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I finally cracked out 100k profits on ipoker HU:









Being a life nit and a cashout junkie Im still not sweetrolled for 5/10 but I have enough to take some serious shots when the games look soft. Lets go for 200k GOGOGO


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My life is so good right now. This weekend was awesome, there was plenty of bad fish playing and Ive been running like jesus.





Also, the weather has been fucking awesome the last few days. After like month of rainy cloudy kinda shit weather we have finally had some really hot sweet awesome fucking summer days. Ive just been playing beach volleyball and swimming/chilling all day and its been fucking great. SHIP!

In poker, I have managed to motivate myself alot more. For the first time in a very long time I REALLY want to be able to beat high stakes games. For quite a long time I have been quite content with playing mid stakes games raking in a nice profit and being able to play my way through school, alot of this obv having to do with me going on a fuckall suicide downswing and having to get staked etc. With that pain fresh in my mind, grinding 2/4 and 3/6 for the rest of my poker carrer didnt sound so bad.

But watching KRANTZ rake in a 100k pot while being high on hasch brownies just did something to me. Fuck paying my way through school. Fuck having some money to throw around. I fucking want it all. I wanna beat 10/20 and 25/50. I wanna have 100k months. I wanna buy a nice appartment in Stockholm. I wanna fucking set myself up for life.

This sudden urge to have it all has definitely had a positive effect on my game. I feel sooo focused on playing my absolute best, and improving every way I can. Now I will probably still cash out a healthy chunk each month, but from this day on, I have my eye on the prize. Im going to improve. And im going to beat 25/50 one day.

Oh, and results for July:





Stay funky sportsfans!


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Do all their pros have a lisp?


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Just a quick one (an hour or so). Started off 2 tabling (which was waaaay too much for me lol, I realized this after a bit tho), ended up down like just under half a buyin, oh well - just happens to be the exact same amount I won (8th or 9th place) in some 15$ PLO donkament

Definitely going to put in a lot of Omaha HU hands during the weekend (don't be lazy, one time!!).


The longest match was really interesting actually, it was about 200 hands vs some guy on iPoker. I was getting destroyed but amazingly I started picking up really, REALLY detailed reads which felt great. Things like how he was always stacking off after X, always potcontrolling when Y, etcetc. Felt good to be picking up on this stuff (I've always sucked HU).
I finished up 65 cents on him :D Which was a come back of sorts.

Some hands:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491403 - Eh. Not sure why I choose to play this preflop! Must have been a lil frustrated or un-focused (probably still 2 tabling). Anyway, it was the second straight time that he repotted me instantly when I led like this (although last time it was on the river..) andddddddd I should have folded cause I'm not sure he'd been as aggressive as I felt he'd been.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491404 - Argh@ turn!! He showed something weird like 5XXX

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491406 - His check = pot-control or give up, so I was going pot pot check or pot pot pot if board came off scary (ie flushdraw)

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491407 - This hand made me realize his fullpot bets = "I'm stacking off" and his checks = "I'm potcontrolling".

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491408 - Probably a preflop raise..? Anyway, on the river I'm trying to mimick the last hand sort of, I guess it kinda sucks that I can only really rep 69, 79, 89.. Hold'em mindset with 1 card straights I guess

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491411 - C/C = pot control = pot pot pot (I mean top 2 on this board in a reraised pot is obviously ALWAYS pot pot pot). This was the first time I observed it I think.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491412 - wee!

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491415 - I dislike my check here, he was not stabbing the turn at all. I like my river check tho, because he HAD been betting rivers more than turns. But yeah, bet bet bet >>>>> check, he didn't like folding.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491416 - he really really doesn't like folding

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491417 - I don't think I can c/r river..

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491419 - wow he really hates folding

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491421 - Hm, I had lots of spots like this where I wasn't sure I should bet the flop since I wouldnt know what to do vs a c/r (fold? not the nut wrap, fd out there).. Maybe bet fold these hands more.

Anyway, at the end he went on tilt or something when I said I was leaving in 20 hands, and started 3betting everyhand, raising every hand oop. Unfortunately ipoker dealt me 237K rainbow for 20 hands

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491430 - Failed limp RR, he'd been going INSANE.

