Lost a little under 2BI this morning before work...got QQ AIPF vs AKs and lost, had AA vs 66 and QQ on a 6-4-3 flop and lost that as well. The QQ guy actually called after the first two of us got our money in, pretty bad but I guess tough to lay down but you gotta know you're beat.
The crappy thing is this of course is right after I took the majority of my money off Bodog. I was hoping I could make it on about 9 BI at 25NL so this hurts that a little bit. I told myself if I get down to $100 I will go down to 10NL at Bodog which would seem so wrong but hey you gotta do what you gotta do.
So my plan for the coming months is as follows:
I'm busy the rest of the summer with a few trips, work, and moving to a new city and into a new place. Therefore my play will be sporadic until mid August or so when we're finally settled and the school semester starts. I hope to get my money I cashed out from Bodog yesterday in about a month. (They're saying 20 business days which is basically 4 weeks) So let's just err on the side of caution and say I get that by the end of July or start of August. I'm going to take that money and put it into Full Tilt. I plan on creating an Epassporte account in the next day or two and putting like $100 on Full Tilt. I have something like $7 on there now and will be getting $80 in rakeback there at the start of July. So $180-ish should be enough for me to 3-table 10NL while I 3-table Bodog 25NL.
I will do this until I get my money from Bodog at the end of August, like I was saying. From there I should have enough to easily play 25NL on Full Tilt and very soon 50NL. I'd like 30 buyins if possible, so $1500 is the bankroll goal for Full Tilt.
Once I receive that Bodog check, I will take the rest of my money off of Bodog, however much that ends up being (hopefully my bankroll survives there for the next month and a half!) I will have them mail another check to me (SOOOOOO slow, ugggh) and then take that money and put it on Cake, along with enough funds so I can play 50NL on both Full Tilt and Cake. (5-tabling, 3 FT 2 Cake) I hope to do this by September 1.
So my plans are as follows:
Now - Aug. 1: 3-tables Bodog 25NL 6-max, 3 tables Full Tilt 10NL 6-max. (Moving down to 10NL on Bodog if my bankroll falls)
Aug 1 - Sep. 1: 6-table Full Tilt 25NL 6-max
Sep. 1 - on: 3-tables Full Tilt 50NL 6-max, 2 tables Cake Poker 50NL 6-max
I hope to get in 20,000 hands a month, and if I can beat 50NL at 5 ptBB/100, that would be $1000 a month. From there I want to make money and get comfortable at that level and with my bankroll before trying to move up to 100NL 6-max on both sites sometime next year. I think this is a good plan that will allow me to comfortably move up without rushing things or risking too much money by taking shots and "playing short". If I don't like Cake Poker then I just plan on 5 or 6-tabling on Full Tilt.
We'll see how things go and if I can meet these goals...I want to continue to work everyday on improving my game and preparing myself for tougher, more aggressive games...(not that I expect 50NL to be THAT tough).
Monday, June 18, 2007
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Getting money off Bodog...
The Bodog check thing is getting ridiculous so I am trying to get my money off of there...the shitty thing is that I have to wait like two months to get my money so it'll be a bit before I can take that money and put it on to Full Tilt/Cake. But when I do it will be worth it...I can play Full Tilt 50NL 6-max, whereas on Bodog the jump goes from 25NL to 100NL. Also, I can easily 5 or 6-table on Tilt, and on Bodog it's 3-tables max. I think this will be a good decision.
Fun hand of the day:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1182473 I knew the villain liked to bluff and now I know he calls with gutshot draws and bluff weakly on the river. Almost laid it down but I just couldn't put him on a hand he'd value bet there.
Fun hand of the day:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1182473 I knew the villain liked to bluff and now I know he calls with gutshot draws and bluff weakly on the river. Almost laid it down but I just couldn't put him on a hand he'd value bet there.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Insane session...
