NeillyAA / DReaMe's Blog

So I just cashed out a $1,500 and left myself back on NL10 with just under $200. Going up to the casino next week, wanna have a nice amount to be able to play fearless *not stupid, but fearless =)*

I also have some important bills I gotta pay too *have a warrant out for my arrest because of a speeding ticket, I gotta get this paid ASAP.., some other stupid random shit I gotta take care of too*

Going to be playing here and there on stars as well, just working back to NL25 so I can have some meaningful sessions where I can win some real money online again too.

Had a nice week last week and won alot, mostly a very slow grind + a 1 hour heater that won me a very nice chunck of change.

So during the next week I'm sure most of you won't see much of me, but I will still be on the forums daily and on stars a little as well. Hoping to have a very successful trip to the casino, most of the players up there will make mistakes all night to capitalize on. Just need to bring My A Game and I should be fine.

If the trip doesn't go as expected during day 1 & 2 I'll be back in Pittsburgh and redoposit my roll and re-start online poker again. Just feelin the need for a casino environment, probably due to all the WSOP things happening, as well as my addiction to HSP S1-3 ^^

Well, thats about it for todays blog, I'm gonna sit back n get baked as hell today. Maybe some $5R's and $3R's for fun.

Best of luck to everyone,
and I hope you wish me the same @ the Casino~

Ryan (NeillyAA/DReaMe) Neilly

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Still haven't slept from last nights session, been watching movies and relaxing for the night. Watched Knocked Up tonight, was a pretty good movie, definately kept me entertained for a couple hours atleast.

Got back on for a few hundred more hands after my last blog and played very well, managed to pick up a BI and unlock my bonus that has been pending for about a week now.

During the last week I haven't been putting in close to the hours I was putting in during weeks past. Some tough runs can really take me out of the mood to play real quick, guess its better than sitting there grinding through sometimes unwinnable battles. Every day I wake up I'm going to be looking to play for up to 12-14 hours, but am willing to stop whenever I feel myself slip at all for now on.


Here are alot of hands I played last night :

vs UNCMAC - this is purely transparent and retarded by the villian, since I have AK/AQ or a high PP just about every time here...but he can't think oh well next.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/209215

vs spottedsword - another hand that just boggled my mind, I felt he was very weak on the flop, I don't think I should be calling raises with sooted aces PF often, and raise that flop stronger if I decide that I do indeed have the best hand. A little unlucky and a very unskilled play
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/209217

vs icemankef - first break of the day - iceman raising AQos UTG and calling my reraise with it - then stacking off w/ AQos when its painfully obvious I have him drawing thin..
When I'm vs a good TAG regular, I think flatting is best on the flop? Most regulars range wouldn't contain AQ calling the reraise although my raise was very weak, but I don't think a regular would bet out AQ on this flop..but this guys a shortstack donkey so I figured he had AKd or AQ here n stuck it in
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/209220

vs akfots - shortstack donk minraising UTG - totally priced me in to see this for a chance to win over 50 bets for 2. Just a matter of getting the money in now, he made it pretty easy for me..
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/209223

vs nyliu07 - gave him credit for a pp or smthing decent when calling me oop here, my flop bet was weak and gave him a decent price to try and catch this draw.. Thought he was calling me on a pp. Pretty sure the best way to play this is to pot flop, 80% pot turn/fold to reraise..I let him see the turn way to cheap as well..I was playing like shit, its sad to look how shitty I bet this.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/209227

vs BoneWreck - I have some issues playing these boards oop and getting paid well.. what are some lines that you guys use? Please, I'm very interested in multiple ways to play this. As played, I raised flop for value, if I just call it really sells that im on a 7 since its multiway with the ace on the board, where as my raise can be a bluff. I really think I should have bet the turn and river strongly here and tried to get paid.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/209229

vs KozFactory - Big stack opens for 4x bb in EP, im sittin on 1.5x BI, so I make the call IP w/ my sooted connector. Flop a gin flop and am really hoping he's on AK/AQ (possibly with a diamond to call this reraise, but he instamucks). I think I bet this way to strongly now that I look back at it, since most of the time he will be holding an ace without a diamond here. I still feel a raise is needed since im in the middle of a multiway pot here and I can't let kmart draw to a boat or better flush for free. I think 15 on the flop would be perfect to get HU vs an ace / set / two pair and play it from there.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/209239

vs Icecreamman6 - random shortstack calls my open raise on 34s (looking to flop a str8 / flush / or represent any ace vs a pp, or pp vs someone on AK/AQ) Lead flop on my FD, get called, assume he's probably on KQ/AQ or something in this range. BOOM, smash my flush on the turn, go for the check raise since leading into the turn shows I'm not scared of the flush and might not get paid. He oblidges to my check and we're off to the river. 2h, sweet! Money card! drop $8 into a $12 pot, value town baby.


