[Closed] Time to Grind (Hu SNG)

It might have been said already (what hasn't? ♦) but i thought of this quote today. It's true for me and maybe many people. I have such a fear of failure and not succeeding that it will discourage me to actually try my best and hardest at something. I will just worry so much and over analyze everything and then convince myself the situation is a lost cause that i won't bother doing everything i can to make it work. A much better approach to life is to stop worrying and doing everything you can to make it better. If you still fail you can at least say you did everything you could and have no regrets. While when you give up you will always have that feeling of regret and think "What if i tried harder?"

Probably one of my favorite verses from a rap song is from: Lupe Fiasco's - Words I Never Said. One of my favorite lines is "Fear is such a weak emotion, that's why i despise it". Which ofcoure relates to the subject i already mentioned so i won't go in depth about that..

I think that all the silence is worse than all violence
Fear is such a weak emotion, that's why I despise it
We're scared of almost everything, afraid to even tell the truth
So scared of what you think of me, I'm scared of even telling you
Sometimes I'm like the only person I feel safe to tell it to
I'm locked inside a cell in me, I know that there's a jail in you
Consider this your bailing out, so take a breath inhale a few
My screams is finally gettin free, my thoughts is finally yellin through

For the ones interested in just that verse it starts at 3:22 although the whole song is worth listening too

So that's what i'm going to be doing from now on. Trying to look life in a more positive way and keep reminding me of awesome quotes like this.. Or think of my own like this one ♦ That being said. The last few days i've been very lazy and gaming a ridiculous amount of hours. But going back to poker grinding now ♠_cool:

So it's been a while since i posted my hands mostly because i wasn't really that focused playing last month at all. And barely reviewed any hands because i was making up excuses that it wasn't necessary at all So let's go!

This was probably one of my best reads this session. standard cbet. I could cbet more cause it's such a drawheavy board but i haven't really figured out on what exact boards i want to do it on. Since i will have to stay consistent with it to stay unexploitable. I can't just bet more with strong hands on drawheavy boards and bet less with draws for example. Anyway.. the check/raise surprised me a bit since it was one of the first hand that hu. It was very small reraise so i didn't really know what to think of it. I imagine 7x, 9x, draws and air. Now if it was 3x i'd probably think of his range as 9x, TT+ and very strong combo draws. So mostly made hands that want me to fold draws. The A of diamonds comes on the turn this is what makes this hand interesting.. So he decides to check the turn after check/raising the flop. So he is either afraid of the flush card and has 9x, TT+ or is trying to trap me. I don't assume people trap me or make creative plays like that unless i have reason too so i cross that one out. I basicaly beat his whole range with my pair of aces. Now how do i get value out of it? If i bet he thinks i have the flush and folds all hands i get value from + A is a scare card itself. I decide to check behind there aren't much scare cards that can come on the river since i hold the OESD with my 8 but another diamond would be very bad both to get value and it's a scare card for me. Very safe river he bets half pot and i just call. I don't really think much worse is calling me if i raise. So i'm really not sure whether calling or raising is the best option. It is possible he might play a flush draw that way but i think i'm ahead here very often. But i don't see 9x or TT+ calling raises here often with the A and K on the board. So i think i'm leaning towards calling is better. I probably got max value out of it so i'm very happy about how i played ♦ would have gotten all his chips if he T hit on the river though.

As for his play. I think check/raising is good but doing it as little as he did is very bad imo.. this allows me to see a turn card very cheaply and i won't be folding any hands he wants me to call with. even if he 3x 3bet me as he should i wouldn't be folding flush draws as i get nearly correct odds.. + the value i can get from him even when i hit them like you see here makes it +EV to call for me even if he 3xed and i had a flushdraw. i'd rather have seen him bet out the turn to try to represent the flush since that's his only chance at winning this pot unless i miss all my outs if i did have a straightdraw. If i do have the flush draw then i already win and if i don't have it it allows me to make an easy bluff that he simply can't call. So by checking he's giving up the hand. Not to mention he's allowing me to draw cheap. The river bet is simply very bad.. There's nothing he can get value from perhaps 9x from a very bad player. It's so likely he's beat here that check/folding is the right play here regardless of how he played the turn.