Just played a crazy session of Bodog 25NL where I ended up down about 10 bucks...I was down about 80 at one time though so I'll take it. Some crazy hands here, feel free to check out the insanity below:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1175914 Not the best way to start a session.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1175916 Small pot, but can still piss me off! He did have a ton of outs though.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1175919 Worst hand of the session. This guy plays crazy like this and shows the occasional bluff but usually has the goods when he plays hard into multiple people here. Total tilt hand and stupid stupid stupid.
Why was I on tilt? This stupid hand:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1175925 NH SIR!
But things got better and I rallied...
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1175927 I don't think I played this hand that well, but can the villain play his hand any worse?
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1175930 Another hand I overplayed, but WHY DOES HE CALL THE FLOP? Put me on AK lol I guess. :)
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1175932 He called me down with A3o with the 3 of diamonds! LOL!
And then the sickest hand of all:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1175935 Online poker is so rigged lol.
Crazy session, I think I tilted a bit too much and overplayed my hands at times...I need to settle down and relax and not tilt when things aren't going my way because I didn't even really take any bad beats here...the T8 vs AQ hand is stupid but oh well...the set over set stuff happens...I need to stay calm, focused, positive and the good hands swing back your way in no time! (Hello quads)
Pete
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1175914 Not the best way to start a session.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1175916 Small pot, but can still piss me off! He did have a ton of outs though.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1175919 Worst hand of the session. This guy plays crazy like this and shows the occasional bluff but usually has the goods when he plays hard into multiple people here. Total tilt hand and stupid stupid stupid.
Why was I on tilt? This stupid hand:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1175925 NH SIR!
But things got better and I rallied...
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1175927 I don't think I played this hand that well, but can the villain play his hand any worse?
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1175930 Another hand I overplayed, but WHY DOES HE CALL THE FLOP? Put me on AK lol I guess. :)
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1175932 He called me down with A3o with the 3 of diamonds! LOL!
And then the sickest hand of all:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1175935 Online poker is so rigged lol.
Crazy session, I think I tilted a bit too much and overplayed my hands at times...I need to settle down and relax and not tilt when things aren't going my way because I didn't even really take any bad beats here...the T8 vs AQ hand is stupid but oh well...the set over set stuff happens...I need to stay calm, focused, positive and the good hands swing back your way in no time! (Hello quads)
Pete
Hand analysis...
I posted this hand analysis at a more "beginner" poker board today, so sorry if some of the stuff seems obvious, but I like walking through this hand and talking it out:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1173914
Bodog History for Hand #759635334
Hold'em No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2007-06-14 8:29:12
Table 'Poppy Hills' 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: hugepot ($91.19)
Seat 2: gobsmacked1 ($25.00)
Seat 3: nyyankeefan1021 ($12.75)
Seat 4: coachwcc ($63.07)
Seat 5: Narez ($51.35)
Seat 6: amypoker ($25.65)
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NEW HAND
amypoker: posts the small blind $0.10
hugepot: posts the big blind $0.25
--- DEALING POCKETS
gobsmacked1 is dealt [9d,9h]
gobsmacked1: raises $0.65 to $0.90
nyyankeefan1021: folds
coachwcc: calls $0.90
Narez: calls $0.90
amypoker: folds
hugepot: folds
--- DEALING FLOP [6s,9c,7c]
gobsmacked1: bets $1.95
coachwcc: calls $1.95
Narez: folds
--- DEALING TURN [Js]
gobsmacked1: bets $4.10
coachwcc: calls $4.10
--- DEALING RIVER [Kd]
gobsmacked1: checks
coachwcc: bets $7.00
gobsmacked1: calls $7.00
coachwcc: shows [5c 4d], High Card, King
gobsmacked1: shows [9d,9h], Three of a Kind, Nines
Hand 759635334:
gobsmacked1: wins($27.70)
with Three of a Kind, Nines
Here's a hand from today's morning session that I liked how I played.
