Well I wasn't getting many shifts at my job and was just bored and just decided to throw $25 on merge mid june for fun and start grinding from NL4. Haven't played all that much because I starting getting lots of shifts again, but just felt like posting results cause I haven't blogged in a while.
Anyways I took a break from poker cause of black friday and just read hand histories and threads occasionally, it really helped my game a lot. I wasn't taking this very seriously so I just decided to take my shots w/ ~10 buyins of 6-8tabling 6max, just played a session of NL25 tonight sooooo IN B4 BUSTO
Hey guys, I went through a big 18 month killin streak in mtts and had built my ego up so big it was pathetic.
it took months off of poker to realize how pathetic i was acting, to humble down and to re-learn cashgames. with the help of a great coach and LP, I am so happy you guys are responding and helping my games as well.
I just wanted to say thank you, and thanks for bearing with me when i went into an ego-maniac. Theres reasons, yet they are mute. You guys are a great community that has made me the player I am.
Really...I just didnt know how to handle success in MTTs and constanlty being owned in cash, it was this sick confliction in me, my competetive spirit and ego was causing so much confliction that I couldnt handle at those times, sadly.
SO yeah, Thank you very much for being there for me, I'll be posting a ton, and hope you guys can have time to give me a hand.
Just runnin 150 up on Hero in cashgames all month n see where I end up
Last night, my coach told me to play pure value poker. I played 18/14/2.5 and biggest lost pot was like .80. I'm going to continue to play like this for a good bit, adding in some stuff to own fish etc :-)
just day one, and just wanted to say ty, i know i've been a dick, a stoner who bashed ppl for fun, this was mostly my bitterness, for that i apologize.
GL LP and TY!
Ryan
I'm going to work on getting some mental overhauls to make sure i'm always happy
So after about 1,5 months of silence and not answering my emails, out of the blue neteller gave me back all of the stolen money
I guess they are more about work then talk
Anyway great company, and a great day for me
I never post results usually but whatever, one day hope I can post results like Locoo. I know when I see higher stakes players post nice graphs it inspires me to play more, so maybe this will help even lower stakes players. Though not showing exact dollars but oh well.
All 1/2 FR-6max
Did not have much time this month to work, played maybe 9 sessions since I went backpacking/canoeing/portaging through algonquin park for a while.
Most important one is that in the past months I decided to embrace my profession rather than to be ashamed of it, what I mean is that I would always feel the need to lie to people about what I did for a living, because I truly felt that what I did wasn't a good thing and I wanted to get out as quickly as possible after making some bucks. This was fueled by the people around me mainly my parents, who never approved of it.
Nowadays it's no problem for me to say I play poker for a living and maybe explain a bit about it, in general people are pretty cool and some even wanna hear more about it.
I mean, how hard is it to find something that you are good at and enjoy and you can make a living off it? I should be pretty happy with poker and enjoy it as long as I can.
Now that I decided that I wanna continue being a pro as far as I can go I feel so much better and ready to commit again.
Truth is that because I have a family now with a wife and a 2 year old it's really hard to put in as much volume as I would want. But it's ok because I enjoy spending time with the family so much that I wouldn't have it any other way. I just have to try a bit harder everytime.
I'm really pushing myself lately to have a really balanced life, sleeping and waking up somewhat early, working out in the mornings, trying to see my friends as much as possible, spending a lot of time with my wife and kids and going out on sundays with parents as well all the while having to keep up with the massive swings that high stakes poker brings. It's no easy task but i'm getting the hang of it.
I want this blog to address many different topics, as I feel I'm pretty far and away from the naive, non experienced guy that started it so many years ago.
I've been having really good months lately playing mainly on stars, ongame and ipoker. Still not 100% satisfied with this month because I didn't put in as much volume as I would've wanted to, and because I didnt play my best all the time, I played pretty bad especially when I was losing which is a mistake I cant afford to make anymore, it can be REALLY costly but I'm working really hard on it.
Still I'm pretty happy because I picked up PLO and did pretty good at it, EV wise I did even better and I believe that EV in PLO says sooo much more than in NLHE. So I'm looking forward to improving there because the action at high stakes is pretty good.
