Weeeell I cleared the Iron man bonus (got $75 or something) and made $40 in a freeroll thing for rakeback, so I felt comfortable to take a 25nl shot!
...Didn't go so well. This is the 25nl only graph for the last week of me doing mostly 25nl without the bit of 10nl here and there when there were no decent 25nl games, with required allin ev for extra whine, now in orange!
well at least my redline is breakeven had some pretty sucky hands, but nevermind, gotta keep on going! I am pretty small volume too so it takes me ages to get anywhere Back to 10nl for now I think, regrind and reshot.
Feb 1, done with prop betby Pokerpoopy, February 01
Finished that prop bet finally, made my 300K vpps.
Finished up with +$20K profit total for the month, even though I lost a whopping 13K at the tables. Excited about starting the grind off nice and on pace this month so I don't have to lose all my $$ getting crazy volume in at end of month again.
Will be nice to actually win again, gl at the tables y'all.
cashed out my ap roll because somehow i run like complete shit there (some 30 bi below ev over like 40k hands) and started from scratch at stars. had $18 in my roll, now up over $200 and playing 10nl. trying to think a lot more and generally just improve my game. watching a lot of aejones, ansky, and galfond videos because i feel they describe their thought processes very clearly and i guess i just look up to them more than other instructors for whatever reason. was 12-16 tabling 5nl and jumped down to 4 tables when i got to 10nl and it moves a lot slower but this way i can obviously concentrate better on individual hands. one hand i'm pretty proud of from a session i just played:
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PokerStars Game #56925286821: Holdem No Limit ($0.05/$0.10 USD) - 2011/02/01 6:56:47 CT [2011/02/01 7:56:47 ET]
Table Prospero XIV 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: Skkiperbody ($8.77 in chips)
Seat 2: Gyu78 ($18.44 in chips)
Seat 3: pacmanjt ($12.18 in chips)
Seat 4: crusher6 ($11.89 in chips)
Seat 5: Greg fol ($13.24 in chips)
Seat 6: Hero ($19.38 in chips)
Skkiperbody: posts small blind $0.05
Gyu78: posts big blind $0.10
Skkiperbody: bets $4.97 and is all-in
Hero: calls $4.97
Showdown Skkiperbody: shows (a pair of Sixes)
Hero: shows (a pair of Sixes - Ace kicker)
Hero collected $16.78 from pot
Summary Total pot $17.64 | Rake $0.86
Board
Seat 1: Skkiperbody (small blind) showed and lost with a pair of Sixes
Seat 2: Gyu78 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: pacmanjt folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: crusher6 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: Greg fol folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: Hero (button) showed and won ($16.78) with a pair of Sixes
duno if that's a brag or whatever but since i'm posting a 10nl blog i had to throw it there because it's definitely my favorite hand since i got back to stars. either way i'm having a blast with poker for the first time in a long time and i hope everyone else is doing the same. for january i made roughly $200 between 2nl and 5nl and i'm looking to keep it up and get back to 25nl, which i feel is the first limit where you can make "decent" money (considering i make $10/hour at my job).
GL at the tables lp leeann and i salute you for reading!
NL25 Graph. Kinda wondering why I ever played on stars. Pretty nice playing on FTP and not having to find the 3 fish that exist at the 6 max tables.
Getting ready to move up to NL50 soon. I'm a little over 30BI atm, but I want to make sure my NL25 game is solid enough and is not short term variance. Any suggestions on the differences and adjustments I may need to look for would be appreciated
Expect my next blog to be something along the line of "Nl50 runbad," cause my first shots never seem to go well
Anyways, now that you read the ramblings of some micro scrub (Thanks btw!), heres the promised laughs. Enjoy!
I dedicated this January to learning masstabling and deciding whether or not I should go for SNE.
I wanted to get like 100k-110k VPPs minimum and have at least positive results if I were to go for SNE.
Unfortunately, the results were not satisfying at all. I really had big trouble playing more than 12 tables and even more than 9 was quite difficult.
After like 3 weeks of playing 15-18 tables and steadily loosing, I lost the believe that it will just turn and decided to just go back to playing 6-9 tables, mostly deep games (oppossed to mostly shalow tables when masstabling).
That resulted in making less VPPs than I wanted to and the results didnt get much better either. Partly because of running pretty poorly during the whole month and partly because clearly I need to get back to my A game.
In numbers, I lost $16.3k, ev-wise I lost $4.7k, which is like my 2nd worst month ever or so. At least I played 132k hands and made 91.7k VPPs, which translates to $5.1k in rakeback purely from FPPs (not counting stellar rewards and milestones), so I can comfort myself saying that ev-wise and after rakeback I made some pocket change
Anyway, as of now chasing SNE is not a priority. In February I will try to get back to my A game by playing mostly 5-9 40-100bb tables at midstakes (2/4-5/10). I still hope to make some 60k VPPs or so, so that I could still possibly jump back to the SNE race later, but like I said, its not a priority atm. Getting back the winning mindset is.
