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SeanBam . Aug 17 2010 14:13. Posts 953 | | |
Well it has been about 2 weeks since I decided that I was going to try and grind online poker again like I used to do in college years ago, but this time do it for real. My roll started about 2 months ago actually, I left my job with Greenpeace and was sick of working really medial jobs for the past few years and felt no desire to go out into the job market and look for a boring $10 / hr job.
I talked to my girlfriend and I told her about poker, and my best friend vouched for me and told her that I did make a decent amount of money when we were in college playing. So, one night I went out to my friends 21st birthday and a few drinks and ran home. Immediately I put $100 on FTP to mess around with. I decided that the $100 didn't matter much to me and I would play 100NL 6-max rush. I know bad bankroll management but it's ok I was taking a shot. I ran that up in 3 hours to $400 and decided to quit and take out the $100 I originally put on.
That left me with $300 to play 10nl 6-max rush with. I started grinding a few hours a day but I had a lot of things to do with DHS and applying for community college classes and other things that I wasn't putting in great volume. I also had one of my roommates standing over my shoulder while I played asking questions which was extremely annoying and caused some absolutely terrible play. I ended up down $100 after those couple weeks.
At $200 I took that friend to the airport and he told me that he wanted $100 transfered on FTP and he would give me $100 cash. I took the offer and contemplated playing 5NL since I wasn't rolled but I took a chance and continued 10NL. So, Aug 1st I decided that every hour my girlfriend worked at subway I would play poker in starbucks right across the parking lot. I have put in about ~50K hands so far and my BR is at $497 with some rakeback coming on Friday.
So, I'm extremely excited about this, and am looking to move up to 25NL in June if a downswing doesn't occur. I have pokertracker, but I have no idea how to upload the stats and graphs on Liquidpoker because even though I am doing well, I know I have a lot of leaks that I can improve on. Especially with 3 bet calling 3 betting and 2nd and 3rd barreling.
But other than that so far so good I can't really complain. Goodluck at the tables everyone!
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Zalfor United States. Aug 17 2010 14:18. Posts 2236 | | | |
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Spicy United States. Aug 17 2010 14:27. Posts 1027 | | |
| | On August 17 2010 13:13 SeanBam wrote:
I know I have a lot of leaks that I can improve on. Especially with 3 bet calling 3 betting and 2nd and 3rd barreling.
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You can't go wrong with just playing a tight 3betting game at micros. Don't worry too much about it, you don't need to 3bet anything but premiums and don't defend 3bets from OOP. Also don't try to barrel people off of stuff, if you're betting mainly for value which you should be doing, you don't need to get people to fold out better hands |
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thumbz555 United States. Aug 17 2010 14:34. Posts 3281 | | |
Keep up the good work brotha |
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SeanBam . Aug 17 2010 14:36. Posts 953 | | |
Spicy definitely good advice. I try not to call 3 bets OOP. I just don't know whether to 3 bet JJ+ in position. I feel like I did this for awhile the first couple weeks, and I think I was getting people to fold hands I wanted them to be calling. I know that as I move up my 3bet range needs to change and I thought if I try it out at 10NL and see how it goes it might save me money before I move up. But I mean you have someone raise in EP and your on the button with AQs do you reraise here at 10nl or do you flat and play position with a premium hand?? |
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Spicy United States. Aug 17 2010 14:57. Posts 1027 | | |
| | On August 17 2010 13:36 SeanBam wrote:
Spicy definitely good advice. I try not to call 3 bets OOP. I just don't know whether to 3 bet JJ+ in position. I feel like I did this for awhile the first couple weeks, and I think I was getting people to fold hands I wanted them to be calling. I know that as I move up my 3bet range needs to change and I thought if I try it out at 10NL and see how it goes it might save me money before I move up. But I mean you have someone raise in EP and your on the button with AQs do you reraise here at 10nl or do you flat and play position with a premium hand?? |
With hands like JJ, AQs in position, it's neither wrong to 3bet or call. Deciding whether to 3bet is primarily dependent on the villains opening range and how much of that range you think he'll be defending a 3bet against. For example, is UTG raiser raising + defending hands like AT and low pocket pairs? If so, then AQ/JJ are a clear 3bet for value. However, if the original raiser is folding all worse and 4betting AK, JJ+ then there might be more value in just calling and encouraging a fish to come along in the blinds with a dominated hand.
The key to maximizing profit is to be attentive of what's going on in the environment of the game and make the best adjustments that to counter what the other players are doing |
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blog is incomplete w/o pictures of girlfriend |
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| | On August 17 2010 16:32 gawdawaful wrote:
blog is incomplete w/o pictures of girlfriend |
lol
keep up the good work. Spicy phrased things out well |
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