Can't lose what you don't put in the middle...by thewh00sel, April 25
...but you can't win much either...
Took a shot and played a little 10/20 on Monday in a soft game when my 5/10 seat wasn't available. Played for about an hour, hoping to turn on the run-good. Bought in for 3k and ran it up to a little over 8k before my seat opened up at 5/10 (Flopped a set vs top two and turned a straight vs a set). I almost just stayed at 10/20, but I didn't really want to be 8k deep with a bunch of people who cover me just yet. So I went back to 5/10 which turned out to be a great game. Unfortunately I dusted off 1-2k of my profit for the day when I ran a bluff against bottom pair unsuccessfully, and ran an overpair into a set for a little bit too.
/bragpost
Only got 5 days left this month to try and string some wins together, and need to get on it if I want to get to 150hrs this month.
ps: how bout that FTP/PS news?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ME WANT ONLINE POKERS
Well put an offer on a house, if I end up getting it I'll post pics and stuff :3
Probably will buy it and rent out a few rooms to a few buddies, I figure if I get 2 renters at like 500/mo + we all split utilities, everyone will have a pretty good deal on this house. 15 minutes from downtown, close to a few parks, good neighborhood.
I feel pretty old now that I think that I might be a homeowner; I also feel old due to my new gf being 4.5 years younger than I do. Oh lawd - but it's worth it, robbing the craddle, etc...
Hmmm well I still work at a bank as a banker, got a promotion a few weeks ago so I can do more under my banker title. Looking to eventually get out of the retail side of the bank though, I would like something in the back office where I'm not told I'm awful everyday despite being top 10 in the state of Minnesota in our company.
Blargle - anyways I'll post a new blog as soon as I get the house!
Variance. For a fish like me, what a f-in difficult term to fully understand. To wrap my head around losing while still making the correct plays and not change a thing is a hard thing to grasp for me. It becomes harder when I go on losing streaks continuously getting my money in when I have the best of it and coming up short. One of the main reasons I have a coach is for this reason. He informed me of tough times to come and why poker is such a hard game to consistently be good at let alone maintain a level head when you encounter tough times.
At the beginning of April I felt on top of the world. Playing 1/2 at my local casinos I didn't have a losing session in the first couple weeks. I added roughly 2,500 to my bank roll enforcing the teachings of my coach and breaking down every hand I had a question on in a deep hand analysis. I would sit there with my little notebook and pen writing away, describing big hands, how they played out and every hand I was involved with that I had a question or i won/lost curious about different ways to play it. But now, oh boy. Something happened. I continue playing the same way, analyzing the table as best i could trying to put hand ranges on everyone but no matter how good of a read I have I keep getting outdrawn on turn/river and it has been costing me some money.
Before I go further, this is me whining. Everyone experiences this i know. I'm sure some people reading this will just roll their eyes at another fish complaining so im sorry in advance. This is just my little blog and i just feel like ranting and whining.
I will do my best to remember a semi-large hand i was involved with that really began this trend of losing.
1/2 Table . Hero has 650-700 in his stack. Table is relatively tight with the exception of 3 individuals who limp/call just about everything and bet random amounts with both strong and bluff hands.
Villain #1 700 in her stack. (no fucking idea how she got it) is a female who is actually pretty hot, doesn't understand a damn thing about cards and has begun taking a barrage of tequila shots from villain #2.
Villain #2 is a older gentlemen who plays extremely loose. He over bets a lot of hands and limp calls with just about anything. His hand range is about anything the dealer throws to him.
Hero is on the button with As,Ac
Villain #1 utg limps in followed by 2-3 limps from early position to villain #2 in the cut off who limps. I raise to 25. My image is a bit more tight and I have been 3 betting a lot of my stronger hands pf against the loose canons. The 25 bet is a bit much in a lot of other circumstances but with villain #2, he tends to limp call with anything no matter the pf raise. I almost think it could have been more but, shoulda woulda coulda.
Both blinds fold. Villain #1 calls. All fold to villain #2 who calls.
