Pwned!

Well, I figured since I post good results its only fair that I post bad results right? lol.

Anyway last week I was playing some 100NL as promised. Things did not start off good at all. I played about 4K hands and dropped 5buyins which really sucks. I just really couldn't get anything going and I ended up playin fewer tables (6) to maintain focus and making very very good decisions. Things still turned out pretty aweful because I kept getting 3bet on flops, turns and 4bet preflop lol. I also ran into set over set situations and none of my big hands were ever good =(.
Heres my awesome results so far:



Anyway, I'm planning on splitting some time between 50NL and 100NL now because I am definitely a lot more comfortable at 50NL. I'm going to be either mixing in 100NL and 50NL tables during my sessions or alternating between the two on different days. If nothing happens at 100NL I will have to re-evaluate my game and change up some things. I posted on 2p2 and most of the people there said there isnt that much adjustments needed to be made between the two levels, so hopefully I can turn things around!

-Ian

100NL!

Well its official now. I am now moving up to 100NL. Lets hope I can get some pretty good results. Rich and I made a pact that starting from Saturday we will only play 100NL. If we drop 10 BI's then we will drop down (hopefully not) but I can't wait! I am in Toronto right now for the weekend so I dont have time to play nor the computing power to 8 table.

There isnt going to be any big adjustments I need to make, except for just getting used to bigger pots. The play at 100NL is obviously still ridonculous so i should be able to beat it. Hopefully we can get 30BI for 200NL and move up within the next couple of months. I've been quite busy with school, so that will cut into my poker time.

I played my first session yesturday. I played about 2k hands and ended the day -75. I didnt play very good at all and I made a bunch of very curious calls that I should have been able to fold. Today I played for a little bit and ended the day +50. I got some school work to do now.... I am trying to smash a stack for my securities class... its actually harder then it sounds!

-Ian

September lookin good + good weekend

Well after a horrible end to August, Sept is lookin pretty good so far. I played about 23K hands over the last 12 days(or so) and so far I'm averaging at about 2.68bb/100. I definately want to get that a lil higher but I still can't complain I guess. I feel like I have become 10x wiser and a much better player after my downswing in August. It may sound crazy but I am so happy I went through that downswing because I learned so much about poker and realized I have so much more to learn! Anyway here is my graph for Sept so far.




I don't think I'll be able to get Ironman this month because in a couple of weeks I'm going to be super busy with school (and for the rest of the 3 months). It kind of sucks because I really want to log the hours but with school and stuff its quite difficult to do so. Plus even if I do put in enough time for Ironman I doubt I can keep it rolling into October so I might as well just leave it.

This weekend has been pretty profitable. Today I made about 4 buyins, but the most important part is that I am very very close to moving up to 100NL. I am about 3 or 4 buyins short. I am somewhat excited to move up but I am also very comfortable at my current stakes too. I guess we will see how things go!

Thats all for now, I'm just takin a break and its time to hit the tables again soon!

-Ian

One crazy hand

As Ian said, I just took home 6th place on the FT 24K garentee for about 1675$

Heres a really crazy hand that took place in the tournament:


Full Tilt Poker Game #7978010903: $24,000 Guarantee (59898385), Table 40 - 1200/2400 Ante 300 - No Limit Hold'em - 17:31:30 ET - 2008/09/07
Seat 1: rickclou (13,352)
Seat 2: PapaRazzis (22,497)
Seat 3: r3b3hn (42,138)
Seat 4: XPC (96,765)
Seat 5: cadillacsa (135,342)
Seat 6: mbardsen (47,988)
Seat 7: A187 (112,951)
Seat 9: LiquidFireAK (84,701)
rickclou antes 300
PapaRazzis antes 300
r3b3hn antes 300
XPC antes 300
cadillacsa antes 300
mbardsen antes 300
A187 antes 300
LiquidFireAK antes 300
LiquidFireAK posts the big blind of 2,400
The button is in seat #7
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to LiquidFireAK [9s 3h]
rickclou folds
Dj_Voltek (Observer): PFFFFFF
PapaRazzis folds
r3b3hn folds
XPC folds
Dj_Voltek (Observer): tssssssssss
cadillacsa folds
Dj_Voltek (Observer): raaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
mbardsen folds
A187 raises to 7,200
LiquidFireAK raises to 20,000
A187 calls 12,800
*** FLOP *** [2d 7h 9c]
LiquidFireAK bets 64,401, and is all in
A187 has 15 seconds left to act
A187: wow
LiquidFireAK: what u have
A187: 88
LiquidFireAK: ?
LiquidFireAK: lol
LiquidFireAK: up 2 u
A187 has timed out
A187 is sitting out
A187 folds
Uncalled bet of 64,401 returned to LiquidFireAK
A187 has returned
LiquidFireAK mucks
LiquidFireAK wins the pot (42,400)
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 42,400 | Rake 0
Board: [2d 7h 9c]
Seat 1: rickclou folded before the Flop
Seat 2: PapaRazzis folded before the Flop
Seat 3: r3b3hn folded before the Flop
Seat 4: XPC folded before the Flop
Seat 5: cadillacsa folded before the Flop
Seat 6: mbardsen folded before the Flop
Seat 7: A187 (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 9: LiquidFireAK (big blind) collected (42,400), mucked

