http://www.bitcoin.org/
So I've been googling around trying to figure out ways to make some money with the little capital I have of my poker bank roll. I came across this virtual "gold" like currency.
It's a really neat idea of a person 2 person transfer system. There is no real central "authority" like banks or the fed reserve. It's simply you and your "Bitcoins" with the option to send, receive, or generate.
Generation of Bitcoins: This is where it gets really interesting, you can generate, or "mine" these coins. (To my understanding of) The way it works is, you click "generate" in the Bit coin program, and your computer uses its processor to try and solve an equation. I guess you can label "equation solving" under Hashes. The more hashes you get the faster you will generate. However, it is obscenely hard to actually generate (a decent amount of) these coins without like 10 computers all setup lol.
Trading: There is a limited amount of bit coins that can be generated. This number is set at 21 Million. It is said that the coins will all be generated by 2040. So, now you have a scarce resource and there are open markets that will trade these coins. From looking at all the charts (google bit coin charts) you can see how much of a boom the market for bit coins is.
That's about all I know so far, I'm really interested in getting into trading, and this seems like an easy place to start. If anyone wants to try and figure it out with me, let me know!
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Long over due...
1. Long Overdue
2. Uncalled for.
3. Theorizers gona Theorize.
4. Mo-neyz
5. Pich-ahs
1. Alright so, I just want to say that I haven't really played as much as I would have liked to since the last post. I hit some pretty nasty downswings at my attempt for the 16$ turbo 18 mans. Also I attempted to play some Omaha cash games at 10nl deep and 25nl. The games were so ridiculously soft, yet I ran bad in them. I suck at omaha, I'll admit that, but everyone else was definitley worse (atleast at those stakes.)
2. Both attempts, at the 16's and the Omaha cash games were completely un-called for. I shouldn't have played in either of them TBH. They are both high variance, and my skill edge is relatively small. That alone is completely contradictory to trying to build my bankroll further. Getting out of that downswing is why I haven't posted for a while.
3. Anyways, I wanted to dedicate this post to something I have really learned over the past semester, here it goes...
First of all when you make a goal (that is top priority), you must do whatever you can, to achieve that goal. For me at least, I want to complete this goal as quickly as possible. You shouldn't be "trying new things" and playing a higher stake just because you have the bank roll for it. Whatever your goal is you should achieve it first. You can of course adjust the goal to whatever your preferences are (especially if you've made a goal that wasn't what you expected).
So, my thought process goes something like this: *What what is my top priority goal?>>> Are there any time constraints?>>> If yes, whats the fastest way to complete the goal? >>> Setup a plan of how many/what hours to play>>> Grind whatever that is. >>> Run good and achieve goal. Or if you are Colt, run bad and hate life :D
I've just said all that because when i started playing the 16's and Omaha, I was really losing sight of my top priority goal. By doing this, I first of all, lost a good mindset, secondly, went backwards on my bankroll goal, and thirdly put in less volume overall because of this. Looking at those results, what does it sound like to you?
Conclusively,
-If you lose sight of your top priority goal, and are not doing what you've found to be the most efficient way of achieving that goal; then that is a form of tilt - and needs to be addressed accordingly.
4. Updates since last post:
Cash hands played: 2189
Profit: +$ 99.41
Omaha: (-$ 200) Roughly.
Tournaments played: 287
Profit: +$ 3.83
VIP store bonus: +$ 80 (-5000 fpps)
Current Bankroll: $ 2992.37
Previous post bankroll: $ 2969.84
Beginning bankroll: $ 1700
Overall profit: +$ 1292.37
5.
After all this, I think I'm going to play in some 5$ regular speed SNG's and see if I can beat it for 20%. If I can, I'll play those instead of turbos lol. I know it sounds contradictory (amiright?)
2. Uncalled for.
3. Theorizers gona Theorize.
4. Mo-neyz
5. Pich-ahs
1. Alright so, I just want to say that I haven't really played as much as I would have liked to since the last post. I hit some pretty nasty downswings at my attempt for the 16$ turbo 18 mans. Also I attempted to play some Omaha cash games at 10nl deep and 25nl. The games were so ridiculously soft, yet I ran bad in them. I suck at omaha, I'll admit that, but everyone else was definitley worse (atleast at those stakes.)
2. Both attempts, at the 16's and the Omaha cash games were completely un-called for. I shouldn't have played in either of them TBH. They are both high variance, and my skill edge is relatively small. That alone is completely contradictory to trying to build my bankroll further. Getting out of that downswing is why I haven't posted for a while.
3. Anyways, I wanted to dedicate this post to something I have really learned over the past semester, here it goes...
First of all when you make a goal (that is top priority), you must do whatever you can, to achieve that goal. For me at least, I want to complete this goal as quickly as possible. You shouldn't be "trying new things" and playing a higher stake just because you have the bank roll for it. Whatever your goal is you should achieve it first. You can of course adjust the goal to whatever your preferences are (especially if you've made a goal that wasn't what you expected).
So, my thought process goes something like this: *What what is my top priority goal?>>> Are there any time constraints?>>> If yes, whats the fastest way to complete the goal? >>> Setup a plan of how many/what hours to play>>> Grind whatever that is. >>> Run good and achieve goal. Or if you are Colt, run bad and hate life :D
I've just said all that because when i started playing the 16's and Omaha, I was really losing sight of my top priority goal. By doing this, I first of all, lost a good mindset, secondly, went backwards on my bankroll goal, and thirdly put in less volume overall because of this. Looking at those results, what does it sound like to you?
Conclusively,
-If you lose sight of your top priority goal, and are not doing what you've found to be the most efficient way of achieving that goal; then that is a form of tilt - and needs to be addressed accordingly.
4. Updates since last post:
Cash hands played: 2189
Profit: +$ 99.41
Omaha: (-$ 200) Roughly.
Tournaments played: 287
Profit: +$ 3.83
VIP store bonus: +$ 80 (-5000 fpps)
Current Bankroll: $ 2992.37
Previous post bankroll: $ 2969.84
Beginning bankroll: $ 1700
Overall profit: +$ 1292.37
5.
After all this, I think I'm going to play in some 5$ regular speed SNG's and see if I can beat it for 20%. If I can, I'll play those instead of turbos lol. I know it sounds contradictory (amiright?)
Monday, March 21, 2011
Bankroll >3k brag!!
lol yeah just wanted to post that I just reached a new bank roll high of 3047$. Pretty fun stuff. Ok back to the grind...
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Long over due blog update, Pictures!
