Hi, Read or dont read , but the next big wall of text is an abbreviated story of my life since poker
I'm Kamaster123 I have been playing poker for 5 years, most of those year were Live. I started playing in a free leagues call LTPQ, thats was the 1st time i was playing live , I was so scared. I though that they were really good and every thing but after 1-2 months i was gaining confidence in my self and started playing in the side pot 5$ to enter winner take all. After a few month bankroll was over 300$ , and I wanted to play more because i wanted to play versus better player because the LTPQ player were really not good. So after 5-6 months i started playing 25$ tournament in bar.The 1st time i went there I was stress, 25$ was a lot for a 18 years old me. After 3-4 tournament with about 25-30 people i was able to finish thirds and win 140$. With all that money in my pocket,I took 100$ and sat down i the only cash game table in the bar, 1/2$ 100$min no max and its self deal so no rake ,well its 5$ rake when you buy in the 1st time. So i sat with 95$ , every player looked at me with my little stack they all add 400-2k stack. So after 3 hours of raising only 3 hands AA KK AA , my stack was at about 125$ and looked down at my card to see AKs , UTG raise 12 ,UTG+1 call and 5 others players. WIth all that dead money i shove 125$ with my cracking voice. Well after the UTG and UTG+1 they all call my shove, about 1003$ in the pot, flop came A 2 4, UTG shove 2 guys call. UTG with 53 they other two set 2 and 4 . I wanted to throw up , my 1st 1k pot. After an 7 and 8 on the river , Its was my biggest pot ever. After all those event i had a new goal to play in the cash game with all those rich fish playing like maniac. For about 5 month at playing 25$ tournament , I had a 1200$ bankroll and started playing 50bb 1/2. It went really good the game was easy no rake 8 idiot 1 pro , I don't have any records. So for those 2 college years i was playing this amazing cash game and winning alot for my age. So after winning,I started playing online and playing nl10 and losing i started realizing, I was not that good and started playing more online , with video and friends made along the way, Both live and online went well, but school was not good,I dropped out and came back for 3 years, After those 3 years had nothing to do, no life plan. I took 1 year to think about life and found an online forum with players who was starting a poker house in Thailand,Chiang mai to be exact, for 6 month i was playing NL50 6 max online and having fun in a big house in Thailand, a lot of fun but with no real money in the making,I improve a lot in this time frame of time but not enough, I had to go back to school. Now its been 5 months since i came back in Canada. I did not play for all those month and wanted to restarts fresh.
I am a 22 years old french canadien in montréal, playing some live and HUHT starting at 1,5$ on stars
I did not say it but i just started playing those Head up, i will try to watch video and reads online.
Goal
-Play 1000 1,5$ HU this month
-Go Run outside a least 3 time a week
-Pass all my class
I am gonna try to update this blog at least 5 time a week, if any want to make a group or add me just ask for my skype.
I will try to put some graph in here.
Bankroll: 150$
So I just finished playing 100HU here the graph
Today was not a good day but the moral is still there,cold deck and running bad. I have a lot of work to do but the moral is still there.
http://imgur.com/cCY102z
I dont know why the image is not showing up
Bankroll: 114,16$
Finished day 3,
I have a cold but i still played 150 tournament 1 tabling.
The day started by me listenhing to some Hardstyle on youtube and I think the music affect my play so after about 65 tournament, i started to listen to Bach ,Chopin, beethoven and more and started playing better.
this is the graph of the day
http://imgur.com/LvMdBr9
Bankroll: 98.35$
Today was a slow day, did not sleep well last night. I only played today only played 53 HU and was not happy with me mistake. So i stop and watch some hands and video will gonna play tomorow with big hope.
Bankroll: 99,49$
My advice is watch all the free vids from this site
watch some vids every day
best vids for begginers i found are sentins crushing fish like a boss and Pbogs hyper turbo fundamentals
these vids will give you some of the basics u need like 3 barreling on certain boards and folding to a fish river jam when a card that completes an obv hand hits, also 3 betting strategies and reading stats etc
make sure you have a HU hud either PT3/4 (pt3 = polycapyrus hud)(pt4 coffeeyay lite or full hud) or a holdem manager hud (i think coffeyey hud works on hem now)
good luck at the tables
oh yea and read mercenary's EBOOK for HU free from this site
Thx , I did not think about the book I'm gonna read it , and i already have Holde manager 2.
