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If you would like to ask me a question about something I said in my blog or have a comment please respond here: http://www.21ace.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=24720
Wednesday, July 6th, 2005
Today I decided it would be a great idea for me to start a blog for mainly poker related topics, I play poker near everyday and the swings can really get to you at times. I'm a limit Hold’em player, so basically I normally play 1/2 and 2/4. 2/4 not so much yet mainly because I had the BR for it then well shit happens and now I don't so I’m back to grinding 1/2 for now. This week has been pretty rough since the 1st of the month I’m down but it's early in the month I can bring it back I’m not too worried about it. I'm not the weekend player that you might come across in a casino majority of the time I’m a serious player that does it for the money. I don't have a part time job and I’m in college so I play poker for spending money each month, I guess you could say I play as my part time job... playing as a job is not as glamorous as people like to make it out to be, long hours at the computer or at a casino and very unsociable. As a poker player I'm not the typical person that you would met on a day to day basis, my personality is not very sociable it's more logical and isolated from public's perceptions of today's youth. I think that's enough back ground, today I played about 4 to 6 hours of 3tabling (3tbling basically playing 3 tables at once), I ended up having a small winning session of about $50 @ 1/2 which 25bb is a typical day +/- 25 to 50bb is not abnormal. Unlike no limit bb doesn't mean big blind, in limit it means big beat, so at 1/2 a bb is $2. Maybe those reading this know that but I want to be as clear as possible in my posts. Ok that's about all I want to say, till next time goodbye...
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Thursday, July 7th, 2005
Today I played 1/2 and 2/4 for about 4-6 hours... I’m up I want to say near $200 today, you can't beat that say 6 hours I played and I’m up exactly $200 that's around $33/hr, how many people can make that as a part time job in college... I don't think the conventional way would be easy considering besides internships and even those get like 20/hr maybe more but not too often.
Today I played extremely well and got a little lucky in the process, in the short run the game is gamboling over the long run well the math prevails... I have played enough hands that the math has shown I have +EV... today was a great day hopefully tomorrow is as good, when I wake up at noon and play till 3am and you waking up at 6am to go to work think of me, I work at home, make my own hours, and just have fun in what I do for money, till next time keep at the grind...
Like I said in my last post there are ups and down to having poker as a part time job… I make my own hours and can make a good amount pure hour but it’s defiantly not constant day to day, so I mean one day I could make $50/hr but the next be -$10/hr or something my job is one of the few in the world that you can go to work and come back with less money… but that’s not why I play the game because in the long run I’ll make my fair share, regards pokerfanatic...
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Friday, July 8th, 2005
Well here we are again today my session didn't go as i hoped it was a bit of a tough session, but with tough sessions are what separate good player from great players, then the winning players that turn a profit during these times are amazing players. I used to be a good player and I do believe tonight I became on the level of a great player. I think this for more then one reason, good players lose a lot and tilt from time to time they can't handle their emotions well, and I used to be like this getting so made I could even see stright, that’s what I call serious tilt. Tonight I had as bad a run as before but for some reason tonight was different I CONTROLED my damn emotions. I played 100% correct poker in situations I think. If not 100% at least 90%, I was on any hot runs what so ever and KK, QQ, even AA and AKs all missed or got cracked, now you are a mediate to good player like in a typical situation like this might effect how you would play your hand next time. Say you get dealt AA get is cracked by 72o, do you let it effect you? If you do you're probably a slight looser in the long run. For most players dealing with bad beats is tough it effects there game even if they don't think it does. I have played against extremely great players that can get a strong hand crack and go on tilt loosing not only there mind but there buyin’s or multiple buy-ins... I have lost 100bb in a night due to partly tilting, well partly is an understatement, I went on tilt and lost my ass. Tonight that could have happened again but did I let it happen NO, I read my opponents knew where they were played it off if I had the odds that I only needed to be good say 30% of the time to be profitable. Sure enough they had what I thought they had, I paid it off KK lost to K7s runner runner, I mean I’m a huge favorite in that hand but sometimes even with 88% probability preflop to win the hand by the river you my not be the best possible, flop hit very well for him in the KK v K7s came down 568 rainbow that actually brings me down to around 68% so that's a bad flop for me great one for him... turn comes down a 7 this no counteracts his straight draw because if it got there we chop the pot so that's best card I could have seen given his hand, of course I don't know he has that hand when I’m playing it, any ways with that turn cards I’m back up to around 87% to win, well he could the miracle, the river hits a 7, he lead out like a fu*king idiot and missed out on a couple bets... He should have mucked PF in the first place but he was a bad player that wanted to give me his money 88% of the time... I didn't get pissed I called and was like yup dumbass got lucky and looked forward to the next hand... It's amazing how many player draw for long odds against, I’ll play it the same next time because 88% of the time my ass wins the pot he got lucky and stole... till next time regards pokerfanatic...
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Friday, July 8th, 2005 (early morning like 3 or 4am on Saturday)
Some nights you just can't fu*king win... playing 6max tables and you get AA, KK, QQ, JJ all cracked within I’d say 20 hands dealt you now your in for a rough fu*king night... how are you going to make money of you big pairs get cracked and AK/AQ wont hit and hold for shit... you don't it's going to be a long painful leak of money to the fish that play ultimately piss poor fu*king poker... they play there trash like J4o and two suited like 84s to take down pots off you... My session tonight I had to quit because there was no way to turn it around after I got fucked at the 6max tables for literally ever face pocket pair you can get I knew it was time to fu*king cut my losses and walk the hell away from the night... sometimes you just can't win... what a piss poor night, till next time regards pokerfanatic...
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Saturday, July 9th, 2005
The fu*king idiots that play poker make your bank roll and make the game worth while but god damn it when they get on a fu*king hot run dear god you're loosing you ass... fu*king idiots can really piss you off and they can really make your bank, it's a love hate relationship, you love them when the math holds, and you fu*king hate them when they hit long odds against continuously... fu*king idiots...
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Sunday, July 10th, 2005
Bonus whoring can suck sometimes because you have days where your money is stuck in cash outs and you can't get to it for a day or two when this happens it's nice to have another account with at least a stake for .5/1 or 1/2 in it that way you play that account and you experience NO down time... I’m having a day where I haven’t played hardly at all maybe for like 3 hours if that and to me that makes me board as hell... poker is like crack it's one of those things that you get additive to pretty easy in my case I work playing poker and got used to playing 7days a week for like 6 hours on average each day, to only play half that is like a crack addict not getting a hit in one day... till next time regards pokerfanatic...
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Monday, July 11th, 2005
Sometimes you run across days that suck ass and you drop a good chunk of change because some dumb fucker hit a 1-5 outer on the river, well that day was mine today, w/o me finishing off the bonus I would be stuck $140 at a damn 1/2 game... with the bonus I’m stuck $40, so my day has been shitty, nothing like dropping 70bb in a day woot!!!
