Some cool hands. I am sitting in the 6 Seat. Guy in the 8 Seat is a Young White Guy.
He has a neat haircut, pretty preppy clothing...A pink polo that is fitted and "nice" pants, a metallic, silver watch. His girlfriend is preppy as well, and is pretty good-looking. He seems like a guy with a decent job that knows a little bit about poker. But I don't think he's very good...I've seen him open to like 4x once or twice, and there was a multiway pot where he led from the blinds. Also, when the waitress asked if anybody wanted a drink, he requested a "Cornoaaa with Lime Pleaaase" in such a girly way haha. He is the baby-face type. Just based on profiling, seems like a person I can run over a bit.
I think Seat 10 was the Button. Anyway I'm dealth AhJh. I open from EPish I guess to 5x. The dude calls and we also get a caller from the Blinds. So the pot is roughly 30. Flop comes 7 5 2 R. Anyway guy from the Blinds Check. I think about it and though its dry I just feel alot of times I'll get called from Ace Highs and Pairs, and I can probably try and show down. I check. The dude Bets like 15. Guy from Blinds Folds. I think about it and I think he is stabbing at the pot a ton of the time here. Im getting 3:1 on a Call. But if I do call I'll be OOP and need a plan. I decide I'll call, and if I hit my A or J I'll just play for my card value. If a good card comes on the turn for me to make a play, I'll do that. If its a bad card, I might Check/Fold. Turn comes a 3 Putting a 2 Flush Out there. I pick up a Gutter, and still have outs on my A and J. I feel like the guy is pretty weak on that flop and If I make a Big Bet I am able to rep some werid hand like 33 or a straight (They probably can't hand read well and I think I have just the image of an aggro online kid). So I decide a check/call Lead Turn line is a cool so I led out for 50 Into 60. He quickly folds. I show the bluffs then head off to lunch! Haha that was a sweet feeling.
I sucked out hardcore one hand. I had AdJd I opened EP. (There was so many fishes at the table I defintitely get called with worse). Anyway, an Asian guy that is slightly over weight to fairly new to the table min-3bets me to 20x. We Pick up a caller from the blinds. I call getting 5:1 odds, hoping to pick up a strong draw or spike an ace. Anyway Flop comes Qx Ts X(Spades). Anyway the guy in the blinds check. And I just decide, I'm going to make a crazy play at this pot, lol. If I give the guy who 3-bet a range of AK+,JJ+, He has 11 nonspade AK, 3 QQ, 6 KK, and 3 AA, and 3 JJ. He has exactly 1 PSB left, $60. I felt if I shove he folds his 11 AA and 3 JJ. So I win the pot like half the time, and I do have an Ace out against KK and I have a gutter against his entire range. I dont have a backdoor flush draw, but whatever! Anyway I just put that guy all-in. He calls. Guy in Blinds fold. Turn comes a Jx and River Ks. I make my straight an announce I have the nuts. Guy turns over Trip Queens.
Karma comes around to bite me back though. Theres a new player to the table. He JUST sat. He is a hispanic guy with "Trendy" Glasses that is slightly overweight. He Opens to about $22 Dollars. He only has about $70 or so behind. Super Fish from Late Middle Position Calls. I wake up in the blinds with AcKd or something like that. And I just figure this guy based on how he looks probably opens pretty wide here. Just the fact that he opens to $22 first hand, I just feel like hes openeing widish there (Since its just a retarded open...Its either he wakes up with a sick strong hand first hand AND is the type that plays super exploitive with his bet sizing on those hands, or he is just clueless...in which case AT LEAST AQ is in his range... Not that even if its a standard opening range I don't ship. But I felt thattt much better about it. I ask how much he has and then I raise to $100. He decides to call with JTcc. The super fish folds. He Spikes a T on the turn and I lose the pot.
The hand I won a bunch of money on was when I opened QTdd really early on in the session. I cbet a Diamond, Ace high board pretty big and I got Called from this old guy. "Post-Game Analysis" of the hand, this guy reallly really really was suspicious of my aggression LOL. Turn was a low card, Heart Brick. And I checked and he checked behind. River was a low card Diamond. I shove like more than $100 dollars or something and he calls with Pocket Deuces LOL.
I won a decent amount of money for the session, which is nice.
Anyway I learned something good today. There was a young online-player that was pretty solid to my direct right. He seemed like a nice guy. Anyway he was really good at paying attention to all the hands at the table. So this motivated me more to do the same. And I realized he was better than me at doing this than I was. So I worked on improving on processing information during observation. I think I develop a decent "technique I guess" to think more efficiently about how the players at the table play. I'll practice this in later sessions, as it seems sort of promising.
Also, I played online for 1 1/2 hours this morning. Strangely my VPIP PFR stats were nittier. 34/28, 13.4% 3-bet over 185 hands. I was just taking what the table was giving me. And I was playing profitably. I'll be honoest I like playing alot of hands. And it makes me sort of sad to see me playing nittier LOL. But of course I will just do what I feel is most profitable at any point in a hand. Anyway my after my blog posts about developing aggressive style, my win-rate at online have been pretty good actually. Esp considering I lost ALOT of "Relative Money" in some seriousssssssss spews that I know I am much much better than. Once I get good enough, I'll start adding more tables, etc. Its going to be hard balancing practicing online and live at the same time, while also making time to study poker. Fwiw my brother is here for the week and once he leaves I'll have alot more peace and quiet to get into a good routine.