Stacks:
Hero (SB) (1,550)
BB (1,450)

Blinds: 10/20

Pre-Flop: (30, 2 players) Hero is SB A♥ 8♦
Hero raises to 60, BB calls 40

Flop: 6♥ 7♦ 9♦ (120, 2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets 70, BB raises to 160, Hero calls 90

Turn: A♦ (440, 2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks

River: K♣ (440, 2 players)
BB bets 210, Hero calls 210

Final Pot: 860
BB shows a pair of Tens
10:spade: 10:diamond:
Hero shows a pair of Aces
A♥ 8♦

Hero wins 860 (net +430)

BB lost 430

This hand is somewhat interesting but fairly standard for me. Standard pfr and cbet. He was floating my cbets an aweful lot the whole match and it was starting to annoy me.. It really felt like he was floating like 80% of my cbets and then betting out on the river alot of those times causing me to fold. I was just missing every board so i was getting a little annoyed by it. So while he played fairly fit or fold.. always showing something. I was thinking he simply can't have it that often and winning this pot will give me a big advantage for the rest of the match allowing me to shove and still have enough over for a comeback. So seeing the pot size it was a pretty good time to second barrel considering the amount he floated my cbets.Unfortunately i didn't really think it through that much.. and i didn't have a plan for the river since i convinced myself that he was going to fold that turn.. I was really surprised when he did call it. And i'm pretty sure he had Tx or maybe 8x here. Luckily for me the river saved me with another club. Obviously and Jx or Qx would have been good too. So in reality i had 15 outs which is not too bad. I instantly jam and he makes the tough laydown he's been wanting to make all match. Patting himself on the back thinking what a lucky fish.

I should focus on having a plan for the whole hand in the future more.. I usually do have it. But i do need to consider every single possibility and in this case i simply didn't because i thought he wasn't ever going to call the turn in my head. Which is obviously very unrealistic. What i do like alot is how fearlessly i play. I have no fear of losing or putting in my whole starting stack with Q high if i think it's the right play. This gives me a great advantage over many players who give up their bluff when they should continue because they're scared. And then talk themselves into it that i have something.

This guy was pretty loose aggressive. I knew he was capable of making large bluffs with air. Standard 3bet. I could opt to trap him by check/calling here. What was interesting about this guy was that he was very impatient. I almost went cowboymarco on him but decided against it So i thought extra long before betting so he'd think i was weak and he reraises me just as i planned. Betting instead of calling also allows me to protect my hand from flush draws. He simply isn't reraising me with anything that beats ATX here. So it's always a bluff possibly a semibluff with a flush draw since there aren't my 6x hands that call a 3bet preflop exept A6 in which case he would probably just call the flop anyway. So how do i get the most value from him. I can't reraise else we're all in and that doesn't give him a good spot to continue his bluff. So i decide to just call.. think extra long on the turn.. I was really expecting him to shove all in here. That would be the correct way to play the hand. What he did is just terrible. betting 1/5th the pot? i mean come on? really? This what i meant the last hand with nothing pulling through with your bluff. So i was thinking is he really going to fold the last 420 more in a 2580 pot? Seeing as how bad he was i thought he probably would. But since he bet so little i thought he might have a flush draw that i can get some value from so i reraise and unfortunately he folds. I think i played the hand great and probably got close to max value on it. He may have fired the river again for the last 420 but i'm not sure of that.

While i don't mind his flop reraise because it misses alot of hands.. my 3bet range consists of ALOT of Ax hands so it really isn't the best flop to do it on but still somewhat good. The problem is it leaves you with stacks that you have to shove it all in every single turn or you give up the hand. Shove or fold.. nothing else. So his turn bet is terrible.. bet/folding the worst way to play it here. Another option is to just shove flop especially if you don't have the balls to pull through a big bluff by shoving the turn then that's a way better option.. the pot is big enough and basicaly only Ax is calling here.

Stacks:
SB (1,500)
Hero (BB) (1,500)

Blinds: 10/20

Pre-Flop: (30, 2 players) Hero is BB 10:spade: A♦
SB raises to 60, Hero raises to 180, SB calls 120

Flop: 3♣ A♠ 6♣ (360, 2 players)
Hero bets 220, SB raises to 600, Hero calls 380

Turn: 9♠ (1,560, 2 players)
Hero checks, SB bets 300, Hero goes all-in 720, SB folds

Final Pot: 2,580

Hero wins 2,580 (net +1,080)

SB lost 1,080

This was quite an interesting match.. All hands below from that same hu sng.

