[Closed] slikec poker story! NL SH low stake player!

Hello again.

First i think i have to start writting sth. interesting since noone write anything on my blog:(

I played a lot last days and lose few quite unbelivable hands for example.

NL 0,01/0,02
UTG(5,2$)
Hero 5,5$(UTG+3)
button(5,1$)

Hero have 6,6(pocket sixs)

Preflop
UTG raise to 0,20$,Hero calls,button calls

Flop A66
UTG bets 0,40$,hero calls,button calls (i slow played ofcourse)

Turn A
UTG bets 0,80$,hero raise 2,5$,button calls, UTG calls

River A and i just think o my fu*king god
Button all-in, UTG calls and i call althought i know i will lose those 2$

Results:
Hero shows(6,6) poker sixes
UTG shows(K,K) full house
Button shows(A,10) poker aces

Pot was 15$ and was one of my biggest pots i ever played. I know i shouldn't call at river and pushed all in on turn(but button would call anyway at turn since he had ful house:().

Well that was by far the most interesting losing hand so far in my poker carrer.

My bankroll is anyway going up and is atm at 133€.

Happy easter and good luck at tables.

OMG that's one hell of a bad beat!

Here are some bunnies to cheer you up : ♦

Well it's your blog so you have to be the one who writes something in to it

p.s. i don't believe anyone besides us uses the expresion poker for four of a kind... or am I mistaking?

easy call river still, slikec :).

and nah, i've never heard it before either

Eh is just sick ♦

When i get KK in 50% someone have AA and in last 2 days i lost to much money that way:( And just 5min ago i had AA vs KK and he hit K ♦ Lovely.

Than last three times when i hitted set today on flop i was beaten by lucky card:D on turn or river ♦ They made two pairs into ful house two times and once he hitted his overpair:(

I am lucky there is so many fishes so i compensate those big loses with gaining some money against them ♦

Is just i wait that bad luck go away and than i am sure i'll make again 20+€ in a day.

Is me again.

Played like crazy during easter so that i will become gold and study new interesting articles and watch movies(i prefer movies is easier for me to remember good stuff).

This last few days i realized is not easy to be good poker player ♦ So many different occassions occur not to mention constantly bankroll is moving quite up and down(at least mine which is quite small).

NL0,01/0,02 is history for me since i know all players there and they know me and is hard to get money from them lately. NL0,02/0,04 is lovely since last two days i give it a try and is same stuff only noone knows me which is great thing.

I know i should start at ML0,05/0,10 as short stack but i just don't like short stack style. I love action after flop and am quite good at since i still gain some money not lose.

Anyway in 3 days i should be gold than i have lots of stuff to read watch and i hope i'll be ready for BSS in 0,05/0,10.

My bankroll is curently at 175€(32,4€ was starting capital +4*6,5€ cleared bonuses=56,4€ so i earned 118€ which is not that bad for new fish in the sea :)).

I have to say i am quite good at reading other peoples ranges only sometimes i am totally out of words

Also i don't get the point at Titan that you get deposit bonus? Why not directly rake back?

What is point that i withdraw money and than deposit it again to get bonus not to get bonus right away? Is just ridiculus and cost time

So probably i will after i clear bonus move to one site that have rakeback. Anyone recomend any?
Oh yes i will play BSS NL0,05/0,10 probably and i heard that some sites don't have that limit.

Thanks for suggestions and good luck at tables,

slikec

Well its me again posting in my own blog :).

Last few weeks i don't have that much free time so i played less and also earned less and learned less. I think i play solid poker with quite a lot of suck outs and ofcourse i also make some stupid moves sth. but who doesn't

All like to write goals.

Mine are simple:
-play winning poker,
-move up limits(next one i plan BSS at NL0,05/0,10 when i hit 300€ mark( i know is conservative ♦),
-get elephant(still 900PSpoints to go)
-f*cking get lucky sth. on tournament(last one i got out with AK against A9o on pokerstrategy basic lol, got out 251 if i would double up i would be in top 50 with chips:(). Is funny goal a ♦
-cut out feelings while playing poker.

At end of this post i have to say playing poker is funny but aswell stresful sometimes. I don't accept suckouts very good especially really nasty ones(like lossing all in preflop with KK against 94o).

