Downswing continues.....been working real hard away from the table still, watching vids and review HH's. I just joined this competetion...http://www.pocketfives.com/f7/*micro-mtt-team-competition*-begins-11-29-a-608900/
basically any tournament from $1-$6 and $3 1a1r and $3 rebuys and under count. Same comp me and chrisp200 played few months back earlier this year. I got a new team though since chrisp is crushing the tables right now. I picked up the 2 guys that were leading scorers last comp. I also entered a winner take all $20 singles comp. Its worth $140 and has 8 people in it. I will prob want to kill myself after this week jst for the fact that its micros. But the bankroll is low and I need some motivation so this couldnt have happened at a better time.
miniFTOPS starts next week and also the miniFTOPS competition that runs 3.5 weeks I think...$100 buy in, snake style draft..5 players per team. We shall see. Anyways got a bunch of micro donk tournaments starting so glgl
Monday, November 29, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Pokewhore
What a game we play. The past 1.5-2 months at the tables have been absolute hell. Watching what seems to be every hand get it in and the chips going the other direction and then ding, 'youve been eliminated' noise. It's happened all too much but what can you do? Expected, standard, etc etc etc. It's poker. I've said it a lot latley but this is still currently my worst downswing in the 6ish years I've played. For some odd reason my HH's weren't being saved again so any semi deep run I had I've been unable to look at them to see the leaks that need plugged. Seems to be working today so hopefully I'll have some tournaments to look at.
We can't always blame variance on the problem. Finding new ways to accumulate chips is something that every player needs to add to the arsenal. Everybody has their standard push hands, calls hands, etc etc etc. But what about the in between? What separates the sickos from me? What if we kick back from 16-18 tables to 10 or so and find more spots to pick up chips. Maybe it isnt the best +EV situation for you but I think in a vaccum, in that certain moment where you have a read and decide to make an unorthodox play. You get called and lose so what? You have many more tournaments to get at. MTTs are getting tougher and are only going to get worse thru the years. Staying ahead of the curve is important and obviously finding new ways to increase your edge is a must. Training sites and books and forums can only get you so far. It sets a good foundation to build upon. Who cares if it looks silly if you get called, you tried. It's an art..rough drafts of shit to see if it needs cut out or kept. Don't throw it out because you got called and lost, take a look back and see if you saw something that maybe it was a bad time to do. I'm rambling on about some basic common sense but sometimes I think it's missed. We get so wrapped up in our own situation, downswing, upswing, whatever and we forget to review our games. It's easier to just pass it off on bad luck, right? So the new goal is going to be atleast 1-2 tournaments per week need to be reviwed. I'm not sure if any serious players follow this besides the usuals but I encourage you to do it also. Even if you find 1 spot that you could have got chips, thats a + for the review session.
Also I was talking with Jay(plzjusthold) and we are going to try a new set up. 12 tables to begin the session and then cutting back as you get deeper(thats what she said). This will get us paying more attention to detail in the mid-late stages. We will see how it goes, Sunday today..got a nice schedule going. GL at the tables.
We can't always blame variance on the problem. Finding new ways to accumulate chips is something that every player needs to add to the arsenal. Everybody has their standard push hands, calls hands, etc etc etc. But what about the in between? What separates the sickos from me? What if we kick back from 16-18 tables to 10 or so and find more spots to pick up chips. Maybe it isnt the best +EV situation for you but I think in a vaccum, in that certain moment where you have a read and decide to make an unorthodox play. You get called and lose so what? You have many more tournaments to get at. MTTs are getting tougher and are only going to get worse thru the years. Staying ahead of the curve is important and obviously finding new ways to increase your edge is a must. Training sites and books and forums can only get you so far. It sets a good foundation to build upon. Who cares if it looks silly if you get called, you tried. It's an art..rough drafts of shit to see if it needs cut out or kept. Don't throw it out because you got called and lost, take a look back and see if you saw something that maybe it was a bad time to do. I'm rambling on about some basic common sense but sometimes I think it's missed. We get so wrapped up in our own situation, downswing, upswing, whatever and we forget to review our games. It's easier to just pass it off on bad luck, right? So the new goal is going to be atleast 1-2 tournaments per week need to be reviwed. I'm not sure if any serious players follow this besides the usuals but I encourage you to do it also. Even if you find 1 spot that you could have got chips, thats a + for the review session.
