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Old 03-07-2011, 11:19 AM #501 (permalink)  
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 $2.5k in the mill! niiice.. how late did that go?
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 Yeah my dreams were crushed yesterday when I lost KK<AJ then AQ<AK (with only 4bb though) and went out 662/59,000. I like tourneys, I always feel that rush whenever I go deepish, and it's kinda fun to always have an interesting decision where I'm not sure what the best play is and have to really think things through. I mean yeah we're mostly shallow but there's still a lot of mistakes to be made for someone who isn't ShaunDeeb. Speaking of which I ran across this article on mt's today and found it really interesting : Life as an Online MTT Pro by the Numbers (It’s Hard) | NoahSD's Awesome Poker Blog

edit: Looks like his blog has articles about cash games players as well.

In other news I'm going to Riviera Maya, Mexico on March 20th-27th so I'll try to grind rly hard until then (goals are good, even if you don't always accomplish them!) So goal is 60hrs of play until then, which is 5hrs/day avg. I am motivated so that's good.
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 Thanks for posting that blog link, Alex. That's a GREAT article. Most people don't realize what kind of variance goes into MTT poker. While I'm just starting to realize how sick it can be from my own experience, this blog really hit it home.

At the moment I'm sharing a BR with someone and in a year we'll probably play 10k to 12k tournaments combined. It makes me feel a little better about the variance possibility, but damn!!!!



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 Here's the same equivalent for NL cash game players.

Life as a NLHE 6-max Cash Game Pro by the Numbers (It Ain’t Too Bad) | NoahSD's Awesome Poker Blog
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 Gratz Alexos!
So now you spew on tourney in addition to SH?
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 those blog links made me realize my suspicion that I've been running good my entire life is actually plausible. and that death runs are a statistical certainty

and congrats on a +20k february! you are such a baller
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Old 03-10-2011, 05:25 AM #509 (permalink)  
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 Had another nice run in an ongame tourney yesterday but I ended up busting like 28th for 650$. I feel like I had a few (very small) aha moments in tourneys last year, one of which was that I didn't need to go batshit crazy with less than 16bb and start shoving any two. It's actually okay to blind down to under 10BB if you're really card dead and the situation just isn't right. Patience is key I guess!

As for cash games, Tuesday I played 3hrs and today 4hrs, which is behind schedule obviously. I'm wasting a lot of time in the morning just talking on msn and surfing forums, maybe I should not open msn until after my first sesh. I think I'll try that tomorrow. 10 days, 53hrs to go!
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As for cash games, Tuesday I played 3hrs and today 4hrs, which is behind schedule obviously. I'm wasting a lot of time in the morning just talking on msn and surfing forums, maybe I should not open msn until after my first sesh. I think I'll try that tomorrow. 10 days, 53hrs to go!
naaah.. this is lame!
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Old 03-10-2011, 05:08 PM #511 (permalink)  
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naaah.. this is lame!
hmm yeah guess it is, it's 1pm, haven't used msn yet, and 0 hands played so far. .... ...................
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 3hrs today, lots of tables so I did play 3k hands. Feeling pretty good at the tables, maybe my timing is good but on 90% of tables at 2/4 I feel like I'm the best reg. At 5/10 there's a ton of guys doing a 2.2x 3bet on the btn and it's really annoying. They also tend to call every 4bet when they do that, making me think their range is balanced. I think my strategy will be to 4bet a wide range myself just to gain initiative and try to take it down on flops and turns, but I'll have to put some serious thought into that.

9 days, 50hrs to go.
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3hrs today, lots of tables so I did play 3k hands. Feeling pretty good at the tables, maybe my timing is good but on 90% of tables at 2/4 I feel like I'm the best reg. At 5/10 there's a ton of guys doing a 2.2x 3bet on the btn and it's really annoying. They also tend to call every 4bet when they do that, making me think their range is balanced. I think my strategy will be to 4bet a wide range myself just to gain initiative and try to take it down on flops and turns, but I'll have to put some serious thought into that.

9 days, 50hrs to go.
So they are going 30->75?

If they are making it so small, I'd def say that gives us more room to call pre and c/r a range of different flops no?

I think I mentioned this to you the other day, but lately my counter has been to include more premiums into my calling range, than widening my 4bet range. Not sure which is best yet.
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 The reason I re-started this thread was to motivate myself to play 100k hands at 5/10 and higher to see if I'm able to achieve decent success. This started out pretty badly as I lost 16k ish at 10/20 right off the bat. The nit in me ended up winning the battle and now I'm back to my usual ways of playing 2/4 through 10/20. I'm cool with that, and I won't try to change this anymore, it's just not worth it for me to keep trying to ONLY play higher. The money is good where I'm at and I'll content myself to playing higher whenever I feel like it.



