Redhead's blog

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/176583

Villian is kinda passive post flop, like 1.5 total af. Is that a clear fold or should I just consider it a cooler?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/176585

No read really, would anyone like it better if the 2 wasn't paired?

Also, you know you run too good when you consider -5bi a downswing. The good thing is, however, that I'm still up 33 bi for the month and that I'm somewhat less of a mental wreck now then last time things went bad. I actually feel kinda good anyway. I guess I'm a more mature person.

0 votes

Comments (4)

Ok, I've had a bad day. Lost like a buyin or so but I was up like 2.5 so it's not that fun. I've had a big amount of set ups (flush over flush, set over set in a reraised pot) and all kinds of stuff. Really annoying but since I'm not down more I guess I should be greatfull.

Anyway, I got PA HUD but I can't get it to work. Do I have to configure poker tracker in some way so that it imports the hands while I play or something?

0 votes

Comments (6)

So far this month has been very good to me. I've played decent enough on NL200 and I also made like 240USD for finishing 20th in a 40k grtd on prima. ChoboPokeR_r helped me out a lot with the late stages of the MTT so I’d like to take the opportunity to thank my dear tourney-donk.

Anyway, here’s my stats so far this month:



To bad I played so tigth in the beginning of the month. Today I ran at 37/33/4 which is much more sexy.

Also. Buffy is a really good TV-show that everyone should see. Hot girl, vampiers, some old dude with an English accent and some other dudes for comic comic relief. Can't get much better then that, can it?

0 votes

Comments (5)

At least when you hit every flop...

0 votes

Comments (17)

I’m down like 4 buy ins or something the last days and it’s a combination of me playing kinda bad and not hitting any cards. I’m amazed that I’m not down more since I can’t hit a hand for my life, but that kinda highlights how nice it is to be aggressive since FE probably makes up for a lot of my winnings. Anyway, I’ve looked thorugh most of my hands and I think that I’m paying off a bit too much sometimes and I get to bluffcatcher happy when someone has reraised me a fair amount. Also, I get to trigger happy with big hands and might overbet river and such even if I’ve been somewhat tight at a table, which doesn’t work really well. I gotta consider table conditions better.

Anyway, a good friend of mine told me that I should never worry untill I’ve sleept on it, mastrubated and tried to think about the situation for a while and even if he’s crazy as fuck he has got a point. Normally I’d freak out when I lose a few buy ins when I’ve just moved up but after my super heater and the fact that I’m still at over 7bb/100 hands this month I’m really not that worried. I just gotta play good and I’ll make some serious monies again.

On another note: This semi-mini-downswing-thingy (I know, it’s nothing and I’m not complaining, but whatever) might be really good for my long time ev because it actually makes me do some school work which is really good since I was a bit behind on that part of my life. I expect to play a decent amount this weekend but untill then it’ll probably just be sporadic sessions if I feel good. I might even take a break for a few days and catch up with my normal life.

0 votes

Comments (2)

”I’ve got no emotions for anybody else// You better understand// I’m in love with myself// My beautiful self!”

New day, new topic. This time I’d like to talk a bit about negative feelings and such that can fuck stuff up. Today I played a little live, played kinda bad and lost like 70 USD or something. I came home, sat down at the computer and played for 40 minutes or so and ended down more then 600 USD or 3 bi. I think I could’ve saved myself maybe 300 or something of it if I hadn’t been such a payoff wizard and the rest was due to me never hitting anything good and people playing back at me kinda hard. Anyway, I had this stupid feeling all the time and I think it’s a really bad feeling to have when you play poker. It’s something like “ohh shit, he’ll outflop me/call my bluff/bluff me off this”-thingy that basicly translates into “I can’t win, “. I think that I’ll just notice when I get this feeling and just stop playing everytime I feel that it becomes somewhat strong. I’m basicly not playing that good when I feel this, I’m not on my A-game and then I shouldn’t play. Also, I think I know some things that might help me feel better and play better:

1. Work on other, non-poker, areas of my life. I need to be a a better person and improve myself so that less of my precived value of myself comes from my ability to make money while playing cards. Mostly getting in better shape, take my studies more seriosly and such.

