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Friday, 3 September 2010
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
Start of a new month and Back on my game
25nl and wrestling my ego
Well I've played well today and it made me $65 up
Its nice to be winning again, I've basically made myself relearn the back to basics stratergy and then added in little crevets of my 50nl game to add to 25nl and its working very well, and its always important to keep the basics in mind at any stake, sometimes at 50nl I found myself so wrapped up in mind games I sometimes pushed aside the basics, I think it was a mistake to do so, some players just play on that level of thiking at any stake.
Theres plenty of new players at 25nl at the moment and this is great since they dont know my style to well, and to be honest there just new fish to the game and I dont wanna let my ego get in front of me here but there play is predicatble and terrible to say the least, but I desperatley wanna play 50nl to at least play semi good players, its easy money and I shouldn't mind picking it up.
My ego should be the last thing on my mind and keeping it in the back of mind keeps my bankroll in the Black. Its just I miss the challenge of playing other good players thinking further than ''I have a hand and I dont know what he has but I'll call'' mindset u see alot of 25nl players have. Now not all players are like this there is some very good players at 25nl, but 50nl I felt I learnt alot more.
Although its important to remember that poker is all about making as much money as you possibly can without hurting yourself by loosing to much when ur ego gets in the way. This is a good lesson for me basically: screw ego get money, its whats poker is about.
Multi tabling
I was also thinking of adding more than 4 tables in to my games and get as many hands in as possible my only problem with this is that My mind boggles at 4 nevermind anything else. But I think it will increase my winrate and lower varaince, however I might just try and used to 4 for the time being, I'm used to playin 3 tables now very well and keeping track of every one so 4 is the next milestone of constant play minmum, hopefully I will start 6 tabling in the future mind
(if pkr has enough tables open!) and gets some realy hands per hour in.
So what about a goal?
So with that said I think within maybe a month I could be back at 50nl I would think maybe 2 weeks could be achievable but due to the fact I'm working alot more now one month seems alittle optimistic, but screw it thats the goal for the month getting back at 50nl $300 is needed.
So shuffle up and deal pkr!
Here is some great sites to try out:
Well I've played well today and it made me $65 up
Its nice to be winning again, I've basically made myself relearn the back to basics stratergy and then added in little crevets of my 50nl game to add to 25nl and its working very well, and its always important to keep the basics in mind at any stake, sometimes at 50nl I found myself so wrapped up in mind games I sometimes pushed aside the basics, I think it was a mistake to do so, some players just play on that level of thiking at any stake.
Theres plenty of new players at 25nl at the moment and this is great since they dont know my style to well, and to be honest there just new fish to the game and I dont wanna let my ego get in front of me here but there play is predicatble and terrible to say the least, but I desperatley wanna play 50nl to at least play semi good players, its easy money and I shouldn't mind picking it up.
My ego should be the last thing on my mind and keeping it in the back of mind keeps my bankroll in the Black. Its just I miss the challenge of playing other good players thinking further than ''I have a hand and I dont know what he has but I'll call'' mindset u see alot of 25nl players have. Now not all players are like this there is some very good players at 25nl, but 50nl I felt I learnt alot more.
Although its important to remember that poker is all about making as much money as you possibly can without hurting yourself by loosing to much when ur ego gets in the way. This is a good lesson for me basically: screw ego get money, its whats poker is about.
Multi tabling
I was also thinking of adding more than 4 tables in to my games and get as many hands in as possible my only problem with this is that My mind boggles at 4 nevermind anything else. But I think it will increase my winrate and lower varaince, however I might just try and used to 4 for the time being, I'm used to playin 3 tables now very well and keeping track of every one so 4 is the next milestone of constant play minmum, hopefully I will start 6 tabling in the future mind
(if pkr has enough tables open!) and gets some realy hands per hour in.
So what about a goal?
So with that said I think within maybe a month I could be back at 50nl I would think maybe 2 weeks could be achievable but due to the fact I'm working alot more now one month seems alittle optimistic, but screw it thats the goal for the month getting back at 50nl $300 is needed.
So shuffle up and deal pkr!
Here is some great sites to try out:
- Learn poker at DragtheBar for 7 days free! click here
- PKR is a cool 3D poker site, also super soft! PKR Poker
Thursday, 26 August 2010
Back to basics 25nl AND THIS BLOG!
