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

Hey slikec,

It seems that you have a lot of doubts about what to play, reading through your blog. Ofcourse, waiting for good hands tends to get boring sometimes, but this is the case in most poker. As for SSS, it doesnt have to be boring perse, as you can actually try to do a lot more. You can for example try to make reads or try to see if you can see certain lines or similarities in ones play. Being able to do this really gives you a boost.
Trying to get away from the boredom by playing more tables or playing more hands leads to leaks in my experience. Therefor its an absolute must to try and find other stuff.
Also, you get to play a bit more poker with SSS on higher limits. If you have some leaks though, it might be that you will be stuck on the limit for even longer, resulting in more boredom ^^

If you need any help on plans orso, just give me a shout in the coachings and I#ll gladly help out

Good luck for now,
Leo

Lol Leo what a nice surprise ♦ I didn't even notest for 5 days lol that you wrote sth. into my blog ♦ I am just used now that i write it only for my self since i know i write mostly stuff not interesting to others.

Well i try to find my leaks also try to find which type of playing suits to me best(NL SSS or BSS and even SH or SNG). FL is just not for me thats sth. i finally got it i think(is so much charm in all in button ♦).

Well i actually founded some leaks this weekend in my game. Which are:
-mostly i don't adopt table/opponent to much which you should even as SSS,
-when i try to over play fish i get to often suckout so i should not slowplay fish anymore ♦
-make some crazy moves sometimes and mostly don't work well

Well this weekend i tried everest poker and again nice boost in my roll and reason seems always the same. Players don't have any knowledge about me which made me some nice winning i won't get anymore now that they have it:(

Again i got suckout to often and what hurst the most on my biggest pots ( Thats so sick that i get suckout on big pots and i suck out on small

On NL50 i lost those two hands
1.
I was BB at Titan with 15$(yes i should leave but table was full of BSS players which is sth. that is impossible at Titan and with two semi fishes that limp with any two) with 88.

4 limp i check(if i would have 10$ i would raise with 15$ just didn't fell good with 88).

Board 789 i donk out with 2$ 3 folds last one show(very solid player btw so was hard call). He turned 89 so i so had him until i see 9 on river ♦

2. i just doubled up on everest(so i had 20$) and on UTG+2 had 77 when all folded so i raised to 1,75$ which i amount i raise on everest while at Titan is 2$. Fish in SB called(he calls with almost any two).

Board was A J 8 which is nice for conti bet even against fish who checks. I bet 2,5$ he calls.

Turn7 and i was whoppy i have him since i doubt he have 2 so he checks i bet 5$ he miniraise i shove he turn around K :diamond:8

River and i lost 40$ Sick sick sick!!!

Well now i decided that i will make small notes about my progress after every month.

This month August i lost most of interest in poker since nothing seems to go as it should. I lost a bit to many coinflips to many big pots when i was big favourite but at the end i still managed to make some small profit overall. As i check my winnings is more or less 5 days of break even and one day of some small boom(sth. like +30-50€)

My roll is atm:
-Titan 251€ which will be first month there i am actually in minus there althought just a bit since i will get aprox. 10€ rake back and aswell 20$ loyalty bonus for being gold second month in row.
-Stars 468,09$ actually i dont like stars much so i play little there(cashed out 300$)
-Party 93,82$ is nice to play now and than with fishes at NL4 ♦ (cashed out 200$)
-Pacific 39$
-Everest 366$
-moneybookers 247,55€

So my roll is 498,5€+657,5€ (967$)=1156€ which is not that bad after all i got throw this month ♦ Actually i am shocked i actually made +326€ profit lol or lets say 39% up from 5 of August ♦

Damn maybe i complain to much lol that fact just put smile on my face. I just am checking what are reasons. Eh only bonuses made my profit lol otherwise i am break even ♦ Eh 326€ is 326€ which matters. If i accomplish that aswell in September is time for me to buy me new monitor as reward. I actually think i will make it without problem why is my secret

So basicly is time for me to stop whining althought is not nice to lose big pots as big favourite Thx. to PS i learned a lot about poker i am playing quite well althought sth. to predictable

Plans for September:
-staying gold at Titan hoping for better luck at coinflip situations and less suck outs on me ♦
-clearing almost whole bonus at everest
-improve my game and observe my opponents more since that as i see lately makes more money(played NL10 FR BSS with nice profit i think althought i can not export hands from everest to elephant so i don't know actually ♦)
-post at least 10 hands here and join at least one coaching.