I had a LOT of trouble deciding what hands to call with out of the BB, and I couldn't establish a good c/r dynamic (I swear he had ESP, everytime I wanted to c/r he potcontrolled -.- so I could never do it with a strong hand). I think my stats were way too tight and I probably need to work on identifying how the value of hands changes hu.

But HU omaha is pretty fun =]

Oh and, someone plz fix omaha hands for ipoker? Sucks that they do not display properly

Also, I kinda want to do something similiar to what I did back in december for my supernova challenge.. Maybe not 5k hands a day like back then but I need a goal.. Not sure what tho.


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Argh accidently clicked some button and lost everything I'd written just as I was about to copy paste the last hand :D Guess I'll re-do it.



2 hours or so of play. Obviously a very small sample but I'm very happy to finally have decent looking stats, especially the W$WSF. Need to spend some time in PT/Propokertools and figure out 3betting tho.

I'll probably start dipping my toes into the 1/2 games once I do figure it out.



Halpmeh!:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491075 - As i started this session I was listening to a DC plo video and they were talking about how in some situations you can be behind with the nuts (vs like fd and set, or fd and straight draw), and they suggested checking behind. In this case, I don't even have the nuts AND the board lends itself very well to them having fd+sd or fd+set.. Is it ok to check behind then call/call or call/vbet (maybe fold flushcard I suppose)?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491077 - Too many draws to bet the flop? Is betting the river a good idea (since he checked twice, he probably doesn't have THAT much) or do I have enough showdown value?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491078 - Villain is a regular, 2p2er I think, running like 30/15. Not played with him a ton. On flop I have a gutshot and FD so seems like an obligatory call at least (I don't know much about his 3betting range actually). On the turn I'm now double gutted (I didn't realize this at first) and I have 31% equity vs a set.. Do I get it in (I'm almost getting the odds to get it in anyway, and sometimes I'm winning vs a worse draw/have very good equity vs a worse draw w a pair)? At the time I didn't realize my equity was that good so I folded.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491082 - I'm thinking if he has a boat, I'm gonna get a lot of bets in on the river (or get c/r on the turn), and by raising turn I'm chasing all the draws away. On the river I think I need to at least raise and get the shortstacks money in since I can't rely on the last guy raising.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491085 - Anyone like a raise here (blockers to KQ) or a call and bluffing all pairs / valuebetting spades (obvioiusly)?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491089 - Bet turn? Valuebet river? After 2 checks I'd be surprised if I'm beat here but do I actually get called by anything?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491090 - This might be terrible.. Bet turn? Reasoning went something like.. he's very tight, the 9 is bad cause 9TXX is part of a million hands (then I realize he's in the BB :D), I fold out any draw.. Bet/bet/bet superior? If I bet turn and raise do I have to fold? (he's like 16/8 or something btw)

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491092 - Hand right after, same villain. Only seen him 3bet once, vs a halfstack where he made it slightly less than pot, then halfpotted a 89Xrainbow flop (or 87), then put the villain in for his last like 16 bucks on a 7 turn and the guy folded. I think he has aces most likely, and I'm in position with a not TOTALLY useless hand, getting an alright price, and my 3x raise means his 3bet wasn't very big.

On the flop do I raise or call? It's a great flop obviously but if I raise, do I only get played with when he has like a set or a NFD? If I call and turn comes this way, I'm obviously betting if he checks (and folding out AA** that bricked like always I'd assume) but if he bets again I just pass?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491097 - Probably best hand on turn, and a double gutshot.. On river, all the draws missed so I think I almost have to call :o

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491098 - The guy turned out to be quite a maniac (90/76) but at this time I'd only seen him 3bet me once (bvb, I called with 98TQ single suited, and we checked down a 8d 6h Qs 2c 2h where I folded to a pot bet on the river). Seeing as how he checked down his raggy AA here, should I be leading into him when I get a flop like this in the future, to prevent him from potcontrolling?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491099 - Call or fold preflop?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491102 - By now this was the 3rd time he 3bet me out of 3 opens (actually the hand above he coldcalled a 3bet so 3/4 opens then), my hand is a decent sized favorite over any 4, ship it in? I have 42% equity vs 4 random cards on the flop but Probably better to go with it preflop than on this flop?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491108 - When leslieace (who is not very good, but a regular of sorts) coldcalls, should I still 4bet my raggy AA**? The original 3bettor seems very bad by the way, saw him call down 2 streets with like 85** on a 854 2 club board. To this action, pretty easy muck on the flop I think.

