From the absolute micros to the TOP
10-01-2012
, 10:47 AM
Hey everybody, this is my second update I am hoping to post about 5 more or so of these updates for today (if i don't then well it happens) Im basically trying to finish as much as I can everyday while soaking in every valuable information out there. And it takes about an hour or 2 per homework depending on how hard it is some may even take longer, Anyways long enough rant this specific homework is just simply talking about "MINraising the button" Now, theres two specific parts to this homework, the second one may take a while, so decided to just post this half and may post the second half later of folding my bottom 30% of my range to a three bet. So heres my first 20 hands of me Minraising and the reason why for the majority will be simple, its to take down the dead money out there, and its great because if you get away with the minraise more then 50% of the time its instantly profitable in the button. So again would love to take the shortcut but really trying to also train my mind into stop taking shortcuts and just say hands. So heres my list of 20 hands of me Minraising and WHY.
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Heres hand 1, I pick up a standard hand 75s, either way whether I decide to 3x it or minraise it, I will play this hand regardless on the button just because of its playability and its in the top 70% of the range so it will play very great postflop, now I hit an interesting spot wehre the flop comes K4Ass with 2 spades so i flopped a flushdraw, I cbet and he minraises, right away his hand range is A10-A2 KQ-K2, I don't think hes ever bluffing and decide to just chase my draw the whole way, when the turn comes a 10 and the river Q, I put him on A7-A9 and I believed that I wouldn't ever get him to fold that so I decided to check behind my missed flushdraw and count it as a lost.
Hand1:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469579
A3s, I think its standard to raise whether its 3x or 2x every single time, and the same reason is to get the opponent to fold and make them lose there equity.
Hand2:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469581
97o, I also would raise this almost anytime, but it gets interesting when he three bets so small, my 2 BB to 5 BB. And I decide to defend, I actually dont know what I would fold to a 5 BB raise its probably like any thing with a "2 or a 3" if its not suited. excluding a2. If he were to raise to 4BB i think i would defend any two.
Hand3:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469582
AKo, its pretty much the nuts preflop.
Hand4: http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469583
KQs, one of the top hands easy to play on the flop etc.
Hand5:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469584
Q4, not so great of a hand and is borderline but I actually wouldnt minraise this everytime if the opponent is extremely aggressive, and is just so bad to play postflop would fold to almost any three bet.
Hand6: http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469585
Q2s, I will defend with 100% of my suited hands unless given a reason not to.
Hand7:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469587
QJo, No reason to fold one of your better hands to almost anything
Hand8:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469588
A9o, this one gets interesting because when I minraise he minreraises me, hes been doing this almost everytime so i decided to 4 bet for value because im in position and just because hes full of it almost every single time, and I think hes doing this just to rob initiative from me.
Hand9:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469589
QJs,not folding anything suited
Hand10:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469590
K3o, One of the worse side of the hands, but still definently minraising it it gets close when he minreraises me but don't think I can fold anything when he raises my 2 BB to 4BB. I think if he were to raise 5 BB I would fold it.
Hand11:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469591
A7, one of the better aces and is a mandatory raise imo every time in the button.
Hand12:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469593
K3o, this one is k3 again, but this time I flop trips with 2 clubs out there and he c/r's me I was thinking about reraising because I don't think hes ever bluffing in that spot, but decide to just call because I have no reason to believe not to. But even though I turned a full house on the turn the K I just thought it was such an action killer because it was a CLUB and its a High Card, and dont think he'd really call anything except the close to nutted range. Not entirely sure, but he happened to flip trips over and I think he played it really passively and should lead out OTT and the River. Now if he were to lead on the Turn I was wondering if I should Jam or should i Call and and see the River because I think the 4th club will be an action killer. Not entirely sure probably just thinking too much into it.
Hand13:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469594
K8s, Im never folding a suited hand preflop
Hand14:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469596
52o, Will pretty much fold this to any aggressive opponents preflop, and will play extremely straightforward on the flop just pretty much the worst hand
Hand15:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469596
K5s, im never folding a suited hand preflop, but on the flop when it comes AK10 I cbet, with two hearts but when the turn is a 10 I decide to bet again to charge a flush draw? But deciding whether checking is better or betting is because its so close and I don't think he'd ever bluff the river. But i decided that betting with a pair> checking with a pair.
Hand16:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469598
92s, one of the worst suited hands, but I would much rather have this hand instead of J2o or J3o etc. just because theres a chance I can flop a flush draw and playability is almost the same as those hands.
Hand17:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469599
86o, this hand is the borderline hand when deciding to minraise or not and I think I would stop the fineline at around 65o to aggressive 3 bettors. Would have to work around with it and decide accordingly.
Hand18:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469600
Q6o, not such a great hand in terms of playing postflop but its above the 70% of the range and you should be raising very wide in the button or else you will be losing money.
