Originally posted by Waiboy
Originally posted by fruktpuff
Imagine all the alcohol and poker you can fund with 15% off!
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And if you buy it twice you save 30%! 7+ times and they're paying you to buy it!
I'm such a sucker for a special offer. I already signed up (but just the once). Apparently they're going to send a cattle prod through the post, and if I say 'Is there any wine in the fridge?', mrsjb has to use it on me. Worth every penny, especially as I can use it on the kids during the day when they ask for sweets and cakes once too often.
I'm probably not going to play tonight so I'm going to review this month now as it's been such an interesting one for me.
The first thing to note is that I played 45K hands (well done me, and thank god for Zooooom!). The second thing is that after 20K hands, whilst sitting in my underpants in my Oxford hotel room, I did make some changes to my game. There were some trivial things, like tightening up my preflop ranges and not paying off big bets on the river, but the major, and most effective change was that I got rid of my 
avatar and replaced it with 
. This may well be the most +EV adjustment I've made for some time. I'm not a donkey any more! Think about it. Makes sense right?
What am I to make of my 'progress' this year? I had a BR > $2.5K when I started, thanks to my 5CD exploits, then I spent 3.5 months slowly bleeding to death. At my low point (see graph) I had less than $400 left (Don't tell mrsjb I lost >£1K playing poker this year! I know it's not real money until you withdraw it and I made it from a $50 deposit last year, but she's not quite up to speed with how poker works.), although fortunately I'm back up to about $1K now. I think one of my problems has been a complete failure to understand the timescales on which poker works. I feel like a 19th century country vicar talking to that bloke who invented geology (cba to look him up and pretend I knew his name).
Geology bloke: You see those rock strata on that cliff. See the way they're at an angle? That's because over many millions of years the earth has shifted, and all that stuff used to be at the bottom of the sea. All the layers are sediment. You just need to think in geological timescales.
Vicar: Fuck off.
Playing 5CD or Zoom, you start to get a feel for the amount of patience you need, but playing 6 tables of ordinary NLHE, you could be forgiven for thinking that God has forgotten you. You can see in my graph that I've run a bit cold over the last 5K hands, and I've certainly called a couple of big river bets that I shouldn't have during that time, probably out of a bit of frustration, but that's just 5 hours play. On six ordinary tables, that would be about 15 hours. I'd be crying into my Fruit'n Fibre this morning.
One thing I've improved at is betting the river for thin value. I often get there and think whether there are some hands left in his range that would call a smaller bet, and manage to get the call from one of precisely those hands. One thing I still struggle with is when to fire the third barrel. I cbet, he calls. I pick up some equity and bet again. He calls. I miss on the river. I'm usually left in a bit of a quandary. Whenever I decide to fire again, they usually seem to call. Probably that's just the nature of NL25, but there are plenty of situations where I bet the river for value and he folds, so maybe there's some hand review required there.
So, finally, what are my goals for next month? Well, to get back to NL50 of course (if only to evade ihufa), but that's a bit results oriented. If I play 40K hands of NL25 I should be able to get platinum status, so I'll make that my goal as it's a volume oriented one.
Have a nice Sunday. I hope it's raining less where you are than where I am.
AMaA: The Good Life
). I think we should approach poker in the same way until we reach.....hmmm....NL50....NL100....NL200. No eye dear.
And I thought my gameplan was top secret.