Various:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491070 - Pretty terrible calls by him I'd say
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491071 - Standard I think.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491079 - Very standard I think
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491094 - Very standard.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491095 - Standard, but wow his equity is pretty good even with his FD dead.

Will go through PT and look for more hands later possibly, now dinner I suppose. Thanks for any input.

Also, I know 2p2 used to have these private tournaments (like super cheap), like 1 cent buyin for whenever they have one of their HU tournaments or something. Is it possible to create these yourself? I'd love to play a ton of these for practice.

EDIT: Hm, you can create your own tournaments on william hill (crypto) :D


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I didnt play as much 2/4 as I had planned to before jumping back on 3/6. Reason is I dropped like 15 buyins of 2/4 over a few days and then I just picked my game up and won all of it back + more so I felt I had confidence, momentum and bankroll enough to destroy the 3/6 weekend games cause they are usually soft. Yesterday I played some real retards, I played this complete degenerate who actually was up like 2,2k on me but I eventually busted him with this being the key hand:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/488148

Sweet stuff. I finally got the new power cord for my dell xps so I uploaded all my hands for July into pokertracker. Now I was expecting I was about break even for the month but it turns out Ive mainly been playing bad and havent really lost a ton so Im still up 12k. Heh, so weird Ive cashed out way to much way to frequently to have any idea how im doing for the month.



Sweet! Im gonna grind 3/6 for the rest of July and proably for most of august but I might start to take some shots at the 5/10 games on the weekends again.


Keep it real kids!


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Really short session this time, just a bit over an hour I guess.



Well, 38% w$wsf looks prettier than 32 certainly, but once again might be variance, will take a while before I can tell if I'm doing any better. Where in PTO can I see my cbet stat? Would be interested in knowing, feel like I'm getting c/red a fair bit. Maybe I'm over-cbetting (or perhaps just over-cbetting compared to my range, ie cbetting boards which are very hard to hit w a tight range).

A perplexing couple of hands:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/487969 - Do I bet turn? On river, I guess he really isn't betting that many non-flush hands, and I only block the 2nd nuts with my queen.. But ugh I dunno. I certainly can't call and maybe he folds a baby flush or straight or something. Meh, probably not a great idea to bluff here :C
BUT, given this hand the next hand is absolutely shocking..

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/488006 - How do I NOT stack him here? It's just mindboggling!? I was sitting at my desk going "set of jacks set of jacks set of jacks set of jacks!!!". Then he just calls. With a set of jacks.
And to think I would probably raise this river with T8**, TJ**, probably not 88**.. Well given my last bluff, maybe I would/should?
Would raising flop, calling a 3bet and shoving any flushcard or board pair (actually if board pairs maybe I shouldn't shove.. that seems very unbalanced tho) be a good idea? Perhaps given my last bluff on a flushcard it wouldn't be a great idea to try that again, but in general. I suppose he could have a huge hand like set/fd if he 3bets the flop, but that would be pretty rare right?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/487989 - This was shortly after the c/r river bluff, but I couldn't really find a c/r anywhere

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/487990 - hm~~ I wasn't really thinking that far while in the hand, but /w my cold 3bet on this flop I might actually fold out 2nd or 3rd set?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/487977 - Hm.. I'm not sure if I should raise flop or not, also not sure if I should call turn (since I have the fd) but probably ok to jam it too.. Given how he played the previous hand I didn't think he was terribly good =.= Well I dunno.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/487959 - Hm. Think I should go for a river c/r or will people just check behind their medium flushes?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/487960 - Didn't notice my 2nd 4 here or I would have probably led out. Given last hand, I hate the line

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/487954 - I'm a little lost what to do in these spots. Board can't really get better for me (even an ace is deceptive). I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do. He's like 25/4/10 over a small sample.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/487935 - I was debating wether I should call preflop or not. The final word in my internal debate was "well.. it's sooo pretty!".