First hand of the match. I cbet he calls.. on a board like this i'm just giving it up when i have air myself. But especially on that J turn. Then he bets 300 into 260 pot on the river.. now this really had me confused.. why bet so much? this really didn't make any sense to me. Maybe Jx or Ax.. even then it's weird to overbet pot.. I decided to just fold since it was the first hand of the hu sng. He said he had the nuts when i asked.

Stacks:
Hero (SB) (1,500)
BB (1,500)

Blinds: 10/20

Pre-Flop: (30, 2 players) Hero is SB K♦ 6♥
Hero raises to 60, BB calls 40

Flop: Q♥ J♠ A♥ (120, 2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets 70, BB calls 70

Turn: J♣ (260, 2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks

River: 8♣ (260, 2 players)
BB bets 300, Hero folds

Final Pot: 560

BB wins 560 (net +130)

Hero lost 130

This was the third hand of that hu sng. I didn't believe he had a strong hand in the hand above So i decided to play this hand a bit differently. I flop Top pair with decent kicker.. pretty much the nuts in hu sng. Standard cbet.. I thought he had like Kx and Qx. Flush draws are likely to fold to a second barrel and Qx probably too. So to get the most value out of the hand and considering he played the first hand so weird i was hoping he'd overbet the river again. So 5 turn. complete blank. Then he donkbets 40.. which is pretty weird.. i thought it might be like a small blocker bet so i raise for value and then he minraises me. I talk to see if i can get some information from him. He said he had the nuts again. I really wasn't sure what he had at this point. I thought it was likely he had a strong Kx hand or air. The turn and river are so extremely blank though and after that first hand i was really curious to find out what he had. I decide to make the call anyway. Even just for the information i get from it it will be worth paying those 200 chips..

So this is what makes this hu sng so interesting. I played both hands the same way yet he decided to overbet pot one hand and bet 40 then minraise on the other. He claimed he had the nuts both times. However i find most people are extremely polarized in spots like this and will not play the nuts so differently. So by doing this i figure out what he does with air and what he does with the nuts. So i find out he sucks out on me. And that he minraises the nuts.

What's surprising is.. i really lost the minimum i could have this hand. Just calling the 40 bet would have been a mistake since i'm giving up a lot of value so i'm very happy with how i played it

Blinds: 10/20

Pre-Flop: (30, 2 players) Hero is SB 10:heart: K♠
Hero says "sure , Hero raises to 60, BB calls 40

Flop: K♥ 3♥ Q♠ (120, 2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets 70, BB calls 70

Turn: 8♦ (260, 2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks

River: 5♣ (260, 2 players)
BB bets 40, Hero raises to 200, BB raises to 400, BB says "ghhdgdgh", Hero says "lol", BB says "lol", Hero says "i pretend to think alot while i play.. but i really got no clue what you have..", BB says "nuts", Hero says "can't really fold", Hero calls 200

Final Pot: 1,060
Hero shows
10:heart: K♠
BB shows two pair, Kings and Fives
K♦ 5♦

BB wins 1,060 (net +530)

Hero lost 530

Standard raise.. pretty bad flop for me since it's really hard to get action on more then 1 street. I cbet anyway for value and protection. Now the turn comes the K of spades.. this is a really bad card for me. Both Kx and Qx, Ax of spade hands now beat me. So i really didn't know what to do.. Who's going to call that flop bet without a spade? He had shown both maniac and callingstation tendencies throught the hu sng. And because i knew he minraised the nuts i bet the turn to figure out what he has. If he minraises he has the nuts. if he calls he doesn't. Plus this doesn't give him the chance for an easy bluff. So if i check here i basicaly give up the hand. I'm really not sure how strong i should consider my J high flush but i think of it as quite weak on a board like this. Perhaps that's a mistake and i'm too cautious when i don't have a very strong flush though.

he calls.. i valuebet my J high flush and he pays it off. I was pretty surprised he had K6 with no spades at all however. But i soul read him so badly i could valuebet the third nutflush in this hand.

Stacks:
SB (1,470)
Hero (BB) (1,530)

Blinds: 15/30

Pre-Flop: (45, 2 players) Hero is BB J♠ J♣
SB calls 15, Hero raises to 90, SB calls 60

Flop: 6♠ 3♠ 5♠ (180, 2 players)
Hero bets 120, SB calls 120

Turn: K♠ (420, 2 players)
Hero bets 210, SB calls 210

River: 9♦ (840, 2 players)
Hero bets 420, SB calls 420

Final Pot: 1,680
Hero shows a flush, King high
J♠ J♣
SB shows
6♦ K♦

Hero wins 1,680 (net +840)

SB lost 840

Here i made a terrible mistake..

