Beanfacekilla
Legend
Silver Level
So, it's my best month at 1/2 ever. Sorry guys but I don't have that many friends outside of poker, so no one to share it with except my wife....
We managed to run very well, and play fairly well also.
I stopped in this coffee shop to get some coffee, and they have live music here. It cost $4.29 for a cup of coffee. It's whatever, but that's kinda high man. And there's no chair. I am standing here, and zero shits are given right now.
I think my choice to leave early today had alot to do with booking my best month ever.
That flop.with A-2s..... ha ha ha. Sometimes things just shine down on us. When I started the thread I was running very bad, and it didn't end there either. Obviously I am happy to report good news.
Here's the info. Now, we are going to play tomorrow, kick off December, and then I'll be taking off Saturday and Sunday.
We managed to run very well, and play fairly well also.
I stopped in this coffee shop to get some coffee, and they have live music here. It cost $4.29 for a cup of coffee. It's whatever, but that's kinda high man. And there's no chair. I am standing here, and zero shits are given right now.
I think my choice to leave early today had alot to do with booking my best month ever.
That flop.with A-2s..... ha ha ha. Sometimes things just shine down on us. When I started the thread I was running very bad, and it didn't end there either. Obviously I am happy to report good news.
Here's the info. Now, we are going to play tomorrow, kick off December, and then I'll be taking off Saturday and Sunday.
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Talden
Legend
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Hey Bean, I finally decided to stop lurking and say hello..I have really enjoyed the thread man, keep it up. Now I have to go back to start and see how you played through the bad run. Any thread that gets Duggs, MissJ, Bruce and the others giving HA is golden. BTW, love the way you "Whatever" everything, reminds me of me..Used in place of "IDGAF"..lol But a couple questions if you don't mind.. When you tell your wife about the poker is she like mine, "Yeah, thats nice hun", while never looking up from her phone, tv etc..? And why do you think Saturdays are such a bad day? Is it more regs or drunks/fish (drunk fish even) getting lucky ? Nice thread man keep it coming, and GL GL in December.
Beanfacekilla
Legend
Silver Level
Yeah the wife it's kinda like "That's really good! I knew you could do it!"
I told her yesterday I'd like to get over $7k for month today, so yeah.
But I still can't talk about hands to her, because she doesn't know anything about poker. I tried telling her a hand once or twice and ahe says "I don't even know what you're saying right now." Because I probably said something like "I open aces, dude ships it for 300, and we snap, and of course he just smashes the flop." Maybe not that bad, but I was trying to illustrate the point, she doesn't know any lingo or poker terms whatsoever.
Thats how she is now, but she used to not like what I do. She supports me now, at least I think she does, and not just since the past couple months, she's been on board for a while now. She also can't tell whether I won or lost when I get home, even in the donwswings. That's gotta be good.
I don't know what the status is with Saturdays man. At this point, I'm starting to think I am making it happen by even thinking about Saturdays always being poo. You know, like laws of attraction.... maybe I'm not literally changing the way cards fall, but my mindset in general may make me play differently or whatever, and I'm oblivious to it.
I should look at lifetime stats for Saturday right now, and see if a 2000 hour+ sample says the same.
And last, but certainly not least, I'm glad you posted here! It also makes me happy that people enjoy my thread.
I am very committed to this, for no particular reason. I think it helps me to stay motivated. I played very well the last few weeks partly because this thread is one of the things that hold me accountable for my actions, and my results, if that makes sense. I obviously hoped it would help others as well.
I really dont want to post in this thread "oh, I went on life tilt today and torched $1k trying to bust this fish who keeps sucking out on me." There are times, I'm at the table, and I might be considering a light open, or a super loose call pre, etc. I will actually think about things people have contributed to this thread. One example would be opening K-Xs due to playability, and I have been making some very good folds, and very wise decisions, pre and post. Just thinking about lines, thinking about bets, what we accomplish by checking/betting/etc. I've been thinking very clearly. Blah blah sorry I digress.
Beanfacekilla
Legend
Silver Level
I have an android, and here it is..... I think it costs $10.
