[Closed] ilovemagic: i love the game.

this call is for like a small amount of my chips, and I like the equity here most of the time. tight player who loosened right up after the bubble, stack odds were good too if he had ace:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 1.5 Tournament, 200/400 Blinds 25 Ante (4 handed) - PokerStars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

SB (t5505)
Hero (BB) (t11879)
UTG (t5881)
Button (t3735)

Hero's M: 16.97

Preflop: Hero is BB with K, J
1 fold, Button bets t3710 (All-In), 1 fold, Hero calls t3310

Flop: (t7720) Q, 7, 8 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Turn: (t7720) 10 (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: (t7720) K (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: t7720

Results:
Button had 6, A (high card, Ace).
Hero had K, J (one pair, Kings).
Outcome: Hero won t7720

this guy was reletively agressive, and i thought if i looked weak and then went all in he would fold to my reraise, but to no avail...and i could totally see him calling with any K-xs and Q-xs , any PP as well here, which he still has the option to fold and give it up pre, but as played:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 1.5 Tournament, 300/600 Blinds 50 Ante (2 handed) - PokerStars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

BB (t15960)
Hero (SB) (t11040)

Hero's M: 11.04

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q, K
Hero calls t300, BB bets t1200, Hero raises to t10990 (All-In), BB calls t9790

Flop: (t22080) 6, 10, 3 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Turn: (t22080) Q (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: (t22080) 8 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: t22080

Results:
Hero had Q, K (one pair, Queens).
BB had A, 9 (high card, Ace).
Outcome: Hero won t22080

here, the sng winning hand, i think hes calling here with a lot of weaker hand then A-5o. turns out i was right and it held thank god.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 1.5 Tournament, 300/600 Blinds 50 Ante (2 handed) - PokerStars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

SB (t4920)
Hero (BB) (t22080)

Hero's M: 22.08

Preflop: Hero is BB with A, 5
SB calls t300, Hero bets t22030 (All-In), SB calls t4270 (All-In)

Flop: (t9840) 6, 2, 4 (2 players, 2 all-in)

Turn: (t9840) 8 (2 players, 2 all-in)

River: (t9840) 9 (2 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: t9840

Results:
SB had Q, J (high card, Queen).
Hero had A, 5 (high card, Ace).
Outcome: Hero won t9840

this is just a little benefit of having pretty solid post flop skill, as well as really taking lots of notes and a little pinch of luck doesnt hurt either lol.

I will surely be using the shark whenever i feel like playing sng's however!

Originally posted by ilovemagic
Should I change the way I think people look at me now at the tables?

No! never at these limits until some NL50 for sure!
Just ABC them.

From my experience, they themselves will try to adjust to some bulls**t,
that's even better.

I love when I play ABC and players bluff me. But why. I'm a nit of the nits sometimes.

GL.

its funny you mention ABC poker lol, because thats exactly what I just told someone else who was working at NL2, who tried to slowplay a straight on a very wet board with lots of hand he could be sucking value from. Sometimes we just need a little reminder thats all thanks bud. I totally agree with you.

Hello ilovemagic,

Great read mate, going to try to follow it time to time. Keep up the progress! I'd also vote for ABC for the first play.

The idea isn't to only win the $$$ for moving up. But the idea of SHC & playing ABC is rather that you getting the preflop/postflop play more easily. You wont be losing a lot money and will face easy decisions. The better and more confident you get you will widen up and will get the game. Then you can as well start play more fancy game. ♦ But till that just follow the ABC.

Best Regards.

Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to read my blog veriz. I am using you as my main coach through the beginning of my career! I still can't believe that I can learn to play winning poker for free. This site is the stone cold nuts, and so are the people who frequent it I will definately be following ur blog now that I know you have one and I made it a favourite so i always know where to find it!

so ive had a couple break even sessions over the last couple days, coupled with not playing for long. I've just been busy at work and with baby, cleaning the house, and looking for a second job, that by the time 10pm rolls around, theres only a great enough amount of energy to play for like 5 mins if i wanna play my A game. So tonight I'm pretty sure I'm gonna open like 4 or 5 tables and go "fishing" for a couple hours. Hope to get some bites toodles.

had another pretty much break even session last night. topped by a lucksack who made pretty much the nuts and 2 all ins vs one other guy and then me 1 hand later when I had KK. was up $3 just nickel and diming this tight ass table for like 2 hrs. Then this guy (calling station) came along and stole the show. i lost all my profit +$1 more then I started with. I immediately blew up and rage quit. Thank god I'm not going on tilt anymore, but I'm not winning half as much as I used to. I'm starting to think I am playing too late at night. I always end up making a bad call somewhere during a late night session, or a horrible shove that gets instacalled, and I lose. Taking more breaks during my sessions is a great idea too.. I need to start playing for more +EV so I will be playing during the day mostly from now on. This break even poker is really starting to bug me.

imagine your heart being ripped in an instant. I thought he was drawing dead because i got so excited at what he flipped. I called , because he is a fish who plays too many hands and bets too many times. And I thought he had A-x, so it was +EV.

