it's a love hate relationship.
i played the 7pm $75 again last night. i played pretty tight since im mostly concentrating on my plo cash tables.
here's the first significant hand:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1722584 - thats an ugly turn and river but his bet on the river made me feel more comfortable with calling. so i pick off his bluff and get some good chips early.
the second hand:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1722585 - same villain, betting light and probably muttering to himself that im a fkn calling station.
leads to the final hand:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1722587 - same villain again opens the button, i make a simple 3-bet from the bb and it's literally probably the 6th hand i've played in the first 90 mins. he snap shoved and i snap call.
so despite his best efforts, the poker gods would not allow to take all his chips. i guess looking at it a day later the third hand is probably a bad call but i had a feeling he was pissed with me for not folding the AJ hand and was playing poorly against me.
only got about 600 hands of plo in and broke pretty much even after being down a couple buy-ins to start. i think im misplaying sets on dangerous boards so it's something i'll have to go over.
tg
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Monday, November 19, 2007
another 1k hands of plo and a few tournies
friday nite played a nice long session.
started around 7pm and played the $75 nl mtt and got bounced in the 3rd hand. i pick up KK in the bb and folds around to sb. sb raises 3x and i 3-bet him pot, he insta-shoves and i called figuring i was coolered by AA. he somehow shows up with TT, flop comes K67, turn 8, river 9. gg me and then he shit talks a bit. i told him he sucks, he tells me to check his stats, i look him up on opr, he has like 35k in profit over the last 120 days so i shut my mouth and accept the fact that i got "outplayed".
during the same time i played a $26 turbo satellite to the 6-max limit holdem ftops event. it had something like 70 runners with 7 seats paying. it got down to about 22 people and i had just below an avg stack with 4200 and blinds of 200/400. in the bb i got 52o and it folded to the sb who was sitting on about 2000. he just limped to my surprise and i checked. the flop came T43 and the sb checked. i bet my open ender and sb check/raised and i pretty much had to go with it so i 3-bet and sb 4-bet all-in. i assumed he had flopped a junky 2 pair or a half decent Ten but no, he had the almight K5o for no hand no draw but the best hand. i failed to improve and was crippled and went out 18th seatless.
i played the $26 8pm and was on a roller coaster for the first hour and it felt like a victory to have 2800 at the break even though we started out with 3k. early on in the 2nd hour i doubled up with KK vs AQo and was in good shape. i lost a few small pots and then a good sized one when i snap called a 11bb button push from a bad player with KJs in the bb. it's a definite muck but i'm a little rusty in these tourny spots and thought he was pushing a wide enough range to make it worth while. he was fairly weak with 77 and i lost the flip and a little less than 1/2 my stack. after that hand i got moved and played very bad. with about 12bb's i decided to make a blind steal w/ JTo from the hijak. the button called as did the sb who both had me well covered. the flop came down AKx w/ two spades and i had no spades. the sb checked and for some reason i decided to rep strength and bet out 1200 of my remaining 2k. the button immediately raised, sb folded and i pathetically folded getting a bazzillion to one on my last 800 chips. mistake 1 was blind stealing w/ 12bb's and mistake 2 was continuing a steal with no chips when getting called in two places. i shoved my 700ish stack w/ A9s utg after that and ran it into AQo and busted deservingly.
so during all this i was playing 4 tables of 100plo. i felt like i was playing well and was probably up quite a bunch before it came crumbling down and i lost a couple big pots playing deeper than the usual 100bb's. on one table i had two extremely loose passive players on my left that were absolutely killing me. they cold called every raise i made and never folded to a c-bet and i was often check/folding turns to them. i guess it's my fault cuz i didn't adapt in time and i probably should of started check/folding flops when i whiffed or maybe even just shut down the table altogether and find a better table.
so combined that with getting horribly outdrawn on in the 9:15pm $26 plo tourny i started to get a little irratated. (see tilted) so i made an executive decision to donk off my short stack in the plo tournament so i could shut down my cash tables before i started tilting. when i checked my pokertracker to see what i was up for the session in cash i was actually down $14 after being up close to 4 buy-ins or so. this pissed me off as well.
so i chilled out for an hour or so playing xbox and clearing my head. i came to realize that plo is just a massively swingy game and sometimes im going to be up and lose it back and sometimes i will be down a bunch and win it back. poker is just one long session that way and i don't need to worry about the wins and losses day to day or even month to month for that matter.
i logged probably another 300 hands of cash after my break and finished up $147 for the night in cash which felt good.
