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just 5 bet shoved (KJ and AK) against 2 more 1st 4 bets of the match. and they respectively folded and called with QJs.

so far the theory of 1st 4bet is always a bluff proves to be 50% accurate.

i will do more extended research and publish the results here.


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Well i have played few months in our local town casino. Its not big only 2 tables. But at least i am at + side results
http://www.olympic-casino.com/poker/index.php?op=user&uid=13600&id=10569

Funniest part was one fish who droped 1 player before bubble got 6 AA-s in tournament and 5 of them got payed of. And every fucking aa he limped in. 3 of them he got in 5 hands. Back to back aces then skipped 2 hands and then limp and he limps on button. I am looking AJs on big blind and raise like 5bbs and fish goes all in and i am like wtf no fucking way aa again. But disiplined fold and he shows aa again ..comeon.

Yesterday was sick sick bubble. Noone wanted to leave with empty hands since so much time was invested. So we bubbled like 3 levels :S Real sick almost 600/1200 blinds were ending everyone was sitting with 4-8 blinds. None wanted to raise and go allin with crap. So chipleader stealed like 50% hands. I stealed like 1-2 times in one circle. finally ended me and my friend got first 2 places what was ok.

But tournament monly is like candy money compared to cash games. Where one hand is your one tournament winning. Standard cash game is preflop 5-10 bb-s and 5 calls. At least i am +3k also in cash what i played only time.

I run online like real shithorse. Comone i loose like 85% flips. And then i get money in 80-20 i know fucking noway i gonna win hes gonna hit 2 outer etc. Fuck deposited 50$ to stars 2 times and got like both times over 2. Second time 150 and then i started to get bad beats ..every time i get money in good i get sucked out. Really fustrating. In last toument i had stack to get 8 bad beats total before i droped out... jeez.


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i ran GODLIKE BAD...

I won like 1 flip out of many.

lost every hand i was ahead

lost every hand i was behind.

got coolered at every street.

FFUUUCKKKK

but the good thing is that my BR is still alright. I'm just going to sober up and play again tommorow. but FUCK.




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got repeatedly sucked out on and still finished up. Can't wait for the day when I'm above EV...

Bday in 2 days, maybe PS will ship me an asian gymnast if I ask customer service real nice like.

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Hm I guess this blog could use some info. Down 10bi in the last 4 days, but breakeven at NL25 so far. Standard standard. Had someone trustworthy sweat my session recently, so I'm 98% sure I'm playing well (the 2% is undiscovered, and obviously I can always strive to play better). Although I am 100% sure I am playing well enough to beat the limit. So just grinding hands and trying not to feel bad =]
I've definitely fixed leaks and spew like there's no tomorrow, and I'm still trying to beat this by September.


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14 BI below EV....

FUCK!!!!


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tearing up PLO, up about 5 buyins this week which is good considering how little a get to play with 2 jobs and my workouts.
ARM UPDATE 2009.
So the doc called and explained what was wrong, which confused me b/c i didn't speak his language (the language of doctor). Basically, to my understanding he said..."We might need to go in there and clean some stuff up (scar tissue, etc))", then he said "but there isn't a tear in the labrum", and then said "continue everything like you normally do" wtf? so i need surgery, then nothings torn, then everything is fine?!?! but i gave the voicemail to my physical therapist and he said that what all the doctor lingo meant was that i actually have a small flare in my rotator cuff. So a small tear in the cuff...50/50 on whether i need surgery or not. My appointment with the surgeon is tomorrow at 8am. I'm set on not having surgery, so we'll see if he can convince me to have it, but to my understanding, if you take 50 MLB pitchers, 20 of them will have the same thing i have, a small tear in the rotator cuff, but as long as there is no pain, there is no need to fix it.

so go me.
we'll get the official update tomorrow, until then peace, gl, ttyl.


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How important is keeping your redline above the axis in PLO?


