HalvSame's comments

[Halv]

So I got started with my blog. Good, bad and ugly comments here.

That is all.

[seoul_child1]

your such a Luckbox Halv!! 400NL was not too kind to me, but i will get back up there... til then AWESOME job!!

[zook]

Congrats on your rise through the ranks Halv! Keep it up.

[zook]

Just read your latest update... you're not going to tell us which site is which???

Funny that you start spewing if your session goes on too long. I find that I do the same if I know I only have time for a short session. I've made a rule that I don't play for less than an hour, but I've never set an upper time limit. Maybe b/c I rarely play for more than 2 hours straight anyway...

[Halv]

I wasn't sure if I should put the names of the site in there because I was just making a point that you should play in the games that fits you best. What is my "Site A" could very well be your "Site B", if you know what I mean. So I just wanted to point out that if things aren't working out in the game you're in you might want to change sites.

That, and I don't want you sharks infesting my good site . J/k obv. My bad site is Full Tilt, my good site is Battlefield (Prima).

[zook]

Nice January!

[zook]

Congrats again Halv! Why do you play so overrolled? 50 buy-ins seems a little excessive?

I find table/seat selection to be crucial at 1/2 FR at FT, fwiw. There are some good tools out there, but I'm sure you know all about them. msn me if you want to discuss

[Halv]

I guess I'm just a bankroll nit. I think it's because I don't really have that much experience playing short handed. As you might remember I only switched from FR back in december, and I just don't feel like I've played enough hands on 400NL 6m yet. Plus the variance is potentially huge in the bigger games, so I think a big cushion could be a good thing. Finally, I don't know if I can handle the mental side of having $5k at risk in a given instance. I don't know if I'm fully capable of keeping the money aspect of it out of my head.

That said, I'm going to take your implied advice and dabble a bit in the 600NL game. I was actually up there on a couple of tables yesterday after chasing a fish, and the game at those tables didn't seem very different than the 400NL game.

I'll definitely take an msn (or public) discussion on table selection tools.

[zook]

I'll definitely take an msn (or public) discussion on table selection tools.

Well, since you write ahk scripts, I assume you know about nanochip's FTTO for datamining FT. There's also FTBuddies by runstop, which isn't perfect, but it works. I recently got the new beta version of PokerGrapher (which I think only works with PostgreSQL db's?) and it has a buddy search function that will search your databases for players with certain stats. So I use that to search for players with >100 hands, VPIP > 30 (or VPIP > 25 and PFA < 1.5) and once it finds them, manually enter them into FTBuddies. Voila, a fish finder. Or at least, a fishy stat finder

[Halv]

"Unfortunately" I've all but abandoned FTP, so those are pretty much out of the picture. Props to runstop for the FTBuddies script, I used that ALOT when playing there. I am a eurofish so returning to Party was pretty much a no-brainer, though it took me waaaaay too long to realize that.

The tip about Pokergrapher's buddy search is very much appreciated, I use the graphing function but never really checked out the other functions. I think I'm gonna write a script/program to grab the buddies from there and add them to the Party client buddy list. Great idea!

I might look into making a buddy list app for Prima as well, though the client is a bit more difficult to work with. Plus, with their recent 30% cap on rakeback, I don't know if it's worth it. Still, the 400NL game there is fishy as hell at certain times of day, so it should definitely be considered.

[zook]

Sorry to hear I jinxed you Halv. If it makes you feel any better, I took a shot at 400NL this past weekend, dropped 2 buyins, and then dropped 3 more at 200NL. Recovering at 200NL now, but it will be awhile before I take another shot. GL to you...

[Halv]

Lol no worries man. I jinxed myself by moving up in stakes and becoming a calling station because "all these aggros must be bluffing me all the time" for the first 5-10k hands. As per my latest blog entry, I've begun to turn it around. I'm sure you will do the same, if you haven't already (I have the memory of a goldfish).

[Halv]

Boomp!

New, long blog post!
Some results, ideas, experiments, thoughts on whether to become a poker pro or not, and least but not last: a brand new word!!

Don't miss it .

Edit: GOD D**N IT! I googled my awesome new word, and what is one of the first results to pop up? A thread on 2p2 with not one, but TWO people using that word before me! Hyach ach ach ach

[silu73]

Nice score in the tourney!

And damn those scandinavian taxes!

[Da GOAT]

you should pay an accountant that can look into the tax side of things.

[zook]

I would definitely get a job in Oslo. If you don't know many people there and you start playing professionally you could become a shut-in real quick. Fnord has said it before, and I'll paraphrase it again, poker is a wonderful hobby but I'm sure I'd come to loathe it as a job.