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RockEye
Joined: 12.08.2008
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Hey Gerv!

I am kinda surprised about your final earnings on Everest :) You always post an update with +100BB earnings. I expected you are rich by now

Good luck on Party poker and IPoker network.
The thing is i found out at Party playing mostly NL25, is that unwarranted aggression doesn't pay off. My earnings skyrocketed playing extra tight and folding some bluff or semi bluff hands. People slowplay or check-raise me because they know i will bet. And that's bad.
The bad thing is i don't get as much party points as i did before playing a lot looser. But i was losing money that way.

P.S. The girl is cute :heart:


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Gerv
Joined: 07.05.2008
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Originally posted by RockEye

The bad thing is i don't get as much party points as i did before playing a lot looser. But i was losing money that way.

I saw you a couple of times on my {18} tables when playing.

The thing I noticed immediately is that on Party Nl25:
* people minraise UTG and fold to a 3bet way too often
* people open limp/call with PP and fold to cbets whenever they didnt hit
* min3bets are the nuts
* cbet success is way too low
But I dont understand the relationship between Party Points and playing looser since you are a SSplayer and you maybe play 1% more hands than you would if you intent to play ''looser''

This 15'' is killing me if I play 18 tables or 14 tables WITH HUD. I got my reload of Party so the bonus is like $115 for 515 points + 150 points = 2 hands to be revealed

But im kinda unlucky with those promotions, only 1 pair and 3 trash hands but guess 14 tabling with a HUD and thanks due mining facilities, I get to know a lot more about people on NL25


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RockEye
Joined: 12.08.2008
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Dunno maybe i am wrong but i think you get points only if you contribute to the pot, so more pots where i am in more points.

It could be that the tables are sometimes very tight and there is less rake. Maybe it's just my feeling.

Oh and i am playing 9 tables with hud on 17" LCD. I will buy a larger display with my earnings only. It adds to my motivation.


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Originally posted by Gerv
* min3bets are the nuts

yeah I know...
F... bastards


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Gerv
Joined: 07.05.2008
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So guys I've been shopping this afternoon

I dished the 15'' away I borrowed from a friend and bought a 17'' monitor to get all my charts/calculators & movies on and 23'' monitor where I play pokah

Pictures;

The setup is not mine but the monitors I purchased were the ones in the first and second pic!

Oh my gotta play on party for 150 points! brb!


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Hlynkinn
Joined: 14.06.2008
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You actually bought the Pokerstars monkey? lmao awesome


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Joined: 07.05.2008
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Originally posted by Hlynkinn
You actually bought the Pokerstars monkey? lmao awesome

No because the setup picture aint mine since i couldnt take a picture of my setup ;)


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DaPhunk
Joined: 01.03.2008
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Originally posted by Gerv
I lost contact to her some months ago unfortunately that's why. We wrote but eventually the old saying goes: Out of sight, out of mind :)

If one lives in the same country, its easier to stay in touch (both literally and figuratively :P)

Aaah, I get you. I'm so used to living in a cosmopolitan environment I didn't interpret your statement in the correct way. When you said "She's Danish" I took that to mean, "Originally from Denmark, but living in Holland". Sorry to hear she lives so far away from you! Its a killer when that happens, whether they go back to Sweden, Australia or even just Northern England (Monaco in my most recent case) its hard to stay in contact after a while.


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Gerv
Joined: 07.05.2008
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I only can agree with a great sigh when I get reminded every single time

Back to poker: Ive decided to give up Nl25 due the lack of points because I didnt played as much as I could yesterday because I went shopping, yes guys shopping takes time offline :P

Nl50 + a good database + 14 tables = back to my own fishingpool :)


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i'm so impressed how can you play 14 tables at the same time. when i try to play 9 at NL10 most of time i get confused...

6 is my normal number of tables...

so, good luck at NL50 and those 14 tables


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Ive just started reading your blog which is really interesting but my attention stopped on a quote, which is probably the funniest thing ive seen in a while !!!

quote:
Hey do I have got Ace Ten? that's BLACKJACK! [...] Why did I lost? O gee this is Poker Let's rebuy to 100BB again and see what happens

the best of it is that it appens soooo often !!!

nows the time to read continue reading your blog !

