played a shortish session on Monday night and made 400 so last night i decided to take another 1/2 shot.
i played 600 hands i think and made about 120 but also dropped 35 playing some 2/4 o8.
br is at about 5.5k right now and i'll play 1/2 again tonight.
tg
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
the weekend
i set a goal for myself to play 5k hands this weekend since the weather was supposed to be crappy and i didn't have anything to do.
i started off playing 1300 hands Friday nite and made $130 or something but didn't feel i played my best. i wouldn't say i played horribly but definitely not optimally.
saturday i put in 2 small 500 hands sessions making another 570 which was good for a $700 weekend.
after that my weekend got unexpectedly busy and i never got to play again. my saturday session i was a lot happier with my play. i have to remind myself sometimes not to try and be a hero and make huge calldowns since most of the time players at 100nl are not capable of making big complicated bluffs.
i also tried to play a mtt on saturday morning and just could not get into it and busted back raising AK into QQ. never know, i may try and play another tonight.
tg
i started off playing 1300 hands Friday nite and made $130 or something but didn't feel i played my best. i wouldn't say i played horribly but definitely not optimally.
saturday i put in 2 small 500 hands sessions making another 570 which was good for a $700 weekend.
after that my weekend got unexpectedly busy and i never got to play again. my saturday session i was a lot happier with my play. i have to remind myself sometimes not to try and be a hero and make huge calldowns since most of the time players at 100nl are not capable of making big complicated bluffs.
i also tried to play a mtt on saturday morning and just could not get into it and busted back raising AK into QQ. never know, i may try and play another tonight.
tg
Thursday, June 18, 2009
lot has happened
so since my last post and lot has occurred. i continued to do well at 100nl and worked my roll up to 4.5k + 500 hundo from rb. i cashed the rb out and decided to take a shot at 200nl if there were some good games.
i found a bunch of good games but unfortunately it was a pretty wild session and i ended up dropping around $500. it didn't really bother me as i thought i played well and gave myself a 3 buyin shot and was willing to lose the money.
after that i went back to 100nl and quickly made the $500 back and was back at a 5k roll. i wasn't quite feeling up to taking another shot though so i decided to just play 100nl again. well over the last 2 nights i've played pretty poor and dropped like $750. my play the last 2 sessions has been extreeeeemeeeely spewy and both times i really needed to make a good quit but refused too.
it really sucks that i've done this to myself since i was on pace to a really good month for the first time in a long time. not sure i'll play tonight but starting tomorrow nite i'll be back to 4 tabling with intense focus and concentration. i also might try to luckbox a few mtt's this weekend as well, we'll see.
tg
i found a bunch of good games but unfortunately it was a pretty wild session and i ended up dropping around $500. it didn't really bother me as i thought i played well and gave myself a 3 buyin shot and was willing to lose the money.
after that i went back to 100nl and quickly made the $500 back and was back at a 5k roll. i wasn't quite feeling up to taking another shot though so i decided to just play 100nl again. well over the last 2 nights i've played pretty poor and dropped like $750. my play the last 2 sessions has been extreeeeemeeeely spewy and both times i really needed to make a good quit but refused too.
it really sucks that i've done this to myself since i was on pace to a really good month for the first time in a long time. not sure i'll play tonight but starting tomorrow nite i'll be back to 4 tabling with intense focus and concentration. i also might try to luckbox a few mtt's this weekend as well, we'll see.
tg
Monday, June 8, 2009
first week of june
has gone well, i actually played small sessions mon-sat that put me around 4k hands for the month so far which is good for me.
i felt i was playing extremely well early in the week but started to slip later in the week. one session in particular i 6-tabled which just turned into a huge variance fest and i was happy to go back to just 4 tabling.
i played a little plo one day only because i saw scott fischman (red pro) playing some dude at .50/1 huha and i've heard he's pretty weird/spastic/not very good and he was sitting on less than a buyin so i put my name on the list just for giggles. i actually got a seat and he was sitting with 40bb and i doubled him up once in plo w/ a rundown hand that flopped tp against his pretty obvious overpair, then he won a good size pot from me in holdem before i busted him w/ a set vs over and flush draw.
im up a little over $400 for the month so far but i need to slow things down a bit for my upcoming sessions and try to keep focused. i had a really good coaching session last week where i felt much more into the discussion than ever before. my coach seemed to think i played some hands very well so that was a lot more satisfying than the usual moan when i explain a hand.
oh, and everything i said about not caring about the wsop is a complete lie, im absolutely jonesing to win a bracelet. i think part of the turnaround is the auto-bio of mike matusow that i've been reading lately where he talks a lot about the older wsops and how much it meant back then to win a bracelet. i guess nowadays it just seems to unrealistic to enter 1500 people events and believe you have a legit shot.
anyways, bracelet talk is a long ways away, for now im just going to concentrate on crushing 100nl and going robusto in the cash games.
tg
i felt i was playing extremely well early in the week but started to slip later in the week. one session in particular i 6-tabled which just turned into a huge variance fest and i was happy to go back to just 4 tabling.
i played a little plo one day only because i saw scott fischman (red pro) playing some dude at .50/1 huha and i've heard he's pretty weird/spastic/not very good and he was sitting on less than a buyin so i put my name on the list just for giggles. i actually got a seat and he was sitting with 40bb and i doubled him up once in plo w/ a rundown hand that flopped tp against his pretty obvious overpair, then he won a good size pot from me in holdem before i busted him w/ a set vs over and flush draw.
im up a little over $400 for the month so far but i need to slow things down a bit for my upcoming sessions and try to keep focused. i had a really good coaching session last week where i felt much more into the discussion than ever before. my coach seemed to think i played some hands very well so that was a lot more satisfying than the usual moan when i explain a hand.
oh, and everything i said about not caring about the wsop is a complete lie, im absolutely jonesing to win a bracelet. i think part of the turnaround is the auto-bio of mike matusow that i've been reading lately where he talks a lot about the older wsops and how much it meant back then to win a bracelet. i guess nowadays it just seems to unrealistic to enter 1500 people events and believe you have a legit shot.
anyways, bracelet talk is a long ways away, for now im just going to concentrate on crushing 100nl and going robusto in the cash games.
tg
Monday, June 1, 2009
may results
unfortunately i didn't end up playing much in may. the month started off pretty slowly by playing small sessions of plo & mixed ha before getting it out of my system and making 100nl my sole game.
after that i still didn't get a lot of playing time in and then unfortunately had a death in the family that made me not want to play.
