She told me ambition was sexy.

V is 19/15/4.5 10% 3b over 140ish
His name is HustlerGame

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $2.00 BB (6 handed) - Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Hero (UTG) ($205)
MP ($203)
CO ($426.50)
Button ($312.15)
SB ($45.35)
BB ($224.75)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with J, J
Hero bets $7, MP calls $7, 4 folds

Flop: ($17) 6, 7, 8 (2 players)
Hero checks, MP bets $12, Hero calls $12

Turn: ($41) 7 (2 players)
Hero checks, MP bets $29, Hero calls $29

River: ($99) 9 (2 players)
Hero checks, MP bets $55, Hero folds

Total pot: $99 | Rake: $3

So I just finished Iron Man for the month on FTP.... in a total of 22.08 hours.

I figured iron man would get me playing daily and get my hours up, but it hasn't really had that effect since I'm playing like 40 minute sessions. I'm considering going for iron man on FTP and platinum star on PS in the same month. It would be difficult to split my roll tho.

I withdrew most of my cake roll. I left 560ish in there and I'm trying to massively multitable 50nl FR with 60bb to get gold cards and maybe get some loot in the gold card race. After an hour and 800 hands I hadn't gotten a single card, so I decided to continue for 5k hands and then try shorting 100nl for another 5k. I want some data on how much it can increase my earn. If things go well then I may use this for my extra play time instead of stars. It's easier since I already have money in cake and I'm so used to multitabling there.

x-post from SHNL:

+200 iron man midyear bonus
+385.38 rakeback
-170.47 cake FR experiment
+541.50 donkaments
+2778 live

$6k+ month.

/end xpost


This is a graph of my earnings on the year. Dark green is online, red is live, black is total, and light green is what I've paid myself from the online poker sites.

My goal for the next few months will be to cash out less than I make.

damn nice earnings, I'll be mezmerized the day I book a 5k+ month.

The way you're rolling it wont be long.

RAAAAAAAAGGHGHGHGHGHHH

[15:11] <Dev> i fucking hate full tilt.
[15:13] <Dev> http://weaktight.com/1346235
[15:14] <Dev> http://weaktight.com/1346237
[15:14] <Dev> software freeze.... both hands against world class fish.
[15:25] <Dev> Just sent a nasty email... bah.
[15:26] <Dev> TBH the AQ hand might not have turned out well, the fish was in the middle and folded to that raise anyway, and the other player was like a 13/10. The AA hand was against a guy who almost certainly would have been going broke with any draw, K or Q.

So I lost almost $900 on the first day of the month. Some of it was subtle tilt, some of it was beats. Either way I'm dropping back down to 100nl for a while and probably going to 4 table. I figure, since FTP is freezing up on me a lot it'll hurt less if there's only 4 tables and I'll be able to focus my game a bit more.

Wow this month is starting off swingy. 36 hours ago I was down 1100, now I'm up almost 1200. Still down 600ish online, and I'll probably be stuck at 100nl for at least a week or two unless I get some serious time in and run well. I've decided to keep it down to 4 tables for a while, so that might slow me down but I need the grounding, I'm starting to go on autopilot again.

Holy hell I'm running bad.

It's like everyone who sees a flop against me with a small pair hits a set, every time I hit a set someone hit's a straight. I even lost a 300bb pot HU where I 3bet, hit a set, guy called with nothing at all on the flop and backed into a flush. He didn't even have an over.

Oddly, I feel more bored about it then anything else. It's like oh, this again.

I'm probably going to take tomorrow off, maybe Monday as well. I can't take too much time off tho because of iron man.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot to mention... fuck full tilt, fuck them up their stupid asses for all the software freezes.

Hit some burnout from some runbad and tilt from full tilt's new software freezes. I skipped a couple of iron man days, but I'm in better spirits now and I'm going to grind a few thousand points over the weekend.

Wtf are you doing with your software? I´ve had the FT client freezing like once during 14k since their latest update. Whatever the reason may be, I think software issues cost me like 1BB/100 long term back at ongame, so I can see where this is coming from. Good luck you get that shit fixed soon.

I emailed support, they haven't gotten back to me.

I just checked the thread I started in the online poker forum and tried the fix there... on my way out but hopefully when I play again it'll work out.

The fix worked. No more freezing, so that's good. I continue to slack off and run bad, but I'm planning on getting a few hours in per day over the next week or so.

Assumptions...

When a fish calls a cbet on a dry board, I generally give up and almost never barrel.

