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k2o4 United States. Feb 27 2008 02:48. Posts 4803

So I had a friend over tonight who was just learning poker and I played some .01/.02 and some .10/.25 and man, god, lord, oh heaven, it was EZ

I wish I could make money by playing those games. Stupid games getting harder. NL100 is kicking my ass lately. Well, breaking even.... but I wanna be winnin! Oh well. I've become a much better player in medium/small pots, but I've lost my balls to get value. Midian pointed that out to me and he's so damn right - I took his advice to heart today and really got hardcore on some mediocre hands tonight and got so much more value than I ever would. It was amazing.

It's weird to play microstakes games again. Kinda fun since it's so easy, like going on bnet and playing BGH. I hit a seriously horrendous 30 buyin downswing (about 70% bad luck and 30% bad play) during february and decided to pull out some money to cover basic expenses. Now sitting at $2,600 and slowly rebuilding as I'm not running hot like I did in January. Talk about a wake up call! But it's good. I think I've really learned a lot more about poker, especially how to fold when you have a loser! And how to minimize losses on a strong hand that isn't best.

So I'm totally rambling and I'm not even gonn make an effort to post a sweet pic to get more comments this time. Just drunk and need to ramble. You have no idea how many times I had to hit "backspace" and correct my mistypes.

I still love poker. I am still confident that I know what I'm doing. And I know without a doubt that I have so much to improve on, and that I CAN improve. I know I can learn all these new levels of poker and keep becoming a better player, and I will continue to put all my heart and soul and effort into making it happen. Gotta throw another shoutout to Midian and Snider for their help, and thanks to soAh for starting to help on coaching (though we're yet to have our fist lesson, we're working it out and I have a good feeling about it).

Ok, off to find more alcohol and hopefully some cigarettes!

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whamm! Albania. Feb 27 2008 04:17. Posts 11625

good job man. i know you have the skills for it. me i just gave up on being creative, coz im really just a robot lol

lebowski Greece. Feb 27 2008 04:23. Posts 9205

Crap! I want midian's help too!!

Are you going to move down if you drop to 2.5k- ?
I had a bad run too last time I tried nl100 but trust me if you keep the attidude you have you'll see that
you're back on track in just a few days time.
It's tough to become a zen master when u lose several days in a row,but now that I look back at it I realize that these swings are quite normal and making the best out of them is necessary. That knowledge would have saved me a few buy ins.

I mean,u can never really be sure if you are on a heater/downswing etc or winning what you deserve without a huge sample,
so the only thing you got is the effort to improve. I might get some coaching with a bigger br too

new shit has come to light... a-and... shit! man...

kemo Denmark. Feb 27 2008 04:36. Posts 573

video of sOah's "fist lesson" please. Gonna be interesting.

Good luck )

whamm! Albania. Feb 27 2008 04:48. Posts 11625

well now that i think of it. i might try to get coaching too if i dont do well at like 400nl which i expect will be very hard for me, especially me. but i think ill do it when i really really need it already.

JoeDeertay United States. Feb 27 2008 05:11. Posts 1730

GOGOGO

gl with everything. I hope the coaching goes well =]

Variance has a big brother named doomswitch. - edzwoo

sniderstyle United States. Feb 27 2008 06:00. Posts 2046

gotta love the grind!

Genginho: lose today 100 dollar only because of fishs they called and had luck on river

lachlan Australia. Feb 27 2008 06:12. Posts 6991

seriously theres no skill in poker once ur past a certain point, its just about how good u are running

full ring

PplusAD Germany. Feb 27 2008 09:51. Posts 7180

On February 27 2008 05:12 lachlan_fearn wrote:
seriously theres no skill in poker once ur past a certain point, its just about how good u are running

I found this true for High stakes SNGS and Tournaments
Not true for cashgame

U see what i did there with A8 ? He 4 bets and there we go insta jam A8 : ---booooom -- . hahahaha ( Krantz)

Last edit: 27/02/2008 12:59

RS_II United States. Feb 27 2008 15:26. Posts 748

daaaaamn sorry to hear about the brutal 30 buy-in downswing, that is seriously bad news, but it's good to know that you've assessed your situation, accepted the #'s and adapted for rebuilding. GL in the future man, seriously this blog is such a good read, look forward to updates..

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