This month has been goin' pretty marginally so far. I dropped down to -3k pretty early due to my big hu session loss and running below expectation @ 3/6.
I've been up a little a bit aswell though, but right now I'd say I'm down about 400$.
I actually think I am playing well and my HU games is also really improving I feel.
I've also been working on my Omaha game, but mainly reading/watching vids (if you're a deuces cracked member, definetly check out the "Mad Potters" series on Omaha with Sensei and Riverboatking) and not so much playing.
I have an exam coming soon, so I'll be unable to put as much effort into my game as I would like to, but I'm fine with that.
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Thursday, 12 June 2008
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
good morning
So it's 5:55am, which is pretty early, but the good news is that I didn't stay up till this time, but just woke up. I didn't want to wake up this early, because it means I'll be tired around 4pm-6pm, but it will help me get to bed early today so I can balance my sleeping.
I didn't actually get to see a football match yesterday in the EURO 2008, because of a missunderstanding. We're going to watch Sweden-Spain on Saturday and not Spain-Russia as I thought. Spain is on fire right now as they beat Russia 4-1 yesterday. Russia really wasn't bad from their overall game play, but Spain just had such deadly counter attacks, it was brutal.
The good thing about me being up early is that there is a decent chance my notebook is arriving today, so I won't be pulled out of any deep-sleeping.
Poker-wise I'm done with my Party rakeback days and I'm a bit dissapointed I wasn't able to play more hands, but I think my bad sleeping had a lot to do with it.
It's hard for me to filter out my exact results for Party (I don't know how to do it with HM), but I'd guess I ended up +1.6k from cash games with an extra 475$ cleared in bonusses and a wooping 1426.64$ rakeback in 5 days of play.
The plan for the rest of the month is to grind it out on iPoker 3/6, 2/4 6max and fullring and to maintain status before I go to Vegas. I'll also be playing some 2/4 hu on the side.
I didn't actually get to see a football match yesterday in the EURO 2008, because of a missunderstanding. We're going to watch Sweden-Spain on Saturday and not Spain-Russia as I thought. Spain is on fire right now as they beat Russia 4-1 yesterday. Russia really wasn't bad from their overall game play, but Spain just had such deadly counter attacks, it was brutal.
The good thing about me being up early is that there is a decent chance my notebook is arriving today, so I won't be pulled out of any deep-sleeping.
Poker-wise I'm done with my Party rakeback days and I'm a bit dissapointed I wasn't able to play more hands, but I think my bad sleeping had a lot to do with it.
It's hard for me to filter out my exact results for Party (I don't know how to do it with HM), but I'd guess I ended up +1.6k from cash games with an extra 475$ cleared in bonusses and a wooping 1426.64$ rakeback in 5 days of play.
The plan for the rest of the month is to grind it out on iPoker 3/6, 2/4 6max and fullring and to maintain status before I go to Vegas. I'll also be playing some 2/4 hu on the side.
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
:S
I'm super wasted right now. I just played 1333 hands straight and ended up winning 367$ over 1/2 and .5/1. I think I played some spots a bit too aggro, giving my opponents to much credit for being capable of folding hands when my perceived range beats them.
The rake is lousy at those stakes. I only made 140$ in RB. I guess if I make it to 3k hands (not looking very likely), it'd be 300$.
I'm gonna go to town as I'm falling asleep in my chair as I am writing this.
The rake is lousy at those stakes. I only made 140$ in RB. I guess if I make it to 3k hands (not looking very likely), it'd be 300$.
I'm gonna go to town as I'm falling asleep in my chair as I am writing this.
Bad sleeping
Ok, it's time for me to admit, again, that my sleeping rhythm is completely off balance. I've decided to balance it by not sleeping today and trying to go to bed at around 9-10pm (note, right now it is 6:10am). Today is the last day I have 100% rakeback on Party Poker (which is soooo sweet), and I don't wanna waste it, so I've decided to multitable 8 FR 1/2 games and just "bonus-whore" basically.
Right now they're aren't enough 1/2 FR games running, so I'm playing .5/1 aswell ^^. I'll switch in as much 1/2 as possible, because I still think my edge is reasonable enough with little sleep and I get more rakeback there.
I'll post results of hand count and amount won (with and without rb) after I'm done.
I figure I won't be playing for too long as I have tickets for today's EURO 2008 game in Austria and Switzerland (maybe till like 4pm), Spain vs Russia.
This should be fun though.
Right now they're aren't enough 1/2 FR games running, so I'm playing .5/1 aswell ^^. I'll switch in as much 1/2 as possible, because I still think my edge is reasonable enough with little sleep and I get more rakeback there.
I'll post results of hand count and amount won (with and without rb) after I'm done.
I figure I won't be playing for too long as I have tickets for today's EURO 2008 game in Austria and Switzerland (maybe till like 4pm), Spain vs Russia.
This should be fun though.
Thursday, 5 June 2008
It's party time
Today my Party Poker VIP days begin and I'll have 100% rakeback for the next 5 days. I wanna be putting in more hands than I usually would and I hope I'll be able to do so.
