yes as the title says it felt like I was the new kid in school at 50nl there are some familiar faces but alot of new ones, which i'm still learning about there play styles and generaly there attitude, does one guy control his tilt better than the other guy etc.
One thing I noticed is that the plays at 50nl are alot more trappy, and loose doesnt neccesarly meen FISH as it 99% of the time does at 25nl, the play styles are more thought out and the players are alittle better, but doesnt meen there arnt any fish neither since sometimes I could be sitting down in an aquarium sometimes, so this tells me table selection is alot more important, only problem is pkr is a still relativley small site and the fish dont come on till around 3 or 5 ish.
I can handle myself with the regualrs now as well, on the first day and along the week it was pretty rough though, I lost 4 buyins quickly yes all thats $200!
There was definatley a learning curve, the betsizing is alot bigger than I was used to and it just took me awhile to get that $6 isnt a huge bet and its pretty average.
I also still thought $50 as 2 buyins but I soon got rid of that, and fixed these problems near the end of the week I made back all the 4 buyins! and 4 more
yes made $200 this week up! and got pretty settled at 50nl and I feel at home there alot more than I started, I think I will be pretty comfortable up here with betting taking a stack and loosing one aswell.
I will update this post with some good and bad hands tommorow alittle tired at the moment.
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I reached my goal today the 19th of april, I havnt updated the blog to much recently or daily like I planned but the jist of it is, that I'm playing great becuase of me looking back on hands and constantly scrutinising my play, the hands are holding and I'm getting paid, in around 6 days i've made around 250, which is very nice! I feel that I always have money at 25nl whenever I play it again now so if I have to drop down it wouldnt be terrible since i know i can beat it (however it would suck).
I think I have become a much better cash game player, than beforehand of this blog and me taking it a slight more serious, the main leak I had was knowing when to give up and knowing when not to bluff, soon as I fixed this mainly by learning alittle bit more on board textures and players traits I made alot more $ at 25nl
I'm alittle anxious of what 50nl will throw at me and getting used to the bet sizing but I heard from another player that 50nl isnt all that different from 25nl just richer fish , which of course I hope hes right, but I still think there might be a learning curve, and I cant help but have engranined thats 2 buyins of 25nl! lol which I gotta loose pretty quickly and just realise its a buyin, so hope I do well today on my first grind of 50nl will tell you all what happens, I wont give myself a goal yet since i dont wanna pressurise myself to much I think I will seta goal another day when I feel alittle more comfortable, todays goal is get used to it!
Shuffle up and DEAL!
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Yes today I'm pretty happy about how I played, I made around 4 buyins and its great to see I made back what I lost and consiously made sure I was Grinding my bankroll rather than choosing spots to gamble in, and I feel I'm getting someware.
I corrected alot of mistakes so far this month, and it's thanks to the loosing sessions and this blog to serve as a reminder, however I also noticed that I'm getting bluffed alot more than usual this month, sometimes the bluffs are almost so crazy its like watching a suicide bomber going to the felt with nothing.
I've lost around 2 or 3 big hands like this, just becuase of terrible boards and my reclutants to gamble on some hands, however I've also won 3 pots by catching bluffers out so I guess I welcome it since I've made alot more than I lost from gamblers so............ BRING ON THE GAMBLERS! I will catchem out!!!!
I'm playing pretty dam well enough were I'm not gambling and they are when they make a big move on me so I guess I should welcome gamblers since there easy money I guess. (hate to sound like a hellmuth clone but the plays are shockin somtimes :p )
Check out these hands.
This hand was pretty hard to laydown I had no reads on villain and when I bet hard on the turn and get re raised I think most the time I'm mostly beaten by an unknown but no he bluffed me big time
First off I usally have a good read on players and what there capable of but this player in particular was just almost determined to bluff me no matter what at all costs lol, I didnt think he would be bluffing this huge again after the other hand.
This is the suicide bomber I was mainly talkiing about. I just cant see how he can continue to bluff me after I called his re raise on the flop and bet massive on turn the river J of hearts if the worst card in the deck since every draw gets there anbd so does his hand range I put him on maybe a flush maybe a straight draw, I could even be beaten by a set here, was a sick hand he had Q4! nothing
if that river never came I think I was calling, he got very lucky.
As you can see I had two massive bluffs from the same guy but the spots were so difficult I would think any 1 would find it hard to hit call button in those spots.
However I did get back at some other filthy blufffers!!! muhahahaha
I think I should have led out on this flop regardless but check calling isnt to bad. Specialy since I thought he was bluffing here after watching his play and having a read on him, but i tryed not to go all in since I was 70% he didnt have it.
Here is another hand where the play is beyond retarded by the player really, I knew the river bet was suspect since I thought he would ship more likley if he had flush and I also knew the player from a past game and seen he had a tendency to bluff.
