Really weird...

~1450 hands +$2000

For whatever reason that I am unable to explain maybe it was always like this but I did not notice or something, but there seems to be a unusually large amount of weird action flops/hands. Over the past few days my KK just seems to be running into AA like it's standard, it seems at least once every 600 hands or so I get a KK v AA. On top of that there seems to be an unusual large amount of action rigged flops that play themselves eg. I raise from UTG+1 after UTG limps with AKs 65bb stack calls from MP and UTG calls with 80bb stack or so. Flop comes A22 (Jin! right?) Well it seems MP has AA and I just pay him, the one outer hits (I would pay him off on a K22 flop as well obviously but when you hit the A with AK that's preety much an absolute jin hand, especially on a A22 flop)

The good thing today was that I started off by winning my first two all in pots, so right from the get go I was feeling good and was easily able to overcome the adversity that came in the middle.

Something interesting, I am playing differntly now than I was four days ago, my style four days ago is was different than the style i played ten days ago etc... for whatever reason I am playing differentley all the time (I hope this is a good thing) this is something I am begining to notice now. I remember just 4-5 weeks ago and all the time prior to that I would log on and I would preety know what I was gonna go before I even had to do it. By this I mean my play was preety formulaic with a few pinches of bluff, but now I find myself just playing every single hand differntly in every single situation, I think this is a good change. It was definatley a long time coming.

So the new plan is within this week or at latest next week to move to 5/10 NL full time and grind out another 100-200k at those stakes (should not take longer than 2 or 3 months I hope)

Memorable hands from today's session:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55008 *He probably should have gone all in on the flop... kind of stupid with one card to come.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55009 *Standard play by both people. I bet my draws just like my made hands so can't fault him for calling.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55012 *Rigged
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55013 *Very next hand, this is the definition of cold deck. I open shove because I have the image of a tilting player (which of course is not the case) and I suspect people may call with 99+ or AK
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55026 *Same table, this table seemed to have a cold deck.. absolutley unreal stuff going on here
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55027 *Again same table, back to back AA. My AA runs into KK right after my KK runs into AA to balance it out... This is really an extremley weird run of cards
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55015 *Eh... really hard to get away from AA on a king high flop, so many hands I beat. Not sure what I could have done differentley here thats +EV long term, three bet scares away weaker hands. I guess he played his hand preety well.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55029 *lol that's just about the worst possible way he could have played his hand. Obviously his plan was probably to check raise the turn, funny how donks always think check raise is the best play.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55033 *Standard



Mathematically in a full ring game the odds of KK running into AA is 25:1. Given that you get KK once every 210 hands, my KK should run into AA once every 5250 hands... which is like 2-3 times a week. It seems this week it's been happening about once every 800 hands or so varience is a beautiful thing. The funny part is that my KK lost every single time, I never once sucked out, I should win about 20% of the time but I'm 0 for 11 or so :)

Does not get worse than this.

Well yesturday I did a monster marathon 4800 hands in one day by far the most I have ever done in my life. Felt good to be able to play so many and still play solid poker untill the very end. Things were very up and down the first few hands, lost $3k won $3k lost $1500, won $1200 etc... and then came the big downswing where I was stuck $4800 at one point or something near that number. I was not supposed to win today, my KK kept running into either AA or sets, my AA never once won a big showdown only lost money, my QQ ran into either AK or KK-AA etc... I even lost races QQ v AK and vise-versa against the medium stacks. Finished the day +$2400 from my low point which is great considering I was able grind back after playing so many hands I was still able to play a very solid game.

I also just did a 1600 hand session today so I will include that here. Today I made some absolutley sick laydowns and great plays, it's incredible that I'm even making money today considering the setups that are coming my way. The good thing about losing a lot of money is that it really makes you a stronger player. I am now making some absolutley insane laydowns which in the past I feel I should have made but ended up not doing so. Also I have one 2/4NL hand, that's only because there were only six 3/6 NL tables avaliable so it was either i play some 5/10 or 2/4, because I am not running optimally I decided to play 2/4 NL. If I was running average or better, I would definatley play 5/10.

