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ToT)MidiaN(  United Kingdom. Apr 07 2009 06:23. Posts 5070 | | |
Hey guys. Been a while since last blog, figured now is an appropriate time to do so as I'm going through a few different things recently that I wanna talk a little bit about.
I got back in to playing poker about a week ago, when I first started I approached the game much differently than in the past. I played more passively, I called much more preflop, I 3bet much less, I tried to keep pots small, I reduced my bet sizing dramatically etc and it seemed to be working at first, as I made $4k in about 2k hands of $3/$6. However, things quickly started to go downhill and within the next 3k hands I found myself stuck about $4k since restarting poker. I wasn't able to effectively bluff when I wanted because the bets were too small to fold anyone off anything, but at the same time when I wanted value, I wasn't getting that much because my bets were small. People 3bet me more preflop, made more c/rs postflop because my bets were small and they either figured it was weak, or they needed to get more money in the pot with strong hands and in general I just felt much less in control of the flow of the game. I continued to lose money and hit a peak of about $-8k since restarting poker, for a total downswing of 13.333 buyins, which I hit today.
I think that experimenting with your game is invaluable and absolutely necessary to improve, however the style wasn't working out for me and today I went back to my old style, 3betting a shitton, betting much bigger, pissing people off etc. I felt much more in control, people seem more reluctant to bluff me because it costs them so much of their stack, they dunno what to do with medium strength hands because I'm making them commit so much money all the time, and it worked out much better, I feel like I'm controlling the way people are reacting to me a lot better, almost like how I used to back on Prima over a year ago where I crushed 5/10 for 8+ptbb/100 over 100k hands and multiple other limits for 5-7ptbb/100 over significant samples also. I really hope I can refind that success and am simply happy that I'm enjoying the game once more, if you don't enjoy it, don't think about what you're doing and just grind out hours day after day you won't improve as a player and you'll be depressed quite frequently.
The reason I stopped playing poker about 4 months ago was due to what I was talking about above. I was struggling to win, wasn't enjoying the game as much as I have in the past and had other things on my mind. Due to this disinterest I had to find something else to spend all this spare time on, and, probably for the worst I ended up playing a shitton of WoW. Here are 2 of my characters that I have been putting a fair bit of time into over the last 2 months or so:
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Scilla&n=Pyretic
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Scilla&n=Departure
also, I have a level 74 warrior on a European server and a level 34 Paladin I started lately on the same server as the 2 characters above. Lately I've even became bored of WoW and that's probably why I'm playing more poker over the last week. It's a good thing, really, if I'm gonna waste a ton of time in front of my computer, it's a much better "waste" if it's spent (potentially) making money in poker than wasting away time "having fun" in WoW.
Speaking of computers, I got a new one 3 days ago, used Stars Concierge Service to get it, it cost about 3.5 million won which is approximately $2.65k. It's a beast and I want to sleep with it in my arms. I got a 25.5" monitor TV/Monitor/whatever with it, which is OK but I kinda wish I had my 30" Dell monitor that's currently sitting by itself in my room in England.
Not too much more to say I guess. I went to Artosis' birthday party yesterday along with lilsusie, nevergg, tasteless, PuertoRican and chilled out a bit. The poster "Uptown" on this site may be visiting me here in Korea at the end of this month so that should be cool, and I'm off travelling myself this Friday - hitting up Cebu, Phillipines. Probably gonna take some pictures and may make another blog post out of it. For now I'll leave you with a hand that I played today that made me feel good, when things like this happen, you know you are doing something right:
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I got him tilted so bad, he was at the point where he was calling every single 3bet I made, or if not calling then 4 betting and never folding post flop. Obviously I bet the river small to induce and it worked perfectly. There was another hand that was even more awesome imo, but I can't get it to show up properly when I link it from HEM's replayer T_T
Until next time, good luck!
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Silver_nz New Zealand. Apr 07 2009 06:29. Posts 5647 | | | |
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huh? you live in korea now? |
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The72o Zimbabwe. Apr 07 2009 06:42. Posts 6112 | | |
stop playing wow
crush games
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morph1 Sierra Leone. Apr 07 2009 06:46. Posts 2352 | | |
lol , nice hand
btw.. i watched ur video few days ago... and i think it's realy good
hope there will be more videos/posts/blogs in future 
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Nice.
Also, quit WoW and start playing DotA with the TL mob! |
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Perisie . Apr 07 2009 06:58. Posts 801 | | |
sound like u fell into the trap i sometimes do..... u changed ur gamestyle and applied it against every opponent, when it only works against certain people. etc |
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d.Apollo United Kingdom. Apr 07 2009 07:02. Posts 741 | | | |
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Uptown . Apr 07 2009 07:29. Posts 3557 | | |
We shall drink many guinness Jamie lol |
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Darki Peru. Apr 07 2009 07:30. Posts 687 | | |
pis.toto must hate lpers |
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whamm! Albania. Apr 07 2009 07:32. Posts 11625 | | |
im never posting 1k dollar graph heaters again after reading that. lol |
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lebowski Greece. Apr 07 2009 08:12. Posts 9205 | | |
haha this reminds me Toto's tilt moments vs Baal
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highlight hand history, right click show selected hand history! |
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lachlan Australia. Apr 07 2009 08:38. Posts 6991 | | |
can u make a blog post about what life is like living in korea some time? and the major differences that u noticed when u first moved? id find it really interesting to read. gl in ur return to poker again
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failsafe United States. Apr 07 2009 08:43. Posts 1040 | | |
it's my experience that if you really enjoy wow, it's indicative of a huge leak / playing way too tight. you've gotta look for spots and increase your vpip / pfr on life's other streets |
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longple Sweden. Apr 07 2009 08:45. Posts 4472 | | |
watched vid from last post.. more videos! i really liked the commentary, imo its better then in a lot of CR videos |
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ToT)MidiaN( United Kingdom. Apr 07 2009 09:14. Posts 5070 | | |
Here's a funny hand
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get back on track with pokerz <3 |
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Maynard! United States. Apr 07 2009 09:56. Posts 4453 | | |
Didn't know that there were so many guys in korea. Is it due to the SC or women pull?
I would imagine that the new gamer mecca would be vegas nowadays. |
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cariadon Estonia. Apr 07 2009 10:24. Posts 4019 | | |
You're my hero still Jamie !
Good to have you back. |
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