For the past month I was gone out of the country. I went to Argentina, and then I went to the NorthEast for my younger sister's graduation, and then I went to Las Vegas a bit for my parents.
I was thinking about going to Vegas to play the WSOP, but I'm really on the fence right now. First of all, I would have to play a ton of single table satellites to get enough tournament money to play an event. I would also have to get a hotel room for the week or so. Plus the chances of me winning, or making any money with these tournament fields at 1000+ players seems very slim. Although I could make money in the Sit 'N Gos, I feel like I would make more money online. I don't know, I might take this summer to build my bankroll, and play in the WSOP next year. I'm still not quite sure yet what I'm going to do.
I really want to get my bankroll to 30k+ before the end of the summer. That might be my goal right now.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Sunday, May 6, 2007
Running Hot
Well I haven't updated this blog in a while. I was almost at risk of not graduating this semester, but it seems as if it has worked out alright. But lately, I think that the games on the internet have been extremely soft. I've just been making a ton online recently.
Below are my stats in the recent weeks since I almost went busto in 2/4nl. I'm especially excited about this because of the 1/2 nl heads up results. I've been a lifetime loser, at 1/2 heads up, but I've recently started playing a lot better.
Below are my stats in the recent weeks since I almost went busto in 2/4nl. I'm especially excited about this because of the 1/2 nl heads up results. I've been a lifetime loser, at 1/2 heads up, but I've recently started playing a lot better.
Saturday, April 28, 2007
I was on TV!
Well, not really. I was playing on a couple tables on 2/4nl, when I noticed Yawning Boy and a couple of my tables. I was even playing HU against him on one when everybody left. I soon realized that I've seen the name on CardRunners.com, and it was Andrew Wiggins one of the lead instructors on the site. I know he doesn't really play limits this low, so I thought that it was going to be a video.
At the end of his session he told the table that it was going to be a cardrunners.com video! I'm just glad that he had already finished recording and sat out when I tried to run a bluff on somebody. I wouldn't want to be called an idiot infront of the online poker community. I don't know if my ego can take that.....
So it went up on Wednesday and I watched it right away. The video was pretty good overall. On a more important note, though, the quality of the video was kinda shitty. So it's kinda hard to make out the names. Dammit. I also pretty much stay even the whole time I'm playing with him on two tables. I think I ende)d up about 20-30 dollars in the whole session that was recorded on cardrunners.com. So, he barely mentions me at all in the video. I think I only entered two-three pots against him, and I folded to his cbet, or he folded to mine. I guess I'll have to wait for another day to become an online poker celebrity.
At the end of his session he told the table that it was going to be a cardrunners.com video! I'm just glad that he had already finished recording and sat out when I tried to run a bluff on somebody. I wouldn't want to be called an idiot infront of the online poker community. I don't know if my ego can take that.....
So it went up on Wednesday and I watched it right away. The video was pretty good overall. On a more important note, though, the quality of the video was kinda shitty. So it's kinda hard to make out the names. Dammit. I also pretty much stay even the whole time I'm playing with him on two tables. I think I ende)d up about 20-30 dollars in the whole session that was recorded on cardrunners.com. So, he barely mentions me at all in the video. I think I only entered two-three pots against him, and I folded to his cbet, or he folded to mine. I guess I'll have to wait for another day to become an online poker celebrity.
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Almost made a huge huge mistake....
So the other day I finally had access to my entire bankroll online. My Epassporte account was finally approved, so I can know move my bankroll between the different sites I played. With that in mind, I decided to take another shot at 2/4nl on Full Tilt. The first day I played pretty good. I ended up about 3 buyins. I was feeling good about myself. I was only 3/4 tabling, and I was definitely improving. Just paying attention to the different plays that people do and the plays being run on me really improved my game. So, I was feeling good with myself and the next day decided to continue playing 2/4nl.
Well, disaster stuck. I went on a 13 buyin downswing. It was sickening. Here are some hands:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1039736
I guess this guy really wanted to gamble. He's dominated by so many hands it's unreal that he does this with 45s. Oh well, set is no good.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1039748
I almost puked after this hand. When I saw the turn, I got this feeling that another spade was going to hit, and it did. This happened near the end of my downswing , so I was pretty pissed after this.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1039752
AA, no good. I guess the flush really likes to hit when playing against me.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1039757
Really frustrating when I lose those hands before, and I can't win this.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1039762
This is a cooler, I think. I'm not really sure if I can get away from this hand. I don't know. From just the way that he bet I put him on 77 on the flop. Part of me was thinking QQ and AA, but I heavily discounted those just because I held the A and the Q. So I also somewhat discounted the flush draw because I don't think the flush draw would be 3 betting me as often here. This is because I thought they guy to be pretty tight and not stupid. I just don't see him playing the flush like this, he'd probably peeling the flop. I don't know though. I also don't think with the flush draw out there that I can fold. On the other hand can I even fold this flop EVER if the board was rainbow?
