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phrenik Canada. Dec 12 2009 09:48. Posts 98 | | |
It's been about one month since I decided I wanted to give playing poker seriously a shot. The idea of building a bankroll from nothing really appealed to me so that's what I attempted to do. I started off inspired by a post on LP about selling play chips for real money and decided I'd try to grind up some play chips while playing a few freerolls each day on Full Tilt. I figured that the rakeback from Full Tilt would end up making it a better choice than Stars, but after recently looking up the rake structures because of an edzwoo post, Stars does seem slightly better (but it's too late now!). In the first few days I got up to about 150k in play chips by basically open shoving AK and JJ+ and getting about three callers every time. My first poker lesson was that surprisingly, people actually fold to pre-flop shoves at real money tables. By the end of the first week I ended up cashing in two Canada Freerolls, the first for $2, and the second for $5 and that was the start of my bankroll.
Before starting to play on cash tables I downloaded the free trial version of HEM which I'm still using (I just haven't closed HEM for the last 20 or so days lol). I started off playing one table of full ring $0.01/$0.02 NLHE buying in for $0.50 (feeble attempt at BR management) but quickly moved to two and then four tables. Between bad play, tilt, and bad beats I was down to $3 pretty quickly. Lesson number two: tilt is evil. When playing one table tilting wasn't so bad, but tilting at four tables quickly ate up a large chunk of my undersized roll. After learning how to unclick Autopost Blinds when starting to tilt, my roll started moving in the right direction again. By the end of November I was up to about $30.
One memorable night I had was playing against a giant fish that ended up playing 78% of his 154 hands. Easy money right? Apparently not as he coolered me for multiple buyins. I had 2 flopped sets cracked by straights, and AKs owned by A5o for 300BB in total. This tilted me pretty hard and after spewing for a bit, I started closing down tables, but I still wanted my money back from the salmon. I ended up closing all my tables except the table the fish was sitting at. I was determined to felt the tard. Besides the fish, the rest of the table was pretty nitty, so I decided my strategy for getting my money back would be to raise to 5x every time the fish limped (my standard raise is about 3x) which he would invariably call and I would take by cbetting. I had missed out on this goldmine earlier because in my first hand against the fish, he hit something and called my cbet, putting his fold to cbet stat at 0%. I didn't notice the sample size and ended up not cbetting him at all until I realized my mistake down 300BB later. After chipping away for a while, I eventually won back around 100BB when the rest of the table decided they were tired of my overaggression and left, leaving me heads up with the fish. This was my dream scenario, even though I didn't have much HU experience, I was sure I could turn this fish into sashimi. Three hands later I had his stack and he quit. Now I realize this could have gone pretty badly considering how tilted I was, but luckily it worked out and I got the immeasurable satisfaction of felting a total and utter megafish that had the audacity to get lucky and steal my money.
Making Sashimi
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For some reason in December I decided that I should try limping in with any two cards that remotely connected and try to stack a fish if I got lucky and hit something big. This was a terrible idea. I got lucky with the strategy early on but that luck would run out pretty quickly. Soon I hit session after demoralizing session of pure losing poker. Who would have thought that loose passive is a losing strategy? I dropped from $30 down to a low of $18. Only when I started playing more TAGish poker did I start winning again. The last few days have been pretty big winners and I'm up to $47 (woo finally fully rolled). I'm up to playing seven tables on two monitors and I'm debating adding more. I could easily play eight tables without any overlap, but to add more I would either have to overlap tables or make the tables on my main monitor smaller than I really want. For anyone else doing the micro grind on Full Tilt, you might want to check out the Academy. I'm doing the Jennifer Harman "Sizing Up Opponents" challenge over and over since you can do each challenge up to 10x. The challenge basically completes itself through normal play unlike some of the others where you have to bet a specific size or something. The hardest part of the challenge is winning a hand preflop by reraising without a pair or an Ace. It's surprisingly hard to move people off their hands with a 3bet (people have called with some rediculous hands). I've almost got enough Academy points to buy a $26 tournament token, although I'm not really sure that will be of much use to me with my current skill level. But I figure I might as well get every bonus I can. Hopefully this wasn't too long and boring. I know $0.01/$0.02 is super exciting.
My month of poker (not including rakeback)
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ggplz Sweden. Dec 12 2009 11:15. Posts 16784 | | | |
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| if poker is dangerous to them i would rank sports betting as a Kodiak grizzly bear who smells blood after you just threw a javelin into his cub - RaiNKhAN | Last edit: 12/12/2009 11:16 |
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Sicks Macks United States. Dec 12 2009 12:51. Posts 3929 | | |
One of the better written introductions. Welcome! |
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k2o4 United States. Dec 12 2009 15:05. Posts 4803 | | |
congrats on the good start =) |
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phrenik Canada. Dec 12 2009 19:00. Posts 98 | | |
Haha, not Henrik, maybe that's why so many people call me Phrenrik. |
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