tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122614082011-11-17T03:41:25.185-06:00A Journal of a Nobody's Progress at Learning How to Win at PokerPokerVexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08127627273083728734noreply@blogger.comBlogger481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12261408.post-1175636161061135422007-04-03T16:12:00.000-05:002007-04-03T16:36:01.073-05:00

Damn, it's been a long while since I've posted. I haven't done much poker playing lately.I did make one trip over to Louisiana to play a live tournament. I got busted by a retard playing a retarded hand. I had some pocket nines and the board came all low cards. I was out of position, but knew I was ahead, so I decided to push it hard. I made a pot-sized bet into three-way action. Middle guy

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So far, so good! As we reach the end of the first hour (the end of the second, or 30/60, level), Ive chipped up by 1000 (over the starting 5000). The deck has been running over me. And there are two huge fish at the table, playing any two cards in any position, just giving away their stacks.So far, it's all good! I'll update this page each hour with a quick update that includes my stats thus

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I have played in two WCOOP events so far, and used most of the rest of the W$ I had accumulated playing satellites to other events. I played the $215 HORSE event, and later played the "Second Chance" HORSE event. I lost in both.In the first HORSE event I was worse than card-dead -- I lost a lot of chips in the first Omaha round with some nice starting hands like A234 in pots that were capped

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Last year I mentioned wanting to play in some of PokerStars' W.C.O.O.P. events, and then basically did nothing. I did try a few satellite tourneys and lost them, and was generally having a rough go of it, so I didn't even play a single event.Well, it's that time of year again. The satellites have been running for weeks, and the first week of actual W.C.O.O.P. events is in full swing. This year,

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Every now and then you have a very memorable hand that you'll never forget. I just had one, and I want to share.PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t200 (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: HTML)Hero (t5695)UTG (t1559)UTG+1 (t18420)MP1 (t4290)MP2 (t7180)MP3 (t4576)CO (t1809)Button (t4781)SB (t1130)As the above shows, my stack size is about typical

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PokerStars is doing it again! This time they have an even nicer set of prizes, including trips to the Big Game. Here's the banner I need to display to register:I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.Registration code: 6664866In other news, I've been enjoying the

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Dear Comedy Central:Die in a fire.Sincerely,Mike

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One of the variants of Holdem available on most poker sites is Six-Max -- tables limited to six players instead of the usual nine or ten. I've always been a little loath to play it, because there is a lot more uncertainty in the game. The play is faster in both senses: people bet more often with worse hands, and you play more hands per hour per table.You'd think that would increase the luck

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It's rare that I get upset with something to the point that I want to publicly vent like this, but Ultimate Bet has me wanting to put my fist through my monitor. So, here it goes: if you're thinking about depositing money with that site, let me tell you that you'll get a lot more value out of it if you were to withdraw that cash in $20 bills from an ATM and then use it as toilet paper.Allow me to

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Well, I've gotten my "LARGGing" back in gear. (That's "Leather-Assed Ring Game Grinder" to you.)I've had a rollercoaster of a month, so far.First, a couple thousand hands of $1/2 kicked my butt in a serious way. It was horrible -- I had pocket kings cracked five times in a row, only got dealt AA twice in those 2000 hands, missed every draw, got sucked out on frequently, and otherwise got smacked

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Wow. I haven't posted here in three months.They've been a pretty eventful three months, but not on the poker front. I haven't been playing very seriously at all lately. I abruptly ended the experiment with the sit and go tournaments. Then the holidays happened. Then some other stuff happened. I dropped my playing down to only a couple nights a week, and at the beginning of January I went on

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Horrible, horrible luck tonight.First, I go down with top two pair, to a joker who played a 78 offsuit and turned a straight. Second, I go down with a flopped two pair vs. a flopped flush. What do you do? I guess I could have tried harder to let my hand go in the first one. The second one, there's not much I could do. My opponent is a fish and I know he'll chase and the odds he flopped it are low

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Event Place Buyin Win Net Running Total ROI Carry Forward $220 $306 $86 $86 39% Tourney 11 6 $22 $0 -$22 $64 26% Tourney 12 4 $22 $0 -$22 $42 16%

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Tournament 9, Hand 13. Yours truly gets dealt some pocket rockets in early position. Under the gun raises to 4x the bb. I know it's early yet and sit-and-go tourneys are about survival and not about doubling up. BUT, it's rockets. When you have rockets and somebody raising into you, then it's perfectly sensible to start thinking about doubling up.So, I raise to about 15x the bb, and homey calls.