I'll leave you guys with a series of videos found on tl.net http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=122917 I'm not quite sure why but after watching a few of them I played the best session of the month, not money wise but EV and decision making wise, for some reason those vids really inspired me.
So after my $75 -> $575 went terrible due to running $50 under EV and just tilt throwing the rest away via coolers/donkaments/boredom, I took a few days off and restarted This put me 400VPP behind my gold target, which was fine as I had 4days, until I remembered I had guests and ended up on a 3day drinking session
So up I wake today with a 3day hangover and 220VPP to earn at the micro's.
Is there anyway to manually "start/stop" sessions with HEM, my $/hour is fucked up as I play say 2k hands, take a break for 20mins, then play another section. But it counts the 20mins in myminutes played
20/13/5 stats. In 1.6k VPP I get $100 rakeback, so will probably smash Nl5 for 2weeks now, then move upto NL10 and start moving up stakes and stop robot grinding 24 tables :D
PS: Did anyone watch boxer v rain? INSAANNNNNE TvT, 1hr 10+
I bought the new macbook air this week and it works great and all but I'm not very familiar with mac. This is my first mac and was wondering if there are some must have applications out there that i dont know of
So... July is almost overby DustySwedeDude, July 31
I dunno, weird month. Had a very bad day yesterday but overall I've made a decent amount of money. Ended up winning probably ~15-16k€, 4, from cash games, 7.5 from various bonuses and the rest from tournaments. That's the third winning month in a row, and the first decent month in a while for me. Ran fairly decent overall and some of the sessions I played really well. Some I played really bad.
Happy with my mtt-results and play and I'm happy with how much I've learned, I've really evolved my game a fair bit opening up a little in some spots, tightening up a bit in others and overall started doing a lot more hand reading and hero-stuff. Got a decent amount of hands in too, so that's pretty good.
I know most of my leaks, now I hope I'll fix them.
Edit: The Strikeforce event made me cry. Abomination!
Im thinking about playin the whole series, it's like 14k~16k without the rebuys and the high rollers and some weird limit games, wondering if I could sell some action. I'm not a tournament player but I've played 5 big live tournaments and final tabled 1 of them, got ITM in 2 of them, also won a 320$ on stars for 50k and some other final table at fulltilt for 27k. Keep in mind that I only play tournaments very rarely. Some other small cashes.
Wanna see if theres some interest, hopefully would like to sell a big % to few people.
My motivation is the WCOOP ranking stars hold for the whole series, I wanna see if by playing most (all) of the tournaments I can have a chance of ranking high. If enough interest and action sell I could start thinking about the highrollers and the underground games like badugi etc
EDIT: Got bad news, I just realized Ill be back in uni for september, fml, will post updates when I know my uni schedule with the tournaments I actually can play. Thank you all for the interest tho! got much more than what I would've thought
Hey guys I got a month or so before school starts and no job so i decided I might as well do something that I enjoy and that *might* be useful, so I decided to start playing poker semi-seriously.
With only 40$ on PS i figured I should start at 2NL and work my way up from there.
So after 3 days and being up only 3 dollars, I decided I wasn't patient enough to grind it out and decided to switch to SNG.
After 4 days of 8-12 tabling (bout 80 games a day) 1,50$ turbo and turbo knockout STT, I'm up to 115$ and now 8 tabling 3,50$ turbo sit n gos.
I have 2 questions.
First of all I'm using the 60 day trial of pokertracker, but there's something wrong with it, reports my net winnings for STT at 31,40$ but I'm up at least 70$, plus i lost about 10-15$ at MTT so it should be around 80$, do you have any idea why it would report my net won so low?
Secondly, I've seen a lot of articles have different opinions, what do you think is a good number of Buy-ins to move up?
Ah and while I'm at it, at what level do cash games start being a little more fun? I don't really like the 0,01$/0,02$ because it seems the only winning option is to be tight as hell and wait it out because everybody is calling as soon as they have suited connecters or any rag ace. Plus it's kinda hard to take a 6 cent raise seriously sometimes.
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