Anyway its always nice to blog after live sessions. I love the personal feeling of recounting my hands. Doubt many of you will have read this far. But to those of you who did I hope you enjoyed it somehow. I'll be strangely impressed by anyone who says "FPS on the AdJd Hand"...Just cause they took the time to read that, lol. FWIW I completely forgot about AA being possible when I made the play. (Completely discounted AQ But Iono I thought that was fine. Might be a ranging-leak but Iono Its an aggressive discount but its "Possible" that he never does that with AQ). Anyway yeah. Cool.
So I do read the articles hear but I don't really see any (maybe I am just being dumb/blind) but are there any articles for advice on these (or videos).
Now by tournaments I am meaning tournaments like 2$ buy ins and stuff (I do only play micro as I am a noob ). Any advice is appreciated as I do enjoy those tournaments more then just playing with actual money thanks in advance!
What I've learned from BJJby DustySwedeDude, May 20
A semester of BJJ
So soon my first semester of BJJ will come to an end and I'd like to do some reflecting on what I've learned and gained from it. It seems as if a lot of poker players have taken this sport up the last few years and the inspiration from them really helped to get me started and I figured that if someone gets inspired by this post it'd be a cool thing.
First of all I'd like to state that I have very little talent for this sport, or I might just be generally out of shape. Not sure which one just yet but I find it ridiculously fun so I train 3-4 times a week and I do improve a lot. However, the level I started at was really low. Poker comes naturally to me. Never really studied the game much and mostly played by instinct for a long time and even though I plan to change that this summer due to me being sick of not figuring out NL2k, I'd still consider me very talented in poker. This makes BJJ a nice change of pace and I feel how it humbles me and makes me a better person.
So, what have I gained from this so far? I'll make a list:
1. A bunch of new friends and acquaintances. Probably at least one who'll prove fairly useful one way or another and a bunch of people I'm really happy to know because they're various degrees of awesome, impressive, fun etc. Many of these from groups I'd probably wouldn't interact much with unless it was for the sport.
2. Much better shape and looks. To be fair I'm still fairly out of shape and I've got a long way to go to a six pack, but losing a fair bit of weight, getting much better conditioning, being more limber and probably stronger in at least some ways is a big plus in my book. Highlight as far as comments on this came from this foreign exchange student I've been seeing who had been away for two months, came back and drunkly started to comment on how I should start drinking heavily again otherwise I might find someone prettier then her.
3. Balance in life. Now I don't care nearly as much about losing 10k unless I can't have a roll within 24 hours. Learning new shit, getting a good work out in and not thinking about other crap is really good for my mental health.
4. Pretty much stopped drinking. I think I've gotten drunk two times or so this semester and had a few beers a handful of times. I'm fairly sure that this will contribute to my long time health and better results both in life as a whole and in poker (no more losing 6-7 bi on 10/20 HU hungover!)
5. Gotten better at keeping calm under pressure. Now I actually try to figure out a way to get out of it instead of going into panic mode every time some 100kg dude is laying on top of me trying to rip my arm of.
Stuff I've learned.
I'm much better at grappling now then I was when I started but I'm still not as good as I though I was. (“I'm a big dude heh, that little guy can't do shit against me! Lol...”)
BJJ is damn cool and some small dude with good technique can easily out-grapple a much bigger dude. 60kg girls are dangerous despite appearances and never underestimate skinny dudes if they look self assure.
While grappling. Keep head tight to body and elbows in. Don't get flat on back. Try to grab stuff to be able to have some control over people's movements. Underhooks are cool. Don't panic. Hip movement is key to everything. Easy is good. Advanced shit gets messed up as soon as you get tired.
Triangle chokes are cool, but despite general awesomeness they're probably not the best thing to try from mount or the back unless you actually know what you're doing.
When in doubt: pull guard. If not possible, just keep things tight and grab something. If at all possible, make sure they can't move their hips or head.
While attacking; try to get cool angles. When defending; try not to.
Big guys are often slow. Don't get their weight on top of you and you'll be fine.
