Bad Beat of Life

Things in life for me are never all good or never all bad. There seems to always be this yin yang situation with me.

I have suffered the worst bad beat of my life so far. My wife woke up a few days after Christmas and decided she had no feelings for me anymore and has asked to seperate. She moved out this week taking my little 2 year old boy with her. I still get to see him but not as much as before and his future is now not so rosey. I'm not going to pour my heart out on a poker blog but there is some relevance.

The rest of my life is on fire. I am winning at poker, both online and live. Nothing large but its consistant. I have turned my $100 into $400 in just under 2 months of 10nl and small amount of 25nl. My job, i love it. My world is great. Yin Yang. Extreme volatility with an underlying flat trend.

Going forward this will mean more poker. Granted I will be out drinking and getting involved in as many women as possible but it also means I will not be doing 'relationship stuff' like watching stupid sitcoms and walking around shopping centres. I will be able to put in more hours at the virtual felt. Yin .... fkin... Yang !

0 to Hero - killing it..

My second post now enticing the doomswitch by saying that I honestly believe I have cracked 10nl. Check this out..

Almost a 10 buy in run. I feel a lot more sharper after analysing the first 10k hands. I have made a few adjustments and I am even more so moving around tables to find the juiciest fish and not banging heads with the regs.

Next week will see me put a bit more volume in and I will start to analyse a few good hand histories.

small BOOM!!

I had a great weekend for poker. I made 5 buyins at $10nl and entered an on demand tourny for $2. Haha big bucks !! well 189 people entered

Good for the bankroll and great for the confidence.

Will still complete the next 10k hands at 10nl but assuming Im beating 10nl I will have the bankroll to take a few shots at 25nl.

Analysis of 10k hands

Ive run a few questions through HEM in the hope of spotting a few leaks in my game. Here's what I have found...

Firstly the graph.

The overview with positional stats

Overall happy with my positional stats. Im very comfortable with the $vpip difference in my early vs late position. the 17/12 vpip/pfr could maybe be a bit tighter but I dont think that is where I am losing money.

All Pocket Pairs

Seems ok. Not sure how much I should be winning with my overall pp catagory. Maybe a question for 2p2 forums.

Pocket Pairs 22-55

This seems to be a problem. I remember this being a problem when I used to play. I may look to cut them out completely or only multiway in position. The big leak as you can see is the Big Blind. I will analyse those hands and see if there is an obvious leak or just a few unlucky hands.

Suited Connectors

Seems like I am doing ok on playing or rather so NOT playing suited connectors. I try to only play these multiway.

Called Button Raise when I am in Big Blind

Interesting. In my opinion I should only be reraising or folding vs a button steal. I dont want ot be playing out of position and If my hand cannot raise then put it in the bin. I will change this for my next 10k hands and see..

Does anyone have any other questions they analyse their database with ? I would like to hear them.

Pit Stop...

Been away on the slopes of France, banging myself around on my snowboard. I haven't put much time to playing poker over the past few weeks. Im still on the uptrend and will start to do some good analysis of hands which I will put on here.

In the meantime subscribe yourself to Verneer's $200 - $10,000 post on 2p2. Once he hits this he will be giving it all away to charity.. Top top man


How can anyone lose at 10nl with this type of play !!

Full Tilt Poker, $0.05/0.10 No Limit Hold'em Cash Games, 6 Players

Hand Converter by the Pokerhand.org community

Board:

UTG: $15.04

UTG+1: $10

CO: $10.15

Button: $9.57

SB: $15.30

BB: $11.66

 

Dealt to: BB

Pre-flop:

Button raises to $.30, (1 folds), BB raises to $1.70, Button calls $1.40,

Flop:($3.55) (5 Players)

BB checks, Button bets $.50, BB raises to $2.60, Button raises to $7.87 and is all-in, BB calls $5.27,

Turn: ($19.29) (5 Players)

River: ($19.29) (5 Players)

Results:

Button Showed

BB Showed

BB wins $18.19

Hoping this is a turnaround

I find it hard to write any decent posts when I cannot beat 10nl. With this in mind I have trawled the web to find something of use to help me in my micro bashing. I came across this post on 2p2 and I think it may be the cure.


The basics
Look for 'fat value'' from the fish
Avoid butting heads with regs
Avoid marginal situations
Be Patient

All this is not anything new and maybe I have said these points somewhere before but looking through a lot of my hands over the past 15k I can see a lot of head butting vs regs and a lot of marginal situations. The money has come from the loose players and been handed to the regs.

Since reading this post, even if only for a couple of thousand hands I have seen results on the positive. I have marked where I read the above post.

Ive reduced the amount of suited connectors, my vpip/pfr are closer and I feel like I am in a LOT less marginable situations. I really hope this is the turnaround I need for this level. It should become clear soon.


Also for anyone with their head in the sand the past week check out Pokerstars new Home Games BETA. A few different thoughts on 2p2 on this but in my case I like it.

The overbet on the river... ?

Full Tilt Poker, $0.05/0.10 No Limit Hold'em Cash Games, 6 Players

Hand Converter by the Pokerhand.org community

Board:

Hounti (SB): $12.01

vicc73 (BB): $12.39

Mnolith (UTG): $13.16

sohom111 (UTG+1): $7.42

Ryverrat_08 (CO): $10

MuhammadAS (Button): $3.50

Dealt to: Ryverrat_08

Pre-flop:

Ryverrat_08 raises to $.35, (2 folds), vicc73 calls $.25,

Flop:($.75) (4 Players)

vicc73 checks, Ryverrat_08 checks,

Turn: ($.75) (4 Players)

vicc73 checks, Ryverrat_08 checks,

River: ($.75) (4 Players)

vicc73 bets $5.30, Ryverrat_08 ?,

Player was a 52/3/08 over 30 hands.

This is a fold right ??

So... I suck at 10nl

OMFG!



I have turned into a poker retard ! almost 10k hands 5 buyins down and thats running good, 5 buyins over EV.

I would like to think its variance but I cant. I got beat. Im gonna study where I went wrong. and post a few hands up here.

Ive never been able to beat 10nl. Maybe I should jump straight to 50nl where I was comfortable but I dont like the fact that I can beat the game here...

Anyone else have this problem ?

Target Acquired

Well the BR has moved from $100 to $160 through a few small MTT's and just under 5k hands of 10nl. As I mentioned before I have never been successful at 10nl yet I used to beat 25nl and 50nl fairly easily. I think this time I can beat 10nl.

One of the things I am doing is being very choosy on table selection. I look for tables with 40%+ avg vpip. I open 10 or so tables and whittle them down to 4 tables with the right potential for profit.

Lets state an obvious note here. THERE ARE FISH AT 10NL ! There... not rocket science but how many tables do I see of people sitting amongst 5 other regs and playing auto poker. Im not going make much money from them and they are not going to make much money of each other. Up and leave. Also when you run into a fishy player dont be stubborn to up and leave if they have position on you. ITS HARD TO MAKE MONEY OUT OF POSITION ! Obvious fact no.2 there. But again I see a lot of player battling against aggro fish when they are out of position, not being able to maximise their good hands and being pushed around every hand.

There are a lot of good tables and a lot of good fish. Patience is a skill needed in poker not just at the table but before you even sit down.