Taking a break.

I've really been doing too much poker-related stuff - playing, watching videos, reading etc... and I felt I needed a break just to clear my mind a little so the last few days I' just chilling. When I return I'll decide what to do.

Weeeee (Day 7)

Okay so today I played ~4100 hands and finished +$4100, first 10+ buy in day in a long time. I made the money in bunches which is interesting but not unexpected seeing as this is how it generally goes for whatever reason. I made another adjustment to my betting strategy today, now I just randomly mix between 3-4x raises regardless of # of limpers I invite people to call and make mistakes. I say random but one thing I will almost never do is raise 3x on button wiht 3 limpers already in pot, in such extreme situations I'll make the 4 bet.

A lot of my money today was made through small-medium sized pots, I was just really solid value from just about every type of hand weather it was 2nd pair, top pair weak kicker it made no difference.

Hand histories from today: (today I seemed to play really aggresive post-flop because I found people were just not folding, so I decided to extract maximum value)



http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/63347
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/63350
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/63352 *lol, I wonder if these people are surprised that they lost the pot, who knows =)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/63377 *I like my line here, only thing I should change I think is a larger flop bet, maybe 60-70%
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/63379 *Maybe I should have check-called, I thought I had more fold equity here.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/63380
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/63394
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/63399 *For whatever reason I put him on a straight draw Qx, I really thought X was A and not a pair. It didn't make sence for AJ, JK to play like this or even 2 pair.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/63404 *He called 30bb ($120) preflop with KQ suited wow.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/63409 *Big laydown for me, I almost never fold flushes. But I honestly did not feel good about this hand so I pitched it. I'd say this is ~50/50
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/63422 *Table talk
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/63425
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/63427 *lol why does everyone auto-slowplay these hands it makes no sence.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/63428
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/63431
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/63432 *Poor guy gotta go broke here.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/63433 *Slowplaying works sometimes, this is one of them.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/63434 *I thought he had either flush draw or T9, obviously I play like a wuss when I'm out of position but on the river I was preety sure I was good.



Goal:

84600 left - 4100 = 81500 hands left to play in 28 days :p

Day 6

These are my 2/4 stats so far since this goal has began. Funny Radiohead msg'd me saying "Tom you'r tightening up you'r vpip is only 28 over the last few thousand hands" Funny guy.

Played ~3600 hands today really weird stuff. I think for the first time in a while I got a little bit tilted. This guy VaeSolis + a few other people kept reraisng me almost every single time I entered a pot. For a while I was just folding letting them have it, but they kept firing. So after a few hundred hands of this I think I got frustrated and I ended up going from ~+1$600 to -$1000, which is just a massive swing for 2/4. Of course I kept playing, I wanted to play through it and I did. I went from being -1000 to +2k by the end of the evening. But had I not gotten frustrated this could have easily been a 3-4k day.

It's a good learning experience though, because up to this point no one has ever challenged me yet. Everyone has been playing like a pushover, change is good. Not being able to adjust quickly enough cost me, but it wont again (hopefully).

Hands from today:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/62957
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/62967 *I never knew where I stood here, but he really overplayed his QK
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/62981 *Terribly played QQ, he deserved to lose the way he played it :/
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/62990 *I was 80% sure he had AK, really unfortunate hand. I like my play here though
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/62996 *Good read, bad result.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/63010 *Again
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/63022 *For whatever reason I felt this player was just stone cold bluffing. We had been bluffing back and fourth a lot winning pots with 3rd pair or even ace high. Only hand I was worried about was pocket tens, but I don't think he would limp in from the SB with TT, so I felt he was just making a play and insta-called this.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/63023
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/63029 *Rigged river... if the river is anthing else I can get away from that $120 bet, but I'm forced to call here.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/63031 *I obviously could have gotten more value here, but this is an extremley tough spot.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/63034 *Normally I push here, but I felt I had no fold equity. I'm getting better than 2:1 on every street, and I would have pitched the river had I not hit.


Goal:

88100 left - 3500 = 84600 hands left to play in 29 days :p

Day 3, 4, and 5

Did not play very much over the last two days, I've been buisy. But they will be included in the challenge. If anything they will make it more interesting :) Overall I've played ~1700 hands and I'm up ~ $3000 or so. So this weekend I'm going to have to hit the tables very hard, and hopefully get in 10k+ hands.

