Tom

Well I stopped posting here cause I just didn't feel like doing so anymore and I thought I would play better without distractions like this Ironically I started playing less with each coming day, so today I played 5k hands on 3/6 SH. Finished a sweet -3k. Today I was playing a lot of HU (HU = heads up), this is what I consider the weakest part of my game due to lack of experience.

Weird thing today is I think I may have tilted, my highpoint was +2k or so, and then within the next 1k hands or so I lost like 7-8 buy ins I was really out of control my lowpoint was -5k i think but I calmed down and made back a little over 2k. I was actually making good money playing the heads up, I just lost most of it in the ring game when my multi-draws missed and overpairs got cracked and stupid bluffing when I should not have done so.

There's a lot of interesting hands, but I am somewhat tired after that long non-stop session but I will make a greater effort to post stuff here, no more slacking off (I hope)

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My heads up game is really developing well I feel comfortable now playing against anyone (or everyone I've encountered so far) Except I seem to be getting destroyed in the full ring, I'm making a lot of really good plays but people are just sucking out, but when the money goes in I generally have the best of it, so I have nothing to worry about.

Once thing I need to work on is making "donk calls". When I'm reading my hand history of losing hands, I can see many situations where fold is the clear play but for whatvever reason at the time I convinced myself to call, now that I notice this hopefully I will do it at a much lesser frequency.

Today's session was medium length - 3400 hands

Hands:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/74076
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/74084 *I probably should have reraised the flop, it wouldn't have made a difference but its a better line.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/74090
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/74109 *This guy semi-bluffs too aggresiveley so it becomes transparent, I was gonna push on any non ace or heart card
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/74136
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/74139 *I thought he had a set or AA kinda funny I thought
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/74141
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/74143 *zzz
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/74152
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/74158

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Today I took a stab at the $500+50 NL Hold-em event, did preety decent. Was always chipleader at my table except then I made a critical error, I tried to get the 2nd place chipleader off top pair (KJ) and did a 3-barrel bluff but he called me down the entire way check-calling, so from now on I'll try not to get tournamanet players off top pair because none of them seem to have any discpline at all so I'll adjust and see how the other events go.

On another note cashgames went well today, I lost a few key races early on which annoyed me as I started off my session losing ~2k or so but I finished +12 buy ins so it was a solid day.

Hand history is preety ABC stuff, people were just in a "hes bluffing mode" and called me extremley light which is fine by me.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75153 - This guy is a complete donk, he does not raise on the flop with his draw but when I repop it he min reraises me leaving himself $80 behind... it's like hes not thinking at all hes just acting impulsivley. As you can immagine he left soon after.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75160 - Gogo 1 outer.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75167 - Not a good board to be pushing a flush draw, he also left soon after

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75172 - I was happy to win this one, this guy was talking a lot of trash after he checked down a set when I had the button he said, "no point in betting I'm just gonna check and let you kill yourself"

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75184 - I don't get this but I also don't mind it

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75185 - They were just playing attrocious today, pricing me in and then calling off all their chips when I hit... dream day. I wish they always played this bad.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75187 - He value bet bluffed me..

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75191 - I don't understand why he didn't push the turn, was he planning on folding if the board paired? I don't know, he played this hand very bad it was just a cooler however, nothing I can do here.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75200 -

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75201 - Again I don't understand why everyone is getting so fancy but I don't mind.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75221 - Trap the tourney donk.

I got eliminated from the tourney with QT MP raise (me and villian had 11k stacks with 150/300 blinds) I make it 900 to go, he calls from the BB. Flop is K77, I bet pot, he thinks and calls. Turn 6 I bet 2/3 pot he thinks for like 20 sec and calls. River = blank I shove he calls and shows KJ. :/ I didn't save the HH because I was unable to find it for some reason. But this is how it went down.

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Okay so I'm preety comfortable with my heads up game I feel I I have an edge over most players but I have refused a few matches against people like Pooruser which is something I'm not happy with, but this is mainly because he wanted to play me on a day where I was stuck like 4k or so and I was too "beat up" to take on an opponent of that calibur (I don't play in situations where I have a very low % of doing well) . Had I been + for the day I would certainley play. But against weaker opponets I have been making very good money playing HU so it's good I finally got that part of my game up to "par". I still have a long way to go before I will call myself a very good HU player but I'm happy I have an edge over the majoroty of players now.

I've also started playing 5/10 recently now that I can play in almost any setting and make profit. So far it's been playing very similar to 3/6. The 3/6 regulars: VaeSolis, Meatcity, Straate are probably much stronger players than most of the 5/10 regulars (I know this is true seeing as meatcity and vaesolis both have had great success playing the 10/20 NL game). After playing with these guys everything else is will probably be downhill.

