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[sauce123]

lol alexos same boat- 26k hands of breakeven this month

[Alexos]

Jesus christ

[sauce123]

hahahahhahahaha alexos wanna go move to Bangladesh and work for Wallmart man, I hear they pay a living wage over there

[IowaSkinsFan]

20 buy in downswing omfg this is ridiculous.

back to 100nl for a bit .

[Alexos]

This is all 7-10 tabling mostly btw..200nl-600nl

I will try something new..next 10k hands will be 4-tabling ONLY Interpoker 500nl or Stars 400nl-600nl

Will post results in a few days.

[Alexos]

Nice program, just tried it today...find it on 2p2 somewhere?

Who runs worse? This is not terrible though



Wow wtf happened on 18k hand??

[Halv]

Is that Phil's EV calculator? Cliff notes + direct download link please

[zook]

Is that Phil's EV calculator? Cliff notes + direct download link please

It is. Pre-beta here: http://www.pokerevsoftware.com/program/beta.html

I haven't played with it yet. Waiting for the true beta which should be out soon.

[silu73]

20 buy in downswing omfg this is ridiculous.

back to 100nl for a bit .

I saw that and I was confused. Would have gotten seats to your right which I thankfully declined.

[IowaSkinsFan]

What's your sn on stars?

[sauce123]

this program is very interesting- i mean the thing is over a large sample size i assume its semi-accurate at to what a real winrate should be, but obv over a short sample it doesnt include setups and all that nonsense...

[sauce123]

btw alexos- lol at the gap btw ur expected and actual winnings- Ill post some legit gaps soon... haha... see you at the sweatshop

[sauce123]

also it looks like it cant handle more than like 30k hand samples

[sauce123]

this program has the potential to

a) consume my life

b) consume my time

shit

[silu73]

What's your sn on stars?

"austriaco" but I don't play on Stars often and then mostly between 8-12am GMT (worst timezone for Poker ever). But next time I see you I will sit down and play.

[Alexos]

btw alexos- lol at the gap btw ur expected and actual winnings- Ill post some legit gaps soon... haha... see you at the sweatshop

lol...considering I played most of my hands at 200nl this month, it's actually close to 5 BI = 1k...not a lot but at least red is over blue

4-tabling now I'll prolly upgrade from sweatshops wages to East Europe wages at least. loool!!!

[benny999]

i've been running crappily too. here's my graph since this started--


i get the feeling this competition will heat up soon, everyone seems "due" for it.

[Alexos]

Today I started my "10k hands of only 4-tabling" operation. I realized I simply was not good enough to play 8 tables at a time. I was missing too much info and making bad plays, which resulted in massive tilt usually...

Felt much more comfortable 4-tabling and was able to make some sick calls, better plays overall, less spew, etc...regardless of results.

[sauce123]

i kind think my best place is 6 tabling as i can take enough time to really think thru every hand. 8+ tabling ill do running 18/16 or something if games r just amazing and i only feel like capitalizing on donk's mistakes....

[sauce123]

lol i would be up so much more for this challenge if i didnt tiltily decide to play gabe in 200nl omaha hi/lo and donk off 10 bi at a time going all in pf every hand hahahahahha.... no but fo realz

[sauce123]

hahahahha

I just did that EV calc on only my hands from 3/6 since the challenge began- so apparently at only 3/6 im up 7300, and with my equity adjusted if i was running "avg" I would be up 15k...

but counting my losses at 5/10 (im not counting my wins at 5/10 only my losses because honestly im not supposed to be playing it till challenge is over) which are -3k and my crushing losses in nl omaha hi/lo im only up 3k for the challenge... sighhhhh- running bad/being a retard is hurting my chances to win this thing

[benny999]

just had a hand i got a kick from. prob fairly standard for most of you, but i need to do this more.
btw ty to sauce for that thin value thread, and genitruc for some other insights.

villain likes to make "good" calls...sorta tight-passive overall, 25/8ish.

