So yeah, I was going to rant about how I lost about 3.5 buyins yesterday and so would've been better off playing in the wcoop, but f it, online poker is gone, end life.
So, due to schoolwork and a stupid social bball tourny (that we won), I haven't been able to play any of the WCOOP events. This sucks because the only events left are the bigger buyin ones: $530 plol, $5200 horse, $1050 lhe, and the $2600 main event.
I registered for the plo event yesterday, but now, 7 hours before it starts, I dropped my nuts and unregistered. In the end I couldn't justify spending half a grand on a buyin in a game that I'm only above average at.
I think the only reason I signed up for it in the first place is that it was in the right price range. I was set to play the 215 lhe and horse events last weekend, but that stupid bball tourny got in the way.
Anyway, tomorrow I'm going to grind and if I win $500 or more I'm going to deposit and play in the 1k lhe event. And win. Obv.
I was planning to move up to 10/20 at the end of this month, but after reading a bit on 2p2 and talkign to others, the games above 5/10 are really drying up (even shorthanded).
So I'm changing to nl. Hopefully this won't be too much of a trainwreck.
I've played 3 days of 200nl 6max so far, and played ~5k hands with a +ve winrate. If I could stop paying off when I know I'm beat I'd be set.
So yeah I haven't been updating this lately because my poker life has been pretty boring.
Lately my computer has been too slow to play my normal games on party (while running about 100 other applications), so I've been playing some small stakes plo while I've been waiting for a lazy mfer to order and deliver some new RAM.
THis is pretty much the only tough decision I've had over 3 days of pwnage:
I hated every river decision I had, so I just ended up potting it.
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In other news, I lost HU in my live mtt today, which sucked since I thought I dominated him HU.
I got him ai twice when I had a pretty huge edge, once with 4 6 on a 469A board when he had Q6 (river A), and when I had A9 on a 8TJo board when he had QT (turn A, river 9).
So yeah, first would have been less than my normal hourly, but I still haven't closed one of these out yet. 0/4 sucks when you're the best player there.
Today was much much harder. Between 6-10 am I was ridiculously tired towards the end of my 4 hour waking period.
I was groggy for much of today. You know the feeling you have when you just wake up - you're disorientated and feel a little weighed down - that was me for a lot of the time today. Mostly because I [b[was[/b] just waking up most of the time.
Because of this my day was pretty boring. I didn't risk playing poker with the way I was feeling - today there would have been 3 ways to lose a pot: folding, losing to a better hand, and falling asleep at the computer.
The first day of PSE was pretty uneventful, as you'd expect. I only fell asleep once or twice during my power sleeps.
Day 2 is supposed to be a killer, from what I've read about others' experiences on PSE.
Pokerwise, I managed to play about 1.5k hands at 3/6 (breaking even) and I just played almost 2k hands 8 tabling 1/2 at Stars to start on the Bonus.
Quite a few people have asked me why I'm doing it. One reason is that I'm not getting enough done during the day, and increasing the number of hours that I'm awake seems like a logical way to increase my output without compromising my laziness/leisure activities.
Another reason is that it should be easier to manage my day through 4 hour time periods, rather than a whole day. I'm about the world's biggest procrastinator (Hamlet has nothing on me) and I think I can cut down on my time spent effectively doing nothing this way.
They both had flushes. I didn't tilt after this, I was more dazed about the size of the pot that had just slipped though. It's hands like this that have kept me at breakeven for the last 4k or so hands. I'm not worried. Hands will begin to hold sooner or later
The Polyphasic Sleep Experiment (PSE) starts tomorrow.
In 2 days time (Tuesday the 20th) I will begin experimenting with Polyphasic Sleep.
Basically this means that, instead of sleeping for 8-12 hours over the night, I'll be sleeping around 3-4 hours. To do this, I'll sleep for 20-30 minute intervals every 4 hours. This is also knows as the Uberman sleep schedule
I'm doing this mainly to get more out of each day, and also to try something new. I'm all for trying things that not many have done before.
