Tom

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Also Pav stop using the internet, go downstairs and start studying, don't make me come down there

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I didn't update in a while because I didn't feel like it, I didn't see the point of posting my results every few day(s). My results are preety consistant so it would be like posting almost morrior images of a prior week.

Instead I will try and post some thoughts and maybe some strategy for you guys. This will be a decent exersise for me because it will also force me to go over what I already know but maybe am not applying or things I forgot about and will re-call as I write. I will also most likley use examples from hands I have played and demonstrate my thoughts/theory in situations.

Note* These will be my thoughts, some of you may disagree make hate posts else where.

So stay tuned in the near future!

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This is working out very decently - today I ran a 7k hand session and it felt like nothing. I'm so focused on playing each hand I don't have time to keep track of time or how much I'm up/down. It's a very cool change, this is what I've been trying to achieve for some time now and it's finally coming along.

On that note - I don't want to mix-up different stakes eg. 8 tables of 3/6 and 4 of 5/10 etc.. so the only stake that has 12+ 6-max tables running non stop is 2/4... which is kinda lame but I will try to find a way around it. Maybe in the future I will throw in some full ring tables*



This is today's session. 2/4 is a weird stake, I can make a killing on it if I decide to play there but I rather play 3/6 and 5/10 (esp 3/6, there are so many over aggro donkies)
What's also weird is that I thought I was playing tight - but apparently I give a lot of action, I thought my volume would be around 20ish but it's 25 - maybe that's why people keep playing back at me w/ trash

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Okay - well the last few days I've been experimenting with 12-tabling and doing 4k+ hand sessions - I found out adding the extra tables really makes it easy to play long sessions. So I'm gonna try and do this for a while longer see where it goesss!'

So we will see if I can do a 10k hand session, I've only done it once before but that was 8 tabling. Gonna see if I can do one this weekend

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I realized it's not a good idea to set unreasonable goals because by not achieving them you are letting yourself down and 4k hands a day for 25 out of 30 days is an unreasonable thing to ask of myself. So I will try and do a weekly hand goal and build via small steps

This last week has been a okay, the clowns keep playing big pots w/ trash and the money keeps coming.

I also wanna give props to cardrunners.com for teaching people to repop preflop with garbage and 2-3 barrel bluff. The things they teach are very good but I think the majority of people watching it are really mis-interpreting what's really going on.
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That's my last few hands - as you can see I have tightened up substaicially and vary between 20-25 vpip. I kind of miss playing very loose and aggresive but true TAG is very profitable against today's players which consist of wanna-be LAGS who are incapable of folding anything.

So that 100k hands goal will rest in peace (for the time being) and I will come up with something more achievable and build from there.

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Okay - this is what I am going try to and accomplish. Over the next few days I will figure out a way to accomplish this. Idealy I would want to do 3k hands/day but this assumes I will paly every day which never do, I always take breaks here and there. So I think I will have to do 4k+ hands over 25 sessions - this seems like the most practical way to achieve this.

BTW - I am not a nit.



Morons keep stacking off w/ 2nd pair sometimes just A high without draw - and I don't mean AK, they are playing AJ, A9 etc for stacks... UNIMPROVED - WTF - TY 4 donate.

I'm not even running good - over the last 6-7 weeks people just keep playing back at me for whatever reason and calling down very light. I'm actually losing a lot of big pots hands like AA v 99 all in pre or AK v AJ all in pre etc... but more often than not I do take those down.

So I will determine an action plan to persue this goal and see where things go from there.

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A lot of people have asked me "Tom what are you'r goals?"
My response is always "uhhh" Unfortunatley I am not a very goal oriented person, recently I'm trying to play 2-3k hands a day and have been successfull at this for a few weeks now but nothing too specific. I'm not gonna do anythign retarded like "100k in 100 days" because that's stupid. So I imported my old blog and glanced through it and realized - I NEED TO PLAY MORE HANDS. I wanna be able to do 4-5k per session, and over-all at least 100k hands/month. Money goals do not matter because I can sustain a decent win-rate and if I put in the hands the $$ will come.

So I'm going to give this some serious considerstaion this time and see what I can make of it.

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I havn't been running very well at 5/10, after 4-5 weeks of playing 3/6 without a single losing session I suppose this was due. My overpairs are running into higher overpairs and or are getting sucked out on + people seem to just be picking up better hands. So the last 2-3 days have been going poorly and I no longer feel I am playing my A-game, I don't feel my edge is very big in my current state so I will drop down and regroup temporarly. It's funny how confident you become after a really good month and how quickly things can take a turn for the worse :D

3/6 is my A game so I will play it for a few days and go back to 5/10 when I feel I am good and ready.

I had two interesting hands today:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/109748 People have tol d me this is a spew but I generally don't get these wong. My thought process is preety simple: if his hand isn't strong enough to bet the turn it's not strong enough to make this river bet as a value bet therefore it must be a bluff. This board has a lot of missed straights and that's exactly what I put him on, I felt he is only doing this with a hand that has absolutley no showdown value. Also it's transparent my hand is weak and I would figure if he had anything decent he would value bet it because it's clear I'm not strong enough to call a big bet.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/109644 This guy was on tilt and I figured only a stronger hand would call a 2nd barrel from me so I decided to let him bluff off his chips. I also didn't think he would smooth call a flush in his "tilt" stage most players on tilt will repop me here with any draw.

That's all for now, also this month I've played 14k hands so I think I will reach the goal of 75k. I'm on pace to exceed this but I will certainley take days off.

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I've had many requests from a lot of people to revive the blog, because it's been idle so long. So I figure I may do a few posts here and there but I will most likley change the format of the blog, I will just list things that I think are interesting and omit the ABC hands which I feel are not too significant.


I don't feel like spending too much time at the moment writing, but I will do a significant post int he near future

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I was browsing through some of my old hands that I posted here and reading the comments I made, and I can actually see how significantly my game and thought process has changed (for the better I beleive). While I was never very tight I am now considerably looser than before and my reads and understanding of the game is much better than it one was my winrate is almost 80% higher than it used to be as well.

My comfort zone at the moment is Stars 3/6NL. I can play this game and beat it for a very decent amount of money any time I want to. I've built a ton of my bankroll playing these stakes but I beleive now it's time for me to move up, there is not much left for me to learn at these stakes and I think I've certainley over-stayed my welcome. I've reached a level now where I hope I am good enough to beat any stake I wish to play or adapt quickly enough to be a winning player at any stake. So starting today I will play 5/10NL full time and attempt to move up higher at a much more rapid pace than before.

I've also made a friendly bet with Straate that we will play at least 75k hands this month (December), and if one of us fails to reach this number we pay the other 1k. I think if I do put in this number of hands playing my A game, I will have the biggest month of my life. So we will see where this goes.

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