tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7012366747492399470.post4184100200951202426..comments2023-09-07T06:01:31.574-07:00Comments on That's Not Poker: TNP Online Poker Challenge Update?Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05026007603250510224noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7012366747492399470.post-1309292920521808982007-09-21T16:08:00.000-07:002007-09-21T16:08:00.000-07:00For reporting, I suggest we each start a "Cake Cha...For reporting, I suggest we each start a "Cake Challenge - [Your Name Here]" topic. Tag it with "Cake Challenge" for easy finding.<BR/><BR/>Then, you can start updating your results and current bankroll in that topic. I am going to record my net + or - for each session, and include links to key hands from that session. The hand history feature on Cake allows you to save out a hand history as a url, nice and handy.<BR/><BR/>My current cash-game strategy is to play five times tighter and five times more aggressive than I do at SLP or WNP. And no bluffing, and few C-bets. Until I'm at a stake level where people fold to bluffs and c-bets, it's not worth doing.Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00129622740872167902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7012366747492399470.post-79798889961918934962007-09-20T18:02:00.000-07:002007-09-20T18:02:00.000-07:00I'm certainly in. Unfortunately, since we're crun...I'm certainly in. Unfortunately, since we're crunching at work I haven't really had time. I'm about $.50 up right now, although that was hard earned. I'm incredibly swingy right now because I'll do well and then get overconfident, do bad and get tight so I win again. I need to get to that point where I can just consistently play well and make the folds I need to... and even more is STOP FUCKING BLUFFING WHEN I HAVE NOTHING. Ugh, gets me in the worst trouble and there's hardly ever a payoff worth it.Austinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13504082350045633952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7012366747492399470.post-44990485719963942302007-09-20T16:38:00.000-07:002007-09-20T16:38:00.000-07:00The challenge has begun. I was working up to an u...The challenge has begun. I was working up to an update, but wanted some time to pass before I did. <BR/><BR/>I started with 50.00 on CakePoker, and have been playing exclusively .02-.04 NL 6 handed and 1.00 SNG's. I have been taking it very seriously and trying to win as much as possible. The dollar amounts so far have been completely irrelevant to me. <BR/><BR/>Things got off to an awesome start when I ran my $2.40 buy in up to ~13.00 putting me up around 9.00 at the end of day one.<BR/><BR/>Then reality set in and I have slipped back down to below 50.00. I am sitting at 49.00 now, and holding steady. <BR/><BR/>I have been playing pretty well, very tight with few mistakes. I am looking forward to winning my first SNG on there, but as of now I haven't . I have finished 2nd twice and 3rd once. When I finished 2nd it was a bad beat of sorts (I had a 9:6 chip lead HU, guy open pushes OTB against my AA with 98, flop is 98x) and when I finished 3rd is was just lame(I had played ONE hand to get into 3rd place, doubling up and folding on a crazy table. I pick up QQ, push half my stack in, and get called by A7o preflop. Flop is an A and I ship, he insta calls and thats that). <BR/><BR/>Overall though I am playing well and confident I can grind up a bit. <BR/><BR/>As of now, I am pretty much on the Chris Ferguson plan, as 2.40 is the lowest buy in game, and it reps 5% of my stack and I don't want to risk more until I have a better feel for Cake and playing online again in general. I do feel confident that I can move up though.<BR/><BR/>Austin: The guidelines are this: Open a Cakepoker account, deposit 50 bucks, and treat it like your life bankroll. Come up with a way to NOT go busto, but still move up the chain and make as much as possible. If you have an account elsewhere or just don't like/want Cake, then thats ok too, we are just doing Cake for the sake of consistency of opponents and for consistency of levels available. <BR/><BR/>You in?Marshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05026007603250510224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7012366747492399470.post-83290365323092640202007-09-20T16:31:00.000-07:002007-09-20T16:31:00.000-07:00Don't overthink it. See what you can do with your ...Don't overthink it. See what you can do with your $50 and share with the class.<BR/><BR/>My approach is basically that of Ferguson, although I think I will allow myself "shots" at a higher game, but only when I've built up a cushion such that a single losing session at the higher game won't take me under my bankroll comfort level for the "appropriate" stakes.<BR/><BR/>I haven't had much time for it, though. I've played two short cash game sessions, and one $1 single-table SNG. I failed to make money at any of them, and I'm probably at $45 or so.Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00129622740872167902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7012366747492399470.post-36631393427224804282007-09-20T15:16:00.000-07:002007-09-20T15:16:00.000-07:00I actually wanted to know if we'd started yet at a...I actually wanted to know if we'd started yet at all. I didn't think we'd settled on rules, time limits, etc to have actually started although I'd very much like to.Austinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13504082350045633952noreply@blogger.com