I also made the descion that I will begin playing 5/10 next month unless this cold-deck run continues for a very long stretch, which I assume it will not. But nothing is for certain, I rememebr the first week of may I lost 20 buy ins at 2/4, losing day every day of the week. I made it back almost immiediatley but I feel also now that I am a much stronger player and I will overcome this much more easily than I did in the past. I actually felt really bad after that bad run in May, because up to that point I was winning about 29 of 30 sessions if not more.

Also, even though I lost or folded (correctly) almost every single big hand today I finished +$1100 which IMO is a great accomplishment, still averaging $1/hand even though my AA/KK are losing every single showdown. When this bs clears I will destoroy 5/10 no more medium sized sessions when I'm winning so I can assure the win, there will be no more mercy I won't stop untill the job is done.

Well, there are a ton of hands:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/hand/id/1/user/492 *6 handed KK v AA is 45:1 against happening, of course that does not matter.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53776 *This is before I was running bad, still early. If this happened today I would fold.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53781
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53782 *Again I should have been able to get away from this, but Epipen has been putting a lot of moves on me I felt this hand had decent showdown value. But if this happened today I would prob pitch it.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53785 *Few hands later this is what I mean.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53787 *I thought he had AK and if he did he will always fold to a reraise.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53797 *This was about 2 orbits later, I suppose given the history I should have called, but I do not feel comfortable playing overpairs on these low drawless boards. I gotta work on this part of my game,. this is an attrocious fold.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53813
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53815 *I almost never value bet here because I can't call a check-raise but this guy was awfull.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53816 Not sure if I should have pushed this flop, there are a lot of cards that can come that will kill my action. But arguments can be made for either action.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53817 *This is insane, he chases and hits a 4 outer on a 2 pair board. This guy is loosening up against me which is good :)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53818 *Unreal hit, I'm like 99:1 favorate on the flop, but apparently that does not matter. Latey I've been loosing to a lot of these runner runner full houses.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53825 *Again... He actually paused on the river for like 30 sec. I bet the river because he was so poor and I actualy put him on a very weak ace I thought when he was taking so long I had him...
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53829 *If the queen did not pair I would pitch this, really strange play.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53830 *Standard AQ play.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53832 *Again...
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53835
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53840 *They allow me to make a cheap hand which I can overbet for value, but the cards do not fall my way.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53845 I knew he did not have the jack because he did not 3 bet me obviously no one calls a rearise with a 2 or 3 and he would not value bet any pocket pair on the river because hes scared thats why he falt calls the turn. River had to be a bluff.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53858 *Again missed multi-draw with very high implied pot odds.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53869 *He said he had AA :) Either way I can't call
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53871 *This hand I feel I played perfect, I think he would have folded to a large flop or turn bet, I knew I was way ahead and felt he may be afraid to call a large bet so I decided to extract chips in medium sized components. This is how I would play in lower stakes because the players are not smart enough to see through my plan they just look at the size of the bets.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53878 *He had quad kings. Biggest laydown I've made in my life I beleive, but it's the correct one. A ton of thought went into this, lucky I had ~90 sec timebank I used 100% of it up and decided fold is optimal play. A lot of reasoning I don't feel like writing 2-3 pharagraphs.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53900 *This play is so attrocious it's mind boggling...
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53909 *I only called turn because I thought it's conceivable he had a straight draw but he never three barrel bluffs so I had to pitch it. He said he had pocket tens.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53922 *Another lost race.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53924 *I didn't think he had the queen, obvious mis-read but his preflop call is absolutley attrocious. I suspect ooooooooooh had AK or TT-99.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53926 Same guy who called with KQ, he's a terrible player. I would have called any river bet he made. I was almost 85% sure he was bluffing with air. I think had the ten not paired up he would have pushed the river, I think he thought I had the ten and I would not lay trips.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53927 *Again..
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53932
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53938 * This is an extremley close call, I thought he may have a lower set and did not want to see a fourth spade come. He played his hand perfectly kudos to him.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53961 *Tough spot, It's hard to fold here because there's so many hands I can beat, if the 9 came as opposed to the 2 outer-ace I would have won a very healthy pot here.



