Rags To Riches Redeux

So yea, I get sick of my blogs after like 3-4 pages because I always get way off track from where I wanted to be and it turns into epic ramblings and such. So I'm starting this one with a new goalset in mind, and if I don't stick to it I'm gonna hit myself in the penis cuz ffs, it isn't that hard amirite?

Goals:
- Post + analyze a hand in here 4-5 times a week.
- Post stats every 20-30k hands as a checkup or w/e.
- Update at the end of every session/day about mood and mindset during play.
- Play and study at least 20 hours a week. (10 study, 10 play; 5 study, 15 play; whatever).

June Goals:
[ ] 10k hands
[ ] Value bet more effectively (this is something I've been having problems with recently.)
[ ] Get on a normal sleep and work out schedule

In other news, I just got a call back from the casino after my interview on Friday, and I got the job as a valet. $6.06/hr + tips, 24-30 hours a week on average. I go in tomorrow for the piss test, filling out paperwork, etc. Since I'm getting a new job, I figure its time to straighten out my terribad sleep schedule since I told them I don't want to work overnights, or if I have to, not very often.

Thanks for following chodes! I'll edit this later and put in links to my other blogs in case anyone is semi interested in watching me fail.

Props on the goals. I see monetary/results-oriented goals all too often. Congrats on the casino job. I dealt holdem for over a year after college until I got a "real" job. Have you thought of doing that instead?

Thanks donkfish, yea I've considered becoming a dealer in the past, but I'm only 20 and apparently you have to be 21 to obtain a license in Michigan, so that's out the window for now. I'm not gonna complain at being a valet, my buddy has been doing it for a little over a year and he's been making bank (bank for me is enough to pay bills, buy some shit you really don't need, and still putting some monies in the bank), which is more than I'm making at current job, so easy game on quitting the old.

Just finished a 650 hand session, 3 tabling 10nl 6m. At the beginning of the session I was pretty focused, that lasted til about midway through when Kill Bill Volume 1 came on TV and I was watching that more than my tables. I ran pretty hot, but was getting bad boards for my AA/KK/QQ so had to fold a few times post which kind of irritated me, but I shook it off an managed to not spew away stacks which is a +. I made one bad calldown, but I won't bother posting that since I know it was bad. I quit session when I realized I was too distracted by movie to continue playing. (I'm still watching as I'm typing this lol.)

I have 3 hands today to post:

1.) weaktight | Hand Poll | QKo - $0.05/$0.10 No Limit Holdem

Villain is 27/0 over 41 hands. PF I'm kind of torn between raising and checking, I think either is fine, I just decided to pot control a bit here. I'm always checking KJ, QJ, AT here I think, but I think raising KQ here is fine, KQs I'm raising pretty much always since I like teh sooted cards ldo.

Flop: This flop is obv pretty bad for my hand, so I check with intention of c/f to any bet, especially since this hits a lot of the fish's limping range PF, i.e. theyre going to FDs, Jx, Ax, GSSDs, etc that theyre not folding to a bet, so I'd be burning money trying to semibluff with my 4 outer.

Turn: We obviously bink one of the best cards in the deck. Pretty simple bet/fold vs any of these guys. When he calls, I put him on {A2-AT, 8J-KJ,random FDs, KT, QT-QJ, 89} we obv pwn this range so ldo value bet. I don't think he has the balls to raise two pair on this board, if he does, gg and I'm still folding.

River: River is a brick, except for 89, he's calling a value bet with {A2-AT, KJ/QJ/TJ} he might call with weaker hands, but I'm just keeping it reasonable. Value bets itt.

2.) weaktight | Hand | 2Qo - $0.05/$0.10 No Limit Holdem

EP limper is 20/6 over 71 hands, no real reads other than that.

Flop: Obviously an easy bet, but I should have made it pot sized as opposed to 2/3 since 9x, random overs, 33-TT are all calling.

Turn: I was kind of confused on turn, I think I still get value if I bet the turn from most of his PPs, but at the same time I'm owning myself vs his 9x, and I can't be sure he's calling enough of his PPs. I suppose if I figure he calls Ax on the turn, he'll call all his PPs. So I was bet/folding this, thoughts on sizing or another line appreciated here.

River: This is an lolterrible card. I'm chopping with any hand I was beating before this, and now I lose to any PP that I was vbetting on earlier streets. Pretty simple c/f.

3.) weaktight | Hand | 99 - $0.05/$0.10 No Limit Holdem

This one is more for fun, but I also figure its kind of interesting. Preflop, limper is 57/0 he c/c flop, donkbets turn or donkbets flop a LOT. The times he's shown it down he had TP, or a draw of some sort. Iso raiser is 31/23.

Flop: OMG BINK amirite? My bet is too small, I figured MP would bet any K, draw, etc on this flop so I figured I was only value towning the fish who's a station. How do we beat calling stations? We value bet them more. I made a mistake with not betting at least 1.20 here.

Turn: Turn I lol'd irl especially when fish donks and get a call in between. I honestly had no fucking idea how much to raise, and I obv wanted to get paid, I minraised. I could have easily jammed here and expected one or the other to call with Kx, FD, etc which probably would have been the best play. Anyways, I minraise and get called by one of them, which makes me want to barf since if he has a FD, I'm never getting paid on the river unless he binks.

River: There's only one bet I can make here, and thats obv shove, should have done that on the turn, since only Kx, QT is calling here unless he shows up with JJ or something. I missed all my value vs his FDs because I decide to be stupid on the turn, so I missed a shit ton of value. Lol at him playing so passively with a SFD and I suicide if J of clubs hits lol.

Hand 3 is a pretty good example of how bad I am at value betting, and why I'm striving to improve at it. Other than this hand, I think I did a pretty good job of it during my session, so its only value betting with the nuts I have trouble with.

do you hold the record for most blogs yet?