Also on another note this new style I'm playing is working out extremley well, it's a more passive/cautious approach but because I have such a big edge over most of these players when it comes to post-flop play there's no real reason for me to play big-bet poker. This concept was actually introduced to me when I was listening to Daniel Negraneau's video blog ( www.fullcontactpoker.com ), and his presentation in the World Poker Conference ( www.thepokerbay.org) He made a few really intesting points. "If you'r mother had to play Phil Ivey in a heads up match tomorrow, and she knows nothing about poker, how would you go about teaching her how to beat him? Answer is preety simple, just go all in every hand. Phil Ivey's monstereous post-flop skills are now completley meaningless and he is forced to race in order to win. Mom could probably end up winning ~30% of the time.

Since the last week or so I've been overly-aggresive (I found myself getting more aggresive with each session) I think I reached a climax where I was just racing for stacks which is not my style. Since I've calmed down my varience is now squeeky low and I'm playing poker again.

Todays session was short, I will save myself for the weekend where I plan on ripping it up. I played ~1550 hands total and finished +$2500 nothing special.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/61609 *Tried to keep the other guy in the pot, had the guy with AQ not folded the turn, for sure I would have stacked him on the river not that I'm going to complain about the outcome anyway.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/61611 *I'm in a mode now where I'm just taking flops. If he's raising with something like AJ or KJ I don't want to force him out preflop.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/61612
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/62572
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/62576 *His line didn't make sence checks twice then reraises, obviously I lucked out here. But had I not hit and he still leads on the river I probably pitch this hand.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/62586 *Crazy straate
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/62607 *I think I misplayed this hand. I should have definatley reopoed this one and isolated Zan who'm I have position on.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/62616 *Can't win em all. He calls 3 bet on the flop with A6... that's just incredible...
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/62626


Goal:

89800 left - 1700 (last 3 days) = 88100 hands left to play

So far 5 days 12k hands, definatley not gonna cut it at this pace... gotta hit it up hard this weekend and make it up.

Keep it coming..

Day 2

Well I assumed eventually I will stop running bad and getting these rigged flops, but apparently it was just the beginning. Today's beats were almost worse than yesturdays because I often got my money in with the best of it and ended up getting sucked out to 2 outers. I played ~3400 hands today which is a solid number, I feel I could play a little more but I'm going to be downloading high stakes poker episode 11 so my connection will be used up. Started off my session good, won the first two all in pots, and then the string of bullshit happens again, amazingly enough I finished +$1200 today. If my hands held I could have easily been +3-4k but
I don't mind, I'll take what I can get I'm not a greedy guy.

I've also adjusted my style a little, this new change really helps me out a lot, I think it's something I should have stuck with (I used to do this but then I stopped). I am now raising less preflop, especially in position, so I get more action and I can control the size of the pot accordingly. Because pots grow exponentially lowering you'r opening bet by 1-2bb's really allows for better post-flop play. And this is where I feel I have my largest edge over most people. By playing big-bet poker the playing feild is neutralized and my edge becomes smaller. Because of this my varience today was extremley small, even though I took a ton of bad beats all in one long string I was never stuck more than 1 buy in from my original starting point.


Hand history's from today:


http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/61139 *Funny I do a 4x pot bet and he honestly thinks his ace high flush is good :) Looking back at this, I susepct he would have probably called an all in bet. There are some people who will just never fold even when it's so obvious.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/61181 *This is just 100% rigged
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/61238 *Yay I have AA :) AA is only a preflop favorate when you'r not running bad ;)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/61240 *Weird I felt he had the overset when he min check raised me, but I suspect he would play AA/KK the same way as well.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/61248 *Standard
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/61265 *I suppose this is my mistake, I should not have reraised the river... but this player is a complete donkey he would play AK, A9 etc.. the same way
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/61266 *I was initially just trying to pickup the hand preflop, but I hit a dream flop and went with it. Kudos to pooruser on the good read, if he ended up winning with jack high this woulda been a sick hand.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/61272 *Icing on the cake =)



Goal:

93 200 left - 3400 today = 89800 hands left to play

The goal is moving along smoothly. At this rate I will finish ahead of time, and more importantly I will have developed the discpline to play long sessions, completing this will really help me grow as a player this is something I have been lacking for a long time.


Also on another note, I'm extrmley proud of my play today, I find it amazing I finished in the (+) even with the number of suckouts I remember at one point I was thinking to myself, "geez here we go again" but I grinded it out and pulled together a preety solid session. I'm wondering maybe I can start maiking 3-5k a day once I get a break-even run of cards and maybe... just maybe even a good run of cards? We will see.

