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zghrv
Joined: 17.10.2008
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Hi all.
After a few failures writing a blog, I'll try to have another shot at it. For sure I'll need you to do it so please comment.

For now I'll just say I'm playing PS NL25 with a starting BR 400$, totally off BRM but I think I'll manage. If I drop down under 300$ I'll move to NL10.

Basically the plan for next 3 months is:
- play 100.000 hands
- run 3-4BB/100
- lot's of learning

Below you'll find it in a tracking table, I'll post status every Sunday.
Till then I'll figure some topics to make it more interesting and make a short personal intro.

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I'll just make one question for starters, maybe I'll get some answers:
"What do you think about open limping pocket pairs on NL25 from UTG positions? Is it more profitable to raise it or limp-call with the right odds?"

Bye


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Merry Xmass everyone.
Week1 gone bye, below you'll find comments.

W1
I've played really lot, arround 14,5k hands. If I continue with this pace I'll play a lot more than 100.000 hands untill end of March. But let the plan stay the same, when I start reading articles and watch videos, for sure the volume will not be this big.

I feel confortable at this limit, meaning I don't feel like a fish - that's the most important thing for me at the moment. Still I can find a bigger fish then me at the table :)

For W2 I plan to play, but sure not as much as in W1. I'll go through all the sessions and post the hands - hopefully I'll do it all today so take a look in the afternoon.

Below you'll find results and graphs. I'm running 2,3BB/100. As you know i planned between 3-4BB/100. One thing that is following me for the last 3-4 months is that I always run below EV - in W1 it's 100$ below. I hope this curse will leave me soon, because it's effecting my game (I sometimes tilt and make some stupid moves).

GRAPH

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Joined: 22.08.2009
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Hey!

Good luck with your quest, and for your question, if you limp call PP, you make your hand very obvious to any observing player, so you are better off just raising it like the rest and making them guess.


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What was the result on the river bluff shove?


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I ran into AKo!! Only hand i think he would call there


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WEEK 2

This is fucking insaine.
This week I lost -196$, EV -71,76. In total I'm running -220$ below EV in just over 23.000 hands.

Thare is also a bonus to this!!!! I have to post this picture.
This is a list of hands from this week where I lost all ins:

Hand1 AAvs KK preflop -me having KK
Hand2 AKvsQQ preflop BUvsSB - me having AKs
Hand3 tilt hand - my mistake
Hand4 AKs vs KK - guy hits nut flush on the turn
Hand5 AAvs KK - me having AA, guy hits K
Hand6 tilt hand - at least I had OESD
Hand7 AAvsQQ - guy hits a Q on the turn - too deep to fold
Hand8 - I flopped a nut straight, guy calls his set to the river whwre he hits a full house
Hand9 - set vs set, I have 88 he has 99
Hand10 - set vs villan hits a straight on the flop (guy was a total fish, had some reads)
Hand11 - QQvsTT pre AI - guy hits his T
Hand12 - AK vs JJ pre AI - SBvsBB
Hand13 - AA vs KK - I'm a fish with KK
Hand14 - AA vs KK - I'm a fish with KK
Hand15 - tilt hand - my mistake
Hand16 - tilt hand - my mistake
Hand17 - tilt hand - my mistake
Hand18 - QQvsAK preflop AI - guy hits his K
Hand19 - turn AI sei bluff with over 40% equity - guy has KK
Handd21 - KKvs TT - he hits his T on the turn
Hand23 i like tis one - set vs 82 on the flop, he hits something to the river

And so on, and so on

Fuck poker, I'm so mad right now


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just wwo more just after i posted the stats

Hand converted with online PokerStrategy.com hand converter:

Play hand

$0.1/$0.25 No-Limit Hold'em (6 handed)

Known players:
[tg]BB$2.64:///////;MP2$45.34:///////;MP3$12.50:///////;CO$33.14:///////;BU (Hero)$27.98:///////;SB$12.50:///////;[/tg]

Preflop: Hero is BU with T:s, T:c.
2 folds, CO calls $0.25, Hero raises to $1.25, 2 folds, CO calls $1.00.

Flop: ($2.85) 4:d, 7:h, 8:c (2 players)
CO bets $0.25, Hero raises to $1.50, CO calls $1.25.

Turn: ($5.85) 9:c (2 players)
CO bets $0.25, Hero raises to $3.75, CO calls $3.50.

