Holdenper's blog

[Holdenper]

Hi everyone!
I'm Holdenper, 23 years old, and a student at University of Pecs (my major is psychology).

I started to play poker around 2008. First I played MTT's, and after a cool live score at a local poker club I started to play HU SnG's (6,25 turbo nlhe, and after a while I climed up to 34,5$ level, and 10-20$ 8game HU Sng). I did ok, but didn't care a lot about BRM, and a DS killed my BR:-/

From the end of this summer, I finally take BRM a little bit more seriously, and turn into a hardcore SnG grinder:cool: No...not really, but I tried;)

And now? Well now I play everything, but my main focus is on SH CG. I did pretty well on stars (NL5, NL10), but after a DS I decided to go to PartyPoker (better fish/reg ratio:p ).

So here I am, I'll try to become a better cash game player, so I will post some hands to the forums, and talk about some strategy, lines, problems, questions in my blog:)

GL everybody!

[tusi0114]

GL Holdenper!

Hope u gonna climb through the limits!

If i could give u an advice, I would say...u should think about Boss network with fix RB, FD, and rake races...I think it's easier to climb with these plus $$$...

GL!

[Holdenper]

Yep...My only problem is that my laptop is a piece of @%&+%:( PS, and FTP software is fine, and PP is OK, so it's not an issue, but HM+5-6 table in a poker room with not so good software would kill my laptop:-/ So I'm grindin' where they use a good software, and if I'll can buy a new laptop, I'll go to a better network:) but thx for the advice:)

[tusi0114]

Oh that is a good point for not changing site! Hope u can buy so fast...

[Holdenper]

Hi everybody!
I'm lazy as hell, so this will be only a snap-post:) but tomorrow, or at Friday I'll post a graph, and some statistics about the start of March (spoiler alert: it's ok till now, but I ran under EV...if I remember well ~10K hand, ~6bb/100, ~17 EV bb/100, but wtf, I'm winning, so I'm not gonna whining, just rhyming:-DD rofloma)

So right now I'm not gonna talk about poker, but I will to share some music;)
Some of them (the first ones) are poker related, some of them just awesome imho, and good to listen while ur grindin':)

The Isildur1 song, aka I'm Isildur (it's EPIC:D:D:D)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jx3pc-QvtQ

Johnny Cash: The gambler (cool country song about gambling, and there are some references to poker in the lyrics)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ajHezlJq-A

Travie McCoy feat Bruno Marsh: Billionaire ("I wanna be a billionaire so fckin' bad", yeah me too, that's why I play poker, lolz)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aRor905cCw

Black and Yellow (hehe song about UB...the occasion is that Prahlad Friedman joins the UB team):


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIwR2CjxdGk

Brains feat Harcs Veronika: Pill to take (I just love this song)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jmFyPmrwVE

Led Zeppelin: Gallows Pole (weeeee that's what I call rock kidds:) )


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tza0zaJUW9w

Cage the elephant: Ain't no rest for the wicked (simply just cool music)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t99bpilCKw

Zagar: The prophet is a fool


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-gAS9BnnUo

Rolling stones: Paint it black


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BhHTA6Gzn0

Erik Sumo Band: Friday I'll be dead


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLTnGBaYLrg

The fratellis: Henrietta


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gpMlAiqcjU

Kansas: Carry on my wayward son (yep, every1 who watch supernatural is familiar with this song:) )


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQru7oCdYXA

Rolling stones: Sympathy for the devil


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfopuBaHQeI

Oasis: Don't look back in anger


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGHy5IE-240

Well that's it for now. See you soon guys:) I hope you will enjoy at least some of the songs:)

[Holdenper]

The Brains ft. Harcsa Veronika: Pill to take is a shortened version:-/ I couldn't edit my post, so here you can listen this song at full lenght:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzpbKGKWbxA

[tob1n]

wow man, you listen to some good music, i can give u that. thx for sharing. :) also, good luck with grinding. i know how you feel about the shitty laptop though... i just got my macbook pro from repairs, before that i played on an ancient desktop...

