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Best month in my life
Yes, from my last post and on its been all upwards. Just a completly sick end of the month, my results have skyrocketed. heres the graph
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Its hard to say what really happened, my game have become so much better, stable, aggressive and just complete lately i have been crushing everything thats been sitting on my tables. I have moved up to NL100 now, but still playing a mixed game of Nl50/100 , depending on my state of mind and fatigue and stuff, but mainly focusing on getting in as much volume on NL100 as possible. i am overrolled for the stakes so if november goes according to plans i will be moving up to NL200 hopefully in december. I will probably have to do alot of work there before i can move to NL400 but we\’ll take it when it comes, now i need to beat NL100 for a good amount of hands first.
As you see the volume for october is outstandingly low, only managed to play ~25 000 hands, had so much going on with work, outside life and honestly ive been really tired and quit sessions early. Need to work on getting more volume in november aswell and to read that damn Let there be range book, i think i got loads to learn. Im thinking of doing a sweat video pretty soon, it will be out on the blog as soon as its done, it will be a NL100 4 table sessionmost likely. Keep tuned
a little bit of both
Hey
No action today so i decided to write a few lines. October is going very well, its a record month but it could\’ve been even better.
I took on a guy called mrswingking, apperantly he\’ve been winning money up at nl2k/5k and was now playing Nl100. the dude was very aggressive and he ran godmode on me, he took home over 10 buyins and i suffered my worst loosingday sofar ever! 1200 $ down, which at that day was my total earnings for october.
After that i went down from the nl100 tables and i havent had a loosingday since. The month is currently landing on a total profit of about 2,200 $ , with rb 2700 which is a record for me. Im very happy with my results but for november, i will move up to nl100 completly since im almost rolled for it now.
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My volumes have been really really low though, i have so much going on at work right now that i cannot play any madness hours like before. I need to focus on my job a few weeks more and i hope i dont loose touch with poker.
Ill be back when the time to move up at nl100 bracket for good gets closer! hopefully it will be soonish !
October madness
Not many updates coming in anymore, i simply dont have time to blog but since i aint getting any action at the moment i felt i could write a little something about whats going on !
So after my last post about breakeven results for september my results skyrocketed, i ended the month at 1700 $ and with rakeback + rake race bonuses i won thats in the where abouts of 2500-2800 dollars. Which is really nice for NL20 play. In the start of october i moved up for good, im not playing a single table of Nl20 anymore and its only NL50 headsup/sh and NL100 HU. I only bumhunt NL100 as of yet since the stakes are still kinda high for me, but whatever.
(taking a break from writing since a fish joined my tables)…
okey just suffered my biggest cooler sofar but i will survive, nasty 170 bb pot with kings some guy calls it off with TPRK(retard kicker) and gets trips on river. but i stacked a fish at NL100 so im still up 200 today.
So… kinda lost track here but its about october something..
October is going great! were just 1/3 in and im up 1200 already, if things keep going this good ( AND NO MORE FING COOLERS,GOD THAT HURT MY SOUL) i\’ll be in for a record month.
Ive had many good battles at NL50 sofar, i took on FearEE123 or something, very good player, he played supersolid but left with some profit. Then i took on a guy called Ieatbigmac and he played pretty nitty but didnt do much harm, we had a very similar playstyle except i was way more aggressive and the result of that really showed in the game. after 2000 hands he was down 10 buyins, it was quite bloody, i really played that session extremely well and knew what was going on, valuetowning really thinly when i thought i would get locked down and gave up spots where he didnt give me credit. But the game was all about me (sounds selfish right) since of my aggression, and no matter my action that kind of match will always end in my favour.
Smizla have been back a few times giving me more money, he is down around 1000 dollars now, feel pretty sad for him but whatever its a war and he choose the wrong opponent.