River: ($13.35) 7:s (2 players)
CO bets $0.25, Hero raises to $6.50, CO raises to $12.75, Hero calls $6.25.

Final Pot: $38.85.
Results follow:

Hero shows two pairs, tens and sevens(T:s T:c).
CO shows three of a kind, sevens(7:c T:d).

CO wins with three of a kind, sevens(7:c T:d).

this one is fun

Hand converted with online PokerStrategy.com hand converter:

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$0.1/$0.25 No-Limit Hold'em (9 handed)

Known players:
[tg]CO$53.86:///////;BU$25.00:///////;SB$25.00:///////;BB$25.00:///////;UTG1$16.48:///////;UTG2$12.24:///////;MP1$26.66:///////;MP2 (Hero)$29.52:///////;MP3$11.42:///////;[/tg]

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with A:h, A:s.
3 folds, Hero raises to $0.87, MP3 folds, CO calls $0.87, 3 folds, 2 folds, BB folds.

Flop: ($2.09) 8:d, 4:h, 5:c (2 players)
Hero bets $1.39, CO calls $1.39.

Turn: ($4.87) 6:s (2 players)
Hero bets $3.24, CO calls $3.24.

River: ($11.35) 4:d (2 players)
Hero bets $6.50, CO calls $6.50.

Final Pot: $24.35.
Results follow:

Hero shows two pairs, aces and fours(A:h A:s).
CO shows three of a kind, fours(4:c A:c).

CO wins with three of a kind, fours(4:c A:c).


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And this kind of hands have -ev in Holdem manager, and I have a ton of them


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Hi people.
Happy new year, all the best.

First sorry for my outburst last week, I just couldn't handle it. I calmed down day after and I watched a nice video on tilting from one of the poker bloger I'm tracking. It's about cognitive behavioral therapy(CBT). To make a long story short I'll just stress out most important things I took out of it:
1. our own thoughts caouse our feelings and behaviours, not external factors like people, situations or EVENTS PLAYING POKER
2. our interpretations of this situations (our thoughts) are controling then our feelings - NOT THE EVENT ITSELF
3. so if I suck out and I think "fuck!! this pot was mine, I totally sucked out, how can this fish do this to me!!" it's that thaught that trigerss the tilt-mad emotion - SOLUTION?
4. CHANGE YOUR THOUGHTS and think like this "so what, fish hits his flush on the river, he made a mistake calling my bet with no odds! that happens 1 out of 5 times, he made a mistake! SEE THE HAND LIKE A FACT, like for it really was. Make a note on him, fuck it, it happens - NEXT HAND PLEASE!
5. train your self to ignore that negative thaughts, ignore them, see things realistic

After seeing this I did the following:
- fuck all what happened,from new year I'm changing my mindset! all what hapened -DELETED
- made new goals for 2012 and started playing all over again with positive minds

W1

Played a bunch, and like it had to happen I'm now running far above my EV. That is when it totally got to me - poker is not a short term game, you can not always make money, you can't always win, you can't always run above EV, below EV ... But what you can is seeing things like they are, see where you made mistakes and learn out of it.

So for the future - no tilts whatsoever - I promise.

Here are the results for W1. Also plan for the month and first quater of the year. If I don't achieve them financialy, no problem but I think you have to have some kind of a plan.

Hands for W1 coming soon!!


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W2
Ok, this week I played:
Hands: 10.507
$ earned: 137,41
EV: 155,57
bb/100: 5,44

Total table for the month and quater:

Still so many leaks in my game, but i think I'm playing better and better. Watching videos and posting hands really helps, I would recommend this to everyone.

Hands coming soon.


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W3

Hands: 7.162
$ earned: 84,96
EV: 109,51
bb/100: 4,75

Status for the month and quater:

This week from Sunday till Friday I was on a bussiness trip in a coast city named Porec. Anyways I managed to put in 7k hands. I'm sure I'll play planned 33k for the month.
Week was good, think I played really well, good thing is that my EV is more than my earnings in last two weeks - I'm making good all ins :)
Next week I'll try to play arround 10k hands, finish the learning stuff (watch the rest of the videos and reading articles).

If you want to see Porec click the link below - great city for summer hollydays.
http://www.porec.hr/

So little about me
I'm 33yo, coming from Croatia, Zagreb. Married for 4 months, no kids so far but working on it. Thats it for now :)

Hands will be posted during the week.


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