ABOUT ME:
I bought the “Tiltbreaker”-software a short time ago and made the decision to block all games,
except STUD HI/LO , for the rest of the year. I although used to play 8-GAME a lot,
but unfortunately it doesn’t take more than 2-3 hands of pot-limit ****ing omaha
until I 3-bet any 4 and shove the flop in or out of position with any tiny piece of the flop...
or even less... PLO might just be salt in the wounds of an old drug-head's neurotransmitter-houshold.
Anyway, combined with my hate for LHE and my aversion against 2-7 triple draw (I love Badugi, though),
i decided to block 8-game, too.

ABOUT STUD HI/LO:
STUD HI/LO is the only variant of poker where I can play a session and not make a single mistake.
Not even the slightest, if we consider ranges in opponents hand instead of his actual holding only.
I don’t know any other variant where I ever felt that I am able to play perfect
for a prolonged amount of time and since i am a perfectionist, this satisfies my needs.

MY PLAY:
I will play 50c/1$ + 25c/50c tables as soon as I can rob some grandma’s purse (or next month comes).
My play will either be 2-4 tabling every table at my recent 2 levels or single-tabling when I am tired,
for example on days that I went to the gym.
I am taking notes on my opponents play during the game and I analyze tough hands later on.
You will see me playing ridiculously many hours due the single-tabling time.
I will breath, eat and drink stud8 until I dream of hitting wheels in the bicycle.
“Tiltbreaker” is tracking my session with amount of hands, the $ and the bigbet amount that I win or lose,
and in case of a really bad downswing, it shuts down the game for the whole day with the stop-loss function.


MY GOAL:
I am not the god of variance and I can’t predict the future,
but I do think that I should at least be beating 2/4$ pretty hard when the year ends.
Next year I will re-evaluate if I stay at stud8 or go back to 8-game with a fresh mind.
It mainly depends on the traffic at mid-stakes if I can solely stay at stud8 or not.

yesterday i was trying to get out of my messy house to catch a tiny bit of sunlight because i already woke up in the afternoon.
the way to the door (basically the whole house) was filled with trash and empty bottles and i stumbled more than once.
while i was crawling through the mess i suddenly remembered that these bottle are returnable and i will get money for them.
8 walks to the supermarket and 16 plastic-bags of deposit-bottles later,
i had a fresh poker bankroll. weeeeeee......

2 handed play (not really heads-up all the time...) for solid 5 hours
profit = 138,25€

now my intention is to play the 27$ 8-game SCOOP tomorrow and the 27$ HORSE on saturday, leaving me with about 100€(128$) left when i bust both.
( tiltbreaker does not function for tournaments yet, haha, **** you external self-control-programm, powerowned ! )
i will keep it cool and only pay in small for the MTT's twice till the SCOOP is over,
and then make a 100€ deposit and grind till i forget who the **** i am.
anyway, pretty sure that i take down one of the two SCOOP events and play 2/4$ directly.



daydin, sync yourself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KbrH6e_BK4

robot monsters (neelix remix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MwEoZvcM-w

Well if you play the game perfect as you say, why play anything else?

when the SCOOP is over for me (sunday morning), i will play nothing else till WCOOP.

mbn to play in SCOOP, FML

ive been on a groundbreaking party last night and havent slept more than 2-3 hours at noon today.
next week i will have to party even harder, since its my best friends birthday.

this evening i will go to watch BAYERN vs. CHELSEA instead of playing the HORSE SCOOP.
its a once in a lifetime game and one of the very very few things
that can stop me from playing my best (mix-)game at the SCOOP.
bayern is going to take it down on their own ground,
and i will be pretty drunk the second day in a row, i think (and hope).

next week, on monday, i will start to play 200 hands 6 days a week minimum,
as a small "must reach" goal.
after every week i will make a new plan how many hands i am at least going to play
during the next week and try to slowly up the volume. guess my roll is around 125$,
but i will most likely add a bit next month to make it comfortable at 50c/1$.
if i gain 200$ till month' end, i wont have to add anything.


and now:
LETS GO BAYERN ! ! !

so much better watching CL finals than playing stud8 imho.

i played my first real session of 50c/1$ yesterday and won 27$ over 380 hands.

