Cooler city.

I havn't been running very well at 5/10, after 4-5 weeks of playing 3/6 without a single losing session I suppose this was due. My overpairs are running into higher overpairs and or are getting sucked out on + people seem to just be picking up better hands. So the last 2-3 days have been going poorly and I no longer feel I am playing my A-game, I don't feel my edge is very big in my current state so I will drop down and regroup temporarly. It's funny how confident you become after a really good month and how quickly things can take a turn for the worse :D

3/6 is my A game so I will play it for a few days and go back to 5/10 when I feel I am good and ready.

I had two interesting hands today:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/109748 People have tol d me this is a spew but I generally don't get these wong. My thought process is preety simple: if his hand isn't strong enough to bet the turn it's not strong enough to make this river bet as a value bet therefore it must be a bluff. This board has a lot of missed straights and that's exactly what I put him on, I felt he is only doing this with a hand that has absolutley no showdown value. Also it's transparent my hand is weak and I would figure if he had anything decent he would value bet it because it's clear I'm not strong enough to call a big bet.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/109644 This guy was on tilt and I figured only a stronger hand would call a 2nd barrel from me so I decided to let him bluff off his chips. I also didn't think he would smooth call a flush in his "tilt" stage most players on tilt will repop me here with any draw.

That's all for now, also this month I've played 14k hands so I think I will reach the goal of 75k. I'm on pace to exceed this but I will certainley take days off.

Looking back.

I was browsing through some of my old hands that I posted here and reading the comments I made, and I can actually see how significantly my game and thought process has changed (for the better I beleive). While I was never very tight I am now considerably looser than before and my reads and understanding of the game is much better than it one was my winrate is almost 80% higher than it used to be as well.

My comfort zone at the moment is Stars 3/6NL. I can play this game and beat it for a very decent amount of money any time I want to. I've built a ton of my bankroll playing these stakes but I beleive now it's time for me to move up, there is not much left for me to learn at these stakes and I think I've certainley over-stayed my welcome. I've reached a level now where I hope I am good enough to beat any stake I wish to play or adapt quickly enough to be a winning player at any stake. So starting today I will play 5/10NL full time and attempt to move up higher at a much more rapid pace than before.

I've also made a friendly bet with Straate that we will play at least 75k hands this month (December), and if one of us fails to reach this number we pay the other 1k. I think if I do put in this number of hands playing my A game, I will have the biggest month of my life. So we will see where this goes. :)

Okay :)

I've had many requests from a lot of people to revive the blog, because it's been idle so long. So I figure I may do a few posts here and there but I will most likley change the format of the blog, I will just list things that I think are interesting and omit the ABC hands which I feel are not too significant.


I don't feel like spending too much time at the moment writing, but I will do a significant post int he near future :)

Last few days.

Okay so I'm preety comfortable with my heads up game I feel I I have an edge over most players but I have refused a few matches against people like Pooruser which is something I'm not happy with, but this is mainly because he wanted to play me on a day where I was stuck like 4k or so and I was too "beat up" to take on an opponent of that calibur (I don't play in situations where I have a very low % of doing well) . Had I been + for the day I would certainley play. But against weaker opponets I have been making very good money playing HU so it's good I finally got that part of my game up to "par". I still have a long way to go before I will call myself a very good HU player but I'm happy I have an edge over the majoroty of players now.

I've also started playing 5/10 recently now that I can play in almost any setting and make profit. So far it's been playing very similar to 3/6. The 3/6 regulars: VaeSolis, Meatcity, Straate are probably much stronger players than most of the 5/10 regulars (I know this is true seeing as meatcity and vaesolis both have had great success playing the 10/20 NL game). After playing with these guys everything else is will probably be downhill.

Also I'm probably gonna try not posting the ABC hands which are boring I would immagine. If you watch I've changed my opening bet to about 3x the big blind now which I find is good for my style of play. So the most recent HH's I will be posting are 5/10 and the older ones (still within the week) are 3/6.