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Tuesday, July 12th, 2005
Today I sat down at true poker played 2/4 lost like $50 and quit I then went to 2 tabling 1/2 at true poker and I won $40 back leaving me down like $10 for that session but not that big a deal, I then went over to UB where I sat down at 2 tables of 2/4... This turned out to be a hell session I lost $150 in like 30min none of my hands held up it was fu*king sick... Well I took a break for a couple hours then thought to myself "you're a good fu*king player stop think about variance and fu*king play you pussy." This is exactly what I did, I fired up 3tables at UB 2/4 well about 2 hours later I had went on a +$100 swing YES most my money back!!! so I guess I need to stop worrying about a messily 25bb swing because you might loose $100 at 2/4 in 30min but you might win $100 in the 30 min as well, I think by pushing myself to play correct TAGGy poker I expanded my game slightly how to play though the rough goes, I think my biggest leak is tilt, if I can control tilt I destroy the game... till next time regards pokerfanatic...
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Thursday, July 14th, 2005
As I switch from site to site I’m exposed to many styles of games from loose wild to real rocky… So adjusting is KEY!!! At UB I have a playing style of almost maniac type aggression because I’ll get folds a lot and take down a lot of pots, plus when I get a big PP like AA and raise PF they think I’m just raising any two big cards and are more likely to call… where at party poker that type of aggression will loose you a lot of money, I really have to tune it down at party poker skins and value bet a lot more and show them hands rather then push them around… and true poker’s 1/2 game blows fu*king ass, don’t play 1/2 there… It’s relatively simple really you should not switch sites as much as I do if you can help it…
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Learn to deal with this bettor then how I did today this hand put me on complete tilt I had to quit for the rest the day... At least I played it right for my reads and the situation... hell I probably should have mucked the turn but I had odds at that point to call and hope for the 2 outer on the river or what I thought was a 2 outer it was actually a one outer because UTG is a complete dumb fu*k...
DrunkOldMan is at seat 0 with $175.75.
nebsetag is at seat 1 with $143.50 (sitting out).
Ramsey is at seat 2 with $189.50.
GeneMarinacci is at seat 3 with $197.
dog8alls is at seat 4 with $106.
smockstack3 is at seat 5 with $200.25.
WSOP-05-GOAL is at seat 6 with $24.
DJS666 is at seat 7 with $213.
madster is at seat 8 with $62.
pkrfanatic is at seat 9 with $198.
The button is at seat 8.
The full kill button is at seat 7.
*** This is a kill game. ***
pkrfanatic posts the small blind of $1.
DrunkOldMan posts the big blind of $2.
DJS666 posts the kill blind of $4.
DrunkOldMan: -- --
Ramsey: -- --
GeneMarinacci: -- --
dog8alls: -- --
smockstack3: -- --
WSOP-05-GOAL: -- --
DJS666: -- --
madster: -- --
pkrfanatic: Qc Qd
Pre-flop:
Ramsey raises to $8. GeneMarinacci folds. dog8alls
folds. smockstack3 folds. WSOP-05-GOAL folds.
DJS666 re-raises to $12. madster folds. pkrfanatic
re-raises to $16. DrunkOldMan folds. Ramsey calls.
DJS666 calls.
Flop (board: 3s 9c Kc):
pkrfanatic bets $4. Ramsey raises to $8. DJS666
calls. mike4066 calls.
Turn (board: 3s 9c Kc 5s):
pkrfanatic checks. Ramsey bets $8. DJS666 calls.
pkrfanatic calls.
River (board: 3s 9c Kc 5s Ts):
pkrfanatic checks. Ramsey bets $8. DJS666 raises to
$16. pkrfanatic folds. Ramsey calls.
Showdown:
DJS666 shows Td Th.
DJS666 has Td Th 9c Kc Ts: three tens.
Ramsey shows 2s 9s.
Ramsey has 2s 9s 3s 5s Ts: flush, ten high.
Hand #6890922-3215 Summary:
$3 is raked from a pot of $130.
Ramsey wins $127 with flush, ten high.
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4 things my game needs work on
1) Stop to think about every play on every street
2) Stop tilting
3) Get in the mind set of a winning player and always bring my A game
4) fu*k the money, if i play correct poker the money will be a side product
with these 4 things i think my play will move to the next level...
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For those of you who don't know who soupie is, please follow this link and look for him in the top 20. http://www.pocketfives.com/1E54D586-3A39-4043-9D08-AD1C12E74D63.aspx
Pocket Fives Is known to be the top Ranking site for MTT Players...
Anyways Yesterday I had a really piss poor day at the tables and I went on tilt as you guys might have read in the yesterday’s post. Well soupie found out that I was on tilt and a little steamed and he started to give me a lecture that I needed to hear from someone… Honestly I think some of you might need to here it as well, soupie being a friend and a bettor player then me, given he plays MTTs and I play limit ring it’s kind of hard to compare but I respect all aspects of his game. He told something along these lines: “pokerfanatic, I don’t want to hear about your pissing and moaning about your bad runs. We are all recovering loosing players, I make mistakes and I admit them. If you’re going to complain and try to make us fell sorry for you it’s pointless, because I fell no pity, if you’re going to complain give us examples and let us fix your game other wise shut up. It seems to me that a lot of players in here in clouding yourself pokerfanatic have the skills to win at poker. You just need to follow my 4 rules, pokerfanatic what are the 4 rules?” I then easily responded his four rules by saying “1) don’t beat yourself. 2) maximize your profit. 3) Minimize your looses 4) Hold your temper.” That’s it all you really have to remember about the game and if you are a winning player fu*k the money, play like you know you should… even if you’re loosing and you make the right decisions you hourly rate remains the same… lets say I usually have an hour rate of $15/hr at lets say 2/4, even if I’m loosing if I’m making correct decisions I’m still making $15/hr… That might be hard to grasp for some but honestly it’s something that needs to be developed and understood more…
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Tonight went to shit, it started out ok I guess at UB I was up some money, which is always good then I switched to true poker to clear some bonus and everything went to shit I started playing some 2/4 and 3/6 and lost my ass... I lost KK to 55 in a 3/6 pot well AA was in that hand as well so my ass was fu*king toast anyways... I lost at least $50 on that hand I think the pot was $100+ fu*king sick, then at 2/4 I got AA cracked well I lost about $80 between the two, I played outside my bankroll and regular variance took a chunk of my roll out, so my mistake was playing outside my roll I’m am no longer doing this, that is a serious leak and I don't want to go broke, I’m not ready for those games I need to constantly win at 1/2 before attempting to play 2/4 and especially stay away from 3/6... Well I then dropped down the 1/2 and lost like $50 more quad table from sick beats suck as a guy hitting a 1 outer to my AA... board hit A55, x, 5 he had the 5, fu*king sick... So basically I want to say I dropped around $150 total mainly because I was too stupid to pay attention to my own fu*king rule NEVER PLAY OUTSIDE YOUR BANKROLL... Please if you learn anything from my blogs make this be one of them...