Folded to my SB with T9o-ish hand, fish in the bb. It seems bad to fold, and bad to build a pot, so I call and wonder if I'd be better off raising. I'd only be raising to take it away with a cbet, and since more often than not the fish don't fold to cbets that seems bad. So, without reads, I'm open limping small blinds.

I've been losing a lot of money lately when villains with really weak ranges aren't folding things I expect them to fold. I'm thinking I need to redefine 'weak' for the purposes of bluffing.

x-posted from SHNL:

+$291.90 RB
+$500 FTP bonus
+$2010 live
$2223.30 at the end of the month... it seemed a lot worse. I really gotta get some volume in online.
/x-post

So in the interest of getting in more volume, it's time for a goal. Part of the reason I made the move to FTP is that I figured iron man would motivate me to play more often. It's worked, sort of. I'm playing more often (read: more days), but for less time. I've averaged somewhere in between 30 and 35 hours per month and that's simply not enough.

The idea was to play poker online for a living so that I was free to do what I want and be where I want, but as it stands I need to continue to play live just pay the bills. So here goes, a modest goal for this month, and a buildup to something greater.

September: 80 hours of play time, focusing on 4-6 tables.
October: 100 hours of play time
November: 120 hours

I'm running a little behind on hours, and I feel like I'm running pretty bad.

Playing fewer tables and focusing on hours instead of hands is doing wonders for my thought process.

With fewer tables I'm finding the game more enjoyable, but until I get some massive volume in I have to assume I'm making less money overall. I do play for a living and I have to cash out regularly so I have to come to some kind of equilibrium between most money and most learning. Maybe I'll do something like an hour a day of 4 tabling and then a few hours of 8-10 tabling. I don't know, ideas appreciated.

I'm sort of conditioning myself to balance hours with volume.

Something I find that works for me (because I play between 2 stakes) is play the higher stake for a few hours on a low number of tables to help condition my thought process, then later on play a couple hours at the lower stake but juice up the volume, build the roll, and learn how to make smart decisions quicker, eventually reaching the point where adding more tables becomes trivial.

That's very spoonish. It makes me consider the implications of Josh Waitzkin's book on a poker player.

I don't really have issues dropping stakes or moving up, but when I'm rolled for a certain stake I tend not to ever play a lower stake. I suppose I could try out your idea when I get back to 200nl (looks like it's right around the corner).

The other issue is that I'm considering putting some of my roll into bodog for football betting and for playing against football betters. The cash games there have been really good during the NFL season in the past, so I'm expecting some good action. Since you can only play 4 tables max there, maybe use bodog for my conditioning and FTP for my moneymaking. In fact, putting the conditioning part in a box like that should be great for outlook and emotional control.

So I realized today that I don't even know why my hud is setup the way it is. I set it up a long time ago, and I've forgotten what some of the numbers mean. I've been clicking the 3bet stat to find the fold-to-3bet stat when it was already there, next number down the line.

Right now it's set to
name/hands/profit
vp$ip/pfr/steal/3bet/fold-to-3bet/4bet
AF/Cbet/fold-to-cbet

I might spend some time researching what other players are doing. I've never wanted to be a hudbot, so I don't think I'll do too much of my own work on this one, but I might revisit some of the threads that made me put steal% on there in the first place (which is a stat I use constantly).

I've been going through this cycle of loosening and tightening my game. I start to understand a situation or an opponent and I start calling and raising them more before the flop and value betting thinner later on. Then I go too far and start trying to plan for every possibility before making any move and I get tighter because there are too many unknowns. Call & re-eval becomes fold. I understand the arguments against any line where someone says 're-eval' but I find myself folding too tightly. Then I go back during a session review and think about what I could have done and I find that raising>calling>folding. I started writing this paragraph thinking that this is something I need to stop, but now I'm thinking it's just the learning process... nm. :P

Just read thru Griffy's 3000th post. Hopefully it keeps going for a bit.

One issue that was brought up was that a lot of us play better when someone is watching. I remember I was pretty happy with how I played when I made videos, and started talking to myself while I was playing as if I was still doing a video. I think it worked pretty well. I'm going to start doing that again.

Also, if anyone wants a sweat, I'm down. I'll be the little spoon or the big spoon.

I'm running pretty bad, questioning my plays a lot, and having to force myself to play. So here's the plan:

Play 50nl for 10k hands with a winrate > 3ptbb/100 before going back to 100nl. If it starts rough then I'll be playing more than 10k hands probably, I'm just looking for a 10k block with a decent winrate.

sweat sometime soon then.
I am playing better than ever before. And can still see no shortage of areas for improvement.