http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75850 * One thing I noticed is that people tell the truth a very high %, so it's actually +EV to beleive them :p
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75865 *I suppose I should have repoped the flop, I think anything besides a set has a very difficult time calling.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75868 *Funny hand, rare 3 way flush. Have not seen one of these in a while.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75872 * My only read was that straate would not value bet a flush lower than Tc, so has long as he didn't have the Ac or Qc I was good. I had no idea what he had I just know what he had to have to win and he does not have this a large % of the time. Interestinly enough, I probably would have called this with AT/AQ as well.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75876 *I suppose I should just 3 bet here to decrease varience.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75898 *I insta-called here this guy is a complete maniac has been goign all in a lot and showing, just unfortunate river. My flop and turn line is preety shitty however, I'm not too happy w/ this hand.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75906 *Somewhat of a cooler, but I should have been able to get away from this river.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75961
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75963 *This hand was funny, at first I didn't understnad why the money was going to him I never saw the board being paired I thought I had the stone nuts :) Had I seen that, this would have played out very different.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75977 *I don't understand this bluff, not a good idea to bluff when a non-scare card comes. I actually thought he had KQ or missed KT/T9
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75983 *How do I lose this :)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/76040 *I have no idea what I was thinking at the time, this is an absolutley crazy play.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/76197 *I was 90% sure he dosn't lead into me with the queen so this is preety basic.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/77660 *No push on the turn because I felt there was no fold equity.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/77753 *Standard bluff call. I think I'm playing tourney's too much like cashgames, I need to play a more basic ABC style to be more successful.

WCOOP time!

Today I took a stab at the $500+50 NL Hold-em event, did preety decent. Was always chipleader at my table except then I made a critical error, I tried to get the 2nd place chipleader off top pair (KJ) and did a 3-barrel bluff but he called me down the entire way check-calling, so from now on I'll try not to get tournamanet players off top pair because none of them seem to have any discpline at all so I'll adjust and see how the other events go.

On another note cashgames went well today, I lost a few key races early on which annoyed me as I started off my session losing ~2k or so but I finished +12 buy ins so it was a solid day.

Hand history is preety ABC stuff, people were just in a "hes bluffing mode" and called me extremley light which is fine by me.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75153 - This guy is a complete donk, he does not raise on the flop with his draw but when I repop it he min reraises me leaving himself $80 behind... it's like hes not thinking at all hes just acting impulsivley. As you can immagine he left soon after.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75160 - Gogo 1 outer.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75167 - Not a good board to be pushing a flush draw, he also left soon after :)

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75172 - I was happy to win this one, this guy was talking a lot of trash after he checked down a set when I had the button he said, "no point in betting I'm just gonna check and let you kill yourself"

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75184 - I don't get this but I also don't mind it :)

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75185 - They were just playing attrocious today, pricing me in and then calling off all their chips when I hit... dream day. I wish they always played this bad.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75187 - He value bet bluffed me..

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75191 - I don't understand why he didn't push the turn, was he planning on folding if the board paired? I don't know, he played this hand very bad it was just a cooler however, nothing I can do here.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75200 - :)

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75201 - Again I don't understand why everyone is getting so fancy but I don't mind.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75221 - Trap the tourney donk.

I got eliminated from the tourney with QT MP raise (me and villian had 11k stacks with 150/300 blinds) I make it 900 to go, he calls from the BB. Flop is K77, I bet pot, he thinks and calls. Turn 6 I bet 2/3 pot he thinks for like 20 sec and calls. River = blank I shove he calls and shows KJ. :/ I didn't save the HH because I was unable to find it for some reason. But this is how it went down.

More heads up

My heads up game is really developing well I feel comfortable now playing against anyone (or everyone I've encountered so far) Except I seem to be getting destroyed in the full ring, I'm making a lot of really good plays but people are just sucking out, but when the money goes in I generally have the best of it, so I have nothing to worry about.

Once thing I need to work on is making "donk calls". When I'm reading my hand history of losing hands, I can see many situations where fold is the clear play but for whatvever reason at the time I convinced myself to call, now that I notice this hopefully I will do it at a much lesser frequency.

Today's session was medium length - 3400 hands

Hands:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/74076
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/74084 *I probably should have reraised the flop, it wouldn't have made a difference but its a better line.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/74090
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/74109 *This guy semi-bluffs too aggresiveley so it becomes transparent, I was gonna push on any non ace or heart card
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/74136
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/74139 *I thought he had a set or AA kinda funny I thought :)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/74141
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/74143 *zzz
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/74152
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/74158

Returnnnnnnnnnnnnn!

Well I stopped posting here cause I just didn't feel like doing so anymore and I thought I would play better without distractions like this :) Ironically I started playing less with each coming day, so today I played 5k hands on 3/6 SH. Finished a sweet -3k. Today I was playing a lot of HU (HU = heads up), this is what I consider the weakest part of my game due to lack of experience.

Weird thing today is I think I may have tilted, my highpoint was +2k or so, and then within the next 1k hands or so I lost like 7-8 buy ins I was really out of control my lowpoint was -5k i think but I calmed down and made back a little over 2k. I was actually making good money playing the heads up, I just lost most of it in the ring game when my multi-draws missed and overpairs got cracked and stupid bluffing when I should not have done so.

There's a lot of interesting hands, but I am somewhat tired after that long non-stop session but I will make a greater effort to post stuff here, no more slacking off :) (I hope)