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told you guys when I started this that I would give you the good bad and the ugly, well it’s been more of the ugly recently… So I guess putting my ass out there for public scrutiny is a must, don’t get me wrong guys I am a winning player but every winning player has times in there poker carrier where they have to figure out ways to skim their ass by and rebuild, even limit players can go on runs that are so gross that it makes them want to vomit… No Limit players will tell you they have all gone broke at one time or another or will go broke eventually, “everyone goes broke from time to time, you have to regroup and rebuild…”
Last mo I took my Br from the 1st till the 30th from $350 to about $1300, well I should have realized that I wasn’t ready to move up yet… I was to idiotic to look at my 1/2 play and realize that I wasn’t ready for 2/4… I took my shot and missed, I missed big… I went from around $1300 to $750 where I stand right now in 2 weeks. Did I mention that this is with bonuses included keeping me afloat? I’m telling you this for myself to get bettor and for you not to make the same mistakes I have made, I know have to regroup and rebuild… It’s no longer about getting to 2/4 again it’s about restructuring my game… With this blog I can talk about my idiotic mistakes to refer to on a later date, keeping notes is a must I highly recommend it… if you do make notes like I am in my blogs then be completely honest with yourself and the people reading it…
So with that said let me get to WAY I am where I am now…
1) I played to high a stake to fast
2) I tried to hard to get back to fast
3) I need to adjust my play according to the players at the table you can’t run over player that won’t fold anyways
4) I need to stop thinking in terms of $ amounts, swings in $ amounts fu*k with me a lot, if I think off I swung 25bb then it wont bother me… in terms of bb swings don’t bother me unless it’s over 50bb, at this point I’m WELL past that
5) I need to get out of the fancy play mind thinking that shit works almost never in limit games unless you find yourself a rock that is smart and can make big lay downs... Other then that don't, try it...
Another thing to remember is that no matter how good you are, on any given day you can loose…
I'd like to point the real money players to an article that I have read many of times at card player, by Thomas "Thunder" Keller: http://www.cardplayer.com/poker_magazine/archives/?a_id=14803&m_id=65565
He talks about running bad and restoring your confidence at the table, w/o confidence we as poker players are completely dead in the water...
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Taking time off from playing... I haven’t played much the past 2 days mainly because I’m trying to get it though my head that I don't suck ass at poker... plus my roll is caught up in site transfers and shit... Basically I played today some it didn't go to hot. my first session went fine but my 2nd session went to shit... basically loosing money again... this shit is starting to take it's tool quite a bit on me mentally... poker can be a real bitch sometimes... Sometimes you go on such bad runs that you can’t seem to figure out how to play NOT to loose money… over the last two weeks I have probably changed my playing for no good reason just so I save money because the bad beats have gotten to the point where im’ looking for reasons to muck hands, and that’s bad… Hopefully I get my ass out of this slump… 
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Well I played last night at bodog... the limit games 1/2 full tables don't get off the ground much it seems during the week... so I played some 6max and I have to admit 6max is a whole different type game... I have been working 6max lately only because full ring is never running and if it is not many fish... the limit games at bodog if you don't want to play short handed SUCK!!! Well unless you play 2/4 or higher then it's not as bad... I read Hyper's guide once and started playing 6max much bettor... (Hyper is an FTR member) and you can read his 6max guide here if you want... http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5043... Other then that I’m still playing UB 1/2... The UB 1/2 is completely crushable... If you want to know about a site and what there games are like I’ll be happy to tell you within a few days, I probably know someone that has played there and at that stake requested if I haven’t played it myself so don't be scared to ask... things seem to be turning around finally for me I’m also playing much bettor poker IMO I’m back in my grove I think... till next time my your Aces hold up...
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Well today I played a lot of UB and some bodog both at 1/2... I ended the day up $80 at UB and up like $10 at bodog... Bodog should have been more but my AK on a KK458 board got cracked by some fu*king idiot playing a K4o... that's what happens in no foldem 1/2 6max fu*king thing is raised and then 3 bet and no one folds... lets see you really think we are betting and raising with shit!!! NO DAMN IT!!! Poker cops really piss my off... they always think you're bluffing and somehow out draw you calling down in the process... I’m sorry but even at 6max you see a raise and a 3 bet unless you got group1 hands to cap then get the fu*k out of the hand ASAP!!! I told the guy he played like shit (don't do that this is -ev don't tell the table fu*king idiot they play bad), he goes "and it was a nice pot too" in other words I’m a fu*k tard just about action and gamboling... I don't care about my money let me hand you my bank roll... you know what keeps these fuckers playing? Hands like that one where he won a $50 pot with rags!!!
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YEA BABY, I had my first winning day in a long ass time... I’m not up much but shit I'LL TAKE IT!!! As many of you have read and know this month has been really rough on me... tonight I played fu*king great... I’m not even sure if I made ant mistakes if I did it was more or less very marginal... I'm pretty excited to get my confidence back some and tonight was a step back in the right direction... So this is what I had to realize. 1) fu*k the money. I’m not going to get it back in a short period of time so I might as well go back to grinding... So that's what I did and it paid off... I'm so excited for myself i played so damn good tonight... that hopefully is the boost of confidence I need to start winning again... till next time well hopefully I keep winning...
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I decided I would dick off a little today and play some MTTs this was like coming out of a wind tunnel from limit ring to NL MTT... So basically well I played well just got unlucky story of my life... I got into a coin flip AI with 99 v QTo and I spiked my 9 on the flop and he goes runner runner for a straight and I’m out... that was a blast let me tell you... Shit happens my day has sucked maybe it will turn around... till later may your cards hold unlike mine have been...
I finally went on a winning session, it was a $170 run at 2/4... Unfortunately earlier today I was down $100... so I made $70 today... still that's not bad for about 4 to 6 hours of play... if I played 6 hours that's about 11.67/hr... How many college students make that much? You can do the math for fewer hours if you want... But either way I have been waiting for tonight for about 3 fu*king weeks now, and it looks like my play6 is 100% back baby... things are back to the way they should be...
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Well as I said yesterday I hoped to have a winning session again today, but for fucks sake that was too much to ask... I dropped around $80 at UB and won like $3 the whole damn day at bodog… just another day in the life of a person on a bull shit run of cards… I think my session vp$ip for the 1/2 game on bodog was like 5% something ridiculously low… it was so low because I didn’t know what two face cards even looked like... What a gaytashes run of cards yet again... I had some guy on bodog that plays like piss tell me I play bad so I challenged him to a fu*king 5/10 HU match which he was to pussy to accept like I expected, but yet kept shooting off his mouth like a fu*king dumb ass… If it’s one thing I can’t stand is that a loosing player shoots of there mouth and wont step up to the plate when challenged... If you talk a big game to me be prepared to play a big game with me... ESPESALLY if I think I can take your ass... so rule one never shoot of your mouth at a table you might find your self being challenged for a HU match at a stake that the buy in is like 1/2 your damn roll... or more then your roll... it just depends on who you talk shit to... and for me if you want to play no limit fine I’ll get one of the many nl ring players that play nl 2k to take your money for me... if I don't have the roll I know people that will gladly take your money off your hands if you think your hot shit but suck ass at poker...
