Poker and Life UpdatePosted Nov 16, 2011 at 1:23 AM |
Poker and Life Update
Heads Up Games
Been running SO SO SO poorly heads up and these are my bread and butter games and most of time I can fall back on these. The action has been slower but not dead. Today I lost 1k in less than 100 hands playing 15-30 and 10-20. Flopped 2 straights and guy made river straights both times for huge pots in 15-30.
Fortunately I just crushed some guys skull for 700 or so but overall everywhere I am playing I have been running bruuuuuuuutally heads up for the past week or 2 and that will change. Especially in heads up play, the donkeys can't sustain this type of pace. If they could I would have noosed myself 2 years ago.
6 Max and Ring
I was getting my head torn off in the beginning of the stake in these games. In fact it was one of the worst runs I have ever been on in my life at times.
I was getting the crapped kicked out out of me in blind vs blind and button/blind play. That has turned around quite a bit and I have been doing well in these games. If I start to run bad or feel any tilt I will quit. Last night I actually got this feeling for the second time on this stake and shut down my PC asap and didn't play till tonight.
Running Bad
Honestly I have run about as terrible as one can run. It is sickening the shit that has been happening. The heads up stuff is going to happen cause that's how shit goes in heads up sometimes but over any sample I should be winning 3 to 5 BB 100 and that will come in time no matter what happens I believe. As long as I continue game selection I will best them.
I am running better in ring but some of the shit is just sick. Regs flatting with K4SS after I raise utg and nailing bullshit. Regs opening 3-4 from cutoff spiking river trips. And some other nasty fucking hands. I see a couple guys on 10 k heaters that will be broke soon. There is just no way to sustain the type of atrocious play I am seeing.
My demeanor overall
Honestly 3 months ago I had a lot of shit going on in my life and poker was just meh whatever. My bankroll was heading south like a locomotive train for many reasons. I just didn't give a fuck when I lost. I wouldn't even think about anything poker related while playing. I was just clicking buttons like an idiot for the most part. I played a couple bad heads up matches, played terrible one day of 4 tabling 15-30 , got about 10k locked up on full tilt, did some heavy spending and before you knew it I was 50k lighter.
I wasn't broke but my poker roll was thinner than it had been in 2 years and my bank account was heading in the wrong direction and I didn't give a fuck till one day I thought about possibly having to work again. That's when I snapped and got my ass in gear. I loaded what I had left in my poker roll onto 4 or 5 sites and started grinding at the 2-4 to 3-3 to 5-10 heads up game. Within 6 weeks I was playing and beating up to 15-30 and some 30-60 consistently. I have been putting in more hours per week right now then I had at any point during my playing days.
3 years ago when I started I was spoiled. Nobody was playing heads up limit. I was only playing 3-6 and 5-10 but I got so much action I didn't feel I had to play that much. 1k-2k profit per week and I was fine with that and I didn't have to play much for it either. Maybe 3 or 4 hrs per day and it was automatic cash. Instead of saving and moving up I just stayed in the 5-10 to 10-20 range and before you knew it the heads up pool increased by 10x.
To counter this I started playing more sites but this only lasted for so long because everyone followed. I had to learn 6 max again and I had to do it fast. I broke even for a couple months and then it all clicked. I started killing the games and was only playing 2-3 hrs a day and taking weekends off. Life was good as I was making 3 or 4 k a week and barely playing. This was good and bad. It was good cause I was making a ton of cash but bad cause I got some lazy playing habits.
After black friday these habits killed me. Especially the habits of barely playing. I had a HUMUNGOUS pool of players I had to adjust to at some sites and it was a growing process having them adjust to me as well.
So basically since September I stared down the gun barrel and made enormous changes on many things or I was about to hit some serious rough patches. I have been playing 50-60 hrs a week and I want to keep playing more and more and play higher than I am now when games run on certain sites. I have been alcohol free (for 3 + months) and am back in the gym and have gained a ton of muscle while losing another 10 lbs and lifting more weight on the bench than I have in a long time. And most importantly I am very happy and hungry to get back to where I was heading before black friday hit.