I'm UTG 6-max and raise 99. Pretty standard. Some people limp 99 here because it's hard to play OOP and you're going to miss most flops and have overcards as well so it's a tough hand to play and they want to see a flop cheap. I hate limping so I don't do that here. But if you DO limp 99 UTG you HAVE to limp AA, KK, QQ as well because if you always raise your big pairs UTG and always limp 99-22 you become very easy to read!
So the flop is great, I hit top set. But I'm not going to slowplay or check here, I'm going to bet out. I do that for a few reasons. One, the board has obvious straight and flush draws. It's a dangerous board, so I'm not giving any free cards. Two, I'd even bet if the flop was 9-5-2 rainbow because I'm also going to bet that flop when I have AK and have completely missed. So if I slowplay here with a big hand and bet out when I miss I become easy to read. Therefore I have to bet my big hands as well as my missed hands. Third, slowplaying doesn't put any money in the pot and something I always see people do is slowplay a huge hand on the flop, not get any money in the pot, and then on the river they're not really winning much money because they didn't bet big on the earlier streets, scared of scaring people off. So what if they fold sometimes, you have to bet your big hands or else it's hard to bet your missed hands with any credibility. Your opponents need to know you could have anything.
So I bet the flop with the second nuts and get called. What could he have? These guys will call raises with a LOT of hands at this level, so I could be looking at anything from a club draw to 5-4 to any hand with an 8 in it to two pair hands like 9-7 or even a hand like 66 or 77. I don't think he has 10-10 or JJ or QQ type of hands because he'd raise here to protect them. So I think he has a weak pair, two pair, draw, or maybe even a set. A draw is most likely.
The turn doesn't hit any draws. The clubs missed, and if he had 8-T he already had me on the flop. No reason to think I'm not still ahead, and no reason to slow down, so I fire another bet. He calls. No reason to change my view of what his hand was on the flop. Club draws and straight draws seem likely.
The river misses those draws. I check. Why? Because if I bet into a missed draw, he'll just fold and I won't make any money. If I check to him, he's likely to see that as weakness and try to take the pot away with a big bet. If he had 8-10 so be it. He may have even had a hand like AKcc and have hit top pair on the river and think it's good. I check to him, he bets, and I call. I'm not going to raise, because if I raised a missed draw all in he's just going to fold anyways, and a few hands beat me. (JJ and KK, though they're unlikely) He had 5-4 for a missed draw, and I scoop the pot. I made him pay on the flop and turn, and let him bluff into me on the river. Love this hand.
Pete
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1173914
Bodog History for Hand #759635334
Hold'em No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2007-06-14 8:29:12
Table 'Poppy Hills' 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: hugepot ($91.19)
Seat 2: gobsmacked1 ($25.00)
Seat 3: nyyankeefan1021 ($12.75)
Seat 4: coachwcc ($63.07)
Seat 5: Narez ($51.35)
Seat 6: amypoker ($25.65)
------------------------------
NEW HAND
amypoker: posts the small blind $0.10
hugepot: posts the big blind $0.25
--- DEALING POCKETS
gobsmacked1 is dealt [9d,9h]
gobsmacked1: raises $0.65 to $0.90
nyyankeefan1021: folds
coachwcc: calls $0.90
Narez: calls $0.90
amypoker: folds
hugepot: folds
--- DEALING FLOP [6s,9c,7c]
gobsmacked1: bets $1.95
coachwcc: calls $1.95
Narez: folds
--- DEALING TURN [Js]
gobsmacked1: bets $4.10
coachwcc: calls $4.10
--- DEALING RIVER [Kd]
gobsmacked1: checks
coachwcc: bets $7.00
gobsmacked1: calls $7.00
coachwcc: shows [5c 4d], High Card, King
gobsmacked1: shows [9d,9h], Three of a Kind, Nines
Hand 759635334:
gobsmacked1: wins($27.70)
with Three of a Kind, Nines
Here's a hand from today's morning session that I liked how I played.
I'm UTG 6-max and raise 99. Pretty standard. Some people limp 99 here because it's hard to play OOP and you're going to miss most flops and have overcards as well so it's a tough hand to play and they want to see a flop cheap. I hate limping so I don't do that here. But if you DO limp 99 UTG you HAVE to limp AA, KK, QQ as well because if you always raise your big pairs UTG and always limp 99-22 you become very easy to read!