1. i'm too emotionally invested in the magic. it pains me. i should prob leave emotional investing to random movies/tv shows since they have happy endings. paul pierce you are such a flopping bitch. gl 2 ray allen, kednrick "the scowl" perkins and r.r (tehy should just go ahead and give him most improved)
2. i think i'm starting to really enjoy poker. i really want to get good at this game. i realize i'm terrible. i realize the regs at .5/1 are all terrible. i'm kinda hoping to talk to someone about fixing alot of my pf leaks. in a nutshell i used to call with pretty much any 2 cards in position (specifically on the dealer) because at nl25/50 you have a great deal of implied odds and you don't get squeezed as much. i kinda want to discuss/go over hand ranges with somebody else who plays nl 100 as i feel i have pretty poor understanding of card value. i also do not understand raising QJ, A9 in the blinds vs a button open (and lots of other similar concepts). but i really am starting to love this game. and more importantly i'm starting to believe i can actually get good at this game.
i hate including graphs. especially meaningless graphs over short samples but i'm only including these to be taken semi seriously. i never take offense to comments as it's never bad to double check but i grow tired of hearing advice from not-so-great-regs. i remember a long time ago when i first started, i used to get some questionable advice which used to really hurt my game. i guess props to collegesucks, talentedtom, conquistador (from cook islands i think) who used to give me the best advice back in the day.
3. i just recently graduated college with an econ major and feel very unsure of my future and have no idea what to do. i applied for many jobs but can't seem to land one. any advice would be appreciated. i feel very weird about my college experience as i used to be really competitive @ high school and graduated top 10 in my class. but with college for many reasons, i could not maintain my focus nor take it seriously. i kinda want to go to grad school as i believe i can be really successful but i do not want to repeat the same mistakes. sadly finally understanding and beating nl50 was more fulfilling than graduating college
4. anyway i feel like naruto, extremely hopeful for the future and hope to crush nl 100, 200 and 400 some day~
also i recently watched "5 cm per second" which may be conincidentally the most beautiful thing i've ever watched
Poker's been kind of dull these last few months. I am getting bored of the grind, anybody out there want to stake me for a day of 45 and 180 mans? Split profit 70/30 in your favor, no makeup. I have about 20% ROI over 5-6k games in 45 mans, and 45% ROI over 2-3k games in 180 mans. I just recently reset my sharkscope, so I'm unblocking it now to get precise numbers. PM if interested, or reply here, I know some LP sicko will want to do this
BSOP is the Brazillian Series of Poker www.bsop.com.br
It happens every month in a different city. Next month its gonna be in a city two hours away from where I live. I just recently became a MTT grinder and I've been doing well I think (look at my last blog posts and the Rail Heaven section).
tutz_aml @ PS
tutz_x @ FTP
I wanna play the Main Event (R$1,200 = $700). Last month first place took R$160,000 (~$90,00). I think player999 can vouch for me!
Selling $70 a piece!
Come on, help the friend here LP!
It's your chance to turn $70 into $4,500!
Thanks!
sportsbetting bad for your poker?by whamm!, May 19
ive noticed this each time i place bets on games i feel i dont wanna grind till the games are done and i know if ive won or lost, when i win i play kinda bad coz ive boxed a sportsbet and start spewing, when i lose i play bad coz im down on money fro the day.
any advice what to do here? what do u sportsbetting guys usually do to balance the two? im having a real tough time doing both, any advice would help. thx
ok so im almost all done getting my comp all set up and shit and im having probs getting the postgreSQL i dont know the set up shit or something i have everything dl but i cant get past the shit on the postgreSQL is anyone good at this shit that can help me out here im so close to getting done and getting back on the grind and this shit drive me crazy
Made 14 buyins or so in the last 3-4 sessions at NL100. I've noticed I make WAY too many thin calls with one pair type hands (mostly overpairs) on semi-coordinated boards and I get value towned with 2p type hands or sometimes a weird straight.
I think one of the biggest factors in becoming an exceptional poker player is discipline ergo making disciplined folds (who the fuck likes folding AA? EVER?) but sometimes you got to do it.
Going to play some donkaments tonight as I feel the urge to as of late and I'll be back on the grind again. Slowly, but surely.
[15:01] Endo: see i thought it was for value against some ppl who open up a wide range of hands and have a high %3bet call
[15:02] Endo: and it was for pikcing up a lot of preflop money against nits who fold to a lot of 3bet%
[15:02] edzwoo: nah
[15:02] edzwoo: if someone raises and i dont like him
[15:03] edzwoo: he's gonna get a 3bet
[15:03] Endo: ATC? lol
[15:04] edzwoo: preferably really bad hands so i feel better about myself when he folds
[15:04] edzwoo: rofl
so apparently when you don't like someone you 3bet them.
I wanted to see if I could beat husng blazed. Let's just say, it was a lesson learned. I'm posting this to give you guys a heads up... dont play high...
I am playing WAY tighter than I ever have and my redline is losing at exactly the same rate. I am rarely 2brl/folding and such, which I was doing too much of before, I'm opening far stronger hands on average, etcetc. Man what is going on. At least I am only down 1 buyin over these last 14k hands, but I am like 5bi above EV.
Well I'm going to keep chugging at it but damn it man.. why can't I change this
17/15/3 over this sample LOL. Sickest nitorama. Maybe I will 3bet from the button more often.. Wonder what sort of hands I should start doing that with since my image according to my stats should be pretty damn tight. If I start 3betting TT/JJ as a normal thing (vs non sick nits ofc) from the button, I feel like I am overrepping my hand vs my stats and will get myself into trouble?
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). Any advice is appreciated as I do enjoy those tournaments more then just playing with actual money thanks in advance! 
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