Alright ladies and gents, let's begin! Today, I'm going to be playing some poker and reviewing my thoughts during session play. Consider this the first regular post of my blog. The previous post was more like... an introduction! It told you what you can expect from my blog, what I can expect from it, and it gave you a brief summary of my play over the past 3 months.
I mentioned that I started this blog because I feel like I have been on autopilot lately. My thoughts have become more unclear as I get to playing more hands, and I've become more LAG. Today, I'm going to change that. So I've set up a few goals for this session. They're quite simple really, so let's review! 1) More thought 2) Play Tight and Solid 3) No tilt! Wish me luck!
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Wewt! 2 hours of playing and I netted $3.04 :P. At least this better than making soccerballs in Thailand! Overall, I think it was a good session. I ran at about 17/12/9.0, super-aggressive TAG style and it paid off! The only time I made a really dumb mistake was losing .66 with pocket sixes. Tried to bluff this guy on a stupid turn card, a King. Here's the HH. Pretty terrible on my part, lol. Villain was pretty loose at 43/3. Of course, I read him on a pocket pair lower than tens. Of course I should have considered whiffed overcards too.. Good thing I didn't bluff more on the river.. <.<
Well, that's pretty much it. Unfortunately I didn't get as much playing as I wanted today because I had to fix a computer error, and my Hold 'em Manager HUD was bugged and needed the new version. Spent about 2 hours between gettin' all that shit fixed but at least it works now. On the bright side, tomorrow is my day off! >:D See ya then!
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Greetings, Citizens of the 9th Division! : The Beginning of a New Me
Welcome, to... my blog! I know what you're thinking. "Chris, why the hell are you making a blog? Those are for beret-wearing, coffee-shop lesbians!" That may be true, but they're for poker players too! So I heard.
This is all part of an experiment I'm conducting. See, I've been floundering about at $.01/.02 No-Limit for a few months now and it's been profitable, but not as much as I'd like. It's time to get down to business! Since so many poker players nowadays are making blogs, I've decided to join the masses and see what all the fuss is about.
Contained within this blog you can expect to read mostly about poker, and more about the inner workings of me, stuff about my life, and other random shit that I decide to make up on-the-fly! Speaking of the latter, you can also expect this blog to be "paused" and "continued"on occasion, during poker sessions, or other activities that interrupt it. Kind of in the style of a movie that you're watching with your DVD player. (This idea borrowed from John Vorhaus, author of "Killer Poker Online".) So if you'll bear with me for one moment, I've got to go running.
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**Unpause**
And I'm back. That was fun! Now back to why I made this blog. Blogging usually isn't my thing. But given that I've been playing .01/.02 No-Limit longer than I feel I should have, I decided to take a more radical approach into improving my game. I feel that this is that approach. From now on, I will use this as a tool to build a better thought process and analyze my game. Here! I'll show you something a bit interesting! Here are my stats for 3 months.
As you can see, I started in February as a losing player playing 42% of my hands, and raising half of them! Then, I tightened up to 26/17 (playing 26% of them, raising 17%) and winning more than half of rake. And for this month... well it's kinda embarrassing. I tightened up even tighter to 18/12, and yet I'm not doing as well as last month. Why? That's a good question. To be honest.. all of those hands this month weren't spent playing tight. I played a little LAG (loose aggressive) on the side. I think it was due to me having a tight hand range and people not paying me off... and then me getting impatient and playing LAG. But that's not all of it. I took some pretty disgusting beats as well. I had my aces cracked plenty this month. I would raise.. get called by a guy with K8 offsuit, he'd hit his K on the flop and I would value bet all 3 streets only for him to hit his 8 on the river. So of course after sickly disgusting things like that, I'd play a little LAG and that's probably where a lot of money went. /kittenpunch
So overall, $35.63 over 25k hands of play. Which I think is terrible, but hey, at least I'm not losing. I am rolled for .02/.05 now however, so May I think I'll take a stab at that. And looking back at the goals I had set for this month... man did I ever fail those hard. Let's review them.
[ ] 25k hands this month
[ ] Move up to .02/.05
[ ] Get over $300
[ ] 5 HHs on 2+2
[ ] Make Silver Star VIP on Pokerstars
D: ..
This is so much harder than Starcraft or Magic the Gathering... but I'll be damned if i'm gonna let that stop me from my goal of becoming pro! I hear they say, "Go big, or Go home!" Fuck that motto. "Go big, or go big." IMO. So now that I've said that, I vow that I will get most of these goals done next month. Oh, and not go on crazy monkey tilt... that's gonna be added to my list of goals. Tomorrow's the day I get some mad, crazy-sick(tm!) playtime in. See ya then, suckas!
This is all part of an experiment I'm conducting. See, I've been floundering about at $.01/.02 No-Limit for a few months now and it's been profitable, but not as much as I'd like. It's time to get down to business! Since so many poker players nowadays are making blogs, I've decided to join the masses and see what all the fuss is about.
Contained within this blog you can expect to read mostly about poker, and more about the inner workings of me, stuff about my life, and other random shit that I decide to make up on-the-fly! Speaking of the latter, you can also expect this blog to be "paused" and "continued"on occasion, during poker sessions, or other activities that interrupt it. Kind of in the style of a movie that you're watching with your DVD player. (This idea borrowed from John Vorhaus, author of "Killer Poker Online".) So if you'll bear with me for one moment, I've got to go running.
** Pause **
**Unpause**
And I'm back. That was fun! Now back to why I made this blog. Blogging usually isn't my thing. But given that I've been playing .01/.02 No-Limit longer than I feel I should have, I decided to take a more radical approach into improving my game. I feel that this is that approach. From now on, I will use this as a tool to build a better thought process and analyze my game. Here! I'll show you something a bit interesting! Here are my stats for 3 months.
As you can see, I started in February as a losing player playing 42% of my hands, and raising half of them! Then, I tightened up to 26/17 (playing 26% of them, raising 17%) and winning more than half of rake. And for this month... well it's kinda embarrassing. I tightened up even tighter to 18/12, and yet I'm not doing as well as last month. Why? That's a good question. To be honest.. all of those hands this month weren't spent playing tight. I played a little LAG (loose aggressive) on the side. I think it was due to me having a tight hand range and people not paying me off... and then me getting impatient and playing LAG. But that's not all of it. I took some pretty disgusting beats as well. I had my aces cracked plenty this month. I would raise.. get called by a guy with K8 offsuit, he'd hit his K on the flop and I would value bet all 3 streets only for him to hit his 8 on the river. So of course after sickly disgusting things like that, I'd play a little LAG and that's probably where a lot of money went. /kittenpunch
So overall, $35.63 over 25k hands of play. Which I think is terrible, but hey, at least I'm not losing. I am rolled for .02/.05 now however, so May I think I'll take a stab at that. And looking back at the goals I had set for this month... man did I ever fail those hard. Let's review them.
[ ] 25k hands this month
[ ] Move up to .02/.05
[ ] Get over $300
[ ] 5 HHs on 2+2
[ ] Make Silver Star VIP on Pokerstars
D: ..
This is so much harder than Starcraft or Magic the Gathering... but I'll be damned if i'm gonna let that stop me from my goal of becoming pro! I hear they say, "Go big, or Go home!" Fuck that motto. "Go big, or go big." IMO. So now that I've said that, I vow that I will get most of these goals done next month. Oh, and not go on crazy monkey tilt... that's gonna be added to my list of goals. Tomorrow's the day I get some mad, crazy-sick(tm!) playtime in. See ya then, suckas!
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