i left nl100 feeling extremely comfortable with playing in position with a wide range against any player and any range. i played around 30/20 vpip/pfr.
@ nl200 i'm getting 3 bet to hell. getting 3 bet by the button when you are utg is such a tough spot.
alot of these pots are now 3 bet pots and i guess it will take time before i grow completely comfortable in 3 bet pots.
a weird spot that keeps coming to me is when BU or CO opens and the SB 3bets and I have like TT/JJ/AQ in the bb. i remember 4 bet bluffing somewhat regularly at nl100 but it seems as though these hands are a little to strong to 4 bet bluff but not strong enough to just flat and play oop. just wondering what you guys do here.
also i'm getting 3 bet alot when i open utg from certain buttons and it is hard to keep track and identify a range for them. i mean i know it's their right as they have position on me but is there no other adjustment than to narrow my range? i feel like incorporating 4 bet bluffs is the only answer but it is some what difficult to play enough hands and have solid enough reads to 4 bet bluff without getting reshipped by the nuts.
Cardistry, also known as XCM (xtreme card manipulation) is the "extreme" manipulation of cards. This involves intense moves and flashy displays. It can also be incorporated into magic routines.
Since poker is played with cards, and this is a poker community, I think cardistry is an art which may interest some of you. I have found it to be very useful for relieving stress. It's something very fun to switch to when you're trying to enforce a stop-loss. Just a few minutes of practice will make you forget about the downswing you just had.
Here are some demonstrations:
Some magic applications:
A downside to Cardistry is that it can be difficult hobby to start up, let alone knowing where to start. It's very easy to get discouraged early on when you can't do anything and you're dropping cards all over the place. But with the right guidance, and if you talk to people with more experience / use the internet, you can build up your foundation relatively quickly and perform some pretty impressive moves.
I've been doing cardistry for about a month and this is an awesomely visual yet easy cut that I just learned. (the cut itself took 4 hours)
That said, I'd encourage everyone who's stayed interested enough to watch all those videos and gotten through my post to give cardistry a try. If you're lost on where to start, you can PM me and I'll direct you to some resources. When you get better, don't show off too much in public if you still want to be invited to poker games
Who would put me up for the night ?by Gawuss, November 20
A couple days ago before falling asleep I had this idea to go on a spontaneous trip by myself to some random city in Europe for a few days or maybe a week. I would turn off my mobile phone, not say anyone where I'd go and just spend the whole time on a whim doing whatever I want without any worries. And now here's the question: Who would put me up for a night or two and hang out together, show me around and just chill ?? If you'd be willing to do so, just write where you live so that I can make a list of places I could visit It's not that you'd have to be with me all the time. I even think that going to a city where I don't know anyone would make the trip more interesting but it'd be great if any of you wanted to meet up if there was such option.
I don't give much of anything back to this community, so here's a little something that may benefit those of you who take it to heart.
First of all, let's look at the obvious: we're seated for hours on end. What does that lead to? Think about it: your knees are flexed, so your hamstrings are in a shortened position and they, inevitably, will shorten. Your hips are flexed, shortening your hip flexors and your rectus femoris (one of your quadriceps; the only one that crosses the hip joint). This tightness will lead to changes in the kinematics (movement) at the hip, knee, and ankle (Kinetic Chain).
Your arm or arms are stretched out in front of you, probably mostly just the side you use for your mouse. At the shoulder, this is called protraction. This changes the kinematics at the glenohumeral joint (shoulder). Depending on how bad it is, how long you've been like this, etc. it can lead to impingement at the shoulder. A quick test for this is to take your hand and place it on your opposite shoulder, leave it there, now bring your elbow to the ceiling. You feel a pinch? You may also notice it in overhead exercises like military press, incline bench press, skull crushers, etc.
Scapular Protraction: http://figureathlete.t-nation.com/img.../2008/08-FIG131-training/image009.jpg
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Scapular Retraction: http://figureathlete.t-nation.com/img.../2008/08-FIG131-training/image007.jpg
So, if your shoulders are constantly protracted, then the muscles on the posterior (rear) side will be put in a lengthened and essentially weakened position (Length-tension curve), namely your rhomboids, middle trapezius, and lower trapezius. This leads to winging and tipping of the scapulae (your shoulder blades). Winging and tipping essentially lead to instability/pain at that joint. This also puts the muscles on the anterior (front) side in a shortened position, which usually then become more dominant. This is often referred to as pec or pectoral-dominance as the muscles generally affected are the pec major and minor.