Also I'm probably gonna try not posting the ABC hands which are boring I would immagine. If you watch I've changed my opening bet to about 3x the big blind now which I find is good for my style of play. So the most recent HH's I will be posting are 5/10 and the older ones (still within the week) are 3/6.


http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75850 * One thing I noticed is that people tell the truth a very high %, so it's actually +EV to beleive them
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75865 *I suppose I should have repoped the flop, I think anything besides a set has a very difficult time calling.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75868 *Funny hand, rare 3 way flush. Have not seen one of these in a while.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75872 * My only read was that straate would not value bet a flush lower than Tc, so has long as he didn't have the Ac or Qc I was good. I had no idea what he had I just know what he had to have to win and he does not have this a large % of the time. Interestinly enough, I probably would have called this with AT/AQ as well.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75876 *I suppose I should just 3 bet here to decrease varience.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75898 *I insta-called here this guy is a complete maniac has been goign all in a lot and showing, just unfortunate river. My flop and turn line is preety shitty however, I'm not too happy w/ this hand.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75906 *Somewhat of a cooler, but I should have been able to get away from this river.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75961
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75963 *This hand was funny, at first I didn't understnad why the money was going to him I never saw the board being paired I thought I had the stone nuts Had I seen that, this would have played out very different.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75977 *I don't understand this bluff, not a good idea to bluff when a non-scare card comes. I actually thought he had KQ or missed KT/T9
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/75983 *How do I lose this
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/76040 *I have no idea what I was thinking at the time, this is an absolutley crazy play.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/76197 *I was 90% sure he dosn't lead into me with the queen so this is preety basic.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/77660 *No push on the turn because I felt there was no fold equity.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/77753 *Standard bluff call. I think I'm playing tourney's too much like cashgames, I need to play a more basic ABC style to be more successful.

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Ok so I have not posted here in a while because I've been preety buisy the last few days and have not found the time do update this. I have not really played much in the last three days, yesturday I played 5-5NL at Casino Niagara (this is the highest they offered) and two days before that I put in about ~1500 hands/day which is ok but nothing special. So in the last three days I made $2500 playing 3/6 NL and I lost two buy ins at the casino which I will explain later on.

I've never been to a Casino before because I never really wanted to go and waste money playing slots, blackjack, or any other stupid -EV game so I just stayed out of there. Since they opened poker I still have not been looking forward to casino games but I figured I might as well try it eventually. When I was there the first thing I realized is that the player quality is absolutley attrocious, there were a few standard tight players (who were so predictable it was funny to watch) and a few loose cannons who seemed to loose at least 1-2 buy ins/hour. Given the number of hands/hour we were playing this is a really awfull rate of losing money. So I figured I would play loose against the predittable tights and tight against the donks. This strategy worked out very well, I did a ton of bluffing and I never got caught once which is really rare. Unfortuatley I never won a single showdown all night (no joke) If the hand ever reached the river I was always out-drawn.

Worst hand of the evening was I raise $25 UTG with 8d9d (my stack is $700) donk calls ($200 stack) and tight calls ($1300 stack) flop is 7dTd3s. Since I'm not in position and I figured a standard con't bet had little fold equity I decided to check and perhaps reraise a weak bet. So donk bets $35, tight min reraises him to $70 I go all in (just because tight would not mini reraise with a monster here on such a draw heavy board, this is something I picked up during the evening). He thinks for like 30 sec and calls showing 5d6d a lower flush + gutshot straight. So I have him dominated but the turn card comes 4h river is meaningless and I gotta reload :/


Actually one of the biggest problems with this game was that it was capped, I had to sit down with only $500 and if I lost a few pots I would find myself sitting with a $400 stack which was stupid. Plus the table was 10 handed which was really slow paced. But they charged $6 rake every 30 min which was ridiciously high given the number of hands we get in. These games are extremley soft and can be crushed but I can probably make more money playing online, so I'll probably do that Unless they fix up the casino games and get a uncapped game. I think if you'r main goal is just to make money as fast as possible 8-12 tabling online is the optimal way to go about it.

