Thanks, we can play but lets do it next month(throw skype maybe?), I'm trying to focus my energy this month for the reg wars I already got on so don't wanna waste any unnecessary concentration than is necessary at the moment.

I try, or I will!

Been running really hot last few days EV wise, I guess I just like to get it in a bit too often now since my hands and flips are always holding. Days have been pretty much same lately, been losing @ nl2k when I've been taking reg shots occasionally but crushing nl1k. It's like twice the work, also I really feel regs at nl2k are way better than at nl1k. Most of the guys at nl2k who gives action plays all the way up to nl5k(it's site max limit) and the guys at nl1k doesn't play higher than that, or at least I haven't seen. So I guess if I was able to adjust and adapt correctly to beat the NL2k games I would do well at the higher limits as well.

Hands:

PartyGaming - $10 NL (2 max) - Holdem - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

BB: $2,313.84
Hero (SB): $3,925.75

Hero posts SB $5.00, BB posts BB $10.00

Pre Flop: ($15.00) Hero has 8 T

Hero raises to $20.00, BB raises to $80.00, Hero calls $60.00

Flop: ($160.00, 2 players) T 9 6
BB bets $132.00, Hero calls $132.00

Turn: ($424.00, 2 players) 7
BB checks, Hero checks

River: ($424.00, 2 players) 7
BB bets $212.00, Hero calls $212.00

This is a funny hand, it's such a spot where I usually bet turn but this was deep stacked, I felt that if he had a 1 card flush draw he would go for 2nd barrel too, so I need to think about his overall range and what is my hand true strength.

I've seen him pot control check-call overpair 200bb+ deep before, so I thought it's not that much in his range either, which he could obviously pot control check and hope I'd bet all my straight/2p/fd hands(which I didn't raise on flop).

One more reason for my turn check back is also because I want to pot control it, my hand is very strong at the moment but it's vulnerable too, I don't want to face a check-raise either, I don't want to fold this hand. I could assume he could play some of his flushes this way, although I would like to just bet it to secure the value from hands that might check behind, and I don't want to give a possible free card for higher 1 card flush.

Also, I don't think I would be getting value both turn & river from worse hands, I think he would just check-call turn and fold river, so in my eyes it's good for me to check turn behind and then I can bet the river and he probably can call me off with much wider range than he would call on turn. And he can bet the river himself with hands that he would not call with.




PartyGaming - $10 NL (2 max) - Holdem - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

SB: $1,000.00
Hero (BB): $2,134.38

SB posts SB $5.00, Hero posts BB $10.00

Pre Flop: ($15.00) Hero has K K

SB raises to $25.00, Hero raises to $80.00, SB raises to $1,000.00 and is all-in, Hero calls $920.00

Flop: ($2000.00, 2 players) 6 3 4

Turn: ($2000.00, 2 players) Q

River: ($2000.00, 2 players) 8

Someone please do explain me why would anyone who plays poker professionally and battle other regulars all the time 4bet ship ATo towards 8bb 3bet, or any 3 bet really.

I mean what the **** is this guy thinking? How bad can you be?

Hero shows K K (One Pair, Kings) (Pre 72%, Flop 81%, Turn 73%)
SB mucks A T (High Card, Ace) (Pre 28%, Flop 19%, Turn 27%)
Hero wins $1,999.00

Month graph so far:




Lol @ EV, Would be funny to see what the graph would look like if the coolers & EV were vice versa. Feel like I've been coolered **** ton from what I've reviewed(might be wrong of course) and everytime I've been flipping I have won.


EDIT: Wtf? It looks like the upper graph I posted has a top point of 77,500$ when the newer one has it 82,500$. What is going on?

Nice graph man! I can relate, as I was on such an upswing for the first part of the month, but then I hit a massive break even/slight downswing. Makes you question your game and whether you've just been lucky. Ridiculous things like that.

Heater is definitely in order for both of us to finish this month haha.

Wonder why i never subbed this one.

Figured it out, this was because my day was set to begin at 8am before, and I had switched it to midnight, so the newest graph is correct. +5000$ imo!


Haha, yeah hope so! It's funny it always feels the runs comes in cycle, even though we do realize that variance has no memory and everything that has happened can happen again, and if you are lucky/unlucky enough you can keep running good/bad whole your poker career. Although it's very unlikely but in theory it's possible.

Of course running good makes you feel better and play better and the other way around it's the complete opposite, so when you run bad it's just important to keep yourself motivated and keep hitting your head on the wall and hope it will turn for the better. What is important is to remember never to donate anything no matter how bad you run, but this is something I have struggled a lot in past. And that my friend, is no variance!


Appreciate that!!