So the flop is great, I hit top set. But I'm not going to slowplay or check here, I'm going to bet out. I do that for a few reasons. One, the board has obvious straight and flush draws. It's a dangerous board, so I'm not giving any free cards. Two, I'd even bet if the flop was 9-5-2 rainbow because I'm also going to bet that flop when I have AK and have completely missed. So if I slowplay here with a big hand and bet out when I miss I become easy to read. Therefore I have to bet my big hands as well as my missed hands. Third, slowplaying doesn't put any money in the pot and something I always see people do is slowplay a huge hand on the flop, not get any money in the pot, and then on the river they're not really winning much money because they didn't bet big on the earlier streets, scared of scaring people off. So what if they fold sometimes, you have to bet your big hands or else it's hard to bet your missed hands with any credibility. Your opponents need to know you could have anything.
So I bet the flop with the second nuts and get called. What could he have? These guys will call raises with a LOT of hands at this level, so I could be looking at anything from a club draw to 5-4 to any hand with an 8 in it to two pair hands like 9-7 or even a hand like 66 or 77. I don't think he has 10-10 or JJ or QQ type of hands because he'd raise here to protect them. So I think he has a weak pair, two pair, draw, or maybe even a set. A draw is most likely.
The turn doesn't hit any draws. The clubs missed, and if he had 8-T he already had me on the flop. No reason to think I'm not still ahead, and no reason to slow down, so I fire another bet. He calls. No reason to change my view of what his hand was on the flop. Club draws and straight draws seem likely.
The river misses those draws. I check. Why? Because if I bet into a missed draw, he'll just fold and I won't make any money. If I check to him, he's likely to see that as weakness and try to take the pot away with a big bet. If he had 8-10 so be it. He may have even had a hand like AKcc and have hit top pair on the river and think it's good. I check to him, he bets, and I call. I'm not going to raise, because if I raised a missed draw all in he's just going to fold anyways, and a few hands beat me. (JJ and KK, though they're unlikely) He had 5-4 for a missed draw, and I scoop the pot. I made him pay on the flop and turn, and let him bluff into me on the river. Love this hand.
Pete
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Quick update
A quick update:
I had interest from one person as far as a possible staking deal. We're going to take our time and talk things through and not rush into anything, and I think that's a good plan. Also, I don't have time to play a lot of hours right now, and I'll have time to play a good deal more come mid-August, which I'm looking forward to.
I think I've been playing better the last few days, but I'm still making a few mistakes. One thing I think that has hurt is that I used my rakeback money that I have on Full Tilt (my Bodog rakeback is transferred there since Bodog doesn't allow transfers) to cover my Cardrunners costs for the next 6 months. So I only have a few bucks on Full Tilt right now and haven't been playing there. Before, I was playing 3 tables of Bodog 25NL and 2 tables of Full Tilt 10NL just to keep me busy. Now I'm back to playing 3 tables of Bodog 25NL and nothing else. I think fancy play syndrome (FPS!) sometimes catches up with me as I get "bored" of not playing enough hands. I think that multitabling is a good thing for me at this level because it gets me to fold more marginal hands and not spew as much. Yesterday I was having a nice session and then raised J3cc on the button and ended up losing a large pot with a river bluff against a guy with KQ on a K-high board he was never laying down in a million years. Spewing money in spots like that is what's hurting me now, so cutting back on those plays and just playing good solid poker and NOT BLUFFING at this level aside from c-bets is going to be what nets me the most money. So yeah, I look forward to playing more than 3-tables at once again. I signed up for Epassporte, and my plan is to put some money into either Full Tilt or Cake so that when I get my rakeback at Full Tilt next month I can start 5-tabling or maybe 6-tabling again in July.