Lemme know when you're available Daven.

The 50nl experiment is not exactly doing wonders for my confidence:

I'm a little drunk right now so don't mind if I go on a rant.

I got over the 10k mark at 50nl today.

So, with AIEV coming out even, I'm well over the mark for ptbb/100. The goal, however, was actual ptbb/100. I fell short.

btw, rakeback wasn't actually in that graph. For some reason HEM is adding that to the legend at the bottom.


difference between 100nl and 50nl for me
- I was playing 4-6 tables of 100nl, for this experiment I've been playing 10-16 tables of 50nl.
- I stopped listening to music while I played at 100nl. I left the music on for 50nl.
- winrates over past 10k: 100nl: -5, -1.3AIEV; 50nl: 2.6, 4.75AIEV

I made changes to my routine with the best intentions. I've gotten in the habit of doing my reviewing while I play and it's led me to a bad headspace for playing. My plan now is to continue what I'm doing at 50nl, only do it at 100nl. I'll save the study for after the sessions.

I'll decide tomorrow whether or not I'll go back to 100nl or stay at 50nl to hit my goal of 3ptbb/100 over 10k hands. On one hand it seems kind of pointless to play 50nl, on the other hand I made a goal and it seems like a bad idea not to hit it before I move on.

/ mini-op

I ran at 3.57 ptbb/100, 5.76ptbb/100 adjusted for EV. This kind of pisses me off. Even when I was consistently beating 100nl, it was only for like 2ptbb/100. Here I was doing an op to get my confidence back but ended up aggravated. I'm wondering wtf was I doing wrong at 100nl. Anyway, Ima take some time to relax and then get back to the grind at 100nl... minimum 8 tables, music on.

I've made a few odd river calls lately.

You know that donk line where they bet really small on the flop and turn and blast a 'blank' river that isn't really blank because they just hit a set or backed into a straight. Yeah, I call that too much.

So there's a sticky note on my monitor now that says "HE'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO BE BLUFFING HERE" Problem solved. (hopefully)

Is 83% flop cbet standard for you? Seems pretty high/exploitable.

By the way the sticky note strategy is so good, I cleaned up a few leaks this week with it.

Originally Posted by Micro2Macro

Is 83% flop cbet standard for you? Seems pretty high/exploitable.

By the way the sticky note strategy is so good, I cleaned up a few leaks this week with it.

I'm running at 76% and I'm checking back the flop with A LOT OF showdown value type hands
I bet he bets those in position

I suppose it's a style thing and depends on how we adjust to people playing back (well not many play back actually lol)

And also the typical game we're in (i.e. nitty cbet alot, fishy bluff less etc)

I used to have a really high cbet %, now it feels pretty low but for me it works I guess. Maybe I need to cbet more.

Yes, it's exploitable. I cbet like a monkey throwing shit until people start exploiting it. I barrel a lot, too. Pretty much the only hands I check back by default are medium-strength showdown hands and hands that have the deck crushed. I'm working on checking behind and giving up a bit more, but cbetting just seems too profitable to me vs. unknowns.

When I dropped to 50nl for 10k hands of confidence-building, I stopped respecting my opponents as much as I had been. Then I just opened the aggression back up. So far so good, but we'll see how far I take it. If history has anything to say about it, I'll end up barreling myself into situations where a reg raises me on the river and I call with like 3rd pair.

I'm getting better at folding the hopeless ones and raising when it's an obvious spot for a tagg to play back at me. If I continue the way I'm going and study a bit more then the sky's the limit.

Counting RB, I broke $1000 profit today. It's the first time since September 4th, and I only did it once in August. I honestly think I've been running bad for 2 months. I'm glad today things were better.

I was way behind on hours this month. I never really thought 80 hours should be difficult. I'm not spending much time studying, it's just that 80 solid hours of play time is tough for me. This is my job and I'm not happy just paying my bills. I'm going to fix it.

About studying: I had the wrong idea about fixing waning confidence. I thought grinding 10k hands at a lower limit would fix it, but I now realize study time works better. Nothing gets you ready for the grind like learning something new.