[Holdenper]

Thx:-) I'm a big music-junkie:-) I1ll post some pwnker related stuff s00n, I'm just lazy, and when u don't run like a god it sucks to wirte a blog (at least for me:-D)

[Holdenper]

Weeeeeeeeee! Well my other stats and knowledge is nothing like a good NL1000+ reg's, but at least my bb/100 is

[dodi89]

Haha, bb/100 is the most important stat evaaa:)

GL!

[Holdenper]

Here's a wtf graph:

http://img593.imageshack.us/i/marchgraph.jpg/

The higher red line is the EV, the lower is the nonSD. But what the hell? The SD winnings should increase, and the nonSD should decrease...or not? I'm didn't run too good recently, can the DS be responsible for the trasposition?

Btw I played 199 SnGs in march, w/ 10% roi (76 SH w/ 31% roi, and 123 FR Speed with -3% roi, but the fee is 25%, and the variance is big, in the long run I'll can make 5-15% roi at FR also imho, 'cos the field is rly-rly weak)

It's not a great month, I struggled a lot in cg, there was some tilting, coolers, bad run. And I'm lazy, and didn't grind much, which is bad. I try to reach at least 20K hand at the end of the month, or 25K, and 250-300 SnGs.

Well that's all for now:) GL guys!

[tob1n]

wow man, keep it up. here's some music against tilt ;) GL!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNywH1RU5Ac

[Holdenper]

Cool music:) thx

[Holdenper]

I didn't post in couple of days, because I didn't play much poker:(
I'm sick of being almost BE in cg, and I didn't wanna play sngs, so I'm lazy, and frustrated:p
I made a sideroll at FTP, and my plan is grindin' some HU SNGs, 'cos I saw a pretty cool coaching vid about that, and my friend is killing the 6,25 level at PS:) so I decided to climbing the ranks from the bottom (1,1$), hopefully next month I'll own the 5$ level:)
But I don't wanna be a HU SNG regular, just need to build a roll for NL50 HU cg, imho if you're good (I mean, you've got an edge), with table select HU cg can be the most profitable, and fun kinda poker. I need to improve my tilt controll, and hand reading skills, and perception to beat the HU cg field, but I will, 'cos that's what I want:)

So my month was a joke...I played ~17K hand, 210 SnG, don't have the correct number right now, but I won something like 300bb at cg, and 15bi at sng...yeah...I won't buy an Aston martin in the near future:cool:
I've got some leaks which I should fill in, so for the next month I'll set myself some goals. I need to think about it, but I'll write down that aims in my blog:)

GL 4 every1

[castor11]

Next month you will have a record month! GL! :)

[Holdenper]

TY:)
I'm sooo sick of holdem so now I'm tryin' to learn, and play omaha, and I love it! At least some excitement:)
I watched 4 videos from hellopuppy (DBT coach), and danfiu's PLO100 vid (great stuff, nice job danfiu:) )
So right now I'm pretty dedicated about it!

[Holdenper]

Hi guys! I bought Omaha manager, and it's great, I missed my stats and graphs:) I played 3422 Omaha hand this month, and I sucked:D I'm a newbie w/ huge leaks so it's ok:) lost like 10bi (in $EV I should won 1 bi, so I'm not that big of a fish:) ).
I start to read Slowhabit's book, it's really cool, I think I learned a lot already (and I just read the 1/3 of it).
I changed my HUD, now it's like this:
abr. name/hands/big blinds
VPIP/PFR/3Bet/4bet/Aggr fact
Flop Cbet/ Fold to Cbet/Turn Cbet/ Fold to turn Cbet
Bet River/ Fold to river bet/donk bet/CR/WTSD

I'm using different color for each stat in a row (or at least alternate the colors), lost the abrev name of the stats, and it looks cool, and quite handy, so I'm happy w/ my HUD right now:)
I mark some hands, and put up on weaktight.com, so I'll post a couple of that today or tomorrow, I hope you'll write several critics on my play, wanna fill in my leaks ASAP;)

