Moved..

I already posted about this to Pathological Case, but I've moved my both blogs essentially into one at LiquidPoker.net. You can find it here. I might come back here, but for now, I'll mainly be posting there.

Things are going by so quickly...

I'm just here to bring in a short status update. Basically, I'm owning it up like crazy. My winrate isn't huge - I'm not running particularly hot, but I'm doing fine. I've had some worse sessions (most of the positive) and some better ones and I have 7.05 PTBB/100 over 10k hands now in 100nl.

I cleared the party bonii and I've effectively skyrocketed my roll over $5k limit. Fucking A! So I'm now taking some 2-table shots at 200nl while grinding 100nl as my main game. I intend to start trying to move fo real after I hit $6k. 200nl is the first waypoint on my way to glory - I intend to establish a solid roll on that level before moving to 2/4. I'll probably get impatient if and when I hit the $10k mark and start taking some shots to 400nl, but for now I can see myself grinding to $20k roll in 1/2 before moving up. Time will tell.

My first 2-table sessions went fine I guess. I did get bad beat in 3 $400+ pots hehe. Fun to push top set on turn and get raped by a flushdraw etc, but I didn't take it badly. I played solid, made solid reads and solid plays against correct opponents. I did toss of a stack with AQ to AA on QxxA board, but that's just part of the game. I ended up around $200 which is only one bi, but the session was only 500 hands too so it's over 10 PTBB/100. I had one biggish hand that ended up giving me the deepest stack I've ever had on a table.

It was this one. The middle man in the hand (even though deep stack) was the loosest player in the table and I'm disappointed he didn't call. He might've had a flushdraw or a ten, but seeing how it didn't hit, I would've loved to get my first ~$1k pot. Still, it was $500 and broke the limit of the biggest pot won so far. Awesome.

I'll make some updates occasionally, probably bigger one with some hands once I reach the comfort level on this second new level. I guess my goal is to make the full transition this month. I updated the goal for the starting year to $5/$10 NL, namely NL$1k. While it's realistic, it's not a "goal goal" in the terms that I've had before. I'm not going to sweat blood and tears to get there, but I certainly don't think it's impossible. Even if I'm at 200nl at the end of this year, I'll probably be satisfied (well that's how I feel now, I bet it won't be how I feel in a year).

Perhaps the best thing would be to get to 6 digit numbers by the end of $2007 ;)

Cheers!

Immortality

TY! It took me three tries - now I feel I'm relatively well established in 100nl. I am currently doing some bonuses at party and I feel I'm getting the hand of it - I've still made some hasty decisions, been cold decked a few times - of which most bitter was this one: HOLLA! I probably wouldn't even go broke here against an average opponent but this guy was 40/x/x ninja who bought in for $20 (at least that what he/she said). Anyhow, I doubled off him earlier like this: For King and country! So I didn't respect him much after that. Well - it's fun to get the one card in the deck that can break me! :D

Anyhow, that rocketed me from +1.5bi to -0.5bi or so. After that, the next 100 hands or so I was on a heater! And quit while being +3bi. I did make one supposedly bad laydown against the same fish later because I was afraid of a guy behind me in this one.

To get back to the bonii, basically I've now gotten $500 worth of bonuses ($100 initial signup and a bunch of reloads), I have $400 in pending bonuses for Party and $150 for Stars and my roll broke the magical limit of $3k (I moved at 2.5k). Sooo, things are looking up and I think my goal for the year is now done! I shall now change the purpose of this blawg in the initial title as well.

It's been sweet thus far and to actually make the transition upwards tastes better than life itself. So now, cheers! And happy holidays! Happy new year! Wuhuu!

Remember, Remember...

The 18th of December, the 2 outer treason and plot. I know of no reason, why the 2 outer treason should ever be forgot.

Well, I might be paranoid, but it's cursed, I'm telling ya! And yea, I thought 2.3k is enough. I was wrong - I'm only down $600 for it for today, but I sincerely decided to skip that bloody level all together and grind 50nl until the world comes to and end. I've been fairly consistent with it lately and I believe I can keep that shit up, so I will build a huuuuuuuuuuuuge roll. With current pace, I could probably average around $2k / month playing 50nl and that's better than nothing.

Heh, I guess I have only myself to blame since I tricked my mind into thinking I am playing 'til $3k and moved there earlier. A well, it was fun. I'm still at $1.6k though so it's not like the blow I took today is huge - I can still go way beyond $2k this month and not even break a sweat. Maybe I will, maybe I won't. Tomorrow I will go see the guru who pulls of 10 buy-ins a day at higher limits. Hopefully his guidance and some beer will make me see the error of my ways more clearly.

Why... God... Why...?

Against the wind!

"I said a hip hop the hippie the hippie

to the hip hip hop, a you dont stop the rock it

to the bang bang boogie, say up jumped the boogie

to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat"

-Sugarhill Gang - Rappers Delight

Boyaya. Alrighty so since my last dive in the 100nl games, I've bounced back and triumphed. I've recovered almost all of the that was done to my bankroll by the series of unfortunate events. I've 'dug holes' and 'brushed roasts' and in the end, most of my sessions have been positive! Of course with the exception of today (That almost always inspires me to write). I played pretty well throughout, but I have no doubt in my mind that without doing a couple of big mistakes I couldn't have came out on top of this session too. It affected my global winrate a bit too, since for the last 11k hands I've been doin' around 7-8 PTBB/100. Today I played 2k hands and ended down around a buy-in. Flopped top two against a set twice for stacks, got 2-4 outed so many times - but I did make some hands too and managed to get paid off.