Think again. ReRaise what? Donk called me PF with A9s on a shortstack...what a luckbox donk..psh - $25
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/209250

vs c .reach - I got sevens, shorty calls me PF from the button. He's a shortstack, doesn't stand out as a good player or anything. Flop A73 rainbow, I lead 3/4 pot and pick up a caller on the button. I lead the turn $7 leaving him $12 if he calls to get it in, into what would be a $28 river, laying him 3.5/1 to make the call on the river if I get the turn call. He oblidges, I follow through with the plan and take the rest on the river.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/209253

vs 420offsuit - button shennagins are fun. Pick up 23s, tables playin fairly tight, I pop it up to steal on the button. 57J flop, I cont bet, get called. Putting him on a small PP or maybe 76/78/J9, other weak middle holdings. Turn brings a 9, completing an open ender and gutterball. check check, and rivers a perfect scarecard, if he wasn't scared that the turn didn't hit me. Ad - now board with two straights, a flush, and 3-5 overcards to his possible hand. Perfect bluff card, I fire out 65% pot, an attempt to value bet bluff and take it down.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/209255

vs lifedonk and TheBigFinn - multiway pot from the sb - I picked up A3 and limp in behind a couple limpers. Flop the joint, lead it strongly and go play at other tables expecting to take it down PF. Table pops back up, random donk flats out of the bb, and LifeDonk *NL25/NL50 regular*, (plays fairly TAG, but will take position on pots he feels he can take down with 1-2 barrels), had 3.5x reraised me in position. I'm about 200% sure he has a combo flush draw or set, its definately time to get the money in. I wait a while and 4.25x reraise his bet to commit myself to the pot. He reshoves and we're off.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/209257

vs grayling646 - don't even ask me what the hell he was doing, im not going to comment on this hand. "from my ego: I feel like I played this hand perfectly and was shit on."
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/209262

vs grayling646 - right after the 39 hand, I compiled my mistake from last hand into this hand and didn't cont bet the flop or turn. Atleast he didn't VB river, probably assuming I was slowplaying AA.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/209265

vs AFFIRMED1 - lil bday present for the end of the night
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/209268

vs kmar1085 - kmar was playing alot of pots with me, and playing fairly aggressively in all of them. I open AJh UTG 4x bb, pick up two callers. KK8, two hearts. Standard cont bet, lowers the field. After he flats hes gotta be on AK,KQ,78,89,88 or a lower FD. Check turn to control potsize vs a possible king, he drops out a small bet and I flat. Here I think I should have value bet the river and tried to get paid, although I think I have to fold to a shove here vs any nitty regulars on NL50 / NL100, and make crying calls vs donks. 20 sounds about right. Judge for yourself, here it is.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/209269

I was very disapointed in my play yeseterday, I had alot in my mind from my life outside poker, pretty sure the distraction had thrown off my game. Going to get a good nights sleep and come back fightin tomorrow!

(30,660 FPP til supernova)

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Had a long session today, failed to cash in 12 tournaments before losing AJ vs 22 deep in the 3r (got 150th)

Couldnt manage to win in the cash games tonight either, mostly due to horrible suckouts, then when I did flop big I played them like shit.

Extremely fucking annoyed and angry, im not posting any analysis tonight.

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Went to a free music show being held at an art festival last night by Lotus (http://lotusvibes.com/), man was this show ever sick. During the middle of the show, a good friend fed me some hallucinogens. Before I knew it I was trippin my balls off at center stage surounded by tons of hotties, this was definately a site for sore eyes (first show in months).
So this lasted til night time, came back here with a couple girls I used to be good friends w/ in college and continued to get wasted all night. After dishing out some serious massages the night became, well, fun. =)
When I can figure out how to post pics on here I'll get some uploaded.
They took off in the wee hrs of the morning, couldn't get back to sleep so I started surfing the WSOP page.

Stumbled across something some of you might find quite interesting, here it is; look at 24th place (my unlucky number), 3/7/07.
Picked up 99 in the BB, MP opened for 35k at 5k/10k with QKos, (his stack was 135,000, and he didn't really look too confident in his hand), I reshoved for 110,000 in the BB, only to get called by his QK within a minute. I don't really see how he could have thought his QK was good, but w/e, donkaments..lol (this was my first shot to win some real monies w/ poker (More than 10k in one day that is, but wasn't meant to be..)

Oh, I sat with Bodogari (Ari Engel) for a half hour or so, he has really great table dimeaner and confidence, this kids definately gonna go to the top w/ poker!
http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com/tourney/event.asp?tourneyID=3321&groupID=270

Goin to a nice little 1/2 at a firehall here in Pittsburgh tonight from 7 til the morning, wish me luck! Pretty fishy game, couple luckboxes n a couple real players, other than that its your typical 1/2 Live game.

