So I have been taking lessons from a fellow member on liquid poker and I haven't felt in better poker shape than i currently am at the moment. We go over hand scenarios, any questions I have, and not just say what the right answer to a question is but go into great depth talking about why people make certain decisions. ie Why would someone bet a certain amount in a certain position, why we bet a particular amount and not another, how we can extract the most value from our made hands. I'm sure this is basic stuff but it really helps me out. I asked a while back "how do you beat 1/2?" The generic answer was, value bet your hands and play safe with rarely a bluff. Only now can I slowly understand a little bit of what that truly means.
So I sat down yesterday with 200 like always. I was sat down at a floating handed table that was both adding players and moving them to the big game that game going on across from us. I go into my usual routine FOLD FOLD FOLD. While I fold hand after hand I take the time to study the table and get out a character profile on everyone (tight-aggro, loose-aggro,tight bla bla bla) As well as do my best to remember any hands anyone shows down. A lot of people like to remember all types of hands that involved a lot of money but I just like to remember the hands which i know what the hole cards were. I just don't think it makes a lot of sense to remember possible bluff hands. Anyhoot! Since I live in the south most of the table are the country talkin, dip in the mouth while playin, drinkin liquor early in the day, Southerners. I like it. Never mind they talk the ENTIRE time they are at a table, I just do my best to tune them out and remember all they faults they make when they play.
The table at this point (1 hour in) is being raised constantly by 1 bully. The bully, a guy who for whatever reason ended up taking 6th in some 60k tournament and had a lot of money to blow. He was going through buy-in after buy-in with me slamming my face into my hands every time he stacked off with mediocre holdings and me never being able to take advantage of it. Due to my hand range being fairly tight with this table i had the image of a tight player though i doubt any slack jawed guy at my table even knew that... I look down at:
A,Ko on the button 180ish in my stack.
3 limpers then the actions is to me. I make it 17 to go. The BB is the tourny winner guy.
The BB calls, 1 other calls and the 2 other limpers fold. I didn't have much info on the other caller. He was more tight than anything else and would usually bet a small amount in all pots regardless of how much was in the pot.. odd player.
Flop comes Q,10,6 (i think it was rainbowed, hard to remember)
Both players check to me and I make it 40 to go. BB calls, other player folds.
Turn is a jack of spades. I believe the jack added to another spade on the board. BB checks and I make it 100 to go. He thinks and thinks, sais some bullshit like I have trips or something and he has two pair and folds. After I won this hand he just wouldn't stop talking about how he played it right and I got lucky as well as talking about what was on the TV on the wall above us with the show being "Dr. Phil" and the headlining topic is "man who was raped by girlfriend". Fun stuff... lets play cards and not watch TV I thought to myself. Although i did laugh at a few things that this guy would say. "Somebody tell me what i have to do so my ex's will rape me!" Ohhh the joys of 1/2.
Soon after I was moved to the big game. I spot a few regulars that i don't regard as particularly good players but good enough to fold top pair which sadly is an impressive trait to see in someone at these tables.
(I apologize in advance if I come off cocky or arrogant. I am a newby learning as well but sometimes i feel some people are just......SO BAD!)
I sit down, go over my routine of studying the table again and re-making all of my profiles on people. I notice that a very nice but PLUMP lady is sitting next to me from England. I begin talking to her just a little chit chat doing my fold marathon and it comes to this:
On the button with As,2c. 5 people limp and the action is to me. I limp as well. SB (the big lady) limps and BOOM 7 people. I can feel the readers rolling their eyes at me already. :-p
Flop comes A,T,T - Everyone checks and decide to see who has anything to call with so i bet 5 bucks. I figure an A will call, Ts will call. No biggy. The SB calls and one other person calls. Not too bad for 5 bucks. haha.
Turn comes an A. People at the table gasp for whatever reason talking about a possible bad beat pot. But they are retarded if two people limped with A's and T's. The SB checks to me which i thought was strange anyways. I figure we are going to chop if they has an ace and fold if they has a T, no big deal. I wanted to make it fun though and make her sweat a little. I make it 80 to go. A weird bet but i figured we are just going to chop this pot so whats the problem with a little fun. She think and thnks and thinks and actually startled me a little since i was like "what in fuck could she be thinking so hard about???" She make the call.
River a blank, i think a 3 or 4. Can't remember which. She checks. I couldn't quite imagine what she called down the 80 with that gave her mind such a headache. Maybe she really did hold 10,10 haha. She checks and one again, for shits and giggles, i go all in. She thinks and think and begins talking outloud, breaking down the hand with quiet mumbles. I just couldn't understand what the hard decision was. If you have an ace, call. If not, fold. EZPZ. she thinks and finally sais call. I show my ace and she flops over her 10 instantly complaining about the call she made and way she played the hand. It was probably the easiest money i have ever made at a hand that i shouldn't of. But that's 1/2 for ya.
