In yesterdays rant (or rather this mornings rant, since the blog is on American time and I am not) I forgot a few vital points that you simply cannot live without. During the first 12 minutes of play I lost $2000, which is a world record. Day before yesterday, I also played some poker, and pulled out with $1500. At one point during that session, Loke went ape shit on me I went from +$2000 to -$1500 in one hour. Thats six buy ins, equivalent to a normal monthly pay check, in one hour, also a world record.
Finally I would just like to direct your attention to this ground breaking piece of poker theory: The aejones theorem. Apparently it is revolutionizing the poker world as we speak, illustrated by the following item:
My 'donkey of the month' competition has been keeping a low profile, but sees a return to grace with this sweet value call:
Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $6 BB (4 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.com
UTG ($567.10)
Button ($789)
Hero ($672.65)
BB ($679.30)
Preflop: Hero is SB with Ad, As.
UTG calls $6, 1 fold, Hero raises to $35, 1 fold, UTG calls $29.
Flop: ($76) 7h, Qh, Th (2 players)
Hero bets $65, UTG raises to $130, Hero calls $572.65 (All-In), UTG calls $402.10 (All-In).
Turn: ($1245.75) 5c (2 players, 2 all-in)
River: ($1245.75) Kh (2 players, 2 all-in)
Final Pot: $1245.75
Hero has Ad As (one pair, aces).
UTG has 8s 7s (one pair, sevens).
Outcome: Hero wins $1245.75.
That's it for now, see you around.
Late edit: So I just lost $4000 tonight. Worst session ever. Puke.
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I just started reading your blog. And I must say that this is one of the better poker blogs, that i have ever read. The way you describe the winning mentality and your thought processes really makes this blog worthwhile. And of course your blatant success is a joy to read, and will of course inspire others (as you have posted previously)
One thing i don't understand though, is how you can move immidiately from $109 SNGs to $200NL? I noticed you lost about $4k quite fast, but then you appeared to get the hang of it. What was your initial secrets, and what made you start at 200NL and not 50NL (for instance)
Best Regards and good luck,
Chris Broholm
Hi Chris
Thanks a lot for the compliments, they are much appreciated :).
To answer your question, I didn't really know much about the NL environment, and I thought, hey, a $1/$2 game seems pretty low, compared to the fact that I am used to playing 9 tables of $109 SnG's. So I went from having $1000 in action to having $600 in action total on three tables. But the difference between the 50BB stack game of the first round of a SnG and the 100+BB game of NL is just so big it's not even funny. I played pretty bad in the beginning, and went almost two months before making any real money, so there were no big secrets really, just playing, studying and thinking about the game. The only big stress point is to have enough money for whatever experiments you might try out, and be ready to move down whenever necessary.
Kristian, when's the book coming out?
Will you buy it?
Donk call with aces :)
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