2. Trying not to be so result oriented. Look through my biggest losers and winner each session and figure out what I did good/bad.

3. Just stop at once if I feel bad about a session.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/171664 <- I guess I should’ve folded/called down. I’m stupid…

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/171666 <- 2nd biggest loss for the day.

The rest of the hands was just small pots and medium pots where I ended up with 2nd best hands all the time.

Also, I shouldn't complain. I was up 2.4k yesterday. That's 12 buy ins and I've played NL200 just over a week.

0 votes

Comments (6)

Face it, everyone wants to be like Tom. A few days ago I read something posted by Ket in this topic and I’ve tried it out. However, I need some help (see end of post.

Here's what Ket wrote:

“remember in poker, your profit in the long run is [the total sum of mistakes your opponents make] - [the total sum of your mistakes]. so doing things to induce more mistakes from your opponents is just as important as not making mistakes yourself.

in actual fact, on a related sidenote, this is pretty much the reason i think TalentedTom is able to win extremely good money at 2/4 3/6. his loose goose play-tons-of-hands-pf style can be easily exploited by good players, and if he's to try and play the same way on a typical 10/20nl stars table that consists mainly of (relatively) smart good solid regs, they will make the proper adjustments to crush him. but luckily for our blonde-ignoring-and-going-for-her-less-attractive-friend hero, there don't exist many players at all at midstakes nl who have the necessary depth of poker theory understanding to make the correct adjustments to him, and in attempts to do so they actually wind up 'adjusting' to his preflop looseness in the worst possible way. they become frustrated by his frequent getting out of line and pounding at them every hand with junk hands on the 'small bet' streets (preflop and flop), so try to adapt by calling him down real light even on the 'big bet' streets (turn and river). in doing so they get obliterated because TT is actually only getting out of line frequently in the small pots and being much tighter and more solid+straightforward on the whole in big pots. when the big bets go in on turn and river TT will show up with the best hand and win a big pot from some frustrated donk that got tilted by his preflop ridiculousness. so what he's doing is purposely making small mistakes himself in small pots in order to get an image which induces much larger mistakes from weak players later on. these sorts of weaker players are in plentiful supply at up to 2/4 and 3/6, which are the stakes talentedtom CRUSHES for winrates that are pretty much unachievable by a straightforward solid TAG player (who will only exploit the mistakes that weaker players make but doesn't do much to induce any).”

This really got me thinking and since then I’ve started playing crazy pf and now I’m running with a VPIP of about 30% and a pfr of about 24% with total AF just under 3. My last session was even worse, 36/29/3 and I’ve got my sick winrate since the donks on Unibets NL200 are sick weaktight and basicly looks for reason to fold all the time except when they get mad and figures that I can’t hit a fd or have AA every hand. Then they decide that I allways bluffs and pays me off with third pair in reraised pots. It’s basicly heaven and I’m running at allmost 11bb/100 hands during my first 6k hands at NL200. I’ve been running good and stuff, but it’s still pretty sick. I’ve also tried to bluff a lot and very big vs obvious weakness and show it to people who seems easy to tilt. Anyway, I think I’m a bit to passive post flop and even if I feel that I’m much better then most people on the server I play I’m still a pretty bad hand reader and my “plays” sometimes gets me into really bad spots. I’ve handled this by being really carefull with semi-weak made hands, like TPBK or 2nd pair which I just check behind on flop and maybe bet like a decent bet on turn and a small one on the river. I think I lose a lot of value and potential reversed implied tilt odds here. This is why I try to merge my ranges (term from 2+2 or something, can’t get that damn forum to work but it’s basicly that you try to play a wider range of hands the same way and basicly just make sure that you beat his calling-“range” rather then his actual hand). I’m having a fair bit of trouble with this so if anyone has some pointers on this subject it’d be great.