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Hey, I'm looking to get some money on party poker. I also am trying to help Steal City get some money on Paypal bc he doesn't use a blog. Anyone who can help plz PM me or Steal City. Steal is sort of desperate and willing to give advice/lesson to anyone willing to help him out. Since he needs money on paypal he will have to trust the person who is sending.


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Local cardroom runs a deep stacked $100 buy-in tournament. Start with 50k chips and blinds are 25/50 to begin with. I definitely have an edge in this tournament since everyone at the room is pretty bad. 1st place is usually around 2kish. Looking to sell up to 60% though if someone wants to buy less thats fine. Starts tonight at 7ish so please let me know ASAP. AIM - JCM3420 or PM me or comment I'll check throughout the day. I will ship any winnings through FTP.

Yomer - 20%
YESHBOOM - 30%

Thanks.



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a classic example of fish watching highstakes HU vids (by Krantz, deucescracked videomaker) and i guess misinterpreting the information and as a result stacking himself in the wrong spots instead of the right spots occurred when i started the last HU match of the evening.

villain immediately appeared very aggressive. taking the first 3 or 4 small pots down with a lot of force. i don't mind this at all but he immediately made me think he was a reg. no limping or any other fishy behaviour. now 19 hands in or so i 3bet him, for the second time or so, with KJo, he proceeds to 4bet.
KRANTZ TOLD ME: 1st 4bet is ALWAYS A BLUFF!!!!!
so i instashove my monster " that does well against his 4 bet call range: pairs and maybe suited aces but mostly because he has to fold. 1st 4bet!

ofcourse its not suprising at all that the nl100 reg instacalled with AKo en has me destroyed but what made the incident worthy of a blogpost was what villain said in chat immediately afterward:

"1st 4bet always a bluff "

i got SOOOOOOOOO levelled sick.



also today i experimented for the first time with flatcalling AA pf. i've literally never ever done this in my life before. but lately i have been using the tactics of 3betting trash and calling with good hands vs opponents who fold like 80% to 3bets and it was working out well.
i already knew about this but i heard Krantz :king remind me of the trick of flatting AA and what power this gives you postflop. i do c/r a LOT of flops with imo(plz tell me if im wrong and you happen to know this) a merged range and being able to include overpairs here sometimes is very valuable.
so whatever let's try it.

1st time
i flat AA
flop J 9 3 (rainbow)
villy bets, i raise, v raise, i shove
J9 obvio

so no big deal i felt good about it because i had been c/r this villain already a few times, so thought it was ok getting it in against his range.

not happy with the result though a few villains later(same pf characteristic of high folding to 3bets) i try the same trick
i flat AA
flop Q 9 6 (2 hearts or something, villain did play Ahi fd for stacks earlier)
i raise bla bla allin Q 9

this time i didn't feel so good about it afterward. but i was a little bit shellshocked from some punishment i had been getting but actually villain might have been too passive and generally nitty to get it in here so enthusiastically. so maybe my mistake.

i guess with experience i'll be able to judge better when i should fold aces postflop in a single raised pot.

so today i've had some bad experiences with the new tricks i'm trying to work into my game. but i think in the long run i will become the better player for it.

thanks for reading.

peace.

ps. so far kept to max 2 tables. except if some 20bb ss joined my open tables, i may have left the tables open for a little while cause they are so easy and standard to play. and i 3 tabled against a regular for a little while (but this was all the same villain and thats a lot easier to 3 or 4 table then 2 different villains.) i only played the reg because no one was joining my tables and there were like 60 tables with regs sitting and waiting. thought i might as well find out which ones are any good. he was pretty good but i was lucky and quit him when the momentum changed after he won a 260bb pot and was clearly refinding a lot of confidence (aka hit and running).

peace deux.
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for the small moniez, but yah, made some pretty elite suckouts when I make mistakes which is pretty cool

hopefully live treats me right when I get back tomorrow.. first stop is naked sushi to make my return to vegas as pleasant as possible:D

