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jasper5408, Oct 04 2009
today was a good day, i lost about 300 playing 6 max like it was heads up...
took a break and just decided to play heads up (went up like 8 buy ins). i kinda want to remember today so here's a brief snapshot
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i don't really care wat anyone says about this hand, he 3 bet twice before and showed AQ and KK and folded way too much pf, i'm actually fairly confident i'm beat here on turn.
i also got to play my first real opponent hu. this is the first time i've ever experienced actual real game dynamic, upper level thinking, and even felt opponent changing gears. i never really put much stock into intangible concepts like these but today it was slamming me in the face. just a recap. most of these hands i've already forgotten the thought processes behind them :/ (it wasn't just hand analysis, it was previous hand history, transition to more aggressive pf action, etc)
there were so many epiphanies during this session, and i've rarely had more fun playing poker. i played 3 tables 6 max and played one table of hu. i think it's really fun. anyway just a recap of the session.
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as we approached 4 buy ins deep, my heart began racing, my body began trembling and my hand uncontrollable :/ i pretty much wussied out, and left the table.
anyway i've got some new focus, and i hope i dont lose my current passion and focus for the game. i just want to put massive volume in, get to 1/2 on 6 max. the path has never been so straight~!
cr question
jasper5408, Oct 03 2009
if i get cr premium membership through ftp can i buy hem (with discount) from them as well?
for dogmeat
6-m --> hu --> fr?
jasper5408, Oct 01 2009
played pretty consistently this month, and had a 10 session winning streak going but that finally broke. i could feel my play becoming a bit more robotic and my play essentially went to garbage (pretty much focusing on my own hands, etc).
had tests and papers, etc lots of school life. so i took a decent 4 day break from poker to pretty much massively cram ~ 11 hours a day of studying. took 2 days off from everything and that pretty much brings us to today.
didn't want to play 6 max so i watched some videos (please look at main poker forum for 5 day free pass to DC). tbh i felt a bit scared to play. anyway ended up playing some heads up....and won like 3 buy in 1 tableing for like 20 minutes. first time playing heads up and was really confused. i tried looking for a 25 dollar table, but i guess ftp doesn't offer it. i mean i've always heard things about hu being super soft, but i guess i never really believed it. because it doesn't make sense. if your willing to play hu than you should in general be good at it no? well ill just go ahead and let you know this seems mightily false so far.
anyway back to some DC, only watched nolan's videos and really have to recommend. he's such a character saying things that just really reminded me of elementary schools when we learned about tall tales (he speaks like davy crockett-huck fin mix with a slight boston accent). plus he seems like a super manner guy (which was pretty humbling).
i guess i feel pretty inspired to play some full ring (seems fun with narrower hand ranges and maybe some more focus on card removal, i dunno though). in general though i feel pretty confident about fr mainly because i feel that 6 max puts u in a lot harder spot because ppl have just wider ranges. but we'll see. maybe i learn patience/discipline after playing lots of fr?
just wondering if there were any specific adjustments that weren't super obvious (like besides position and a more standard/stricter opening hand range from ep) or some other general tips/help
september...
jasper5408, Sep 30 2009
oh u were expecting a graph.
(yea she's pretty sub par so go ahead and look at this instead)
gl to all of you. hope you guys had good months
just a quikie
jasper5408, Sep 29 2009
sup lp, only like 3 hands today (today blew total ass)
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do you guys 3 bet turn and get it in? it was sb vs bb.
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i thought guy was pretty solid because i saw him get it in pretty thin. on flop i like my raise because 5 dimaonds are already used up, and i expect sets to lead here.
i don't really mind turn at all, because i expected villain to squeeze JJ like 100% of the time so i feel like his range that i'm losing to is super narrow. i still feel like i have the effective nuts.
on river i am fucking befuddled. i don't think he has 33's here ever, it's either 97 (full house) or T8 diamonds (straight flush) i mean were deep, but i guess he might bet getting to excited with a K flush? but even though he's repping a super narrow range can i fold? do i stack K flush enough here?
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this might be super nitty, but i would fold here to a check raise on flop. do you think checking flop will induce more bets or calls more so than getting a call on flop? (i think pretty trivial but am starting to like checking flop and calling/betting turn)
random thought's + i need halp~!
jasper5408, Sep 27 2009
life's been great the past few days. i've just been feeling alot better than i normally do (i used to feel like i constantly had these mild headaches during the entire day). and maybe depression is lightening up a bit as well~~
anyway i've got a few minutes before i go over to a friend's place and watch/eat/eat some football/pizza/wings etc.
can't even believe my string of winning sessions at nl50 but lately but i've started to doubt my game (despite the good results). Mainly because i feel like i play pretty decent and win some small monies and then cooler a guy with a set or an over pair or some higher flush. i mean i get coolered all the time too, but i don't feel like i'm out thinking my opponents as much as i thought i was (ie i don't really bluff/call to thin/etc). i'm trying to fight the trend towards nonchalant robotic play and have therefore been trying to analyze some hands. hopefully this gets in before the end-of-month-results blog posts.
i'm probably going to do this pretty regularly and thanks in advance for all the advices.
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i feel like if he had raised bigger on the flop i would have been more inclined to 3 bet. but i mean he gave me pretty decent odds i think. and i don't think there's any fold equity on the flop anyway. so i think call on flop is a no-brainer. on the turn, i opt to c/r in case he has a combo draw or some pair like JJ TT with a heart. i don't really know about my play here. and to be honest i had a brain lapse where i thought this was a 3 bet pot (because when i hold ak it's almost always a 3 bet pot) so i think i probably weighted his range more towards pairs. what line do you guys like here?