I also said I will review every reg and try to crush the games, but then again, since I didn't play 5/10+ only, I didn't need to do that. I truly feel 2/4 and 3/6 games are as soft as ever, and even most regs are so terribad that I don't even need to thoroughly evaluate their games away from the tables in order to crush them.

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I'm feeling pretty sick today and don't feel like grinding much. I'll play this GSOP tourney and maybe add some cash on the side. Might switch to my laptop so I can just watch tv while I stack these donks.
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 Was sick pretty much all week so didn't play much, just one rungood sesh and one runbad sesh to cancel each other, whatever. Leaving sunday for Mexiicooo so don't really care about poker right now.

Tomorrow there's a pretty big fight for boxing fans, Bute vs Magee. Bute is a beast but Magee is lefty and has a pretty good record, so should be awesome as always. GOGOGO!
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 Also here's a glimpse of what romanian TV/culture is like. Tbh it's a great country to live in when you're rich, might consider a move some day.

Videonews :: Video :: Neatza: Roxana Vancea, concurentă la postul de vecină, face sărituri ca mingea

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Bute via domination, I will go with TKO round 4.
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 For those that didn't read this : A Portrait of the Artist as a Mid-stakes Grinder - INTERNETPOKERS

A lot of truth in that.

And tyty Bute for shipping it, he's slowly going from great to legendary.
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not to rain on the parade because i love bute and hope he never loses, but i think the general public's consensus (outside of Quebec) is that he needs some more high profile wins to achieve great/legendary status. He needs to beat some of the super six guys to get there, but I think he gets by all those in style except for andre ward which would be an awesome fight.
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damn that haseeb post is solid. Definitely inspiring, I think I forgot how to go about getting better (i.e. trying to play every fkn hand better than i am) instead of just 'hoping' thing works out and my natural poker skills will cruise me to victory.
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not to rain on the parade because i love bute and hope he never loses, but i think the general public's consensus (outside of Quebec) is that he needs some more high profile wins to achieve great/legendary status. He needs to beat some of the super six guys to get there, but I think he gets by all those in style except for andre ward which would be an awesome fight.
yeah i agree, kind of what i meant by slowly going into legendary status and I hope he gets those fights soon. Besides Ward/Kessler I don't see any other superstars he can fight.
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yeah...maybe pavlik? also it'd be so epic if pascal beat hopkins convincingly in rematch, bute beat kessler/ward and then bute moved up to fight pascal. i think quebec would spontaneously combust though.
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 Yeah would be cool but I don't think that's gonna happen in the next 2-3 yrs, reason being a fight like this will generate a lot of interest/money even if it happens when both players aren't at their peak. I don't know much about boxing though but that's my theory, lol.

Pavlik is downswinging hard I think.
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 Past 2 months have been good despite poor volume. I'm up a decent amount and close enough to put me on pace for my yearly goal.

Sooo new month, same goals!

100hrs of the pokers. 700hands/hr (9 tabling?) x 100 = 70k hands
gym 3x a week
read/skim 1 chapter of mathematics of poker per week

I'm pretty motivated right now, I need to take poker seriously cuz it's my job after all.There are still some good profitable games and there will be for the next 2 years at least, so I need to take advantage of this to make up for when I'll be 35ish and jobless (hopefully not though!).

Shark is huuungry!
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 Poker going pretty well, I'm getting used to running over EV now, which is pretty fun. Hopefully I get to +100 buyins over EV by the end of the year.

Today I realized I can still win a ticket to the UFC fight April 30th, so this really motivated me to start grinding lots. I have no idea why, but I need a goal like this to be able to put in hands. It's sad but the money isn't motivating anymore. But the good part is I still enjoy playing poker whenever I do, the only tough part is firing up the tables.

8.5/100hrs



Need to get into mathematics of poker tomorrow, fun fun fun! GL
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Is that 6k over EV?!!!

