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ToT)MidiaN(  United Kingdom. Jun 25 2009 00:52. Posts 5070 | | |
Last time I posted a blog, early this month, I had just moved from Stars to iPoker with the intention of playing $3/$6 and moving up to $5/$10 and beyond asap, but I came back to Korea on the 8th and couldn't get any tables going on iPoker due to timezones so I've split my roll across FTP and Stars again. Before coming back to Korea, this month started pretty decently, being up $3k in the first 5 days of the month. Despite only playing 3k hands and running $7k below expectation it made me feel like I was getting back in the groove, winning in the way I used to, however since moving back to Stars/FTP I've been losing again despite running above expectation as you can see here:
I'm still up for the month including the $3k won on iPoker and $500 won in live games here in Korea, but I'm still super super tilted. I spent 50k hands on Stars 100NL over the last 2 months and was barely above breakeven, and now I'm playing some $1/$2 deep on FTP and doing even worse than breakeven. I've definitely ran bad in terms of running into more than my fair share of coolers, and not coolering people very often, simply not making many big hands to start with and not being able to hit shit in a reraised pot. I know that I can still win at $3/$6 and $5/$10, but can't I win at $0.50/$1 and $1/$2? I know I don't play my best games at those stakes, and I get tilted easily because the shit I see is so stupid and yet I'm still losing to it, but I used to crush these games when I was playing them, and I sucked back then. Ugh. I'm interested in sweating people who play these stakes, and also being sweated if anyone is up for that (PM me). Although I think that I think a lot deeper than most players at these stakes, maybe I simply overthink things and end up playing bad because of it, it's like I valuebet thin in a spot because I'm repping tons of missed draws and not many value hands and they end up tanking and calling with better. I bluff in some spots where I'm repping almost no bluffs at all and they snapcall with some garbage that sucks vs my entire range, unfortunately I always seem to have the wrong part of my range in these spots, maybe I bluff more than I think I do in some spots, I don't feel like I am, but maybe I actually am.
I'd talk some about my life but not too much has been happening. d.Apollo has been here for more than 2 weeks and we've been going out often, he's been "birdin'" a whole lot and we've been to the casino a couple of times too. I've finally quit wow and have been getting up earlier in the morning the last couple of days, allowing me to put in a shitton of hands (5.5k in the last 2 days). Also finally been going to the gym some, something that I've been talking about doing for ages but never went more than a couple of times before and never with any consistency. Hopefully I can continue working out, getting up early, putting in a lot of hands and hopefully start running good or figure out if/what I'm doing wrong sometime soon.
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fenner Australia. Jun 25 2009 01:18. Posts 2188 | | |
Keep grinding man, I believe in you. |
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Midian you are a LP hero. Just keep grinding and you'll be fine. <3 |
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fenner Australia. Jun 25 2009 01:37. Posts 2188 | | |
This can easily be a downswong, EV means shit all. |
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its just a different game when u go down stakes that low... not that you have to re-learn the game but you have to let go of high stakes habits which in that case once u do that, going back to high stakes will have a re-adaptation process --thats my opinion through past experiences
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rednalluk Sweden. Jun 25 2009 02:20. Posts 626 | | |
If you believe you can beat high stakes, I dont get how you can tilt when other people play bad and that you can lack focus when playing. Didnt you learn these things when moving up? Imo, if you're good enough for NL600+ I think that the best thing you can do is to slow down your game, because if you do you'll see all the shit everyone else is trying to pull off. You dont need a high variance style at NL100-200, just wait for them to give you their money. (but this i do not mean "play weak/tight, but I think you got that)
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Smuft Canada. Jun 25 2009 02:57. Posts 633 | | |
It sounds like you are being way too anal about your results. Stop looking at your HEM so much and just play.
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Critterer United Kingdom. Jun 25 2009 03:06. Posts 5337 | | |
| | On June 25 2009 01:57 Smuft wrote:
It sounds like you are being way too anal about your results. Stop looking at your HEM so much and just play.
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ToT)MidiaN( United Kingdom. Jun 25 2009 03:33. Posts 5070 | | |
| | On June 25 2009 01:57 Smuft wrote:
It sounds like you are being way too anal about your results. Stop looking at your HEM so much and just play.
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Totally agree. I've tried to stop being that way, and it makes me play even worse when I care so much about them, but I don't seem to be able to help it lol =[ It's cause of these sites like PTR etc, I guess I care that other people can see them, even though they don't reflect my lifetime results at all :/ |
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Silver_nz New Zealand. Jun 25 2009 06:15. Posts 5647 | | |
nerdin before birdin! baller life :D cool if there is a gym close too
re NL100 and exploiting,you should be one step ahead of them right? try to figure out what they are thinking then think be one level above it?
about sweating, I suck at NL100 6max because I can't really figure out what the other players are thinking. FR or HU is much easier. |
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Ket United Kingdom. Jun 25 2009 07:41. Posts 8665 | | |
from my experience and talking to poker playing friends i think, especially when playing against non regulars, its a pretty common mistake to expect your opponents to think too similar to how you think in hands, so when youre bluffing you expect them to realise basic assumptions that youd make if you were in his spot and the hand played out like that, and go one level beyond and bluff in a spot where you think he should never expect you to be bluffing. when in reality what theyre actually thinking about in the hand is more usually some completely different random shit. make fewer assumptions imo! |
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CruiseR Poland. Jun 25 2009 08:41. Posts 682 | | |
sick winrate at 1c/2c imo |
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morph1 Sierra Leone. Jun 25 2009 08:42. Posts 2352 | | |
i'm in the same shit at the moment 
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Uptown . Jun 25 2009 10:39. Posts 3557 | | |
Get back to WOW grinding IMO.
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dahornnn United Kingdom. Jun 25 2009 14:19. Posts 693 | | |
haha keep off wow and i noticed shauns redline is balllller like urs was last time i saw it :D
glgl sure you can rape them stakes |
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Fox . Jun 25 2009 18:43. Posts 3110 | | |
Um you can sweat me anytime SIR. |
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KwarK United Kingdom. Aug 22 2009 08:36. Posts 1019 | | |
I'm moving up north in a month, going to uni in Liverpool. You coming back any time soon? |
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