A sick day at NL50
by fortysixandtwo on 06/17/09
Check out this sick ass piece of variance from today:
I'm not even going to talk about the amount of times I got sucked out on today and how many times my Kings got killed (down 3BI's with KK alone today).
So after possibly getting my head in the clouds a bit and thinking it'll not be long before I'm playing NL100 I'm heading back to NL25 to rebuild! I've still got 20BI's for NL50 but after todays swing I really want to get some wins again and I like to be overrolled.
And to all those idiot donks who creamed me today:
I love you all I really do, because you give me all my monies, but sometimes you piss me off so bad I wanna eat my own face. Yes that was a nice play calling two of my PSBs and hitting your flush on the river after commiting virtually all of your stack.
*sigh* I'll forgive you...
See you at NL25. And NL50, in the immortal words of the great Arnie: I'll be back.
Thoughts:
I obviously have lots still to learn. I'm not arrogant nor ignorant enough to blame the whole slide on variance. I need to define the concept of value and 'why we bet' much more clearly in my head. I'm definitely getting there and I'm much improved on where I was at last month when I made the transition from SnGs to Cash Games. Now there's certainly a much better 'why' reasoning behind my actions i.e. Am I 3betting here for value or for a bluff?
Playing NL25 I need to play very straight forward. I'm beating it at just under 6PTBB/100 at the minute. I WAS beating NL50 at 5PTBB/100 for my 1st 7k hands or so, and then something changed. I'm not sure if it was my play; did I try to get trickier in situations where I didn't need to be? did I try beat my opponents out of pots when a fold would have been a much more +EV?, or a bad run of cards?
Probably a combination of both. With a little bit of tilt thrown in there.
So the BR is just under $1100, which is still good. I'm glad I've dropped down now to get some wins and restore a bit of confidence, and I should never ever be afraid to drop down and admit that I have to learn something new.
And to be honest its not even about the $$$ at this stage. It's nice to tell people that I've made a few thousand dollars playing poker in the past few years but I really want to get good! And money and my BR is the barometer of that progress. Just like nailing a Joe Satriani tune is a good barometer of my guitar playing progress (which, incidentally is coming along very nicely).
And on another positive, I'm using my FPPs to play the step system. I've already got a Step 4 ticket, which I'm going to use to play in the Sunday Million, and I HAD another Step 4 ticket which I played and came 6th (meaning I drop down to Step 2 again).
Playing in the Step 4 stage I'm playing against some very well known online players like Octavian_C, spacegravy (who donked me with Q4 v AKs earlier :p), etc, etc, so it's really good fun to play with these guys. And who knows, I could get lucky!!
Thats all for now. More grinding for tomorrow and some guitar playing and teaching.
Peace,
Paul
I'm not even going to talk about the amount of times I got sucked out on today and how many times my Kings got killed (down 3BI's with KK alone today).
So after possibly getting my head in the clouds a bit and thinking it'll not be long before I'm playing NL100 I'm heading back to NL25 to rebuild! I've still got 20BI's for NL50 but after todays swing I really want to get some wins again and I like to be overrolled.
And to all those idiot donks who creamed me today:
I love you all I really do, because you give me all my monies, but sometimes you piss me off so bad I wanna eat my own face. Yes that was a nice play calling two of my PSBs and hitting your flush on the river after commiting virtually all of your stack.
*sigh* I'll forgive you...
See you at NL25. And NL50, in the immortal words of the great Arnie: I'll be back.
Thoughts:
I obviously have lots still to learn. I'm not arrogant nor ignorant enough to blame the whole slide on variance. I need to define the concept of value and 'why we bet' much more clearly in my head. I'm definitely getting there and I'm much improved on where I was at last month when I made the transition from SnGs to Cash Games. Now there's certainly a much better 'why' reasoning behind my actions i.e. Am I 3betting here for value or for a bluff?
Playing NL25 I need to play very straight forward. I'm beating it at just under 6PTBB/100 at the minute. I WAS beating NL50 at 5PTBB/100 for my 1st 7k hands or so, and then something changed. I'm not sure if it was my play; did I try to get trickier in situations where I didn't need to be? did I try beat my opponents out of pots when a fold would have been a much more +EV?, or a bad run of cards?
Probably a combination of both. With a little bit of tilt thrown in there.
So the BR is just under $1100, which is still good. I'm glad I've dropped down now to get some wins and restore a bit of confidence, and I should never ever be afraid to drop down and admit that I have to learn something new.
And to be honest its not even about the $$$ at this stage. It's nice to tell people that I've made a few thousand dollars playing poker in the past few years but I really want to get good! And money and my BR is the barometer of that progress. Just like nailing a Joe Satriani tune is a good barometer of my guitar playing progress (which, incidentally is coming along very nicely).
And on another positive, I'm using my FPPs to play the step system. I've already got a Step 4 ticket, which I'm going to use to play in the Sunday Million, and I HAD another Step 4 ticket which I played and came 6th (meaning I drop down to Step 2 again).
Playing in the Step 4 stage I'm playing against some very well known online players like Octavian_C, spacegravy (who donked me with Q4 v AKs earlier :p), etc, etc, so it's really good fun to play with these guys. And who knows, I could get lucky!!
Thats all for now. More grinding for tomorrow and some guitar playing and teaching.
Peace,
Paul
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