Yeah not for me. I may laugh about it in the future but not for now... lol


Anyway i continue to smash the $20.80 DoNs...
I'm thinking to myself should i trust in my own ability and continue?.. or drop down to the $5.40's and grind away??? hmmmm
I know what i must do BUT at the same time i'm thinking to myself; I didnt see any BIG pockets in any of these DoNs and never got to double up, i just out played these guys and a couple i went out in 6th with the best hand..
I remeber what happend last time i though i had the game crushed so i will rethink it in the morning i guess. Hopefully i wake up to some good comments even helpfull suggestions

BR $223.21

Well i hear the DoNs are soon going to die. So for a bit of fun i played a couple of $2.20 180's
OMG what a donkfest! Shove after shove with crap and call after call & reraise. All this pre flop action with crap.
It really is bingo!!!
God pokerstars get rid of the 180 SNG's not the DoNs! You see real poker in the DoNs the 180's really are bingo. How anyone can crush this game must be a miricle!
A3 off shove, A8 off call, 44 reraise, When am i going with KK all in, 92d all in.
Runner runner dirty flush. 92d take the lot. This game sickens me.

DoNs are getting the flick cause there was so much collusion. You should be stoked, given your poker talent the only way you'd lose is via cheating and getting unlucky.

Collusion my *ss. Just because pokerstars says it does not make it so. So now in the new fifty50 format the colluders pwning the tbles will make even higher proffits. Thats ok because stars makes higher proffits also.

DoNs are a special game and aint as easy to beat as people think. Play 10 of em now and see how you do.

I'm not sure where i should be risking my $$$ now. I'm in a limbo state..

I'm thinking higher stakes MTT SNG's but i dont want to risk it to learn a lesson. I guess i'm left with cash. This is not fun

Poker Stars $2.00+$0.20 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t300/t600 Blinds + t50 - 7 players
The Official 2+2 Hand Converter By DeucesCracked Poker Videos

CO: t23006 M = 18.40
BTN: t5145 M = 4.12
SB: t6105 M = 4.88
BB: t7034 M = 5.63
UTG: t12878 M = 10.30
UTG+1: t10567 M = 8.45
Hero (MP): t6075 M = 4.86

Pre Flop: (t1250) Hero is MP with J J
1 fold, UTG+1 raises to t1800, Hero calls t1800, 3 folds, BB calls t1200

Flop: (t6050) Q J A (3 players)
BB bets t5184 all in, UTG+1 raises to t8717 all in, Hero calls t4225 all in

Turn: (t20643) 3 (3 players - 3 are all in)

River: (t20643) A (3 players - 3 are all in)

Sick! I should have just thrown my $2.20 in a river and saved myself 45 mins..

So with the demise of the DoNs i have been playing uNL for a couple of days. Not making a lot of $$$$.

So far its been: Join a table, get a monster, get smashed and work y way back up to end the sesh in the green.

7 sessions, 6 in the green 1 in the red for a total proffit of $30.10

The BR is at $256.59

I never thought i would like cash but im getting right into uNL. I'm at about 1300 hands so gimmi a week and i will get some stats up.

Note to self: Seems i play my best poker after 36 hours with no sleep. In the zone!!
Extra note: Use table scanner. fish are morons.
Extra extra note: Forget DoNs, cash is awesome..

uNL is where its at. Its like taking candy from babys.

BR $325.26

Well its been 2 weeks since i started this challenge and i have doubled the bank roll.

Mostly playing uNL..

The graph doesnt include other types of games its just my uNL stats. Imagine if i just played uNL the whole time and didnt have to make an adjustment from DoNs...

I played 16 sessions, loosing $$ in only 3. 13 were proffit. 33.12 hours @ $5.33 per hour.

Its been a while... With a tribe as big as mine it doesnt leave much time for poker. So i cashed out, but i'm back! Life has settled a bit and i can get back into the grind.
Cashed in some FPP's and started this month with $70. I havnt played many hands but i just reached a personal goal which was the $100 mark. I thought i would record it here to keep track of things.

So now its $100 and a poker dream

I'm just gona keep hitting 10NL hard and hopefully soon i will be up to $400 again.

gl man, you better not cash out again till u have a decent roll imo..

not a pioneer. the same strategy is used for roulette or any even pay game. you double your bet each lost then when you win you get your intial profits and make up the losses.
down side is a 20 game streak you will never recover from.

Thanks mate, whatever happens the $$$ is staying in until i make a gazillion lol

Yeah i have used it at roulette tables. The theory is sound if you have unlimited money. Thats why roulette have limmits lol. I try to get a bit more value from the tbl limmit by betting 1st & 2nd 12... 66% ish.

OMG what a day. Cooler after cooler...
I used to think uNL was ok for some easy $$$ but now i hate it!
What sort of a monkey 4bets my aces pre with 83s then shoves a nothing doing flop to make runner runner backdoor flush?
I have real trouble putting these guys on any hands because they really do play any two. No respect for raises in fact no respect for $$$. Its like they just want to just give their money to me... I'm happy to take it but these idiots are killing my mind with 1 n 2 outas on the river. All sorts of crazy plays. I dont even want to review some of these hands because they make me so sick!
So i do the smart (or dumb,depends on ur perspective) thing! I take what little i have left and decide to move up to 50NL where the players are a little better.
It works well for a while but even there wankers exist. Dude when i'm raising you pre with my AKc and the flop comes Tc Jc Qs your 99 is no fkn good! Fold dont shove you dumb wanker. Turn Q River 9 wtff!!!!
So fkng sick... Anyway my plan to play with "better" players worked well and i'm up for the day. Sooooo many times i was sure i was going busto.
I just cant deal with this uNL swingy ****. I need to find a way to increase my BR so i can play at least 50NL without having to do it in uNL.
I'm glad to be able to "vent" here. I just wont to go to sleep now and forget today ever happened

Who am i kidding, its 3am and i cant sleep. All i can think about is poker. I know im not going to play anymore tonight but i cant stop thinking about it.

