Pocker Aces...anyone not push here?
LemOn[5thF], Mar 30 2009
Cheeky bastard called my raise so I clearly didn't put him on this, but like 88-JJ.
anyone just flat the first or second raise?
The more I raise the more I am commited, and I was like uh oh I am pwned after the second reraise, but I had no choice due to pot odds.
Submitted by : LemOn[5thF]
PokerStars Game #26528346578: Holdem No Limit ($0.02/$0.05) - 2009/03/30 8:07:44 ET
Table Pompeja IV 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: 69vietvet ($11.94 in chips)
Seat 2: P1a9u2u2u2 ($9.20 in chips)
Seat 3: Geronimo000 ($2 in chips)
Seat 4: mmcinally ($6.70 in chips)
Seat 5: heuschrecker ($6 in chips)
Seat 6: LancePP ($5 in chips)
Seat 7: DoC.LemOn ($8.58 in chips)
Seat 8: DeeDoc ($5.23 in chips)
69vietvet: posts small blind $0.02
P1a9u2u2u2: posts big blind $0.05
Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to DoC.LemOn  
Geronimo000: folds
mmcinally: folds
heuschrecker: folds
LancePP: folds
DoC.LemOn: raises $0.15 to $0.20
DeeDoc: folds
69vietvet: folds
P1a9u2u2u2: calls $0.15
Flop(Odds) (Pot : $0.42)
  
P1a9u2u2u2: bets $0.25
DoC.LemOn: raises $0.63 to $0.88
P1a9u2u2u2: raises $0.63 to $1.51
DoC.LemOn: raises $2.21 to $3.72
P1a9u2u2u2: raises $2.21 to $5.93
DoC.LemOn: raises $2.45 to $8.38 and is all-in
P1a9u2u2u2: calls $2.45
Turn(Odds) (Pot : $17.18)
River (Pot : $17.18)
Showdown
P1a9u2u2u2: shows   (two pair, Sevens and Fives)
DoC.LemOn: mucks hand
P1a9u2u2u2 collected $16.33 from pot
Summary
Total pot $17.18 | Rake $0.85
Board
Seat 1: 69vietvet (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: P1a9u2u2u2 (big blind) showed and won ($16.33) with two pair, Sevens and Fives
Seat 3: Geronimo000 folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 4: mmcinally folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 5: heuschrecker folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 6: LancePP folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 7: DoC.LemOn mucked
Seat 8: DeeDoc (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Back to NL2
LemOn[5thF], Mar 28 2009
My third day NL5 SH started weirdly. Before I even setup my tables I had to deal with this hand (10AM, 30min after I woke up)
HAND of the day no1:+ Show Spoiler +
So I am like huh? what just happened?
And on my other table, huh whats that?
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So I was like omg whats happening dawg I started focusing a lil and my biggest SH hand so far arrived.
One guy threw money at us, the other one was very loose and has been very aggresive before that, doing crazy bad ass bluffs.
And I decided to play with him, when I believed I had even the slightest edge. Hence a call with 88 and funny hand.
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I continued in this trend of playing with the loose guys, with TAG style around 17/15.
But when you play with them and many hands with many people in pots, variance is inevitably going to increase.
And I unfortunately found out I can't handle it. I started being creative again, and soon after that I started playing 9 tables at once. Disaster was not far, and I went from $210 to $167, which would mean I'd have to decrease my $7 buy-ins.
I have been losing money for last 22,000 hands and I managed to go down over 1/3rd of my bankroll. So I made the decision. I needed some upward curve, I needed some confidence, I needed TO MOVE TO NL2 AGAIN
So I did it. I went for standard 20table grind which shot me up to NL5 over two weeks and 36,000 hands ago.
And it felt great. Not only I played the standard AQ+ nitting, but I actually used stats to steal blinds where possible, and I my c/bet success rate was around 90%.
After the experience on higher limits NL2 feels like a childs play. So I grinded for couple of hours and I was easily back at $200, reaching my regular NL2 slope I had with 4 tables while 20 tabling.
I was so exhausted, but I was back at $200 and the psychological level I needed to be able to play NL5 SH again.
The NL2 Grind taught me a lesson. I should NOT try to outplay 50+VP Fishes with only marginally better hands. So many of them enter the pot and I realised how I was beating the limit - playing with only extremely superior range against the opponents range.
So I decided to take this lesson to NL5 SH. I approached it like NL2 FR, played 12/10 rock style, showed others some very strong hands which I played with extreme safety like here:
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With this image, it is so easy to pull a medium size bluff here and there against non-retarded oponents, and also mix in some hands I would play all the time before, but now they are almost perfectly disguised.