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Well today just sucked ass, nothing worked today. I started out good and then lost a lot at bodog so I was about brake even from the whole day fu*king wonderful. Just fu*king wonderful, then I decided I would play UB well that went all to hell, I lost like $130 at 2/4, that’s what happens when not a single good damn big pocket pair wins a pot and AK misses 100% of the time… Basically all it takes is 2 to 4 hands of loosing across 3 tables and you down. Take an average of 3bb pure hand that you loose say you loose say 3 hands at 3bb a hand… that’s 9bb and at 2/4 that’s $36. across 3 tables that’s like $108 so it’s not very far fetched that you could loose $130 by loosing 4 hands pure table for 3bb average, well skipping the math and going to the results, $144, so you have a bad run of cards and get cracked across 3 tables even for 3bb pure hand you’re looking at a nice $100 down swing real fast.
Basically once you get past .5/1 and 1/2 be ready to take multiple $100 swings up and down, I just don’t know why in the fu*king hell I’m on such a piss poor showing of poker lately it’s like once in a blue moon my ass wins 50bb or more in one session. If I’m lucky I won’t loose more then 50bb in one session. My month has fu*king sucked!!! If I break even this month I’ll be fu*king surprised as hell LOL 1300 down to 700 and still at about 800 to 900 and can’t seem to break that ice cap of 950, fu*king sick. It hurts when you take a big hit like I have to your bank roll. It hurts you emotionally and it kills your confidence. It becomes more about trying to have a winning session and play solid poker at the same time this becomes some what of a bitch. So this is the thing, I’m going to have to dig myself out of this hole sooner or later lets just hopefully I can do it a hella lot sooner then later.
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| Sat Jul 23, 2005 8:49 pm |
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Whelp as the title says my game has gone down the tubes its official... I dropped my bank roll all the way down to $680 well $740 if you call $50 in a $400 bonus a good profit... I’m sick to my stomach. This is the worst run I have ever been on in 2 years... I sat there in amazement as I watched AA 3 times go down in flames in a row, KK twice and QQ twice... hell one of the time I lost AA it was to a guy that cold called A8s... you don't even want me to get started on how bad a play that fu*king is and how big a dog he is... I’ll have several chose words for the matter... Anyways if you guys don't see me update this for a few days well the explanation is simple... I took time off poker... hopefully the readers of this will never experience this felling... when you loose almost 1/2 your bank roll in one month it makes you want to quit poker all together... It makes your mind play tricks on you... honestly it blinds the truth that you are a winning player if you were a winning player before you still are nothing has changed unless you changed something in your game... the bad thing about poker is this you can't blame anyone for your losses but yourself... Well in most cases that true unless you get quads cracked twice in the same day then it's not your fault... hopefully you all realize one thing about this game... even good players take falls time to time... if you play no limit well expect to go broke sometime in your poker carrier, all of them do it at least once... in a limit game expect at least a 100bb down swing sometime in your poker carriers... as for me I’m down $535 at 1/2 that's 267.5bb at 2/4 that's 133.75bb to be honest the only thing keeping me at that level was bonus money... if not for bonus money I would be well into 400bb at 1/2 and 200bb at 2/4 and I shit you not... It's been a horrid month for me... I barley paid my bills this month... thank god I had bills covered for this month form last month... Playing poker as a job SUCKS ASS sometimes but when you are winning and running well bills and other expenses are easy to cover... Take it from me play poker as a hobby and work some 9-5 job… unless you make bank playing 15/30 then the is no reason to have poker as your job, only reason I do is because I’m in college… With Months like this it really tests you and only the strong will continue to push though and continue to play… anyone not commuted to it will cash there money out and not turn back… they will see it as well I started with $0 and I got $740 that’s a $740 profit… but they don’t see it as 1275 profit loosing $535 of that profit… I see it as a down swing, I need to take some time off clear my mind of it and come back to playing winning poker… I WILL NOT fu*king GIVE UP… poker is a war, I was wounded and had a couple of my limps chopped off… but that doesn’t mean I lost the war… I will win this fu*king war over my poker carrier and by god I swear, I will get my self out from underneath the bills and this bad run, just got to give it time… time is a thing that might work against some things but in poker it’s your friend…
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Yes, I finally played solid poker and felt good about my play and I was reworded with a +20bb session in a couple hours of play I’d say like 4 hours... not bad $10 an hour at 1/2 I’ll take it... winning session like this one where I pulled my head out of my ass and played poker like I know how to play... it's that simple my 24 hours straight of no poker at all and rereading a little SSH bright my mind set back into focus I do believe... now I can work on not tilting at all, I’m doing bettor about it a force myself to smile when dealt a bad beat and try to focus on the next hand and remember how that player fished w/o the odds or if he plays loose est. that might come in handy on down the road in that session... This is the best advise I can give right here, while on a bad run never loose focus how to play a hand in a particular situation, buckle down play solid poker and it’s going to turn around, the math doesn’t lie…
P.S. Given that this is my 911th post I want to say this:
Never forget 911, I’m a patriot, I believe in military action and I believe that over the course of history the young men and more recently women that have given their lives for our freedoms, with out their sacrifices to protect America’s way of life we would not have the opportunity to play poker and make money... If you ever think that peace is the best way well kiss my ass we wouldn't even be a country if peace was the solution to everything... GOD BLESS the victims of 911 and GOD BLESS THE USA!!!
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| Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:24 pm |
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Well it started out good and I won like $30 in 30min then I took a break came back and got destroyed... I lost $115 so I lost my whole profit and an extra $40, what I fun filled session... sick part is I played good I had two mistakes I can think of but that’s it... when you go 0 for 3 with AA you know it's not your night... at least I didn't tilt this time, I keep my head in it and still got my ass kicked... fu*king poker can be a real bitch!!!
Well I won $15 back WOO LOL so I basically dropped $100 for the day but when you 5 table and loose AAx3, KKx2, and QQx3 your not going to win....  $100 is 50bb think about this 2 tabling all it takes is 10bb pure table... i plan to win or lose 50bb in any given session when multi tabling...
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I don't have much to say today... just i had a loosing day again -$46 ohh well keep on a grinding away guys...
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| Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:55 pm |
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well another wonderful day on stars... good thing is I’m back on party and my game is coming back around I’m playing with more confidence... still stuck a shit load but fu*k the money the event thought me a ton... I took the money for granted and it didn't mean enough to me... when you don't have many responsibilities you blow money really easily...
I got lucky tonight and the deck slapped me in the face my last session FINALLY... if I would have AQ hell I would have made $75 in 30min instead I made around $60!!! $60 in 30min at 1/2 god that was a rush I hit and ran like hell on...
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Some times even solid players have to take a break from playing... Sometimes there is no other way then to step back take a couple days off reread martial in my case books such as SSH, then come back with a positive attitude... Hell I lost a lot this month is that going to stop me from playing this coming month hell no... Does it make me want to puke sure it does, does it drive me to succeed more... probably, I can't expect too much to quickly though... When I do come back from my break I might even be playing .5/1 just to get my head back on stright... I might play 1/2 I’m not sure I haven't decided yet... I’m defiantly going to hit up some party reloads and such... reloads and playing stakes like .5/1 minimize your risk and actually give you more reword for your time... it clear quicker at higher levels but I would rather my risk be less then the reword...
