Poker in the Rear

I'm pretty sure I'm gonna have to play more LAG as I move up so I decided to practice it today. Played 25/22 and it was quite interesting and very fun. I stuck to 6-8 tables and wasn't at all bored, so that's a major plus. I ran kinda bad and only won 1 BI over 2k hands though. I think I did spew a bit in medium pots. Went for value a bit too thin a few times and made a few stupid river calls with things like AA on a board that had turned to shit.

I can see why LAG would be profitable. Was able to build up stacks without ever hitting any real hands. Sadly what kept happening is that I'd add another 50BB or so onto my stack being aggressive and then when it was clear people weren't giving much credit anymore, I'd hit the nutz and get sucked out on. Flopped a straight vs a reg who was obv sick of me and also wasn't giving me credit anymore and was able to get it in on the flop only to get sucked out on the river. It sucks when you do such a good job of image building and stack building and then lose it all to a suckout. hehe. Oh well.

But I definitely could be up 2-3 buyins instead of 1 buyin if I'd avoided some of those medium pot spews.

Wednesday and Thursday sucked balls. All losing sessions. Ended up playing some NL50 cause I've learned that one thing I always wish I'd done during my downswings is move down sooner. Hoping to get some recovery today but NL100 was really nitty. I think I chose bad times to play cause usually Friday's are so good.

Still doing ok though. Sitting @ 4.4k when I was up @ 4.7k before Wednesday, so I'm doing a good job of minimizing the losses during the downswing. Hopefully later tonight I can run good vs a few fish and have a heater session =)

Btw, this guy stole all my damn outs!

Submitted by : k2o4

PokerStars Game #23737390075: Holdem No Limit ($0.50/$1.00) - 2009/01/09 16:03:26 MT [2009/01/09 18:03:26 ET]
Table Orestes VIII 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: k2o4 ($138.15 in chips)
Seat 2: MadHandler ($120.50 in chips)
Seat 3: skampili ($223.35 in chips)
Seat 4: SwissCantMis ($100 in chips)
Seat 5: xgiovannix ($104.15 in chips)
Seat 6: peterosey ($37.30 in chips)
MadHandler: posts small blind $0.50
skampili: posts big blind $1

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to k2o4
SwissCantMis: raises $2 to $3
xgiovannix: folds
peterosey: folds
k2o4: raises $7 to $10
MadHandler: raises $7 to $17
skampili: folds
SwissCantMis: folds
k2o4: calls $7

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $38.00)

   
MadHandler: bets $10
k2o4: raises $50 to $60
MadHandler: raises $43.50 to $103.50 and is all-in
k2o4: calls $43.50

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $245.00)

   

River (Pot : $245.00)

   

Showdown
MadHandler: shows (a pair of Queens)
k2o4: mucks hand
MadHandler collected $242 from pot

Summary
Total pot $245 | Rake $3
Board  
Seat 1: k2o4 (button) mucked
Seat 2: MadHandler (small blind) showed and won ($242) with a pair of Queens
Seat 3: skampili (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: SwissCantMis folded before Flop
Seat 5: xgiovannix folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: peterosey folded before Flop (didnt bet)

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FPP feel like they're coming really slow right now. Guess it's cause I'm so eager to hit 100k FPP so I keep checking it. I keep wanting to grind 24 tables and just get em asap but that would probably lead to me losing money. So that's a bad idea.

I think I was having a minor touch of a January heater till today. Last night I played and told myself I wasn't even going to check out the NL200 tables and I stuck to that. Maybe it was a bad idea cause I was getting AK/AA/KK/QQ nonstop and whenever I did get action I held. It was awesome. The funny thing is that I only won like a buyin and a half.

Today was the opposite. Every good hand turned into a setup for the first 500 hands of my session. Then I started winning some medium pots and then held in a few all-ins and recovered to a nearly break even session. So that's nice.

I'm off to eat lunch and then head out for a haircut. I'm shaggy these days.

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I didn't get sucked out on while playing NL200.........

WTF!?!?!?!?

PIGS MUST BE FLYING AND HELL HAS GOT TO BE FROZEN!!!

So I started my final session of the day and was surprised to see a bunch of super loose tables on a Monday night..?? I knowwww.

Jumped on a bunch of NL100 tables and things were finally going my way for once. I figured I better ride this rush to the fullest and hunted down the 4 loosest NL200 tables I could find. Closed down a bunch of NL100 tables and kept the loosest ones there and played 8 tables, 4 on each limit. Was getting a lot of cards but not too much action. Then the card rush slowed down for a while and I was getting ready to leave when I hit a few hands and they all held up (KK vs QQ and so on). Usually when I get it in as a favorite on NL200 I end up losing, so this was a fucking awesome change of pace.

Won about 2 buyins at each limit for $600 profit. I'd already taken 3 BI @ NL100 during my other sessions for the day so this turned into a $900 day. Finally! That puts me above 4k for the first time since my thanksgiving NL200 shot where I hit 5k.

Todays results:





So going forward I'm gonna keep playing NL100 whenever I set down but now that I'm over 4k I will play NL200 if I feel good and see juicy tables OR if I'm doing a sweat session with my coach.

I've also put together a new schedule for myself which I started today. I'm working 2 days a week and playing poker 3 days a week. Got coaching sessions on as many days possible and have blocked out time for poker sessions every day. But I also have blocked out time to spend with my GF, exercise and to work on other projects. It's giving me balance that I haven't had in a long time, plus it gives me structure and an opportunity to be disciplined. The more disciplined I am in my daily life the easier it will be to maintain that discipline while playing poker, which is really important.