Long post again lol with lots of crap. If you readed all (wo)man congrats and i owe you a beer ♦

Good luck at tables,

slikec

Today i played again one session of 9 1+0,2$ SNGs at Stars for fun ♦ They are hilarious ♦

I am break even lol. 2 times 1st once 3rd make exactly 10,8$(funny thing is that in July when i played 30 sessions of 9SNGs 8ended that way).

Anyway play there is total crap. But they sucked me out nicely again like:

AK vs KQ
AK vs AT
QQ vs JJ
AQ vs K3- i was short with stack but not that short ♦

Other tables i was just really lucky like(ofcourse i lost all of those hands):
-JJ vs KK vs AA at 4 handed play lol ♦
-or i push with AK(had 1100chips blinds 50/100 and get 4 callers ♦) board 34KK7. Last guy called my push and 2 other calls with 77(he was big stack that made him 80% chip leader ♦).
-5 handed shorty push i repush with AQ BB have AA ♦

The most hilarious was one final table ♦ Other two guys don't even know anything about FE(fold equity ♦). They were folding all the time ♦ SO when they pushed i knew they had monster so was damn easy job wining that table ♦

Damn suckouts are killing all the fun there otherwise i would play those SNGs more since more luck means easily top10 at leaderboard and some money(not much but still ♦).

2 days ago i lost a bit more than 100$ in 1 hour ♦ Tried SSS NL200 and lost 2 stacks there

Soon will be end of month so soon i will update my poker results for this month. Actually not much happened only that sometimes even i can get lucky big time like this one ♦

After double up triple up or my biggest pot on NL50 ♦

Have to whine again ♦ I mean why fishes always get lucky on me? I mean just sick what session i had again.

Played one hour NL25 at stars after 10min. i was 4buy ins down already with losing what i was at least 7to3 favourite

Session ended with playing 690hands with pots won at showdown 16 from 27(59%). I lost all in preflop all those hands(showed only really sick ones ♦):
AQo vs A6o
AJo vs 96o
QQ vs KT-he hit straight
QQ vs K7-he hit straight 7 high omg ♦
AK vs AQ vs J5- J5 guy hit straight 6 high
QQ vs A3o- he hit straight

I mean just sick sick sick how many strange straights they hitted against me. I was behind only 3 times preflop when i went all in of 24times and won so little again

Well session ended with only 2$ minus- blinds are eating me alive ♦

Well is time to party and than tomorrow i have to grind more to finish my goals for this month

Good luck at tables,

slikec

Well is end of previous month so is time to update.

I could whine and probably i will a little but i will try to make is short.

About my goals i actually accomplish them quite good

This month i played 20hours BSS NL5 at Party with nice 100$ profit from which 40$ was reload bonus(sadly exchange rate eat quite nice part of it which i will comment latter.
Played SSS NL25 at Stars around 20hours also with awesome result -120$(thats minus 120$ not profit lol ♦). I mean just to much i would say
And on Titan and Everest i played up to NL100 at everest tried even NL200 where i got crashed into pieces losing 100$ in half an hour ♦

Just decided to try FTP(because of nice freeroll) and i am sad since i din't know is again only 9 players tables and also they lie: During select Happy Hours, the extra points you earn will even count toward other bonuses on our site. - not true

I am mad about moneybookers. They decided to mess with exchange rate and earn with each transaction around 2% money now instead of 0,5€. They took me 20€ this month that way now and i would like to know if anyone else have same problem

This month i moved around money a lot so numbers are pretty much messed

My roll 31.9. was:
-Titan 136€
-Stars 226$
-Party 45$- NL5 rock here
-Pacific 39$
-Everest 279,5$
-FTP 599$
-moneybookers 350€

