i still haven't been able to put in a lot of hands of late. most of my sessions are small 1.5hr 4 tabling sessions which don't really rack up the hands like 4hrs of 6 tabling but i feel 4 tables is optimal for me and my winrate drops off a lot when adding two additional tables.
over the week or so since my last post im up about 1k playing 1/2 and 2/4 cap plo (had a small loss playing .50/1.00 cap plo) and down about $600 in holdem. last night i really felt like i played poorly in holdem and need to step my game up. being up a good chunk early this month has probably caused me to get lazy with my play so i'll get back on the horse and try and put good hours in over the next few days. combined between the two games i've only played 5500 hands this month which puts me at a pace of only 15k hands for month. i'd like to get that number higher but i will also be away on vacation for 4 days and won't be playing then so im likely to be lacking in the # of hands i get in this month.
might play tonite and have a small window for a coaching session tomorrow.
tg
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Friday, June 6, 2008
pretty........pretty......pretty good.
last nites holdem results.
+ about $35 from plo gave me a 1k session. (only a $900 day though due to plo losses earlier)
tg
+ about $35 from plo gave me a 1k session. (only a $900 day though due to plo losses earlier)
tg
Thursday, June 5, 2008
cap plo is killing me
after my quick $200 score during lunch yesterday i've dropped close to $700 playing 1/2 $80 cap plo. (down close to $500 overall) i did however make a little over $400 playing holdem last nite but it still stung basically because i know i was donating and playing horribly in the plo games. i played at lunch today again and got stuck even more but made a nice comeback at the end. i enjoy the games though and they are incredibly soft, im just playing as incredibly bad. the good news is that i think i know the adjustments i need to make to absolutely kill the game at this limit.
- tighten up a smidge pre-flop (i think im around 26% vp$ip right now but closer to 20% is probably optimal)
- quit 3-betting all but monster hands, especially out of position
- stop c-betting completely unless i hit
- zero fps
- only stack off with top two + re-draws or better
it's a little cookie cutterish but i think it's probably good enough to earn a good buck. most of my losses have come from assuming oponents will fold but im getting called down by just ridiculous shit like top pair and one guy even called my turn c/r cap with a bare nut flush draw when he wasn't even close to being committed. so, stop bluffing, start value betting. i also had a guy call down three streets today with no pair, no straight draw and a 3 hi flush draw. games are good.
i'll play tonite, probably mostly holdem though. i finally got my holdem manager hud stream lined and it's fucking awesome. i feel like a new man with it and it's definitly going to help improve my game.
tg
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
break even nite + holdem manager
i actually managed to get a session in last nite that i wasn't supposed to but it ended up not being very productive.
i've been awaiting pokertracker 3 but it seems to be rather flawed and i don't want to deal with the hassle of software bugs. i heard about holdem manager and how sick it was so i dropped the $80 on it and picked it up. so far im pretty impressed with it and the shear volume of info is pretty overwhelming. so instead of playing i ended up tinkering with the hud for a couple hours before firing up 4 tables of 200nl. i was pretty happy with my play but managed to only break even through 750 hands after a few tough hands/beats. pokerhand is down but it was basically AK vs KQ on a KQxx board after i 3-b in position and villain called willing to stack off since i was abusing him, 54 on a 552Tddd board after villain that had abusing me (stacked off w/ A8s once in a bvb 5-b bluff) with villain check/calling all-in on the turn w/ 77 (no diamond) and binking his two outer on the river and lastly KK vs QT on a Q22TQ board after villain c/c pot sized bets on every street and jammed the river offering me 4.5-1 on a call.
i did however hop on two 1/2 cap plo tables ($80 cap) while on lunch today and made about $220 in 20 mins. i got it in with AAxx on a Kxx flop against top set and hit runner runner quads. i think i'll play more cap games when experimenting with plo since the shallowness of the game allows for less mistakes and it's a little more exciting of a game. (gamboool)
might play tonite and tomorrw. who knows.
tg
i've been awaiting pokertracker 3 but it seems to be rather flawed and i don't want to deal with the hassle of software bugs. i heard about holdem manager and how sick it was so i dropped the $80 on it and picked it up. so far im pretty impressed with it and the shear volume of info is pretty overwhelming. so instead of playing i ended up tinkering with the hud for a couple hours before firing up 4 tables of 200nl. i was pretty happy with my play but managed to only break even through 750 hands after a few tough hands/beats. pokerhand is down but it was basically AK vs KQ on a KQxx board after i 3-b in position and villain called willing to stack off since i was abusing him, 54 on a 552Tddd board after villain that had abusing me (stacked off w/ A8s once in a bvb 5-b bluff) with villain check/calling all-in on the turn w/ 77 (no diamond) and binking his two outer on the river and lastly KK vs QT on a Q22TQ board after villain c/c pot sized bets on every street and jammed the river offering me 4.5-1 on a call.
i did however hop on two 1/2 cap plo tables ($80 cap) while on lunch today and made about $220 in 20 mins. i got it in with AAxx on a Kxx flop against top set and hit runner runner quads. i think i'll play more cap games when experimenting with plo since the shallowness of the game allows for less mistakes and it's a little more exciting of a game. (gamboool)
might play tonite and tomorrw. who knows.
tg
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
quick win
i had a very small window to play yesterday and logged roughly 250 hands of 200nl and 250 hands of 50plo. results were good and i made about $430 in holdem and about $140 in omaha which is far above expectation but also gladly welcomed.
biggest nlhe hand:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2704963 - i like his play pre-flop but he needs to raise this flop. i made a larger than normal c-bet on this flop since i wanted to maximize my fold equity.
biggest plo hand:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2704940 - beauty hand pre, flop well and i thinks it pretty easy getting it on this flop although it looks a lot better than it is. with the 3-way action my two pair/trip outs are probably no good and if one of thed villains has a higher wrap (AKJx) im in trouble.
tg
biggest nlhe hand:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2704963 - i like his play pre-flop but he needs to raise this flop. i made a larger than normal c-bet on this flop since i wanted to maximize my fold equity.
biggest plo hand:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2704940 - beauty hand pre, flop well and i thinks it pretty easy getting it on this flop although it looks a lot better than it is. with the 3-way action my two pair/trip outs are probably no good and if one of thed villains has a higher wrap (AKJx) im in trouble.
tg
Monday, June 2, 2008
may results
i sucked big time at putting in hands this month. i was on target to hit 20k hands for the month and then pretty much haven't played the last 1/3 of the month.
