Limit Poker on PokerStars
I've made a permanent change to my diet on first of June (no more alcohol, sugar and grains), and also quit smoking weed soon after.
Now it's time to quit playing all Pot Limit and No Limit games, because these games are where 100% of my tilt came from. I hardly ever tilted in-game, but regularly become so angry that i slammed my desk, and had very toxic thoughts running through my head, up to several minutes at a time.
Aside of that, i will never be the best player in any PL/NL variant anymore. But the urge to be the best player in my games is the biggest part of my motivation to play.
I will play all of the HORSE games (Limit Holdem, Omaha Hi Lo, Razz, Stud Hi and Stud Hi Lo), plus Limit 2-7 Triple Draw and Limit Badugi.
Usual session will consist of a few MTTs, while also playing whatever cash game variant is currently running.
This month will mostly be spent studying, but i will already play a little bit.
Today it's the 3.30$ FL 2-7 TD Turbo Micro Million Event.
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Made the final table in the 7.50$ Razz, but only top 3 got paid, with 32$ min-cash...
Got it in with 45-2A on 4th street, but bricked vs 26-75 to go out on 6th place.
Busted 1.10$ HORSE twice, and got a huge suckout with 7A-7x7x-2 in Stud Hi, when villain's obvious aces up made a better full house by hitting another King on 7th street in a huge 3way pot to bust the 3.30$ HORSE.
Out of Stud Hi 4.40$ pretty early.
Quadruppled my stack in the 2.20$ FL 2-7 TD Micro Million - partly vs opponents who didnt know the rules - but then hit an Ace on the last draw in two huge multiway pots, and busted soon after by missing a perfect one card draw all three times.
Lost 1.09$ at 4c/8c Stud8 cash.
Am very satiesfied with my performance today.
Only the last 2.5 bigbets in the 3.30$ HORSE went in a bit too loose, when i got it in with QsTs-9x vs a complete from an Ace in Stud Hi, but all my pair and str8 outs where live, with just one flushcard being dead. Could have folded 4th where villain paired his Ace, if i would not have reraised 3rd.
Profit = -21.79$
Just playing 3.30$ Stud8, 2.20$ to 22$ FL 2-7 TD, and 1.10$ HORSE tomorrow. Only the highest value of lowest buy-ins, until i am in profit.
When i start playing the full schedule next month, i'll invest close to 100$ per day on MTTs, on average (without re-entries, and the satellites to the 82$ Sunday HORSE).
Combined with a bit of cash profits, i think i can average pretty steady ~750$ profits per month, with average field-size of just 50 players.
Got a spam call which woke me up after only about three hours of sleep, early in the morning, but didnt answer it. Got called by an other number five minutes later, and cancelled that one, too. Put sound and vibration off afterwards, but wasnt able to fall asleep again...
Late regged the early 2.20$ HORSE, and a 2.20$ Omaha Hi Lo before even having a tea, and it took me several hands until i realized that i've have been missreading it as fixed limit, while it actually was pot limit (fixed limit was a few hours earlier).
Ran really well in both of them at the beginning, but not so much later on...
Will get as much of my weekly home office work done as i can today and tomorrow. Afterwards reread a poker-book about Stud games, and work out some hands' equities vs different possible ranges in Stud Hi and Razz 5th street spots.
Not skipping 3.30$ Razz and Stud8 Micro Millions on 17th and 19th, but most likely only adding a 2.20$ Stud Hi and Stud8 satellite to the 22$ Events on 19th and 20th, for the rest of this week. Not feeling like putting in many hours of nano MTTs anymore, at the moment.
Getting back into a perfect sleeping schedule, while also intensifying my diet (need to lose 6.5kg more to win two bets) still has priority over the grind this month.
If i manage to lose that weight (before September,... But preferably till first of August already), i will be rolled with +500$ for Poker total, which means less than 1% risk of ruin with my 8$ average buy-in and the tiny field-sizes of Limit MTTs.
I prefer to lose that weight ASAP, instead of grinding a full schedule on a caloric deficit with a bit less than 300$ left for Poker, during this month.
Patience is key in Poker.
Today's Profit = -4.40$
Total Profit= -26.19$
Woke up in the middle of the night, made a green tea, and scanned the PS cash-lobby.
No Stud games going, but there was a table of 25c/50c 2-7 TD running with three players, including one really bad guy on whom i have several notes.
Decided to jump in, and already won the first two pots i played, both vs the spot who ditched 3 cards after calling a raise in the small blind, same as from the button, while i had a 1 card draw to a seven, and a 1 card draw to a perfect 8. I hit both on first draw, and got paid all the way, second pot even 3way.