1. It's been a while
2. Turbo SNG's!
3. The ultimate 3-tabler!
4. Results!
5. Spreadsheets are cool.
1. Alright so I've yet to update this blog at all since march started, and for a good reason. I've had the grind on my mind lately and have been playing like every thing poker that I've wanted to. I've played 6max cash games(25/50nl), large field tournaments, Turbo SNG's, Regular speed SNG's, 18,27,45,180, and 180 rebuy-man's. It's been funky, and I feel really good about playing poker in general right about now. Specefically, the turbo sng's have been best for me this month. I'm really happy that I decided to go back and grind out some sng's to pad the bankroll. I'll get into what I think about them next, but I just want to give a picture of how my month went:
( I decided to dis-include the sunday million result because i was staked/sattelited into it and ended up +107$ for that anyways.)
2. SO! yeah okay I chose to get into the dreaded turbo SNG's. At first I was skeptical because the maximum ROI in those, I assumez is much less than regular speed ones. However the pros definitely outweighed the cons, at least in my case:
1. The 18 man's are always running constantly, and it would take but 5-6 minutes to get 10-15 of them up and going.
2. Turbo's take much less time to complete (probably 45 min as opposed to 1-2 hours.) (Suits my situation better)
3. Alot of the regulars are 40 tabling, so there is a ton of money up for grabs vs them, (and they aren't as good as the res at the regular speed ones IMO.)
4. Learning turbo's will really help me expand my ventures into the Turbo MTT world.
Now, what I HAVE learned about these turbo's lately... Well for one, your stack size in much less effective with the faster blind structure. You absolutely have to build a stack for the late game. Having a 20bb stack with like 6-7 players left is SUCH an advantage in these, and it's worth it to make closer calls and lighter shoves. Ive also found that HU in the turbo's is much less interesting. Your effective stack is usually around 8-12bb's with just 2 players left, and there really isnt room for post flop play. I haven't really found a big edge HU other than jamming wider and such. I'll figure that one out though :) My last point on these I would like to make is: That the early game, when the blinds are between 20-50 chips, is really not that important. In the early game (just like the regular speed ones) you are just trying to double up your stake, or see really cheap flops. I'm probably going to mix in some min raises preflop with hands that aren't already made pre-flop. All of the bad players are constantly limping and overcalling and just being stationy, so it doesnt really make sense to raise up like 5x preflop with AJ-AQ when you'll be forced to check fold about 50-60% of the time. But yeah as always if anyone knows anything on these i'd take the advice to heart :D
FWIW I moved up from playing the 3$ 18 man's to the 6.5 18 man's and am confident. ( I also mix in like 3 3$ 45 mans and a 3$R 180 when i can.)
Okay on to cash games, heres the graph for cash games:
3.
So like yeah, I've got to say, I'm MUCH more confident coming into cash games again. I'm pretty sure that like playing 3 tables is the most +EV thing for me to do. I think I've been playing about 30% of hands, and 3betting close to 10% for this hand sample. It may only be 2k hands or whatever, but I put my heart and soul into those 2k hands. 3 tabling at most and just pretty much playing regulars.
There were maybe, at most, 2 or three fish at any of my tables. I would say on average that I played all regulars and 1 fish on my tables. I couldn't believe how much money is basically freely up for grabs against regulars.
My redline in 2 out of 4 sessions was my main source of profits. Now yeah i shouldn't be playing just regs, I get that, But my goal was just to beat players and make money. I can do that playing all fish, or I can do that playing regulars. -I just sat down at whatever table had a seat, and just played. If i can have this attitude while playing AND occasionally pick the best table, then I think that's how to maximize my profits and speed up the learning curve of NL cash games. InB4MajorDownSwonglol.
4. Results since last update:
Tournaments played: 548
Tournament Profit: +$628
Cash hands played: 2339
Cash game profit: +93.02
Total Profit since last post: +$611.02
(i really have to subtract about 110$ because of the Sunday mill adjustment which i messed up my last post with everythign else should be correct within about a +50 or -50$.)
Current Bankroll: 2969.84
Starting Bankroll: 1700
Total Profit Since start of semester: +$1269.84
I've also made a spreadsheet of all of my fluctuations since the last post. I'll start putting it in, because spreadsheets are cool.
5.
2. Turbo SNG's!
3. The ultimate 3-tabler!
4. Results!
5. Spreadsheets are cool.
1. Alright so I've yet to update this blog at all since march started, and for a good reason. I've had the grind on my mind lately and have been playing like every thing poker that I've wanted to. I've played 6max cash games(25/50nl), large field tournaments, Turbo SNG's, Regular speed SNG's, 18,27,45,180, and 180 rebuy-man's. It's been funky, and I feel really good about playing poker in general right about now. Specefically, the turbo sng's have been best for me this month. I'm really happy that I decided to go back and grind out some sng's to pad the bankroll. I'll get into what I think about them next, but I just want to give a picture of how my month went:
( I decided to dis-include the sunday million result because i was staked/sattelited into it and ended up +107$ for that anyways.)
2. SO! yeah okay I chose to get into the dreaded turbo SNG's. At first I was skeptical because the maximum ROI in those, I assumez is much less than regular speed ones. However the pros definitely outweighed the cons, at least in my case:
1. The 18 man's are always running constantly, and it would take but 5-6 minutes to get 10-15 of them up and going.
2. Turbo's take much less time to complete (probably 45 min as opposed to 1-2 hours.) (Suits my situation better)
3. Alot of the regulars are 40 tabling, so there is a ton of money up for grabs vs them, (and they aren't as good as the res at the regular speed ones IMO.)
4. Learning turbo's will really help me expand my ventures into the Turbo MTT world.
Now, what I HAVE learned about these turbo's lately... Well for one, your stack size in much less effective with the faster blind structure. You absolutely have to build a stack for the late game. Having a 20bb stack with like 6-7 players left is SUCH an advantage in these, and it's worth it to make closer calls and lighter shoves. Ive also found that HU in the turbo's is much less interesting. Your effective stack is usually around 8-12bb's with just 2 players left, and there really isnt room for post flop play. I haven't really found a big edge HU other than jamming wider and such. I'll figure that one out though :) My last point on these I would like to make is: That the early game, when the blinds are between 20-50 chips, is really not that important. In the early game (just like the regular speed ones) you are just trying to double up your stake, or see really cheap flops. I'm probably going to mix in some min raises preflop with hands that aren't already made pre-flop. All of the bad players are constantly limping and overcalling and just being stationy, so it doesnt really make sense to raise up like 5x preflop with AJ-AQ when you'll be forced to check fold about 50-60% of the time. But yeah as always if anyone knows anything on these i'd take the advice to heart :D
FWIW I moved up from playing the 3$ 18 man's to the 6.5 18 man's and am confident. ( I also mix in like 3 3$ 45 mans and a 3$R 180 when i can.)