Still, I think I'm playing better lately. The funny thing is that you get so many gifts at Bodog that I know I just have to be patient and big pots will fall into my lap. I raised JTss UTG five handed yesterday and the flop came 9-high all spades. I got it in on the flop against the button who had K9o. I've also had people tilt and push whole stacks into my the last few days with KQ vs my AK, and A9 vs my QQ. The funny thing is on the latter hand I isolated raised all in and a player CALLED after me with A7cc! And you wonder why I love to play Bodog!
Anyways, my cards have been pretty blah lately so I think I'm doing okay...I made a buyin yesterday so I'll take it. I haven't been running BADLY, as far as bad beats and stuff...just getting dealt boring hands like Q5o and J4o all session. So when the cards pick up I know I'll make money.
Wow, this got longer than I planned. To give you the cliffs notes, I'm excited about getting money on either FT or Cake so I can start playing more than 3-tables at once again. (Damn your three table limits Bodog!) The other cool thing is that all the money I'll have on Cake or Full Tilt (well most of it, depending on how much I put on Epassporte) will have come completely from rakeback and earnings from that rakeback...I've still only deposited that original $200 to Bodog, and everything after that has been profit. Being able to start bankrolls on different sites without ever having to truly deposit your own money there is pretty sweet.
Pete
I had interest from one person as far as a possible staking deal. We're going to take our time and talk things through and not rush into anything, and I think that's a good plan. Also, I don't have time to play a lot of hours right now, and I'll have time to play a good deal more come mid-August, which I'm looking forward to.
I think I've been playing better the last few days, but I'm still making a few mistakes. One thing I think that has hurt is that I used my rakeback money that I have on Full Tilt (my Bodog rakeback is transferred there since Bodog doesn't allow transfers) to cover my Cardrunners costs for the next 6 months. So I only have a few bucks on Full Tilt right now and haven't been playing there. Before, I was playing 3 tables of Bodog 25NL and 2 tables of Full Tilt 10NL just to keep me busy. Now I'm back to playing 3 tables of Bodog 25NL and nothing else. I think fancy play syndrome (FPS!) sometimes catches up with me as I get "bored" of not playing enough hands. I think that multitabling is a good thing for me at this level because it gets me to fold more marginal hands and not spew as much. Yesterday I was having a nice session and then raised J3cc on the button and ended up losing a large pot with a river bluff against a guy with KQ on a K-high board he was never laying down in a million years. Spewing money in spots like that is what's hurting me now, so cutting back on those plays and just playing good solid poker and NOT BLUFFING at this level aside from c-bets is going to be what nets me the most money. So yeah, I look forward to playing more than 3-tables at once again. I signed up for Epassporte, and my plan is to put some money into either Full Tilt or Cake so that when I get my rakeback at Full Tilt next month I can start 5-tabling or maybe 6-tabling again in July.
Still, I think I'm playing better lately. The funny thing is that you get so many gifts at Bodog that I know I just have to be patient and big pots will fall into my lap. I raised JTss UTG five handed yesterday and the flop came 9-high all spades. I got it in on the flop against the button who had K9o. I've also had people tilt and push whole stacks into my the last few days with KQ vs my AK, and A9 vs my QQ. The funny thing is on the latter hand I isolated raised all in and a player CALLED after me with A7cc! And you wonder why I love to play Bodog!
Anyways, my cards have been pretty blah lately so I think I'm doing okay...I made a buyin yesterday so I'll take it. I haven't been running BADLY, as far as bad beats and stuff...just getting dealt boring hands like Q5o and J4o all session. So when the cards pick up I know I'll make money.
Wow, this got longer than I planned. To give you the cliffs notes, I'm excited about getting money on either FT or Cake so I can start playing more than 3-tables at once again. (Damn your three table limits Bodog!) The other cool thing is that all the money I'll have on Cake or Full Tilt (well most of it, depending on how much I put on Epassporte) will have come completely from rakeback and earnings from that rakeback...I've still only deposited that original $200 to Bodog, and everything after that has been profit. Being able to start bankrolls on different sites without ever having to truly deposit your own money there is pretty sweet.
