No, not the Van Halen song, I'm referring to my current dalliance with 6-max pokers! I know, I know, I vowed to never go back because the variance and tilt inducing suckouts were too much for my fragile brain. So what made me change my mind? The Charlie Daniels Band! You see I was listening to The Devil Went Down to Georgia a few weeks ago and I realized that the Devil (is it proper to capitalize Devil like you do with God?) is beatable and the reward for beating the Devil is a golden fiddle! Now since I don't play the fiddle, I'll have to sell it but I figure I can get a good price for it by sending it to Cash4Gold! So beating the Devil has become my new goal.
In addition to the golden fiddle I realized that most of the players at 50nl 6-max are horrible AND 6-max seems to have virtually zero short-stackers (short-stackers are the current plague of FR poker IMO). An example from earlier tonight:
Note that the shortest stack is 70bbs deep and we're able to get the villain to put ~120bbs into the middle with TPNK. This craziness of course leads to some sick variance but I think the overall horrible play should make 6-max more profitable overall especially since I was never able to play more than 8 tables of FR anyway.
Anyway, only 5500 hands at 6max so far, but I'm running at a respectable 5.7BB/100 thus far. We'll see how it plays out over a larger sample. Oh yeah, and for all you young children who have no idea who The Charlie Daniels Band is, here's your YouTube video.
January 24, 2009
January 16, 2009
January Mid-Month and 100th Post
Just realized this is my 100th blog post (according to the blogspot software anyway but the numbers on the front page say it's only 97???) which is about 87 more post than I ever thought I'd have. Anyway just thought it worth noting, now on to the update.
Well if you've read my posts this month you know that the month started out rough (-$600 in the 1st 6 days). Since then I'm up $1060 which means I'm up a little more than $450 overall. Add in rakeback and the portion of my Full Tilt year-end bonus that I have cleared thus far and it's just about $700 profit thus far in just about 15K hands (a HUGE number of hands for me).
I'm conflicted overall on the month. On one hand I'm up and, running / playing good. On the other, the start of the month really was the suck and even though I'm certainly rolled for 100nl I've been playing 50nl almost exclusively because at 100 I play horribly and bleed $$! I'm working on it and I really believe it's a mental thing but it tilts me that I haven't been able to move up successfully.
Graph (wish it wouldn't hold so much water but whatever):
Oh and there you go Ice, someone else doing a mid-month! :)
Well if you've read my posts this month you know that the month started out rough (-$600 in the 1st 6 days). Since then I'm up $1060 which means I'm up a little more than $450 overall. Add in rakeback and the portion of my Full Tilt year-end bonus that I have cleared thus far and it's just about $700 profit thus far in just about 15K hands (a HUGE number of hands for me).
I'm conflicted overall on the month. On one hand I'm up and, running / playing good. On the other, the start of the month really was the suck and even though I'm certainly rolled for 100nl I've been playing 50nl almost exclusively because at 100 I play horribly and bleed $$! I'm working on it and I really believe it's a mental thing but it tilts me that I haven't been able to move up successfully.
Graph (wish it wouldn't hold so much water but whatever):
Oh and there you go Ice, someone else doing a mid-month! :)
January 10, 2009
Above the X-axis!
Well we're 10 days into January and after my oh so shitty start, chronicled below, I've finally made my way back into the green!
I've played a ton of poker for me (almost 10K hands or an average day for Zachvac) thus far and I guess the start of the month was just some bad variance that led to some pretty bad tilt. The last few days I've been generally on the good side of variance and I'm playing better as a result. I did make a few small changes, upping my flop cbet by about 7% (57% first 5 days to 65% last 5 days) and I've just been more aggressive overall. Some of the number changes are surely attributed to just running well and hitting more flops but I really have made a conscious effort to cbet more. There is a really good cbetting discussion over on CardsChat right now. Check it out here.
I'd like to thank those who left words of encouragement after my last rant. They are always appreciated.
I'll leave you with my favorite hand from tonight's session:
I've played a ton of poker for me (almost 10K hands or an average day for Zachvac) thus far and I guess the start of the month was just some bad variance that led to some pretty bad tilt. The last few days I've been generally on the good side of variance and I'm playing better as a result. I did make a few small changes, upping my flop cbet by about 7% (57% first 5 days to 65% last 5 days) and I've just been more aggressive overall. Some of the number changes are surely attributed to just running well and hitting more flops but I really have made a conscious effort to cbet more. There is a really good cbetting discussion over on CardsChat right now. Check it out here.