WTF is going on....

Today I played the longest session of my life, and the results were attrocious. I started off like a roller coaster up and down highest peak was ~+2k lowest point was -5k or so finished the day -4k which is really bad considering my session was 6.7k hands.

I'm checking my pokertracker apparently I'm down 5k at 3/6NL over 2000 hands today and +1k at 2/4 over 4.5k hands... either way these results are attrocious. This is a really weird run I'm in... I keep getting these one outers where I get AK v AA and flop will come A72, nothing I can do about that.... I just gotta get stacked... I'm also finding that I'm losing KK v AA way too often, QQ v KK, overpair vs set. It's really weird, I have not been on such an attrocious run in a very long time. Last time was first week of may where I lost 20 buy ins playing 2/4NL full ring. I hope this will not intrude with my goal... but running bad is definatley less motivation to play.

Ironic thing is that I always over-roll any stake I play even though I almost never run bad, a bad run for me is losing 2-3 buy ins generally which is always less than 2% of my bankroll but now it seems like it was a good move doing this.

My original plan was to play 5/10 once I polish up my short handed ability and take stabs at 10/20. But it seems there will now be a change of plans because I never immagined so many setup flops and bad beats. It's almost funny, if I'm winning on a flop I'll get sucked out, but if I'm losing then it's one of those sitations where I have what appears to be the nuts but I'm drawing dead like AK v AA A76 flop etc..

I honestly am considering playing some full ring as I seem to almost never run that bad over there but I think things will work themselves out...



A LOT of hands today, I will not explain many of them as many of them are preety standard.


http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60889
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60697
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60700 *Setup I felt something fishy about his play, terrible play by him.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60708
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60710 **I was on a rush here so I decided to play Q6s, I actually almost broke even here because the ten 8 guy called
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60715
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60717
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60718 *Again, I hit the impossible card.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60726
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60727
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60732
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60741 *I have no idea what some of these people are thinking seriously wtf
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60763 **100% SETUP - I do not go broke here unless the queen comes, in fact I would probably check/call medium sized bet and fold to a big bet.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60775 *I guess I should have folded the turn... stupid play by me.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60778 *Again, WTF are they thinking
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60790 *Shit like this going on all day, you may notice I have a decent sized stack, but I ended up losing it.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60793 *One of the few hands I misplayed today.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60795 *Again, wtf is he thinking.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60796 *I do make the most of my good hands at least ;)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60797 *This hand really pissed the shit out of me, not because it's AA v KK, but because they teased me with the K on the turn. That really pissed me off, this is almost like an insult. So many setup boards and now this shit.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60805 *Amazing how I still maintain my composure after this shit
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60809 *This hand annoyed me too not because of the post flop play, but because people call $30 with a trash hand like A2s and hit monster flops like that, really was begining to annoy me.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60812 *Another setup flop... I actually felt he may have it on the turn but it was realativley cheap. What bothers me here is that he checks the river, wtf.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60813 *I actually won a hand...but of course I lose the main pot...
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60814 *I thought I would try something differnt and smooth call a raise, and he hits his 2 outer... absolutley unreal...First time I attempt a different play and he hits a set...
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60818 *Sigh 95-94% favorate on the flop is not enough.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60819 *This is bad beacuse the ace paired on the river and I could not put him on a flush because he was a loose-cannon, if the ace does not pair up I fold this...
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60825 *Hey look I won a hand!
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60828 *Honestly, if you read the HH I cannot pinpoint how I lose money.. these people play so terrible I don't get it... Again wtf are some of these people thinking.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60834
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60841 *I cannot beleive he bluffed me out of a sidepot with a man all in... this is really bad play. I just assumed this is one of those spots where he cannot bluff.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60846 *Again they tease me, this is really annoying
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60858 *Have yet to win a coinflip
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60860 *A3, Honestly wtf is he thinking
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60862 *Such rigged flops, this is honestly unreal
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60865 *This one I actually could have gotten away from, but again its a very close call
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60866 *Unreal that he hits his 4, this is complete bullshit. I suppose I'm getting punished for not protecting my hand. 2nd time all night I try a differnt style of play and I get killed for it...
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60872 *Sigh
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60874 *I suppose I should have folded the river, top 2 pair + flush draw is clearly not good
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60876 *Sigh, dumbo thinks his jacks are good and of course they are.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60878 *I guess he knew it was coming and value bet before hand because this is complete bullshit
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60884 *Honestly who the hell folds here, how many 1 outer flops can come in one day, unreal...
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60885 *My play is deteriating here I suppose
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60886 *Funny part here is that somoene else in the hand folded ace-8, but apparently that does not stop him from hitting 2 pair
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60887
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60888 *Honestly wtf he calls with 4 high flush out of position and he thinks he can check raise me the river idiot
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/60889 *Unreal how this keeps hapening... unreal...