How am i going to beat uNL? Even at 25 they just have no concept of position. Bet sizes mean nothing to them. There mostly just forked. All the tables are mixed with people who have no idea, some have a clue, some are ok and some are good.

I'm having touble isolating players, hell i'm just having trouble with everything!

It all comes much much easier to me at 50NL.

I dunno what to do. All i can think of is playing more tables and only playing premium hands trying to get these guys to stack off light.

That goes against everything i know and believe in. I know i'm just going to bust out in uNL. I have no choice but to play 50NL with my small BR and risk it.

Holy cow i played close to 2k hands today. Is that a lot for two tabling?

The plan for tomorrow is to move down from 10NL and play more tables while i come up with a more solid plan.

I'm just going to tell you what everyone in looking at this thread is thinking. You don't yet understand online poker.

You have to play near hundreds of thousands of hands online (at each stake) to be able to tell if you are a winning player. There is lots of variance in online poker, even for the best players. You can't freak out at a few bad beats in a row. Online grinders can see downswings that last MONTHS, even though they may be winning players putting in serious volume, playing 18+ tables at a time. Take a step back and do some reading in these forums. Online poker is very different than pub games. You have a lot to learn.

But don't get me wrong -- I wish you the best and gazillions and all that.

Grabbed by Holdem Manager
NL Holdem $0.50(BB) Replayer
SB ($50)
BB ($106)
UTG ($50)
JJSyd ($19.25)
Hero ($116)

Dealt to Hero

fold, JJSyd raises to $1.50, Hero calls $1.50, SB raises to $6.50, BB calls $6, JJSyd calls $5, fold

FLOP ($21) 2 6 7

SB checks, BB bets $13, JJSyd calls $12.75 (AI), SB folds

TURN ($46.50) 2 6 7 Q

RIVER ($46.50) 2 6 7 Q T

JJSyd shows 6 6
(Pre 19%, Flop 91.1%, Turn 95.5%)

BB shows K K
(Pre 81%, Flop 8.9%, Turn 4.5%)

JJSyd wins $44.50

LOL at investing 1/3 stack to setmine

You just answered your own question...

Thanks man, i have a lot to learn and have to get a handle on the tilt fast.


I was tilting hard and just brought my last 40 over from uNL. I had decided before even joining the tbl i was going to shove with any pockets and double up or go bust.

You snap called my open, what did you have? And then the BB flats the SB 3bet. Right there i knew i was fcked by an over pair but i didnt want to let it go or shove. I was sure you would also call and it would be a monster pot.
I did get very lucky & that was the hand that turned everything around and got me back on track.

What did you think of my play after that hand???


Yeah i just freaked out after a long loosing session. I'm going to move down and play tighter.

martingale

Thats why i move UP in stakes rather than DOWN when i'm loosing. I know its a bad idea but i do it anyway. Honestly i will prolly do it even more when i have a larger BR to support this type of play. I realllly hate doing it when i'm at risk of going bust but do it anyway.

So i decided just to chill out and soldier on. I tweaked my usual game plan of trying to outplay everyone and now i'm 4 tabling keeping it tight and in pos.

I guess i just have a superiority complex and feel i'm too good for uNL. Have realised maybe i'm not that good and also that sometimes monkeys get hand too.

I have come up with a statergy for tilt. And that is to turn the computer off at the wall and get outside for a while before i have a chance to stew and make errors.

So i played a 2 hour sesh today 4 tabling and while not much happend for a long time it finnished well and i decided to stop and end the session in front. Maybe i should keep pushing on when things are going well?

Looks like you've matured alot in a small amount of time. Keep up the good work.

Thanks Donk.

So things are going really well, then i have some bad beats in a row and i can feel the blood preasure rising. I quickly turn the computer off at the wall while in the middle of hands and walk away.

I come back a few hours later and it continues. Why Why Why! Why are these morons calling bad prices allthe way to the river to make 3outas. WTF is wrong with them. And why am i paying the price for their mistakes?

So i got to 25NL and i'm ready to pwn some donkey. I'm at one tbl and it goes around a few times and i can see this one idiot just making dumb move after dumb move and filling back up his cash.

He is my target...






Now as you can imagine i'm on super monkey mega tilt rage! I'm like the hulk! Not the same person. It last for 15 mins but the damage is done and i turn the comp off at the wall with $53 to spare...

So i got to a live trny. It plays once a mnth and last mnth i made the final tbl and i convinved everyone to do a 6 way split for $700ea.

I battle these couple hundred monkeys for hours and i'm at the final tbl again!

Blinds 1 200k and we draw cards. I'm BB first up. 1st hand get A4 off and all i can think about was this hand that happend earlier today. Raise & a shove in front so i fold my BB. I'm Thinking ICM here. It goes all the way round and i'm UTG with KJs so i shove my last 200k before im blinded out and its starts a *****nami of limpers.
The pot is 1+ mil Flop 7h 5c 2h the idiot to my left shoves and they all fold. I turn over my KJs and i'm happy to see Jh Td...
I'm thinking wooohooo this dude has 3 outs i'm gona get paid tonight baby!!!

Turn x hearts... I hear someone say "hearts" i dun even know what the turn card was my eyes are just glued to the dealers hands! River 8h

WTFFFFFF!

Leave with $54, buyin $42... The poker gods hate me!

Poker is fair, you suck out with 66 yesterday vs KK and today just happens to go the other way for you.