Bankroll on stake is sitting at roughly $9700 so I am AHEAD $3700. I know there is a huge run coming soon. There is just no way I am going to continue to get as unlucky as I have in these games. And if I do I have no problem with slowly grinding up a little here and there whether it is bonuses or rakeback. Profit is profit baby
Heads Up Games
Been running SO SO SO poorly heads up and these are my bread and butter games and most of time I can fall back on these. The action has been slower but not dead. Today I lost 1k in less than 100 hands playing 15-30 and 10-20. Flopped 2 straights and guy made river straights both times for huge pots in 15-30.
Fortunately I just crushed some guys skull for 700 or so but overall everywhere I am playing I have been running bruuuuuuuutally heads up for the past week or 2 and that will change. Especially in heads up play, the donkeys can't sustain this type of pace. If they could I would have noosed myself 2 years ago.
6 Max and Ring
I was getting my head torn off in the beginning of the stake in these games. In fact it was one of the worst runs I have ever been on in my life at times.
I was getting the crapped kicked out out of me in blind vs blind and button/blind play. That has turned around quite a bit and I have been doing well in these games. If I start to run bad or feel any tilt I will quit. Last night I actually got this feeling for the second time on this stake and shut down my PC asap and didn't play till tonight.
Running Bad
Honestly I have run about as terrible as one can run. It is sickening the shit that has been happening. The heads up stuff is going to happen cause that's how shit goes in heads up sometimes but over any sample I should be winning 3 to 5 BB 100 and that will come in time no matter what happens I believe. As long as I continue game selection I will best them.
I am running better in ring but some of the shit is just sick. Regs flatting with K4SS after I raise utg and nailing bullshit. Regs opening 3-4 from cutoff spiking river trips. And some other nasty fucking hands. I see a couple guys on 10 k heaters that will be broke soon. There is just no way to sustain the type of atrocious play I am seeing.
My demeanor overall
Honestly 3 months ago I had a lot of shit going on in my life and poker was just meh whatever. My bankroll was heading south like a locomotive train for many reasons. I just didn't give a fuck when I lost. I wouldn't even think about anything poker related while playing. I was just clicking buttons like an idiot for the most part. I played a couple bad heads up matches, played terrible one day of 4 tabling 15-30 , got about 10k locked up on full tilt, did some heavy spending and before you knew it I was 50k lighter.
I wasn't broke but my poker roll was thinner than it had been in 2 years and my bank account was heading in the wrong direction and I didn't give a fuck till one day I thought about possibly having to work again. That's when I snapped and got my ass in gear. I loaded what I had left in my poker roll onto 4 or 5 sites and started grinding at the 2-4 to 3-3 to 5-10 heads up game. Within 6 weeks I was playing and beating up to 15-30 and some 30-60 consistently. I have been putting in more hours per week right now then I had at any point during my playing days.
3 years ago when I started I was spoiled. Nobody was playing heads up limit. I was only playing 3-6 and 5-10 but I got so much action I didn't feel I had to play that much. 1k-2k profit per week and I was fine with that and I didn't have to play much for it either. Maybe 3 or 4 hrs per day and it was automatic cash. Instead of saving and moving up I just stayed in the 5-10 to 10-20 range and before you knew it the heads up pool increased by 10x.
To counter this I started playing more sites but this only lasted for so long because everyone followed. I had to learn 6 max again and I had to do it fast. I broke even for a couple months and then it all clicked. I started killing the games and was only playing 2-3 hrs a day and taking weekends off. Life was good as I was making 3 or 4 k a week and barely playing. This was good and bad. It was good cause I was making a ton of cash but bad cause I got some lazy playing habits.
After black friday these habits killed me. Especially the habits of barely playing. I had a HUMUNGOUS pool of players I had to adjust to at some sites and it was a growing process having them adjust to me as well.
So basically since September I stared down the gun barrel and made enormous changes on many things or I was about to hit some serious rough patches. I have been playing 50-60 hrs a week and I want to keep playing more and more and play higher than I am now when games run on certain sites. I have been alcohol free (for 3 + months) and am back in the gym and have gained a ton of muscle while losing another 10 lbs and lifting more weight on the bench than I have in a long time. And most importantly I am very happy and hungry to get back to where I was heading before black friday hit.
Bankroll on stake is sitting at roughly $9700 so I am AHEAD $3700. I know there is a huge run coming soon. There is just no way I am going to continue to get as unlucky as I have in these games. And if I do I have no problem with slowly grinding up a little here and there whether it is bonuses or rakeback. Profit is profit baby
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