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Woke up feeling pretty beat after last nights session, and started the day off with some of the 350FPP/500FPP SnG's for the $216 tickets. Was going well in both but busted in the FT in both, one AQ vs AJ - didn't save the HH, and this one.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206757

After this, I finally downloaded Ventrillo which I've planning to DL for months but just been to lazy, and went over an in depth 2/4 session with DooMeR, as he was pretty much crushing the fields.

After obbing his session for a couple hours, I needed to play, a game where I would be challenged and play my best.

NL50 it was, and although the session didn't last long because I had to leave, it went well.

Here are the key hands I played today;

vs Hochmagandy - Don't even ask me what the hell this idiot was thinking, I put him on 55-99 on the flop, his range opened alot after he called my turn bet, but still felt like I was ahead, then a 5 hits on the river and I need to shut down...oh well, I guess I want him calling me here so w/e.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206816

vs Jrokk - isolating the weak limper - low flop comes, led the flop to take it down from any air / weak holdings villian was holding.
Turn I pick up FD and feel like hes weak, he checked instantly, I picked up 9 more outs and feel like he'll drop any low pp here, as well as 67 and maybe some other weak pairs. River I hit gin, VB the river fairly strong.
I was fairly lucky in this hand, but he could have definately folded his hand on either the flop or turn imo, I don't feel like this is the correct way to play this hand everytime, but vs weak/tight opponents I think its fine.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206818

vs Jrokk again - This is the 3rd time in the last 20 minutes or so I had isolated Jrokk, and I could tell he had enough of it. The board is semi-draw heavy, and I know Jrokk is limping hands like 89os - ATos. I check the flop to control the pot, turn its fairly clear I have the best hand with my A high, and his reraise just makes no sense (*spew* *cough*)
His small bet on the river made the hand easily callable, I think I was calling most bets on this river vs the villian given the circumstances.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206826

vs ProdigalPimp - Here I put villian on AKs,TT-QQ, didn't put AA in his range at all the way he played it, if he shoved PF I probably would have mucked given all the action between our bets and how defined my hand is, so I guess he got what he deserved.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206820

vs Hoseth10 - I really misplayed this hand, leading the flop OOP here is retarded now that I think about it, I think AK will check here, and if I want to win this pot, a c/r or c/f is definately the best play, not DONKBET/FOLD.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206824

vs Chiennoir - Happy birthday to me.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206825

vs Donsartino - He's on a 20% bi here, I have AK & position. He donks out on this flop after calling my bet PF, but his bet is so small, its obvious he has the nuts or nothing, and much more often than not, its nothing. I never give anyone on a BI this small any respect, and run them down quite often with marginal holdings such as AK.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206833

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Today was a nice day, took a small break and started a cash session.

Started playing deep on NL25, got about 2,000 hands in before I started to feel a little fatigue, I played roughly 12 hrs today.

The cash session didn't go to bad, only finished up 1bi, but could have definately finished up 4 or 5.

Tomorrow night is going to be pretty special for LP, as our very own Daut44's WPT win will be televised on the Travel channel. Don't miss out, I'm sure it will be hella entertaining watching all our fellow forum users, and Daut44 applying his great game theory and reading abilities on TV! Tom, Rain, Can't wait ^^

Going to go over a few key hands, any constructive crisism is welcome;

vs Fleury - observation is that he's a bad player playing shortstack on NL25, his small raise screams draw or nuts to me, so i just put it in. risk reward was great here, rarely he has a better hand imo.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206332

vs LowLead77 - The pot was opened with pedro who plays fairly aggressive and likes to raise weak in late position, I raised here OOP hoping to take it down PF, but was called by LowLead whom I read for JJ/QQ.
A high flop came out, with his stack being so small I decided to attempt to take him off of any PP. He reluctantly made an "ok" call, only to be ran over by my outs.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206328

This hand pissed me off kelly sucked out on me 3/3 today.
Guess that happens when you always have the best hand vs a donk like this, right?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206322

This hand pissed me off, Put him on a weaker ace than me on the flop, now that I think about it, I should have just shoved flop, no reason to fold this here imo. Agree shove is best here?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206316

Weeeeeeee! This guy just can't fold
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206308

Happy birthday to me~
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206300

Such a drawheavy board I was sure he was on JQ/J9, shoving here is always best? Figured he has me beat here about 20% of the time, dangerous to check though..
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206279

vs svDadon - This guy sucks. I can't really believe he would have any ten to call the reraise w/ OOP, so his range to me is Quads - AA/ AK AQ. Flat the flop n hit gin, no reason to raise from here having this guy donk into me.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206273