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was gonna bluff the river, but that's such a weird rundown of cards, as it hits nearly all draws, 2 pairs, etc. i also beat JT, T9, etc other low pairs on the flop. didn't really think a bluff here would fold out much that i didn't beat anyway. i normally 3 bet pf, but i just sat at table and i tend to be a bit more showdown happy earlier in the session. flop/turn completely standard? c/r turN?
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i normally cbet ~100% of flops heads up, but am trying to put an effort into checking occasionally with air/draws/top pair hands. i raise turn because i think my hand's best, plenty worse call here (JT, T9, 77-JJ) and i think my hand is somewhat disguised. i'm hesitant to let go of this hand because i just started checking top pair, and doubt opponent knows that. also my line does not make that much sense and opponent may do something retarded with a pair of Tens or JJ. in any case i butchered the hand somewhat, and didn't want to call because of that
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4 bet pot, i'm pretty sure i have the nuts. questioning my flop bet, i think AK with and without K clubs probably reshoves here? If KK QQ JJ call here with a club i think i'm ok with that too cause they are drawing pretty thin as well. thoughts?
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Some bluffs...i think bet sizing is extremely important to bluffing and i'm pretty sure i fucked a lot of it up.
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not a super strong combo draw, but i think i fold out the higher flush draws which i think is crucial. prob fold out everything here except for sets and high overpairs? when do you like flat call and when do you like raise? a problem i see is that villain bets half pot on turn 6 into 12, and i'm getting 3:1 here. i guess reads prob dictate if i raise (his half pot bet=weakness) or flat (his half pot bet=inducing a raise)
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pretty standard i think, he gives up lead on turn, and once he checks river i feel like i'm golden here.
smoking beer drinking cigarettes
jasper5408, Sep 23 2009
took 2 tests pretty much studied straight 17 hours with no sleep. was planning on coming home taking a few beers, hittin a few bowls and calling it a day.
but i was on several 5 hour energies (which i think works pretty well) and ran into a friend i used to flirt with about 2 semesters ago. anyway she offered me a ride home and asked me about my day. we talked i explained to her my plan to waste away the day (she had 4 tests this week). she asked if she could join me and i enthusiastically answered yes. so we drink/smoke watch a movie (adventureland followed by grandma's boy).
i only have one chair in my room so guests always sit/lay on my bed so we watched the movies in bed. she subtledly touches me (i've been waiting for it all day) and i just (very forward/obvious no class/suave) touch her and we are making out and then we just locked eyes for a bit. (i've been hot ever since she came over) but the feeling subsided (maybe the booze/weed) when we locked eyes and i'm pretty sure we just went to bed....anyway i woke up like 2 hours ago and she's still here sleeping. so obv i played a few hands. still feelin really buzzed and i don't think i played all that great. i seemed to have won a lot of money from the shortstackers but lost alot bak to regs.
it was weird today. i don't expect much from her, but today was a perfect day. she made it a perfect day. i can't even explain it, i just felt the universe me and her were all aligned in every way possible (prob the weed talking i get like that i don't know why). but i'm just glad happy about today.
anyway poker wise, over the past few days i've been playing exclusively at nl 50 and haven't had a losing session yet which is good. also i feel nl 50 is alot easier than nl 25 for me personally. another thing i've decided to just nit it up with AK. i don't think AK does very well when all in pf. And this is just my opinion, extrapolated from my experience. Over the past AK stack offs I was genuinely happy to see QQ's as KK and AA were just a more common/frequent sight. i think 4 betting AK fails in part because AQ AJ no longer stacks off with a shared A. If someone is 3 betting you with weak Ax KQ and gay shit, calling with AK is so much superior than 4 betting and giving them a chance to fold weak shit. also folding AK to 4 bets is fine too since i don't really think that many ppl 4 bet 88-JJ ever. i suppose alot of the high stakes players <3 ak because of how ridiculously aggro its supposed to be pf. i guess it's all really player dependent but i'm not gonna stack off with AK any more pf unless player pretty much asks for it. also AK implied odds blow so much asshole in a 3 bet pot (which makes me want to 3 bet wider range and just c-bet the A boards)
so many heroes tonight...
jasper5408, Sep 20 2009
football is awesome. i really forgot how awesome it is.
favre/peterson/harvin (i know percy harvin doesn't belong here but it looks like he'll avg close to one td per game as a rookie
flaco and that gd ravens D was SO sick
gj to cutler for being able to bounce back and not pull a jake dellhoome. lol @ jeff reed. speaking of which i went ahead and looked up "jeff reed douchebag" and here are the results.
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en...20douchebag&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
sanchez a hero again, performing well in consecutive games and kurt warner had a monster game as well. add delhome and steve smith. fantastic shit
pretty much every game i had a chance to watch was really fun^^ it might be because of watching so much fucking baseball, but i really do think this season the field's a lot more level and it seems like a lot more fun.
somewhat frequent trivial spot q's
jasper5408, Sep 19 2009
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i don't like c/raising flop and getting it in. plenty of turns are sorta scary like T-A. c/c is best herE? what about donk lead? if turn card comes making it more drawy do we like a donk lead? or a c/r? in actual hand a T hearts came on the turn and i was so confused on how to play the hand.
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sorta good spot to 3 bet bluff? a c/r on that super dry flop is kinda ridic =.= does he really play a set like this? seems like Qx is most likely hand or pairs like 88-JJ he turns into bluffs.
lookin for...
jasper5408, Sep 18 2009
SOLID guides to mtt's (focusing on chipstacks/strucutre of tourny) and/or a guide into plo
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