Hand19:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469602
Q8s, a great hand can flop straights/flushes etc never folding it preflop unless the person is 3 betting so infrequently.
Hand20:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469603
******My THOUGHTS to HOPEFULLY get people to soon start following!!******
I hope to get people in the 2+2 forums to eventually start responding and hopefully it will be much more interesting to follow
for now it will probably be "OMG long wall of text, microstakes player BORING" never look at this thread again. But when I move up and will start doing much more interesting things I hope to change that until then it will just me doing the work I have to do, and sticking to one tabling and building the fundamentals.
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Heres hand 1, I pick up a standard hand 75s, either way whether I decide to 3x it or minraise it, I will play this hand regardless on the button just because of its playability and its in the top 70% of the range so it will play very great postflop, now I hit an interesting spot wehre the flop comes K4Ass with 2 spades so i flopped a flushdraw, I cbet and he minraises, right away his hand range is A10-A2 KQ-K2, I don't think hes ever bluffing and decide to just chase my draw the whole way, when the turn comes a 10 and the river Q, I put him on A7-A9 and I believed that I wouldn't ever get him to fold that so I decided to check behind my missed flushdraw and count it as a lost.
Hand1:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469579
A3s, I think its standard to raise whether its 3x or 2x every single time, and the same reason is to get the opponent to fold and make them lose there equity.
Hand2:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469581
97o, I also would raise this almost anytime, but it gets interesting when he three bets so small, my 2 BB to 5 BB. And I decide to defend, I actually dont know what I would fold to a 5 BB raise its probably like any thing with a "2 or a 3" if its not suited. excluding a2. If he were to raise to 4BB i think i would defend any two.
Hand3:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469582
AKo, its pretty much the nuts preflop.
Hand4: http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469583
KQs, one of the top hands easy to play on the flop etc.
Hand5:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469584
Q4, not so great of a hand and is borderline but I actually wouldnt minraise this everytime if the opponent is extremely aggressive, and is just so bad to play postflop would fold to almost any three bet.
Hand6: http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469585
Q2s, I will defend with 100% of my suited hands unless given a reason not to.
Hand7:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469587
QJo, No reason to fold one of your better hands to almost anything
Hand8:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469588
A9o, this one gets interesting because when I minraise he minreraises me, hes been doing this almost everytime so i decided to 4 bet for value because im in position and just because hes full of it almost every single time, and I think hes doing this just to rob initiative from me.
Hand9:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469589
QJs,not folding anything suited
Hand10:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469590
K3o, One of the worse side of the hands, but still definently minraising it it gets close when he minreraises me but don't think I can fold anything when he raises my 2 BB to 4BB. I think if he were to raise 5 BB I would fold it.
Hand11:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469591
A7, one of the better aces and is a mandatory raise imo every time in the button.
Hand12:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469593
K3o, this one is k3 again, but this time I flop trips with 2 clubs out there and he c/r's me I was thinking about reraising because I don't think hes ever bluffing in that spot, but decide to just call because I have no reason to believe not to. But even though I turned a full house on the turn the K I just thought it was such an action killer because it was a CLUB and its a High Card, and dont think he'd really call anything except the close to nutted range. Not entirely sure, but he happened to flip trips over and I think he played it really passively and should lead out OTT and the River. Now if he were to lead on the Turn I was wondering if I should Jam or should i Call and and see the River because I think the 4th club will be an action killer. Not entirely sure probably just thinking too much into it.
Hand13:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469594
K8s, Im never folding a suited hand preflop
Hand14:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469596
52o, Will pretty much fold this to any aggressive opponents preflop, and will play extremely straightforward on the flop just pretty much the worst hand
Hand15:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469596
K5s, im never folding a suited hand preflop, but on the flop when it comes AK10 I cbet, with two hearts but when the turn is a 10 I decide to bet again to charge a flush draw? But deciding whether checking is better or betting is because its so close and I don't think he'd ever bluff the river. But i decided that betting with a pair> checking with a pair.
Hand16:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469598
92s, one of the worst suited hands, but I would much rather have this hand instead of J2o or J3o etc. just because theres a chance I can flop a flush draw and playability is almost the same as those hands.
Hand17:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469599
86o, this hand is the borderline hand when deciding to minraise or not and I think I would stop the fineline at around 65o to aggressive 3 bettors. Would have to work around with it and decide accordingly.
Hand18:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469600
Q6o, not such a great hand in terms of playing postflop but its above the 70% of the range and you should be raising very wide in the button or else you will be losing money.
Hand19:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469602
Q8s, a great hand can flop straights/flushes etc never folding it preflop unless the person is 3 betting so infrequently.