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I got a casino trip this weekend I’ll have the +/- when I get back I leave tomorrow at 11am EST... I’ll be arriving at Caesar’s near Louisville Kentucky... around 1pm EST... If any of you are in the area and see someone wearing a FTR shirt, ask them if they know pokerfanatic if it's me well that's obvious but I’m going to be there with 4 other FTR players... One of them will probably know where I am... Maybe I’ll see you there, regards, pokerfanatic...
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Weekend results:
Caesar’s Casino Total | 4/8 | 20 hours | 6 tables | +$160
Session 1: +$200
Session 2/3: -$155 (made a few dumb plays but mostly got it stuck in my butt by the donk's)
Session 4: +$88
Session 5: +$27 (bad session card dead)
I basically broke even given my travel expenses, I think I’m down $35 from Gas
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| Sun Aug 07, 2005 3:31 pm |
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I decided that I would talk about my goals... My goal is to get to 15/30 in a decent amount of time I’m hopping max a year and fastest 6months, so we are looking at 15/30 in 6mo to 1yr... I’ll show you all it takes to get there... amazingly it's not hard to do if you are a winning player...
bb/100 (that's big bets/ 100 hands)
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Hand of the day:
http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=16923
This baby included a lot of deep thought some of it might be over some of your heads but if you have questions ask me in the discussions thread...
Ohh I finished today up $6 LOL a win is a win right?
Building my BR back finally I got back on top of my game... My thought process in this hand was totally sub concuss like it was routine for me... It scares you when you play a hand where it's such a tough design whether to lead out of check like I did... you can read my thought process at that link...
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| Tue Aug 09, 2005 8:37 pm |
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I think I set a record in most hand played and break pretty much dead even... as my PT stats say for today 747 hands... +$0.16 LOL give me a fu*king break... What a day at least I’m not down... hopefully my 3rd session will bring home some $$$... We'll see, playing break even poker SUCKS!
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| Wed Aug 10, 2005 3:51 pm |
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Yet I had another solid first session today... +$55 playing for about 1.5 hours, I can't complain about that... been doing really well lately my bank roll is coming close to hitting my goal for the month, it's around 850 (given the beginning the month it was what 525 at it's lowest that's one hell of a come back), This has thought me something I want to share... never give up on something you love even when the going gets so tough that you are contemplating suicide, letting emotions control your life will get you now where...
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| Fri Aug 12, 2005 12:15 pm |
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Bank Roll Management 101:
Top 3 rules on how to win money at poker even if you play break even...
1) Never play with money you are not willing to loose, play within your stress comfort zone read this article:
http://www.cardplayer.com/poker_magazine/archives/showarticle.php?a_id=14873&m_id=65568 and see number 2...
2) Never play higher then what your bank roll can afford, in a limit game its suggested 300bb... in a no limit game it's 25x the max buy in...
3) When building your roll I highly suggest using rakeback while bonus whoring... I'm currently offering rakeback at True Poker 27% plus 5% of the rake of the people you sing up... this also supports Eric to keep this site running... you get a 30% initial deposit bonus up to $100 at true poker... if you don't get rakeback as you create new accounts you can't get it at a later date...
So don't fu*k yourself, I get an average of 25% rake back so any offer over that is considered a good one... think of it this way if you play no limit or limit for that matter, and the rake is capped at $3 a hand lets say 6 out of 10 hands and raked lets say a $1 2 hands and none the other 1 hand (this is semi accurate could be calculated bettor)... so we have 6 hands of $3, 2 hand raked at $2, 1 of $1, and 1 hand of $0, that's (6*3)+(2*2)+(1*1)+0 = $23 every 10 hands in rake... so we figure that every 100 hands you get $230 in rake.... so lets say you play as little as 500 hands a day (4 tabling that's like 2 hours of play given you average 60 hands an hour pure table)... since we are using the base 100 $ amount we have to use the 100 base for the amount if you had 1000 hands it would be 10... $230*5= $1150 in rake for that day... lets say you only play 5 days a week which comes to about so that's (money times days) 1150*5 = $5750 in rake a week... so about 4 weeks (money time weeks) $5750*4 = $23000 damn that a lot of rake to be paying... so lets say you get 25% of that back... 23000*0.25 = 5750 (you get a weeks worth of rake BACK!!!)... if it's more then 25% you get more then a week, lets take my 27% for example... 23000*0.27= $6210 now even if you play 25nl it's worth rakeback IMO... it WILL build you BR faster...
The numbers above are assuming the site gives you 100% the rake you encounter at the table... this is not usually true you usually get 1/4 or a 1/2 so... lets say you get 1/2 you take the project full rake amount and times it by a 1/2 (you can also divide by 2) so in our example at 27% the project full amount was 6210/2 = $3105... I think most sites do 1/4 though which blows... so 6210/4 = 1552.5 soo lets recap the math...
1) Figure out your avg. rake per 100 hands
2) Times that by the amount of hands played for the week (skips the daily calculations so if you play 5k hand that week 5000/100 = 50 take that number and times it by the avg. rake/100)
3) Multiply the result in 2 by 4 (there is around 4 weeks each month)
4) Take the results in 3 and divide it by 4 (typical amount they give you towards your rakeback is a 1/4 of what the rake seen is)
5) Take the result in 4 and times it by your rack back % (say result in 4 is 5k times that by 25% you get 5000*0.25= $1250)
6) The result in 5 is your projected rakeback for the month... still not bad that's money in your pocket instead of the poker rooms...
PS this math is a completely rough estimate, my math is correct but might not be true for all cases, you’ll find out your personal avg. after a couple months of have rakeback…
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I didn't play at all today and took yesterday off today I played 10min and won $20 at 1/2... I can't complain to much... bonus whoring and winning sessions have built my roll back up nicely I should be back up to 2/4 by end of the month... or at least that's the goal...
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Getting your head on straight is most important thing when playing poker, this month I had not had a single loosing session until today... today hurt like hell and I tilted after I lost the Broadway nut straight to a rivered flush in a $60 1/2 pot... then one of my buddy told me to remover the tampon from my pussy, I was acting like a fu*king idiot, one hand out of 5000 hands I’m pissed about? How dumb does that sound, it made me realize wow... I play so many hands that I’ll win that pot my fair share of the time the guy only had 8 out's 4.75:1 against... that most mean I’m about an 70% favorite right? I’ll take a 70/30 with one card to come in a huge pot all day long unfortunately this day was not my day... mathematically speaking the guy played the hand like shit but after the flop he was priced in and correctly drawing... shit happens learn live and move on... keep your head straight and you'll win your fair share...
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I have been playing good lately, also been on a pretty solid run finally... it's about 1/2 though the month and I have made back pretty much everything I lost last month so I’m happy hopefully things keep going well... I think I'm playing pretty solid and I just hope to make my fair share and be talking to you all the same time next year playing 30/60 or higher... maybe you'll be reading my articles in card player instead of here  ... Ya right I doubt that, but I might end up stopping doing the blog all together eventfully... I started to do it to get myself off tilt and back winning again and since I’ve done that it's hard to find good material to talk about every day...
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Well it's time for a 1/2 month update on my current month...