I couldn't sleep tonight (I was rly sleepy around 23 o'clock, 'cos drank some beer with my flatmates:D but I awake at one am:confused:) so I watched the new ep of PAD, and a HUSNG coaching vid. After that I decided to it's time for a little grindin':) played almost 600 hands (not much, but only playin' at 4 tables).
My session went ok, had a nice hand (or maybe fishy:D), a reg CR clickback on a monotone A high flop (16% CR:D), and I called two streets (flop+turn, I would fold otr, but he didn't fired the third barrell with blocker 4 the nuts, phew:D ) w/ 9 high flush...I'm guess I'll post it, so you can see the exact HH:)
Made a bad get-it-in also:( (or I think it was bad, I'll run the equitys later) I had top 2 on a drawheavy flop (something 96x w/ FD). I can't recall the hand correctly, I think I had blockers 4 the str8, but I'm not sure...btw villain had AATT w/ FD and backdoor FD, and he get there (with the bdoor:D).

Now I'm goin' to bed I guess (before that I run that damn equity, 'cos I'm curious:) ).

Good night 4 every1, and GL:D

[Holdenper]

I had a hand at last session and I couldn't sleep until I find out that my call is +EV or not:D
Here's the hand:

$0.02/$0.05 Pot Limit Omaha Hi
FullTiltPoker (http://weaktight.com/ftp/)
5 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com (http://weaktight.com/)

Stacks:
UTG Boooomsk ($18.39)
CO call me Kate22 ($58.33)
BTN Holdenper ($6.50)
SB lemraj ($2)
BB dennypaucar ($6.80)

Pre-Flop: ($0.07, 5 players) Holdenper is BTN :9h: :4c: :qc: :5h:
1 fold, call me Kate22 raises to $0.17, Holdenper raises to $0.58, 1 fold, dennypaucar raises to $1.93, call me Kate22 folds, Holdenper calls $1.35

Flop: :jc: :4s: :2c: ($4.05, 2 players)
dennypaucar bets $4.05, Holdenper goes all-in $4.57, dennypaucar calls $0.52

Turn: :3s: ($13.19, 2 players, 1 all-in)

River: :6s: ($13.19, 2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: $13.19
Holdenper shows a straight, Six high
:9h: :4c: :qc: :5h:
dennypaucar shows a straight, Six high
:2d: :ad: :5c: :as:


dennypaucar collects $6.16 (net -$0.34)
Holdenper collects $6.16 (net -$0.34)
call me Kate22 lost $0.17


So I made some calculations (pretty sick stuff, with propokertools graph, and the EV calculation use this formula: Call%*(total pot size*average equity-flop shove) :D). And yep, I made the correct decision
EV=0,326$
It was preeeettty hard to calc w/o sleeping:D

[Holdenper]

I'm sick of pwnker:( so I won't play too much in the next couple of days (just something like 300-500 hand/day), and rest a little...I'm in a nice, fcked up DS, lost like 26bi (EV adjusted$ is "just" -3bi). I tried to play some MTTs, maybe the pokergods give back there, but...wel not:D
I'm bloody frustrated, so a little rest can't harm

GL

[tob1n]

wish i could tell you something awfully useful but i cant, since i'm a noob :D sry for that:D this is just to tell i'm following your progress. what do you do to ease up? freetime activities?

[babyonboard]

have a rest day or maybe a rest week if u feel this way. games will be there and also fishes will be there. 2 days ago ive lost 12bis in ~3800 hands and wasnt too happy about it but losing motivated me to win it back. GL

[Mr. Pi]

Resting is cool. Some of my friends say that resting wont get you out of a downswing but I don't think so. Taking a few days off will at least imrpove your mood and so your concentration. Which is rather important with poker. You might feel in mood to play after some "vacation" too and so with a better mood you will perform better for shure.

