Me Playing Poker
Goal: To stop being spewy and stop carrying lots of money on me when I go play. Use my live winnings that I won't tilt away anymore... to move up in stakes in the online world. There is mainly 1/2,1/3 nlhe in the city where I'm from. I want to move up in stakes to make more money. So far I am doing well enough to where poker pays for my expenses.
My one leak is after I have fantastic streak of winning, I lose alot of my profits back due to ego. I would have a roll big enough for 5/10 by now all from live profits (all generated in the last 5 months purely from poker) if I didn't keep making the same mistake.
This Blog style post is something to keep me accountable for my actions and to keep track of my progress playing poker.
I will try to keep it interesting by breaking down one hand per post and one pearl wisdom from my own mind.
Day one up 250$ in 1/2 after 7 hours. Started off dropping 3 buyins in 2 hours in a very hard game. All from bluffing all got called by just pairs. Then rebought twice more and turned 1 buyin (100$) into 775 before leaving.
I've lost 2 grand in 4 days with a combination of running bad and playing bad. Today was my first winning session since Sunday. I want to be develop a reputation for winning so I don't allow myself to go on massive down swings relative to the stacks I'm at.
Pearl of Wisdom actually comes from a friend at the table who watched me rebuy repeatedly. "Don't bring a lot of cash with you to the casino."
Hand of the day this was on my 4th buy in with about 120$ I'm under the gun with 8d4d and open up right away with a 10xBB raise. 4 players in this hand. 9 players at the table. Person next to act calls twenty then fold then call then fold fold call on the button, blinds fold. Flop is 8c7c5c I have top and jam first to act hoping to take down the pot. Guy beside me calls next guy goes all in for 400$ button folds guy beside me calls the remaining 80 he has left. Main pot 300 side pot 160 2 players all in no more action on flop. Turn 10S River Qd. MP shows Kc4c UTG +1 shows Jc10c. So I was drawing to a running full house with 2.66% equity on the shove. I tried to rep the flush and failed... However if no one had anything they would fold to my bet (even on a draw) and I would take down a pot. Furthermore this set me up later to ship it from first to act and get multiple callers when I had a much better hand. I was able to exploit a loose image after that play and ran my bankroll up very quick.