Hand20:http://www.pokerhand.org/?6469603
******My THOUGHTS to HOPEFULLY get people to soon start following!!******
I hope to get people in the 2+2 forums to eventually start responding and hopefully it will be much more interesting to follow
for now it will probably be "OMG long wall of text, microstakes player BORING" never look at this thread again. But when I move up and will start doing much more interesting things I hope to change that until then it will just me doing the work I have to do, and sticking to one tabling and building the fundamentals.
10-04-2012
, 10:58 AM
Thoughts About HU mastermind:
Just finished with about everything from the HU mastermind course. I'd like to say that I learned a lot from this course, and of course will keep working with it over and over again until it gets perfected. Its been real great and would recommend it for HU newbies and people who play up to 4NL-400NL for the people in the higher stakes im sure it won't be as effective because you already know majority of the fundamentals but if you learn just one or two new things that would make the purchase +EV even if everything else in the video was irrelevant for you, and IMO i think its worth trying to purchase it because its 1 or 2 buy ins for the higher stakes people. Eitherway i believe he offers a 100% satisfaction guarantee so if its not what you were looking then return it! It runs through tons of the scenarios in a basic approach, and applying the homework reminds you about every single tool available, now obviously after this point its where you start fine tuning the tools you've learned is when the money will start being made. Anyways HU mastermind GREAT video by Gordon Gekko, and soon I know the investment I've made in it will pay off .
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Poker Related:
Its been real fun working through the course, and im just about done and will just rewatch it from time to time and now its time to start making the $$
going to be grinding a lot and If I run through tough spots I will post it here I hope it starts getting real interesting and get people following .
I Guess I will just be posting How I'm doing from month to month or something with occasional hand histories since I can't post graphs (
WISH ME LUCK GUYS!
& GOOD LUCK TO THE GUYS WHO WISHED ME LUCK!
and for the people who didn't I hope you do awful LOL just kidding.
GL ALL.
Just finished with about everything from the HU mastermind course. I'd like to say that I learned a lot from this course, and of course will keep working with it over and over again until it gets perfected. Its been real great and would recommend it for HU newbies and people who play up to 4NL-400NL for the people in the higher stakes im sure it won't be as effective because you already know majority of the fundamentals but if you learn just one or two new things that would make the purchase +EV even if everything else in the video was irrelevant for you, and IMO i think its worth trying to purchase it because its 1 or 2 buy ins for the higher stakes people. Eitherway i believe he offers a 100% satisfaction guarantee so if its not what you were looking then return it! It runs through tons of the scenarios in a basic approach, and applying the homework reminds you about every single tool available, now obviously after this point its where you start fine tuning the tools you've learned is when the money will start being made. Anyways HU mastermind GREAT video by Gordon Gekko, and soon I know the investment I've made in it will pay off .
--------------------------------------------------------------
Poker Related:
Its been real fun working through the course, and im just about done and will just rewatch it from time to time and now its time to start making the $$
going to be grinding a lot and If I run through tough spots I will post it here I hope it starts getting real interesting and get people following .I Guess I will just be posting How I'm doing from month to month or something with occasional hand histories since I can't post graphs (
WISH ME LUCK GUYS!
& GOOD LUCK TO THE GUYS WHO WISHED ME LUCK!
and for the people who didn't I hope you do awful LOL just kidding.
GL ALL.
10-12-2012
, 02:11 PM
10-12-2012
, 02:14 PM
10-13-2012
, 05:20 AM
10-13-2012
, 12:44 PM
Talked about the BR management today its not too precise and will vary depending on how well I do in every stakes. I wanted to aggressively move up, but will be taking a different route and probably a much better alternative and will make me feel better tilt less and be less attached the money so this is prob what its gonna turn into
100NL- $4000+
200NL- $10000+
400NL- $25000+
600NL- $60000+
1KNL- $100000+
2KNL/Table Selected 5KNL- $250000+
***MY INTENTIONS AND MY POKER STORY***
In regards to poker I dont think ima ever plan to play higher then 5K NL to be honest, and I don't plan on playing 5KNL unless i game select HARD, the games are pretty much dead above 2KNL for the most part in my opinion unless i want to keep playing the greatest players HU, which to be honest I don't want to do nor do I think its worth my time, theres a limit where I want to get to and thats 5KNL and anything higher is possible and I do think I can do it because I do work as hard as I can, I love poker but I know I would never be able to beat these guys unless i studied non stop and i would not want to trade my life learning to compete with these guys when theres just so much other things I want to do in life. Now of course theres Omaha, but theres so much variance in this game+ I would take a long time to master this. I guess After I get to 5KNL, I will probably stay in the game for a couple of months then eventually quit poker/ play for fun. Its gonna be weird to explain this and i may sound like a complete hypocrite but money is valueless to me in the future, but my number priority right now I guess which leads to my poker story of my reasoning behind this...
