[Closed] ilovemagic: i love the game.

Originally posted by DrDunne
hey magic i see you posting around here and i dip in and out of your blog from time to time. you seem very dedicated and i was really surprised when i just read the last page! it sounded like you were giving up! just keep going and working on your game man there isnt much else to do. i will follow your blog more.

btw i think you will easily be able to build back up with $10 playing MSS! good luck.

Ty dr dunne! I hear about mss, but i only have interest in 25c sngs as of now. They seem easy.
I will check out your blog as soon as i get to a computer. Im on my phone right now which makes for crappy browsing experience.

magic

Yesterday i :
had twenty minutes to play that i ended up stretching into an hour. ~500 hands of nl2 zoom
+$4

Played very loose opening range preflop, lots of well timed agression post flop. Got away just as i was starting to tilt becauze of distractions.

A+ day considering i wasnt gonna play.

Magic

Took to the nl2 reg&zoom yesterday afternoon, not much movement or intereating hands.

Took to 7 90man sngs at night, final tabled 4th place in 1, losing a huge pot to a fish after getying it in on the turn with 83% equity... went on tilt and busted out of the other one i was doing well in in 10th.

Proceeded to ragequit.

Bankroll: $20.50

+2 bi

Overall A+ considering i actally turned a small profit today.

Magic

do you not find zoom a little crappy on fr?

I havnt tried 6max, so i couldnt compare the 2 but generally im finding it pretty fun

I only know the fr strategy, and i feel most comfortable playing fr, but i would be willing to take lessons from a winning reg 6max player via a sweat session anytime we're both availible. Define winning reg:
~20k + hands at the limit theyre at, 3bb+ winrate.

Tell me if im wrong about that?

Magic

hmm i guess a winning reg would be any positive bb/100 over a nice sample. however 1bb/100 is not too great..

and i agree with you about fr - it's the only one i know atm although i understand that 6max is practically the same postflop, just generally more aggressive, with weaker ranges, and you have to focus more on your opponents. but i will stick to FR until i prove to myself i can climb stakes with it. then i will be ready to move onto 6max!

whenever ive played zoom fr it's been absolutely crazy like i've gone on looong break even stretches, got set over set over set, so many coolers and so many people shoving on me on the flop i cant stand it! maybe i should give it another shot..

Originally posted by ilovemagic
I havnt tried 6max, so i couldnt compare the 2 but generally im finding it pretty fun

I only know the fr strategy, and i feel most comfortable playing fr, but i would be willing to take lessons from a winning reg 6max player via a sweat session anytime we're both availible. Define winning reg:
~20k + hands at the limit theyre at, 3bb+ winrate.

Tell me if im wrong about that?

Magic

We can make some sweat sessions. Check my blog and pm me or leave a post there, if you want.

Just got back into it after watching a pokerstars pro play on utube, cant remember his name but his video showed me just where i was leaking too much, like picking more spots and a wider range to 3bet. Im actually using the basic ranges in the equilab for all the positions and it works really good., better then my old tight range. You gotta pick premium SPOTS in zoom rather then premium hands imo.

@solidus:
Ya for sure, i will pm ya as soon as i get a chance!

Magic

Time to try one of these fun looking gif hand histories if i can manage it...tomaloc how did i do man?
villains name is angelochek56
stats consist of:

PokerStars - $0.23+$0.02|300/600 NL - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

BB: 77,561.00
UTG: 13,428.00
BTN: 19,947.00
Hero (SB): 24,064.00

BB posts ante 50.00, UTG posts ante 50.00, BTN posts ante 50.00, Hero posts ante 50.00, Hero posts SB 300.00, BB posts BB 600.00

Pre Flop: (1100.00) Hero has K♠ J♥

UTG calls 600.00, fold, Hero raises to 1,200.00, fold, UTG raises to 1,800.00, Hero calls 600.00

Flop: (4400.00, 2 players) K♣ 7♥ 4♥
Hero checks, UTG bets 600.00, Hero calls 600.00

Turn: (5600.00, 2 players) K♥

Hero checks, UTG bets 600.00, Hero raises to 2,400.00, UTG raises to 10,978.00 and is all-in, Hero calls 8,578.00
Villain shows AA
River: (27556.00, 2 players) A♠

btw a good tounrey for your challenge starts in 10 mins, $0.25 tounrey on stars, no entry fee $100 added

registered ♦ even tho my bed time is soon if i work up a chip stack i might change my mind.

sweet man saw it thought id let ya know, its a great tourney if you havnt got much, or like you doing a challenge

yeah i hope there are others that dont start this late. i busted out because its midnight and i have to work in the morning.

One of those was my first ever win $0.10 with 50 added.

was like 3000plyrs and first paid $53 or something

BTW my last final table in a tourney was ~3years ago

My first ever cash online was also in a tourney. 10 turbo $50 added. Max player pool. I got my friend to play for me while i told him what to do on the phone because i couldn't get online and I had just sold playchips for $1. We I made 2nd place and $26 after suffering an incredibly bad beat heads up. I was down to 2bb at midstage of the tourney. It was nice when my buddy gambled it all away behind my back.

Magic.

Just finished up a 74 player $1 tourney . finished 3rd after the luck just ran out 3 handed. won 10 BI.

So overall on the night BI = $1 im up 7 BI.
failed to cash in 7 other tourneys i entered worth 25c each. one worth .55 as well failed to cash. i think after my 83o suckout in the $1 tourney i had a workable stack and just started to dominate. im running bad 3 handed and hu right now tho for some bad reason...luck.
Bankroll $27

hand that put me out:
PokerStars - $1+$0.10|600/1200 NL - Holdem - 3 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

Hero (BB): 23,946.00
BTN: 32,996.00
SB: 54,058.00

Hero posts ante 120.00, BTN posts ante 120.00, SB posts ante 120.00, SB posts SB 600.00, Hero posts BB 1,200.00

Pre Flop: (2160.00) Hero has Q♠ K♠

BTN raises to 3,000.00, fold, Hero raises to 23,826.00 and is all-in, BTN calls 20,826.00

Flop: (48612.00, 2 players) A♥ J♠ 4♦

Turn: (48612.00, 2 players) K♣

River: (48612.00, 2 players) 5♣

UGH i guess ill just have to wait to win my first ever $1 tourney another day.

my meaningless tourney graph this month:

lol nice

i also had some similarly tilting hands today.

Hey mate, I read your tilt spam in my blog how are you going?

Well thats not good tomaloc! I look forward to tbe gif hand histories!

Dannywratten I'm doing frikken hot streak! I got my $10 deposit up to $27 and never went below $8. The challenge is in full force and level 2 would seem imminent in the future if this keeps up.

Level 2 iz @ $60 so I can move to the $1 sngs and mtts more regularly. Last night i was thrilled to bust out of the. 25c tourneys (playing a game) while i remained chippie leader in the $1 cuz i knew what 5th place+ was good $ but i was shooting for first obv.

Wow good to hear magic! I think you are due for some rungood ♦
Hopefully it won't be too long until we are reading about your next level!