such slackage

on the posting that is. i suck and am lazy. i have however been playing a decent amount of poker of late. i think i played a little more of 50nl after the following week after my last post but then one day fired up some 100nl and have been playing that ever since.

my first session at 100nl was pretty bad and i got in a ton of tough spots where i stacked off in questionale spots. after that i went on a good run of sessions and was up in the black again. then i had another bad day and dropped close to 5 buy-ins but have come back on a nice run again and am back at a good winrate

i'm going to save the screen shots for the end of the month but i've got about 18k or 19k hands played so far this month with it evenly split between 50nl and 100nl.

on the tournament front i've only got to play two tournaments this month and didn't do too much in either. in one $26 i built up well before calling it off w/ 99 to a 3-bet shove that screamed AK which it was and lost the race. at the same time i worked my way through a 600ish person field in the $75 and didn't really have chips for most of it. when down to about 90 players i went on a nice rush and built up nicely before running AQ into AK where i probably could of folded but since i had a very lag image i went with it. during the rush my table was playing sooooo tight and the guy to my left warned me that "if he got a good hand, he was gonna play it". so w/ about 65 left and 63 paying, utg shoves like 3bb's, i'm utg+1 w/ just over 10bb's and re-ship w/ AKo, tight player snap calls and i know im done. i failed to hit and his QQ held to bust me just shy of the money.

here are some interesting hands where i got stacked from the last few sessions:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2165597 - here villain is kinda unknown but i had feeling he was fishy. my normal line here would be to 3-bet his min-raise on the flop but i decided to take a slightly different line and go for a c/r on the turn. unfortunately he checks the turn behind. on the river i decide to check again mostly to induce bluffs although the ace probably scares him from betting a Ten so i should probably just lead out. no value in raising his river bet.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2165566 - villain is an extreme fish and calls down with any pair no matter what the action. i don't think he knows there is a fold button. the flop raise is for both value and to protect my hand. i put him on a weak ace when he leads or possibly even just a bare Queen or Jack. i bet the turn for value and now start to wonder if he's maybe also got a bare diamond as well. river blank and he checks to me again, i pretty much insta-shoved for value and got quite the surprise. i was drawing slim the whole way and after reviewing the hand i find it very hard to put him on AQ/AJ when he limp/calls pre but when i check back on his stats he's raising less than 1% of his hands which means he could very well have JJ or QQ there although unlikely. missing seeing that in his hud costs me as i should probably just check this behind. the other holding he could play like this is KTo which also has me beat.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2165559 - fishy player limps and strong tag player isolates him with a raise from the button. this is a very common situation in these games and i think the button has a very wide raising range here. i think this is a fairly standard 3-bet although it's definitly on the aggressive side. folds back to villain tag and he just calls. i put him on a semi weak hand when he just flats. he could be trapping with a big hand but i kinda doubted it and put him on a more mediocre hand like AJ, AQ and mid pp's since he knows that i know he would isolate light and that i would 3-bet light. anyways, on the flop i make a somewhat smaller c-bet which i normally make in 3-bet pots pre-flop. at first i was hesitant to bet this flop because i'm not nuts about getting it in with just the flush draw and clearly behind or getting blown off my draw but this flop is really hard to hit and i think he will release the majority of his range. his raise definitly tells me he's got a hand and at this point i start to ponder whether he has AK, KQ or possibly even KK. i really think that's how narrow his range is here but he's raised small and i actually am getting the right price to see the turn and make my flush. if i don't improve on the turn i'll just dump the hand. the Ten improves me giving me a gutter to go along w/ my nut flush draw. i could shove here and maybe i should but the pot will be so big he's going to have to call even if he thinks there's a good chance he's beat. i check, he shoves but now i realize with the additional outs i'm probably getting the right price if i have a 12 outer like i expect. so i timed down and made the call but bricked out. def an interesting hand and there are many arguments to be made about every move on every street i think. in just writing down my thoughts here im now thinking that i maybe should be 3-bet shoving the flop? who knows, i'll continue to think about it and mabye even post it in the cr forums.

i'll post more thougths later,

tg