just last week i started back playing again and the results have been good. i credit the improvement in my play recently to the balugawhale book that really helped clarify a few things that i didn't understand but was trying to emulate. often times i think ssnl guys like myself see things in training videos or hear a pro say something and we implement it into our game with no understanding of why. (we also mis apply it a lot too)
i was hoping to post some hem graphs but once again my db is all messed up and missing hands for some unknown reason. the results on the month are about 8k hands played with a net profit of 700 @ 100nl and then like 150 in losses from plo at the beginning of the month.
my style has me playing 27/22 so far this month and its really fun and interesting to be in the action more rather set mining and playing 18/15.
also, wsop has started once again, every year i say that i will for sure play in next years series and then am never rolled to do so. last year i was rolled to take a shot at a smaller buyin if i wanted but was never even close to contemplating it. this year i got a slight itch and thought about possibly playing in some super sats to the main event but then realized if i win a 12k package im obv just going to take the cash and not play, so then essentially i would just be playing top heavy payout mtts. to be honest my dream of winning a bracelet is really pretty dead. when i think about my future playing poker i mostly think about playing cash games online and have no real interest in mtt's anymore. even live play is something i get an itch for once every 2 months and then wonder why i ever wasted my time. i guess the most realistic thing for my own wsop future would be to go and play some cash or something one year but even thats a stretch i think since i get so annoyed with having to deal with assholes playing live.
im hoping to continue playing well and ironing out mistakes in june. my roll is at about 4.4k right now and im toying with the idea of taking a 3 buyin shot at 1/2 once i grind it up to 5k. im also hooking back up with my coach after a couple week hiatus and im looking forward to better discussion now that i think i understand some fundamentals better.
tg
after that i still didn't get a lot of playing time in and then unfortunately had a death in the family that made me not want to play.
just last week i started back playing again and the results have been good. i credit the improvement in my play recently to the balugawhale book that really helped clarify a few things that i didn't understand but was trying to emulate. often times i think ssnl guys like myself see things in training videos or hear a pro say something and we implement it into our game with no understanding of why. (we also mis apply it a lot too)
i was hoping to post some hem graphs but once again my db is all messed up and missing hands for some unknown reason. the results on the month are about 8k hands played with a net profit of 700 @ 100nl and then like 150 in losses from plo at the beginning of the month.
my style has me playing 27/22 so far this month and its really fun and interesting to be in the action more rather set mining and playing 18/15.
also, wsop has started once again, every year i say that i will for sure play in next years series and then am never rolled to do so. last year i was rolled to take a shot at a smaller buyin if i wanted but was never even close to contemplating it. this year i got a slight itch and thought about possibly playing in some super sats to the main event but then realized if i win a 12k package im obv just going to take the cash and not play, so then essentially i would just be playing top heavy payout mtts. to be honest my dream of winning a bracelet is really pretty dead. when i think about my future playing poker i mostly think about playing cash games online and have no real interest in mtt's anymore. even live play is something i get an itch for once every 2 months and then wonder why i ever wasted my time. i guess the most realistic thing for my own wsop future would be to go and play some cash or something one year but even thats a stretch i think since i get so annoyed with having to deal with assholes playing live.
im hoping to continue playing well and ironing out mistakes in june. my roll is at about 4.4k right now and im toying with the idea of taking a 3 buyin shot at 1/2 once i grind it up to 5k. im also hooking back up with my coach after a couple week hiatus and im looking forward to better discussion now that i think i understand some fundamentals better.
tg
Friday, May 8, 2009
april recap / may so far
alright so april ended off kinda badly, i think i lost a couple stacks in 100nl and made maybe a little money playing huplo. i'd like get back to posting graphs but unfortunately my hem for april is all kinds of messed up with hands spread over 3 db's and all the omaha hands missing.
my estimate all tolled would be about a $300 loss on the month combined in both nl and plo games. thats obv not very good.
to start may i was really lost on what to do, can't win at nl, running good in plo but realize that its not a game that i want to play on a consistent basis. i ended up playing some 50ha and 50huplo to start the month off and was up some to start but then got kicked in the ass by some plo variance and was stuck 150 to start the month. after a tiny break and getting sick of 4 card poker i've rededicated myself to the unlimited version of hold thems.
my first couple sessions back and i've really been focused, concentrating on ranges of opponents and sticking to 2-3 tables to help keep that focus throughout a session. the other thing i've dedicated myself is not tilting. i don't often go nutso tilting smashing monitors and open shoving but i have realized that i've probably about 80% of my poker playing time this year soft tilting.
so i've been gaining a little momentum and then balugawhale's ebook came out yesterday and after reading the first 3 chapters some concepts are just soooo much more clear now that i feel like im ready to crush. this is after only 3 chapters of the basic volume so i can't imagine how good the rest must be.
look forward to reading the rest, playing a little and seeing what happens.
tg
my estimate all tolled would be about a $300 loss on the month combined in both nl and plo games. thats obv not very good.
to start may i was really lost on what to do, can't win at nl, running good in plo but realize that its not a game that i want to play on a consistent basis. i ended up playing some 50ha and 50huplo to start the month off and was up some to start but then got kicked in the ass by some plo variance and was stuck 150 to start the month. after a tiny break and getting sick of 4 card poker i've rededicated myself to the unlimited version of hold thems.
my first couple sessions back and i've really been focused, concentrating on ranges of opponents and sticking to 2-3 tables to help keep that focus throughout a session. the other thing i've dedicated myself is not tilting. i don't often go nutso tilting smashing monitors and open shoving but i have realized that i've probably about 80% of my poker playing time this year soft tilting.
so i've been gaining a little momentum and then balugawhale's ebook came out yesterday and after reading the first 3 chapters some concepts are just soooo much more clear now that i feel like im ready to crush. this is after only 3 chapters of the basic volume so i can't imagine how good the rest must be.
look forward to reading the rest, playing a little and seeing what happens.
tg
Monday, April 27, 2009
return from sickness / shot taken
heyo, was sick as a dog for like a week and a half and still haven't fully recovered. during most of the time i was sick i stayed away from playing poker because i have zero ambition to do anything when im sick except for lay around and be sick.
i believe my first session back was thursday night and i broke even. i lost about 250 in holdem over a short period but managed to win the majority of it back playing huplo.
friday nite i played for just a bit since i was feeling a little worn out and booked another 190 win in huplo and didn't play any holdem really.
then for the first time in my life, i woke up too early on saturday morning for my golf game and had an hour to kill. so i thought i would just go 1 table some 50 plo hu as usual while i had breakfest and coffee. 10 mins into sitting down i some how see that this really bad 1/2 2/4 reg i've played with before is sitting at like 10 tables of 2/4 hu plo, hu ha and 6 max plo. a bunch of his hu tables were empty and just couldn't resist taking a shot since i fiugred his nl game is pretty weak and he must be horrible at omaha.