Today:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/54232 *lol
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/54240 *Ok so from now on I will play my multi-draws a little stronger, he caught a 3 outer which sucks... I think he would have made a large turn bet if not all in weather or not he missed anyway. I don't know if I played this so terrible because I was allowing him to make a large mistake by staying in the pot betting large but I suppose whenever you can win a uncontested pot you should take it.
I suspect my largest mistake here (something which I changed just now) is not betting large enough on the flop, had I bet $50+ I win this pot uncontested (I think)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/54244 *Let the donk bluff off his stack. Calling the turn is a big sigh of weakness so I figured he will fire again.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/54262
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/54307 *They flop straights/sets all day
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/54316 *He donked this hand hard, theres no need to bet out like this it's not like I have JJ and it's a close race, hes miles ahead of any hand I reraise with
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/54321 *More KK v AA please. I was going to push on any non A or Q flop, I guess I was fortunate here. This guy was a complete donkey it's unreal. 50% vpip 20% PFR folding against this kind of player is incredible.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/54338 *I actually put him on exactly JT and I thought he sucked out the river, I was 80% sure he didnt have a pair. This guy used to be very tight, now hes loosening up but he is in over his head in my opinion. with 67 this is an attrocious call on the turn.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/54350 *Bet bet bet

Thoughts:
Increase size of bets. My general style is to throw in several medium sized bets I suspect this is good in most cases. I think I will have to learn to change gears and mix up my betting structure more.

Today

Today I played two sessions each ~800 hands or so, session one I finished +$1900 session two finished +$1700. Ran preety solid, when my good hands hold up things generally run very smoothly. I don't think I took any significant bad beats today, lost a few races against shortstacks, and made one mis-read with TT vs 40bb stack who had AA but that's fine. I played some really great poker today, made some good reads, and extracted very good value from my hands.

Hand history:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53484
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53430 *I thought he had bottom set, or flush draw either way ez call.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53418 *I don't know what thsi guy is thinking... my raise is a little fishy I guess he mis-read me.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53437
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53497 *I suppose I got lucky today that my sets held up against the flush draws, this balances out all the other times I lost I guess.

Thoughts:
Had a really solid day. I'm becoming very comfortable playing this style and will probably move up stakes soon, perhaps next month. I have yet to experience a really severe downswing where I finish the day -10 buy ins I suspect eventually I'll have one of these days. Worst downswing I've had was first week of May -21 buy in swing but made it back the following week. No more speculation though :) Time will tell.


Also checked out my winrate since the last time I posted it. So I filtered out the old results and this is my stats for the last two weeks or so. One thing I've changed is that I've tightened up my play. I'm only playing 25-30% of hands now, I feel I have more control that way and as a resulst I have more consistant results. I think it's more optimal for the current stakes I am playing.

Last two sessions

Played ~3k hands up about 4k back to the way it used to be. Still taking a few ridicilous beats but everything is under control now. One thing I am beginning to notice is that I'm doing very well in the 6-max tables, even with the bad beats I take in them I just seem to make a ton of money there. Perhaps the loose-aggresive strategy is more profitable in these (which makes sence). I notice some people are just massive donks and will play massive pots with complete trash so I'm calming down on a bluffing, not to the degree where I become predictable.
On another note - there's this guy who I used to play 1/2NL with - VaeSolis who seems to be putting in 10h+ daily and he's completley killing the stakes. His play is nothing special he just has the determination to play through amazinly long stretches, this guy will definatley go very far, very fast.

My hands:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/52248 * For some reason my AA keeps running into AA, this is the 4rth time this week... very weird.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/52291 *You can notice a trend I lost a lot of pots when I'm a massive favorate :)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/52251
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/52287 *Actually this is a really easy call because this player is loose aggresive - he obviously acts like he likes his hand post-flop but only hand he can have that likes this flop is AK, KQ, KJ, KT, but he raises all these hands preflop, as well as pocket tens. So in my mind - as long as he does not have pocket 4's I'm going to win this pot. I also don't think he would reraise me with a weak-king because he would be scared. I could of course be completley wrong and donk off money but it didn't happen that way.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/52267
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53095
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/52218 *Check on the flop gave his hand away completley. Also I didn't think this short-stack would reraise me with a big pocket pair preflop because he would want to extract maximum value. I had a weird feeling even preflop that he had AK.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53117
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53161
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53168

I'm also trying to qualify for that 2.5million dollar freeroll here is how I am currently doing:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53180
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/53166 *If I win this hand I would have enough chips to sail to the next round... these tourney players are attrocious. It's really frustrating going through a feird of 10, 000 and finishing 200th and getting nothing because of a retarded beat.


