Crush $6.25 HUSNGs on PokerStars!
08-17-2010
, 11:06 AM
Small introduction...
I'm 20 years old. No real studies behind me, had to deal with depression since age 15, and haven't accomplished much of what people generally value as "worth doing". Of course it's all relative, and I'm fairly happy with what I have at the moment, being a relationship that's already been lasting 5 years, and going.
However, one aspect of my life I've always tried to hide was my love for poker. I discovered the game when I was younger, before it became all the hype, but due to lack of being of age, and growing up in a house where "gambling" was the last thing my parents wanted to hear about, I gave up on trying to learn playing for real.
Since my mother died, and my father moved to another country to remarry, I'm left with nothing but my own ambitions. No more being pushed in the back to do this, or that. I can finally just...maybe shoot for the only thing I was forbidden, and that I'd always wanted.
I am currently living on a minimum wage job + tips, working about 20 hours weekly. Admittedly I'm paying a very small rent to my mother-in-law. Besides love, plans of entering college again in 6 months, and my determination, I don't feel as if I have a lot to offer my girlfriend. It's not a matter of money, but two happy people make a happy couple. She's found her way with child care, I'd like to find mine as well.
I'm not playing poker to gamble; truth be said, I despise gambling. I'm playing poker because I feel as if I can be competitive. I know how weak I am, but I also know how fast I can learn.
So I've deposited $50 CAD in my PokerStars account. Over the course of the past few days, with plans of solely playing $2 HUSNGs, I've made 31$ profit. Sure seems measly to you, but it's fun to me! I can hardly believe I'm actually outsmarting people with what little poker knowledge I have.
This morning, I also went from 80 USD to...50 USD! Just when I thought I had it all figured out. I got sucked out many more times in a row than I thought was remotely humanly possible. I had an idea, and hopped in a $6.25 SNG to get a quick bankroll boost! Got my money in right, but got sucked out fiercely, there again. I'll assume this is a tilt issue, not playing at the right entry fee tournaments...but I'll work it out.
I'll do as everyone does : I'll suck it up, and learn from my mistakes
I'm already back up two buy-ins, and planning to hit the 60$ mark by the end of my session. If I manage that, at least I'll be able to say I can get my money in fine.
Rocking the 2$ is my current, immediate goal.
On the long short term, however, I'd love to have a bankroll sufficient to play the 6.25$ HUSNGs, and the knowledge to CRUSH them, literally.
I'll be lurking around a lot, and most likely devouring Moshman's book
*wave*
See you at the tables, maybe!
I'm 20 years old. No real studies behind me, had to deal with depression since age 15, and haven't accomplished much of what people generally value as "worth doing". Of course it's all relative, and I'm fairly happy with what I have at the moment, being a relationship that's already been lasting 5 years, and going.
However, one aspect of my life I've always tried to hide was my love for poker. I discovered the game when I was younger, before it became all the hype, but due to lack of being of age, and growing up in a house where "gambling" was the last thing my parents wanted to hear about, I gave up on trying to learn playing for real.
Since my mother died, and my father moved to another country to remarry, I'm left with nothing but my own ambitions. No more being pushed in the back to do this, or that. I can finally just...maybe shoot for the only thing I was forbidden, and that I'd always wanted.
I am currently living on a minimum wage job + tips, working about 20 hours weekly. Admittedly I'm paying a very small rent to my mother-in-law. Besides love, plans of entering college again in 6 months, and my determination, I don't feel as if I have a lot to offer my girlfriend. It's not a matter of money, but two happy people make a happy couple. She's found her way with child care, I'd like to find mine as well.
I'm not playing poker to gamble; truth be said, I despise gambling. I'm playing poker because I feel as if I can be competitive. I know how weak I am, but I also know how fast I can learn.
So I've deposited $50 CAD in my PokerStars account. Over the course of the past few days, with plans of solely playing $2 HUSNGs, I've made 31$ profit. Sure seems measly to you, but it's fun to me! I can hardly believe I'm actually outsmarting people with what little poker knowledge I have.
This morning, I also went from 80 USD to...50 USD! Just when I thought I had it all figured out. I got sucked out many more times in a row than I thought was remotely humanly possible. I had an idea, and hopped in a $6.25 SNG to get a quick bankroll boost! Got my money in right, but got sucked out fiercely, there again. I'll assume this is a tilt issue, not playing at the right entry fee tournaments...but I'll work it out.
I'll do as everyone does : I'll suck it up, and learn from my mistakes
I'm already back up two buy-ins, and planning to hit the 60$ mark by the end of my session. If I manage that, at least I'll be able to say I can get my money in fine.
Rocking the 2$ is my current, immediate goal.
On the long short term, however, I'd love to have a bankroll sufficient to play the 6.25$ HUSNGs, and the knowledge to CRUSH them, literally.
I'll be lurking around a lot, and most likely devouring Moshman's book
*wave*
See you at the tables, maybe!
