[Closed] limit hold-em FTW!

Originally posted by CoreySteel
Nice!
The best thing about poker is withdrawing earnings and buying new shiny things with it. Then you can look back and say... Thank you fishes.

Edit: One more thing... I CAN'T play without HUD anymore. Don't know how I could live without it at start of my "career".
I can't even play without it at 0.05/0.1$ FL SH ♦ It's really helpful tool, so I think you made a good decision with buying a new comp.

Hi jmackenzie;
I agree with every single quoted word! HUD can improve your game significantly, so take your time to study the meaning of available stats - getting reads helps you to find leaks in opponent's game like nothing else, but playing 3+ tables requires working HUD...

Good luck at shorthanded tables, but be prepared it's different game postflop (especially 1/2 FR and 0.5/1 SH).

So I got the money through from fullitilt today And this is what I got....

Altogether it cost £429 including norton antivirus fo-shizzle.. 1 question what does quadcore mean?

Back on the poker scene i've been beating fl .5/1 fr quite well so thats good + I also had tournement success in a $5 turbo tourney just missing out on a final table but still a reasonable $58 cash

When I get my new computer I plan a full switch to shorthanded so I will wait until I get it then post my full fl fullring experience with graph and full stats...

Bankroll:
$614

Originally posted by jmackenzie
1 question what does quadcore mean?

I'm really pleased you've asked this question and you've definitely struck lucky I've read your post.

Quadcore is a technical term meaning its 1 x more betterer than tricore.

Trust this helps.

Nice, nice work on the poker side JMack... getting through these micro limits is only a matter of application!

Looking forward to some sick graphs being posted soon. ♦

Originally posted by jmackenzie
1 question what does quadcore mean?

it means your CPU contains 4 indenpendend cores: Multi-core

Just make sure your Vista is 64bit version otherwise you'll miss good portion of performance... XP64 is faster imo

Originally posted by opal99

Originally posted by jmackenzie
1 question what does quadcore mean?

it means your CPU contains 4 indenpendend cores: Multi-core

Ermm.... yes.... this, of course, is the "layman's" description, I was clearly using a more technical description.

That's one nice PC. I'm sitting at an identical one ♦

TILTED!

First time i've truly gone mental while playing poker...

Starting with fulltilt freezing when I was playing 3 tables of fixed limit fullring, I got very annoyed restarted the program and decided to play hu sng's instead...

Not the best of ideas seeing as I was already in a mood I quickly lost AK v A3 in my first match leading me to play progressivly more a of a maniac style which lead to 10 defeats in a row!

While I look back at the hands now although most losses were flips my play was far too agressive leading me to decide to take a break until my computer arrives.

As I wont be playing poker until that time I can post my fullring fixed limit stats and graph since the start of this blog...

It may not seem like that many hands but alot f it was 1-2 tabling Getting used to the crazy world of fixed limit hold-em!

All thats left for me to say is I cant wait to start FLSH!

Bankroll:
$547

Got my new computer today yipee

Started my first session of SH earlier on .5/1 on fulltilt decided not to use stats just yet as im still getting used to new SHC etc..

Think im going to change how often I am to update this blogs concerning bankroll and graphs, thinking about posting them every 25k hands or when I move up to a new limit smt. like that...

The reasoning behind it is although the idea of a blog and looking back at how your bankroll has grown is great I think it also has negative impacts upon me when i look at how in the short-term my bankroll has decreased

I.e. If I were to win say 70 big bets in a short session then 3 days later be down 50 big bets, altogether i'd still be up with presumably still a nice winrate I would feel I sortof emotional tilt in my game trying to win back losses.

I'm also now going to introduce new rules to myself concerning moving up the limits,

These are.
1. Play 25k hands at the current limit and be a winning player
2. Have an overall winrate of +1bigbet/100 or +2 bigbets over the last 10k hands..
3. Have atleast 500 big bets for the next limit

I want to do it this way so that i'm pretty certain that im a winning player on the current limit so that I dont go up when i'm not ready as a player, I'm not the best player in the world (yet :P)

Originally posted by jmackenzie
Think im going to change how often I am to update this blogs concerning bankroll and graphs, thinking about posting them every 25k hands or when I move up to a new limit smt. like that...

The reasoning behind it is although the idea of a blog and looking back at how your bankroll has grown is great I think it also has negative impacts upon me when i look at how in the short-term my bankroll has decreased

I.e. If I were to win say 70 big bets in a short session then 3 days later be down 50 big bets, altogether i'd still be up with presumably still a nice winrate I would feel I sortof emotional tilt in my game trying to win back losses.

Hey JMack... nice work, and enjoy the new machine! ♦

I can understand where you're coming from, but I think one of the advantages of recording more often is to remind yourself that BR drops happen, bad sessions/days/weeks happen, but that you come through them.

