March started pretty good for me, but in the second part I started to run pretty horible and basicly just broke even for the rest of the month. I also managed my 3rd consecutive cash in the 100k freeroll which is nice. I also received some bad news regarding the future of online poker in Romania (the gouverment wants to regulate the market and make it like in France, Spain, etc). I will probably need to relocate to a new countrie if I want to continue playing. I put below 2 funny videos about black friday(:D):
Deposit on Pokerstars $20 between 05:00 ET on March 19 and 23:59 ET on March 31 using the bonus code ‘OMAHA’ to claim three $1.50 Omaha tournament tickets. The tickets are valid for all $1.50 Omaha Sit & Go tournaments, and schedule satellites with a $1.50 buy-in.
You can also receive 2 more $1.50 Omaha tournament tickets if you take and pass a quiz on pokerschoolonline.com The quiz is very easy and is designed so a new recreational player can pass it.
I used my tickets in 1.5$ hyperturbo heads-up sng's which I found very soft and low variance. I hope you enjoy this promotion. Good luck.
Today's session was the worst so far I played in 2013. -464$(10buy-ins at 25-100NL). I played pretty well but I just had a lot of pretty absurd coolers. I think I am going to quit 100NL probably forever because I just can't win there. Here isa hand from today and my 100NL graph from this year so far(its extremely tilting for me to have to grind 4buy-ins at 25NL for each cooler from 100NL):
Today I also saw the first ever supernova fish that I know of (he open-limped K7s from ep and played a high VPIP and only 1 table and had a weird stack size - I was pretty amazed and checked him out and he earned supernova +35k$ last year playing high stakes hyperturbo sng's.... amazing stuff :D):
And pokerstars introduced the 5million-lifetime VPP badge... Congratualations to this 100NL regular for achieving this amazing milestone. But its probably -EV for him to show that badge at the tables:
I hit a bit of negative variance in the last days. I played this hand today vs a TAG, pro shortstacker that was 3betting 1% vs ep and a new 13/10 over 100 hands that has not 3bet yet in my sample. I think that we had QQvsKKvsKKvsAA.
Last month I stopped checking holdem manager results during sessions and that was a huge help for my A-game. After that moment I could play longer sessions mutch better than before.
A couple of days ago I found some relaxing/sleep/study music and I was thinking that maybe this will help me play my A-game even more and help me to focus and I tried it out. Its been about 30k hands and I am really impressed with my results in this period. It might be just variance however, but I still think the music helped me a lot. A possible explanation for this might be that this music lowers the heart beat rate and this helps a bit when receiving huge coolers. I put some of the stuff I started to listen below. I never enjoyed instrumental/clasic music and I still don't like it. I more of the arminvanburen/tiesto type. But if this gives me better results I will take it. If any of you guys will decide to listen to these while playing please post in the comments below if it helped/ didn't help your A game play. Good luck at the tables.
In octomber 2012 I had completed my first 1 million hands and today I managed to reach the 2million milestone. Here is the graph for them:
Since octomber I have definetly started to play a lot more hands. This and also the tougher games caused my winrate to decrease a bit in this interval. Here are the finaciary results:
By the end of 2013 I hope to keep playing the volume I do now and hopefully reach 4million hands. I also hope that I can start beating 100NL again and change my playing style to be more like TAG/LAG.
In the first 3 days of march I played some of my longest sessions ever (previous longest session was 10k hands). I tried to take advantage of the very juicy tables and maybe bink a milestone. The results where good and I also made a lot of VPP's but failed to sit on a milestone table. Here are the sessions:
I also played the sunday million aniversary during these long sessions. I busted without a cash, like I allways do with KK vs a open ended draw on the turn. I want to post the very first hand of the tournament that almost gave me an orgasm before the cards where fliped over(I have played 12 sunday millions and only cashed one and never had a fish at my tables in this tournament format- so I was very excited by the fishy bet sizing in the first hand without any hud info with 250bb behind):
