[Closed] Dippy's blog/thread thingy

Good luck I hope your swing changes around!
Just wanted to let you know you're not alone, although my limits were lower (nl10), I suffered a 37BI loss at the beginning of them month. I'm just starting to recover now, so don't feel bad, it'll come around for you too!
I'll be interested to read how your first day went, GL at the tables!
-Brian

GL Dippy19!

My first update, jupi! Anyway I won't update every two days, but I might be away for a while... Probably going to the cost for about two weeks the day after tomorrow. That means I will probably complete two of my most important goals, enjoying my summer vacation and read and reread the articles(I'll take them with me).

Ok, what's new. Not much ♦. I played a little last night and today, my BR is a bit up and I added a new feature to my blog/thread thingy... THE BR COUNTER! Exciting isn't it.

And another thing, thank you to cannell and brian for the positive feedback. I already have two readers, yay! ♦

Have fun and good luck to everybody!

NO! You have at least 3 readers

You should postpone reading articles few days and enjoy your vacation. I can think about many more interesting things to do
And taking break is sometimes more important than anything else.. just chill out

I've also experiencing downswing, but with titan summer promotion i could move up without beating 0.5/1.00$ FR so now i'm in same situation as you Just starting to feel Short-handed ups and downs

GL btw where do you play?

Originally posted by opal99
NO! You have at least 3 readers

You should postpone reading articles few days and enjoy your vacation. I can think about many more interesting things to do
And taking break is sometimes more important than anything else.. just chill out

I knew some of you ware hiding out there, you little rascals ♦

Trust me after reading about Roman Law for 7 days 12-15h a day some math and stuff about FL poker will be more of a joy read for chilling on the beach ♦

Originally posted by martizzo
I've also experiencing downswing, but with titan summer promotion i could move up without beating 0.5/1.00$ FR so now i'm in same situation as you Just starting to feel Short-handed ups and downs

GL btw where do you play?

You moved up to 0.5/1 SH straight from 0.25/0.5? Interesting. Well 0.5/1 SH is as fishy and easy as 0.25/0.5 FR soo I think it's OK.

And yeah swings can get freaking BIG. I lost like 200BB at 0.5/1 SH, but at the end(first end, now I'm starting over) I beat it with 2BB/100 sooo it's all normal.

If you are interested I will point out some must read articles when switching:
Way ahead way behinde
River play heads up
And these two are really interesting, but... you should post hands of your attempts so you can see if it's the right situation:
Over call
Donkbet

Hope I helped a bit ♦

Oh yeah, I play at Poker Stars

At first i want explain situation, i have beaten 0.25/0.50$, but after break-even 5k hands @ FR 0.50/1.00$ i've dropped to ~200$, but with titan summer promotion(40% rakeback), so i've had BR for shorthanded. Today i took first shoot after watching cornholio video at first i was shocked about swings in one sesion but finised steadly up.. This was just my first test shot.

Ok, now this is really the last update before I go. I'm writing it just to say that I twiked one of my goals a bit. I changed the desired amount to play 1$/2$, becouse of two things:
1. My BR is growing quite rapidly(but that is just an upswing and I found some really stupid players ♦, I wish I could say that it's couze I'm that good, but that would be a lie :P)
2. I want some extra "bounce" for my BR, so I won't play with scare money.

If I'm going to play some more tonight I will also update my BR counter.

I'm also posting my first three day graph(wanted to do that, but I can't filter it out on elephant :().

And for the end I would like to wish everybody a great summer!

Hello everybody! So today I got back from my 9 day vacation. Had fun and finally saw the ocean:) Anyway it was nice and relaxing. I also had a lot of free time and I used a portion of it for studying poker stuff. Anyways I read the bronze and silver articles and tomorrow I will probably start reading gold ones. I learned some new things and got reminded of some old ones. All in all I think I can say it did me some good. Completed my first two goals

When I got home the first thing I did was of course go to the tables. I must say I'm a bit of my game... I had some strange moves that kind of surprised me, in short I was really fishy today imo(Martizzo if you are reading this, correct me if I'm wrong:)). Well the fact that I spent most of the day in the sun and in a car that doesn't have air conditioning didn't help much either... I was/am really tired... Anyway my BR is a bit down, but nothing drastic.

Since I'm in a really bad shape and want to go to sleep I'll wrap this up quickly. Nothing special all in all, but I made some new decisions:
-Once I hit 1$/2$ limit again I'll start doing session reviews
-I'm going to try to qualifie for the WCOOP FL event(special goal)
-Something that I can't remember and will add later ♦ ♦ ♦

Oh yeah, tomorrow I'm going to play in the 100K goldstar freeroll and the 20K weekly freeroll(silverstar+), Anybody else playing?