Anyway if i check past three months(when i found this site and started playing poker more regurally and for money) i am on good way i think:) I also notest that i play better poker when i cut out feelings(which is hard) so thats my next goal.

Here is my bankroll graph(is not by hands since i don't have PT or elephant jet):

O yea in graph are mostly NL0,01/0,02 and Nl0,02/0,04 games. Because thats what i play and turnaments i tried i just didn't acchieve anything

I think is not bad for new player. Ofocurse i am not really good but i think i am not bad eaither ♦

Your growth seems quite stable to me, congrats
On the suckouts, they happen. It's not too hard to accept them after a while, but it feels good to whine about them sometimes, hehe. Anyway, since you don't have PT or PA yet, I'm sure that you sucked out too a few times but you didn't see your opponent's hand that might have been better at the turn and worse at showdown Somehow, those times when you suck out yourself seem harder to remember

On your goals, I'm sure you'll make the first three of them
Your conservative bankroll management might also make it easier for you to accept bad beats as they'd only be a very small portion of your bankroll, thereby the emotions won't have to run as high as they might do now

Originally posted by SonicXT
On your goals, I'm sure you'll make the first three of them
Your conservative bankroll management might also make it easier for you to accept bad beats as they'd only be a very small portion of your bankroll, thereby the emotions won't have to run as high as they might do now

I decided to play with conservative bankroll just because i hate losing all-in when that is quite big part of my stack. Now at nl0,02/0,04 5$ is only 1/80 of my stack so i can survive even losing 5 in row which sometimes happens. Basicly i play lately most sessions break even with -3+3€ and once per week i have really good cards and players call liek crazy with worse hands and i make 20€ ♦ SO far i had 3 sessions like that and plenty break even.

Ok i will update my "carrer" ;).

In last 14 days actually i didn't played much poker and also had till yesterday break even session. On 12.4. i had 242€ than i had little downswing till 24.4. when i finally come back to 242€. Yesterday i decided that i'll try NL0,05/0,10 medium stack(5$ like is max stack in NL0,02/0,04) and i had great upswing:) I hour and half i moved my bankroll to 262€ than i decided have enought:)

I have to say i like NL0,05/0,10 since raises here often means sth. not to mention reraises.

Today i played a bit more NL0,05/0,10 and some tables NL0,02/,04 and finished with 257€. Last two hands i lost badly. AKs in hearts flop flush and villian gladly puts me all in with set which on river improved to ful house(could not d much about that). And last one i lost AK versus KK and here i should just folded preflop so was my mistake

Anyway as i started in another blog i would like to know why good players have win at showdown only a little above 50%?

I have two reasons why:
-they play SH where is more loser game( i play FR),
-they play higher limits when bluffs work a bit more than on lower cause they cost more(so in overall i think players on higher limits bluff more offen than in lower which means more "fights" in showdown).

But maybe is sth. else. I mean i don't know my win at showdown but i expect is around 60% if is lower and i still win money in overall i am much more happy ofcourse.

My plans:
-win tomorrow one freeroll at Titan(that would be nice ♦),
-reread SNGs articles and again give a try to them,
-start posting my hand to evaluate to find my leaks in game
-enjoy this short hollidays.

Btw why only few players write blogs:( I like to read them and i mean i see 3k players trying to attempt only at Titan freeroll so PS have to have at least 25k players by now which means only 0,002% write blog.

Aj jaj jaj ♦ Thx to elephant i checked my stats and i realize i am just one more fish in poker sea

Not to mention i got eleminated last sunday in all three turnaments around spot 500 while in two of them i was most of the turnament in top100 by chips.

Eh as i see i have much to learn. What still give me hope is that here is only 34k of my 100k i played so far and that yes in NL0,01/0,02 i limped lots of hands since paying 2 cents to potentially get 5$ is really nice as you can see form winning althought i played bad.

Well now i will start playing NL0,05/0,10 medium stack and there i will soon see if i learned sth. or i should stick to NL0,01/0,02 and play totally for fun

Here are my bad stats :

Hello is me again

Well it was long time since i last posted reply in my thread so lets sum up whats new:
I made 2k SP points but i tried lots of things and still can not make database in Elephant so i gave up for now and tried PT3 free version.