Ultimate Bet
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $2./$4.
6 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
UTG: $471.50
UTG+1: $355.40
CO: $453
Hero: $394.50
SB: $142
BB: $945

Pre-flop: (6 players) Hero is Button with 6 9
UTG folds, UTG+1 raises to $14, CO folds, Hero calls, 2 folds.

Flop: 9 4 J ($34, 2 players)
UTG+1 checks, Hero checks.

Turn: 5 ($34, 2 players)
UTG+1 checks, Hero bets $25, UTG+1 calls.

River: J ($84, 2 players)
UTG+1 checks, Hero bets $60, UTG+1 calls.

Results:
Final pot: $204
Hero shows 6c 9c
UTG+1 shows Ad Ks

actually made some $ last two sessions...back to -1k for this.

[benny999]

i just tried the ev thing, and here's my graph since may 9 (otherwise just default settings):

lol. i know i've run bad, but seems like a stretch, especially since i should only be down ~1k.
cool program though. i gotta mess around with it more later.
are there special settings? i must be missing something on how it works...

[Jager]

I tried the EV thing and the graph is better when you check the ETW tab for Expected Total Winnings. What I don't understand about it is my expected winrate is never more than 1.5 over any decent hand amount, and is usually less than 1.0?

So what are the current standings???

[dsmrolla06]

I downloaded that program and it seems like it could be useful but i dont know understand half of the information and how to interpret it.

[Alexos]

Not too sure how to interpret it either. Obv if expect showdown > actual showdown, you run bad...But if total winnings is way below showdown winnings, does it mean you spew a lot, like u bluff or something, then you fold before river??

As for the challenge I'm not too sure of the rankings since a few people didn't post weekly updates on Sunday.

[dsmrolla06]

Mine actual winnings and showdown winnings were pretty close together and about $740 above expected showdown winnings at 100NL over 6300 hands.

Does this mean i just play bad but run good? Because i havent felt like ive ran spectacular.

[sauce123]

+9500 gogogogogogogogo

[Genitruc]

+9500 gogogogogogogogo

nononononononononono

[sauce123]

on a tear +13k hoooray 4 tabling and playing lag without PT

gogogoggoooooo

[Alexos]

on a tear +13k hoooray 4 tabling and playing lag without PT

lol?

[IowaSkinsFan]

He bought a new laptop.
BTW sauce just email pt and they'll give u PT on your laptop for free since you already bought it.

Still down for the challenge and im hurting.

[sauce123]

i have changed my avatar to reflect my new faith in poker being rigged in my favor

[Genitruc]

A+ for avatar

edit : How do I flip the switch?

[sauce123]

A+ for avatar

edit : How do I flip the switch?

step 1: sell soul to lee jones

step 2: ?????

step 3: access switch (profit)

[Alexos]

+4.6k in challenge

Not sure I like this hand, it could go from totally spew, to brilliant

The guy just set over setted me, where I raise flop with my set and we get it allin on turn, so my image is good. He is also overly aggressive postflop. When it gets to the river its like what kind of hand bluffs here with no fold equity??? I mostly put him on Ax or draw.

Game #4214960023: Hold'em NL (£1/£2) - 2007/05/26 - 05:35:33 (UK)
Table "Torrance" Seat 6 is the button.
Seat 1: Webbsy sits out
Seat 2: knife590 (£232 in chips)
Seat 3: mrCcc (£486.50 in chips)
Seat 4: HERO (£200 in chips)
Seat 5: fiveaces (£222 in chips)
Seat 6: Nutzee (£227.75 in chips)
mrCcc: posts small blind £1
HERO: posts big blind £2
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO [Th Js]
fiveaces: folds
Nutzee: folds
mrCcc: raises to £8
HERO: calls £6
----- FLOP ----- [Ac 8d 9c]
mrCcc: bets £16
HERO: calls £16
----- TURN ----- [Ac 8d 9c][9h]
mrCcc: bets £30
HERO: calls £30
----- RIVER ----- [Ac 8d 9c 9h][4d]
mrCcc: bets £70
HERO: raises to £146 and is all-in
Webbsy sits back
mrCcc: folds
Returned uncalled bets £76 to HERO
HERO: doesn't show hand
HERO collected £246 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot £248 Main pot £246 Rake £2
Board [Ac 8d 9c 9h 4d]
Seat 3: mrCcc (small blind) folded on the River
Seat 4: HERO (big blind) collected £246
Seat 5: fiveaces folded before Flop (didn't bet)

