COBRA´s BR Build

COBRA · COBRA´s BR Build

Hi

I like it here alot in this forum. It help me a lot just by watching the free videos and getting comment on different HU strategies

So I thought maybe it is time I should make a BR tread.

Im a low limit played 1$ and 2$ HUSNG who just love poker, not only for the money but also for beating the game (villian´s).

Im a bit conservative as it comes to BRM and moving up in levels I´ll take my time. I have and will never deposite any money, I build it all from freeroll winning and have today a solid BR for my current level.

So here is my graph from the very beginning I joined FTP and this forum.

COBRA

Step DAAD

I like where this is going, I'll be watching this thread!! GL & keep on ding what you are doing!

icemanv6

Me too, keep it up Cobra, remember to stay solid through those downswings! Your upswing/s look very good so far! Nice sample size so far aswell, looking forward to how you get on Smile

COBRA

This week I was on a mission. My goal was to clear a portion of my first deposite bonus at FTP.

To do so I had to play roughly 40 games. I have never played that many games in such a shot timeframe.

I started monday and who showed up "the ugly face of miss variance (I think she´s female !). The funny thing is that on Sunday I had a litle chat with Rhodes (I´ll come back to you with your offer on a HH review, thx), I expressed my fear that I was near a downswing. I have been running very hot lately a it could not go on.

The thing is now. Did I psycological bring in on myself ? Maybe, I really dont know. (theres a psycological acspect to variance so maybe)

Did It happen because I expected it to happen, and did I play any diffentrent than usely, because off that ? I tryed to stick to my gameplan so I think not.

I is possible to see variance comming ?
I think it possible to se some warning in the normal flow of your winning/loosing games and have actionplan to cope with it.

In my opion variance is not a timeframe but a number of games so for that reason I stuck to my plan to playing those 40 games with no fear of variance. I keept my head leveled and kept on trying to to play my best game.

I went down to my lowest buy-in level not to suffer to much a downswing, I thought It was a just something I had to "get it over with" a look beond .

My mission was a succes I manged to play the 40 games in close to 3 dayes, with no loose. I was never below 10 BI.

So I cleared my bunus and with my winning + rakeback I´am almost up to 100$ profit.

My next project is to give the 5$ some mini shot´s maybe even next week.

I think im past the downswing, time will tell, but I think I´ve learned to cope with the bitch. Twisted Evil

But I need a day or two off the tables.(IF I CAN STAY AWAY)

COBRA

COBRA

Im past my downswing for the moment Very Happy

Gave 5$ one shot a it was a succes. So later when i have book some more winning I will try again.

Still juggling between the different levels do not what to strecth my luck.

Cobra

COBRA

It has been kind of a slow week, only playing some 47 matches, off wich I played 6, 5$ HUSNG wich will be my new level (HOPEFULLY)

I had some truble winning that extra one to give me a shot at the 5$,
and when a had it it I lost and had to rebuild for a mini shot.

I have some metal truble getting use to play for almost 5 times my usely buyin, but I still manged to play some 6 and win 4, so thats ok.

Im still mixing the buyin levels but I plan to play more 5$ ones so that I can get used to it.

My graph is proberly gonna have a lot more drastict up and down do to the new buyin level, we will see.

icemanv6

Solid results so far, 14% is very good over nearly 400 game's, graph is looking very good too Smile

keep us posted.

COBRA

Hi

My last post

I can beat the 1 and 2 $ with ease but I can not beat the 5$ im have been crushed over the last 50 games and I quit this BR tread, for now.
I am down very down, I know it just meit be a downswing and i have been there before just not like this, I lost to much.

I´ll hopefully be back when I got my confidence back but it can take a while.

Im so disapointed in myself that I cant make it work, there´s no money in the lower stakes like 1 and 2 and I was really looking forward to grind some nice money at the 5 $ but I just dont have what i takes.

Step DAAD

COBRA

I know the sample size isnt big I played 34, 5$ HUSNG and won 16, I know that´s not bad. I just that a small player like me used to play 1 and 2 in a mix, a downswing like you can se on the graph i devistating.

Im not broke be any means got like 486 $ in my bankroll, so im vell rolled even for the 5$ I cant just not take any more. I played my uselly game and a downswing at my old levels would not have been a issue I just cant take that I blow my pretty graph ( Mad

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Step DAAD

ok, continue playing the way you play and adjust according to villains....imo, stay away from your graph for the time being...at your level work on your game, ie review HH, sweat sessions & post questions. Your run at the 5's if good, continue on...its not an issue unless you feel you are changing the way you play. carry on with the 5's imo, you have nothing to worry about!

kierkegaard1

tbh you prob don't have what it takes if you give up after losing $35 or 7BI's...

