Fun Player's Guide to the Galaxy
Well let's see.... I'm here, but not quite sure what I'm doing here.
I mean I don't feel drunk.
I thought 7/9 would be a fitting date to mark the start point of whatever this will be. 79 being my favorite hand and all. Yes one thing you should know about fun players is that we all have our favorite hand. Usually it ties back to some big pot you won from playing badly and running godly. For me that hand is 7♠9♠
I guess the purpose of this thread is to provide me an outlet to post random updates related to poker.
I haven't played a whole lot in recent years due to time constraints. Live poker is just so time consuming. But I have managed to fit in 1 or 2 tourneys a year and the occassional cash session once a month or so. Not much to write home about. I min cashed some $1100 event last summer and am up a fair amount in the limited cash I've played.
I also play some online, but options for Americans are pretty crappy. I mostly play 100NL 6 max on ignition and some of their tourneys once in awhile. I recently checked out Bet Online and have dabbled in 50NL 6max. The player pool is super small. There seems to be like maybe 10 regs and a handful of random weaker players. At peak hrs there are maybe 4 tables going. I play without a HUD so I'm only 1 or 2 tabling anyways.
I plan on playing the Monster Stack again next year, but will also schedule time so I can play the ME as well. It would be nice to subsidize that with my cash play. So I guess the main goal/challenge is to make $11,500 within about 150hrs of play.
And the side quest will be to make a good showing in the tourneys.
As for where my game is at: Though I've played relatively little, I've actually studied quite a bit. My thoughts on the game in both cash and tournaments has changed quite dramatically over the last few years. I feel my tournament fundamentals have become more solid, but I still find myself Selbsting off my stack near every money bubble. This is one thing I've never bothered to fix. I think it's time now to stop that and see what it does for my results.
For this month I can probably fit in one cash session and I will also be playing a $1650 at the end of the month.
For cash I typically play 2/5 and 5/10.
I guess I can close out with a HH.
One hand I played on my recent Vegas trip.
5/10 NL
Villain is MAWG with about 2200, hero covers.
PF: Villain opens UTG to 30, hero UTG+1 3bets to 110 with AQo, HJ cold calls, folds back to Villain who calls.
Flop(345): J 8 7r
Villain leads 200, hero makes it 600, fold, villain calls.
Turn(1545): Q
Villain checks, hero checks
River(1545): 7
Villain bets 500, hero raises to 1k, villain makes crying call and mucks.
You don't really see this everyday.
Yatahay Network - $1 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
Hero (BB): 124.9 BB
UTG: 144.57 BB (VPIP: 21.23, PFR: 17.81, 3Bet Preflop: 4.46, Hands: 300)
MP: 122.88 BB (VPIP: 19.70, PFR: 16.10, 3Bet Preflop: 9.09, Hands: 2,296)
CO: 238.54 BB (VPIP: 42.57, PFR: 19.80, 3Bet Preflop: 8.33, Hands: 108)
BTN: 137.18 BB (VPIP: 28.36, PFR: 22.49, 3Bet Preflop: 11.31, Hands: 4,126)
SB: 103.8 BB (VPIP: 21.96, PFR: 16.59, 3Bet Preflop: 8.90, Hands: 2,330)
SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Q♣ T♥
fold, MP raises to 3 BB, fold, fold, SB raises to 11.5 BB, fold, MP calls 8.5 BB
Flop: (24 BB, 2 players) 9♠ 8♣ 8♦
SB bets 17.1 BB, MP calls 17.1 BB
Turn: (58.2 BB, 2 players) J♠
SB checks, MP bets 18.05 BB, SB raises to 75.2 BB and is all-in, MP calls 57.15 BB
River: (208.6 BB, 2 players) J♦
Players agreed to run it twice.
