero
Allie Caulfield raises [$1.25 USD]
Hero raises [$4.50 USD]
Allie Caulfield calls [$3.50 USD]

Flop (Pot : $9.25)

   
Hero bets [$7.00 USD]
Allie Caulfield calls [$7.00 USD]

Turn (Pot : $23.25)

   
Hero bets [$17.00 USD]
Allie Caulfield raises [$119.20 USD]
Hero calls [$21.00 USD]
Allie Caulfield shows
Hero shows
Allie Caulfield wins $81.20 USD

River (Pot : $99.25)

   
Allie Caulfield wins $99.50 USD from main pot

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A question for all the veterans, how do you react to a session full of bad beats/coolers?

I've been running sick bad for the last 10 days and I'm wondering whether you learn to just shrug that off eventually, because a life where you're down every other day because you lost a few buyins can't be a lot of fun.

Submitted by : Orome

***** Hand History for Game 24437414291 *****
$100.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, January 30, 04:44:51 ET 2009
Table Sun Real Money
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: DarkAngel415 $26.20 USD
Seat 2: blazingsmile $50.50 USD
Seat 3: Hero $105.25 USD
Seat 4: 43forty $111.30 USD
Seat 5: XtremeRush $264.80 USD
Seat 6: OVytbfe $108.95 USD
blazingsmile posts small blind [$0.50 USD].
Hero posts big blind [$1.00 USD].

Holecards
Dealt to Hero
43forty folds
XtremeRush folds
OVytbfe folds
DarkAngel415 folds
blazingsmile raises [$3.50 USD]
Hero raises [$11.00 USD]
blazingsmile calls [$8.00 USD]

Flop (Pot : $22.50)

   
blazingsmile bets [$13.00 USD]
Hero raises [$40.00 USD]
blazingsmile calls [$25.50 USD]

Turn (Pot : $99.50)

   

River (Pot : $99.50)

   
blazingsmile shows
blazingsmile wins $98.00 USD from main pot
Hero doesn't show
Hero wins $1.50 USD from main pot

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5 people posted their blogs instantly after mine and it got a grand total of 5 views, so I'll just repost it, hoping for some replies.

Hey guys, I started January (my third month of poker) with a ~500$ bankroll, playing NL25 and a few NL50 shots.

The month started off really well, I got my bankroll up to 1000 quickly, switched to NL50 and things went smoothly there from the start. I have a 13bb/100 winrate at NL50 after 20k hands, which I guess is both an indication that I have an edge there and that I ran pretty good.

I got my bankroll up to 1850, then decided to take a shot at NL100. Things have been going pretty badly since then, I started off well, getting my BR up to 2350 despite running pretty badly, but have been on a downswing since then.

I guess I really shouldn't complain because this was bound to happen sometime and I ran good before now, but I ran really, really terribly in the last few days. I've actually lost about 300$ with flopped sets at NL100 because I ran into a ridiculous amount of coolers and I don't even want to talk about my results with pocket aces.

Anyway, this is my graph for the month so far, I'll move back down to NL50 because my BR's back at 1400 (it was at 1700 10 minutes ago, but I just lost 2 AI for 150bb with set vs straight and flush over flush lol).

All in all, I guess a 1.5k month (with RB) isn't bad since this is only my third month, but it's still a really disappointing end.




A few things I've been wondering and would like some opinions on:

Do you think it makes sense for me to get a coach at this stage of my poker career? If yes, do you have a suggestion of a good coach for ~100NL?

What's a good fold to cbet percentage?

Thanks for reading!

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Hey guys, I started January (my third month of poker) with a ~500$ bankroll, playing NL25 and a few NL50 shots.

The month started off really well, I got my bankroll up to 1000 quickly, switched to NL50 and things went smoothly there from the start. I have a 13bb/100 winrate at NL50 after 20k hands, which I guess is both an indication that I have an edge there and that I ran pretty good.

I got my bankroll up to 1850, then decided to take a shot at NL100. Things have been going pretty badly since then, I started off well, getting my BR up to 2350 despite running pretty badly, but have been on a downswing since then.

I guess I really shouldn't complain because this was bound to happen sometime and I ran good before now, but I ran really, really terribly in the last few days. I've actually lost about 300$ with flopped sets at NL100 because I ran into a ridiculous amount of coolers and I don't even want to talk about my results with pocket aces.