Table broke after about 50 minutes, when the spot went busto, and the other opponent that was left sat out when we were heads up. Made a very nice quick profit of 18,24$, more than 36 big bets.
Not going to play anymore today, except when Stud8 25c/50c or 1$/2$ is running.
Started a 72 hours fast to quickly lose more weight, and already got a bit more than 24 hours done. Small steak and avocado will surely taste great on thursday.
Today's Profit = +18.24$
Total Profit = -7.95$
You might want to try plo and plo8 on partypoker. I certainly have a lot more success there than on stars. Much smaller mtts but lots of them. No huds. But can take notes.
Thanks for the tip, but I dont have a problem with my edge in PLO. I've shipped the 109$ PLO KOmania twice in March, and also cashed two of three 530$'s i got into. I just hate the variance. And i dont like to play PLO8.
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Played Stud8 and Stud Hi cash, and lost a little bit.
Played four MTTs and busted all of them, except the 2.20$ to 22$ HORSE.
Got an interesting hand there during Stud Hi, where i just called a Q-door complete with 6K-K, allowing a J and the bring-in to call, too.
The J-door caught a Q, and the Q also hit another Q, and made the double bet on 4th, which i called.
I hit a 6 for Kings Up on 5th, and raised the guy with open Queens, who just called, telegraphing me that he doesnt have trips. I bet 6th and he calls, same on 7th where i hit an Ace, and he got a King, making him call again with his hidden 88 for Queens up.
Then i got in a huge 3way Razz pot, where i had a 25-73A low on 5th, and villain only had 5 outs left to beat me, due to the all the dead cards, mainly of the third guy, who folded 5th.
He capped the betting while being far behind to put me all in, and instantly hits one of his five outs on 6th street. Of course i dont hit a 4 or 6, and bust as huge favourite, once again...
Latest Profit= -16.89$
Total Profit = -24.84$
Did break my fast after 48 hours, but stopped smoking cigarettes 24 hours ago.
Decided to play whatever i feel like, until i dont have the urge to smoke anymore.
Got in the money in 3.30$ PLO Turbo KOmania for 3.11$ and roughly 13$ bounties, and also made second place in 2.20$ HORSE for 19.88$.
Today's Profit = +27.18$
Total Profit = +2.34$
Been chipleader in 3.30$ PLO and 3.30$ Razz Micro Million being two hours in. Had 3x more chips than second on the bubble in the PLO, after stacking a loose fish that ran hot early on.
But been absolutely card dead once we were ITM in the PLO, and got raised whenever i bluffed. Made 9th place.
The Razz tourney went downhill close before bubble, with another wheel draw on 4th that totally bricked out for me...
Busted 1.10$ HORSE, 3.30$ HORSE, and 1.10$ NLHE Micro Million after tripling up early with two herocalls on the river, both times check/called, after i overbet 175% pot with twopair on the turn before.
Won a bit more than one stack at PLO10 Zoom, but lost it back in a 10$ PLO Spin and Go, right before i ended the day.
Today's Profit = -0.87$
Total Profit = +1.47
Taking tomorrow off, then playing the Stud8 Micro Million on Friday.
Fellow German here, I like your posts.
But you should really stick to some kind of BRM that doesn’t change daily
GL and hope you win that MM stud thing
It's "slightly" more important to stop smoking and reach my diet goal, than using bankroll management for what is less than 300$. I can deposit another few hundred next month, if i need to. Im not a pro, or a nit. But thanks for the compliment-sandwich.
Stopped yesterday early, after losing hard over the first few games.
Stopped today early, after stone bubbling the 2.20$ to 22$ Stud8 with 99-9, running into a flush with high cards, and busting the 11$ 8-Game Octopus after a few orbits, for which i won a satellite. Also went from 289bb at PLO2 Zoom to zero, around the same time.
I'll take a week off, and go on a 3-day hiking trip with my uncle. Exactly what i need for my diet, and to not smoke again.
Latest Profit = -28.36$
Total Profit = -26.89$
Oddly enough, i tend to tilt/get angry way less (nearly not at all), now that i dont smoke anymore. The reason must be the understanding that i cant calm myself by smoking anymore.
Looking forward to grind a serious schedule, starting again when im back home from the hike on 29th this month.
I'll grind PLO and 8game MTTs again, too, when i restart.
Decided to end this PG+C thread(s).
Will invest those `15 minutes i used per daily post to study the most interesting/complicated hand of the day instead.
Thanks for reading, and good luck at the tables.