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Event Place Buyin Win Net Running Total ROI Carry Forward $88 $162 $74 $74 84% Tourney 5 5 $22 $0 -$22 $52 47% Tourney 6 5 $22 $0 -$22 $30 23% In #5, I busted out against a flopped full house. In #6, I came over the top of an early position raise with 99,

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I've decided to have a go at $20+2 NL Holdem sit and go tournaments, instead of playing more Limit Holdem or switching over to NL cash games. My bankroll has 20 buy-ins. The rules: Play as many as I want to, two at a time, but stop when I log my second loss in a night. Doesn't matter how I'm running that night; as soon as I fail to make the money twice in a night, I'm done for that night. That

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Five minutes to start. Many have registered. Few will win. I've just finished up a light meal. I've got WinAmp running, primed to start up the first of what will hopefully be several albums to listen to while playing.Barenakes Ladies, Everything to Everyone. It's good stuff.The plan? I don't know yet. I just got seated. Every single player at my table has an icon, meaning they've at least been on

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Just for the hell of it, I'm going to live blog the $200+15 Limit Holdem tourney I won my way into last night. All times are in Central time. If I can handle this easily enough, I'll live-blog the blogger tourney tomorrow.8:20PM -- We've been going 20 minutes. Late Registration is closed; there are 94 players; the prize pool is $18,800, and 1st place pays $5640 So far, the table seems pretty

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Start Min Won Hands bb/100 10/21/2005 19:38:44 6 -$2.50 5 -50.00 10/21/2005 19:33:23 10 -$4.50 8 -56.25 10/21/2005 19:27:23 17 -$0.25 18 -1.39 10/21/2005 19:25:08 19 $2.00 19 10.53 10/21/2005 19:24:20 18 -$11.75 18 -65.28 10/21/

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I was all set to finish up the 10K tonight. Then, 88 hands away, I lost connection to Poker Stars.Despite that, tonight's session was another smokin' hot one. Right now, if I were to play 88 more hands and fold every single one, I would lose 8x the bb plus 8x the sb, which comes to $6, and that would still leave me at better than 2.5 bb/100 for my first 10K hands.I'll finish up the damn

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B-A-N-A-N-A-S!Incredibly good session tonight -- over 1,000 hands, > +7bb.100. Of note, I think I played my tightest preflop game tonight. Doing that didn't impact the rest of my game noticeably. I'd have expected that my bets would get more respect, but people still called me down to the river much more often than not and paid off my good hands. I made a few mistakes, but nothing hideously

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Hmm. Poker Tracker seems to have missed $9 worth of losses. My actual Poker Stars account is showing that much less than it should according to my data. So, one or more hand histories must have vanished or are inaccurate. Poker Tracker has reported no errors on import. Maybe the Poker Stars client isn't writing all hand histories to disk?I will investigate. Tomorrow's stats will have an "

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I'm definitely over the hump and playing well. Tonight's session was very nice; I attribute my gains to being paid off by passive opponents and having the good fortune to not be caught by so many chasers. I'm tracking to be at about 2 bb/100 by the time this is done -- but of course nothing's definite. I feel like I can take a couple bad sessions and not be in much danger of finishing in the

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Finally, back on track.Here are some factoids:1> Including myself, since I have started this challenge, there are 14 players in my database with 500 or more hands played. 9 of us are ahead and the other five are down. Of these folk, I am the loosest and most aggressive preflop. I show down winning hands only half a percent of the time more often than the average of this group. But, the average of

