Disqus - Latest Comments for imannoth

Re: I play in fast tournments – and some are faster than others

imannoth — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:26:26 -0000

I'll write a book about poker If I work on a profitable play and I cannot make it work myself... it is not new, isnt it?... hehehe.
I don't blog either (I microblog a bit, you know) Maybe I should, it would help a lot... but probably doing it or in my motherlanguage, or translating it to english carefully (because I know when Im writing in english quickly (like this) I make a lot of mistakes.
I like to write (you know my posts are too long, too often, *shame*), I used to write stories and I want to write a big one since some time ago (but I want to do it really good, so I'm always hesitated to start it).
Good ideas! Thank you! :)
P.S.: Read the last entry... hope you arent on tilt anymore :)
I think I can learn more from you than you from me (that's why you the writer and im the reader here ;)

Re: I play in fast tournments – and some are faster than others

imannoth — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:48:30 -0000

I was trying to say it in general and used "you" instead of "we" lol

What I meant to say with those lines is that every strategy is good if it worked and we're applying them in the right "spot", it's more self-improvement after a chosen strategy.

But most of all, we've to know them all, and choose one depending on the run of cards we have early or the field (but being prepared to change if needed).
We never go to a chess game with a preconceived strategy, we go after the moves of our opponents (preceded by ours...), and then we apply strategy.
When we know our level (where we are playing) we know what works and when, and then we need to keep focus.

A pro writes about a guideline (their guideline), their perfect situations, a perfect game for them... where their opponents acts like they should, but they know it isnt what made them winners but what define their style. (like the before mentioned D.Brunson, using AQ, because it is strong in stats after all)
Their vision, their "tempo" make them winners.

When we fail, then we learn (when we are sucked out, well you know we made it well and it isnt our fault, and if it is the other way we learn we shouldnt made that, so we learn and focus again).

We all give our best to improve, but whenever someone change his mindset, it could be either a great improve or a giant leap back, so be careful to not start from the very beginning.

Book ----> Guideline
Coach ----> Help discipline and focus.

But we are the ones who must win to be winners or advance in level to win.

"Risk is good" and "Play to win not to bubble" this are both good tips but you know it can be misunderstood by some players (its the same with your bluffs or moves to trap your opponents, not only you can be caught.. but they can misunderstand your signal) Know yourself and know your opponent, but you already know that :D

Do you ever imagined Texas Rounders, talking about this in their trips? :)

Re: I play in fast tournments – and some are faster than others

imannoth — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:24:14 -0000

I'm an online player and to me I think there's a difference on what I consider fast and slow (No 30mins/level is fast to me :O )

Well since it's a book about poker you can learn a lot of the information and the tips there told. (Of course I do it too).

But I disagree with the book's name, I think there's no formula ;)

We are out there searching for the perfect strategy... And there isn't.

An aggro player and a tag player or even a rock player, would finish at the end of the tourney with all the chips in play if they just play right every phase with their own strategies if they cover the spots where their strategy fails by being tricky and change in those spots.

Every tourney is different, that's why there's no formula, is about adaptation to the table and tempo (I call "tempo" to the facts of have a good self-timing, knowledge of the tourney's timing and being comfty with your chips, even if you have one chip remaining, and you clearly knowing what to do).

Example: If there were a formula, actually a cheap holdem computer game (not one in which the computer calculate every variable like in a chess computer game, my god thats nasty) would be fun to play with.

My advice is miss what you learnt with your style, but discover all about your tempo...

If you are jogging round the block a clouple of times, and you sprint, beware your cardio... take a breath or you're screwed
If you are playing and your game is out your tempo, then you know you're screwed. (youre drowning, take a breath by being tricky and take control)

You already know your tempo but maybe need to analyze which are the spots where you're not comfty, drowning and needed of some breath to improve.

I said all of this because Ive seen that people usually totally lose their "tempo" when theyre trying to change their strategies. Follow a formula makes you predictable, being "predictable" and surprise your opponents is priceless ;)

These are some of my ideals, I'm not prepared to follow it perfectly. Only half prepared to play the level I play, where I play... but time to time ;)

Wishes,

Imanoth

Edit PS.: As always to lazy to try give all the paragraphs above a structure. Hope you get it.

Re: Thinking thoughts versus saying them out loud

imannoth — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:42:48 -0000

Hi Steve,

Every time I see a "Comments welcome" or a "feel free to comment", what I feel is an urge to write some words (I'm "that" easy :P).

But this post have some magnetism.

You know (because you talked about it) you should be glad that the people you're talking about actually exists (we remember the day we get the suckout but never remember how many times the donk called and we still had the best hand and won, just because it was fair or when we suckout on someone)

Even if we play perfect theres a variable that makes the equation fail, an error, something that shouldn't be there but in fact is (*nerd factor on* like Neo and The Matrix *nerd factor off*). If you're doing "your job" you shouldn't care (Ok, you can be upset but forget it easily).

It's like catch cold, you can just sneeze a bit or two, or it can arise in a flu and get you sick for days and days. You can make there nothing and this is not your fault.