As for Pokerstarss the last few days, I've been running about average. Meaning I'm getting about $1 every hand I play. I also find myself posting a lot less hands than before, I think rather than just posting every pot that comes I will only post interesting hands that come up.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55493 *This guy raises every single pot, I just felt
he had to bet to win so I called :/ After this call check_kills told me that's the worst call he has seen in over 3 months lol
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55494 *I figured out his betting patterns a few hands after this one, everytime he goes all in he has either a strong draw or a hand with extremley good showdown value, had I known this earlier I would not have called.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55495
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55882 *Standard - If he has a set he stacks me here every time
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55885 *Most people don't 3-bet preflop with AA-QQ and for the most part it's the correct play, this is just a very tough spot for him. I think he thought I had either QQ or AA
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55896
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55904 *I had almost an exact same hand last week like this, same flop except when you'r running bad they showdown AA when your running average-good you win
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55906 *This is a really weird hand, if he has an ace or 6 he has to call. I don't understand why he would bluff in this spot.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55917 *Probably the worst call I've made in a long time. IntrepidFox is not capable of bluffing in this spot I was just too stubborn at the time to realize that. I actually paused for a moment before betting I initially thought I would check it down and just see what he called me with for information, but I got greedy and value bet :/
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/56205 *This is exactly how not to play a set. Not only is this a bad way to play a set, why is he limping in with JJ wtf.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/56206 *Apparently my image is really loose because I honestly thought he would not do this without a set it's incredible he pushed with a hand like AQ I was really shocked. This guy is one of the very tight players on 3/6
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/56207 *I think I played the flop and turn almost perfect. I suspect I should have made a slightly larger river bet. Either way I got very good value here (especially considering it's an unraised pot) but I think it could have been a little larger.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/56208 *Again wow, I can't beleive people are pushing with such garbage


Thoughts:
I used to play my overpairs and TPTK for medium-value. But I'm noticing recently people are willing to play big pots with me with very weak holdings even stuff like medium pairs. So I think I will increase my aggresion with very strong one pair hands and see where that goes. I used to almost never play TPTK for stacks but now I realize against me people will play very big pots with weak kickers so I will try and find a way to really exploit this.

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Medium length session - I will save myself for the weekend games (which are extremley soft, you can make 5 weekdays worth of money in these two days)
1350 hands +$2400 (which is preety good considering I missed some all in semi-bluff draws this number could easily have been 4-5k)
Today I feel I played really well, made a lot of really good bluffs in spots where there clearly was strong fold equity. Funny thing first orbit of the day I get KK and a shortstack goes all in for $150 obviously this is an insta call - But what does he have? Of course AA Unlike the last 13 KK v AA's I had i actually hit a set this time and sucked out! I knew this was a good sigh, my luck is now changed.
Also on another note I probably did not post as many hands from my other sessions because I had a really weird run of cards and I lost the desire to post, but things have changed.

Hands from today:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/57503 *Attrocious play by him.... why this donkey is even playing poker is beyond me. Too many people have this mentallity "He will only call a reraise with a better hand, what's the point" That's fine... more money for me. Money saved is money earned.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/57515 *Standard it's a shame I missed.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/57540 *Again, I felt I probably should have open shoved the turn, I still like my line because it's a really tough spot for him to call here, he made the correct call (I don't know how) Kudos to GTP.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/57546 *Radio msg'd me and said "omfg I folded AA" I didn't feel he had a heart so I decided to take this pot away from him.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/57516 *Standard
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/57548 *The J6 push is really bizzare... But I had correct pot odds too call, in fact I'm getting 3:1 on a coinflip, so ez call.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/57557 *Wtf is he thinking with this flop call, I figured if he called on the flop with a gutshot it's his.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/57561 *Tough spot for him, since it's such a drawheavy board there's a lot of hands I can have which he beats. I thought he had the draw I didn't think he could have top pair here.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/57566 *Somewhat cold-decked hand, I didn't want to 3-bet the flop perhaps I should have? I'm not sure here.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/57578 *Icing on the cake This is why my good hands get paid off.

Thoughts:
My bankroll is really getting nice now, I'm more than sufficient for 5/10 NL I will probably play there within this week. I just wanna win my first 2-3 sessions so I feel like I'll be freerolling. If I lose my first 2-3 sessions it gets somewhat discouraging, but this time around I won't stop.

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I have a comfortable BR for 5/10, I took a weekend off to clear my mind and today I decided to take a stab at it. Started off absolutley attrociously, I think I was trying to do too much and ontop of that I lost a few hands that I probably should have been able to get away from, set vs set, and overpair vs set + a few other stuff.

Took me about 1k hands to settle down (at this point I was down 5 buy ins) and I just said, "wtf and started to play care free (my regular style)" Possitive results followed, made about 4-5 buy ins after this (help with a decent run of cards) and finished the day -1.2k or so which is a result I'm proud of. +3-4k from my low point.

I should be able to win in this level at a decent rate. You can feel the regulars are slightly better in every aspect, the most noticable one is that they are very aggresive. I will make the proper adjustments and we will see where this goes.

