May was a crazy month. I started the month by going on a $2000 downswing. Mainly on cake and my stars account was dwindling. I was down to my last $200 and was going to play it out hoping for a good result. If I lost, I was going to reload but I really didn't want to have to go through all that.
I started off my session May 8 by losing $800 in the cake cash games. I had some random tournaments going and wound up going deep in the $5 rebuys. I wound up getting 2/2700 which was good for $5293.
From there I went on a furious upswing making another $1000 on Stars plus recovering another $1000 from the Cake downswing.
I then decided to invest $1000 in Lebron James.
Unfortunately I didnt think he was going to get throttled by the Magic and I lost $900 betting on playoff basketball.
I then went on another downswing and ended the month that way.
For the month I finished with the following:
Stars $4773.90
Cake $1991 ($1000 withdrawn for Lebron.)
For the month I made $3598 on poker and lost $900 on betting for a total of $2598 for the month in gambling.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Sunday, May 3, 2009
April
So April for the most part has been like the rest of year. Since it was that way it's a good thing that I didn't get to the tables that much. If I remember correctly, I had only played once 10 days into the month. Overall I only played 17282 hands of cash poker on Cake. I also played in 81 tournaments on Stars but that is a rather high number because about 20-30 of those were triple or nothing tournaments which aren't real tournaments.
I did really well on Stars but the RNG still fucked me all month long. I got really really deep in quite a few tournaments but I don't ever get lucky on stars.
Example 1:
$3 rebuys... 10 players left out of 4100 and we have been 12 handed or less for about an hour. People keep barely avoiding elimination and I know that the longer I have to wait to make the final table the more likely I will be the bubble boy. Sure enough, it happened.
I have 2M chips and am in 6th place and a guy who has me covered shoves UTG. I call with AK and he has AQ. Before this hand, I had been dealt this 4 times in a row in different tournaments and won. Each time I won, it was a huge spot where I couldn't afford a bad beat. When I saw his cards I knew I was fucked. I will never win the same scenario 5 times in a row. I am just not capable. It will never happen. I can lose the same way 20 times in a row but to win 5 times in a row is a huge stretch. I didn't even look at the board because I had that horrible feeling I get everytime I am about to get fucked over. Sure enough a queen hit the flop, I lost a 4M chip pot and I am fucked out of $6K and for the second time in my life I get 10th place in the $3 rebuys. Seriously poker, when the fuck do I get mine? Never? If thats the answer then just fucking tell me already so I can quit and stop wasting my time.
I really don't know why I keep playing on this site. My account is extremely close to bust and yet I am contemplating reloading if I get cleaned out. Please don't ask because I don't know why.
As for Cake, I got to my wits end playing the 50NL. I get fucked over at 50NL more then anybody. The hands that people show down when they win are unreal. I have gotten KK and AA cracked by bullshit like 3 6 and 9 4 for months on end now and I finally said enough was enough.
I have adopted a new strategy and for the first time in a really long time, I have picked up a strategy that is actually working.
I decided to start shortstacking 200NL and 400NL. I buy into 1/2NL with $120 and 2/4 with $200.
I played in these games on Cake a really long time ago and some things have changed and others have not. 2/4 is still extremely difficult. I know I am a much better player because I have been able to hang whereas I got killed the last time I played in this game.
The game is hard enough to where I actually stopped playing in it. Altogether I made about $500 in that game. I only play if I need one more table and I don't like the $200 games.
As for 1/2NL that has become my new game. The game seems a lot easier then from when I played it before. It's not as aggressive as I expected and you get to see a lot of cheap flops. The average player is not much different then the average 50NL player. They just have a few more tricks. With the exception to a couple hands where I lost full stacks, I find the players at 1/2 to be much more predictable. Only because they don't play bullshit like 9 4 and 8 2. So now when I get AA and bet the flop I don't get checkraised on boards that look like this anymore: 4 2 2. When I do get c/r on those boards they have a pair smaller then AA and I just have to fade 2 outs.
I have played 1/2 for about 10 days and have done really well. When I started my accont was down to $2050. When I called it a month I was all the way up to $3990. Remember thats from $120 buyins and not $200 buyins.
For the month I made $313 in rakeback.
Speaking of rakeback, I have another incentive to play bigger. I did the math and I get paid triple what I get paid at 50NL in terms of rakeback. Unfortunately 80K hand months are a thing of the past. I will probably make the same amount in rakeback as I did before at 50NL however I will only need to play about 25K hands to make $1000 in rakeback.
I have also come to the conclusion that I am not a good mass tabler. When I play 8-10tables this is what happens.
Bad beat, lose big pot. Cooler, lose big pot. Win small pot. Win small pot. Bad beat, lose big pot. Bad beat, lose big pot. Bad beat, lose big pot. Win big pot. Win small pot.
That will all happen in about 5 minutes.
Now when I play I have no more then 4 tables of NL200 going on at once. The most tables I play altogether is 6 when I have tournies going as well.
For the first time in a while I am pretty excited about poker because I really think that I can take a lot of money out of the 1/2 game.
For April I ended with the following:
Cake: $3990
Stars: $276
Thats a total profit of $921. Yay.
For the year I have made $4134 which is obviously better then losing but I expect to make more then that in May just playing 1/2 NL. Hopefully I don't stick my foot in my mouth.
