This is on Stars. I'm still there playing low stakes. I limp AJo in LP behind several limpers. A44 flop, I bet around pot when checked to. Two callers. Turn is another 4. Kind of a rare weird spot. I check behind as I'm only putting in money on a split pot right now, or building one for quads....which I have to believe is a good possibility with two callers on an A44 board? lol
To my surprise, the river comes another 4! The board now reads A4444. So naturally I bet 4 times the size of the pot on the river, for something to do. What happened next was a sight to behold. BOTH of my opponents took about 10 seconds each, before FOLDING!! LOL!! We all play the board of course, but please ship the entire pot my way :)
People playing Texas Holdem Poker for REAL MONEY on the internet, who don't fully comprehend the rules of the game. God Bless America.
I see flops in my dreams :o
Played 96k hands this month so far and I took the first five days off and recently had another 4 day stretch off. My previous highest total for an entire month was just 75k. So I've been doing several 6, 8, 10k hand days where I play 6-10 hours. If only I could have figured out how to do this 3 years ago, I'd be a multimillionaire right now =/
I give a lot of the credit to taking better care of myself. Eating completely healthy, fruit shakes, rice, chicken, veggies, type stuff, and jogging every other day. I wasn't terrible before, but being in top physical and mental shape...its amazing what it does for you.
Anyways, this past month has all been at super low limits on Stars. I'm gonna start playing on Full Tilt again tomorrow in some real games with rakeback. The bulk of my bankroll sits on that site. This month I think I have been purposely punishing myself to play the idiot stakes on Stars. And its worked. It helped me realize the value of a dollar again.
It helped me realize that I have spent the last 3 years of my life intensely studying this game and I don't have near enough to show for it. Why? Because I lacked the discipline. The number one trait in a poker player is discipline. When you are the boss, and can make enough to get by in a few days or a week, it becomes very easy to slack off. Nobody is going to fire you if you don't show up. Since professional poker players have lots of reserve funds in the bank, slacking off for a week or two or a month isn't going to matter much either.
The most successful poker players have that fire within that gets them in there every single day. Maybe it just requires more work in my case, but I can do it. In the very least, I can play some lower limits on pure auto pilot and make something, if I am not feeling it on that particular day.
Probably the most important and only useful thing I have ever gotten out of a poker forum (seriously, they are the bathroom walls of the internet) was this. Loosely quoted from a poker player I greatly respect
"I want to be the player who makes the most money in my game. I could give a fuck about being the one with the best winrate."
No truer words were ever spoken. While people on heaters who barely play the game, endlessly brag about their winrates, and put down others, I could care less about that. The players I respect are the ones who top the money list at the end of the month or year. The ones who are in there every day. While I do still enjoy many of the intellectual aspects of this game, poker is really just about the money. I simply want to be the one who gets the most of it.
Really need to focus on myself for once. I realize I can't blow everything and everyone off. But I need to continue to be %100 dedicated to putting in the hours every single day. The sky truly is the limit.
I give a lot of the credit to taking better care of myself. Eating completely healthy, fruit shakes, rice, chicken, veggies, type stuff, and jogging every other day. I wasn't terrible before, but being in top physical and mental shape...its amazing what it does for you.
Anyways, this past month has all been at super low limits on Stars. I'm gonna start playing on Full Tilt again tomorrow in some real games with rakeback. The bulk of my bankroll sits on that site. This month I think I have been purposely punishing myself to play the idiot stakes on Stars. And its worked. It helped me realize the value of a dollar again.
It helped me realize that I have spent the last 3 years of my life intensely studying this game and I don't have near enough to show for it. Why? Because I lacked the discipline. The number one trait in a poker player is discipline. When you are the boss, and can make enough to get by in a few days or a week, it becomes very easy to slack off. Nobody is going to fire you if you don't show up. Since professional poker players have lots of reserve funds in the bank, slacking off for a week or two or a month isn't going to matter much either.
The most successful poker players have that fire within that gets them in there every single day. Maybe it just requires more work in my case, but I can do it. In the very least, I can play some lower limits on pure auto pilot and make something, if I am not feeling it on that particular day.
