lakong says

Don't let the bad sessions get in your head. It happens to everyone. Sounds like you're experimenting a bit with opening up your game a bit, which will be a good thing in the long-run. Keep plugging away!

- lakong

06/02/07

EdmondDantes says

Ouch. I agree with you on a couple of points. First, the cash players on Tilt are better than those found elsewhere; easy multi-tabling, easy PT stats, lots of activity = better players. That said, the sng, satellite and MTT players on Tilt are average...some good, some horrible. Try using some of your FT point to boost your bankroll via free-rolls. As for the turn and river plays, I find that more often than not a turn or river raise means a good hand. Sure, guys can bluff, but 3 or 4 times out of 5, they'll be holding a good hand. Better have a good one yourself if you're putting more chips in the pot. In any event, hang in there. If you're making good decisions, the math will ultimately bail you out.

Looking forward to hearing all about Shreveport!

Edmond

06/03/07

lakeoffire says

Edmond is right about the points tournaments. You can get the tournament chips and turn that into some real money in a larger tournament. If you have a Bodog account the fields tend to be smaller and the play isn't that good in point tournaments. As for FT , the fields are larger and the play is equally bad. Definately use the points!
Good Luck,
LoF

06/03/07

Landlord79 says

On FT, what are the best uses of my points? I'd really like to sattie into the WPT event in Biloxi come September or sattie into some big buyin online events. All recommendations are welcome.

06/03/07

lakeoffire says

You can get into the 400K gtd on FT with anywhere from 50 -1,200 points playing the SnG's. You can also play SnG's for the 1K Thursday for 600 points, and special events you can satt into. Let us know how you do. Good Luck!
LoF

06/03/07

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Bankroll update!!

I know it’s been a while since I have posted about my Full Tilt bankroll building process, so I’m gonna try to get everyone up to date on where I’m at.

After running my roll up to $91+, I decided to take a single table shot at 25NL to try jump starting things. The cards ran really bad and I was folding my life away so I opened a 10NL table just to help keep me occupied. Two tables still wasn’t enough and the cards were still running cold, so I opened a 3rd table. Things never turned to the good for the night and I ended up dropping over $30 on the night.

Good fortune came my way in the form of a new poker friend during the last week or so. We discussed strategies and theories and traded some hands for reviewing. Despite running 19/8/2 ish, my new poker pal informed me that I was still playing weak tight. OUCH!! He referred me to an article concerning 6 max tables that talked about what hands this winning player was raising with preflop. It also talked about maximizing position, which I found at Full Tilt is a very profitable tool. I’ve played on other sites where everyone was just a calling station and position is less of a tool, but to me, the players at Full Tilt are much better, which means that since they are thinking about more than their own cards, they’re game psychology is more exploitable.

So with my newly found aggression techniques, I started back at the 10NL tables. I am getting a lot more comfortable playing 4 tables at once. I’m able to remember who has done what and what position they were in better than I was during my first few 4 tabling sessions. I find that there is always something going on with 4 tables rolling and very soon I hope to move to 5 tables, though I may need another monitor to make it work right.

The session immediately following the coaching that I received turned out to be a great one for me. $17 isn’t great in the whole scheme of things, but to the fledgling Full Tilt bankroll that I have and coming off the 30% loss that I had just absorbed, $17 is quite a nice score! The session in between then and now have been slightly break even to losing, but they are small loses that I expect as I flesh this newer, more aggressive style out.

My stats have “improved” to 22/11/3ish, so I am happy with them and my bankroll is back up to $78. Still nothing superb as far as dollars go, but this is the beginning of one long session of cards! If all goes well, it should be a life-long session.


Week of 5-27-07

I had a horrible night of cards, 40% was a mix of over-aggression and variance, and 60% was one hand that I played really badly with a very deep (2 buy in) stack against an opponent who I barely had covered. To cut the bad hand down to a short version, I slowplayed trip aces on the flop w/ my A-Q, made a pretty decent raise on the turn when a LAG donked into me, and raised a river bet that I had no business raising. It was quite a bad hand and I’ll say only a few things about it, if you reopen the betting on the river, you had better be holding the goods. I’m not saying that you need to be holding the nutz every time, that would be too predictable, but if you have your opponent’s hand down to a tight range and your hand is significantly better than his range, then you can raise the river and reopen the betting. If you don’t have a very strong hand versus your opponents range, it’s better to just call the river, but exposing your deep stack to very large loss by raising on the river is just silly. When deep-stacked in cash games, it becomes more important to protect your stack than to protect your hand.

My roll on FT stands at $48.15 after dropping three buyins on this horrible night.

BJJIII and I did make a trip to the casino this weekend and will be posting some session reviews from that within the coming week.