Here i soul read him again ♠_cool: he isn't checking behind Ax on the flop and he definitely isn't betting 90 into a 60 pot with anything else then a bluff. Then he bets potsize on the river. I snapcall with my K high and take down the pot. And my suspicion that he potbets/overbets it a little with bluffs is confirmed.

Stacks:
SB (1,170)
Hero (BB) (1,830)

Blinds: 15/30

Pre-Flop: (45, 2 players) Hero is BB K♣ 2♦
SB calls 15, Hero checks

Flop: A♦ 6♥ 6♦ (60, 2 players)
Hero checks, SB checks

Turn: 5♠ (60, 2 players)
Hero checks, SB bets 90, Hero calls 90

River: 4♥ (240, 2 players)
Hero checks, SB bets 240, Hero calls 240

Final Pot: 720
Hero shows a pair of Sixes - Ace+King kicker
K♣ 2♦
SB shows a pair of Sixes
9♣ 8♠

Hero wins 720 (net +360)

SB lost 360

Wow what a long post.. Really happy about how i played overall. Think i made just one major mistake that session which was that A5 hand. Still need to work on volume. But my mindset is good, my reads are excellent, i'm playing well and i'm running good so what more can i ask for? Unfortunately my husng.com membership did expire and i forgot to download all the videos so that's pretty lame.. i do got some left.. but i'm not planning to sign up again this month probably.

It's really about time i stop f*cking around with poker. I don't grind enough and have taken way too many breaks. Been playing poker for over 2 years now and what have i accomplished? A lousy $300 bankroll that most retard fish luckbox in their first week of playing online I didn't quite turn out to be the poker prodigy i expected. But i'm going to put a lot more effort into poker then i have before. And start treating it as a job instead of just a hobby that might earn me some $. Therefore i need some guidelines and goals.

General:
- Play a minimum of 3-5 hours a day. averaging 90-150 hours per month.
- Review hands after every session.
- Post interesting hands.
- Find more ways to improve game and study.
- Make in depth posts about the points of improvement in my game i will list below several times a month.
- Learn and grind some donkaments throughout this.
- Possibly learn PLO.
- Possibly get a coach.

May:
- Reach $550 bankroll. (20-25 BI)
- Watch the videos of husng i have left.
- Move up to 20s at $400. move down at $300.

June
- Reach $1000 bankroll
- Resubscribe to husng.com
- Move up to 30s at $900. move down at $750.

July
- Reach $1800 bankroll
- Move up to 50s at $1500. Move down at $1250.
- Learn and play NL25 SH and NL50 HU cash.

August
- Reach $3200 bankroll
- move up to 100s at $3500. Move down at $2800.
- Consider switching permanently SH or HU cash + donkaments.

September
- Reach $5000 bankroll
- Keep grinding 100s + Cash HU or SH + donkaments and possibly PLO.

- bet sizing: preflop, flop/turn/river but cbet and 2nd barrel in particular
- overbetting pot / overbet shoving (river)
- donkbetting flop/turn/river.
- check/raising flops/turns
- late game strategy next to shoving
- late game calling ranges
- 3/4bet strategy
- playing 3/4 bet pots
- betting weak/below half pot to induce LAG/maniacs to bluff reraise.
- betting river thin for value to induce hero calls. And perhaps turning it into a cheap bluff as opponent stops calling them with Ax/Kx.

So those are some major and optimistic goals. They are definetly achievable if i put in enough effort. Just reading my goals i think they are a million years away but i know it's definetly possible. I just have to put in enough hours into playing and studying So that's it. The points of improvement are things i feel i haven't put enough thought into myself or don't really know the strategy behind them. If i manage to be satisfied with all those points of my game then i will be a really solid good poker player. So going to look forward to that.