And he tryed bluffing me again straight after 2 hands later...LOL
although really I shoulda re raised the turn all in since he coulda been drawing and since I thought I was already ahead I shoulda shipped...my bad lol
and just one more for the extra LOL.....so much is wrong with this LMFAO
But ended the day up and looking good!
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I've lost around 4 buyins a day before today and I felt pretty shitty, but I realised later on that 2 were due to bad play and the other 2 was coolers and I can only take it on the chin and move on, I'll get it back and I have to keep a positive attitude I guess.
However today was crazy and I started at around 12pm and lost 2 buyins pretty sharpish, one was due to terrible play by me not realising the set and not having dispiline to fold the aces, and the other was a cooler and I later had a small loss around 60 down so far . So after comming off a loss this wasnt a great start of getting back on my feet.
I then said that no matter what I'm gunna play through my beats and as long as I felt I was playing correctly and I wasnt tilting or letting it controll my play and I wouldn't stop until I was even or slightly up, just to make myself realise that I'm better than these mistakes I'm making and if I play long enough I would be even or up alittle if I played enough hands. You have to rember a day before i took a 4 buyin loss and I thought it would be bad on my mental attitude if i took another loss like that again.
(this is said to be bad I guess but why should I quit for a day if I felt i was playing right)
It didnt ment I played scared, I chose spots and played through some horrousious bad beats and in the end after 2000 hands in one session ended 5 up LOL but it was more about me knowing I could play better than most on the table and me trying to prove it to myself and I did make back and alittle more of what i lost, comming back after a big loss knowing u played ur best and achieved what u wanted feels great hopefully I can turn the next few days in to more profit and make back the 4 buyin loss day which has threw me off schduele, but I feel stronger for the loss, so just to round off my session with two videos that are cheesy as hell! although the rocky vid is nice for poker bad beats lol
and also remember! (time for some 80s cheese!)
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Today was really my first 'True' grind this month I played around 1000 hands, in my house this time, and had mixed views on my session, firstly me starting my grind on a monday is harder anyways since the fish dont seem to be there as much as friday through sunday.
And since I started a 2pm or 3pm I was up against other regualrs and I usually find sometimes these guys are cash cows if u play them right since they play so abc I was cbetting nearly every hand and taking it down on the flop or turn.
These are all loosing hands I'm posting but I think its great for me to look at and learn from, and maybe you to, I did win alot of other pots bringing me back up eventually but it coulda been alot more if I avoided these mistakes.
I got it up quickly doing this to around $20 then I think I started playing way to loose for example this 67 suited hand preflop is'nt bad but on the flop cbetting a board like that is never good and double barreling on the turn was pretty disgusting play by me. that was my first medium loss of $7 which should have been avoided if I played better. Hand 1
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hand 2
I made one very big mistake which cost me a buyin with queens, which on second glance I should have avoided.
The Raise pre and on flop is fine and maybe calling the re raise from tlp is fine also since her vp was wide enough where she would be raising aj there as well, howver i shoulda dhut down when to all ins were declared before i acted since what am i really beating here after a re raise a shove and a call of a shove i should be dropping this hand, its very likley at least one of these players have a set or twopair and could saved a buyin here.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hand 3
This was just a tricky spot for me where I felt I had to call the flop re min raise, I bet out here to try and take pot control and eitehr add value to my hand if I do hit my flush or king or bluff them off the pot, but after the re min raise I was expecting over pairs and thought thats what she was defending queens and low hope fully since I hit my king on th turn with a flush draw or the chance to hit another k or j the turn bet is big and here i just find it ver y hard to fold and I call once more hoping to hit my draws since its obvious she has a big hand here and the pot is stacking up on the river it blanks and she bets 4.50 a bril value bet really but I have to call becuase she could still have qq or jj and the pot alone is now like 25 but this hand I'm not to sure on I think I shoulda been getting 2 to 1 on my money to make this play which I wasnt, however i found it hard to beleive that she had a 5 here after the raise preflop i was putting her on a pair so i was thinking 5's quads and aces or kings at worse.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hand 4
This hand wasnt badly played at all really, but its just a tuff spot, it starts off pretty standard I get kq near the button I raise it I get called by some one in position. I flop a queen and I cbet $2 thats pretty standard I get called so now I'm thinking okay time for some information about his hand so I bet $4 on the turn to either try and stop a flush draw or to see if he ships, I know he probably has over pair ot two pair or better if he calls maybe he might have the flush draw and is getting stubborn or he has AQ
The river comes the ace making two outs the ace and queen making more unlikley he has aq and is maybe on a jqs or a flush draw and missed so when I check to him and he ships I feel I have to call unfortuantley he has the hand but, I cant really see much of the mistake I made here since he was a pretty loose player I think it was just unlucky and I think in the long term I would be winnign this pot.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hand 5
In this hand I got to loose and I think I made a mistake by calling the re raise the turn isnt a bad bet to try and win the pot but on the flop I should have given it up really, he did smooth call ak but after I raise and he re raises he most likley has it since this guy is a pretty tight player and i dont think he would re raise a cbet when i raised preflop with nothing , not his style wot so ever so bad play by me, nice try on the turn I guess though.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hand 6
This hand I'm not sure is bad again maybe the call on the flop isnt terrible since the player with 4's is agressive I knew at the time he would make some sort of play on this hand and I figured if he didnt have anything after bravepitt shipped I thought the pot is big enough for me to make this call on the flop and see the turn and pray that he checks it on the turn or makes a smaller bet making it okay for me to call he doesnt and makes a massive bet which I think for what his hand ended up being was pretty bad for him, checking the turn woulda been great for him if I hit my flush i woulda shipped all day, but I make a disiplined fold on the turn. not a bad play but just a pot where it was kinda intresting
some nice spots there, hope I learned from it.