I should eventually win one of these, the player quality is absolutley terrible.

Very long session today

~3200 hands today played a lot of bs... you know your running bad when you'r KK runs into AA. I had a feeling he had AA because these horrid beats seem to come in bunches. I had just lost set vs set KK v AJ someone called down my massive all in bluff and now I raise preflop with KK I get reraised and warning bells go off but I chose not to listen to them :)
Today's session was preety horrid I'm only down ~$600 which is very little when you take into consideration the fact I was not playing too optimally and I was losing almost every single hand + making really terrible calls... Preety much nothing went right today it was one of them days :)
I'll post some HH's here later on when I get some time it's a little late now.

**Update

Ok so here's a few HH's from an absolutley horrible run of cards, I should have lost more I think but given the way I was running -$600 is a victory. I never tilted even though I was -$3-4k at some points I maintained composure and played the best I can play.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/51823 *Ok I think I actually donked this, this is a very draw heavy board I should have protected my hand more because they have high implied odds of they hit. He probably would have called anyway, but I misplayed my hand.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/51831
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/51833 *I actually put him on exactly QK I should have check raised all in on the turn. I supose the river play is a smallish tilt play.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/51834
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/51839
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/51847 *I put him on Ace-Junk of course he hits and checks river
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/51871
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/51875 **I actually comtemplated folding on the flop I was just so sure he had AA, but I felt that may just be premenition because I'm running poorly. It's almost never incorrect to go broke with KK but sometimes you gotta trust your gut.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/51878
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/51881 *This entire play didn't make sence. Because I didn't have any diamonds I put him on either 89 or a flush draw with maybe overcards but I wasn't 100% sure it's also conceivable he has me beat. His check on the turn lead me to beleive he has nothing and is looking to improve river = blanc so I decided to value bet my hand incase he had a weak ten, and he decides to do something stupid so I insta-call
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/51882 *Notice a pattern, whenever someone (including myself) does not protect their hand bad thigns happen :)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/51884 *Icing on the cake.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/51885 *This guy is actually a lunatic, I didn't think he would play a flush draw so passivley I think he would apply more pressure so I actually checked to incuce a bluff and insta-called.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/51887
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/51890 If he insta reraised me all in I would probably call, but he decided to Hollywood it, he waited like 2 min and then he raises all in, so obviously he has the nuts his stupidity cost him money.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/51896 Standard bluff, although I suspect a $250-300 bet on the river would have the same effect saving me $150 in the long run. But I'm not 100% sure I don't see anything wrong here it's a really close call.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/51899 *Idiot
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/51902 *Again the pattern, I donked this.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/51909
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/51914
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/51915 *lol they always check after they make a hand but bet hard without one - Donk mentallity
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/51916

Better late than never :)

Well I didn't begin playing today untill about 9:30 pm. These evening games play much different than the daytime games, or maybe I was just running bad who knows. People seem to call my bets when I had nothing and fold when I had a hand worth playing (even though I always bet the same amount). It's almost like they could see though my cards tonight. Started off my losing a few stupid hands trying to over-bluff and lost one hand T2 v 68 flop is 69262 against a very aggresive player I just could not fold this river I put him on a big overpair or missed flush.... was way off apparently. Well I started off the session losing ~4 buy ins within the first 30 min or so and managed to make it back and finish my day at -$120 (basicly break-even) after ~1400 hands .
I these evening games can be profitable but I must change gears a little maybe a couple less hands and bluff a little lighter or maybe I was just running bad... Not 100% sure at the moment, I will try to play more evening sessions and adjust accordingly.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/51448 *** Weird for some reason this guy seemed to always pick up a hand worth palying when I made a raise, not sure weather or not he was making plays at me but he made a lot of money from me.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/51478 *Standard blind vs blind play. It seems to be consistant that people are overplaying complete trash in the blind wars, I just made this bet because I know he's not capable of calling it. Worst hand he can call with I think is AJ, but he would raise PF with AJ so it seemed like a really high % bluff.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/51481
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/51487 *I never picked up a read on this guy untill a few hands after this... Apparently he's a loose aggresive dumbass who bluffs at most pots he chooses to play in, had I known this, I woulda insta-called.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/51489 *I actually put him on AK I just didn't think he could call the check raise after the queen fell... because there's no hand I'm raising with that he beats. I sucked out obviously (if I didn't hit the 8 I would check fold because if he calls the turn bet he calls my river bet 85%+ of the time)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/51512
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/51510 *Moron worst played AA, I was value betting the river I was 80% sure I had the best hand... this is terrible play by him on every street.