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The PF raise was not supposed to catch this idiot, but good for me 
So yeah. I will continue with the rock style play and image building with couple cheesy alterations here and there, at least until NL25, which as I saw in some PS videos starts to have a decent proportion of LAG/TAG players.
Gl at the tables,
LemOn
FR No More
LemOn[5thF], Mar 26 2009
In my previous post I told you I am going to alter my rolls to FR NL10 Stars and SH NL2 iPoker.
And the reason for playing the FR was that it makes me money and gives me the freedom of ignoring my BR at NL2 SH.
But today I tried to play NL5 SH on Stars, and I was so sucked in the game that I ignored my BR anyways and just played and played.
So now it seems I will follow your advice and just focus on one mode -SH.
I will not play NL10 as I need more BI's for SH play (I will keep it around 27 and buy-in for more as I increase my BR)
I was good at FR NL10, I felt I played my best game ever and for the first time in my poker progress I was overplaying the expected value with my very decent ABC Poker, but it gets VERY boring when I run bad.
And Bad I ran, believe me What could go wrong did, and the busted KK's, top sets and flushes on turn were just sick. I enjoy poker when I play SH, no matter how much I lose as I always have some action and there is lot to observe.
I might throw in some FR when I build my SH BR to NL10, but right now I will just focus on playing shorthanded on 4 tables.
The Way of the coward.
LemOn[5thF], Mar 25 2009
Until now I was playing FR without table selection. I was making notes , trying to analyse and went on beating the regulars.
I never left a table unless my session was over and I was trying to catch any bigger pots and anomalies in players play, and I focused mostly on the regulars.
And I was beating NL2 NL5 like this.
But tell you what, I QUIT. Why should I try it the hard slow way, when I can simply tableselect and keep stacking fishes. I will focus on improving my reg vs reg game on 6max but its time to open a new chapter in FR.
My New FR Tableselection approach:
VP<20 Call PFR<10 =Leave
Only Exception: A maniac or a massive station is present. Station leaves = I leave.
If there are only regs, nits shorstacks = I leave.
I now don't try to exploit regs anymore. My focus will be 95% On the fishes at the table and and all their hands. I will make notes on regs only in a case of an obvious leak.
These rules unfortunately mean I swap around 12 tables per session while 4 tabling NL10, but profits are my sole focus FR and I will keep them maxed this way.
You can expect roughly 0 more hands posted from my NL10 sessions as I will do my best to avoid awkward situations and tough spots.
But this also means I will pay much more attention to my SH Sessions with my second roll where I try to push myself to the hardest spots possibLe and where I will try to outplay the regulars.
God Speed, LemOn
Some 6Max questions
LemOn[5thF], Mar 24 2009
As NL10 FR is clearly rigged on Stars + Show Spoiler +
I had more coolers in 3K hands than during my other 65K lolz I enjoy much more my NL2 6Max taster sessions on iPoker with my altern roll.
Why Does FR suddenly feel like gambling? A Fish sucks me out, I almost never get it back and the number of no-skill rocks is just sick.
SH I love the predictable rocks and a fish that sucks a BI is so much more likely to give it back to ME. It seems way more skillbased.
Anyway here are my stats for first roughly 2.5K Hands, is this standard somehow?
What I don't understand really is the concept of 3betting, what kind of hands do I want to do it with and against what kind of opponents? And whats the normal%? FR It was just AA KK +AK, QQ, in extreme cases JJ Against right loose opponents, but I saw some huge ranges in high stakes section SH (which is deepstacked though mostly).
Right now I will keep altering both NL10 FR and NL2 SH iPoker. But I dont think I can ever come back to play FR on NL5, the slow pace and small pots/blinds are not motivational enough for me to observe the tables or improve my game. If the coolers and suckouts push me down to 15BI NL10 I will seriously consider switching completely and regrinding from NL2 SH
Help! NL10 hates me!
LemOn[5thF], Mar 24 2009
Sorry for the attention seeking title, but so far I am down 3BI on NL10 despite I feel I play my best ever only on four tables. 3BI is nothing, its mainly due to suckouts and the bloody KK, but still I'd like to know if I also make some fundamental mistakes:
Could you have a look at these hands
Well this is how I suck playing with connectors. Should I play 89s CO?
And maybe give up after the cbet?
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Now I got roflfucked. There are many people limping big pockets along with loads of trash. Should I just observe the table before I start really playing like this?
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I should def reraise him on flop right? Would you ever not do it?
This feels like a big big spew at the end of a session that I was winning. 2of a colour and connected board. Bad bad.
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And just to conclude, one of my nice suckouts.
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As you could see in hands, I am down 3BI (yeah thats my overall loss) With KK. 3x AA god me dominated, once set and once nice straight. I of course don't care about these loses, what I am interested in are those above hands and how to improve. I really should not tilt so badly at micros, as there is still plenty of fishes.
