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700 days ago
The last post spoke a little about changing sites. It's been a good move, and I was showing a positive result (about 4bb/100) at the 25nl tables. But as I've said before I get discouraged thinking about moving up the limits in no limit. After .50/1 there doesn't seem to be very many tables with flop percentages beyond the low 20s. This essentially means that most of the time the hands aren't seeing a flop. I could probably beat that sort of table set-mining with an 11%vpip, but that's not my idea of poker, and there's a very good chance that I'd get outplayed. So I finally decided to heck with it all. I recovered my bankroll quite nicely at Stars and the moment I did I made the decision I was supposed to have made a month ago. That is, to learn to play and win at limit poker. There are some pretty substantial differences between limit and no limit play. One of the primary differences is that limit is much more a game of immutable odds and probabilities. No Limit is more ...
720 days ago
"We Germans aren't all sunshine and smiles you know." -German guy on the Simpsons. Well neither are poker players. Particularly when we're losing our shirts. I have said it before that these posts are valueless if all I ever do is report my wins. I've been on a terrible losing streak. I've seen my 20k hand win rate chopped in half by my last 3000 hands. It's been brutal. My flushes don't seem to be holding up, my sets always run into trouble and I don't even want to talk about my pairs. This is why they call it gambling. Had this bad streak hit me in my first weeks back I would have lost my entire deposit. I've dropped about 10-15 buy ins, which is pretty damn extreme. I'm still plus ev, but instead of winning 10bb/100 I'm down to just over 4bb/100. That's a good win rate at any limit, and my losses are just the reckoning of the hot run I had initially. And that's me rationalizing. Where are the rest of the losses coming from? The site I've been playing at has ...
725 days ago
For me the purpose of posting is pretty simple. I like to improve my play. Posting my results regularly gives me a point of reference when things are going wrong and helps to identify losing patterns. However it's only helpful when I'm actually posting losing results and analyzing those losses. Currently I'm running pretty bad. I'm on a 6k hand losing streak out of 20k hands. That sounds a lot worse than it is. Essentially I'm down $100 bucks in cash games for the month. With the run I had upon first returning to the game this was expected. Expecting it doesn't make it a whole lot easier though. I try to make a habit of checking my play for mistakes regularly, but it's more of a scan and conscience check when things are going well. It takes an extended run like this for me to really take a close look at things. I found that about 90% of my biggest losses were losses incurred while chasing flushes and straights. There are profitable chases and there are unprofitable ...
728 days ago
That about says it all. The last entry mentioned moving up limits, and that didn't go so well. I lost about 6 buy ins which is never fun when you're trying to move up. I've logged about 7 losing sessions in a row now, which was bound to happen as I ran about 2 weeks with nothing but wins. I would love to think that I'm above this, and I would love to be above this but I'm not. When I start losing I lose all desire to play. I'm not a gambling man. I find parting with money very difficult, and I tend to step back when I'm losing and take a few days off. Taking a few days off turned into taking a week off this time though. My kids were off school on Friday, so I didn't play at all then, and throughout the earlier part of last week I might have put in about 1000 hands. In all I finished November about 5000 hands short of my goal, or at 75% of my target. Part of the problem is also that I'm finding poker to be a lot more boring than I remembered it. I'm actually looking for a ...
737 days ago
The literary website that I've been talking about building is up. (I think I might even have finished it ahead of schedule, whaddaya think of that?) You can check it out here http://www.freewebs.com/redlightlit/index.htm