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Today the thing that stands out to me is that I got crushed by flopped set after flopped set. A whole bunch of people got lucky with their baby and middle pocket pairs, and I paid them off.One of these days I'll figure out the best way to get these tables looking nice on this blog. In the meantime... Start Min Won Hands

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Not so bad this time, but another bad session to drag me down. This is usually where I go play Omaha or some tournaments... Not this time. Stick it through. I'm still in the black. Start Min Hands Win bb/100 11:31:26 PM 134 122 $14.00 11.48 11:21:48 PM 108 96

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I've been waiting for the other shoe to drop. Finally, it did. I'm posting my first losing session.Of note here is the fact that I played way too loosely for the two thirds, then I forced myself to tighten up and play better. I started recovering, but I didn't make it all the way back to even.I'm still ahead, but my "safety net" has been used. I can take another bad hit and still be about even,

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Brooooo-tal!I did 750 or so hands. My session started off with a quick upturn of about 10 bets, but then it stalled and went into a nosedive. By hand 300 I was stuck for 50 bets. I hovered in that pit for about 200 more hands. I was starting to get a little tilty (I had aces cracked, flopped sets chased down and run over by backdoor flushes, hands where I'd hit a monster flop and not get paid,

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After reviewing in my head my last two nights' play sessions, and reading a couple miscellaneous threads on the 2+2 Forums' Micro-Limits board, I wanted to cough up a couple pennies related to the title of this post.In my last two play sessions, I've made, on average, two decisions per hand dealt to me. I've been dealt a hand every 10 or so seconds on average. That means that at worst I'm making

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D'oh, I can't play Wil's tournament tomorrow. I misread the time as "PST" and not "EST", meaning I'll be at work when it starts. Oh, well. I also confirmed that I'm registered for the blogger tourney. Looks like there are over 1200 registered so far.Hopefully 1100 of them don't know a flush from their grandmother.Ok, here are the results of my first two sessions in my Leather-Assed Ring Game

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What: WWdN Where's My Burrito? InvitationalWhere: PokerStars.When: Friday, October 14th. 4:00 PM ESTPassword: monkeyTournament number: 13722477Buy-in: $10+1If you play this, and happen to limp in behind Wil with 7-2, and then happen to hit the flop, then make sure your cards are shown at the end of the hand, win or lose, showdown or not. Will will like it.So, I reckon I'll make an exception to

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I've often thought about whether I'd be capable of playing this game for a living.Now, it's easy to see the upside of it; the most successful poker players have six or seven figure incomes, make regular television appearances, have published books, and probably own a piece of an online poker site. In many ways it's like being a very successful athlete, actor, or musician. Of course, that's only

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Well, it's been a long time since I've written an update. Since then, I've failed to do much in poker. I have, on the other hand, moved across town. I've also purchased Version 2 of Poker Academy Pro, and I have to say that the quality of the AI in Version 2 is light years ahead of version 1. Before, its best bots were easy to beat (they were like a nickel and dime limit game online, except they

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Ok, the title of this article is the first line of a Duran Duran song, the one whose chorus goes:New moon on Monday and a firedance through the nightI stayed the cold day with a lonely satelliteOk, I like Duran Duran. Shoot me if you must.Here's the promised strategy article about satellite tournaments. Never mind that it comes right on the tail of my latest post about profitability. I've got

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Well, here we are over a month later, and I'm only up to 5167 hands of low-stakes No Limit Holdem. And, my game went to hell in a handbasket; my second 2600 hands almost exactly undid the gains of my first 2500. It's a bit depressing. But, it's important to be realistic about these things.Looking at the hard numbers, in those 5167 hands that I've played, my net profit is now -0.03 BB/100 hands

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Well, it looks like I won't be able to get a copy of the British Poker Open episode I played in, unless I want to come off of close to $2,000. After first being ignored for weeks on the subject by both Full Tilt and The Poker Channel, I finally got a reply from a producer at The Poker Channel, basically saying that if I want a copy, I have to pay for the format conversion, at #200 per hour, for