*UPDATED EDIT*
I'm deciding to post alot more than usual, I want to try and make it a daily thing everytime I play, it helps my game alot and its nice to look back on these blog entries.
Todays Grind:
Well so far early morning today and part of yesterday I started at around 9pm didnt stop till 2am so 6 hour session I stuck with 3 tables and then cut down to 2 when I felt my mind/interest slipping and for the time being still trying to get used to the pkr v2.0 interface.
It didn't really go well I was down $50 for the session but it was mainly to blame for suckouts and just weird plays I forgot people do make at 25nl. I also noticed the later it got mainly around midnight there was plenty of fish, but with these type of agressive fish you do need a hand and the times I got one it got sucked out on or i just didnt get to many, It's nothing new and is pretty much standard as poker goes.
*EDIT* Just finished the session for the day I fit in an extra 3 hours when I finished all my errands for the day and I'm only $25 down...its not much but it all adds up! 1 BUYIN loss day meh I've had 150 down days at times so this doesnt really touch me/bother me lol
Here is a few hands of interest that shaped todays grind:
Hand 1
Well this is the first hand I tangled with this guy with, he played very aggressivley from what I seen from him,so preflop flat called because i didnt want to build a massive pot with this guy on the flop I hit, and now after I re raise his big bet I wanted him to feel he should push allin with a hand like a10, k10, j10 and all flush draws since he commited $3 on flop. I wanted him to hanghimself but with aces the hand played its self shame about the runner draw mind.
Hand 2
This hand I feel I should've gotten away from, sure hes an aggro donk but he did something weird preflop with the 1.30 raise it definatley ment he had a big hand also
and when he instant ships the flop I gotta figure set or overs here every time, sure he might have a9s or some other crap but its more times likley he has jacks beaten
Hand 3
Just not ever folding in this spot versus a high vpip player 60-70%
Hand 4
Low stacked high vpip once again, not folding.
Hand 5
Well this hand just confuses me alittle I think I played it alright but could've played it better by betting the turn deffinatley, however the reason at the time I never made that play was becuase I thought he maybe had a set or two pair, but this is irrational fear and on the turn I should be betting there knowing how bad the player is (70+vpip spazzy player)although even if I did bet turn he was alaways calling maybe even raising which would have put me in a weird spot definatley, Maybe the check was alright for pot controll and playing it easy but the river seemed like a block bet to me at the time I really didnt think he had a random 6 making trips I thought busted flush draw or kq
Hand 6
This hand was kinda intresting I bet big on flop and he calls making me think maybe flush draw maybe he has an ace, turn comes ace but the flush I put him on also just gets there he checks I check to see what river action he takes he checks again telling me that most the time he doesnt have the flush since it was his last street of value so now I can assume he has a weaker ace or he carried on stupidly with jack x ...maybe hard to tell what he had since he doesnt call river so maybe not ace more likley jack thinking I was on a bluff.
now to finish, bad session but with alot of bad situations its only natural
a quote that could be used for poker
'when life hands you lemons.....say fuck the lemons and bail'
See what tommorow or maybe today later on brings...yea
and lets round it up with a youtube vid of a guy from the projects who's sister nearly got raped serious topic eh?, but the funny way he expalined it got youtube people creative...then they came out with this pretty funny autotune
(check out the posters other vids tons of autotune stuff...hillarious)
Here is some great sites to try out:
I'm deciding to post alot more than usual, I want to try and make it a daily thing everytime I play, it helps my game alot and its nice to look back on these blog entries.
Todays Grind:
Well so far early morning today and part of yesterday I started at around 9pm didnt stop till 2am so 6 hour session I stuck with 3 tables and then cut down to 2 when I felt my mind/interest slipping and for the time being still trying to get used to the pkr v2.0 interface.
It didn't really go well I was down $50 for the session but it was mainly to blame for suckouts and just weird plays I forgot people do make at 25nl. I also noticed the later it got mainly around midnight there was plenty of fish, but with these type of agressive fish you do need a hand and the times I got one it got sucked out on or i just didnt get to many, It's nothing new and is pretty much standard as poker goes.