Thats it, hopefully my next progress update will be better. Hope you guys had a better start of the year than me.
Interesting start to the new year. I indulged in a lot of new poker theories after my '10 blowout where I finally gave up professional poker. Now I just play for lulz, which has been working out much better in the tilt department. It basically comes down to a lack of care, which interestingly enough is an ideal poker mindset to be in. If I make it I make it, if I dont I dont. Had a couple of humorous busto challenges trying to run up zero dollar bankrolls, but ended in failure due to poor BRM. So on with the results:
A little messy, but to be expected from an amateur trying to play LAG. Every one of those spikes was a learning moment lol, and I feel I soaked in a lot of good material about what works and what doesnt at the micros. The spikes were self-induced due to adopting a half-stack strategy whereby I'm basically pot committed after any 3bet or flop action, but as time went on I was able to curtail which hands I should plan on committing with before I get there. Eventually some tilt did get to me and I bled like crazy around hand 10k or so I guess. But because I take lots of silly 1 BI shots and shit, the following graph more accurately represents my forward play style at any given limit.
And finally my overall stats. I can live with that. Especially with the adjustments I'll be making. I went back and forth between playing half-stack and full stacked, and at the moment I still prefer half stack or less at micro stakes, just to limit the swings when I get it allin. I noticed when I moved up to NL100 I got ran over trying to play this loose with 50BB's, and before I realized it I was moving back down. I'm pretty sure regs dont give much respect to half stackers and immediately targeted me as a fish. I kept getting 3bet and squeezed without really knowing what to do. Because deeper stack requires a more intelligent level of play, I think sitting full stacked at the higher games will be optimal as it allows me to play more postflop without regs just jamming KQ high or something and making me fold. Since I'm really happy with my non-showdown results I think I can possibly do well in this regard.
My main goal this month is to focus less on the value of my current bankroll and more on just being patient and letting it grow. I get too greedy and want to add a few digits every few days, telling myself I can suffer a 1 BI shot at the next level if it lets me get out of my current one, but it gets pretty annoying having to drop so quickly when you dont immediately run well after moving up.
I accomplished the goal of putting in some serious volume this month, at least from my standards. I made a couple hundred which isn't bad for only being at NL 10. I successfully managed to make a successful adaptation to NL 25 in my 3rd shot. Now I am at a comfortable roll and feel really good about playing the stake. Not scared anymore by the amount of money involved. Here is the graph for my full ring results for the month. Random jump in the graph is when I started putting serious NL 25 play in from NL 10. http://i840.photobucket.com/albums/zz329/k40cheddar/January2011.png?1296527290
I also took $25 that was sitting on poker stars and tried out some NL 50 heads up by buying in for 20bb to fuck around. Didn't go busto (although I did catch a runner runner flush to save my roll) so I guess thats a good thing. Here's my HU results for the month.
Goals for February
- Put in around the same amount of volume. Ideally above 35000 hands.
- Get roll up to 1K
- Start mixing up NL 50 with NL 25 once I get an established roll.
Gl to everyone else for February! Thanks for all the help!
This January has been a pretty intense month for me pokerwise. To start things off, I ended up taking down the 2010 PTR micro omaha POY. Huge confidence booster, scored a free year of PTR gold, and received a coaching contract with DragTheBar. This win meant a lot to me because it solidifies that I have accomplished something with poker (although I attribute the 100% of the win to campaigning skills). Still, it gave me the confidence and belief that I can go so much farther than I am.
Toward the end of last year, I was thinking about going Supernova for 2011. After much contemplation about what I actually wanted to gain out of poker this year, I decided not to go for SN and instead moved back to FTP and to get a black card (unfortunately this meant that my free PTR gold became virtually useless). As of today, I'm ironman for the month of January and on pace to get black card by the end of February.
Another motivating factor for me will be the prop bet I made with one of my friends. He laid me 1.8 to 1 odds, $540:$300 on first person to make 15k or highest earner by August31.
Okay now time for a graph
This is 40 hours of play 6 tabling.
Actually ran a bit bad towards the middle of the month. Was like 1.1k downswing and 800 below EV or something but kind of standard PLO. Also messed around a bit @ badugi up to 1/2 and lost like $50.
In the process of getting a fake ID as well. I'm not waiting 1 3/4 years to turn 21. Want to have the option of going to play live poker and a lot of my older friends are planning trips to Vegas and shit so I wanna get in.
Pretty clear that I haven't developed as a player the last year, while competition has become tougher. But still... ran pretty good at nl50 - couple of buyins above EV while running 10 buyins below EV on NL100, and that of course makes a bit of difference. But I would be lying to myself if I said that's the reason. It's pretty clear I have several leaks that needs to be fixed. Thinking about getting a Bluefirepoker membership or something.
Yeye, end rant. Still playing at FTP, and I payed fucking 3,4k in rake, while only getting 814 in RB (300 was a bonus too...) Makes me wonder why I abandoned my rakeback deal at iPoker. Oh well - got Iron Man thing, and got 50k points (and within the next two weeks I should have my Black Card!!)
