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When I first started this blog in Feb 2011 I was messing about at 10NL. And now I’m back. But what I’ve found about moving up is that it is this kind of weird experience where you expect to keep crushing and things just stay the same as they were. What I think it actually is, is like a boxer stepping up in class. You know where a boxer or MMA guy is good and has put ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/captainscope/69271-Time-to-suck-it-up-take-the-hits-and-move-up-">(continued)</a>
Moved up to 5NL for the last couple of weeks. After trying a few times to move up, I have finally “stuck” at 5NL. This limit seems really soft, to a certain degree it seems a little easier than 2NL, which might sound weird. It took some adjusting to, to the different villain’s in that they are a little more aggressive on the flop and I seem to find that 50bb short sta ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/captainscope/66561-April-Moving-up-running-under-ev-and-winning">(continued)</a>
The past month before the end of this week, I had been thrashing about at 2NL. Running into some coolers, getting 2, 3 or 4 outered and instead of winning $25 over ~16k I had lost $25 or 14.5 BI’s. Trust me at 2NL, playing a fit and fold style, kinda weak tight and sticking to the Baluga Theorem that is brutally dull. Boring in fact. I was starting to really not enjoy playing poker. ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/captainscope/65881-OK-Lets-try-to-move-up-again-">(continued)</a>
I finally moved up this weekend. From 2NL to 5NL – wow! I cashed in $10 rakeback and had 70BI’s for 2NL. More than enough for 5NL. I was $15 or 7.5 BI’s @2NL – up for the week as of Friday – so I was playing well and I felt good. Time to move up. I played 1500 hands at 5NL 4 tabling and I lost including what I had won – $38 or almost 9 BI’s for 5NL. (Excluding the bon ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/captainscope/61401-From-2NL-to-5NL-The-Psychology-of-Moving-Up">(continued)</a>
I realized this weekend that not bluffing at 2NL is a massively profitable. The amount of times I have read peeps saying in forums do not bluff at the micros has finally rang true with me. When I say not bluffing I mean we can c-bet with AK or AQ if we miss the flop and get a good number of folds for it to be profitable, we can also semi bluff big draws as ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/captainscope/60731-2NL-poker-without-bluffing-and-thinking-about-moving-up">(continued)</a>
2011 has been a great year in poker for me so far. The fact that I had tilted away a lot of money away at FTP, meant that it was a rebuilding period again at FTP, so I dropped down to 1/2 and just grinded. It has been going phenomenal and I’m back at 2/4 thanks to the Ironman Year End bonus that brought me back to 2/4 bankroll easily, so I’ll be slowly transitioning to that during this w ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/bellatrix/56211-More-online-poker-this-time">(continued)</a>
Hey to all that are reading, I have been playing poker for 2 years in April. I have been playing micro stakes all that times somewhere between 10NL and 50NL. It changes like the season’s. Which is not good – but I haven’t busted my roll once in that time. I decided that this year I would start writing a blog – about my poker experiences, a journeys log of the brutality of it all ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/captainscope/55281-So-it-begins-we-are-16BI-s-4-10NL">(continued)</a>
ow, long time no write. And all while so much was happening in my poker life. Pretty strange that the period where I should be writing the most, where my most life changes are happening is the period where I shut down. I don’t know, part of it is that I want to talk like it’s a finished product, like if I have some ending to the process my writing will seem neater. But our journey is never actually fini ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/bellatrix/54291-Joining-DC-">(continued)</a>
I’ve had a strange poker career thus far. I started playing poker when some guys in my college dorm invited me to play their sng for 5 bucks. I chopped for first place and didn’t think much of it. I was a chess player winning tounries for cash and didn’t think much of poker. A year after, I moved into a new dorm. A roommate always brought guys over to play hold’em. It seemed almost everyday we had ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/azurehaze/48801-New-Horizons">(continued)</a>
This week I have just moved up to the $22 STTs on FTP and seem to be crushing them – well if you count in Skalansky dollars! The exchange rate for these does’nt seem too good at the moment. I have only played 35 of these $22s at the moment so its very early days but my ROI is -21%. Pretty bad hey. And literally on the plus side is my $EV adjusted, sitting at +18.5% I have thrown in an ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/basemetal/48261-A-Bad-Start-To-A-New-Stake-">(continued)</a>