*EDIT* Just finished the session for the day I fit in an extra 3 hours when I finished all my errands for the day and I'm only $25 down...its not much but it all adds up! 1 BUYIN loss day meh I've had 150 down days at times so this doesnt really touch me/bother me lol
Here is a few hands of interest that shaped todays grind:
Hand 1
Well this is the first hand I tangled with this guy with, he played very aggressivley from what I seen from him,so preflop flat called because i didnt want to build a massive pot with this guy on the flop I hit, and now after I re raise his big bet I wanted him to feel he should push allin with a hand like a10, k10, j10 and all flush draws since he commited $3 on flop. I wanted him to hanghimself but with aces the hand played its self shame about the runner draw mind.
Hand 2
This hand I feel I should've gotten away from, sure hes an aggro donk but he did something weird preflop with the 1.30 raise it definatley ment he had a big hand also
and when he instant ships the flop I gotta figure set or overs here every time, sure he might have a9s or some other crap but its more times likley he has jacks beaten
Hand 3
Just not ever folding in this spot versus a high vpip player 60-70%
Hand 4
Low stacked high vpip once again, not folding.
Hand 5
Well this hand just confuses me alittle I think I played it alright but could've played it better by betting the turn deffinatley, however the reason at the time I never made that play was becuase I thought he maybe had a set or two pair, but this is irrational fear and on the turn I should be betting there knowing how bad the player is (70+vpip spazzy player)although even if I did bet turn he was alaways calling maybe even raising which would have put me in a weird spot definatley, Maybe the check was alright for pot controll and playing it easy but the river seemed like a block bet to me at the time I really didnt think he had a random 6 making trips I thought busted flush draw or kq
Hand 6
This hand was kinda intresting I bet big on flop and he calls making me think maybe flush draw maybe he has an ace, turn comes ace but the flush I put him on also just gets there he checks I check to see what river action he takes he checks again telling me that most the time he doesnt have the flush since it was his last street of value so now I can assume he has a weaker ace or he carried on stupidly with jack x ...maybe hard to tell what he had since he doesnt call river so maybe not ace more likley jack thinking I was on a bluff.
now to finish, bad session but with alot of bad situations its only natural
a quote that could be used for poker
'when life hands you lemons.....say fuck the lemons and bail'
See what tommorow or maybe today later on brings...yea
and lets round it up with a youtube vid of a guy from the projects who's sister nearly got raped serious topic eh?, but the funny way he expalined it got youtube people creative...then they came out with this pretty funny autotune
(check out the posters other vids tons of autotune stuff...hillarious)
Here is some great sites to try out:
- Learn poker at DragtheBar for 7 days free! click here
- PKR is a cool 3D poker site, also super soft! PKR Poker
Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Poker depression: Just got out of it, had to take a break, but i'm back
Well its been a while since I played nevermind updated this, but its been due to the fact I needed a break from poker, and I guess a break to sort my life out.
its been a while since I updated this so here is the bad news firstly
*I've dropped down from 50nl to 25nl:
this was a hard pill to swallow as you can imagine.
It wasnt due to the fact I couldnt beat the game, since I was beating it regulary and making a decent amount. The problem was, around the time I moved to 50nl I had a fianancial issue with my rent, it went up slightly and my real job wasnt even paying the full amount. So poker was needed to pay part of the rent and then I had to pay myself living costs so I had to use poker every month I had to give myself at least living costs on top of my rent. First month this was easy, since I already did well in my first month of 50nl so I withdrew a decent amount and just made a point of keeping an extra $500 on top of my bankroll I could use to cushion.
On Hindsight this is were my problems started I made it so that my bankroll couldnt grow and became more succeptable to a downswing becuase of it, after adding up all I made I could have moved up to 100nl very comfortably rolled right now, but bills. And my relecutance to do overtime in work which I now realise would have been the most +Ev decession for my bankroll since it could have just kept growing un hindered, however being part time employed, and the soul crushing job that it is I chose poker :)
it was around the 3rd month I started getting in to trouble I withdrew a fair amount again but this time I had to take money off my cushion just to pay the minimum living costs. And after that I had a very bad run in halfway to month 4 I lost 600 it was bad play and bad luck combined which is the most fatal combination for a bankroll. It put me in a very bad situation being rent was comming up and my bankroll for 50nl was average 20buyin...I dont like average buyins it adds stress on top of what I was already doing. But I now had a poker decission away from the table, If I continued to play 50nl I could've seriously damaged my bankroll if I downswinged more and made the process of playing 50nl alot harder and getting back up to 50nl was also a concenern if i lost 10 buyins for example.