[sauce123]

meh

[Halv]

There's no way he's folding Ax on that river ever, is there?

Anyways I downloaded the EV thingy and ran all the hands in the challenge:

Running goot in all-in hands. Sadly I seem to give alot of it away in other hands.

[Genitruc]

-2.3k for Challenge so far but haven't really played this week because of a concert I'm giving this Tuesday.

I'll be getting unstuck a bit 2nite grinding off a Par ty reload bonus.

Everyone post updated results?

[Alexos]

Tru dat Sunday is update time for everyone, even if yer down monies.

I'm roughly +6k for the challenge, all made this week.

[Halv]

+11k-ish. Posting screenshots tomorrow.

Do we count donkaments? in that case + 26k

[benny999]

damn halvsame, nice work.
but i say we don't count tournys, since this seemed to be for cash games, and i think no one else plays them enough.

as for my update - i'm -$700.

i didn't do much poker stuff this week, but did some thinking/reviewing and realized i still have a lot of stuff to improve on, mostly adapting more, playing trickier sometimes, and staying more focused/relaxed to get better reads and make less spewy calls and bluffs.
i'm realizing good table selection, at least with US-restricted sites, isn't really enough for me to have a high winrate at mid-stakes.

[Halv]

Yeah, I agree, donkaments don't count. Was just poking my nose and rubbing it in . Here's my week 3:

[Alexos]

I realized that I can 10-table and play well too, it's just that I have to stop immediatly when I tilt/start playing badly. This is last 8 days results including today. Was supposed to be 4-tabling but MTT ratio = 5.37 and hourly rate of 336$.



Today's short and sweet session:



+8k for the challenge, not playing much these days but happy with the results. I'm catchin up!!

[benny999]

well I'm at least up some now, $500 or so counting full tilt. +8k/11k/whatever sounds a lot better though...nice job alexos, halvsame, sauce.

btw, I just had to request another withdrawal of $6,400 from UB since my crack habit is getting expensive.
also i switched my UB name (just was tired of old one), andy-akb can verify since he played at the time I did it. just so this doesn't sound too shady...here's a screen shot:



and jk about the crack heh. i have been away from poker a lot lately though since a couple friends moved away the last week, so was chillin with them.
will play more now though, and should play better after how the first half of this went!

[benny999]

good day today, ~3k up now.
still a lot to improve on, but overall playing a lot better lately.

[sauce123]

yea so like i think i could almost eek out a win rihgt now: so heres the scoop

live poker: +6k (i dont think im gonna count this)

Fpps: I have 300k- at least, and a bit of Full Tilt RB

Cash games: +19k about

tho honestly im just gonna do this the old fashioned way I think but I wanna move to 5/10 so bad right now lol

[Alexos]

Good to hear you're doing well benny

we'll have a heck of a race, at least for 2nd place:P

-2k today for me, mostly bad beats compared to the other downswings

[benny999]

ty alexos. good to hear ur playing well at least.

sauce- turn the doom switch back on!! but seriously nice job.
and i say just count the live if it was $600 buy ins or less (was it?), and fpp/rb...especially if u are itching for 5/10. we all agreed to that in the start.