Anyway, this is my graph for the month so far, I'll move back down to NL50 because my BR's back at 1400 (it was at 1700 10 minutes ago, but I just lost 2 AI for 150bb with set vs straight and flush over flush lol).

All in all, I guess a 1.5k month (with RB) isn't bad since this is only my third month, but it's still a really disappointing end.




A few things I've been wondering and would like some opinions on:

Do you think it makes sense for me to get a coach at this stage of my poker career? If yes, do you have a suggestion of a good coach for ~100NL?

What's a good fold to cbet percentage?

Thanks for reading!

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Hi everyone!

I guess most of you don't know me, I've posted on teamliquid for more than 5 years, but only recently got into poker. Maybe some of you saw me post this thread 2 months ago asking for help.

Anyway, now, 2 months into my poker career it seemed like a good idea to start a blog to gather my thoughts on how poker has been so far and to think about goals.

For those (which I guess is almost everyone lol) not interested in my poker life story, there's a graph below.

I started at NL2 full ring, buying in for 2$ like Grot suggested in his guide with a $20 bankroll, trying to be a winning player from the start. I went broke, deposited another 20, went broke again, deposited another 20 and went broke yet again.

Looking back I'm amazed at how badly I must've been playing to manage to lose 60$ on NL2, but luckily I seem to have overcome the uber newbie stage after losing those third 20$ and things have been going up ever since.

I think the one thing that made me a winning player at NL2 was starting to play 4 tables. I'd been 1 tabling before and spewing massively when I got bored or things weren't going my way. Getting your aces cracked when you're 20 tabling isn't that big a deal, but when you're a new player just playing one table, getting dealt aces like once every 2 hours, that puts you on major tilt.

I managed to get up to 100$ with NL2, then switched to NL5 where I think I ~12 tabled most of the time. NL5 doesn't seem to be much different from NL2, there might be less complete spewmonkeys that go AI preflop every second hand, but people are still as big calling stations as on NL2.

After working my way up to 200$, I played like 3k hands of NL10 (1 session of 10 tabling I think), then decided to take a 8 buyin shot at NL25. I 4-tabled NL25 for a bit and couldn't understand why I wasn't making big money like before. Finally I realized that poker might have something to do with actually thinking and that playing like a complete robot might not be a successful strategy anymore. I had a bb/100 of like 0.5 after like 7k hands on NL25, almost half the hands I played on that limit.

Things have been going pretty well since then, I went up to 500 and decided to take a 10 buyin shot at NL50 like a week ago. My bankroll's 720 right now and I'm probably going to stick to 25/50 until I'm at 2k.

I guess some of you will say I'm taking too big risks with my bankroll, but I feel like I can sustain the same winrate 2 tabling NL50 as 10 tabling NL25 and I've learnt a huge deal more about poker playing 2 tables than 10 tabling like a robot.

Apart from making like 3-4 completely tilty spews (on 2 of which I sucked out luckily) I'm very happy with how I've been playing NL50 so far, I opened my game and went from 15/11 to 25/20 in the last few days which is really helping as there are definitely less 60/0/1 guys than on NL25.

I think the thing that gives me an edge over most regulars on NL50 is that by only 2 tabling I'm able to identify my opponent types a lot better and I can watch and take notes on how they play any hand they show down. I happily stacked off with AT on a AKQxx board against a guy who I knew would call down with a lot worse for example. If I hadn't identified what kind of player he was beforehand (and his stats didn't really indicate that he was a huge calling station) I would never have done that.

From what I've learned so far, the most important aspects of poker seem to me to be logic, psychology and adaptation. I guess probability is also important, but that seems a lot easier than the other three. Few things seem to be absolute, you might take completely different lines in the exact same hand depending on what kind of player the villain is. By playing only two tables I think I'm learning a lot more and preparing myself better for when I move up and the games get tougher.

As for goals, I'm just going to continue investing quite a lot of time into poker and see where it takes me. I would love playing this game professionally while still continuing my studies at university

My lifetime graph so far: (the first 40$ or so that I lost aren't included)







This turned out to be pretty long, so tl;dr I'm winning and loving poker.

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