The rest of the night was a bit of a blur since i never really had any large hands like that until my last hand. Everything else was picking up 40 dollars here and 30 there. Slowly making my stack around 700.
So I have been at the table for about 7 hours and have a massed quite the reputation of a solid player only having the nuts. Which was semi-true. There were times i won with mediocre holdings but through a short string of good hole cards and bad opponents I was able to take stacks from a few different people.
My last hand of the night. I look down at As,KS in the cut-off. Not to shabby for a last hand.
2 Limps to me and I make it 15 to go. Both blinds fold, UTG calls, and someone in middle position calls. Both of these players have around 400 in their stacks and one seems fairly competent.
Flop comes Ac,Kc,3d rainbow. Both check to me and decide to make it 40 to go. both of them take time and take sighs as they don't want to get involved with me in a big hand. I have never had opponents feel that way about me before so it felt pretty amazing. :D they both call.
Turn comes Ad. they both check to me and I am trying to find out how to get the most money out of this hand. I put one guy on chasing some sort of flush and the other with some sort of K,Q - A,Q, Jc,Tc. Something along those lines. I think I made a bad bet but I wanted they to be able to continue chasing for relatively cheap and hope they hit. i bet out 40 again. I wanted to go up to 100 but i didn't want them both to fold which i felt they would do given my tightness and they possibly needing good odds to call a pot. One guy i think is chasing calls and the other folds.
River comes 4s. He checks to me. I feel he is in some form of check fold here so i wanted to give the impressive i missed some wonky flush or straight draw. So I lead out of 200. He thinks and thinks but ultimately folds. But not so bad for my last hand!
I started with my 200 buy in and left with 920! I was pretty excited. I haven't left down from these cash games in quite a long time now. I am starting to be consistently up and this is the second time in a couple weeks where i came out a big winner. I guess we will see what happens.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and I will be going to the casino again today and i'll be sure to type another one of these with better detail and a little more complicated hands other than my nut hands.
Also: A big thank you to my coach!! I wouldn't be where I am without you. No homo. :-p
To show how hard our conference is, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Baptist and Lubbock Christian are all ranked, Saint Greg's, Rogers state, and Northwestern Oklahoma State all received votes.
We play Rogers State friday and saturday. Shit's going to be BIG. All they do is sit there and run their mouths. I believe last year the benches were cleared, but could be wrong, it might have been someone else.
It will be some good baseball. We beat Lubbock Christian 2 of the 3 games in the series and we also just swept Oklahoma Christian University, throwing three complete game shutouts.
We're playing great baseball and it's being recognized nationally (1 vote). This is a HUGE series as we have momentum on our side. We're pitching lights out right now.
SPOILER: Sorry no bird/spider tattoos in this post.
Ok, on to the excitement of expenses!
So all of my expenses for the month are paid and here is the breakdown (Items with asterisks next to them I talk about below):
Home 2,025.07
Auto & Transport* 1,656.43
Health & Fitness 1,142.87
Food & Dining* 807.30
Bills & Utilities 486.67
Shopping* 330.82
Personal Care 103.00
Taxes 74.95
Education 47.00
Business Services 35.00
Entertainment 4.99
Total: 6,714.10
Auto & Transport: I'm kind of excited about this category for next month because we are going to try living with just one vehicle which will remove a $300 payment and $100 insurance premium per month. I am also going to try to convince my wife to downsize her SUV to something cheaper and more fuel efficient without sacrificing any interior space and comfort by the end of April. She's currently getting around 22mpg and commuting about 20 miles to work and paying ~500 a month for the car payment. I think we can get a 10-12k vehicle that gets 23/30mpg and that will reduce the payment and make it easier to pay off if I have a good month or two. I'm thinking Suzuki SX4 or similar, let me know if you have any thoughts on what to get.
Food and Dining: This number is inflated because at the beginning of the month we purchased $250 worth of meat from one of those meat trucks that will last us at least through April and potentially longer. If it ends up being cheaper overall then it should automatically adjust by being a cheaper food and dining expense in April. Time will tell. We also spent probably like 80-100 on fast food and restaurants this month which didn't help either.
Shopping: Was about $100 more than it could have been, but like I said in a previous post, we bought a little electric Jeep for Allison and she really likes it. I don't think we will lose much money on it as they get snatched up pretty quickly whenever they pop up on craigslist. So if it still works in a year or two I assume we can get $80-100 for it and get our money back.
All things considered this was a successful month in lowering my expenses. Although the actual number increased by a few hundred dollars, I expect that next month will break into the 5,xxx range which would be a pretty big success considering the short amount of time I've been working on lowering expenses.