im obv very happy with the winrate and look forward to a big june. i'll also be mixing in some plo again to keep things interesting and hope to grow an edge in that game.
pics:
tg
Thursday, May 22, 2008
enlightened
so i was pretty happy with my play last week although i felt weird about some of my post-flop play. for some reasons there's spots where im just betting out or checking based on whether or not i think my opponent hit the flop which probably isn't the worst strategy but also not optimal. after going over a few hands with my coach, he starting telling me how bad some of this was and all of a sudden it just kinda clicked in my head. i kind of got the concept he planted in my head about two weeks ago and has been hammering in ever since.
i have to get rid of my fear of being bluffed. it's a lot more than that obv but this is probably the root cause of it. i look forward to making great decisions tonite.
also, i've been a little burnt out from watching nlhe videos on cr and dc lately so i decided to watch a bunch of plo videos just to change it up. i want to keep my concentration on nlhe but plo videos are refreshing and i might also mess around with some 25plo and try to work my way up slowly. i don't want to risk hard earned bank roll from playing nlhe on being a mark in a plo game although i don't think anyone is really all that good at the lower limits.
oh and i dropped about $350 playing during my lesson the other nite over 500ish hands.
tg
i have to get rid of my fear of being bluffed. it's a lot more than that obv but this is probably the root cause of it. i look forward to making great decisions tonite.
also, i've been a little burnt out from watching nlhe videos on cr and dc lately so i decided to watch a bunch of plo videos just to change it up. i want to keep my concentration on nlhe but plo videos are refreshing and i might also mess around with some 25plo and try to work my way up slowly. i don't want to risk hard earned bank roll from playing nlhe on being a mark in a plo game although i don't think anyone is really all that good at the lower limits.
oh and i dropped about $350 playing during my lesson the other nite over 500ish hands.
tg
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
on a tear
since my last post i think i've put in around 4.5k hands which is pretty good since i didn't play too much late last week and never put in a monster session since i was sick and am pretty useless most of the time. i make a rule to not play when sick because i have zero discipline and a general "fuck it" kind of attitude.
i stayed home from work on friday and was feeling a bit better by late afternoon so for fun i hopped into a couple satellites for ftops event #12 ($216 nlhe) and won a seat on the first try. i lasted about an hour and a half and was quite active throughout the first hour. i was down early after losing a decent size pot w/ KK on a AAxxx board when i checked the flop thru and called small turn and river bets and lost to A5s. at my lowest i had about 1.5k and at the end of the 1st hour got back to about 2.7k after flopping a set and making a boat against a tight mtt reg that unfortunately didn't get paid off. early in the 2nd hour i pick up QQ and raise utg, he jams from mp with a smallish stack and i was really happy with the spot since i think he thought i was horrible and would jam lighter than usual. i lost a flip against his AKo and now i was on life support. with blinds at 60/120 i think i had around 1.2k and jammed over a loose lp raiser w/ 33 and he snapped me off w/ AJo. i was actually thinking about it the other day and if i had to guess it's probably been about 25 tournaments since i've even cashed. yikes. in all fairness though i haven't really taken them seriously and have done some stupid things with good stacks like limp/jamming in the sb to a bb raise w/ 98o and getting shown AA. meh.
as for the 1/2 journey things have been going good. i think i played pretty well over the weekend and after getting unlucky a few times still managed to be up about $1800. i was very pleased with how i played for the most part but i have noticed some poor play while going through the hands in pt today. i'll probably look at those during my coaching session and keep improving. im also enjoying the professional nl holdem book and while nothing is ground breaking yet it has clarified a few concepts i was fuzzy on. hope to finish that up soon.
i think i've only played 11k hands so far this month and it will get tougher since i have a bunch of work to do this week and might have much time on the weekend to play. most of my sessions now i've been 5-6 tabling so that helps when it comes to getting hands in. oh, and i also sat in a 2/4 razz game the other day and pretty much busted half the table in about 20 mins and broke the game. it's insanely funny how bad people are at these games.
anyways, bankroll is healthy at 12k and the rakeback account is almost bust due to tournament buy-ins and coaching costs. 4k more and i'll start my 2/4 journey although i have lots to learn before then.
tg
i stayed home from work on friday and was feeling a bit better by late afternoon so for fun i hopped into a couple satellites for ftops event #12 ($216 nlhe) and won a seat on the first try. i lasted about an hour and a half and was quite active throughout the first hour. i was down early after losing a decent size pot w/ KK on a AAxxx board when i checked the flop thru and called small turn and river bets and lost to A5s. at my lowest i had about 1.5k and at the end of the 1st hour got back to about 2.7k after flopping a set and making a boat against a tight mtt reg that unfortunately didn't get paid off. early in the 2nd hour i pick up QQ and raise utg, he jams from mp with a smallish stack and i was really happy with the spot since i think he thought i was horrible and would jam lighter than usual. i lost a flip against his AKo and now i was on life support. with blinds at 60/120 i think i had around 1.2k and jammed over a loose lp raiser w/ 33 and he snapped me off w/ AJo. i was actually thinking about it the other day and if i had to guess it's probably been about 25 tournaments since i've even cashed. yikes. in all fairness though i haven't really taken them seriously and have done some stupid things with good stacks like limp/jamming in the sb to a bb raise w/ 98o and getting shown AA. meh.
as for the 1/2 journey things have been going good. i think i played pretty well over the weekend and after getting unlucky a few times still managed to be up about $1800. i was very pleased with how i played for the most part but i have noticed some poor play while going through the hands in pt today. i'll probably look at those during my coaching session and keep improving. im also enjoying the professional nl holdem book and while nothing is ground breaking yet it has clarified a few concepts i was fuzzy on. hope to finish that up soon.
i think i've only played 11k hands so far this month and it will get tougher since i have a bunch of work to do this week and might have much time on the weekend to play. most of my sessions now i've been 5-6 tabling so that helps when it comes to getting hands in. oh, and i also sat in a 2/4 razz game the other day and pretty much busted half the table in about 20 mins and broke the game. it's insanely funny how bad people are at these games.
anyways, bankroll is healthy at 12k and the rakeback account is almost bust due to tournament buy-ins and coaching costs. 4k more and i'll start my 2/4 journey although i have lots to learn before then.
