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Old 04-04-2011, 04:31 AM #351 (permalink)  
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 fking sigh, just fucking sigh (lost 3 consecutive flips to finish 13th for 220, 1st was 8kish)

moved up and played a bunch of higher buyins today, got royally fucked. lots of dirty late beats, nothing really interesting to report. VPP progress is going amazingly well but I think i ll move down to 16$ and lower buyins for a cpl days and just grind harder than ever.
when the vpip's are high and the value bets are like razors, who can be safe?
 
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Old 04-04-2011, 09:57 AM #352 (permalink)  
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 just kept going and going and going. towards the end of the night chopped the 11$ turbo (1100 entrants) for 1k then finished 2nd in a 180 man 12$ and i m now

BACK TO BREAK EVEN FOR THE DAY BANG

also made 3k vpps in 14 hrs of play zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Old 04-04-2011, 10:24 AM #353 (permalink)  
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Old 04-04-2011, 11:00 AM #354 (permalink)  
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 lol VPP addicts ITT
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Old 04-04-2011, 07:24 PM #355 (permalink)  
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 man i wish i had switched to donkaments like 2 years ago i d be a fucking millionaire by now
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Old 04-04-2011, 07:48 PM #356 (permalink)  
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Old 04-04-2011, 08:20 PM #357 (permalink)  
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 How many hours are you playing a day?.. this donkament grind would tilt me I think!
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Old 04-05-2011, 03:24 AM #358 (permalink)  
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 as many as i feel like, avg is prob 10 hours
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Old 04-05-2011, 04:22 PM #359 (permalink)  
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 Man that's sick.. I'm impressed. Keep it up!
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Old 04-05-2011, 05:03 PM #360 (permalink)  
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 In terms of hourly, grinding mtt's is pretty awful compared to cash games. I mean assuming the guy is good at both and plays similar stakes, obv should play cash games. But in the end, it's about doing what you love!
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Old 04-05-2011, 06:09 PM #361 (permalink)  
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yeah but grinding 10 hours of mtts is probably comparable to about 3-4 hours of cash in terms of focus/tough decisions etc.
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Old 04-05-2011, 06:11 PM #362 (permalink)  
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 yeah so it's easier to grind more hrs without being braindead, so I guess it's a similar $ per braincell burnt. I'd still like to have those 6-7hrs back and do something else than poker hehe
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In terms of hourly, grinding mtt's is pretty awful compared to cash games. I mean assuming the guy is good at both and plays similar stakes, obv should play cash games. But in the end, it's about doing what you love!
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Old 04-05-2011, 07:40 PM #364 (permalink)  
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 That's the evilest devil, the hope of getting that big score.
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Old 04-07-2011, 09:38 PM #365 (permalink)  
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Old 04-08-2011, 01:07 AM #366 (permalink)  
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 200 sit n gos per day is a good way of keeping it real while waiting for the big score
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Old 04-08-2011, 01:14 AM #367 (permalink)  
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 moved back down to lowstakes for a cpl days, made some back then played a bunch of 40-60$ tourneys and sng today and just ran... well you can imagine. at one point whiffed 21 consecutive 38$ 18-man sng. dropped a little over 1k, time to move back down to 20-30$ games and rinse, wash, repeat.

initially my goal was to reach supernova sometime this summer but as of this moment i m headed there by sometime next month. a nice little goal would be to hit SN by may 20th and qualify for the quarterly million $ freeroll.

70k VPP to go, 1500 about to get banged off right now.
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Old 04-09-2011, 09:13 AM #368 (permalink)  
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 had a pretty disgusting cpl days, dropped almost 2k

fired up about 20 tables tonight for 4 hours and so far i m +700 and looking to take down another 180 man. unstuckoville here i come.
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Old 04-09-2011, 09:34 AM #369 (permalink)  
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 and bang down it goes, +1.3k for the night session shipppp
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Old 04-09-2011, 09:44 PM #370 (permalink)  
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 not sure exactly what the volume plan is for today but tomorrow will definitely be another day of shot-taking after the unstucko session yesterday.
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Old 04-09-2011, 11:46 PM #371 (permalink)  
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Old 04-10-2011, 12:11 AM #372 (permalink)  
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lol yah 200 sit n'gos is pretty sick... I mean I can't comprehend how sick it really is but it definitely sounds sick!
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Old 04-10-2011, 07:40 PM #373 (permalink)  
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 ended up grinding pretty hard, made about 2k vpps and started the day swinging up a few hundred then hit an amazing death run towards the end, finished down about 5 hundo.