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1039775
I don't think I can get away from this hand. Toughts welcome.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1039782
Well, I knew I had the best hand on the flop and turn. However, I asn't sure about this river call. Is his range on the river big enough that my call of his push is +EV long term? I guess this is player dependent, and I shouldn't have called.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1039786
I don't think I can ever fold this. It's just sick.
Well, there are also few pots that I tilted and general spew. Well, after this horrible session, I took a break, and somehow reasoned that I was playing really well, and decided not to move down. I was very very close to going broke. However things started to turn around and I started to gain some of the money I lost.
Since I was playing well, I decided to contine to play 2/4nl. Well I started playing a lot better, and my hands finally heald up. I made some money back, and then I took a break for that day. Over the next 2 days, I decided to 8 table 1/2nl. Well, 8 tabling 1/2nl was so much easier after my 2/4nl stint. I completely destroyed 1/2nl 8 tabling. I also destroyed heads up 1/2nl. In two days, I basically erased my huge huge downswing. I'm really pissed that I can't quit after say a 4 buy in downswing in one session. And the fact that I continued to play 2/4nl after a 12-13 buyin down swing really disturbs me. If I had continue to tilt or run bad, I would have completely destroyed my online bankroll. I need to learn to protect my bankroll. I'm completely gratefull that I completely destroyed 1/2nl and got my bankroll to it's previous position. I'll show the graph below.
My pokertracker stats of the run that helped me out of the holeI dug myself.
Well, disaster stuck. I went on a 13 buyin downswing. It was sickening. Here are some hands:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1039736
I guess this guy really wanted to gamble. He's dominated by so many hands it's unreal that he does this with 45s. Oh well, set is no good.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1039748
I almost puked after this hand. When I saw the turn, I got this feeling that another spade was going to hit, and it did. This happened near the end of my downswing , so I was pretty pissed after this.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1039752
AA, no good. I guess the flush really likes to hit when playing against me.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1039757
Really frustrating when I lose those hands before, and I can't win this.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1039762
This is a cooler, I think. I'm not really sure if I can get away from this hand. I don't know. From just the way that he bet I put him on 77 on the flop. Part of me was thinking QQ and AA, but I heavily discounted those just because I held the A and the Q. So I also somewhat discounted the flush draw because I don't think the flush draw would be 3 betting me as often here. This is because I thought they guy to be pretty tight and not stupid. I just don't see him playing the flush like this, he'd probably peeling the flop. I don't know though. I also don't think with the flush draw out there that I can fold. On the other hand can I even fold this flop EVER if the board was rainbow?
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1039775
I don't think I can get away from this hand. Toughts welcome.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1039782
Well, I knew I had the best hand on the flop and turn. However, I asn't sure about this river call. Is his range on the river big enough that my call of his push is +EV long term? I guess this is player dependent, and I shouldn't have called.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1039786
I don't think I can ever fold this. It's just sick.
Well, there are also few pots that I tilted and general spew. Well, after this horrible session, I took a break, and somehow reasoned that I was playing really well, and decided not to move down. I was very very close to going broke. However things started to turn around and I started to gain some of the money I lost.
Since I was playing well, I decided to contine to play 2/4nl. Well I started playing a lot better, and my hands finally heald up. I made some money back, and then I took a break for that day. Over the next 2 days, I decided to 8 table 1/2nl. Well, 8 tabling 1/2nl was so much easier after my 2/4nl stint. I completely destroyed 1/2nl 8 tabling. I also destroyed heads up 1/2nl. In two days, I basically erased my huge huge downswing. I'm really pissed that I can't quit after say a 4 buy in downswing in one session. And the fact that I continued to play 2/4nl after a 12-13 buyin down swing really disturbs me. If I had continue to tilt or run bad, I would have completely destroyed my online bankroll. I need to learn to protect my bankroll. I'm completely gratefull that I completely destroyed 1/2nl and got my bankroll to it's previous position. I'll show the graph below.
