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Just realizing that I was at the table with a bunch of laggy players, floaters and sponges was enough to send me on a chip-spewing suicide tilt, with the losses snow-balling over time:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/218555
QQ vs AA for a net loss of 1.5 BI.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/218556
Early on. I thought opponent would lay down an overpair for sure. I was probably right, coz opponent requested time before calling AI on the turn.

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Going broke with a pair of sixes.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/218558
A costly bluff with 33 unimproved.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/218559
T8 suited, AI with TP. Pwned.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/218560
TP against top set on the flop. Improving to 2 pairs on the turn was enough for me to hang myself.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/218561
I tried this preflop limp-reraise move a lot with a variety of strong hands, in order to counter opponents' aggressive prerflop raises. Didn't work here, however.

I did have my share of glorious moments:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/218566
I hit my 2-outer to destack my deep opponent.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/218567
AA vs. AK, preflop all-in.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/218568
Aces up vs. TPTK.

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Flopped house got paid fully. I guess opponent called flop only because of my atrocious image.

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Flopped set turned quads. I'm really gald to get even with this opponent. On the other hand I'm not sure I took the best line (opponent will likely check behind on river with TP only).

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/218571
TP no kicker, turned trips. I don't think this hand warranted a raise on any street since it only beat a bluff (sure enough that was the case).

3 sexy hands that I played on Friday afternoon:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/215834
When an overpair gets called down unimproved, it usually only beats a bluff. Which is exactly what happened here.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/215833
A (nut) backdoor flush.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/215832
This donkey screwed up his set big time -- but poker Gods had other plans for us. Can't complain about getting it in with the best of it.

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So I was pleased about the $700 or so that I made the past few days. I however keep reminding myself that I didn't suffer from major outdrawing/suckouts.

Tuesday early morning -- +164 over 3.3k hands, 4.87 PTBB/100.

I lost 5 buy-ins when I pushed QQ preflop into KK and AA respectively, TT into KK twice on rag board in reraised pots, and finally KK into AA on another raggy board.

My big winning hands were more eventful:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/215911
A hand that made me LOL. I was trying to squeeze multiple limpers with this utter garbage hand. I knocked out all but one, and continued hard when I paired the Q on the K-high board. When called I fired another barrel on the turn. I was disheartened when I was called. The river 3 gave me a glimmer of hope -- at least I overtook 1-pair hands. Turns out I didn't need it.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/215913
I thought opponent had the Q. On the other hand since opponent called my massive overbet AI he must be thinking I was overplaying the Q coz he could beat a naked Q.

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I called a small preflop reraise, flopped a bottom pair + flush combo draw, pushed it, and turned the flush when called.

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I can't believe opponent isn't pushing his full house. What was he thinking about? He was beating a flush/JJ/trip aces after all.

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Flopping quads part 1. Preflop raiser flopped the full house and proceeded to double me up. Cooler for him.

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Flopping quads part 2. I was thinking about betting flop. Had I done that I would have botched the entire hand.

Tuesday early evening -- +150 over 437 hands, 34+ PTBB/100. A productive session, featuring both good reads and good luck.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/215904
I flopped top-two after calling a mild preflop raise with this very speculative 75o, and I proceeded to destack my opponent who failed to lay down TP.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/215905
My 9-high flush was good. I was surprised to learn soon afterwards that opponent also had a flush, albeit a baby one.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/215906
Judging by opponent's feeble postflop play I was putting opponent on unimproved Ace-face, so I decided to check-raise all-in on the river hoping he felt committed to call. I was rewarded when my opponent called and lost with his Ace-high.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/215907
AJ flopped TP. I decided to check-call beyond the flop, and it turned out that opponent was bluffing, which was fortunate for me.

Tuesday night session -- +$149 over 680+ hands for 21+ PTBB/100. I didn't play particularly well -- I just got lucky.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/215888
A meh AA hand -- a lukewarm preflop raise, opponent setted on the flop, but I hit my 2-outer on the turn.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/215889
AA vs KK. For a change AsAh actually holds up.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/215890
A4h, flopped bottom pair + FD, and I wasn't pleased when my flop semibluff check-raise was called. But I turned the flush and destacked my opponent who completed his K-high draw.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/215891
Just a retarded bluff. I was hoping opponent had some kind of TP/overpair hand, or maybe even a set, but unfortunately he had the Jack (he actually had 2 of them).

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I've resumed playing ring games, which means it's time to revive this blog.

For a couple of months I played exclusively SNGs. Unfortunately I didn't make any progress. At times I moved from $16 to $27, and I didn't even win a single one of them when all's set and done. I even played two $55+5 and finished 3rd in one of them. Multi-table SNGs were a lost cause for me. I tried my luck with $3 and $6.5 Omaha hi/lo SNGs and had my moments.

But eventually I conclude that NLHE end ring games are more appealing.

For two weeks or so I moved two steps up to NL100, back onto the less aggressive/volatile 9-player tables, and enjoyed very modest success. But I decided that the stakes were a bit too high.

So I spent the last week doing two things. 1) Finish reading "No-limit Holdem -- theory and practice", and 2) playing 50NL 6-max, while enjoying some success (7.5 PTBB over 8k hands or so)

NLTAP is a fine book. It deals mostly with full-ring cash games, and it presents a few refreshing concepts, such as toning down aggression, and things to pay attention to when playing one-pair hands. One suggestion from the book that I am taking to heart is to not raise too much with AK. I could win some moderate pots by hitting outkicking TP hands, so why drive hands like KJ or AT away? Why put in a raise that only pocket pairs would call?

I still need to work on my extraction. Sometimes I flopped big on a fairly benign board, such as 33 on a 973 rainbow board, and I got too excited and blew away my opponent by bet-3-betting AI on the flop -- according to NLTAP this is a sign of a weak-tight player.

My preflop numbers are 27/12, which are not stellar. But according to NLTAP preflop numbers don't matter much as long as I play well postflop in big pots.

I'll post some hands once I get home and look them up on pokertracker.

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