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.
Monday, September 5, 2011
Day 101
Had a kinda meh day of poker. I finally got moved into my new place, so I had a longer break than I would have preferred. I wasnt paying enough attention, even though I was only 2-tabling, but I still managed to come out with a little profit. Would have been more, but my qq ran up against a set of twos on an underboard, and I ended up paying the guy off. I could have gotten away from the hand, but oh well. live and learn.
br is about 475, though i transferred 10 to a friend, and perhaps the only reader of this blog. Yes, Im going to break the fourth wall, right here, Chris. gl mate.
br is about 475, though i transferred 10 to a friend, and perhaps the only reader of this blog. Yes, Im going to break the fourth wall, right here, Chris. gl mate.
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Day 100
Wow, the big 100 already, huh?
its weird how time flies by. I still remember starting this blog back when I focued on sngs, to little avail.
I just finished a pretty good grinding session. I was kinda wondering if i could hit some milestones in honor of this hundredth post (not actually, since some days had multiple parts, but oh well.) Instead, im just a bit short of all of the milestones, but to be honest I kinda like it this way. Its like in honor of Day 100, my goals are in sight, but just out of reach, so Im keeping the forward momentum, instead of sitting atop my peak, with nowhere to go but down.
Anyways, heres the breakdown.
raw poker profit is once again just short of 100$$, and within 1 bi. Im less than 2000 hands away from 50k, and my total br is just shy of 400$ (also within 1 bi).
with regards to the session, I was doing moderately well, made a questionable play that lost me a bi(still with good profit overall though) and then i decided to stop playing after 3 more rotations at each table, since i was getting kinda tired. and then i just started flopping nuts after nuts. well not really, but there were like 2 or 3 really good spots, the most noteable one being when I held 67s, and the flop came 345 rainbow, and I got into a 3 way all in between full stackers. one had 33 for a set, the other guy spazzed out with like k5. the straight held up, and i took down a 30$$ pot. it was slick. Beyond that, there were only like two times during the entire session where i honestly just sucked out, the rest was pretty solid.
In 10nl now, its surprising how quickly my br can grow (or plummet). I know its just logical, but its one thing to say it, and another thing to see it.
i think ill wrap up this post by just saying that if youre reading this (hah, nobody reads this), just know that hard work and studying really do pay off in the long run. it may take longer than you expected, and there will be days when you may feel like quitting, but if you persevere, you can attain great results.
anyways, now that Ive finished writing like Im some sort of baller poker pro, Im probably lined up for another 10-15bi downswing.
cheers mates, and gl at the tables!
its weird how time flies by. I still remember starting this blog back when I focued on sngs, to little avail.
I just finished a pretty good grinding session. I was kinda wondering if i could hit some milestones in honor of this hundredth post (not actually, since some days had multiple parts, but oh well.) Instead, im just a bit short of all of the milestones, but to be honest I kinda like it this way. Its like in honor of Day 100, my goals are in sight, but just out of reach, so Im keeping the forward momentum, instead of sitting atop my peak, with nowhere to go but down.
Anyways, heres the breakdown.
raw poker profit is once again just short of 100$$, and within 1 bi. Im less than 2000 hands away from 50k, and my total br is just shy of 400$ (also within 1 bi).
with regards to the session, I was doing moderately well, made a questionable play that lost me a bi(still with good profit overall though) and then i decided to stop playing after 3 more rotations at each table, since i was getting kinda tired. and then i just started flopping nuts after nuts. well not really, but there were like 2 or 3 really good spots, the most noteable one being when I held 67s, and the flop came 345 rainbow, and I got into a 3 way all in between full stackers. one had 33 for a set, the other guy spazzed out with like k5. the straight held up, and i took down a 30$$ pot. it was slick. Beyond that, there were only like two times during the entire session where i honestly just sucked out, the rest was pretty solid.