Coming in the months to follow:
-Try and get out of a $34 per month gym membership some how
-The "Health and Fitness" number will go down significantly in a few months because a few hospital bills will be paid off
-The "Personal Care" category will go down in a couple months as well when our 1 year membership to Massage Envy (Spa) will be up and we can cancel that.
Hopefully by the time the WSOP rolls around we will be holding steady at 5k /month or under. Let me know if you like this stuff, and sorry if it's over the top boring, I'll post poker results in a few days.
400 eu for both, for more info on WoW acc pm me
Probably sounds like a lot but considering the games only cost 120eu and the content in the WoW account is excellent the price is probably low
- 1 name change left on SC II acc
I have some updates on my poker grind and wanted to share.
2012 is going ok so far, nothing spectacular tho, but looks like am making some progress.
First off, I need to rant about ipoker - got sick of not having proper rakeback at party where I play most of my volume, so decided to deposit on ipoker where I got sweet rb deal. But the software is bad, even small stakes games are reg infested, + i just couldn't win there + busted quite some BIs at PLOl there.
But I guess I'll keep trying cos it feels stupid to play only on party w/o rakeback.
In other news I am rolled for 100NL so played some hands there - so far so good - just cant flat pre as liberally as at lower stakes cos players seems to be much more squeeze happy.
Trying to work on my game
- play more optimally vs unknowns (randomize hands for making moves and calldowns better)
- being aware of my whole range in most spots (opening, defending vs 3bets, defending flops etc.) and my opponent's range (thats obv more difficult, so at least be aware how strong/wide his range is)
- conscious effort in observing other players,as soon as I sit down at the table, start getting feel for their game, what ranges are the playing, how they play made hands/draws/bluffs..
- struggling with opening wider ranges on the button - feels like am getting crushed when opening 40%+, lots of regs restealing like 10%+ from the blinds (and 3betting 6% on the button lolz).
I should be able to get the best of them when they keep 3betting shitty ranges oop, just have to improve my play in reraised pots with wider range.
thanks all LP green stars for posting interesting hands, blogposts and commenting on small stakes players HHs.
Watched new Longple's vid yesterday night, it was good fun especially the 2nd half. It will def make me spew some buyins trying to outplay peoples but its all good))
Introducing myself and my poker staking historyby Invertible, March 26
I hope the title grabbed you,
About me
My name is Adam and I've been playing poker as my sole source of income for 2 years now. I was at uni studying maths before I dropped out because I was too lazy to keep up. At the time I was playing $0.5/$1 and making decent money so I ended up quitting my weekend job and playing full time. After about a year I had quite a bit of money saved up and I decided to put a bit aside for staking.
Staking
Poker staking isn't as easy as it first appear's, trust me, once you start staking out a lot of your net worth to people you have never met before, it can be pretty stressful. Luckily I ran pretty hot at the start and had 2-3 every good players that were moving up pretty quick. It wasn't long before I was staking 5/10 and even a bit of 10/20.
By this time I had already set up my own poker staking website and It was getting very serious, I was staking out roughly $120k a month and I was bringing the site I was working with a lot of traffic. Then of course black friday hit and everything started to go tits up. The poker site I was staking on was on the Merge network and I was very worried they were going to be shut down as well as PS, FTP and UB. I started moving my focus on to another site and as soon as I did, the site I was working with basically decided to take all my players on themselves and I pretty much lost everything I had built.
That was almost a year ago now and I'm ready to start again. grinding 200nl just isn't the same when you have had $40k months before. As the title says, I want to start my own poker room, but to get there I need a player base. Quite a lot of this will come from my poker staking website hopefully. I will also try and develop my skills on a few smaller sites. To make things harder, the site I will be staking on is a brand new site with little traffic. This should help me develop the skills I need to run my own room.
Goals
- I still want to play enough poker to get me supernova by the end of the year
- Build my player base (twitter/facebook/mailing list)
- Network with other people in the industry, this should help me in any future projects
- Work on my writing skills
I'll be posting updates on these points as soon as I start to see some progress, feel free to leave any comments, I'll respond asap
I wanna get a tablet to travel with and use on campus, but I hate using apple products (don't get me wrong, they're usually quite good but I just don't like their approach, it's a preference thing). So, from what I've see over the last 4 months while occasionally researching on the web, that leaves me with either the Samsung Galaxy or the Asus Transformer Prime.
I think Samsung is coming out with a note 10.1 and that Asus is preparing a special edition of the Transformer Prime with a better screen and a fix to some gps problems.
That's the jist of what I know - what do you guys know / think about the tablet market, and what's the best non-apple choice right now? And is it worth it to wait for something that's coming out, like the note 10.1 or special edition Primes?
If any of you sickos wants to stake me for the Sun Mil in two hours,PM me. 80/20 in your favor, no makeup obvs.