tg
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
blip in the radar
im down about $900 over my last 5500 hands or so. i did something pretty stupid last friday; i sat down to put in a quick session that got cut quicker than i thought but in the few hands i had played i had a guy (w/ prev history of playing uber aggy pre) 3-bet me everytime i opened a pot. no matter what position or no matter what his hand was it was an auto 3-bet. so i was shooting the shit on the phone with a friend and decided to just leave this table up and gambool with him. the end result was i lost like $600 in about 20 hands to him by 4-betting everything i opened and either getting it in pre or jamming the flop. well he started picking up hands and i ran AJ into KK, 88 into AK, 55 into 88 and 55 into TT. obviously the 55 hands were probably too thin to be jamming but i think a 4-bet/jam flop range of 88+, AJ+ would be profitiable against this guy. i did a little googling on this guy after to see whether or not he's just some hsnl player dicking around and saw that he was playing 25/50 online in early 06 but he's def a reg now at 1/2. pretty interesting and i hope to run into him again because as long as i can handle some variance i think it will be a great spot for me ev wise.
after that session i was a complete tilt monkey so i went and cooled off and had a relaxing night, put it behind me and got in a decent session on saturday aft. things couldn't have started off worse and about halfway through the 1200 hands i was stuck close to 1k but stayed strong and came back to only lose about a half buy-in which felt like a great success. since then im basically even although i ran pretty bad last night and managed to only book a small loss.
im pretty happy with the quantity of hands i've been getting in and should be able to make my goal of 20k hands for the month. im getting a little more comfortable with 6 tabling now so i will do that from time to time but won't make it a constant. i've also noticed a general sense of passivity has come into my game and i think often times of late i've been making the easy decision of just calling instead of raising/folding. this is esp geared towards 3-betting and i've been passing up great spots to squeeze or 3-bet loose openers. so i've been opening that up a little bit and i think it def makes me harder to play against and should also help me get action on my bigger hands. i've also slightly increased my opening range from utg and mp in 6-max with good results and should aid in blurring my range a little more. im also getting back into the habit of pounding on limpers with decent hands but have adjusted my isolation raise to 5.5x the bb instead of the typical pot sized raise of 4.5x the bb. this helps build a pot in pos with a bad player while keeping the more aggressive players from 4-bet bluffing me since it's a much more expensive play to make compared to pot size raising.
things i need to work on:
- assigning villains a hand range and then further narrowing down that hand range based on street by street action. (<<<<<<<<<< this is a big one)
after that session i was a complete tilt monkey so i went and cooled off and had a relaxing night, put it behind me and got in a decent session on saturday aft. things couldn't have started off worse and about halfway through the 1200 hands i was stuck close to 1k but stayed strong and came back to only lose about a half buy-in which felt like a great success. since then im basically even although i ran pretty bad last night and managed to only book a small loss.
im pretty happy with the quantity of hands i've been getting in and should be able to make my goal of 20k hands for the month. im getting a little more comfortable with 6 tabling now so i will do that from time to time but won't make it a constant. i've also noticed a general sense of passivity has come into my game and i think often times of late i've been making the easy decision of just calling instead of raising/folding. this is esp geared towards 3-betting and i've been passing up great spots to squeeze or 3-bet loose openers. so i've been opening that up a little bit and i think it def makes me harder to play against and should also help me get action on my bigger hands. i've also slightly increased my opening range from utg and mp in 6-max with good results and should aid in blurring my range a little more. im also getting back into the habit of pounding on limpers with decent hands but have adjusted my isolation raise to 5.5x the bb instead of the typical pot sized raise of 4.5x the bb. this helps build a pot in pos with a bad player while keeping the more aggressive players from 4-bet bluffing me since it's a much more expensive play to make compared to pot size raising.
things i need to work on:
- assigning villains a hand range and then further narrowing down that hand range based on street by street action. (<<<<<<<<<< this is a big one)
- mentally going through and determining my rough equity against a villains range during the hand
- maximizing value in small to medium sized pots when i know i have the best hand
i got my books in the mail yesterday and will start on the proffessional nl holdem book first. i also realized when i opened the box that the stoxtrader book is a limit holdem book, not nl so i might return that. i've also been mixing in a table of o8 or horse once in a while when winding down my nl sessions and have made some good money just playing tight solid. it's such easy money and even on a 2/4 table there are rarely any players sitting with more than 10 big bets. i think after i read the plo book by hwang i will probably study up on some videos and start playing cap plo games once in a while. i don't see myself playing anything other than the cap plo games in the near future as i want to keep my main focus on studying and crushing nlhe.
tg
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
keep on keepin on
i've played a couple small sessions prob amounting to 2k hands or so and am up 2 buy-ins over that time. i had a lesson last night and felt fucking stupid when we went back and looked at some hands in poker tracker that i had played before the lesson. two hands where i couldn't believe it was me playing them when looking back and was utterly embarrassed about my play.
one thing that's been happening lately is that i've felt the need to make crazy laggy plays where it's totally unnecessary. i think i've spent too much time lately browsing hsnl threads on 2+2 where the plays are so much more advanced that it's getting me confused and blurring my thinking. i've also watched a couple high stakes vids on dc and cr and i see maniacal play and feel like a dull ol grinder since i pretty much try and stick to fundamentals.
after my coaching session i decided to just shut it down for the night and get my mind off poker for a day or two. i think i've made great strides of late just analyzing my tables and opponents on my own instead of trying to implement other people's strategies and i've gotten away from it. i think i'll take a few days off from browsing forums or watching instructional vids and instead just kinda start fresh on my thurs nite session.
another ftops series starts again today but looking over the line-up i doubt i'll get to play any. there are a couple events that i wouldn't mind playing but they are the European friendly start times that i have no shot at making. i might try and satellite into the $535 horse event because the field will be ridiculously soft and although i suck in most games i'd prob still have an edge. other than that i'll see if i can maybe get in the main event or something since the pay day is unbelievable.
ordered a couple books today as well. i enjoy reading at night so i picked up "winning in tough short handed no-limit games" by stoxtrader, "professional no-limit holdem vol 1" by the 2+2 crew and the pot limit omaha book by jeff hwang which i heard was good. i'll prob read them in that order although i do have several poker books that i've never read past the first chapter. im not really sure how much you can learn from books but since they only cost like a c-bet in the games i'm playing now it must be a +ev purchase.
tg
one thing that's been happening lately is that i've felt the need to make crazy laggy plays where it's totally unnecessary. i think i've spent too much time lately browsing hsnl threads on 2+2 where the plays are so much more advanced that it's getting me confused and blurring my thinking. i've also watched a couple high stakes vids on dc and cr and i see maniacal play and feel like a dull ol grinder since i pretty much try and stick to fundamentals.