Thoughts:
I honestly don't know what to sa of my play today.. there were just so many setup flops I don't know if I could have played these hands differently, or if I should play them differnetley. For the time being I will play 2/4 untill everything balances out... then I will move back up to the stakes I should be playing. I hope this does stop, nothing more I can say.

Goal: (~6800 hands today) 93 200 more to go.

Here we go

Ok so I'm going to address one of the biggest problems with my game something that others have but I do not. Rather than making a results oriented goal I will make a volume-based goal. I play much less hands than almost any other mid-high stakes poker player I somehow make good money, money making has never been the issue with me it has always been putting in the hands. So my goal will be : 100k hands in 35 days. Since I will be playing 6-max this will not be too bad I will be able to get in a decent hand size very quickly. I figure one way or another I will end up making decent money because I have a nice win-rate.
Tomorrow will be the official day 1. If I am unable to reach my goal I will have to serve some kind of punishment, maybe donate money to charity or something like that.

100k hands in 35 days, gogogo!

Goal Time :o

Many of these other successfull other poker players set goals for themselves that help keep them motivated and focused on the game. So either today or tomorrow I am going to think of a goal and try to reach it, if this is successfull (hopefully it will be) I will do this more often. At the moment I have nothing specific in mind, it's just an idea floating out there once I figure this out I will post it up and get started ASAP. If anyone has any suggestions or something like that gimme a shout because at the moment my mind is blanc :)

Good old grind....

Again I was playing 5/10 today 8 tabling full ring. Got off to a mediocre start but then made the money back and some. For whatever reason I was not winning any coinflips today, I got a few people to fold with aggresive pushes but if they called I almost always lost which sucks :/ I played preety decent today, the hands I lost most of them preety much played themselves, and I don't see anything wrong with the way I played most of them.

After about 1300 hands or so playing 5/10 I was stuck 4 buy ins and was a little fed up that I have not yet booked a winning session (only 2 attemps not really big sample size). But I did realize full ring is a grind, the hands/hour is lower and I sometimes it's frustrating when you'r sourrounded by smallstacks or just lunatics and are forced to play ABC poker.

So from now on I am going to make a small change of plans. Rather than grind out 5/10 full ring I will play 6-handed and see where that goes. Since The weakest part of my game at the moment is heads up and maybe 3 handed. So I will go to 2/4NL and 3/6NL for a little while to fix these problems. It will be an easy learning process because I have 200+ buy ins for these stakes so rather than think about the money I will just focus on the poker which is always good.

Hands from today:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58673 *Standard. Really marginal push by him... the only hand he beats is mine but he can't know that. Can't blame him however.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58676
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58679
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58683
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58686
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58692
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58696
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58700 *Weird where do I lose money ;) That flush draw cracking my set was frustrating, Im happy that people are making such big mistakes but it sucks to lose the pots :/
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58705 *Blind vs blind... I have a really aggresive image, same guy who pushed with 87 pair + straight draw, I insta-called this this is really unfortuante. I suspect had the flop come Q high or T high he would also play a big pot with me. But rather than check raise the turn, he would check/call every street.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58725 *Again cant win money if you don't win races.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58727 *Standard 2 outer.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58794 *So here I will start playing 6-max.

It's amazing how I lose money playing such donks, but when you are losing 6:5 races and 3:1 races there's just nothing you can do but watch. So 6-max seems really good, you get about 40-50% more hands per hour and player quality is still very weak. We will see where this goes.

5/10 NL Time.

I have a comfortable BR for 5/10, I took a weekend off to clear my mind and today I decided to take a stab at it. Started off absolutley attrociously, I think I was trying to do too much and ontop of that I lost a few hands that I probably should have been able to get away from, set vs set, and overpair vs set + a few other stuff.

Took me about 1k hands to settle down (at this point I was down 5 buy ins) and I just said, "wtf and started to play care free (my regular style)" Possitive results followed, made about 4-5 buy ins after this (help with a decent run of cards) and finished the day -1.2k or so which is a result I'm proud of. +3-4k from my low point.