So roll is 486€+837€(1188,5$)=1323€ which means +167€. Is not bad but well make my hourly winrate around 2€ lol

What to say about plans for further. I am kinda getting sick and tired of SSS especially after all crap i had to eat on Stars. But still i will probably contunie playing SSS since of scare money. NL10 BSS i play yes NL25 BSS is atm to much for me and problem is that at sites i play playing NL10 is useless since you get crappy points which i need to collect

So plans:
-staying gold at Titan
-clearing rest of bonus at everest
-make 1500FPP
-clearing some bonus at FTP but i will see about that since i don't like that dark blue site and have to change so many stuff there(like ask for more tables etc.)
-try again with SNGs but first to reread all articles and watch more movies.
-join at least two coachings.

Well enjoy and good luck at tables,

slikec

Have to add two more things ♦

First is is that first time i am in top100 of english community -

Here is proff ♦

And also i will start adding how much SP i have.

30.9. i had Lifetime StrategyPoints: 9 108 (+2366)

Have to brag a bit ♦ I had again great poker day ♦ Played a lot but hitted like crazy to(ofcourse i got sucked out pretty badly to but for change even i sucked out now and than ♦).
Yesterday
Played 4 hours with friends +15€
Played 6 hours online +95$

And today finally Stars had mercy on me and had awesome +40$ session playing 80min. ♦ One fish donated me 15$ and KK got cracked by AQo and AKo but i cracked QQ with AJo in three way pot ♦ - was blind stealing battle lol ♦

Is funny making in one day same amount of money than normally takes 21days ♦

Enjoy,

slikec

Well i wont play this month anymore since i go to work in 30min. so i can already write my "progress".

Was a really nice month actually having only one really bad session(which was yesterday with -55$ :() and few bad day but on overall i made my bankroll bigger.

Well i should buy new comp. but first i have to decide if i want to move my poker on higher level. I mean at the moment i play SSS for clearing some nice bonuses. SSS is ok but first i play low limits for my BRM NL25/NL50 sometimes NL100 when i feel like second is boring ♦ But this month hourly winrate wasn't that bad i think but will calculate when i get all numbers together.

So for now is time to clear some bonuses with SSS and on low limits i play i can do without stats if i did ok so far. Than i should probably decide to specialize and i kinda think i will pick SNGs but for that is time.

So now lets see how it went(my roll):
-Titan 154,5€- decided i am done with Titan. Only 1SP per month to play freerolls when i feel like.
-Stars 247$ - was nice until i made -55$ yesterday
-Party 40$
-Pacific 39$
-Everest 350,5$
-FTP 811$
-moneybookers 397,5€

Dollar gained nice 8% rate 1,30 $ = 1,00 € which also is making my roll nicer atm ♦
So roll is: 552€+1144€(1487,5$)=1696€ or +373€ Not bad at all This month i played i would say 15hours at party, 30 at FTP, 20hours at Stars, 20 at everest which makes 85hours or 3,5€ per hour if i discount 80€ stronger $ made. Is quite ok but i earn 4€ without risk of losing at my job lol ♦

Goals were more or less cleared only that i decided i quit Titan and i tried SNGs did ok(ROI 25% playing 10 matrix SNGs ♦).

Lifetime StrategyPoints: 10 460(+1350)
Yes i played less this month but with nicer hour rate

I hope i can maintain sth. like this next month.

Good luck at tables i have to go ;),

slikec

Again i got suckout to often and what hurst the most on my biggest pots ( Thats so sick that i get suckout on big pots and i suck out on small

That's exactly what happens to me all the time. I, e.g., hit my set of 4's on the flop and manage to get my stack in the middle. He shows QQ on 45T board or so turn gives a five, river gives a five... So sick. And in the all Ins with Shortys I crack KK with my AK or so.
But why are you quitting Titan? Too many badbeats? Bad promotion or bad software?

