Tuesday Morning
NeillyJQ, Aug 28 2007
I started the day out today 12 tabling NL50, and found two fishy NL100 tables with very high VPIP so I joined them as well.
The session went very well, I won back what I lost last night and an extra buy-in. Bankin' yo
Heres my stats from today;
During current Hold'em session you were dealt 1255 hands and saw flop:
- 67 out of 157 times while in big blind (42%)
- 31 out of 154 times while in small blind (20%)
- 92 out of 944 times in other positions (9%)
- a total of 190 out of 1255 (15%)
Pots won at showdown - 29 of 44 (65%)
Pots won without showdown - 123
Gonna go eat n probably play again soon.
GL everyone,
Ryan (DReaMe)
8460 FPP til SuperNoVa
Night Session @ NL50
NeillyJQ, Aug 27 2007
Tonight was the worst night session ever.
No hands will hold.
This hand says it all
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259728
The donks were out tonight and catching vs me every time =
Heres my stats from this -4 buyin session;
uring current Hold'em session you were dealt 2625 hands and saw flop:
- 167 out of 347 times while in big blind (48%)
- 55 out of 337 times while in small blind (16%)
- 201 out of 1941 times in other positions (10%)
- a total of 423 out of 2625 (16%)
Pots won at showdown - 44 of 93 (47%)
Pots won without showdown - 270
Killed by the deck tonight..
8,795 FPP til supernova
PLO so far
Daut, Aug 27 2007
I've played 5k hands so far but PLO has not been going as well as I had hoped. I think im running under average but there is definitely lots of room for improvement and im taking full responsibility for not having better results. Here are my stats so far at 1/2:
I think I'm making a few mistakes:
1. putting in too much money oop. Should keep pots smaller with hands that dont flop well like really trashy AA
2. putting in too much money in spots i can be drawing very thin. I usually think a flop like 337 is a good flop for AA but its bad to get the money in and be 5%. Should really try to get money in with big draws and hands that have a really small chance of drawing badly.
3. playing less junky double suited hands. these hands work well in heads up pots and reraised pots but in raised multiway pots they are total trash.
4. calling 4bets pre with too many Axxx hands even if they are coordinated. When someone 4bets and im 100bb deep i almost always like to call (unless i have QQxx or non premium KKxx) because the hands i 3bet with usually hit a lot of flops and my opponent is committed to the hand but im not. however, if i have an A in my hand like AKJ9 double suited, i should probably fold unless we're significantly deeper. Just lose way too much equity by having only 3 cards and if for example i have a hand like T975sshh im basically a favorite over AAxx if i flop a pair and a gutshot. that extra equity adds up.
going to go through every interesting pot i won or lost more than 50bb in. Im leaving out a lot of situations where a good portion of my stack goes in with AA preflop or i just flop the nuts with a good hand and get paid off by worse and bad beats with nothing instructional.
first pots i won:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259417
overpair and nut flush draw with some a crappy backdoor straight draw is never in bad shape vs any hand on a non straight or paired flop. this is an easy bet/3bet all in. against top set and a pretty decent wrap/pair im still 33%
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259419
not sure how i feel about this one. the call preflop is fairly loose but i guess ok.
i hit gin on the flop and have to go with it. i like going for the check raise because he will cbet a good percentage of the time and even if hes ahead i have really good equity with the 5 way straight draw/pair.
the turn is a bad card for me, but theres enough money left that i still have fold equity against a lot of hands that might have called the flop. another thing to note is that often times big wraps dont really drop in equity on the turn because all the outs are usually live.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259422
im not really sure how to play KKxx hands out of position. I think fold is probably the best option a lot of times if theres no backup to the kings, but i can definitely see a lot of value in flopping sets cause people will probably not think they are overset or i have top set in a lot of situations. i still think im going to fold these hands more often just cause they are really hard to play postflop without backup. postflop in this hand was standard.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259425
i actually thought for a while on the turn when he shoved. it seemed way too likely he had AA or KK despite his overlimp preflop. I think getting it in here with naked top 2 is horrible and so is calling the flop check raise. I was swayed to a call though because i convinced myself that he didnt have AA or KK enough of the time, and because i also had the shitty flush draw to improve my equity when i was behind.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259429
I definitely should have folded preflop. This is too loose to be raising utg in a 6max game. But whatever.