In 10nl now, its surprising how quickly my br can grow (or plummet). I know its just logical, but its one thing to say it, and another thing to see it.
i think ill wrap up this post by just saying that if youre reading this (hah, nobody reads this), just know that hard work and studying really do pay off in the long run. it may take longer than you expected, and there will be days when you may feel like quitting, but if you persevere, you can attain great results.
anyways, now that Ive finished writing like Im some sort of baller poker pro, Im probably lined up for another 10-15bi downswing.
cheers mates, and gl at the tables!
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Day 99
Well, three smirnoff ices into the day, I decided I had taken a long enough break from poker (I havent been playing for the past few days), so I decided to give 10nl another shot. To compensate for the booze and bad play in recent past, I decided to cut down my usual 6-tabling to only 2. The results?
well...when 6-tabling, I found myself hitting some pretty chaotic swings, and overall losing money at a slow (or sometimes faster) rate. 2-tabling last night, I made 4bi +10$$ bonus for a whopping total of +50$$, with almost no swings whatsoever. The big question here, I guess is why, and I have a bit of an answer to that. It might seem really obvious (and it probably is), but there is a whole shitload of little bits and pieces of information that I lose out on when I multitable. Also, when multitabling, I tend to fall into a pattern, and can suffer from a lack of thinking in my decision making, just relying on a set strategy. Which I guess wouldn't be so bad if I actually had a kickass strategy, but seeing as I am not that level of poker god, it tends not to work out quite so fortunately. Instead, I end up finding myself in spots where I dont really have any reads on my opponents, and so Im left with some % chance that I should call, and in those spots, I tend to overestimate that %, thus leading to Old Faithful-esque spew.
I also suspect a little that people on Cake play worse at night than during the day, but thats just a bit of an aside.
Anyways, my new strategy is going to be to pay REALLY FREAKING CLOSE attention to the tables Im involved with. For now, Im going to stick with 2-tabling (tonight's results are quite reminiscent of my initial stab into 10nl, when I also made 5bi in a single session, 2-tabling), with the possibility of increasing the number of tables up to maybe 4, not dependent on my br, but rather dependent on the limits of my attention. Thus, my new task in improving as a poker player will be practicing attention discipline. That is, if I'm paying attention well at 2 tables and feel like opening a third (or 3-> 4) fine, but when I find that Im not paying as close attention to table action as I should be, I gotta close 1(or more) tables, and just work with that.
gl at the tables, mates.
well...when 6-tabling, I found myself hitting some pretty chaotic swings, and overall losing money at a slow (or sometimes faster) rate. 2-tabling last night, I made 4bi +10$$ bonus for a whopping total of +50$$, with almost no swings whatsoever. The big question here, I guess is why, and I have a bit of an answer to that. It might seem really obvious (and it probably is), but there is a whole shitload of little bits and pieces of information that I lose out on when I multitable. Also, when multitabling, I tend to fall into a pattern, and can suffer from a lack of thinking in my decision making, just relying on a set strategy. Which I guess wouldn't be so bad if I actually had a kickass strategy, but seeing as I am not that level of poker god, it tends not to work out quite so fortunately. Instead, I end up finding myself in spots where I dont really have any reads on my opponents, and so Im left with some % chance that I should call, and in those spots, I tend to overestimate that %, thus leading to Old Faithful-esque spew.
I also suspect a little that people on Cake play worse at night than during the day, but thats just a bit of an aside.
Anyways, my new strategy is going to be to pay REALLY FREAKING CLOSE attention to the tables Im involved with. For now, Im going to stick with 2-tabling (tonight's results are quite reminiscent of my initial stab into 10nl, when I also made 5bi in a single session, 2-tabling), with the possibility of increasing the number of tables up to maybe 4, not dependent on my br, but rather dependent on the limits of my attention. Thus, my new task in improving as a poker player will be practicing attention discipline. That is, if I'm paying attention well at 2 tables and feel like opening a third (or 3-> 4) fine, but when I find that Im not paying as close attention to table action as I should be, I gotta close 1(or more) tables, and just work with that.
gl at the tables, mates.
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