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Ok, as promised, here's my report on how I'm doing so far tracking 10,000 hands of play for the purposes of measuring my profitability and analyzing my game for weaknesses to correct.First, a little background. Poker advocates like to suggest measuring profitability over 10,000 hands for Holdem. The reason for that is that all players' bankrolls fluctuate a whole lot, because of the

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Today, Poker Stars announced that Wil Wheaton has joined their stable of affiliated celebrities, and will play in the World Series of Poker main event. Other than Stand By Me and Star Trek, Wil isn't very much in the mainstream any more. He isn't doing much acting lately, but he has published some books. He's also been very active in the Linux community (apparently he's quite the geek), and he's

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From the Overly Abused Analogy Department, here's what I think is a good recipe for a good poker game:2 parts Patience3 parts Knowledge1 part Fortitude2 parts Instinct1 part LuckLike any good gumbo recipe, the flavors and textures of the ingredients and how you go about cooking them combine to create synesthesia in the mind of the consumer when the concoction hits the tongue. (Yes, I'm a bit of

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You should support independent music. You can start by reading this review, then going here to hear samples of tracks and maybe buy the album. And, after that, check out their new release.Why should you do these things? Because there is a whole universe of music out there that you'll never hear if you only listen to the industry-backed music pushed on you by the big record labels. I'm not

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Since I've gotten a couple comments on the subject, I thought I'd offer my advice to those thinking about getting into poker.First off, I would recommend a regular friendly game with buddies and co-workers. Have fun with it. Don't play for high stakes, because playing for something that will hurt will make the game turn unfriendly very fast. However, do play to win, because if the game is just

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Well, that little experiment lasted a good solid 30 minutes. I played two tables of $0.01/$0.02 No Limit, bought in for $1 on each, and got beat good and proper. :) I'm left with $0.65 in my PokerStars account, and the game won't even let me buy into the minimum micro-limit games with that. For what it's worth, that sucks -- most places will let you buy into a No Limit game for as little as

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Several people have asked what I plan to do next poker-wise, and have suggested that I shoot for the World Series of Poker Main Event. Honestly, I'd like to, but I'll have to give that a pass this year. You see, my employer was exceedingly kind to me in letting me have the time off to go to London for the British Poker Open. This is especially true, since I had just started my job and hadn't

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Today I played in the semifinals of the British Poker Open. Twelve of us, one winner from each of the qualifying matches, were divided into two tables of six with the goal of playing down to the top three from each table. Those six will progress to the finals.I played some damn good poker, and I have a winning attitude. Greg "Fossilman" Raymer even said so. Without question he was the man to beat

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I won my British Poker Open qualifier.Yep, I still don't believe it either.My plan going into this thing was to play tight, try not to gamble (!), get dealt some good cards, and win with them. Honestly, I seriously don't think I'm a very skilled player face-to-face. I feel like the word "FEAR" appears in large yellow block letters on my forehead every time I make a bet with a decent but

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Top pair, top kicker doesn't mean so much when top pair is sixes On the other hand, don't slow play pocket aces too much In fact, don't slowplay much at all I hate not getting any action when I have cowboys I hate getting action when I have cowboys An ounce of patience is worth a pound of cowboys Patience and tightness aren't synonymous In one online tournament, right this

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I won the trip to London in a multi-table online poker tournament. There were 57 total entrants, and only one prize. Each of us ponied up $100 towards the prize pool, and $9 for Full Tilt's vigorish.The declared value of the prize was $12,000, and the tournament was guaranteed to pay one grand prize. In order for the payout to exactly match the player contributions towards the prize pool, the

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Hi. My online handle is "Vex", and I'm a poker player. I mostly play online, but I have a few hundred hours of experience face-to-face. I've played a bunch in California, and a little in Las Vegas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. I've played cards all my life, and know how to play Pinochle, Cribbage, and Whist, as well as games that are a lot more common. Up until about three years ago, most of my

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