I flop top pair, gutshot, nut flush draw. The board texture was also really important because its extremely unlikely that someone has a set because 66xx and 44xx are really uncommon hands. So, if someone has 2 pair or a big draw i have great equity, here i was 55% vs 2 pair. Even if they have a set I have pretty decent odds, so im getting this in every time.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259433
i dont know how i feel about him not getting this in on the flop. If i go in against him i probably have top 2 or a set and his equity vs those hands is pretty bad, like 30-35% ish. But at the same time, hes oop and its really hard to play oop, but the way he played this i think the turn is a fold unless im 2 barreling a lot. This makes me realize the power of 2 barreling helping get me paid off and im going to do it a lot more.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259436
against his likely hand of AA, this is a great flop for me. if he has AA with a flush draw im still 51%!!!
pokenum -o qc 9h 8h 7c - ah ac jh 2c -- 7h 6h 2s
Omaha Hi: 820 enumerated boards containing 2s 7h 6h
cards win %win lose %lose tie %tie EV
Qc 7c 9h 8h 421 51.34 399 48.66 0 0.00 0.513
Ac 2c Ah Jh 399 48.66 421 51.34 0 0.00 0.487
this is pretty shocking to me. the flop is a clear shove because id still rather get a fold than get it in as a small to 70/30 favorite.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259440
i thought it was really really unlikely kiwi had AA since kamakazi was putting the money in, and since i was getting way over 2:1 odds vs kamakazi with pretty damn good KKxx i decided to isolate. I would have done this same play hands like JT98, KJT9, 7654, and probably even double pairs, hands that do pretty well against AA in showdown. I would not do this with AJT9 or bad KK/QQ type hands that do poorly against AA.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259442
It seems obvious this player has likely a straight but maybe 2pair on the turn, so really just checking if i can call this profitably. Lets say i have 3 live jacks and my spades are live. so thats 12 outs, and hes almost probably calling off the last bit on the river, still pretty borderline because he might fold. If my spades arent live obviously this is horrible. I should fold the turn for sure.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259446
with a million missed draws on board it seemed like i should call this mainly because i didnt think there were a lot of possible hands in his range he would value bet this hard besides TTxx, T7.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259447
i just called the flop because of kingkong's overcall. since i have the nut flush draw and there are no likely straight draws on board, i was worried he had 2 pair and wouldnt fold. when i turn top 2 to go along with my flush draw, i decided to just jam to prevent people from checking behind cause there are now a lot of bad cards that can create a lot of straights.
hands i lost:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259452
interesting that the QJT9 was a favorite preflop because we both had AA.
i jammed pre thinking i could possibly get babies out and because i had two possible flush draws with my aces even though the cards were garbage backup. i dont think theres enough room left to fold if i didnt hit this flop, arguing for maybe playing it a bit slower preflop, but luckily i did and got it in as a favorite.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259454
was pretty certain this player had AAxx and a flush draw when he raised me. But it still looks like i have enough of a draw to go with it because of my pair and because i dont lose outs on my straight draw since all the flush cards give me a straight flush. in fact i was 49.5% on the flop so ill take this all in all day with the dead money. theres no point in flat calling and trying to push him off certain turns because there isnt enough money left, but im going to save this play for a little deeper situation where my opponent and i have 250bb or so.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259456
Reraising preflop is an option but i think flat calling is ok too. I decide to lead out on the flop because its really unlikely that turtlestar will have a draw here, so I think I can narrow his hand range a lot by betting out.
When he calls, I decide its fairly likely he could have AA or a QJT type hand that wanted to see a turn. I bet again to try and force out the possible AA hands and also force out bigger straight draws.
The river actually puts me in a sketchy spot. I decided it was too likely he would hero call me with AA no flush and value bet all in. To my surprise he had a low connected hand and he played this pretty much perfect. I cant decide whether i like how i played this hand on any street and ill probably have to think it over some more before i convince myself which plays are best on each street.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259461
I was trying to rep AA on this board and i thought he would fold a lot of draws similar to mine on the turn. Unfortunately he had the nuts and I had to put in way too much money on a draw that might lose a lot of outs due to multiple flush draws. I think i would like this much much better if the turn was an offsuit 2 that didnt put a second flush draw on board. Here, i have much worse equity against a lot of hands that i get it in vs.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259463
this is either a fold on the turn or a call down. i dont mind calling down because i think he would do this with the naked As also particularly cause he led into me, but i have to put in a lot of money to find out. Also sucks that i have the Js blocking lower flushes. I think if the board paired i was going to rep QQ and shove the river given the amount of money left but thinking about it now im not so sure anymore. i think its ok and could definitely get the A high flush to fold but i like it if the board is QJ more than Q9 because it makes it a little more believable that a set is in my range.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259465
another hand im unsure about the turn action. I think its ok because of the added gutshot but it just seems so likely he has what he ended up having. I guess he could have a lot of Qxxx 1 pair hands that i should be pushing out so its not terrible. Id still like to get the majority of the money in with better than 15% equity. If he shoved the flop I think i have to call with 6 outs worst case and exactly 2:1 odds cause he could definitely have a lot of 987 type hands that i have decent equity vs.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259469
ok so i lied. i had to post one of them. lol omaha
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259470
at the time i thought it was extremely unlikely he had a set and decided since i had 2 extra outs vs 2 pair and the backdoor flush draw i should get it in. However, im still a 2:1 dog (he did block one of my eights). Unsure about this but i think in the future its probably a fold despite having increased equity vs 456 because i block one of the straights with my aces.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259472
dont go broke in an unraised pot applies to omaha also. still have some decent equity but only because all my cards are live. i think i should probably play this slower.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259475
i thought the turn was a great card to bet again because it shuts down a lot of his draws, but at the same time, hes probably shoving a draw on the flop so it seems likely thats what he has, so check fold seems like a better option than it did at the time. meh, this isnt terrible cause im in no way committed to the hand and have a decent chance to take it down but still unlikely for him to have any reasonable draw.