[sauce123]

no the live was 5/10 and 10/20 uunfortunately

gl everyone

[benny999]

another good session, i'm up ~4.5k now.

also today i won my biggest pot
villain was bad (u can prob tell from the turn hehe). i knew he made at least trips...

Ultimate Bet
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $2./$4.
4 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
UTG: $668.30
Hero: $893
SB: $408
BB: $1027.70

Pre-flop: (4 players) Hero is Button with 3 3
UTG folds, Hero raises to $14, SB folds, BB calls.

Flop: 2 6 3 ($30, 2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $30, BB calls.

Turn: 6 ($90, 2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $70, BB raises to $140, Hero raises to $580, BB raises all-in $983.7, Hero calls all-in $849.
Uncalled bets: $849 returned to Hero.

River: Q ($1653.7, 0 player + 2 all-in - Main pot: $2057.4)


Results:
Final pot: $1653.7
BB shows 6c 4c
Hero shows 3h 3d

last month was also my best ever, ended up over 10k i think. this race has been sweet motivation.

[Halv]

this race has been sweet motivation.

QFT!

[Halv]

4 weeks in, halfway there.

[Genitruc]

vn Halvsame

-2k for challenge over here

can't get Hud working with Vista HYACHACHACHACHACHACHA@wasting time I could be playing...

[Genitruc]

HYACHACHACHACHACHACHACHACHACHACHACHACHACHA

Not only did I not get my Hud to work after wasting 6 hrs browsing random forums, but when I DID sit down to play a few hands before sleeping I dropped about 800$ at nl200 in less than 100 hands.

This is no biggie. but what drives me insane is that for some stupid reason my new cpu wasn't set for this session to be recorded by pokertracker WTF so I can't even see exactly how much I dropped and my fucking ptracker numbers are all fucked up for the challenge.

GAH

[Alexos]

vn Halvsame

-2k for challenge over here

can't get Hud working with Vista HYACHACHACHACHACHACHA@wasting time I could be playing...

With Vista you have to run programs as administrator for them to work...

So, left-click HUD --> properties --> shortcut --> advanced --> run as administrator

if u havnt figured out by now

[IowaSkinsFan]

yay im back up 1k for challenge!!! lol god this has been a struggle.

[Genitruc]

plz let this be the turn of the tide :

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1147897

[Genitruc]

The running bad continues :

Just had my new Dell laptop and my wallet with every piece of I.D. I own stolen.

gg life

[Halv]

Man that sucks. Did you have insurance?

[Genitruc]

no insurance

wheeeeeeeee

[Halv]

Better get balling so you can replace it, then.

You've changed all your passwords etc, right?

[Genitruc]

yeah changed p words and everything else

I'll prob post the story in community : it s a sick sick ridiculous story involving me being in the apartment when the laptop was stolen, my dad opening the door for the thief as he left the apartment building and my mom finding out she hasn't had house insurance for the past year (this was news to her).

lollers

[Genitruc]

DJ FKASDF K;ADS J;FAD LAH JAHFÈ

Am pretty wasted, just played some nl100 for fun on my old shitty laptop.

Was booking a nice little win (dunno maybe a buy in or so) when this beautiful misclick happened on the last orbit on my last table because of sick overlap :

- scot5120 sitting in seat 1 with $199.84 [Dealer]
- kingofkongs sitting in seat 2 with $98.35
- Genitruc sitting in seat 3 with $163.32
- Pidde1979 sitting in seat 4 with $197.10
- BehMiks sitting in seat 5 with $59.00
- slkdp sitting in seat 6 with $98.50

kingofkongs posted the small blind - $0.50
Genitruc posted the big blind - $1.00

** Dealing card to Genitruc:
Pidde1979 called - $1.00
BehMiks folded
slkdp folded
scot5120 called - $1.00
kingofkongs called - $1.00
Genitruc checked

** Dealing the flop:
kingofkongs checked
Genitruc checked
Pidde1979 bet - $4.00
scot5120 called - $4.00
kingofkongs called - $4.00
Genitruc went all-in - $163.32
Pidde1979 called - $163.32
scot5120 folded
kingofkongs folded

** Dealing the turn:

** Dealing the river:
Genitruc shows: King of Diamonds, Queen of Hearts
Pidde1979 shows: 5 of Clubs, 5 of Hearts
Pidde1979 wins $335.64 from the main pot

sickest thing is villain is a huge nit and almost timed out.