Also I was talking with Jay(plzjusthold) and we are going to try a new set up. 12 tables to begin the session and then cutting back as you get deeper(thats what she said). This will get us paying more attention to detail in the mid-late stages. We will see how it goes, Sunday today..got a nice schedule going. GL at the tables.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Epic Fail and a Return
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Thats about how I feel right now. 2 weeks of playing SNGs, played about 1300-1400 games and got creamed. This is by far the worst downswing I have experienced in my 6 or so years of poker. I reviewed after every sesh using SNGWIZ and it said I was doing everything right(atleast 80% of the time). And still, loserrrr. Bascially SNGs are DEAD. You have a bunch of wannabe sng pros that play worse than breakeven poker and ship money back and forth to each other. None of the regs adjust to pushing ranges against regs in the blinds and they call even lighter on the bubble. Maybe I'm doing it wrong?
3k downswing in SNGs and another 2kish downswing in MTTs in Oct. yaaaaa, and im a winning player? Pretty sure this is normal and expected so I'm not gonna make this a cry post. I played good, ran like shit, and here I am. SuperNovaElite is no more. I don't play cash so its bascially impossible unless I had about a $10k BR to run $27 and $38 SNGs. Whatever happened to the 100 buy in rule for SNGs? Needs to be about 500 BIs or more these days.
Anyways, heres the plan...I'm back in the MTT game. I'll be playing on UB, FTP, and PS. mini-FTOPS is next monthish or so, pretty excited to be back in the game for it. As much as I wanted SNE , there is nothing better than getting deep in a tournament and shipping it.
Also props to the newest Pittsburgh online player, focusdriver112 (on ftp), also my roommate....he shipped a $5.50 on FTP yesterday morning for $190. First NLHE tournament he's won, NJ! This is also after a solid performance in the $3r $14.5k on ftp where he took 14th or 15th I believe. And to all the downswingers, keep your head, get it in good. GLGL
Thats about how I feel right now. 2 weeks of playing SNGs, played about 1300-1400 games and got creamed. This is by far the worst downswing I have experienced in my 6 or so years of poker. I reviewed after every sesh using SNGWIZ and it said I was doing everything right(atleast 80% of the time). And still, loserrrr. Bascially SNGs are DEAD. You have a bunch of wannabe sng pros that play worse than breakeven poker and ship money back and forth to each other. None of the regs adjust to pushing ranges against regs in the blinds and they call even lighter on the bubble. Maybe I'm doing it wrong?
3k downswing in SNGs and another 2kish downswing in MTTs in Oct. yaaaaa, and im a winning player? Pretty sure this is normal and expected so I'm not gonna make this a cry post. I played good, ran like shit, and here I am. SuperNovaElite is no more. I don't play cash so its bascially impossible unless I had about a $10k BR to run $27 and $38 SNGs. Whatever happened to the 100 buy in rule for SNGs? Needs to be about 500 BIs or more these days.
Anyways, heres the plan...I'm back in the MTT game. I'll be playing on UB, FTP, and PS. mini-FTOPS is next monthish or so, pretty excited to be back in the game for it. As much as I wanted SNE , there is nothing better than getting deep in a tournament and shipping it.
Also props to the newest Pittsburgh online player, focusdriver112 (on ftp), also my roommate....he shipped a $5.50 on FTP yesterday morning for $190. First NLHE tournament he's won, NJ! This is also after a solid performance in the $3r $14.5k on ftp where he took 14th or 15th I believe. And to all the downswingers, keep your head, get it in good. GLGL
Monday, November 8, 2010
1st week
First 7 days of the month are done and I played about 700 games. Mainly 27s and 38s. I hit about a 60-70 buy in downswing..pretty sick. The regs in these games amaze the shit out of me with their play. Unless its just me, they dont seem to adjust to the player they are shipping late. Which is fine with me, its eaiser to play like that.