Its gotta be close, I think slevin is still winning. You're in a trolling mood today aren't you? lol

Hand 1 looks uber standard.
H2 pretty standard... maybe c/c the turn? I dunno I don't think there is too much difference between the two.
H3. lul @ CiB here. I think either flatting or jamming has to be your only option here. CiB says, "hi I have big hand!" flat lets him spew his missed draws/value town with Kx, straights, 66, whatever other bullshit he has and obv jamming gets you in with the uber nuts and he will prob-stain call with a lot of worse.

Originally Posted by dranger7070

Its gotta be close, I think slevin is still winning. You're in a trolling mood today aren't you? lol

yeah I have this strange urge to just troll around and give no useful input whatsoever in whichever threads I choose to read and respond to.

Been a couple days, but I've been busy irl and haven't had a whole lot of time to play poker, but I do have a couple of interesting hands to post. Run good has kicked into full swing irl and I'm doing meh at poker, but I'll take ++++ in life over + in poker any day. Got drunk as shit Thursday night, talked to a chick I haven't seen in like 5 years except for like 20 minutes the previous Sunday, we got drunk, fun times ensued, etc etc. Friday I worked all day, yesterday I worked 7am-7pm this morning and just woke up.

My orientation for the casino valet job is Wednesday, ~2-3 weeks after that I'll be quitting my current job as a security guard, and hopefully 2 weeks after that I'll be moving out of my parents house for the 3rd time. WOOOOP!

Onwards to the hand postings:

Balls, HEM isn't opening atm, I have to restart computer or some stupid shit, I'll post in a bit.

Originally Posted by dranger7070

So I'm starting this one with a new goalset in mind, and if I don't stick to it I'm gonna hit myself in the penis cuz ffs, it isn't that hard amirite?

i guess hitting your penis while it's hard would distract you further, but how are we to know if it's hard or not?

It's always hard.

LOLOLOL at dranger's "cuz ffs it isn't that hard amirite?" There's better ways to solve impotence than penis self harm.

following on from penis self harm.....what happened to the girl you posted about dating.

Carmen got kicked to the curb, am now working on a new female that loves to give me blow jobs. Obvious +EV imo.

Sorry I haven't updated in a bit, I've been hella busy irl with wimminz and work. I worked 44 hours last week + 9 hours of orientation at the casino and I work 60 horus this week between both my jobs. o_O Doesn't leave much time for pokering and blogging. I'll update when I can though. I'm really into PLO atm, thanks to DC and fat lol. We'll see how long that lasts then back to NL and such.

Holy fuck lots to update. Haven't been posting much/at all due to still being incredibly busy irl up until about 4 days ago. Been busy with work mostly, but that blowjob chick wanted to hang out every god damn day I didn't work, and who's gonna turn down free, easy blow jobs? Anyways, she got kicked to the curb as well for being a stupid cunt. Standard female.

New job is going good, got called into work last sunday night 12am-8am and made $90 in tips, ship it!!!! Gotta work all weekend, which is fine with me, considering I don't give two fucks less about 4th of July and I should make some decent tips so hoorah.

Poker front, things are looking up to say the least. I spent the vast majority of the month bull shitting around at PLO. Eventually got bored with breaking even so I moved back to stars for the umpteenth time, hopefully for the last time, god damn. Moved back on the 28th, noticed the Micro Mania tables kicked in on the 29th, so I figured I'd try to see if I could mash out silverstar in 2 days at 10nl FR. Ended up 10-15 tabling for the most part and all I can say is, heaters are fun.



So I practically doubled my BR in 2 days, hit silverstar, and put in a good bit of volume for the first time in over a year. I'm moving up to 25nl with an 8 BI stoploss, gogo continued rungood imo. Heater to the 100s imo. I'll actually try to keep this updated a bit more now, and actually get around to posting some hands like I said I was going to.

gl gl

Originally Posted by dranger

so I moved back to stars

made my week <33333

I do it for you, buddy

You'll never get good doing it for douches like kiwi.

Ohh yeah and congrats on the month. I have faith in you sir, gogogo July volume!

<dranger>i know
<dranger> i went and took a piss, grabbed my laptop and layed down and i seen that you guys typed a bunch more shit after i left
<dranger> and it appears the general concesus is im an idiot that will likely never amount to anything
<Bbickes> all the more reason to prove them wrong sir

motivation's a helluva drug.

ur doing well don't throw it all away

Originally Posted by Micro2Macro

ur doing well don't throw it all away

is dranger trying to flip his roll off again?

Originally Posted by d0zer

is dranger trying to flip his roll off again?

If only it was that.

[ ] Got around to posting those hands.

Updates incoming.

Dude come on already what's been going on?

UPDATES

I just threw that down before I went to bed, I work midnights and I was up for too long already. Will post a lengthy update in the morning after I type it out at work. Will have some hands for review in it, new goals, etc.

Originally Posted by dranger7070

I just threw that down before I went to bed, I work midnights and I was up for too long already. Will post a lengthy update in the morning after I type it out at work. Will have some hands for review in it, new goals, etc.

in b4 goals change during writing of said post

Haha fuck you philly.

Marijuana is a helluva drug. I've devoted pretty much the last ~6-8 months of my life doing nothing but getting blazed and having a good time. I figure it's about that time that I stop being a lazy POS being that we're coming up on my 2 year anniversary at FTR and I haven't progressed past the micros for longer than one shot at 50nl that ended in tilt, spew, and eventually me withdrawing most of my roll.

My new plan for this op is going to be much along the same lines as before. Play and study more, focus more at the table, focus on being less tilted, post more hands, reviewing sessions, using pokerstove and other accessories to aid me in my progress/learning. It's time I stopped being a dumbass and started getting my shit together.

Something I haven't done in a long time is have a monetary goal for an op. I'm wanting to go back to community college in the spring and am putting in my application later this week once I get ahold of my high school and FSU to ship transcripts. The only problem is, I'm cash poor irl, since I'm also in the process of moving out of my parents house (I'm 20) and into my own apartment (for the 2nd time -_-). I'm going to be easing myself back into the education system, starting out with 2 classes in winter/spring semester, then 3 in the summer. Eventually starting to take a full load of classes next fall, hopefully at Central Michigan University.