Also just realized hes now folding a lot of 1 pair kings, so i like it again 
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259478
Gee i wonder what he has. fold the river you moron calling station.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259479
one of those spots i mentioned where i dont have very good odds when i get it in. the 2 seems like a good card, but its a 5 way pot and its likely someone had a monster on the flop. eh, i dunno. even if he has trips i still have some extra outs with the flush draw. really tough spot cause check folding the river seems so horrible but bet/calling is not good either.
Wow, long post. I'm ready to start playing again and ill post more updates when i get 10-15k hands in.
PLO so far
Daut, Aug 27 2007
I've played 5k hands so far but PLO has not been going as well as I had hoped. I think im running under average but there is definitely lots of room for improvement and im taking full responsibility for not having better results. Here are my stats so far at 1/2:
I think I'm making a few mistakes:
1. putting in too much money oop. Should keep pots smaller with hands that dont flop well like really trashy AA
2. putting in too much money in spots i can be drawing very thin. I usually think a flop like 337 is a good flop for AA but its bad to get the money in and be 5%. Should really try to get money in with big draws and hands that have a really small chance of drawing badly.
3. playing less junky double suited hands. these hands work well in heads up pots and reraised pots but in raised multiway pots they are total trash.
4. calling 4bets pre with too many Axxx hands even if they are coordinated. When someone 4bets and im 100bb deep i almost always like to call (unless i have QQxx or non premium KKxx) because the hands i 3bet with usually hit a lot of flops and my opponent is committed to the hand but im not. however, if i have an A in my hand like AKJ9 double suited, i should probably fold unless we're significantly deeper. Just lose way too much equity by having only 3 cards and if for example i have a hand like T975sshh im basically a favorite over AAxx if i flop a pair and a gutshot. that extra equity adds up.
going to go through every interesting pot i won or lost more than 50bb in. Im leaving out a lot of situations where a good portion of my stack goes in with AA preflop or i just flop the nuts with a good hand and get paid off by worse and bad beats with nothing instructional.
first pots i won:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259417
overpair and nut flush draw with some a crappy backdoor straight draw is never in bad shape vs any hand on a non straight or paired flop. this is an easy bet/3bet all in. against top set and a pretty decent wrap/pair im still 33%
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259419
not sure how i feel about this one. the call preflop is fairly loose but i guess ok.
i hit gin on the flop and have to go with it. i like going for the check raise because he will cbet a good percentage of the time and even if hes ahead i have really good equity with the 5 way straight draw/pair.
the turn is a bad card for me, but theres enough money left that i still have fold equity against a lot of hands that might have called the flop. another thing to note is that often times big wraps dont really drop in equity on the turn because all the outs are usually live.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259422
im not really sure how to play KKxx hands out of position. I think fold is probably the best option a lot of times if theres no backup to the kings, but i can definitely see a lot of value in flopping sets cause people will probably not think they are overset or i have top set in a lot of situations. i still think im going to fold these hands more often just cause they are really hard to play postflop without backup. postflop in this hand was standard.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259425
i actually thought for a while on the turn when he shoved. it seemed way too likely he had AA or KK despite his overlimp preflop. I think getting it in here with naked top 2 is horrible and so is calling the flop check raise. I was swayed to a call though because i convinced myself that he didnt have AA or KK enough of the time, and because i also had the shitty flush draw to improve my equity when i was behind.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259429
I definitely should have folded preflop. This is too loose to be raising utg in a 6max game. But whatever.
I flop top pair, gutshot, nut flush draw. The board texture was also really important because its extremely unlikely that someone has a set because 66xx and 44xx are really uncommon hands. So, if someone has 2 pair or a big draw i have great equity, here i was 55% vs 2 pair. Even if they have a set I have pretty decent odds, so im getting this in every time.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259433
i dont know how i feel about him not getting this in on the flop. If i go in against him i probably have top 2 or a set and his equity vs those hands is pretty bad, like 30-35% ish. But at the same time, hes oop and its really hard to play oop, but the way he played this i think the turn is a fold unless im 2 barreling a lot. This makes me realize the power of 2 barreling helping get me paid off and im going to do it a lot more.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259436
against his likely hand of AA, this is a great flop for me. if he has AA with a flush draw im still 51%!!!