I've been 18-20 tabling pretty solid and just hope to hit a nice upswing. SNGwiz is showing pretty much every push and call is good so just need to keep pumping up the volume. I'm currently at Platinum VIP with around 11k-12k for the first week. Also I hit 3 stellar rewards for $50 a pop. Now if i can end this horrific downswing I'll be happy.
I've been 18-20 tabling pretty solid and just hope to hit a nice upswing. SNGwiz is showing pretty much every push and call is good so just need to keep pumping up the volume. I'm currently at Platinum VIP with around 11k-12k for the first week. Also I hit 3 stellar rewards for $50 a pop. Now if i can end this horrific downswing I'll be happy.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
whats going on
Been a very long time since I last updated this. A lot went on in Oct, mainly towards the end of the month. My brother got married so I was busy with that. Ended up throwing a halloween party too at the end of the month which was wooord. MTTs were not so kind to me this month, I ended up busting my stake and being on an $1800 downswing :( . I was playing pretty damn good all month but nothing went my way deep. Nothing you can do there but keep going.
Since I'm still not working and this is my sole source of income I have decided to take another route. MTTs are fun and I will always love them, because after all that is poker. But I was offered something I couldnt refuse. SuperNova Elite. For those of you that dont know that is 1 million VPPs in 1 year on Pokerstars.(I think only 30 or so have made SNE this year. Very small % when you think about all the people in the world that play on Pokerstars.) You get 5.5 VPPs per $1 rake. So its a shit load. I have worked a solid deal out and a play schedule that should get me there by Oct of next year.
For November I am looking to get 50k VPPs and 100k VPPs in December which will land me at SuperNova for 2011. These 2 months are the key months for this to work out because of all the bonuses I'll be able to get as SuperNova. After all is said and done and I hit SuperNova Elite by the end of next year I'll get around $110k in bonuses, including 2 live $10k packages to any event...mostly likely WSOP ME and PCA.
I've switched my focus from MTTs to SNGs....right now 9 man turbos with the option of moving to cash games and MTT-SNGs. Right now I have just over 3k VPPs for November and already hit Gold Star is 2 days. I'm running mainly $27 9 mans and adding $38s to the mix. Hopefully I'll be at $38 soely by the end of the week to get the VPPs going. I run anywhere from 16-20 tables, looking to get to 25+ by Jan 2011. I've played about 325 games in 2.2 days or so. Looking to get around 1500+ VPPs per day right now to stay on track.
I'm gonna try to make some changes to the blog to show my updated VPPs and so forth but havent figured out what I want to do yet. So follow along and stay tuned. :)
Since I'm still not working and this is my sole source of income I have decided to take another route. MTTs are fun and I will always love them, because after all that is poker. But I was offered something I couldnt refuse. SuperNova Elite. For those of you that dont know that is 1 million VPPs in 1 year on Pokerstars.(I think only 30 or so have made SNE this year. Very small % when you think about all the people in the world that play on Pokerstars.) You get 5.5 VPPs per $1 rake. So its a shit load. I have worked a solid deal out and a play schedule that should get me there by Oct of next year.
For November I am looking to get 50k VPPs and 100k VPPs in December which will land me at SuperNova for 2011. These 2 months are the key months for this to work out because of all the bonuses I'll be able to get as SuperNova. After all is said and done and I hit SuperNova Elite by the end of next year I'll get around $110k in bonuses, including 2 live $10k packages to any event...mostly likely WSOP ME and PCA.
I've switched my focus from MTTs to SNGs....right now 9 man turbos with the option of moving to cash games and MTT-SNGs. Right now I have just over 3k VPPs for November and already hit Gold Star is 2 days. I'm running mainly $27 9 mans and adding $38s to the mix. Hopefully I'll be at $38 soely by the end of the week to get the VPPs going. I run anywhere from 16-20 tables, looking to get to 25+ by Jan 2011. I've played about 325 games in 2.2 days or so. Looking to get around 1500+ VPPs per day right now to stay on track.
I'm gonna try to make some changes to the blog to show my updated VPPs and so forth but havent figured out what I want to do yet. So follow along and stay tuned. :)
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