So I epic failed my March goals and actually got crushed at 25NL. After having a session where I ran roughly 8BI below ev I got really frustrated and took a few days off, then had another big losing session and only played once every few days. Almost a month later my roll is just over 400 and I'm struggling to motivate myself to play again, but in order to save my PlatinumStar for April I'm going to have to get about 2k VPP at 10NL before the month is over...so that'll be my motivation to play for now. I'm sort of concerned with how much interest I lost in poker once I had a tiny bit of runbad, but grinding for Masters on SC2 didn't help either since it split my focus. I've actually gotten decently good at SC2 so if anyone wants to play, add me (furrychobo at yahoo dot com) and we can game
GL at the tables LP! Will be updating this in a few days with whether or not I followed through on my goal to keep platinumstar.
Why do people expect you to have an opinion about everything? It is often most reasonable to hold no opinion or verdict on a topic, especially when it is outside the scope of one's area of study or expertise. People should respect those who choose to reserve judgement when they don't have a very large amount of knowledge about a subject.
This comes up pretty often in my US GOV class. The professor gives an assignment, which he wants you to give a brief answer (1paragraph) and verdict to, on an extremely complex issue. Today I got fed up with it and spent my paragraph trying to outline the variables which an informed decision might rely upon, and then stated that I had no personal verdict. I wonder if I will get full credit.
I was kind of demoralized after getting 10th in a 7k person tourny last night so I took the rest of the night off after that. I'm ready to go today. I will not be playing many smaller tournies, and will be mainly 6-10 tabling. Here's the schedule.
Full Tilt
$256 - Sunday Brawl
$216 Sunday Mulligan
Stars
$215 - Sunday Warm Up
$215 - Sunday Million
$215 - Second Chance
Sub Total = 1117 + 5% Mark Up Total = $1173
Im selling 60% of my action. Reply to this thread and send the money if you want a piece. OPR me or look back a couple blog posts to find my stats. I only have about 50 or so tournaments logged on stars, about 7k on FTP.
Pretty much just had to adjust to the greater increase in 3betting and squeezing. Stopped 3betting from the blinds as much because I get called by the BTN a lot. Started increasing my 3betting on the BTN cause people call a lot and give me position. Learned how to fold to these 3bets more often instead of bluffing/calling cause of tilt. Fish are still fish except now they are more aggressive which is actually even better.
Here's a fun hand for yall. I run pretty good sometimes.
Call it a month since last days poker got too me a bit emotionally what i did realise by the fact i started smoking again few days ago .... T_T
+ i kinda started having problems to sleep well recent days
lying in bed for 2-3h after evening session is done and just cant sleep.
The past 13 days i have played poker every day for 2-4h a day. Not a single day off.
So last 3 days of the month i will just relaxe have fun with friends for the most part. And not concern myself with playing even 1Hand
before April grind starts
I cant complain about the results by any means and overall i guess i did run semiluckbox style.
Cakepoker Nl20 HU
+ 170$
Stars Nl256max
+ 445$
Ipoker NL20€ HU
+ 92€ (+129$)
GG.net freeroll + 5$
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Overall
+ 749$ in 18 days of Poker ~ 30 K hands
Have 30$ on Isildur tomorrow busting DN
So nothing special here for u guys expcet a movie recommendation
Put up a rather conservative stop loss but other then that I'm aiming for 10 hours of (effective) poker today, breaks for food, toilette thingys and de-tilting acceptable assuming they're no longer then 20 minutes and no more then 3. Aiming to start at 1300 CET+1 and have it done before midnight. Hopefully I'll get 7 or 8k hands in if I don't hit my stop loss.
If I hit 7k hands I'm happy, 10k and I'm really glad.
Path to Robusto-ness...2011 Recapby Joeingram1, March 26
Path To ROBUSTONESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
So after some very smart bankroll decisions the past few months I realized that I am near busto online. Smart bankroll decisions=losing 20BI in a session randomly, shot taking at a higher then my "regular" stakes and playing like a fucking idiot and losing more then I said I would, etc... Basic problems that have plagued me for most of my online poker career but never really had a near busto effect on me because I could always machine it up and grind it back up. This month it actually got to a point where I was a little worried if I still had it in me to be able to go through the moving down process and grinding it out there.
I was 4-6 tabling for a week or two and super game selecting at nl100 and made about 35BI in 6k hands which is pretty amazing results but wasn't being disciplined enough to stick with it and would throw some random PLO sessions in there and win a few BIs most sessions and then go off the deep end for a -25BI session. I have not been running to well but at the same time I certainly wasn't playing well either. A few days ago I was looking at the fact that I basically NEEDED to make a certain amount of money for the rest of the month or I would either need to re-evaluate my current living situation or get a stake.
I have compiled a pretty sick ptr buddy list of small stakes nl100 fish and plo25-400 fish and decided to hunt then when they are playing and not play PLO like a fucking idiot and fold more hands OOP (which was my BIGGEST leak by far x10000).
There is also a WSOP circuit event in town at Harrahs Rincon and another SNE grinder Hodge05 was in town so we decided to go up there and meet some other guys he is talking to about getting a place together out here. There was a few cash tables running and I decided to play some 1/3 for a little while. Was talking to an asian girl at my table for awhile about SNE that turned out to be Kristy Arnett who does all the poker news reporting stuff. Only took me a few hours to figure this out lol. There is one seat open to my right and new player walks into the room, only 4 tables running right now, and gets the seat
Obviously its the CHAMP himself Jerry Yang coming to get light 3bet by me lol. Played for a few hours with him and following my rule of "if i'm ever playing with a wsop main event champ I must make him laugh" I proceeded to talk to him a bunch and threaten his stack by telling him I can't wait to stack the champ! He was a really really nice guy though, super friendly. Played pretty well too and did really well. Iso'd him a few hands and obv lost all of them but only played one pretty big hand towards end of night.