That’s the first point. The secound one is what type of hands that is nice to raise with from different positions. As it is now my “standard”, before the table tries to adjust to me in more or less retarded ways, is something like this:

UTG: 22+,A2s+,ATo+,KQo+,KTs+,45s+
UTG+1: 22+,A2s+,A9o+,KJo+,KTs+,45s+
CO: 22+,A2s+,A6o+,K9o+,K2s+,Q7s+,Q9o+,J6s+,J9o+,T7s,T8o+, 23s+, 35s+, 47s+
B: 22+, everything suited, everything connected, every A and K, Q5+,J6o+,T7o+,35o+

From the blinds I just reraise TT+,AQs+,AKo+ and such. I complete with a bit too much crap in the sb I think.

Is that good for a loose goose retard style of playing vs bad weak/tight opponents? Should I ad or take away anything?

Some examples of hands:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/171005 <- wtf I should’ve bet flop. That way I probably could’ve gotten away from this but that’s probably result oriented. Would he call me with anything worse on the flop?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/169471 <- wtf I’m weaktight should’ve bet turn. What do I do if he reraises? Push/fold? My had look a lot like a overpair but on the other hand it’s still a crappy hand vs a range of monsters :/

Any ideas, comments and whatnot appreciated.

0 votes

Comments (9)

Ok, they've got prima software, really bad "VIP Cashback" and a ugly name but god damn it it's soft. I'm not a very good pokerplayer or anything, I just don't tilt much and I try not to do THAT stupid things and this is my stats so far this year:


If someone wants to try a new site out I can really recommend it.

0 votes

Comments (17)

Reasons my life pwns:

- Since august when I put 50 USD on partypoker for the first time I've won about 14900 USD, which happens to be more then 100 000 SEK. That's kinda nice compared to getting B+ on PGT while playing BW.

- The birthday girl from my last post apperently broke up with her boyfriend.

- I seem to finally beat NL200.

- I got myself some really nice clothes this week.

- I have some really good friends and I like my family very much.

- I've decided to get healthy and eat better.

also: April so far:

0 votes

Comments (8)

So I’m back from the university over estern and some friend of my sister who I made out with a bit last summer had a party cause she turned 18 and I was invited. Anyway, most people was younger then me and I was somewhat exotic since I’m studying in another town, actually had nice clothes and all that. Anyway, I was so halfway into the pants of some hippie when a friend of my sister came and told me that I better go take a look at my sister since she felt like crap and long story short; I ended up taking care of her instead of my little soldier the rest of the night. Whatever, I’m sure some great man once said something along the lines of; “there are some things a man wants to do because he’s a man, and there are other things a man has to do to be a man”. Blood is thicker then beer.

This is very annoying since I almost thought that my downswing was over after last weeks encounter with my ex, but whatever.

Anyway, I played short session of NL200 earlier today too and I played two decently intressting hands. I played bad in the beginning but then I got these hands and some confidence back.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/169929

I had a note on this guy that he bets weak when his weak (thanks myth or whoever posted that note system in some topic 2-3 months ago) so I knew that couldn’t have a set or 56. The bord was also crazy draw heavyish so I figured he’d bet big with anything good. When the A hit I figured that he’d fold every missed draw, of which I beat most but whatever, and probably 66-88 and maybe even a nine. I dunno if this play is good but I figured that the A might work as a nice scare card. Opinions?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/169926
I 3-bet a far bit pf so I figured he couldn’t have a higher pair so I put him on 45, a flushdraw, a set or an eight. I don’t know if I played it good or if I should check/call or whatever. Opinions?

I ended up about half a buyin so I’m actually in the green for NL200 which is nice, and since I’ve played a lot of NL100 I’m up just over 1.8k during the first week this month over about 10k hands. I’m so in love with poker.

0 votes

Comments (2)