although i decided to play one HORSE tournament 6 days a week to not get rusty in the other limit games. i will think about my bankroll-managment later on today and update when i decided how much i need to step up to 1/2$ stud8 and 11$ HORSE MTT's.
(i only play the 3.30$ HORSE MTT's atm, busted one tourny yesterday).
i will design my brm step by step, limit by limit.
when i reached 1/2$, i will decide what i need for 2/4$, but not earlier.


at the beginning of the next month i will know what my actual roll is.
id guess around 150$ atm, but i dont know what im going to do next weekend,
might drop to around 100$ if i feel the urge to party, which is pretty likely .
anyway, next month ill add a few $ and then avoid to use any poker-money for party strictly.


these are my HORSE MTT stats so far:
http://1.2.3.13/bmi/i47.tinypic.com/260dhkg.jpg

atm i am in the HORSE 3.30$ and just decided when to move up to 1/2$ and 11$ HORSE MTT' when i hit 440$, means 220 bigbets for stud8 and 40 buy-ins for the 11$ horse.
if i drop back down to under 200$, i will move back to 50c/1$ and 3.30$.

its pretty aggressive, but the horse-tourneys have a very smooth pay-out structure with +15% of the players in the money in the nightly 11$ (750$ guaranteed) and the stud8 games at 1/2$ are very passiv. due to that, i think my standard deviation over 100 hands is not the usual 18 bigbets, but around 12-13 bigbets for me.
i play a few percent tighter than the table average and i know when to fold 4th and 5th.

i will finish the horse 3.30$ single tabling, and then, after a short break, play at least 200 hands of stud8, maybe more.

gl w/your 15th pgnc thread. Stud8? Are you a beeper salesman too?

i think its the 8th try. dont worry, i will suceed, i have tiltbreaker now.
stud8 is a great game to play online, i dislike to play nl or pl online because i think, without software, i have a handycap. i love to play nlhe and plo live, though. won 16 of 18 nights live nl200-500€ and enjoy plo in a homegame. im just too stubborn to use PT or HEM,
thats why i play limit games.

atm im second chipleader in the HORSE tournament with 28 left, 8 itm.

I think youre over estimating HUDs in general. Sounds like youre using it as an excuse really. Im guessing youreover the age of 40.

trackers are more than a hud, the main part is self-analyzing and you should know that, i think.
im not even 30 yet and i dont want an excuse, i actively decided to play a game that is more based on strategy than psychology, with more information (board-cards) and less idiots who slow down the game 20 tabling.
im not overestimating tracker (or hud), since 3-bet stats mean a lot in nlhe and plo.
it is a big advantage. period.

i guess you are very young and should keep your pointless opinion for yourself,
you must be a fool, if you reduce tracker on nothing but huds.

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i played 230 hands 50c/1$ and lost 13$,
regged for another HORSE 3.30$ after scoring 7th place for 10.08$ in the last one. after this tournament my day is done, ill update tomorrow.

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and you are the fourth idiot who trashes my thread with imbecile comments.

you guys can simply troll someone else, i wont update this anymore, i disregard every one of you tools, who wanna be funny or think they know anything about poker at all.

suck my dick, kids. ill write it down in excel and you can troll elsewhere.

internet-idiots, i disregard your existence and i look down on your ignorant behaviour. may you all have fun in your holdem and plo games.
i wont bother anymore

Do you think people are day traders because they love stocks? Theyre in it for the money. If youre in it for the money then stud8 isnt the game to spend alot of time on.

Secondly do you think old school day traders got mad and quit when all the new computer software came out to allow any Joe Blow to trade? Or did they use it to their advantage to make them more profitable?

Only reason I said you must be over 40 is because you sound alot like every middleage man at the casino discussing reasons why they dont play online. Ive heard people talk about HUDs like they tell you to raise call or fold.

what the **** are you talking about? worst analogy i saw since month. you better let it go and admit you were stupid.

your guess was wrong. i know the game and i know the software, although im 27.
and i DO PLAY ONLINE, i just dont play the most boring form of poker, nor the most gambly variant.
you dont have to make excuses here, you failed and now you can gtfo.
day trader what? idiot example makes no sense.
i never liked to play NLHE online ever, not even when i won big or shipped MTTs. im not running away from better competition, i chose to play a game where my winrate is bigger and my standard deviation is lower.

you write like a total idiot and i wont waist anymore time with you, you are now the first person on my ignore list.
you make no sense, kid.

next time you may use your brain before you repeat every line you ever read on 2+2 for whatever ego-issue reason.