Takr those resting days,
Pi :)

[Holdenper]

Hi guys!
First, I wanna wish happy Easter for everyone!
I wasn't rly active in the past couple of days, 'cos I was at home w/ my parents, and wans't near any computer too much.
But tomorrow I'll going back to Pecs, and I'll try to catch up:)

GL

[iceTray]

I wish you more luck than I had at the past two weekends and days :))

[Holdenper]

Thx ice! I ran pretty bad, and I was an idiot also:( so I need to go back to the very micro:(((( but at least I learned 1 more time, that BRM is very important! I'll write about it in the couple of days

[Holdenper]

Yea, he didn't know that I'm a huge calling station donk:D

No Limit Holdem Tournament
FullTiltPoker (http://weaktight.com/ftp/)
2 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com (http://weaktight.com/)
$5 + $0.25 Heads Up Sit & Go

Stacks:
SB Holdenper (3,000)
BB Stu9988 (3,000)

Blinds: 10/20

Pre-Flop: (30, 2 players) Holdenper is SB :as: :5d:
Holdenper raises to 60, Stu9988 calls 40

Flop: :js: :9c: :5s: (120, 2 players)
Stu9988 bets 60, Holdenper calls 60

Turn: :9d: (240, 2 players)
Stu9988 bets 120, Holdenper calls 120

River: :th: (480, 2 players)
Stu9988 bets 480, Holdenper calls 480

Final Pot: 1,440
Stu9988 shows
:qs: :3s:
Holdenper shows two pair, Nines and Fives
:as: :5d:

Holdenper wins 1,440 (net +720)

Stu9988 lost 720


After this hand he went 5bet AI w/ A9s, he also didn't know, that I'm a lucky fish, and had AA:D quick HUSNG, 2 hands at all:)

[Holdenper]

btw today I grind the absolute micros (not AP, on FTP, just NL2:D) on 10-12 table, it was boring as sh.t, but I won couple of BIs, so it's ok...also get tilted on deep PLO HUSNG, today I'm around BE, but run pretty bad. But I have a tru buddy, don't remember his name, but today he gave me 4 BIs, yesterday 5...dunno anything about HU PLO I guess, but it's funny...I always superinstahyperturbosnap accept him after a HUSNG:D
Oh, yeah, today I also read some funny sh.t, on ship it holla ballas site, it contains the blog of good2cu, Jman, Apathy. They wrote about insane partys, strippers, some poker, drinkin, so it's rly funny:)

GL

[tesla79]

I can't understad you. You have really sofisticated comments, and you play NL2?!?!?!
How can it be?

[Holdenper]

I'm a brokeass college student, who like to partying, and drinking, and I can't build a bankroll ever:-( there was a time when I could, but I was a bit too fishy at the time, and don't care about BRM.
Right now I was rolled for NL10, but I thought playin 26$ FOs, and 3$ multi-entry tourneys will be a good idea...yeah it won't, played like 10-15 mtts, no real breakthrough, went almost busto, so I need to re-grind my roll...it sucks hard, but I was idiot, I wanted a solid roll for NL10 or NL25 (like 100bi), and I couldn't hit the jackpot at mtts (and also a bit missed donkaments, I was mostly mtt player half a year ago). FTP doesn't have good micro mtts (like stars 5$ 20K gtd, 3R, 2$ 7,5K gtd, 2$ 12K gtd, and so on), and yeah, here we are:)

[Holdenper]

Yesterday I almost went busto...again:D....play bad, run rly bad, and tilt like a fkin monkey:-S but I managed to grind back a little at NL5 rush (I ran good there, 2 AA vs KK, etc:) ). Today I'm gonna go to the Spring College Festival, just like in the next three days...I'm gonna be superwasted, so good for me:D The program is pretty lame, but there will be friends, lot of booze, and college chicks, so rock'n'roll:) We've already started to drink shots (Palinka, iceTray mentioned it previously, it's a liquor, and it's pretty strong (~50% alcohol) ), weeehhhaaaaww:D

GL

[Holdenper]

Hi guys! I won't tell whazzup w/ me right now, just wanted to post 2 fun PLO HU SnG hand.
Opponent is a huge fish, just like 90% of the field:D (btw I lost this sng...make a bad play w/ AKsA9s than get it in otf w/ AKQQ single suited flop was JTx, villain had JTxx, I turned an FD, so I had zillion outs (wrap+FD+ board pairing+ Qs), and the flush came otr along with the villain's boat:-/)

