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In spite of the mistakes I still had a winning day. It was a good reminder that I have to constantly work on my game. So my next session will start with a list of mistakes not to repeat. I think it is a great idea to always have a few playing goals for each session you play. Knowing how to play winning poker is not the same as playing winning poker. I have to stay focused on executing every single hand.
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With these changes I was able to 20 table full ring and 12 table 6max pretty easily. BUT making money playing that many table is another story. Things go so fast and the games are pretty tight. You can't really game select with all the tables going. It seems like 1/2 the battle of making SNE would be to manage to play winning poker on so many tight tables. I had a coaching session with a very experienced multitabler who told me the same thing.
I have decided not to pursue the SNE this year. Now that I have made this decision I am relieved that I won't be turning my poker into a 50hr/week grind. Not having to play massive number of hands each day will also help me work on improving my game and moving up. I think that is way more interesting
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I finished up my daytime poker playing 14/12 at 6max
. I guess this is the effect of playing so many tables and running a little card dead but 14/12 is tighter than my normal full ring stats! Playing 10 tables is fun for something different but you miss soooo much info. This afternoon I played a short 4 tabling session and had one spastic guy on my right. I played 2 big pots with him. Having a good read on this player allowed me to make an about an extra $100 in profits that I am sure I would have missed if I was 10 tabling. So I am sticking with quality not quantity
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I am at Turning Stone Casino for a few days. I had a short but good session of 200NLH yesterday. I was surprised that there were only 2/4 LHE or 200NLH games going. I usually come out here during tournament weeks and there are plenty of bigger game to play but not this week
The game was surprisingly tight but I had some fun for the last 2 hours when I got a big fish on my right and iso-raised him a ton. The tight table let me get away with this the entire time. I am not sure they even notice what I was doing. Only one guy "adjusted" by moving to my right between me and the fish but once he got that seat he just kept folding.
There was one strange hand. I iso-raised one tight limper and the fish. I bet the flop and turn HU against the tight guy on a A7833 board. I took a little extra time to check behind on the river. As soon as I checked he instant mucks. I said something like - wow I checked, I didn't bet. He said I know I was no good. The dealer pushes me the pot and I don't show my cards. I asked the guy what he had. He told me he had T9s for OESD on flop and FD on the turn. I told him "man was I in trouble I had 67 and I didn't bet the river because I thought he was trapping me with AJ+"
Now the table spends the next 5 minutes debating weather i had 67 or not. They didn't all believe me but after that hand and my aggressive play in general I knew it was time to switch gears and wait for a real hand to get paid off with. I tightened up for the last 30 minutes or so but I didn't pickup any hands. I quit because I was getting really tired. This is an area of my game that I have made great strides in - I almost always quit good these days even when the game is still good
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I watched all 4 of Nutedawg's videos on CR. All very good stuff but I especially like the "where da gold at" video. I hope he plans more like this.
I got Spade Eye to work perfect. You just hit scan table and with a few filters set you find all the best game to play in. It will even open the tables you want and join the wait-list. It makes table selection super easy.
My new group coaching program is taking shape. I want to make it an active learning experience. The plan is to focus on 1 or 2 areas each week and have everyone concentrate on that part of their game for one week. I want to make the learning a little more structured. I plan on giving homework each week to help keeping everyone focused on that weeks learning goals.
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I have been reading a few sports psychology books to work on always playing my A-game. One common theme is to have performance rituals before, during, and after each performance(poker session). I hung the below sign to keep me focused on performing each of these rituals every time I play. Most of these I already do but I don't always take the time to prepare before playing and to review after playing. Prepared and focused? Good game? Feeling good and playing good? Where are the fish? Always quit good! Review and learn
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I watched a series of videos on STOX by Ed Miller about NLH blinds stealing. He had some very interesting ideas. So for the past few thousand hands(100NLH), I have opened every button to 2.5BBs with any 2 cards except when I had a big LAGtard on my left. Nobody seems to adjust! I pickup the blinds just as often with less cost. When they do play back I am mostly folding. Since my initial raise was smaller I can 4B bluff smaller and/or call them and still have room to play post flop with them in position.
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when I found an old notebook with notes on my poker bankroll and goals from 12/30/06 that I had forgotten about. It is cool that I wrote this down because I barely remember what I did yesterday much less 2 years ago. Here is what it looks like:current bankroll
UB = 686
neteller = 182
cash = 300
total = 1,168
I think I had just pulled $300 out of the bank to start playing some live NLH games and tourneys as I had spent my old LHE roll. From the notes I was grinding small SNGs on UB. On 1/04/07 I made final 3 in small local $65 buy-in tourney and did a 3 way chop for $480 to more than double my live roll - LOL. I built this original $1168 into my current 5 figure bankroll. It is strange because this feel like 10 years ago not 2.
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I am in the process of setting up the office they way I want it and working on getting the computer to run a little faster. I have a bunch of small projects like this that I really want to get done by the new year.
I have been digging through many of the more advance filters in HEM trying to find both leaks and profitable spots. It is really amazing. You can ask any poker question and filter for it to see your results in that exact situation. I just wish I had more 6max data because the results of some of the filters don't have enough trials to draw valid conclusions from.
Dec 23, 08 09:16:34
Hey buddy, Hope all is well, and Happy Holidays! Questions for HEM, how to improve W%woSD, and Cbetting stats...How much am I bleeding? Can you help? Thanks man!
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I had been planning to pay for CR and STOX with my FTPs. Now that I don't have to I ordered a few more hats, a fleece vest, and a couple of Full Tilt mugs. Unfortunately there isn't anything I really want in the Full Tilt store except the 30' monitor which is 300,000 FTPs. I wish Full Tilt had a Store like Poker Stars so I could turn my points into cash. Free $$ is always better than free stuff !
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