In my last entry i was contemplating if i should start playing poker or not, and i have recently decided to give it a shot. I don't live in japan anymore which means i can finally start playing without being branded a criminal. I have been playing on and off for about 4-5days now, i made an account on Pokerstars and transfered $15 and it's been going good so far even though +$2 in 4-5days isn't really a sick streak. I have started on the lowest limits and i'm planning on just learning the basics and just try to grind my way up.
I'm not sure i'm going about this the right way though, is $2 profit normal for 4-5days? been playing for ~1hours each day. I read up on SSS and basics on how to start playing etc. but the problem is i'm not seeing a pattern when i'm playing. People are playing kind of stupid, at least that's the way it feels to me, they try to do stupid bluffs, betting, raising etc. when it makes absolutely no sense. It is kind of like when you scout someones base in SC and you see something stupid like roach/hydra den with no gas and you're thinking "wtf, that makes no sense, what do i do?!" Now i obviously don't know how to play every hand perfectly but according to the guides and what not some of their plays makes no sense. How do you play properly at these stakes in order to be able to climb to the higher stakes later on? right now all i'm doing is playing the extremely good hands which means i have to fold most of my hands, that makes climbing extremely slow.
Also, for all the swedes out there (or other people that might know), is playing on Pokerstars ok? i heard a lot about taxes being an issue? withdrawing $20 or something like that will probably not be a problem but in the future, is it worth staying at PS? i have $10 on SvS but i seriously despise their software and it just feels stale playing there.
Ehhhhhhhh made about 2K yesterday, and maybe ~9K vpps. I'm behind pace by 5K vpps so far this month, not bad. Playing in some sunday major mtts today to try and bink some $$$. GL at the tables!
So real life sucks and just as I started making good progress on grinding my cash BR I have to withdraw basically all of it to pay for fixing my car. So I'll only have about 80 bucks left to work with.
That being said I'll just move back down to NL5 and keep crushing that, but I'm not going to put in NEARLY as much volume as I did in those coupla days. I have gotten my SNG action covered again and will only use the NL5 to fill in GAPS. I plan on putting in ALOT more volume in the upcoming days in the SnG world.
Basically I talked with the wife about doing this instead of replacing my seasonal job with a bush league part time job til something better comes up. I've very confident I can make more than minimum wage at the 6 dollar level, I just have to be focused and put in the volume. The plan is to start posting daily updates and really focus on getting more volume in and continuing to better my game.
I really want to be able to pull at least 100 a week off of the site, so I would need to profit 200 bucks a week. If I keep up my current ROI which is right about 50%, I'd only need about 50 games a week to pull this off. If I ever don't have 50 games in a week I'm going to be VERY angry with myself.
Since keeping a 50% ROI would be tough over a huge sample, I would like to set a goal of 150 a week starting off to see what I can do. I don't like playing much more than 8 tables but I may expand that to starting with 10 since early stages are so roboty. As the tournies progress I would like to keep 8 rolling for a good period of time.
So recap of goals: starting Monday
Weekly average of 150 games played in Feb.
Withdraw an average of $100/week in Feb.
Grind my small personal BR at NL5 try to get about 5k hands a week, but not mandatory.
As I am sure there are quite a few LP'ers from So Cal, I figured I would make a blog post about it.
At the casino I normally go to, there is going to be a tournament series I will be playing in in a week or two. Smaller buy-ins, but that is not the reason for the blog post.
On the 19th of February, there is going to be a 10-25 NL cash game hosted by the casino to promote Mike Mizrachi being there. I have been the casino a fair bit, and the players there are INSANELY soft. You will be playing with grinder, but it is most likely going to be a 10 seat table (this casino has 10 seats in FR), so I am sure there will be plenty of fish.
Game is on the 19th of February, and I think if you want a seat, you have to call and arrange to be in the game. It is at the Pala Casino in Pala, an indian reservation off of the 15 just south of Temecula. I think it is 1k min and 10k max, so you may get some really deep play going depending on who shows up. Expect to see a few old man grinders that think they are decent, but their handreading skills are laughably awful.
I could be posting something that a lot of you already know about, but for any of you that play at the Palomar or something similar, this might be a pretty juicy game for you guys. For anyone that shows up, good luck!
Oh yeah, and wish me good luck as Im gonna be playing a lot of the small tourneys
2011 update (finally I can brag!)by SugoGosu, February 05
So I have been a member of LiquidPoker for some time now. I have been break evenish for the past 3 years hovering from NL10 to NL25 for a long time. Just never really able to get anything going.
Back in September my bankroll was at an all-time low since I first started playing. My bankroll was at $85. Yea that's right. I was only rolled for NL2.
So I decided to give poker one last shot. If it didn't work then I was going to quit. But things started going well. I ended up money last year.
So far this month I made $500 (20 buy-ins at 25NL) and I'm taking shots at 50NL.
I also made a little more than $1,300 in stakes. yay run good!
I have decided to cash out for the very first time leaving me enough of a cushioned roll for NL50 and I hope to buy something nice, like maybe a new bed or something.
I have another Ambient Music Blog coming so keep your eye out for that (should be out in about a week).
Had a real good day yesterday. Netted ~7K at the tables, ev was ~2K. The run good felt great! Got in ~10K vpps. Lookin' forward to a very profitable weekend, and gonna try to score in some MTTs.
GL at the tables,
Poopy
just started playing some 10 dollar hu sngs after seeing player99's posts that show him destroying it so I thought I'd give it a shot.
Been going well so far but the downswing is probably coming soon
ALso, i cant seem to play cash games anymore. they feel so foreign to me after not playing for so long. or maybe its becuase im just really impatient and want to play hands.
anyways, gonna just play a few hu sngs a day since im so busy.
I played 140hrs last month, it's the most I've played in a single month. I pwnd nl100 some more, and played bad / ran sorta bad during my nl200 shot, I made alot of stupid mistakes. It feels like a big jump from nll00 to nl200.. seems like theres alot more regs and less fish. Hopefully I play better during my next shot, im gonna stay at nl100 abit more and earn ~2k before I move up again.
Also, can someone trade me paypal$ for my stars$? I need ~375 to buy some hockey tickets I'll send first to reputable members, ill send an extra $10 to whoever does it.
Finally ran out of rakeback life support on full tilt, helped my wife win a $2 HU shootout so she xfer'd me with winnings and am back to playing on beloved stars, oh how I miss thee. Funny thing is, after playing 3 months of exclusively rush poker, normal ring games feel so good again! I mean damn is it ever nice to have actual legitimate reads on players, who you can iso, who you can bluff, who you can ship 300BB's aipf against. Wow, what a breath of fresh air! I do feel like rush has helped me a little, namely in regards to strengthening my reads in low information spots. Or perhaps it was all gained from greater hand volume. Whatever the case is it's so nice to feel in control at the table again. I wonder if my live play has improved as a consequence of rush.
Got in 25K vpps so far this month, planning on being first to SNE and getting there by end of March. So far, profitable at tables this month with 40K hand sample at 1ptBB/100 EV. Charts/graphs/etc are at the http://www.kevinpflug.blogspot.com website
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I'll send first to reputable members, ill send an extra $10 to whoever does it.