OMG what a finish of F1. I have nothinggainst Hamilton but i am really sorry for Massa and all Brazillians i mean catastrophic ♦

Originally posted by Petrificus
But why are you quitting Titan? Too many badbeats? Bad promotion or bad software?

Well 40% rake back was nice BUT as i wrote somewhere already:
-to many PS players which means low profitability
-lot of TAG means lack of fishes
-to many players having only 20BB on table which is also big minus(at least at NL50 there were like always at least 4 on table :()
-why not trying other sites with even better rake back first deposit bonuses.

Titan gave me a lot i must say. I beat FR NL2 and NL5 with nice rate. When i started playing SSS was at NL20 since i didn't like NL10( itried a bit but more SSS players on than on NL20 and had roll for NL20 easily so moved there) i made nice 120$ in 5k hands. I mean NL20 at Titan is great at least was in my times(April, May). Not many SSS players at tables and usually at least 1 if not two fishes ♦

Titan was nice indeed but well i need to try other networks so i tried Everest-nice but big tables and laggy especially for my slow old comp.:( and now FTP which is ok so far but again lots of players with only 20BB on table

I am HOOOOT ♦ Damn last two days i played really well with almost no mistakes but best thing is i get payed by good hands ♦

+100$ profit playing 5 hours yesterday and today which for playing NL25 NL50 SSS tells how hot i am running ♦ I played like 2k hands and won two matrix SNGs to ;)-ROI 90%(20+2$ one) and ROI 140%(5+0,5$ one) ♦

Damn i fell good about my game atm

Unfortunately i can not play much this weekend since i am working Anyway i hope i will run hot at 15k$ silver freeroll. Would be sweet to get at least to final table

Whoa ♦ Maybe is time i switch to SNGs ♦

Played another one this time 11+1$

Result again awesome(ROI almost 200% ♦):

Originally posted by slikec

Unfortunately i can not play much this weekend since i am working Anyway i hope i will run hot at 15k$ silver freeroll. Would be sweet to get at least to final table

Good luck with that

Nice to hear you are running well atm! Lets just hope it continues :>

Sick Upswing didn't last long lol. Only look at that crap:

day $ overall BB/100
14.11. -30,95$ -24,18
13.11 -38,7$ -37,21

Up is only NL50 NL25 went much better(was plus). Damn last two days were totally frustrating Thank god for first deposit bonus lol otherwise i would stop playing ♦

I mean is weekend you expect damn fishes but hell no two tables i was with 7 BSS player and they were freaking TAGs like me ♦ Was only folding and stealing and when i raise(got mostly AK/AQ) they call and i miss damn flop they call conti bet i miss turn grrr. Damn is that annoying. And when i get finally action with KK opponent have AA ♦ Yesterday at NL50 i lost ALL coinflips while i won most of them at NL25. Change would be nice ♦

Eh well enough of poker for me today. Good luck to you (but not against me when we met pls),

slikec

P.S.: I hate damn AK and AQ thats for sure!

Is new month so new time for update! Atm i am steaming with 38 degrees in my head after losing so many coinflips in tourneys SNGs i played :/

Well every minute is getting better but lets write a bit more positive;)

This month i had a great start with +350$ on FTP in 10days afterwards nothing went well and rest of month i finished only additional 50$ higher(but because i got like 150$ rake back meanwhile).

This month i played really little comparing to previous months and probably reason is that i just don't win as much as i think i should ♦ This makes me lol since by now i could establish i am just break even player who loves rake back deals of first deposit bonuses.