To pay for my schooling, I'm going to need earn and withdraw $1k by December 12th in order to pay for tuition, books, etc for the spring semester. I will need ~$1.5k for summer semester, and a lot more for the fall semester (should be able to get financial aid to assist when I move back to an actual uni so this isn't as big of an issue yet.)

As it stands, my BR is $450. $350 of that is money that was traded irl then transferred online that I would like to get offline ASAP. So my initial goal is to run that up to $1k, possibly a little more then withdraw that $350. Then continue playing 25nl until I have enough to pay for school and continue grinding.

I will be completely starting over in my poker development. COMPLETELY. Back to basic nitting it up, 11/9/3% 3bet kind of shit. I've been tampering in too many different forms of poker over the last year and its tainted my view of what is 'standard' so I need to go back to start and being a nitTAG again.

I will start out 12 tabling, following the guidelines posted in a thread called The Nit Clinic (not exactly, since I disagree with some of his opening ranges, but close enough) on 2+2. Send me a PM if you want a link, don't want to post spam, etc. I will probably get up to being a mass tabling robot, but if I'm managing to turn a profit at 5bb/100 or better, I'm not going to be too upset.

Laziness is probably my biggest weakness when it comes to poker. One thing I have always struggled with is putting in volume. I'm going to come up with a schedule that has me playing at least 3 hours a day 4-5 days a week. Seriously, its a common known fact that the more hands/hours you play, the more experience you'll get, the faster you move up, make money, etc. I need to stop being a piece of shit and just do it already. I will be doing my review away from the tables obv, and will be taking only extremely limited notes while playing since I'll be playing so many tables.

For some of my review, once I get used to mass tabling/being a nit I'll post a video of me playing 16-20 tables while explaining thought processes (expect a lot of chopped up, short hand thoughts) and cross post in the BC and SSFR and allow everyone to pick apart my terrible play. Will probably need some help cutting down the file size, but I'll worry about that when the time comes.

As for that, I think that wraps up this monster of an update. I have 3-4 hands I'm going to post but I haven't done any review on them yet and it's going to take some time since I'm going to want to play another session first. :P

Post with hands incoming, just stumbled across this and wanted to post cuz its abso gold for me atm.

Self-Discipline

Hand 1: This is kind of just a check up to see if this is standard here? Villain is short stacked, and is the definition of loose/passive at 44/4 40% fold to cbet.

PF - Standard raise for value vs this fish, hoping to hit pair, pair + draw, etc and stack and bet/bet/shove.

Flop - not the greatest, but we do flop our draw, and he does fold to cbets some of the time, so I go ahead and cbet semi-bluff. I'm expecting him to continue with any piece here and a lot of random floats with Q or J high (probably with some sort of backdoor potential flush potential), etc and obviously any flush draw.

Turn - Not a bad card, gives us 3 more outs, but probably improves his range a decent bit as well. He could have turned a pair with 9T, TJ, KT, QT. I didn't want to double barrel and have him call me down while I'm still drawing so I opt to check hoping he either checks behind and I get free card, and if he bets, I'll just check/jam and use my fold equity (if any) and I obviously have tons of outs when called. Clearly I don't expect him to fold an A, but he will fold his 8x, Tx, 99, etc.

Just wondering if anyone plays turn differently here vs this type of villain? This play would be super standard vs a competent villain, but since this guy is a fish... I could have c/c and taken my pot odds, but I didn't honestly consider at the table just seen that he bet and was like 'lol ship it.' c/c was probably best here given his sizing.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.05 BB (8 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

saw flop

MP2 ($2.66)
CO ($4.80)
Button ($2.25)
Hero (SB) ($5.02)
BB ($2.84)
UTG ($4.12)
UTG+1 ($5.07)
MP1 ($5)

Preflop: Hero is SB with ,
6 folds, Hero bets $0.20, BB calls $0.15

Flop: ($0.40) , , (2 players)
Hero bets $0.30, BB calls $0.30

Turn: ($1) (2 players)
Hero checks, BB bets $0.20, Hero raises to $4.52 (All-In), BB calls $2.14 (All-In)

River: ($5.68) (2 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: $5.68 | Rake: $0.28

Hand 2: Villain in hand 2 is interesting. He's the rare recurring super fish. He's at the tables all the time but he runs 68/18/61% Afq over 134 hands. Folds to cbets 57%.

I failed so hard on the turn in this hand, I think I should have just jammed since he's going to call with sets, two pair, Ax FD, maybe Kx FD if he has a pair, straights, etc. Just posting this one to slap myself around a bit and learn to get the stacks in when I have the opportunity to when there are a decent number of bad river cards, and he's unlikely to pay me off if he doesn't hit his hand, but will be willing to call large bets while still drawing.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.05 BB (7 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

saw flop

MP1 ($5.34)
MP2 ($5.46)
CO ($2.78)
Button ($2.50)
SB ($3.33)
Hero (BB) ($5.50)
UTG ($3.98)

Preflop: Hero is BB with ,
5 folds, SB bets $0.10, Hero calls $0.05

Flop: ($0.20) , , (2 players)
SB bets $0.40, Hero raises to $1.20, SB calls $0.80

Turn: ($2.60) (2 players)
SB bets $0.05, Hero raises to $0.65, SB calls $0.60

River: ($3.90) (2 players)
SB bets $1.38 (All-In), Hero folds

Total pot: $3.90 | Rake: $0.18

Hand1: I'd just bet turn .60, expecting him to fold the bottom half of his range enough of the time.