I'd like to thank those who left words of encouragement after my last rant. They are always appreciated.
I'll leave you with my favorite hand from tonight's session:
January 5, 2009
January SUCKS!
Ok so far this month, I've played 4300 hands (trying to get that $100 Jagsti bonus). In those 4300 hands I've won 3 full stacks. In those same 4300 hands I've lost 12 full fucking stacks. It's set over set. It's KK v. AA. It's AA v villain's flopping fucking sets in 3bet pots. It's villains slowplaying fucking KK and AA preflop every fucking time I hold QQ. It's all this shit adding up to me fucking tilting and shipping stacks with weird random shit when the villain holds the immortal fucking nuts. It's the fucking bonus chasing bullshit. It's running bad and playing worse. It's the fact that when I do take somebody's stack they are a fucking short-stacking POS!
Here now for your viewing pleasure is every full stack hand I've played the first 2 days of the year. I'd show them all but they get pretty repetitive after a while. Besides you get the point, I suck at the pokers.
Day 1:
Day 2:
End result is that I've dropped almost 11 buy-ins in 4 days. I'm dropping back to 25nl for a bit while I see if I really can play this game. I'm actually starting to think that I had the world's luckiest bout of beginner's luck when I started playing cash and this is just the universe righting itself. Guess we'll see.
Here now for your viewing pleasure is every full stack hand I've played the first 2 days of the year. I'd show them all but they get pretty repetitive after a while. Besides you get the point, I suck at the pokers.
Day 1:
Day 2:
End result is that I've dropped almost 11 buy-ins in 4 days. I'm dropping back to 25nl for a bit while I see if I really can play this game. I'm actually starting to think that I had the world's luckiest bout of beginner's luck when I started playing cash and this is just the universe righting itself. Guess we'll see.
January 3, 2009
All that was. All that will be.
Little late on the whole reflecting back on the year that was / looking forward to the year ahead post but here it is anyway.
2008 Summary
I moved $200 of my online BR to Full Tilt at the beginning of last year and after delaying several months I finally started playing there in March full time. I started out above my BR at 25nl and thanks to a nice little heater never looked back. I had never really played a lot of cash games prior to the move but thanks to the fine posters over at CC I learned quickly and the first few months were nothing but profit. I managed to stay profitable until November and I lost modest amounts (with rakeback and a few tourneys included) in both November and December. Here is the obligatory cash graph:
And my monthly summary:
As you can see from the above chart I netted about $1850 profit from ring games and another $1225 from rackback for a total ring profit of ~$3075. I also manage to clear just over $1000 in tournament winnings (thanks largely to a ~$1K 4th place in the rakebreak freeroll). Throw in another $600 from bonuses and my total yearly winnings are a little better than $4500.
Not too shabby considering where I started (not to mention how I finished) and the fact that I really didn't start playing any real volume until June.
2009 Goals / Dreams / Why the fuck not
1. Play well
2. Tilt less
3. 500K hands*
4. $40K profits*
5. Have fun
6. Study
7. Post here more than I have been for a few months
Well that's it. Here's to a safe, happy and prosperous New Year for everyone. Good luck all.
* All numbers are inflated, see ChuckTs blog for the reason)
2008 Summary
I moved $200 of my online BR to Full Tilt at the beginning of last year and after delaying several months I finally started playing there in March full time. I started out above my BR at 25nl and thanks to a nice little heater never looked back. I had never really played a lot of cash games prior to the move but thanks to the fine posters over at CC I learned quickly and the first few months were nothing but profit. I managed to stay profitable until November and I lost modest amounts (with rakeback and a few tourneys included) in both November and December. Here is the obligatory cash graph:
And my monthly summary:
As you can see from the above chart I netted about $1850 profit from ring games and another $1225 from rackback for a total ring profit of ~$3075. I also manage to clear just over $1000 in tournament winnings (thanks largely to a ~$1K 4th place in the rakebreak freeroll). Throw in another $600 from bonuses and my total yearly winnings are a little better than $4500.
Not too shabby considering where I started (not to mention how I finished) and the fact that I really didn't start playing any real volume until June.
2009 Goals / Dreams / Why the fuck not
1. Play well
2. Tilt less
3. 500K hands*
4. $40K profits*
5. Have fun
6. Study
7. Post here more than I have been for a few months
Well that's it. Here's to a safe, happy and prosperous New Year for everyone. Good luck all.
* All numbers are inflated, see ChuckTs blog for the reason)
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