I'm also going to try to get myself on a more stringent schedule to keep my head clear & my game as sharp as possible for the rest of the month.. gl with that, lol




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recommend me some please. stuff like lady, show me love, blah blah. also deadmau5, i heard he's good but i never listened to anything of his yet.

so basically any kind of house music harharhar

also, i haven't played poker in a while, i withdrew everything a couple weeks ago and i'm regrinding nl2 like a fucking idiot


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When i was getting ridiculously sucked out the last weeks and ran like 20BI below EV in 15K hands i always kept saying to myself
-> I will make such a shitload of money as soon as the gay riggendness stopps
I played okayish and i always lost money when i got it in as a favourite
I really looked forward to when suckouts would stop

Last 4 sessions i run pretty decent
just the average 2-3 suckouts in 800 hands ...
besides that i run sligtly above EV

Graph and rakeback
6max NL50 mostly some small Nl50 HU the last couple hands


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+ 804$ in just 4 days of NL50 is really nice

also won 16$ on stars of robinson47 in flips


GL ALL


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I just checked my HEM popup, said my session results were $66.60 in the green.

Then FTP crashed.

roflwat?

I hope I dont die tomorrow.

PANO SAVE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE


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first i'll provide you with some background what i've been doing that i need rebuilding. after that i'll by outlining the gameplan!

ok so earlier this year i took some time off and left the Netherlands to spend some time in the great city of Buenos Aires. i picked up some Castellano over there and it was a good experience. Studying the language however took loads of time and the rest was spent meeting new people, that were also travelling and ofcourse the obvious partying.

However time spent on the tables was really cut down, money spent however not . More so then i expected before leaving so on my return i'm facing the problem of rebuilding.

and damn its frustrating

kind of have myself to blame because i think playing below the level i was used to is so boring that i tried rebuilding by learning other games. Think Limit HU (awesome, that is so much fun! try it), PLO HU (equally awesome) and SH Limit (also very awesome but sometimes you have to hold the monkey agression back a little bit)

ofcourse this results in either spewing or being a rakeback player :S since for some reason my NL skills don't instantly translate... so unfair!

but learing other game's is so much fun, i really wish i was less tempted.

other reasons it's not working out as well as i hoped are:

* impatience - playing too many tables to achieve my BR goals faster, resulting in less bb/100 and more variance or... SPEW!

* summer - i love the dutch summer. this is such an awesome country when the sun is shining. stay away octobre-march music festival etc.

* faded skills - in some ways i feel i'm a better player then ever. i picked up so much knowledge, not in the last place in the live events i've been playing; Mar del Plata in Argentina and some local event in the Netherlands.
But some of my HU experience has to come back a little bit. Being at the tables everyday and watching the latest video's makes you a lot more in tune i guess. i think this is coming back fast now though.

how dissapointing are my results? last year i was really crushing the HU games at 100nl and beating the 200nl games for a good amount. maybe 100nl for as much as 15bb/100. i did game select well though.

now i'm beating 100nl for 3bb/100 that's over 70k hands :S (sucks so much! if this doesn't go up it's not worth playing, and i love it )

i also got quite some sample of 50nl and i'm beating that for 15bb in 30k hands. so my data suggest i should be playing 50nl. it would make me more money/hour :S

BIG MISTAKES:

-playing too many tables, sometimes 4 diff HU opponents mixing 100nl and 50nl.

-playing too agressive. something i tend to forget when too busy running everyone over (right) is that it's a lot of the time better at least against some opponents to give them the room to bluff. i think it should be a big part of your EV at these levels. Part of the opposition is really capable of making horrendous bluffs. and missing out on these because you are cutting them off left and right is probably not compensated for by the extra pots i pick up driving them away.

GOAL

-making 10bb/100 at 100nl

ADJUSTMENTS

-max 2 tabling

so never did this before. kind of just thrown my struggles out there. hope it sounds familiar or you learn something from my mistakes.

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