Hand2: yeah just jam against megafish

Hand 3: I saved because I wasn't 100% sure what my equity looked like when I called this if they both hand nothing but sets and I was curious. I was pretty sure it's still a +EV call but I just wanted to double check. Results with villains having only sets via pokerstove below hand.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.05 BB (8 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

saw flop

MP1 ($4.21)
MP2 ($4.06)
Hero (CO) ($5.09)
Button ($2.50)
SB ($5)
BB ($5.72)
UTG ($12.23)
UTG+1 ($4.74)

Preflop: Hero is CO with ,
1 fold, UTG+1 bets $0.15, 2 folds, Hero raises to $0.45, 2 folds, BB calls $0.40, UTG+1 calls $0.30

Flop: ($1.37) , , (3 players)
BB bets $5.27 (All-In), UTG+1 calls $4.29 (All-In), Hero calls $4.64 (All-In)

Turn: ($14.94) (3 players, 3 all-in)

River: ($14.94) (3 players, 3 all-in)

Total pot: $14.94 | Rake: $0.74

For w/e reason it won't copy/paste directly from Pokerstove so...:

Board: Kd Qd 5d

Hand 1: 37.652% {AdAh}
Hand 2: 57.807% {KcKs}
Hand 3: 4.54% {5c5s}

I need ~29% equity to call this profitably, fist pump snapcall ez game, etc.

Originally Posted by d0zer

Hand1: I'd just bet turn .60, expecting him to fold the bottom half of his range enough of the time.

Hand2: yeah just jam against megafish

I just really hate barreling vs stations when I'm still drawing since we rarely have enough fold equity. The thing with betting 60% is I expect him to continue with Ax, 8x, Tx, any hand with 2 spades, 99, 77, etc. By c/jamming we get him to fold 8x, (sometimes) Tx, 77, 99, anything he floated flop with that can't improve now (Js9c, etc). Obviously, I don't expect him to bet all of his middling hands all the time, but hey, fish can take stabs too.

H1: Barrel. I hate your jam so so so so much since he has an A like 95% of the time here.
H2: Jam turn.
H3: Stove says it all, pretty lol spot.

Originally Posted by dranger7070

I just really hate barreling vs stations when I'm still drawing since we rarely have enough fold equity. The thing with betting 60% is I expect him to continue with Ax, 8x, Tx, any hand with 2 spades, 99, 77, etc. By c/jamming we get him to fold 8x, (sometimes) Tx, 77, 99, anything he floated flop with that can't improve now (Js9c, etc). Obviously, I don't expect him to bet all of his middling hands all the time, but hey, fish can take stabs too.

When he bets, he's rarely folding imo, and we need very little FE to make a turn bet of .60 profitable.

c/c'ing is better than jamming with the price yer getting.

"I'm cash poor irl, since I'm also in the process of moving out of my parents house (I'm 20) and into my own apartment (for the 2nd time -_-)"

This part I don't understand. If you don't move out then you will not be cash poor? So stay with your folks while in school if they don't mind. I know it's a pain in the ass to be 20 years old and living with your folks but it's better than being cash poor. If you must move out because school is out of town then find something closer so you can stay with your folks.

You probably don't want to hear this but my advise is:
Stop smoking that shit. If you stop then how much money will you save?

$1k in 70 days is def possible, especially for you.
GL

In my experiecne dude, there's a reason certain people are unmotivated, lazy and ambitionless and that's weed. I know you say you can still function on it normally etc etc but I kinda doubt that it has no effect on these feelings of lethargia, laziness etc etc that've been plaguing you. I really think you'd be happier, more successful and more focussed on getting what you really want out of life if you stopped smoking weed every day. Smoke a spliff at parties, whatever, I'm not saying don't have fun. But in my own experiecne, and in the expereicne of anyone else I've ever know that's taken weed as a way of like, it's stagnated their progress and trapped them in a cave where nothing ever gets achieved and they wake up only once every few weeks or so and think "shit what am I doing?" It's a fun drug in moderation, but seriously as a way of life, it's a peice of shit and really bad for you.

Having said that, here's my take on these 3 hands.

1. If he's peeling the flop as lightly as you think there's gonna be a ton of underpairs, and junk that he can fold to a turn bet. You have so much equitees you can just barrel here and need not many folds. The c/jam is pretty horrid since he checks backthe turn with a good amount of the hands he folds to a shove here, defo c/c as played.

2. Yah jam turn, his turn calling range is a lot wider than his river calling range given the stupid pair + heart hands he can't fold turn with then the times he folds non flushes on h rivers.

3. Obviously a snap.

Dude really like your new goals etc. I do tend to agree with Sasquach about staying with your parents but I remember being 20, fuck that was a long time ago! Hey as far as massive tabling and taking notes check out: NoteCaddy - Programmable automatic notes and color coding for Holdem Manager and Poker Tracker 3 It's a pretty cool program I just downloaded and got it up and running. Although I'm not sure if it is compatible with your mac or not?
I won't bother lecturing you about the weed as I am sure you are aware of how de-motivating it is.

Good luck buddy

pwnaments?

And GL.

I'll answer these in order:

@ Sasquatch: I'm cash poor irl atm because all my money is being put into bills that were overdue from my last apartment. Last year I rented out a place in Big Rapids with some friends while I still had my security job. I was making enough money to cover all my expenses, then work slashed my hours down from 32 a week to 16-24 and it was either eat and have a car to drive to work and not pay rent, or pay rent and not eat or have a way to work so I slipped pretty quickly into debt.

I owed $1600 at the beginning of last month, I currently owe $600. I won't be cash poor for that much longer, but I want to get out of my parents ASAP. New apartment, car insurance, phone bill, etc will take too much out for me to be able to pay for college in time for the Winter/Spring semester and I want to get back to school asap so I stop feeling like I'm wasting my life. Plus, my parents don't like me bringing back random girls to the house. Serious beat.

