Oh Fun
k2o4, Apr 11 2008
Well I planned to grind NL25 for about 25 BI's to $1,500 and then restart NL50 cause I had been tilting nonstop due to being on a somewhat short BR. I kept going up and down between 1,000 and 1,300. I just play so much better when I'm very deeply rolled for the limit I'm at.
So I took the opportunity to mass multi-table @ NL25 for a few days. I played 11-15 tables of 6max and it was weird to go back to the mass tabling, cause you go through swings that normally take a few days while 4 tabling in just 1 session of multi-tabling. I also got a lot of practice at figuring out the betting patterns that shitty players take when they're weak or strong. That is something that will be helpful as I move back up... I used to have trouble figuring out wtf the fish were doing and now it makes a LOT more sense, hah. I used to just play the board/my hand but never their hand or actions. If it was a fish I'd just autopilot, but now I feel like I have some reads that will help me get more value and dodge some bullets.
Anyway, my NL25 time went ok - I was playing so nitty that my profit/loss basically came from how I was running, cause I rarely put on any moves or light call downs, so if I didn't hit a hand I usually didn't make money, and if people didn't hit something with me there was never very much going on. And so the main focus was on making good folds with good but defeated hands, and being sure to bet nice and strong with all the nut hands. But sometimes I'd donk off a stack here or there with a hand like AK on a ARR board and run into 2p or some shit, where I coulda folded if I'd been paying attention. I had some 8 buyin winning days, and some 8 buyin losing days, heh. I still came out ahead but would have had much better results with like 4 tables or so. Next time I drop down I'm sticking to 4 tabling, especially after seeing caleb's results @ NL25 4tabling and thinking back to how many buyins people just threw at me.
I moved back to NL50 last night after my bonus cleared, putting my BR up around $1,700. Things have gone well so far and I'm up a few buyins and playing really good poker. It's so nice to do 4 tables instead of 11 - a lot more fun cause the depth of the game increases. I have been able to make more good folds recently than ever before, plus now that I'm not mass tabling I can make small moves like 4bet bluffs vs the right guys and so on, things I wouldn't even consider before. Things like that bring up the winrate a LOT. I also made did a pretty good job inducing a bluff vs a donk - check it in the spoiler. So here's my NL50 results so far since last night.
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I left my first session of the day after that hand cause I was so happy about it and wanted to end on a good note =) Keep the positivity going!
I'm planning to start NL100 around $2,500 but maybe I'll wait till 3K... not sure yet. But I am gonna get back to NL100 and cruise into NL200 again! I know it, just need time to let the luck even out. I haven't had a heater in ages so hopefully when I take my NL100 shot I sit into a serious heater. Now THAT would be awesome, hehe.
Custom Layouts on PS
k2o4, Apr 09 2008
I just figured this out and it's brought so much joy to my life! So I just had to share... for those of you who don't know, once you set your tables up how you like em, you can save the positioning in the "Custom Layout" section when you click on the chips (I think it's under view but also there's that little button on the bottom right of the chips you can click to get there too). It's extremely helpful for mass multitabling - I was doing 11 tables cause that's the most I can fit comfortably without resizing, and it was always a pain in the ass to get them into position. Here's a pic of how I set it up:
I would use the "cascade tables" option to get all the ones on the left, then just put the ones on the right there myself. If I had to leave a table during the session, adding a new one was a serious pain in the ass and I'd spend time trying to put it into position. I couldn't cascade again cause then it would take the two tables on the right and cascade them too, resizing everything.
But now I live in the lap of luxury after finding this new feature out. It just automatically puts new tables into the empty spots and keeps everything in order. This has saved me many timeouts. I am the timeout king anyways, so this shit was really kicking my ass. And there's nothing more tilting than trying to position a table and then finding out you got aces folded cause you timed out, especially when someone open shoved into you preflop!
Playing a LOT of poker these days and the hands fly by @ 11 tables. Sessions lasting about 1 hour or 1,000 hands, sometimes a little more or less depending on if I tilt or not. If I tilt the sessions end quickly cause I just get off. I've been doing 3-5 sessions a day and at least 4,000 hands a day for the last 3 days. Got a bonus going which should clear soon which is nice. Finally saved enough FPP's to buy that platinum $650 bonus, which is gonna be very helpful in building the BR back for NL100. I wanna go up to NL100 with 30 buyins so that I can play with the mental cushion that the extra buyins provide. I play better when I know I've got a big cushion to fall back on.