JAD JFAP JFIW JEAWJOIA FIWFPI WPUIEh qpiu eQHIU; E

[sauce123]

ok- so i feel like the baller challenge is losing steam lately... and i have a couple problems:

1. im not really sure how much i have won but i think im kinda close to being done (def over 15k)

2. i really really wanna move up to 5/10

so ill throw out a proposal if anyone accepts/thinks this is a good idea post in this thread:

Anyone in the challenge who has won over 10k at this point (so me, halvsame, alexos?, benny?) have a 100 bet freezeout at 200nl or whatever, winner take all. We get other ppl in the baller challenge to fill the seats. So it will def be high variance fun, but with enough bets to make it not ridiculous- and 100 bet freezeouts would be sick as i think the strategy would be kind if in depth.

If everyone thinks this (or some variant) is a good idea pm or post plz CAUSE I WANNA PLAY 5/10 OMG!!!

[Alexos]

hahaha suckkerrrr!!

we got one out:P go play 5/10 it makes muuuuch more moniiiesss?? $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[Alexos]

honestly i dont mind as I agree this thread and operation has kinda died down a bit

If everyone else agrees.....

[Halv]

15k is more or less the halfway mark, not really close to being done imo. Im at just over 20k myself and still have a good way to go before I start feeling close.

At any rate I think taking the current leaders and letting them battle it out is really, really unfair to the others. It's only been a month today and we all know how much variance can be had in such a small time span. It's also/mostly a matter of principle, when we have agreed upon a set of rules they should stay that way imho.

Besides, it's not like there's a million dollar price pool, there's nothing wrong with signing out and playing 1kNL if you want to. Who knows, you might even start out running bad and be back to finish the challenge still.

Edit: I'm also gonna re-quote this for truth:

last month was also my best ever, ended up over 10k i think. this race has been sweet motivation.

This is really important as to what the spirit of the challenge is to me (that and the bragging rights {arh} ). To end it prematurely doesn't fly by me at all. (might be the wrong expression)

[sauce123]

meh fine by me halv

[Halv]

Anyone in the challenge who has won over 10k at this point (so me, halvsame, alexos?, benny?) have a 100 bet freezeout at 200nl or whatever, winner take all.

Ha, I forgot to say that I don't even know what this means. I'm obv too scared to play you guys HU for big monies anyway .

[Halv]

meh fine by me halv

You sure you're not pissed?

[Genitruc]

I have exactly 0% chance of winning since I'm still down for challenge, my laptop with Ptracker stats is gone, and I'm leaving for the summer on July 6th, but I still think it's fairest to play it out.

[Alexos]

U r rights. We'll play it out.

Benny is catching up and so am I, so it might make for a more interesting finish.

I just hope ppl post more in this thread, whether it's results or hands or whateva!!

I was back on FullTilt yesterday and made 2.8k in an hour or so wheeee!!

up 11 or 12k for the challenge

[benny999]

ya lets play this out. but how about for anyone who wants to try 5/10, just count 60% of the $ made or lost there?
seems like that would even it out for ppl who cant play that high.

and i agree about posting some more thoughts and hands and whatnot, but still...this will prob heat up again once 1st and 2nd place are closer to decided.

[benny999]

btw im just up 6-7k. the 1st week of may i was up 7k, then had a lot of swings after the challnege started.
but i'm gonna seriously try out 3/6 and maybe 5/10 finally, so watch out!