after my coaching session i decided to just shut it down for the night and get my mind off poker for a day or two. i think i've made great strides of late just analyzing my tables and opponents on my own instead of trying to implement other people's strategies and i've gotten away from it. i think i'll take a few days off from browsing forums or watching instructional vids and instead just kinda start fresh on my thurs nite session.
another ftops series starts again today but looking over the line-up i doubt i'll get to play any. there are a couple events that i wouldn't mind playing but they are the European friendly start times that i have no shot at making. i might try and satellite into the $535 horse event because the field will be ridiculously soft and although i suck in most games i'd prob still have an edge. other than that i'll see if i can maybe get in the main event or something since the pay day is unbelievable.
ordered a couple books today as well. i enjoy reading at night so i picked up "winning in tough short handed no-limit games" by stoxtrader, "professional no-limit holdem vol 1" by the 2+2 crew and the pot limit omaha book by jeff hwang which i heard was good. i'll prob read them in that order although i do have several poker books that i've never read past the first chapter. im not really sure how much you can learn from books but since they only cost like a c-bet in the games i'm playing now it must be a +ev purchase.
tg
Friday, May 2, 2008
$21.60 short
of having my first 1k day. very nice way to start off the month and i managed to get in over 1400 hands playing mostly 4 tables but occasionally 5 or 6 when table selecting. the new ftp software update came out yesterday and they've changed the deep tables to be regularly spread limits instead of the kinda in between limits. there were a few tables going and played on some although they were pretty much just crowded with the normal 1/2 regs.
goal for the month is to get 20k +ev hands in.
tg
goal for the month is to get 20k +ev hands in.
tg
Thursday, May 1, 2008
interesting thought
i was kinda thinking about goals and when i started playing nl cash i thought if i could be a winning 2/4 player by the end of the year that would be cool. i just made a spreadsheet to see where i would be at the end of the year based on the following assumptions.
- 40 buy-ins per level
- 20k hands a month played
- winrate of 3ptbb/100 (12 buy-ins per month)
- moving up once i hit 40 buy-ins for the next level
- not counting rakeback towards bankroll
so with a bankroll of roughly 9.6k right now and assuming a nice easy transition from level to level (highly unlikely) and a steady month to month income (once again unlikely) i would be playing 5/10 by the end of the year and have roughly a $53k bankroll come dec 31st.
so as unlikely as it is for all those ducks to line up, it is motivating.
tg
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
april results
played my final session of april last night and did well ending up about $400 i think. i played a mix of 1/2nl 6-max as well as starting a game at 1.5/3 nl deep. (200bb table) i found even last summer when i really sucked that there were a lot of fish at the deep tables for some reason and a lot of players don't know how to adjust there game when playing with deeper stacks, myself included. it's something that i'm working on and thinking about though and i'd like to take a shot at those games to further develope my understanding of deep stack nl. i think becoming more confident in deep stack play will help when i get 2 buy-ins (or more) deep with others in the 100bb cap games and will give me a much larger edge. i also have been thinking about venturing into more live games as my br increases and possibly even playing some games like 5/5 in the future and i believe the buy-in in those games may be a bit deeper than the 50 or 100bb buy-in for the small 1/2 games.
i also had another coaching session last night which went great. it was good to get some positive feed back on a few of the hands i played well and identify a few spots wehere i was not taking optimal lines. we discussed a pretty cool hand from another coach which was quite eye opening and i had really have to look at it more to digest it.
i only played like 800ish hands or so because of the coaching session and only 4-tabled after that.
here's april's results:
Monday, April 28, 2008
live pokers to the rescue
after dropping $851 on saturday afternoon i shut down ftp and went and chilled out since i didn't want to get stuck anymore at the moment and that's my biggsest single session loss ever and probably largest single day loss as well.
so i chilled out, got the ring a little later to round up a few friends for a casino run and decided to put in another small session online before i left. i made back about $260 in a hour or so i played and then headed off for some live 1/2 fun.
i got my name on the list for 1/2 $200 cap buy-in but they only run one table of that and then like a bazzillion tables of 1/2 $100 cap buy-in for some ungodly reason that i can't comprehend. anyways, i got right into a $100 buy-in game and started running like god immediately.
my 2nd hand, a couple players limp, some dude raises to $7, i cold call from the sb, bb cold calls and both limpers come along. (pot $35) the flop comes KQ8r, i chk and it chks to the pfr, he bets $30 and i do the old min-raise to $60, bb and limpers muck and dude goes into the tank and asks how much blah blah blah and then says he's all-in. he bricks off w/ AQo and the dealer counts out the additional money for his call. when the dealer does it though he says he took too much from him and gives him back a small stack of reds and then pushes me the pot. when i looked at it i asked him if he was sure it was right since the stack looked too small but he told me he counted it out twice and was sure so i figured whatever. after a couple hands, i count out my stack and he only pushed me $183 when the pot should have been $217 so i felt like an idiot for not double counting it. then to make matters i find out dude that i stacked is a regular there and knows every dealer in the joint so im starting to wonder if it's intentional.
anyways, lesson learned and after losing a pot with TT i decided to start running like god again. a dude that seemed fairly nice but kinda wired (see coke head or something) started running his mouth and making fun of people at the table. he's played everyhand since i sat down and run about $35 into around $180. he also made fun of some kid because he folded A8o to a raise after limping and the flop came down A8x. he's yacking off about how could he fold an ace for only $10 and that it was so stupid and bad. fast forward a couple hands i limp in w/ 65hh and mouthpiece raises to $17, folds back to me and since im there to gambooooool and would love to snap this idiot off i call. flop comes down 667 and i check/call. turn is a 9 and i check/raise all-in. he calls and says i hope you don't have kings and then shows AA. lets just say he shut his mouth pretty fucking quick and went into a how could you play 65 to a raise yadda yadda. i started telling him how 65s is actually a better hand than A8o and how does he expect me to fold for just $12 more. it was humorous but was capped off when he says this place (casino) is just like pokerstars.
like 4 hands later while he's still complaining i limp/call once again w/ KQo (because im a loose passive fish) after he raises and the bb comes along. flop is QT7r, bb and i both check, mouthpiece shoves for $53 and starts trash talking the bb when he tanks saying that he's on tilt and wants a call. bb folds and i call and am ahead of his JTo. he gets a glimmer in his eye when the turn is a Jack but i crush his soul with an Ace on the river. he gets up from the table and mumbles something about getting owned, maybe the proudest moment of my poker life.