BTW my name is Steven, I just turned 19 on October 3rd,2012 3 years ago I use to always play poker with my friends, I was awful I had no interest in the game at the time. I hated it, but then my friends kept playing it and we always bought in 5$ I kept losing, and then one day I really got sick of losing. I really wanted to learn how to play, I went on Google and just typed in "how to get good at no limit holdem" and just picked up information about it and studied the game couple weeks later i was the best in the games out of my friends obviously since we all had no clue about the game. Weeks later I saw my brother play full tilt I had 600$ (all my money) put it all on full tilt and jumped into 100NL, oops about 3 hours later all gone. Went to sleep sad, thinking what did i do wrong how come i lost so much i was mad, I went on google started typing more stuff and read about people playing sit and goes/tournaments. So there I was with a plan I asked for 50$ more as a loan and would work on it began playing 1$ tournaments until one day I got 3rd at the daily dollar for $600, great just recouped all my losses lost my AA V K6 on a K6x board so sick. I of course cashed everything except 50$ because I had no clue what bankroll management was, and I just kept playing then eventually went bust, Took a long break, then December 2010 came along went back on thx to rakeback I had 12$ left i entered it all on a 3$ tournament, I got 50th place and 1st was about 4k 
. Lost AA v KQ sick life, but with that 50$ i said thats it im going to build this all the way to the top and hit the nosebleed tournaments. In about 4 months of grinding tournaments while I was still in high school about 10 hours a week, I eventually made the bankroll hit $8400 by april and then black friday came along. Now in my mind I was like wtf is going on, and I don't think ima ever get the money back even with the pokerstars purchase because I was underaged during that time but who knows. Would love to have that money but I count it as a loss.
Anyways after that I took a break from poker for about 2 months, then heard about the merge network I played almost full time and hardly went to college for 2 months made around $2.5/hr avg playing tournies/ being an idiot at super turbos n losing a lot :P was def the fish of the games.
At that time for some reason I still thought I could do it and I KNEW I could succeed if I worked hard enough, I thought I had to move outside the US to play on poker stars it was my only solution to succeed. There are bigger prize pools more tournaments available, I guess it was a long shot though, a poker player who is barely 18, wanting to leave the us to play on poker stars. BUT I decided to do it anyways I took the biggest risk of all time and probably the stupidest decision anyone can make without consistent results, but my mind was set in stone I had to do this for my family and for me. My parents thought I was crazy, but nothing was going to stop me from going and my parents knew that, so they did what they could to help me. They called there family members from Cambodia, and there I went, although I had to pay $200 a month for rent food and electricity as part of the agreement. I had $2200, and an extra $1500 from my friends whom let me borrow the money, needless to say they are awesome friends to trust someone with that much money and I love them for that.
March 5th, 2012:
So there I was I bought a laptop $529, A plane ticket $656, a mouse $65, and a laptop cooler $40, and spent $500 of my own money with my friends before I left. So heading to Cambodia I had $1910, I was scared I didn’t think that was enough I was extremely worried, but everything was already done it was what I had to work with. I had no plans of coming back, and if I didn’t succeed my parents would have to pay for my flight back considering I wouldn’t really have enough funds to go back to California and I couldn’t let that happen. My initial plan was to make a $1000 deposit online, and the rest to pay for rent to cover for about 4 months, and as you know most of your original plans don’t work out as you expected. I got my bank account, I kept trying to make deposits online from Cambodia to poker stars, they kept rejecting it, I couldn’t deposit past $65 us dollars, but I told myself I didn’t do it just once, I did it twice before, and I know I can do it for the third time and it wasn’t because I was that good of a player it’s because I really had motivation and really wanted to make it, so I told myself YOU CAN and YOU WILL do this. So that’s what I did I worked from the very bottom and wanted to reach to the top by the time I came back.
I set guidelines playing only $1 buy ins max until a certain amount and so on. I played about 10 hours a day, every single day and in about a month of playing 45-man SNG and 180 man SNGs I built my roll to $825. It was hard work for very little pay, but I thought it was worth it I learned a valuable lesson and really took in what hard work means. I felt satisfied and expected now that I had more money I could start playing bigger buy ins and would be able to make more money in the near future. Within 2 weeks after saying that to myself, I went on a huge heater I made $1.4k and my roll was standing strong at $2250 I was proud of myself and thought I was doing really well and really thought I could reach my goals. And then the inevitable came, with no self-control and a huge ego and deciding not to drop down in stakes a huge downswing comes where I almost lose everything I played nonstop and had two -$1k
days. There I was with $200 left in my account my self-esteem destroyed, everything I worked for gone. I was about ready to pack up my bags call it quits and go home after 5 weeks of trying. I talked to my friends told them what happened and told them I may give up, I talked to all of them and one particular person changed my mindset, and gave me a reason to continue and not give up and remember everything I worked for and the troubles I knew I would face for making such a huge challenge. Although I probably never would have left in the first place, it was still a good slap in the face to keep me motivated and stop mourning over what already happened, so I decided to continue, but I decided I was going to be extremely careful with the money this time and not lose control, but before I started playing I decided I really needed to study poker which is something I never really did. I got a deuces cracked free trial and used those 7 days watching 180 man videos and really trying to understand it, my goal was to make 3k in 180 mans before I started taking shots at tournaments. So after this new knowledge, I played 180 mans every single day $2 buy in only till I hit $1k to ensure I will not go broke. In about a week of playing 10 hours a day I made $1000 to build my roll to $1200, my plan was to start playing the $3rebuys and the $8 buy ins, and if I dropped below $800 I would restart luckily things went well for me I won enough to build up my roll to $3000. So there I was feeling extremely accomplished from 5 weeks building everything to $2k then bombing everything and having $200, and then rebuilding it in 2 weeks back up to $3000. I felt unstoppable, and this was only the beginning, I began playing tournaments nonstop and built my roll to about $11.5k in about 3 more weeks.