so i sat on 1 table of 2/4 hu ha and got stacked in the first 10 hands or so of holdem. he had opened the first 4 buttons so i decide to 3b K9s and he calls. flop is dry T42r so i cbet and he calls. turn is an offsuit J and i thought and fired again. i thought he would fold most of his pp's under a Ten at that point and maybe even a weak Ten. he calls and i spike a K on the river with only like 220 left in a 400 pot i shipped it in and he snapped me off w/ a set of 4's. i think it's a pretty standard hand that he played well and i got unlucky to hit runner runner bluff/value cards. so stuck 400 right off the bat before i decided what my stop loss was so i kept going with one more bullet.
through the omaha rounds i thought i he was playing pretty poor and i had mounted a comeback and was only down like 250 so i joined him on one of his 2/4 huplo tables as well and started 2 tabling him. i managed to work my stack up on both tables just grinding him down until we got in it on this hand:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4155883
now stuck a 1/6th of my br i battle back and probably had the deficit down to just 400 before slipping a bit and ending the brief session 600 loser.
i wasn't really pissed at all, it was a great spot for a shot and both hands i got stacked in i think i played fine so what can you do. it was one of the rare times i've had where my poker play spawns some degeneracy. like taking a shot at 1 table at 4x the limit with a 1 bullet stop loss is no big deal really but i had in the back of my mind when i started that, i was quitting the session at 7:15am because i had to pick people up at 7:30, i was only putting one buy-in in play and i was only playing one table. at 7:30am when i finally quit i had broken all those guidelines.
yesterday afternoon i took a few minutes to play a short huplo session that ended up going longer than i wanted but was finding it hard to quit but i think i ended up losing maybe 30 or something after 2 tabling for a bit and then 1 tabling for a while. the 1 tabling match was against a decent opponent that didn't seem to have great omaha fundamentals but really adapted well and did a much better job changing gears than i did. it was a good learning session thats for sure.
gotta get back to playing holdem tonight as i don't want to venture too far off the path with plo. i think i might just play two tables for a bit and really concentrate on every decision.
i've kinda come to terms with the fact that im much better suited playing for fun rather than being the ultimate grinder thats got a sick hourly. i actually think i have a better shot of making more money playing less tables and less hours but concentrating when i do.
tg
i believe my first session back was thursday night and i broke even. i lost about 250 in holdem over a short period but managed to win the majority of it back playing huplo.
friday nite i played for just a bit since i was feeling a little worn out and booked another 190 win in huplo and didn't play any holdem really.
then for the first time in my life, i woke up too early on saturday morning for my golf game and had an hour to kill. so i thought i would just go 1 table some 50 plo hu as usual while i had breakfest and coffee. 10 mins into sitting down i some how see that this really bad 1/2 2/4 reg i've played with before is sitting at like 10 tables of 2/4 hu plo, hu ha and 6 max plo. a bunch of his hu tables were empty and just couldn't resist taking a shot since i fiugred his nl game is pretty weak and he must be horrible at omaha.
so i sat on 1 table of 2/4 hu ha and got stacked in the first 10 hands or so of holdem. he had opened the first 4 buttons so i decide to 3b K9s and he calls. flop is dry T42r so i cbet and he calls. turn is an offsuit J and i thought and fired again. i thought he would fold most of his pp's under a Ten at that point and maybe even a weak Ten. he calls and i spike a K on the river with only like 220 left in a 400 pot i shipped it in and he snapped me off w/ a set of 4's. i think it's a pretty standard hand that he played well and i got unlucky to hit runner runner bluff/value cards. so stuck 400 right off the bat before i decided what my stop loss was so i kept going with one more bullet.
through the omaha rounds i thought i he was playing pretty poor and i had mounted a comeback and was only down like 250 so i joined him on one of his 2/4 huplo tables as well and started 2 tabling him. i managed to work my stack up on both tables just grinding him down until we got in it on this hand:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4155883
now stuck a 1/6th of my br i battle back and probably had the deficit down to just 400 before slipping a bit and ending the brief session 600 loser.
i wasn't really pissed at all, it was a great spot for a shot and both hands i got stacked in i think i played fine so what can you do. it was one of the rare times i've had where my poker play spawns some degeneracy. like taking a shot at 1 table at 4x the limit with a 1 bullet stop loss is no big deal really but i had in the back of my mind when i started that, i was quitting the session at 7:15am because i had to pick people up at 7:30, i was only putting one buy-in in play and i was only playing one table. at 7:30am when i finally quit i had broken all those guidelines.
yesterday afternoon i took a few minutes to play a short huplo session that ended up going longer than i wanted but was finding it hard to quit but i think i ended up losing maybe 30 or something after 2 tabling for a bit and then 1 tabling for a while. the 1 tabling match was against a decent opponent that didn't seem to have great omaha fundamentals but really adapted well and did a much better job changing gears than i did. it was a good learning session thats for sure.
gotta get back to playing holdem tonight as i don't want to venture too far off the path with plo. i think i might just play two tables for a bit and really concentrate on every decision.
i've kinda come to terms with the fact that im much better suited playing for fun rather than being the ultimate grinder thats got a sick hourly. i actually think i have a better shot of making more money playing less tables and less hours but concentrating when i do.
tg
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
little of each
monday i played very little but managed to bust some dudes bankroll for 190 playing huplo and then lost 60 or so in a 100 hands of nl before calling it quits cause i was on the phone and not feeling well. (good quit!)
last night i started a short session that ended up going long (for me) and played close to 1200 hands of nl and maybe another 150-200 hands of huplo. i started off with about 600 hands of nl 4 tabling and was up a bit, then played 2 tables of 50 huplo for about 20 min before just going down to 1 table cuz my mind was spinning with the 4 cards and all. i doubled a 1/2 stacker who hit-n-ran, then played a different 1/2 stacker that i built up and then eventually busted getting me to even.
i took a small break and then decided to hit the tables again and stuck to nl 4 tabling with some absolute whales. i usually just end sessions when i want regardless of how good the tables are because generally the bad players will always be there at a 100nl but i had two tables with two different guys playing 60/40 and never folding to 3-bets or cbets so i stuck around. i lost a couple decent sized pots with the one dude playing 200bb deep but eventually got some back and then stacked him 165bb deep to give me a 130 profit on the session.
the session was weird and im not sure whats happened to me but im playing this laggy 26/21 style now and it seems to fit. i don't know, maybe its just some sort of progression point that im at right now.
also sent an inquiry into why event 18 (216 huplo and 22 huplo for the mini portion) at the upcoming ftops has no satellites running. they replied that they will be up shortly and i think i'll try to grind those a little bit (esp if they are sngs) to try and make some extra coin while getting a cheaper shot at the gold!