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AlexTheOwl
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Beanfacekilla
Legend
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Thanks man! I gotta live in reality though as well, running super duper good right now.
I'll take it as long as possible obviously.
Tomorrow..... Friday..... Let's start off December on the right track! No mistakes, solid play, hopefully some chips for my time.
BuzzKillington
Rock Star
Silver Level
It seems to me that if you want to leave, then you should leave. Especially if you have been playing a couple of hours already.
But that's just my opinion. I don't play at your stakes, but I think that from a psychological perspective the best thing is to cash in at those moments. So I think you did good by doing that.
Figaroo2
Legend
Bronze Level
Congrats on your best ever month. Awesome.
So going forward if you are going to keep improving you are going to have to test yourself at 2/5 even if it was just once in a while. The locals in the MGM 1/2 game will no doubt be glad to see the back of you for an evening or two.
Did you watch Matt Vaughans live at the bike 2/5 vlogs? If not id recommend them.
Re the partner/poker thing mine is the same as yours. Politely not interested.
She was shocked though the other day when I told her what 'my little hobby' had earned me since 2010 and that my CC journal blog had over 16K views.
So going forward if you are going to keep improving you are going to have to test yourself at 2/5 even if it was just once in a while. The locals in the MGM 1/2 game will no doubt be glad to see the back of you for an evening or two.
Did you watch Matt Vaughans live at the bike 2/5 vlogs? If not id recommend them.
Re the partner/poker thing mine is the same as yours. Politely not interested.
She was shocked though the other day when I told her what 'my little hobby' had earned me since 2010 and that my CC journal blog had over 16K views.
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braveslice
Pull-ups!
Silver Level
Agree, forcing does not work, but to having a goal and to take smaller steps to that direction does.
Beanfacekilla
Legend
Silver Level
The lesson I feel is most important here is the "one never ending session" thing.
Most pros feel like we should just try to play hours, and those hours should be as close to A game as possible. The short term results have nothing to do with any of that.
I'm trying to make myself stay in the chair when games are good, and I am playing well. I've been punished a few times before, and lost my profits (well, maybe more than a few). I just feel it's important for me to get past that nonsense. I'm better than I used to be, but I still need to improve.
Beanfacekilla
Legend
Silver Level
Yeah eventually to the 2/5.... probably next year.
I am behind in Matt's Vlog. I haven't yet watched the LATB stuff. I think I'll do that in a few mins actually, good call.
As for poker/wives.... I used to think it would be cool if she learned the game. She even told me about 10 years ago she wanted to learn it. Now I'm glad she doesn't care. Imagine she was good, and she knew stuff. Then you tell her a hand, and then she is like "oh my you butchered that hand babe".
Beanfacekilla
Legend
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Beanfacekilla
Legend
Silver Level
Oh yeah, I punted off 2 buy ins at $10 NL last night. That didn't go well.
I try to pay attention man, don't have a HUD, but it's so boring, and they were so nitty too. I started opening a ton of hands, then shifted gears. Then, in my defense did get screwed a couple times so prob one buy in or so bad luck, 1 buy in spew/misreads.
One thing is for sure man, online, at least $10 NL, is way different from how live 1/2 plays. Plus my friend Norman literally laughed his ass off a couple months ago when I told him I was playing $2 and $4 NL on the internet. He is like "dude you are playing for one one hundredth of the stakes you play live. How can you even stand it?"
I told him I was gonna try to build $7 up to $10k. I was at 52 or something. Last time I played I entered a MTT for maybe 16, then had $38 last night, I think it's under $20 now. And TBH I have like zero interest in playing online anyway. I obv play alot, and I feel like I'd burn out if I played online, live, etc. I like just how things are going now, play live, post here, hands and shit, learn, repeat.
Why mess with a good thing? Besides these cats at $10 NL would probably mop up a $1/$2 game live (some of them would for sure).
But, I will go on the net again sometime soon for kicks, and I think it would be fun to have a sweat too. $2 NL will be the game, if and when.