I would pull some Schadenfreude but it doesn't seem appropriate on today of all days...
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 haha damn EV jealousy here too!

and sigh to your UFC rejuvenation, leading to my lack of UFC tickets!
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 Every brag comes with a price. 4k under EV today so far. Wheeee!
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 You posted a graph where you ran above ev. What do you expect to happen? The poker gods don't appreciate you rubbing it in their face :P



 
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You posted a graph where you ran above ev. What do you expect to happen? The poker gods don't appreciate you rubbing it in their face :P
I went to war with the poker gods a long time ago, fk them imo. It's on bitches, bring it!
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 Oh, what have I done. *facepalm*
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 So I challenged the poker gods today, and they showed me some respect. Actually pretty happy with how the day went. I made some terrible hero calls and some genius ones too, let me know if you guys are interested in seeing some spew.



Here is some epic hands courtesy of Betfair late-nite games. Idk why no one believes me when I'm saying these games are 10x softer at night.


1) Made a huuuge mistake apparently, but at this point I figured he was going with his hand 95% of the time even? He didn't have fish stats either, just super aggro figured the guy was drunk or something.

$3/$6 No Limit Holdem
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5 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG ($720)
CO ($1,171)
BTN ($998)
SB ($603)
Alexos (BB) ($1,114.65)

Pre-Flop: ($9, 5 players) Alexos is BB
1 fold, CO raises to $18, 2 folds, Alexos calls $12

Flop: ($39, 2 players)
Alexos bets $30, CO raises to $70, Alexos raises to $165, CO raises to $260, Alexos raises to $355, CO raises to $450, Alexos goes all-in $1,096.65, CO folds

Final Pot: $1,585.65

Alexos wins $1,582.65 (net +$468)

CO lost $468


2) It's okay, made up for my mistake by stacking him

$3/$6 No Limit Holdem
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Stacks:
UTG ($998)
CO ($600)
Alexos (BTN) ($1,579.65)
SB ($723)
BB ($703)

Pre-Flop: ($9, 5 players) Alexos is BTN
2 folds, Alexos raises to $12, 1 fold, BB raises to $39, Alexos calls $27

Flop: ($81, 2 players)
BB checks, Alexos bets $50, BB raises to $100, Alexos raises to $150, BB goes all-in $664, Alexos calls $514

Turn: ($1,409, 2 players, 1 all-in)

River: ($1,409, 2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: $1,409
BB shows

Alexos shows


Alexos wins $1,406 (net +$703)

BB lost $703


14/100 hrs on the month, need to keep it up.
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 ummm... preflop in hand 2?? lol
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sick that you made it all back, very impressive.
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ummm... preflop in hand 2?? lol
not folding any hand preflop vs whales, duh! Also I can't stack him if I always fold hehe
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Also I can't stack him if I always fold hehe



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 Today: 4hrs of getting fucked by the RNG, down 2.5k

Since this grind, I noticed a few differences between 2/4 and 5/10:

1) 2/4 is pretty nitty in general, regs tend to "have it". At, 5/10, not so much, do not fold pairs.
2) Most of the regs are pretty TAGGish at 2/4, with a pretty good understand of preflop. At 5/10, regs spew pretty hard pre, but make up for it postflop.


So besides stating the obvious, I guess my point is that I'm not that good at adjusting my game for 2/4. I'm pretty loose pre and they're taking advantage of it, I get it in with what is a fistpump at 5/10, but end up being crushed at 2/4.

Adjustment: Play more postflop at 2/4, try to put pressure and put them out of their comfort zone. Less bluffing preflop, and make sure to have very polarized ranges.

Adjustment #2: Stop playing 2/4 ffs you nit.

Adjustment #3: Run better.

I played some 25/50 tonight and ran okay, so we're on the right path.
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1) 2/4 is pretty nitty in general, regs tend to "have it". At, 5/10, not so much, do not fold pairs.
2) Most of the regs are pretty TAGGish at 2/4, with a pretty good understand of preflop. At 5/10, regs spew pretty hard pre, but make up for it postflop.
I think this is one of the reasons I used to do better at higher stakes.. compared to midstakes.

Mind you I have a pretty high fold to river, which would get exploited pretty hard at 5/10. Though if anyone is capable of calling rivers instead of folding its me haha

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The adjustments above should take care of that. Another reason could be that I care less about 2/4 and just spew, or that I play way more tables when I play 2/4. Whatever it is it's not working.
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Maybe 5/10 is just softer than 2/4 on ongame? Is that possible?
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 Uhhh, I don't want anyone to tweet or facebook like this operation. What a terrible idea.
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 The grind is going really well. Not having that much trouble putting in the hours, and having fun when I play, which is always good regardless of results. A lot of it might have to do with the weather and how much it affects my mood. Winter just sucks man. I've also put my sweet summer mags on my car and it makes it so much more enjoyable to drive (and look at). I might post some pics one day of car/condo although I'm prolly too lazy to take some and upload.