So I bit the bullet and said I gotta move down.
I always remember an article I read saying that your never a 50nl player or 100nl player...your a poker player and you have to move down or up according to you as a poker player thinks is the best option, I seen this as my best option since in a month i could be back at 50nl cracking heads again rather than risking more of my roll to do so.
But this puts me in a real life problem.... so I decided to do some more soul crushing work overtime, but in the middle of this I realised how stupid i was to try and go pretty much pro with such a low bankroll and also realising i played bad , put me in this spot wasnt a help neither. I decided that poker was something i wanted to do still after having a taste for it isnt glamarous at all and its STRESSFULL but...i'm kinda sick and I enjoy the ups and downs in one way.
I eventually will turn pro however, I have to sort my mind out first, I cant be worrying about bills and money, poker money and real life should never interjecht. unless ur playing high enough and have the skill and bankroll to support it. So this meens I'm gunna do a course in a subject i wouldnt mind working in, it should take less than a year to be earning decent amount of money in a job i wouldnt mind doing, but doing this I think is a smart option, if i have decent money it meens i can play higher games and steadily improve my skill with 1 on 1 coaching, also its nice to have that to fall back on.
for the time being slight soul crushing overtime but you will probably see more of me on the tables soon, growing my bankroll...not withdrawing it!!
I've only recently got my head around playing again since I've been working alot and had alot on my mind with poker. This is were my depression came in the feeling of failure, however I learnt more from my failure than I have of my success in poker I came back playing recently to get back on my feet, and I realised that its not the end of the world and 50nl isnt far away from playin again I know I'm a winning player at 25nl with very good winrate so it shouldnt be a problem when I reach 50nl I should rocket up since I wont be withdrawing.
seeing how serious I got in this post here is something to light it up some
And also a real amazing youtube vid I came across I just had to share.
(dont usually post this sorta thing but why not?), check it out
guy is talented!
Here is some great sites to try out:
its been a while since I updated this so here is the bad news firstly
*I've dropped down from 50nl to 25nl:
this was a hard pill to swallow as you can imagine.
It wasnt due to the fact I couldnt beat the game, since I was beating it regulary and making a decent amount. The problem was, around the time I moved to 50nl I had a fianancial issue with my rent, it went up slightly and my real job wasnt even paying the full amount. So poker was needed to pay part of the rent and then I had to pay myself living costs so I had to use poker every month I had to give myself at least living costs on top of my rent. First month this was easy, since I already did well in my first month of 50nl so I withdrew a decent amount and just made a point of keeping an extra $500 on top of my bankroll I could use to cushion.
On Hindsight this is were my problems started I made it so that my bankroll couldnt grow and became more succeptable to a downswing becuase of it, after adding up all I made I could have moved up to 100nl very comfortably rolled right now, but bills. And my relecutance to do overtime in work which I now realise would have been the most +Ev decession for my bankroll since it could have just kept growing un hindered, however being part time employed, and the soul crushing job that it is I chose poker :)
it was around the 3rd month I started getting in to trouble I withdrew a fair amount again but this time I had to take money off my cushion just to pay the minimum living costs. And after that I had a very bad run in halfway to month 4 I lost 600 it was bad play and bad luck combined which is the most fatal combination for a bankroll. It put me in a very bad situation being rent was comming up and my bankroll for 50nl was average 20buyin...I dont like average buyins it adds stress on top of what I was already doing. But I now had a poker decission away from the table, If I continued to play 50nl I could've seriously damaged my bankroll if I downswinged more and made the process of playing 50nl alot harder and getting back up to 50nl was also a concenern if i lost 10 buyins for example.
So I bit the bullet and said I gotta move down.
I always remember an article I read saying that your never a 50nl player or 100nl player...your a poker player and you have to move down or up according to you as a poker player thinks is the best option, I seen this as my best option since in a month i could be back at 50nl cracking heads again rather than risking more of my roll to do so.
But this puts me in a real life problem.... so I decided to do some more soul crushing work overtime, but in the middle of this I realised how stupid i was to try and go pretty much pro with such a low bankroll and also realising i played bad , put me in this spot wasnt a help neither. I decided that poker was something i wanted to do still after having a taste for it isnt glamarous at all and its STRESSFULL but...i'm kinda sick and I enjoy the ups and downs in one way.