Here are my big questions which i need to answer fast
1. Do i want to take poker more serious which includes:
-learning more but first,
-decide if i want to be bonus whore for awhile as i was so far or put rake back deals asside and by learning try to earn with winnings,
-decide what the hell to play ♦ SSS is boring and at times VERY frustrating. Here i think i should focus more on SH but for that i have to cancel bonus whoring(since SH gives really bad rake back deals:/) ♦ SNG is nice but i still make big mistakes which cost and also ROI 5% which sharkscope shows me at my low limits sucks ♦

And of course if i want to improve my game i need new computer tracking program and minning program which also in overall cost quite a lot:/

So basicly for now i will be bonus whore since i can use my old crap comp. without stats and when i fell like playing poker earn some money while doing it

Is just crap i would say. I just don't put almost any effort in anything last few years which sucks and eventually can ... :/

Well now standard part of my monthly review(my roll):
-Titan 155,7€
-Stars 283$
-Party 40$
-Pacific 39$
-Everest 360$
-FTP 1197$
-moneybookers 397,5€

So roll is: 553,2€+1919$ which makes 2064,2€ (or 2621,5$) +368€ not so bad;)
As you can see i played this month more or less only at FTP and stars. I think i player around 60hours at FTP and 20hours at Stars watch only 3 or 4 videos attempt one coaching and was to much on forum ♦

Lifetime StrategyPoints: 11 571(+1121)

Anyway if i want to do sth. serious with poker i have to change almost everything ♦ Sad but true.

Good luck at tables,

slikec

What a roller coaster i had today. I played NL10 BSS NL25 and NL50 SSS.

Start awesome actually dream start than in middle just frustrating when you have hands like in blind battle you lose TT vs KK(cooler;)) or you raise MP with AQo(two limpers) and SSS in BB puts you all in and have to fold etc. Than no hands and damn steal with ATs from SB (when i had 12,7$ at NL50) reraised to 4,5$ i think and push he thinks and calls with KQo. First hand on flop is Q. Damn like they think i am so lose that calling with KQo my all in is profitable ;/

At end i managed to get up again

Graph is funny also cause is in BB and dollar variant and is funny how they separate and come back together quite few times ♦

Ha Slikec! How are you doing?

I just saw you on one of my six tables when doing a coaching, saw you with a 20bb stack Nl25 Stars, am I correct?

What's the level on Nl50 FullRing?

cheers mate!
Gerv

Hi Gerv lol i didn't even saw so far that you wrote to me:D Yes you saw me and well lately at Stars nothing seems to work ♦

NL25 is really crazy ♦ I mean just total rollercoaster and you will easily have sessions when you will lose sth. like 5/15 all ins preflop and than sessions when you'll win sth. like 13/15 ♦ I more or less have those 5/15

NL50 is much tighter at least in my opinion than NL25 and i don't like playing NL50 at Stars and play only sth. like 5-6 the most juicy ones without any good results

I planned to post here since i FINALLY BOUGHT NEW SCREEN ♦ Is unbelivable how big it looks to me ♦ I had 14" and i don't lie if i say that 22" is just for two of those ♦ WHooa ♦ I mean i don't know why i waited so long ♦

I bought nothing really special. Phillips 220 CW9 for 180€. Anyway is just crazy how big it looks to me for now ♦ I just use him only 15min. now ♦

Now multitable will be so much easier ♦ I can even play 6 tables at everest with almost 0 overlap now:D Just tried since is double SP there ♦

Poker can be such a bitch sometimes ♦ F*ck it but this month nothing goes ok ♦ Last two days again down for more than 100$ and previous week also -100$(only first week was ok in December :(). New screen is nice actually i still have problems for looking all the tables all around lol the screen ♦

Yesterday i tried Nl10 SH at ipoker played 1,5k hands -70$ lost all that all ins preflop:
AA vs AKo-he get flush ♦
KK vs JJ
AK vs AQ
AA vs KK-what can i say wasn't my day ♦
and quite a few flips and this one was nice
AK vs 99 i raise preflop he calls. Flop K8K i conti bet he calls turn 9 i bet he calls and well of course i went all in ♦

In overall i am satisfied with my game actually i overplayed few hands thats true but i lost around 15$ that way which is a lot but better than previous attempts;)

Anyway is kinda crazy that i played only sth. like 3k hands SH so far and play like 10-12tables ♦ I know i should play less but i like thrill ♦ Also i watched quite few movies and is time to learn by playing

Anyway i hope fishy hollidays will help my roll and i won't lose so many preflop favourite hands

Good luck,

slikec