I'm currently getting ready to clear an empire reload, and once I have the cleared I’m moving back up to 2/4... I’m currently rolled for 2/4 but I want to play that bonus given why the hell not... I have about 1.5 weeks left of this month no rush to get back up to 2/4... I'm beating up 1/2 right now so no need to move up just yet...
So I’m up pretty much all that I lost last month (I cashed out $100 to pay my credit card bill for the month but I still consider that part of my winnings)
So basically I’m up like 800ish not so bad... my goal was to make 1k this month once I hit the 800 mark we'll see if I can do it...
Keep your heads up ladies and gents, if you play good poker money is a side product…
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I've done it I moved back to 2/4 and if everything goes well... I’ll be at 3/6 before I know it... You all know that I started this month with 525 it's in my blog it's not like I’m hiding it, well I have turned that 525, into 1556 this month... with $100 going to my credit card for the month my roll is back to a healthy 1456 currently I can't be more happy about my play this month... anyway, I hope you all have as great success stories as I do, I’m always will to help as long as I’m not playing if I’m playing I need to concentrate... If you have any questions fell free to ask me in the discussions thread found here:
http://www.21ace.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=24720
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I haven’t made an entry in a long ass time so I figure I’ll do a short one and let everyone know I’m back to winning and I’m almost rolled up for 3/6... as I move up my knowledge of players and the games increases, i lately have been playing 1/2 though to clear a massive multi bonus $300 20x 6k raked hands talk about a bitch to clear that well take a couple weeks no big deal you get 20 days and that's defiantly double... also got a $120 reload @ stars waiting on me there I’m going to play 2/4 to clear it... I skipped the empire turbo reload... I did the party reload already for $100... So many bonuses going right now it's a 2/4 or 3/6 players dream... By the end of this month I’ll probably have moved up to 3/6… So I’m looking forward to it…
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Things not to do at LHE:
http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6613
It seems even the most basic coming since stuff is misapplied when it comes to LHE. Hell I have been playing LHE for a long time and I still make dumb mistakes I’ll be the first to admit it.
Poker is a game of partial information, you have to complete the circle in a since. In any given LHE hand you need to be asking yourself multiple questions, such as "How Strong is my hand", "How Strong are my opponents hands", "what's the best play given this info?", finally "If I’m behind how many outs do I have and what kind of odds am i getting?"
It seems commonly and I do it sometimes, people won’t think at all and auto bet or auto calls down... both of those are leaks. If you have a reason for betting then do it if you have a good reason for calling down then do it, nothing in poker should be automatic to you.
This is just something I wanted to get of my mind because lately it seems even though i know bettor I find myself making horrible plays, I think this is my first step to get back on track and get back to actually making some good money.
For those striving to become great limit players you have to have the discipline on every play to count odds and ask yourselves those questions i mentioned above... You also would need to read WLLHE, SSH, H4AP once you get up to 2/4 to 5/10 MLHE would not be a bad idea... those are all limit specific books, there are a few other after reading those that wouldn't be a bad idea to read but I wont mention them here...
Anyways I'm done rambling, till next time regards pokerfantic…
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Well I wanted to talk about life's issues a bit and how they can relate to poker. The bad thing about poker is it takes many conflicting personalities to be a great poker player. You might think I’m talking out of my ass but think about this, In LHE you have to be attacking and very aggressive in hands that you play. Where when you get a bad beat you have to be timid and brush it under the rug and move on. You have to be able to focus for long periods of time and sometimes it's bettor to just play by the math and not by your reads that you worked so hard focusing in on, Serious and Laid Back effects.
I'm only going to touch base on these conflicting attributes but they do exist. Amazingly poker is a lot like life, those who play poker very well tend to have the skills to play out what life deals correctly. Even simple things as getting a flat tire a poker player would play his hand for maximum EV in the flat tire case he would look for the cheapest way out of the hand, or try to get as -EV as possible... unless of course they are like me and have low profiles that will run you around $100 a tire no matter the brand, then you have a set -EV on the life event you're dealt but its not always that way, in life things became little more complicated then a poker game. In a LHE game you have 3 options fold, check or bet (raise goes along with bet), where in life as in the tire example you have many more plays. You can go to about 5 different places to have the tire fixed, if you need a new one each of those places probably have 5-8 chooses of brands for you vehicle all varying in prices. You have many more plays and options to take. A poker player that can make decisions in a poker game that are 95% correctly then can easily explain there options and be correct around 80% of the time when life thoughts them a hand to play.
This might sound corny as hell to you reading this but it's true. A great poker player that has nearly mastered his aspect of the game he plays and maybe even more games such as Omaha, 7CS, Draw, whatever it might be. I personally believe that they can handle life’s curve balls and simple decisions a lot easier then a person that can't comprehend all the tweaks about life, or poker.
I'm a poker player, I have my ups in downs in the game, and I have ups and downs in life. How can I handle the ups in downs of both situations sometimes when I have ups in life I’m having a down in poker and same goes with the ups I’ll be having a down, however more often then not when I’m having ups in poker I’m happy in life. I can go out and do more things because I’m making money. When I have a down like I have been lately, my life is a bit crappy, so if poker is directly related to life then you bettor believe me when I say that life can directly influence poker!!!
So it makes me wonder how much poker contributes to life's simple decisions, I personally think it's a lot. You my or my not agree with me it's only my contemplations about poker and life.
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Sometimes taking a step back from poker may be your best answer...
Last month I had a great start to the month I was on track for another +$1k month until it happened I started going cold thus I got in a poor mind set and next thing you know even with like $1k in bonuses I had broken even for the month!!! Actually down a little, I tried playing though my misfortune to turn it around and that didn't work so I took plan B one week off poker... I haven't played a single hand of poker since the 30th... for me that this challenge not to play and review my game is very impressive, because I usually put in 3-6 hours a day 3-5 tabling... So I took my step back from the game and won’t be returning to the tables till Friday or Saturday... probably around the 7th some time... This has cleared my head of stupid plays i was making and made me realize how big of a jack ass I was playing trying to force winning upon myself thus loosing much more...
Sometimes you have to take 5-10 steps back in your game and take sometime of to figure out what you are doing wrong, then you can take 30 steps forward in your game, if you can constantly take small step back and large steps forward you'll become a great poker players in a relative short amount of time...
This is probably the most -EV I’ll ever say, poker is about constancy in all aspects of the game... against loose bad opponents you most play ABC straight forward poker no matter if you are up down hot or cold... against challenging players they will not pay you off if your are too constant ABC poker they know what hands you play and how you play them, you have to be less constant against solid players....
So given this you have to be constancy one way or another to maximize EV... playing a unpredictable game against bad loose opponents is defiantly -EV... they don't understand that 94o and ragged off suited and suited hands for that matter are hands you fold PF, you don't see show down with the shit! Hell they don’t even know that in the long term this game is +EV they look at it as entertainment!!! When you “play like the pros” against people that have no clue you are the one that has no clue…
It real simple game guys, the challenge is over coming over selves to become the great players that we all have potential to become...