I try to pay attention man, don't have a HUD, but it's so boring, and they were so nitty too. I started opening a ton of hands, then shifted gears. Then, in my defense did get screwed a couple times so prob one buy in or so bad luck, 1 buy in spew/misreads.
One thing is for sure man, online, at least $10 NL, is way different from how live 1/2 plays. Plus my friend Norman literally laughed his ass off a couple months ago when I told him I was playing $2 and $4 NL on the internet. He is like "dude you are playing for one one hundredth of the stakes you play live. How can you even stand it?"
I told him I was gonna try to build $7 up to $10k. I was at 52 or something. Last time I played I entered a MTT for maybe 16, then had $38 last night, I think it's under $20 now. And TBH I have like zero interest in playing online anyway. I obv play alot, and I feel like I'd burn out if I played online, live, etc. I like just how things are going now, play live, post here, hands and shit, learn, repeat.
Why mess with a good thing? Besides these cats at $10 NL would probably mop up a $1/$2 game live (some of them would for sure).
But, I will go on the net again sometime soon for kicks, and I think it would be fun to have a sweat too. $2 NL will be the game, if and when.
mbrenneman0
Legend
Silver Level
Thats why i always say i think the way to go right now is to use online as training and make your money live. But that requires some tolerance for playing online haha
Also online playing out of the blinds properly and stealing is a lot more important because you cant put in 5x to 10x open raises so the ratio of the blinds to the pot is much closer
Beanfacekilla
Legend
Silver Level
Yeah lol at raise sizes live. I raised with QQ to like $40 into a $5 straddle yesterday, one limper. Got 4 callers. One guy calls, everyone is like "I'm priced in! How can I fold?" As they put in $40 with J-4 "sooted"
Beanfacekilla
Legend
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Getting a hair cut is the nuts dude. About to join the ranks of neatly groomed men and women alike, all over the world!
I have nothing better to do while I wait than post this stupid update. It's too early to head in for fish Friday. We will be there prob around 1pm or so today.
I have nothing better to do while I wait than post this stupid update. It's too early to head in for fish Friday. We will be there prob around 1pm or so today.
Beanfacekilla
Legend
Silver Level
We just played this one. First hand we sit down to, we are BB.
We look at Ac-Ah.
There are 4 or 5 limpers.
We raise option to $17, we pick up three callers. SB, UTG, and HJ.
They are all less than 200, UTG being the biggest stack, at around 150 ish, and he is pretty tight post flop. SB has maybe 125, HJ less than 100. HJ loose, SB unknown.
Flop Kc-Qc-6x. SB checks, we check.
I want to get a read here, and alot of turns are good. Plus we disguise hand, and people make loose calls on turn.
Checks through. Alright we prob good here now.
Kc-Qc-6x......turn Jc. ($68)
SB leads for $12.
Yeah, not the best turn, but we clearly need to put in a raise. We can't have these other guys coming along......
We raise to $30.
Folds round to SB, he calls. Maybe around 100 back, can't see cause they always cover chips. Close to 100 anyways.
He hesitates, and flats.
Kc-Qc-6x-Jc.........river Ad. ($108)
SB checks.
H?
We look at Ac-Ah.
There are 4 or 5 limpers.
We raise option to $17, we pick up three callers. SB, UTG, and HJ.
They are all less than 200, UTG being the biggest stack, at around 150 ish, and he is pretty tight post flop. SB has maybe 125, HJ less than 100. HJ loose, SB unknown.
Flop Kc-Qc-6x. SB checks, we check.
I want to get a read here, and alot of turns are good. Plus we disguise hand, and people make loose calls on turn.
Checks through. Alright we prob good here now.
Kc-Qc-6x......turn Jc. ($68)
SB leads for $12.
Yeah, not the best turn, but we clearly need to put in a raise. We can't have these other guys coming along......
We raise to $30.
Folds round to SB, he calls. Maybe around 100 back, can't see cause they always cover chips. Close to 100 anyways.
He hesitates, and flats.
Kc-Qc-6x-Jc.........river Ad. ($108)
SB checks.
H?