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Tonight I was over my brothers, and it went badly and lost a buyin, I seem to get impatient and play differntly in some spots, like I'm to eager to get the win quicker and I gamble alot more which is pretty bad, I shouldnt really play tomuch down here since everytime I do it seems to go BADLY lol but, I think its more a lesson of self control to be more patient when there is eyes over my shoulder also its the fact I probably dont wanna unconsiously look like I'm getting pushed around in a pot. Its not terrible but something I really need to correct I'm still up a buyin on the 2nd night I played but I really have to
A) either not play over here unless I know I'm gunna play right
or
B)Learn some self control (easier said than done!)
only around 300 hands but should have stayed patient see how tommorow goes!
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I'm pretty happy with my result tonight, I made some pretty big folds, and stole some pots that wasn't mine and I had perfect timing tonight.
Pushing me up 50 towards my goal I played around 200 hands not a long grind at all but its getting late!
Friday nights is always a night of suprises, the play standard is just ridiclous at 25nl and i'm sure upwards as well, the average vp is like at least 40 to 90 making it the best night in poker (shame I was in work all day!!)
but lets go through some intresting hands I was in. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HAND ONE:
In this hand I just sat down on the table and posted, I checked it preflop and the flop I land a seemingly large monster, I bet 25 cents hoping to induce a re raise from a queen or flush draw and also just to see where I was.
Everyone just flats, I was ment to make a pot sized be here on the turn but misclcked and checked it, the river I try and make up the value I missed on the turn by bettign $4 hoping a queen would call, instead I was re raised MASSIVE now when i see this raise i just thought what am I beating here really? kq,jj, or a complete bluff also my kicker is pretty bad although I dont think he has an ace here since he would have shown more agression on flop an turn the only hand I can think of is a set on the turn or river, the player is very tight I have played alot with him in the past and he shows me alot of respect usually, so when I see this I know I'm beaten and I fold, he said later on he had the boat.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HAND TWO:
This hand was very nice for me the hand plays its self really but I think this player has seen me bluff him in the past and I showed it to him a few times so I think after all the re raises and me shoving he just thought I was full of it, also trip kings is hard to fold in that spot I would probably have gone bust on that hand also but his slow play bit him on the ass there alittle, although to think of it i was never folding there unless the raise was like $2 where I get no odds to call.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HAND THREE:
This table was just a fish tank, and there was alot of funky raises and calls so I decided that the first fish who intially raised who had like a 70 vpip was more than likley behind my ajs on the button, and the other 2 callers are even worse one being 90 vp and the otehr is 75ish and i've seen them call raises with k6o so I make a a beefy raise, they all call building value with my hand the pot is now pretty big and the intial raise only bets $1 in to a $11 pot one folds one calls so I decide to bet $5 here just so that no draws get there since I really think I'm ahead here, intial raiser calls , other folds, he checks the turn so I think maybe hes on a draw to the flush or a weak ace so I bet 5 again he then timebanks for a while and shoves, at this point I feel pretty strong here and make the call, and was very happy about how much value I got from the fish.
so overall I was pretty spot on tonight, hopefully I can keep this up.
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Hey thought I'd put this up as for someware to vent my poker thoughts, also just to motivate myself to try certain goals every month which you could also follow me on as aswell.
I've currently been playing poker for around 3 years - The first one and a half years I was a loosing player at sng strictly then I decided to follow bankroll management, starting with less than $20 and turned it in to $500 just grinding the microstakes.
Since then I've been mainly focusing on microstakes cash games for 1 and a half years and have had great results but a stagnant bankroll due to unforseen real life circumstances that I needed money for, but I've built around $700 in cash game at 25nl as a whole so far.
And i can onestly say I havnt spent more than $20 on depositing since I started winning and using bankroll management.
However heres the jist of this whole blog, I have a roll that is near 50 nl and i need around 250 more to play 50 nl so the challenge is for the month of april I must make 250 and make it to 50nl! I will be updating my post with the highs and lows of my day good or bad - you'll here it!
Lets kick it off with -
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