So I tried 6MAX
LemOn[5thF], Mar 23 2009
Yesterday after I played first couple k hands NL10 FR I was down 3BI (2x KK v AA All in, once Top set against straight *sigh*). So I was like wtf variance hates me there and went to try 6max to ipoker with my uncleared $20 on CDPoker. I had whopping 150 hands of experience behind me and I went grinding 4 tables.
This time I was not trying BS, and I just imagined I play FR. And its so cool. I love playing LP and I was almost always LP Now!
Jebus, so many hands that I played.
I ran 24/20/3.5 and was almost never bored. I made like 3-4 terrible spews.
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Played some nice educational hands
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And was in many unkwnown situations for me. Its great and all and I had more $/hour than I have NL10 FR on stars lolz.
Also its SOOOOOOO Much better than FR on iPoker, which is almost unplayable on micros thx to nits and shortstacks almost exclusively.
So now I will split my attention on my 20BI's FR NL10 I got on stars, where i need to clear $50 bonus, but I got a nice second roll ipoker where I will 6Max and soon be rolled for NL4.
Shot at NL10
LemOn[5thF], Mar 22 2009
Maybe the 70k hands on nl 2 and 5 were too much, maybe the sloow pace is killing me, but I always start 16 tabling no brainer tight play, although I crush my the limit when I 4 table. I stop respecting other peoples raises. . I don't even have to tell you that I don't develop at all in this state.
I charged $50 of my own hard cash into pokerstars, and took a shot at NL10 with puny 23BI
And I must say the thrill is back! I once again pay attention to every single hand, I play accordingly to villain's bets (which I didn't respect at all before, one pair as the nuts), the blinds matter again and I ENJOY POKER.
My goal is not to lose money next 20K Hands, 4Table ONLY and to start working on my game once again.
NL5 Update.
LemOn[5thF], Mar 18 2009
So I am a NL5 'reg' now with 5K hands.
first 1K went horrible obviously, I mean who did not get a tilt when they moved up a limit?
After regrinding the loss back at 20table NL2'ing I came back. For whatever reason the decision was to take the limit seriously, 4 table make notes if anyone even farts on the tables and play some fricking smart poker adjusted to every single hand, player and situation.
I even made this sick read according to me( Where I almost always end up All-in or with very big pots with TPTK AK!)
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but according to you guys it was retarded to play it like this at this limit, I will lose money in the long term (While I will probably never be in the same situation with the same history with and notes on the villain rofl)
Anyway I believe you know better, so I simply chucked the 4tabling Y theory poker, and started practicing theory X hardcore.
12 Table ABC Poker, overprotecting and oversized value betting, assuming everyone is retarded, just making notes on villains only after playing in my hand and observing other plays only when I was bored or one of the regs raised and got called.
I also started betting many many hands BU (assuming I got the conditions of nobody nitty and nobody less then 65% Fold to C/Bet stats limping) and sometimes CO (dependend on BU player). I am new in this field, and I yet need to learn how to extract the huge potential value when I actually hit something like in this hand:
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And although this should make me less of a nit the looseness of the players and my conditions still pin me somewhere at 12/10 keke.
Anyways this is the progress so far, and two lucky 3's
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I am up to $200 but I feel the upswing can be a little artificial thanks to those idiots so I am staying at $5 BI's to avoid the usual Tilt after winning period.
My main priority now is to work on the small hand plays, avoid Tilt and grind it up to get to NL10 pretty soon to get closer to limits where I can try some complex reads and tells identifying shit.w
Moving back to NL2
LemOn[5thF], Mar 16 2009
Yeah today I came after training and went to taste NL5. I played a solid game, stole many many blinds and got EZ C/bets and then...
Spew. I became very very tired and I started what I do when I am tired... Multitable nit.
But I suddenly was sitting with 100bb instead of 250bb, and I started to feel reluctant to just correctly let go hands after C/bet as I found myself with pots worth of 1/5th of my BI. A mistake obviously.
So I was like wtf that was horrible, and decided to 20 table grind NL2 for like two hours
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 Yeah, those two hours were enough to bounce me back to my 30BI at bb100 NL5 limit.
I can easily say I beat NL2
I learned that multitabling nitmode doesn't make sense with 100bb deep for me, as I got the feeling like shortstack when not paying attention to evrything (I was tired too).
Now I will only play NL5 4 table, play it like 19/14 and own as I did before starting gridning mode- Blind Steals, careful cbets against right opponents and making notes on those NL5 Pussies.
If I feel like tired and want to grind some more I will simply start NL2 and enjoy the ride.
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