Flop: 10s, 4s, 5s (pot 85ish)
Villain 1 leads out for a 20$ bet. Villain 2 calls. Hero Re-raises to 125$.
Villain 1 thinks for awhile like she does every single hand. Looks at her hand a few times... calls. Villain 2 folds.
Turn: Qd (pot 335)
Villain 1 check. Hero bets 300. Villain think and thinks and thinks and thinks. She looks a little nervous by the amount she is up against and after 5 or 6 minutes ends up on calling. At this point in the hand i'm not quite sure what in fuck I am up against. On the flop I thought a flush draw with maybe 2 overs... She has been hitting a lot of hands but generally played stronger hands. She didn't play very many wonky hands and called down a lot of people with top pair and drawing hands which is how her stack was built. The few times she made her hands that she knew were strong she fired pretty strongly into the pot. I was all sorts of fucked up by the call. She had a couple hundred left and I would have thought a flush would have just shoved.
River: 9h
She checks. Hero goes all-in. Again she thinks FOREVER. The more she thought gave me a little bit of comfort that she missed her flush. I really didn't put her on a straight draw since she called the flop raise. She called.
I show Aces with a sinking feeling in my gut that im up against a dumb hand like Q,10. She shows Ks,Jc for the straight.
It's just one of those things that i'm sure there were better ways to fold and i had severe tunnel vision with my aces vs her. When she won she jumped up like she won the lottery as i sit and stew for a minute and say nice hand and walk away tail between my legs.
Shit happens. Do I feel like I played it wrong? Meh, I could have picked up on her calling the 125 that aces may not be good. I just really felt like she had some flush draw with a pair. This very well may not even be variance but it was the hand that began my downward spiral.
Beyond that it was small things that began happening like hands with two pair on the flop getting beat by villains hitting trips on the river. A lot of this is my fault as i was playing an immense amount of poker while i was winning and started to wear myself out mentally.
I began losing stack after stack and started to feel like every hand no mater how well i hit wasn't good enough. An absolutely terrible mental state to be in. I more or less needed to use my coach as a therapist to re-instill my confidence that i was playing the hand correctly but variance is the reason that bad players players play hold'em.
Well, there is my whining rant. I went on to lose about 5-6 buy ins within the last 2 weeks until i finally decided to take a break and re-evaluate everything to make sure we aren't making mistakes. I couldn't imagine being a high stakes player and going on streaks of tens of thousands of dollars being pissed away by players catching cards vs us.
Anyways. I hope everyone has a great day and don't beat up me to badly for complaining. I know I am a results oriented player and i'm am really really trying to knock that off. I have a lot of faults still but i am dedicated to fixing them.
Mine has gotten from bad to worse since the advent of the internet/computer era. Technology finished it off and I still envy people with good handwriting and/or signatures. I would include pics but I'm too lazy even for that lol. If anyone could start I probably would include mine.
Multiple display sound help???by CT_rider, April 22
ok so I have a multiple display setup a 24" hannspree monitor and a 42" toshiba tv, running on a Radeon HD6450 graphics card but i cannot get sound out of either of the monitors I am using a HDMI cord with sound capabilities running to the 42" and DVI to HDMI running to the 24"
any suggestions or am i gonna have to run and get a audio cord I have played witht he audio settings on the tv to change the audio output to PC but it doesnt work when both monitors are connected
Improving your game as a live player?by Stim_Abuser, April 21
So like many, since black Friday I've been dabbling a lot live.
Been doing pretty well, but I feel as my game is very stagnant and maybe regressing due to lack of number hands put in, the fact I'm playing with nothing but awful players most of the time, lack of easily and accurate ways to review sessions.
I guess I could put money on merge and grind there, but I'm not sure how I feel about having money on there with all the bad press coming out recently. Not to mention my last stint on there was some awful run bad.
So what kind of things are people who now play live doing to improve their game these days?
I noted every tournaments I would like to play. If stakers want to buy me into more, i'm certainly open! And if I aim too high, and get no action, then i'll tone down the schedule a bit, but I think this is fine.
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