BottlesOf's $1K Adventure Series Day 2

[BottlesOf]

Day 2.

I overslept a bit and didn’t get started until 2. I’m falling into a pattern with my sessions (That’s right, a pattern. After 2 days.) I play a short session when I first wake up. Then I shower, get lunch and I have two more sessions before I go to bed in the early morning. How I play those 2 sessions is up to me, but they should each be about 2 hours long, maybe a little more. Perhaps I’ll deviate from this long-established pattern on day 3.

After lunch, I watched a movie called “Equilibrium” starring Christian Bale. At first, I thought it was a lame 1984 knock-off, but it gradually grew on me. It had some very cool Matrix-style fight scenes, and a number of plot twists. If you like this kind of sci-fi/futuristic dystopic action genre, this is worth a rent. I started my second session at 5:45. I played well, ran well, and had a really good two hour session.

I stopped to get dinner and watch some of the All-star game. As I was watching Clemens get shelled, I forgot about the pasta dish I was warming up in the toaster oven and it got rather blackened. Fortunately, it was still edible, and I came in here to write this sentence.

I started playing again around 9:30. I don’t know what it is about the start of my sessions, but I always seem to lose a few bets when I’m just starting out. Then it got worse. It was starting to look like last night. This time it wasn’t really my fault. I wasn’t doing too many things at once, I was just losing. I did misplay one hand, but the others were mostly bad beats. Once again, a BIG (bigger today) winning day was erased (more so) at the end. About $800 erased in 2 hours. This really sucks. To protest, I’m not posting the 3 hands I was planning on including.

Day 2 Results: 1,168 Hands, -$195.25

Overall Results: 2,696 Hands, -$133.75

[smartalecc5]

sorry to hear about ur losses, but keep me and the rest of this forum updated /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Alobar]

How many tables are you playing at once. I just moved up to 5/10 6 max so I'm very interested in your postings

[Schneids]

Keep your chin up it's just as easy to win $800 in a short amount of time tomorrow!

[scrub]

These runs are just part of the game. Check out the Mason article about tilt in the essays section. The more you learn about the game the less you'll notice them is my guess.

My stats for the day:

Poker: 1200 hands. 250 at 10/20 short, which is a step up for me. The game plays a little big for me right now, though, so I moved back down.

Culture: Watched one west wing episode and read a lot of the board for the first time in a while.

Nutrition: More chocolate chip pancakes. Had a strange jambalaya made with spaghetti at "california pizza kitchen".

Exercise: Drove a car up a very tall hill to see a view of the bay. Thought about how hard it would be to run up said hill. Decided I was glad I was in a car instead.

scrub

[RollaJ]

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Exercise: Drove a car up a very tall hill to see a view of the bay. Thought about how hard it would be to run up said hill. Decided I was glad I was in a car instead.

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Classic! /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[turnipmonster]

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Nutrition: More chocolate chip pancakes.

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do you just put regular chocolate chips into regular pancake mix for these? I used to make gingerbread pancakes sometimes. mmmmmm, pancakes.

--turnipmonster

[AviD]

Bottles, hang in there bud...I know the feeling.

I've been swining like crazy at 5/10, up and down over and over...losing XXBBs one day, winning it back the next, losing it again the next, winning it back the next...sometimes losing 100BBs over a few days and then winning it back over the following two days, and back into the cycle...all around break even in the end.

Been like this for almost a month now, extremely frustrating...especially when you are sitting good tables and know there is money to be made.

For me, some BBs lost are due to overplaying on my part, mostly when I don't give my opponent credit for the hand he has...usually because it just isn't likely and I'm raising because I feel I have the best hand (poor reads on my part I guess, or perhaps I am playing the angle right just not seeing the payoff as most of these instances are 1 or 2 outers or silly perfect perfects). I can't tell you how many big pots I've lost this month to river jobs. Enough complaining though! /images/graemlins/wink.gif

Happens, that's poker, keep grinding...keep analyzing. I know it's getting bad when I feel like I'm wasting time playing feeling like I'm going to break even. Eventually this spell has to break, so that keeps me going.

[sthief09]

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How many tables are you playing at once. I just moved up to 5/10 6 max so I'm very interested in your postings

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he's playing 5/10 full though

[AviD]

Mmmmmmm blueberry pancakes!

[Alobar]

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How many tables are you playing at once. I just moved up to 5/10 6 max so I'm very interested in your postings

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he's playing 5/10 full though

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whoops! thought I read he was playing 6max

[BottlesOf]

Thanks everyone for the support. It really does help. Hopefully, today will be better.