today playing a bunch of 55$ buyins that i ll supplement w smaller donkaments and a few sng

bink wan thaiime?
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Old 04-11-2011, 12:29 AM #374 (permalink)  
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 this one hurt. 55$ 500-cap 6 max, 7 left so final table bubble. sitting in 3rd place vs 4th place guy :

PokerStars Game #60643545649: Tournament #383129892, $50+$5 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XXIX (4000/8000) - 2011/04/10 20:12:06 ET
Table '383129892 46' 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Genitruc (138198 in chips)
Seat 2: Bargeron_Qc (233419 in chips)
Seat 6: NoOneStop (126354 in chips)
Genitruc: posts the ante 1000
Bargeron_Qc: posts the ante 1000
NoOneStop: posts the ante 1000
Bargeron_Qc: posts small blind 4000
NoOneStop: posts big blind 8000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Genitruc
Genitruc: raises 8000 to 16000
Bargeron_Qc: folds
NoOneStop: calls 8000
*** FLOP ***
NoOneStop: bets 109354 and is all-in
Genitruc: calls 109354
*** TURN ***
*** RIVER ***
*** SHOW DOWN ***
NoOneStop: shows (a flush, Ace high)
Genitruc: shows (a straight, Six to Ten)
NoOneStop collected 257708 from pot

just reaching FT was a 300$ jump, 1st was 5k ffs
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Old 04-11-2011, 02:09 AM #375 (permalink)  
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 despite two huge letdowns (8th in a 38$ 180-man for 150$ after entering FT as chip leader) and the hand i posted above, had a pretty great run tonight. went on a sit n go heater and ended around +1.1k, not including a bit of staking that's still like live. only grinded like 1.3k VPP's but it was a fun time.
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Old 04-12-2011, 08:25 PM #376 (permalink)  
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 so since skyrocketing in march and making a withdrawal, BR has been pretty stagnant between 7.5 and 9.5k. right now it s somewhere in the middle, but i m really hoping to hit a hot spot and ride it up to 15kish by the end of the month.

what has happened so far is that every time i ve made an aggressive move up to 30-50$ SNG and tourneys at the 55$ level, i have run cold as ice, scoring multiple high orbits under 600 (that s dropping approx 1.2k in playing a block of 100 SNG), which would be hard to do even with a hired (or volunteer) monkey clicking buttons.

today it s time for another shot, so hopefully i can run like the montreal spring weather wan thaiiim.
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Old 04-13-2011, 12:50 AM #377 (permalink)  
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 gahhhhhh 7th in the 109$ SCOOP preview for 300$ vs a small field, 1st was 2k, top set vs the nuts on QJ8dd after I was close to 100% sure villain has AA (he did +9T).
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Old 04-13-2011, 02:23 AM #378 (permalink)  
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 you grind way to hard for someone whos not a grinder. hopin u bink one soon.
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Old 04-13-2011, 05:55 AM #379 (permalink)  
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 thx weasel. ya i should rename this thread to reflect the surprising discovery of a grinder inside me.

after going on an early tear and getting deep in a cpl 55$ tourneys, today ended as a disappointment, mostly due to a streak of 2 payouts in my last 30 27$ and 38$ sng, when
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Old 04-13-2011, 05:57 AM #380 (permalink)  
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 thx weasel.

disappointing day, mainly becuase of a couple brutal letdowns and then a sick 30 SNG stretch where i paid out in exactly 2... still contemplating a final night-owl session (2 am here right now) to bring my day up over 2k vpps.
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Old 04-15-2011, 07:51 AM #381 (permalink)  
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 just busted 3rd in the 11$ 2r1a for 1.1k, a little disappointing (1st was 2k, went out w TT vs A5o) but it felt great to salvage a pretty horrific day (was down about 750 in SNG after yet another dizzying spiral of runbad).
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Old 04-15-2011, 10:43 PM #382 (permalink)  
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 didn t grind long today, made about 400, gonna take it easy tonight and wait curiously as this whole FBI debacle plays out.
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 grinding stars late-night sng and donkaments, up about 500 so far, games are amaaaaaazing
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 it s just past 9 am and i m beginning to think firing up an 11$ non-turbo tourney at 3 am wasn't the best idea.