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| Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:44 pm |
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pokerfanatic
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Well I haven’t made any posts recently. this is because college is keeping my ass really busy. Between keeping my good grades and poker I just don't have much time to sit down and actually write entries, I mean shit I have a life outside poker and school so I have to work that in as well. Things have been real shaky last couple months for me at 2/4 I’m not going to lie about it... if it weren’t for rakeback and bonuses past couple months my ass would have been back down to 1/2 again!!! At my lowest point thus far I was -350bb... yea I had leaks in my game like hell, on top of a bad run... finally I’m playing 100 times bettor now a days however the deck is treating me a bit nicer I’m making the most out of my hands when I can... For instance this week I pulled in a $100 2/4 pot with quad 4s god that was the best felling I have had in a long ass time... even one hand can restore your confidence in your own game... Here were my problems, it started out as a bad run then I became passive and probably over playing too much trying to get even thus spiraling down farther in a hole... Once I hit -175bb I started to tilt a bit and play passive, over play hands trying to force action, and again spiraled downwards more... Finally I hit -$1k @ 2/4 and I knew something was gone seriously wrong... I changed my play to what I knew I should be playing and lost another $300 or some shit... at this point a person that drops 350bb at a given level wants to quit poker completely and possibly want kill themselves... Especially if you know the game as well as I do and math and everything else set aside says you should be winning... However, if you are a player like me you see quitting as a failure and damn it I refuse to fail, you have to have the guts and determation to pick your sorry ass up and start your climb out of rock bottom... So, if you were a winning player and go on some nasty huge downward spiral look at why you went on that spiral and come back fighting... This is a game where it is a hell of a lot easier to loose money then to win it... Only the best players can pick themselves up and begin winning again... So if you want to be the best you have to act like the best... Carry yourself like a pro would even if you are an armature, it will take your game to new levels...
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| Tue Oct 25, 2005 8:57 pm |
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pokerfanatic
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Here is the mother fu*king reason why we make money in the long run but get pissed off in the short run...
DUMB MOTHER FUCKERS!!! THAT'S WHY!!!
if you find yourself cold calling a hand and not 3 betting PF after i raise you suck at poker... cold calling 2 and espasilly 3 bets is the worst fu*king play you can make preflop... don't fu*king do it! Either raise or get your fu*king ass out of the hand!!! I sware to god you cold call 3 with any thing you are a loosing player i don't care, you either cap or fold there is no fu*king call botton don't even conseder it!
Party Poker 2/4 Hold'em (10 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx
Preflop: pkrfanatic01 is MP1 with Kd, Kh.
UTG calls, UTG+1 raises, 1 fold, pkrfanatic01 3-bets, MP2 calls, 1 fold, CO calls, Button calls, SB calls, BB calls, UTG calls, UTG+1 calls.
Flop: (24 SB) Qh, Kc, 8h (8 players)
SB checks, BB checks, UTG checks, UTG+1 checks, pkrfanatic01 bets, MP2 calls, CO raises, Button folds, SB folds, BB folds, UTG folds, UTG+1 calls, pkrfanatic01 3-bets, MP2 calls, CO calls, UTG+1 calls.
Turn: (18 BB) 2s (4 players)
UTG+1 checks, pkrfanatic01 bets, MP2 folds, CO calls, UTG+1 calls.
River: (21 BB) 9h (3 players)
UTG+1 checks, pkrfanatic01 bets, CO raises, UTG+1 folds, pkrfanatic01 calls.
Final Pot: 25 BB
You know cold calling 3 beats with JTs in hearts is a great fu*king play!!! You'll win so much money doing that, that's a true play of a poker pro baby!!!
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| Sat Oct 29, 2005 2:42 pm |
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I want to talk about a bit of my life outside of poker because I think that you need to balance your poker playing with enjoyable activities out side of it:
See Card Players Article here for more on this: http://www.cardplayer.com/poker_magazine/archives/?a_id=14979&m_id=65572
Since these past couple months have been going poorly for me I wanted to get out and have an enjoyable night, so I went on a date Friday night, I had a great time, don't get me wrong but there are tensions between me and this girl now over some dumb shit... This seriously hurts my poker playing mind set... since 98% of the poker community are male, if you have a girl friend or a wife, or someone you are considering dating seriously, i highly suggest you tell them the truth about you poker playing for me i can't hid it, they start to wonder where I’m getting money from but I don't have a job...
So this brings me to having everyone read these two articles, and even having your significant other read them...
1) http://www.cardplayer.com/poker_magazine/archives/?a_id=15025&m_id=65574
2) http://www.cardplayer.com/poker_magazine/archives/?a_id=15057&m_id=65575
Card Player is a great source for information, they put al there articles online for free viewing, a subscription basically just has ads and pictures in it... where the material is the same...
Here is a couple for the people that are wanting to live the life of a poker pro...
1) http://www.cardplayer.com/poker_magazine/archives/?a_id=14992&m_id=65573
2) http://www.cardplayer.com/poker_magazine/archives/showarticle.php?a_id=15055&m_id=65575
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| Sun Oct 30, 2005 7:16 pm |
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Here, how about this instead of me making a blog post today I want at least 1 person to make a blog entry of there own in my discussions board, tell us about your session that day, your +/- (if you want to revile that), what things you did well during the session, things you have questions on (post the specific hand if possible), and any other information that gets you thinking about how you played that day... Please keep in mind I would be able to help limit players more then NL players in particular hands… but however do the post anyways you’ll be amazed if you just take 15min to think about your session and reflect on it how much it will help out your game in the future. This is one of the big reasons I started this blog though I don’t post in it much because I go farther in depth into my game on my private notes.
Now get to it!!! Here is the Link:
http://www.21ace.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2881
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| Tue Nov 01, 2005 10:37 pm |
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If you have heard the expression "Poker is a tough way to make an easy living" well it's true, it's not something everyone can do and god some nights are going to be so bad you want to get a 9-5 job... my night was like this, I could pull out hands but it's useless, I took a big hit one that basically everything went down the shitter... first to go was my cards and the horrid run I was on, then my money, then my mind, after that I cleared my mind after loosing a solid $361 @ UB's 2/4 6 max game... I came back to party for more, bad mistake, and things got real fu*king bad. At party, I got great starting hands was playing TAGGY but I was getting creamed... I lost KK to a guy cold calling JTo, and to the original raiser that had 99 who hit a 2 outer flopping a set of course at this point I’m vividly pissed off. Then I get AA on another one of my tables. Let me lay out the action of this baby… I’m dealt AsAh, UTG limps in (terrible play limping UTG is shitty and a sing of a bad player in many cases), UTG+2 limps, MP3 Raises, I’m CO I 3 bet, blinds fold, UTG folds (limp fold great play dumb ass), UTG+2 Raises $1 AI, MP3 calls and I’m forced to call… flop comes down 4cQd2h MP3 c/c my bet, turn comes down a Ts, MP3 c/c my bet, river comes down a Ks, I figure great he either had KK and I got two outed again, a straight, or a flush… fu*king wonderful, he checks to me, I check behind and sure enough he had AJo… now you want to find out the odds I had on that hand… here is card players odds calculator http://www.cardplayer.com/poker_odds/texas_holdem/index.php?PHPSESSID=38aa000fd833ebc4d5bd3a9c67e24c11
So those two hands were the last fu*king draw for me and today’s session however I should have stopped a long time before I did, I couldn’t walk away and it cost me a nice chunk of change $541 to be exact… Don’t be like me if you are just not running great and maybe not playing the best QUIT, just fu*king quit… loosing that much money at a 2/4 game has really messed with my mind a lot today, so I have decided to take a step back from poker for awhile because my head is defiantly not right. A stupid little 2/4 game with the worst damn poker players on the net but I can’t seem to beat it for the life of me on a regular basis. I’ll admit it, the past 5 months 4 of them have been negative playing month only things saving my ass is bonuses… I’m not fu*king happy about it either…
I guess my last lesson for awhile is this if you fell slightest bit of anger creeping up on you, and you running horridly, and you might not play correctly because money, anger or some other issue could your judgment, step away from the tables for the rest of the day up, down, or even… QUIT, you don’t want to go though what I have tonight, I think it’s worse for me because, that money I depended on for x-mas gifts, bills, food, gas, and I just tossed it away to players that don’t deserve to have a fu*king dime…
If you don't want to lesson to me fine you'll eventully find out the hard way liek i have...
