Improve my game
I really need to improve my poker game. Lately I have been playing real bad. This thread is going to help me get better, (I hope). So I'm going to set some rules and guidlines to follow.
1. I'm going to start with a BR of 100$.
2. Play only mtt's on Pokerstars.
3. Play only 1 game at a time. (No multi tabling yet)
4. Spend 2%-3% of B.R. per buy in.
5. Play only 1 tournament per night. (I work during the day)
-Play 2 tournaments on my days off
6. I will start posting hands that I'm not sure of to get help
from pfc members
7. Post my B.R. at the end of every tournament.
I would play more games at once but I think I should get better first. If you have any helpful comments feel free to post them.
This will start tonight at 4:15pm with the $2.20, 7.5k guarentee.
1. I'm going to start with a BR of 100$.
2. Play only mtt's on Pokerstars.
3. Play only 1 game at a time. (No multi tabling yet)
4. Spend 2%-3% of B.R. per buy in.
5. Play only 1 tournament per night. (I work during the day)
-Play 2 tournaments on my days off
6. I will start posting hands that I'm not sure of to get help
from pfc members
7. Post my B.R. at the end of every tournament.
I would play more games at once but I think I should get better first. If you have any helpful comments feel free to post them.
This will start tonight at 4:15pm with the $2.20, 7.5k guarentee.
Comments
Don't play games when you're distracted / tired.
The last hand of every tourney is just as often insignificant as it it significant, put more weight on the "interesting" big decision hands.
Get some kind of HUD program like pokertracker.
Mark
That's my #1 rule these days
The other points are great things to do, but none of them help you improve your game ^-^
If I were to suggest somewhere to start it would be looking at your preflop starting hands.....cut out all post flop study, and look at what hands you are opening from each position, which hands you should flat, and which hands you should raise.....
Most important that I see waaaay to much, is to not limp into pots when you are first in, ESPECIALLY ACES (not saying you do it).
I'm not the best here but lemme know if you need any help.
The program that displays the HUD will create a database of all the hands you play and see
Its tricky to set up but once its set up its really easy to use
Just the process of setting up your HUD program will make you a better poker player than all the other things you declared in your original post.
I play "blind" 85-90% of the time, even thought i have PT3, PT2 and HM2 lol.. i do turn the hud on when im mass tabling because I cant pay attention to every table
I would get so stats obsessed and I would out level myself
its only a useful tool if you know how to use it PROPERLY.
OP focus on playing ABC poker and assigning ranges to players, and watch the money steam roll in
Total profit: $2.07
B.R.: $102.07
I thought I played alright in this tourney. I was pretty short stacked after the bubble. I got 6k up to 13k but lost to pocket 9's all in preflop with AJ suited. I had no questionable hands to post. Tomorrow night will be better I hope.
Hud, etc.
PokerStars Hand #78761696404: Tournament #543061693, €2.00+€0.25 EUR Hold'em No Limit - Level V (30/60) - 2012/04/12 16:17:08 ET
Table '543061693 34' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: 87mika87 (3455 in chips)
Seat 2: Dizgrafix23 (8289 in chips)
Seat 3: Panieko171 (3065 in chips)
Seat 4: @dd1ct (520 in chips)
Seat 5: da ferrit (2610 in chips)
Seat 6: portorudeboy (6940 in chips)
Seat 7: piggypie123 (5292 in chips)
Seat 8: carpureli (2720 in chips)
Seat 9: sid755 (2368 in chips)
87mika87: posts the ante 5
Dizgrafix23: posts the ante 5
Panieko171: posts the ante 5
@dd1ct: posts the ante 5
da ferrit: posts the ante 5
portorudeboy: posts the ante 5
piggypie123: posts the ante 5
carpureli: posts the ante 5
sid755: posts the ante 5
Dizgrafix23: posts small blind 30
Panieko171: posts big blind 60
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to piggypie123 [Qh Kh]
@dd1ct: folds
da ferrit: calls 60
portorudeboy: raises 180 to 240
piggypie123: calls 240
carpureli: folds
sid755: folds
87mika87: folds
Dizgrafix23: folds
Panieko171: folds
da ferrit: calls 180
*** FLOP *** [6h 4d Kd]
da ferrit: checks
portorudeboy: bets 641
piggypie123: calls 641
da ferrit: folds
*** TURN *** [6h 4d Kd] [5s]
portorudeboy: bets 6054 and is all-in
piggypie123: calls 4406 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (1648) returned to portorudeboy
*** RIVER *** [6h 4d Kd 5s] [4h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
portorudeboy: shows [Kc Ah] (two pair, Kings and Fours)
piggypie123: shows [Qh Kh] (two pair, Kings and Fours - lower kicker)
portorudeboy collected 10949 from pot
piggypie123 finished the tournament in 471st place
PokerStars Hand #78765451675: Tournament #543062925, $2.00+$0.20 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (40/80) - 2012/04/12 17:18:22 ET
Table '543062925 218' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: Sonnn4 (5240 in chips)
