Sandman NL Cash build

sandman369 · Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 11:18 pm Post subject: Sandman NL Cash build

Thought I would start a fresh BRB thread seeing as my other was just 6max. This one is purely for Bet Online, and I am doing FR and 6m.

I have deposited a total of $55 (25 at first then 30 more when my Carbon money came in). Some bad beats and a bad play today brought it down to $48.49.

I am going to try to make a better effort to put in volume starting Monday - try to make it like a job. I live up on a mountain - 40 minute drive from town Mad

- and so there is basically no internet (we have a 500MB/month plan that goes thru the phone line and the speed is like dial-up). So I use the university's network. 2MB/s down and unlimited bandwidth weeee.

So I will drive in to town in the morning, hit the gym, then to the uni to grind.

At my current BR amount I will play 2 tables of NL2 and 2 tables of NL6 (mix of FR and 6m, whatever is available). I will try to restrain myself and only play straight-forward TAG, and only bluff if I have a good read. I have yet to fully break the habit of taking things personally if I miss with a strong hand and get my cbet called. BAD SANDY. BAD. Anyway, I will exchange one NL2 table for an NL6 for every $6 my BR grows, so at $56 it will be 1 table of NL2 and 3 of NL6, and at $62 I will be 4-tabling NL6. After that I will exchange in 1 table of NL10 when I reach $90, and keep exchanging 1 for every $10 I gain from there.

This will be updated weekly. Someone made a good point that daily updates make you focus on the results too much.

Week of Nov. 14:
[] Stick to schedule all week: Get up by 7 AM, leave by 8 AM, hit gym, play poker til 4 PM.
[] Stick to BR plan

I have always given up on goals too soon in the past, but this time I want to make it stick. Any occasional chatting and poker talk on Skype would be greatly appreciated to keep my head in a poker mindset. I don't have anyone IRL to talk poker with Crying or Very sad

Myself086 · Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 12:21 am Post subject:

I'm adding you on skype.

I play many formats, everything hold'em and omaha hi/lo PL, NL. Feel free to talk with me almost anytime everyday.

Good luck at the tables.

sandman369 · Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 12:14 am Post subject:

Well seeing all the horrible things about Bet Online recently, I'm going to abandon that site and start on my province's new poker site (BC, Canada) at playnow.com

If anyone will keep playing at Bet Online, let me know if you're willing to trade for pokerstars $

I'll start with $50 again at NL4 (they only have NL4, NL10, NL30 for micros, but goes normal from NL50 and up). My goals for now are to just get out of the house and into town to play at least some poker every day. I've been spiraling into a rut again, being lazy and depressed.

BetMagicMoney · Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 1:48 am Post subject:

GLGL on there and yer im interested so PM and i'll think about it Smile

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sandman369 · Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 2:44 am Post subject:

PM sent.

The site is OK, I'd give it a 6.5/10

Pros:
- Soft players abound! At least at NL4. Not quite on the level of Bet Online, but still a lot of bad players.
- Bankroll safety. It's the government's lottery corporation, so they're not going to screw people over any worse than government normally does on a day-to-day basis Razz

- Ease of deposit/withdrawal. Instant CC deposit, and direct deposit to bank account withdrawal. No hassles (haven't tested a withdraw yet, but I have faith)
- Good action buttons like bet buttons (min, 1/2-pot, 3/4-pot, pot, max). I didn't know how to type in a bet til I asked someone on live support haha. The text field is within the bet/raise button

Cons:
- Not many perks seeing as it's a government casino basically. No deposit bonuses or rakeback affiliates. The "PXP" or Poker Experience Points are exchangeable for cash, but they only work out to a rate of 4% rakeback. Pretty crap, but better than nothing I suppose.
- Rake at NL4 is 10% Sad

(everything higher is 5% though). dunno if that's all standard or if everything is usually 5%
- I can't see anywhere to save hand histories to your PC, and so no tracking software would work. They do have hand histories available in the menu at the tables though.
- SLOW rate of play. 10-player tables are ~35 hands/hour, 6max are ~70 hands/hour. Almost as bad as live poker.
- When tiling 4 tables, things don't resize on the table, everything just gets TINY. My poor 15" laptop Sad

- Other things I noticed but can't remember right now lol

An hour and a half of play and no major runbad or rungood and I profited $4.72 (118bb). Like I said, soft games. Just wish I could use a HUD but oh well.

forced · Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 2:59 am Post subject:

where are you in BC?... Im in surrey!
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sandman369 · Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 3:02 am Post subject:

Kamloops. I live on a mountain, bitches! Laughing

Just over 1km elevation, and it takes about half an hour to drive down to river level Laughing

WRT the poker site, apparently HEM does work with it. I will have to investigate how to save hand histories and get it working!

edit: woot got HEM to read the hand histories.

sandman369 · Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 11:38 pm Post subject:

Ok so I'm back playing on BO since it now looks like they do payout eventually. Plus the playnow software is no better than BO, the games are nowhere near as soft, and there are no bonuses or incentives to speak of (4% rakeback is about it, but the rake at micros is too high). So my BR on BO was ~$68, now it is ~$84 after 4-tabling a mix of NL6 and NL10 for a couple hours. Was floating around $90-94 for a while but I finally got KK all-in with an A7 noob and, well, they're not called ace magnets for nothing Wink

There only ever seems to be one FR and one 6m table at each of those stakes going on, so those are the 4 tables I'll be playing until my BR is around $150, then I will change out one NL6 for a NL25.

forced · Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 3:15 am Post subject:

so you would suggest not to play at playnow.com?
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sandman369 · Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 10:17 pm Post subject:

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