If you want to read some articles/blogs on Polyphonic sleep, look at these:
Today I ran terribly at ring. Despite the fact that most of my blogs are about me running bad and breaking even at lhe, this is far from the norm. Lately I've been running super hot, today was just variance reducing my winrate a bit. I'm taking Doggz' advice to start loving variance, as it's swinging our way most of the time.
I also contributed to the prizepool in the Gauntlet today. I wasn't really concentrating, as I was playing 4 tables of ring at the same time, with the mtt table popping up in the middle when it was my turn to act. Early on John Kwon flopped his 3 outer, AJo against my AQ . The flop was x x J. He played it pretty passively, calling the flop, making a fairly weak bet on the turn when I checked to him, and checking behind on the river. I guess I just gave off 'monster' vibes to him.
I got a table change shortly after, doubled up when Eric pushed his K Q into my AA on a x x K board, then busted with top pair against Warpe's flopped 2 pair in a multiway unraised pot. It was a pretty terrible river push by me, but my thoughts were pretty much on my cash games.
I played about 1.8k hands of ring today, and pretty much broke even (this is a bad day for me these days).
Pretty swingy eh.
This was all during the afternoon. I studied after this (exams next week )
Just before I went to sleep, I played a $12 + 1 6 man sng at Bodog. I managed to win this.
It snowed today. Yesterday was the sunniest day all winter.
My internet's cutting out every 10 minutes or so. The sattelite was out as well, so I couldn't even watch the NBA today, although I was told it was a shitty game. I managed to get some decent studying hours in though
I made a post in some thread that my goal was to play 1k hands per day this month, with no monetary goals. So far, through 9 days in June, I've played 8,500 hands. So I'm behind, but not by much.
To be honest, I'm shooting for 30k hands, but I'll be happy with anything above 25k, with exams coming up this month.
Congrats to zodiac killer for 1000000000 x'ing his roll with a 1.6k win in a 10 FO tonight
I was all pumped to get my 1k hands in today, because I've been running super hot lately. The very first hand, I got runner-gutshotted. It was a sign of things to come.
I love poker
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UPDATE:
I played another session tonight. I'm still running averagely. I should be feeling good about getting the hands in today, but I pretty much broke even through it. I feel that I would have made a profit on today if Party's servers didn't crash 3/4 through my playing tonight though, including my internet breaking down when I had a set on one table, and AA on another.
Last night my mate and I went to play a home game (which ended up being round the corner from my place) hoping to bwn up. I mainly went to get some work on live game play. It pretty much was a $20 RA SnG, with a structure that ended up being quite similar to Stars'. I got dealt junk up until the rebuy period finished, and had around the starting chip stack, but didn't push the final hand for some reason
The only notable hands that I played during this period were when I had QQ UTG+1 at 15/30 blinds, raised it up and got 2 callers, and bet the flop and turn where they both folded on an undercard board.
Another was when I flopped top pair, weak kicker on a Q62 board with 2 clubs. I put the SB on the club draw through his line, and had to check behind on the river when he got there.
After the rebuy period finished I had just less than 1500 chips, with blinds at 75/150. I managed to push for the blinds once out of MP with J9o. I then got A9o in the bb with around a 10x stack. There was a limper from the CO, who had been in around 90% of the pots so far, limping everytime, and the SB completed. I pushed to pick up the dead money, and got owned by the CO's limped aces. gg.
The two who finally got HU weren't fish at all, but a bit weak tight. Pretty much the whole table was weak/tight in that tournament, except from the one loose passive guy who owned me, and 2 others who managed to raise preflop a couple of times. One guy almost made the craziest comeback when down to about 200 chips HU with 300/600 blinds.
I met Spanners from FTR there, which was cool to put a face to a sn. He played pretty well, but got really unlucky when his KK got outflopped by the eventual runner up's AK.