Pete
Monday, June 11, 2007
Cardrunners post...
I posted the following this morning on Cardrunners. I don't really expect to get a stake from it, but it was easy to put together and what's the harm in trying? I tried to get myself across in the post, and I thought including visual aids couldn't be anything but helpful. :) If I don't get a stake I'll still be fine because I consistently win at 25NL and I am building up rakeback money to start playing regularly on either Full Tilt or Cake, so playing more tables will increase my profitability. But still, be able to take a shot at 100NL and being able to play optimally instead of worrying about only having a three buyin shot for it or whatever would be REALLY nice. Plus from what I've seen on Bodog, those games are SO beatable over time with a decent bankroll. I KNOW I would win at them.
Anyways, here's my post:
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So here's my story:
I'm Pete, and I'm a 24 year old master's student about to be a doctoral student in communication (officially get my master's in August). I have been interested in poker since the Moneymaker boom, but I only started playing online in December of 2006. Before then I couldn't really deposit online for a few reasons, but I joined Cardrunners and studied for months before I started playing because when I started playing for real money I wanted to do things right. Before then I just played with friends and at free bar leagues and stuff like that.
I deposited on Bodog in late December and ran really hot to begin with, so my end of December and January were very profitable. I believe around that time I got Poker Tracker (it might have been mid January) and started datamining. I know have over 45,000 hands of mine logged at 25NL, mostly at Bodog 6-max and a few at Full Tilt 6-max. Over those 45,000 hands I have beaten 25NL 6-max at a 7.2 ptBB/100 clip. (overall I have likely beaten it at a higher level, but like I said I ran hot when I first deposited on there. Since then I have grown tremendously as a player and continue to develop!)
This month I prepared a move up to 100NL 6-max on Bodog. The reason I skipped 50NL is because Bodog doesn't have 6-max tables at that level, and I don't enjoy full ring games as much. I made my move to 100NL and then my car broke down. I had to withdraw a big chunk of my bankroll to cover that and some other bills, and so I was back at 25NL in no time because it takes a while to make back $1000 playing at that level for the amount of time that I do.
Anyways, I believe that my numbers show I am ready to move up to at LEAST 50NL 6-max, but I don't have the bankroll for it on any other site than Bodog, and Bodog doesn't have 6-max tables at the 50NL level. Therefore, I would like to be staked for:
-50NL on Full Tilt or Poker Stars
-100NL on Bodog or Cake
I'm open to other ideas as well. I believe that the play on Full Tilt and Poker Stars is tougher than Bodog and that the 50N: levels are probably more like the 100NL levels on Bodog or another soft site in Cake. The tough thing about staking somebody on Bodog is that money transferring is not easy, and they don't even accept Epassporte, so that kind of sucks. But again, I'm open to suggestions. Cake I put in here because I have heard it is even softer than Bodog, and they allow peer-to-peer money transfers, making staking on that site easier. Full Tilt and Poker Stars are obviously potential sites even though the tables may be a bit tougher, because they are MUCH easier to multitable than Bodog or Cake. (Bodog has a max of three tables, Cake's screens are really big)
I have included a graph of my 25NL 6-max stats here. I would also be happy to share Poker Tracker data, etc.
I am looking for a stake at 50NL or 100NL. I have never been staked before, but I think a deal where you get your money back and 50% of my profits (if I win) would be fair. We could do it on a month to month basis. I am open to discussing things such as how to keep track of my profits (obviously we need to make sure I am honestly reporting what I'm winning, etc. How do people do that?), make sure you get paid, etc.
While you may not know me, I am happy to discuss via email or even over the phone anything related to this stake. I am a fairly regular poster in the small stakes NLHE forum, and I update a blog regularly where I discuss my growth and struggles as a poker player. I am open about myself as a poker player and am not trying to pull a scam. I love the game and love studying it and improving. I feel the fact that I was a Cardrunners member for months before I ever played a real money hand online shows this dedication and desire to improve and be able to do this well.
