20k hand sample, trying a more LAGgy style, and just not understanding why I am not progressing. Is the sample too small? Could this possibly be variance over 20k hands? I am just flabbergasted at my game right now.
I literally spend all my time studying poker. I listen to podcasts, read tons of poker books, I have a coach, I am constantly monitoring my moods while I play to control tilt, and yet I can't seem to be above breakeven, let alone at the moment I am a loser. It seems I can't have a day where I profit/lose less then 3BI. I take some bad beats, especially lately, but there still appears to be a huge hole in my game somewhere and I have literally no clue where it could be. Really starting to discourage me as I am putting so much effort into getting better at this game, yet I don't see the results I am expecting for my time invested.
Looking through PTR, is this normal?
AA - win% 91.67%, amount won -8.80,
KK - win% 76.92%, amount won -33.01
IDK, this is probly just standard, and I am just complaining as usual, but it is really beginning to fuck with my confidence. I generally sit down at these stakes and always feel I am the best player at the table, yet my results clearly speak the opposite.
Ending the bitch/whine/rant now. Thanks for reading if you made it this far
Done bitching about bad beats for awhile (I hope). Here's a graph of $3.30 90 Man KO Sngs from the last couple weeks. Had an additional break even stretch for 48 sng's on my laptop that aren't included plus a session of 16 from today where i was + 30 buy ins. Overall the last 48 sng's i was +100 buy ins. variance man, variance.
by the way im taking names of all the haters out there. I cannot wait for what the future holds for me in this sport. I'll be eating your babies and shitting on everyone.
PIS-HJ: bets $8.50
Hero: raises $26.93 to $35.43 and is all-in
PIS-HJ: calls $16.35 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($10.58) returned to Hero
Showdown Hero: shows (a flush, Ten high)
PIS-HJ: shows (a full house, Deuces full of Threes)
PIS-HJ collected $59.45 from pot
Summary Total pot $61.45 | Rake $2
Board
Seat 1: artild folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 2: aiyalxj (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 3: PIS-HJ (small blind) showed and won ($59.45) with a full house, Deuces full of Threes
Seat 4: spark929 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: Hero showed and lost with a flush, Ten high
FUCK FUCK FUCK
DROP 10 BUY INS TODAY FUUUUK, TO STUPID FAGS THAT SET MINE HUGE SQUEEZES AND DONK 22 OOP ON DRAWY BOARDS WHEN I HAVE BEEN AGGRESSIVE IN PAST HANDS. OK DUDE, DONK 22 ON THAT FLOP AND HIT ANOTHER 2 U FAGGOT. AND LET ME HIT MY BACKDOOR FLUSH SO I CAN SHOVE INTO THE NUTS
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I finished my final paper on cannabis and will be posting it soon. Copy/pasting makes it look like shit so I'll have to do some formatting and I'm too lazy to do it right now, but eventually I will for those of you who asked that I share it.
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first of all sorry for all my shitty hands that i've been posting. i am going through the downswing of my life and during the time it was somewhat cathartic to post suck outs, etc. obviously posting hands where you got sucked out doesn't really help you get better....
as stated i am going through the downswing of my life. not to say it even compares to what other people are going through/have went through. i've never incessantly been sucked out longer than 3-4 days in a row. its been like 10 days of run bad and is exceptionally tough to go through. i'm not whining i'm just trying to convey my current state of distress.
i have been going through all my big pots, and i really am putting my money in way ahead. i don't think i am playing bad.
i've stated multiple times that i don't believe downswings to be even possible at nl10-50 just due to sheer edge but even now i stand corrected.
how did you guys who went through sick downswings (in the sense of duration) recover? how did u guys manage to even have the courage to log in and play?
I haven't blogged much on here, but thought I'd share my rough life plans for the immediate future, and a bit of how I got there. I've lived in the Chicago suburbs my entire life, went to school in Illinois, and figured I'd get a job in Chicago, have a family, and live that traditional life. I found poker my last year and high school and played in college, coming at the perfect time where I could make some money part time while in school. I applied for internships and started working after I graduated, but after ~3 months after I started, the company I was with couldn't keep me on. I'd have to rely on poker for money while I continue looking for a job.
Poker went pretty well, and I really loved the freedom of doing what I wanted everyday. Wake up as late as you want, go on a trip somewhere anytime in the week and not worry about when you'll get back (I hated having to use my 2 days off on a weekend for a trip, it almost felt like I wasted my weekend where I like to have some time to sit on my ass). About 4 months later, I got a call from 2 companies, one of which I had worked for before, and its competitor, both essentially offering me a job to get into their program where they'd train me on the job for ~1-1.5 years and then be on board full time. I thought it over for every moment for about 2 weeks, talked with some friends and family each giving their own suggestion. Eventually I turned them both down, and decided to stick with poker. It wasn't as much about wanting an 'easy' life or something people might imagine with poker, but the freedom and flexibility was very attractive, and I found I REALLY liked figuring out a way to live my life different from all my peers. This is the same point I realized I don't have to do what was expected of me by others, I can play poker rather than get a job, go shopping for different styles of clothing than the polo shirts / khakis / etc. that my friends and I often wore in the past. Anything I could do that was different became really attractive to me.