OK, enough, have fun everybody and good luck at the tables!

Good night!

Oh yeah today was amazingly fishy I made ~160BB thats crazy amount(>10BB/100h), despite its shorthanded. Also had few hands review from session:
FL100 AQ'o turn cap(TPGK+second nut FD) vs loose passive

FL100 JJ again WA/WB flop

I like stars more and more. Because titan's regulars were very unkind :DDD

Originally posted by martizzo
Oh yeah today was amazingly fishy I made ~160BB thats crazy amount(>10BB/100h), despite its shorthanded. Also had few hands review from session:
FL100 AQ'o turn cap(TPGK+second nut FD) vs loose passive

FL100 JJ again WA/WB flop

I like stars more and more. Because titan's regulars were very unkind :DDD

I said I was fishy ♦

Yeah on this limit it's always like that, that's why I like to play a bit more aggressively :P, I would probably even 3-bet the second hand But It's a bit different on 1/2...

And one more thing, I have some interesting stats on you, you are really tight and really agressive, a SUPER TAG, he he ♦. But it's a small sample(~150 hands)

welcome back Dippy

see you tommorrow at 15:00 ET...

Originally posted by martizzo
Oh yeah today was amazingly fishy I made ~160BB thats crazy amount(>10BB/100h)

lucky you... I made 65BB in 1300 hands and then lost 77 in another 400 hands

nothing wrong happened (-12 BB in 1 day is nothing bad), but I hate that feeling I lost over $300

Just noticed your thread. Nice reading... I'll keep an eye on it

At the moment my BR is also at ~550$ but until the end of this month I'll stick to 0.25/0.50 SH. In August I'll move up to 0.5/1.00 so we will be at the same spot. Let's see who will done better

Joke of course
Good luck with your goals. My next goal is 1000$ BR

Originally posted by CoreySteel
Just noticed your thread. Nice reading... I'll keep an eye on it

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I tried to join a 500FPP+R qualifier to the WCOOP today, but it was canceled Not enough participants...

As some ppl that ware on IRC at that time know, I have managed to qualifie to the WCOOP FL event on Poker Stars. That means that I have completed my special goal.

I played the 500FPP+R qualifier. I spent 1500FPPs, doubled my stack at the beginning for 500FPPs and took an add on during the first(and last) break. There ware 36 participants and the first 2 got the entry to the WCOOP(215$).

Here is what I think the most interesting hand, all others ware nothing special.

Poker Stars
Limit Holdem Tournament
Limit: t200/t400
9 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
UTG: t1735
UTG+1: t4185
MP1: t2745
MP2: t1000
Hero: t1655
CO: t2185
Button: t1000
SB: t4140
BB: t1465

Pre-flop: (9 players) Hero is MP3 with K♠ A♣
UTG folds, UTG+1 raises, 2 folds, Hero 3-bets, 4 folds, UTG+1 calls.

Flop: 5♣ J♠ 6♠ (7.5SB, 2 players)
UTG+1 checks, Hero bets, UTG+1 calls.

Turn: 9♥ (4.75BB, 2 players)
UTG+1 checks, Hero bets, UTG+1 raises, Hero raises all-in t855, UTG+1 calls.

River: 5♦ (9.03BB, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: 9.03BB)

Results:
Final pot: 9.03BB

And here is the winning hand:

Poker Stars
Limit Holdem Tournament
Limit: t3000/t6000
3 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
Button: t1940
SB: t23655
Hero: t60405

Pre-flop: (3 players) Hero is BB with 3♣ T♥
Button calls all-in t1940, SB calls, Hero checks.

Flop: 8♦ 3♠ 4♦ (2.65SB, 2 players + 1 all-in - Main pot: 1.94SB, Sidepot 1: 0.71SB)
SB checks, Hero checks.

Turn: K♣ (1.32BB, 2 players + 1 all-in - Main pot: 0.97BB, Sidepot 1: 0.35BB)
SB checks, Hero checks.

River: 3♦ (1.32BB, 2 players + 1 all-in - Main pot: 0.97BB, Sidepot 1: 0.35BB)
SB checks, Hero checks.

Results:
Final pot: 1.32BB

I was a pretty sure winner at the end, since I had a HUGE chip lead, he he

Anyway, that's about it... We will see what happens in September.

My hunt for glory continuous.................

nice
what did UTG+1 have in the first hand?

AQ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦

Originally posted by Dippy19
AQ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦

probably standard in limit?
if not: nice soul read

Congrats Dippy, great read will follow your progress. I will see you in the WCOOP I qualified tonight as well. Love limit poker but the swings are incredible at times. Keep up the great work you do.