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It's definitely the latter one.In unrelated news...I have a pretty bad habit of getting "behind" on records when I'm having losing months. It's not that I don't keep them. I write all of my sessions down in safe places...I just generally avoid the depression that comes with summing them up every day. Anyway...I'm stuck about $4.5k on the month now. That brings my yearly total down to +$10k (~$12/hr). Considering my goals at the beginning of the year, that's pretty miserable. I'm not clear about what I've been doing so differently from last year when I made $48k at a rate of $45/hr. In a rather disturbing trend for the year that I just noticed, I'm +$9k in MTTs, +$4k in STTs...if I guess that I've earned about $2k in rakeback, that makes me -$5k in cash games. I'm really torn...cause tournaments are really starting to wear on me. I do "well" with a cash rate of 22%, but more often than not (about 2/3 times), I'm still putting another red mark in my spreadsheet. The past two months, I lose $200 in an "average session". I like the flexibility and consistency of cash, but lately...it just hasn't been there...and I can really "melt down" (lose 10%-40% of my BR) in cash sessions (whereas that's quite difficult playing tournaments).I'm loathe to blame the games as being tougher "lately" with all of the donkishness that I still regularly witness. It's also hard for me to use that excuse when I see so many of you still having good results. I guess I'm struggling a bit with whether I should stick to the TAG game that I developed summer 2004 through fall 2006...or the LAG game that I developed since then. And I know that I should tailor it to the game, but what's the proper "default" for the current climate? People keep saying that with everyone going LAG, TAG's becoming correct again...but I feel like there are a lot of times where I'll get run over in weak-tight manner if I play ABC TAG.
post an image of your PT stats and I could tell you where your leaks are. Do it for this entire year at all limits...don't filter anything. It might be that you are used to the donked out cash games from a couple years ago when no-one had a clue what they were doing. Right now, cash games are getting tougher and you need to stay on top by being honest with yourself and reviewing your play. It's ok not to record the losing sessions ON THAT DAY, but when you get an upstreak, go back to your PT and record everything so it's up to date. I also don't 'book' losing sessions on the losing day not to let it affect my play when i play next time.Gabe.
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The PLO8 games are still very good, and my own play has improved since I've re-focussed my game. PLO8 is still very profitable, and i'm glad i learnt this game...

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this month has been so stupid for me.start the week off +7k at one point and think i'm going to have a 15-30k month and I'm currently stuck like 1.5k looooolbut whatever. i had a final today and it went really well i think, one tomorrow i'm bout to go put a few hours of studying in.then i need to meet up with advisors during my few weeks off and figure out what i'm doing for my senior year...i'm doing international social work so i'd like to potentially do an internship in a foreign country...i think i would also like to minor in spanish and perhaps intern in central or south america...bleh, things to do in the next week or so.poker wise, i've played like 30k hands about, and would be willing to do 10-20k more in the last week, but only if i get this other stuff that is more important finished.i'm also moving out into a nice double, rent is a little higher but s'll good...can't wait for that.- Jordan

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This month has been a pretty interesting month for me...I am up about 300 bucks at $5sngs and 25nl in about a week and half playing 50sngs and 520 hands so far. I am really working on my preflop game in cash games. I think I was limping to much and playing to much oop. So I am not coming into pots outside of the blinds unless I am raising/reraising. This has obviously led to some tighter play, but I think overall it makes the game so much easier.

