No time for free-rolls, Fun Steps it is!

Hey all,

Got home today, made some good old fashion frying pan steak with steamed red taters and baby carrots. (Nom nom nom) Fell victim to the boob tube watching a new show about zombie apocalypse preparation. I must have found it really interesting, haha!

So, time flew by and didn't realize how late it had gotten. That being said, no time for a free-roll tonight, as I have to open up the shop tomorrow pretty early, but I've played a handful of fun steps with an awful lot of donk players and its really got me into a bitter mood.

I mean who calls a 3xbb PFB with 74 off and out of position at that? Who I ask you!?

*Sigh* So I decided the best thing to do is to stop for the night, after five fun step 1's with no win - Yea, I'll pick it up tomorrow.

Dueces all, see you on the felt!

-Farce

Poker Term of the Week!

three bet, three betting, 3-bet, 3bet

To be the first player to put in a 3rd unit of betting. For example, if Bob opens for $10, and Mary raises to make the bet $20, if Ted also raises to make the bet $30, this is to "three bet". (Before the flop, 3-betting means re-raising the first raiser.)

Image from google, Dialog from me :)

Bitcoins put on a hold, Back to Playersonly

Hey all, Since I heard the news of the government placing a seize warrant on Dwolla and mt.gov pretty much on a stand still, I've decided to put anything I'm doing with bitcoins on hold and putting all my time, as far as poker, into playersonly.

Now, I'm on playersonly with a clean slate working the freerolls and fun steps tourneys. I picked up a nice program called Hold'em Manager 2 and I'm utilizing their generous 30 day trial.

A little about Hold'em Manager 2

Before getting into what I've been doing on Playersonly; I thought I'd talk about this program a little more in depth.

Leak Buster
I've only been using the program a few days and so far the greatest thing I've found on the program is a sub program (addon I suppose) called Leak Buster. It analyzes your hand history based on position, pre-flop betting(PFB) along with an array of other variables to tell you where you have been making errors in your game play. This addon has its own 30 trial for those that have HM2 already.

Not only does it tell you what you're doing wrong, they also having professional poker trainer videos that have audio dialog & written instructions on when and where to do certain actions like: preflop betting, 3 and 4 betting, etc.

Overlay HUD
Another aspect I've found very useful is there Overlay HUD on the poker room client itself. After a few hands your opponents data is available and the program tracks your opponents (and your) actions hand-by-hand using the hand history chat and saves the data, allowing it to be used in other tournaments.

That being said you can track your opponent and potentially know if they're keen to 3 betting and if they're an a aggressive pre-flop better, along with many other things. Which is very useful if you keep seeing the same people over and over 

HUD Popups Stat Descriptions

Hand Tracking Graphs
I haven't really dabbled too much in modding the graphs; however, the program automatically defaults to graph all your tournaments, sngs and cash games separately based on net winnings. Micro to deep stacked tournament/sngs and doesn't account to tournaments and sngs that use ticket entry, so its a bit inaccurate and I haven't really used it much.

Alright, with playersonly I've been focusing on the Fun Step tournaments, which is located on the free play tournament tab. I've mentioned these before in a post years ago; I believe, and I will mention them again. Although, to avoid the risk of sounding like a broken record, I will link to previous post.

Placed in a Free-roll!!

I've also been playing in the free-rolls which have gone down to $50 from the $100 ones I remember. That's pretty much all I've been doing; I've been working on getting a bar tending job so I can work nights, so my game time has been only a few hours a week. Although I've been trying to play more since I am on the trial of HM2. I think my game play has really spiked up since I've been studying the Leak Buster videos. I've been doing a lot more pre-flop betting and I'm definitely seeing good results. Haven't won a fun step or free roll yet, but I'm getting close, so its eventually going happen.

Well that's it for me folks, See you on the felt!

Duecues!

-Farce

No Promises.

Greetings readers, viewers and miss clickers!

It's been too long, and I keep slacking on these posts. For nearly two months I have not posted and I apologize for that.

Although, my absence has not been wasted; I have been hard at work (or is that hardly at work ~_^) juggling between playersonly and sealswithclubs. I still have yet to create a stable bankroll on either and I think my lack of progress is mostly due to my lack of discipline. There are two things I'm going to being working on myself.

1) Continue studying poker playing methods to increase skill.

2) Study more on bankroll management


The first is an obvious continuing battle, to continue to learn about the game and learn to make correct decisions on any given hand.

The second, Bankroll management, is what I'm going to be focusing on the most in the future and in this post currently.

Through my research I have found that most people seem to say,"Don't use more than 5% of your bankroll." This meaning for anyone tourney, SNG or cash games, I'm assuming. Most free rolls now are around $50 as the prize (Sealsofclubs using chips as they are bitcoin based) and for all intent and purposes lets say they're broken up into the first three places to make it easy.

1st:    $25
2nd:   $15
3rd:    $10

So if I were to place first, I would receive $25 then take 5% and that's what level I'd be in.

25 * .05 = 1.25

So clearly, I'd be in the $1 tourneys, sngs and cash games (if available) with approximately 25 buy-ins (entries) to work with.

I like the 5% idea, I am going to work with it more strictly and see where in the poker world it takes me. Once I have the 5% idea down, and if/when I get to, say, $50 I will try moving up to the $2 level.

For sealswithclubs I've been dabbling in the bitcoin collecting a little and have found a few decent sites for earning free bitcoins:

Bitvisitor

Cointube

CoinReaper

Just to name a few.

Well, that's it for me all, see ya on the felt. Deuces!
-Farce

                                          Nero - Promises

Poker Terminology of the Week!

 

 

angle

A technically legal, but borderline unethical, play. For example, deliberately miscalling one's own hand to induce a fold, or placing odd amounts of chips in the pot to confuse opponents about whether you mean to call or raise. A player employing such tactics is called an "angle shooter".

 

I never heard of this style of play, or maybe I have and I just don't get it through context. I suppose this means to trick someone into thinking you don't know what your doing.

I'm not sure, has anyone else heard of this or done it? It is very interesting.

At any rate, hope you enjoyed your term of the week. Deuces!

-Farce

                                                        Disturbed - Land of confusion

Poker Term of the Week!

runner-runner

A hand made by hitting two consecutive cards on the turn and river. Also "backdoor". Compare to "bad beat" and "suck out".

Hi all, here's something that happen today at my free poker league tournament. "Guy caught a runner-runner straight" using the last two cards of the hand, turn and river. I bet him down and he kept on calling, I don't get it, man, but that's how it goes.

We'll that it folks, see ya next time!

Deuces!

-Farce

Poker Termonology of the Week!

Slow playing- (also called sandbagging or trapping):

Is deceptive play in poker that is roughly the opposite of bluffing: betting weakly or passively with a strong holding rather than betting aggressively with a weak one. 

The flat call is one such play. 

The objective of the passive slow play is to lure opponents into a pot who might fold to a raise, or to cause them to bet more strongly than they would if the player had played aggressively (bet or raised). Slow playing sacrifices protection against hands that may improve and risks losing the pot-building value of a bet if the opponent also checks.


I tend to do this a lot, trying to attempt for the almighty "double up", but also remember that they could be on a flush or straight drawl, so it might be a good thing to get them out early just in case they hit runner, runner (next term!).

Now here's an example of slow-playing...going horribly wrong. The above all-inner went all-in way too late, and allow the other player to get his/her flush.