Right now I don't play a super high volume...probably 10k - 15k hands a month. A lot of this is due to the fact that Bodog only allows you to play three tables at once. I also have a very busy summer ahead of me, but when August comes around I should have a lot more time to play and be able to get in many more hands, especially if I am able to 5-6 table.
If you would like to discuss this further send me a PM on Cardrunners and I'll give you my email info. Reply here or send me a PM with any questions. Thanks!
Pete
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Anyways, here's my post:
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So here's my story:
I'm Pete, and I'm a 24 year old master's student about to be a doctoral student in communication (officially get my master's in August). I have been interested in poker since the Moneymaker boom, but I only started playing online in December of 2006. Before then I couldn't really deposit online for a few reasons, but I joined Cardrunners and studied for months before I started playing because when I started playing for real money I wanted to do things right. Before then I just played with friends and at free bar leagues and stuff like that.
I deposited on Bodog in late December and ran really hot to begin with, so my end of December and January were very profitable. I believe around that time I got Poker Tracker (it might have been mid January) and started datamining. I know have over 45,000 hands of mine logged at 25NL, mostly at Bodog 6-max and a few at Full Tilt 6-max. Over those 45,000 hands I have beaten 25NL 6-max at a 7.2 ptBB/100 clip. (overall I have likely beaten it at a higher level, but like I said I ran hot when I first deposited on there. Since then I have grown tremendously as a player and continue to develop!)
This month I prepared a move up to 100NL 6-max on Bodog. The reason I skipped 50NL is because Bodog doesn't have 6-max tables at that level, and I don't enjoy full ring games as much. I made my move to 100NL and then my car broke down. I had to withdraw a big chunk of my bankroll to cover that and some other bills, and so I was back at 25NL in no time because it takes a while to make back $1000 playing at that level for the amount of time that I do.
Anyways, I believe that my numbers show I am ready to move up to at LEAST 50NL 6-max, but I don't have the bankroll for it on any other site than Bodog, and Bodog doesn't have 6-max tables at the 50NL level. Therefore, I would like to be staked for:
-50NL on Full Tilt or Poker Stars
-100NL on Bodog or Cake
I'm open to other ideas as well. I believe that the play on Full Tilt and Poker Stars is tougher than Bodog and that the 50N: levels are probably more like the 100NL levels on Bodog or another soft site in Cake. The tough thing about staking somebody on Bodog is that money transferring is not easy, and they don't even accept Epassporte, so that kind of sucks. But again, I'm open to suggestions. Cake I put in here because I have heard it is even softer than Bodog, and they allow peer-to-peer money transfers, making staking on that site easier. Full Tilt and Poker Stars are obviously potential sites even though the tables may be a bit tougher, because they are MUCH easier to multitable than Bodog or Cake. (Bodog has a max of three tables, Cake's screens are really big)
I have included a graph of my 25NL 6-max stats here. I would also be happy to share Poker Tracker data, etc.
I am looking for a stake at 50NL or 100NL. I have never been staked before, but I think a deal where you get your money back and 50% of my profits (if I win) would be fair. We could do it on a month to month basis. I am open to discussing things such as how to keep track of my profits (obviously we need to make sure I am honestly reporting what I'm winning, etc. How do people do that?), make sure you get paid, etc.
While you may not know me, I am happy to discuss via email or even over the phone anything related to this stake. I am a fairly regular poster in the small stakes NLHE forum, and I update a blog regularly where I discuss my growth and struggles as a poker player. I am open about myself as a poker player and am not trying to pull a scam. I love the game and love studying it and improving. I feel the fact that I was a Cardrunners member for months before I ever played a real money hand online shows this dedication and desire to improve and be able to do this well.
Right now I don't play a super high volume...probably 10k - 15k hands a month. A lot of this is due to the fact that Bodog only allows you to play three tables at once. I also have a very busy summer ahead of me, but when August comes around I should have a lot more time to play and be able to get in many more hands, especially if I am able to 5-6 table.