Seat 2: smit108 (4190 in chips)
Seat 3: gijsb7 (3315 in chips)
Seat 4: prinsdino (3130 in chips)
Seat 5: piggypie123 (4693 in chips)
Seat 6: Djudj21 (6660 in chips)
Seat 7: kingValent1n (5430 in chips)
Seat 8: ArtemRus1987 (2820 in chips)
Seat 9: basjose8 (7705 in chips)
prinsdino: posts small blind 40
piggypie123: posts big blind 80
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to piggypie123 [7c 7d]
Djudj21: calls 80
kingValent1n: calls 80
ArtemRus1987: calls 80
basjose8: folds
Sonnn4: folds
smit108: raises 160 to 240
gijsb7: folds
prinsdino: calls 200
piggypie123: calls 160
Djudj21: calls 160
kingValent1n: calls 160
ArtemRus1987: calls 160
*** FLOP *** [6s 7h Ac]
prinsdino: checks
piggypie123: checks
Djudj21: checks
kingValent1n: checks
ArtemRus1987: checks
smit108: checks
*** TURN *** [6s 7h Ac] [Ad]
prinsdino: checks
piggypie123: bets 960
Djudj21: folds
kingValent1n: folds
ArtemRus1987: folds
smit108: calls 960
prinsdino: folds
*** RIVER *** [6s 7h Ac Ad] [Th]
piggypie123: bets 3493 and is all-in
smit108: calls 2990 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (503) returned to piggypie123
*** SHOW DOWN ***
piggypie123: shows [7c 7d] (a full house, Sevens full of Aces)
smit108: shows [As Ah] (four of a kind, Aces)
smit108 collected 9340 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
PokerStars Hand #78766118420: Tournament #543062925, $2.00+$0.20 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level VII (50/100) - 2012/04/12 17:29:34 ET
Table '543062925 218' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: Sonnn4 (5960 in chips)
Seat 2: smit108 (20145 in chips)
Seat 3: gijsb7 (5935 in chips)
Seat 4: bobby201 (2530 in chips)
Seat 5: piggypie123 (2069 in chips)
Seat 6: Djudj21 (5147 in chips)
Seat 7: kingValent1n (4227 in chips)
Seat 8: ostecanin (7523 in chips)
Seat 9: acemoneyguy (4760 in chips)
Sonnn4: posts the ante 10
smit108: posts the ante 10
gijsb7: posts the ante 10
bobby201: posts the ante 10
piggypie123: posts the ante 10
Djudj21: posts the ante 10
kingValent1n: posts the ante 10
ostecanin: posts the ante 10
acemoneyguy: posts the ante 10
kingValent1n: posts small blind 50
ostecanin: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to piggypie123 [Kd Jc]
acemoneyguy: folds
Sonnn4: folds
smit108: folds
gijsb7: folds
bobby201: folds
piggypie123: raises 200 to 300
Djudj21: folds
kingValent1n: raises 3917 to 4217 and is all-in
ostecanin: folds
piggypie123: calls 1759 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (2158) returned to kingValent1n
*** FLOP *** [2d Jd 2s]
*** TURN *** [2d Jd 2s] [9h]
*** RIVER *** [2d Jd 2s 9h] [Tc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
kingValent1n: shows [Ah Qh] (a pair of Deuces)
piggypie123: shows [Kd Jc] (two pair, Jacks and Deuces)
piggypie123 collected 4308 from pot
This is a fold pre.
You're in middle-late position, and the guy UTG flats the immediately gets 4x raised. What do you do if UTG re-pops? Very common play with big PP. Further, given the fact you said you're playing again being out so soon, this was likely early in the game with little to no reads on the guy. Finally, going broke on TP decent kicker when you started the hand with an M of nearly 40 is REALLY bad. Like, TERRIBLE.
I know I can be an ass, but believe me, I am helping here. How do you lose nearly 90 BB's on one pair? That's WAY too much, and you were never in the driver's seat on this hand. You played it poorly at every point. Passively, and gained no more information than what he provided. To expand:
Preflop: He say "I have a strong hand and am not afraid of either the UTG limper or the people behind me". Your call fished no more information.
Flop: Could say "I hit my hand / it's better than the board" OR it could say "Go away and let me win". He bet most of the pot, by my math ~600 into ~800. Though I DO NOT THINK IT IS A GOOD PLAY - re-raising to see if QQ will go away would have been better than calling, but by far folding is still best.
Turn: Now he puts all his 6k in to win 2k? He's either saying "No seriously, dude, fuck off" or "Haha, suck my dick newb". Again, without reads and some context, impossible to say which. If you had raised the previous hand, he would have possible re-popped, or he flats, and maybe checks here. If you fold we're done last street, but your call puts you into this minimal information situation.
Piggypie - legit - it's when you play hands in this manner that makes his play of this hand +EV.
Mark
First tournament $2.95 buy in, out in 471st place. 679 runners, 99 paid,
profit= -$2.95
B.R.=$99.12
2nd tournament $2.20 buy in, out in 1711th place. 4298 runners, 630 paid
profit= -$2.20
B.R.=$96.92
Thats it for tonight. Damn it.
Cooler
everyone here plays this almost identically.
Mark
Psst
Forum game
Mark
everybody takes a beating sometime
B.R.=$96.92
Profit=-$2.75
B.R.=$94.17
Going out here was terrible. But folding Pre flop? I don't see why that is so bad.. unless I misunderstand something... he did have a royal flush draw