KingKory's Donk-A-Blog

August 3rd - 6th, 2007

Today's summary:



Commentary:

Poker can be a funny motherfucker sometimes. Up a BI+ on Friday, down almost 3 BI's this morning. Fun stuff.

Well I know most of you Eurofags can't really appreciate this, but the greatest baseball player of our - or any - generation is on the verge of breaking baseball's most coveted record: All-time Homeruns. (LOL BALCO BONDS LOL STEROIDS LOL)

I've picked up (2) tickets to tonight's game, and (4) for tomorrow night's game.

I really hope he does it at some point in these next two games, because getting to a weeknight game in the city is kind of a bitch for me, and the prices of these tickets have sky-rocketed ($75/ea for fucking bleacher seats!). This will be the 13th and 14th Giant's games I've gone to this year, and so far my record is 2-10

Content: A pair of chickens suffering a terrible beat



Top Winners:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/245723 ...

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/245724 Purdy.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/245725


Top Losers

If anyone thinks I could have gotten away from any of these hands, please let me know.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/245717 That's the last time I listen to any of you fuckers

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/245718 Fuck you...

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/245720 ...and fuck you.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/245722 COOL!

Hands of Note:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/243823 *flex nuts*

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/243827 auto c-bet

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August 1st - 2nd, 2007

Today's summary:



Commentary:

Yesterday morning, I went down a buy-in; I went up 2 BI's+ this morning. Not many huge hands, though. A few short-stackings.

Played well I think, except for the AK vs 87, and J7ss hands. I played both these hands strangely, and was stung for it.

Oh, and I just DL'd PokerEV. Here is my graph for the 30k break-even streak I'm currently going through.



Will someone kindly explain what I'm looking at, please? And how much merit do these graphs have? Ty!

Top Winners:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/243134 Slow them Kings down.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/243135 I've never been good at the whole "fold TPTK thing"

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/242442 Favorite hand of the two sessions I think.


Top Losers

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/243137 HEY GOOD FOR YOU BUDDY!

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/243138 Very strange hand. I put the guy on air/set on the turn. How bad is this?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/242452 How often should I be C/F'ing this?


Hands of Note:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/242447 PISCOGAY!

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/243140 Who fires this turn? Nice check behind btw buddy.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/242454 Bleh

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/243143 Am I getting enough value?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/243144 Misplay of the session. WHY DON'T YOU BET?! Just as bad as losing a ~$20 pot.

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Comments (1)

July Review, 2007

Monthly Summary:



Commentary:

And so ends another breakeven month. I got in a decent amount of hands considering all the RL shit/events I had going this month. I played a bland session this morning (+20) to finished the month off.

Feeling confident at the tables though; opening my 3-bet game a bit, and I've recently been calling people down lighter on the river, after the turn has been checked through, and the results are slightly in my favor I think.

After a lot of advice, I've dropped from 9 to 6 tables, and I think I like it. Gives me more chance to concentrate on each of my actions, and I can actually see the tables on my P.O.S. monitor now. One thing I've noticed after moving down to 6 tables is that my numbers haven't gone up that much at all. I've been running pretty steady at 14/12 or so. I guess I can no longer use the excuse "too many tables to play any faster". I suppose I'm a nit at heart

Here's a pretty funny hand from today: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/241937

Anyhow, here is my chart over the last 3 months, and it's not pretty. It's actually very very frustrating.



It's pretty easy to blame my 30k hand drought on badbeats/setups, so...I think I will. Fuck you Lee.

Top Month's Winners:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/241746
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/241747
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/241748

Top Month's Losers

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/241749
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/241750
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/241751

Hands of Note:

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Comments (13)

July 25th - 26th, 2007

Today's summary:



Commentary:

Pretty good couple of sessions. I was up 3 BI's at one point yesterday morning, but the AsQ hand, and some failed c-bets/2-barrels brought me down a couple BI's. I lost 2 hands where I 4-betted 2 players who I thought were isolating me. After a few orbits with them, I realized it was just paranoia.

No majorly interesting hands though.

Also, my 49ER SEASON TICKETS came in yesterday. Very excited for the season.

Top Winners:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/238004 yannh = dum dum.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/238700
10 TAF I really didn't put him on a 6 here when I checked.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/238702
...standard.