11 left, massive stack, 1.6k for 1st, unbeLIEvable whales everywhere around me


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 ffs, 1.6k for 1st, 500 for 5th (5 left obv when this happens)

PokerStars Game #60903638595: Tournament #416010156, $10+$1 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XXIV (6000/12000) - 2011/04/16 9:34:00 ET
Table '416010156 16' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 2: xXxMadixXx (387044 in chips)
Seat 5: 123Crusader (805768 in chips)
Seat 6: naveld (678983 in chips)
Seat 7: Genitruc (328908 in chips)
Seat 9: blayne07 (379297 in chips)
xXxMadixXx: posts the ante 1200
123Crusader: posts the ante 1200
naveld: posts the ante 1200
Genitruc: posts the ante 1200
blayne07: posts the ante 1200
naveld: posts small blind 6000
Genitruc: posts big blind 12000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Genitruc
blayne07: folds
xXxMadixXx: folds
123Crusader: folds
naveld: calls 6000
Genitruc: raises 12000 to 24000
naveld: calls 12000
*** FLOP ***
naveld: checks
Genitruc: bets 48000
naveld: raises 605783 to 653783 and is all-in
Genitruc: calls 255708 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (350075) returned to naveld
*** TURN ***
*** RIVER ***
*** SHOW DOWN ***
naveld: shows (a full house, Fives full of Queens)
Genitruc: shows (two pair, Tens and Fives)
naveld collected 661416 from pot
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Old 04-18-2011, 08:51 AM #386 (permalink)  
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 the bustout hand was annoying :

PokerStars Game #60983324331: Tournament #416011167, $30+$3 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XXII (4000/8000) - 2011/04/18 4:48:14 ET
Table '416011167 19' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 3: Genitruc (247350 in chips)
Seat 9: seppelfrikke (466650 in chips)
Genitruc: posts the ante 800
seppelfrikke: posts the ante 800
Genitruc: posts small blind 4000
seppelfrikke: posts big blind 8000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Genitruc [Qd Ad]
Genitruc: raises 8000 to 16000
seppelfrikke: raises 449850 to 465850 and is all-in
Genitruc: calls 230550 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (219300) returned to seppelfrikke
*** FLOP ***
*** TURN ***
*** RIVER ***
*** SHOW DOWN ***
seppelfrikke: shows (two pair, Nines and Fives)
Genitruc: shows (a pair of Nines)
seppelfrikke collected 494700 from pot

but finished 2nd in the 33$ 8k guaranteed for 1.2k
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 complete lack of effort to keep this blog up to date, but i went on a bit of a dry run with lots of frustrating bubble and 7-9th place finishes as well as a brutal run of SNG until taking down 2nd in the 5$r for just about 4k to get back on track.

maybe someday i ll make an interesting post but for now priority is to keep grind on my mind and supernova in my sights.
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 made another 1k today donking (finished 2nd in 5$r for 800ish) and sitngoing... roll is back in healthy shape and i m wondering if i should ask to be staked for some higher buyin SCOOP events :

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 and god the more i think of it the more obvious it is that it s the mayor whodunnit
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 back playing cash games gotta love it baby OOOOOH YEAAAAAH (rip macho man) :

