finally my first shot at 50NL in a long time
Posted by mpokerdonk
those of you who have read my blog knows i built a BR from $65 and 2 months later i took a shot at 50NL today. I started with a $955 BR to take the shot. It all went well after me grinding out so many hours in 10NL and 25NL i am running -$750 or so in ev in 25NL and feels great to finally run normal for once. im excited to continue my success as a poker player and each month im gonna try to move up to a new lmit and if im able to do that before than i will be happy as well. ive seen some merge poker players and a lot of them seem kinda soft in the 50NL games. I know its a small sample but i have spotted a few leaks my opponents are doing that i can take advantage of post flop. After my 50NL session i have a BR of 1167
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this months poker and success
Posted by mpokerdonk
hi everyone or anyone who will read this blog. I had a pretty rough month as far as i have been running quite bad but over all im still up. I guess it could be worse but i am getting close to being in 50NL as my BR is approaching a lil more than 900 now. I take a some what aggressive BR approach using only 20 buy in rule so i can move up a lil faster. i been still playing a lil bit of 10NL although i dont need to but on the days the 25NL games are reg infested i drop to 10NL and osme times on the days where i feel my head is not in the game i will also drop lower to minimize how expensive mistakes are plus the added value of the players playing even worse. Making me able to beat the games on my c game. I usually will not play poker on my c game but i do make exceptions mainly cuz im trying to move up as fast as possible. here is what my graph looks like for the month.
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2nd session of the night a rae 2nd blog in 1 day
Posted by mpokerdonk
i just got done with my 2nd session of the day and i was actually playing nitty to my normal standards i didnt 3 bet much because my opponents were being quite spewy. they were spewy PF and post flop making me actually playing pretty tight i didn't mind it was the feel that i had tonight kinda crazy but there was a 13 tabler who kept trying to make moves on me with air post flop so i didn't make any plays vs him but i would make small raises with hands and let him spew. but over all the games were very good it was unfortune the regs were playing like this because i prolly could have made more money playing vs the mega fishes that were at the table. although winning 2 buy ins isnt bad for a 2 hour session. just thought i would talk about how the flow of the games changed the way i usually approach the games if i were to be laggy like i usually am the regs that i have history with would have prolly got the better of me as they were acting like they had a set on a lot of hands. well Gl at the tables everyone im gonna prolly play one more session for the night after this break...
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game flow and other things i have improved on
Posted by mpokerdonk
so i been playing the micros for quite some time got bored and decided to play 9 tables a couple of times and when i did i ran extremely bad. i decided taht i wanted to not have to almost nearly auto pilot and be able to make reads as i find that part of poker more full filling to me since i pride my self on my reads. and i became quite good at certain aspects that maybe i was auto piloting or thinking this is a standard spot and so on. there is quite a bit of 3 betting going on at the micros now and they have no idea why they are doing it. I thought to my self there has got to be a way to go under the radar and play laggy with out dealing with getting 3 bet so much. I did my home work and realized i can play tighter in certain spots and looser in certain spots get 3 bet less but there 3 bet frequencies will not change because they wont adjust good enough. so when they 3 bet me all a sudden i will be there with a stronger range and be able to take more advantage of the fact there ranges are not changing. on top of that i had made some crazy 3 bettors back off me and not want to mess with me so much if almost at all any more as they must have realized im doing some thing deifferent that is hurting the way they are playing vs me. and it made some guys go quite tilty and tilt off a massive amounts of buy ins lol sucks for them. i also started to 3 bet a lil more from spots i usually wasn't 3 betting from. for instance i was usually flatting AK and QQ vs an utg open in the blinds. i was still flatting those hands but i started to 3 bet more suited hands from blinds like 97s etc. i noticed they started to get erritated about that and started to play back so than i jumped my AK and QQ in to my 3 betting range again and dropped suited connectors these guys went quite crazy and im sure they were wondering why is this guy jamming all the time. when i did this to a few guys i played tighter from my steal positions as i felt they would be dying to 3 bet me for once and would spew so i widen my 4 bet get it in range and i was amazed at what hands was 5 bet shoved on me. i saw K5o,78s and other BS. in other words i am having quite a bit of success in learning about why and when to either tighten up or loosen up and its getting kinda fun because they don't know the big WHY.. thanx to anyone who reads this and i will be interested to hear comments.
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cultivating a image today
Posted by mpokerdonk
today i cultivated the craziest image and it was very fun. I havn't done anything like this in a long time for almost a year since i was in 200NL on FTP.I decided i would play more of a 3 bet or fold game from the blinds today and i was even running kinda nitty compared to my usual stats. I dunno if it has to do with i didnt deffend my blinds as much. But i do know it was because i had quite a bit of fish that would end up getting short stacked. it started when i 3 bet a few times and got cought double barreling in a 3 bet pot and was playing with a few players on a few of my tables. than i 3 bet bluff utg open with 67s he folded but was suspicious and been 3 betting me. usually he folds far to often to 3 bets but i knew he was getting sick of my table captain strat. usualy vs a guy like him i flat AK and QQ in blinds unless i have reason to believe he will stack off lighter or bluff so i 3 bet and he bluffs. than a few hands later this guy 3 bet from SB w/K3o i 4 bet QQ when i was on btn again usually with no history i will flat there also but i felt he would 5 bet shove almost anything there and so i 4 bet and he jammed. He went on tilt after i told him hey do you hate me or something. it was very funny than he started bluff raising and doing anything to win a pot but i rarly let him win one. well just thought i would talk about how poker went today.
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changed some ways about how i play poker and im happy about it
Posted by mpokerdonk
so i been playing latly fixed a couple problems i have had playing poker and my results are ehh. But over all im happy with my play here are some of my graphs i played day by day graphs.
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my new goals and the progression
Posted by mpokerdonk
I don't know how to start this blog out. This is my first one, and im gonna do my best please no one correct my punctuations as i suck and did not graduate school.
So i been playing for man years and after black friday got fucked from FTP for a good amount of money. Now i tried live for a little bit and nearly went busto not because i played bad. But my BR was short and i ran bad bought christmas presents and payed bills. I had $65 online on aced poker and decided i wouldn't put any more money online and would build it up after reading a article on chris ferguson on how he turn 0 in to 1000 or something in 6 months playing tournies. Than i read another one about daniel negranue how he turned 100 in to 100k in 1 year and decided i can do it also. 4 weeks ago i started with $65 in 2c/4c and now i have about a $650 BR. I am currently in 25NL and realized how to beat the short stack regs who i struggled with for many years. i have been improving my game a lot every day i work hard on my game. finding new ways to exploit my opponents. I noticed on aced poker the games are all reg infested you have to table select very well. 90% of players 3 bet/4 bet with out knowing why and they are very play happy causing them to be losers or break even. there is maybe a couple winners at that stakes. well im trying to turn my $65 in to gold i will keep people updated at least weekly and if anyone is interested i will start posting my graph as well.
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