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If you keep finding yourself in games where you're not sure how to play and you've been having poor results lately, maybe you should try working on your game selection for a while. Either sit where you know you've got someone who's too loose that you can TAG up against or find some real weak-tights to run over. If nothing else, playing in games where you have a better edge can get your confidence back up a little which will improve your play long-term.And if all else fails, you can always switch games. While online hold'em has gotten noticeably tougher since UIGEA, I'm not so sure that holds true for other games. The PLO is still very soft on pretty much every major site and while I haven't played a lot of HORSE, those games have also seemed very soft when I've played them. If you've got a good "poker brain", it really doesn't take that long to adjust to a new game and can actually help you stay fresh and concentrate better than you would otherwise.
I think these are pretty good suggestions. I potentially have gotten a little lazy with my game selection.Also, I've been dabbling the past couple of weeks with some of the other games with decent success so far. Qualified for the WCOOP $215 HORSE on my first points satellite (and 3rd HORSE tournament ever). I used to play the two Omahas (both PL and Limit) fairly frequently and enjoy them. I think I'm going to set my goals "low" this month. I'd like to get into the black lifetime in HORSE cash (I'm currently -$28) and relearn how to play PLO8 well.
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post an image of your PT stats and I could tell you where your leaks are. Do it for this entire year at all limits...don't filter anything. It might be that you are used to the donked out cash games from a couple years ago when no-one had a clue what they were doing. Right now, cash games are getting tougher and you need to stay on top by being honest with yourself and reviewing your play.
See...that's another piece of "laziness". I haven't installed PT/Bodog Handgrabber on my laptop. I guess they're kind of helpful, but I hated the "ordeal" of firing up everything and found them somewhat distracting. While they provide good "number" reads, I also worried that they detracted from my normal reads (I keep copious manual notes after reviewing hand histories). I got by fine without them for the majority of last year. I found them most helpful in datamining the 20/40 SHLHE games for bad players so that I could find really ripe tables.
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Ive been kicking up my weekly hands lately and doing quite well. Im up about $6,000 this week, which is one of my best weeks to date. Ive played over 10k hands this week so far, and i feel good about it.The reason im playing more is because i spoke to an AP vip representative, and they told me that they would fly me to aruba and put me in the main event for the aruba poker classic if i increased my MGR over a two week period to $5,000. Im on pace to easily kill that, so it looks like im going to aruba at the end of september. I know 3 other people who were invited, so it should be a good time.

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then i need to meet up with advisors during my few weeks off and figure out what i'm doing for my senior year...i'm doing international social work so i'd like to potentially do an internship in a foreign country...i think i would also like to minor in spanish and perhaps intern in central or south america...bleh, things to do in the next week or so.- Jordan
My older bro did something kinda like that, he didn't want to come back.
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Played mtts all sunday, monday and tonight. Today was +1500 putting me even in the last 3 days. Got 6th in the FTP 10$ rebuy, 9th in the Daily double A and 30th in the Daily double B. Mtt's are sick because most nights you lose money (atleast I do) but I still really enjoy playing them.gl

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Ive been kicking up my weekly hands lately and doing quite well. Im up about $6,000 this week, which is one of my best weeks to date. Ive played over 10k hands this week so far, and i feel good about it.The reason im playing more is because i spoke to an AP vip representative, and they told me that they would fly me to aruba and put me in the main event for the aruba poker classic if i increased my MGR over a two week period to $5,000. Im on pace to easily kill that, so it looks like im going to aruba at the end of september. I know 3 other people who were invited, so it should be a good time.
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August Goals2. Run my $700 online up to $8000. Yeah, sounds pretty ambitious, but I've already done the hard part (turning a $35 stake into $700 free and clear in less than 24 hours). Now I've got 14 buy-ins at 0.25/0.50 and I just need to run decently to make it the rest of the month. I did have some bills that were running me into the ground that shouldn't be a problem any more, so I'm hoping the reduced pressure will allow me to manage my bankroll better. I was going to move up to 0.5/1 at $1000, but now I'm thinking that's kind of stupid. Maybe I'll wait until $1500, I think that brings my overall ROR for making it to $8000 down to about the 25%-30% range.
Ding! Got my Stars account up to $8054 tonight and that's after cashing out $1000 for expenses last week. I said earlier that I wasn't going to go back to playing 2/4 until I had $10K but I think I might start taking some occasional shots now. I won't be adding a 2/4 table every time I play a session or anything, I'll still save that for $10K, but I think I'm OK to sit if a game looks especially juicy. Ground rule is that I have to get up if I either lose 2 full buy-ins or someone has me covered on the table for $1000.Did really good today anyway, mainly on the $100 HU PLO SnGs. I won 7 in a row at one point, and while most of it's obviously variance, I will say that those are quite soft, especially if you get someone on tilt and they keep starting new games with you over and over. Oh yeah, won 20 BB playing 2-7 TD too. I'm actually pretty decent at the game when I'm not on tilt from playing it way higher than I can afford.
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have my final exam today...i may log a lot of hands tonight, and tomorrow try and meet with my counselor...we'll see how I feel. haven't played for a few, so i may feel good amount logging a lot of hands tonight- Jordan

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Strong 9 is back in action folks. I was away for the summer without internet for a while but I have managed to play around 30 hours on my computer and won $5,850 here and there, and a little over a grand at my friends house. My roll right now is at $54,430 and I am about to play a lot more. Strong 9 outttt.