@ Carroters & everyone else's thing with me smoking pot:

I smoke pot because when I do its really easy for me to forget about the serious fuckups I've made in my life. Me smoking is like drinking for an alcoholic. I'm probably going to get some lol's for this (especially from Bbickes, etc) but for real, I'm a stressed out kid. I feel like I have all this pressure to succeed from parents, friends, etc and it seriously gets to me and in the last two years I cracked under that pressure and subsequently dropped out of school, enlisted, then ran from the government for 2 months before eventually turning myself in and being Other Than Honorably Discharged. That's not fucking cool. I fucked up, and it gets to me big time. When I'm sober all I can think about is how much more I could have made of myself at this point, instead here I am being a pos. /bleeding vagina rant

That's why I'm re-upping this blog. I'm not going to quit smoking entirely, like you said Carrotz, its fun in moderation. It's a helluva fucking drug in moderation. But you are right, I DO have to stop smoking it every day. Me and my soon to be roommate already agreed we are both going to cut back big time in the next month or so leading up to moving out and no smoking in the mornings once we do move out unless we have ABSOLUTELY nothing planned for that day. No class, work, etc. I don't want to be some pothead/junkie that everyone looks at at the reunions for high school and say 'god damn, what happened to Dustin?' That's why I'm grinding the fuck out my BR over the next 70 days so I can get my ass back in college and back on track.

As for the hands, thanks for your comments guys, especially on hand 2.

@ Harley, doubt it will work for mac, but I'll be buying a desktop shortly after I move out and will have HEM on it, so thanks for the link.

Time to play "Dad" for a minute...

Do Not Forget about the serious Fuckups you've made in your life. Remembering them at any giving time is essential to learning what not to do.

"When I'm sober all I can think about is how much more I could have made of myself at this point, instead here I am being a pos"

Don't dwell on the past but do remember the past and quit fucking whining about how hard your life is.

A quick story (ok not so quick):
I was a straight A student in high school. Started college and everyone (ie. parents) was expecting big things from me. Went off to a big SEC college, joined a fraternity, stayed drunk or otherwise most of the time, never went to class, made a whopping 0.21 GPA my first semester in college. Told my folks that it was really hard.

From then on out I took an English class and a math class and two other classes, usually ---ology. I made A's in the math and English class and never ever even thought about going to the other classes. Report card showed 2 A's and 2 "incompletes". My folks saw 2 A's and were satisfied as I made up some BS about they must have made a mistake. I managed to do this for 2.5 years and I was still a Freshman.

For two weeks straight I did not see daylight because I would party all night, go to bed at sunrise and sleep til sunset and then start over again for 2 weeks straight. My very last semester at this college my GPA was a whopping 0.00 . I got suspended from school and lost my government grant which paid for all my tuition and my books with a couple hundred dollars to spare. I was a total fuckup and during this time I managed to also accumulate about 20 bad checks and a lovely DUI for my record.

I didn't care cause all I wanted to do was party. When my folks finally came to the college to chew my ass, take care of my bad checks and take my sorry ass home, I wanted them to wait another week so I could party with my friends and say "goodby". That didn't go over too well. I could go on but I won't but there's alot more to the story...

Anyway, you know what I do now so don't give me this bullshit about making mistakes and I need to forget them so I need to stay high. Grow the fuck up and start taking control of your life.....Now.

/Dad

Also, read spoon's story sometime. Don't know where it is.

In b4 dranger cries from Sasquatch pwning him

In all seriousness, we've all done shit we're not proud of. Just gotta learn from it and move on.

So, because you've fucked up in the past, you choose to continue to fuck up by smoking? Makes little sense to me.

Meh...I used to smoke every day as well until I noticed that the types of people that smoke every day are fucking losers. They don't do shit with their time and mooch off others. So I quit entirely. That was a bit difficult so now I smoke about once a month.

The point has been beaten to death in that you should be smoking in moderation. As for your stress, smoking is pretty much on the bottom of the list of ways to handle your stress. There are countless other ways to handle stress that don't involve marijuana. The fact that there are some stressors in your life is no fucking excuse to smoke weed every single day/hour/second of your life. Everybody has stress in their life and you aren't any different from anybody else. So basically, your excuse for smoking weed is fucking weaksauce.

I honestly would've rather read "I'm smoking weed because I just discovered and goddamn I love it." There's an end to this where you realize you can't smoke every single day of your life because you will end up living in your mother's garage playing video games all damn day.

Additionally, as for your newest operation, I'll see it when I believe it. I've seen this Dranger popup tons of times and it has always lead to disappointment. You've been ready to pwn life a handful of times...but then you got lazy and chose to do otherwise. Again, as Carroters pointed out, this is most likely because you choose to put it on the back-burner to smoke a joint or two. I suggest cutting that shit out, doing what you gotta do, and perhaps allowing yourself to wind down with a joint (if absolutely necessary). The earlier in the day you smoke, the more failblog.org your day will be. Since there is very little production to do after your day is done (say after you've played poker and are ready to wind down in bed), there is nothing wrong with a joint (if you continue to smoke).

Anywho, I've shat on you enough in this post. Just so you know, the point wasn't really to shit on you. I basically don't want some plant to get in the way of you achieving what you want to achieve. As for your past, you fucked up. Leave it at that. If it somehow affects you in such a way that you CONTINUE to fuck up, that's weak. Redeem yourself. Take today as a starting point to start owning. Your past is completely irrelevant and should simply be lessons that have been learned.

Holy shit, chill guys. You all were asking me about the smoking thing, I explained my reasoning for smoking in the past. I'm restarting this blog because I want to turn my shit around. I don't need an ass chewing from 4 guys on the internet lol. I appreciate the sentiment that you all want me to succeed and all, but take it easy and reread my last paragraph in that post. I was trying to come off upbeat, ready to put my bullshit behind me, start cutting back a lot on smoking, etc.

Not to ruin your guy's obvious fun at ripping into me.

Probably won't play tonight since I haven't been to sleep all day after working last night and I'm kind of tired. I'll play a session in the morning and post hands from that.