Mid June 2012- Now
Decided the Variance was too crazy, and have been working on the cash games since and haven't really gotten anywhere in six max for about 3 months it was definitely a mentality thing and I still have a ton of mentality issues theres something inside me I don't know what, but I still hope to overcome everything and eventually make it. After the pretty much break even season after paying for coaching/breaking even at 6max cash I had to work to earn gordons trust so he would be able to teach me everything he knows at heads up cash games. He makes me do certains test and the contract can end anytime i **** up, and I know im at my final straw I really do try my best not to mess up and I already have but hes given me a couple of chances time is running out and my chances to succeed is running out if I keep ****ing up. Anyways I ended up switching to HU cash 13 days ago, and I'm doing ok now and hope to have a 30K/40K roll by the end of the year probably a bit too optimistic, but we'll see.
Plans for 2013 is actually to continue playing poker, I really do miss my friends and family and I do want to see them. I guess this relates back to "Money is my number 1 priority now, but in the future its meaningless to me" See with all this money I make this year/ next year im going to open a family business with it? or if that doesn't work out im just going to give all the money i've made to my family. I don't have an exact plan but im not a luxurious guy, I dont plan on living at the greatest place in the world and having the finer things of life. I love things simple and just enough I don't care about money too much but I believe that my parents deserve a lot considering how hard they've worked there whole life, which is the reason why I left California to make my parents live an easier life when I come back. Sounds like im putting myself down but in reality I don't care too much about myself, but I dont mean it that way just materialistic things are just bull**** to me and I don't need much to be happy, and to most people this sounds like BULL**** but my happiness comes from my friends and family being happy and me being able to provide money to my mom so she can stop working so hard is something I want to do and I'll do anything to make it happen, 7 Months I haven't gotten anywhere but I don't ever plan on returning back home till i get things right for my mom.
I ALSO hope to become a poker coach/coach for a site for a living because I do want to return to california late 2013 after my contracts terminates with gordon gekko *thinkitthrough* and I get things right. But of course I will get a clearer picture of everything when I see what happens with online poker in the US. Who knows maybe this boring blog where I have almost no followers will become something.
100NL- $4000+
200NL- $10000+
400NL- $25000+
600NL- $60000+
1KNL- $100000+
2KNL/Table Selected 5KNL- $250000+
***MY INTENTIONS AND MY POKER STORY***
In regards to poker I dont think ima ever plan to play higher then 5K NL to be honest, and I don't plan on playing 5KNL unless i game select HARD, the games are pretty much dead above 2KNL for the most part in my opinion unless i want to keep playing the greatest players HU, which to be honest I don't want to do nor do I think its worth my time, theres a limit where I want to get to and thats 5KNL and anything higher is possible and I do think I can do it because I do work as hard as I can, I love poker but I know I would never be able to beat these guys unless i studied non stop and i would not want to trade my life learning to compete with these guys when theres just so much other things I want to do in life. Now of course theres Omaha, but theres so much variance in this game+ I would take a long time to master this. I guess After I get to 5KNL, I will probably stay in the game for a couple of months then eventually quit poker/ play for fun. Its gonna be weird to explain this and i may sound like a complete hypocrite but money is valueless to me in the future, but my number priority right now I guess which leads to my poker story of my reasoning behind this...