Motivational song ♠_cool:

Just noticed you posted a song by my favorite rapper Lupe Fiasco.. Nice to see someone else getting influenced by his lyricism ♠_biggrin:

Not sure if your goals are a good idea.. def not if your mind set is anything like mine
But if we should keep quoting Lupe - "What works for you might not work for me"... So good luck with them ♦

Originally posted by Hlynkinn
Just noticed you posted a song by my favorite rapper Lupe Fiasco.. Nice to see someone else getting influenced by his lyricism ♠_biggrin:

Not sure if your goals are a good idea.. def not if your mind set is anything like mine
But if we should keep quoting Lupe - "What works for you might not work for me"... So good luck with them ♦

I know monetary goals aren't "good" to set. But it's a target for me and to make sure i keep putting in enough time into grinding. It's not i'm obsessed with them but it would be nice to reach them. They're more of a benchmark of how well i'm doing. Even though that's obviously not true in poker. It's even harder to benchmark your improvement as a poker player since it's all so relative ♦

Lupe Fiasco is definetly one of my favorite rappers. I don't listen to "gangsta rap" but i can definetly appreciate rappers like Lupe Fiasco.. even though i know very few english rappers i like. Because while i can appreciate lyricism i also can really appreciate a good flow and nice beat so that it also sounds nice. Which is what most of the old school rappers lack in my opinion.

I'm really dissapointed with the Lasers album.. It sounds way too fabricated and very main stream/commercial.. Don't feel like he was free to do what he wanted on it. So i hope his next album is better

So yesterday i also found out about the Bigs promotion at stars. It's basicaly you play 3 tournaments with buyins ranging from $11 to $55 and then you get a ticket to the wcoop event equilavent of those buyins for free. So you basicaly get 33% buy-in back. Since i've been wanting to play donkaments this is really great value even though i'm underrolled to play the $11s. It doesn't hurt my bankroll much so hopefully i can luckbox one of them

Here you can read me QQ about how the 3 $11 BIG tournaments went and how bad i run

Variance in tournaments is really way sicker then anyone realises i think.

Anyway.. enough whining. Decided to 2 table again. This will help volume goals and more rakeback on stars.. And my 2 tabling ROI has consistenly been between 10-14% ROI. It's currently even nearly twice as much as my single tabling ROI. Obviously very small sample to truly judge my ROI. But i really don't understand how it's possible.. Perhaps i get less bored and make less fancy moves but still. My 2 tabling ROI should be half my singletabling roi not double it.. Might even start 4 tabling. will probably start it at 2s or 5s till i feel it's easy and then do it at 10s.

When i was playing NBI there was a guy who was 16-17 tabling the $11 nbi which is just rediculously sick. And he probably has a very good hourly. Aside that i just don't feel like it's worth just 1 tabling these stakes at this point.

Might post a graph soon. Didn't play that much this week but more then usual. Weekly graphs? monthly graphs? Not sure of that yet. It's going ok i guess. I watched the SCOOP 2010 $10k main event yesterday and watching stuff like that actualy motivates me a lot. Really good players fighting it out.. and seeing how they play and how few mistakes they make. Definetly motivates me to learn and improve. Where as now i just play a retard 19/20 times which is very boring and sometimes very unpredictable.

What's good is i started thinking again while playing ♦ Which i probably haven't done since march if i'm honest. The difference it makes if you truly think about every decision. What worse is calling me? what better is folding here? Then your really playing so much better.. If you do it correctly of course and that's a poker skill in itself.

Not much else really.. Soulread some fish yesterday but it went from 2-0 to 2-2 so that was a bit unfortunate. Playing some $10 knockout hu tournaments.. Very fun.. very fishy. They run every hour i think so that's pretty nice. Won 2 (HEM shows 4? might have been 4 lol ♦) matches in the first one then was card dead vs the most rediculous maniac i've ever seen. He literally had 100 vpip in position, limping 50% and raising the other 50%. I hit nothing at all.. missed everything.. Really disgusting because it's a turbo.. He just raised every time i tried to steal the pot. So that pissed me off pretty bad honestly. Because it was only 1 match more after that till the money and even 3/4th is already $60. I just needed to hit 1 time and he stacks me off.

Second one i was crushing the opponent. but A6 > AQ and then the next hand i shove QT over his pfr and he shows me AA. So not much i could do about that one either. I'm probably going to play a lot of these. Higher variance somewhat but very fun. Since $5 goes into prizepool and $5 knockout you need to win twice to breakeven (without rake). and the last one had $260 for first prize.. Which you have to win probably 6-7 times for. It's extremely +EV for me.

