I've played a pathetic amount of hands this week, but the session this morning was really good. I made a couple questionable calls that I'd like some input on, but other than that, I was playing very well.
These last few months have been pretty shitty. I'm essentially in the middle of a ~20k break-even/losing run, and it's starting to piss me off.
I know I know 20k hands is nothing, pussy!, but I'm still extremely frustrated. Mostly because I don't get a chance to play as many hands as a lot of you, and 20k hands represents a good amount of time.
Oh, I'm going to be in Vegas this weekend on business, and I'll have ~6 hours or so Sunday morning at the tables if anyone happens to be around at that time. I'll probably play some 200NL at MGM. If anyone has advice on better games (near MGM), do tell.
Here's a song that captured me with its pure lyrical genius. I was riveted from beginning to end.
Okay, on to the hands:
Top winners:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/230596
(Note we are somewhat deep) I question my flat of his min-raise on the flop. I put him on 99/TT/JQ/JT, and I was going to re-evaluate a blank turn. Once he leads weakly on the turn, is this an automatic shove? What if we were 100bb deep? The fact he fired another bullet on the turn led me to believe that I had very little FE here, and I decided to take a cheap river.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/230603
Very interesting hand here. I feel that I definitely could have found a fold on the river, but what about my flop bet? I hate hate hate automatically assuming villain hit a flush, and I'll lead out like this 90% of the time heads-up. Is this okay? What if I wasn't holding the Kc? and lol @ slow-playing the 7-high flush dumbshit.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/230604
I'm not too stoked about how I played this hand. I didn't lead this flop because this guy wasn't being all that active, and I was okay with keeping the pot small at this point. His $4 bet behind led me to believe he was very weak, and I really should have put a raise in here. Once he checked behind on the turn, I had the feeling that I had him crushed (TT-JJ/AK), and I was comfortable with v-betting the river and folding confidently to a re-raise.
I played the flop like shit though.
Up a bit Tuesday, had Wednesday off of work, so I slept through my session, hungover Thursday from our 4th of July BBQ, finally got to play again this morning, and went down almost 4 BI's to some pretty nasty hands.
I've dipped below 20BI's for 50NL, but I'm going to give it one more shot tomorrow morning. If I have another losing session it's back to 25NL I go!
We got to the local park at 10 AM or so, and squatted a couple benches, and a BBQ pit. Pretty much drank consistently 'til 11 PM or so.
BONES NIGGA
Unfortunately none of my friends are as big of degens as myself, so we were playing for...fun?
This morning was fucking ugly. Had 3 horrid hands, and 1 TILT-MONKEY hand.
I don't know why these don't coincide. I made a bit on some donkaments -- maybe Poker Grapher is taking those into account?
Today's summary:
Commentary:
June was a pretty shitty month. Probably my most disappointing month so far. I've had bigger losing months for sure, but not when I've played as many hands as I have this month.
Anyhow, I hit my 50NL goal, and I had my second session this morning (first was on Sunday), and I came out up a bit. Pretty boring overall, but a winner is a winner I guess. I have thousands of hands logged at this level, so nothing really all that suprising. Took me a couple orbits to get used to the betting, but after that it was like I never left. And hopefully I'll last up here for a while. We shall see.
Played a session Monday (-$30), then skipped Tuesday because I had a bit too much wine at dinner Monday night. This morning I had one of the best sessions I've had in a long time. I could do no wrong; stacking people left and right, and my biggest loser was $3.50. But you'll forgive me if I'm not jumping with enthusiasm - I've been down this road before.
The Tankman decided to take a fat shit in my guest bedroom in the middle of my session this morning, and it smelled like fucking...well, dog shit, I guess. And it was pure mud, too. I think I need to change his dog food.
We had a birthday party to go to on Saturday, so Jessica made a nifty little hat for Tank. Pretty sexy, eh? AWWWW YOU CAN SEE HIS LITTLE PENIS TOO!
Enough of that nonsense - on to the hands!
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I had some difficulty with a player this session: LordTacohead
He's TAG++. 15/14/4, and I've never seen him not fire a second bullet. Showed down a mid-pair winner against him a few days ago.
It's official: 9-tabling has turned me into a full on TAG monkey. I've stopped raising 23s/Q9s/A9o UTG, and I think I fired one 2nd-air-bullet in two sessions. Playing like this is much more relaxing though, and I'm not sure I could physically do 24/20 9-tabling -- how do you degens do it? I ran 5k hands or so at 24/20, and it was very taxing -- even with 6 tables.
However, I've made it a point to punish villains who are taking advantage PF. It's a part of my game that I'm not going to give up.
Anyhow, I'm playing well, not making mistakes, and not taking anyone's moves on me personally. I've played the most hands this month since the beginning of the year, and I believe it's paying off.
Bad Butt Beat <font color=green>(24.35)</
KingKory, Jun 15 2007
June 12th - 15th, 2007
Today's summary:
Commentary:
Had to rebuild my PC for the 2nd time in the past month. There was some shitty Realtek audio driver that was crashing my harddrive; ah well, got me a new harddrive out of it.
Thursday was a winning session, but pretty ho-hum overall.
This morning was very interesting even though I finished exactly even. I 9-tabled for the first time in a while, and sort of fell right back into it without losing much stats. 850 hands this morning alone -- gonna be very tempting to keep 9-tabling from now.
Got stacked 3 times for my only real losses: My KK's got setted twice by the same motherfucker, and a pretty sorry beat for the 3rd BI. Could have gotten away from the AAx board, but...meh.
Went to the bars last weekend, and suffered a pretty bad beat
Lost 2 BI's on Sunday, then came up a bit this morning. Thursday/Friday were extremely uneventful sessions.
Had a few tough decisions Sunday, but I feel I could have saved myself a BI with just a bit more self-control. I had a pretty funny K5o hand this morning
Back to 6-tabling fulltime, and I'm feeling very good about my game lately. I'm not stressing any of the decisions I make, and I'm feeling confident that I'm usually one of the more thinking players at the table. My stats have drastically gone down over the past 3-4k hands though. After running ~4k hands at ~23/18, it appears as though I'm reverting back to my n(it)atural ways.
And on and on and on this went. Losing tiny pot after tiny pot; I basically lost a full buyin purely c-betting missed flops and getting played back at. I stacked 2 players, and my biggest loser was $9, yet I'm only up $20.
WTF? Someone help.
Anyhow, a good/dry session otherwise. I rebuilt my PC, and I was able to 6-table for the first time in a long time (without PT/HUD though -- gotta hit those nigs up for new codes). As a result, the screws were tightened a bit, and I didn't take any huge chances.
I'm now hovering at the 1K mark, and I've decided to drop limits. Although I told myself I wouldn't give up until I hit $750, I felt I was just spewing money away.
twotimesopt gave me some BR advice that I'm going to stick with, and it's this: if I ever start a session with 20 BI's, play 50NL. If I have less than 20 BI's, stick with 25NL. So expect to see me roller-coastering between 25/50NL over the next few weeks.
Over the past month I've lost a little bit of focus: hardly posting here, not updating my blog, playing only 3.5k hands. Poker has taken a backseat to some RL distractions that have recently come up; least of which is my desktop taking a shit on me, so I'm forced to 4-table (sans PT/HUD) on a weak-ass laptop. But life is starting to level out again, and I'm going to make a serious effort to keep focused on my goals for the month, which are:
1. Play 10k+ hands.
2. Make a video, pay to get it analyzed.
3. Become a 50NL regular.
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