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| Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:31 am |
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I decided I’m going to try to do a tip a week here about LHE or poker in genial... however I would like your help in the discussions topic if you would like something specific covered it will get priority on a first come first serve basis...
If I don't get any idea I’ll TRY to think of something myself so for this one I’ll cover psychology of poker a bit...
My question is how do you play a loose aggressive aggressive player, more specifically the extreme end... a maniac?
Systems like Mike Caro says to c/c more let them bluff where SS2 says to fight fire with fire... Either way to beat this kind of player YOU MUST make the right adjustments... realize that when you are at a table with one of these players that In a way they basically just doubled the stakes... you will be paying way more on hands to get to showdown, and if they suck out it's going to hurt pretty badly... where you might loose like 5bb lets say against a fish a maniac it's going to be like 10bb especially if you fight fire with fire...
In No Limit you might even go broke, fortunately all maniacs will loose thousands of dollars over the long run, however on any given session they can cripple you, if they go on a hot run you and everyone at the table will give them way too much action because of the that players wild ass play, he'll win more then anyone in the short term and also loose more then any one in the short run, however in the long run this player is a contestant looser...
Why do they act the way they do simple, they thrive for action is so great they most bet and raise almost every hand, they have no other motivations but action...
Source of material: The Psychology of Poker by Alan N. Schoonmaker, Ph. D
The book goes into detail about how you should make adjustments specifically, I only gave you a real brief over view of a huge chapter on this type players…
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| Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:04 am |
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it's that time again i'm gonna try to do this every monday or tuesday...
Tip of the week...
My top 5 deadly sins for poker... (comes partly from psychology of poker)
1) you try to challenge yourself aganst much much bettor players then you are, sure you might learn something however it will cost you more times then not more money then you are willing to pay... hell i charge less to look over hand histories for 1/2 and down then it would cost you playing with a player like me in 1/2... For example i have been playing 1/2 6 max at stars lately for short handed experance so i can get used to it and i need to work on my blind play, I started out my session +$70 i got rivered 2 times by the same guy cold calling 5 outer and a 2 outer on 3 streets and getting there on the river costing me a ton of money, and i went cold so i went to -30... i keep drinding and finished the session +90... it's simple if i'm on top of my game or a player like me that is solid at there best, you will win the least, and pay us the most... we are extreamly hard to read, where avg players at 1/2 to me are a cake walk to read so i explot the smallest +EV i can... i actully called on a 88552 board with A9s because i had a read that the player was over agressive and there was a high probablity that we could be choping or he had a busted draw with a hand like K9s i think there was a FD out there but missed... he could have AX, however i don't really have this guy on a 8 or 6 mainly because he had raised MP PF i had odds to call out of the BB... honestly, if you see a player that seems very good or even bettor then you RUN! If you don't pay attention to how people are playing then will thanks for paying mine and other players bills...
2) you confadince level is way higher then your ability, as my sig says "Poker is a lot like sex, peoples perceived ability usually blinds the truth" ~ me ~ I have seen many "winning players" go completly broke because they over extend themselves and play much higher then thier ablity...
3) you continue to play long after you should have quit, bad run, tired, short on cash (scared money is dead money), or anyhting else that might effect your ability you should walk, the game turns bad walk...
4) you are undisaplined, unlogical, or just plain want to cahse flyers... in outher words you can't avod gamboling at times without the right odds to justify it... honestly, i know for a fact that everyone of us including myself have done this at least once in the last year... however mine would probably could be justified by reads, a strang line, or just trying to get cute aganst a tough player...
5) You beat your self, you take bad beats as a horrid thing, you would have gotten the bad beat if the player hadn't made a mistake playing the hand in the first place, when they fu*k up you gain
If you want to post your thought go ahead no question is a dumb one, i was in that spot once, got to start somewhere...
here is the link:
http://www.21ace.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2881
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| Tue Nov 29, 2005 7:55 pm |
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I been real busy lately given this is the last week of classes before my finals for the semester, I haven’t had time to even play poker let alone write up a blog post...
Tip of the week...
Ummm, well I’ll go off my own experience tonight, when you have lost a big chunk of money you start playing poorly trying to force things... when you start to force stuff things can go bad in hurry and for 15-25bb down swing just went to 50-70 big beats... then you finally realize after there is no fu*king way to make your money back that night you finally give up and if your anything like me a bit depressed about the loosing session...
I hate loosing, I probably play for longer hours then I should when I’m down because I feel I can make at least some of it back, this thinking can lead to big trouble... this is how a lot of No Limit players bust there Bank Roll, they start out at a level that is probably already out side the means and then don't quit soon enough next thing you know you went though your entire Bank Roll...
Back to loosing, for me poker isn't just a game, it USED to feed me and pay my bills, I was actually doing great till I had my worst loosing month ever, things haven’t been the same for some reason... Maybe this has happened to you take a big loosing month and then you just can't recover from it... I think that's been me the last several months...
Only real reason I still have a BR to play 2/4 is bonus money... I’m breaking even between playing and bonuses... This shit IS NOT easy, I’m constantly wondering how to get back winning again and maybe that effects my game I’m not sure... honestly, I fell like the worst knowledgeable player right now when it comes to my own game...
just because I fell like my game sucks this doesn't mean I don't KNOW the game in genial I seem to be bettor at analyzing others games anyways I just wish I could do this with my own while playing instead of after math...
I guess my suggestion this week has a few parts:
1) if you can help it don't go pro, poker is much more enjoyable if it's a 2nd job or a hobby...
2) Don’t let big loosing days or months affect your play all you can do is learn to spot your mistakes after math, and see if you played bad or was just unlucky...
3) Don't try to learn another players style, learn the mathematics and fundamentals then apply that to your own style of play that works for you... being a tagg has lots of frustration to it but supposedly the most rewording in the long run in the since of winning... (This was actually related to my post given by doing that myself I’m really struggling now).
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| Thu Dec 08, 2005 8:30 pm |
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