i haven't played since except for a little home game saturday night in which i finally one a game. we pretty much play a turbo sng with anywhere between 6-8 guys and most are chopped heads up according to chip equity. we usually only get 2 games in a night but we were all hyped up for the 3 games so i didn't get home till 4am. the first game was $20 buy-in and i busted w/ TT vs AKo. 2nd game was a $40 buy-in when i got short with high blinds i busted with KJs vs AJo. 3rd game was a $20 buy-in and i pwnd it outright for a cool $120. the final heads-up hand had me shove my opponent in with Q3o on a AQ8 rainbow board. he snap called me with 75soooooted and i managed to hold up. it's a good game. it's also the first game i've won outright in probably close to a year. :(
tg.
started around 7pm and played the $75 nl mtt and got bounced in the 3rd hand. i pick up KK in the bb and folds around to sb. sb raises 3x and i 3-bet him pot, he insta-shoves and i called figuring i was coolered by AA. he somehow shows up with TT, flop comes K67, turn 8, river 9. gg me and then he shit talks a bit. i told him he sucks, he tells me to check his stats, i look him up on opr, he has like 35k in profit over the last 120 days so i shut my mouth and accept the fact that i got "outplayed".
during the same time i played a $26 turbo satellite to the 6-max limit holdem ftops event. it had something like 70 runners with 7 seats paying. it got down to about 22 people and i had just below an avg stack with 4200 and blinds of 200/400. in the bb i got 52o and it folded to the sb who was sitting on about 2000. he just limped to my surprise and i checked. the flop came T43 and the sb checked. i bet my open ender and sb check/raised and i pretty much had to go with it so i 3-bet and sb 4-bet all-in. i assumed he had flopped a junky 2 pair or a half decent Ten but no, he had the almight K5o for no hand no draw but the best hand. i failed to improve and was crippled and went out 18th seatless.
i played the $26 8pm and was on a roller coaster for the first hour and it felt like a victory to have 2800 at the break even though we started out with 3k. early on in the 2nd hour i doubled up with KK vs AQo and was in good shape. i lost a few small pots and then a good sized one when i snap called a 11bb button push from a bad player with KJs in the bb. it's a definite muck but i'm a little rusty in these tourny spots and thought he was pushing a wide enough range to make it worth while. he was fairly weak with 77 and i lost the flip and a little less than 1/2 my stack. after that hand i got moved and played very bad. with about 12bb's i decided to make a blind steal w/ JTo from the hijak. the button called as did the sb who both had me well covered. the flop came down AKx w/ two spades and i had no spades. the sb checked and for some reason i decided to rep strength and bet out 1200 of my remaining 2k. the button immediately raised, sb folded and i pathetically folded getting a bazzillion to one on my last 800 chips. mistake 1 was blind stealing w/ 12bb's and mistake 2 was continuing a steal with no chips when getting called in two places. i shoved my 700ish stack w/ A9s utg after that and ran it into AQo and busted deservingly.
so during all this i was playing 4 tables of 100plo. i felt like i was playing well and was probably up quite a bunch before it came crumbling down and i lost a couple big pots playing deeper than the usual 100bb's. on one table i had two extremely loose passive players on my left that were absolutely killing me. they cold called every raise i made and never folded to a c-bet and i was often check/folding turns to them. i guess it's my fault cuz i didn't adapt in time and i probably should of started check/folding flops when i whiffed or maybe even just shut down the table altogether and find a better table.
so combined that with getting horribly outdrawn on in the 9:15pm $26 plo tourny i started to get a little irratated. (see tilted) so i made an executive decision to donk off my short stack in the plo tournament so i could shut down my cash tables before i started tilting. when i checked my pokertracker to see what i was up for the session in cash i was actually down $14 after being up close to 4 buy-ins or so. this pissed me off as well.
so i chilled out for an hour or so playing xbox and clearing my head. i came to realize that plo is just a massively swingy game and sometimes im going to be up and lose it back and sometimes i will be down a bunch and win it back. poker is just one long session that way and i don't need to worry about the wins and losses day to day or even month to month for that matter.
i logged probably another 300 hands of cash after my break and finished up $147 for the night in cash which felt good.
i haven't played since except for a little home game saturday night in which i finally one a game. we pretty much play a turbo sng with anywhere between 6-8 guys and most are chopped heads up according to chip equity. we usually only get 2 games in a night but we were all hyped up for the 3 games so i didn't get home till 4am. the first game was $20 buy-in and i busted w/ TT vs AKo. 2nd game was a $40 buy-in when i got short with high blinds i busted with KJs vs AJo. 3rd game was a $20 buy-in and i pwnd it outright for a cool $120. the final heads-up hand had me shove my opponent in with Q3o on a AQ8 rainbow board. he snap called me with 75soooooted and i managed to hold up. it's a good game. it's also the first game i've won outright in probably close to a year. :(
tg.
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