The 'good' old tilt&quit

Bad luck + bad play = suckout

Results

131.90
 

New BR

1085.45

About yesterday

I started the review of my worst poker day but I don't want to waste any more time with it. I made a few mistakes but overall that was a day when whatever what you are doing you just cannot win. I'm not going to post here individual hands. I upload the 60BB + loses and here is the link:

http://weaktight.com/s34244

Of course, there are mistakes between them but most of them are variance. Wasn't my luckiest day at all.

But in the same time this could be a huge luck because I'm going back to my lovely NL50 SH game so I hope that I payed off every luckfest yesterday and today I'll get back some of them or at least my 80-20 hands can win :-)

I'll write something about this tomorrow

I never ever lost 9 buy ins in one day before.

Results

91.88
 

New BR

1136.78

Rush is good for me today

I've already played 2 sessions at NL10 Rush FR today. The game was good and simple. I was 4tabling so my stats are a little bit nitty but it felt good at this time.

And the graph so far

Results

31.36

BR

1226.06

Rush is going better

Results

33.45

BR

1194.70

Rush day

I watched couple of videos about NL FR Rush poker on the Card Runners. One from Verneer (called Mr Micro 2011, Part 1) and one from Kush (called Live Session: Rush Poker, part 1).

Verneer has a new goal this year. He wants to build up a $10 000 BR from $200. He started it a few days ago at NL10 Rush, FR & SH. He already made some adjustments and talks about them. If someone likes to play Rush but doesn’t know where and how to start this video worth that hour.

Kush is playing at NL50 and NL100 in this series. Part 1 is NL50, part 2 is NL100 and part 3 is a HEM review. This is much more advanced staff than the Verneer one.

Both of them are 4tabling.

I already played a session today which was very frustrated but had a nice comeback and it cuts my losing streak in this type of game which is a good feeling.

One thing that I already learn from Kush is how to steal BB from SB. I remember how many times I got called when I raised only a normal 3x. Now I start to raise 4x with any two and 3x with good hands. 4x works incredible well. Steal Pct is 80%, Overall Steal Success is 78.1 in this pos!

Looks like I played a little bit too loose, especially if you see Verneer who has 14/11/5 type of stats since he changed his game. But 1482 hands are short term and my 27.2/24.7 SB stats could be the reason of that. And that’s something that I don’t want to change because it works. I still lost a little money there but got resteal only 3 times, and get another called 3 times which is not too much imo.

Results

0.39

BR

1272.62

Another hard working day

I'm back to 2tabling again after my 6 losing sessions down swing, so today's 575 hands means 4 hour long work at the tables.

Results

55.15

BR

1211.33

I put the money in good at least...

I don't care the EV usually, but Ms. Variance, please f* yourself - for my pleasure...

Today

Results

20.35
 

New BR

1223.95

Damn new year

Finally, I played my A-game today! I still lost a little, thanks for my w$sd + 2 bad move, but was much better than the last few days.

I lost somewhere in the middle of the last week or so, as usual. Which is interesting because I was running good on those days. I won a couple of flips in a row for example etc. I just didn’t paid enough attention to the regs. I tried to play against the fishes and that’s all. That’s not good because my aggression felt down right away. And if I’d like to move up (which I do) then I need to play better against regs because there will be less fish and more CR type of guy there. I need to play like I did when I started to play at this level. This is that simple.

So I reviewed Steve’s #7 flag video which is like a bottle of water in the Sahara for me.

Here is today’s 1st session

And this month

My current streak is ‘lost 4 in a row’ which is the longest at this level, the amount is 5 buy in. I hear Steve’s voice: 5 buy in is very standard in one single session… :-)

Results

23.70
 

New BR

1244.30

Happy new year!

That's it folks.

I've played my last session for this year today. Was very fast and I made some mistake but overall it was good. I reached the 23rd consecutive IM month and almost got back to breakeven after a bad start.

I'm not happy with my game and mentality in December so there'll be a lot of change in January.

Today

NL50 this month

NL10 Rush this month

Anyway, Happy New Year for everyone!

PS: One year from now I'll be at NL200 - just make it clear...

Results

100.50

BR

1349.80

Crazy day

Results

30.45

BR

1441.70

Full Tilt crushed - good night!

Damn, I had a perfect day and I had a perfect hand in the middle of my 2nd session when Full Tilt crashed. It's worldwide so there is nothing I can do about it at all.

Have a good night everyone!

Results

113.60

BR

1381.50

Sweet upswing

It's so cool when you don't see the other side of the graph

Results

113.60

BR

1381.50

Better and better

As I said earlier I'm feeling good at the tables. I made few questionable moves but my game is raising hope at least.

Results

118.90

BR

1267.90

I'm back

After 4 days off and a huge cash out I'm back and still play NL50!

My 1st session was an okay one today. I had a hand where I missed some value on the river (again), another one where I couldn't fold 2 pairs vs a passive fish and the biggest one where my Aces weren't enough vs an aggro fish's TT pre ai (runner runner straight LOL). Anyway, overall I felt good myself at the tables and that's important for me after that many days off.

 

Results

14.65
 

New BR

1149.00

Another rush day

An almost beautiful day...

Was a huge comeback and a fast decline...

Results
 
3.85

BR

1965.09

And coming back...

This is not an easy job either...

Results
 
43.49

BR

1961.24

Ouch

Did I just say that rush NL10 FR is equal low variance?

LOL

Results

43.88
 

New BR

1917.75

The priority has been changed

I’m not happy but I need to do some changes in my game. I’m in a little money trouble and this is Christmas time. So yes, I need money.

Till this point my priority list was this:

1. learning
2. playing

Then I started to play badly and lose the money that I need to cash out in a week or so. So at the moment I need to play the game that I can beat. I tried the rush on Full Tilt. I played it only at NL10 and FR and it looks like I can beat it consistently. This game is simple, the variance is low especially when you play a decent amount of hands.

This is just my short term plan. I don’t want to be a level 1 micro stakes grinder. But now I need to be so this is not a choice.

After I cash out I’ll go back to my regular game and level and try to fix it because I still want to play at NL100 in the next spring and NL200 in the end of 2011.

Here is my first shot at NL10 rush game

I can play it on 4 tables simultaneously which means 1300+ hands in every hour. If I can beat it 4+ BB/100 as I did then it means at least 10-12 $ hourly which is good for me at the moment.

Let’s grind for that furniture!

Results

63.80

BR

1961.63