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$5/$10 No Limit Holdem
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Stacks:
Alexos (CO) ($1,472)
BTN ($834.10)
SB ($1,151)
BB ($1,178)

Pre-Flop: ($15, 4 players) Alexos is CO
Alexos raises to $30, BTN calls $30, SB raises to $125, 1 fold, Alexos calls $95, BTN folds

Flop: ($290, 2 players)
SB bets $100, Alexos calls $100

Turn: ($490, 2 players)
SB bets $225, Alexos calls $225

River: ($940, 2 players)
SB bets $701, Alexos calls $701

Final Pot: $2,342
SB shows


SB wins $2,340 (net +$1,189)

Alexos lost $1,151
BTN lost $30


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 hmm how crazy was villain?

Feel like I rarely call the turn here let alone the river. There's just not that much air left?

Hoping for a low pair turned into a bluff the whole way? 99 or something?
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hmm how crazy was villain?

Feel like I rarely call the turn here let alone the river. There's just not that much air left?

Hoping for a low pair turned into a bluff the whole way? 99 or something?
I was 95% sure he had a FD with his flop sizing, that wanted to bet/3bet. I wish I had a timebank here, because BTN was a fish so he wouldn't be squeezing that many other hands with clubs, AQcc was the most likely hand.
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 Blog saver with strategy this time:

Villain is a very aggro reg with which I have a lot of history against, mostly him 4bet bluffing a lot which ends in us getting it in pretty light. Nothing too crazy postflop.

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Stacks:
UTG ($357)
CO ($755)
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SB ($628.50)
BB ($628.20)

Pre-Flop: ($9, 5 players) Alexos is BTN
2 folds, Alexos raises to $12, 1 fold, BB raises to $40, Alexos calls $28

Flop: ($83, 2 players)
BB bets $54, Alexos calls $54

Turn: ($191, 2 players)
BB checks, Alexos checks

River: ($191, 2 players)
BB bets $125, Alexos goes all-in $557.15, BB folds

Final Pot: $873.15

Alexos wins $870.15 (net +$219)

BB lost $219


Preflop: He 3bets like 11% preflop, this is a pretty standard defend.

Flop: Again a decent flop for me to float on, with a gutshot, bd fd, and potentially overcards. I don't expect him to barrel too often either.

Turn: I have two options here, either to bet now or take a free card. Board doesn't look too scary so my standard line even with AJ would be to check here and vbet river. I'd also play 9x, KQ, KJ, this way. It basically keeps my range pretty wide which is good. If he ever plays Ax this way I don't think there's any way to make him fold by the river unless the board gets really ugly. And if he has air well I'm sure most of the time he just c/f river anyways.

River: When he bets his hand is pretty much AT-AQ. The 7 is a good card for me, as it improves 97s, 78s, A7s, TJ. Moreso, I think my perceived range is very strong here when I shove. People just expect you to bet your bluffs on the turn these days so this line reps the nuts pretty well.


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 I forgot to talk about the sizing here. I think 335$ does the job so I made a big mistake. Although vs spewtards you never know, just wanted to make sure he folds I guess.
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 this seems absurd to me:

PokerStars Game #60636787479: Hold'em No Limit ($50/$100 USD) - 2011/04/10 17:40:49 ET
Table 'Showdown 8' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: urnotindangr ($21200 in chips)
Seat 2: Isildur1 ($25300 in chips)
urnotindangr: posts small blind $50
Isildur1: posts big blind $100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
urnotindangr: raises $200 to $300
Isildur1: calls $200
*** FLOP *** [2c 5d 8c]
Isildur1: checks
urnotindangr: bets $400
Isildur1: raises $900 to $1300
urnotindangr: calls $900
*** TURN *** [2c 5d 8c] [7c]
Isildur1: checks
urnotindangr: bets $2600
Isildur1: calls $2600
*** RIVER *** [2c 5d 8c 7c] [9s]
Isildur1: checks
urnotindangr: bets $6400
Isildur1: calls $6400
*** SHOW DOWN ***
urnotindangr: shows [3c As] (high card Ace)
Isildur1: shows [2h 2s] (three of a kind, Deuces)
Isildur1 collected $21200 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $21200 | Rake $0
Board [2c 5d 8c 7c 9s]
Seat 1: urnotindangr (button) (small blind) showed [3c As] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 2: Isildur1 (big blind) showed [2h 2s] and won ($21200) with three of a kind, Deuces
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