So there was some bad news with me, I had a death in the family and took a different turn... fresh out of university and now instead of having a job until I leave for my teaching job in South Korea, I have to find a way to survive. Withdrew my poker roll for bills... BUT- I got staked from 2p2 and thus far it's going good!
usual 30bb/100 hands again, you know how it is!
Winning @ a very unsustainable 30+bb/100 over nearly 5k hands if I include my 25nl stats in here... but since I know that's ridic and unsustainable I'll just post my graph for ongame:
That is my graph after failure @ the 5c Tc level. I didn't understand what I was doing wrong. In frustration I moved up limits to where they respect my raises...
Yeah, it's only been a couple thousand hands... but still, I actually feel like I know wtf is going on.
I was able to figure it out. At 10nl... if anyone raises ever for any reason, fold. If anyone bets into you, fold. If anyone itches their palm and thinks about betting into you... fold. If your finger hovers over the f key on your keyboard.... FOLD.
For gods sake, no one at that limit has ANY CREATIVITY AT ALL. Pretty much, sit back, wait for the nuts, hopefully get in against a station and hope that he calls you down with 2nd pair. There is 0 brainpower @ 10nl, and my overthinking was hurting me.
End of week 1
Been losing pretty bad... feeling pretty bad, making a lot of bad decisions and a lot of confusion is resulting. There are a lot of voices talking all at the same time and yet there seems to be not one clear voice in the poker community of what is right and what is wrong. Some might consider this to be the best part of the game, but I think it's annoying. I mean, I've witnessed at least 4 errors in the "From the Ground Up" series- BASED ON THE TEACHINGS THEY THEMSELVES GIVE! Yet everyone else claims this is the best video series in the world.
I dunno, that likely means I'm just not getting it... or maybe I'm taking it too literally... but the games are VERY difficult to beat:
That's just 10nl. The players do not seem to think, I never get to showdown, my big hands never get dough- it seems the only big pots I win are the ones I suckout massively on. So let's tally this all up:
Players aren't adjusting. I never get to showdown because I'm never called. So... what's the solution? I know, bet like crazy. However, this isn't working. My redline is KICKING ASS.
I need help from people that have beaten a game of pylons and regs.
After a really rough start, it appears that I have begun to break even!!!! Kickin ass and taking names.
I also unlocked a $50 bonus which I'm not including in my tally (even though I technically can).
Here's the graph!
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/4886/evensteven.jpg
Lost a couple buyins today... no big d, nothing worth reporting really. Near the end I really started to come into it. Pegged some aggrofish that was betsizing like 3x pot all the time... forced him to bluff off his chips against me w/ AJos. That's the kind of thing I used to do, I felt bad for him ;(. He had $20 when I sat down and 0 when he left :( (((((((( super frown (((((
I'm up 50 big blinds, was up a full buyin :(, and landed a MASSIVE BLUFF against a player in a pot!
Some small amount of money won from non-showdowns today, but most of my money lost is from showdowns... gonna have to analyze where I went wrong and what was going on here- it's interesting and difficult. I feel that I might just not be getting lucky... but I did run good (I'm like 1 buyin above EV... so... fuck). Either way, 800 hands for the day still ain't that much...
SIGHHHHHHHHHH CMON DC, you're supposed to be making me better.
