Poker Update lol

I got to the new software, which I really struggled with. And I was just in time for a raked hand race. I wanted to compete in that, so I played 8 - 10 tables (max on the site is 10).

In hindsight maybe not best approach, since I've not played NL in a year or so, and when I did play then, I didn't play that much, and wasn't particularly crisp/good.

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I think I fixed most of my big leaks. I play WAY to aggro, my normal game a few years ago was 100nl and 200nl. And I 3b quite a bit, also in pos. I bluffed rivers a bit too much. I also made a bit of bluffs when I had them on 3rd pair, 2nd pair, and I raged quite a bit getting called.

Also spewed a bit by 3b, and firing, sometimes multiple barrels. Other than that I felt I just ran quite bad. And was crushing it. But that might be bias.

I did get 2nd place in the hand race, for 200e, and I raked some, so even though it looks atrocious, it didn't go too bad lol. I also learned the software more, cut down on 3b oop, and stopped bluffing. And I felt it went much, much better.

Oh, and I spent a shit ton of time reviewing sessions, studying, watching video's, taking notes so forth. So felt I was getting much better, result just didn't show it yet.

My first stab at 20nl didn't go well, I ran 100e under EV, and I had to drop down to 10nl, for a few bi, but the 2nd stab went well, and after that I kept winning, and I felt comfortable, and it went quite quickly up to to 1000e roll, I hadn't set anything in stone yet. But in my head I wanted to take small stabs at 50nl, somewhere around over 1000e'ish.

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So went a lot better here, but I think it's mostly me getting better. By now the first month is over, and this is start of December, maybe 1 week into december or so.

I cut out 3b oop, unless they had high fold to 3b lol. I got better at c-betting, I upped it up a notch, to around 70% most sessions. I also got a little insipired at the longple vod, and I started stealing absurd amount (absurd for me lol). I still didn't open enough CO perhaps, but I had session where I had opened 78% of buttons etc, and that felt nice. My SB steal vs BB was also much, much higher.

Also stopped spewing in 3b pots, and I cut down bluffing dramatically, to almost non existant. + I kept studying a lot. Oh, and I also cut down to 5 - 8 tables, never 9 or 10, since that makes me go into autopilot, clicking buttons way to fast, stressing, feeling a little flustered and "unsure" on my reads, table dynamics n such.

Auau, I think I've had 5 or 6 shots so far, at one point my roll was at 1800e, but I had a few brutal sessions which almost destroyed me lol. At one point I had to take 2 day break, since I went on tilt lol.

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Here are the hands that put me on tilt lol:


http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/995899
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2 hands later, vs same guy

http://www.liquidpoker.net/mytlnet/myhand.php?view=item&id=995900

And at the same time on another table

http://www.liquidpoker.net/mytlnet/myhand.php?view=item&id=995902

I know it's pretty standard and is to be expected here and there, but in the middle of a shot, where you're kind of under rolled, it buuurns lol.

But on a side note, the guy was pretty awesome lol. He stacked a few other regulars and wrote in chat we were all fishes, and he was going to 400nl, to see if he could find some better competition.

Whole table spammed NoooooooOoOoOooo, when he left xD

I think he was around 95/49, and hated when you bet or raised him, he'd usually raise back or shove. yay lol.


But that being said, I think I play worse on 50nl than I do on 20nl, I felt I have done some bad calls vs regulars, and feel a little uneasy, like I sometimes want to "save" money, since I know I'm shotting. So that's not good. (I also think Talented Tom scolded me on a few occasions on some of the hands, he wasn't all too happy about some of my plays u c).

Let me see if I can quote him right:

"This is beyond terrible, In this hand I can't tell if it's really you or Doc.Lemon playing the hand". (ouuchhh).


And when I have reviewd hands, the biggest mistakes have been on 50nl.
Not feeling I've been sucking lol, but could be a lot better xD

I've been doing something around 60% play, and 40% study. In the last 2-3 months I think I have maybe studied 200 hours or so. Which is more than I ever have in poker I think.

I know the results ain't all that, and some of you highroller, ballers, pussylickers, brawlers and crazy ppl might lol a bit. But pffth. At least I'm trying damnit xD lol

I've always struggled with Poker since it's not as fun as gaming is, I get such a high when gaming, think it's dopamine rushes, constant small rewards, and you don't have to think as mentally hard (when learning at least).

So I've been trying to go systematically about it. I have this nifty whiteboard I use to help me (which u can see in this picture right here:

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I've watched a lot of Video's. Some 45 - 60 minutes ones, from training sites, and some shorter.

In total, if I had to guess, maybe around 90 or so.

I started with these are micro's:
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(Tried linking the playlist I made, he has hundreds of movies, but I went through all the "concept/theory". Video's and made a playlist with just them (he has 22 of them, for NL), and I watched through them a couple of times + and I wrote some notes and shit).


Next I studied through the "Double your 6max Winrate video's, some Gekko guy on 2+2, has some huge coaching thread about it being all sick n stuff. So thought might be a good place to start after I was done with all the micro shit xD

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Ohh, also had a few pages of Longple xD
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Here's what I thought was all my notebooks on poker from these last few months:
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But then I remember I had a big one, just for HEM/Hud shit, trying to get better at that stuff as well. I went on to that after I was done with the 6max course. This has been the most difficult to understand, lots of numbers n stuff:
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Got maybe 50 pages or so on how to set up hud, how to use it, how to go through your sessions, pop ups, stuff like that.

So the general idea is to use stats of situations that comes up the most frequent. I've tinkered a lot with how it looks visually. And I've kept adding more and more stats as I got used to them. When I added a stat I would make it purple, always, and just add 1 at the time, and when I got used to it, I'd add another one.

I think this is my limit, since I'm a little worried I might have too many, but I think this number is fine. I use 17 or so.

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The top line is Preflop, so I thought I'd be smart to have VPIP, PFR, STEAL and Limp Call there.

The second line is 3B and Fold to 3B. I have IP and OOP on the popups, and I have 4B and Fold to 4B on the popups.

The grey text is aggression on each street. Wasn't sure where to put them, so put them there.

The 3rd line is Cbet/fold Cbet and Raise flop and donk bet

And last line is Hands, how much the BB and SB folds to steal, and WTS when they saw the flop.


I also color coded it with ranges. So in the example I set up, on Limp call, the super cally station fishes who calls a lot calls between 60% - 90% when we isolate them. And the more timid, only play their 2 cards fishes usually folds most of the time when we isolate. (Also the fishes who fold a lot, have a lot lower WTS and a lot higher Fold to c,bet).

I have this red, white, green system on most stats. On some I have teal, when something is exploitable, either too low or too high it goes teal. The reason for this is to not have everytihng mashed together. I have kept tinkering with it an awful lot, I even sat through all the different text types to find one that I felt was most soothing at the tables.

Yay

Here's a link to Titties n stuff http://spets1.liquidpoker.net/