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/487941 - Preflop I'm a lil unsure, only 1 fd and the gap is in the middle (I'm unsure how badly this hurt my hand). Flop, well, a very weak semi-bluff.. Turn he SNAP potted, I checked HH and noticed he'd played a toooon of pots and just stuck it in cause it felt very FOS. I guess I can be behind to like QTXX that doesnt want to raise flop but other than that.. Well I guess pair and higher fd is possible too.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/487946 - Because I was busy loling at the guys last hand I didn't notice he lost another hand right after that and was shortstacked. If I had known, I'd have probably limped. As is, UTG's limp RR made me give him credit as a good player when really he just seemed to be a bit of an over-aggro. He c/red a ton it seemed.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/487957 - Maybe these kinds of super dry flops are decent for checking AA** or TP behind, and bet with a more polarized range (ie set, 2 pair, air). They were superb cbet flops in hold'em but maybe not as good in omaha.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/487971 - Too thin of a bet on the flop?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/487972 - ok.. So from these hands I'd say, leads his air, c/c's his strong but not nut hands and c/r is probably nuts or air :c Although I don't remember

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/487931 - Ok, so uh, this was fairly unexpected imo. Thought for sure the only hand I had to worry about was QQXX.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/488004 - I'm not sure there's any point in continuing here.. With not much of a read, except that he has pretty aggressive stats, seen him around a bit.

I'm gonna try to do a lot of PT review (perhaps I need to wait until my sample is little bigger tho), to try to find a good range for BB defence and SB completion and just general ranges from the various positions. I've never really approached poker this way (always been a "play play play, learn from experience" type, with CR videos, forums, chatting to good players etc mixed in) but gonna give it a try, I know there's a couple of topics on 2p2 about PT review so I'm gonna spend some time reading those.

I also want to try to analyze some of the regs in the games, which - again - is something I haven't really done before (silly). Nothing too interesting here I guess, I really like omaha and I'm looking forward to really learning how to play it


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Gonna try to do one of these everyday, even though I didn't play much.


The W$WSF looks pretty ugly.. Hope it was variance :D I still didn't, as far as I can remember, do much 3betting preflop which is too bad. Next session I play I'll force myself to 3bet some hands and see how it plays. I'm really unsure about if 3betting hands like ATJK double suited or AJ9T double/single suited is a good idea or not and what to do if 4bet..



General:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/487342 - Double gutted to the nuts /w possible 2 pair outs vs a halfpot bet.. I think call is ok?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/487339 - I check turn because I feel that card has to be pretty good if he wants to bluff me off aces with his draw or turn some kind of hand into a bluff. I don't think he has better all that often. I'm a little surprised he didn't take a shot at the pot after getting checked to on the turn, on the river.. On the river I guess betting would be overrepping my hand as AAXX.. Nuros said in comments he liked the river check, but I wonder if there's any value in sort of depolarizing my range here (ie can someone go "well, he's either got AA here or he has complete airball, I call")?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/487337 - c/r or lead in these spots? I tend to always lead and almost never get raised, then I get a semi-small pot on the turn where I have to pot again and get into awkward river spots etc.. Will people bet the flop enough for c/r to be better?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/487322 - I think on this turn I have enough equity to call.. Just ran it through propokertools.com and vs a range of all sets + KJ I STILL have equity to call here (33.39% equity, getting 2:1). So add in some weird draws and maybe some other weird 2 pairs and I think call is good.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/487321 - 3 handed, NFD + gutshot.. Probably fine.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/487319 - Hmm, I should probably just pot river if I bet turn here? Like, either go all the way repping my hand or just give up. I guess it might have helped me get paid here tho: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/487326