Keep it up!


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Gerv
Joined: 07.05.2008
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@ bobdefete

Hehe thanks, that was my first post

So now Ive got to learn till like 22:45 CET and then I willl make a blog post

But stay tuned for that because I played today and played awesome:

15.50bb/100 ~!!! 15.50bb/100!!!


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Joined: 07.05.2008
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[x] Jackpot!

Despite that I had to squeeze my time to play poker because I still have to learn for my last exams, I had a good day. I optimally planned my time for today so that I can utilize every single minute of this day.

Now I played 2 sessions of 1 hour each I think at most 95 minutes. I played as much tables as my PC could handle OR I could handle myself in cascaded level. I can handle 18 tabled like this but with playing ABC or split-second style thus losing important reads.

A thing to understand is that this wont be my permanent playing style on the higher limits, I simply dont want to sacrifice reads for more hands playing and stuff. On the flipside: every thing I do has some kind of value :) I think multitabling 13 till 18 tables {with my new monitor ofc } improves my multitabling skills.

Making notes is deeply decreased but I only take notes whenever I go all-in against someone headsup and stuff .

Well the graph of today is:

Kinda nice divided into 2 sessions. I played one during Xarry's coaching because that was the only time when I could play but that was decent as well :)

So the funny hands I played against were yeah one of the quite funny moments. I also saw getting trips against me on the river but those bad beats happen yeh :)

No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (9 handed)

saw flop | saw showdown

Gerv (CO) ($10.50)
MP3 ($9.50)

Preflop: Gerv is CO with A, K
4 folds, MP3 calls $0.50, Gerv bets $2.50, 3 folds, MP3 raises $4, Gerv raises $8 (All-In), MP3 calls $5 (All-In)

Flop: ($19.75) 2, 10, 6 (2 players, 2 all-in)

Turn: ($19.75) 9 (2 players, 2 all-in)

River: ($19.75) 5 (2 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: $19.75

Results:
MP3 had 4, Q (high card, Queen).
Gerv had A, K (high card, Ace).
Outcome: Gerv won $19.77

No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (10 handed) l]

saw flop | saw showdown

Gerv (BB) ($9.28)
Button ($20.64)
SB ($23.75)

MP1 ($11.35)
UTG ($9.27)

Preflop: Gerv is BB with 7, 7
UTG calls $0.50, 1 fold, MP1 calls $0.50, 3 folds, Button calls $0.50, SB calls $0.25, Gerv checks

Flop: ($2.50) 2, 7, 8 (5 players)
SB checks, Gerv bets $1.50, 2 folds, Button raises $3, 1 fold, Gerv raises $7.28 (All-In), Button calls $5.78

Turn: ($20.06) 8 (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: ($20.06) K (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: $20.06

Results:
Button had J, Q (one pair, eights).
Gerv had 7, 7 (full house, sevens over eights).
Outcome: Gerv won $19.06

I still am 10~ points short for the full 150 points (=2 hands at the promotion) so guess I will grind some more now to get it

Take care guys, I had a great day :)

- Gerv

Party Poker
Session Time: 3h
Hands played: 1602
Limit: Adv. SSS NL50
Tables: 13
Profit/Loss: +$121 ( +242BB)
Extra: clearing reload + promotion
Bankroll: NL50
Metagame: Weak, Loose but also full of shorties :(
Feeling/Intuition (0=Disastrous,10=Perfect):6,5

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Gerv
Joined: 07.05.2008
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Seems like playing 2k hands each days do the trick by the end of 22th of March:

Made $1 by playing 18 tabled Nl25 for my remaining points


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HannesNL
Joined: 19.11.2008
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Nice Gerv, but you lost my respect. Just stay out of my BB's!


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RockEye
Joined: 12.08.2008
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Hey Gerv!