I have a separate spreadsheet on which I record high monthly BR totals. I also record the biggest drops in bankroll as well. Doing this I can see, for example, that at the start of February this year I dropped $80 in one day on SH $.50/$1... 80BB in one day! I can also see that since then I've not only recovered but moved up a limit within a couple of days of this happening.

Now at the time of the drop I was gutted because it was a session v some REAL UGLY FISH and I just donated. I had a bit of a rant for the first time and was pretty unhappy. Then I looked back and saw how I'd dropped 120BB over a couple of days at $.25/$.50 FR.

I can see the progression through my blog posts, both ups and downs. I find this helps give a bit of perspective when you're contemplating jumping in the bath with the electric toaster plugged in, or giving up 'cause you'll never beat these nutbags.

And, to be honest, when I finally get to a limit where just playing ABC PS.com TAG strategy is no longer enough to be successful, I'm sure my blog posts will help me progress past the points I'm struggling, because I will have seen myself wrestling with problems in the past and overcoming them!

Sorry for the long post, it's just that seeing both the trials and successes posted in blogs is the thing I enjoy most, and derive the most value from, and I felt you should perhaps consider you may derive this value too (at least in retrospect!).

GL fella. ♦

Been awhile since I posted here all I can say is im dissapointed with myself....

Even though this week has been quite profitable up $250 thanks to good multi-table tournement cash ($2 re-buy 3rd place) My fixed limit play has been so bloody rubbish in every single way.

I really cant play more than 50 hands before going on omega tilt for no reason.

I am completly unsure why this is im just lucky i havnt really lost any cash at all in the process.

Cashed $300 out to have some fun with and remind myself why good play = good times.

Think im going to have to totally re-evaluate my play somehow and try to get my postflop game especially sorted out.

Might try posting a video session review

Bankroll:
$520

@waiboy

Only just noticed your post thanks for the reply!

I totally agree with what you say now, wierd how much my views on things change like the wind at the moment...

I agree ABC TAG style is what we should all be learning as a basis to improve while on the lower limits (no fancy pancy play needed just yet.)

well I let this blog slip quite abit : s although thats mainly because i've being playing 5/1 sh (and fullring whenever theres an available table) at cake poker and I cant really post much interesting graphs... Suffice to say i'm up just over $300 since I moved there. Not 100% sure on the amount of hands i've clocked somwhere around 20k so its been steady progress in the longrun but boy have there been big-swings altogether.

Today I've agreed to a prop bet more info is here:

https://www.pokerstrategy.com/forum/thread.php?postid=276036#post276036

Which means i will be playing barr to no FLHE

But it does mean i will have to put in alot more hours if i want to win which of course I do.

Well the prop-bet didnt end up happening my mate chickened out/ decided it could be done after being shown winning sss players even at the highest limits.

The day after that bet fell through though I was playing some of the tourneys on fulltilt ended up winning just over 1k in a donkament super turbo

Happy times

Anyways im cashing out all of the tournement winnings Because theres plenty of things I need to buy at the moment for when I finish college and start uni in september.

But I have now moved my roll back to fulltilt and i'm going to play .5/1sh up to 4 tables.

This also means i'll be able to post some graphs again. I also really need to start using a hud something thats needs to be worked out before I go for 1/2.

Bankroll:
$807.50

Side note it's my b-day tomorow

congrats on the tourney win!

Originally posted by opal99

Happy birthday!! ♦

+1!

And just lucky for you you can play real poker and avoid the HELL that is SSS... Just 'cause I play it, doesn't mean I like it...

Originally posted by opal99

Happy birthday!! ♦

+2

and gratz to the turney winning

Weel i've played about 55k Hands of fixed limit hold em and decided to call it quits.

This game of exploiting small edges (often very small) just isnt for me and although my overall winrate is at 3BB/100 hands which is pretty cool i've made 3x more in another form of poker that i've only played on occasions being mtt's.

So i've decided to give them a go. I'll first be playing 1000 45 man sng's on fulltilt with a 50-30 Bi rule with $550 to start with and will decide afterward if its the game for me.

Edit: This didnt happen, I think i only ended up playing about 10 games before i cashed out.

Hey JMack

Enjoy your diversion into MTTs... I'm hoping to dedicate a period of time pursuing these too so I'll watch with interest!

But always remember, min-raising is the key. ♦

I'm back ♦

Been doing lots of stuff recently such as finishing my college course (BTEC in applied science). Got a few weeks left till its finished but i've got alot more time free'd up now for poker.

Problem is i've got no money in poker sites anymore i've spent it all

I've got $30 on stars but thats it.

guess its back to 5c/10c for me