Okay on to cash games, heres the graph for cash games:
3.
So like yeah, I've got to say, I'm MUCH more confident coming into cash games again. I'm pretty sure that like playing 3 tables is the most +EV thing for me to do. I think I've been playing about 30% of hands, and 3betting close to 10% for this hand sample. It may only be 2k hands or whatever, but I put my heart and soul into those 2k hands. 3 tabling at most and just pretty much playing regulars.
There were maybe, at most, 2 or three fish at any of my tables. I would say on average that I played all regulars and 1 fish on my tables. I couldn't believe how much money is basically freely up for grabs against regulars.
My redline in 2 out of 4 sessions was my main source of profits. Now yeah i shouldn't be playing just regs, I get that, But my goal was just to beat players and make money. I can do that playing all fish, or I can do that playing regulars. -I just sat down at whatever table had a seat, and just played. If i can have this attitude while playing AND occasionally pick the best table, then I think that's how to maximize my profits and speed up the learning curve of NL cash games. InB4MajorDownSwonglol.
4. Results since last update:
Tournaments played: 548
Tournament Profit: +$628
Cash hands played: 2339
Cash game profit: +93.02
Total Profit since last post: +$611.02
(i really have to subtract about 110$ because of the Sunday mill adjustment which i messed up my last post with everythign else should be correct within about a +50 or -50$.)
Current Bankroll: 2969.84
Starting Bankroll: 1700
Total Profit Since start of semester: +$1269.84
I've also made a spreadsheet of all of my fluctuations since the last post. I'll start putting it in, because spreadsheets are cool.
5.
Friday, March 4, 2011
February Full results:
1. February's Grind
2. Why I sucked.
3. SNG's are fun for every-one.
4. Sunday mill satellite run good!
1. February was an atrocious month to say the least. The month started out really strong, and then half way through there was a significant drop which ruined the entire month. The latter half of the month I spent on trying to come out of that slump, and the end of the month resulted in me featured in another downswing. I've ran close to 10 buyins above ev in the past month, which i find frustrating at times, because I consider myself to be able to beat 25nl...ughhh.
2. Anyways i think the main reason my EV is down so much is the horrible thought process I've been having in huge pots. I think I've lost every 150bb+ allin (at some point) pot in february. Some of them were coolers, and I'm sure there were a few which weren't.
3. I'm probably going to be playing SNG's this month, as it's something I've been interested in lately. Probably the 3$-6$ 18 man's. I just need to take a step back from cash games and reflect/watch videos/gain confidence again.
4. Lastly, I won a ticket to the sunday mill 215 yesterday. Me and my friend Jake where playing these certain satellites all day, because they were so soft and good format. Anyways, I ended up +219$ in those satellites, so it's like I'm being paid to play the sunday million :) Also, I'm spending the weekend improving my play in tournaments/sng's to prep for the 215. I plan on watching various TPE vids, and playing some micro tournaments.
February Results:
Cash hands played: 31066
Profit:??(roughly -50 - +50)
Rakeback+bonus: +225
(I ended up purging most of my Pstars hands because of my HEM messing up.)
Tournaments played:60
Profit: +130.17
Current total bankroll: 2381 (includes some of march results.)
Beginning Bank roll: 1711.81
Total profit on month: +355.10
Total profit on semester: +669.19
2. Why I sucked.
3. SNG's are fun for every-one.
4. Sunday mill satellite run good!
1. February was an atrocious month to say the least. The month started out really strong, and then half way through there was a significant drop which ruined the entire month. The latter half of the month I spent on trying to come out of that slump, and the end of the month resulted in me featured in another downswing. I've ran close to 10 buyins above ev in the past month, which i find frustrating at times, because I consider myself to be able to beat 25nl...ughhh.
2. Anyways i think the main reason my EV is down so much is the horrible thought process I've been having in huge pots. I think I've lost every 150bb+ allin (at some point) pot in february. Some of them were coolers, and I'm sure there were a few which weren't.
3. I'm probably going to be playing SNG's this month, as it's something I've been interested in lately. Probably the 3$-6$ 18 man's. I just need to take a step back from cash games and reflect/watch videos/gain confidence again.
4. Lastly, I won a ticket to the sunday mill 215 yesterday. Me and my friend Jake where playing these certain satellites all day, because they were so soft and good format. Anyways, I ended up +219$ in those satellites, so it's like I'm being paid to play the sunday million :) Also, I'm spending the weekend improving my play in tournaments/sng's to prep for the 215. I plan on watching various TPE vids, and playing some micro tournaments.
February Results:
Cash hands played: 31066
Profit:??(roughly -50 - +50)
Rakeback+bonus: +225
(I ended up purging most of my Pstars hands because of my HEM messing up.)
Tournaments played:60
Profit: +130.17
Current total bankroll: 2381 (includes some of march results.)
Beginning Bank roll: 1711.81
Total profit on month: +355.10
Total profit on semester: +669.19
Monday, February 21, 2011
Mid-late feb update
I've been playing really well over the last 7k hands or so, but right after my last post I had this weird session where nothing went well for me. My redline tanked during that session, and so did my EV. But as you can see, I've managed to come out of that, and I've been running a bit above EV lately. Anyways here's the math's.
Totals since last post:
Cash game hands: 9815
Profit: + $34
Rake back: + $34.48
Tournaments Played: 23
Profit: + $28.99
Total Profit Since last post: +$ 97.47 (without bonuses)
Total profit on month:
Cash game profit: 240.61
Profit w/Rakeback+ bonus: + $368.61
Tournament profit: + $67.68
Total Profit for February: + $436.29
Bankroll Update:
Stars:
Cashier: $965.42
FPP's: 7533.46
Tournament tickets: $99
GR88
Cashier: 1151.31
VIP points: 3071
Total Bankroll: 2215.73
Friday, February 11, 2011
Update
Since last post:
Played 2894 hands
Cash game profit: +107.99$
Rakeback+bonus: +27.87$
Tourneys played: 18
Profit: +25.8$
Total profit: +161.66
Just to keep you happy :)
Played 2894 hands
Cash game profit: +107.99$
Rakeback+bonus: +27.87$
Tourneys played: 18
Profit: +25.8$
Total profit: +161.66
Just to keep you happy :)
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
February update.
1. Volume
2. Winnings
1. So I've played a little over 7k hands so far this month, which is just about on pace for my 1k hands a day quota. I'm also in a 50$ volume prop bet pool (which i may be getting free-rolled on), for 31k hands on the month. There's only 28 days in February so I'm going to have to put in a couple 2k hand days. I'll be coming home the 18th so I intend on putting in a lot of grind then.