Let's talk posture. I can pretty much guarantee that your posture sucks. No big deal, right? Wrong. Maintaining crappy posture throughout the day has a variety of long term effects. Depending on how much time you put in on your computer, having your mouse at a different height than your keyboard may lead to a functional scoliosis (lateral curvature of the spine). Additionally, flat back and forward-head posture are common among people who spend a lot of time at their computers. As you can imagine these lead to neck and back problems.
This is really just the tip of the iceberg to be honest. If there's a significant amount of interest in this, I may post some follow up stretches/exercises prescribed with the internet poker player in mind. If not much interest is shown, you can always google exercises, or go pay for physical therapy (chiropractors can't help you, don't burn your money).
Oh ... My ... God!! Yes!! If I could post graphs I would but I'm a noob and can't get it to work. Anyways so I was hanging out with my buddies last night till about 1 am and decided I feel good enough to play a NL 100 session. I usually use a 3 buy in stop loss but I looked at my cashier 25 minutes into the session and I was down $500. HOw? I don't even know... All I could remember was getting sucked out on for 2 of my stacks and where the other 3 went? So naturally I keep playing and a little over a hour later I'm down $1100 (Although this was my fault as I can remember I called off a 175 bb flop shove with a double gutter). So I go to sleep dreadfully. I wake up today and having a day off of work I decide to recover. Started off rough going up $200 and then down $300. And then I started shitting on people over and over and over again. I didn't really start making hands till the last couple hours of my 9 hour session today - Mainly just rebluffed a lot of regs and played solid against the fish and random. I just finished about 20 minutes ago and I made $1250 plus about $150 in rakeback. I can't believe I got out of this nightmare so easily... Ship it!!! So from last night and today's session stats are: 8.6k hands, $600 below EV, 20/15/4.5, and made $270 including rakeback.
Is 8k hands a large enough sample? Trying to figure out why I keep losing. I feel like I'm playing solid enough. Generally speaking these stats tend to fall in line with winning players dont they? Just seems like if I'm not getting slowplayed, I'm value betting the worst hand vs droolers in spots where I simply have to bet.
Hi guys, this is my first blog entry (2nd actually but 1st was about $ transfer) and i wanted to share my pkr experience with you guys :D.
I´ve been playing poker for more than a year now, gone up from nl5 to nl 25 and nl50 where i stand now, this month is going great so far apart from the recent downswing where i lost 5 Bis .
I usually play 18 tables stacked, this doesn´t give me much time (or none) to think about my hands while playing them, after my the sessions i usually review my missplays and see that im playing really bad in some spots i didnt even imagined, in spots where the stacks are going in i think i play most of them good after reviewing but the small pots which are pretty important i play pretty F***in bad lol and its not enough to review them, i need to learn what to do and how to react accordingly.
As of right now im playing poker just for fun, i don´t really need the money because my fathers pay me my college and give me $ monthly, i spend poker money on things for myself like car-audio SC2 partys etc.. things i can live without (or not ), and my plan now is to buy a 24" monitor so i can reduce my tables to 12 playing tile or maybe less and start learning more from the game with less focus on the $.
My goal in poker is to move up until i think i can live only playin it, i mean... the average wage in my country is 550$ and the unnemployment is 11% and moving up so i dont think i can really just get a job and live from that that easily... (don´t get me wrong i want to finish my degree 4sure)
Maybe i will buy some CRunners/Dcracked membership dunno which one is better.
I would appreciate if u leaved some ideas thoughts about how to learn faster and really if its a good idea, i think this is a problem of many regs not only mine :S.
I would like to sell 75% of my action for the 6-max FTOPS event and the FTOPS main event. I need to sell exactly 75% and will not play if I do not sell it. My OPR has been posted many times in this blog. My account is TheRelapse @ FTP. No mark-up since these are substantially higher than my ABI, but the amount of fish in them will make me +EV. I have a deep run in the 750k (22nd) and the double deuce (12th), so I can get through some pretty big fields. My biggest win is the 50/50 for 11k.
Total buy in = $896 = $900 (I'm rounding it to $900 so i guess there is like .4% mark-up)
1% = $9
5% = $45
25% = $225
Must sell 75% or all funds will be returned and I will not play. Send Money to TheRelapse on Full Tilt Poker. Once funds are received I will confirm in this post. Thanks.
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It's not that you'd have to be with me all the time. I even think that going to a city where I don't know anyone would make the trip more interesting but it'd be great if any of you wanted to meet up if there was such option.
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), and my plan now is to buy a 24" monitor so i can reduce my tables to 12 playing tile or maybe less and start learning more from the game with less focus on the $.