By the way, I NEVER play this crazy with 93o, but heres my rational for why I did it:
When the villian first sat at my table, I did not know anything about him.. so when it folded to him on the button, He would always raise by blinds. Since I didnt pick up any decent hands in the big blind, I let him get away with some steals. I didn't want to play against another big stack with a crappy hand out of position.
He did this for about 2-3 times, and on the fourth time, I decided that I was going to 3bet him with 93o. Since I let him steal so many blinds, I figured he would give me huge credit and fold.

To my surprise, he called! At this point I was pretty much going to check-fold because I made my re-raise enough so that if I folded to a 4-bet, I would still be in decent shape. Now the flop paired my nines. At this point, I decided that shoving the rest of my stack was the best play. By shoving on the flop, it will represent AA or KK and maybe QQ. After a long time of thinking, the villian folded.

So that was definetly the most intense moment of the tournament.. everything else was pretty much standard and i had to win a bunch of races to get to the final table.

Thats all folks,

Back in Waterloo..

Well today is the first day of school... which kind of sucks and is kind of okay at the same time. I was looking forward to school and doing something other then playing poker 8hrs a day lol. This term i'm taking 3 CS courses (security & privacy, networking and 4th year UI) as well as an econ 301. I have a feeling its gonna be a pretty busy term, but I don't mind because the CS courses seem very interesting. That and i believe the assignments are group projects which is always fun.

Anyway I've been in Waterloo since last Tuesday. Since Amy spent 24 hours a day studying (literally) I had nothing to do but to hit the tables! Lucky for me I broke out of my downswing recently so the results from last week weren't too bad. I ended the week about +575 over the course of 16K hands. Thats not too bad and I'm definately happy with at least having a winning week after the horrible end to August.

After this downswing, I can definitely understand why people would say downswings can really destroy your bankroll. I used to always hear people warn about tilting off several buyins and doing stupid shit they normally would not do during bad times, and i would always think to myself that i would totally not do that. But i did! It got to a point where i just wanted to win something and i kept shoving my overpairs and not wanting to fold them because I want them to hold up one time! Anyway, despite a huge downswing , I have to say that I am actually happy to go through it because it really caused me to tweak my game a lot and really analyze all my plays. I actually feel like i've improved my game almost 200% which is really good. I think most of it is in fact that I would now review all my big losing hands at the end of each session and talk to Rich(RJEJ84) about them. He really helped point me in the right direction because during my downswing I was really playing like shit and doing things that I normally wouldn't! I remember there was so many times where I would go back and review hands and during the replay I would be like 'wtf am I thinking here, i should obviously be folding' WHAT I SHOVED?!?!. That forced me to drop the number of tables to six and focus on making good decisions as well as re-programming my autopilot.

Anyway, I have almost built my roll back up to when it was pre-downswing and hopefully I can win about 1k more, in which case I will begin to move up levels. Rich and I are plannin on climbin the microstakes together so hopefully we can do it soon!

In other news, I have decided to go for Ironman this month because Ive already played so much. I never used to care about stuff like that but I figured I might as well and you can get some pretty cool stuff in the store.

Last night Andrew also final tabled the 24K guaranteed, but busted out 6th for 1600$. The biggest score for him so thats good, and hopefully its the first of many to come!