About my game:
At end of May i decided(after 20days of break even play) that i have enought BSS crap on NL0,01/0,02 and NL0,02/0,04 and medium stack NL0,05/0,10 and will try SSS at NL0,10/20.

I had amazing upswing since i jumped from 270€ to 470€ on that limit in 15 days ♦ Probably because i was new and some villians didn't give me credit yet (which i see they do now ). I had last days downswing when i missplayed some hands and had some badbeats so am currently at 440€ which is ok since i was yesterday evening at 420€ but than make it up mostly on two nice fishes ♦

Basicly i should study now for my exams but i just made gold rank and have to watch some of those nice movies i can finally watch now.

So plans basicly take it easy on poker try some more SSS NL0,25/0,50(already did and am brake even which is ok :)) and made later on in July Elephant work. Probably i should format my disk but damn i have so much data on it

I would please ask some experienced poker players to comment this link:

I want to know if i play to much from SB and BB althought if you compare that amount won without blind is high so if i am right i lost most of the money folding right?

And about graph i think red line(money won without showdown) is damn low which means i fold to many hands or am i often in bad position(play to much from SB iand BB probably) and rather fold than lose more?

I would appreciate some views on those two questions from experienced players.

Thx in advance,

slikec

OMG. Your graph looks almost exactly like mine!!! Really. Including the little downswing. WOW.

And you also play very nitty, like me. Hehe.

You lose money in non-showdown pots which means you don't bluff too often, or you don't bluff successfully. Which is not a very bad thing, because you make a lot at showndown pots. So I would not worry.

Keep doing what you are doing.

Thx for your point of view i fell a bit frustrated. I think i am again in break even period

Last week i played like crazy made most rake in my poker carrer(450PS points/4=125$ rake) and stuck again around 450€ I move up 10€ fall down 15€ move again up down up down yesterday for example i played two times 3 hours 13-15 tables NL0,10/0,20. I started day with 550€. First i made it to 570 fall down to unbelivable 530(that was crazy) and i just shut down comp. At evening i felt again in good mood for poker so i decided to play made +20€ in one hour than again down 10€ and at the end up 15€ so i finished at 555€.

Today i went quickly up to my record 575€ and than just got so many bad beats and coolers again that is just sick. I remember i lost all in AA vs QQ and A10 (Q on flop) and than next hand i get AK raise get reraised go all in face KK and ofocurse lose again. Than 7 hands later i get JJ get called by same two player that had QQ and A10 8 hands before and flop came 9 :club:9 :diamond:8 i push all in they even raise each other to all in asweel(they were big stacks my short) show 88 and A :diamond:2 :diamond:.
Ofcourse on turn we see another and i jsut said nice tabel to everyone(just the worse 1 hour experience under any table) and went out ♦

Ok ofcourse you get badbeats and i know is normal i AM JUST REALLY MAD WHEN I GET SUCKED OUT IN BIG POT(when 3 or more players are all in). If you lose 4$ heads up you lsoe 8$ but if tehre are four is there 16$ which is damn nice money

I know more players i have less chance to win etc. Is just damn anoying that again my bankroll is stuck.

So i decided that i will stop playing poker for awhile and than move to another site since i notest that even good players on low limits when they don't know you push you around with worse hands. When they know you they think twice if they want to fight you and if they decide to do so you have to think if you are really ahead. So i decided to change site exploit again that and than another site and after i will be on 5 sites i can play on each little and they won't know me that well

I hope plan will work

Enjoy and good luck at tables,

slikec

Ok i will add two more things. I folded secodn time in my poker carrer AA I timed out damn Titan poker opened another table and i clicked on banner and explorer really eats my ram so i timed out Which is worse there was some action and on flop came even A.

And about suck outs. Today i remember i was SB with A :spade:10 raise to 0,70 he goes all in (had only 3$) so i called show AJo. On flop were two so i was damn why i have to always suck out small pots ♦ And yes on river didn't came but 10 and i was oh well i again got lucky on small pot ♦

Well, i you are playing break-even, you really should not worry. At least you aren't losing money, like I am.

Just keep playing your A game.

