Joined: May '13
Location: United Kingdom
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It has already help identify the TAG's and LAGs's already. What I care about the most is my stats and HH though.
Have to stay awake so may play a little session in a minute and see if I can make a little profit.
What did I say about the third day always being doomed? First had my JJ cracked by a set of fives by some UTG when I was on the button(then he quit the table straight away), then just now flopped a set of 2s and was slow playing them and of course someone had 88 and hit a bigger set on the turn. It's a doom day DOOM DAY I tells ya. 1 bi down already.
------------ What a weird session. I was playing on two Euro money tables and I was losing. Not many people were online so I played a bit of speed with half a BI. Managed to win on that and bring myself to be only 80p down.
Bit sad now as my stats show I am 3.6 Euros down on the 0.1/0.2NL Euro tables but showing profit both on the same £ stake table and also the speed. I don't like when my stats are in the read so I will have to start grinding three Euros tables tonight maybe so I can bring it back into the green.
Joined: Aug '09
Location: Chile
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I told you that it was a pretty nice video .
I'm glad to see that it worked for you as well. I hopo you can take advantage using HUD, and also use it to post some graphs from your sessions cause I think graphs makes more atractive any grinding blog.
Joined: Nov '12
Location: Canada
Age: 55 (M)
Posts: 4675
G'day mate
Just wanted to wish you well. Hope your day at the tables goes at least as well as mine did. I played 4 sessions today and made some money each session My bankroll is now above $150 US. best wishes to you be cool
Joined: May '13
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Need more than wishing well. Down £3 today. Every time I flop a set or two pair someone always hits a bigger one than me on the turn or river. It is getting rather annoying now. Add that to not getting many hands to play with today. Two great days playing now two days of this shite.
Early days in this session so we shall see. But hit two pair on the flop and someone was slow playing the single ace so 3 bet as there was a draw. Of course hits a better two pair.
Edit:
And true to form I just one that BI back. Had lowest pair and a flush draw and the guy who I already knew from PT was a fish kept trying to bluff me with the same draw. I would have one if a flush hit was had an Ace but my small pair held up. Nearly back in the green on my Euro tables but need to win my £ back.
------------ Started doing really well until Ladbrokes set up a nice rake induced river. I had 910s and some fish had K9s and 9 was the highest card until the river. River gave a 10 and set up a flush. Thought he had a small pair or bluffing with something like AQ/AK until the river so called and he had a flush. I know he was going to win it anyway but it pisses me off when a poker site does that to induce higher betting and make you lose more.
I was nearly on £20 BR and had all tables on PT4 in green, but now the Euro table is back under 2 euros down. Blah.
------------ I actually hate this site now. Such a set up city and I have played so well tonight but its starting to set me right up.
One table I lose all of my profit as it sets up a low straight for a fish who flopped one, then the other tables sets up a three way between AA vs KK vs QQ with me having KK of course. I was back up to £19 now I am down to £15.43 so now I am down. What a f**ked up night of set ups. Now I have a nice 5 euro minus on my PT4 now after I tried and played hard to get it in the green. I really hate this game sometimes.
------------ Now down to £12 chasing a flush on a rainbow board as thought he had just high cards. Turns out he had nut flush draw. Another set up for laddys. f**k it time to go busto.
------------ Variance finally came back my way and my hands held up against the chasing fish of speed. Very so that I made everything back plus more. Stupidly I jumped to 0.5/0.10nl speed and took down a fish who was chasing a flush and I doubled up right there and got all my losses back. So I left as tilt was gone and stayed on the lower sped stake to get back in the green and leave. I won a few BI's from there and it was time to quit.
What a stupid rollercoaster of a night. Played really well apart from the set ups, fish and tilt. I need to get my Euro tables back in the green while grinding. It may take a while but I will get there.
Now I have poker tracker back I can start posting my stats again, so just open pictures in a new window to see the enlarged versions:
I need to work on my tilt but it stems from suckouts and set ups which get to me when I play really well and lose profit and more due to that. Time for sleep tomorrow is another poker day.
