Oh, It was this guy I played btw. Just PTR'd him, and he seems to be some random highstakes reg.

I did, but since no one has posted in that thread for about a month, I wasn't sure anyone was even reading it anymore and maybe wouldn't answer me because of it. One of those things where you read the book and get to the last page and the last page is missing. Just curious. Sucky situation to be in, I had a similar situation though I lost a LOT less money with the Jason Ho thing so I kinda feel your pain......

Meh, losing 5k vs some reg on Ipoker feels 10x worse than getting scammed out of 30k. Not sure why tho, it just does

he's played 25k hands since august 2009... hardly a reg.

yeah, he is pretty solid!!!

Hey imfromsweden
Read most of your thread!
well done mate and good luck !

impressive

Hmm, yeah. Well he's definitly not some random fish, I can only imagine he plays the majority of his volume on other sites.

i feel like you run really bad since you started with your goal, is that right?
I think you have a great level of thinking and with some run good your roll could be way bigger right now. You started with 17k? and now have lik 20k? Wow...really sucks.

IMO he should stop trying to have a social life and other activities.
He still owes the thread massive volume!

Reading some of this thread I swear was like looking in the mirror. When I first started coming up I feel like I was a lot like you. I didn't start as young (wish I had that edge), but right when I turned pro I had a similar upswing over the course of about 150k hands. I remember running @ about 8BB/100 and shooting from 100nl to 1knl in like 5 months. I had similar aspirations to you and I really felt like I could do it, but I made a number of very poor life decisions that really ruined my chances I think. I'm a bit older now so I no longer have that no fear mentality about going broke and thus just can't afford to take the kind of shots/chances that I did previously.

Mistakes I made that kept me from achieving these goals:
I cashed out about 40k of my roll to buy a car.
I vastly underestimated the long term effects of variance.
I basically lived my life assuming I was a millionaire and spent ridiculous amounts of money on ridiculous things.

I don't really see much of a possibility for myself to pretty much ever play higher than 5/10 or occasionally 10/20 anymore in the future, but maybe I can give some advice and help someone that may still have a shot.

Obviously I don't know the dynamic of a lot of the HH's you posted, but I feel like you are probably overplaying your strong made hands (i.e. not inducing enough from opponent's bluffing ranges), or if that's not the case, then you seem to try to rep like a really narrow range of strong made hands a lot more often than you can actually have them. Specifically all these turn checkraise spots. You also seem to be kind of a station... I don't play iPoker, but I wouldn't assume people are bluffing me as often as a lot of your calldowns suggest. Just some things to keep in mind.

GL.

Sell the car, stake+coach OP for 12 tabling NL600 = $$$

I think I started with like 15k I think and I'm at roughly 22k now, so up 7k. It's mostly because of my ridicilous shot-taking, I run/play so bad at 600nl

Thanks, good post. I think I played most of the HH's fine, but if there are any particular you're thinking of, please quote them

And yeah, I think I've definitly underestimated variance

I'm talking about how the hands you play fit into your overall gameplan. If I recognized these things while playing against you, I feel if I would be able to make a lot of very light call downs and end up being right pretty often because I think you are c/r the turn too frequently. If your opponents are constantly taking lines where they are floating you on the flop and trying to bluff the turn, then I take it back because c/r the turn is the correct adjustment. If I'm not being super clear and you are interested, I wouldn't mind sharing it with you. If you wanna PM me, I'll give you my contact info.

They float a ton though, so I think check/raising is OK. And if somebody adjusts, I'll just have to adjust to that

up +1.6k in EV today Unfortunally I'm just up +300$ in real money :/

Edit: I'm up +2.6k in EV now +1300$ in real money

Felt like such a relif to play HU aginst the more "normal" midstakes regs after playing the "OlympicGames" dude. Played an amazing 140 hands and booked a +1.4k win.


Biggest winning hand:


iPoker - £5 NL - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

BTN: £562.50
Hero (SB): £531.00
BB: £537.00
UTG: £473.00

Hero posts SB £2.00, BB posts BB £5.00

Pre Flop: (pot: £7.00) Hero has A A

fold, fold, Hero raises to £15.00, BB raises to £45.00, Hero raises to £105.00, BB raises to £537.00, Hero calls £426.00

Flop: (£1062.00, 2 players) Q 5 T

Turn: (£1062.00, 2 players) K

River: (£1062.00, 2 players) 7

Hero shows A A (One Pair, Aces)
BB shows A K (One Pair, Kings)
BTN wins £0.00
Hero wins £1,060.00
BB wins £0.00
UTG wins £0.00






iPoker - £5 NL - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

BTN: £589.00
Hero (SB): £1,033.00
BB: £541.00
UTG: £430.50

Hero posts SB £2.00, BB posts BB £5.00

Pre Flop: (pot: £7.00) Hero has Q 7

fold, fold, Hero raises to £15.00, BB calls £10.00

Flop: (£30.00, 2 players) 4 Q Q
Hero bets £22.50, BB calls £22.50

Turn: (£75.00, 2 players) 7
Hero bets £44.00, BB calls £44.00

River: (£163.00, 2 players) Q
Hero bets £292.00, BB calls £292.00

Hero shows Q 7 (Four of a Kind, Queens)
BB shows A 7 (Full House, Queens full of Sevens)
BTN wins £0.00
Hero wins £745.00
BB wins £0.00
UTG wins £0.00
















Biggest losing hand:


iPoker - $6 NL - Holdem - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

BB: $600.00
Hero (SB): $961.00

BB posts SB $3.00, Hero posts BB $6.00

Pre Flop: (pot: $9.00) Hero has J J

BB raises to $18.00, Hero raises to $60.00, BB raises to $150.00, Hero raises to $961.00, BB calls $450.00

Flop: ($1200.00, 2 players) 7 6 T

Turn: ($1200.00, 2 players) 5

River: ($1200.00, 2 players) T

BB shows 7 7 (Full House, Sevens full of Tens)
Hero shows J J (Two Pair, Jacks and Tens)
BB wins $1,199.00
Hero wins $0.00






iPoker - $6 NL - Holdem - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

SB: $547.00
Hero (BB): $691.00

Hero posts SB $3.00, SB posts BB $6.00

Pre Flop: (pot: $9.00) Hero has 5 6

Hero raises to $18.00, SB raises to $60.00, Hero calls $42.00

Flop: ($120.00, 2 players) 9 7 2
SB bets $70.00, Hero calls $70.00

Turn: ($260.00, 2 players) 8
SB checks, Hero checks

River: ($260.00, 2 players) T
SB checks, Hero bets $144.00, SB raises to $417.00, fold

SB wins $547.00

Keep it up dude, Im happy to see that you are going straight up!!! that's what u deserve and u even deserve more!

thoughts about the 56s please?

Seems like the c/r on river is so gear towards a weak pair turning into a bluff. How often do you really thing he turns up with a better str8 than urs? he has to know that you check back alot so i think his range is so geared towards leading out river and hoping you level yourself into calling or c/r as a bluff to make you fold basically everything but the top str8.

I think its a good spot to b/c on the river and be right a decent % of the time (if ur against a good player). I might even b/c with 2 pair/set by the river. Maybe im just a station.

Isn't it great getting action when you have AA HU? It's a cooler for AK but ohz wellz.

bumping just to tag the thread. easier to find that way

[ ] was hu

Meh, aginst some people I think we can call, but not aginst him. And besides, both me and him can have a ****load of jacks.

back in beesknees!