a while later, greasy gross guy limps, same dude from the first hand raises and i just called with AJo from the bb and greasy gross guy calls. flop comes down a beauty AJx with two clubs. i lead out for $20, greasy gross guy shoves for a $100, pfr folds and greasy gross guy doesn't flip his cards but shows the Ace of clubs and mucks after the board has run out. as i stack the pot he tells me he had a flush draw and an overcard to my Jack for a better two pair draw and that he wasn't positive but thinks he was the favorite on the flop.
not much happens for a while, then i run TT into JJ and double a guy up that had maybe a $100 behind. down to 7 handed, utg limps, i limp 32hh right behind and everyone else limps for a 7 way pot. flop comes down a pretty decent A45 with one heart, blinds and utg check, i bet $10, calling station that can't fold top pair no matter what the board is calls as does the button, everyone else folds. turn is a 9x and i lead again for $31 into $44 and both call again. button was pretty sick about calling so i thought for sure he had like 76 or something. river is another 9 and i lead again for $100. calling station shakes his head and calls quickly, button folds (told me he had 63) and i table my wheel which is good against AJo.
the last hand i played of the nite, utg limps, i raise with QhJh which was probably only the 4th time i raised all night, greasy gross guy cold calls which is any two from the bb and limper calls. flop comes down T87 with two hearts giving me a massive draw, chkd to me, i bet like $25 into $31, greasy gross guy tanks and folds A3hh apparently, limper c/r all-in for another $50ish and i call quickly and am the favorite against A9o. i get it over with quickly and bink the 9 on the turn and claim another victim.
i walked away $447 winner for the session which is rare since i usually get owned there.
i played for like 40 mins online tonite and made like $360 playing holdem and dumped $40 playing capped plo and o8.
tomorrow i have a coaching session and will try and put in a good long session afterwards to cap off april.
tg
so i chilled out, got the ring a little later to round up a few friends for a casino run and decided to put in another small session online before i left. i made back about $260 in a hour or so i played and then headed off for some live 1/2 fun.
i got my name on the list for 1/2 $200 cap buy-in but they only run one table of that and then like a bazzillion tables of 1/2 $100 cap buy-in for some ungodly reason that i can't comprehend. anyways, i got right into a $100 buy-in game and started running like god immediately.
my 2nd hand, a couple players limp, some dude raises to $7, i cold call from the sb, bb cold calls and both limpers come along. (pot $35) the flop comes KQ8r, i chk and it chks to the pfr, he bets $30 and i do the old min-raise to $60, bb and limpers muck and dude goes into the tank and asks how much blah blah blah and then says he's all-in. he bricks off w/ AQo and the dealer counts out the additional money for his call. when the dealer does it though he says he took too much from him and gives him back a small stack of reds and then pushes me the pot. when i looked at it i asked him if he was sure it was right since the stack looked too small but he told me he counted it out twice and was sure so i figured whatever. after a couple hands, i count out my stack and he only pushed me $183 when the pot should have been $217 so i felt like an idiot for not double counting it. then to make matters i find out dude that i stacked is a regular there and knows every dealer in the joint so im starting to wonder if it's intentional.
anyways, lesson learned and after losing a pot with TT i decided to start running like god again. a dude that seemed fairly nice but kinda wired (see coke head or something) started running his mouth and making fun of people at the table. he's played everyhand since i sat down and run about $35 into around $180. he also made fun of some kid because he folded A8o to a raise after limping and the flop came down A8x. he's yacking off about how could he fold an ace for only $10 and that it was so stupid and bad. fast forward a couple hands i limp in w/ 65hh and mouthpiece raises to $17, folds back to me and since im there to gambooooool and would love to snap this idiot off i call. flop comes down 667 and i check/call. turn is a 9 and i check/raise all-in. he calls and says i hope you don't have kings and then shows AA. lets just say he shut his mouth pretty fucking quick and went into a how could you play 65 to a raise yadda yadda. i started telling him how 65s is actually a better hand than A8o and how does he expect me to fold for just $12 more. it was humorous but was capped off when he says this place (casino) is just like pokerstars.
like 4 hands later while he's still complaining i limp/call once again w/ KQo (because im a loose passive fish) after he raises and the bb comes along. flop is QT7r, bb and i both check, mouthpiece shoves for $53 and starts trash talking the bb when he tanks saying that he's on tilt and wants a call. bb folds and i call and am ahead of his JTo. he gets a glimmer in his eye when the turn is a Jack but i crush his soul with an Ace on the river. he gets up from the table and mumbles something about getting owned, maybe the proudest moment of my poker life.
a while later, greasy gross guy limps, same dude from the first hand raises and i just called with AJo from the bb and greasy gross guy calls. flop comes down a beauty AJx with two clubs. i lead out for $20, greasy gross guy shoves for a $100, pfr folds and greasy gross guy doesn't flip his cards but shows the Ace of clubs and mucks after the board has run out. as i stack the pot he tells me he had a flush draw and an overcard to my Jack for a better two pair draw and that he wasn't positive but thinks he was the favorite on the flop.
not much happens for a while, then i run TT into JJ and double a guy up that had maybe a $100 behind. down to 7 handed, utg limps, i limp 32hh right behind and everyone else limps for a 7 way pot. flop comes down a pretty decent A45 with one heart, blinds and utg check, i bet $10, calling station that can't fold top pair no matter what the board is calls as does the button, everyone else folds. turn is a 9x and i lead again for $31 into $44 and both call again. button was pretty sick about calling so i thought for sure he had like 76 or something. river is another 9 and i lead again for $100. calling station shakes his head and calls quickly, button folds (told me he had 63) and i table my wheel which is good against AJo.
the last hand i played of the nite, utg limps, i raise with QhJh which was probably only the 4th time i raised all night, greasy gross guy cold calls which is any two from the bb and limper calls. flop comes down T87 with two hearts giving me a massive draw, chkd to me, i bet like $25 into $31, greasy gross guy tanks and folds A3hh apparently, limper c/r all-in for another $50ish and i call quickly and am the favorite against A9o. i get it over with quickly and bink the 9 on the turn and claim another victim.
i walked away $447 winner for the session which is rare since i usually get owned there.
i played for like 40 mins online tonite and made like $360 playing holdem and dumped $40 playing capped plo and o8.
tomorrow i have a coaching session and will try and put in a good long session afterwards to cap off april.
tg
Saturday, April 26, 2008
cruising along
probably played maybe 2k hands since last post and am up a buy-in. my session on thursday was pretty gross as i felted KK to AA, QQ to AA and JJ to QQ pre and got down about 4.5 buy-ins after about 600 hands. i played well though after ended up slightly in the green when all was said and done including sitting on one table with close to a grand which felt kinda balla.
i had a good first coaching session and will continue with this coach. also i've noticed lately that i've drifted off into auto-pilot so im trying to concentrate and focus more and i think it's helping. a couple times i've made some pretty thin call downs that were correct and i've managed to tone down my spewtard mode when dealing with the plethora of lagtards at 1/2.
im off to play another session right now and might try to make it to the casino tonite for some live pokers.
tg.