2. Poker wise I think I'm running well over this month so far. I am running about 4 buyin's above EV, which sounds nice on the surface...but really isn't. I've been faced with like super coolers lately, but have still managed to pull a profit. For instance, I cold 4bet a huge whale about 175 bb's deep the other day and flopped TPTK on a good board to get it in. I bet he calls, and I Jam turn with less than a PSB left. He shows quads. Had that hand gone the other way my EV would be skyrocketing. I also was faced with a few spots where I bet 2 streets for value, but bet an amount that left villain with a few $'s left (because it was the right play at that moment.), and he rivers his 5 outs and I jam. Those hands are probably the most frustrating for me lately, because I feel like I'm playing really well but my results just don't show it. But here's the graph from this month so far:
Enjoy!
2. Winnings
1. So I've played a little over 7k hands so far this month, which is just about on pace for my 1k hands a day quota. I'm also in a 50$ volume prop bet pool (which i may be getting free-rolled on), for 31k hands on the month. There's only 28 days in February so I'm going to have to put in a couple 2k hand days. I'll be coming home the 18th so I intend on putting in a lot of grind then.
2. Poker wise I think I'm running well over this month so far. I am running about 4 buyin's above EV, which sounds nice on the surface...but really isn't. I've been faced with like super coolers lately, but have still managed to pull a profit. For instance, I cold 4bet a huge whale about 175 bb's deep the other day and flopped TPTK on a good board to get it in. I bet he calls, and I Jam turn with less than a PSB left. He shows quads. Had that hand gone the other way my EV would be skyrocketing. I also was faced with a few spots where I bet 2 streets for value, but bet an amount that left villain with a few $'s left (because it was the right play at that moment.), and he rivers his 5 outs and I jam. Those hands are probably the most frustrating for me lately, because I feel like I'm playing really well but my results just don't show it. But here's the graph from this month so far:
Enjoy!
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
January review
1. Fish on a heater!
2. Huge winner on a crushing downswing!
3. 100bb poker
4. Results!
1. January started out strong. I was able to put in 1k hands a day from the day I started playing (about the 20th. I ran pretty hot in the beginning and was focusing on beating the regs to the best that I could. However, while I was doing this I was being a little to creative and doing this such as: 3betting a guy with any hand that I felt playable but not thinking about the range I should be 3 betting, (mainly a balanced range or a polarized range. Thanks Steve, I really am working on getting this down pat). I also was running pretty hot in the sense that because I'm a new player, no reg had hands on me. I would go right at it and attacking them with 3bets or 4bets and I feel that they didn't know what type of player I am and were more fit/fold against me. And lastly, I was just put in perfect spots to bluff post flop, and I ran into players weaker hands a lot. This went on for about 8k hands. I'm pretty happy with how I played during this period because I played pretty much to the best of my ability with what I knew at the time.
2. Towards the later half of the month, I started to run bad, overall. Firstly, I was starting to adjust my 3b range of hands accordingly to the right players (whether balanced or polarized). I still am doing this, and learning fwiw. But, after that first 8k hands I played in a way that forced regs to adjust. They started jamming on me wider, started calling 3bets in position, and started flatting my check raises IP. That's pretty much the best strategy to play against me before (and prob still is). I think because of this, my red line went from break even/up, to nearly straight down (and so did my winnings). However, I think now- the decent (lol no money everyone's solid) regs have adjusted to me based on that 8k hands(ie: started getting it in lighter and floating more). I have re-adjusted to those guys in the sense that I'm not going to 4bet bluff those who don't fold to my 4bets lol. So now when he calls or w.e I have a much stronger range than he thinks and I soul own him. Lastly, I ran bad in the sense that I was forced into such shitty decisions. Things like flopping TPGK, betting and getting floated, and then getting C/R on the turn when I pick up a FD. Or like when I have a small overpair vs a 40bb stack and it goes in on the flop and he shows top set, everytime. Every turn and river card over the last 5k hands have seemed to just completely ruin my hand vs villain's range. And almost everytime they have shown up with the nuts because of that.
3. LOL anyways, I hope next month goes at least as well as this month, if not, then better. This month has been a great learning experience for me at 100bb poker, I'm probably getting to be much better at 100bb poker than I have ever been relative to 25nl. I feel like if I'm going to be playing 25nl for a while until the bankroll comes, then I'm going to gain the maximum value I can from learning and experience. What I mean is, the player pool at 25nl on GR88 is small enough to play thousands of hands with the same players - and just the art of learning about your opponent and how he plays is a learning experience. It is big enough pool for un-skilled players to come in and gamble it up with us though, and that's what keeps me playing on the site of course. Lastly, it's such a good thing to be playing 100bb poker now, because of the recent changes on stars. It may affect my overall volume when I start going for supernova on stars, but my skill advantage will be much higher than ever.
4. Results: GR88.com (all results after 1-17-2011)
Hands played: 13,113
Table profit: $205.85
Rakeback/bonus: $154.29
Total: +$360.14
Results: Pokerstars
Hands played: 675
Total profit: -$24.92
Tournament results: Stars/GR88
Tourneys played:44
Total profit: -29.84* (may be less due to most rebuys not tracked)
(99$ in tourney tickets locked up till SCOOP)
Total-Month: +305.38
2. Huge winner on a crushing downswing!
3. 100bb poker
4. Results!
1. January started out strong. I was able to put in 1k hands a day from the day I started playing (about the 20th. I ran pretty hot in the beginning and was focusing on beating the regs to the best that I could. However, while I was doing this I was being a little to creative and doing this such as: 3betting a guy with any hand that I felt playable but not thinking about the range I should be 3 betting, (mainly a balanced range or a polarized range. Thanks Steve, I really am working on getting this down pat). I also was running pretty hot in the sense that because I'm a new player, no reg had hands on me. I would go right at it and attacking them with 3bets or 4bets and I feel that they didn't know what type of player I am and were more fit/fold against me. And lastly, I was just put in perfect spots to bluff post flop, and I ran into players weaker hands a lot. This went on for about 8k hands. I'm pretty happy with how I played during this period because I played pretty much to the best of my ability with what I knew at the time.
2. Towards the later half of the month, I started to run bad, overall. Firstly, I was starting to adjust my 3b range of hands accordingly to the right players (whether balanced or polarized). I still am doing this, and learning fwiw. But, after that first 8k hands I played in a way that forced regs to adjust. They started jamming on me wider, started calling 3bets in position, and started flatting my check raises IP. That's pretty much the best strategy to play against me before (and prob still is). I think because of this, my red line went from break even/up, to nearly straight down (and so did my winnings). However, I think now- the decent (lol no money everyone's solid) regs have adjusted to me based on that 8k hands(ie: started getting it in lighter and floating more). I have re-adjusted to those guys in the sense that I'm not going to 4bet bluff those who don't fold to my 4bets lol. So now when he calls or w.e I have a much stronger range than he thinks and I soul own him. Lastly, I ran bad in the sense that I was forced into such shitty decisions. Things like flopping TPGK, betting and getting floated, and then getting C/R on the turn when I pick up a FD. Or like when I have a small overpair vs a 40bb stack and it goes in on the flop and he shows top set, everytime. Every turn and river card over the last 5k hands have seemed to just completely ruin my hand vs villain's range. And almost everytime they have shown up with the nuts because of that.