BTW my name is Steven, I just turned 19 on October 3rd,2012 3 years ago I use to always play poker with my friends, I was awful I had no interest in the game at the time. I hated it, but then my friends kept playing it and we always bought in 5$ I kept losing, and then one day I really got sick of losing. I really wanted to learn how to play, I went on Google and just typed in "how to get good at no limit holdem" and just picked up information about it and studied the game couple weeks later i was the best in the games out of my friends obviously since we all had no clue about the game. Weeks later I saw my brother play full tilt I had 600$ (all my money) put it all on full tilt and jumped into 100NL, oops about 3 hours later all gone. Went to sleep sad, thinking what did i do wrong how come i lost so much i was mad, I went on google started typing more stuff and read about people playing sit and goes/tournaments. So there I was with a plan I asked for 50$ more as a loan and would work on it began playing 1$ tournaments until one day I got 3rd at the daily dollar for $600, great just recouped all my losses lost my AA V K6 on a K6x board so sick
. I of course cashed everything except 50$ because I had no clue what bankroll management was, and I just kept playing then eventually went bust, Took a long break, then December 2010 came along went back on thx to rakeback I had 12$ left i entered it all on a 3$ tournament, I got 50th place and 1st was about 4k . Lost AA v KQ sick life, but with that 50$ i said thats it im going to build this all the way to the top and hit the nosebleed tournaments. In about 4 months of grinding tournaments while I was still in high school about 10 hours a week, I eventually made the bankroll hit $8400 by april and then black friday came along. Now in my mind I was like wtf is going on, and I don't think ima ever get the money back even with the pokerstars purchase because I was underaged during that time but who knows. Would love to have that money but I count it as a loss.Anyways after that I took a break from poker for about 2 months, then heard about the merge network I played almost full time and hardly went to college for 2 months made around $2.5/hr avg playing tournies/ being an idiot at super turbos n losing a lot :P was def the fish of the games.
At that time for some reason I still thought I could do it and I KNEW I could succeed if I worked hard enough, I thought I had to move outside the US to play on poker stars it was my only solution to succeed. There are bigger prize pools more tournaments available, I guess it was a long shot though, a poker player who is barely 18, wanting to leave the us to play on poker stars. BUT I decided to do it anyways I took the biggest risk of all time and probably the stupidest decision anyone can make without consistent results, but my mind was set in stone I had to do this for my family and for me. My parents thought I was crazy, but nothing was going to stop me from going and my parents knew that, so they did what they could to help me. They called there family members from Cambodia, and there I went, although I had to pay $200 a month for rent food and electricity as part of the agreement. I had $2200, and an extra $1500 from my friends whom let me borrow the money, needless to say they are awesome friends to trust someone with that much money and I love them for that.
March 5th, 2012:
So there I was I bought a laptop $529, A plane ticket $656, a mouse $65, and a laptop cooler $40, and spent $500 of my own money with my friends before I left. So heading to Cambodia I had $1910, I was scared I didn’t think that was enough I was extremely worried, but everything was already done it was what I had to work with. I had no plans of coming back, and if I didn’t succeed my parents would have to pay for my flight back considering I wouldn’t really have enough funds to go back to California and I couldn’t let that happen. My initial plan was to make a $1000 deposit online, and the rest to pay for rent to cover for about 4 months, and as you know most of your original plans don’t work out as you expected. I got my bank account, I kept trying to make deposits online from Cambodia to poker stars, they kept rejecting it, I couldn’t deposit past $65 us dollars, but I told myself I didn’t do it just once, I did it twice before, and I know I can do it for the third time and it wasn’t because I was that good of a player it’s because I really had motivation and really wanted to make it, so I told myself YOU CAN and YOU WILL do this. So that’s what I did I worked from the very bottom and wanted to reach to the top by the time I came back.
I set guidelines playing only $1 buy ins max until a certain amount and so on. I played about 10 hours a day, every single day and in about a month of playing 45-man SNG and 180 man SNGs I built my roll to $825. It was hard work for very little pay, but I thought it was worth it I learned a valuable lesson and really took in what hard work means. I felt satisfied and expected now that I had more money I could start playing bigger buy ins and would be able to make more money in the near future. Within 2 weeks after saying that to myself, I went on a huge heater I made $1.4k and my roll was standing strong at $2250 I was proud of myself and thought I was doing really well and really thought I could reach my goals. And then the inevitable came, with no self-control and a huge ego and deciding not to drop down in stakes a huge downswing comes where I almost lose everything I played nonstop and had two -$1k
days. There I was with $200 left in my account my self-esteem destroyed, everything I worked for gone. I was about ready to pack up my bags call it quits and go home after 5 weeks of trying. I talked to my friends told them what happened and told them I may give up, I talked to all of them and one particular person changed my mindset, and gave me a reason to continue and not give up and remember everything I worked for and the troubles I knew I would face for making such a huge challenge. Although I probably never would have left in the first place, it was still a good slap in the face to keep me motivated and stop mourning over what already happened, so I decided to continue, but I decided I was going to be extremely careful with the money this time and not lose control, but before I started playing I decided I really needed to study poker which is something I never really did. I got a deuces cracked free trial and used those 7 days watching 180 man videos and really trying to understand it, my goal was to make 3k in 180 mans before I started taking shots at tournaments. So after this new knowledge, I played 180 mans every single day $2 buy in only till I hit $1k to ensure I will not go broke. In about a week of playing 10 hours a day I made $1000 to build my roll to $1200, my plan was to start playing the $3rebuys and the $8 buy ins, and if I dropped below $800 I would restart luckily things went well for me I won enough to build up my roll to $3000. So there I was feeling extremely accomplished from 5 weeks building everything to $2k then bombing everything and having $200, and then rebuilding it in 2 weeks back up to $3000. I felt unstoppable, and this was only the beginning, I began playing tournaments nonstop and built my roll to about $11.5k in about 3 more weeks.
