Maybe Moving Up

Well I bubbled out of the Monday tournament. I ran my short stack all-in on the button with a naked Ace into pocket Aces. I wouldnt have had to do that had I not gotten all in after I flopped top two pair against a flush draw and lost. I was out 6th and the paid 4 but prolly chopped as soon as I left. I didnt stay for the cash game. They were playing 11 and gonna do two tables after the tournament but I was in a bad mental spot. My dad is sick with cancer and I was at the hospital all weekend and before the tournament. I do like that it got my mind on something else but Im sure my cash game wouldve been subpar and there happen to be an unusual number of good players there last night. So I went home and played my measley online bankroll. I pretty close to moving up from $5 HU SnGs to $10. I have $180 after starting this heads up stuff with $60ish. I doubt the $10 players are that much better than the $5 players. They might even be easier to beat cause there a lot of hyper agressive dont care about $5 types playing the $5 game. Maybe just steamers from the upper levels coming down to goof off. I prefer timid to over aggressive. Both are money makers. Timid takes longer to beat but I win a higher percentage. Anyway I think 18 buyins is plenty but I have lost like 12 buyins in one night before. It was my only real losing session playing micro heads up Sngs but it was a doozy.

3BB Aint the Standard Raise in Any Live Games I Play

Going to the Monday game tonight. So nice to have a proper bankroll. I'll still probably buy-in for a medium stack. About 60 BB. If I lose that then I'll go for the 100BB buy-in. Im halfway through a poker book so I probably have some dangerous ideas floating around in my head. The only problem with this book is it talks about the standard raise being 3 times the BB. Not in my cash game. You gotta open for 6BB and you will still get 2 callers. So it throws the theory of a little. That kind game turns deep stacks into medium stacks. It makes the loose callers mistake preflop twice as pricey. Last week I opened for 8 BB and got called by the guy behind me and then 4 high suited in the SB. The flop comes all hearts and the SB goes all in for $130 more. I have the nut flush draw but I know Im beat. I have a painful memory of the same guy doing the same play once when I flopped the nut str8 to a suited board and I called him for like $100 thinking he wouldnt play a flush like that. The pot was maybe $18 dollars an I only had $2 in it. I had no redraw either. We I guess I learned something about poker since then and folded. He shown the flush and I got ragged for being a nit the rest of the night. They actually tilted me into playing a coupla bad spots with that shit talk.

My Online Poker Experience tp Date

I wanna talk about my online poker experience. About 2 years ago my buddy who is an online pro backed me. He put 1k up and took half the profit. Over the next year I swung all over the place. I Played full ring games from 25/50 to 2/4 depending on where my roll was. I went down to $300 at one point and went up to 4k after that. I used the 5% buyin/cash out at 10% Chris Fergesson bankroll management system. My buddy took his end out when my roll was at 3300 giving him a profit of $1150 and leaving me with $1150. I ran that up to 2k but hen ran horrible down to 886. I cashed out 800 and left 86 to play with. I couldnt stomach the idea of going broke after my friend had made $1150 off me. I used the money in my live bank roll and have done well. I also got some cool shit from the rewards store like my 21 inch lcd and the best hoody in the world. I love that hoody. I wish it didnt have a logo on it. I started playing $5 heads up SnGs now and my online roll is at $160 now. I like heads up. I never could be the nit I needed to be to multi table full ring games. Plus I still cant shake the feeling I had that something fishy was going on in the full ring games. Too many sick coolers per 100 hands. Maybe they scrpit hands to make sure the money gets in. Maybe there is an algorythim that rewards bad play to make sure the money circulates better. I doubt there was any software cracking at my levels but certainly collusion was a possibility. Anyway I havent felt like my heads up games are messed up in anyway. I also like the action. Im always in the hand. Its much more art than science too. I want to move up through the ranks of the heads up levels. If I ever push this up to a few thousand Im going to be so fucking proud of myself. Ive alreay gone from having $100 to having my last $20 in one game so Im not saying its been a smooth uphill ride so far. I know I need to start using my HUD software again and figure out what the optimum HU stats are. But at the levels Im playing it doesnt seem to matter. Players are mostly terrible. I'd say 70% of them are terrible. But even the terrible ones win when they are th over aggressive terrible ones. I prefer the soft players. I like to try and be just slightly more aggressive than them. I dont want them to feel run over. I want them to be copmfortable with the styleof play because I want them to play more than one game.

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Re: ****The HUNL Tilt Thread**** (**** you poker)
over the last three days since i started cash hu ive played about 190 hands and made about 5 dollars. i was up like 55 till first hand of the last match i played when JJ<33>

Opinion is not Reflected in Results. Typical Poker Player

Had a bad run with my Heads Up experiment in the $5 SnGs at FullTilt. I hate getting some calling station to the brink of extinction 4 times and end up losing the match. I guess I dont care about the money. I really just want to improve my HU game. Unfortunately I need a bigger bank roll to move up so I need to actually win and not just think to myself about how much better I am than most of these players. Typical poker player whose opinion of his play is not reflected in his results. Had a sweet cash game. The first one in two weeks since we missed Memorial Day. I am about to take my first run at the $2/$5 game at the Belle. Im sure I’ll get crushed. I’ll probably uber nit it till I catch big and they will know and I’ll only get called if Im beat.

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