2/5 1k effective I raise 89dd UTG and Sharon (60s woman I had been flirting with the whole night who got hot and bothered when I took off my hoody and told me if I wanted her I could have her lol) flats on BTN and Champ flats BB. Flop 10 6 2 with a backdoor flush draw for me so I cbet 40 into 60 and Champ c/c. Turn 7 (bink) and I talk a little to the champ who is in fatdan mode and bet 100 and he calls pretty quick. River is Q and he checks and I laugh hysterically because I am very excited and bet 300. Champ tanks forever and I keep talking to him and he keeps laughing. I say the champ doesn't want anyone to bluff him ever, and if he calls I will be able to afford to marry his daughter (he told me earlier in the night that if I wanted to ever marry his daughter, in his culture I would have to pay him lol wtf). Eventually he called and I was
Fun live session, I saw the older woman a little closer when I was about to leave and if she was about fiddy pounds less things might have gotten serious. Ended up 1200usd on the session, rounding out a good past few days. I'm not really sure what my poker plan is going forward but going to just keep putting in the hours/hands and hopefully keep winning.
NAPT LA BOUNTY SHOOTOUT
I posted in a previous blog about how I was playing the formerly NAPT bounty shootout in LA. ESPN recoreded it, 10,3k Buy-in 2k for each bounty and 40k for winning the table. 81 people played it total and I sold about 85 percent of my action for it. I got to the casino pretty early and chatted with some of the company that produces/records it and got my picture taken for the bounty chip that you give out to people. SNE grinder George Lind was to my right, John Hennigan was to my left and Dennis Phillips was a few to my right, I ended up chatting with him for most time I was alive and he was a pretty awesome and super nice guy. I was actually playing really well to start but in typical Joe Ingram fucking idiot fashion I donked off a bunch of chips to Hennigan with 22 preflop vs his QQ.
I flatted the opening raise hoping someone would sqz and i could jam. Once the guy who was super short went all in and then the sb foreign doctor thought for few seconds and went all in I figured there was a good chance he wanted to go for the bounty and could have had a hand like 99-jj ajss-ak and then george thought for awhile and finally sighed and called with aqo. At this point I guess I could fold QQ and still have 30-40bbs left but I was kinda on tilt from losing half my stack/wanted the bounty/had a pair.
I will get my 10-30 seconds on ESPN and At least I took this pic with Dennis before I busted out lol
The rest of 2011 has gone pretty up and down for me so far. After went on 70k downer in December, I just laid in bed for the start of the year pretty angry at myself for losing that much fucking money. Eventually I got out of bed and started to play some poker but was playing to high of stakes for how I was feeling at that time and didn't pretty meh. I've been in a pretty psychotic relationship for most of this year which I finally ended a few weeks ago and was keeping me super stressed out for most of the year. My poker results at the table have been about breakeven so far because I have just not been playing my A game very often or putting in enough volume. I'm hoping now that I am getting refreshed mentally from all of that, my poker results will continue to be good.
To leave you my blog readers, here is my graph from December when I finally achieved SNE
They added me to the featured blog lists on here too so hopefully this will encourage me to actually blog more. I should probably write up some Trip Reports of recent dates I have been on as well. Has been interesting to say the least lol
The reason why I deposited money into Bodog was because I used their sports betting features (for MMA mainly); my rationale was that having all of my gambling needs met from one source would be convenient. Playing a few hours of poker has given me a few conclusions on my decision so far as a microstakes player:
PROS
- The competition so far is really, really soft. I played microstakes at PS and FT and it wasn't difficult either but this is another realm of easy. It is not uncommon to find tables with 40-50% flops seen. I can only hope that it remains easy as I move up.
- Stable software. It hasn't crashed on me yet and the importing/HUD works fine with PT3 so far.
- Instant bank deposit method. Instead of using CC's, you can just draw money from your bank account. I don't like using my CC's (I have debt and I don't want to add to it) so this was a pro to me. For people who don't care, this is probably irrelevant.
CONS
- Maximum of four tables. This is KILLING me right now because the volume I'm putting is really small in comparison to graphs I see from other microstakes players. Due to this limitation, I might cash out after having of a roll to play 10NL.
- The Bodog client doesn't generate text files for hand histories so if you don't have PT importing, the only way to see the hand is to search it in their client. I haven't figured out a way to convert it to a readable format after copying and pasting. I'm sure there is a way but I haven't found out yet.
I'm pretty close to being rolled for 10NL and I'll be moving up if things continue to go this way. I still have a few leaks in 5NL that is hindering me from
playing optimally but I feel confident in patching them up after I encounter those situations. I've been playing pretty straight forward poker but I have been
using a few "fancy" moves to experiment with. Luckily for me, my experiments have been successful so far which is a far better reward than being up or down money-
wise.
Another thing I'd like to mention is how great PT3 is. I know that many player say it's pointless in microstakes but I find it useful to keep track of nits and
donks. It has come to the point where I can predict what some of these people will do to a tee; it almost feels like cheating! After I run out the 60 day trial, I
will give HEM a shot and definitely end up buying whichever one I favor.
2595 games played this month, so like 100/day so far, 415 last 2 days tho, still need 1405 more (~235 per day) to win the bet, but I think Igot this np, I'll try to monster up some ~400 games tomorrow to lock it
I'd say wish me luck but you greedy bastards prob won't, so just wish I run good and play less than 4k ok?
oh btw just bought my 1st car wooot. they're soooo fucking expensive in brazil, you guys have no idea, ~4x what it would cost in the US
VPPs: 144,875.67 (behind SNE pace so much shouldn't have taken a break in january)
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