Well January was pretty good to me.luckboxed some mtts and did alright in 180s i guess. Got pretty lazy for 2nd half of the month. Only made about 17k vpps for the month.25k is pace for 300k vpps which I'm probably gonna be shooting for. Intended to shoot for 200k but that should be pretty easy if i put in any type of volume
Also started 5nl midway through this month. I've always wanted to learn cash and I felt like my post flop game was full of 928232109 holes. I never had the discipline to build a roll before at the micros and learn. I probably still don't have the discipline to do both but I don't need to worry about the roll part anymore. So I decided to try to plug some of those holes by learning cash and hopefully working my way up to midstakes. Gonna be tough since I still plan on playing sngs/mtts so we shall see how that works out. Right now my goal is about 25k hands/month.
So this guy wants to stake me for a live game. He would give me 2 buyins for the limit id be playing. How does staking like this work, after the session how would we split profits. Btw this is a stake for one session, around 10-12 hours
Watch this and imagine what it would be like to be in that crowd of protesters. I fear that in America we've gotten too lazy to ever attempt anything as brave as this, no matter how corrupt our government gets. Respect to these guys for not letting corrupt government hold them down.
it seems that there are a lot of brazilians on this site. i'm trying to delve deeper in brazilian music. the post is titled samba but really i'm just looking for some rhythm, soul, energy and positive emotions.
it's hard to find stuff in the US b/c US google/pandora/itunes comes up w/ like generic, horrible shit made by some hippie robot w/ a 1984 casio keyboard.
this is some stuff i've found and liked.
it's also hard to find all out party stuff. like what would be blasting for carnival or if ppl were just raging after x football team won or if brasil won the world cup. what do you guys listen to in dance clubs there?
another interesting thing i found is romanian edm kept coming up. some of the songs were flat out in Portuguese and some had capoeira and such.
example (even if you don't like the song there is some nice scenery):
here are just some random videos i came across i think most red blooded males would enjoy:
Good month. Would like to have not had the crappy finish but solid results none-the-less.
308 games played
20% ROI
+$390
I really just need to bee more focused and play. The more I play the more I'm going to win. I need to focus up and make volume happen. I should have ALOT of weeks that I get 200 games played and I've yet to do it. I just need to focus up and get volume in period.
Also going to get in shape. Slowly been working on getting out more. The getting a dog is helping, I'm really motivated to take him on walks and go play in the park and stuff. The constant snow that northern MO is getting is however hindering progress. Meh, Let's go February!
Beginning of the month I was feeling kind of meh, but I came into the new year with a resolution to wake up at 10AM at least every weekday. I succeeded at the beginning, struggled a little bit with it when I got kind of upset about running so bad at 1/2 in the early-middle of the month, but I pulled it together and I've been getting up right about 10am for about 80% of this month. I'm proud of myself overall, as this sleeping thing is something I've had trouble with since I was a young kid. I'm going to continue the 10AM shiznat.
About two weeks ago I decided to get back into Magic The Gathering. I played it like 12 years ago in middle school but hadn't touched it since. Its damn fun! And its a great way to meet new people and be social. If I keep enjoying it I am going to plunk down some cash and try to become an MTG tournament player on the side haha.
Oh well.. at least it looks a lot better in BBs LOL!
All graphs are 92% 6max, nl100 is like 35% rush I think. Nice way to get some volume in.
I also played 115 hands of nl400 and won $431, SICK LIFE.
I wish I could of had an awesome month (ie if I didn't play nl200 at all...) and 1/2 was quite soul crushing at times, but I'm feeling better and my roll is surprisingly healthy. Some NL100 professional got angry when I 3bet him today and said, 'you taking another nl100 shot? , You should turn down the aggression', then he folded obv. I don't even 3bet that much..
Being somewhat aware of the Poker universe, I've always had a knack for poker yet. . never really initiated myself to learn more than what I currently know about it.
Well actually to be honest I was more occupied with BW and gaming and whatnot so that took up most of my time rather then using that time to learn more about poker.
So now, bored of gaming in general (yes even though SC2 is out, I have no interest whatsoever. I enjoy spectating rather then actually playing it now. My interests and views have shifted dramatically over the past year.
So now I've decided to finally stop wasting my time with useless activities and poker up my life a little. Yes I am aware you can lose more then you win but it's a risk I'm willing to take.
Tonight on this lovely Sunday evening marks my beginnings in Poker. Currently I'm just playing [Play Money] tables while reading up on basic strategies and hands, news within the PS world and other related websites.
Since most members on this forum are from TL (as am I) I'm hoping people around here can jumpstart me and help me out with tips and tricks I should keep in mind/learn?
Would be most appreciated!
I'm going to keep updating a week by week blog from now.
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had some pretty sucky hands, but nevermind, gotta keep on going! I am pretty small volume too so it takes me ages to get anywhere 
Back to 10nl for now I think, regrind and reshot.
(a pair of Sixes)
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