Thursday, August 9, 2012
Day 108?
Alright mates, so heres the latest. I started getting back into poker this summer, and all was going normally and slow until i decided to play some mtts.
15$ mtt, i took 2nd, and earned 450$ profit
15$ mtt, i took 1st, and earned 700$ profit.
yeah, it feels pretty good. that said, my br is currently hovering around 1k due to many tourneys where i didnt win. I think for now my plan is to split my time between cash games (10nl for now until i learn more) and mtts, so that i can learn to get better at those.
Friday, March 23, 2012
Day 107
well, I guess its been a while, but Im back now!
just finished off finals a couple hours ago, and so im offically done with the quarter. now, with about 1/4 of the year gone, its time to get cracking on that new years proposition
just finished off finals a couple hours ago, and so im offically done with the quarter. now, with about 1/4 of the year gone, its time to get cracking on that new years proposition
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Day 106
Slowly regrinding back up from the bottom.
New Year's resolution/goal: put in 100k hands by the end of the year.
yeah, i know thats not a lot relatively speaking, but I figure it wont push me to spend too much time on poker, while still giving me room to expand. Let's see how this new year goes. gl all
New Year's resolution/goal: put in 100k hands by the end of the year.
yeah, i know thats not a lot relatively speaking, but I figure it wont push me to spend too much time on poker, while still giving me room to expand. Let's see how this new year goes. gl all
Friday, December 30, 2011
Friday, November 25, 2011
Day 104
Well, Ive been putting off writing this post for the same reason I always put off making these kinds of posts, that is, Ive been doing pretty badly lately.
I stopped playing poker for a while due to school and this cute chick entering my life, and when I finally got back around to trying to grind again once in a while, I found that I had become super rusty, and my game consequently suffered. my br is sitting just a bit short of 460 at the moment, due to a gradual steady downward sloping greenline. ive stopped playing 10nl for the time being, and im going to be trying to focus more on studying instead of just grinding until I can reclaim my title as a profitable poker player.
All that said, despite the pretty big drop in my br, im not actually super worried about it. overall, my life is getting better, and though it got a little offbalanced at first (though not in a bad way), things are starting to level out. Its like how the game of adjustments works in poker: you see an imbalance, and you act accordingly, and then your opponent adjusts to the imbalance you created by exploiting his imbalance, so you adjust back, and so forth until theoretically optimal play occurs. only with life, youre not playing against opponents, and youre not exploiting. or at least im not. its like a win-win situation, where im trying to find the most optimal me.
i love poker.
I stopped playing poker for a while due to school and this cute chick entering my life, and when I finally got back around to trying to grind again once in a while, I found that I had become super rusty, and my game consequently suffered. my br is sitting just a bit short of 460 at the moment, due to a gradual steady downward sloping greenline. ive stopped playing 10nl for the time being, and im going to be trying to focus more on studying instead of just grinding until I can reclaim my title as a profitable poker player.
All that said, despite the pretty big drop in my br, im not actually super worried about it. overall, my life is getting better, and though it got a little offbalanced at first (though not in a bad way), things are starting to level out. Its like how the game of adjustments works in poker: you see an imbalance, and you act accordingly, and then your opponent adjusts to the imbalance you created by exploiting his imbalance, so you adjust back, and so forth until theoretically optimal play occurs. only with life, youre not playing against opponents, and youre not exploiting. or at least im not. its like a win-win situation, where im trying to find the most optimal me.
i love poker.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Day 103
Oh, tis a sad day. I only have 1$ left in bonus to clear. beyond this lies only the cold hard future of bonusless grinding. woe is me.
on the bring side of things though, my br is now just less than a dollar from 540. woot woot! gotta love 10% bumps in one night.
this was accomplished through multitabling every table of 4nl and 10nl that was open, and following a fairly tight preflop stratey. something like 10 tables in total i guess. cheers!
on the bring side of things though, my br is now just less than a dollar from 540. woot woot! gotta love 10% bumps in one night.
this was accomplished through multitabling every table of 4nl and 10nl that was open, and following a fairly tight preflop stratey. something like 10 tables in total i guess. cheers!
