*** November Cash Thread ***

[Kasanova King]

Just poppin' in to say Happy Holidays to my Cards Chat peeps, I haven't been around in months, (I even got kicked out of the free roll club for inactivity). Been in and out of the country, now have a new job that takes up most of my time but I still play about 10-20 hours a month live and another 10-20 online. Done very well on bodog and ok at Full Tilt for tournaments, but still can't beat FTP cash games, other than rush. Live is soooo much easier than online, been winning over 80% of my live sessions. But anyways, Happy Holidays to all!

 

[brank]

If they're doing it many times a weeks for weeks on end then defo do some sort of intervention. They probs have some depression/anxiety issues and this will defo make it worse. Im no doc but from what I have read it can cause long term damage especially in the brain.

AH, what your talking about sounds more like speed or meth then MDMA. MDMA is basically extacy without the speed but of course you're dealing with drugs so who knows what your getting.

 

[brank]

Wow. This is a good thread. Mind assploding.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/78/micro-stakes-full-ring/cotw-last-red-line-post-ever-791734/

 

[vanquish]

not to take away from the importance of my previous query, but does anyone here snowboard?


how hard would it be for me to learn to get reasonable at snowboarding (enjoy it, and not bail 100x per run) in one winter? say, 4-5 trips of 1-2 days each, boarding with someone that's quite good?


ive tried skiiing before and fell like 1000 times and almost died when i crashed into a halfpipe (by almost died, i mean i bailed pretty hard but wasn't injured ), but that was like 6 years ago.


i have pretty good balance, but not exceptionally strong legs and not a great sense of body control, at least not while travelling at a high velocity

 

[absoluthamm]

I am obsessed with skiing vanq. I ski the peak all day long when I go on my ski trips(usually at least 1 out west each year, this year it is back to Montana). I have always been a skier, and will always be one, but one day about 7 years ago my bindings on my skis broke on the way there somehow and my buddy told me just to try snowboarding. I got it by about half way through the day, but it still wasn't as fun as skiing IMO. I have taught dozens of people how to ski, and many of them say it's easier to learn than boarding if you're over the age of 10 because of where your center of balance is, and you fall harder the bigger you get.

I would say it's pretty hard to put an exact amount of time on how long, and I don't think in many cases it has anything to do with how good the person you're with is because most of it comes down to personal comfortability and ability. Good luck, with every day it's getting colder I get more and more excited. I just bought all of the gear for my new pair of skis that I will be sporting this year. 186cm long twin tip fat powder skis with awesome bindings. It's going to be like flying when I rush through that pow.

 

[cjatud2012]

vanq, I just caught word that a friend of mine who goes to school in California died today. Word is that she was stoned and was tripping on E, then her heart stopped.

I don't know often stuff like that occurs but that's not a risk I'd be willing to take.

 

[brank]

On a lighter note...

I achieved silver status for ironman this month. Played what for me is huge volume. 30k hands this month. 12 BI + and moving up to nl10 soon.

 

[fx20736]

soooooo. I've had my worst week of 2nl and after another losing session this morning decided to dig my head out of my A$$ and stop all the thin value, fancy play horsesh1t and just play Raise/ Fold Poker. I decided; no suited connectors, no set mining, no chasing draws. If the pot was raised preflop when it got to me I raised if I felt my hand might be best or could become best and folded if I didn't. I made no river bluffs, folded to 3bets fairly easily, kept the aggression on as much as I felt was sensible. See if you can point to the spot on my graph for today's session when I was reborn.

11/27 Fx20736 VPIP 10.02 PFR 9.84 AF 2.31

 

[eNTy]

u always look at super small sample sizes and make conclusions.
stop that.

 

[No Brainer]

I lost a stack on my 100,000th hand tracked but HEM And I played the hand horribly to...

On a brighter note, I won a 190bb pot with my 99851st hand tracked by HEM...

 

[Boomswitch]

Thank You Full Tilt for introducing Draw games. Oh thank you so so much. That is all...oh wait question. Is there any tracker program that covers draw games, don't need a Hud so much, but I would still like a databae to keep track of winnings or losses and such.

 

[WVHillbilly]

Don't you just love it when you know a villain is bluffing but this time he's bluffing with a hand slightly better than what you're bluff catching with.

 

[eNTy]

Don't you just love it when you know a villain is bluffing but this time he's bluffing with a hand slightly better than what you're bluff catching with.

daily routine

 

[WVHillbilly]

daily routine

Yeah playing HU it happens a lot more than at FR I'm sure.