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Edit:
well that was fun, 421 hands and dropped $851.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2525334
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2525339
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2525340
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2525343
i had a good first coaching session and will continue with this coach. also i've noticed lately that i've drifted off into auto-pilot so im trying to concentrate and focus more and i think it's helping. a couple times i've made some pretty thin call downs that were correct and i've managed to tone down my spewtard mode when dealing with the plethora of lagtards at 1/2.
im off to play another session right now and might try to make it to the casino tonite for some live pokers.
tg.
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Edit:
well that was fun, 421 hands and dropped $851.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2525334
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2525339
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2525340
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2525343
Friday, April 18, 2008
last week
in my last entry i made a goal to play 6k hands over the weekend. i ended up getting in close to 6.5k because i played on sunday as well. i'd definitly say i didn't play all too well and spewed quite a bit over the earlier sessions before reeling it in and playing a bit better near the last couple sessions. im not too worried about the poor play because it really stemmed from getting used to the newer limit. 1/2 plays a lot differently than .50/1.00 imo and i usually end up getting very spewy when dealing with a higher level of aggression than i am used to. i think my play in 3-bet pots was pretty poor and i didn't handle getting 3-bet the best at times.
so over that sample i was up a buy-in but that feels like a bit of a loss. im chalking it up to learning though and already feel pretty comfortable again. one thing i've come across at 1/2 are a couple of huge whales that buy-in full and stay and play long sessions even when they are up. unfortunately some of these guys are the ones that tilt me the most and i seem to get owned by them a lot. i did however win a couple massive pots off them when they're bluffing or overplaying there weak made hands.
last night i played about 1300 hands and ended up 2.5 buy-ins which was good. i got stacked on the first hand i played to said whale when he shoved the river for 2x pot on a 899cc 2x 8x board. i had raised pre, c-bet flop which he check/called, checked the turn behind because he folds nothing and i figure him for a small pair, flush draw or straight draw. i doubted he had a 9 just from the way he plays. so on the river he bets out my stack which is effectively 2x the pot and i am used to seeing this in mtt's and think it's a sign of strength in general. the problem is here i played with this guy the day before and made a couple calls on rivers where he did the same thing (2x pot) and caught him bluffing air, busted draws... he's also to donkish to know to stop doing it so i went ahead and made a hero call w/ AQo and he showed me 86o for the under full. doh!
edit: i wrote this a week ago so i'll just skip to now.
since my 6.5k stretch i've prob played another 2k hands or so and im up a little over 2 buy-ins during that stretch. on saturday i played a short timed session but 6-tabled and felt good about my play. i actually felt like i was on the loose side of tag but i guess i was auto-folding a lot of speculative hands while in other pots and ended up playing a 16.5/13.5 game for the 1300 or so hands i put in. yuck!
anywho, i feel pretty comfortable at the limit now and i start with a new coach tomorrow and im excited about that.
i've been reading dave "raptor" benefields blog a lot lately and it's pretty inspiring. guy is buying houses in vegas along with 100k cars and playing in bobby's room while out there. pretty fucking cool and although i don't really think i have the gambool in me to ever play at those stakes, if i shoot for bobby's room maybe i'll end up in a juicy 50/100 game some day.
tg.
so over that sample i was up a buy-in but that feels like a bit of a loss. im chalking it up to learning though and already feel pretty comfortable again. one thing i've come across at 1/2 are a couple of huge whales that buy-in full and stay and play long sessions even when they are up. unfortunately some of these guys are the ones that tilt me the most and i seem to get owned by them a lot. i did however win a couple massive pots off them when they're bluffing or overplaying there weak made hands.
last night i played about 1300 hands and ended up 2.5 buy-ins which was good. i got stacked on the first hand i played to said whale when he shoved the river for 2x pot on a 899cc 2x 8x board. i had raised pre, c-bet flop which he check/called, checked the turn behind because he folds nothing and i figure him for a small pair, flush draw or straight draw. i doubted he had a 9 just from the way he plays. so on the river he bets out my stack which is effectively 2x the pot and i am used to seeing this in mtt's and think it's a sign of strength in general. the problem is here i played with this guy the day before and made a couple calls on rivers where he did the same thing (2x pot) and caught him bluffing air, busted draws... he's also to donkish to know to stop doing it so i went ahead and made a hero call w/ AQo and he showed me 86o for the under full. doh!
edit: i wrote this a week ago so i'll just skip to now.
since my 6.5k stretch i've prob played another 2k hands or so and im up a little over 2 buy-ins during that stretch. on saturday i played a short timed session but 6-tabled and felt good about my play. i actually felt like i was on the loose side of tag but i guess i was auto-folding a lot of speculative hands while in other pots and ended up playing a 16.5/13.5 game for the 1300 or so hands i put in. yuck!
anywho, i feel pretty comfortable at the limit now and i start with a new coach tomorrow and im excited about that.
i've been reading dave "raptor" benefields blog a lot lately and it's pretty inspiring. guy is buying houses in vegas along with 100k cars and playing in bobby's room while out there. pretty fucking cool and although i don't really think i have the gambool in me to ever play at those stakes, if i shoot for bobby's room maybe i'll end up in a juicy 50/100 game some day.
tg.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
200nl so far
has been.............fairly non-existent.
i played maybe 300 hands late last week and was up about a buy-in. i sat down saturday nite to put in a huge session and ftp was down all night.
early this week i've just been crazy busy with other stuff and haven't had a chance to play. i sat down for a short session last night and lost 3/4 of a buy-in over 600 hands. i have all of tonight, tomorrow night and saturday to play so im setting a goal of playing 6k hands between now and saturday.
i bought a new 24" monitior so i now can comfortably 6 table (or more) without overlap. i'll probably keep 4-tabling for now but if i find a bunch of good games i won't be hesitant to play 6.
