From 88$ ...

I can't tell how much I'm excited. I've applied for private lessons and the result is that for this summer, I will have very respectable teacher : Corwin aka [vital]Myth

I hope that we will place strong bricks to that big holes in my play and that it is turning point in my poker carrier


Last several days, I've been preparing really hard for final exams @ Grammar school. I'm taking tests from english, literature, geography and sociology+psychology+phylosphy+economy+politology. I'm studying about 5-10 hours per day and after few days of complete frustration I finally seem to adapt to this style (since I've never ever learned so MUCH!)
If I'm talking about education, I should mention that I'm already submited to college

So yeah, everything goes well...let's wait for something to fuck up

have a nice day
P

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Ok so this is what is hapenning. I'm playing (i hope) smart poker, trying to learn, trying to be openminded, trying to play with BR managment, steadily moving up

and then



BANG !!!!!!!!!!!!

I sit at one table trying to "outsmart" people of just whatever and start playing as idiot. Now I've played for about half an hour and lost more than 3 fucking buins. I really dont know how to start to care about my moneyz I dream about moving up as soon as possible and then I am so irresponsible as you can read above. Shame on me. I hope that with this rant on me I will work it out. It's fucking nonsense. I'm building this for day and in half hour I throw it out of window. Damn! It's so fucking ridiculous. I hate this so much Help me out !!!

Have a nice and pleasant day
Petr

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@ NL25. After tightening up, as I stated at previous entry NL25 6max became real joke.

Today I've lost in those "situations"
- Set over set
- KK vs AA
- 66 on 683 board allin vs 89 turn 8 river 9

and still it looks like this

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Since very cruel bad sessions that I've suffered like 2-3 days ago when I've lost about 250, I've decided I could try to change my style. I've very tighten up (see image below) and eventhough I've didn't ran extraordinary I've got something like this


From now on, I think that I won't try to beat microlimits (up to NL100 i think)with ordinary 25/20 or something style but rather I think it's more +EV to play more tight agressive. Reason? Many many players there are willing to call you anytime, anywhere. It's normal that you and your raises are NOT respected at all.
I was trying to 4table with max focus on each and every player but now I understand, that at those limits, it's useless, so I will rather try 6 or 8 table with that 15/11 (I might loosen up a bit to like 18/15 but no more that that)stats.

I was at NL25 6max rather than NL50 fullring, where I've been playing before I've decided to move to 6max, because I stated that I wanted to learn 6max. But now I see that you can't really learn advance things at NL25, you can learn the essential things like basics of 3bets, importance of positions. But you can't really develop your game there to sky limits because the players aren't as players that you want to play in future.

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I thought I wont play poker until June because of concentration on coming exams but screw it, my kids have to eat something
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I don't have any

Recently I've been relaxing with playing w3:ft 2v2. I didn't thought that it could be such a great game as I was very much of a starcraft player while ago. I'm currently lvl 13 with 30-25ish score, cool stats i guess for beginner

Yesterday something amazing hapenned and I somehow got PT from this guy. I've imediatelly jumped for PAhud and here we go . Here are few stats from yesterday and this morning

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Last few days I was still trying my best to learn and beat NL25 6max easily. Finally I've start to gain some small edge and I feel that soon I'll be able to crush NL25 6max easily.

Yesterday I've begun to clear dreampoker bonus at PokerSavvy, it's really easy bonus there to get. Only problem is that one has to play it at NL50 at least. So I've jumped there and realized I should REALLY play FR there because I won't be too confident playing SH games at NL50 yet.
It turned out to be great boost to my BR (as I thought). In terms of +EV it would be best for me to play FR but I intentionally don't want to because I just want to learn SH now...so my BR has to wait a little bit

Anyways, I'm now somewhere about 950$-1000$ and it looks fine. I'm happy with my progress and small BR boost

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So I've played last 9 days in march 6max. At FR I was so fucking much nitty so going to 6max really had to change my style.
I had to gain completely new "feel" for hands I've never ever played or even raised before.
I had to pass through many bad beats and many bad sessions full of variance
I had to also pass through many bad plays, overagrroing, overbluffing, many many bad moves ..

So here's the graph :D


Looking back at those days I feel really really good. I think I've made essential poker progress. I've completely change my poker and I'm very happy eventhough I've got like 15$ in 6.5k hands.

This April I will have to learn very hard because of school and final exams.
But I hope to play 30-40k hands and develop edge and BR to go to NL50 SH

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I've started today with some decent plays and grind my way up to +3/2 bi. But then something hapenned and I started to lose and lose and lose. It's pity because... I don't know why . I can't possibly think that I can win everyday but this hurts, I've ended about -2 bi after 920 hands.

Also I find 6max with my style of 21/14 very frustrating and hard to concentrate fully, I've tried 6 tables today but I think I will move down to play 4 again, at least until I'll have some better edge
So here's today graph


I hope I'll play better tommorow when I plan a large session

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Oh yeah that's right, I've never experience such a large variance at FR just look at this image of today's session



It's like completely nuts. Getting AQ on AQ4 board with villain holding 44 was ridiculous as me with KT on xxT board vs AT so after 20 minutes of session I was -2bi ! Thanks to Joe who cheered me up so I could continue playing without any bad mood. After 1k hand I've ended up about +1bi with 10bb/100 (my usual 15bb/100 wasnt quite possible with those beats but whatever )

Today I've also "developed" one strategic thought about cont. betting. Maybe it's common knowledge but I've just realized it so here it is: When the flop is without J,Q,K,A there is about 95% probability that villain will fold at your cont. bet because imagine with what villain is calling you with. Definately not two high pairs like TT+ because in that caise he would have reraised, definately not with two random small cards because those are too small to call raise. So what remains is small pocket pairs and two high cards like KJ, QK etc. Small pocket pair wont call you much unless he
1) has great read on you
2) is calling station
3) hit trips or has TP

but most time villain will have those KJ, KQ or whatever with which he really can't call you.

So I've set up this small rule for me. If the board is dry without any card T+ I will always bet (and 95% of time win )
[/blah ! ]

26th March 07
BR : 775$ (+25$)
stakes :0.10/0.25$ 6max

UPDATE
I've played a bit more this night and again I've started with some nasty -2 bi after about again 20 minutes but again (!!)I've managed to end in +numbers


27th March 07-night
BR : 800$ (+25$)
stakes :0.10/0.25$ 6max

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Yeah title says it all, I've payed for this lesson so far about 200$ but finally I feel like I'm capable to play a decent style so far.

I've read some great articles here http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=8857864&an=0&page=0
I've got some excel sheet with which hands and how I should play PF so after a little read and adjustement I've started to feel better about my game.

It was very but VERY brutal to change style from one week to another. Previous week I was that nitty player who seemed to overbluff his hand and today I've raise ATs and other hands I've never thought I will ever raise but somehow it works fine, if I dont run into Ms. Variance (JJ vs TT river T and stuff like this everyone knows...)

This is a little bit of my graph today at PP afternoon session. Even with 3bad beats I've got 11bb/100 hands !




I've cleared some bonus on pokersavvy so I'll be able to buy for free there PA and PT , YAY !

25th March 07
BR : 750$ (+30$)
stakes :0.10/0.25$ 6max

after downswing to 650$ it looks cool

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