Sep 29 13:25:24 <kiwiMark> lame that he's trying to make positive steps or w/e
Sep 29 13:25:29 <kiwiMark> and everyone's all focusing on the devil weed

<3

fuck what everybody says. you know what your faults are and it's only you who can do anything about it. be happy that people care and are offering advice even tho it sounds like attacking you and your habit. do what u gotta do. if u didnt want the advice you probly wouldnt have put ur problems out there for everyone to see anyways maybe??

I'm not upset about it. I just noticed a lot of posts mentioning my habit and I figured I'd clear the air real quick about it and try to get across that I'm trying to put it behind me so I can focus on moving forward in my life.

Does that mean you're gonna ditch the bong-tokin' hottie av?

Probably not going to change her out for a while.

Dude she looks more like a crackhead hoe tbh!

Originally Posted by Sasquach991

Time to play "Dad" for a minute...

Do Not Forget about the serious Fuckups you've made in your life. Remembering them at any giving time is essential to learning what not to do.

"When I'm sober all I can think about is how much more I could have made of myself at this point, instead here I am being a pos"

Don't dwell on the past but do remember the past and quit fucking whining about how hard your life is.

A quick story (ok not so quick):
I was a straight A student in high school. Started college and everyone (ie. parents) was expecting big things from me. Went off to a big SEC college, joined a fraternity, stayed drunk or otherwise most of the time, never went to class, made a whopping 0.21 GPA my first semester in college. Told my folks that it was really hard.

From then on out I took an English class and a math class and two other classes, usually ---ology. I made A's in the math and English class and never ever even thought about going to the other classes. Report card showed 2 A's and 2 "incompletes". My folks saw 2 A's and were satisfied as I made up some BS about they must have made a mistake. I managed to do this for 2.5 years and I was still a Freshman.

For two weeks straight I did not see daylight because I would party all night, go to bed at sunrise and sleep til sunset and then start over again for 2 weeks straight. My very last semester at this college my GPA was a whopping 0.00 . I got suspended from school and lost my government grant which paid for all my tuition and my books with a couple hundred dollars to spare. I was a total fuckup and during this time I managed to also accumulate about 20 bad checks and a lovely DUI for my record.

I didn't care cause all I wanted to do was party. When my folks finally came to the college to chew my ass, take care of my bad checks and take my sorry ass home, I wanted them to wait another week so I could party with my friends and say "goodby". That didn't go over too well. I could go on but I won't but there's alot more to the story...

Anyway, you know what I do now so don't give me this bullshit about making mistakes and I need to forget them so I need to stay high. Grow the fuck up and start taking control of your life.....Now.

/Dad

Also, read spoon's story sometime. Don't know where it is.

OLD GUYS ROCK!

This blog is getting off track but I must ask, how old does one have to be to rock? I'm 31 but feel much older... just trying to figure which clique to fit into here

Yea, I didn't want this to turn into a dranger pity party but its all good. I'm not going to get upset if people post in here. I'll keep updates coming still, don't worry.

No idea how old you have to be to consider yourself 'old.'

Edit: @Harley, I'd still hit it.

Originally Posted by dranger7070

Edit: @Harley, I'd still hit it.

+1

Mkay, played a couple thousand hands yesterday 10-12 tabling 10nl FR. Went fairly meh due to two fairly standard hands (I probably could have gotten away from one, stacked OTB vs CO with AK vs his 4bet jam 100bb deep, he had AA; complete unknown). Figured I'd flick through my database and look for some hands to post, so here's a couple.

Villain is a 32/9 over 75 hands, has donked a couple times, the one time he showed it down he had 89 on 975r where he bet/called flop, checked flop, and c/c'd my 3/4 PSB with 3rd pair. So basically he's a massive station that donkbets made hands at least some of the time.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (9 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

MP3 ($10)
Hero (CO) ($10.54)
Button ($11.30)
SB ($10.18)
BB ($10)
UTG ($12.33)
UTG+1 ($6.21)
MP1 ($12.53)
MP2 ($9.85)

Preflop: Hero is CO with J, A
5 folds, Hero bets $0.30, Button calls $0.30, 1 fold, BB calls $0.20

Flop: ($0.95) Q, K, 4 (3 players)
BB bets $0.10, Hero raises to $1, 1 fold, BB raises to $2.50, Hero raises to $10.24 (All-In), BB calls $7.20 (All-In)

Total pot: $20.35

So, PF he's a station with a huge range, his Call PFR is at 29% (10/34), and his fold BB to steal is 50% (1/2). I'll give him {22-JJ, A2s+, A8o+, K8s+, any broadway, 56s+, 78o+} Thats ~27% which is probably tighter than it should be but w/e.

Against this range we have 58% equity, so ldo raise for value, IP vs feesh.

Flop: We flop a monster draw, NFD + GSSD to the nuts + an over thats probably good some % of the time. He donks into us, and he's shown he can do it with made hands. I doubt he flats with QQ+ PF, so the only sets in his range are 44.

As for his flop range donking range I'll give him any pair 88+, any draw and go from there. So that gives us... {44, 88-JJ, ATs+, ATo+, K8s+, KTo+, QTs+, QTo+, 9Ts+, 9To, 5c6c-8c9c} against which we have 60.5% equity.

Now thats just his donking range, against which we have 61%. His continuing range vs our raise is (I don't think he'll fold any pair Q+ on this flop to a single raise and will probably fold all GSSDs that don't have a FD to go with it) {44, AQs+, AQo+, K8s+, KTo+, QTs+, QTo+, 5c6c-TcJc, TJo} against which we have 54% equity, so my raise was good for value.

As for his 3bet range, TPGK, sets, OESDs, GSSDs + FD, and FDs. So... {44, AQs+, AQo+, KJs-KQs, KTo+, 5c6c-TcJc} against which we have 51% equity. If we get rid of all the naked FDs we have 48%. Given that we can 4bet jam our huge draw and have him dominated some of the time, shoving is easily the best option considering he still might fold on occasion.

Dranger played a draw correctly for once, wat?

Villain in this hand is 67/25 14% 3bet over 75 hands. Obviously mega drooler, no real history at this point. Should note that this was a 50bb table.


PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (7 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

UTG ($2.87)
MP1 ($2.15)
MP2 ($6.89)
CO ($2.04)
Button ($4.10)
SB ($6.37)
Hero (BB) ($5)

Preflop: Hero is BB with J, J
2 folds, MP2 bets $0.20, 3 folds, Hero raises to $0.70, MP2 calls $0.50

Flop: ($1.45) 10, K, 3 (2 players)
Hero bets $0.75, MP2 calls $0.75

Turn: ($2.95) 3 (2 players)
Hero checks, MP2 checks

River: ($2.95) K (2 players)
Hero bets $1, MP2 raises to $5.44 (All-In)

Total pot: $4.95

PF: Obviously 3betting for value, probably could have made it .80-$1.00 and still gotten a ton of calls. Highly unlikely he folds anything halfway good looking in his opening range to a 3bet soo... (assume he 4bets KK+) {77-QQ, A8s+, ATo+, KTs+, KTo+, QTs+, 78s+} which we have 65% equity against so ldo 3bets for value.

Flop: Not terrible, the K isn't too sexy, but I really doubt he folds any pair to a cbet, and with the two coordinating broadway cards there's quite a few GSSDs/OESDs that he's not going to fold, so I cbet for value. Continuing range: {77-QQ, ATs+, ATo+, KTs+, KTo+, QTs+, QJo, 9Ts+} against which we have 49.475% equity. Hmm... too thin of a cbet then? I guess since he folds it makes it ok, but I'm guessing c/c would be best in this situation, or do you think the 49% + the times he folds is worth it..?

Turn: I should actually be double barreling here if I don't think he folds anything to a 2nd barrel, but I feel like he's going to be folding 77-99, maybe some of the weaker Tx (9T, TJ, QTo, etc) so I decide to check it back. Thoughts welcome here.

River: Once turn checks through, I feel like I have to bet to get some value out of my hand, but can't bet too big otherwise I'll be committed when he jams and never be good when I have to call. I still think my sizing should have been better than $1. Considering he has aggroish stats, maybe c/c would be better here since all the draws (except FDs) bricked and the chances he has a K just got cut significantly. Keeping in with maximizing value, etc I opted for the b/f but thoughts welcome here as well.

Edit: Should probably put him on a river raising range + show equity needed to call so y'all can point out errors, etc. After betting I have $2.55 left and if I call pot will be 11.94. 2.55/11.94 = ~21% I need to be right to breakeven. (This is why betting $1 is so fucking terrible -_- I put myself in such a gross spot :/)

Range: {TT-QQ, AT, AcJc-AcQc, AKs, ATo, AKo, KTs-KQs, KTo-KQo, QJs, QJo, 9Ts-TJs} against which I have 34.76% equity. *Note this is saying he's jamming all his Tx, and his missed OESDs.

Even if we take out 9Ts and QJs (except for 9cTc and QcJc) we still have 25% equity. Guess I shouldn't have folded since he can easily have some bluffs here.

H1 - I used to play draws aggressively but stopped when I went 0 for 934,347,124 on hitting when stacks went in.

H2 is a really shitty river spot. Hard to believe he backdoored a frush, he has Ks in his range obv and tons of 1p/draw type hands + bluffs. I think it's a call depending on how big of an aggro drooler he is, but it's close.

Originally Posted by StarGrinder

This blog is getting off track but I must ask, how old does one have to be to rock? I'm 31 but feel much older... just trying to figure which clique to fit into here

StarGrinder you're getting up near the top of the range. Guys like Sasquach991, Warpe and I are like TOP OF THE RANGE if you know what I mean. But hey like they say you're only as old as you feel......Oh shit that is scary at times isn't it!


Dranger h1 I'm right there with StarGrinder these damn draws just seem to cost a fucking fortune and only hit when I fold...WTF. Anymore I am TRYING to convince myself to just save it for another day!

1. Ok I think you need to reconsider his flop raise/continuing range. Given we've seen him display a pretty stationy nature in previous hands, donk/calling medium strength hands, I'd actually say you have pretty much close to 0 fold equity on this flop after he 3-bets. So, does he do this with enough worse draws that getting it in now will be superior to flatting and playing fit or fold vs all the top pair+ he's never folding pretty much regardless of how the board runs out? If he doesn't have many draws here to bet/3bet the flop and I think this is kind of likely given I'd expect him to just donk/call these, I'd probably call instead and play more fit or fold. Don't get me wrong it's close depending on whether he does this with JT worse clubs and then stacks off, and getting it in is certainly +EV. If however, we can't give him many draws when he takes this line, our EV catapults by calling down with huge implied odds, only shovelling stacks in when we make our hand. Even if he goes into station checking mode, we can still town his soul on cards that make our hand and value bet the shit out of Ts, clubs and maybe even As if he stops hammering on the turn.

So yeah, in general, in spots where we have no FE vs a fish and have a draw we're way better off playing fit or fold since we get his money all the time when we make our hand anyway, and lose half a stack less when we don't.

If I gave him every worse draw I'd obv defo ship the flop, I just don't wanna give him that many though based on how passive he's been. If he'd been more retarded and aggro on flops before I'd also like a ship since we could fold out Qx he has no idea what he's doiung with or other peices of shit like 77. Again don't think he has much of this here when he 3 bets the flop. Thus, I'd prolly expect his range to be mostly Kx KQ 44 which is all the nuts to him.

I think it's kinda close based on his freq for having these other 2 types of hands that make us wanna ship, if he's been getting tilted/frustrated I can defo see throwing more of them into his range. Don't neccessarily hate your play, bra, jus sayin.

/rant

2. This obv depends on two things A: Is he spazzy enough to shove bustoed draws on this river? B: Does he not bet the turn with busto draws if he wants to take a shot?