tg
last night i started a short session that ended up going long (for me) and played close to 1200 hands of nl and maybe another 150-200 hands of huplo. i started off with about 600 hands of nl 4 tabling and was up a bit, then played 2 tables of 50 huplo for about 20 min before just going down to 1 table cuz my mind was spinning with the 4 cards and all. i doubled a 1/2 stacker who hit-n-ran, then played a different 1/2 stacker that i built up and then eventually busted getting me to even.
i took a small break and then decided to hit the tables again and stuck to nl 4 tabling with some absolute whales. i usually just end sessions when i want regardless of how good the tables are because generally the bad players will always be there at a 100nl but i had two tables with two different guys playing 60/40 and never folding to 3-bets or cbets so i stuck around. i lost a couple decent sized pots with the one dude playing 200bb deep but eventually got some back and then stacked him 165bb deep to give me a 130 profit on the session.
the session was weird and im not sure whats happened to me but im playing this laggy 26/21 style now and it seems to fit. i don't know, maybe its just some sort of progression point that im at right now.
also sent an inquiry into why event 18 (216 huplo and 22 huplo for the mini portion) at the upcoming ftops has no satellites running. they replied that they will be up shortly and i think i'll try to grind those a little bit (esp if they are sngs) to try and make some extra coin while getting a cheaper shot at the gold!
tg
Monday, April 13, 2009
unbanned self
well the last week was another rollercoaster. i don't remember all the numbers but i dropped like 4-500 last tuesday and had another one of my stare at the wall pondering existence moments. then thursday nite i had my lesson with my new coach and i managed to run sick hot and made like 600+ in a short amount of time. on friday i played a very small session and lost 150 then saturday i sat down and put in a so so session followed by a bad one and dropped 400 again. the jury is out on how well i was playing but one of the stacks was QQ v AA bvb against a reg, again. yesterday i played a little and managed to win like 350 back which was good.
my coaching lesson was great, we came across a lot of spots and overall found a few spots where i can significantly improve upon.
now around late last week i also decided to unban myself from playing small amounts of huplo under the conditions that i only play to break up my nl sessions, i only play droolers, i only play .25/.50 stakes and i set a stop loss of a $100. also i also dug up some training videos and starting watching them to help improve my play. i believe i played a bit on friday but don't remmeber the results, on saturday i started my afternoon session dropping a $100 but then played a bit after my nl session and made just over a $100 back. yesterday while just trying to get the holdem manager features working properly i stacked some guy and then made another 100 or so after my nl session for a pretty good run.
im also excited that the ftops has gone way of the scoop and is offering a 1/10th the buyin scale series in may. (mini ftops) the result will be absolutely monster fields with good pay days and realtively low buy-ins (avg $22) and i plan on playing whatever ones are running during my cash sessions.
til next time,
tg
my coaching lesson was great, we came across a lot of spots and overall found a few spots where i can significantly improve upon.
now around late last week i also decided to unban myself from playing small amounts of huplo under the conditions that i only play to break up my nl sessions, i only play droolers, i only play .25/.50 stakes and i set a stop loss of a $100. also i also dug up some training videos and starting watching them to help improve my play. i believe i played a bit on friday but don't remmeber the results, on saturday i started my afternoon session dropping a $100 but then played a bit after my nl session and made just over a $100 back. yesterday while just trying to get the holdem manager features working properly i stacked some guy and then made another 100 or so after my nl session for a pretty good run.
im also excited that the ftops has gone way of the scoop and is offering a 1/10th the buyin scale series in may. (mini ftops) the result will be absolutely monster fields with good pay days and realtively low buy-ins (avg $22) and i plan on playing whatever ones are running during my cash sessions.
til next time,
tg
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
april so far
first off looking back at march i only lost like $300 online instead of the $700 i thought.
april so far has been ok but nothing spectacular. i think im up like $250 in nl6m but down some from small tourny buy-ins and a few hands of huplo.
plo in general is like crack cocaine for me and my first small foray into huplo was absolutely addicting until i dropped 150 last night playing some guy that sat in for $20 at a $50 table. now i have to swear off plo again for the near future if i plan to ever live a sane existence.
i have been playing quite a bit though so far this month which is good and i've kept the majority of my play to 4 tables which is ideal. i've recently made some fairly substantial changes in my pre-flop game concentrating on isolating fish and attacking tight blinds with a much higher frequency and it resulted in developing a pretty wild image. i think over my last 2500 hands i was playing 25/21 or something similar although last nites tables would not allow for such and i was back down to taggy numbers.
but in all seriousness i really just need to concentrate post flop. my major problem is i generalize post flop play way too much without regards to what villains actual range is and how he thinks. i tend to just think on auto pilot and barrell this turn or cbet this flop cuz i think i would generally fold his range to those bets. it's a compounded problem though because i think a lot of my own post flop play is somewhat irrational when facing the pfr. so when im playing against good players im misrepresenting their thinking and when im playing bad players im giving them too much credit for folding.
for the life of me i cannot do it but i need to start putting players on specific ranges and then whittle them down street by street while simultaneously evaluating my equity against the perceived range. sounds easy but 20 minutes into a session im right back to spazz click button mode.
end incoherent ramble/
in other news i've hooked up with a new coach that im really excited about. im really excited about this new opportunity but realize i need to start putting much more work in myself in order to get the full benefit of the coaching i recieve.
gonna play tonight and although i have extreme mtt jealousy right now due to the big scoop series on stars im cutting out all mtt activity for the time being as well as a self ban on any variation of 4 hole card games.
tg
april so far has been ok but nothing spectacular. i think im up like $250 in nl6m but down some from small tourny buy-ins and a few hands of huplo.
plo in general is like crack cocaine for me and my first small foray into huplo was absolutely addicting until i dropped 150 last night playing some guy that sat in for $20 at a $50 table. now i have to swear off plo again for the near future if i plan to ever live a sane existence.
i have been playing quite a bit though so far this month which is good and i've kept the majority of my play to 4 tables which is ideal. i've recently made some fairly substantial changes in my pre-flop game concentrating on isolating fish and attacking tight blinds with a much higher frequency and it resulted in developing a pretty wild image. i think over my last 2500 hands i was playing 25/21 or something similar although last nites tables would not allow for such and i was back down to taggy numbers.
but in all seriousness i really just need to concentrate post flop. my major problem is i generalize post flop play way too much without regards to what villains actual range is and how he thinks. i tend to just think on auto pilot and barrell this turn or cbet this flop cuz i think i would generally fold his range to those bets. it's a compounded problem though because i think a lot of my own post flop play is somewhat irrational when facing the pfr. so when im playing against good players im misrepresenting their thinking and when im playing bad players im giving them too much credit for folding.
for the life of me i cannot do it but i need to start putting players on specific ranges and then whittle them down street by street while simultaneously evaluating my equity against the perceived range. sounds easy but 20 minutes into a session im right back to spazz click button mode.
