A "November" post cause, well, actually, it was a good month despite the failed NL200 shot at the end. It was my biggest winning month in a long while, especially when you factor in the bonuses. I cleared and cashed out a $650 bonus that just arrived today, plus I bought another $650 and am halfway to clearing it and should be cashing it out by the end of this week. I made supernova for the first time ever and that is a big part of why I was able to get that second $650 bonus so quickly. I also bought 2 poker books from the store which will make nice holiday reading. I stopped reading poker books about 6 months ago and I'd like to get back into reading em again, even if they are mostly worthless. There's usually at least 1 or 2 good bits of advice in there and it gives me another way to keep my mind on poker without actually playing.
58k hands, wow, that's a huge month for me! Awesome
This is in dollars so it's a bit skewed cause of the different limits
This is in big blinds so it gives a better view of how I played overall
I ended the month with a NL200 shot that started off well and ended in a painful crash. I started @ $4,000 and dropped to $3,600, then rebounded and hit $5,000. At that point I owed my coach a payment (we're on a long term profit sharing thing and I'd hit a benchmark... it works out great cause I've definitely gotten lots of value out of the coaching and I honestly think I would pay a lot more for this level of time and skill being dedicated to helping me improve without this deal).
The payment was 1k which dropped me back to $4,000. I went to try and get back to $5,000 again and hit a downswing and let myself tilt a bit. Suddenly I'd lost 7 buyins @ NL200 and was down to $2,600. I moved back to NL100 and managed to keep losing down to $2,300. I played a monster Saturday night session in an attempt to recover and peaked @ 9 buyins, and then got coolered to hell and lost it all to break even for the night. Then sunday I won 3 buyins and decided to take a break for a few days and am sitting @ $2,600.
I'm happy though because for the first time in my life I played NL200 and felt comfortable there. I don't think that I'd "crush it" just yet, but I think I can make a small profit there right now at my skill level. And once I get solidly rolled for NL200 and keep getting coaching from sakisaki, I'm sure I will crush it.
For now the plan is to relax from poker untill tomorrow (wednesday) and then start regrinding. When I hit 4k again I'll take another shot with a 5 BI stop loss and I won't go over it this time! And I'll just keep doing that over and over again until I skyrocket into NL200, which I'm sure will happen soon enough. And of course, if things go bad I will drop back to NL50 and regrind it all over again. I've been through this so many times now that it feels like another case of the SSDD (same shit, different day). Thank god for supernova and bonuses which allow me to make money by breaking even, muahhahaha!
Well at one point I thought I was gonna have insanely awesome Thanksgiving results, but turned out to be break even over the last 5 days. Damn. At least I played a lot of hands and got a lot of FPPs. I've actually made like 22,000 vpp this month which is the most I've ever made. Got one more $650 bonus and from now on gonna save till 100k FPP and buy the $1,500 bonuses.
Shall continue grinding NL100 till I can take another shot. I feel good about NL200 and it may take a few more tries to break in but I'm sure it will happen eventually =)
I ran so bad @ NL200 yesterday and dropped back to NL100 to rebuild. Went for a hardcore power session thinking "Saturday night, 15 tables, I can rebuild so quick!" and I was right - until I started getting coolered left and right at the end of the session.
So tilting. I ran horribly vs some cayaman guy who started playing back at me, so we were getting it in pretty light and he was calling my 3bets really light, but he would always hit his fucking hand! I got it in good vs him nearly every time but he was on god mode so it didn't matter. Shit like this:
Submitted by : k2o4
PokerStars Game #22490837495: Hold'em No Limit ($0.50/$1.00) - 2008/11/30 4:55:36 ET
Table 'Saskia IV' 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: JBalkenende ($100 in chips)
Seat 3: k2o4 ($186.80 in chips)
Seat 4: canayaman ($324 in chips)
canayaman: posts small blind $0.50
BNNJH: is sitting out
BNNJH leaves the table
JBalkenende: posts big blind $1
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to k2o4
k2o4 : raises $3 to $4
Sméagold joins the table at seat #2
Tuflex88 joins the table at seat #5
canayaman: raises $9 to $13
JBalkenende: folds
k2o4 : calls $9
canayaman: checks
Tuflex88 leaves the table
k2o4 : bets $43.50
canayaman: raises $250.50 to $294 and is all-in
k2o4 : calls $113.30 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($137.20) returned to canayaman
tvaldivi joins the table at seat #5
River (Pot : $374.60)
Showdown canayaman: shows (a flush, Queen high)
k2o4 : mucks hand
k2o4 is sitting out
canayaman collected $373.60 from pot
Summary Total pot $374.60 | Rake $1
Board
Seat 1: JBalkenende (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: k2o4 (button) mucked
Seat 4: canayaman (small blind) showed and won ($373.60) with a flush, Queen high
Such a tilting experience. Oh well, this is standard run good then run REALLY bad type of shit for me. Just gotta keep rebuilding so I can do another NL200 shot.