I wouldn't give him all these combos of Tx since he's clearly just gonna call these on the river the vast majority of the time. I'd polarise his range to Kx and bluffs, even most fish can see a flush is not a big hand on this river. You need to be good so infrequently so if you can give him something like

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 30.435% 30.43% 00.00% 14 0.00 { JdJh }
Hand 1: 69.565% 69.57% 00.00% 32 0.00 { AKs, AJs, K8s+, QJs, AKo, AJo, KTo+, QJo

You can call. I don't think calling can be much of a mistake here given how spazzy he looks.

TBH though I don't mind jus shoving the river for a slight over bet for value. He prolly never folds Tx, has Kx rarely since he bets the turn with it a bunch and combos have jus been sliced. So yeah if this is his river calling range

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 58.108% 58.11% 00.00% 43 0.00 { JdJh }
Hand 1: 41.892% 41.89% 00.00% 31 0.00 { 99, AKs, ATs, K8s+, QTs+, JTs, T8s+, AKo, ATo, KTo+, QTo, JTo }

We can shove for value. Since he has less K cimbos due to not betting the turn and sometimes 4 betting AK pre, our equitys even better here top value shove. Note this point about him betting the turn sometimes with Kx should make H1 more of a call but I also feel he's gonna bet draws some % too so left it like that to balance.

Whenever, I play a draw, I ask myself do I have fold equity, Like really against this particular villian what will he fold? If the answer is not an easy yes, then Ill play it passively either call or fold. I know that seems weak, but why be more aggressive than you have to be, cause obv you don't need to balance or any of that other crap... Right?

15 outs ZORMG etc

My first real theory/strat post! :O

http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerfo...ev-182956.html

First person to reply to this gets $2.50 shipped to them every time I drink something carbonated. (Excluding alcoholic beverages)

Ship to StarGrinder on Stars. Thx. Want a coke?

StarGrinder it is.

I'll post a legit update tomorrow morning. Had a busy weekend.

Tomorrow morning obv = 4 days later.

Updates!

Haven't played much since last week. Seriously been hella busy going out with friends, working, following through on shit I've been meaning to do for the last 6 months, etc.

Let's start with the weekend. Friday night I went to Big Rapids (my old college town) and hooked up with a couple of my friends and some wimminz and my soon to be roommate. Me and roomie drive to dealer's place beforehand, pick up a couple grams of chron and smoked a thick ass blunt on the way. Got super baf (baked as fuck), showed up to friends, they have drinks all ready. Got Captain and Coke, and Captain Lime-Bite and Cherry Coke.

The latter of which tastes like Fruity Pebbles, no joke. Shit is tasty haha. I ended up chugging 3 big glasses of that and 2 of the regular Cap N' Coke. Decide we're gonna go to one of two bars in town. Show up just totally trashed since me and roomie and a couple others decide to smoke another blunt o' chron about a half hour before bar. We show up to bar, filled with fairly decent looking chicks, and FUCK TON of dudes. Like guy to girl ratio is a good 2-3:1 easy, if not worse. So basically, the name of the game is to hit on some bitches and just hope you were better than the last guy, etc.

Well it gets boring pretty quickly and my buddy's gf asks if we want to go around and meet some people. Obviously we say yes, so 3 of us set out on a circuit of the bar and as we just get started I notice out of the corner of my eye this hot ass blonde chick with tight, pink, short shorts on and a tight white tank top showing uber cleavage. All of a sudden I feel myself flying towards her, and knock into her. Somehow in my drunken/baf state I manage to stay on my feet and apologize to her. Obviously, it was one of my buddies trying to be a good wingman. Lucky for him, this guy can improv so I just start up this line of bullshit and end up getting her number, but nothing else. Leave bar, go pass out, leave in morning with hangover, gg.

I played like 2 sessions over the weekend, probably some hands in there to post, but my laptop died and the hands I had posted in a word document got erased so gg that. I played a session yesterday and played just god awful and lost accordingly. Gotta be more focused while I'm playing instead of letting auto-pilot take over 15 minutes in. Discipline, etc.

This weekend will be another busy one. Going downstate to hook up with a chick I sexed over the summer and meet some of her fine ass friends (I hope). Will get drunk, etc obviously. After this weekend I should be able to settle down and get a fairly consistent grind going during the week. I'm planning on cutting back majorly on marijuana in the coming weeks so I can save my money faster and gtfo of my parents house once and for all.

Oh, one more big piece of news (for me). I have yet to file my taxes for 2009 because the USMC has been withholding my taxes from me since January. I've been in contact with them since mid-April and JUST TODAY I got my W-2 online. THANK. FUCKING. GOD. Such a huge weight off my shoulders and it seriously feels like I'm getting myself out of this hole I dug myself over the last two years.

I'm paying off my student loans from freshmen year atm (win), paid off my car last month (win), getting my taxes filed tomorrow (already called ahead and set up appointment for 1pm, win), I'll be moving out of my parents house in the next 6 weeks (HUGE win), work is going better than ever, picking up shifts left and right, working consistently 4-5 days a week (win).

It just feels like I'm not a sack of shit anymore, and that's pretty significant for me. I don't feel like I have this huge cloud hanging over my head all the time and I think I'll be a more relaxed and confident person because of it. I'm starting to work out again for the first time in ages. All this life EV will hopefully transfer to the tables and result in massive profits and improvement in my game allowing me to reach greater heights than before. One step at a time, nah mean.

tl;dr

Oh ya, StarGrinder. I owe you $5. Just posting here to remind myself since my Stars isn't open atm and too lazy to ship right now.

Hi5

Originally Posted by dranger7070

Oh ya, StarGrinder. I owe you $5. Just posting here to remind myself since my Stars isn't open atm and too lazy to ship right now.

Bwahaha. Coke or Pepsi? Diet or Regular? It was one of those fuggin Monster 'energy' drinks wasn't it?!

McDonald's ;(

Advice:

Write down every time you smoke (excel date/time/ possible estimated cost), do it for a month. Following month make a goal to cut it by 50%. Rinse repeat until you get to where you don't feel bad about smoking.