Mid June 2012- Now
Decided the Variance was too crazy, and have been working on the cash games since and haven't really gotten anywhere in six max for about 3 months it was definitely a mentality thing and I still have a ton of mentality issues theres something inside me I don't know what, but I still hope to overcome everything and eventually make it. After the pretty much break even season after paying for coaching/breaking even at 6max cash I had to work to earn gordons trust so he would be able to teach me everything he knows at heads up cash games. He makes me do certains test and the contract can end anytime i **** up, and I know im at my final straw I really do try my best not to mess up and I already have but hes given me a couple of chances time is running out and my chances to succeed is running out if I keep ****ing up. Anyways I ended up switching to HU cash 13 days ago, and I'm doing ok now and hope to have a 30K/40K roll by the end of the year probably a bit too optimistic, but we'll see
.Plans for 2013 is actually to continue playing poker, I really do miss my friends and family and I do want to see them. I guess this relates back to "Money is my number 1 priority now, but in the future its meaningless to me" See with all this money I make this year/ next year im going to open a family business with it? or if that doesn't work out im just going to give all the money i've made to my family. I don't have an exact plan but im not a luxurious guy, I dont plan on living at the greatest place in the world and having the finer things of life. I love things simple and just enough I don't care about money too much but I believe that my parents deserve a lot considering how hard they've worked there whole life, which is the reason why I left California to make my parents live an easier life when I come back. Sounds like im putting myself down but in reality I don't care too much about myself, but I dont mean it that way just materialistic things are just bull**** to me and I don't need much to be happy, and to most people this sounds like BULL**** but my happiness comes from my friends and family being happy and me being able to provide money to my mom so she can stop working so hard is something I want to do and I'll do anything to make it happen, 7 Months I haven't gotten anywhere but I don't ever plan on returning back home till i get things right for my mom.
I ALSO hope to become a poker coach/coach for a site for a living because I do want to return to california late 2013 after my contracts terminates with gordon gekko *thinkitthrough* and I get things right. But of course I will get a clearer picture of everything when I see what happens with online poker in the US. Who knows maybe this boring blog where I have almost no followers will become something
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Last edited by ImaCHAMPION; 10-13-2012 at 12:53 PM.
10-14-2012
, 04:19 PM
Today I am going to look through flop boards and discuss the specific equities
in every single flop and try to work with every percentages going to pick spots that
occur a lot, and hands that will actually continue on not bull**** hands that I will
fold and think my opponent will fold. Of course that isn't like how everyone plays
but i will go by a general idea of what I think they would be continuing on with
and what they would be folding, and well if there a station it doesnt matter regardless
as I will be only playing for value and betting BIG everytime.
So going to Look at 10 different Flop Texures
the first one is SOMEWHAT drawy and somewhat dry but its one that somewhat confuses me
997 2 club board.
A10c V 9x is almost always a 25% favorite it seems kinda obvious since u can only be drawing to backdoors
or a flush and since theres 1 club out of every 4 cards it should be around 25% but it didnt logically hit
my mind at the time, so learning something simple is still good.
810 V JQc A straight draw v a Flush draw with just overs is 70%/30%
23C V 810 I actually didnt know the exact percentages for this but two under w/ flushdraw
v a straight draw is a coinflip.
Obviously theres a lot of other hands that would continue but im talking about classic
scenarios and spots that will eventually occur where I will decide whether to go broke
depending on my opponents range such as c/r percentages his cont bet percentage etc.
A10J
JQ v A9 -32 v 68%
JK v 10J- 36 v 63% I actually thought this one would be more leaned towards the 75 25%.
AJ V QK- 82% V 18%
1010 V AJ- 82% v 18%
These are a lot of classic spots that will only happen in an aggressive dynamic
obviously most of these are standard but its mainly focusing on what to do with
the MIDpair/gut shot type of hands/ and the other one well its juts good to know
687
1010 v 65 70 v 30%
QQ V 65 55 v 45%
QQ V 76 72 v 28%
QQ v 9J 66 v 34%
QQ v 9K 58 V 42%
QQ V a8 77 V 23%
I started to realize every 3 outs = 8.5% in equity.