here's some hands from last nights session:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2413781 - nothing to do but mash the keyboard, kick the dog and through the monitor thru a window.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2413786 - the 3-bet pre is debatable and probably thin at best. i think this is something i need to work on in my game. anyways, villain is lag and might be a tad spewy post flop but i have no real hard evidence.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2413789 - i played this hand brutally. pre-flop i can't isolate raise since limper is so short but i think my hand is strong enough to limp along. i don't see any point in raising the flop so i just call. mistake 1 is calling the turn. villain was not a special player by any means and i think another lead out on this turn is two pair or better. mistake 2 is the river bet, not realizing that sets made up a large portion of his range here. puke.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2413793 - if im going to run bad, i want it to be in smaller pots like this.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2413797 - i think this is pretty standard, it's not too often im behind but if i am i had still a decent amount of equity. (34% in this instance against the nuts)
here's a real cool blog post from online high stakes pro Raptor that i really relate with and is probably one of my larger obstacles to over come as a player.
i might play a few tournies in the upcoming nights as well so it would be nice to boost the bankroll that way. i've also put in a request for a coach through deuces cracked so i'm looking forward to that as well.
gl, tg.
i played maybe 300 hands late last week and was up about a buy-in. i sat down saturday nite to put in a huge session and ftp was down all night.
early this week i've just been crazy busy with other stuff and haven't had a chance to play. i sat down for a short session last night and lost 3/4 of a buy-in over 600 hands. i have all of tonight, tomorrow night and saturday to play so im setting a goal of playing 6k hands between now and saturday.
i bought a new 24" monitior so i now can comfortably 6 table (or more) without overlap. i'll probably keep 4-tabling for now but if i find a bunch of good games i won't be hesitant to play 6.
here's some hands from last nights session:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2413781 - nothing to do but mash the keyboard, kick the dog and through the monitor thru a window.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2413786 - the 3-bet pre is debatable and probably thin at best. i think this is something i need to work on in my game. anyways, villain is lag and might be a tad spewy post flop but i have no real hard evidence.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2413789 - i played this hand brutally. pre-flop i can't isolate raise since limper is so short but i think my hand is strong enough to limp along. i don't see any point in raising the flop so i just call. mistake 1 is calling the turn. villain was not a special player by any means and i think another lead out on this turn is two pair or better. mistake 2 is the river bet, not realizing that sets made up a large portion of his range here. puke.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2413793 - if im going to run bad, i want it to be in smaller pots like this.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2413797 - i think this is pretty standard, it's not too often im behind but if i am i had still a decent amount of equity. (34% in this instance against the nuts)
here's a real cool blog post from online high stakes pro Raptor that i really relate with and is probably one of my larger obstacles to over come as a player.
i might play a few tournies in the upcoming nights as well so it would be nice to boost the bankroll that way. i've also put in a request for a coach through deuces cracked so i'm looking forward to that as well.
gl, tg.
Friday, April 4, 2008
march finale and good start to april
so march was a good month and although i only got about 13k hands i felt i made great strides in my game. i ran pretty good i think and luckily suffered most of my bad luck while playing hu at 50nl.
i had a hard time putting in good long sessions after coming back from vegas so i took a couple extra days off from playing and just did some thinking about hands and also started to run some of my bigger hands through ev calculations to see if i was getting it in good. i find the practice has helped me a great deal and it's something i will be incorporating into my study habits on a full time basis. it's sometimes surprising how little/large your equity is in some spots when matching your hand up to a specific villains range.
so my first session of the month came last night and i played 4 tables of 100nl along with the $75 7pm mtt. i lasted into the third hour of the tournament before busting like a fool and double barreling like an idiot when i probably had zero fold equity.
i put in about 1k hands of 100nl though and had my best cash day ever racking up 7 buy-ins! this actually puts me over the threshold of 8k which was my target for moving up to 1/2nl. (40 buy-ins) i actually feel ready for 1/2 so i'll give it a shot in my next session. i'm sure the larger pots/wins/losses will be larger than what im used to but in my old days of limit holdem cash it usually doesn't take long before it becomes the new norm.
i've started a bunch of datamining of the 1/2 games so that the transition will be smoother. i've been running good so hopefully i don't get wacked when i go up but that's out of my control. i think i'll probably drop back down to 100nl if by bankroll drops back to 7k.
here are some of the big hands from my last session:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2381604 - villain in this hand is a maniac and i've got notes on him from a mtt i played with him that he is rather reckless and poor. i've already stacked him once where he c/r me all-in on the turn with overs and a flush draw. i usually don't like calling here set mining but this guy was stacking off with a large range and our stacks are deep enough i think to make it profitable.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2381730 - villain is a huge passive fish that gets aggressive on the turn and river. i didn't spot that T8 got there on the river since i was set on going for 3 streets with this guy. anyways, i'm not folding top set here to a fish since he is just as likely to have some kind of junky two pair. i was pretty surprised to see what he rolled over.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2381761 - interesting hand. not a good flop for me since AK is now beating me and it's a big portion of both of villains range. when the flop gets checked thru im positive the original pre-flop raiser doesn't have a King. he's a cardrunners member and knows what he's doing and i think AK bets there a large portion of the time. turn is a brick and im pretty sure i have the best hand but check again since the 3-bet cold caller could still have a King that he was attempting to c/r with. once he checks again im pretty certain im good. i expect cr member to bet a lot of hands when checked to twice so i call and surprisingly the cold caller calls. KK could be out but i really doubted it. river i check again and its kinda disturbing when cold caller shoves his last remaining stack but i can't put him on a King here and with the odds im getting i call.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2381783 - here i bet 2x pot on the river to try and get him to call and to my surprise he jams with garbage. weeeeeeeeeeee
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2381802 - i just got to the table but i've seen this guy open limp trashy aces so i label him as bad. after i bet the turn (for value) he's only got a few bucks left so i put him in. i'd usually check this behind on the river if we were deeper but since he only called down with little money left i read him as having a failry mediocre hand. woops!
next blog post will feature my venture into 1/2!
tg
Monday, March 24, 2008
online poker in march
so my online play has been kinda minimal this month when compared to last month. i've only played a little over 8k hands this month which is far below the norm. i did however miss a lot of time because of vegas though and was too busy before leaving to put in any real good sessions.