I should be able to win in this level at a decent rate. You can feel the regulars are slightly better in every aspect, the most noticable one is that they are very aggresive. I will make the proper adjustments and we will see where this goes.

Hands:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58353 *I think I was trying to do too much here, I've seent his guy play higher stakes so I figured I could take him off any hand that is not quads, he must have had it I guess. He claimed to have pocket tens, but im 90% sure he did not.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58356 *I actually felt he had an ace + gutshot hand or flush + gutshot , so I figured he had either 2 pair or the gutshot or missed flush, I probably should have folded though... This is probably a mistake on my part.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58360 *This is just plain retarded on his part. Did he call to hit a set? Or was he going on any low flop... who the hell knows.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58361 *I can't explain this one :) I suppose I got lucky the 8 came and the board didn't pair.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58367 *I folded the straight flush :/
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58373 *Funny how a lot of weird action always occurs blind vs blind
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58390 *Probably should have been able to get away here.... This was an impulsive call. It is however a 1 outer, because I only go broke if the ace falls, and if it was the ace of spades I would fold. Only the ace of diamonds I give action.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58393 *Retarded check raise, he has absolutley no fold equity.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58405 *This is such an obvious set now that I look at it. I was in the "he's bluffing me" mode. New stakes will do this to you, or at least me. On 3/6 NL this is an easy laydown.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58406 *Again I felt he had a set because he overbet the flop and now all of a sudden he wants to go all in, feels like a donk with a set. Again an easy fold but I could not get away...
These bad calls quickly add up you can see.


http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58411 *Played this hand perfect, had I frontbet river I think he may have just smoothcalled.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58413 *Again he limps in and calls $50 with ATs and flops the nuts... Had the jack not paired up I could get away from this, but with that pairing up I can now beat top 2 pair. He actually paused for a long time before calling, I was almost sure I had him.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58423 *Frontbet usually means really strong, I have to call here I didn't have a read, I just called because this is a weird line for a set and I can beat so many hands.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58428 *Standard open shove



It's obvious I did not bring it in the first few thousand hands, had I been playng my standard game all along this could have easily been +2-3 buy in day. But that's fine I will have to get used to the new people + styles. This should not be a problem, I will continue to play these stakes and things will pick up.

Today

Medium length session - I will save myself for the weekend games (which are extremley soft, you can make 5 weekdays worth of money in these two days)
1350 hands +$2400 (which is preety good considering I missed some all in semi-bluff draws this number could easily have been 4-5k)
Today I feel I played really well, made a lot of really good bluffs in spots where there clearly was strong fold equity. Funny thing first orbit of the day I get KK and a shortstack goes all in for $150 obviously this is an insta call - But what does he have? Of course AA :) Unlike the last 13 KK v AA's I had i actually hit a set this time and sucked out! I knew this was a good sigh, my luck is now changed.
Also on another note I probably did not post as many hands from my other sessions because I had a really weird run of cards and I lost the desire to post, but things have changed.

Hands from today:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/57503 *Attrocious play by him.... why this donkey is even playing poker is beyond me. Too many people have this mentallity "He will only call a reraise with a better hand, what's the point" That's fine... more money for me. Money saved is money earned.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/57515 *Standard it's a shame I missed.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/57540 *Again, I felt I probably should have open shoved the turn, I still like my line because it's a really tough spot for him to call here, he made the correct call (I don't know how) Kudos to GTP.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/57546 *Radio msg'd me and said "omfg I folded AA" I didn't feel he had a heart so I decided to take this pot away from him.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/57516 *Standard
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/57548 *The J6 push is really bizzare... But I had correct pot odds too call, in fact I'm getting 3:1 on a coinflip, so ez call.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/57557 *Wtf is he thinking with this flop call, I figured if he called on the flop with a gutshot it's his.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/57561 *Tough spot for him, since it's such a drawheavy board there's a lot of hands I can have which he beats. I thought he had the draw I didn't think he could have top pair here.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/57566 *Somewhat cold-decked hand, I didn't want to 3-bet the flop perhaps I should have? I'm not sure here.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/57578 *Icing on the cake :) This is why my good hands get paid off.

Thoughts:
My bankroll is really getting nice now, I'm more than sufficient for 5/10 NL I will probably play there within this week. I just wanna win my first 2-3 sessions so I feel like I'll be freerolling. If I lose my first 2-3 sessions it gets somewhat discouraging, but this time around I won't stop.

