Showing Progression
nullmind, Mar 03 2008
I'm very happy I was able to post again so soon. I had a really good sessions today. Less bad beats and got pretty lucky compared to other days. When I started 5nl, it started out great as always then I got confident and went huge downfall about 6bi downswing. I was almost thinking of going back to 2nl but after some break, I started playing better and slowly progressed up. I finally got 20bi for the next stake(10nl). It was faster than I expected but I'm not complaining. I think I'm improving but theres so many leaks that I need to fix =/. Hopefully, I can continue this progression throughout 10nl stakes too.
Oh and here's the hand of the week for me. http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/397739
Realizing leaks and fixes and restart.
nullmind, Feb 28 2008
I hit a heavy downswing recently mostly from opponents hitting river cards while I was the favorite on turn card. I lost almost every big pots because of those and just crashed myself from nl10 to RIP. All these hands happened last 2-3 days and I had the best hand at the turn. There were many more.
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Everytime I grinded 7, I would lose 10 and it kept repeating itself and it eventually tilt me out. I was thinking why am I always getting rivered and always suckout? After cooling down and a lot of thinking, I realized it wasn't only me. I knew luck wasn't the only thing to blame and I needed to fix my leaks. I was sure I had a lot of leaks but I didn't know where to start. Here are the few I thought of.
1. I first realized when I have good hands, I just cbet without looking back. I noticed I stopped looking at textures and draws. Even if it wasn't getting rivered, I realized someone could've beaten me with flush/straight.
2. I make bad decisions against shortstackers. For example, in 10nl, when a shortstacker with 10~30bb all-ins, I would just call with hands like Kx,Ax. It is really dumb. I would win sometimes but keep losing to shortstackers added up.
3. I overplay hands. While I was reading someones HH, someone mentioned something like "Just fold here, why risk a pot? Put your money in better spots". For example, I would bet or call at river with AK and AKQJx on board 'thinking' my opponent wont have that one card.
4. Leaving when over 200bb. Some might disagree with this but I will be following this rule for a bit. Sometimes I would have 30-40$ stack in nl10 and it would be nice if i doubled but lose 3-4 buyins instantly if someone has that kind of stack also.
After keeing all these in mind, I wanted to take another shot at poker. I started two days ago with $50 and here are the results. I slowly grinded up and had almost 20 buyins to take a shot at 5nl but the last $5 was the hardest. It took about 1000 hands to get that last 5 bucks.
I know this is a very small sample but unlike my previous graph where it goes wildly up and down, this one is gradually going up. Hopefully, it will stay like this.. I gonna take a stab at 5nl now. Wish me luck.
Some newbie\'s rant
nullmind, Feb 25 2008
Yeah I know by now I can't always win with AA nor I expect to. But when you get no action for like 10 AA in a row in microstakes? Everyone folding to you to big blind? WTF?
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And when I actually do get some action, this happens...
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It always feels like when I flop a set, flop is a suited board.
When I have high pocket card(KK, QQ, JJ, TT) always a higher card flops.
When I have a nut flush draw, it always fails to deliver.
Damn I'm such a FISH!
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