OK. Another wholly depressing entry into my blog.
Today I dropped 2k at the 2/3 game on Bodog. I got my money in drawing pretty much dead 3 times. I made one really bad call down with second pair X on a YYX flop. I got coolered a couple of times. Long story short, I ran bad AND played bad.
Running bad AND playing bad. This has been a consistant running theme for me, for the past while.
The games aren't good anymore. Wait, that statements a little strong. The post-bill games aren't nearly as good as pre-bill Party Poker. All you needed to beat that game was a pulse.
Now, when I play 1/2 on Stars or FullTiltPoker.net, people are laying down hands. They are laying down BIG HANDS. By a big hand, I mean a pair of aces with AJ. The standards for a winning player have been raised, and apparently, the bar is higher than me right now.
So, here's my solution. First I need to point out the weaknesses in my game. Those weaknesses are as follows:
1. USING STANDARD LINES. The standard lines (like lead/3bet with a set) aren't effectively working anymore. I need to put people on tighter ranges and get more value from those ranges.
2. BLUFFING THE TURN AND RIVER. The decent players are calling me on the flop with hands that can profitably call me down on the turn and river, and there aren't very many floaters at 1/2 and .5/1. The fish obviously will call down anything.
3. PLAYING MY BIG HANDS WAY TOO FAST. This is kinda part of problem 1. I need to start slowplaying more. I almost never do, which means whenever I am playing passively, its easy to put me on nothing. Also, I am always trying to force an all in, whenever I have a big hand, instead of milking my big hands when I know they probably don't have much.
4. MAKING THIN CALLDOWNS WAY TOO MUCH. Im not a calling station. Calling stations constantly make irrational calldowns. I, on the otherhand, make SELECTIVELY irrational calldowns. Basically, i am making a lot of calldowns for my whole stack when they are bluffing there a significant percentage of the time, BUT NOT MORE THAN 50%.
What I am going to do, is as follows:
1. Im going to withdraw my bankroll down to 5k. That will give me enough money to live for a couple of months, while I pull myself out of this shithole unpressured.
2. Im going to move all of my monies to Poker Stars. FullTiltPoker.net's games suck balls. Ultimate Bet's games make FullTiltPoker.net's games look good. Fuck Rakeback. Also playing on different interfaces all of the time isn't any fun, and my lack of adjusting to different environs is negative EV, considering how shattered my game is right now.
3. Im going to play 100nl with 50 buyins. I'm not moving to 200nl again until I have 10k.
4. Im going to play A LOT of hands. Im talking 60-75k a month. If I have a decent winrate at .5/1 (2-3ptbb/100), i'll be back at 1/2 in no time.
5. I am going to post a lot of hands. Seemingly "standard" hands, mostly. Because I obviously haven't the foggiest clue what "standard" is anymore.
http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/forum/poker-35059.htm
Today I dropped 2k at the 2/3 game on Bodog. I got my money in drawing pretty much dead 3 times. I made one really bad call down with second pair X on a YYX flop. I got coolered a couple of times. Long story short, I ran bad AND played bad.
Running bad AND playing bad. This has been a consistant running theme for me, for the past while.
The games aren't good anymore. Wait, that statements a little strong. The post-bill games aren't nearly as good as pre-bill Party Poker. All you needed to beat that game was a pulse.
Now, when I play 1/2 on Stars or FullTiltPoker.net, people are laying down hands. They are laying down BIG HANDS. By a big hand, I mean a pair of aces with AJ. The standards for a winning player have been raised, and apparently, the bar is higher than me right now.
So, here's my solution. First I need to point out the weaknesses in my game. Those weaknesses are as follows:
1. USING STANDARD LINES. The standard lines (like lead/3bet with a set) aren't effectively working anymore. I need to put people on tighter ranges and get more value from those ranges.
2. BLUFFING THE TURN AND RIVER. The decent players are calling me on the flop with hands that can profitably call me down on the turn and river, and there aren't very many floaters at 1/2 and .5/1. The fish obviously will call down anything.
3. PLAYING MY BIG HANDS WAY TOO FAST. This is kinda part of problem 1. I need to start slowplaying more. I almost never do, which means whenever I am playing passively, its easy to put me on nothing. Also, I am always trying to force an all in, whenever I have a big hand, instead of milking my big hands when I know they probably don't have much.
4. MAKING THIN CALLDOWNS WAY TOO MUCH. Im not a calling station. Calling stations constantly make irrational calldowns. I, on the otherhand, make SELECTIVELY irrational calldowns. Basically, i am making a lot of calldowns for my whole stack when they are bluffing there a significant percentage of the time, BUT NOT MORE THAN 50%.
What I am going to do, is as follows:
1. Im going to withdraw my bankroll down to 5k. That will give me enough money to live for a couple of months, while I pull myself out of this shithole unpressured.
2. Im going to move all of my monies to Poker Stars. FullTiltPoker.net's games suck balls. Ultimate Bet's games make FullTiltPoker.net's games look good. Fuck Rakeback. Also playing on different interfaces all of the time isn't any fun, and my lack of adjusting to different environs is negative EV, considering how shattered my game is right now.
3. Im going to play 100nl with 50 buyins. I'm not moving to 200nl again until I have 10k.
4. Im going to play A LOT of hands. Im talking 60-75k a month. If I have a decent winrate at .5/1 (2-3ptbb/100), i'll be back at 1/2 in no time.
5. I am going to post a lot of hands. Seemingly "standard" hands, mostly. Because I obviously haven't the foggiest clue what "standard" is anymore.
http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/forum/poker-35059.htm
on November 27, 2006, 4:25 pm
Your very disciplined to drop to the 100s, fair play, GL.
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