3. LOL anyways, I hope next month goes at least as well as this month, if not, then better. This month has been a great learning experience for me at 100bb poker, I'm probably getting to be much better at 100bb poker than I have ever been relative to 25nl. I feel like if I'm going to be playing 25nl for a while until the bankroll comes, then I'm going to gain the maximum value I can from learning and experience. What I mean is, the player pool at 25nl on GR88 is small enough to play thousands of hands with the same players - and just the art of learning about your opponent and how he plays is a learning experience. It is big enough pool for un-skilled players to come in and gamble it up with us though, and that's what keeps me playing on the site of course. Lastly, it's such a good thing to be playing 100bb poker now, because of the recent changes on stars. It may affect my overall volume when I start going for supernova on stars, but my skill advantage will be much higher than ever.
4. Results: GR88.com (all results after 1-17-2011)
Hands played: 13,113
Table profit: $205.85
Rakeback/bonus: $154.29
Total: +$360.14
Results: Pokerstars
Hands played: 675
Total profit: -$24.92
Tournament results: Stars/GR88
Tourneys played:44
Total profit: -29.84* (may be less due to most rebuys not tracked)
(99$ in tourney tickets locked up till SCOOP)
Total-Month: +305.38
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Dowsnwinging lol
1. Tourney Results
2. Cash results
3. New Weekend plans
4. WBCOOP! (Qualifying event results)
1. Only managed to put in 2300 hands since last post, which is unfortunately, pretty shitty. I ended up playing about 17 full out tournaments today which is why my cash game volume is so low. I'm starting to think it's much more worthwhile to just play cash games on saturday'/sundays and maybe bump in a couple tournaments which are best value. The tournaments went absolutely atrocious. I've never gotten it in with 80% equity and lost so many times before. I'm pretty sure I've been 2 outtered about 7 times today lol. (brag that it's so low :) I managed to only cash in the 2$(euro) for +4 euros, and 5$ 2R1A for 23$ (which i bought in/re-bought 2xs +added on for net gain of 2.5$ after rake). Overall today I'm about -100$ in tournament entries /rebuys/addons. This sucks because I've been down swinging hardcore in tournaments, even though I feel I'm playing my best. I'm down about 500$ since my last big score in tournaments (overall down 230ish). Pretty shitty downswing for a 1$-11$ MTT grinder. With an average buy in of 8$, that's like a 63 buy in downswing lol.
2. In cash games, I can't seem to pull of a good session. Over the last 2k hands im -130$ (-100 after rakeback). Tough luck. The regs I thought to have a big edge over, have been playing better lately. Some of these guys know my tendencies, or at least that's what it seems like. I need to focus on how they're adjusting, and if they are adjusting to my play. Lastly, I've been faced with a lot of tough decisions against these regs, and I'm not sure if I played my best in those spots. Also, I'm not sure that, even if I was playing my best, my actions would be the best or +EV ones (in those tough spots). I''ll learn, but for now I need to focus on just playing with more fish. And I just want to put in a lot of volume and get that bonus. Overall, after 20k hands i'm +490 after RB/bonus.
3. On my weekends, I think I should plan on doing this:
1. Grind cash games/find best tables
2. Add in a couple (1-3) tournaments that are best value.
3. Eat/shower before session, and plan on taking breaks once tourneys are over.
The tournaments are absolutely too time consuming for me to play in them. It's affecting my volume, my relationship and my A-game negatively in this past month. So given that I think I need to Cut out playing so many and just do what I planned on doing with the cash games.
4. After playing 2 WBCOOP qualifying events, I have won a seat to the Main event, and 1 11$ Scoop ticket + 1 33$ scoop ticket. I'm not sure if I can trade these in, because I would really like to do so if the tournament isn't good value. I'm unsure if I can play in the WBCOOP tomorrow because I need to hang out with my GF+ her family like I promised at the beginning of the week. I will try to get back in time for it, but if it passes, I'm totally fine with that.
2. Cash results
3. New Weekend plans
4. WBCOOP! (Qualifying event results)
1. Only managed to put in 2300 hands since last post, which is unfortunately, pretty shitty. I ended up playing about 17 full out tournaments today which is why my cash game volume is so low. I'm starting to think it's much more worthwhile to just play cash games on saturday'/sundays and maybe bump in a couple tournaments which are best value. The tournaments went absolutely atrocious. I've never gotten it in with 80% equity and lost so many times before. I'm pretty sure I've been 2 outtered about 7 times today lol. (brag that it's so low :) I managed to only cash in the 2$(euro) for +4 euros, and 5$ 2R1A for 23$ (which i bought in/re-bought 2xs +added on for net gain of 2.5$ after rake). Overall today I'm about -100$ in tournament entries /rebuys/addons. This sucks because I've been down swinging hardcore in tournaments, even though I feel I'm playing my best. I'm down about 500$ since my last big score in tournaments (overall down 230ish). Pretty shitty downswing for a 1$-11$ MTT grinder. With an average buy in of 8$, that's like a 63 buy in downswing lol.
2. In cash games, I can't seem to pull of a good session. Over the last 2k hands im -130$ (-100 after rakeback). Tough luck. The regs I thought to have a big edge over, have been playing better lately. Some of these guys know my tendencies, or at least that's what it seems like. I need to focus on how they're adjusting, and if they are adjusting to my play. Lastly, I've been faced with a lot of tough decisions against these regs, and I'm not sure if I played my best in those spots. Also, I'm not sure that, even if I was playing my best, my actions would be the best or +EV ones (in those tough spots). I''ll learn, but for now I need to focus on just playing with more fish. And I just want to put in a lot of volume and get that bonus. Overall, after 20k hands i'm +490 after RB/bonus.
3. On my weekends, I think I should plan on doing this:
1. Grind cash games/find best tables
2. Add in a couple (1-3) tournaments that are best value.
3. Eat/shower before session, and plan on taking breaks once tourneys are over.
The tournaments are absolutely too time consuming for me to play in them. It's affecting my volume, my relationship and my A-game negatively in this past month. So given that I think I need to Cut out playing so many and just do what I planned on doing with the cash games.