Hands:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58353 *I think I was trying to do too much here, I've seent his guy play higher stakes so I figured I could take him off any hand that is not quads, he must have had it I guess. He claimed to have pocket tens, but im 90% sure he did not.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58356 *I actually felt he had an ace + gutshot hand or flush + gutshot , so I figured he had either 2 pair or the gutshot or missed flush, I probably should have folded though... This is probably a mistake on my part.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58360 *This is just plain retarded on his part. Did he call to hit a set? Or was he going on any low flop... who the hell knows.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58361 *I can't explain this one I suppose I got lucky the 8 came and the board didn't pair.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58367 *I folded the straight flush :/
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58373 *Funny how a lot of weird action always occurs blind vs blind
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58390 *Probably should have been able to get away here.... This was an impulsive call. It is however a 1 outer, because I only go broke if the ace falls, and if it was the ace of spades I would fold. Only the ace of diamonds I give action.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58393 *Retarded check raise, he has absolutley no fold equity.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58405 *This is such an obvious set now that I look at it. I was in the "he's bluffing me" mode. New stakes will do this to you, or at least me. On 3/6 NL this is an easy laydown.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58406 *Again I felt he had a set because he overbet the flop and now all of a sudden he wants to go all in, feels like a donk with a set. Again an easy fold but I could not get away...
These bad calls quickly add up you can see.


http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58411 *Played this hand perfect, had I frontbet river I think he may have just smoothcalled.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58413 *Again he limps in and calls $50 with ATs and flops the nuts... Had the jack not paired up I could get away from this, but with that pairing up I can now beat top 2 pair. He actually paused for a long time before calling, I was almost sure I had him.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58423 *Frontbet usually means really strong, I have to call here I didn't have a read, I just called because this is a weird line for a set and I can beat so many hands.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58428 *Standard open shove



It's obvious I did not bring it in the first few thousand hands, had I been playng my standard game all along this could have easily been +2-3 buy in day. But that's fine I will have to get used to the new people + styles. This should not be a problem, I will continue to play these stakes and things will pick up.

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Again I was playing 5/10 today 8 tabling full ring. Got off to a mediocre start but then made the money back and some. For whatever reason I was not winning any coinflips today, I got a few people to fold with aggresive pushes but if they called I almost always lost which sucks :/ I played preety decent today, the hands I lost most of them preety much played themselves, and I don't see anything wrong with the way I played most of them.

After about 1300 hands or so playing 5/10 I was stuck 4 buy ins and was a little fed up that I have not yet booked a winning session (only 2 attemps not really big sample size). But I did realize full ring is a grind, the hands/hour is lower and I sometimes it's frustrating when you'r sourrounded by smallstacks or just lunatics and are forced to play ABC poker.

So from now on I am going to make a small change of plans. Rather than grind out 5/10 full ring I will play 6-handed and see where that goes. Since The weakest part of my game at the moment is heads up and maybe 3 handed. So I will go to 2/4NL and 3/6NL for a little while to fix these problems. It will be an easy learning process because I have 200+ buy ins for these stakes so rather than think about the money I will just focus on the poker which is always good.

Hands from today:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58673 *Standard. Really marginal push by him... the only hand he beats is mine but he can't know that. Can't blame him however.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58676
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58679
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58683
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58686
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58692
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58696
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58700 *Weird where do I lose money That flush draw cracking my set was frustrating, Im happy that people are making such big mistakes but it sucks to lose the pots :/
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58705 *Blind vs blind... I have a really aggresive image, same guy who pushed with 87 pair + straight draw, I insta-called this this is really unfortuante. I suspect had the flop come Q high or T high he would also play a big pot with me. But rather than check raise the turn, he would check/call every street.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58725 *Again cant win money if you don't win races.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58727 *Standard 2 outer.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/58794 *So here I will start playing 6-max.

It's amazing how I lose money playing such donks, but when you are losing 6:5 races and 3:1 races there's just nothing you can do but watch. So 6-max seems really good, you get about 40-50% more hands per hour and player quality is still very weak. We will see where this goes.

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Many of these other successfull other poker players set goals for themselves that help keep them motivated and focused on the game. So either today or tomorrow I am going to think of a goal and try to reach it, if this is successfull (hopefully it will be) I will do this more often. At the moment I have nothing specific in mind, it's just an idea floating out there once I figure this out I will post it up and get started ASAP. If anyone has any suggestions or something like that gimme a shout because at the moment my mind is blanc

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Ok so I'm going to address one of the biggest problems with my game something that others have but I do not. Rather than making a results oriented goal I will make a volume-based goal. I play much less hands than almost any other mid-high stakes poker player I somehow make good money, money making has never been the issue with me it has always been putting in the hands. So my goal will be : 100k hands in 35 days. Since I will be playing 6-max this will not be too bad I will be able to get in a decent hand size very quickly. I figure one way or another I will end up making decent money because I have a nice win-rate.
Tomorrow will be the official day 1. If I am unable to reach my goal I will have to serve some kind of punishment, maybe donate money to charity or something like that.

100k hands in 35 days, gogogo!

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