Doing the wrong thing

Is this what is called a "tell"?

Submitted by : thestoryteller

POKERSTARS GAME #18593630193: HOLD'EM NO LIMIT ($0.10/$0.25) - 2008/07/05 - 03:54:43 (ET)
Table 'Halleria' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: BABYiGOTcha$ ($48.50 in chips)
Seat 2: Mifodiy ($4.90 in chips)
Seat 3: Hero ($47.25 in chips)
Seat 4: datom333 ($5.10 in chips)
Seat 5: Pacwest123 ($10.15 in chips)
Seat 6: acidreign161 ($14.75 in chips)
Seat 7: chiews ($24.40 in chips)
Seat 8: Gazzman888 ($6.10 in chips)
Pacwest123: posts small blind $0.10
acidreign161: posts big blind $0.25

Holecards
Dealt to Hero
chiews: folds
Gazzman888: folds
Gazzman888 leaves the table
BABYiGOTcha$: folds
Mifodiy: folds
Hero : raises $0.75 to $1
datom333: folds
Pacwest123: folds
acidreign161: calls $0.75

Flop (Pot : $2.10)

   
acidreign161: checks
Hero : bets $1.50
acidreign161: calls $1.50

Turn (Pot : $5.10)

   
acidreign161: checks
Hero : bets $3.50
acidreign161 said, "i realy hate chasing but i like my hand a lot"
acidreign161: calls $3.50

River (Pot : $12.10)

   
acidreign161: checks
Hero : checks

Showdown
acidreign161: shows (a straight, Seven to Jack)
Hero : mucks hand
acidreign161 collected $11.55 from pot

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I read a short fantasy story (I have never quite grown out of my teenage obsession with Fantasy) which mentions a group of sorceresses that enhance their learning by sending their spirits to other dimensions where time passes more quickly. Thus, their spirits acquire centuries of knowledge while their bodies take the equivalent of an afternoon nap. A way of cramming the learning and experience of several lifetimes into one.

It makes me think of those pictures of 24 tabling poker players on huge monitors, effectively cramming the learning and experience, not to mention the money, of 24 lifetimes into 1, all without leaving this dimension.

Of course it's been mentioned many times that internet players get to play more hands than live players. It still amazes me, though. If Frank Herbert were alive, would he have seen the Mentat training he alluded to vaguely in his Dune novels?

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There is poker in this blog, I promise.

So yesterday I got a call from my mum bugging me to clear out a wardrobe in her house. Apparently it's got some of my old clothes in there.

"I'll do it tomorrow," I said.

"You keep saying that. It's been three and a half years."

This is why my mother cannot play full ring poker. No patience.


So anyway, I am managing kind of okay at NL25... it's not much harder than NL10. At some times, it actually seems easier. One thing it is showing though is my complete lack of techniques other than cbetting... all it takes is for one guy to start floating or raising my cbets and my winrate plummets. I'm going to work on that, so if anyone can give me some suggestions on what to work on after the tag-fish stage, it would be much appreciated.


Not like anyone cares, but the wardrobe has been cleared out.

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So my hand-eye coordination is bad, but thank god for short stacks.

Submitted by : thestoryteller

POKERSTARS GAME #18276525036: HOLD'EM NO LIMIT ($0.10/$0.25) - 2008/06/21 - 01:10:49 (ET)
Table 'Kapteynia' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: KIDNIC ($5.65 in chips)
Seat 2: chouin33 ($13.05 in chips)
Seat 3: Stryker4 ($13.25 in chips)
Seat 5: peliguti ($39.25 in chips)
Seat 6: mc8577 ($15.65 in chips)
Seat 7: imahuustler1 ($32.25 in chips)
Seat 8: Karen668 ($25 in chips)
Seat 9: PiS.AA ($25.30 in chips)
chouin33: posts small blind $0.10
Stryker4: posts big blind $0.25

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to Karen668
peliguti: folds
mc8577: folds
imahuustler1: folds
Karen668 : raises $13.75 to $14
PiS.AA: folds
KIDNIC: calls $5.65 and is all-in
chouin33: folds
Stryker4: folds
Uncalled bet ($8.35) returned to Karen668

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $11.65)

   

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $11.65)

   

River (Pot : $11.65)

   

Showdown
Karen668 : shows (a pair of Fives)
KIDNIC: shows (a pair of Fives - Ace kicker)
KIDNIC collected $11.10 from pot

Summary
Total pot $11.65 | Rake $0.55
Board  
Seat 1: KIDNIC (button) showed and won ($11.10) with a pair of Fives
Seat 2: chouin33 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: Stryker4 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: peliguti folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: mc8577 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: imahuustler1 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Karen668 showed and lost with a pair of Fives
Seat 9: PiS.AA folded before Flop (didn't bet)

KIDNIC said, “ty”
Karen668 said, “ty too”
Karen668 said, “short stacked fool”

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I'm moving up. Today one of my tuition students came to my house trailing dandruff.

"Where's your test paper?" I asked, trying to ignore the fluffy white things covering my floor.

"Couldn't find it," he said, scratching his head vigorously. Several strands of hair followed the dandruff. The he started rubbing his arm. Balls of dirt came off and joined the hair.

After he left I swept the floor and moved up immediately. I've got to make more money than he's paying me so I can get rid of him, pronto.