If you would like to discuss this further send me a PM on Cardrunners and I'll give you my email info. Reply here or send me a PM with any questions. Thanks!
Pete
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Friday, June 8, 2007
Tough last few days...
The last three days have been pretty bad results wise. Three days ago I posted about dropping 2BI at 25NL. The next day I dropped a buyin and a half at 100NL taking a shot there, which really hurt me. I was down the whole session, rallied back to being down only $5 or so, and then lost it from there. I played 99 about as badly as you possibly can and lost half a buyin on that hand alone.
Today I played LHE and NLHE on Bodog 1/2 and 25NL. NLHE was meh, I played AK terribly and lost a huge pot with two pair against a flush where I called out of frustration when I couldn't beat anything and it was obvious he had me beat but I couldn't lay it down...but I made it back the next hand with QQ with an overshove representing tilt and I got called with A6ss. In LHE the cards were terrible, but all in all I'm down just over a buyin at my usual stakes (25NL).
I haven't been playing well lately and the only one at fault is me! I need to make better decisions, not spew as much with mediocre hands, not call out of frustration when I'm running badly, etc.
On the plus side I've read some great posts on the 2+2 forum by AEJones regarding figuring out hand ranges on the river and figuring out what hands to bet for value on the river as well. A great point he makes is that most of us bet our top 15% and bottom 10% of hands on the river...big hands and big bluffs. He argues we need to bet more of our pretty good hands on the river to get value from people that always think we're bluffing.
I've realized I have a long way to go in improving my post flop game and that I can't just run people over all the time with blind aggression, especially when you move up. Nobody gives you credit for a hand when you do the "standard" things anymore, it seems. (Button raise, c-bet, etc) I need to become more creative with my post flop play...well, maybe thoughtful and analytical is the better word.
I've also been reading more about 3-betting from the blinds vs button raises, putting more pressure on people with check raises on dry boards, etc. I think by thinking about my game like this it will help me get through these tough streaks, find leaks in my game, and ultimately make me a better and more profitable player.
Pete
P.S - I know to many of you losing 3-4 buyins over three days is nothing but I play a fairly low variance game and don't play a lot of hours so to me it seems bad, but I understand how this run isn't really that bad...I just wanted to still complain about it. :P
Today I played LHE and NLHE on Bodog 1/2 and 25NL. NLHE was meh, I played AK terribly and lost a huge pot with two pair against a flush where I called out of frustration when I couldn't beat anything and it was obvious he had me beat but I couldn't lay it down...but I made it back the next hand with QQ with an overshove representing tilt and I got called with A6ss. In LHE the cards were terrible, but all in all I'm down just over a buyin at my usual stakes (25NL).
I haven't been playing well lately and the only one at fault is me! I need to make better decisions, not spew as much with mediocre hands, not call out of frustration when I'm running badly, etc.
On the plus side I've read some great posts on the 2+2 forum by AEJones regarding figuring out hand ranges on the river and figuring out what hands to bet for value on the river as well. A great point he makes is that most of us bet our top 15% and bottom 10% of hands on the river...big hands and big bluffs. He argues we need to bet more of our pretty good hands on the river to get value from people that always think we're bluffing.
I've realized I have a long way to go in improving my post flop game and that I can't just run people over all the time with blind aggression, especially when you move up. Nobody gives you credit for a hand when you do the "standard" things anymore, it seems. (Button raise, c-bet, etc) I need to become more creative with my post flop play...well, maybe thoughtful and analytical is the better word.
I've also been reading more about 3-betting from the blinds vs button raises, putting more pressure on people with check raises on dry boards, etc. I think by thinking about my game like this it will help me get through these tough streaks, find leaks in my game, and ultimately make me a better and more profitable player.
Pete
P.S - I know to many of you losing 3-4 buyins over three days is nothing but I play a fairly low variance game and don't play a lot of hours so to me it seems bad, but I understand how this run isn't really that bad...I just wanted to still complain about it. :P
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