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/487318 - Turn is sort of not awesome.. If he decides to stick it in here are we happy?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/487314 - I was really torn between a 3bet and a flat here preflop, if I 3bet I get to put in a decent chunk of our effective stacks (assuming nobody coldcalls) but not enough to just happily stack off on any flop. I am suited once but /w no connectivity at all I decided to flat.. Is check ok here or too many people?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/487313 - Hm, I think I should probably check this river just because my hand really doesn't look like a fullhouse all that much and he might still ship in a flush or bluff (because he thinks I have AA or something like that). I feel I should bet this flop because I raised oop and people might stack off really light.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/487310 - I'm not sure if I made a mistake not betting here. On the one hand, I have likely 11 outs on a board where people are gonna give me a ton of respect and there's really not that many draws (and I have one of them), on the other hand - the ace of spades it not on the board and I'm never getting the NFD to fold unless I barrel 3 streets.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/487561 - Early on in the session (in fact it might have been the first hand lol), I thought this flop would be ok to bluff raise.. When he just flats, should I fire turn to try to get him off a set or flushdraw? I considered betting river because I felt like the best hand he could have here is some kind of low straight BUT there's a draw that missed and with my turn check behind I would rep like... nothing. Maybe like, flushdraw with some kind of cards that rivered a higher straight. And I do beat a flushdraw, well, some flushdraws.
Folds:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/487340 - I think turn fold is sort of standard, it feels weird not being able to play this hand aggressively. Bejamin1 suggested I fold on the flop which I guess is best if I have to fold this turn/will run into a boat too often if I don't.. I guess with a more aggressive dynamic/image I could make raise/stack off here?

Ok so I guess this was it for todays session, there might have been a few others but its late and they were probably in small pots.


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I figure I should probably try to approach my learning omaha a little differently from how I approached learning hold'em, playing less tables and trying to look through sessions at least a little bit (and hopefully try to play every day.. yeah we'll see about that one ).


I'm happy that my W$WSF is slowly rising, I need to find more spots to 3bet preflop tho. I'm really scared of 3betting hands with an ace in them, like say, AJTQ (suited or not), because I'm not sure how I'm supposed to react if 4bet.. Leads to a bit too many check/folds from the blinds I think.


In addition, I decided to record an hour or so of play to submit to the Cardrunners "leak finder" series, if it turns out ok (still producing) I guess I'll use it, otherwise maybe I'll post it here and ask for opinions =] I wonder if the ski-slope effect coincides with me starting the recording!

Might try to make more videos (Deucescracked has a similiar series so maybe I can submit one there as well :D), just for my own review.

Hands:

A few pay-offs:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/486762 - Ehh this is weird, I know my hand isn't super strong or anything but the only hand I could think of that he plays like this is 9T and I didn't think there were a ton of ways for 9T to get to the river.. In addition my hand might (maybe?) look more like a set of aces or something so maybe he turns some hand into a bluff.. Eh I dunno, would like opinions on what to do as a default in these spots when I don't know my opponent.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/486739 - Bleh guess I should fold river, I've been trying to not fold as much (went to sd went from normal low 20s to 27 this session ) and my thinking was he could bet a flushdraw here too, I have a 9, he might lead kings etc. Yeah a bit too stationy.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/486750 - I'm a little lost in these situations.. Given the river the call is fairly trivial imo but like say it blanks off completely.. I don't feel like I can continue betting turn really either, I guess a king could call 2 streets and I've got an easy fold if raised?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/486733 - It feels like such a good card for him to just pot, pot once I c/c.. Meh. Q: preflop, how bad is it to call a raise with something like his hand, AAAX suited once?

Folds:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/486837 - Mm, I was going to at minimum call vs only 1 player, but with the second guy calling I was sort of lost. Not only will I have a difficult time on A LOT of turns, but he could be slowplaying (since the flop is about as safe as omaha flops get for a set).. Is a call still mandatory?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/486807 - Hmmm, given there's no special dynamic going at all (don't remember seeing him before, although my HUD stats were out of position for some reason so I thought he was a TAGgish guy, wondering why I didn't remember someone I had 800 hands on lol) can I raise the flop? Like, am I taking it too far trying to adapt to omaha from hold'em?
Is there any point in perhaps betting turn to get him off a low straight? Or is he just sandbagging KQXX too often here?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/486881 - Should I assume my flush draw is live here? I don't think I had played with this player for very long at this point (but he seemed verrrrry aggressive later on, heh) and it feels very weird for him to make this raise on an A high board.. Could it even be a good idea to 3bet this flop?

General Qs:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/486632 - I feel like checking here achieves the exact same result vs any boat and gives "bluffs"/weaker hands a chance to try to bluff me off aces or whatever. I think this is good..

