Monday, March 31, 2008

Mad Love on 2+2

So someone who does massive datamining of the 6max games on FTP posted up some results for like the last week and I was the biggest winner ! 2/4, one of the top 10 @ 3/6, and made the winners list for 5/10. This of course resulted is some discussion about me where the general consensus is that I'm horrible and have no clue what I'm doing.

I find this amusing as one of the people who talked about how horrible I was then proceeded to post a graph where he's literally breakeven or 96k hands and from his very lowest point to his very highest point (a period of about 40k hamds) it isn't half of what I made at his level in half the hands. I only know the screen names of a couple of people who've talked trash but of those I know I made more then them this month and I ran 28k below equity. Then somebody who was universally acknowledged as a good player, actually avoids me on another site though doesn't play as high as I do typically on it and I saw him post a hand history of someone elses play claiming it was his own because he needs to feel like he's good by getting acknowledgment from his peers or something. Basically my point is I really wouldn't put too much stock in the Reg Threads on 2+2 since most people who post in them are retarded.

:themoreyouknow*

Sunday, March 23, 2008

One day it will even out


Right?

I gotta stop taking 25/50 PLO shots though after only playing a few hundred hands I can tell I'm +EV in the game. Even a lot of professionals play the game rather poorly. Unfortunately, I tried to run a bluff where I put a guy on a naked ace where he wouldn't have odd even with a set to draw against a flush and moved in on the turn. He of course did call with the naked Ace but also has a set which while it wouldn't have had odds to draw against a flush had me drawing dead. Oops, good lesson not to try to bluff people off of hands in PLO. I just managed to put up a 21k downswing (not all PLO) in the last 12 hours so my month is basically ruined pokerwise. I'll probably put up a ton of hands in the last few days @ 2/4 6max just so I hit the 100k hands mark I set for the month but unfortunately I don't think it's possible to run hot enough to even come close to my montery goal for the month sinceI'm now up less then 10k.

:youdbewisetorunwellwhiletakingshots

Friday, March 21, 2008

We need a guestbook or something

That's the follow up to the night I was taking lot of shots and ended up full stacking 25/50 PLO for a couple hours later on in the night. Busted my Stars account but played really well. PLO is such a sick action game and interesting from a strategy perspective as well. It really is the future. An example of the soul reading that didn't help me:

POKERSTARS GAME : OMAHA POT LIMIT ($25/$50) - 2008/03/17
Table 'Nerthus' 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Hero ($4194.15 in chips)
Seat 3: Seat 3 ($1825 in chips)
Seat 5: Seat 5 ($12884.80 in chips)
Seat 6: Villain($4755 in chips)
Seat 3: posts small blind $25
Seat 5: posts big blind $50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [Qd Ks Qs 9d]
Villain: raises $50 to $100
Hero: raises $275 to $375
Seat 3: folds
Seat 5: folds
Villain: calls $275
*** FLOP *** [6d 6s 8h]
Villain: checks
Hero: checks
*** TURN *** [6d 6s 8h] [7h]
Villain: bets $823
Hero: calls $823
*** RIVER *** [6d 6s 8h 7h] [8d]
Villain: bets $2469
Hero: calls $2469
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Villain: shows [2h Kc Ah 3s] (a pair of Eights)
Hero: shows [Qd Ks Qs 9d] (two pair, Queens and Eights)
Hero collected $7407 from pot

My buddy was in town from up north for a few days and we checked out the Tigers in spring training against the Reds and then went out drinking where I lost another c-note prop betting on what time people started drinking.


Today my boy Briz and I chashed around some donk on Stars who was making a heeb run and moved from being a total donk in 3-6 to playing 25-50 to more 25-50 to more 25-50 again and again and again then down to 10-20 & eventually 5-10 where I decided I wouldn't follow him lower then that and sure enough he ended up moving down to 1-2. Just a filthy sick gambler. Fortunately I was able to c/r AI against him with 3rd pair and the like which is the nuts and held (dude ran crazy hot) most of the time so I made just shy of 9k minus a small loss taking half of my friends action who couldn't get a hand.

Also running really well on FTP now the last couple days as I've been 12 tabling which is made crazy simple thanks to the new auto-top off feature which is the absolute hands down nuts and I love they've finally put that in. I still don't use a HUD and am 12 tabling shorthanded. At least I practice some game selection now?

:gameselectionisthenutsbutimstillretarded<3ftpleavecomments

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Desireless

No motivation, no focus, no desire. Nothing. I don't know...I have lost my poker drive, my poker thought, my poker intelligence, creativity...whatever. I just don't care right now.