So the hands:

Pot Limit Omaha Tournament
FullTiltPoker (http://weaktight.com/ftp/)
2 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com (http://weaktight.com/)
$2 + $0.15 Heads Up Sit & Go

Stacks:
SB Holdenper (3,340)
BB chocopoker30 (2,660)

Blinds: 10/20

Pre-Flop: (30, 2 players) Holdenper is SB :js: :5d: :2h: :9d:
Holdenper raises to 60, chocopoker30 calls 40

Flop: :7d: :5s: :ts: (120, 2 players)
chocopoker30 checks, Holdenper bets 100, chocopoker30 calls 100

Turn: :3s: (320, 2 players)
chocopoker30 checks, Holdenper checks

River: :tc: (320, 2 players)
chocopoker30 bets 320, Holdenper raises to 1,010, chocopoker30 folds

Final Pot: 1,650

Holdenper wins 1,650 (net +480)

chocopoker30 lost 480


I put him on flush/ Txxx, I hoped he didn't have a full and he can lay down a mid/smallish flush or a medium T (didn't think that he could fold ATxx or Asxsxx), kinda spewy, but whatev I feel it can be a correct play, 'cos the dynamic goes that way. (Yeah, and little bit loosey open otb, but I like to pushing the opponents till they start to play back)

Second hand:

Pot Limit Omaha Tournament
FullTiltPoker (http://weaktight.com/ftp/)
2 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com (http://weaktight.com/)
$2 + $0.15 Heads Up Sit & Go

Stacks:
SB chocopoker30 (2,740)
BB Holdenper (3,260)

Blinds: 10/20

Pre-Flop: (30, 2 players) Holdenper is BB :7c: :9h: :tc: :9c:
chocopoker30 calls 10, Holdenper raises to 60, chocopoker30 calls 40

Flop: :qh: :ac: :6s: (120, 2 players)
Holdenper bets 80, chocopoker30 calls 80

Turn: :2d: (280, 2 players)
Holdenper bets 180, chocopoker30 calls 180

River: :7d: (640, 2 players)
Holdenper bets 400, chocopoker30 folds

Final Pot: 1,040

Holdenper wins 1,040 (net +320)

chocopoker30 lost 320


Usually I didin't punish limpers from the bb, 'cos they'll always call, and I'll have a hard time playing oop againts a pretty random range, but my hand was too beautiful to just check:D imho he could have a weak A, maybe QJTx, QKTx, QKJx, or KJTx, or 26xx...anyway, the board came out pretty safely, so I can easily represent AQxx, AAxx, QQxx, 66xx w/ my 3rd barrell 'cos the strenght of the hands doesn't changed to the river (strangely in omaha:D)

Btw I run pretty ok/good, most of the time play good, or at least I play my B+ game, in the last 2 days I played 30 PLO HUSNG, and won 24 (and 3-4 loses was by sicko badbeats, and 1-2 win was just because I'm a lucky btard:D).

Well I hope my run will last 4evah:D

GL

[Holdenper]

Hey everyone! I put my PLO HU sng carrier to a little sleep:D now I started to grind superturbo HU sngs! Pretty sick game (on FTP, 500 starting stack, 10/20 blinds, 2 min levels:D). I run real good, and the villains, are not just bad...they're HORRIBLE:D Like raise-call w/ 23 bb eff. w/ Q4o, and sh.ts like this:) I hope I can manage swings, and tilt:)

GL

[babyonboard]

Hey everyone! I put my PLO HU sng carrier to a little sleep:D now I started to grind superturbo HU sngs! Pretty sick game (on FTP, 500 starting stack, 10/20 blinds, 2 min levels:D). I run real good, and the villains, are not just bad...they're HORRIBLE:D Like raise-call w/ 23 bb eff. w/ Q4o, and sh.ts like this:) I hope I can manage swings, and tilt:)

GL

hey dude,
gl to u in ur new game. what stake do u play on?