My pokertracker stats of the run that helped me out of the holeI dug myself.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Over 100k hands for the year
So I just looked at all my PokerTracker hands and I'm over 100k hands in nlhe for the year. 113k hands to be exact. One statistic, though, really jumped out at me today - the amount of rake that I've spent.
I've given poker sites over 13k in business. That's mind boggling to me. What sucks even more is realizing that I played the majority of my hands (over three quarters) on sites that I don't have rakeback. That is unacceptable. What's crazy is the fact that I paid this much in rake, without even realizing it. Rake is like that scheme that they described about in Office Space, where they had the program which took cents off thousands of transactions. Nobody notices it, but over time it adds up.
What I'm trying to get at is that today, I finally realized the importance of playing your "A" game all the time. If I played the best that I could in every single pot that I was in, saved a bet here, put in an extra value bet there, I would be much much richer. Lets say over 100k hands, I averaged 5 cents more per hand. That's either 5 cents I save or 5 cents more per hand, that's $5k more that's in my pocket. So, lets play good in every single hand.
I've given poker sites over 13k in business. That's mind boggling to me. What sucks even more is realizing that I played the majority of my hands (over three quarters) on sites that I don't have rakeback. That is unacceptable. What's crazy is the fact that I paid this much in rake, without even realizing it. Rake is like that scheme that they described about in Office Space, where they had the program which took cents off thousands of transactions. Nobody notices it, but over time it adds up.
What I'm trying to get at is that today, I finally realized the importance of playing your "A" game all the time. If I played the best that I could in every single pot that I was in, saved a bet here, put in an extra value bet there, I would be much much richer. Lets say over 100k hands, I averaged 5 cents more per hand. That's either 5 cents I save or 5 cents more per hand, that's $5k more that's in my pocket. So, lets play good in every single hand.
A high... ship it
I was playing against this really aggro donk. He had position on me, and for the first half an hour with him on my right, I didn't connect with a single flop, and I couldn't take a single pot from him. On the flop I knew that he didn't hit anything when he didn't bet. Since nothing changed on the turn, I already told myself that I was going to call ANY bet on the river. I was going to call any overbets as well.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1012355
Pretty proud of this call. Who says you can't get reads 8 tabling?
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1012355
Pretty proud of this call. Who says you can't get reads 8 tabling?
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Bleh, gotta control tilt
Well, I started off playing pretty well today. I can multi-table really easily know. I'm using FullTiltShortcuts which basically automate my betting for me. So I can 8 table pretty easily now, and right now I'm just trying to grind so that I can move up stakes. So I was playing pretty well up to the last 200-300 hands in the session.
I misclicked in one huge pot and called instead of folding. Maybe it's because I haven't gotten much sleep, but I wasn't thinking right after that. Instead of just folding the later streets on the big hand, I got stubborn, and tried to bluff out my opponents in a three way pot! Then, I sorta went on auto-pilot on the 8 tables and tried to really run everybody over. Well, that didn't work out so well. So within half an hour, I erase basically all of my profit for the day. Oh well, at least I caught myself quit all of my tables before I ended up in the red.
Other than this I think I'm playing a lot better poker. I've changed up my game and I'm a lot happier with the way I'm playing right now. I've also started playing Omaha Hi. I've been dabbling in the .5/1 OmahaPL for the past month or so and over the weekend I moved up to 1/2nl. It seems as if there are a lot of awful players in Omaha that don't know what they're doing. You don't even need to outplay people, you just sit back and wait until somebody overvalues there hand, and you make tons of money. That, or you win money through a lot of coinflips.
I misclicked in one huge pot and called instead of folding. Maybe it's because I haven't gotten much sleep, but I wasn't thinking right after that. Instead of just folding the later streets on the big hand, I got stubborn, and tried to bluff out my opponents in a three way pot! Then, I sorta went on auto-pilot on the 8 tables and tried to really run everybody over. Well, that didn't work out so well. So within half an hour, I erase basically all of my profit for the day. Oh well, at least I caught myself quit all of my tables before I ended up in the red.
Other than this I think I'm playing a lot better poker. I've changed up my game and I'm a lot happier with the way I'm playing right now. I've also started playing Omaha Hi. I've been dabbling in the .5/1 OmahaPL for the past month or so and over the weekend I moved up to 1/2nl. It seems as if there are a lot of awful players in Omaha that don't know what they're doing. You don't even need to outplay people, you just sit back and wait until somebody overvalues there hand, and you make tons of money. That, or you win money through a lot of coinflips.
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