end incoherent ramble/
in other news i've hooked up with a new coach that im really excited about. im really excited about this new opportunity but realize i need to start putting much more work in myself in order to get the full benefit of the coaching i recieve.
gonna play tonight and although i have extreme mtt jealousy right now due to the big scoop series on stars im cutting out all mtt activity for the time being as well as a self ban on any variation of 4 hole card games.
tg
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
V
that's what my graph would look like from the last week or so.
i took a couple unintentional days off just due to being busy, i played two sessions on sunday both going horribly and dropped $600+. i was pretty dejected from that so the next session i played i just chilled and 3 tabled 50nl and played a $24 45 man sng. i did well there making like $170 at 50nl and min cashing the sng (6/45 for like $54) over only a couple hundred hands.
last night i decided to play back at 100nl but just stick to 4 tables. i ended up 5 tabling a bit plus playing a $24 mtt and ran very well. i made like $480 in cash games and busted the mtt early in the 2nd hour when i lost a flip w/ QQ v AJss on a T hi spade draw flop.
anyways, it's a new month so another fresh start. march wasn't great but it wasn't horrible. i probably lost a little in mtts and think i lost around 700 playing cash mostly due to the 1/2 disaster but made 1.6k in live games in vegas. i guess the major downfall of march is that none of my winnings made there way back to my br :(
tg
i took a couple unintentional days off just due to being busy, i played two sessions on sunday both going horribly and dropped $600+. i was pretty dejected from that so the next session i played i just chilled and 3 tabled 50nl and played a $24 45 man sng. i did well there making like $170 at 50nl and min cashing the sng (6/45 for like $54) over only a couple hundred hands.
last night i decided to play back at 100nl but just stick to 4 tables. i ended up 5 tabling a bit plus playing a $24 mtt and ran very well. i made like $480 in cash games and busted the mtt early in the 2nd hour when i lost a flip w/ QQ v AJss on a T hi spade draw flop.
anyways, it's a new month so another fresh start. march wasn't great but it wasn't horrible. i probably lost a little in mtts and think i lost around 700 playing cash mostly due to the 1/2 disaster but made 1.6k in live games in vegas. i guess the major downfall of march is that none of my winnings made there way back to my br :(
tg
Thursday, March 26, 2009
made a video
made a 45min video of myself 6 tabling for my coach's review last night. managed to run sick good over the 450 hands and made $170.
i actually flopped a straight 3 times although i only really got paid on one and had to fold the river on the other.
hoping to play tonight.
tg
i actually flopped a straight 3 times although i only really got paid on one and had to fold the river on the other.
hoping to play tonight.
tg
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
hiatus over
been a long time since posting. i said in my last post i wouldn't post again till i had some green numbers. well i've had some wins but probably still too many losses. here's a recap of the last month and a half:
i'll be back to posting regularly whether it be good or bad from now on.
tg
- kept playing 100nl online after last post for another 2 weeks or so with mostly poor results until i had like back to back 4-5 buyin losses and decided i was done playing till my vegas trip.
- during one of those lossing sessions i decided to dick around in a $24 6max ko bounty tournament so that it would keep me interested in playing the cash tables. 5 hours later at 4am i took 3/904 ppl for 1.8k which was def a roll saver.
- took about a week off prior to vegas trip
- went to vegas and played mostly 1-2 (300 max bi) and 1-3 (500 max bi, i usually bought in for 400) first night in vegas im up about 400 early before i get fall down drunk and give away profits. second day i puke all day, put in a small session at night winning about 250. next day i played made like 500 or something. day after that was my biggest day building my 300 bi up to about 1.5k. last day there i drop 200 when i didn't even want to play for a grand total of 1.7k profits i think.
- unfortunately none of the profits got back into my br as i bought my gf some stuff, treated myself to some nice dinners and shopping, came home and paid some bills and poof it was gone which is fine.
- took another few days off after my trip and started back online around the middle of this month.
- felt like i had some confidence back in my game, started analyzing my leaks a little more intently and put together a nice little string of winning sessions.
- played a ton this past weekend started off playing really well i thought, picked up a few flaws in my thinking from a training video and was doing pretty well until i just started getting murdered by the deck again. i ended up playing 1/2 at a couple tables because of a huge whale and he proceeded to stack me twice, once for 150 bb's so i dumped 700 in that session only later to come back and stick to 100nl and get murdered for another 5 bi for a -1.2k day.
- also since my mtt score i've playing some of the smaller ones that won't affect me roll wise but could produce a nice payout. i haven't had much other success but the fields are usually huge so it doesn't mean much. i've also played a couple 45 man sng's which are just unbelievably juicy but haven't picked up a cash in those yet. i did play a satellite to the 750k guarantee the other day ($216 bi) and managed to cash a seat but by the time the tournament rolled around i didn't have the focus or patience to play it so i unregistered and took the converted T$ to help offset the cash losses.
- keep grinding 100nl while playing roughly 4 tables but sometimes 6 if i can get a good seat on a fish at more than 4.
- play the occasional $26 mtt or 45/90 sng just cuz it keeps things interesting and the fields are so still super soft.
- keep up consistent coaching sessions weekly which over the last month or so hasn't happened for one reason or another.
i'll be back to posting regularly whether it be good or bad from now on.
tg
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
hot n cold
hot on playing better, cold at winning monies.
played last thursday and lost 3 buy-ins ($600) and did a 2 hour coaching review after wards of all the interesting hands. we addressed a flaw in my game where i was isolating limpers a little too weakly and maybe some small pre-flop leaks i have where im under valuing suited aces and over valuing hands like 64s. other than that and one other hand i botched i think i played a pretty sound session and unfortunately had a bunch of hands where the turn was an absolute gross spot and i was forced to fold with better than 60bb's in the pot.
played again saturday morning and got stacked on some std cooler/beat, can't remember, and kept running into shitty turns a la thursdays session and lost another $300.
sunday morning i got up early to watch a footy match online and decided to play a couple $40 cap plo games while watching. i ended up losing like $180 getting it in capped 4 times, once w/ 26% equity in a 4way capped pot pre-flop against AAxx, AAxx and KKxx holding 7653 w/ 3 clubs. my equity would have been much better but all 3 villains hands had blockers to my hand. other than that i got top 2 in vs middle set as the pfr, QJ97 vs Q8xx on a Q877 board and lost to a rvr 8 and some other hand where i had 82% equity on the turn and lost.
after the game i grabbed some breakfest and played 4 tables of 100nl while paying some bills and what not. not sure how but i managed to drop another $300 when i can only remember getting stacked once. anyways, i wasn't concentrating like i should have been so i accept the fact that my play was probably sub par. i played a little last night just while messing around with my hud settings and installing some new table mods. i think i got stacked once when i had TT on a 987hh flop and got it in vs AJhh but not sure of the total damge.