pokenum -o qc 9h 8h 7c - ah ac jh 2c -- 7h 6h 2s
Omaha Hi: 820 enumerated boards containing 2s 7h 6h
cards win %win lose %lose tie %tie EV
Qc 7c 9h 8h 421 51.34 399 48.66 0 0.00 0.513
Ac 2c Ah Jh 399 48.66 421 51.34 0 0.00 0.487
this is pretty shocking to me. the flop is a clear shove because id still rather get a fold than get it in as a small to 70/30 favorite.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259440
i thought it was really really unlikely kiwi had AA since kamakazi was putting the money in, and since i was getting way over 2:1 odds vs kamakazi with pretty damn good KKxx i decided to isolate. I would have done this same play hands like JT98, KJT9, 7654, and probably even double pairs, hands that do pretty well against AA in showdown. I would not do this with AJT9 or bad KK/QQ type hands that do poorly against AA.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259442
It seems obvious this player has likely a straight but maybe 2pair on the turn, so really just checking if i can call this profitably. Lets say i have 3 live jacks and my spades are live. so thats 12 outs, and hes almost probably calling off the last bit on the river, still pretty borderline because he might fold. If my spades arent live obviously this is horrible. I should fold the turn for sure.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259446
with a million missed draws on board it seemed like i should call this mainly because i didnt think there were a lot of possible hands in his range he would value bet this hard besides TTxx, T7.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259447
i just called the flop because of kingkong's overcall. since i have the nut flush draw and there are no likely straight draws on board, i was worried he had 2 pair and wouldnt fold. when i turn top 2 to go along with my flush draw, i decided to just jam to prevent people from checking behind cause there are now a lot of bad cards that can create a lot of straights.
hands i lost:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259452
interesting that the QJT9 was a favorite preflop because we both had AA.
i jammed pre thinking i could possibly get babies out and because i had two possible flush draws with my aces even though the cards were garbage backup. i dont think theres enough room left to fold if i didnt hit this flop, arguing for maybe playing it a bit slower preflop, but luckily i did and got it in as a favorite.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259454
was pretty certain this player had AAxx and a flush draw when he raised me. But it still looks like i have enough of a draw to go with it because of my pair and because i dont lose outs on my straight draw since all the flush cards give me a straight flush. in fact i was 49.5% on the flop so ill take this all in all day with the dead money. theres no point in flat calling and trying to push him off certain turns because there isnt enough money left, but im going to save this play for a little deeper situation where my opponent and i have 250bb or so.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259456
Reraising preflop is an option but i think flat calling is ok too. I decide to lead out on the flop because its really unlikely that turtlestar will have a draw here, so I think I can narrow his hand range a lot by betting out.
When he calls, I decide its fairly likely he could have AA or a QJT type hand that wanted to see a turn. I bet again to try and force out the possible AA hands and also force out bigger straight draws.
The river actually puts me in a sketchy spot. I decided it was too likely he would hero call me with AA no flush and value bet all in. To my surprise he had a low connected hand and he played this pretty much perfect. I cant decide whether i like how i played this hand on any street and ill probably have to think it over some more before i convince myself which plays are best on each street.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259461
I was trying to rep AA on this board and i thought he would fold a lot of draws similar to mine on the turn. Unfortunately he had the nuts and I had to put in way too much money on a draw that might lose a lot of outs due to multiple flush draws. I think i would like this much much better if the turn was an offsuit 2 that didnt put a second flush draw on board. Here, i have much worse equity against a lot of hands that i get it in vs.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259463
this is either a fold on the turn or a call down. i dont mind calling down because i think he would do this with the naked As also particularly cause he led into me, but i have to put in a lot of money to find out. Also sucks that i have the Js blocking lower flushes. I think if the board paired i was going to rep QQ and shove the river given the amount of money left but thinking about it now im not so sure anymore. i think its ok and could definitely get the A high flush to fold but i like it if the board is QJ more than Q9 because it makes it a little more believable that a set is in my range.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259465
another hand im unsure about the turn action. I think its ok because of the added gutshot but it just seems so likely he has what he ended up having. I guess he could have a lot of Qxxx 1 pair hands that i should be pushing out so its not terrible. Id still like to get the majority of the money in with better than 15% equity. If he shoved the flop I think i have to call with 6 outs worst case and exactly 2:1 odds cause he could definitely have a lot of 987 type hands that i have decent equity vs.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259469
ok so i lied. i had to post one of them. lol omaha
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259470
at the time i thought it was extremely unlikely he had a set and decided since i had 2 extra outs vs 2 pair and the backdoor flush draw i should get it in. However, im still a 2:1 dog (he did block one of my eights). Unsure about this but i think in the future its probably a fold despite having increased equity vs 456 because i block one of the straights with my aces.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259472
dont go broke in an unraised pot applies to omaha also. still have some decent equity but only because all my cards are live. i think i should probably play this slower.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259475
i thought the turn was a great card to bet again because it shuts down a lot of his draws, but at the same time, hes probably shoving a draw on the flop so it seems likely thats what he has, so check fold seems like a better option than it did at the time. meh, this isnt terrible cause im in no way committed to the hand and have a decent chance to take it down but still unlikely for him to have any reasonable draw.
Also just realized hes now folding a lot of 1 pair kings, so i like it again
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259478
Gee i wonder what he has. fold the river you moron calling station.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/259479
one of those spots i mentioned where i dont have very good odds when i get it in. the 2 seems like a good card, but its a 5 way pot and its likely someone had a monster on the flop. eh, i dunno. even if he has trips i still have some extra outs with the flush draw. really tough spot cause check folding the river seems so horrible but bet/calling is not good either.