Last three days

Ok so I have not posted here in a while because I've been preety buisy the last few days and have not found the time do update this. I have not really played much in the last three days, yesturday I played 5-5NL at Casino Niagara (this is the highest they offered) and two days before that I put in about ~1500 hands/day which is ok but nothing special. So in the last three days I made $2500 playing 3/6 NL and I lost two buy ins at the casino which I will explain later on.

I've never been to a Casino before because I never really wanted to go and waste money playing slots, blackjack, or any other stupid -EV game so I just stayed out of there. Since they opened poker I still have not been looking forward to casino games but I figured I might as well try it eventually. When I was there the first thing I realized is that the player quality is absolutley attrocious, there were a few standard tight players (who were so predictable it was funny to watch) and a few loose cannons who seemed to loose at least 1-2 buy ins/hour. Given the number of hands/hour we were playing this is a really awfull rate of losing money. So I figured I would play loose against the predittable tights and tight against the donks. This strategy worked out very well, I did a ton of bluffing and I never got caught once which is really rare. Unfortuatley I never won a single showdown all night (no joke) If the hand ever reached the river I was always out-drawn.

Worst hand of the evening was I raise $25 UTG with 8d9d (my stack is $700) donk calls ($200 stack) and tight calls ($1300 stack) flop is 7dTd3s. Since I'm not in position and I figured a standard con't bet had little fold equity I decided to check and perhaps reraise a weak bet. So donk bets $35, tight min reraises him to $70 I go all in (just because tight would not mini reraise with a monster here on such a draw heavy board, this is something I picked up during the evening). He thinks for like 30 sec and calls showing 5d6d a lower flush + gutshot straight. So I have him dominated but the turn card comes 4h river is meaningless and I gotta reload :/


Actually one of the biggest problems with this game was that it was capped, I had to sit down with only $500 and if I lost a few pots I would find myself sitting with a $400 stack which was stupid. Plus the table was 10 handed which was really slow paced. But they charged $6 rake every 30 min which was ridiciously high given the number of hands we get in. These games are extremley soft and can be crushed but I can probably make more money playing online, so I'll probably do that :) Unless they fix up the casino games and get a uncapped game. I think if you'r main goal is just to make money as fast as possible 8-12 tabling online is the optimal way to go about it.

As for Pokerstarss the last few days, I've been running about average. Meaning I'm getting about $1 every hand I play. I also find myself posting a lot less hands than before, I think rather than just posting every pot that comes I will only post interesting hands that come up.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55493 *This guy raises every single pot, I just felt
he had to bet to win so I called :/ After this call check_kills told me that's the worst call he has seen in over 3 months lol
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55494 *I figured out his betting patterns a few hands after this one, everytime he goes all in he has either a strong draw or a hand with extremley good showdown value, had I known this earlier I would not have called.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55495
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55882 *Standard - If he has a set he stacks me here every time
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55885 *Most people don't 3-bet preflop with AA-QQ and for the most part it's the correct play, this is just a very tough spot for him. I think he thought I had either QQ or AA
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55896
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55904 *I had almost an exact same hand last week like this, same flop except when you'r running bad they showdown AA when your running average-good you win :)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55906 *This is a really weird hand, if he has an ace or 6 he has to call. I don't understand why he would bluff in this spot.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55917 *Probably the worst call I've made in a long time. IntrepidFox is not capable of bluffing in this spot I was just too stubborn at the time to realize that. I actually paused for a moment before betting I initially thought I would check it down and just see what he called me with for information, but I got greedy and value bet :/
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/56205 *This is exactly how not to play a set. Not only is this a bad way to play a set, why is he limping in with JJ wtf.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/56206 *Apparently my image is really loose because I honestly thought he would not do this without a set it's incredible he pushed with a hand like AQ I was really shocked. This guy is one of the very tight players on 3/6
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/56207 *I think I played the flop and turn almost perfect. I suspect I should have made a slightly larger river bet. Either way I got very good value here (especially considering it's an unraised pot) but I think it could have been a little larger.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/56208 *Again wow, I can't beleive people are pushing with such garbage


Thoughts:
I used to play my overpairs and TPTK for medium-value. But I'm noticing recently people are willing to play big pots with me with very weak holdings even stuff like medium pairs. So I think I will increase my aggresion with very strong one pair hands and see where that goes. I used to almost never play TPTK for stacks but now I realize against me people will play very big pots with weak kickers so I will try and find a way to really exploit this.