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Anyway, after that home tournament I was in the mood for some donkaments today. I fired up a 3RA sat to the stars million, a 22 180, a 10 RA limit hold'em mtt, and a 3 lhe mtt just to fill up screen space.
In the 22 180 I was cruising along in about 10th when I got hit by a spasm of super monkey tilt and blew up in about 5 hands to finish 60th.
The 3 lhe I couldn't be bothered with after a while, and started capping every street to either build a stack or go busto, and ended up busto-ing just before the first break.
In the 11 RA lhe I couldn't get anything going in the rebuy hour and ended up after the break with just over the bare minimum of 5000 chips. After this I had a super fish on my right who I built my stack off of, but ended up getting crippled by a boat over boat by someone else before the second break.
I went deepest in the 3 RA sat to the mil. I ended up bubbling by getting runner flushed, which seems to be a fairly recurring beat whenever I go deep in a mtt. I blame Lee Jones.
Anyway, I ended up dropping ~$100 on mtt buyins, with a 0% ROI. I made that, and a bit more, back playing ring tonight, so I'm a little above breakeven on the day.
It's a public holiday tomorrow, and I was planning on playing both the million and the 100k on Bodog! tomorrow, but I don't think I'm going to bother now. F donkaments for a while.
UPDATE: I just played another 2 sats, a single table to the PP Sunday Million and a multi table to the Bodog 100k. I bubbled the PP and I got 2 outered in the 100k. I'm off donkaments for life.
I just tried to play today, but ended up semi-on-tilt after 10 minutes, for no reason at all. It wasn't really being on tilt, just trying to make impossible plays, bluffing at calling stations with A high, getting involved in blind wars with nothing, etc.
It sucked.
I only played for 25 minutes in that session. Guess I have to play again tonight to get my hands in
I took a break for half a week to clear my head, and started playing properly again the day after the 8 table madness.
The night of the 8 tabling stars fiasco I was bored and fired up 4 microstakes mtts: a $4.40 180 man SnG, $6 pl he on Party, $1.10 nlhe on Party, and a $3.30 7cs at Stars.
I went fairly deep in the 7cs, busting before the money, went through about half the field in the 1.10, busted early in the pot limit holdem mtt, and FT'ed the 180.
I was cruising along in 4rd with 5 left, when this beaut happened:
Preflop: Hero is Button with K, Q. 1 fold, MP raises to t3200, Hero raises to t19527, 2 folds, MP calls t16327.
Flop: (t39279) J, Q, J(2 players)
Turn: (t39279) 5(2 players)
River: (t39279) 6(2 players)
Final Pot: t39279
Results in white below:
MP has 7d 8d (flush, queen high).
Hero has Ks Qh (two pair, queens and jacks).
Outcome: MP wins t39279.
I repopped him because villain was a terrible lagg who varied his raise sizes with the strength of his hand, and because I knew that I'd most likely get a call. Meh, shit happens. Finishing 5th probably wasn't worth the time I invested into it, but it's the first FT I've made at stars.
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I've been playing mostly 3/6 at party lately. Even though WPEX has 100% Rakeback, I've decided I can make more just through good table selection and owning some fish at party shorthanded. Playing a bunch of tagg 2p2ers isn't good table selection, even though I hold my own against them. Occasionally a complete noob fish sits at wpex, and their money's gone before they know it.
Yeah that's pretty much it, I think I'll be casino whoring a lot over the next week or so, hopefully it pays off
So today I played 8 tables on one monitor, without resizing them. I got the idea from mike4066 and ElipsesJeff about the square/cross method. I played 1/2 6max. Looking back, it probably wasn't a good idea to play shorthanded on my first attempt at this.
I started off with 4 from Stars and 4 from Party, but I kept timing out that way so I went to all 8 from stars, to clear the Bonus I had while it was double FPP points.
I played all of these hands during a 1hr 30 min session.
K
A
Q
([$34, 2 players[/i])
, T
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, T
, 3
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