Improve your skill with your hours of studying and practice (How can you survive a suckout? getting more chips than your opponent, playing better the others opponents).

Hate and frustration are bad feelings to avoid. We have to avoid almost every feeling (you now that anytime due to your chipcount, people plays etc... lead to a different feeling... keep the good ones... identify them... when, where, why... ).

Its supposed to be this way, on the other hand is the way we play. Improve is what we need.

Of course I make donk plays, we call it bad timed bluffs, wrong reads... and it was I have to improve instead of trashing donk.

Conclusion: Enjoy the donk, let it be your friend... enjoy it because you're still above him and then forget the result of a stupid hand.

Wishes,

Imanoth

PS.: I still think I missing something of what I wanted to say

Re: Professional No-Limit Hold ‘Em Volume 1 – a preliminary review

imannoth — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:15:25 -0000

A book about poker...

I really like books about poker (as trainer, teacher, strategy builder...etc... as well as I like poker movies for entertainment).

Of course you are learning with this new book (it's a good one, do you know there is a volume 2 called "Small Stakes: No Limit Poker" wich has been published in June this year?) and you learnt before with another ones.

I think a poker reading isn't a knowledge with wich you see results immediately but a proggresive little helper in your ear (a green suited, bearded good leprechaun "oh boy! I like irish references") so I think the immediate impact or instant rush you felt is due to a placebo effect.

You just recovered your focus and confidence (and it's good because it's needed) this way because you wanted to find it in the book. You should write down for yourself how you feel and what make you feel like this, in order to keep the feeling every time you play (like the "happy thoughs" wich makes you can fly in "Peter Pan"'s).

It's like.... reading a pychology book... because you feel bad with yourself and you need to understand the guy in the mirror, you may find yourself described there, feel worse and try to totally change and fail or you can focus... try to understand you and understand others (without make a great change, you just replenish your forces and hit back).

Seems like I kicked the language (english) once more >.< Hope you understand.

Wishes,

Imanoth

PS: YOU CAN FLY!! ;) Usually happens that many of we (players) lose our "focus" feeling and recover it in a good rush, just to forget it when it ends. Our "happy thoughs" are so volatile.. hehe. Knowledge and focus are different but if knowledge finally makes you focus... oh! so welcome ^^

Re: It is becoming more challenging to play at PS but not for the reasons you might think!

imannoth — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:59:33 -0000

Boof... You're getting a lot of problems with those bans in anything related to your own money.... >.<
Moneybookers maybe? It isnt as cool as Netteller... but it's a way.

Or create an account in a foreign bank and get a credit card from them.

On the other hand you can always cheat the system (you know.. recolating the IP address, etc...) but go against the system this way... isnt good, fair harmless fraud is still fraud though.

I wish PPA and overall american poker players justice to their own rights, till then you must be wily .

Imanoth.

Re: It is becoming more challenging to play at PS but not for the reasons you might think!

imannoth — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:53:30 -0000

Hi Steve,

I'll give you a recommendation about paying.

Although I didn't cashout yet (cause I started with a few bucks and Im a sng player now, so... I'm still building it though ^^ but I have prepared the cashout strategy and I take care of what I should have cashed out etc...).

I did a research for the quicker, cleaner and easier way to cash out/ deposit through the web,and I think it would help you.

It's NetEller. Check it out... have a lot of advantages wich I hope available to you in order to avoid that government [crap] issues, you're talking about lately.

Wishes,
Imanoth

Re: Poker and being nice

imannoth — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:57:45 -0000

Hey there!

I would ironize about the post above but I'll bite my tongue to keep myself shut up (even with the risk of being poisoned) so I'm going to say just a: "Hey Congrats" ^^

Actually those dirty chats while playing happens, people like to call each other a donk or a fish to another just by some unfortunate call wich get lucky (wich in the other hand, isnt what made donks and fishes though). Then the so-called starts bitching and starts to act like monkeys

What to do? Easy, if this change the player play... welcome! ^^ I shut up. If not and the player is an usual or you know he's constant (results sites ^^ ) then I try to calm him down.

What I really hate is the "professor", you know, the "not so good" guy who see at a donkament or an over excited player and he bitch only a bit to start to "share his wisdom" and prophetize about player's end due to their style, wich is obvious (no need to tell) and not clever because they start to play their best and it makes the road longer.

Internet is full of haters, they can be trolls or people whom had a bad day and need an adrenaline break, slumdwellers who only know to defend themselves like this... who knows... you have to be cold when it happens and don't bother about it... you're hide as well.

Wishes!

Imanoth
Awesome Executive [I'm doing this...]
He-he Productions [...because I like...]
http://www.twitter.com/imanoth [...Commercial signatures on particular blogs]

PS: Haters and "ads" a lot of them both :)

Re: Can Social Media help a new Poker site grow?

imannoth — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:16:45 -0000

After your last blog post and some more, the line "The site I am thinking about" deserves a little laugh (hi, hi.. ok, i stopped).