4. After playing 2 WBCOOP qualifying events, I have won a seat to the Main event, and 1 11$ Scoop ticket + 1 33$ scoop ticket. I'm not sure if I can trade these in, because I would really like to do so if the tournament isn't good value. I'm unsure if I can play in the WBCOOP tomorrow because I need to hang out with my GF+ her family like I promised at the beginning of the week. I will try to get back in time for it, but if it passes, I'm totally fine with that.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Results update and WBCOOP!
1. WBCOOP
2. Results
3. Graph
1. So i played the Omaha HI/LOW qualifying event, and place in 16th. This means I recieve a main event ticket + a 33$ SCOOP ticket. I'm not sure if I want to play in the scoop, and I don't know if I can un-register out and get the funds. But none-the-less, the tourney was super soft and nobody knew what they were doing. I might be looking to get into HI/LOW omaha tournaments now since they are so soft and easy to learn. ( I think learning a spread of games will help me in the future anyways.)
2. Results: I've been running pretty well over the last 7k hands. I'm only 2 buyin's above EV but have made about 10 more buyins, and about 1 more buyin in rakeback. I've managed to play around 1k-1.5k hands a day, every single day since last post. I'm pretty happy with that :)
3.
2. Results
3. Graph
1. So i played the Omaha HI/LOW qualifying event, and place in 16th. This means I recieve a main event ticket + a 33$ SCOOP ticket. I'm not sure if I want to play in the scoop, and I don't know if I can un-register out and get the funds. But none-the-less, the tourney was super soft and nobody knew what they were doing. I might be looking to get into HI/LOW omaha tournaments now since they are so soft and easy to learn. ( I think learning a spread of games will help me in the future anyways.)
2. Results: I've been running pretty well over the last 7k hands. I'm only 2 buyin's above EV but have made about 10 more buyins, and about 1 more buyin in rakeback. I've managed to play around 1k-1.5k hands a day, every single day since last post. I'm pretty happy with that :)
3.
Monday, January 24, 2011
V.S player tab on Holdem Manager.
I just found out that there is a tab under "Cash Games" (below "graphs"), where you can double click on all of the players you have faced, and see all of their hand histories you have on them. I never realized this before and mostly just critique my own play. However, after fiddling around with it I can see hundreds of hands on my opponents where they got to showdown. This is such a great tool to exploiting my opponents play. I must have written about 5 notes on each of the reg's i mostly play with. For instance, I have a 2k hand sample on this one reg, and after reviewing his hands and stats, he folds almost 85% of the time when he checks, on any street. This is the player I have been owning lately and he hasn't adjusted to me yet. So until he does, and if he checks, I'm going to bet every time and print money. Can you see how valuable this is?
The main part how this is such a great tool isn't just looking at their stats, but it's me looking at there hands and seeing what they are doing versus other regs, me, and fish. I've spent most of the day studying their hand histories, and learning about them. I've got to say, they are making a LOT more mistakes than I am, which makes me more confident playing against them. But, some of the hands are a month old, and the player could have been tilting or whatever, so I know not to just have these notes set in stone as players constantly change.
Lastly, I watched the 2+2 pokercast last night, i think it was the second to last one that was posted. It was the one with a HU specialist and he talked for a while about how just not tilting is such an edge over some one who does not tilt. There's a bunch of solid advice in their and I recommend it. Peace.
The main part how this is such a great tool isn't just looking at their stats, but it's me looking at there hands and seeing what they are doing versus other regs, me, and fish. I've spent most of the day studying their hand histories, and learning about them. I've got to say, they are making a LOT more mistakes than I am, which makes me more confident playing against them. But, some of the hands are a month old, and the player could have been tilting or whatever, so I know not to just have these notes set in stone as players constantly change.
Lastly, I watched the 2+2 pokercast last night, i think it was the second to last one that was posted. It was the one with a HU specialist and he talked for a while about how just not tilting is such an edge over some one who does not tilt. There's a bunch of solid advice in their and I recommend it. Peace.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Just a little update +giraffe =)
So this week has been great, I got to my classes and they are all really GR88. lol, So I've been playing some cash hands lately. I've been trying to get back in the swing of things but it's been sluggish to say the least.
1. My game.
2. Rakeback
3. Challenge!
1. I'm really happy with my game VS the regulars at 25nl. I havent had more than a couple big all in pots pre flop, and have managed to run about 20$ below EV which I am really happy about lol. The regs have been sucking against me, or I may be owning them. Either way I'm able to get in good spots vs. the fish and recognize how obvious it is what the regs are doing, and print money :) It honestly feels like the old days back in summer of 09 when I played 10k hands (lol smaple size) and i was able to move up with my winnings. That's not a brag, variance is still insane and will even out if I am winning more than i should. Ahh poker. Say-La-Vee
2. I managed to play every day since thursday and ended up putting in a 2k hand session today which went well. I'll be looking to put in around a 4k hand session tomorrow, whilst grinding out the big tournaments that I play on stars. GR88.com has some insane bonuses right now. With rakeback (35%), my 750$ deposit bonus, and this new promotion they have coming out, I think its safe to say im getting close to 45% or more rakeback. Also, thats not even including the VPP's you get from paying rake. These VPP's have a $ value of 100:1$. Which i can cash in anytime by buying into a tournament directly with VPP's or buying the 50,000 or 5000 vpp bonuses. It's pretty, pretty, pretttty good.
3. As for the challenge, I've manage to spend 0$ so far. I'm kind of in wait-and-see mode with my book-budget right now since I have no clue which ones I'll need. I do however know that I will have to spend 250$ on my phone bill for the entire semester, and should spend around 200$ on "dates" with my gf, throughout the semester. I think I'm going to allow myself 100$ of discretionary spending for the 3.5 months of school. This may sound a little or alot, but it seems kind of high for me considering I don't need to buy anything, like ever lol. So with 909$ in bank, 250$ goes to phone, 200$ to dates, 100$ to spending on anything, and the rest for books/ profit?. I think books might cost close to 300$ so I just might make it with money left over :)
1. My game.
2. Rakeback
3. Challenge!
1. I'm really happy with my game VS the regulars at 25nl. I havent had more than a couple big all in pots pre flop, and have managed to run about 20$ below EV which I am really happy about lol. The regs have been sucking against me, or I may be owning them. Either way I'm able to get in good spots vs. the fish and recognize how obvious it is what the regs are doing, and print money :) It honestly feels like the old days back in summer of 09 when I played 10k hands (lol smaple size) and i was able to move up with my winnings. That's not a brag, variance is still insane and will even out if I am winning more than i should. Ahh poker. Say-La-Vee
2. I managed to play every day since thursday and ended up putting in a 2k hand session today which went well. I'll be looking to put in around a 4k hand session tomorrow, whilst grinding out the big tournaments that I play on stars. GR88.com has some insane bonuses right now. With rakeback (35%), my 750$ deposit bonus, and this new promotion they have coming out, I think its safe to say im getting close to 45% or more rakeback. Also, thats not even including the VPP's you get from paying rake. These VPP's have a $ value of 100:1$. Which i can cash in anytime by buying into a tournament directly with VPP's or buying the 50,000 or 5000 vpp bonuses. It's pretty, pretty, pretttty good.