That's all for now - hope this trick helps you guys out. I'm gonna go set up some other layouts to use when I start playing less tables ^^
Hungover Weekend
k2o4, Apr 07 2008
I've promised myself that I'm avoiding alcohol for a week and this weekend is gonna be about being active outdoors and overall healthy living, cause that was the plan for this weekend and alcohol killed it!
Anyway, Friday was standard and Saturday in the morning I did my free lesson with rnbsalsa which went pretty well. Despite his horrible rep here on LP I found him to be a nice and helpful guy and agreed with him on a lot of philosophies about poker. I'm not convinced he's a super gosu leet pwnerer or anything like that, but he seemed competent and I always like talking poker with that type of person. He made a vid so you can watch that if you're interested (dl it here... oddly it's pretty embarassing cause I'm yapping away about my poker history and ideas and I feel totally unqualified to be listened to by anyone).
I'll write a bit more about the lesson at the bottom, but for now let's ramble about other stuff. Like what happened this weekend...
After the lesson I took my GF to the mall cause she got her tax return and was eager to go shopping. Luckily the store of choice was Victoria's Secret, so it was win-win for both of us. She gets sexy lingerie, I get to walk around the store and not look like a total perv. Since I'm here with a GF I'm now a nice boyfriend instead of a horny bastard. This was my first time ever being in a victoria's secret, although I have stopped and stared at the pictures of the models in the front windows many times in my life.
We left the mall and met up with a friend of mine for dinner and beer at this great brewery in downtown Boulder on Pearl St. I grew up drinking 40's of MGD, Bud and Coors which we stole from the grocery store or gas station, just trying to get drunk, and because of that I never really cared for beer. I got old enough to drink legally and suddenly I found myself tasting real beer in local breweries with FLAVOR to it rather than just yellow piss water with just enough alcohol content to get you drunk if you pounded 2 40's down in 20 minutes. I love good beer now and anytime I get a chance to go out and have a burger and a beer, I'm in heaven.
2 other friends showed up and we started the pub crawl which is the standard Saturday night event in downtown boulder. The weird thing is that it turns into a high school reunion cause there's always SOMEONE from school in town and they hit the same bars we do. So we played pool with HS friends and my GF got to meet a bunch of people - the guy that my HS sweetheart cheated on me with, who eventually cheated on him and we became good friends over the bond of our mutual hatred for her; an ex-girlfriend from 8th grade who became a best friend for a while. The night ended in the usual stupidity of "let's go to bobby's house for the after party" and only 1/3 of the people actually coming over.... we ended up dropping off 2 of the 4 people riding in our car at their own houses instead of the party house. There was plenty of female drama and bitching at each other about why people weren't staying out to party. Such fun.... this is why I rarely go out.
We were planning to go to yoga with some friends Sunday morning, but being up till 4am with plenty of alcohol in the system didn't vibe well with a 9:30am yoga class. I woke up at 9 the next day and said "fuck this", went back to bed and woke up at noon. My GF and I went out to Subway for the 5 dollar foot long deal and then drove up to the mountains to have a picnic. Again, the plan was to go hiking, but the hangover killed that. At the same time I didn't want to miss my chance to get outdoors since I spend all week behind a computer. Here are a few pics:
View from our picnic spot
My GF as we sit down to eat
Me looking hungoverrrr
View of Boulder
Another Boulder View - the red roofs are the CU Campus
Came home from the picnic and passed out around 3pm and woke up @ 9pm. Realized that I was scheduled to play a Bo7 Random Vs Random match for the title of "most leet pimp evar". So I hunted down my friend and lost while putting up a good fight. I WILL GET YOU LUEIGI, IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO! I had to make a post about how awesome he was since I lost, which you can see here. Then I watched "The Outsiders" with my GF, which was a pretty good flick. I loved the book as a kid and it was fun to see it as a movie. Diane Lane was young and hot, and Tom Cruise was a fucking dirty greeseball weirdo. It was amazing how many famous faces were in that flick - hell it even had the Karate Kid! Flashback to my youth for sure!
Man, I'm rambling like crazy right now. Anyway, that was my weekend. But I wanted to say a bit more about that lesson I had. Overall I think the best part about it was that he had a bit of a plan on how to approach it. I don't get very much out of sweat sessions, especially if I'm 4 tabling. If you start talking too much about a concept or a hand, you get distracted. So I like how he set it up to spend time just talking overall poker background/ideas first, then a 1 table sweat session (though I think 2 would be better) and then time to just ask Q's and discuss hands and shit afterwards. I think that's definitely a good formula, at least for me. I learn well that way. I am the type of guy who needs to ask a million questions.