Joined: May '13
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I have had a busy and annoying day. Just finished my first and only session and I have just smashed to tables. One with a BI up and the second nearly 5 bi's up. Going well finally for once and my BR is finally going up instead of down or break even.
Joined: May '13
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Not really had another bad day, second in a row. Bad in the sense as I have only slept for about 5-6 hours in two days and had to do things. Don't know what is wrong with me.
On the positive side my good run is still going and I just played a small hour session. Just over a BI up but every little helps. I actually sucked out on someone twice for once instead of against me. The first time was a straight and also flush draw open ended draw all in with someone on the turn as I tried to bluff to the flush card and my call and odds to call paid off. Second one I had QQ on the button and got into some action with the BB. He called me with J8s and as usual when I have pockets hit two pair. I thought he had one pair and after a 3 bet I pushed all in for his small stack. The turn and river brought two 4's I so I won. Quite sick how my pockets always get cracked by silly hands when I don't show I have one.
Anyway, happy profit and now to try and sleep early for once. Hows does your poker go my friend?
Joined: May '13
Location: United Kingdom
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No im fucking busto because this game is a fucking cheating cunt. Suckouts and fish 24 fucking cunting 7 and they always hit what they need to win. Fucking £36 gone in a cunting hour because I went to higher stakes because people kept lucking out and took a chunk of money, BUT OF FUCKING XOURSE AS USUAL COMPLETE SUCKOUTS AND FISH HITTING S**T. Had enough of this fucking game its a joke,
Trips always cracked or draws flop with them. This happens 99% of the time when get them. Pretty fucking fishy. Draws like every few hands and someone has it. People lucking out when calling with bottom bottom so many times. I can go on. Dodgy rake rigged sites where the shite players always fucking win.
Might kill myself tonight then it will stop my depositing and losing all the time.
Joined: Mar '09
Location: Greece
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Take a small break away of poker completely. Then when you come back change the site you mostly play and the type of game eg Holdem. Try Omaha as i keep telling Many are making profits from this game and its variations.
Joined: May '13
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My fault yet again. Was bored of waiting for normal tables so started playing speed tables. Lost a few BI's so jumped up a stake. Lost £18 so opened up a second table on an even higher stake. Managed to win back everything minus £4 but was so stupid and greedy that I did not quit but carried on and the site might have realized and started doing that. Search and destroy.
For the six time I lose a bankroll due to that so it's only my fault.
Joined: Nov '12
Location: Canada
Age: 55 (M)
Posts: 4675
G'day mate
Well I have waiting to make a posting since I read your words about killing yourself because of poker loses. I wanted to give you time to retract that statement. If you ever really think that for even 1 second then you MUST immediately quit playing poker. It will mean that you truly have a gambling problem and need help fast. You know that problem is that you have no tilt control which leads you to have absolutely no bankroll management. You will be destined to constantly go broke, until you deal with these two very serious issues. I wish you all the best be cool
Joined: May '13
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I have emotion problems due to s**t in my life. Yesterdays outburst including the kill sentence was due to that and also having drink and drugs in my system. Don't want to talk about my problems anyway as it's my problem and I don't want any false attention.
I was doing fine on 6 max normal tables following BRM until speed and upping the speed stakes. I don't learn from my mistakes so until I stop taking these stupid decisions namely speed. I have been crushing my normal tables all week so we all know what the real problem is.
Joined: May '13
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But that is the thing speed tables are the same, just faster, but I see more bad things then I ever would on normal 6 max tables. I had a good two weeks grinding, playing really well and making profit so that is the game I should be playing. It was down to me being impatient and going to speed. I could have just jumped up a stake on normal tables and everything would be fine.