3. As for the challenge, I've manage to spend 0$ so far. I'm kind of in wait-and-see mode with my book-budget right now since I have no clue which ones I'll need. I do however know that I will have to spend 250$ on my phone bill for the entire semester, and should spend around 200$ on "dates" with my gf, throughout the semester. I think I'm going to allow myself 100$ of discretionary spending for the 3.5 months of school. This may sound a little or alot, but it seems kind of high for me considering I don't need to buy anything, like ever lol. So with 909$ in bank, 250$ goes to phone, 200$ to dates, 100$ to spending on anything, and the rest for books/ profit?. I think books might cost close to 300$ so I just might make it with money left over :)
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Low-roller to high-baller Bankroll Update.
1.
1. Bank roll
2. Winter break confusion
3. Fuck books.
4. Challenge.
5. Gameplan.
6. Recap
1. So my bank roll right now is about 1700$. I have 6k FPP's which could be worth around 90$ if I play the 235 FPP Hyper turbo's and win in 33% of them. But if i need cash instantly, its around 65$ worth (cash bonuses).
2. I'm not sure exactly now, how much i made during break, it could have been anywhere from 500$ to 800$ after Steve looked over my sharkscope, and I negated my loses from cash games. I'm not even thinking about that, just thought I'd update it though.
3. I want to have a 4k bankroll by the time summer comes around. I think this is possible if I do not cash out and actually put in a decent amount of volume. I don't have to cash out at all right now, and I have around 900 in my bank. BUT, I have to buy 20 books this semester for only 5 classes... 20 BOOKS!?!?! lol. Most of them are cheapos, but there are at least 3 that could be 100$ each. That's going to be tough for my balance to live off of for 4 months. I'm going to be tightening up my spending in order to survive. Therefore, I'm doing a challenge!!
4. My challenge is to survive off of X dollars for 4 months. I will figure out what this X amount will be in the next few days. Most likely it will consist of a figure that is my bills for the next few months, and some small denomination for dates with my girlfriend and whatever. I will be posting it in 2+2 when i have that number figured out, and then repost in here. It's gunna be fun :)
5. I should able to make around 600$ a month (with rakeback) until the summer. If I can do this, then my online bankroll will be 4k$. I'm going to have to take advantage of GR88 poker's 700$ deposit bonus that I have unlimited time to complete. This kind of sucks for a few reasons:
1. No VPP's will be earned on stars if I'm playing on GR88. (will make it harder to get Supernova)
2. I don't have much information on the player pool over on GR88.com
3. It's 100bb poker, this could be a good thing, but it's going to make it harder to multi-table.
6. So, I'm going to be playing on GR88.com mostly, and Stars less. I'm going to play on Sunday's and saturdays the most and dedicate around an hour per weekday to poker. That should give me around 65 hours per month to poker. If im playing close to 10 tables it could be around 50k hands a month. That's pretty ideal for my situation. Wish me luck!!
1. Bank roll
2. Winter break confusion
3. Fuck books.
4. Challenge.
5. Gameplan.
6. Recap
1. So my bank roll right now is about 1700$. I have 6k FPP's which could be worth around 90$ if I play the 235 FPP Hyper turbo's and win in 33% of them. But if i need cash instantly, its around 65$ worth (cash bonuses).
2. I'm not sure exactly now, how much i made during break, it could have been anywhere from 500$ to 800$ after Steve looked over my sharkscope, and I negated my loses from cash games. I'm not even thinking about that, just thought I'd update it though.
3. I want to have a 4k bankroll by the time summer comes around. I think this is possible if I do not cash out and actually put in a decent amount of volume. I don't have to cash out at all right now, and I have around 900 in my bank. BUT, I have to buy 20 books this semester for only 5 classes... 20 BOOKS!?!?! lol. Most of them are cheapos, but there are at least 3 that could be 100$ each. That's going to be tough for my balance to live off of for 4 months. I'm going to be tightening up my spending in order to survive. Therefore, I'm doing a challenge!!
4. My challenge is to survive off of X dollars for 4 months. I will figure out what this X amount will be in the next few days. Most likely it will consist of a figure that is my bills for the next few months, and some small denomination for dates with my girlfriend and whatever. I will be posting it in 2+2 when i have that number figured out, and then repost in here. It's gunna be fun :)
5. I should able to make around 600$ a month (with rakeback) until the summer. If I can do this, then my online bankroll will be 4k$. I'm going to have to take advantage of GR88 poker's 700$ deposit bonus that I have unlimited time to complete. This kind of sucks for a few reasons:
1. No VPP's will be earned on stars if I'm playing on GR88. (will make it harder to get Supernova)
2. I don't have much information on the player pool over on GR88.com
3. It's 100bb poker, this could be a good thing, but it's going to make it harder to multi-table.
6. So, I'm going to be playing on GR88.com mostly, and Stars less. I'm going to play on Sunday's and saturdays the most and dedicate around an hour per weekday to poker. That should give me around 65 hours per month to poker. If im playing close to 10 tables it could be around 50k hands a month. That's pretty ideal for my situation. Wish me luck!!
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Some goals have been achieved. Grab the champagne. (revised)
So I had some lifetime goals which I did in the past month, as well as some short term goals which I finished since being back from college. I figured I would post some screenshots and some graphs of the month's totals. Here it is:
1. Hold 1 million chips in a tournament.
2. Hold 2 million chips in a tournament.
3. Make 1k in a month of play from tourneys/sngs (monthly total)
4. Tournament rant
5. Game plan?
6. Supernova!
1.
Note the live sweat by Erik ;) I'm pretty happy I was able to do this within the month of being back. It was only like a 1 or 2$ buyin, but none the less pretty cool.
2.
I ended up in placing 4th in that tournament for around 500$. It was my biggest score in a tournament to date. (although I did place 3rd in a 4$ 2 rebuy 1 Addon the week before for 400$)
3.
My hourly was around 9$ according to my HM, not too bad for a kid making it on his own ;) I ended up averaging about 35 hours a week for the month. I'm feeling really good about that. 35 hours a week wasn't the most I could've done, but it's definitely the most I've played in any given month. Sweet.
