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[May. 2nd, 2009|04:05 am] |
It has been a little under a month into playing on full tilt and AP and it has been a lot better then stars. Ill list some pros and cons.
Pros:
This is the only reason I switched sites. The games are a little softer then stars. AP lately has had a lot of games that aren’t even possible to win from just like stars. A lot of games above $71 have 2-3 top players in them, which make it impossible to win in the long run before rakeback. Full tilt most of the time I have noticed are really good under the $200s, but above that they are just like stars.
I love getting rakeback put directly into my account rather then fighting the stars bonus system. Even after you earn enough points for the prize you want. They still make you clear it. It is pretty annoying.
Cons:
Both sites software is below Pokerstars by far. The only advantage full tilts software has over stars is their note taking system. The color code notes are amazing for table selecting. On AP I don’t even take notes because it is the worst software ever…enough said. On AP I also have to resize the table every time it pops up, which really hurts my table count. I have to work alot harder to keep the same tables count as I could on stars(14 tables).
Games fill better on stars. They have the highest traffic of any site and it shows when you go from one site to another.
Sharkscope is still in testing stages with AP. They have my games count right around 1k, when I know its over 2.5k games. So hopefully they get that fixed soon.
Yes, Pokerstars has a lot more better features and makes your gaming more enjoyable, but I only care about one thing...making as much money as possible. And right now I need to go elsewhere.
I've noticed a lot of the players on AP have huge egos. Like this guy...a regular I run into often enough that loves to berate my play. Here is how smart he is. I know he shoves wide Blind vs Blind so one SNG I snap called him with JTo 6BB and he flips over A4o. I win and he berates me for the call. It’s like he thinks that calling and being behind is the worst thing ever. The next day he shoves 7bb w/ J4o and I call. I say “and you wonder why I call you light.” His comeback is "your poor you have to be staked." Ouch...Burned. Considering I have only been playing for one year, I am glad to be playing poker at these stakes.
At rakebacknation.com there is a rake race going on and 1st place is a VIP trip to the playboy mansion during one of their big parties. It is the Kandy Land themed party:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKo5SJYkh8w&
As of now, I am more then double second place! I hope that is a big enough cushion. I only need to hold on for 9 more days. So wish me luck or JSCRUB2010 luck...were sitting 1 and 2!
Playboy Mansion Rake Race
Top 10 Absolute Poker/Ulitmate Bet Rakers through April 30, 2009:
Race runs from April 23rd to May 10th
Player Name Rake Prize
VOSS1313 $ 7,717.00 Playboy Mansion
JSCRUB2010 $ 3,265.00 $ -
LEONARD79 $ 2,927.80 $ -
THESHOW89 $ 2,419.50 $ -
CITYWIDE222 $ 1,841.44 $ -
CUTIEPIE85 $ 1,610.00 $ -
NIKEBOY717 $ 1,370.62 $ -
LOLBILLFRIST $ 676.46 $ -
1JOHND $ 623.00 $ -
JBASS105 $ 584.06 $ -
I just signed a lease in Uptown, MN, which is in minnespolis. I am extremely excited, but at the same time it’s the worst timing. This MN ISP crap is scaring me hardcore. I am just going to copy over hubs entry on this.
This is the article a friend pointed out to me:
http://www.startribune.com/local/43985257.html?elr=KArks7PYDiaK7DU2EkP7K_V_GD7EaPc:iLP8iUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aU7DYaGEP7vDEh7P:DiUs
Here's a better article:
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/04/29/ap6357166.html
Please take the time to send a letter to your congressmen. The PPA letters can be found here:
http://capwiz.com/pokerplayersalliance/home/
The email is already typed out for you so it only takes a couple minutes. Don't be lazy.
Since its Mifflin block party this weekend, this picture is from last year with two of my buddies.
Thanks and GL,
voss |
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| stars wrap up |
[Apr. 9th, 2009|03:58 pm] |
Total Profit from playing: -2,970 dollars WWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEE
Total with bonuses:around $16,000 + a 40'' TV
If i would average that across the whole year i would be making around $64,000 a year. This is while i would be losing a grand a month for playing. Once i start winning, which will happen this month, my profit should go way up. Below in the graph it is suposse to say "This is when i stopped playing higher then $119s".