on top of all that i had to cashout my rakeback money ($1700) along with another $1600 from my ftp account and have spent my few hunderd dollars of stars money on coaching so im now officially a little bit closer to rock bottom. i think my online roll now sits at like 5k, a far cry from the high water mark of 28k last summer.
plan is to grind 100nl for the rest of the month until i go to vegas Mar 5th and hopefully when i return i'll go back to playing 200nl again.
i think i'll also take a break from posting depressing results in the blog so i probably won't post until i have some green numbers to show.
tg
played last thursday and lost 3 buy-ins ($600) and did a 2 hour coaching review after wards of all the interesting hands. we addressed a flaw in my game where i was isolating limpers a little too weakly and maybe some small pre-flop leaks i have where im under valuing suited aces and over valuing hands like 64s. other than that and one other hand i botched i think i played a pretty sound session and unfortunately had a bunch of hands where the turn was an absolute gross spot and i was forced to fold with better than 60bb's in the pot.
played again saturday morning and got stacked on some std cooler/beat, can't remember, and kept running into shitty turns a la thursdays session and lost another $300.
sunday morning i got up early to watch a footy match online and decided to play a couple $40 cap plo games while watching. i ended up losing like $180 getting it in capped 4 times, once w/ 26% equity in a 4way capped pot pre-flop against AAxx, AAxx and KKxx holding 7653 w/ 3 clubs. my equity would have been much better but all 3 villains hands had blockers to my hand. other than that i got top 2 in vs middle set as the pfr, QJ97 vs Q8xx on a Q877 board and lost to a rvr 8 and some other hand where i had 82% equity on the turn and lost.
after the game i grabbed some breakfest and played 4 tables of 100nl while paying some bills and what not. not sure how but i managed to drop another $300 when i can only remember getting stacked once. anyways, i wasn't concentrating like i should have been so i accept the fact that my play was probably sub par. i played a little last night just while messing around with my hud settings and installing some new table mods. i think i got stacked once when i had TT on a 987hh flop and got it in vs AJhh but not sure of the total damge.
on top of all that i had to cashout my rakeback money ($1700) along with another $1600 from my ftp account and have spent my few hunderd dollars of stars money on coaching so im now officially a little bit closer to rock bottom. i think my online roll now sits at like 5k, a far cry from the high water mark of 28k last summer.
plan is to grind 100nl for the rest of the month until i go to vegas Mar 5th and hopefully when i return i'll go back to playing 200nl again.
i think i'll also take a break from posting depressing results in the blog so i probably won't post until i have some green numbers to show.
tg
Thursday, February 5, 2009
so i have been playing bad
really bad. after 2 sessions with my old coach he made the comment that "i look a lot like a player that he was coaching 6 months ago". (ie. me, before i started coaching with him)
i've basically gone back to all my old bad habits. one lesson i've learned from the last 6 months is this. i need a second set of eyes, experienced eyes, reviewing my play with me on a constant basis. although i try my best, i require someone to argue plays with me and challenge me to think better. it's just too easy to convince yourself the play you made is right because you have a vested interest in it being right.
so for now, im going to be working with my coach twice a week, work on getting back to playing super solid tag poker and winning all the monies!
tg
i've basically gone back to all my old bad habits. one lesson i've learned from the last 6 months is this. i need a second set of eyes, experienced eyes, reviewing my play with me on a constant basis. although i try my best, i require someone to argue plays with me and challenge me to think better. it's just too easy to convince yourself the play you made is right because you have a vested interest in it being right.
so for now, im going to be working with my coach twice a week, work on getting back to playing super solid tag poker and winning all the monies!
tg
Monday, February 2, 2009
jan results
back, fully medicated and not wanting to quit pokah, kinda.
january finished up ok, my first session back after my meltdown i made 3 buy-ins and then broke even on the 31st making my total hands played 10,635 for the month. pretty low but kinda what i expected since i didn't play early in the month and then took time off mid month.
i ended up making like $225 so weeeeeeeee i didn't lose this month! that plus a $200 ironman bonus i cashed in and another $250 or so i won on stars playing ssplo while killing time on lunch. then there's rakeback but i never really keep track of that.
i had a few minutes today to sit down and play and feb sucks huge balls. in 186 hands i got my ass handed to me and lost a couple stacks (maybe multiple, i didn't look) due largely to getting set over setted twice.
my dilemma now is how much to withdraw for my trip to vegas later this month. i need to withdraw nowish cuz of the time it will take to get the cheque sent out and then my bank always puts a hold on it. with roughly 10.5k online between ftp and rakeback (using the money on stars for coaching) im kind of in a tough spot. ideally i'd like to take 5k to vegas with me so i can play some 2/5nl if i so desire but that would leave me underolled for 200nl the rest of the month. i guess i could just take out 3k which would not affect my online roll too much and then play 1/2 on the front end of my trip and then take shots at 2/5nl later in the trip when i don't have to worry about going busto.
at first i had mixed feelings about this trip for the above reasons, i hate withdrawing from online because the money never seems to get back into my account and i get frustrated when i make progrees in stakes and then have to go backwards due to outside sources. i really do not want to head back down to 100nl full time. so after a little thinking i decided that instead of playing half drunk and donking around for fun i could really grind my ass off while there and make it more of a business trip. i don't care how shitty my results have been in the last few months there is no way im a dog at the live 1/2 games and most likely a hefty fav. so if i can put in some big sessions (time wise), maybe i can use this as a bankroll booster instead of buster. i'll be there for 5 nights so thats plenty of time to make the moniez.
one other thing, i have reunited with my old coach and i feel better already after just one session. im hoping to work with him quite a bit before the vegas trip and maybe, and just maybe i can have a month reminisent (sp?) of spring/summer of 08.
tg
january finished up ok, my first session back after my meltdown i made 3 buy-ins and then broke even on the 31st making my total hands played 10,635 for the month. pretty low but kinda what i expected since i didn't play early in the month and then took time off mid month.
i ended up making like $225 so weeeeeeeee i didn't lose this month! that plus a $200 ironman bonus i cashed in and another $250 or so i won on stars playing ssplo while killing time on lunch. then there's rakeback but i never really keep track of that.
i had a few minutes today to sit down and play and feb sucks huge balls. in 186 hands i got my ass handed to me and lost a couple stacks (maybe multiple, i didn't look) due largely to getting set over setted twice.