This month has been great. The results are skewed, however. I really made closer to 1000$ than what my HM says. This is because my HM doesn't track when I rebuy or addon. So it's about 200$ or so less than what the graph says.
4.This month I've made a bunch of deep runs/final tables in some tournaments which I felt really happy with. Tournaments are really soft and are a great money maker. However, the variance in tournaments is huge. With the large fields and even worse, the structures, it's really hard to make deep runs consistently. Lastly, the "good" tournaments which I feel I do really well in, do not run all the time. Not only that, but most tournaments take close to 5 hours just to get close to the money. And, it's really tough to play 20 tournaments, which each last longer than 5 hours, in one day. And you can't really mass multi-table them that easily because the dynamics and game flow have so much influence on your decisions. That said, tournaments are not what I feel I can adapt my lifestyle and monetary needs to. I've realized this after putting in about 200 tournaments in the last 7 poker playing days, and losing almost all of them. The SNG's are for sure better for me to grind. However, it'll get harder to grind those in school as I'll only be able to put in less than an hour or 2 to grind each day. But, I'm not "switching" back to cash. I'm never just going to constrict myself to any game which i get into the mindset of doing. But, I would still like to specialize in some form of poker eventually and just try to be the best in it.
5. I would like to write out some form of game plan for next semester for poker. I think I'm mostly going to be grinding the cash games, and making sure I put in as much volume on the weekends as I'm able to. Sunday's are going to be my tournament days for sure. No matter what, I'm always going to try and play the tournaments because they are insane-soft-saw. Ill probably have days in the week where i can play sng's (3's 5's 10's, whatever the BROLL is willing). The 25nl 50bb games are really soft and I'll try to get the best hourly there, but I need to re-learn and get some cash games knowledge going again. I would like to have a 4k online Broll if I were to play 50nl again. With 100 buyins I will feel ultra comfortable there, especially since I feel I can really beat those games even in my skill level now. But, the variance is huge, and the skill margin is relatively small. So, 100 BI it is.
6. So, I already have 1% of supernova accrued all ready, easy game amiright? (lol at 1k vpps) I'm going to get supernova this year. It's insane for me not to. It'll probably add 10k to my earnings just from rake back. I'm going to need at least a 4k bank roll in order to get supernova the way I want to. I don't want to be stuck at 25nl paying insane rake. With a 4k bank roll, I can see myself getting supernova in 3-4 months time. (25k vpps a month or more.) The perfect time frime for me to get it is in the summer. I'm sure I can get that 10-12 tabling for like 5 hours a day. So heres the deal, I need a decent broll ($4k) by the summer to achieve supernova and not be a frantic mess. Got it.
1. Hold 1 million chips in a tournament.
2. Hold 2 million chips in a tournament.
3. Make 1k in a month of play from tourneys/sngs (monthly total)
4. Tournament rant
5. Game plan?
6. Supernova!
1.
Note the live sweat by Erik ;) I'm pretty happy I was able to do this within the month of being back. It was only like a 1 or 2$ buyin, but none the less pretty cool.
2.
I ended up in placing 4th in that tournament for around 500$. It was my biggest score in a tournament to date. (although I did place 3rd in a 4$ 2 rebuy 1 Addon the week before for 400$)
3.
My hourly was around 9$ according to my HM, not too bad for a kid making it on his own ;) I ended up averaging about 35 hours a week for the month. I'm feeling really good about that. 35 hours a week wasn't the most I could've done, but it's definitely the most I've played in any given month. Sweet.
This month has been great. The results are skewed, however. I really made closer to 1000$ than what my HM says. This is because my HM doesn't track when I rebuy or addon. So it's about 200$ or so less than what the graph says.
4.This month I've made a bunch of deep runs/final tables in some tournaments which I felt really happy with. Tournaments are really soft and are a great money maker. However, the variance in tournaments is huge. With the large fields and even worse, the structures, it's really hard to make deep runs consistently. Lastly, the "good" tournaments which I feel I do really well in, do not run all the time. Not only that, but most tournaments take close to 5 hours just to get close to the money. And, it's really tough to play 20 tournaments, which each last longer than 5 hours, in one day. And you can't really mass multi-table them that easily because the dynamics and game flow have so much influence on your decisions. That said, tournaments are not what I feel I can adapt my lifestyle and monetary needs to. I've realized this after putting in about 200 tournaments in the last 7 poker playing days, and losing almost all of them. The SNG's are for sure better for me to grind. However, it'll get harder to grind those in school as I'll only be able to put in less than an hour or 2 to grind each day. But, I'm not "switching" back to cash. I'm never just going to constrict myself to any game which i get into the mindset of doing. But, I would still like to specialize in some form of poker eventually and just try to be the best in it.
5. I would like to write out some form of game plan for next semester for poker. I think I'm mostly going to be grinding the cash games, and making sure I put in as much volume on the weekends as I'm able to. Sunday's are going to be my tournament days for sure. No matter what, I'm always going to try and play the tournaments because they are insane-soft-saw. Ill probably have days in the week where i can play sng's (3's 5's 10's, whatever the BROLL is willing). The 25nl 50bb games are really soft and I'll try to get the best hourly there, but I need to re-learn and get some cash games knowledge going again. I would like to have a 4k online Broll if I were to play 50nl again. With 100 buyins I will feel ultra comfortable there, especially since I feel I can really beat those games even in my skill level now. But, the variance is huge, and the skill margin is relatively small. So, 100 BI it is.
6. So, I already have 1% of supernova accrued all ready, easy game amiright? (lol at 1k vpps) I'm going to get supernova this year. It's insane for me not to. It'll probably add 10k to my earnings just from rake back. I'm going to need at least a 4k bank roll in order to get supernova the way I want to. I don't want to be stuck at 25nl paying insane rake. With a 4k bank roll, I can see myself getting supernova in 3-4 months time. (25k vpps a month or more.) The perfect time frime for me to get it is in the summer. I'm sure I can get that 10-12 tabling for like 5 hours a day. So heres the deal, I need a decent broll ($4k) by the summer to achieve supernova and not be a frantic mess. Got it.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Friday, January 7, 2011
Finally! New post! +with updates +giraffes!
I'm gunna throw in a graph or two first just to keep you guys happy ;)
The results for cash are from dec 1st-now, the tourney results are from november (only like 190 games) till now.
I love how i lost a 300bb pot allin pre w ak vs 72o. i legitimately lol'ed. overall since like my big downswing from the cash games im down about 1200 to ev. pretty sick for a micro nl player. but, i mean overall from cash im about 600$ under ev which isnt that bad. I'm not complaining its just something i looked up and thought was kinda funny.
Thats all for now, don't feel like writing, but i havent made one in 2 weeks :O
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