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Strong 9 is back in action folks. I was away for the summer without internet for a while but I have managed to play around 30 hours on my computer and won $5,850 here and there, and a little over a grand at my friends house. My roll right now is at $54,430 and I am about to play a lot more. Strong 9 outttt.
gl..just finished today's first session with an end result of up $803 after 824 hands.gonna relax a little because i started not focusing as much and thus dropped a little. Well actually it was a cooler.here is the hand...bvb:http://www.pokerhand.org/?1398914 - not only is this bvb but this is the 2nd time he's 3betting me in 2 rounds and i've been raising A LOT of hands in the last 3 rounds.here are some other hands since i really haven't been posting hands. Feel free to comment/critique all hands.http://www.pokerhand.org/?1398918 ...getting creative and mixing it up with AK and not wanting to see a turn card. I was expecting a bet if i check because it looks like i got JJ or QQ or something weak. Got the guy to put his money in with an underpocked and 2nd nut flush draw but he caught.http://www.pokerhand.org/?1398926 ... can't get away from this when i've seen him check/raise shove a couple of times already and the board is soo draw heavy and i have a Q as well...cooler i think, right?http://www.pokerhand.org/?1398930 ... what the @#$% is he doing there with K3s? oh yea!! krablar...i beat krablar!!! woothttp://www.pokerhand.org/?1398933 ... i love donkeys. some of those hands are straight forward but i just found some of the biggest hands from this session and posted them.here is this session's graph. http://img523.imageshack.us/my.php?image=august22mv1.jpggonna play some wii and i might play later, Gabe.
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Back in the States now after my far too short eurotrip, though it was nice going for a week not even thinking about poker once.I played a quick 2/4nl session yesterday morning and won a buy in, ate lunch then played a couple tourneys. I had a top ten chip stack in one for most of the tourney but end up busting set over set for a huge chiplead in 40th with the money bubble at 38. However in my other one that I wasn't really paying attention to (25k on stars) I managed to find myself at the final table. But was able to blew up and finished a disappointing 8th. This is something I need to work on and seems semi strange to me. I suck so hard at MTT final tables. It is weird, because I am doing what I think is right playing for 1st and also am a very good sng player. You'd think I'd have decent results. Nope. It is a pretty small sample size, but I am starting to think is isn't just variance. I am pretty sure I need to slow down, a lot. Maybe I am having trouble switching from 5-6 handed tables to 9-handed. I donno, but playing short stacked poker should not be this difficult. Anyways, I haven't told my work I am back yet, so I plan on getting in a bunch on hands this week. Then this weekend I have some old friends coming up and we are going to head over to the Bay101. I live close enough, but haven't actually been to the casino, so it should be fun.

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This is something I need to work on and seems semi strange to me. I suck so hard at MTT final tables. It is weird, because I am doing what I think is right playing for 1st and also am a very good sng player. You'd think I'd have decent results. Nope. It is a pretty small sample size, but I am starting to think is isn't just variance. I am pretty sure I need to slow down, a lot. Maybe I am having trouble switching from 5-6 handed tables to 9-handed. I donno, but playing short stacked poker should not be this difficult.
Try posting your final tables on PokerXFactor and creating a link to it in the Tournament forum (or by PM or whatever). I'd happily look over your performances and see if there's anything noticable.I wouldn't worry about it though. If you've played any number of STT's then you'll already realize that variance plays a huge part.
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Took my first "shot" at 75/150 because some awful player was sitting.Fatal_fog had him heads up, but i think he got disconnected. I scurried in like a rat and busted him before he could get logged back on the server.Won a quick 15 bets, busted him, which makes me JUST below break even for the day. Hooray for breaking even.ANNNNND i think i just crossed the $5,000 mgr criteria for aruba. SHIPPIT

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This is something I need to work on and seems semi strange to me. I suck so hard at MTT final tables. It is weird, because I am doing what I think is right playing for 1st and also am a very good sng player. You'd think I'd have decent results. Nope. It is a pretty small sample size, but I am starting to think is isn't just variance. I am pretty sure I need to slow down, a lot. Maybe I am having trouble switching from 5-6 handed tables to 9-handed. I donno, but playing short stacked poker should not be this difficult.
It is possible that you need to slow down. Everyone's goal is to make the final table...once they get there, they're usually ready to gamble it up for the win...and you're full-handed again. If you're not desperate for chips, play with some patience and wait for a few people to bust before picking the aggression back up.
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you shouldnt mindlessly play for first. the pay increases are still meaningful, and people can bust fairly quickly.but if it's otherwise a 'close' decision, you're better off erring on the side of tightness.just dont go and do stupid things like folding kings preflop when you're only 25 blinds deep.many tournament pay structures give 2nd place 2/3rds of what first place is, and third about 2/3rds of that.completely ignoring the pay schedule in a situation like that is 'the stuipidz'. you have to consider how flat the pay schedule is before you decide how reluctant you should be of getting involved.

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