giving the euro bookies a good run for their money lately, dazzling is really pushing it but i put it up because im feeling so high of crushing. Mainly betting euro soccer on Betfair, StanJames, Interwetten and ofcourse Pinnacle. doing fine. Not making a killing but still fairly happy considering BWIN screwed me over in a major way! Gotta warn you all:
NEVER EVER put any money on that site, they are thieves, rogues, scum of the dirtiest muddiest swampground. i just place a couple of winners and they close my account and seize my funds. The motherfuckers. If anyone pulls some weight around the sportsbettingworld let me know if you can help out. I'd like to resolve it without having to hook up with my attorney (i rather spend it on him then give it to those m'fers but prefer to spend it in my own fashion.
today i'm seeing no odds that i fancy so i got nothing for you.. (not that i would expect anyone to put too much faith into it but you never know who might want to put something on and isn't fancying anything himself.
still hoping Barca will pull through to the finals of CL. Preferrably to a final against Bayern, that would be my dream final!
UGh, so i start some standard grind. hit a rough patch and drop some buyins but no problem. i'll just play through. Good day to order in some indian food so i go right ahead and get some Lamb Dhansak. In the website i plug in pay cash in the amount of 50 euro's. It's actually quite cool that the site shows exactly where your food is and an estimated delivery time and all. Great!
So i grind some more. Just when i started up 2 headsup sit and goes and sharkscoped my villain's to be two of the fishier opponent's i played all day, the delivery arrives earlier then the schedule shows.
Normally a good thing ofcourse. Now its kind of annoying since you cannot stop these headsup turbo's and the door is on another floor. I rush the door with my wallet. The delivery guy doesnt have the right change. "Oh they gave me change for a twenty.." So i am like eh ok and dig through all my pockets and my wallet and actually come up with 2 bills of five and some coins (the bill is 12 euro's). I'm fifty cents short and i order there a lot and last time(same guy)i tipped well too. So i am like yeah is this ok i can get you the rest next time? But he doesn't think so and says i have some of my own money and digs around and then comes to the conclusion he can give me 30 euro's in change and seems to think that is acceptable though taking 50 cents less isnt.
i'm a little annoyed by now as its taking a lot of time and kind of out of options and he's not really making this easy for me. I'm really clueless why he doesnt take 50 cents less when his boss fucked up but ok. so i guess you can take the food back again. At which point he offers me to keep the food and pay through the site using internet banking. I quickly agree to that and finally can get back to the games.
I blinded both down from 1500 to 300 chips and within a minute i have time to eat I guess it would have been cheaper to give him 20 for the 12.50 bill. But maybe that's too much result oriented thinking.
with only 3 songs he is touring europe.. kind of weird. short concert but he was pretty funny making up for the few songs and the songs he did have were pretty good. i guess thats better then a long show with some medium songs. but check it out for yourself.
playing some lowerstakes to regain confidence. absolutely teared through some $20's in a small samplesize. standardly nothing goes wrong there. i even hit a royal flush.
at the $30's im also having really good results.
measures i took so far:
1 tabling only. (this always pulled me out of cahs HU downswings.)
i watched some Jackal video's on hu sng's and as all his sng content they are great. i watched some video's from other videomakers on hu sng during my downswing and i think they actually hurt me more then they did me good. i think i adjusted the wrong things from my cash game style.
also getting control on my game back. i start to be able to see where i might have gone wrong. also i think my cash based style caused part of the downswing.
confidence is for 75% regained. the money isn't yet as i only put a toe back into the $50's again yet confidence ----> money
after looking at some HU sng variance numbers i can only really draw the conclusion that i'm currently a losing player on a losing streak..
i'm posting hands and reviewing my decisions a lot right now. i will try to post some hands where im sure of my decisions just to see if i should be so sure and ofcourse keep posting hands that give me difficulties.
i slept really bad last night. it's not the money i lost, cause i lost much larger amounts in short periods. it's not the time i have been losing as timewise i have only been losing for about 8 hours straight.
it's the fear i am a losing player in this format that keeps me awake. i hate being the fish.
i do have a strong feeling that i wasn't always a losing player, this trend is also resembled in the graph. it could be that i'm 2 tabling a lot more right now and that this is hurting me really bad. maybe i went on autopilot too much.
So far i did really well in the $50 HU SNGs. on my laptop i have quite a few games. something like 50. in which i did well. for sure a 60-40 margin or something. i usually feel really confident with my play. i see quite some opponents play hands in ways postflop that i dont really like. and then today i started with all that confidence. in the GRAPH today started at the first time i hit $518, with some swings i was doing really well.
now i'll put the graph of all the games i have on my desktop here to give you an idea of what's going on.
and now a hundred fifty games later i just have no idea what to do? quit these games? as you can tell from the graph i am running really bad. it's actually hard to lose this fast if you are trying on purpose. but i think in HU sngs there isnt that much variance.
what's really bugging me is that by this time the # of games starts to be pretty reliable in saying i suck.
i can easily beat 100nl cash HU does anyone know how that translates to HU sng?
i'm not tilting. but i did rematch like 11 times against someone i thought really sucked but he went 6-6 against me so i still can't prove it and i rematched a guy a few times i won some relatively easy games against yesterday but he crushed me so i quit with my current confidence it didnt look so +EV anymore.
currently i'm experimenting with Sit and Go's. Once upon a time that's where i started out. It's fun to revisit the games. It's amazing how much higher i'm able to play them now just from my experience with HU cash and SH cash. Even when you get better at a completely different form of poker it still helps out a ton it seems.