I eventually will turn pro however, I have to sort my mind out first, I cant be worrying about bills and money, poker money and real life should never interjecht. unless ur playing high enough and have the skill and bankroll to support it. So this meens I'm gunna do a course in a subject i wouldnt mind working in, it should take less than a year to be earning decent amount of money in a job i wouldnt mind doing, but doing this I think is a smart option, if i have decent money it meens i can play higher games and steadily improve my skill with 1 on 1 coaching, also its nice to have that to fall back on.
for the time being slight soul crushing overtime but you will probably see more of me on the tables soon, growing my bankroll...not withdrawing it!!
I've only recently got my head around playing again since I've been working alot and had alot on my mind with poker. This is were my depression came in the feeling of failure, however I learnt more from my failure than I have of my success in poker I came back playing recently to get back on my feet, and I realised that its not the end of the world and 50nl isnt far away from playin again I know I'm a winning player at 25nl with very good winrate so it shouldnt be a problem when I reach 50nl I should rocket up since I wont be withdrawing.
seeing how serious I got in this post here is something to light it up some
And also a real amazing youtube vid I came across I just had to share.
(dont usually post this sorta thing but why not?), check it out
guy is talented!
Here is some great sites to try out:
- Learn poker at DragtheBar for 7 days free! click here
- PKR is a cool 3D poker site, also super soft! PKR Poker
Thursday, 3 June 2010
Poker Downswing - 'You gotta be willing to take the hits.....'
Once again I havnt posted in a long time, however when you run bad and you finish the day feeling like shit the last thing you wanna do is tell everyone else your feeling like shit or shaken up about the constant barrage of beats your taking.
Even more so since it can be used as a strategic advantage on the table, and I know alot if not all my readers come from people I've met on the table. And even though there is a certain comarade ship with fellow grinders I know personally if I had any sort of information on a player/friend on a table I would try to ruin you and I expect no differnt from other friends/players on the table, since it's just a war at the table.
with that said its been a while since I was runnin bad really and I'm now running normally and confident in my game again so posting this I feel will not effect my game with players I meet.
after my last post I had the big goal to meet 1500, however after posting that i didnt go up for about a week in fact I went down , alot more than I ever been in my poker life
this maybe due to the fact this was my first real downswing at 50nl aswell but In my first week I dropped around 450 down i had one or two day were I lost 200 in a day, and it was stuff like:
set over set, kings v aces, lower flush v higher flush and straight versus the nut straight. Just really unavoidable stuff, and I avoided alot more hands really that coulda made me loose alot more. During this period In the second week I found it hard to motivate myself to play poker I didnt play 1k hands a day like usual.
I just played some call of duty, and watched some vids as a breather to take my mind off poker.(although it just kept banging in the back of my mind, wtf you doing, this aint achieving anything go on and play!)
so I would end up playing like 400 hands a day anyways I just kept reviewing my hands looking for spots where I coulda played better and I looked at previous session in which I did well to motivate myself to play and to remind myself I'm a good player. I tryed to keep positive attitude to it all, I'm rolled pretty healthy at the moment so I think this helped alot psychologicaly, but this vid pretty much sums up that week of complete utter wtf!!!! and FML I felt
However there is a light at the end of the tunnel
at the end of my second week my hands held I got paid off and I made back all the money I lost 450 and Made 480+ in profit, and really looking back at this it wasnt a MASSIVE downswing at all I meen I lost near 9 buyins but, I've heard horror storys of people loosing alot more it can definatley be classified as a downswing for sure.
however I just think this strengthens the reason for bankroll management and to play comfotably at limits, I meen if I make the other part of my goal the 1k or even if I made 500 I think alot of it would stay in my bankroll and I would take some out for play money but I would leave a higher amount in my roll than I would actually take out.
Since i'm playing pretty much semi pro now part time job + this I gotta pay myself a wage but I also have to invest in my buisness which is poker.
So I think I will be more carefull with it for sure, it was a nice wakeup call actually that poker isn't as glamorous easy lifestyle and its very high stress, however I think the biggest part of my game now is learning to deal with variance better, it's probably the most important skill when playing poker and I think its the main reason why alot of players fail to eventualy turn fully pro.