As far as rnbsalsa goes as a person, I went into the lesson with very low expectations due to all the posts around the forums. I personally thought that he was overly advertising his site and found it to be pretty annoying. I didn't think his articles were anything special. And I think that if he's gonna be posting on LP he should be doing it as an LP member, not a pokerzion member trying to get more traffic. At the same time I get where he's coming from and that he wants to have a successful site and all that jazz. My overall impression of him right now is that he is a nice guy who took a shitty approach to getting involved in the LP community. I think if he just quit all forms of advertising PZ and just participated in the community as a regular guy he'd do pretty well here. But of course now he's in a serious hole cause of how he introduced himself to LP, and people don't give second chances easily and first impressions last a long time, all that shit. So he'll probably have a hard time in the LP community for a while. But I personally am not gonna be part of his hater crowd as long as he stops advertising PZ, which he pretty much has. Yeah this lesson thing and the video of it are pretty much advertising for him, but hell it's also not so bad for new players since they can probably learn a thing or two for free from the vid.
God I'm on such a rambling rant today - my head is not on straight at all. I need to blog more often so it all doesn't build up on me.
Anyway, there was more stuff I wanted to talk about but I need to eat and play more poker. I'm gonna start posting more often now that the secret is out - yes, if you watch the vid you will learn how I was able to go on a horrible downswing that started as variance and turned into tilt, and go from 30 buyins for NL200 to 20 buyins for NL50. The pain. I've been pretty embarrassed about it and ashamed to post in here about results I've had since going back down to the microstakes. I was planning to get back to NL100 and then start posting in the blog again. Lol, pretty sad eh?
So it's time to own up...
Hello everybody. My name is k2o4 and I'm a spewaholic... I spewed my BR due to tilt and didn't move down fast enough, putting myself in a huge hole. I'm playing NL50 again with some NL25 for confidence boosts / BR boosts when I do poorly. I'm recovering and back to playing with nice large BR requirements and now understand that moving down quickly is about more than just protecting the BR, but it also helps you get your head on straight sooner cause of the easier competition and the fact that the losses don't hurt so much. I'll be posting a lot more in the near future now that the truth is out!
I Run Gudt
k2o4, Apr 04 2008
Not really...
I thought things were going badly for me so I finally put all my hands into PT and used PokerEV to take a looksey - Somehow I'm still not totally demoralized, but I swear it's all just a huge shit in my face every day. I play really solid poker and manage to win a little bit, then variance smacks me in the face and coolers come back to back and smack me around and I lose more than I won. I get away from the comp to avoid tilt, get my head on straight, come back, and slowly win it all back and then lose even more to be at a new low. Rinse and repeat.
I can't wait to just run like god for a week straight.
Hiking (Pics)
k2o4, Mar 31 2008
A bit late posting these as we went on this hike over a week ago, but better late than never. The weather got nice and I was eager to leave the house since I never get outside these days, so we headed out to my old hometown of Boulder to get on the trails. I used to go up to Mallory Cave all the time as a kid with my family, and wanted to do the hike with my GF.
I got lost right away as I couldn't remember if we needed to go north or south at the first split in the trail... so I had to call and ask for directions, haha. Weird world cause when I used to hike these trails no one had cell phones, so it was odd just pulling out the cell and calling for directions.
Once we figure it out my GF poses for a quick pic
We make it to the cave and I explore a bit
Self portrait time - I'm getting pretty good at these... sadly we couldn't get the cave to show up so well in the background cause of the lighting.
The view of Boulder - pretty sweet
This is where we ate lunch that we packed with us.
One last view from up near the cave. I love Boulder.
It felt really good to get out and hike... at the end to get up to the cave there's a bit of light rock climbing which was kinda tough cause there was still ice and snow up there. We were really happy to make it up there though - it's so nice getting out into nature again. I spend way too much time in doors playing poker!
Anyway, just a quickie. I know the pics were on the boring side compared to normal, so sorry about that. Planning to do more outdoorsy shit as the summer keeps approaching and will try to document it for the blog!