Don't play casino games. You will lose long-term

i'm up in roulette lifetime

op pretty sick setting your clock back and making 5K. i gotta try that one. glgl

Long term yeah maybe, but you still can hit the jackpot and run!! I was just way too unlucky that it didn't happen on my part. It's unreal how bad one person can run. The jackpot was 1cm away from me in the fortune wheel spinning like 3 times, but it never came. You ever heard something as unlucky as that? 1 centimeter away from the 3M € jackpot, cmon!!! NOT HAPPENING!

Definitely feels better than the other way around!

Morning,

Starting to feel a bit burnout, been grinding more this month than ever before. Been handling my mind really good and haven't done anything stupid. Although I still feel my game is a bit lost but that's ok, it happens, that's variance. I'll get back to where I used to be, in time.

What I'm going to do about this I'm going to take it more easy the next 2 weeks. I've booked a flight to England, Bournemouth, a place where I used to live for a half year before. It was really such a place where I enjoyed living a lot and it will help me relaxing. Love to get back there to see my old buddies and just to feel the city once again. There's nothing better to your mind than being somewhere where you can be completely stressless and Bournemouth is that to me.

The beach restaurant/clubs are fantastic, and the sound of waves makes you feel alive and happy. Seems like the weather is getting better in there also and probably once I'm back spring has come to Finland and I can see the blue lake from my apartment. Sounds good on paper!!

Hopefully this trip will help me get to where I was at the beginning of February/March mindset wise, because as of right now I couldn't imagine that feeling. I've tried talking and motivating myself but it's not working. When you are tired you are tired and more work is not going to help you getting fresh.

I think what would be optimal is to grind a lot for 2-3 weeks period and then go somewhere for a 5-7 days period, it can be a full vacation or a mixture of grind and holiday. Already just going somewhere in general helps you forget things and feel better compared to you not going anywhere and staying home hitting your head on wall hoping everything will turn around automatically.

Next month I'm going to try a new strategy @ NL2000 what I hope to be good. I'm really confident with my 20-100bb game and I feel like there are still lot of regs that are not very good playing shortstacked poker and feel uncomfortable, also when you run your stack higher they start feeling a bit tilted and don't play the way they normally play. You can imagine yourself seeing a guy constantly making runs from 20bb to higher stack and it doesn't feel good. When there are lot of wars going on it's important to find the best strategy to frustrate your opponent and if you can find any more edge(since I think the marginals are small) you should do so.

NL1000 I still will be playing 100bb poker because I think it's important to keep my full stack game in shape, because there still will be lot of full stacking and deep poker going after my deep runs.

One more thing I'm going to do is to mark all my reg sessions from both NL1000 and NL2000 and see how I have done by the end of the month. It's something I should have been doing already for a long time but haven't done it for some reason. This way I will see if I'm a losing or a winning player versus them, since there are still lot of fish to play against and the results are mixed right now. I think 1 month result wont show any significant meaning because of the variance, but already from 2-4 months I think we will start seeing a better picture of things.

I'll come with graph the next time I post, probably 28.3 when I'm leaving to England. As of right now, it's around the same as last time I posted, just more hands.

hey man yeah bournemouth clubs are pretty good, ive been to klute a few times and the park and beach are nice when the sun is shinning! have you been to the aquarium there?

Yeah weather in England has been insane the last 2 1/2 weeks. Sunny and hot all the time.

Inspiring read, sir. glgl

Yeh we went to klute also, lot of girls! We also been to V and it was the other way around and super expensive, then we went to barca but it was quite empty but seemed like a nice place if it would be crowded, gala casino I love a lot, it's the perfect hang around place and food is amazing as well. Also been to rileys it's a pool club and it's nice, lloyds number 1 bar after that and that was fine, more like a hangaround but I actually prefer the casino more.

Haven't been to aquarium yet, looked at it the other day when I went to aruba and probably will go there one day. The view from Aruba is absolutely stunning, really the perfect place!




Yeah, seems like it's getting bit worse now though, but it was good to have amazing conditions for couple days, it's still good as long as it's not raining too much. In Finland it's right now around -10C so I really can't complain, +12C cloud/sunny fits me perfectly! Bournemouth just feels like "home" to me, it's quiet and peaceful but the same time you can do all the stuff you want.

Thanks!

Bournemouth been nice, really got my mind out of poker. Always when we go on a holiday we have this thing that we try to drink as many days in a row as we can and then we cool down and get settled. Today is going to be the 4th day so I think we can't do it for too many days more. The goals for today is to return home 6am but will see what happens.

Still feel a bit burnout but once the days go by I'm starting to feel better each day. Haven't play now for 6 days, I think once the drinking is over I'm ready to open pokers again and all will be good, just need few days more to relax first I guess. This was the best possible moment to have some break, I was 100% burnt.

Month graph:



I think I have done all the analyzing before so just gonna leave it at that. All I hope for next month is to get it more easy. Think I will try to play a bit less regs and bumhunt more, sometimes it's nice to get it easy. But will see what happens, I still feel a bit addicted with the regs though, don't know if that's a good signal or not. It's just so much work!!