Yesterday I finally decided which notebook to get for Vegas. I decided against a Macbook Pro, not because I don't like it, but because I just don't feel comfortable with paying literally twice as much as for any other notebook out there that can do the same or close to it. So I'm getting an Acer Aspire 6920g, which set me back 1350€ compared to the 2500€ for the MBP. It's a 16:9 multimedia notebook with a high res 1920*1080 (1080p), 4GB ram, Core 2 Duo T8300 and Nvidia 9500 GMs. I must admit I'm not all too familiar with these components, but the notebook did pretty well in tests from sites that I trust, so it should be good.
Yesterday I finally decided which notebook to get for Vegas. I decided against a Macbook Pro, not because I don't like it, but because I just don't feel comfortable with paying literally twice as much as for any other notebook out there that can do the same or close to it. So I'm getting an Acer Aspire 6920g, which set me back 1350€ compared to the 2500€ for the MBP. It's a 16:9 multimedia notebook with a high res 1920*1080 (1080p), 4GB ram, Core 2 Duo T8300 and Nvidia 9500 GMs. I must admit I'm not all too familiar with these components, but the notebook did pretty well in tests from sites that I trust, so it should be good.
Wednesday, 4 June 2008
Recap on HU match
Now that it's been a day I've had time to reflect on my match and get the tilt out of my system. I still stand by most of my decisions and I think I made correct adjustments to his playing style, but some key mistakes in deep pots. To my defence I haven't really played much 300 and 400bb deep, it's really very challenging and every decision can be for a lot of money. Tilting obviously becomes very expensive aswell as not focusing (some people would say it's the same thing).
I think part of why he was so tough to play against was that he must have had a pretty good card distribution to where it appeared to me that he was constantly making close to nut hands when he was betting. I must admit though that he played his style pretty well and made some good laydowns to me.
I'm definetly sure of my edge against this guy and I'd take some more shots at him given the chance, but I'm not sure I'll see him again too soon. He has some exploitable lines and he adjusts slowly to your change in play, so your chipping away at the small-mid sized pots. I think he plays large pots reasonably well though.
I'm sure a seasoned HU reg would've crushed him, but I can imagine other regs having troubles against him aswell. I don't think that some of the people berating me for being weak in deep pots not adjusting well etc, are being fair on me (and also not showing great comeradeship).
What I did take from this match was some valuable experience in both deep stacked and HU poker and some self-management aspects (possibly quitting him earlier, just to keep a clear mind. I feel that for me that this is especially true. I'm generally a very calm person, but I also absorb things a lot which is a) not healthy and b) will show it's side-effects, as my brain is processing these feelings additionally to the information at hand and rations between them as weird as that may sound. An example would be say you lost 3 pots and you're in a marginal spot again, the logical part will say maximize ev and the emotional will say I don't want to lose another pot. Obviously this has to be balanced with game flow dynamics (sometimes it can be correct to fold a marginally profitable hand to save momentum and push bigger edges later on).).
These are just my after-thoughts on my HU session. I took the day off today and I'll be playing a combination of party poker (100% rakeback for the next 6 days) ring games, ipoker ring games and FTP HU poker for the rest of the month. I also have a macroeconmics exam coming up at the end of the month, right before I go to vegas.
I've also decided to get a new notebook, a MacBook Pro. I'm gonna buy it in the US though, fully tuned it's a wooping 750€ (1100$) cheaper in the US than in the EU.
I think part of why he was so tough to play against was that he must have had a pretty good card distribution to where it appeared to me that he was constantly making close to nut hands when he was betting. I must admit though that he played his style pretty well and made some good laydowns to me.
I'm definetly sure of my edge against this guy and I'd take some more shots at him given the chance, but I'm not sure I'll see him again too soon. He has some exploitable lines and he adjusts slowly to your change in play, so your chipping away at the small-mid sized pots. I think he plays large pots reasonably well though.
I'm sure a seasoned HU reg would've crushed him, but I can imagine other regs having troubles against him aswell. I don't think that some of the people berating me for being weak in deep pots not adjusting well etc, are being fair on me (and also not showing great comeradeship).
What I did take from this match was some valuable experience in both deep stacked and HU poker and some self-management aspects (possibly quitting him earlier, just to keep a clear mind. I feel that for me that this is especially true. I'm generally a very calm person, but I also absorb things a lot which is a) not healthy and b) will show it's side-effects, as my brain is processing these feelings additionally to the information at hand and rations between them as weird as that may sound. An example would be say you lost 3 pots and you're in a marginal spot again, the logical part will say maximize ev and the emotional will say I don't want to lose another pot. Obviously this has to be balanced with game flow dynamics (sometimes it can be correct to fold a marginally profitable hand to save momentum and push bigger edges later on).).
These are just my after-thoughts on my HU session. I took the day off today and I'll be playing a combination of party poker (100% rakeback for the next 6 days) ring games, ipoker ring games and FTP HU poker for the rest of the month. I also have a macroeconmics exam coming up at the end of the month, right before I go to vegas.
I've also decided to get a new notebook, a MacBook Pro. I'm gonna buy it in the US though, fully tuned it's a wooping 750€ (1100$) cheaper in the US than in the EU.
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