Oh yeah.. Also going to try to satellite into the 2 SCOOP hu sng tournaments. probably the LOW and med of event 7. something like $16 and $160 buyins and the $270 LOW event 35. If i actualy manage to sat into $100+ tournaments i might really consider just cashing it out since those will be so headsup reg invested. But winning a scoop would also be very awesome ♦ And of course using my $11 free ticket. not really looking forward to that one though.

edit: Something went wrong with posting handhistories so just deleted it all as i can't be bothered looking up the hands of the match and write my thinking process again.

It's not been going to well with poker lately. Bankroll dropping like a rock due to the HU KO tournaments.. can't even seem to win the first round anymore. I'm more motivated now then i've been in a long while though

I need to regain the focus and sick reads i had at the start of this blog. I may or may not have been running better then i should have. But my reads were just spot on every single time and i was very focused. I noticed everything. I'm making way too many mistakes now and making the wrong reads. I think one of the reasons is i either think way too high or i think too low. It's hard to judge an opponent's level that quickly. And not all fish use the same lines for strenght/weakness etc so it's really easy to make the wrong read based on previous experiences.

Hopefully it will go better today. Might post a graph soon. Also going to use a new thing i noticed to stop playing on tilt. As soon as my notes become "FUCKING DONKEY CALLS 2 STREETS WITH FLUSHDRAW LOL" then it's time to close the poker software

Honestly i thought Fat Joe died or something. But really love this song

Finished just another losing session. It's just bad beat after bad beat after sick coolers. Like literally pick the worst card in the deck that will improve opponents hand alot and is a card that improves mine too making me think i have the best hand. That happens several times a day over really small samples which just makes it really disgusting.

The hu ko tournaments are going terrible. I'm playing complete retards almost everytime. With no board or hand reading skills at all. And i just keep losing. I can't seem to win. They run every hour at most so it's impossible to put in volume in these. after i had won 2 matches in the first 2 i.e. breaking even. I lost the last 8 first matches in a row. Just completly rediculous. Running at -80% ROI or -$80 in just 10 of those tournaments.
My spirit is just completly crushed.. And i won't lie i've made some very spewy plays over the last 2 weeks. But i've also played incredibly well and got punished for it every single time. I'm having rediculous swings since i made the new account. And just can't seem to make a nice and steady profit.

I'm without a joke seriously risking going busto. Lost over half my bankroll over the last few weeks. This graph doesn't even include the $5 hu sng superturbos i tried a few days ago when they were released. Where i lost 9/13 matches. So about -7 buyins in those.

Graph since i got new account on pokerstars.

Not sure what i'm going to do... I really don't know what it is.. I just can't seem to catch a break and i don't understand how i can run so bad so often. I'm probably just going to stop playing for a few days or a week or so. Just relax.. go to the beach. Watch alot of husng turbo videos and then seriously analyse my game. It's probably best that i don't play during this so i avoid losing even more money. I think i really underestimated the variance in the hu sng ko tournaments. Even though they are really soft.

I mean is this the answer? i don't even know wtf it means. I'm losing chips but winning in terms of bb/100? Are my swings due to the fact i'm running 12 BI worth of chips below EV? fuck it i don't want to make excuses. It doesn't even matter. Only thing i can do is play better.

move to cash its free money

Originally posted by fusionpk
move to cash its free money

I would try it if i could. But with about 4 buyins for NL50 hu atm i don't think that's the best idea

What have you been playing lately? Switches to cash from sng i assume?

little blog update: Not stopped playing because i'm stubborn as fuck. Stopped playing turbo's though. They're just not for me. And i figured out how i could win bb/100 but have lost more chips. It means i win so much big blinds at lower blind levels or lost so much as higher blind levels that the bb/100 i win at those is larger then the bb/100 i lose at higher blind levels. Obviously not the most accurate representation of my bb/100 since it's at the bottom of my downswing. And just 1 day of run good would double it already since sample is so small.

yeah currently 100hu & 50hu whatever i can get action on.

dunno what ur best option is, its hard to say, i guess just keep analysing and posting hands and hopefully get thru the run bad, move up convert to cash ship the $$ ez game.

Hey, I think you should add me on skype! Posted a thread that im looknig for a "headsup soulmate"

I spend ALOT of time playing and im really trying to improve.
tinker_to_hon

Originally posted by tryhardnoob
Hey, I think you should add me on skype! Posted a thread that im looknig for a "headsup soulmate"

I spend ALOT of time playing and im really trying to improve.
tinker_to_hon

added you on skype ♦

Pretty good day. Watched a PrimordialAA vid. Pretty interesting. I really love how he plays. And his vids are very good. A lot of interesting lines i'm going to work into my own game.