And now, your moment of zen:
No-Limit Hold'em, $1.00 BB (5 handed) - Hold'em Manager Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

MP ($101.60)
Button ($101)
SB ($100)
Hero (BB) ($201.75)
UTG ($230)

Preflop: Hero is BB with Q, 10
UTG calls $1, 3 folds, Hero checks

Flop: ($2.50) Q, 10, 8 (2 players)
Hero bets $2, UTG calls $2

Turn: ($6.50) 7 (2 players)
Hero bets $5, UTG calls $5

River: ($16.50) Q (2 players)
Hero bets $12, UTG calls $12

Total pot: $40.50

Results:
Hero had Q, 10 (full house, Queens over tens).
UTG didn't show 8, 7
Outcome: Hero won $38.50


My name was changed because I'm not innocent.
Dealer: ME wins the pot ($38.50) with a full house, Queens full of Tens
Dealer: Hand #14938965622
Dealer: Roadsweep has 15 seconds left to act
Givemiakes: you got me on the river ..nh
Dealer: Givemiakes wins the pot ($7.60)
Dealer: Hand #14938977316
ME: i was good the whole way
Dealer: ME wins the pot ($6.65)
Dealer: Hand #14938988883

During the 2nd hand:
Givemiakes: nop ... at the river
ME: whole way. i can see ur cards
Givemiakes: huh?
Dealer: Givemiakes has 15 seconds left to act
ME: hit 'last hand'
Dealer: ME has 15 seconds left to act
Dealer: ME has 15 seconds left to act
Dealer: ME has requested TIME

No-Limit Hold'em, $1.00 BB (5 handed) - Hold'em Manager Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

SB ($100.60)
BB ($101)
UTG ($100)
Hero (MP) ($219.90)
Button ($210.60)

Preflop: Hero is MP with 9, K
1 fold, Hero bets $3, Button raises $5, 2 folds, Hero calls $2

Flop: ($11.50) Q, 10, 4 (2 players)
Hero bets $7, Button raises $14, Hero raises $19, Button calls $12

Turn: ($63.50) 5 (2 players)
Hero bets $36, Button calls $36

River: ($135.50) 7 (2 players)
Hero bets $64, Button raises $143.60 (All-In), Hero calls $79.60

Total pot: $422.70

Results:
Button had Q, A (one pair, Queens).
Hero had 9, K (flush, King high).
Outcome: Hero won $419.70

bet sizing is incredibly bad in hand 2

Originally Posted by badgers

bet sizing is incredibly bad in hand 2

Agreed. It was late and I was probably laughing at the chat too much to pay attention to the hand. I was running laggy as hell on that table so bigger bet sizing probably got as much or more action than the power min-raise kind of stuff.

x-post from the graphs thread:
From FTP - mostly 100nl, some 50nl in the middle.


From PS - everything from SSing 200nl to full-stacked 50nl. SSing= insane variance and boredom so it looks like I'll finish up there with 50nl and 100nl.

BTW, ps games WAAAAY tighter than everywhere else or is it just me?

I played really bad live, but I'm up $747 on the month,
-80ish FTP
+80ish PS
+905.71 RB
+283 Bonus

Another $2k month, fuck September, bring on All Hollow's Eve!

/x-post

I really played bad live. I'm planning on playing more online and less live this month. I also plan on studying a bit. It should be a project since I barely made the 80 hour goal I set for myself last month.

October:
100hrs online
Study
Find ways to focus while playing live
If I break $5k this month, I'm buying a treadmill.

BB and BU are taggy, SB is loose/passive

No-Limit Hold'em, $1.00 BB (6 handed) - Hold'em Manager Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

MP ($234.80)
CO ($172.50)
Button ($139.75)
SB ($141.15)
BB ($100)
Hero (UTG) ($100)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with 6, 5
Hero bets $3, 2 folds, Button calls $3, SB calls $2.50, BB calls $2

Flop: ($12) 8, 3, 4 (4 players)
SB bets $4, BB calls $4, Hero calls $4, Button calls $4

Turn: ($28) 6 (4 players)
SB bets $4, BB raises $26.50, Hero calls $26.50, 2 folds

River: ($85) 6 (2 players)
BB bets $66.50 (All-In)

Just looking quick and I'm also not in the right frame of mind to analyze anything, but the turn call seems bad.

The raise looked like isolation with some kind of one pair hand. The SB's bets are basically expensive checks. When we all just called we all look really weak. I'm getting better than 2:1 pot odds, much better implied. I have to think a 7 is good, probably a 6 or 5 as well, but not for sure. I seriously thought there was a chance he was drawing to a flush there, too. As played, river?