Top Losers

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/238703
My only stacking in the two sessions. Consensus here was flatting the turn...afterward he told me "thought about folding". Probably would have gotten a check behind on the river...I dunno.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/238705
Guy was 3-betting me a lot. Case of Paranoia #1

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/238706
Case of Paranoia #2

Hands of Note:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/238707
Donk-bettor...has a hand??

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/238708
EZ

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/238713
FUCKING PAY ME

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Comments (2)

July 24th, 2007

Today's summary:



Commentary:

Very smooth session this morning. 6-tabled again. The toughest decision I can think of is my c-bet on the QQ vs. Axx board. Very questionable.

WOW PlayerS BEWARE!!




Top Winners:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237309
How to Flop a Flush by golda98

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237310
I was re-raising this poor guy left and right...then I show up with aces

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237311
Goddamn, poker is easy as fuck.


Top Losers

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237287 Grr, one hand away from a big session. MOFUNGUUUU! The chat is a result of this hand. Which happened the hand before. Consecutive aces no good

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237305
And the subsequent steam hand. A mild spew by my standards.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237306
Very very questionable c-bet. How often should I be checking here. COnsider the flush draw on board.


Hands of Note:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237312
Hmm...

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237313 "3-bets light otb"

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237314
Hmm, kind of a questionable play here. Implied odds? Or...

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237315

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237316
*sniff* it's a shame to see 85o get cracked like that. This is a 90% raise pre-flop for me though.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/237319
Well-played friend!!

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Comments (5)

July 23rd, 2007

Today's summary:



Commentary:

Moved down to 6 tables today, and my results are mixed. Yes I completed my first winning session it what seems like forever, but it's just one session. My numbers went up a bit as expected.

All of the "read-based" plays (non-standard moves I made dependant on the player) I attempted failed miserably though.

It's annoying that I got in ~300 less hands this morning from cutting back on tables, but if I'm winning I don't really give two shits I guess.

Had a tough time with a player called "mambreno", who I had never seen before. I thought he was isolating me, but after I saw him show a couple hands down, I realize he was just playing standard, and ran into some good cards against me.


Top Winners:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/236676
Standard.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/236677
Standard x2. Got a little scared when he min-raised me, but I wasn't about to fold vs. halfstack

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/236678
Teehee

Top Losers

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/236679
Bleh. Anyone C/F turn or flop?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/236681
This was the fourth time villain had 3-bet me out of the small blind. Decided to make a move here...guess he ran into a hand :/

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/236682
Again with the 3-bet out of the small blind. Called c-bet with a mixture of feeling confident in my pp/curious to see what he's playing back at me with.

Hands of Note:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/236683
WEAK! How often should I be betting this turn? 100%

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/236685
Is this okay?

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Comments (0)

July 20th, 2007

Today's summary:



Commentary:

...the more my c-bets/2nd barrels fail, the more I try. This cannot be correct.

5th straight losing session. I believe that's a record.

Top Winners:

lol

Top Losers

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/234848

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/234849

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/234850

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/234851

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/234847 What am I doing?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/234852

Hands of Note:

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Comments (6)

July 19th, 2007

Today's summary:



Commentary:

Loss of focus (KQo) cost me $30+ today. And one very questionable play (AKo) cost me another $25. These were both situations where I could have just flatted the river, but instead I pushed.

With more than half of the month behind me, I'm down $32.50. I'm hovering right at the 20BI mark for 50NL, but I still feel like I have a strong hold on what's going on at the tables. I'll continue 9-tabling 50NL, and re-evaluate my position at the end of the month.

I made a couple pretty good moves against known players, but my sloppy fucking retarded-as-shit hands pretty much negated them. Having one of these per session is not acceptable, and unless I can fix it, I'm definitely going to need to decrease my tables.

Please berate me.

Top Winners:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/234142 Misclicked the turn

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/234143 Standard

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/234144 The jack scared me a bit. Snap-called riv though.


Top Losers

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/234145 DUMBSHIT HAND #1 I put villain on exactly a set/JJ/QQ, and for some reason, I thought pushing would be a good move here. On a scale of 1-5 (5 being most-retarded), how retarded is this push?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/234149 DUMBSHIT HAND #2 This is really bad, and I'm sort of embarrased posting it, but...tough love. I don't know why I didn't c-bet the flop. I didn't notice the board pair on the turn; even after I said "fuck", I still didn't notice that the board paired. When he tabled 22, I thought that I had won the hand. Just a total mental breakdown on my part.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/234153 Bleh.