Wow, long post. I'm ready to start playing again and ill post more updates when i get 10-15k hands in.
First day at NL50
NeillyJQ, Aug 26 2007
I started the morning off entering alot of tournaments, which didn't pan out well when I lost all my buy-ins without any cashes.
After starting down around $100, I decided I was ready to move up to NL50 and start grinding there again.
The day started off bad, as I lost 2 more buy-ins hella fast. Things eventually turned for the better though, and I picked up what I lost and then a little bit. ($100 Tourney fee's + $100 start of session)
I finished the day up 1 buy-in, as I was coolered on the last hand of the night to take me from up 1.5 buy-ins.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/258868
Heres my stats from todays sessions;
morning;
During current Hold'em session you were dealt 1562 hands and saw flop:
- 86 out of 201 times while in big blind (42%)
- 27 out of 204 times while in small blind (13%)
- 110 out of 1157 times in other positions (9%)
- a total of 223 out of 1562 (14%)
Pots won at showdown - 23 of 49 (46%)
Pots won without showdown - 156
afternoon;
During current Hold'em session you were dealt 1447 hands and saw flop:
- 90 out of 191 times while in big blind (47%)
- 30 out of 192 times while in small blind (15%)
- 100 out of 1064 times in other positions (9%)
- a total of 220 out of 1447 (15%)
Pots won at showdown - 24 of 47 (51%)
Pots won without showdown - 121
I'm feeling very comfortable on NL50, and plan to stay here at NL50 for the next few months. I hope to advance to NL100 when my BR hits 5k.
Key hands I played today;
vs Jabba_Rules - I raise my AA from the blinds and pick up a caller on the button, figure him for a pocket pair or strong sooted hand. Flop comes 338, I cont bet and get minraised. Right now I'm figuring him for top pair which has 2 outs to beat me or a pocket pair, which has two outs. So I flat and give him a chance to hang himself on the turn, figuring if I bet he will instafold. He checks behind, and I trap a little more on the river. He does what I hope and donkbets small to get value from any AK/AQ and I repop him something that could be a bluff (6x reraise).
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/258826
vs debaggage87 - limp my 22 behind an open minraiser and get reraised from the button. I'm priced in so I come along. Flop my dream flop and work on getting Wannie37's money since hes deeper and conceal the strength of my hand. debagge87 will have none of it though and repops to get all the money in. I beat him in w/ my set and he rivers a boat with Q3. sick.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/258825
vs articcats - I haven't played with artic before this hand but had watched him play a little before this hand and had him figured as a TAG pla<x>yer. He limp reraises me PF which sends alarms off in my head that he probably has AA, but I call anyways for set value and incase he has AK/smaller pair. On the flop he bets very weak and I call, still suspecting he could have AA. On the turn he open shoves when a queen hits. At first, it looks like theres nothing I can beat, cuz if he had TT-AA, I only beat JJ, but I scroll through the hand histories and see him raising the last pot, and he was involved in the pot before this. With this now added to the equation I make the hero call with KK to beat his AT.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/258805
vs Cardhu24 - Limp in my small PP and get raised by an OOP pla<x>yer. He makes a very stiff raise but gives me appropriate set odds so I come along. I'm quite sure he has an overpair here when I spike my set, so I reraise strong trying to rep a jack that doesn't believe his cont bet / other pp. He instantly ships the chips and I call to beat his AA with my set.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/258797
vs Kenann - This was such a beautiful christmas present.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/258783
vs DJPushyplay and evilganz - I call the minraise PF with AT oop w/ good odds with alot of pla<x>yers. I flop the ace high FD and face a donkbet and reraise. I reraise lightly trying to represent a very strong hand and get reshoved by both pla<x>yers. At this point I have 30% of my stack in there and 2 fullstacks allin w/ the Ahi FD. I'm inclined to call and don't catch a heart, whoops.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/258770
vs Rouji - Can u believe this shit?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/258765
Ok well, I'm outa here for the night,
GL everyone,
Ryan (DReaMe)
9,442 FPP til SuperNoVa
Tournament Weekend
NeillyJQ, Aug 26 2007
On Saturday I started the day off on the cash tables and ran fairly bad, losing a buy-in after about an hour, so I switched it up to tournaments.
I spent around $60 in entry fee's and managed to get 229th in the 45k Gntd $10R, losing QQ vs AK when a king hit the turn after all the money was in.
I was fortunate enough to make it deep in the 5k Gntd $5 tournament held though, and got 5th place for a score of $380, a 20% increase in my bankroll.
Feeling confident from todays events, I've decided to dedicate today to tournaments as well, and start the grind back on the cash tables tomorrow.
Best of luck goes out to LP,
hopefully we can get a 1st place finish today;
Ryan (DReaMe)
Brag... not as great as my bears tho
FrinkX, Aug 25 2007
Battling
NeillyJQ, Aug 24 2007
I almost quit my session earlier but had some sparks of a nice run start right before I logged out so I decided to stay on and keep playing. The session did just that and turned for the better. Before I knew it, I was up four buy-ins.