From top to bottom: 180 stats, mtt stats, overall stats
Post in here, or PM to confirm. http://imgur.com/NZpzE http://imgur.com/9UwpG Graph for last month
Recommend good basic books for stock tradingby whamm!, March 25
I'd like to know the best books to get introduced to the whole thing. I have very minimal experience and knowledge and I'd like to start by reading a lot of good basic info. I know there are a lot of LPers who are in the industry or know how to do trading so I'd really appreciate a point in the right direction for a newb like me.
Gonna give ecigs another try, I was able to quit last time for 6 straight months. Also working out with my kids to get back in shape again, things looking really good after a long while I hope my recent run goot rubs off on everyone here who needs it.
I'm looking to buy an apple or android tablet but I cant decide what to get, I dont play games no more and I plan to use this almost exclusively just for internet, and basic computing needs
Had a deep run today at the Event 5 $500 rebuy, rebought once and busted 28/326, was doing good but ul at the end, meh, stnd donkament stuff. Payouts were terrible tho, payed 48/326, and I cashed $900, so still negative for the tourney lol.
Coulnd't play sat for the High Roller cause was deep in this one, so in the end because of losing my flight and stuff played only the $1.1k ME and this $500+$500, so stake finished with 2.1*1.2 = $2520 used from stake money, so backers are getting back 3960 - 2520 = 1440 -> + 900 = 2340, so we didn't lost it all at least
10/20$ VIDEO + rant, tattoo, resultsby longple, March 24
Yo
Ive felt alittle bad after promesing a video with commentary and then not delivering. Makeing the poll and all so i decided today as i woke up i had enough energy makeing one. So i just just recorded a video with commentary and as im rendering the project im writing this blog + cooking lunch.
its a live recording, just ranting and babbeling mostly but there are some interesting spots and i run like jesus (still) and win alot in the video, so atleast there is alot of big pots, lol
I talk about it some in the video, but i had this chat about life with Andrew, Highcard (on lp) for 4-5 hours or so last night and i told him that LP support really helped me gain enough confidence to move up to 5/10+ and just feel confident in those games, and i really do, i see nothing stopping me now, i have yet alot to learn, im not a perfect player or anything but i think i can do it, and thats thanks to all the attention ive gotten from LP. so thank you guys
I took myself completely on my own, playing my own wierd style from NL10 to NL400 but i kept failing at the 5/10 shots. About a year ago or so i posted my big post about how i got a good winrate on midstakes, and thats when it all started basically. The support and appriciation i got from that post from LP was sick, and i went up to 5/10 and started crushing a during that time, and by the 2nd half of 2011 i was takeing 10/20 and even some higher games then that, doing well and then busting on 25/50 50/100$ shots and other retarded stuff, u can read about that in older blogs if interested. (lol random combo breaker in my speech right there ), but now im back, and already im takeing 25/50$ shots again and im pretty sure im there to stay this time around, im not gonna make the same misstake again.
So LP helped me in that way, and after getting the greenstar and a ton of people responding to everything i post has given me that extra confidence i think i really needed. So this video is for you guys!
enjoy! DL VIDEO HERE: https://rapidshare.com/files/2240865890/ongamevideo.wmv
Its just sad LP kinda is dying, but ill do my best to keep it alive, we are still a decent group of people posting here regulary so lets go on for atleast a couple of more years!
as for life, got some issues atm irl but running well at poker and doing fun things IRL is really helping out alot, working out 4 times a week now with a close buddy, really love that ive taken up training and getting fitter/healthier. i really recommend all of you doing the same. get that laazy ass moveing.
And oh yeah i also finished up my tattoo last week, it hurt like fuck, 9 hours total of pure pain but im very happy with the results, what do u guys think?
Missed my flight among other stuff so took 32 hours to get here instead of 6, missed the first $300 Event but luckily arrived in time for the Main Event. Started really well, from 15k starting stack to 70k pretty quickly, but then hit a lot of coolers AK < KJ, 99 < JJ, AA < AQo, AA < KQo, always losing the minimum but then finally busted at the last level of the day KK < AA. I think I played great and the field was super soft, on the 2nd level I 3barrel shoved river 85s on a 4way T85r 2 4 and got snapcalled by JJ and KTo on the river (yes on that order, and river shove was 70bb+) and KO'd both.
Might play some weird $200 Event today on my own cause its the only one happening today, tomorrow we have the $500 2x chance that should be fun. Thinking about playing the $5k High Roller regardless of sateliting in or not, so $5k at 1:1. If I playing and win the satelite for it, the action belong to those guys who bought that and I'll send back to anyone who sends the $ for this one.
So 10% - $500, 5% - $250, 2.5% - $125
ship to hneves182 on PS
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), but now im back, and already im takeing 25/50$ shots again and im pretty sure im there to stay this time around, im not gonna make the same misstake again.