COBRA

kierkegaard1

if it affected me badly i am either playing too high for my bankroll or i shouldn't be playing this high full stop yet.

10 months ago i was playing for $2 a game. On saturday, i logged on and lost 11 straight matches to the tune of 1.3k (+rake) and logged off. On sunday i logged on, loaded up $300 worth of tables, and got disconnected and blinded out.

If i can't handle this, i shouldn't be playing poker for a living. sh!t happens

Brokerstar

Yes if your confidence takes a knock then no harm in moving back down to your comfort zone.

Your roll is clearly big enough and swings always look more brutal when you move up but as you play more games, you'll de sensitive to the money and it'll seem like no big deal.

Just make sure you don't waste any buyins by tilting the last couple a way before stopping, make every buy in count!

Very Happy

COBRA

Long time since my last update.

Finish my first 500 games at fulltilt.

I had some truble getting used to the 5 $ level since I normally played the 1$ and 2$.

And despite I have leaned to cope with downswings it somehow got to me, cause the swings at the 5$ where huge compared to what I was used to.

So I hit a small downswing trying out the 5$ and had to move down again.

I had suficient bankroll to continue at the 5$ but wasn´t comfortable so I desided to wait a bit. Grinding some more at the lower levels.

I still play a mixture of 2$ and 5$ but mainly 5 $, and I now I feel ok played there. Hopefully I will not hit to huge a dowswing in the near future !

BetMagicMoney

nice to see you grinding it out Smile

5s arn't any differrent to the 1s and 2s tbh.

GL Smile

BMM

Brokerstar

Man you're such a nit!! lol

Move up to the $10's, they are the same game!

But on another note, your graph is looking good dude. Cool

Broker

COBRA

I can only agree with you Brokerstar Im a nit Very Happy

But Im here hopefully for the long run. Not i any hurry what so ever.

I dont have a 10000´s games under my belt and I´m gonna take it slow climping the stakes, leaning more and more as I go.

Hopefully I can even take part in Brokerstar´s services some day.

Just a note:

BMM wrote:
nice to see you grinding it out 5s arn't any differrent to the 1s and 2s tbh.

Brokerstar wrote:
Move up to the $10's, they are the same game!

If the 1 and 2 arnt any different then the 5´s and the 5´s are the same as the 10´s. If you can beat the 10 there no reason why one cant beat the game all the way to the top.

There gotta be some kind of stakes where the good players are in higher numbers or what ?

the difference i noticed between 1 and 2 to the 5 is that in the lowers stakes theres mayby 15-20% more maniac.

Any comments ?

COBRA · Gone for a long time but not dead

Hi Again

Just a quick update

Been away for some time now but never really gone Laughing

Got a new job thats very time comsuming so dont have the time to play poker like before Confused Can sqeeze a game or two in once in a while wich is ok for now but would like in time to pick up some more games time will show if thats possible.

Doing ok game vice still winning more than I loose Very Happy but still playing around the lower stakes. My hope is to be playing the 20, 30´s some time this year then it all gonna be a lot more fun.

Heres my latest graph

U Cook Socks

I just read this from you, from an older post, thought I'd add my thoughts, which my or may not help you.

When people say the games are the same, they really aren't lying. $1s-$5s are exactly the same in my opinion, you will probably run in to one half decent player out of a 100 at those stakes, and even then they will be shocking. All you have to do is learn how to exploit different player types, and your there. The hardest part (for some) is taking games for $1 and $2 seriously. And what happens a lot is, like in your case, it's a big step in money terms from $2 to $5 games, a downswing starts to hurt more.

$10 Games are the same as the $5s. You may run in to a few more ABC players, who know that they are supposed to Cbet a lot, play tight in position, and so on. They still can't fold top pair, and will have many many leaks though. As you move to the $20s and the $30s, again you will come across a few more players who actually have a brain, but still aren't really very good at all, and you may even run in to the odd decent player, who is either on his way up the stakes, or has just stepped down a bit because of a bad run, but they are still littered with the same fish that play the $5s and $10s.

I found the $50s is where you come across a few more decent players, but any players that are half decent, always say they are bad, so I am assuming I am kind of at that level, where I need to push on and be better than those players to continue up the ladder. There are still many many fish playing those games though too.

Never played above $50s, so can't comment on above that.

COBRA´s BR Build

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