Hey wassup, was thinking about my last month 100,000$ prob. bet, have to say I'm really glad none got the bait, guess I got a bit over my head and the odds were probably better for the bettors than me, of course all this is just aftermath. Won't do the same bet again, at least not with those odds.

Had some good pranks for the april day but it's already turned into 2nd so I think that would be inappropriate to post now, maybe next year!!

Ok, lets move on...

One of the guys got sick so we decided to have a day at home grinding. Didn't feel that good last time I posted but now I'm feeling alright to start playing again. Played couple sunday torneys today and some cash. So my break is officially over, lol.

Looks like every time I start a new month I hit upswing. Once again for starters I had a good day and it's funny to see if it continues like this. If I'm up like I was last month after like 10th day I should probably have the rest month off. Just kidding obv., I'm way too addict for that!

Think I'm going to try to beat my not-looking-monthly graph 18 days record this month, I'll crown myself with a nice double chocolate cookie from subway if I succeed in this attempt, if I fail like I probably will I will punish my mental spirit and physical body by doing 100 push ups.

1st of april:

Just a short update, don't have much time to write, got to horry up and eat. Gonna grab some drinks afterwards, so done for the day now.

Interesting day but was able to recover well, played NL2k mostly. Feeling pretty satisfied right now.

Lol funny day, was waiting a lot and decided to take the day more easy, got 0 fishes. Then I thought I could do some of the 20bb -> run it high poker and had my "best friend" sitting at nl2k and I joined him. Was able to run my stack from 400 to 5200 before leaving, that felt good.

Some hands:

PartyGaming - $20 NL (2 max) - Holdem - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

Hero (BB): $1,295.00
SB: $2,000.00

SB posts SB $10.00, Hero posts BB $20.00

Pre Flop: ($30.00) Hero has J K

SB raises to $40.00, Hero raises to $100.00, SB calls $60.00

Flop: ($200.00, 2 players) 6 Q 7
Hero bets $99.50, SB calls $99.50

Turn: ($399.00, 2 players) 9
Hero checks, SB bets $240.00, Hero raises to $1,095.50 and is all-in, fold

Thought about all the opinions on turn between betting, check folding and check raising.

I could just bet it and hope he would fold a six or seven but also I'm afraid he might ship a draw to me, and if I get called on turn I will end up in a very bad river spot where I probably would need to fire again so I decided to forfeit cbetting.

Then I thought about check raising, and I would assume he might check his 6 and 7 behind, and even if he did bet those hands he would have hard time calling my ship. He will bet most of his draws and can't call the ship since my stack size is perfect, also I have some equity improving river if I'm behind. I have history with this villain and I know he likes to raise top pairs so I think around 50%+ times he would raise Q on this flop.

Felt good so I check-shipped, still not sure if its too thin or not, would need to do more calculations from his range but I'm too tired for it atm. But I guess it can't be that bad?




PartyGaming - $20 NL (2 max) - Holdem - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

Hero (BB): $3,135.63
SB: $2,393.37

SB posts SB $10.00, Hero posts BB $20.00

Pre Flop: ($30.00) Hero has 9 K

SB raises to $40.00, Hero calls $20.00

Flop: ($80.00, 2 players) 8 5 9
Hero checks, SB bets $60.00, Hero calls $60.00

Turn: ($200.00, 2 players) T
Hero checks, SB bets $160.00, Hero calls $160.00

River: ($520.00, 2 players) T
Hero checks, SB bets $400.00, Hero calls $400.00

Still until this very day I keep getting confused with these hands. It feels I don't beat any hand that is betting the river, because it looks like a terrible spot to bluff, but every time I bluff this river in villains position I keep getting called from hands like K9, also the K9 is like the top part of my range so it really would feel too weak to fold.

But I do think they have often straight/ten/overpair here when they fire third barrel, usually they just give up on these rivers if they don't have much. I definitely don't beat his value range here. But this guy is crazy he might do anything.

But in the same time my hand might look like 8 or 5 or 9/draw with pair for villain and this guy is aggressive, and I will have hard time calling with any of those. It's probably a hand who is just leveling more? I just looked at his river barreling and that was 50% after his turn barrel 70% so figured I have to call even when it seems bad. I have like 1/3.5 odds to call but is that enough?

A hand that looks so simple in one way or another but still can put some thoughts in.


Day:

hey man glad you enjoyed bournemouth and the nice weatehr we had! good start to the month so far, keep it up!

Nice thread

Yeah the weather has been super good even until this day for UK standard. It literally has not rain, not even one drop for the time I've been here. I'm still going to be here for a while and leaving on the 12th just before the 13th friday. Don't want my plane to crash.

Thanks.

Go man, love aruba.

