feed from adam001 blog 2008-10-01T17:12:25+01:00 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 adam001 http://adam001.liquidpoker.net Have not updated for a few days - been busy. Been fairly swingy lately. Had 3 sesh's recently that went +1200 +1400 then -1200, lol. Had some tough hands in the -1200 sesh that I just could not get away from : http://www.pokerhand.org/?929220 - standard http://www.pokerhand.org/?929146 - this one hurt - river card was like almost his only money card. Pretty badly played by him imo, but shit happens. I wont go ranting on about beats so... http://www.pokerhand.org/?929130 - this is a pretty insteresting hand I played - on the turn it is clear that he does not have a strong enough hand to continue UNLESS he had reason to believe that I was also not very strong. I tried to make a bet on the turn that would make it look as though im trying to push him off his hand. He called me, and I had a feeling that he was going to try and make a play on the river when he called this bet on the turn. I quick check the river leaving him feeling confident that I was running a play. He makes his move - I shove, he snap folds. But plays like this I think are often times over-looked - and its plays like these that have been making me a ton of money lately. http://www.pokerhand.org/?929382 - This hand was another interesting one. The line I decided to take here was far from my typical line. On a draw heavy board like that i would almost always raise that flop. However given the history with the specific opponent, I felt calling was my best option and here is why. We have been sitting together for about 30-40 min. Almost every time it folds to him and he raises B vs B i call him preflop and either float flop or put in smallish raises and take it from him. When this flop came out I had a very good feeling that if i called him again he would get very frustrated and make a hefty bet on the turn that I could push rather than raising flop. That is exactly what happened and I moved him in. He made a surprisingly bad call though with only a straight draw for 170 more, I did not put him on a hand that weak - but I knew he was frustrated with me and I played it accordingly. Then on Thursday night this happened: [IMG]http://img01.picoodle.com/img/img01/7/3/27/f_Shipm_d5d02e7.jpg[/IMG][/URL] That was not an all out win - was a 2 way chop 50/50 - giving me approx 6K. Now I am rolled for 400NL - but I think im gonna spend another month or so at 200nl before I make the move - as I hear it is a lot tougher. Some thoughts on 200nl : very easy and profitable limit imo, a lot of the regulars are not very good and some are very spewy. Table selection has really improved my winrate recently as I have been now selecting tables with high VPIP %s with a decent amount of money on the table. Whereas before I was simply looking for the tables to have a decent amount of money on them and would often find myself at a table full of regulars. Anyways - will try and keep this blog updated as much as possible. Looking to put in a solid session tonight at 200nl, so updates to come. Peace, Adam text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 adam001 http://adam001.liquidpoker.net Alright so I finally decided to create a blog. Couple of my friends have done it already and I think it will be a good motivation tool to help further improve my game and confidence level. A little bit about me : I am 18 years old, live in Canada and have been playing poker seriously for about 10 months, starting with a 65$ roll and playing 25NL. I moved up to 200NL 6max about 3 weeks ago after doing quite well in 100NL. So far 200NL is going well - I have played around 22K hands and have run at about 5.5ptbb/100 :). Also what I noticed today is that I was not playing optimally while 8-9 tabling. Recently I have cut the amount of tables I play to about 5-6 and my play has improved substantially :D. Pics of PT stats and etc to come. Side Note: lol@me working at McDonalds only 2-3 months ago for 7.5cad/h. :P Peace, Adam