Im still not battling all the people at NL50, but most regs dont sit with me since the rake is still insane and we wouldnt turn a profit either way probably. The regs are much much better here and i have respect for most of the people playing everyday. I have had a tilt session at nl100 unfortunately, it involved a donk running superhot and totally playing in a different world. He had my hated playstyle, limpcall and aggressive postflop style, and i know i shouldve quit him. But when he hit houses and flushes, i sat with flushes , straight, trips or whateve and since i had put enough pressure on the pots and he played so aggressive postflop i had to look him up many times. It was just a cooler manifest going on for 500 hands and he took 5 buyins. I learnt alot about my weaknesses after that match and im turning down limpers with a strong/decent postflop understanding until i learn to handle them better.
i got a superawesome deal from my supplier that includes me raking 10 000 bucks until december and i will recieve the superbook Let there be range, NL workbook and some other supercool stuff. Since i am sucha rakemachine i have already got Let there be Range so i will dig into that now and hope to learn alot and get a better and solid handreading ability and increase my postflop/river aggression and unpolarize my plays ( which is my leaks
reporting back in a while, gg hf!
September bites
September haven\’t been good, there i said it. For the longer part of the month i\’ve had breakeven results, mostly because i\’ve been on vacation and pretty sick aswell.
I took a week off work and went to Finland and then further to Estonia, amazing trip, met alot of cool dudes along the way and we had some wild parties. In a town called Turkku in Finland i had my \”real\” live cashgame virginity taken. Fucking epic to be honest, onlinepoker really is a world of its own and i want to play more live, it is so fun.
Resume of what happened: We were heading out after a big meal of Tapas and i was starting to get a little boozed up, had something like 2-3 beers and we came to a pub. Whle there i instantly noticed they had 2 cashgames rolling, it was a really strange setup, they played 8max and blinds were 1-1 euro with a maxbuyin of 100€. I put myself up on the waitlist and went too grab some cash at the closest atm. The atm was far away and while i was on my way back my buddie called and told me a spot was open for me, i ran back to the pub and sat down.
The table consisted of 2 older guys which were seated to the left and right of me, they stank pretty bad and was quite loaded. 2 positions to the left of me was the fish, and now we\’re talking 2004 fish dela fish. A taiwanese lady in the 50:thes, loaded and screaming wildly in a language i did not recognize made the game going and she played sort of 70-80 bb stack, ofc standard for superfish!
Then there was a younger lad who were tilting pretty bad, he had suffered some big losses and didn\’t play well at all, and the rest of the table was unknown random people. I didnt get too play too many hands, the action was set to close in 10 hands from the point where i sat down so i was just enjoying the ride with no anticipations too win anything. One of the first hands was really awesome, the taiwanese blows 80 % of her stack on a bluff, which leaves her with about 20 €.
She limps btn, sb raises bb calls, Taiwaneese shoves rest of her stack and sb +bb calls.
Flop is ATJ tt or something and both sb and bb checks. Turn is a Q , sb checks and bb bombs. sb tanks for a long while and calls. River is a complete blank and sb checks. BB, who was the tilted guy , tanks for a while aswell. THEN FROM NOWHERE THE TAIWANEESE LADY STANDS UP, SCREAMS AND THROWS HER HAND FACEUP AT THE TABLE !!! MOIIAA KUNNA AAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEEE KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!!!!!
So, she flips over the joint with the hand still going and bb is like , wtf ?? Floorman tells her what she did wrong and etc etc. No one wanted to cause a fuzz so her hand was still live ( while with true casino rules i suppose she\’d get mucked ). BB bets pretty strong and sb tanks again, totally confused. He mucks and BB flaps over a K rag for a chop with the taiwaneese lady ( which took a while for her to understand haha ).
Thats really the most interesting hand that i saw, i didnt get to win a hand and the last hand i was faced with 3 allins on A35-tt board and i had A4. I pretty much instamucked and there were 2 flushdraws and 1 AT so i was pretty dead. While i did loose 11€ i went to cash in my money with a smile, i had finally got to play livepoker and over 500 000 hands online now seamed to fade in comparison the 8 hands i got to play live…
Back to Online poker though, not much gaming for first half of september and the last days ive been running pretty bad. A few things have made me end up with a pretty decent winning month still:
- The best promotion ever, Betfred rake the race series, An ongoing 80 000 $ rake competition splitted depending on what stakes you play. If you play NL20 ( which i do mostly ) and manage to rake the most in a week you win 300 dollars. The first week i wasn\’t home but this week i took home first place on the leaderboard. There is still 2 weeks left and i\’m expecting to win atleast one more.