And so far, NL25 seems pretty much like NL10. Which means I suck at it... but when the going gets tough, the tough think of dandruff.

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I couldn't sleep so I got out of bed at about 4:30am and played an hour of poker. It was wonderful... I felt like I was finally playing at the NL10 everyone has been describing. I thought I had died and gone to NL5. I felt like a paedophile who owns the only candy store in town.

There were endless streams of dead money. There were so many fish it was impossible to find Nemo. Donks who called with bottom pair. Donks who called with air. Donks who simply didn't care. There was a guy who called raises with Axs and could never let go of top pair. Another guy called cbets because... well, because he wanted to see the turn. After which he'd call the turn because he wanted to see the river, and then he'd call a river bet because... well, what else do you do on the river? And when I've got KK and he's got J3o with a T8TJ4 board...

I left after an hour when the first Korean rose in the East (stats: 2.7/0). Almost 13ptbb/100. It's almost enough to make me wish I wasn't married.

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... is possibly finding out that all my "improvement" has been the result of variance, or worse, that I'm someone who just can't get past NL10... After making about $150 in 10K hands, I think I've given back about 5 buy ins in the last 5K hands (I haven't dared to look too closely!)

It's probably just bad for me because I only have time to play about 7 hours a week, so being down over about 3000 hands mean's I'm down for the week, which is a pretty depressing thought. Logically, of course, I know that it's a small sample size etc. etc. But then I am not a very logical person...

Thankfully, more and more of the hands I ask for advice on come back as being okay. Yesterday I also found that I was able to identify some players who play like me (cbet a lot, try to steal blinds, open up in late position etc.) and do all the things to them I hate people doing to me (floating, raising their cbets, 3 betting light PF etc.) So that's something, at least.

Occasionally I'll come up against some annoying player with a huge calling range who keeps bluffing me out of pots and I have no idea when to keep going with ace high. But maybe now's not the time to deal with that yet and I should just switch tables.

God, I hope I don't end up at NL5 for the rest of my life!

(pay no attention to me, I'm just griping illogically!)

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Had a nasty run of bad luck. Got dealt KK 4 times in a 1000 hand session last night.

The first time it was heads up vs AQs full stacked... he hit quad queens on the flop.

The second time it was vs a short stack and a full stack... got it in on the flop but the full stack hit a straight on the turn.

The third time it was vs AA full stacked.

The fourth time villain had KK too, so only Pokerstars was happy.

Then I got dealt AA and lost to K8 rivering a two pair.

It was like bringing a different hot chick home every night of the week and then discovering that they all have penises. I mean, what are the chances of that?

I know this actually isn't very bad. I just felt the need to make an analogy about bringing a different hot chick home every night of the week and then discovering that they all have penises.

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Last week I went with my wife to a band performance put up by a junior college concert band (The junior college where I did my A levels). It was terrible. I could have sworn they were much better when I was studying there ten years ago.

The instruments were out of time, so when they tried playing the Imperial March from Star Wars, instead of going "pom pom pom" with three tubas blasting and falling silent in unison, they merged into a "pommmffpmmzzmmfffghsl..." like Vin Diesel delivering dialogue.

The "resident conductor" was some young, pompous ass who seemed absolutely full of himself. The kind of guy who deserves to be the bitch of the biggest, baddest guy in cell block 6. His conducting was so flamboyant he alternated between waving his arms like Mr. Bean trying to dance and thrusting his pelvis like he was really enjoying being the bitch of aforementioned biggest, baddest guy is cell block 6.

Then halfway through the alumni band comes out to perform. One has a receding hairline. Another has the kind of glasses that mark him out to be an accountant. The conductor has the shape of a teletubby. Although they only practice together once a week or so, this bunch of old fogeys completely outdoes the school band as they play a simple yet entertaining medley of Barry Manilow's greatest hits (the simply yet entertaining medley that they pretty much play every single time they perform).

It would be unfair to say that it was all a disaster. Because it was a school band performance, the audience was full of 17 and 18 year olds. The girls were all in the "barely legal teens" stage of their lives and the guys were all in the "pimply face and bad body odour" stage of their lives. I was, obviously, the best looking guy in the audience with the most spending power, but my wife was with me so it was strictly see no touch.

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I have a workshop on storytelling to give this Wednesday and quite a bit of work from my full time job to finish up, so I've only played a couple of hours this past week. When I do play I play like a retard because my brain is pretty tired already.

The absolute worst, worst hand I must have played was when I decided to 3 bet someone whose stats were 23/17... after he raised UTG... with JKo! Then the flop comes 9TJ, he checks, I bet and he raises. A real, honest to goodness raise, mind you, not a cbet catching min raise. So I'm thinking he must have an overpair if not a set, but I have top pair and a gut shot draw and I'm a punk and I'm feeling lucky so I shove. Sigh.

+ Show Spoiler +

Yes, my friend, lol indeed.

After that near train wreck I played for an hour at 2NL FR and was flinging chips into the middle running at about 24/18. Raising 56s UTG and so on... Finally someone decides to "look me up" in his own special NL2 way and this happens:

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(poor guy had J8o) Then a couple of hands later I think I have a straight on the turn when I don't.

+ Show Spoiler +

(though villain had a royal flush draw so technically, I suppose I was ahead with a pair of 3s)

I need some sleep.

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