I'm enjoying a lot of different formats. Results are pretty good so far (knock on wood). Though going back and forth through formats sometimes hurt me. For example mixing Double or Nothings with 6max SNGs is pretty hard. Hyper Turbo's are also a ton of fun.
i have also been busy writing for the dutch site of love2poker.com and recently i wrote my first strategy article for the site. I originally wrote it in Dutch but i made a translation:
so far the volume this year is really soso. With my current skills and life obligations i cannot ever make SNE but i will hit a few milestones. so i'm happy stars upped the lower milestone bonusses.
good luck to all of you and let me know what you think of the article.
Going to grind hardcore to up the $400 to $1000 before jumping back into 50nl HU. i want to be able to play 100nl ASAP so i'm going to put in some long days. Also at 175K VPP and it would be good to be back at 100nl to grab the milestone before the year ends.
As long as Stars doesnt come through with my bonus i'm grinding 25nl omaha or low stakes SNGs 10's 20s 30s.
the SNGs seem to be the fastest route to 1k or im just running good. Already played a few hours of PLO (maybe 3) and put in 40 or so SNGs.
The roll is back at $710. hope i can make it back to 100nl before the weekend. Fucking motivated. GOod luck to you all. Run like rabbits!
eh i have 400$ left in my account after losing 6k in a mix of 200nl and 100nl HU. i have 100k fpp though. emailed stars to ask if they can instantly turn it into cash as it will enable me to keep generating rake for them
and put me back into action.
i am not devastated as my networth isnt gone. but my online bankroll pretty much is. still really really sad as i lost so many hands i didnt want to lose. it made playing a lot less fun. this was my last hand. after this one i decided to quit the huge fish as it was more important to have at least $400 remaining to grind something..
grinding sngs or playing chess untill they release my $1500.
really feel kind of blue since i have a strong feeling my pokergame 6max & HU is better then ever yet i am forced to grind something i do not enjoy to rebuild let alone be able to cashout a nice sum... that's not gonna happen in the foreseeable future.
such a weird match. this guy called EVERY 3 bet i made. EVERY ONE. and every single one i made for value. he almost never 3bet himself maybe like 2% or something. AND HE UTTERLY DESTROYED ME. it was like he was soulreading me or something.. took like $1300 off me. i got c/r on the flop, on the turn on the river. on the river it seemed to be for value everytime. but on the turn and the flop it was quite balanced i guess. i tried to rebluff him, to slowplay, to play fast to make him play for floating, to bluff. i really tried my hardest but he was raising when i had nothing, raising when he had me beat and folding when i had a nutlike hand.
here is his tableratings. appears to be a somewhat skilled amateur player. who can stand his ground on 1/2 HU nl but if a guy like that owns me so fucking hard really i have no place there.
okerStars Game #35472666459: Holdem No Limit ($1/$2 USD) - 2009/11/17 8:30:53 ET
Table Desagneauxa 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: kouzapas1978 ($1343.60 in chips)
Seat 2: pokerhaasje ($281.50 in chips)
pokerhaasje: posts small blind $1
kouzapas1978: posts big blind $2
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to pokerhaasje
pokerhaasje: raises $4 to $6
kouzapas1978: calls $4
Showdown pokerhaasje: shows (three of a kind, Kings)
kouzapas1978: shows (three of a kind, Kings - Ace kicker)
kouzapas1978 collected $295.50 from pot
Summary Total pot $296 | Rake $0.50
Board
Seat 1: kouzapas1978 (big blind) showed and won ($295.50) with three of a kind, Kings
Seat 2: pokerhaasje (button) (small blind) showed and lost with three of a kind, Kings
i just don't get it how the fuck he figured this out. he bluffs me on the turn (like i suspect he does quite some, but he also uses this for value with trips for example) so i float him to rebluff in position on the river and he fucking calls with A hi. nobody owns me so hard as to raise me on the turn to get more money in the pot to call me on the river with A hi. WTF...
my computer crashed so im playing without HM but i was single tabling and paying a lot of attention here are the reads i made during the match, in addition i had a lot of stuff in my head ofcourse:
u nl
raised na 3bet te callen een JKx flop naar 60
fold niet erg vaak op 3bets, float redelijk wat in 3bet pots
raised river met nutsy hand
called makkelijk 2 barrels met midpair
called 3bets met 107s etc , float een midpair 10 in 3bet pot, en met 78o
flat pp, zelfs qq
maakt veel c/r of raise bluffs denk ik o flop en turn ?
called flush draw op 223 flop en lead de turn waar hij hit, bet de river hee klein als de 4 flush hit en hij een medium 10hi flush heeft
called down met draws zelf nut draws
raised river met nuts
flat called qq maar 3bet k7o, en checked dan een K hi dry flop down
minraised de flop soms om te kijken waar hij staat?
c/r K hi drawy flop met total air
called zelfs 73s vs een 3bet en float een megadraw ipv raise
op een xxz flop als de flop wordt doorgechecked c/r hij Qz op de turn
op lage rag flops fold hij meestal vs de cbet in een 3et pot
anyway, computer crashed. no HM. forced to play on a laptop, which i dislike, bankroll destroyed last week. dropped another $1300 right now. i'm forced to move down. i was splitting action already between 100nl and 200nl but now im really forced. sucks so much.
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let alone be able to cashout a nice sum... that's not gonna happen in the foreseeable future. 
(three of a kind, Kings - Ace kicker)