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/486626 - hm.. raise/stack off flop I think.. I have some outs, block the big sets and am in excellent shape vs all wraps and flushdraws.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/486844 - HUGE missed value here.. I'm not sure about turn (he could still c/r some big draw here and I don't think I can call..?). River, hrm, I was worried about a c/shove but I guess he's gonna call me pretty lightly here as there's a lot of missed draws. I'd probably check river too if I checked the turn with a set here tho, but I guess most people wouldn't. I think I worry about "what if.."'s too much.
EDIT: actually thinking about this some more, I really don't think anyone is tricky enough to not bet turn here with a set. I really need to bomb turn and PROBABLY call off at this point... If he just calls I should probably bet river too, hm.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/486744 - Fold pf? Flop is.. flushdraw, pair, gutshot..... I think I've gotta get it in although I suppose I should be worried about him betting 3 way..? Ugh, another thing is, is the guy coldcalling MORE or less reason for me to call a 3bet? Ya, better odds but I suppose my weak 2nd FD is hurt a lot by him being in the pot?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/486840 - Raising this flop is awkward because it looks *SO* strong, but calling is also problematic since I'll let every set draw for free. I suppose it's important I do this kind of raise if I want to do it with the naked Ah...

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/486609 - I didn't realize I had a set at first so I just checked quickly, but I think a c/r here is pretty good actually since if the 2nd guy has a bigger FD my c/r will (maybe) free up a bunch of outs for me and I'm ahead of the nuts here anyway.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/486756 - Eh.. this is a little too loose UTG isn't it? Once I call tho (which, with position, stacks and the fact that I made a 3x open instead of pot, I have to) the hand is oh well, I think I've gotta play it like this?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/486612 - Hm I'm thinking I shouldn't be doing these things without knowing them at least a little.. And I picked a pretty bad board for it. River is especially bad, the primary hand he'll fold is a flushdraw, which I'm ahead of. Oh well.

Some awesome hands:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/486622 - best flop peel ever imo.






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2/4 isnt going to well so far, or rather Im playing really bad. I think what Im going through is very standard after a long stretch of solid results. I start taking winning for granted and my play gets affected by it so when I start running bad I play spewy etc.

Luckily, I realized this early on, cashed out and dropped down to 2/4 to get my A-game back. Due to the fact that ive been playing 2/4 I havent lost much even though Ive been playing pretty horrible. Thanks all terrible 2/4 regs. Speaking of regs, I 4-tabled a 5/10 reg today on 2/4 and after like 30 min of berating me and telling me how i sucked he left claiming i was "too lucky". Keep on rocking champ...

Enough ranting and lets get to the point. Ive been toying with the thought of taking a break for a few days(allthough just finished a +2k session so im probably not taking a break after all) but I dont really have much to do during the days except hang out with friends and play dota. Both are getting pretty tiresome and I need stuff to read.

So hopefully you guys can help me and recommend a good book.

I hate crime books, popular history books about wars and stuff(like the trilogy about ceasar or w/e) and I vomit on all kinds of da vinci code type of books.

Cant really specify more than that, all I have at home right now is ulysses and moby dick but they are both in english and they just drain my energy totally after like 20 pages.


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Oh well at least I made a tiny re-come back towards the end. I think I played muuuuch better than previously during some stretches here (namely in the beginning and in the middle, after eating dinner) but then I just got tired and played too many tables, didn't leave bad ones etc....

I have some HUGE leaks and really need to post some hands and get some help with them, but that will have to wait until tomorrow.

Gdamn this was a long session =_=

Someone said I posted 250 hands, I dunno if he was exaggerating but it seems entirely possible!

Oh, this makes 10,8k PLO100 hands played in total,

Massive profits from PLO20 and PLO50 at ipoker, down a total of 10$ at PLO100 :D

I >really< need to work on getting my W$WSF flop up from the abysmal 32% it is at right now, at the start of the day when I was fresh it was around 35% (which might just be variance but it might have been I wasnt autopiloting poorly), must be leaking huuuuuuuge in non-sd pots.

TwistedEcho PLO video plz?


I need to really force myself to stick to 4 tables, I don't play well enough to play more than that yet, and not add more just because I'm not getting any big pots ..