- A guy named smizla managed to donate over 600 dollars to me in 1 day. We fought at Nl20£ first and after downing him for over 9 buyins he sat down at NL50 and i quickly joined him and we kept the battle at NL50. I\’ve had some other guys loosing over 10-15 bi\’s in a session aswell, and that has helped me keep my numbers green.
- Got a superrakeback program this time, getting 50 % back of what i play and that helps alot playing HU at micros which is a nightmare.
- I\’ve put in tons of volume to get around variance
These things have made my month worse then August:
- Somewhat lost respect for the buyin value, i know bluff alot alot more then before, do more moves and unnecessary shit to balance my valueranges in some spots. I analyze these situation very often and come to the same conclusion: this guy would\’ve payed of anyway, he dun\’ give a shit seing me c/r 2 barrel as a bluff onetime. Its all about their card and if its not, its about scarecards and tilt, not about my frequences and ranges.
- Playing extremly long sessions to win the rake series, one day i got up to work at 5, got home from work at 17:00 and played poker until 02:30 in the night. To say the least ive been very tired and exhausted, which caused me to tilt slightly.
- I do no longer care about a single opponent at NL20, i do battle anyone since i do consider myself the best Headsup player for the level right now. This is naturally good but i also don\’t quit some playerstyles i have problems with. This is the same symptone like before, the limpers and creative retards. They are unable to handread, they are slow and keep pots small until the catch a piece or they just flip out totally. I play very bad versus them and since i don\’t need to face them, i shouldn\’t. They pretty much will dissapear at NL50 so i should just not care about them.
- I suck at 6max. Yes this is a statement, i have negative numbers for my career at 6max ( on this acc ). I don\’t know why but i play way to loose, people just don\’t fold stuff anymore so its pointless.
Bankroll status:
I\’m currently superrolled for NL50, but i will soon be at 100 buyins, which i think is fine. This time, i will not fail, i will defeat NL50 Headsup. I\’ve never been more focused, in control and secure about my game. The momentary value of NL50 no longer scares me, still it will be a while until i start Epeen matches, i will mostly focus on bumhuntin and taking down speculative halfregs. This will be the last update for September, I will get back when i enter the NL50 headsup stage and never look back. Over and out.
PS. Wish i could add some funny pics but i keep getting some error messages, trying to fix this soon
Ressurrected from the dead
What did you think? Players like me don\’t quit, we\’re constantly hungry for the game, even though we take a break we do it for the greater purpose and at night, we fall asleep unhappy and empty waiting to get back to action.
Ive been away from the game since April, i\’m going to explain why i took a break from the scene:
My job was getting more and more heavy, i had to put it in bigger focus and since i was learning new things every day that had to be processed i lost time and interest in poker. Along with a 3 day long runbad swing at PLO / NL 50 i cashed out and stopped playing. Truth is, im no fan of 6max at all, Headsup really is my game and being forced to play SH didnt fit me at all.
Now i\’ve worked for 5 months and i feel really comfortable in it and can focus my freetime on other things like poker. I decided in july to pickup poker again and i told myself i wouldn\’t just jump into the games and instead do alot of research and study time. Ofcourse i was too hungry to start grinding i couldn\’t wait and combined with lack of knowledge and a really bad run i lost my initial deposit.