I'm really interested on social media (I met you on twitter through a tweet from your son ^^) so I'm not unbiased.

I think a good marketing plan should include social media (absolutely!) no matter what's the size of the business. It couldn't help sometimes but it's never a wrong choice (once installed it's actually the cheapest of the marketing tools, like telemarketing was before).

Back to the plot:

They SHOULD hire an agent (a marketer of their own) or marketing consultant (hire it for some hours).
If (maybe erroneusly) they're going to be their own marketer, I'll recommend them to read "22 inmutable laws of marketing" by Ries and Trout (easy read starting book) and "Telemarketing" by J. Pope (in order to turn their advice into the social medial of today. Or maybe the new book by "a red-haired guy and her colleague" (hi,hi... ahem!).

Wishes!

Imanoth

Re: Down … but not out …

imannoth — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:23:53 -0000

Oh boy!

It seems serious.

Since I'm not you, the answer is simple to me (If you don't have the mood to write just dont do that), but I know I'm not you, and I know it isnt easy.

By the way, I can talk about what I think about your writings and my (short) experiences.

I'm supposed to have a low-medium OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) so I focus in something I want or something I'm suppose to do (work, hobbies, vices...) eargerly and if its unsuccesful, with desperation. (I really need to have all under "my control" mostly)

I found it always have an end, even for obsessives, when we have to cover someones (or our) expectation... (or we really think there's expectation when there really isnt). An awful end in wich you finally don't care the thing anymore because the stress make it worthless for you.

Don't let it happen with your blog... We're "not paying" you for a diary suscription to your thoughts, when it becomes an free-obligation, it also becomes a timewaster... Take a rest if you need it until you have something you really want to share.

What you do is really impressive to me: I mean I never owned a blog nor even a diary. I got sick about forums with a lot of users cause if you log once a day you have to read a whole 20 pages thread to understand what's going on. (because I didnt want to become obsessive with, and already I had been LOL!)

So I admire people like you wich come with something interesting every time they write... but I don't want you to have to write something. When I come, I see if there something new and if not I exit... or comment something already posted.

After this ramdomly nosense writings there's always a....

Conclusion: Don't be so worry about readers... we will come anyways... keep it alive but don't be doomed about it (otoh, pre-written material sucks!! its like fooling people :P).

Wishes! Imanoth

P.S.: Talking about if we should talk when we dont have nothing to talk about is pretty redundant and silly isnt it? >.<

(Eekks, while I re-read what I wrote, I think I'm constant: Constant in ramdom write paragraphs >.< Hope you understand ^^ )

Re: If a picture is worth a 1,000 words - how much is an avatar worth?

imannoth — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:25:39 -0000

Whew!!! This is just weird and annoying at the same time.

If "various" ( 2 of them or more) players are playing differently from a session to another I would think "ok, something happened and it's (or was) just their adaptation".

If only one player change his game from a session to another. I would think "either is sharing the account or is a tricky player..." so I'll need to gather information again.

But just changing the avatar (same account) without changing style is either stupid or he's naive enough to think it's going to con people. LOL!

Maybe his plan was to make you wonder about it in order to make you play worse.. (again too naive).

Conclusion: people is weird and math is idiotic = lol donkaments xD

Imanoth.

P.S.: My avatar gives me super-strength!! (That was he was searching for) ^^

Re: Hmm. Same avatar, same name, but they play differently….

imannoth — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:31:13 -0000

Hi Steve,

I think you were closer here when you said the MPPD (nice one! hehe). Even knowing that there are 2 people play

It's said by the book (Any of them... don't remember) that the style of a player is constant on the long road, but it's affected by all kind of variables like mood, chipstack, winning rate... among others.

But I think the point here is something that happened at the table before your arrival the first time or before your second arrival.

Taking apart the self-destructor uber-donk, People's game is affected by the texture of a table and their adaptation... after, they keep it a while (how long depend of the player, I have seen it and probably you too).

For example (although I try to avoid it and being cold):

"In a TPT I played (one of the 2 I played) I felt uncomfortable due to the fact I got rag when the bets were low and it came overbet (a lot) when got some playable but not so much, then got frustrated and play aggresive with TP low kicker vs a tight player who opened the hand so he got TPTK... result: a mess (dont remember the player, do you? :P )"

"Then I played face to face with my friends: 1 player was bad commenting bout me and got nervous and played loose-pasive (maniac mode) instead of my normal play. It worked (I beat him fair and square anyways, I mean a tilted player still play good some hands) before I went down."

Or "I donked out my remaining money on my FTP accout cause it came from a web bonus forget about the account and it was going to dissappear (in really short time) if I didn't make a large amount of player points on time"
Conclusion:

Not everybody is always cold, and you must take all the profit possible out of it. Think you can actually see more variables face to face than online you can see the detonator of the variable (like a call, a discussion... whatever!). And not only tilting can change a play but a texture wich last long. Play the play/player not the sterotype and then be glad of playing the same players because you'll get accurater notes etc...

What a large comment!!! with many examples of little importance overall.
Anyways hope it helps.

Imanoth