I love this
k2o4, Mar 20 2008
I feel pimpin for manipulating a donkey right now =)
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PokerStars Game #16131371046: Hold'em No Limit ($0.25/$0.50) - 2008/03/21 - 01:12:59 (ET)
Table 'Cruithne IV' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: Sgt Sal ($16.15 in chips)
Seat 2: Attilio ($52.20 in chips)
Seat 3: k2o4 ($50 in chips)
Seat 4: huron_traper ($22.65 in chips)
Seat 5: MichaelNY ($86.95 in chips)
Seat 6: eewiseman ($106.10 in chips)
Sgt Sal: posts small blind $0.25
Attilio: posts big blind $0.50
Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to k2o4  
k2o4 : raises $1.50 to $2
huron_traper: folds
MichaelNY: folds
eewiseman: calls $2
Sgt Sal: folds
Attilio: folds
Flop(Odds) (Pot : $4.75)
  
k2o4 : bets $3.50
eewiseman: calls $3.50
Turn(Odds) (Pot : $11.75)
k2o4 : checks
eewiseman: bets $4.50
k2o4 : raises $16 to $20.50
eewiseman: calls $16
River (Pot : $52.75)
k2o4 : checks
eewiseman: bets $24
k2o4 : calls $24 and is all-in
Showdown
eewiseman: shows   (a pair of Deuces)
k2o4 : shows (a pair of Kings)
k2o4 collected $97.75 from pot
Summary
Total pot $100.75 | Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: Sgt Sal (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: Attilio (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: k2o4 showed and won ($97.75) with a pair of Kings
Seat 4: huron_traper folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: MichaelNY folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: eewiseman (button) showed and lost with a pair of Deuces
Just had to brag cause it went so damn beautifully. Fun cause I doubled on 2 tables at the same time.
WooT!
Planning a real blog post sometime soon, but for now we'll leave it at this brag. Gotta get back to the session!
New Apartment (Pics)
k2o4, Mar 17 2008
Well I promised pics about 1.5 months ago when I first moved in to this new place. Since then I got really busy losing most of my bankroll to a horrible downswing followed by spewy play thanks to my destroyed soul. I'm finally getting around to this so let's have some fun =)
My GF and I live here in this nice cozy 2 bedroom "townhouse" which is pretty spacious but very old, outdated and inexpensive, which works out well for us. The only problem with it is that the walls are super thin and the heating vents connect with the other townhouses, so we hear every arguement our neighbors have (which is at least 1 a day) and whenever they smoke cigs or weed our house smells like second hand smoke. Nothing wrong with smoking here and there, but we get screwed with all of the downfalls and none of the benefits.
Otherwise it's pretty damn sweet. So let's do a quick tour! (Pics in the spoiler, and I even resized them this time!
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We start off with the kitchen where you can see the all essential cereal boxes on top of the fridge, our gigantic microwave that my dad gave us cause he was remodeling, and a nice view out to our neighbors. We live in brick townhouses... that feels kinda oldschool to me.
(pic died sry)
Here's another shot where you can see our old school oven and some momo's on the counter. My GF is Tibetan and makes the BEST Tibetan and Indian food (she grew up in India) and I help out here and there. We make good use outta this tiny kitchen and cook most nights of the week and eat like really fucking well. If I didn't have her with me I'd probably be on the fast food diet, hehe.
Here's the dining room table and back door. We rarely ever eat there - we prefer the coffee table in front of the TV. But if we have people over it's nice.
This is the downstairs bathroom. It's not the prettiest in the world (who thought of that yellow sink?) but it gets the job done and is yet to be clogged. Plunger is standing by just in case.
Here's our living room. Pretty basic but by far the nicest setup I've ever had since moving outta the P's house. The couch is really comfy too.
Same thing, different angle. You can see the front door here and the base of the stairs. TV and DVD player I got with FPP's off of Stars. That was pretty sweet.
Now we start making our way upstairs. You may have noticed all the pictures on the walls. My GF made her living as a photographer in India so we have a bunch of her pics framed on the walls. They're pretty damn amazing.
Upstairs bathroom and we get the BLUE sink and toilet - seriously, who painted this place? The bathrooms are a bit weak, and we wish we had the storage space under the sinks, but it all works well. Hot water never runs out and is included in the rent, so hello to long hot showers!
My office where I lose large amounts of money playing poker.
You mave have noticed all this shit on the wall in the far corner, so here's a closeup. This is my "Poker Wall" which I made when I first started playing. Basically I took a shit load of notes when reading books/articles. It helped me get the basics down. I also made notes when I fucked up and have a bunch of reminders about shit not to do, heh. Lot's of hand charts too, though I never used like half of em. I Don't use it too often anymore but it's good for a quick refresher.
And finally the bedroom. The bed looks tiny in this pic, but it's definitely a decent size. If you've got really good eyes you'll probably see the sklasky NL holdem book on the stand by the bed. Started re-reading that the other night cause I've been sucking it up so badly I figured I needed to remind myself of the basics.
So that's it for the house, but here's some other pics I had laying around that I wanted to post - Think I might be reposting some but oh well. This one is me, duh.
This is the beautiful girlfriend!
Us together in India.... the most important part of this is that I am wearing my CTU shirt. Rock on!