My Heads Up game could be down from having too many tables going. With 12 tables going it is a lot harder to concentrate on HU. Lately i have been limiting the number of tables i play because i am getting used to APs software.
******Miscellaneous Data******
Total Cashes: $824,983
Total Games: 8,121
First Game (CDT)- 1-Jan-09
Last Game (CDT)- 8-Apr-09
Total Rake: $61,411
ITM: 36.77%
Av. Entrants: 6.0
Turbo Ratio (?): 97.29%
Av. % of field beaten: 55.97%
Most game played in one day: 198
In my 565s when I got into the money 8 times out of 10 I took 2nd. If I would have split 1st and 2nd in those 10 games it would of added $3390 to my profit.
This morning i woke up and turned my computer on. I noticed two of my monitors wouldn't turn on. After looking into it more i find out a graphics card is burned out. So i wont get much playing in until i get a new one, which means more golfing and studying for a couple days.
Enjoy my scattered thoughts & Good Luck at the tables!
voss |
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| and thats how the cookie crumbles |
[Apr. 1st, 2009|02:55 am] |
I have one day left that I will be playing on stars. I have 296,000 VPPs and i am deciding elite isn’t worth it. I am waiting to get to 300k VPPs for my last bonus and maybe a couple more hours of play to get an extra 10,000 FPPs. The extra 10k FPPs is so I can order a TV. Below is the TV:
Samsung 40" 1080p FullHD
Once I hit 300k VPPs I get my last 3k bonus, which I have about 6 hours left of playing. Yesterday the games were as soft as I have seen them all year and they still were filling well. Because of this I caught myself loading too many games. I had 15 tables going at one time and felt pretty comfortable. I got in 198 games in yesterday, which is the most I have ever got in during one day. One downside to not playing stars anymore will be the number of tables I can play at once. Managing more then one site will cut down on table I can play. Also other site software is not nearly as nice as pokerstars. One of the sites I am going to is Absolute Poker. I hate hate hate their software, but ill get use to it.
Today I catch two guy colluding. I am 100% sure they were. I was on the bubble with both of them and they were doing really weird things. They were never calling each other, but they would call me wide. Also they did a lot of things, which prevented me from a ton of standard shoves. They would min raise the button and fold to the other person shove every time. After this SNG I got curious and did a little research on these two people. After the SNG I saw they both were registering in a different game that I was in. Here are two hands from that game.
PokerStars Game #26583086241: Tournament #152307775, $112+$9 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2009/03/31 17:20:16 ET
Table '152307775 1' 6-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: goldenkid001 (1690 in chips)
Seat 2: rilarsrilars (3020 in chips)
Seat 3: loodje61 (725 in chips)
Seat 4: voss1313 (1330 in chips)
Seat 5: BuzzSaw23 (2235 in chips)
loodje61: posts small blind 50
voss1313: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to voss1313 [8c 6c]
BuzzSaw23: calls 100
goldenkid001: folds
rilarsrilars: calls 100
loodje61: raises 100 to 200
voss1313: folds
BuzzSaw23: calls 100
rilarsrilars: raises 100 to 300
loodje61: raises 100 to 400
BuzzSaw23: folds
rilarsrilars: calls 100
*** FLOP *** [5c 2c 5s]
loodje61: bets 325 and is all-in
rilarsrilars: folds
Uncalled bet (325) returned to loodje61
rilarsrilars said, "aq no good??"
loodje61 collected 1100 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1100 | Rake 0
Board [5c 2c 5s]
Seat 1: goldenkid001 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: rilarsrilars (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 3: loodje61 (small blind) collected (1100)
Seat 4: voss1313 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: BuzzSaw23 folded before Flop
PokerStars Game #26583378614: Tournament #152307775, $112+$9 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2009/03/31 17:28:04 ET
Table '152307775 1' 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: goldenkid001 (1390 in chips)
Seat 2: rilarsrilars (385 in chips)
Seat 3: loodje61 (1875 in chips)
Seat 4: voss1313 (1430 in chips)
Seat 5: BuzzSaw23 (3920 in chips)
goldenkid001: posts small blind 50
rilarsrilars: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to voss1313 [5d Jc]
loodje61: raises 100 to 200
voss1313: folds
BuzzSaw23: folds
goldenkid001: folds
rilarsrilars: raises 185 to 385 and is all-in
loodje61: folds
Uncalled bet (185) returned to rilarsrilars
rilarsrilars collected 450 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 450 | Rake 0
Seat 1: goldenkid001 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: rilarsrilars (big blind) collected (450)
Seat 3: loodje61 folded before Flop
Seat 4: voss1313 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: BuzzSaw23 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
After loodje61 folds, he says I guess AQ isn’t good. Good job making your teamwork obvious.