Hey Slikec! Great to see another Slovenian on the site Know of any more that are part of the community here? Anyways good to see u are doing so well! Keep up the good work

Originally posted by Atoks
Hey Slikec! Great to see another Slovenian on the site Know of any more that are part of the community here? Anyways good to see u are doing so well! Keep up the good work

Thx. I am doing ok i supose but want to do better as any of us

Oh yes check a bit this threat and you'll see at least few active posters:
Slovenia

By the way i invited quite a bunch of friends here but only few passes quiz and noone is actually playing So no summer frenzy bonus for me

Well what can i say:) I played a bit poker althought i should study and my mum will kill me ♦

Anyway i played because of those nice euro freeroll(1 party point to enter ♦ ) on party NL0,02/0,04 BSS.

I played three freeroll first i was busted really fast with 1010 against K6s all in preflop ♦

Last two went much better i finished 32 and 82 got some money i think was 10,5$ and 9$.
I also found out that at party NL0,02/0,04 suits to my play style much more than at Titan While playing MMTs i earn 80$ ♦ So basicly i doubled my bankroll form 100$ to 200$ there.

I still play at Titan made last month 6k Titan points and start to spend them i think.

At Titan i played mostly SSS NL20 and have again long break even session. Is combined with everything a little i would say. Some bad moves included ofcourse

Today at NL50 was just sick so if you want to feel better about your bad beats check this out:

First one so cruel that is unspeakable ♦ I was only once beaten worse(in my opinion):

Second one is just how crazy you have to be to call all in with Q J on A :heart:3 :heart:10 board: I doubt he had proper odds for that call

Btw last hand you can also see amazing play by another shortstacker ♦

I will go back to NL20 ♦ NL50 is just to much for me. Don't fell comfortable losing 10$ yet ♦ and on other hand 4$ is no problem which is wierd ♦

But at the end is ok, my bankroll is quite ok:
-600€ at Titan(100€ is my deposit for reload bonus which i still didn't withdraw)
-200$ at Partypoker(of which 70$ is my deposit).

In summer i will probably try stars, pacific and mansion

Enjoy,

slikec

Well is me again posting a little bit in my "blog".

I am posting so little because:
-i am not playing
-or i am playing breakeven

Actually is little of both ♦ I played a little lately and when i played made 0 profit.

Well when i readed about nice Titan rake back i played a lot results are not shinny i would say.

I don't know why i can not make work anymore nor PT nor Elephant so all i have from my play is what i write in notes which is little.

I played a lot firstly NL0,10/0,20 and today i decided to try again NL50 and tried even a bit NL100 everything SSS.

All i know is i made in July at Titan 2400Titan points of which only today 1700. I make notes how many times i went all in today and it was 40times at NL20 and 50 times at NL50 and after 6-8 hours(who knows i make breaks offen) of playing today i am exactly break even. Which is funny. I hope i made at least lots of rake if i calculate it is 40*0,4=16 + 50*1=50 so together 66$ rake but i think was even a bit more

Anyway i saved some really crazy hands but i will show you only the most crazy call today from villian:

I hate losing big pots like it was today also AK vs AQ and JJ with cards till river 108AAQ I forgot to save that hand:(

Well maybe i will go for 3k points offer Titan have from 6-9 July but it depends if enought tables at NL50 will be open which i doubt

I decided to poker a try this July and if things don't move i should probably just take as fact that i can not be winning player just breakeven whch is not that bad.

I also am thinking about to play BSS on NL20 to see where i stand.

Well good night and good luck at tables,

slikec

P.S.: I hope i'll post more here since that will mean i am winning some money again

Eh today was normal day i just happened to try playing bSS on NL20 wrong time so toda yi made nice -48€ ♦ -55€ while trying playing BSS hour and half :DEH fuck it i just was a bit unlucky(QQvsKK) overplayed KQ on 45K board againts medium stacker who showed AK and i lost against KK when i floped full house mall money when in on turn and river bring him K.

I learner my lesson i hope and lets hope i will get rake back as promised - i made just only yesterday 280SP which means 70$ rake. It will help heal my wounds a bit but unfortunatelly just a bit.

Well i need only 300titan points more tomorrow to get free entrance for nice tournament and on 11 than i will play 3 free tournaments which all have quite nice rewards. I hope finally lady luck will be on my side at least in one of those

Would be nice;)

Enjoy