Fast forward a bit later, 2 friends of mine from my starcraft playing days are going to get married (one of which most of you know eriador / liquid`drone), and I'm invited to go to their wedding in Poland. I don't know much about Poland or know anybody who's been there really, so I figure sure why not? I go there for almost a full week of wedding celebration and PoorUser of LP fame was there as well, making us the only Americans there. It really was a blast, one of the best times I've ever had, and at the wedding I met a Polish girl.
I come home and I keep talking to this girl on msn, and we get to talking about how I really wanted to do a euro trip kind of thing, to travel across lots of different countries, but didn't really want to do it on my own. She has interest in this too, so only about 1.5 months after I got home, I fly back to Poland to meet her and begin traveling across Europe. We do that for 2 weeks, cramming as much sight seeing in as possible into a short window, and then I stayed with her for 1.5 months in Poland. I was worried I'd get sick of the area (or of her ) after a while, but when it was time to come home, I didn't really want to leave.
I came home, and I felt stagnant, like I wasn't progressing anywhere in my life. I really was missing being around this girl, but I never was going to get into a relationship with her since we live so far apart. I missed a lot of things about being in a foreign country, being around a different language, so many differences between cultures, etc. and I thought, why can't I move to Europe? Why do I have to keep living where I've always lived? Poker provides me this luxury.
So I'm moving. I just picked out an apartment in Poznan, Poland. Looking forward to learning a new language and living a different lifestyle. All my friends and family members in the US have a certain view of the world which isn't accurate, and for Poland they all think of it as suuuuper cold like Siberia, and pretty much think it's the same kind of country as Soviet Russia. Kinda sad.
I'm looking forward to going there, and I'm not sure if I just wanted a change in my life, or if it'll lead me to want to live in lots of different cities and countries throughout my life. Anyway, that's my story for today.
If anyone lives in or near Poznan, feel free to contact me, maybe there are some LP'ers over there
Orlando on the 26-31, miami 1-11by PokerRaiDen, December 20
Hey guys.
Im going on the 26 to the 31 of december to Orlando with my GF. The idea is to go to all the theme parks and such during the day and party a lot during the night, I was wondering if any of you LP's will be there so we can go together to the parks or party or hang out or whatever.
After that im going to the miami/fort lauderdale area from the 1st of january to the 11th of the same month. Same story, if any LP's would be there it would be great to hang out and party or whatever.
Let me know if any of you will be there, we could arrange something. Happy hollidays!
33 Hour 52k Hand PLO session :( :(by Joeingram1, December 20
yea title says it all, just got done with 33 hour session 24 tabling plo, started 5-6 hours at 2/4 1/2 and finished up last 25-26 at 100plo
41k vpps earned, almost done with sne and quitting poker (maybe
lost alot, going busto, what else is new
i copy paste this from thread i made
i think i pissed in my pee bottles upwards of 50 times, drank about 15 gatorades, ate a handful of pretzels and maybe a cut up piece of pizza. after about 28 hours i finally went to the bathroom to deuce
luckily my girlfriend was there (pics on my blog) and she helped keep me off the ledge to bustoville and negative unhappy thoughts ville, she made it to hour 29 then fell asleep in a daze
only positive was i made 41k vpps towards getting supernova elite
negative was i continued my downard spiral to the dark unknown
will write more thoughts on this when i wake up but i feel like i could put out another 3 days if i wasnt losing every fucking hand
bring on those fucking asian bots for volume prop bet anytime (obv i will lose becuase i fucking fail though)
Even tho I'm taking a break from poker this month(kinda) I'm sick so I played some this weekend, down like 2.5k.
And thats cause I crushed sngs as usual:
You know whenever your graph looks like India on a map you've had a tough day, but that it could have been worse.
I'm new to PLO, so I wasnt sure I was going to make it back, especially the way I was running at one point (yes, I know thats standard in plo).
setting up a mikogo stream, ship me 40 and ill send you the password, 20 more and i'll add you to the conference call on skype; you can watch all day 10-20 hrs (in a couple majors and many great midlimit mtts and 3 ftops etc) v good schedule to watch
doing this to hedge sunday variance
_This will last about 15 hours_
v gud investment for most imho and very cheap
40 without audio
60 with audio
have my reasons im doing this, one time thing, if u wanna learn cheap this is a great chance
private message me via lp if your interested,
thanks,
Ryan
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(a full house, Deuces full of Threes)
) after a while, but when it was time to come home, I didn't really want to leave.
, but at least I won like 3.5k playing live too this week. 
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