Sams one of the only other players at the table w/ a stack over 1bi, I have 1.7bi's.
He has only seen me play high quality hands so far, I think QQ was all. I decide that I'm going to take him off of his weak hand any chance I have here, and repop PF to isolate and instill fear into him. Flopped the joint, put him on nines or tens and looked to maximize value. Obviously I didn't do too well of a job, any advice on a better way to play this hand postflop?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206276

vs shakeNbake24 - Put villian on a strong ace or medium high PP when he flatted my raise, as I was multitabling *had 12 goin at the time*, i misclick minbet flop, which set this up. Can't really take any credit for playing this well, just worked out.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206274

Multiway pot - Tough spot - This pot was very tricky for me. JC's range was narrowed down well, but Riverqueen86's range was TT-AA/AQ-AK (I thought), as he shoved over me I was going to call his raise because it was so small, then out of the blue JCA shoves me in? zlikeomgwtfm8~! Obviously a muck now.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/206273

Well, gonna watch some WPT episodes, get baked n enjoy the night. My first winning session in a week was very welcome and look forward to many more.

Hoping to improve more tomorrow and hopefully have a nice day as well. Please post any constructive crisism about my hands, I realize there are holes in my game, which I intend to plug asap.

Thanks and GL to everyone !

Ryan (NeillyAA) (31,792 FPP til Supernova)

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So I took the night off last night after FTing 3 $4 180 man SnG's and only finishing w/ 5th 6th and 7th losing QQ vs JQ,KK vs AJ, 88 vs A6

Woke up today ready to own the world, and started trying out the 350FPP-2700FPP $216 ticket tournaments (for sunday million), FT'd 5 of them and got 1st in one, and top 4 in one where top 4 qualify!

Still a little disapointed in myself, I tried a retarded steal in the last one i played, with 4 to go behind a monkey that was limping weak during the two table period..this time he limped with AQ and out ran my 89.. (had 5k stack at 600/800 blinds in MP), if he folded I would have had 7200 and had a good shot for first, since the 300 and 500 fpp tournaments only pay to first place.

Feeling good now, alot of stability has been re added to my BR. I'm going to continue playing these SnG's til my FPP's are gone, the fields are just ridiculously soft, you should try em too. So far I've spent 6k FPP for $430.

PS - I K.O.-d [NC]Yellow (LifeisJust) in one JJ vs 44, and lost vs lifeisjust in another KK vs AQ (he rivered ace)

Oh, I got a new keyboard yesterday as well as a nice paycheck that I wasn't expecting. Got to see my brother for the first time since January too~

Here are the key hands from today :



Important pot vs Pete - this was a tough call, he was sitting on his stack for a while not really getting out of line, but shorthanded I have no choice and figure at worst im 25%, could be 60% though, so I call
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/205951

KO Yellow - pretty self explanatory
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/205980

Final hand of the 375 FPP Qualifier (36 ppl) He just sucked out on me taking me from 39k to 28k, Figured he was trying to build a rush and steal the blinds, repopped and smashed it on the turn~
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/205974

Last hand of the 2700FPP Qualifier (20 ppl)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/205984

GL to everyone, see ya on the felt

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I underwent the worst week of my life on the felt last week with numerous bad beats, followed by many borderline calls.

-27bi ds

now, back on NL10 grinding back to NL25

This time around I'll be playing 40-50bi deep on all limits for extreme comfort

my first official run as a cash player went well, took some shots at NL200 and feel I know what I need to do to make it there to stay.

Mad props go out to doomer for all the assistance, next month we'll doomswitch all the locals @ your casino

--Update--

My BR is now 500 from 3200, I also lost some BI $ with multiple 10R's that I failed to cash in, as well as one of the nightly $150's that I went out just short of the bubble..

After running in such a way, I almost got stuck in reverse, and went down to NL10 to work out any obvious correctable errors in my game (I began spewing chips too much after I lost $2,000-$2,500, and lost another $400 foolishly like a "tilt monkey", hence the title..)

My BR management was definately not up to par during this DS, I could have cut my loses many times, but decided to attempt to make back the loses during losing sessions, which only further worsened my situation.

Obviously I'm still a novice when it comes to the pitfalls in poker, and have to work on my control in many areas, as well as deepen my thought process hand to hand.

Soon, I will clear my $650 bonus as well..
I think another 3,000 hands or so

I hope to be fully rolled for NL50 by the end of the week ($2,250 - $2,500)

Learning to play perfect poker is tough..
Hell, Rome wasn't built in a day

The mission continues to become a NL100 FR winner ITLR, and then the mission to NL1000 begins.

GL Everyone~ (30,000 to Supernova iOi)

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After reading through everyone's blogs so much I decided to create my own.

I'll be analyzing "a lot" of key hands I play here, as well as posting some stuff based on starcraft and other fun things.a lot

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