I would say I need to start raising more in late position, maybe tighten up even further in the first two spots and REALLY work on my blind play... It looks pretty awful tbh. I'm not sure if the super low W$WSF comes from there being sooooooooooooo many limped pots where I either check my BB with napkins or complete some type of suited ace in the sb and c/f a bricked flop, or if I'm just terrible




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Last night i sat up to 6 in the morning playing a ftp donkament and ended up cashing for like $200. FML. Only got about 6 hours of sleep so tonight I was really tired but I decided to play some donkaments anyways cause I felt like it. Got pretty deep in a few and just busted with 24ppl left in the last donkament for no money and now its 5:30 FUCK DONKAMENTS.


Good news is, I feel like Im really getting better at playing this stupid form of poker so I will probably play a few sundays tomorrow and win them.

GG LIFE


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The last few days Ive really been playing bad. I havent lost all that much really and I still think Im probably up for the month but Ive just been playing piss bad and unfocused/tilty etc.

Doing this is killing my winrate and just burning money so Ive decided to cash out alot of money and leave myself with a roll for 2/4. My reasoning is, I shouldnt play 3/6 and 5/10 when playing bad and unfocused so the right thing to do is to drop down and regain some confidence and most of all dicipline. Im a very solid winner at 2/4 HU over a large sample so my thinking is that by the time I have regained confidence, dicipline and momentum on 2/4 I will have a roll for 3/6 anyways.

I also need to start saving up to buy an appartment and this cashout will get me started on that aswell.

I have had problems in the past with dropping down when I still have a bankroll for higher games so hopefully this will force me to stay on 2/4 and keep a grinding mindset which is something I really need to get better at maintaining.

This is also a way for me to punish myself for tilting and playing when Im not 100% focused and I will keep doing this whenever I feel like Im playing very bad or tilty repeatedly so hopefully I will learn from it and get better.

Dont have pt stats because of a long and boring story Im not going to bother you guys with so none of that in this post.


Keep it real sportsfans!


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I decided I wanna luckbox some donkaments today but I dont have any money on FTP and none on neteller and ipokers fucking cashouts take forever. Can somebody loan me $500 on ftp and ill ship you back 550$ on either stars or FTP tomorrow?

halp!


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My running good seems to continue through July. I dont feel like Im running supergood but apparently I have to because I dont think my winrate is really sustainable.





Ive also noticed that the last month or so I have been playing very loose even for HU. I think this might be because Ive been playing against alot of nits and ppl who just doesnt play back at me enough. I think maybe I should tighten up a bit oop but Im really clueless as if to this would be a leak. I find it really hard to get a realistic idea of wether something is a leak or not when you are running good.

Anyways, here are my positional stats for June+July, I would appriciate any ideas on what kind of vpip bb/sb ratio you guys think is optimal and I would love to hear from some other HU players on how tight/loose/agressive you are playing.





In other news, Im thinking of buying a watch. If you asked me a year ago if I could ever spend 5k+ on watch id laugh in your face and call you a retard. Im still a bit torn about the whole thing and Im pretty sure my family and friends will shun me if I buy a very expensive watch. That being said, Im quite facinated with swiss watches because of their history, quality etc and if a buy a watch its basicly to have it for the rest of my life.

Anyways, the watch im thinking of has been stuck in my mind ever since capaneo bought one and posted it in his blog. A Zenith Chronomaster. I can get it for about 5,4k or something which I think is an acceptable price to pay for a kickass swiss watch.





Havent really decided wether I really want to spend that much money on a watch when I could just buy a fake one and save the lives of like 100 children in africa instead.


Oh fuck, forgot the Norway pics. I suck sry


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First off. No pics today sorry, Its my friend that has them and i keep forgetting to ask him for them. Next post I should have em.


June was good for me. I had a goal to reach over 50k hands but obv I didnt because I play to few tables and Im too lazy. Also been away and stuff so hopefully I will atleast reach 50k hands in July since Im not really doing anything for a whole month. I think my game has developed alot, I have been running well and I have also had the fortune of playing alot of nits. Stations tend to own me when Im on autopilot and nits tend to get superstomped by me. Generally I think I do much better against tight players.

Ive taken some serious shots at 5/10 for the first time since I had a suicide 6 month downswing, wanted to kill myself and almost went busto. I am not impressed by the 5/10 regs so far. Havent played alot of the higher volume regs because I try to game select when trying a new level out but so far those Ive played havent really impressed me. The exception would be pinball but I didnt really play him for profit but rather as a learning experience and to challange myself.