Sunday May 03.
Right now I am up for the month. I have the following on my sites.
Cake: $4179+$133 in r/b = $4312
Stars: $254
As for the WSOP, I have the money to play in a bunch of the $1500 buyin NL events but I like having money and I am not really in the mood to play the lottery. Although frustrating, I like making money slowly. I like making money fast but I can't hold up in 4M chip pots when there are 10 players left in a tournament so I have to rely on grinding. In the unlikely event that I get some big tourney scores I will more then likely not be making my first ever appearance in the WSOP. And although I have more then enough money to play I don't feel bad about it at all.
I did really well on Stars but the RNG still fucked me all month long. I got really really deep in quite a few tournaments but I don't ever get lucky on stars.
Example 1:
$3 rebuys... 10 players left out of 4100 and we have been 12 handed or less for about an hour. People keep barely avoiding elimination and I know that the longer I have to wait to make the final table the more likely I will be the bubble boy. Sure enough, it happened.
I have 2M chips and am in 6th place and a guy who has me covered shoves UTG. I call with AK and he has AQ. Before this hand, I had been dealt this 4 times in a row in different tournaments and won. Each time I won, it was a huge spot where I couldn't afford a bad beat. When I saw his cards I knew I was fucked. I will never win the same scenario 5 times in a row. I am just not capable. It will never happen. I can lose the same way 20 times in a row but to win 5 times in a row is a huge stretch. I didn't even look at the board because I had that horrible feeling I get everytime I am about to get fucked over. Sure enough a queen hit the flop, I lost a 4M chip pot and I am fucked out of $6K and for the second time in my life I get 10th place in the $3 rebuys. Seriously poker, when the fuck do I get mine? Never? If thats the answer then just fucking tell me already so I can quit and stop wasting my time.
I really don't know why I keep playing on this site. My account is extremely close to bust and yet I am contemplating reloading if I get cleaned out. Please don't ask because I don't know why.
As for Cake, I got to my wits end playing the 50NL. I get fucked over at 50NL more then anybody. The hands that people show down when they win are unreal. I have gotten KK and AA cracked by bullshit like 3 6 and 9 4 for months on end now and I finally said enough was enough.
I have adopted a new strategy and for the first time in a really long time, I have picked up a strategy that is actually working.
I decided to start shortstacking 200NL and 400NL. I buy into 1/2NL with $120 and 2/4 with $200.
I played in these games on Cake a really long time ago and some things have changed and others have not. 2/4 is still extremely difficult. I know I am a much better player because I have been able to hang whereas I got killed the last time I played in this game.
The game is hard enough to where I actually stopped playing in it. Altogether I made about $500 in that game. I only play if I need one more table and I don't like the $200 games.
As for 1/2NL that has become my new game. The game seems a lot easier then from when I played it before. It's not as aggressive as I expected and you get to see a lot of cheap flops. The average player is not much different then the average 50NL player. They just have a few more tricks. With the exception to a couple hands where I lost full stacks, I find the players at 1/2 to be much more predictable. Only because they don't play bullshit like 9 4 and 8 2. So now when I get AA and bet the flop I don't get checkraised on boards that look like this anymore: 4 2 2. When I do get c/r on those boards they have a pair smaller then AA and I just have to fade 2 outs.
I have played 1/2 for about 10 days and have done really well. When I started my accont was down to $2050. When I called it a month I was all the way up to $3990. Remember thats from $120 buyins and not $200 buyins.
For the month I made $313 in rakeback.
Speaking of rakeback, I have another incentive to play bigger. I did the math and I get paid triple what I get paid at 50NL in terms of rakeback. Unfortunately 80K hand months are a thing of the past. I will probably make the same amount in rakeback as I did before at 50NL however I will only need to play about 25K hands to make $1000 in rakeback.
I have also come to the conclusion that I am not a good mass tabler. When I play 8-10tables this is what happens.
Bad beat, lose big pot. Cooler, lose big pot. Win small pot. Win small pot. Bad beat, lose big pot. Bad beat, lose big pot. Bad beat, lose big pot. Win big pot. Win small pot.
That will all happen in about 5 minutes.
Now when I play I have no more then 4 tables of NL200 going on at once. The most tables I play altogether is 6 when I have tournies going as well.
For the first time in a while I am pretty excited about poker because I really think that I can take a lot of money out of the 1/2 game.
For April I ended with the following:
Cake: $3990
Stars: $276
Thats a total profit of $921. Yay.
For the year I have made $4134 which is obviously better then losing but I expect to make more then that in May just playing 1/2 NL. Hopefully I don't stick my foot in my mouth.
Sunday May 03.
Right now I am up for the month. I have the following on my sites.
Cake: $4179+$133 in r/b = $4312
Stars: $254
As for the WSOP, I have the money to play in a bunch of the $1500 buyin NL events but I like having money and I am not really in the mood to play the lottery. Although frustrating, I like making money slowly. I like making money fast but I can't hold up in 4M chip pots when there are 10 players left in a tournament so I have to rely on grinding. In the unlikely event that I get some big tourney scores I will more then likely not be making my first ever appearance in the WSOP. And although I have more then enough money to play I don't feel bad about it at all.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)