my dilemma now is how much to withdraw for my trip to vegas later this month. i need to withdraw nowish cuz of the time it will take to get the cheque sent out and then my bank always puts a hold on it. with roughly 10.5k online between ftp and rakeback (using the money on stars for coaching) im kind of in a tough spot. ideally i'd like to take 5k to vegas with me so i can play some 2/5nl if i so desire but that would leave me underolled for 200nl the rest of the month. i guess i could just take out 3k which would not affect my online roll too much and then play 1/2 on the front end of my trip and then take shots at 2/5nl later in the trip when i don't have to worry about going busto.
at first i had mixed feelings about this trip for the above reasons, i hate withdrawing from online because the money never seems to get back into my account and i get frustrated when i make progrees in stakes and then have to go backwards due to outside sources. i really do not want to head back down to 100nl full time. so after a little thinking i decided that instead of playing half drunk and donking around for fun i could really grind my ass off while there and make it more of a business trip. i don't care how shitty my results have been in the last few months there is no way im a dog at the live 1/2 games and most likely a hefty fav. so if i can put in some big sessions (time wise), maybe i can use this as a bankroll booster instead of buster. i'll be there for 5 nights so thats plenty of time to make the moniez.
one other thing, i have reunited with my old coach and i feel better already after just one session. im hoping to work with him quite a bit before the vegas trip and maybe, and just maybe i can have a month reminisent (sp?) of spring/summer of 08.
tg
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
not. good. at. poker.
haven't played at all in the last 5-6 days and was super excited to play tonight. well within 45 min of starting my session im tilted out of my mind, got outplayed by the regs, got owned by the fish im supposed to be better than and i've come to one conclusion.
im just no good at poker. i have zero natural instinct for card games, i don't possess a fearless gamble and basically have been spinning my wheels for 4 years.
its funny because i often see people on training sites complaining about not being able to beat 25nl and shit and they've been playing for 2 years. well today i realized i am no better than them. right now i am such a huge dog to 200nl regulars it's embarassing.
the last 6 months in particular have been a vicous cycle, play a session, get raped, get pissed off and want to quit, cool down and by the next day have a renewed vigor about the game and a self assurance that i can get better. well i can't and i won't.
no amount of coaching or studying will ever turn me into a winner. im ashamed over the last few months every time someone asked me how poker is going but i deserve it because in early 08 i was taking every opportunity to let people know how well i was doing when they asked me.
i really wish i had the courage to cash out and quit. if i had some kind of other money making idea i would because i don't want to work a 9-5 the rest of my life. but i don't and the vicous cycle just keeps repeating.
tg
EDIT: day after edit, this is the kind of post that occurs when you don't take your meds and run slightly bad. i'll be back.
im just no good at poker. i have zero natural instinct for card games, i don't possess a fearless gamble and basically have been spinning my wheels for 4 years.
its funny because i often see people on training sites complaining about not being able to beat 25nl and shit and they've been playing for 2 years. well today i realized i am no better than them. right now i am such a huge dog to 200nl regulars it's embarassing.
the last 6 months in particular have been a vicous cycle, play a session, get raped, get pissed off and want to quit, cool down and by the next day have a renewed vigor about the game and a self assurance that i can get better. well i can't and i won't.
no amount of coaching or studying will ever turn me into a winner. im ashamed over the last few months every time someone asked me how poker is going but i deserve it because in early 08 i was taking every opportunity to let people know how well i was doing when they asked me.
i really wish i had the courage to cash out and quit. if i had some kind of other money making idea i would because i don't want to work a 9-5 the rest of my life. but i don't and the vicous cycle just keeps repeating.
tg
EDIT: day after edit, this is the kind of post that occurs when you don't take your meds and run slightly bad. i'll be back.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
winners tilt
had a good session the other night managing to play 1500 hands in one sitting which is rare. the plan was to play for an hour and a half or so, go to the gym and come back and play for a bit more but i didn't feel tired or worn out and every time my tables started breaking a new fish would sit down at a bunch of tables so i kept playing.
i was doing pretty well and built up stacks on a few tables making some good reads but in the end i think i got a little sloppy with my play. i think maybe my worst form of tilt is winners tilt and i tend to go into spazz click mode when im up. i play a little spewy pre-flop at times when winning and also tend to just make plays that are unwarranted. oh, and i don't like folding to river bets either.
anyways, im going to brush up a little bit on my hu game which is kind of non-existent. back last spring sometime i was playing hu semi-regularly at 50nl and did quite well over a small sample but stopped playing just because i didn't feel i had the optimal mindset going in to hu matches. if i lost a pot or got stacked a couple times i felt like i was getting owned and would get down myself, basically taking the results personally. also, the amount of guys i would sit down with that would hit n run were absurd and it bothered me a lot. the reason i feel a need to get back into it is that the other night while playing a did a search on one of the fish at my table to find out what other tables he was on. he was playing some dude hu so i put my name on the list not expecting to get a shot at him but a couple minutes later i did. he actually had a fairly decent pre-flop game hu but his post-flop skills were severely lacking. he stacked me once early but i managed to end up a few bucks on him before quitting to call it a night.
so i think i would like to occasionally play some hu in the future when i can find a spot worth playing. i won't be making it anything close to my main game but i think often times some of the biggest fish are playing hu, taking a shot with case money and i think having some hu experience can only help my developement.
tg
i was doing pretty well and built up stacks on a few tables making some good reads but in the end i think i got a little sloppy with my play. i think maybe my worst form of tilt is winners tilt and i tend to go into spazz click mode when im up. i play a little spewy pre-flop at times when winning and also tend to just make plays that are unwarranted. oh, and i don't like folding to river bets either.
anyways, im going to brush up a little bit on my hu game which is kind of non-existent. back last spring sometime i was playing hu semi-regularly at 50nl and did quite well over a small sample but stopped playing just because i didn't feel i had the optimal mindset going in to hu matches. if i lost a pot or got stacked a couple times i felt like i was getting owned and would get down myself, basically taking the results personally. also, the amount of guys i would sit down with that would hit n run were absurd and it bothered me a lot. the reason i feel a need to get back into it is that the other night while playing a did a search on one of the fish at my table to find out what other tables he was on. he was playing some dude hu so i put my name on the list not expecting to get a shot at him but a couple minutes later i did. he actually had a fairly decent pre-flop game hu but his post-flop skills were severely lacking. he stacked me once early but i managed to end up a few bucks on him before quitting to call it a night.
so i think i would like to occasionally play some hu in the future when i can find a spot worth playing. i won't be making it anything close to my main game but i think often times some of the biggest fish are playing hu, taking a shot with case money and i think having some hu experience can only help my developement.
tg
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
decent week
felt like i played pretty well over the 2k hands or so i've played over the last week. i think i've done pretty well over that time frame results wise so it feels good to win a little bit.