I don't want to play. At all. I'm forcing myself. The results aren't good because I'm not caring. Sometimes I'm playing simply out of habit but I'm hating every second of it.

I think I've seen too many hands. It's so reptitive. It's downright irritating.

I really don't know if I want to do this anymore...I'm not saying I'm quitting for good, I'm not saying I won't play tomorrow just because I'm bored, I'm not saying I'll never play...but I just don't want it right now. My head is not in it >85% of the time I play.

Running really poorly doesn't help.

I don't know what I want right now.

Monday, March 17, 2008

Straight Degen

Practically bnsted my Stars account over the past week so I do the only respectable thing, heeb run. Tried finding a flip for 5k and sat and played a little 25-50PLO while I waited for a response. I got one from a nosebleed stake player who also had a busted Stars account and not being able to do anything with it agreed to flip. So I left PLO and he never showed to flip. Unofrtunately the PLO games had filled but 200/400 H.O.R.S.E. was running so I figured "why not?" I was nice enough to misclick in StudHi when I made trips on 6th and save him a bet. Right after I start playing the guy who wanted to flip sat asking me if I still wanted to so I played through Stud8 and then flipped. He had about 3200 bucks and we decided to flip until one of our accounts where busted. I got dealt the stellar hand of Kd4s5s8s but I was somehow actually a favorite against his 2h3h8hJd. Playing way out my roll FTW! If I started smoking weed regularly I probably wouldn't do so much dumb shit with my money but since I'm typically +EV in my shot taking I guess it works out.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Break-even at it's best (worst?)


So like I promised I included a colorful graph for the blog. It's my graph for March so far using PT3 which is a big improvement over PT2. It confirms I do infact suck at poker. A litlte breakdown of what's going on in it.

Half of the hands are @ 5/10nl Full Ring (though I'll often play shorthanded or even headsup at full ring tables) and 45% are 3/6nl & 5/10nl 6max & 10/20nl FR with some misc. filling up the other 5 %.


Hands 1-11,000: I'm just not playing very well.

Hands 11,000-22,500: I'm now playing well but running well below equity in all-in pots and just running bad in the sense you can't quantify.

Hands 22,500-27,750: Variance evened out quick =]

Hand 28,400ish?: There was two donks and one pro playing 25-50 so I sat down to play. I played 3 hands and one of the donks bust and I decide I don't want to play 3 handed with the one pro but another pro(decent but I'd play shorthanded with) sits down and takes the BB from me giving me an extra hand for free. I misplay it and shoot off 4k =\

Hands 28,401-34,700: The grind as usual.

Hands 34,700+: Today. I honestly have no recollection of that nice uptick early on and actually started off by dropping 5k in my first 30 minutes. I couldn't sleep this morning (yes I sleep during the day be jealous) and decided I really want to condition myself to be able to grind well for long hours whenever so I decided to boot up. I played for like 6 hours to essentially break even with a nice 8k swing and a bunch of 5k swings during the session to end down like $167.50 and a couple thousand below equity. Oh well. I get a little sleep and end up booting up again and the games are good. I end up 14 tabling as the 15th table was on a smaller site and shorthanded and the software was just too big of a pain to keep going. I feel I played pretty damn good. I have a ton of meta-game with a really LAG (by full-ring standards) on Stars who love to float and call me down light constantly which results in me triple barreling air and shoving second pair and so forth against him. I think he feels he can outplay me because I'm the other really loose player and play a style which many view as donkey I'm sure because of my aggression in certain spots. Money doesn't lie though as he's shipping more my way then the other way but today was his day. He floated with Q high on a K high board picked up a flush draw on the turn and got there on the river as I shoved sensing he was really weak on the flop due to his timing. He rounded out the night picking up AK against AQ in a blind war though admittedly I misplayed it.
I ended up having to close down tables because I didn't have reload cash and nothing upsets me like that so I called a session shortly after but not before I shoved into Aces knowing it was a horrible shove =\ I'm a donk.

A couple other hands against my Stars nemesis:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2254675

I can't articulate it in a very logical breakdown of the hand but with our history and how he plays he's never leading for that amount with a hand he'll call a shove with. If he does he's calling my incredibly light and I'll adjust but was definitely a good spot to shove.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2254716

Why check the turn? Because he'll do stupid stuff like shove everything even a set and even he can't call 100% of the time if I push.