I've said this many times but i really love to play with decent stacksizes. especially the 15/30 blind level has always been my favorite. Since it's high enough you can 2x preflop and still build decent pot. And still low enough that you still have a lot of room to outplay your opponent. Which is why i loved NBI so much, why i'm probably quite bad at turbo's and would probably be good at HU cash. Not surprisingly i have a very good bb/100 rate at that blind level. Although i seem to be losing chips at 10/20 overall in all my games. So that was quite surprising. Really don't know how that's possible. But we're talking about only thousands of hands here so a lot of variance here.

Not much else. I found out i'm actualy at the highest point of profit since i made this blog. But since i lost so much money trying other things my mind was a bit clouded and thought i had lost a lot since my peek at hu sng. While i had just lost alot at those turbo KO tournaments, the few superturbo's i tried and a few sats/tournament shots. I'm going to stop doing that.. no sats/tournaments etc anymore. Going to play NBI again mixed with regulars.

While writing this i forgot to unregister from a $10 NBI and made an epic comeback from 60 chips in like a 5-10 minute match ♦ Really spewy maniac player. Got some cards and he pays me off like an ATM. Playing really well lately. Got my aggression back into my game and it's going good. The swings really started to affect my game and i started to become quite passive. Might review some earlier hands of this blog again though since i feel i've made quite a lot of progress in these 2,5 months.

Volume wise it's going pretty bad really. Played only 16 hours this month so far. But that's actually a lot more then i usually play. 3 hours a day is really hard for me since i'm having such massive swings it's really hard to keep playing. Along with that grinding has always been one of my weakest points. If i manage to play 50 hours this month i'll be really happy though. Since that's slightly more then i played in feb, march and april combined.

Grinding Song of the Week: 2 dutch artists ♠_cool: I really love the beat. The chello, keyboard, drums and snare work so well together. Amazing artists it's a shame they've quite working together.

Thought i'd update with my total husng graph. I'm extremely unhappy with it.. And i know i'm really the only one to blame. Very unhappy with my ROI. Going to get husng premium membership in a few days too improve my lategame mostly.

So this is my $10 hu sng graph since the start of this blog. Both regulars and NBI. running at about 9% ROI which is way lower then i want it to be. Really bad volume too, only 65 hours played.

I love how all these people downvote my blog without commenting. Grow a pair of balls instead of hiding behind how the forum is made. Don't like my blog by all means comment how much you hate me and the blog. Better yet.. don't like my blog then don't read it. Last time i checked no one forced you to read it. In fact the only person i actually write this blog for is myself. To track my progress and thought processes as i get better.

Sorry for the ranting really stressed lately. Going to play SCOOP event with my ticket in a few hours so maybe i get lucky there but probably not. Think i'm probably going to take a break from poker or just these forums. Not enjoying poker anymore and playing far from my A game. Also tired of playing husng.. just don't like them anymore and i really want to transition to Headsup cash.

That's it. Will update again on the first of june to see what i'm going to do. It's probably best that i just study a lot this week. Because i've been really lazy with that. And then just grind a lot again next week as i regain my confidence in my game. As for my volume goals.. really not going to make those so that's pretty dissapointing.

lol

the graph is good ^^, 9% ROI isn't too bad either, if u were crushing these with much higher ROI, u probably wouldn't be at them (you woulda moved up), ur main focus just has to be volume and improvement so u can start to shoot higher. I wouldn't be unhappy with your progress, i'd be very happy and realise all u gotta do is play more and focus on finding more +EV spots.

9% might also not be true ROI. ur sample is v small and HU SNGs are by nature v swingy.

I love how all these people downvote my blog without commenting. Grow a pair of balls instead of hiding behind how the forum is made. Don't like my blog by all means comment how much you hate me and the blog. Better yet.. don't like my blog then don't read it. Last time i checked no one forced you to read it. In fact the only person i actually write this blog for is myself. To track my progress and thought processes as i get better.

lol lol lol.
Then why do you care?
You just seem so cocky...
1 Thumb from me. Don't bother answering I just come here to troll.

Yeah, graph looks solid. Work on your volume and your game will improve. Id be ok with 9% on small sample.

GL