I have a brother who plays at the site at the lower limits and it also was a bad start for him hes playing micro stakes cash games to get a feel for it, and I look over his sessions and he looks at mine and we give eachother advice on plays and general poker, and he faced a hell of a downswing due to the massive varaince of microstakes cash games, he would always be ahead and would loose. And I noticed that some bad plays came after this because he was trying to mix it up with people who just didnt have a fold button, but after he realised he was playing bad as well as running bad, he just kept reminding himself of the longterm and he also came out of his downswing and is now near back on top, so just a reminder to everyone downswigns do happen, its hard to deal with but you must keep being honest with yourself and know your playing every hand to the best of your ability and try and keep a positive attitude
I have like 15 days to my goal now hopefully I keep running okay, and I meet my goal
keep positive.....just like mike
Time for the SICK SICK SICK hand historys .......LOL
lets just say I know this guy to well, and knew he was holding the weaker ace
......FML
Now this hand I had alot of value against him if he had like kings or aces preflop, and with the stack sizes, this is a good call here I think since i'm getting great implied odds here I know this guy is tight so I know he usually has a good range of cards here he could go broke on if I hit big enough. on the flop I get the open ended draw for a $5 investment on the flop I think for what the implied odds against this rocks range itsa good call, since if i hit hes goin broke on aces kings or a set for his entire stack, I do hit and I'm a 75% fav and as expected he ships all in, and it has gone to plan ...or has it
this seems standard however on the flop I felt he was cbetting, on turn i did feel I was beat when he re re raised me, since hes a very VERY tight player and the only thing that didnt make me fold was thinking i know he has a set but it might be 2's when he checks the river i was thinking okay maybe he was playing with an ace king and all the draws got there so hes checking for pot controll or he might think the same with the 2's but no he had the 9's, an intresting spot but really never folding there.
and finnaly daniel has something to say on the matter of running bad to an interviewer
Here is some great sites to try out:
Even more so since it can be used as a strategic advantage on the table, and I know alot if not all my readers come from people I've met on the table. And even though there is a certain comarade ship with fellow grinders I know personally if I had any sort of information on a player/friend on a table I would try to ruin you and I expect no differnt from other friends/players on the table, since it's just a war at the table.
with that said its been a while since I was runnin bad really and I'm now running normally and confident in my game again so posting this I feel will not effect my game with players I meet.
after my last post I had the big goal to meet 1500, however after posting that i didnt go up for about a week in fact I went down , alot more than I ever been in my poker life
this maybe due to the fact this was my first real downswing at 50nl aswell but In my first week I dropped around 450 down i had one or two day were I lost 200 in a day, and it was stuff like:
set over set, kings v aces, lower flush v higher flush and straight versus the nut straight. Just really unavoidable stuff, and I avoided alot more hands really that coulda made me loose alot more. During this period In the second week I found it hard to motivate myself to play poker I didnt play 1k hands a day like usual.
I just played some call of duty, and watched some vids as a breather to take my mind off poker.(although it just kept banging in the back of my mind, wtf you doing, this aint achieving anything go on and play!)
so I would end up playing like 400 hands a day anyways I just kept reviewing my hands looking for spots where I coulda played better and I looked at previous session in which I did well to motivate myself to play and to remind myself I'm a good player. I tryed to keep positive attitude to it all, I'm rolled pretty healthy at the moment so I think this helped alot psychologicaly, but this vid pretty much sums up that week of complete utter wtf!!!! and FML I felt
However there is a light at the end of the tunnel
at the end of my second week my hands held I got paid off and I made back all the money I lost 450 and Made 480+ in profit, and really looking back at this it wasnt a MASSIVE downswing at all I meen I lost near 9 buyins but, I've heard horror storys of people loosing alot more it can definatley be classified as a downswing for sure.
however I just think this strengthens the reason for bankroll management and to play comfotably at limits, I meen if I make the other part of my goal the 1k or even if I made 500 I think alot of it would stay in my bankroll and I would take some out for play money but I would leave a higher amount in my roll than I would actually take out.
Since i'm playing pretty much semi pro now part time job + this I gotta pay myself a wage but I also have to invest in my buisness which is poker.
So I think I will be more carefull with it for sure, it was a nice wakeup call actually that poker isn't as glamorous easy lifestyle and its very high stress, however I think the biggest part of my game now is learning to deal with variance better, it's probably the most important skill when playing poker and I think its the main reason why alot of players fail to eventualy turn fully pro.