I got pretty tired at the end of the session and stopped catching hands after about 2,000 hands, but not before I managed a nice day.
Heres my stats from the entire session today;
During current Hold'em session you were dealt 2092 hands and saw flop:
- 147 out of 280 times while in big blind (52%)
- 58 out of 283 times while in small blind (20%)
- 139 out of 1529 times in other positions (9%)
- a total of 344 out of 2092 (16%)
Pots won at showdown - 54 of 89 (60%)
Pots won without showdown - 173
I plan on putting in alot of hours this weekend, with alot of hand analysis as well. Be sure to check back saturday and sunday night for that.
Going to go watch some TV n pass out soon,
GL everyone,
Ryan (DReaMe)
10,623 FPP til SuperNoVa
Terrible session
NeillyJQ, Aug 24 2007
Took yesterday off and started today off running well, then got bad beat 3 times in 2 minutes for 3 stacks, then got coolered.
Going to take a break for a bit and play later,
stats from the session;
During current Hold'em session you were dealt 785 hands and saw flop:
- 61 out of 107 times while in big blind (57%)
- 26 out of 106 times while in small blind (24%)
- 53 out of 572 times in other positions (9%)
- a total of 140 out of 785 (17%)
Pots won at showdown - 23 of 44 (52%)
Pots won without showdown - 55
GL everyone
Ryan (DReaMe)
OMFG Brag!!!!!!
FrinkX, Aug 24 2007
Canada happenings
Daut, Aug 24 2007
The other night, roman ozzy and i went out to dinner with adz124. hes a really nice guy in real life, it bothered me at first that he acts like a douche online but i still liked him a lot in real life, then i just stopped caring cause its kind of impossible to hate him, hes a really enjoyable person to be around and grows on you. It's really creepy though, HE LOOKS JUST LIKE HIS AVATAR. I swear to god. Im going to find a picture of him and post them side by side.
we went to this restaurant called North 44, it was pretty unreal, reminded me of a really good vegas restaurant but 1/3 the price. midway through the dinner he starts telling us about this fishy 10/25 live game and we can show up without any cash and play on credit because they all know hes a big interwebz player. so we decide to go, and its the best decision ever. really soft game, probably the softest ive ever played in, and i think we singlehandedly cleaned out the room, i finished up about 7300, so now i have all these fake looking canadian dollars and nothing to do with them.
anyway for online happenings, since its the rage to learn PLO, im learning PLO for real, starting down at 1/2 plo, going to win 15-20 buyins at each limit before i move up. i feel this will really cement everything in my head and ill be playing with a lot of confidence. ill update that every so often with PT stats.
and finally, just want everyone to know that jeff "yellowsub86" williams likes men. So i im him today and what is his away message?
me: yo
Auto response from sub: Sorry, I ran out for a bit!
in picture form (thanks to SoCalDrew on p5 for doing most of the work on this one):
Canada happenings
Daut, Aug 24 2007
The other night, roman ozzy and i went out to dinner with adz124. hes a really nice guy in real life, it bothered me at first that he acts like a douche online but i still liked him a lot in real life, then i just stopped caring cause its kind of impossible to hate him, hes a really enjoyable person to be around and grows on you. It's really creepy though, HE LOOKS JUST LIKE HIS AVATAR. I swear to god. Im going to find a picture of him and post them side by side.
we went to this restaurant called North 44, it was pretty unreal, reminded me of a really good vegas restaurant but 1/3 the price. midway through the dinner he starts telling us about this fishy 10/25 live game and we can show up without any cash and play on credit because they all know hes a big interwebz player. so we decide to go, and its the best decision ever. really soft game, probably the softest ive ever played in, and i think we singlehandedly cleaned out the room, i finished up about 7300, so now i have all these fake looking canadian dollars and nothing to do with them.
anyway for online happenings, since its the rage to learn PLO, im learning PLO for real, starting down at 1/2 plo, going to win 15-20 buyins at each limit before i move up. i feel this will really cement everything in my head and ill be playing with a lot of confidence. ill update that every so often with PT stats.
and finally, just want everyone to know that jeff "yellowsub86" williams likes men. So i im him today and what is his away message?
me: yo
Auto response from sub: Sorry, I ran out for a bit!
in picture form (thanks to SoCalDrew on p5 for doing most of the work on this one):
Mission to SuperNovA!
NeillyJQ, Aug 22 2007
After only earning a tiny bit of FPP's per day and trying to get to supernova for the last couple months, I decided I'm going to put in a TON of hands starting friday and get to supernova by the end of the month!
This is going to be alot of 7-12 hour sessions which will help get me playing at my absolute best for when I get to NL50 so I'm at my absolute best!
Quick question if anyone knows though, when I get to Supernova, do I need to re-earn the status at the start of 2008?
and will my hair turn supersaiyan yellow all the time, or just when I'm playing?