So overall life is good. Just gonna keep grinding it out till I'm a NL200 reg. I know it's gonna happen and who knows, it might be soon ^^

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Same Shit Different Day

I finally had an epic tilt and played outside of my BR, as you guys saw on my Xmas eve blog. That was the first time I ever did that. Definitely will be the last. Luckily I ran good during the idiotic move so I was able to recover a nights worth of loses. Since then I've been grinding very carefully and with a lot of discipline. I recovered from all of the holiday pain and got back to 4k last night. Today I did a quick NL200 shot during a sweat session with my coach and we ran like shit. Managed to salvage it into a 1 buyin loss. Oh well.

The plan going forward is to work towards 6k. I'm going to play NL100 as my main limit till I hit 6k, but I will take NL200 shots along the way IF I have 4k in my BR AND the tables are really soft and I feel confident, OR I'm doing a sweat session with my coach. Otherwise I'll keep doing NL100 till 6k. Once I hit 6k I am gonna do a 10 BI shot @ NL200 and play there till I drop to 4k or I tilt. If I start tilting I'll jump back to NL100.

Lots of if's and other conditions on all of that eh? But I like it. It's a plan that has developed through lots of experience and I think it fits me just right. The good thing is that I'm not scared of NL200. I've played a decent # of hands there and whenever I've run at least even I've won money. Sadly I've been running like shit whenever I try to play it so that sucks. But as long as I keep regrinding and dropping down at the right times I will eventually get into NL200 and stay there. I'm positive about that. Just a matter of time.

Anyway, December looked like it was going to be amazing but ended up sucking balls cause I got pwn'd by a downswing at the end.




Oh well, let's hope that January is a heater month. January is when I had my insane 50 BI heater last year, so maybe I will repeat ^^

Happy new year everybody!

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7 bi day

took a while

7 bi doesn't feel so good after lots of 5 bi losing days followed by 2-3 days of 1 buyin sessions. at least I'm above 3k again and overall am doing well on FPP to hit 100k by the end of jan, which is a big goal of mine. but i don't want to mass grind for it. Focusing on 4-8 tables and trying to get to NL200. I figure that in the process of doing that if I play nearly every day I should make my 100k fpp and clear my bonus.

Anyway, just happy to have a good session for once!

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Gears of war
Left 4 dead
Fallout 3

Nice =)

All for computer. Only Gears of war 1 cause 2 isn't out on computer yet, and I never played GOW 1. Anyone wanna co-op with me on windows live?

Also planning to get COD4 World at War once I beat all of those games. Hopefully by the time I'm ready to buy it the price will be down a bit.

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I keep running into NL100 players who are from LP and they say random stuff to me and I have no idea who they are. So if you're one of those guys or if you see me on the tables a lot then please reply and lemme know who you are so that I'm not so confused all the time =)

EDIT: and if your LP name isn't the same as your PS name then plz mention that and what the PS name is.

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Thanks to everyone who scolded me for my neilly move. I definitely let myself tilt due to the disappointing poker results over the last 2 weeks and the extra downswing I had on a day I'd been looking forward to crushing, along with the small fight with the GF. It was way stupid. Didn't seem it at the time, but in the morning reading peoples comments while fighting a hangover it seems very very stupid.

I just wanted to thank everyone for calling me out on it. I definitely don't want to be that type of poker player.

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So I Started today with 2.6k. I figured "Xmas eve, so many donks out!" and was I ever right. Sadly I can't win a fucking hand @ NL100 to save my life, so no matter how good AA is AIPF, I couldn't win with it. I quickly dropped to 1.6k over 2 sessions of pain and suffering. WTF RIGHT?

So I took a break for church and fun with family, and then I got on after all the evening activities were over and dropped down to NL50 since I'd lost so much. I proceeded to lose money down to 1.3k. I was 24 tabling NL50 and suddenly my tables weren't auto reloading anymore.

This tilted me very much. Therefore I needed more beer.

I sat out on all my tables and went to get a drink and when I came back my GF was in the room and had a look on her face that told me she was very upset with me. She didn't say anything - not when I came back, not when I tried to talk to her and apologize - but I knew that our happy world together was on the verge of shattering.

So I sat with her and tried to talk for a bit... which lead to frustration as she wouldn't talk to me. It ended with her saying I could play poker and I got mad about that, cause at that point I'd chosen her over poker and all the tables I was sitting out on had now kicked me off. I'd decided to sit with her and fix things because she was more important than poker, but she blew me off and sent me back to a dead poker session.

So I tilted hard.

Really hard.

Hard as floofy at a strip club. Hard as Fazi when he has a winning session. Hard as testie when he hacked and got away with it. Fucking rock solid hard.

And I opened up 4 tables of NL200 with what was at the time a 1.5k BR (luckily I'd doubled on enough of those 24 NL50 tables!)

And jee willickers you wouldn't believe it but I fucking ran GUDT! Like really GOOD. Like awesomely good! I didn't suck out on anybody cause with 4 tables I make very few mistakes, but my hands held up and turns/rivers came just right and people were stupid and let me take em to value town. I managed to win about 5 buyins at NL200 and came out with a small loss for the day. Hellz fucking yeah.

So despite this weird xmas curse that raped me @ NL100 and then kicked my ass @ NL50, I was able to win @ NL200 while underolled and recover. Fucking weird shit.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

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I think they must let all the donks run like god on xmas so that when they got on drunk to play for the first time in months they win money and think they're good and then come back and lose it all by January 1st. Cause I ran like dog shit. Played awesome. Got it in good so many times. Couldn't win anything. Fuck.

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