Poker Stars $0.01/$0.02 No Limit Hold'em - 8 players - View hand 1621878
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

CO: $1.66
Hero (BTN): $7.40
SB: $4.07
BB: $0.80
UTG: $3.66
UTG+1: $0.96
MP1: $2.23
MP2: $5.96

Pre Flop: ($0.03) Hero is BTN with 8 8
UTG raises to $0.12, 4 folds, Hero calls $0.12, 2 folds

Flop: ($0.27) 8 T 9 (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $0.19, UTG calls $0.19

Turn: ($0.65) A (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $0.47, UTG raises to $3.35 all in, Hero calls $2.88

River: ($7.35) J (2 players - 1 is all in)

he had AQ OMG so lucky .....

so i have like so much equity vs AQ on the turn...and i play the hand perfectly vs this particular player, and this is why my bankroll is fucking garbage right now.

Going to post any graphs? I like graphs, they're good to look at

i will post graphs man. But they wont be spectacular considering I haven't been beating NL2 consistently, nor do I even know where to go to make a graph

Any suggestions on where to go to learn how to do this? maybe theres a forum or an info video here on pokerstrategy?

Originally posted by ilovemagic
i will post graphs man. But they wont be spectacular considering I haven't been beating NL2 consistently, nor do I even know where to go to make a graph

Any suggestions on where to go to learn how to do this? maybe theres a forum or an info video here on pokerstrategy?

hm1 -> graphs -> right click on the graph -> save image as -> desktop -> graph123.png -> ok -> google -> type "upload image" -> ??? -> profit!
Let me post a tutorial video for you ♦

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is this basically what you wanted to see?
this is thru 8.5k hands since jan 1st

i am really struggling thru nl2 lol...

well well...i have now had 5 different friends who seemed to be great candidates for the TAF system fall thru on me because of stupid excuses. I need to find some people who like poker who never heard of PS before!!! WHERE ARE YAHS!!! who the hell doesnt like getting free $$$???? its fucking mind blowing the reasons they give too...DONK!!.shoulda had a V8.

Explain me this:
how come you have that huge spike from $2 to $-14, did you sit with $16 stack at nl2 table?
I doubt that. I guess you were playing without proper BRM on nl10 you silly fish ♦

this graph is an example of what happens when i go on tilt. i can be up $ 3 0 playing nl2. go on tilt and lose $60 in 500 hands. i lost all my $ today. i went on tilt again at the nl2's...fuck

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tilt train all aboard the tilt train...destination ??? HELL.

this is my last 30 days of play in the post below.... where am i seriously leaking?

wtf. this is 9k hands played. -$20

more stats...what does any of this mean? i thought i was playing well enough...but maybe im wrong.

at first glance, utg1 and utg2 vp$ip need to be lowered to at least 20%, maybe even 15%..25% is just too high, considering my co,bu,sb vpip % is roughly the same lol

i'm here ♦
Will read through your blog tomorrow

Roo

alright man! i found your thread as well thankfully
You have been around here for longer then I thought!
I wont ask you any questions about yourself until i see what youve already told us in your blog as to not make you have to write it out twice!

i look forward to chattin with ya !

Originally posted by ilovemagic
alright man! i found your thread as well thankfully
You have been around here for longer then I thought!
I wont ask you any questions about yourself until i see what youve already told us in your blog as to not make you have to write it out twice!

i look forward to chattin with ya !

I would not go into my blog if I was you, many that have dared have never returned!!! i will give you short summary ...

played loads of mss, tried bss failed, switched back to mss, now im trying 6 max bss and trying to get better, im studying poker for at least 2 hours a day at the mo with not much playing, working my way through the poker zion roots course and attending coachings on here, I'm hoping this will now help my game as I have been a losing/breakeven player for just over one year.