GL everyone,
Ryan (DReaMe)
Night session
NeillyJQ, Aug 22 2007
I've been playing very calm, patient poker, and have been developing alot of good habits at the table lately. Tonight was no different, and I played very well for a few hours tonight and won a nice profit. Each day I'm getting closer and closer to NL50 and am looking forward to moving up.
I'm going to go eat dinner soon, so I won't post any analysis tonight, but this weekend I will be posting alot of hand analysis.
Heres my stats from tonights session;
During current Hold'em session you were dealt 1547 hands and saw flop:
- 106 out of 214 times while in big blind (49%)
- 38 out of 214 times while in small blind (17%)
- 119 out of 1119 times in other positions (10%)
- a total of 263 out of 1547 (17%)
Pots won at showdown - 31 of 55 (56%)
Pots won without showdown - 155
I'll be going to Pittsburgh tomorrow to clean my old house out of all my possesions down there to get ready to move to Taiwan.
On a side note I have an absessed tooth thats infected and its been giving me alot of problems, and was causing my focus to slip for a while there, but now that I'm on proper antibiotics and some pain medicine until surgery next thursday, I'll be playing my best again during all sessions.
GL everyone,
Ryan (DReaMe)
11,109 FPP til SuperNovA
Afternoon session
NeillyJQ, Aug 21 2007
I fired up the tables at NL25 this afternoon and put in a nice session, and managed to win some. The session went really well til the end where some retards caught gutshots oop and so on.
I'd like to make a detailed summary but the WSOP ME starts in 6 minutes, gotta run.
heres my stats from todays session;
During current Hold'em session you were dealt 1399 hands and saw flop:
- 99 out of 199 times while in big blind (49%)
- 36 out of 191 times while in small blind (18%)
- 126 out of 1009 times in other positions (12%)
- a total of 261 out of 1399 (18%)
Pots won at showdown - 24 of 47 (51%)
Pots won without showdown - 125
GL Everyone,
Ryan (DReaMe)
Morning session
NeillyJQ, Aug 21 2007
This morning I woke up and decided to take a small shot on NL50. (Had 18 buy-ins when I woke up for NL50) All went pretty well, started off having a sick cooler hit me, but after that I got into a little groove and finished the session up nearly three buy-ins.
This session was a great confidence booster for myself, showing me that I'm playing my best and making good decisions. I'm going to be playing back down on NL25 for the most part since my roll isn't stable for the long run at NL50 just yet, but plan to be moving up soon.
Heres my stats from this mornings session;
During current Hold'em session you were dealt 704 hands and saw flop:
- 35 out of 89 times while in big blind (39%)
- 20 out of 84 times while in small blind (23%)
- 47 out of 531 times in other positions (8%)
- a total of 102 out of 704 (14%)
Pots won at showdown - 18 of 23 (78%)
Pots won without showdown - 71
And heres some hands from todays session;
vs Raziel2018 - This was my first pot of the day, was 50/50 cooler/mistake. Raziel opens in EMP & I call otb with JQs. Flop TPgK and call his flop bet looking to improve incase he has an overpair (which I thought was very doubtful). Turn gives me two pair, he check minraises me and I stack off donkishly. LP helped me realize how much his line screams set and I shouldn't have played it so fast. In the future, I'll just be flatting this minraise and re-evaluating the river.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/255178
Multiway pot - This was the best birthday present a guy could ask for. MP opens 3x bb, get a few callers, obv I call w/ AJs in late position. Flop the nuts, start to wonder if I'm going to get paid off, then everyone throws there stack in the middle.
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/255180
vs edseleanna - Open 9Ts utg, (a play I make about 1/6-1/12 times UTG, depending on how active the table is). I get no respect and 3 callers, whats new lol. I flop bottom pair w/ an open ender and check into the scary board holding 3 diamonds. I turn my gin card and a shorty donks off for his stack which is just above a psb. I call this bet and my set holds vs his top two.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/255180
vs tatt2tony - I open QQ in EP and get a caller out of the blinds. He plays back at me, but just a minraise & I doubt he would play a seven or threes full like this so I just call. On the turn he makes another fairly small bet, and here I assume he either has a hand like 78 or a smaller PP and doesn't believe I have the overpair. I call again, assuming I get no value from any hands I beat here by putting in a raise. On the river an Ace comes, probably a card he thinks I have in my hand, so I value bet about 20% of the pot, the only bet I assume he will call with a small pair when the ace falls and he oblidges to the bet.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/255204
vs MILANAO - standard MP opens the pot for 1.50 and gets repopped in LP by this shorty. I flat IP with AK expecting to stack off w/ any TPTK here. I flop top pair and when he donks out I figure hes on QQ or AK, maybe AA/KK but I'm not folding to him since hes shortstack and I assume hes a bad pla<x>yer because hes a shortstack. So I flat and on the turn he shoves the rest in. I insta-call and river an ace to beat his jack-hi with top two.
birthday song goes off in head*
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/255208
This was a nice session and a confidence builder like I said, and although I'm rolled enough for NL50 (21 BI), I'm going to stay on NL25 for atleast another week or so.
I'm happy to have done well in this session, and am feeling much more confident for next week when I start NL50, knowing that its dynamic fits my game better than all the other limits.