I have a brother who plays at the site at the lower limits and it also was a bad start for him hes playing micro stakes cash games to get a feel for it, and I look over his sessions and he looks at mine and we give eachother advice on plays and general poker, and he faced a hell of a downswing due to the massive varaince of microstakes cash games, he would always be ahead and would loose. And I noticed that some bad plays came after this because he was trying to mix it up with people who just didnt have a fold button, but after he realised he was playing bad as well as running bad, he just kept reminding himself of the longterm and he also came out of his downswing and is now near back on top, so just a reminder to everyone downswigns do happen, its hard to deal with but you must keep being honest with yourself and know your playing every hand to the best of your ability and try and keep a positive attitude
I have like 15 days to my goal now hopefully I keep running okay, and I meet my goal
keep positive.....just like mike
Time for the SICK SICK SICK hand historys .......LOL
lets just say I know this guy to well, and knew he was holding the weaker ace
......FML
Now this hand I had alot of value against him if he had like kings or aces preflop, and with the stack sizes, this is a good call here I think since i'm getting great implied odds here I know this guy is tight so I know he usually has a good range of cards here he could go broke on if I hit big enough. on the flop I get the open ended draw for a $5 investment on the flop I think for what the implied odds against this rocks range itsa good call, since if i hit hes goin broke on aces kings or a set for his entire stack, I do hit and I'm a 75% fav and as expected he ships all in, and it has gone to plan ...or has it
this seems standard however on the flop I felt he was cbetting, on turn i did feel I was beat when he re re raised me, since hes a very VERY tight player and the only thing that didnt make me fold was thinking i know he has a set but it might be 2's when he checks the river i was thinking okay maybe he was playing with an ace king and all the draws got there so hes checking for pot controll or he might think the same with the 2's but no he had the 9's, an intresting spot but really never folding there.
and finnaly daniel has something to say on the matter of running bad to an interviewer
Here is some great sites to try out:
- Learn poker at DragtheBar for 7 days free! click here
- PKR is a cool 3D poker site, also super soft! PKR Poker
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
The Goal has been reached!!! - TIME FOR A NEW GOAL!
The goal has been reached (1000 in a month) on the 17th of may!!!
so thats 2 weeks and 3 days I achieved the goal for the month.
I admit there was one week as you seen were I just had alot of good varaince, hitting hands getting paid off and more importantly they held!
I've been recently PUNISHED with a week of bad varaince but I still went up and reached my goal. just not as quickly as I hoped.
(I will post a section maybe in a few days time of the bad varaince I included but wanna make it a good post so I will leave it for today)
So this has left me to wonder how much I could make from the 18th of may to the next 18th june doing it this way then averages as usually when I get paid from my real job.
And it also tells me if I can make a decent wage from poker as well (I'm not gunna leave my job or do anything that drastic yet....well not until I think i can crush 200nl a long dream away!!!)
but it would be intresting to see how much I could make. doing this would boost my roll and also give me some play money which is nice, so the goal for the 18th of june is!!!! DRUM ROLLLL!!!!
$1500
Its a massive goal maybe to big really but wanna push myself to the limit on this one see if i can reach it or surpass it, wish me luck , people at my tables ...put the money in the bag!!
a nice inspirational vidd I found but I like to add a video to a blog specialy ones liek these :)
Here is some great sites to try out:
- Learn poker at DragtheBar for 7 days free! click here
- PKR is a cool 3D poker site, also super soft! PKR Poker
Saturday, 8 May 2010
About dam time eh? Well this week I DESTROYED the tables!!!
Lets kick it off wid samuel L Jackson!
BADMOTHER FUCKER!!!!!!! lol
As the title says about dam time I updated this!
Its been due to sheer exhaustion and slightly me being lazy....okay....really lazy lol
but after my first week of 50nl I had swings of break even and I basically had to re-evaluate my game from the ground up, it seemed I suffered from FPS (fancy play syndrome) although in some spots were fps is a good thing, what I was doing just wasnt!
I was just trying to outplay every one, which is a recipe for disaster!!! I think my average vpip was like 30% which is just ridiclous. However after alot of hand history reviews and session reviews I quickly found my leaks......and i'm gunna keep them private since I'm still working on them ! ;)
and I think I ended last month on break even.....however this month or should I say week I've had the game in a choke hold, the play has improved and so has my edges I'm quickly finding a nice winning style and its working out well for me and in just one week I've pulled in $787 ooooo Go on have a look at the graph
the hand samples are pretty small though so I can only take this as good varaince and I think good play my ev is right up there also so yea thats great and it makes me wonder if I'm gunna smash this months goal!