Hub posted a link that im stealing from him:
http://www.examiner.com/x-1607-Boston-Poker-Examiner~y2009m3d12-Greg-Raymer-appears-on-Fox-Business-News-to-discuss-online-poker
About once a week I play in a cash game at a buddies house. It is more relaxing and for fun then making money put spare change is always nice. Here is a hand I luckboxed that was pretty funny.
UTG raises $2
UTG+1 calls
UTG+2 calls
CO calls
I am on the button with 36o and with all the dead money I make it $8 thinking most will fold. If I get it down to 1 or 2 opponents take away the pot post flop in position. Well everyone called and I was done with the hand until the flop came 663. UTG leads into me for about half my stack…I take my time make him think that I have an overpair and call. He puts the rest in on the turn(8)…I call he flips over 67 and the river is a brick. At least I run good in live play.
A couple hands later I lose a big part of my stack with a set of Ts to QJ on board AT2K9.
Ill end with a picture:
After bar drunken painting.
Goodnight,
Voss |
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| Road Trip: MN 2 FL |
[Mar. 22nd, 2009|11:42 pm] |
I got back from Florida at 10am yesterday. It was an amazing break for everything. The only bad part of the trip was the drive. 24 hours in a van with 6 people while not being able to sleep isnt my favorite thing to do.
Here are some pictures from the trip:
Playing tippy cup at the hotel.
After i got done shotgunning a beer.
I dont know what we are doing here.
At a club...yay for $20 dollar cover charges to get it and $8 beers.
Out to dinner for a birthday. There was an airbrush place at the walmart down there. So i bought a $10 trucker hat that says vos.
Playing mini golf.
While at the mini golf place, there was a human maze and we gave it a shot. It was pretty fun.
Me and Laura
Next post ill talk about what i plan on doing the rest of the year with poker.
GL at the tables,
voss |
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| quick entry |
[Mar. 10th, 2009|02:15 am] |
I am sure 98% of the people that read my blog read hubs, but if you haven't read this blog entry on table selection, i suggest reading it. http://jhub3000.livejournal.com/#asset-jhub3000-84368
After reading Hub entry on table selection I was curious how most of the top 6max regs were doing on stars this year. With how stacked every game on stars has been this year i was wondering how many other top players have been struggling at least on stars. I looked at about 10 people(some going for elite) and these are the numbers that came up.
games Av. Av. Av. Total
played Profit Stake ROI Profit
4,227 -$2 $137 -1% -$7,520
4,169 -$8 $153 -4% -$34,080
2,630 $16 $225 7% $43,184
1,958 -$7 $239 0% -$14,368
1,158 -$6 $339 0% -$6,744
1,872 -$6 $185 -1% -$10,549
1,818 $8 $153 0% $14,262
2,472 $3 $82 5% $7,025
6,249 $0 $102 1% -$1,172
This ended up pretty pointless because only three people have a decent sample size to go off of. But out of the three people with 3k+ games all of them are going for elite and all three are getting killed most likely from not table selecting enough.
But anyway i was mixing in a lot of 119s tonight because they were really soft. I still got killed...whats new. This supernova elite thing almost is starting to seem not worth it...
Over the weekend i was in the cities for the girlfriends birthday. It was a fun weekend. On my way home i stopped at Hubs and watched him play for a couple hours. As alway he played perfect and it made me feel better about my game.
Come Friday i will be leaving for spring break in Panama City, which should be pretty crazy. I planned on coming back and being able to 14 table because of all the studying ill get done. I am going with 1 guy and like 6 girls so that should be fun. I am sure there will be a lot of pictures taken so i will make sure to put some up.
#1 goal for tomorrow is to wake up by 9:30am and be playing by 11:00am. It is 2:41am right now
Figure this was a fitting picture because im sure i will be in a similar situation next weekend multiple times.
voss30000
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| AAAYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! |
[Feb. 27th, 2009|03:15 pm] |
I played 3 hours before i a left for the cities and a couple great things happened. #1 ended on a heater, which is always a great feeling. #2 i am out of the red for the 1st time since the 1st week of the year.