And we close with a pic of me dancing with some Indian woman in the middle of a crazy drum circle in a slum we were working. I was trying to copy her moves, which ended up being really funny to them cause she was doing "female" and the guys just aren't supposed to do em. What the hell do I know about Indian dancing??
Ok, that's all for today guys. Hope it wasn't too boring!
Some old hands
k2o4, Mar 16 2008
I spent time a long while ago and wrote out questions and uploaded all these hands, but never ended up posting em cause there were too many to do all at once... so instead of letting all that work go to waste I'm just gonna post em here and hope to get some advice for em.
5) Villain playing tight aggressive 16/16. I was 3 betting him a lot and he was ALWAYS folding to my 3bets. Then he called and I figured I should shut down unless I hit the flop huge. In this spot vs a guy who opens a lot and consistently folds to your 3bets, is it a good idea to check this K high flop to him instead of Cbetting it?
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6) Only 8 hands with villain where he played kinda loose. I figured the turn call was ok with a pair and a flush draw. Hititing my out I figured I should try and get value with a smallish lead into him. When he raises I thought AK or KQ were very likely hands but thought AK was more likely. heh. Not sure what to do in this spot.
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9) Villain @ 19/16/4. I was very torn up on the turn here and felt I should fold but couldn't get myself to do it. What do you do here? I mean, that line he took shows a lot of strength.
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Result:
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He actually had TT and floated the flop and turned a set.
10) Shove the 2 overs + FD or does the large field and previous action negate my usual advantage?
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12) Only 5 hands with him... Is this time to get out or do I want to go with it?
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13) Flopped top set, is it best to get it in on the flop on a 3 suited board like this? Or am I reducing my calls to only people with a made flush?
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15) Good double barrell? Just checking. Figured picking up the extra outs and being oop in a blind vs blind situation vs someone capable of floating, that this would be a good time ot hit the second one.
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16) This guy fooled me bigtime. But was this a bad line to take? I figure he's on a weaker Q a lot of the time and was just trying to scare me off. Is checkraising the better move?
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Sick Equity
k2o4, Mar 15 2008
Man it's rare to see this many outs on the flop, but for me it's common to get em all in and not hit any by the river, hehe. Oh well, good read on his hand, bad read on getting him to fold it. Put him on an overpair and figured even if he calls I'm happy. Checked the calculator and I was 58 to 38, so yeah, not bad at all. I thought I was sitting on 18 outs but he had a spade so that meant 17, which is still a hell of a lot.
Anyway, just wanted to share this hand but didn't know where so in the blog it goes!
Submitted by : k2o4
PokerStars Game #15989268113: Hold'em No Limit ($0.25/$0.50) - 2008/03/15 - 03:55:14 (ET)
Table 'Naiad V' 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: bevishead ($33.35 in chips)
Seat 2: DzNtz5 ($71.05 in chips)
Seat 4: k2o4 ($50 in chips)
Seat 5: Kobe>MJ ($21.80 in chips)
Seat 6: cezary02 ($67.65 in chips)
Kobe>MJ: posts small blind $0.25
cezary02: posts big blind $0.50
Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to k2o4 
bevishead: calls $0.50
DzNtz5: calls $0.50
k2o4 : raises $2.50 to $3
Kobe>MJ: folds
cezary02: folds
bevishead: calls $2.50
DzNtz5: calls $2.50
Flop(Odds) (Pot : $9.75)
  
ChodeZilla joins the table at seat #3
bevishead: checks
DzNtz5: bets $7.50
k2o4 : raises $39.50 to $47 and is all-in
bevishead: folds
DzNtz5: calls $39.50
Turn(Odds) (Pot : $103.75)
River (Pot : $103.75)
Showdown
DzNtz5: shows   (two pair, Jacks and Fives)
k2o4 : mucks hand
DzNtz5 collected $101.75 from pot
Summary
Total pot $103.75 | Rake $2
Board
Seat 1: bevishead folded on the Flop
Seat 2: DzNtz5 showed and won ($101.75) with two pair, Jacks and Fives
Seat 4: k2o4 (button) mucked
Seat 5: Kobe>MJ (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: cezary02 (big blind) folded before Flop
Freezing my ass off
k2o4, Mar 13 2008
Dear god what a horrible and painful session tonight. Lost about 4 buyins thanks to horrendous spew and then another 6 buyins to coolers T_T - dear god.
Brrrrrrr
Felt like coolers to me - do you agree?
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5) This guy was 4Betting a lot and I figured if I 4Bet I'd push him off hands that he would 4bet himself - seems like I was right but can't win any races =
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