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I also HIGHLY recommend a certain book I'm reading at the moment called
'Treat your poker like a buisness'
by Dusty Schmidt
This guy has pulled in $3million so far and is now earning a million a year in poker
and is pretty much known as the ULTIMATE grinder you will find with his nickname leatherass its no suprise.
The book is a real eye opener and has pluged in a real work ethic and inspiration in the game or buisness of poker, and its probably the best book you could get at the moment. he has some great chapters in that book and I HIGHLY recommend you get it.
(no way affilated with him although I wish I was!)
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Now lets put some wrong weird and wonderfull hands in
FML....moment
I think this is the ULTIMATE COOLER OF ALL TIME!!!!!! still made me chuckle more than weep :)
Just SEXY
Does it ever get any better than this? on the river I just felt some big hands was standing here so i decided to ship hoping they calledi figured on of them had a ten or one of them might have a straight or lower set, getting paid eachway was nicer.
Ivey call
I just really felt he wasnt representing anything here and I went with my inner ivey and was rewarded.
A Tom Dwan moment!
Also a very cheeky bluff here if he reads this blog.....he'll never EVER fold to me again lol
sorry m8 it just looked like you really didnt like that turn had to stack the pressure on since I thought u would fold, never thought u had kings mind lol knew u had a pair though.
So 50nl as a whole is going well for me at the moment I feel that I will smash the record soon and it makes me wonder what my month record will be.....hmmm poker for a living? we will see
Here is some great sites to try out:
BADMOTHER FUCKER!!!!!!! lol
As the title says about dam time I updated this!
Its been due to sheer exhaustion and slightly me being lazy....okay....really lazy lol
but after my first week of 50nl I had swings of break even and I basically had to re-evaluate my game from the ground up, it seemed I suffered from FPS (fancy play syndrome) although in some spots were fps is a good thing, what I was doing just wasnt!
I was just trying to outplay every one, which is a recipe for disaster!!! I think my average vpip was like 30% which is just ridiclous. However after alot of hand history reviews and session reviews I quickly found my leaks......and i'm gunna keep them private since I'm still working on them ! ;)
and I think I ended last month on break even.....however this month or should I say week I've had the game in a choke hold, the play has improved and so has my edges I'm quickly finding a nice winning style and its working out well for me and in just one week I've pulled in $787 ooooo Go on have a look at the graph
the hand samples are pretty small though so I can only take this as good varaince and I think good play my ev is right up there also so yea thats great and it makes me wonder if I'm gunna smash this months goal!
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I also HIGHLY recommend a certain book I'm reading at the moment called
'Treat your poker like a buisness'
by Dusty Schmidt
This guy has pulled in $3million so far and is now earning a million a year in poker
and is pretty much known as the ULTIMATE grinder you will find with his nickname leatherass its no suprise.
The book is a real eye opener and has pluged in a real work ethic and inspiration in the game or buisness of poker, and its probably the best book you could get at the moment. he has some great chapters in that book and I HIGHLY recommend you get it.
(no way affilated with him although I wish I was!)
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Now lets put some wrong weird and wonderfull hands in
FML....moment
I think this is the ULTIMATE COOLER OF ALL TIME!!!!!! still made me chuckle more than weep :)
Just SEXY
Does it ever get any better than this? on the river I just felt some big hands was standing here so i decided to ship hoping they calledi figured on of them had a ten or one of them might have a straight or lower set, getting paid eachway was nicer.
Ivey call
I just really felt he wasnt representing anything here and I went with my inner ivey and was rewarded.
A Tom Dwan moment!
Also a very cheeky bluff here if he reads this blog.....he'll never EVER fold to me again lol
sorry m8 it just looked like you really didnt like that turn had to stack the pressure on since I thought u would fold, never thought u had kings mind lol knew u had a pair though.
So 50nl as a whole is going well for me at the moment I feel that I will smash the record soon and it makes me wonder what my month record will be.....hmmm poker for a living? we will see
Here is some great sites to try out:
- Learn poker at DragtheBar for 7 days free! click here
- PKR is a cool 3D poker site, also super soft! PKR Poker
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