$200.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, June 20, 11:23:19 ET 2011
Table 37858544 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 2: Genitruc ( $242.30 USD )
Seat 3: Rajrajraj ( $200.00 USD )
Seat 4: BoogieMonster ( $412.12 USD )
Seat 5: Twist3d ( $198.45 USD )
Seat 6: kickofff ( $311.05 USD )
kickofff posts small blind [$1.00 USD].
Genitruc posts big blind [$2.00 USD].
Dealt to Genitruc
BoogieMonster folds
Twist3d raises [$6.00 USD]
kickofff folds
Genitruc calls [$4.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop **
Genitruc checks
Twist3d bets [$9.00 USD]
Genitruc calls [$9.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn **
Genitruc checks
Twist3d bets [$18.00 USD]
Genitruc calls [$18.00 USD]
** Dealing River **
Genitruc checks
Twist3d bets [$22.00 USD]
Genitruc raises [$209.30 USD]
Twist3d calls [$143.45 USD]
Genitruc wins $43.85 USD
Genitruc shows
Twist3d shows
Twist3d wins $395.90 USD from main pot
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Old 06-29-2011, 10:31 AM #391 (permalink)  
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 hey, genitruc. i noticed on the first page of this blog you said you don't use huds at all. i'm interested in this idea as i feel my poker progression/general understanding of the game, as minimal as it has been thus far and still is, has been very heavily intertwined with statistics and frequencies etc (which i directly relate to HUDs) through which i attempt to determine my opponents' strategies as best i can, and then construct my own strategy based on that information. because of this, i've always considered the kind of information which is made automatically available by something like a HUD to be so pertinent to

A - learning about how poker works
B - actually having the info at the table to know how to profit from the knowledge encapsulated in A

that anyone playing small/mid-stakes would need to be using it in order to succeed. you are quite clearly an exception to this rule, and a comment in a grinderschool video i recently watched which was made by renton also seemed to downplay the importance of huds etc (i'm sure there are millions more but i only read/hear a portion of their thoughts/strategies etc), which makes me think i may potentially have been focussing on the wrong things, or at least over-emphasising the importance of these statistics in my development as a poker player.

so my questions are:
did you ever use a hud? if yes, why don't you use one now? what do you see as being the pros/cons of using such software?

feel free to completely ignore this post as it is (apparently) your birthday and i'm drunk posting in your thread. but i'd genuinely appreciate hearing your thoughts on the issue.

oh and happy birthday

edit: and i haven't read all 8 pages of this monster so if this topic has been discussed then yeah, i suck. and i apologise if that's the case.
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Old 06-29-2011, 05:27 PM #394 (permalink)  
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 thx for the bday wishes guys

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if we were playing vs robots then HUDS are all we would ever need. the main reason i don t use a HUD is because I have always found that it gets in the way of adjusting mid-session.

who cares is some guy is 16/13/4? when ppl are affected by your style of play (assuming you are aggro and try to get under ppl's skin) you have to throw stats out the window in dealing with their adjustments and think one move ahead. the number of times i have seen nits play back in terrible spots is really surprising; if i had been relying exclusively on a HUD I think my default would have been "meh he s a nit gotta fold". playing without a HUD forces you to form a dynamic profile based on gameflow and showdowns that - hopefully - is much more relevant than generic stats over a big sample.

a simple example of the danger of relying too heavily on stats is 4-betting. what happens when a nit tilts like a monkey and starts 4-bet jamming 50% of his range for half an hour vs a monkey? your stats for his 4-bet will be skewed for thousands of hands because of that one session. you might say "nits don't do that". well, in my experience, they do.

another reason why overall stats are less important for me than they are for many people is that when i m the one applying lots of pressure (sometimes pre, mostly post-flop), regs tend to change their strategies for fear of being exploited. they c-bet less, makes fewer river bluffs and give up in spots where they re normally not giving up vs a robotagg or a fish. because of that, it actually hurts me if i respect the stats i see on my HUD since i m basically playing a version of the player that is significantly different from the generic version described by a HUD.

I could go on, but I think that's the gist of it. The value of a HUD for preflop decisions (who and when to 3-bet/4-bet) is undeniable. But in my experience, the very last hand you played vs someone can often be much more important than the villain's 3k hands sample in your database.
when the vpip's are high and the value bets are like razors, who can be safe?
 
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 interesting. nice response, thanks for that.
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 fuck you nl100
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