I just finished packing to go to the cities to go out with Hub and a couple friends and see my girl. While i am up there hub is going to watch me play a set of 12 to try and find any leaks.
I moved up on the 36-100 6max leader board to 3rd, which is $9,514 mostly from Feb.
I most likely will end the month with 230,000 VPPs, which is a good pace considering the stakes i played this month.
Good for now i need to get going...i leave you with a picture. This seems like a good picture considering the mood i am in.
There is a golf tournament that a couple friends and i play in every year in a small hick town. Its on a nine hole golf course and its guy/girl alternative shot tourny where there is kegs all over the golf course. I am the one doing the keg stand. Drink a little then go hit the little ball.
PEACE,
voss |
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| This year is about more then making money... its about becoming a professional poker player. |
[Feb. 22nd, 2009|11:07 pm] |
I have heard from a lot of people that they enjoy reading my blog so i will keep it up hopefully updating it 2ish times a month or more short entries.
My Daily routine:
I roll out of bed around 10:30ish am and make some food. I study a little bit before i start playing each day and try and start playing before 1:00 pm. I play until i get hungry or i take a break to play pick up basketball with some friends. Throughout the day play anywhere from 8-12 tables at a time. When there is a lot of regulars on i wont even sign up for 119s and higher just because there isnt much value in them. At times the 119s are softer then the 78s (mostly when Sparta is on) so i play them instead. When there is no regs on i will be banging out 12 tables and signing up for almost every game i can get into. Those are the best sessions, which sometime lead to me having 14 tables running(not on purpose). During Monday-Thursday i try and play 8-10 hour days because over a lot of the weekends i travel around to friends colleges, such as Madison, Twin cities, Chicago, and Milwaukee.
This month my average stake has been way lower then last month, but as soon as i start winning again i plan on moving back up just with much stricter table selection. Right now i have 210,000 VPPs with hope of having 240,000 by the end or Feb. That would mean i got 100,000 VPPs in Feb playing mostly 78s, which would be a good sign that i could get SNE by the end of Sept just mostly palying 78s.
Some thoughts on why i am on a 5,000 game break-even stretch:
Well for starters the biggest reason is not table selecting in Jan. enough. Hub recently showed me an article of how much good and break-even players effect your roi and the numbers shocked me. I was really surprised on how much break-even players effect your roi. Another reason is getting use to the 200/400 blind level. I was very rusty on this level, but it seems like the games on stars get there often, more then full tilt at least. I had a conversation with Hub today mostly about the 200/400 blind level. It is the hardest level to play because players ranges change so much. It really does make some bad players play better. Its hard to figure out people calling ranges and shoving ranges. Another reason is having to adjust to better players. All in all i have learned more these two months then i thought i would. I see my game develuping a ton and love waking up and grinding away.
This year is about more then making money... its about becoming a professional poker player. I do have goals for how much i hope to make this year, but this year is about building a career. Such as getting use to the swings. This will be a big one. I am slowly getting better at this and hope i will be neutral to the swings by the end of the year. Getting Supernova elite also is a big thing for me because of having 65% rakeback and defining myself as a poker player. The guaranteed income is amazing and is pretty much a high enough hourly wage to do this as a career even as a break-even player. Lastly is building a bankroll and starting to invest my money. I plan on playing under Hub until i have a 20k bankroll online and 6 months of living expenses.
Profit 09:
With bonuses and all I am up around 10.5 grand on the year. But the other side of this is profit for the year based on playing alone(no bonuses) is still in the red. From palying 78s and lower i have made almost 6k(10th on the sharkscope leaderboard for total profit $36-$100). I am pretty sure i will be #1 on the board by the end of the year because of the volume of games i get in each month. I rarely played lower then 119 in Jan so that profit is mostly from this month.
Thats enough for now...
GL all,
voss
ps i dont re through my blog entries so at times im sure i mis-spell a lot of things and have confusing sentences. I am a math guy not a English guy and i am too lazy to go through each entry.
I post pictures for it to be more personal...This is me(on the right) and a buddy in an intense game of tippy cup. |
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