08-17-2010
, 11:11 AM
Keep at it omgadnowai and also don't go chasing losses by moving up (its bad BR mojo). Study, play, and profit good sir and I wish you good luck at the tables 
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08-17-2010
, 11:44 AM
08-23-2010
, 02:26 AM
Update. Really simply put, six days after my initial post...
I went from 50$ to 105$, playing 2.20 HUSNGs on FTP. I've had to deal with "downswings", but they didn't dent my moral. I just figured I didn't play anything like my A game.
I went from 50 to 70, then down to 55! Man, I'll admit I felt like I had just lucked my way to 70.
Then, I went from 70 to 85! I felt rather confident at that point...
Then, from 85 to 68, ugh...
And after this, it was a bit more "steady". I win one, two games, then lose one. But I stay ahead =)
It went pretty smoothly, otherwise. I feel like my game improved a whole ton from when I actually started. My poker level was exactly 0. None. Basta, nothing at all.
Now, I take better notes! Actually, I TAKE NOTES, and THAT is an improvement. I'll probably learn to do it better in the future, but I'm already rather proud of how I controlled myself and to the 2$ bracket. I take notes on their flop and turn bets, depending on their position and the texture of the board. The river is a street I haven't "investigated" yet.
As for assessment of hand ranges, well...I have no idea where to start. I need to find myself a hand chart with their % chances to win against other random hands, and learn it by heart =l...
I need to study more. For the time being I'm playing, playing, playing. Trying to get some volume in, and acquire some experience.
People tell me to move up to the 5$ because of the rake, but I definitely don't feel my bankroll is quite adequate yet.
Shootouts are definitely a plus, I feel. It seems I usually get in a 4-player Shootout with another grinder + two fish. There definitely are other people out there trying to learn and build a bankroll the way I am, but a lot are fishy. Fishy players, I don't really "enjoy" playing as I can usually run them over, but the others...that are just a notch above "fish", people my level, I really love playing/outplaying, and learning from.
=) Off to bed now.
First milestone reached, 100$! Definitely hope I can get to 250 eventually; a massive downswing would make me doubt my poker ability, so...I'll stay on my toes
PS : I've been taking suckouts better and better the past two days; so long as my money's ahead, I don't mind.
PSS : One exception, however, is that ONE time, when the blinds were 80/160 in a 1500 starting stack game, and I shove A7 and get sucked out on by QJ. The guy was so tight...he'd never, ever, ever, ever get involved. And the one time he did call my shove on the turn, he rivered a fullhouse against my two overpairs, which meant I had to regrind him, being a 2:1 underdog.
I went from 50$ to 105$, playing 2.20 HUSNGs on FTP. I've had to deal with "downswings", but they didn't dent my moral. I just figured I didn't play anything like my A game.
I went from 50 to 70, then down to 55! Man, I'll admit I felt like I had just lucked my way to 70.
Then, I went from 70 to 85! I felt rather confident at that point...
Then, from 85 to 68, ugh...
And after this, it was a bit more "steady". I win one, two games, then lose one. But I stay ahead =)
It went pretty smoothly, otherwise. I feel like my game improved a whole ton from when I actually started. My poker level was exactly 0. None. Basta, nothing at all.
Now, I take better notes! Actually, I TAKE NOTES, and THAT is an improvement. I'll probably learn to do it better in the future, but I'm already rather proud of how I controlled myself and to the 2$ bracket. I take notes on their flop and turn bets, depending on their position and the texture of the board. The river is a street I haven't "investigated" yet.
As for assessment of hand ranges, well...I have no idea where to start. I need to find myself a hand chart with their % chances to win against other random hands, and learn it by heart =l...
I need to study more. For the time being I'm playing, playing, playing. Trying to get some volume in, and acquire some experience.
People tell me to move up to the 5$ because of the rake, but I definitely don't feel my bankroll is quite adequate yet.
Shootouts are definitely a plus, I feel. It seems I usually get in a 4-player Shootout with another grinder + two fish. There definitely are other people out there trying to learn and build a bankroll the way I am, but a lot are fishy. Fishy players, I don't really "enjoy" playing as I can usually run them over, but the others...that are just a notch above "fish", people my level, I really love playing/outplaying, and learning from.
=) Off to bed now.
First milestone reached, 100$! Definitely hope I can get to 250 eventually; a massive downswing would make me doubt my poker ability, so...I'll stay on my toes
PS : I've been taking suckouts better and better the past two days; so long as my money's ahead, I don't mind.
PSS : One exception, however, is that ONE time, when the blinds were 80/160 in a 1500 starting stack game, and I shove A7 and get sucked out on by QJ. The guy was so tight...he'd never, ever, ever, ever get involved. And the one time he did call my shove on the turn, he rivered a fullhouse against my two overpairs, which meant I had to regrind him, being a 2:1 underdog.