I had a nice session earlier today which I already mentioned, and followed that up by sitting down about an hour and a half ago and running into 2 coolers - but they were coolers for the OTHER guyz, muahhahahahhahahah! I hit a set with QQ on a KQR board vs a guy with AK, and then I hit four of a kind with TT on a TT6 board and the other guy had 66. So that was a great way to start the session. Of course I just wanted to run away asaply and save my monies, but I stayed and actually played very well for over an hour. Ran very break even after those 2 hands. Eventually left figuring I'd play AA as my last hand, had a nitty shortstacker shove on me PF with TT and he hit a T on the flop. Oh well. Can't win em all.
That puts me @ 1k or 5 BI for the day, which is really nice. Since I started the day down from a losing session last night, I'm at a 3 BI or $600 profit so far during this shot. Still got a ways to go before I can say I've succeeded in moving up, but I do feel really solid and comfortable at the tables. As long as I don't run like shit I think I will be able to keep grinding till my roll is solid for NL200.
It's about time for some pictures right?
Last session:
All day today:
Entire NL200 shot:
The tables still haven't gotten as loose as I was expecting em to be. I figured the Friday after thanksgiving would be loaded. I'm gonna take another break and check back in a few hours and see if there's a bunch of drunks coming home to spew their monies away.
The best thing to report is that I am feeling more and more comfortable at NL200. I'm not nervous, not scared, and today I cleaned up some of the spots where I was playing with scared money yesterday (mostly in 3bet pots). By the end of today's session I felt as if I was playing a NL100 session. The game flow, bet sizes, amount of money, and opponents all felt very standard. The tables are also tighter up here so it's harder to find any loose ones, which forces me to play 5-8 tables since I can't find anymore good ones than that. This is a good thing cause when I see lots of fishy tables I start jumping on waitlists and then they all pop at the same time and I'm suddenly sitting on 16 tables, which is not good.
The bad is that I've run pretty horribly. Today was about a breakeven run where I didn't suck out at all but got 2 out'd once. My big losses today came from bad bluffs. But yesterday was just painful and it had me starting to think that everyone was a super lagtard. They were just running hot vs me which I think is something PS does to you when you move up a limit. Seriously, you move up and they give you cold cards and give people great hands so that they're 3betting / raising your cbets / checkraising the turn nonstop and you start thinking "THEY CAN'T ALL ALWAYS HAVE IT!" and spaz out and spew and then life tilt and commit suicide on webcam.
I'm about 3,000 hands in and up 1 BI! Woot. Today has gone well with a 3 BI session to start it off. Peaked at 4 BI's but lost a bit at the end. Still happy with the result since yesterday I ended at $3,600 due to some really shitty suckouts. Now I'm @ $4,200 and taking a break so I can be in top form for tonight.
So I hit 4k yesterday and decided to start taking some NL200 shots, especially starting today and going through the weekend since we should be getting a huge influx of fish right now. I played about 200 hands this morning and lost 1 buyin while running super cold. Every flop I missed and Cbet I got raised or check-raised, and every flop I hit my Cbets were met with folds. I think I also sat into people having a huge heater vs me cause I kept getting 3bet and whenever I 3bet I got 4bet. At first I was thinking "WTF raises, 3bets, nonstop, is NL200 super fucking aggressive?". But my session later today showed that I was just running into hands.
My second session went better though I made some mistakes and got lucky. Could have been a devastating session but I sucked out JJ vs AA AIPF and hit a flush vs a set all-in on the flop in a 3bet pot. I ended up winning 2.5 buyins and recovering from the first session.