i played some small full ring sessions before going to vegas to get out of the 6-max mindset and it sucked pretty bad. i dropped a few buy-ins over a small sample. i started playing a little heads-up as well at 50nl just because it seemed fun. well it's turned out to be fun and profitable and i've killed it over a very small sample. coming back to 6-max after the vegas trip i've done very well and am up several buy-ins there too. i'll wait to the end of the month before i post exact numbers but this month is looking good over very few hands. i've taken a different approach at the hu tables targetting mostly players that are sitting at tables with less than a full buy-in but more than 40bb's. it's worked out quite well as it's an early indicator of a poor player and often times i get these guys to go off for multiple buy-ins. one guy i sat down with had like a real random amount in front of him equalling roughly 45bb's. i stacked him like 10 hands in and he immediately rebought full. i stacked him three more times for full buy-ins before he quit me. i also had a negative experience though where i was already sitting on 200bb's and a good player sat with me full. now i didn't know he was good at the time but i stack him early on and start to see that he's good and hard to play against. so after i grind a little more off him and give him about 50 hands to get his stack back i sit out and tell him "gg, i'd rather play someone else". he immediately tells me im a hit'n'run artist which bothers me so i sit back in and plan on playing him for a few more minutes. i then stack him again so i feel like i have to stay for even longer now. so about 25 minutes later im sitting on 100bb's, he's got all his money back + my other 100bb's i had initially and sits out saying he'll be back. i left the table and chalked it up to a lesson learned. while i try to be cordial during hu matches and give people ample time to get even or let them know ahead of time when im quitting, i shouldn't put it ahead of my own priorities and that's maximizing my EV.
my all-in equity in hu pots is horrible and i've had some sick suckouts but to balance it i've been winning lots of races in my 6-max games. i had a sick cooler the other day when i raise/called pre w/ QQ and flopped a set on a KQxhh board and got it all-in to see KK. but to get it back i squeezed w/ KK and the initial pfr just called which i immediately thought had to be AA. he was just too tight for it to be anything else. alas the flop came K high and i doubled through.
i also played a bunch of wsop sats on ftp the other night with no avail. i used my saved up rakeback money to replenish my account of the buy-ins so that i can keep building towards the 1/2nl jump. i think when i jump to 1/2 i will also move up to .50/1.00 hu since it looks like there are a bunch of softies that buy-in for 40bb's. ideally i think i'll always keep my hu stakes below that of my 6-max stakes since the extra variance can be a total kick in the nuts.
i've also got the itch to play plo again but im staying with my goals of learning nl cash before i start to dabble in that again. i went back and looked at my pokertracker plo and saw that i dropped 2.6k playing 100plo so obviously its not a very +ev game for me. i think i'll make myself wait till i'm at least winning at 2/4nl before i will venture into 50plo or something like that.
anyways, hopefully i'll get a 3 or 4 more sessions in before the end of the month. i might also play some tournies and wsop sats using rakeback money when the time permits. i might actually have to play 5 or 6 sessions before the end of the month to keep up with the ironman promo requirements. i'll have to double check that.
oh yeah, the ftp bankroll is currently at 6.7k with another 1k in the rakeback account and i think i have about 1k left in cash from my trip. not sure what i'll do with the cash but im up in the air about putting it on another site, putting it back on ftp, keeping it for live play or blowing it on random shit i don't need.
tg
i played some small full ring sessions before going to vegas to get out of the 6-max mindset and it sucked pretty bad. i dropped a few buy-ins over a small sample. i started playing a little heads-up as well at 50nl just because it seemed fun. well it's turned out to be fun and profitable and i've killed it over a very small sample. coming back to 6-max after the vegas trip i've done very well and am up several buy-ins there too. i'll wait to the end of the month before i post exact numbers but this month is looking good over very few hands. i've taken a different approach at the hu tables targetting mostly players that are sitting at tables with less than a full buy-in but more than 40bb's. it's worked out quite well as it's an early indicator of a poor player and often times i get these guys to go off for multiple buy-ins. one guy i sat down with had like a real random amount in front of him equalling roughly 45bb's. i stacked him like 10 hands in and he immediately rebought full. i stacked him three more times for full buy-ins before he quit me. i also had a negative experience though where i was already sitting on 200bb's and a good player sat with me full. now i didn't know he was good at the time but i stack him early on and start to see that he's good and hard to play against. so after i grind a little more off him and give him about 50 hands to get his stack back i sit out and tell him "gg, i'd rather play someone else". he immediately tells me im a hit'n'run artist which bothers me so i sit back in and plan on playing him for a few more minutes. i then stack him again so i feel like i have to stay for even longer now. so about 25 minutes later im sitting on 100bb's, he's got all his money back + my other 100bb's i had initially and sits out saying he'll be back. i left the table and chalked it up to a lesson learned. while i try to be cordial during hu matches and give people ample time to get even or let them know ahead of time when im quitting, i shouldn't put it ahead of my own priorities and that's maximizing my EV.
my all-in equity in hu pots is horrible and i've had some sick suckouts but to balance it i've been winning lots of races in my 6-max games. i had a sick cooler the other day when i raise/called pre w/ QQ and flopped a set on a KQxhh board and got it all-in to see KK. but to get it back i squeezed w/ KK and the initial pfr just called which i immediately thought had to be AA. he was just too tight for it to be anything else. alas the flop came K high and i doubled through.
i also played a bunch of wsop sats on ftp the other night with no avail. i used my saved up rakeback money to replenish my account of the buy-ins so that i can keep building towards the 1/2nl jump. i think when i jump to 1/2 i will also move up to .50/1.00 hu since it looks like there are a bunch of softies that buy-in for 40bb's. ideally i think i'll always keep my hu stakes below that of my 6-max stakes since the extra variance can be a total kick in the nuts.
i've also got the itch to play plo again but im staying with my goals of learning nl cash before i start to dabble in that again. i went back and looked at my pokertracker plo and saw that i dropped 2.6k playing 100plo so obviously its not a very +ev game for me. i think i'll make myself wait till i'm at least winning at 2/4nl before i will venture into 50plo or something like that.
anyways, hopefully i'll get a 3 or 4 more sessions in before the end of the month. i might also play some tournies and wsop sats using rakeback money when the time permits. i might actually have to play 5 or 6 sessions before the end of the month to keep up with the ironman promo requirements. i'll have to double check that.
oh yeah, the ftp bankroll is currently at 6.7k with another 1k in the rakeback account and i think i have about 1k left in cash from my trip. not sure what i'll do with the cash but im up in the air about putting it on another site, putting it back on ftp, keeping it for live play or blowing it on random shit i don't need.
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