I got sick of it and quit again but then slowly realised it was my own incompetence that made me loose and i went into coaching vids / forums to retrieve my skill and it payed off. August results was pretty decent in the first half of the month and exploded in the later part. I played more and more and feeling more stable and secure as a person, i tilted less then in spring and ive just won straight the whole month. My results for august looks like this
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September have started similiar, had a really big swingy day where i tilted against a donk who ran godmode on me and just limp called and draw out on me every hand, but since i\’ve come along way mentally it didnt bother me and i was still fresh in the head and being 400 bucks down, i started 3 tables up with GBP 20 headsup and 1 USD headsup. Won it back and even more and ended the day up 80 bucks so i was happy, but i rather avoid those days, they do nothing but mess my head up and writing this i am up the same amount playing only 400 hands instead of 4000, which is much more comforting.
I\’ll report again soon, its hard to find good multitabling headsup matches vs good people, i do alot of bumhunting to be fairly honest which im not proud of and im planning to moving up pretty soon ( estimated around end of september, im going to be overrolled this time since last jumps to NL50 headsup have made me emotiioinally etached to the money and restricted me from my A-game). So long!
Massive Update
Hey! Been a while and alot have happened. First off i haven\’t quit the game, rather the opposite as i\’m doing pretty decent! However i have managed to get myself a fulltime job which takes away most of my time and focus from poker and i haven\’t been able to put in much time at all lately. So here\’s a quickie update of what is changed:
- I play max 2 hours a day now, trying to review sessions but mostly i don\’t have time to study much.
- I work, which is awesome, i love it and it makes my brain so much more effective and i feel more energic which means i don\’t screw around so much at the table, don\’t play tired and genuinly makes me a better player. ALSO, it does mean i won\’t have to cashout my roll for economic reasons.
- The psycho standards of playing and studying poker for 10 hours a day is gone, and its much harder to compete with headsup poker now. Therefor i have transitioned back to 6max and playing both PLO and NLHE. I\’ve completly moved up to NL50 now and would consider myself to be doing quite well at the level. I\’d estimate to be moving up to NL100 in about a month or so if things keep going like this. I won\’t post much hands right now but there will be some in a while. Stay tuned!!!
Stretch
Got my laptop cracked for some reason , can\’t get it too boot so im unable to put in some sweat atm. I\’ll try to get it fixed asap but it looks like my winnings for march is ended. Updating later when i got it sorted.
Running sheit
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Basically thats it, looks small but thats close to 400 $ below EV and it says pretty much about whats going on atm. But honestly i\’m still winning but at a quite slow rate so i still got faith. More concerning is the 15K hands before this were the graph was just falling right down without EV line going up. SPEW as its normally called.
I think i\’ve become much more stable in my game, not calling as many crazy hands and playing reckless as before, more solid game but i think in the gameflow of most matches i should play more out of line because of my opponents looseness. Anyway, up about 700 $ for March sofar, tragic month compared to februari but i am not complaining.
Really not much happening
Been a while, the downswing i had at nl50 really took my pokerthirst away and i haven\’t got it back really. It\’s just been going so extremely shitty, i\’m running cold day in and out and have only made a profit one day the last week. Really shitty results and i feel like im just loosing the lust to play more and more for everyday i struggle to breakeven with all suckouts and retard runner runners.
Tried switching to FTP aswell but the site just fucks me over liberally, i get setups that i haven\’t seen in 20 000 hands on ipoker happening in the course of 30 hands and i\’m just stunned that the site is so famous. I really really hate it, will definetly not speak about RNG being fixed but whatever software they\’re using, its not as \”random\” or the same definiton of randomness i\’m used to at Ipoker.
So what else hmm, some stupid update on ipoker fucked up Minimaxmod so now its really ugly and bad to use, Ipoker have gone from 10 disconnects per day to about 50 now, i\’m actually loosing huge edge at Headsup because of this, loads of huge pots where ive had nuts or winning hands ive checked or even folded timed out b/c of DC\’s. its so fucking annoying but they\’ve had doubled maintenance the last days hope its solved.
So nothing much to do here, i will keep putting in as many hands i can and hope the wind turns soon, because when it does my bankroll will fly skyhigh in notime. But until then i will have to keep grinding for breakeven results and if this keeps up i will probably give this up in the end of march. Over and out!