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Day 102
So, its been a while since my last post. I went on a bit of a downswing a couple weeks ago, br fell to 435. Then I went on vacation with my family, which was a really nice break from just everything, really. I spent some of that time studying poker, and trying to generally improve my game, and I also played some HU games (for freeee) with my bro. In doing so, I realized that its really cool. heads up, that is. Rather, going into it with some semblance of analytical reasoning is very cool. So between that, and my occasional games with my roomies, Ive been focusing a little more on my HU game. my br dropped a little lower after I got back from vacation, but once I got back in the swing of things, it started growing again. like a little flower.
er...anyways, so ive been playing cash games as usual, but ive also been mixing in some HU sngs for the fun of it. Admittedly, I havent been following very precise br management in that, but I usually play anywhere between 2$ - 11$, depending on how i feel/ what games are open. 5$ seems to be a pretty sweet spot, and even at the most, the 11$ games arent totally awful with regards to br management (eg, 400$ roll = ~40 HU games) The worst I did was an 18$ hu sng, which i won thanks to a suck out.
Another thing Ive realized is that it is a wonderful feeling to be playing higher stakes. not because theres more money on the line (honestly, even with my br management, i still get a little antsy at times), but rather because if i want, there are actually lower stakes games I can play. not to mention, its generally a softer game.
Also, I really like occasionally mixing up my games. eg., ill play cash games for a while, then switch to HU SNGs, and back again, etc ad tiredum. it keeps the decision making fresh and whatnot. Ive also been playing around with HU cash games, which is a little tricky since cake doesnt offer low stakes HU tables, but theres this one dude who ive been playing HU against who has been bumping my roll even more. its great.
hmm, what else did i want to touch on....oh yeah! last thing on my list is that i also greatly appreciate the ability to cut down on tables. yeah, i know its nothing new, but theres a certain difference between playing 4-6 tables of 10nl vs 2 tables of 10nl, and 2 of 4nl hu cash. iono, it might just be me being a silly person, but it takes some of the stress out of the equation.
unrelated to poker- i just started school again for the new year, and this quarter looks like a doozy. im just hoping that ill be able to force myself to not waste too much time, so that I can stay well balanced between school, piano, social life, and poker. we'll see how that goes.
Aaaaaaand for the grand finale, my br just broke 500! w00t w00t! in d4 h0uz.
er...anyways, so ive been playing cash games as usual, but ive also been mixing in some HU sngs for the fun of it. Admittedly, I havent been following very precise br management in that, but I usually play anywhere between 2$ - 11$, depending on how i feel/ what games are open. 5$ seems to be a pretty sweet spot, and even at the most, the 11$ games arent totally awful with regards to br management (eg, 400$ roll = ~40 HU games) The worst I did was an 18$ hu sng, which i won thanks to a suck out.
Another thing Ive realized is that it is a wonderful feeling to be playing higher stakes. not because theres more money on the line (honestly, even with my br management, i still get a little antsy at times), but rather because if i want, there are actually lower stakes games I can play. not to mention, its generally a softer game.
Also, I really like occasionally mixing up my games. eg., ill play cash games for a while, then switch to HU SNGs, and back again, etc ad tiredum. it keeps the decision making fresh and whatnot. Ive also been playing around with HU cash games, which is a little tricky since cake doesnt offer low stakes HU tables, but theres this one dude who ive been playing HU against who has been bumping my roll even more. its great.
hmm, what else did i want to touch on....oh yeah! last thing on my list is that i also greatly appreciate the ability to cut down on tables. yeah, i know its nothing new, but theres a certain difference between playing 4-6 tables of 10nl vs 2 tables of 10nl, and 2 of 4nl hu cash. iono, it might just be me being a silly person, but it takes some of the stress out of the equation.
unrelated to poker- i just started school again for the new year, and this quarter looks like a doozy. im just hoping that ill be able to force myself to not waste too much time, so that I can stay well balanced between school, piano, social life, and poker. we'll see how that goes.
Aaaaaaand for the grand finale, my br just broke 500! w00t w00t! in d4 h0uz.
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