When I tried to move up to NL200 10 months ago I failed miserably. I was terrified and playing very scared. The money seemed like so much. And my heater was ending so all my spewy plays were causing me a lot of pain. I had no idea how to handle 3bets and suddenly people were 3 betting all the time, causing me to spaz out and spew. It was really bad.
This time went much better. I wasn't nervous at all. The money didn't seem like a lot. I felt very comfortable. The only problem I had was in 3bet pots - I didn't have the balls to be aggressive unless it was a perfect board for it, and I was also a bit too stationy. I need to review all my 3bet hands and figure out if I was just playing scared or if I was being smart. Other than that I felt great and can't wait to make NL200 my regular level. For the first time the money feels significant enough that I think "Yeah I could make a some good cash outta this". NL100 kinda has that feel, but you gotta grind a lot. NL200 is still a grind, but to the point where I can do it on the side and make about 1-2k a month which would be a nice supplement to my job.
I'm gonna go study now and if I feel good after studying I will play more poker. If the tables are good I'll do NL200, otherwise I'll keep on NL100.
Hopefully I'll soon be making a post about having a huge NL200 heater!
Restaurants are always hit hard during economic downturns, but one restaurant in Japan has a novel approach to cutting costs: replace the wait staff with monkeys. The monkeys only work two hours a day, but bring in tourists from around the globe. They've even been deemed sanitary, so long as they wear their miniature uniforms.
It's good to run even. You get coolered but you also cooler other people just about the same amount. Most of your good hands hold, but sometimes they lose. You play well and actually make money and it feels nice. I really like running even. Fuck heaters that instill false hope and a sense of godliness which only leads to a horrible soul crushing crash into the bottom of a case of beer. Fuck downswings that last for months and turn you into a raving asshole that pushes all the people close to him away. Running even is where I feel best, finishing sessions with a modest win that reflects the way I played. Fuck yeah.
On that note, here's my weekend of running even and the nice results. I played 2 sessions a day for the last 3 days. Friday was all wins, Saturday I broke even twice, and today I had a 4 BI win that turned into a 1 BI win by running bad right at the end (but leaving before tilting), and then a really nice 4 BI session to end the day which was mostly realized thanks to one massive pot vs a mega fish right at the end.
Funny cause at the beginning of the week I managed to have a very spewy session and lose like 9 buyins. Now I recovered and more. Very close to 4k and once I hit it I'm going str8 to NL200 cause I KNOW I can beat it, especially with some good table selection and sakisaki coaching me through the move up. I haven't felt this good about poker in a long time and am really excited to get into NL200. Last time I tried to move up I wasn't even good enough to truly beat NL100 and NL200 pwn'd me. Now I know I can do it, just need to get the roll together first! Hopefully by the end of the week I can be taking my NL200 shots after starting coaching. Just gotta keep running even! =)
MIAMI — A college student committed suicide by taking a drug overdose in front of a live webcam as some computer users egged him on, others tried to talk him out of it, and another messaged OMG in horror when it became clear it was no joke. Some watchers contacted the Web site to notify police, but by the time officers entered Abraham Biggs' home _ a scene also captured on the Internet _ it was too late.
Biggs, a 19-year-old Broward College student who suffered from what his family said was bipolar disorder, or manic depression, lay dead on his bed in his father's Pembroke Pines house Wednesday afternoon, the camera still running 12 hours after Biggs announced his intentions online around 3 a.m.
It was unclear how many people watched it unfold.
Biggs was not the first person to commit suicide with a webcam rolling. But the drawn-out drama _ and the reaction of those watching _ was seen as an extreme example of young people's penchant for sharing intimate details about themselves over the Internet.
Biggs' family was infuriated that no one acted sooner to save him, neither the viewers nor the Web site that hosted the live video, Justin.tv. The Web site shows a video image, with a space alongside where computer users can instantly post comments.
Only when police arrived did the Web feed stop, "so that's 12 hours of watching," said the victim's sister, Rosalind Bigg. "They got hits, they got viewers, nothing happened for hours."
She added: "It didn't have to be."
An autopsy concluded Biggs died from a combination of opiates and benzodiazepine, which his family said was prescribed for his bipolar disorder.
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(a flush, Queen high)