Stupid Interenet....

I played ~800 hands today, my interenet kept screwing around with me and it just was too much of a hassle to continue... Only managed to squeeze in ~800 hands only made $1300 which really sucks. First thing tomorrow I'm going to try and fix the problem because this is definatley out of line.

Multiple Sessions

Ok so I've decided to play 2 or 3 sessions per day as oppose to one long marathon session which is quite draining. Each session will be ~1000 hands and I should be realativley fresh for each one which is good.

Session 1:
984 hands
+$2850

Hands:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/50510 (This guy is a station - I'm not going to race with him, when I could easily make my hand for free basicly and value bet it)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/50515 (I actually don't know this player but after the turn bet I thought he had AK or AA wasn't 100% sure, but after the river bet I knew I had him beat because AA would not push after this river. He knew he was beat and he knew he had to bet to win, unfortunatley I knew this too)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/50517 **lol
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/50523 Weird hand, I didn't think Daut would check AK on this flop. He played it very weird... I was actually contemplating fold because I couldn't think of a hand I could beat. Preety much a curiosity call.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/50524
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/50525

**Also on another note, you can check out Straate's blog or Cutsss, about 6-7 months ago we were all playing 0.25/0.5NL together, good to see other people having success.

** God damn the last 2-3 days my interenet keeps shutting on and off after 7pm - I assumed it would stop but it's still going on today, works for like 5 min then stops for 5 min and it alternaes like this... so I'll prob have to get a 2nd interenet service provider. ATM I'm using Rogers Cable, I'll probably get Bell sympatico DSL. This is really begining to get frustrating...

Books arrived

Today in the morning I received four books : Harrington II and III, Ace on River, and the new Sklansky book. I spend some time today reading Ace on River and managed to read the whole thing, really interesting book. He does not discuss bland boring stuff that we all already know but focuses more on other aspects of the game no one talks about. Things like poker-lyfestyle, pschycology, mental awareness, how long to play, game selection etc... Really good read for any intermediate+ player.

This book really gives me a new found respect for Greenstein and other proffesional players. You do not know how much of an ameteur you are untill you compare yourself with one of these poker "giants". Really great stuff.

I was realy exepecting to put in some heavy hours today but I was really looking forward to checking this book out, the other three I will eventually read but not immiediatley. In fact I'm least looking forward to reading Sklansky, it's the equivalanent of reading an encyclopedia. I think I said I will play this week preety hard unless some kind of distraction presents itself and it has, but I didn't order anything else so I don't see anything distracting me from tomorrow to the end of the week, so starting tomorrow I will get back into the groove.

Been Buisy...

The last few days I have not played much poker, I've been buisy with other things... I suppose the problem with being self-employed is that no one ever forces you to work, you must be self motivated. So the last 4 days or so I'm only up ~4-5k which is decent I suppose but no enough. Tomorrow I may go out too, but after that I will have a free week without distractions, so I will put in some very heavy hours. Hopefully I will log in 20k+ hands in this upcoming week since each hand I play is worth ~$1 I should be able to make 15-20k if I put in the required amount of time (hopefully). We will see.

Played a few hands today:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/49446 I probably shuld have reraised preflop I think. I have not played 6-max in a while since the majority of 3/6NL is 9-handed. But Pokerstars seems to be introducing more 6-max tables I guess people are requesting them so I may get back into this.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/49454 Standard bluff induce.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/49471
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/49537

I decided to play a little passive today. For whatever reason everyone just decided to play very aggresive so I played the opposite which is something I hardley ever do. I almost never check sets but everyone just kept firing after every check so I decided this was the optimal play.

Last 2 days.