Just about to go there I think!

Done for the day, played probs around 3hrs and now I'm going to have the rest day off and enjoy my holiday. What is funny I had an aggrotard at stars today and had a solid swing again. Just keeps happening to me every day huh?


PokerStars - $20 NL (2 max) - Holdem - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

Hero (SB): $5,879.40
BB: $3,426.76

Hero posts SB $10.00, BB posts BB $20.00

Pre Flop: ($30.00) Hero has J 9

Hero raises to $40.00, BB raises to $140.00, Hero calls $100.00

Flop: ($280.00, 2 players) 9 3 2
BB bets $180.00, Hero raises to $371.85, BB raises to $3,286.76 and is all-in, Hero calls $2,914.91

Turn: ($6853.52, 2 players) T

River: ($6853.52, 2 players) Q

It's a sick spot, should not have raised to get myself here.

He was an -11ptbb/100 fish and super aggro in general and felt bit tilty at the time, he had 3bet 50% for the whole session and cbet around 80%, but I still have just top pair with weak kicker, think the best shape I can be him is having a draw and then he has 50%, and vs overpairs I'm fked.

It's still very deep to call and I think I could find a fold here, but his imago kinda owned me. It was the first time he raised back on flop as well when I raised his cbet in 3bet pot.



Kinda lolle'd when I saw his hand and the outcome.

Then what happeneed was my account almost being busto(had to ask friends for loan) and him having 6k, pokerstars decided to disconnect for all players. Nice, huh?

Day:

After we went to hang out yesterday we decided to go casino, well all the hell obviously break lose and I was playing my "can't lose in roulette strategy" and end up busting my wallet, was something like 1000£ so really not anything biggie. But the feeling was the exactly same as end of last year when I got addicted and lost it all. SICK FEELING.

After I got home I heard from my friend that he took my older car to washing because we found a buyer for it. The gas station washer obviously stabbed him in the back and the car got scratches all over that can't be easily repaired. And the station obviously denied everything so I think it's going to be a big struggle now with them. Already filed a criminal report from them.

There were also some scratches on other places but here is a pic from one spot.



All this sucks a lot since it was the first time someone genuinely wanted to buy the bemmie since october when I started selling it.

Pretty annoying day, didn't really get anything going on. Played this 20bb+ poker and there's not really much to say for upcoming generations. Started to feel a bit furious in the end so I decided it's good to call a quit.



Well beside all that, we need to stay positive and now it's time to go to town center and celebrate eastern!

can you post the yearly graph?

this is sick.

Yeah I'll do it end of this month, then we have the first 1/3 behind (although I only played for 3 months after that).

Woah, awesome thread and great read.
gl man, be strong and keep grinding.

Thanks!

We thought with the guys that we don't feel like partying anymore and started to get the feeling to grind even more, and for me my laptop is lagging quite bit and it's tilting the hell out of me. Also they thought it's probably best for all us to go home since home is definitely the best place to grind. That said, we booked flights back to Finland for tonight and we are leaving with a coach 3.30am.

Still enjoyed Bournemouth alot and definitely will be back next year. It's been pretty much my tradition to visit bournemouth once a year around march-april since I moved out of here few years back.

Had pretty rough day but was able to turn things around. Found a nice nit reg who is a bad shorthanded player to be sat at the HU tables and he gave me shortstack action and eventually reloaded full stack, that was pretty much win-win, it felt like there was no variance since his nonshowdowns was sinking sick amount. But of course there is variance and could have been the other way around, just everytime I played him I completely raped him and got my confidence back for pokers again.

Before him I was super tilted and frustrated since last few days have been really a struggle, started losing almost every day and it's just been fighting to get my money back. This stuff effects you alot when it keeps repeating but gladly I think I have kept my game solid(compared to what it has been lately) even though I haven't been able to handle with my feelings the proper way.

When I'm looking at my game now I have to admit it's not there where it used to be before my big casino drop. I used to have much more confidence and the reads were much more accurate versus both fish and regs. I had a tough period in past when I struggled 9 months nearly breakeven(winning 120k) but still my game is much better now than it was back then.

I'm thinking the biggest difference is I don't do so many ******ed and fancy plays as I used to do so I don't think my current period is comparable. I just hope I can find the right path and get back on track, having had couple months off poker really effected me more than I thought it would. Before that I was rocking more than ever before.

Think what I should do now is to go through some questionable hands and post here once the days go by. I'm sure I will find plenty when I just get some more volume in, although I'm trying to take it more easy this month in general and focus more on playing well and not tilting.

Day:



Feeling really tired right now but got to stay awake and get prepared for the travel. I hope I can get some good sleep on the coach and plane, sucks that I need to stay awake around 30-35hours and the travel will be total 12hours so I assume if I'm dead tired now I'll be same as dead when I get home.

GL everyone!