Deucescracked videoes recommendations by aCa_, April 02
Lately I feel like I hit a wall in my poker skills and I don't feel like I'm improving at all.Been playing 10nl for a while and even though I've taken shots at 25 and 50nl usually it was more because of tilt and not because I was ready for it. I've always played casually but I really do want to improve my game and start moving up stakes and have been taking poker a little more seriously by analyzing hud stats more, writing more notes on opponents, and reviewing hands after sessions. Because of this I signed up for a subscription at deucescracked and hopefully I can improve my game from it because as of now I don't think I can improve on my own. It never really made sense for me to sign up for one of these sites because as a microstakes player i feel like theres no point of getting coaching if you just suck on the basics. Kind of like in sc2 theres no point of getting coaching from a GM if you are in silver because there is a lot of foundational information you need to know before using the higher level advice. Anyways if anyone could recommend some videos from deucescracked or some good authors for 6max nlhe let me know.Thanks
Didn't get enough volume in March I only got in 15k hands and down around 300$ but I still have around 12bi before I have to move down again from 100plo. I was smoking way too much weed again and watching antiques shows I'm obsessed with antiques now.
Dropped out of uni because the guy who I got to write my essay disappeared. I missed the first hand in so 2nd one was final and I handed in a piss poor excuse of an essay.. oh well.
Moved back to my country don't know what I'm going to do but damn it feels good to get away from London ... the air, the water and food is so much better everything except weather but I hate when it gets too hot anyway.
Some pics I took since getting back (damn I missed that dog) + Show Spoiler +
Haven't received the full set of pictures from the company yet. It is common in Taiwan to make a wedding picture "photo-book" - everyone about to marry usually goes and has one made. I received a modeling coaching session from Tutz before the shoot so I am confident the final product will turn out OK. Enjoy!
I've been on these forums for a long time, may not really be well known but I've been around since the golden years (started 2008 i think). I have been playing on and off, online and offline, cashgames, tournaments and sngs. I've been a breakeven not so serious player for the last year or so and I haven't really been serious nor consistent enough to be a longterm winner.
Anyway, enough bullshit, I'ma start playing again cause I have the time and I think this game is still pretty profitable if you work hard enough and I'm not dependant on poker for income. I'm starting with a roll on Victor Chandler with about 400€ and my goal for nl20 this month is simple:
40k hands
25 bi's profit (500€, not counting with rb)
Also, I'm a huge music lover so I'll be posting some sweet tunes as well. Here's an awesome soul/funk track from Earth Wind & Fire, cause I wanna start out positive. It's from their album I Am (1979) which is dope from start to finish. Enjoy, and wish me luck!
Well this month had a rough start but ended up being respectable. Here's a snapshot of how I'm doing overall, stacked up next to how March went. http://i.imgur.com/iV9Cp.jpg
My hourly was $17 lower than my average has been so far this year, which I attribute to running poorly on the weekends during March Madness when the games were great and then the games being sub par on the weekdays in between. If I can get in 160 hours per month for April and May at my current hourly I would finish up around 67k. To get to 100k I need 691.45 more hours at the current hourly. If I expect to achieve that number by the end of May I will need to average about 190 per hour for the next 2 months...Nothing a little run-good can't cure.
Regardless, I am satisfied with the amount of hours I got in this month. I managed to take 2 days off per week in-keeping with my schedule and felt like I had a really good work-life balance for the month and am looking forward to maintaining my schedule for April.
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Budget Stuff.
Now that the month's over I can add to my previous post that my savings rate (Expenses/Income after taxes) for the year is now 49.57% (-30% Jan, 70% Feb, 50% Mar). My goal for the end of the year is to have a 65% savings rate as an average and, as the expenses get lower, hope to improve on that next year. With a 65% savings rate and non-changing expenses you will be "retired" in 17 years assuming nothing saved up. With an 80% savings rate you can retire in 5.5 years. I'm hoping to clear 80% over the next 3-5 years so I can just be done doing stuff. Or bink a WSOP event and be done this year .
If any of you sickos wants to stake me for the Sun Mil tomorrow, PM me. 80/20 in your favor, no makeup obvs. http://imgur.com/NZpzEhttp://imgur.com/NZpzE
From top to bottom: 180 stats, mtt stats, overall stats
Post in here, or PM to confirm. http://imgur.com/NZpzE
Edit: Forgot to mention that third time's a charm :D
It was being another standard month and then I met Serkules and MOCA CHOCA89 there around game 1800. They talked me into moving up and now being backed for 200s/300s, hopefully soon some 500s. Crushing it easily so far, if only hadn't run so bad that one day where I dropped 28bi with a breakeven EV lol
The sky is the limit, really wanna start sitting those 1k's because I feel like I am so much better than every single player in the world. I'll prove that soon.
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))
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