Day 1

I didn't post here yesturday because I was running an extremley long session I logged in ~4500 hands (which is the most I've ever played I beleive) or so and the resut was incredible. -$3000 Which compared to the size of my bankroll is very small but it was demoralizing watching everyone of my hands get outdrawn or having my KK run into AA etc.. The last few weeks I've been running standard meaning my good hands hold up a solid % of the time a few bad beats here and there but nothing unexpected. Today was the complete opposite 80% favorate meant I'm losing 80% of the time... something I much rather get behind me as soon as possible
and move on to the next day :p
A lot of hands today you gotta see it to beleive it :) I still won a ton of hands because I'm an action player and no matter what happens I will get my share but I didn't get the share I deserved today.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47534 (Really weird line by him - I think I should have folded to the 3-bet)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47763 (He got trapped preety hard but of course the 4 outer hits)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47773 (This hand really pissed me off because if you look at the stack sizes if I hit my 8 or the flush I win his entire stack. Because he has the Ah he will not fold if a third heart falls. In fact this is a terrible flop call by him in my opinion I'm reraing into 2 people, this is almost never a bluff most of the time I will have a 2 pair or a set here. Hell even if the ten made trips on the river or I somehow got 2 pair I would have bet $500-600 and I garuntee he will call)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47734
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47749
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47702
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47701
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47690
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47633
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47550
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47551 (I probably should have folded here, a push is ok because no matter what they have I have outs, but BarnDogWins is a really tight player, He's not flatcalling with a flush draw because I have the Ad so he has to have a set or overpair + the check raise form the other guy... eh this is a gamble gone bad I suppose)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47555
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47571 (I'm really proud of this call, calling all in 6 high flush in unraised pot = really marginal play in fact this is the lowest possible flush if he has ANY other flush he beats me but I actually put him on QQ-AA because he limped UTG I thought about it very long)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47574
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47584 (I'm wasn't good enough to fold this, I will have to later on it's so clear I am beat, only donkies call value bets)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47596
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47601
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47617
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47620 (I think this was terrible, if I was playing this hand today I would probably fold. I suspect this was a frustration call I mean there's no hand that he keeps betting with that I beat)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47651
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47641 (Rigged 1 outer)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47652
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47675
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47692
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47722 (I actually put him on king high flush draw with no pair, really gusty play because it's an unraised pot)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47748







Day 2

Today I logged in ~3k hands, unbeleivably first 1k hand or so were like yesturday all over again... the bs just kept coming but I decided to grind it out and finished the day +$2700 even after starting the day -$1500. I made some absolutley insane reads today. I usualy make alot of good reads in general but I don't trust them as often as I should today I decided to trust my gut a little more. I still made some bad calls I will continue working on this

Felt like a great poker session, here are some hands:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47977 (**** BIGGEST LAYDOWN OF THE YEAR*** Folding KK preflop is almost the equivalent of folding set vs set, it's just something that no one ever does. Especially with my image, people play back at me with all sorts of garbage. I'm not 100% sure if he had AA because he did not show or tell me afterwards but this fold felt correct)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/48088 (Good call if you think about it there's almost no way I'm losing here, the reasoning I posted: People dont raise ACE-JACK under the gun, or if they do they don't call a reraise with it. Only hand that he can raise with that beats me that he can call a reraise preflop with is JJ, so if he didn't have quads I have him beat.)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/48082 (Standard A on river)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/48011 (Again another bad play by me.. I felt he was block betting AK and I could extract more value, but when he reraises me I should have folded I think, I don't think he 3 bets with just the 6, he must have the nuts here I felt he did but I called anyway)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/48016
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47990 (I don't know if my line is good here, I put him on QQ, JJ or AA, so I was either way ahead or way behind, I suspect I should have potted flop and reevaluate based on his actions)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47991 (Not a big pot, but funny :))
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47976 (Even after he hit his 2 pair I'm still the favorate omg but obviously I don't catch up)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47993 (Ok so I under'bet every street... It's somewhat of a drawless board only KJ really scares me, every time I'm not aggresive enough I seem to loose... I see the pattern )
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47961 (I post this because I folded the nuts standard fold thou)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47942
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47966 (If he reraises me on the flop he avoids this entire hand, mistakes can be very costly)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47972
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47975 (Worst played KK I've seen in a while, wtf is he doing playing here)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/48000
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/48013 (JaBlue is insane I check to induce a bluff, this guy really does not know when to stop)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/48031 (I assumed it was a split... I can't beleive he bet the river, I should have just shoved the turn I think this guy would have called it's incredible)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/48070 (I only make this play against good players, Daut44 is one of the few people who falls under this category this guy is very discplined)