Hands of Note:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/234154
How bad is the turn check? I didn't see a whole lot of value betting it. As played, anyone try to get more value on the river?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/234155
JJ no good my friend.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/234156
I'm constantly undervalueing 2-pair in unraised pots. Something I need to work on.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/234157
Some history.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/234158
Negro plz.

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Comments (5)

July 18th, 2007

Today's summary:



Commentary:

One of the most surreal sessions I've ever played I think.

- I lost 4 160bb+ pots, won 5 160bb+ pots, and came out exactly even.

- I broke my record for the most money lost in one pot.

- I was favored in my top 3 losers when the money went in, but I hate when people bitch about that shit, so I won't...except for this.

Just an action-filled morning, and it was really fun. Kind of pissed that I should have been a huge winner today, but glad to come out alive I guess.

On to the hands:

Top Losers:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/233436
Most money I've ever lost in one pot holla.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/233437
I have over 1k hands logged with adrockuk, and this is the strangest PF play I've seen from him. Sweet river obviously.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/233438
One time?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/233440
Bleh, anyone fold the river here? He had an insanely high TAF, which is why I slowed down a bit.

Top Winners

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/233441
Stacked this guy twice during the session. He was none-too happy with me. He said, "ty for the slowroll" because I took ~5 seconds to make the call

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/233442
Nice river Same guy from above, it was a tilt call.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/233444
I felt my balls twitch a little bit when the flop came. Decided to slow down a bit -- bad move?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/233445
Hey, ty 2 u friend!


Hands of Note:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/233446
Kind of upset about this hand. This player is never leading with a draw/air, I felt I had zero FE, and I was 90% certain that my A/9 outs were not clean. What do you think?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/233448
Donk-play of the session. Loss of focus.

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Comments (8)

July 14th - 17th, 2007

Today's summary:



Commentary:

I'm starting to think that 9 tables may be hindering my game a bit. I'm running extremely tight (15/13 over 16k hands), and I CAN'T FUCKING GET PAID. Near the end of my session, I closed all but 3 of my tables, and I noticed a significant difference.

First, I only have one monitor, and when I run 9 tables, each table is pretty small. It's tough for me to see my PAHUD stats and even usernames. If a villain doesn't have an avatar I recognize, I probably won't realize who I'm playing against. Secondly, when I'm running 3-4 tables, I can really concentrate on every action; I go into pure robot mode (unless there's a villain with a lot of history at my table) when I 9-table.

The problem is that I only have an hour a day to play. 9-tabling I can get in ~700 hands/hour, while I can only play 400-500 hands/hour 4-tabling.

I'll be coming up on my 3rd month of break-even poker, and I'll continue to 9-table through July, but if something doesn't change, I think I'll try to cut back to 4 beginning in August.

Anyhow, I was in Vegas last weekend for a convention, and it was hot as all balls. Pretty boring trip; arrived Saturday afternoon, had an early dinner, then saw Phantom (fag!) Saturday night. Went to a club at the Mirage after dinner, and then crashed out. Woke up early Sunday morning, and hit the $1/1/2 game. It had a $100 buy-in, but if you dipped under $100, you can buy-in for another $100. So I paid a big blind, then topped off at $198 I haven't played a live game in...almost 6 months, and it draaaaaaaaaagged. Stacked some Canadian cowboy on a Tdxdx flop with AKd, he showed KTo, turn bricked, and the river brought an ace Cashed out ~$350 after about 5 hours. Although I enjoy the action/social aspect of live play, the downtime was unbearable. I had to resort to ordering a Crown/coke (or 5) just to pass the time in between hands. The convention was...a convention, and I flew back home in the evening.

My buddy took care of my precious angel Tank while I was away.



However, he sent me a rather confusing message Saturday night...



What do you think it means

On to the hands-

Top winners:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/232922
This guy was running pretty aggressively - 27/19/7.5 over 150 hands. I'm not completely comfortable with my call on the flop, but I don't think he had much. Not exactly sure how he folds red QQ+ on the turn if he did have me beat. He asked me afterward if I flopped a set. Really upset that I didn't get paid here.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/232923

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/232924 Anyone risk checking the turn here, there's ~$30 behind.

Top losers

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/232926
I thought this was a good spot for a 2-barrel. How often do I get AT to fold here?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/232928 Woopsies.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/232929 I H8U shortstack.


Hands of Note:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/232401 ??
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/230615 Ez push?

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Comments (6)