saturday i played another live session and made $160 in about 5 hours of play but it was one of the live sessions that makes me never want to play live again. just a bunch of whiners with the typical "oh my god i play perfect and never win" bullshit. i busted some reg w/ AA vs AK for 60bb's and he whined about it until i left. a lot of these regs are just so horrendous i have no idea why they haven't clued in yet but i guess thats the great part about poker. i had one kid that was playing super weak tight but wouldn't shutup when it came to berating this super bad short stack player beside me. so i had to listen to them bicker back and fourth on either side of me and at that moment i thanked god for internet poker. (and partly swore at the casino for banning ipods otherwise i wouldn't have had to deal with it)
best parts of the session were:
i also had a sick situation happen online last night. i got KK in vs AA pre again for the second time in a short little session i was playing after work. the first time i lost but the dude was only 1/2 stacked so it wasn't too bad, this time though villain was full and spiked a set on the flop. i then proceeded to hit runner runner for a straight and started to think that maybe it's my time to go on a little run. about 5 min after that the absolute biggest fish in mid/low stake nl sat down at my already decent table. this guy is down 220k over a pretty big sample playing 2/4 and 1/2! it's so sick so i had a ton of stuff to do but i felt obligated to stay and play. the wait list for the table was 49 people long! anyways i stayed for a bit, missed out on a lot of the stuff i was supposed to do but did manage to make a few bucks off him before i had to go.
im gonna try and play a lot tonight and maybe even try to luckbox a donkament.
tg
saturday i played another live session and made $160 in about 5 hours of play but it was one of the live sessions that makes me never want to play live again. just a bunch of whiners with the typical "oh my god i play perfect and never win" bullshit. i busted some reg w/ AA vs AK for 60bb's and he whined about it until i left. a lot of these regs are just so horrendous i have no idea why they haven't clued in yet but i guess thats the great part about poker. i had one kid that was playing super weak tight but wouldn't shutup when it came to berating this super bad short stack player beside me. so i had to listen to them bicker back and fourth on either side of me and at that moment i thanked god for internet poker. (and partly swore at the casino for banning ipods otherwise i wouldn't have had to deal with it)
best parts of the session were:
- same donk short stacker thats arguing with weak tight calls a raise from mp in the bb with like $37 behind. flop comes QTX and he bets out $30, pfr puts the other $7 in and he folds stating he was trying to get him off 2 pair.
- weak tight won't stop bitching and whining so after i take down a pot that he obv folded in he states that his 3rd pair was huge there, i laugh and he then starts telling me how he's going to call all my raises and outplay me post flop. i could do nothing else but laugh my ass off.
- half decent (or so i thought) reg raises in the hijak, my buddy cold calls in the blinds and they take a Q73ccc flop hu. my buddy donks out, hijak min-raises and my buddy calls. turn Qx, my buddy checks, hijak bets like 1/2 pot and my buddy c/r ai for another 100 on top. hijak tanks for close to 5 minutes, keeps holding his cards up and cutting out the call. then mucks his JJ face up while declaring he guarantee's it's the best hand and there is no way he's beat. i see this about 5 times a session, "im 100% sure i've got the best hand but im gonna fold"? (my buddy had AcQx)
i also had a sick situation happen online last night. i got KK in vs AA pre again for the second time in a short little session i was playing after work. the first time i lost but the dude was only 1/2 stacked so it wasn't too bad, this time though villain was full and spiked a set on the flop. i then proceeded to hit runner runner for a straight and started to think that maybe it's my time to go on a little run. about 5 min after that the absolute biggest fish in mid/low stake nl sat down at my already decent table. this guy is down 220k over a pretty big sample playing 2/4 and 1/2! it's so sick so i had a ton of stuff to do but i felt obligated to stay and play. the wait list for the table was 49 people long! anyways i stayed for a bit, missed out on a lot of the stuff i was supposed to do but did manage to make a few bucks off him before i had to go.
im gonna try and play a lot tonight and maybe even try to luckbox a donkament.
tg
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
salty
haven't played a ton this month but have had some really good sessions of late. i feel like i've played some of my best sessions of the last 5 months this week. i really owe it to going back and watching the unconventional wisdom series on deucescracked which really helped me to realize how robotic/abc/face up/straight forward/auto piloty i was playing.
it's easy to think you're running bad when you truly are just playing bad. lets face it, there is no way i was just running bad over the last 5 months. my stats are reflecting the change and i had kind of become this 23/21 wanna be tag with a pretty high aggression frequency since all i ever did was bet/bet/give up or bet/bet/bet.
lately i've been back to bobbing and weaving a bit more, giving aggro players rope, squeezing value out of hands and i think making some disciplined lay downs.
so poker is looking pretty positive except one thing is missing. im pretty sure my financial results are the shits still. i've played the bulk of my 4.7k hands over the last few nights and i now realize what running bad is actually like. i guess maybe it's just a product of game selecting well and playing with a bunch of monkeys and just like the ol party poker days, sometimes they are just going to stomp you. i have no ideas what my $ numbers are because im only going to review them monthly but im hoping it's not tooooooo brutal or else i might have to grind 100nl.
on another note i stacked off w/ QQ to AA again tonight which got me to thinking about how often i seem to run monster into monster against other tag regs when battling in steal scenarios so i went back through hem and filtered my results over the last 4 months when i get JJ/QQ/KK all-in pre-flop. im down 1.8k in those scenarios so maybe it's not all my imagination.
my gf comes back tomorrow so my poker playing will be cut down but i didn't seem to play all that much more when she was gone anyways.
tg
it's easy to think you're running bad when you truly are just playing bad. lets face it, there is no way i was just running bad over the last 5 months. my stats are reflecting the change and i had kind of become this 23/21 wanna be tag with a pretty high aggression frequency since all i ever did was bet/bet/give up or bet/bet/bet.
lately i've been back to bobbing and weaving a bit more, giving aggro players rope, squeezing value out of hands and i think making some disciplined lay downs.
so poker is looking pretty positive except one thing is missing. im pretty sure my financial results are the shits still. i've played the bulk of my 4.7k hands over the last few nights and i now realize what running bad is actually like. i guess maybe it's just a product of game selecting well and playing with a bunch of monkeys and just like the ol party poker days, sometimes they are just going to stomp you. i have no ideas what my $ numbers are because im only going to review them monthly but im hoping it's not tooooooo brutal or else i might have to grind 100nl.
on another note i stacked off w/ QQ to AA again tonight which got me to thinking about how often i seem to run monster into monster against other tag regs when battling in steal scenarios so i went back through hem and filtered my results over the last 4 months when i get JJ/QQ/KK all-in pre-flop. im down 1.8k in those scenarios so maybe it's not all my imagination.
my gf comes back tomorrow so my poker playing will be cut down but i didn't seem to play all that much more when she was gone anyways.
tg
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