Thoughts:
Trust my instinct more :) I'm making a lot of good reads but I end up paying people off anyway which is not a good thing

Short day =)

Well it is Sunday so for anyone interested here are my PT stats the last 4 days or so. This coming week I will play a lot more hands, any distractions should be out of the way. Im hoping to log in ~15k or so which would mean a little over 2k a day. 9-10k a week is ok but in order to build my roll I will definatley need 15k+ a week so it's definatley important to log in more hands. No more slacking off ;)

For whatever reason maybe the rain outside or something I just wasn't feeling poker but I did not want to slack off and not play... so I decided to do a short 800 hands session. Made ~$2100 quickly and just called it a day. I should probably continue today because the general play on weekend is really weak and you can make a killing but that's fine I will always get them later. I can feel my play becoming better though - I am making less "donk calls" and getting better at identifying situations which I can make a play eg. detecting weakness. But I am still not extracting a lot of value from my made hands perhaps it's because I always move all in, but I also do this with big / missed draws so my overall play is consistant. Not sure weather or not I should try to value bet I will think about this a little more I suppose.

Not many hands, I actually never played any all in pots today so I will post hands that I thought were interesting.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47263
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47265
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/47264

Good day

Well yesturday I was cold decked so naturally to balance that out I should have a killer day today no? Today I played ~1500 hands +$4382 preety good results. I'm happy with the way I played just about every hand except one, I called all in preflop with AKo for 150bb's... I had my reasons but I'm not sure if this was correct felt really marginal he ended up having KK and I failed to improve $1800 pot :/ Everything else is running smoothly I'm slowly perfecting my hypo-aggresive style I still make a lot of bad plays and have leaks to correct. I think I will continue to play 3/6 for the remainder of the month even though I currently have the bankroll for 5/10 but I'm making good money at these stakes + I feel I have a lot of work to do on my game. Besides 2-5k a day is not bad anyway. I'm not complaning I just try to aim very high never limiting myself.

There are other players who do move up stakes very fast using 20 buy in rule or something close to that. I do not do this, I think my slow route (100+ buy ins) is more safe and it enables me to collect a lot of usefull experience along the way. Had I moved to 5/10 playing tight-aggresive I would probably have never discovered this hypo-aggresive style and I would be winning marginally and be stressed out grinding against other tight players. Amazingly enough I'm still maintaining a double digit ptbb/100 which is good :) If I can do this for a sample size of 50k+ hands I think that would be one hell of an accomplishment.

A couple of hands from today's session:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/46754 (Weird I had this guy pegged as a tight player, this hand made me change my opinion of him)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/46755
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/46757
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/46764
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/46772 (This is the AK hand)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/46786
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/46804
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/46818
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/46823 (Nice mini reraise =) )

Cold Decked

Haha it was bound to happen I guess, KK vs AA, QQ vs KK etc... a lot of real BS going on today, + I was losing just about every coinflip possible. I don't think it is possible to win with the cards I was dealt today :D So I finished +50 for the day or in other words - break even.
On another note today's session felt weird, I dont think I was playing my best (or at least that's how it felt) I didn't actually make many terrible calls but something did not feel right today, I can't quite explain it.
Some memorable hands:


http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/46428
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/46440 (It's funny when you'r running bad your kings always run into aces lol)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/46443
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/46445
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/46446 (I think I should have folded the flop, this hand didn't feel right)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/46448
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/46450
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/46455 (This one is weird I'm not sure if I played this correctly or not, he obviously can't have AK I coulnd't put him on a hand and I decided to call out of curiousty - my hand has decent showdown value not great though)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/46464
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/46477 (I played this poorly - I should have reraised harder on the flop and won the hand right there)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/46490
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/46491
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/46489 (I think I played this hand well, absolutley impossible to put him on KK, I was 80% sure I had the best hand by the river here. He played his hand terribly this guy is an extrmley weak player now I know)