The real problem was the few hands I overplayed. I managed to go broke against AT in a reraised pot on J87-9 board with Kings, went broke for $30 with AQ to QTx board against QT etc. Besides a few slips, I played pretty solid overall, but towards the end I started playing weaker and decided it was time to quit. Anyway, over last 13k hands, I've shown a profit of $700 and my roll is hovarin' a bit below $2k (only reason why it ain't above is that somewhere along the way I did some short-stacking at 100nl and my relationship with the limit is known to everyone anyway). I intend to pull at least another $600 before moving up again I guess. One plan was to get to $2k with Stars roll, having $600 stored, waiting for that Stars christmas bonus (THERE HAS TO BE ONE! IT'S CHRISTMAS FFS!).

Oh and here's a bright moment of mine.

Things are looking good and I'm feeling confident about my game. And of course thanks to my little sister who made the awesome art in the beginning of the post!

Nothing more at this time, cheers!

Penny Stakes Salvation!

The Zeebo Ultimatum! Muhahahaha!

I actually played the most hands for single day ever. I slept badly and felt like playing some 25nl because it seems like something comatozed monkey could beat. So I start off by symphathetic -6bi. Unlike usually, I 8-tabled today and I played 5120 hands. Holla!



Well I came back from the minus. I did some sloppy plays in the beginning, but towards the end, I got into a solid upswingy motion as my coma kept getting deeper. I ended the session at +$4.2! Yay! Not too great, but at least I got positive and played a lotsa lotsa hands. I didn't pay enough attention to my game today, but tomorrow (unless I skip playing), I will try to concentrate on making the modifications that have been holding me back.

Besides some positional game adjustments, I also seem to overplay one pair hands - these are generally TPTK types of hands etc. I guess it'll all come to me in time as long as I remember to keep concentrating and trying to improve my game - whether I'm running good or bad.

So tomorrow, it's back to the 50nl 4-tabling. Ahh, sweet times.

NL100 is the SHIT! And I mean it literally...

Time to bitch again. So I was at $1700 couple of hours back, being up $200 from NL50. I went to 100nl to kill a fish. Well that worked out well, I got JJ and reraised him, he of course called, being the 60/30/2 fish he was. Flop came down beautiful 774 rainbow. Well leads and I put him all-in. His 78 is good. -$100. Three hands later I pick up JJ. I raise him, he minraises me, I call. Flop is beautiful 742. He has AA. -$100. Few hands later, I still haven't given up hope, I have 78s, so I raise from button, he calls. Flop is pretty nice J96. Okay so he checks, I c-bet, he calls. Turn is a Q - he leads like half the pot, I call. River is a T, giving me my straight on a very dangerous board - especially cuz he had AK. I didn't go broke though.

So that's -$250. Effectively putting my result of the day to -$100 (I was down $50 from tournaments - in which I get always bad beat in the bubble - seriously, it's not a joke). Okay so that wasn't enough. I took a deep breath, went to take a shit, ate something, drank water and filled my mug with lemonade, preparing for my new session with around $1500 bankroll. I figured I'd play supertight 100nl for the time being and get this show back on the road.

That worked out nicely until I lost a stack with KK against AA. Well no biggie. Then I split TWO TIMES KK vs KK!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?633990
http://www.pokerhand.org/?633991

Ain't that adorable? Well this and a couple of other rapist hands later I managed to win some pots without showdown (that's my only trend lately). Soo I go pretty deep against this one guy who's 26/6.7/1.89 (small pf raise range huh) In this hand:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?634016

THE DRAW COULD HIT AT LEAST ONCE! THE POT WAS HUGE AND I WOULD'VE QUIT AFTER IT EITHER WAY.



I said to my friend that if I lose this all-in I'm going to quit. I lost it and I quit. Yay. So now, my roll is $1183. Motherfucking yay. It's become halved from what it was since I "moved to 100nl". Obviously it's time to take a break and try not to cut myself for the damage I've done. I can't beat the limit, I'm too fucking bad. I can rebuild the roll for 100nl a thousand times but I can't make the transition. Seriously. I pulled +4bi from 50nl, why can't I do the same for 100nl?


Now I wanna believe that it's just bad luck. I wanna believe that everyone has it. I really really really wanna believe it. But when I went to livegames to play some nl100, I lost 270€. Why? I don't know, I was 70-30 or better favourite in each full stack all-in. Does that make me bad? I've been thinking about skipping this 100nl level all together and now I'm really starting to think it's a cursed limit, whether it's online or live. I just get beat after beat after cooler after beat after cooler after beat after beat after cooler after beat and there's nothing I can do about it.

Fucking AWESOME. That much for this years goal. And there's no point in believing that I could still make it, I can't - I cashed out my entire roll to Neteller, hoping that there'll be some deposit bonus to stars next month (which is when I'll continue playing). I try to force myself to not play anything since I've been having problems doing that - mostly out of boredom. I need to do some studying anyway so this comes at a convenient time. But FUCK. I'm not going to do the estimation of how it went for the month overall as I think my month is around -$100 after that stupid shit.



IF I RAPE AT 50NL LIKE I'VE DONE LATELY - WHY DO I HAVE TO ENTER COOLER CITY AT 100NL. It's fucking ridiculous.

Fuck poker.