A really interesting hand which was really fun.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2254784

Played was kind of new to the table so didn't really have any reads. My hand is pretty face up on the river as being a top pair or jacks type hand I felt. That said I felt his range was the same. I really was never getting him credit for the 6. It was obviously a possibility but I didn't give it more then a 10-15% probability he had a 6 or better. I had him on a 9T, TJ, JJ type hand and was really considering he might have JJ since I was running bad though he doesn't show aggression earlier in the hand at any point and is now making an incredibly thin shove against someone without history so had to conclude he has a TJ type hand often enough to call. I actually like his play except I'm a donkey call station. I think I should utilize it more except I'm viewed as so reckless I get called all day here. Maybe I should tighten up in some spots.


Anyways made a few plays I wasn't happy with and ran horrible and just constantly feel like I'm playing break even poker despite being up a very respectable amount this year. I've got other shit to ramble on and on about but I'll save it for another post and keep this one poker related.

:Shipmetothegluefactory

Friday, March 07, 2008

Juggling 5 women is hard.

Even for me.

Oh, also I suck at poker.

That is all.

Jay

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Untitled

I'm off my game the last few days. Apparently starting months off really well is huge for me since I'm prone to tilting frequently when I'm stuck on the month because I'll get almost even or even or up a little and then drop back down and then shoot off. Granted I shutdown immediately after but it still adds up. I don't feel like I'm playing very well and am spending a fair amount of time studying my game. Unfortunately I'm doing it solo as I have no one who's really interested in poker to discuss hands with since most I talk to are "reluctant" pros who while good players and who are capable of thinking about the game but really play out of habit and for the money and have no interest in studying and improving their games. I predict more then half of them are no longer playing come the new year.

So I'm told all my posts are pretty boring (I tend to agree) so in the future I'll try include either some hand histories and discussion about them or maybe some colorful graphs! As far as my personal life it's basically non-existent so there's nothing to tell though even if there was nothing truly interesting will ever make it onto a blog unless I'm getting paid for it so bitch at Jay to post more.


Seat 1: Player 1 ($1273.30 in chips)
Seat 2: Player 2 ($1019 in chips)
Seat 3: Player 3 ($1506 in chips)
Seat 4: Player 4 ($1989 in chips)
Seat 5: Player 5 ($756.25 in chips)
Seat 6: DIAGF ShortStacker ($194.25 in chips)
Seat 7: Hero ($1479.10 in chips)
Player 3: posts small blind $5
Player 4: posts big blind $10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [2s 2h]
Player 5: folds
DIAGF ShortStacker: calls $10
Hero: calls $10
Player 1: folds
Player 2: calls $10
Player 3: calls $5
Player 4: checks
*** FLOP *** [4d 9c 2c]
Player 3: bets $40
Player 4: folds
DIAGF ShortStacker: raises $144.25 to $184.25 and is all-in
Hero: calls $184.25
Player 2: folds
Player 3: raises $465.75 to $650
Hero: folds

Player 3 is really good and is basically never going to lead and then shove over my call like that with less then a set or maybe the nut flush draw which is much less likely so it was an instant fold. He then showed top set. Hand would have been interesting had I have 4s, not because I ever get away from it but just on how I would have played when the action got to me on the flop.


Also, now that I think about this I want to go off about it because it's been driving me nuts the last few days. Shortstackers. Not the casual player who buys in short but the regular and often professional shortstackers who infest every table there is with there mindless playing disrupting the flow of the game for everyone else. Move down and learn to play poker. I seriously would delight in joy if they all got convicted of a crime and got raped for the rest of eternity. Typically anytime I hear any pro is doing well I'm happy for them but seeing ImsaKidd's graph where he was a ton below equity made me ridiculously happy. I seriously hope horrible things happen to all these people since I could never hang out with them since I don't even know how they look i n the mirror. I bet half of these faggots think they're hot shit in real life and are the douches who go around saying how they're a poker pro and wear a hat and sunglasses everywhere.

:Ihopetheyallgetaidsandburnslowlyinaspeciallevelofhellreservedforchildmolestersshortstackersandpeoplewhotalkinthetheater

Sunday, March 02, 2008

I'm runnin' kinda bad..

course not playing super well either but I never play well...so when I run bad...I...uhh...lose?

Bleh. Keep playing a fish HU, he keeps running really really well against me and keeps leaving when he wins a buyin. Standard fish shit. Wish we could play >100bb deep...enormous edge then.

These swings are going to make me quit poker.