J103
QK V J9 45 v 55
JQ V A10 80 v 20
89 V JK 68 v 32
AK V JQ 68 v 32
KQ6 2 club board
J10 V KJ 30 v 70
J10 v KQ 31 v 69
AQ V KJ 23 v 77
AJc v KJ 53% v 47%
AJc v KQ 43% v 57%
J10c v KQ 50% v 50%
98A 2 club board
Q10c V AK 48% v 52%
J10 v AK 34% v 66%
J10c v AK 57% v 43%
89 V AK 75% v 25%
A9 V 10J 70% v 30%
A9 v 10Qc 60% v 40%
9JK 2 club board
10Q V JJ 65% v 35%
QcKd V AJ 80% v 20%
9J v QK 62% v 38%
4210
JQ v A10 30% v 70%
77 V JQ 31% v 69%
745 MONOTONE board
Ac6d V QQ 63% v 37%
Ac10d V QQ 47% v 53%
Ac5d v 68 36% v 64%
105K
AJ V 10Q 32% v 68%
JQ V KQ 32% v 68%
JQ V 109 47% v 53%
JK V AA 20% v 80%
JQ V AK 29% v 71%
some are very very repetitive, but when i was redoing it i was kind of remembering it
its still hard and I know if I keep redoing it I will eventually remember it.
I dont know how much scenarios can really occur on the flop where its extremely tough
and I couldn't think of scenarios sometimes, but I eventually wrote all of them down
Eitherway if i keep repeating this i will remember outs/percentages
in every single flop and try to work with every percentages going to pick spots that
occur a lot, and hands that will actually continue on not bull**** hands that I will
fold and think my opponent will fold. Of course that isn't like how everyone plays
but i will go by a general idea of what I think they would be continuing on with
and what they would be folding, and well if there a station it doesnt matter regardless
as I will be only playing for value and betting BIG everytime.
So going to Look at 10 different Flop Texures
the first one is SOMEWHAT drawy and somewhat dry but its one that somewhat confuses me
997 2 club board.
A10c V 9x is almost always a 25% favorite it seems kinda obvious since u can only be drawing to backdoors
or a flush and since theres 1 club out of every 4 cards it should be around 25% but it didnt logically hit
my mind at the time, so learning something simple is still good
.810 V JQc A straight draw v a Flush draw with just overs is 70%/30%
23C V 810 I actually didnt know the exact percentages for this but two under w/ flushdraw
v a straight draw is a coinflip.
Obviously theres a lot of other hands that would continue but im talking about classic
scenarios and spots that will eventually occur where I will decide whether to go broke
depending on my opponents range such as c/r percentages his cont bet percentage etc.
A10J
JQ v A9 -32 v 68%
JK v 10J- 36 v 63% I actually thought this one would be more leaned towards the 75 25%.
AJ V QK- 82% V 18%
1010 V AJ- 82% v 18%
These are a lot of classic spots that will only happen in an aggressive dynamic
obviously most of these are standard but its mainly focusing on what to do with
the MIDpair/gut shot type of hands/ and the other one well its juts good to know
687
1010 v 65 70 v 30%
QQ V 65 55 v 45%
QQ V 76 72 v 28%
QQ v 9J 66 v 34%
QQ v 9K 58 V 42%
QQ V a8 77 V 23%
I started to realize every 3 outs = 8.5% in equity.
J103
QK V J9 45 v 55
JQ V A10 80 v 20
89 V JK 68 v 32
AK V JQ 68 v 32
KQ6 2 club board
J10 V KJ 30 v 70
J10 v KQ 31 v 69
AQ V KJ 23 v 77
AJc v KJ 53% v 47%
AJc v KQ 43% v 57%
J10c v KQ 50% v 50%
98A 2 club board
Q10c V AK 48% v 52%
J10 v AK 34% v 66%
J10c v AK 57% v 43%
89 V AK 75% v 25%
A9 V 10J 70% v 30%
A9 v 10Qc 60% v 40%
9JK 2 club board
10Q V JJ 65% v 35%
QcKd V AJ 80% v 20%
9J v QK 62% v 38%
4210
JQ v A10 30% v 70%
77 V JQ 31% v 69%
745 MONOTONE board
Ac6d V QQ 63% v 37%
Ac10d V QQ 47% v 53%
Ac5d v 68 36% v 64%
105K
AJ V 10Q 32% v 68%
JQ V KQ 32% v 68%
JQ V 109 47% v 53%
JK V AA 20% v 80%
JQ V AK 29% v 71%
some are very very repetitive, but when i was redoing it i was kind of remembering it
its still hard and I know if I keep redoing it I will eventually remember it.
I dont know how much scenarios can really occur on the flop where its extremely tough
and I couldn't think of scenarios sometimes, but I eventually wrote all of them down
Eitherway if i keep repeating this i will remember outs/percentages