River #2: (208.6 BB, 2 players) T♣
MP shows 8♠ 8♥ (Four of a Kind, Eights)
Board #1 (Pre 20%, Flop 99.9%, Turn 98%)
(Four of a Kind, Eights)
Board #2 (Pre 22%, Flop 100%, Turn 100%)
SB shows J♣ J♥ (Four of a Kind, Jacks)
Board #1 (Pre 80%, Flop 0.1%, Turn 2%)
(Full House, Jacks full of Eights)
Board #2 (Pre 78%, Flop 0%, Turn 0%)
SB wins 102.8 BB
MP wins 102.8 BB
Except on ACR. On ACR you do see this every day.
Well today was my last day on ACR. Finally withdrew the rest of my balance.
Ended close to 100bi under EV after about 450k hands.
Seems like me and this other 200/400 reg for some reason the unluckiest 2 people on ACR.
About 1m hands between us and under 200 bi EV lol. hmmm....
Well should be a positive for my health. All this cortisol can't be good for you.
I think I have like $300 worth of points on there I'll just leave maybe someday I'll get bored enough again and try to play some micros.
Anyways moving on fully to Global and maybe some apps. I can't imagine how it would be worse than the past 12 months.
GL!
Well today was my last day on ACR. Finally withdrew the rest of my balance.
Ended close to 100bi under EV after about 450k hands.
Seems like me and this other 200/400 reg for some reason the unluckiest 2 people on ACR.
About 1m hands between us and under 200 bi EV lol. hmmm....
Well should be a positive for my health. All this cortisol can't be good for you.
I think I have like $300 worth of points on there I'll just leave maybe someday I'll get bored enough again and try to play some micros.
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i believe those expire - unsure of which site though so use em up
Well today was my last day on ACR. Finally withdrew the rest of my balance.
Ended close to 100bi under EV after about 450k hands.
Seems like me and this other 200/400 reg for some reason the unluckiest 2 people on ACR.
About 1m hands between us and under 200 bi EV lol. hmmm....
Conspiracy theories and "poker is rigged" discussions aside, are you able to articulate a decent explanation of why you were 100 BI under EV over this sample? How likely is this in statistical terms, i.e., taking into account your win-rate and standard deviation? At what point do you say the likelihood is close enough to 0% and then start seeking explanations other than variance, such as manipulation of RNG? I've lurked this thread for a while and respect your application of strategy and was left a little stunned by the 80 BI downswing. I also understand that you're probably over the whole thing, seeking closure and tired of thinking about it.
Anyway, irrespective of the above, GL and I hope you find a decent site to play.
Conspiracy theories and "poker is rigged" discussions aside, are you able to articulate a decent explanation of why you were 100 BI under EV over this sample? How likely is this in statistical terms, i.e., taking into account your win-rate and standard deviation? At what point do you say the likelihood is close enough to 0% and then start seeking explanations other than variance, such as manipulation of RNG? I've lurked this thread for a while and respect your application of strategy and was lef
It's pretty simple. Most of it was just losing 80/20s aipf more than I should.
The other part was losing a ton of 90/10, 95/5 spots post flop where you get all the money in w/ one card to come and they have 2 outs.
These were way more out of wack than the aipf stuff. There were a few days where I lost 4 or 5 of those spots consecutively.
If you tally my AA/KK vs underpairs aipf I ran 65% which maybe isn't that bad? idk but it felt pretty bad going through it.
For some reason QQ/TT/99 ran super hot vs these hands.
AA vs TT aipf 4 win 6 loss
KK vs TT aipf 3 win 3 loss
AA vs QQ aipf 21 win 18 loss
AA vs 99 aipf 3 win 7 loss
And don't get me started on the AA vs AK that didn't seem possible.
idk I guess I just ran in the bottom of the prime dope sample. I see other people seem to be running a lot more normally.
I guess the only thing I will credit ACR is a fast withdrawal process. I got the money within 4hrs of my initial request.
Hey, any updates for the past couple months? How was the switch to Global, and are you still playing there exclusively? Hope you're doing well!