Holy Crap

Well I'm continuing to polish my style adding a few hands to my arsenal little by little and wow it's really working out well. I did make some absolutley terrible calls today that I currently regret. Sometimes you get this guy feeling your beat but you can't get yourself to fold and after you call he shows exactly what you thought he had and you'r sick to you'r stomach about it.. That happened today I had a bad feeling this tight player flopped top boat vs my trips and I just completley donked off my money...
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/46112


** I made a note earlier to trust my instincts and they were telling me to fold, but somehow I convinced myself he could have AA/KK which given the pre-flop action is completley impossible this is a terrible play because he would reraise with AA/KK I think I'm behind here 80% of the time if not more, terrible.

A couple of hands from today :
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/46083
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/46123
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/46129
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/46133 (I'm really proud of this one, I played it very well)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/46140

Today I played 1371 hands 34% VPIP (9 handed) 23% PFR 13.49ptbb/100 +$2300 Preety decent stuff my win-rate is almost double what it used to be since I've changed my style... that's insane :). I'm also going to make an effort to correct my sleeping patterns I'm going to bed very late and waking up 2-3pm, which is something I am not proud of, I will try and wkae up at least 10-11am, not right away, I will try to wake up a little earlier each day (maybe 15min) untill I eventually reach my desired goal.

Also I will try and make it so when you click on a link it takes you to the site, I'm not sure how to do this at the moment, but once I figure it out I will update it.

Loose Aggresive

I'm gonna spend a lot of time perfecting the new style I have chosen to play. Loose aggesive is a very difficult style because you must constantly play pots with marginal holdings. Ever since I've been playing loose aggresive (for whatever reason) I've been taking a ton of bad beats but I've been getting action with my good hands too which seems to make up for the bad beats.
Since my switch my new stats are:
31.71 VPIP
12.35 ptbb/10
22.26% PFRaise

+ I'm winning ~80% of the hands I play which is good. My showdown % is only 44% but I win a ton of uncontested pots. Today I played ~1550 hands +$2200. I will try to play a longer session tomorrow, hopefully 2000+ hands.

This new style is still somewhat incomplete I think, I need to play a few more sessions like this to see if I can maintain this. Althought as is, I thik I should be able to achieve this because it's not like I'm running well, I still loose set over set, overpair vs overpair etc... I am losing more pots than ever but I'm almost winning a lot more so on a break-even day where the cards don't slap me in the face I should be able to do very well. I hope :)

I also wanna give props to fumbo420 and xxthejokerxx for inspiring me to develop a new style. I'm not as crazy as Joker or as tight as Fumbo but somewhere in between. Even though you probably don't read this I gotta give credit where it is due.

Tough

Well the past few days there's been a lot of stuff going in my house that has prevented me from playing eg. painting walls (the room smells like paint and I'd prob get high or something if I stay in there too long :/) so I was unable to play today and maybe tomorrow as well :( . I do not want to start slacking off however... once this is finished I plan on putting in some heavy hours.

Not feeling tournies...

Sure my results are decent but I have a feeling after one month of pure tournies I will have no more desire to play tournies anymore... I much perfer cashgames - I consider myself a cashgame player first and foremost. Even if I do bring in one big cash I don't see myself doing this longer than I have to.

I'm not giving up or anything like that... but I won't spend my whole day trying to grind these low-mid buy in tournies which have almost meaningless payouts ($2-3k for first place = dirt change) It's really difficult to come top 2-3 in a tourney but that's where the money is located, 6th outa 1300 is just a waste of time. So I will return to cashgames and only play higher buy-in tournies.

Iv'e worked very hard becoming a good cashgame player - Not to say I can't play both but I really do enjoy the cash more, the profit is more consistant and I feel I'm accomplishing something as I move up stakes, whereas I can play the biggest online tourney and loose QQ v TT and just sit there thinking "WTF", gotta wait for next week for another chance... If you play well the results will come with time, that's for certain. If I keep putting in my money with the best of it in these tournies eventually I should have a big score, but I doubt that big score will be much larger (if at all) than consistant grinding at the cashgames.