Joined: Nov '12
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G'day mate
Actually their has been so rather interesting debates about this on some other forums and it seems now that most people would disagree with you. Even some PokerStar pro's and trainers have stated that the speed table are a different variant to the stand 9 max player format. I might take the time to do a blog posting about it in one of my blog post. be cool
Joined: Sep '13
Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina
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No, the thing with zoom/speed tables is they ARE higher varience. In normal tables your KK is a monster, like 99,99% of the time, its a monster.
But now lets look at zoom tables. Keep in mind there are people playing zoom who play only AA-KK-A-K/Q/J hands and if they dont hit an ace on the flop, they give up on their hand. Now you ARE bound to run into those people once you get your kk/qq/younameit and as soon you see some heavy action from ... pretty much anyone, your pair, regardless of how pretty it might look like, is not good enough
i also noticed most people on micro limits tend to get married to their AA/KK, even QQ sometimes, so thats a point to consider too, how to make most of them (i already marked those, but ps pool is huge so its hard to run into them, and have them get their premium hand at the same time ;D).
heres a funny story from todays ps session maybe it makes your day better, to see other people aces get cracked too (god knows mide do all the time, lol)
so i just finished my session and it ended up being one of 'those hands'. This guy had deepstack, he 3bet me big and hes one of those 'marked' people, so i was sure he has either AK or KK/AK
so i made a call, ready to fold on A high board obviously. Now , i know you are supposed to play aces aggressively but this one was a great example of how NOT to play aces.
so flop was KQQ and i was ready to bet small, hoping he will just call call like most people with aces on that board would do... but no, as usual he just instashoved... as he would do on 279 rainbow board. I did punish him a bit though, waited like 40 secs before calling with my.. . KQ and finished my session some 400bb richer
but all in all, zoom is ... evil bad beats are more or less much more expected there and as long as you are ok with it, you can play zoom. I also started on normal talbes but now im playing zoom mostly. Just 2 tabbling for time being, but as its zoom its like 12 tab normal tables, lol. Sure im not gonna get rich playing 2nl tables, esp zoom ones, but as long as my br stays about the same level, or grows slowly, im happy with it, considering i just started playing poker a few months ago
also, dont give up just yet just try to follow your br management and you shoudl be fine. Sure its still possible to bust, but would take much longer, and you would also play many more hands and generally speaking get more fun out of poker
Joined: May '13
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I have not given up, I know deep down that I can make money but only through normal tables. I have shown that time and time again until losing it on speed and higher speed stakes. I am having a little break as I have no desire to play at the moment but I will be back. I am thinking a fresh start and a fresh blog. I have also noticed that my moaning and angry posts were far less when I was grinding normal tables and sticking to BRM while staying away from those speed tables, so that was also a plus.
Joined: Sep '13
Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina
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thats good to hear yea a break sounds like a great idea imo
also, speakign of microstakes ofc, the main idea behind it is... just keep it simple :=D
bet your value hands, and keep doing so... until someone raises, its usually a sign to let it go. people on micros rarely raise with air, so unless u got a monster urself, most of the time its a good idea to let it go. Not saying people dont bluff, they do but just not that often to make bluffcatching +ev call, imo.
since i started following a few simple rules i read a lot about, and they work for zoom too, i dont think i have ended a day with loss bigger than 1BI and thats when i had literally 5 bad beats in a row.
big hand, bet big. small hand, bet small, fold on raises. if someone passively calls calls calls, and shoves on a river, its a no brainer really. just let it go, unless its nuts ur holding And thats about it on micros (my stakes ), when peple shove, they usually have it. unless u have a read on that villain ofc, dont let curiosity kill ur br
ive seen your screenies and its obvious ur doing great on normal tables, and from what i read, youre not a big fan of zoom so why not just stick to normal tables and build your br before trying more zoom ?
ps: (also, it would be a great idea to leave the table once you have like 89928bb like one of your screenies mind you ). i know its hard to stop when ur running hot, but as all good things, it cant go on forever mind you
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Many are making profits from this game and its variations.