What has really upset me about the last two days is not that I had subpar results, but that I had really good results until the very end when I crashed and burned. But oh well, it's one big session and blah blah blah.

Today's a new day /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Tosh]

Chris, not sure it'll really be any help (especially in its jumbled state) but below is a list of my last 4 weeks play since I started keeping a record. Its about a 25k sample, and includes a 200BB and 150BB downswing, my win rate over the course of this period was lowish at a touch under 1BB/100 but the swings are only temporary. Even if its no use to you to see, I'm sure some people could benefit from seeing the swings that occur.

5 hours 243.75, 4 hours 308, 5 hours 84.25, 2 hours 51, 5 hours 1234.5, 1 hour -201, 2.5 hours -366.5, 4 hours 259, 6 hours 64.84, 3 hours -272.5, 1.5 hours -214, 1.5 hours -228.5, 3 hours -391, 10 hours -68.25, 2 hours -504.5, 6 hours 361.17, 3 hours 565.25, 2.5 hours 305.75, 4 hours 29,
1.5 hours 96.5, 3 hours 670.5, 2.5 hours -405.33, 0.5 hours -8.5, 1 hour -49, 2 hours -158, 1 hour -225, 4 hours -442, 3 hours 234.5, 1 hour 51, 3.5 hours 473.25, 3.5 hours 161.17 and 1 hour 145.

[Brian]

Hi Bottles,

I know you know it, but 3k hands is an extremely small sample size. I wouldn't be surprised to see someone up or down 1k after 3k hands at 5/10, whether they are the worst or best player in the world. Lord knows I have swung both ways many times in the past few months.

-Brian

[jfresh]

how many tables do you play at once? this is 5/10 6max i assume?

[BottlesOf]

Why do you assume that?

[Tosh]

No I play the same full games as Bottles, which is why I thought it might be a handy comparison.

[mikewvp]

Just thought I would throw this in, but I found myself losing a few big bets as soon as I sit down at almost any table, solution? Play ridiculously tight for the first 10 minutes. Something worth a try, you might not win a huge amount but you will get a feel for the players and game, and you won't lose much playing so tight.

[BottlesOf]

I had a further thought on this. If I'm sitting at 4 tables, and I just pay my blinds, I'm down $28. Let's say I lose a pot at one table, boom, I'm down $50 easy. I think this may have more to do with it than I realized.

[Tosh]

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Play ridiculously tight for the first 10 minutes. Something worth a try, you might not win a huge amount but you will get a feel for the players and game, and you won't lose much playing so tight.

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How can passing up potential +EV so you don't get off to a bad start be a good idea>

[MarkD]

I'm such a slacker. You guys probably play twice as many hands per month as me. If I was playing for a living I'd probably get 25k hands per month in, but as a hobby I find that humbling.

[MarkD]

I was going to post this exactly. You start off losing early in most of your sessions because you should start of losing in most of your sessions. It is not a coincidence. Also, it should be noted that most of us win less than our fair share of pots and this will contribute to our losing starts. (What I mean is that most of us win less than 10% of our hands and that is fair share at a 10 person table.)

[jerome baker]

playing 25k hands is difficult for me, maybe not others.
after playing 8k hands in may, and 17k hands in june (5/10 full game) i only have 4k this month. any ideas on how i can play more hands?

[bdk3clash]

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any ideas on how i can play more hands?

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<insert smartass joke here>

[scrub]

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I'm such a slacker. You guys probably play twice as many hands per month as me. If I was playing for a living I'd probably get 25k hands per month in, but as a hobby I find that humbling.

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Chris and I both lack other sources of income other than sponging off of loved ones. If I were you I wouldn't feel like a slacker, just like a more productive member of society... /images/graemlins/smile.gif

scrub

[scrub]

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do you just put regular chocolate chips into regular pancake mix for these? I used to make gingerbread pancakes sometimes. mmmmmm, pancakes.


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I make regular pancake batter, then add like half to 3/4 of a cup of Ghirardelli "sweet ground chocolate and cocoa." I throw some milk chocolate chips in, then cook them up.

Got a recipe for gingerbread pancakes? Both Scrub and Scrubette are extremely interested...

scrub

[MarkD]

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just like a more productive member of society...

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Except I hate my job?

[turnipmonster]

http://www.thatsmyhome.com/bakers/ginpan.htm

the molasses is key. I personally don't make the lemon sauce, they are actually good without anything on them. the choc chip ones sound good!

--turnipmonster