I am playing on NL25 currently. I just want to be on the safe side. I do have a BR for NL50 but i still have some fears after i halfed my BR on NL50 3 months ago. It's true i am playing more carefully and tighter and i've learned a lot in those 3 months.

What do you think about NL50 compared to NL25? Is there much difference betwen those two limits?

I think i am gonna try NL50 again.

Thx


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Hey gerv, have you tried elephant on Everest?

i have no problem with hand converting and data gathering, but i noticed that the stats are around the wrong player a lot of times (like shifted a few places to the left/right)

i think the problem lies here -- in Everest even if the empty seat is top right or whatever, once we click sit down, they automatically move the player to center bottom seat, right? and we cant choose where we want to sit, right? (pls correct me if im wrong, tried to find it in the options and didnt see it). but the elephant doesnt follow the player around to his new seat.

no reply yet on the elephant forum, and since i knew u played on everest, i thought to ask if you have same problems. sorry for the blog hijack. :)

ps i think my everest graph looks similar to yours. without the bonus, the slope is going down! i thought it was full of fishes! :evil: or maybe it was me who was the fish they were talking about. X(

but the bonus is great! laaav it!


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Joined: 07.05.2008
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Hello RockEye!

There is a guy named {something}Eye and is playing SSS too, is that you?

I think NL50 nowadays is like Nl25 but with more shortstackers so you have eto find your tables carefully on Party although there are some serious idiots as well who pretend to be pro but are in fact, fish.

I redirect you to the 5th page of my blog where I entered the Nl50 partyPoker zone for the first time, moving up from Nl25 Party:
Gerv's Party Galaxy: SSS Grind

Hey Purplefizz

I disliked Elephant since the beginning so around December I purchased Hold'em manager, it is more flexible, low CPU using and more amusing for a statistics maniac likeme :)

That the HUD at Elephant is wrong because you are moved to the centre of the table by Everest software so you should click on the button where you can rotate the hud on the table. Next to the table stats of elephant on a table, there is alittle button where you can rotate your hud.

Nl25/Nl50 Everest is more fishier than Party, it's only the software that prevents me from playing 18 tables. Also traffic sucks =(


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RockEye
Joined: 12.08.2008
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Well you can't really miss my nick at Party. It's RockEye75 :)


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Gerv
Joined: 07.05.2008
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[x] A window opening Opportunity

As I am progressing with the reload bonus, I decided to call it for a day when I cleared the bonus and that will be on Friday. On Saturday, the iPoker dimension is the battle ground again. Consistently grinding 150 points is kinda hard on NL25/NL50, especially on Nl50 when I see the so called ShortStack invasion going. Hé back in november/december, there were less SS players but now it makes me kinda sad :(

The reason I return to iPoker is the bonuses I still have left to clear and letting those expire, naw! Also I can practice/get used to NL200 there although I doubt that it is more fishier than FTP/Stars.

Back to Party because 150 points means 2 hands that I get. I played a session in the afternoon and one in the evening. The first session was 1.1k hands long and solely on NL50 but losing coinflips made the result in 40bb down. Big deal. The biggest deal was that I was hungry so you know the drill :P

The second session was mainly NL50 because there were 40+ tables there. The good thing is that there is more traffic on Party but the bad thing is that 20 tables are nitty tables :O

I came 14 points short so I opened up 18 tables of NL25 quickly but managed to lose flips and slowplaying Aces (min3bet and limp/call mp1 etc..)

When I pressed deal at the promotional page where I could see if I finally got Quads/Four of a kind at the promotion - I was dissapointed as hell X(

Revealing those 2 hands, the result was $0 aka nothing so I felt kinda sad at 23:00 CET

Another thing is that as I am writing this, my Exams are over! yaaaay! Drinking beer, playing poker and playing with the girls! Finally !

Ahum well I kinda got over-excited there :rolleyes:
So Friday is going to be the last day on PartyPoker, maybe I leave $150 there for 18 table Nl25 madness but I dont feel like doing it without a reload so let's see what Party does.

Cheers ,
Gerv

23429, +200


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