 

[vanquish]

i hate college


YouTube - Sam Adams - I Hate College

 

[eNTy]

i bluffcatch 80% of the time

 

[F Paulsson]

"Hi, FP! Welcome back to poker! We understand you've had a bit of a bad run lately, so we thought we'd take this opportunity to piss on you by having you lose 15 buy-ins your first real month back after your break. But don't worry; you'd have a winning month if your AI EV matched up."

So, in case anyone's keeping tabs, I've now cracked the 60-BI barrier for bad runs in terms of AIEV. What's the record? Would be nice to know what I have to look forward to, because clearly I'm on course to break it.

 

[eNTy]

what limits are u playing ?

 

[fx20736]

"Hi, FP! Welcome back to poker! We understand you've had a bit of a bad run lately, so we thought we'd take this opportunity to piss on you by having you lose 15 buy-ins your first real month back after your break. But don't worry; you'd have a winning month if your AI EV matched up."

So, in case anyone's keeping tabs, I've now cracked the 60-BI barrier for bad runs in terms of AIEV. What's the record? Would be nice to know what I have to look forward to, because clearly I'm on course to break it.

Why not try to tighten up alot? Play a super nitty TAG game and stop playing specualtive hands like suited connectors, small suited aces, small pocket pairs, weak Broadways,etc? Play Raise/ Fold before the flop and then bet if you like the flop and check/fold if you don't?

 

[Marginal]

Why not try to tighten up alot? Play a super nitty TAG game and stop playing specualtive hands like suited connectors, small suited aces, small pocket pairs, weak Broadways,etc? Play Raise/ Fold before the flop and then bet if you like the flop and check/fold if you don't?

Because then they would rape him for his predictability and I dont think you understand what he is saying

 

[F Paulsson]

Why not try to tighten up alot? Play a super nitty TAG game and stop playing specualtive hands like suited connectors, small suited aces, small pocket pairs, weak Broadways,etc? Play Raise/ Fold before the flop and then bet if you like the flop and check/fold if you don't?

I fail to see how this will help me.

@enty: 100NL. I was going to get a soft start with 100 and then move up once I felt comfortable playing again. Now I think I'll stay here for awhile.

 

[Marginal]

FP how long have you been back?

 

[cazique]

u always look at super small sample sizes and make conclusions.
stop that.

This.

The reason you lost a few buy-ins wasn't that you played Suited Connectors and small pairs too much, it simply was that you put your whole stack in with the second best hand the majority of time. The hand examples you posted in the "Why?" thread told the whole story. In the first hand, you shoved JJ on the TT2 board facing a minraise (Yes, a minraise!!). At that point you can beat nothing but a bluff. If you're up against half competent players there's no way they can raise 33-99 for value there. You'll probably be facing higher overpairs at the very least.

And you always seem to go on tilt even on the slighest resemblance of downswings, which then lead you to make all kinds of change to your play. I still remember the thread where you started folding AK and AQ and the like because you always missed the flop with them! Well I know you have learnt a lot since then but the way you're playing right now, raise/fold poker, dropping Suited Connectors and small medium pairs isn't going to get you very far. There are a lot of circumstances where calling preflop raise instead of 3-betting can be right, e.g. when you have speculative hands in position as 3-betting open yourself to him 4-betting back when he has a monster, denying you the chance to see a cheap flop. Just calling preflop raise with AA,KK, or even AK works too if you know there are squeeze happy players in the blinds, as you can turn the table back on them when they squeeze.

You have read a lot about the game, so put that to good use and stop becoming so result-oriented over a small sample size. Build your BR to about $125, then take another shot at 5NL.
GL at the tables

 

[BelgoSuisse]

So, in case anyone's keeping tabs, I've now cracked the 60-BI barrier for bad runs in terms of AIEV. What's the record?

2+2 has real horror graphs if you look for them.

I, on the other hand, am about 30 buy-ins above EV this month. On the other hand i feel like fishes always river a miracle set when I value town the shit out of them and they call me down with an underpair, so it somewhat compensates for all that run good.

 

[The Dark Side]

"Hi, FP! Welcome back to poker! We understand you've had a bit of a bad run lately, so we thought we'd take this opportunity to piss on you by having you lose 15 buy-ins your first real month back after your break. But don't worry; you'd have a winning month if your AI EV matched up."

So, in case anyone's keeping tabs, I've now cracked the 60-BI barrier for bad runs in terms of AIEV. What's the record? Would be nice to know what I have to look forward to, because clearly I'm on course to break it.

Some of us have never ran good. At least you have that.