Probably the most important and only useful thing I have ever gotten out of a poker forum (seriously, they are the bathroom walls of the internet) was this. Loosely quoted from a poker player I greatly respect
"I want to be the player who makes the most money in my game. I could give a fuck about being the one with the best winrate."
No truer words were ever spoken. While people on heaters who barely play the game, endlessly brag about their winrates, and put down others, I could care less about that. The players I respect are the ones who top the money list at the end of the month or year. The ones who are in there every day. While I do still enjoy many of the intellectual aspects of this game, poker is really just about the money. I simply want to be the one who gets the most of it.
Really need to focus on myself for once. I realize I can't blow everything and everyone off. But I need to continue to be %100 dedicated to putting in the hours every single day. The sky truly is the limit.
Mega Multitabling
Back to poker here. I have played over 50k hands in the last week and a bit. While I split my time between Stars and Full Tilt, its been all Stars lately. They recently allowed 24 cash tables at once so I have been taking advantage of that. Playing really small stakes and maintaining a pretty decent hourly with so many tables.
I'm not sure what my future holds in this game. Games are getting tougher at the stakes that I should be playing at. I know I can still beat those games at a good clip, but the variance is ever increasing as more players learn how to play the game. Its still a zero variance complete goon fest at the lowest limits and thats probably why I keep playing there.
I've been datamining the FTP 1/2 NL game 18 hours a day all this month and I'm going to have a look at the numbers at the end of the month and decide if I want to continue on in this game. For the meantime, its double at least what I could make at any job, mega tabling the nanos.
I'm not sure what my future holds in this game. Games are getting tougher at the stakes that I should be playing at. I know I can still beat those games at a good clip, but the variance is ever increasing as more players learn how to play the game. Its still a zero variance complete goon fest at the lowest limits and thats probably why I keep playing there.
I've been datamining the FTP 1/2 NL game 18 hours a day all this month and I'm going to have a look at the numbers at the end of the month and decide if I want to continue on in this game. For the meantime, its double at least what I could make at any job, mega tabling the nanos.
Double Barrelling
Apparently I have a reader or two here lol. So I'm gonna post some content more often and put up an article like this from time to time.
Note on this article: It mostly applies to NL100 and above where people know where the fold button is a little more. It applies to NL25 and NL50 somewhat also, but if you are a nano stakes player, NL10/NL5/NL2, don't use this technique.
Scenario: NL200 FR (applies to 6max also). Folded to us in MP. We have 77 and raise it to $7. We get called by the button, who is a fairly standard (in today's games) weak tightish 18/5/2 type player. Flop is Q84r. This is a pretty standard Cbet spot. So we will bet 12$ into 17$ (roughly 70% of the pot). Turn comes an Ace. What should we do now?
Answer: Bet Again! There is 41$ in the pot on the turn and we bet 27$. (roughly 65% of the pot)
Reasoning: By the turn we don't really have a great hand. Just a middle pair. But it doesn't matter what our hand is anymore b/c we are going to turn our hand into a bluff. We bet the flop for value. We started with a pair and most of the time our hand is still going to be good after the flop. But when we got called on such a dry board, there is a pretty decent chance that we are behind to Qx or JJ, TT type hands, or even some SC like 98. But the key thing is here, that the overwhelming majority of the times when we are behind, villain does not have a very strong hand.
The truth about Holdem is that nobody has anything very good the vast majority of the time. The majority of pots are just sitting there, waiting to be had, while a bunch of people with marginal crap or nothing at all check it around. And then whoever has the best crap at the end wins the pot. People who win at poker, take those pots before they ever get to a showdown.
That Ace on the turn is much more scary to him than it is to us, since our hand is basically a bluff now. All those mediocre hands that are listed above in villain's range are very likely to get folded if we bet again. We have only invested 23% of our stack here (after the turn double barrel) and villain will fold almost all the time. The few times that villain flopped a monster like a set here, he will usually raise us on the turn, and sometimes just call. If villain raises, we are done with the hand. If villain calls, we don't put another penny in the pot unless the river is a 7.
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