I know I said I would post some sick hands and I have infact played some really interesting hands and made som sicksick bluffs/calldowns etc. Unfortunately I cant really find them in my PT database and Im way to lazy to search for them longer than like 3 mins so sry. No hands in this post.




Sweet month indeed. Im kinda pissed that Im not in the green on 5/10 because I really should be but given that I got owned by pinball hard for one session and dropped another 3-4k tilting after getting stomped by a bad reg Im still satisfied with my shot at 5/10 and I believe I have a big edge in the games.


For July I plan to grind alot of 2/4-5/10 and Im really stoked to be able to play alot when I feel like Im playing really well and also when Im enjoying poker as much as I am doing right now.

Lets book another good month.


GOGOGO


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Whoa, Im swinging like a madman today. Started out up 4k, then I played pinball HU on two tables of 5/10(probably a bad idea huh?) Neways it was fun but I got outplayed a couple of times and just owned other so I ended up like down uhm, probably 7k so -3k for the day. I think he ran a little hotter than me though, atleast I hope he did otherwise he owns my soul.

After the dumb idea to play pinball I decided to gameselect on 5/10 from now on and I found a huge tiltmonkey who donated about 8k and I won 2k more on some random 3/6 and 5/10 tables. I have some really fun hands to show and some sick graphs also but I dont have pokertracker and ipokers hand historys can suck my dick.

Hopefully I can get my laptop going tomorrow to post some stats and hands.

Neways, after swongtime in the hood Im booking a 7k day which is sweet, I think Im up around 18k for June which obv is supersweet. Im loving life.

Oh, and I still havent gotten around to posting the norway pics but I will in my next entry. I promise.


Laters sportsfans!


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So I played the $5,000 NLHE 6-max tournament today and was really pumped since it was the first event I played in over a week (being gone to Mexico / back to Bay Area for the past few days). I land at a fairly unknown table and quickly realize that I struck gold with my table draw. There was a retard playing every single pot and staring people down like he was da man. There was an old guy who was limping a ton and minraising a lot, and doing very random bluffs with small sized bets. Joe Beevers from The Hendon Mob was at my table (more on this epic failure in a bit). The only somewhat competent player at my starting table was a european kid to my right who seemed to be fairly solid / aggro.

So I chip up to 16k pretty easily, mostly from value towning the retard who was playing every single pot. Then I pick up KK UTG, and I swear I haven't done this play in the longest freaking time because its sooo transparent, but at this table I felt like I could pull it off. I limped in from UTG, the kid playing every single pot makes it 400 to go (with 5k behind), Joe Beevers flat calls (with 5k behind), small blind calls. When action got back around to me I obv bomb'd it to 2,000. I get called in 3 places!?!?!?! Is this really the $5k 6-max event? R U SRS? So the flop comes down Tc-9d-7c, and I put both the retard & Joe Beevers all-in for their remaining 4k. The retard tanks for a little bit then calls with A9o. Joe Beevers insta-ships it in with 9c8c, and obv binks his suck out on the turn. Uggg, whatever shit happens, that knocks me back to 11k. Then Joe Beevers says something dumb like "I only called because that guy called." to which point my head almost assploded caz the retard didn't realize he just called off 1/3 of his fucking stack preflop with 98!?! But obv I keep my mouth shut. God live pros are so dumb sometimes

I come back from break and play an interesting hand vs the competent aggro guy to my right, where we both flopped top pair in a blind vs blind situation but he had me out kicked, (my QJ vs his KQ on a Q-8-3 board) and took me to value town when the board ran out really weird. That put me down to 7k, I proceeded to chip back up to 10k before losing yet another pot to the exact same guy when he raised my blind with 98, I defended with Q8. The flop came Q-T-5 and he checked, and I decided to check behind. Turn came a J, he fired 1/2 pot I called. River came a 4 he fired 3/4 pot and I snap called only to see him have the winner again. It was really frustrating. That knocks me back down to 6k. I dropped all the way down to 3100 before doubling up with A3 vs KQ. I get back up to 7k at 200/400 level, then I flop top pair in yet another blind vs blind situation and check-shove right into two pair, so GG my tournament.

Tomorrow is the $2k NLHE, so I'm going to practice my guitar then sleep early for it. This entire series is getting pretty frustrating. Tomorrow = Serious Business.


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