GL everyone,
Ryan (DReaMe)
11,611 FPP til SuperNoVa!
PS - I'm going to start saving my FPP's for the $650 bonuses now instead of entering the FPP satelites. After getting 2nd in a vast number of 1st place only $216 ticket tournaments, I'd rather just take the sure money.
New Computer
iop, Aug 21 2007
So I just bought a new comp:
Here are the specs to the important stuff:
AMD Athlon 64 x2 6000+ 3.0GHz Socket AM2,2MB
Corsair Value S. PC5300 DDR2 2048MB Kit w/two matched Value Select 1024MB
Samsung SpinPoint T166 400GB SATA2 16MB 7200RPM
XFX GeForce 8600GT 540M 256MB GDDR3, PCI-Express, 2xDVI, 540/1400Mhz
So my roommate is working his last week (hopefully for a long time) since he's going to play poker fulltime. If you guys have any advice for him please let me know so that I can support him
I'll probably play a $100 freezout this friday (10k chips) at a local pokerclub, depends on how I feel. I think my MTT game is getting pretty good, even though its Oldschool T.J. Cloutier style but whatever it works for me.
Random pics to make this blog readable:
Ex GF and me at her prom
Randomness
Keys locked in the car
tilted fish, Aug 20 2007
Today was a bit adventurous. I decided to go shopping which I do about once a year (for clothing). I have a big bag of gap on the passenger side, and I get out on the way home to get some milk, and as I am parking and turning off the car, I call a sushi place to order so by the time that I am done I pick it up.
Well my ability to multi-task is as good as Hellmuth's composure after a suckout. as I switched off the car and hang up the cellphone I lock the car and get out and close the door.
FUCK! I realized when I turned off the car I took out the key and put on passenger side momentarily to pick up the take out menu paper I had in my car.
I feel like a tool.
I find a phone# for towing company in the parking lot of the marketplace, and they tell me it takes 45min, (sure when they are townin its lightning fast, when its about to help some1 its 45min-1hr.)
So I just circle about my car and the only thing I had going for me was that passenger window was less than 5 open.
so I go into the store look for something that can hook the lock up, its no good. come out and go after the trees.
I break off few branches, and leave some edge on tiny branches on the main piece wood to hook.
I could reach the look but could not pull it up, no matter what I did, then it comes to me, why go for the lock when the key is there!
So I am trying to use all the gaming exprience i have to hook the tiny branch on the mail piece of wood to the key ring on passenger side.
This parking lot is outdoor and its a village type of thing so its busy, so while I am doing this I am getting all kind of suspicious looks.
but I finally manage to hook it and bring it up to the window and get the key. at this point I really felt like a genius, hero of the day.
I had my sushi just now and things worked out well. now this fish capaneo wants to play HU so for now peace.
Unbelievable Brag
FrinkX, Aug 20 2007
Sunday night session
NeillyJQ, Aug 19 2007
Tonight was fun, I managed to get a microphone hooked up on ventrillo for the first time, before I was just able to listen to the audio of others, so it was nice to be able to speak too.
Unfortunately, my 56k is pretty slow, so it was pretty choppy when I was talkin over vent, still better than nothing though. After watching DooMeR's session for a couple hours I started my own, but couldn't manage to get anything going and lost two buy-ins. I lost to 3 different two-outers on the river, as well as a couple other sick hands that were unavoidable.
Heres my stats from tonight;
During current Hold'em session you were dealt 1694 hands and saw flop:
- 99 out of 223 times while in big blind (44%)
- 37 out of 218 times while in small blind (16%)
- 149 out of 1253 times in other positions (11%)
- a total of 285 out of 1694 (16%)
Pots won at showdown - 29 of 57 (50%)
Pots won without showdown - 182
Pretty annoyed, hopefully I can take down 1-2 of the 2700 FPP SnG's tomorrow for a nice profit, Got around 5k in my account waiting to be used.
I'm enjoying NL25 alot, and know that I'll start pwning it alot harder soon. Its weird, but I seem to never have a winning session on sundays, I wasn't even going to play tonight but after obbing doomers session it put me in the mood to pwn some.
No need to post any HH's here, they were all bad beats other than one hand where my kings held over top pair with a gutterball for a 2/3 stack.
Oh, I was also moving into a new apartment back in my hometown, but didn't sign the contract with the owner and have decided to move back to Taiwan to teach english. ($20/hr is sick nice, along with tons of perks that go along with being a foreigner living in asian society). I'll be leaving the USA the week of my birthday (Oct 3 - Oct 10), and plan to live in Taipei for atleast a year. I lived there in 2002-2003 for 9 months, but was a bit too wild at that age and had some drug problems so I came back to the states. I've grown alot since then and kicked all the drugs, and plan to do things right this time around. Its going to be damn nice to get back there.
GL everyone,
Ryan (DReaMe)
12,100 FPP til SuperNoVa *at this pace, with 3,500-4,000 hands a day 6 days a week I'll be a supernova by my birthday, weeeeeeee~
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