I still feel like i am a donk so i have to studie a lot.
i deposited $55 dollars on stars at the end of last month and grinded my way out of the $1.40 hypers, i'm currently building a roll at the $3.50's to take a shot at the $7's. I REALLY dont think you need a HUD. in fact i think it is counter productive at the $1.40 level. i've never used a HUD but will prolly invest when i move up, and then primarily i'll be using it to look at my own leaks.
there are a number of reasons for this decision:
1 : the player pool is so large and donkish that HUDS are useless. you dont need a VPIP stat to exploit the really bad players, simple good aggressive poker will naturally destroy most of the fish. have a solid aggro strat then adjust on the fly. i'd apply this to the $3.50 level too. i've been doing just fine there without a HUD:
2 : good players dont hang around that level for long: look at the leader-board for sub $2 HUHT SNG's:
it's may and you can get on the leaderboard with $126. here's my results after a week of playing:
anyone who you might need a HUD against aint going to be playing that level for long. it looks like people grind out of the level after making $100 or so.
3 : as you rarely meet the same person twice the HUD stats are useless. having a 25 hand sample where villain took 6 flops out of position doesnt give you a great handle on his response to cbets. focusing on these stats may be distracting and counter productive.
4 : villains dont exhibit range consistency. one guy i played minraised/called J8o at 15bbs eff. he couldnt suck out on my AQ and he said in the chat box summat like: "they have been sucking out on me all day and i cant suck out once". it doesnt take sherlock to deduce that he had been victim of bad beats and wasnt a good enough player to rise above this variance. he almost certainly didnt start out his session minraise/calling middling junk for 15bbs, but he sure did end it by doing so. HUD stats here are useless imo. people decide to raise, limp, jam or fold for all kinds of reasons, and their ranges fluctuate wildly.
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dont worry about your indifferent start. in my 500 game sample i had a 200 game spell of breaking even and losing. my graph shows numerous flatlines, down-swings and cliff edges, yet i managed to claw my way out of the level overall [a nice 19 game winning streak at the end helped, lol].
you can be a winner at the level and lose over 100's of games.
i'd really recommend pbog's and rpac's free videos, and merseneary's ebook. familiarise yourself with NASH and CHUBUKOV charts and how and why they were made. understanding the theory behind them will be very useful at short stacks, just dont follow them blindly [especially the CALL charts]
good luck and run well.
point 1 "huds are useless at this level" @ the 1.50 and 3.50 level ill agree to a point. @ the 7 level i face alot of regs and alot of peps will will accept rematch. therefore i think being used to a hud through the 1.50s and 3.50s will help when you reach higher levels as you are already familiar with the hud. but i agree basic aggressive poker will win at these levels quite easily.Also its a great way to assess your game as you progress a vital tool if you want to get coaching and ask that coach to look for leaks in your game. also it can be handy on days when you are loosing to review past games and basics and determine if you are playing or running bad. and it makes multi tabling much easier (multi tabling becomes essential i think for hyper's even if its just 2, to simply get in volume particularly on days when you don't have all day to grind.
point 2 i agree to a point see point 1 about self learning using the tracker etc.
3 false check out bayeasian principles ( not sure if i spelt it right) which means while small sample of stats can not be 100% accurate we can start to make many inferences from stats as they progress making further changes as the sample gets larger. ie if a player raises his button 5/5 hands we can not accurately say he is raising 100% but we should assume he is aggressive and consider a wider 3 bet range and start to consider a 3 bet bluff range also as long as the stat PFR > 70%
point 4 agree that stats do not no matter how big the sample truly represent a hand range but this is nothing new see Skalansky on principle of loose wiring (i think it was skalansky) but it definitely gives you a guide to work upon. and since all the top multi tabling pros use some sort hud i think getting use to one and learning how to read it can be important for multitabling
Tonight was a break day i decided to no play at all, and watched a few video and some hands reviews.Since i dont any pressure with volume.
here are some graph since the starts.
Graph since the start
http://imgur.com/K1JZzDk
The chips graph
http://imgur.com/KZWjtMd
thx for the post I appreciate it.
the chips graph red line
you need to get that red line going up in hypers non showdown winnings is king see "crushing fish like a boss" best free vid for non showdown winnings. watch it every other day for a week or so.
the blue line
will have the variance in it the most at the low limits breaking even on the blue line is ok but could be improved i think rypac commented in another post about showdown winnings and raising them. but at the low levels because people call your shoves so tight they are often in front which will drive your showdown winnings down but your red line non showdown benefits from their super tight calling ranges especially at shorter effective stack sizes(8-12bb). though many call way to wide at really short stack sizes but if you are shoving nash 8bb or less you still benefit from a loose crazy or tight call. you benefit from tight callers from the fact they fold to much making their tight calls still non profitable in the long run because they feed you back on avg more when they fold.
Tonight there wont be any graph. I am going to play live poker 1/1 120$ max 40 min. So good luck to every one, and tomorow i might only play 50 tournament because i got a big day at school.
Good luck all
Yesterday i did end up winning 30$ after 4 hours of play no big hands to discuss about.
Tonight i might play a few headups