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Datamined hands august, from 2+2 party regulars thread. Kinda useless sample but w/e, still cute.

Oh,yeah. Im on top. Sorta gave away my screenname now but w/e dont tell anyone :S


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So the way it works is, you play poker and lose some money - then you can go to the casino and win it all back from blackjack and video poker.

runner flush for $25
double once vs a 7 or something
double again: free double up vs deuce.



brag: sick read vs video poker
beat: only $5 is profit
variance: i still hate party


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Got my new appartment on friday, 5k and a weekend of running back and fourth to ikea later the place is finally starting to resemble a place to live in.


Living room pics:








Kitchen:






My bedroom is still sort of a mess filled with boxes n shit but hopefully it will turn out nice aswell.

School is going fine so far, i spent the last week being drunk most of the time and I dont think this week will be any diffrent.

I just wish I could go to korea for that tournament thingy and hang out with rekrul and other ballers. In a sense, im such a fish for going back to school but w/e.

If the same tour is hosted next year im pretty sure I will be going.


boing

edit: oh I forgot, I turned 22 today, so horray for me!


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i was gonna post about girls but i cant be fucked.

im off out tonight with girl #2 so i might have something good to report at the end of the night but probably not.

heres some photoshops since i havnt done any for a while.

some of you might not get this one, but im sure theres some film buffs who will.


and i really like this one



theres no fucking spot the difference on this shit

i dont know how but ive ended this night with an ipod nano in my pocket. hopefully no one asks me about it and i can keep it +17000FPPS NIGGA

so i can +24k for a fuckin WII WHUT NIGA NO HE DII INT!

CUNT

CUNT

she was all like "boo hoo why u come see me i got work in the morning"

so i took the camera and fucking GONE like she aint SHIT BITCH FUCK YOU CNT HOE BITCH SKA K I DONT FUCKIN CARE ANYMORE iF YOU WANT MY FUCKIN CAMERA YOU CAN FUCKIng uck MY FUCking DiCK.


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So:
I am no longer down since I moved to prima - major shipaments!

I also recieved my rakeback, 1295$, so my roll is now over 4000 - SHIP.

I played good today, but also finally - FINALLY - ran good. I mean, woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
:D I mean my AK top pair actually >HELD<. Completely radical, I know!

I flopped sets that got action, overpairs were actually good and so on.

I also stopped myself from tilting by slowing down when I suddenly felt like every table was moving really fast and every cbet was getting raised (also the software kind of crashed when I had to reload so I had a 1 minute cooldown period :D!).

Hands later, now hungry. Left a pretty good game (one 70/50 guy and one 40/30 guy both halfstacked, but too hungry and tired, needed a break).

I guess I'll probably still move back to stars, but maybe I'll stick with my original plan, which was to move back when the rednines promotion ended (september 30).

Dunno. Just felt like making a happy post for once! Up about 600$ today, 400 yesterday.

I haven't decided if I'll give 200 NL a shot just yet, I had intended to give it a shot with 20 buyins but I'm not sure if I should or not given my dismal winrate at NL100/my many leaks


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Moving back to pokerstars cause for some reason I'm completely unable to 1) make good decisions 2) not tilt (well, I tilt but less), on any site other than pokerstars -_- This reminds me of when I played on UB for a 1 month, exact same kind of results.

Maybe it's because neither site has a good handhistory window (which I use extensively on stars, ie constantly going through them all when not in a hand, taking notes on the players -.-).

In either case, I'm just gonna cash out my bonus (if PT is correct it should come to about 1600$..) and move to Pokerstars I guess. Try to get supernova, fix my leaks and not tilt.

The initial free-fall came from 1 single session of 8 tabling where every single time I had an overpair it would go down in flames, sets would face 4 card straight boards and by the time that happened I was tilt calling.

Then I got cardrunneres, started 4 tabling -> recovered half. Then some patchy results, tilt, 8 tables, oops.

4 tabling again, followed by god knows what. 4 tabling again, playing pretty well..

Enter today around hand 29k. Played for what, 14 hours? Setup after setup after setup after setup after setup.

Should have fucking known today would have turned out this way after it took me 5 hours to fall asleep and I fell out of bed trying to unplug my alarm cause I was too sleepy to figure out where or what it was.

I have leaks, yeah, but I promise you that I can beat the retard who limps 56o UTG and calls a raise with them.

Not today. Huge whine post I know but I needed to vent a bit before sleeping.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/261137
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/261101 (he's a 45/3/.8 station).
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/261100
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/261092
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/261091 <- didn't raise cause I wanted the other guy to call, who was a pretty big station. Obviously didn't matter.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/261055 - horrible by me, I don't know how to properly play this.

This guy's luckbox tilts me: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/261044

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/261038 "ok"

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/260989 run better plz
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/260985 this has happened so many times lately..

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/260977 no pair no draw allin on flop, QQ is a huge dog to this today..
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/260980 I kinda suspected he'd do the same thing with a real hand as well but wtf, not going to fold QQ to some guy who just went allin with A high ._.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/260970 Bet turn? I figured one of them was likely on a straight or flush draw -_-

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/260965 first time I float in forever.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/260967 Hand right after.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/260959 ....
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/260870 Maybe I should just open push.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/260850

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/260783 Hey look it's tilt! I thought allin was potsize tho.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/260784 Hand right after

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/260762 who needs setodds!
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/260763 Top boat vs quads, pretty standard with his luckbox..

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/260812 probably a bad river call.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/260785 Hey look a hand I won -_-

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/260766 lol.



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Obv i had to go to dinner at the sky tower, which is just a huge tower with restaurants, couple of bars and a casino. I had to pay which was the first beat of the night.

Id alredy happy ending'd before we left - which made us a little late for our reservation.

So we get there and she instantly complains that there isnt enough choice on the menu. We order a couple of drinks and our starters.

I decided to get the most expensive starter and the most expensive main course because im a huge fuckin balla

Alaskan Crab to start, and Rib Eye Steak for main. She ordered Chicken and Feta salad to start and Fish of the day for main.

So we start eating our starters and she tells me she doesnt like cheese. Which is obviously why she ordered a cheese based salad. Inner tilt.



Rib eye, obv.



her fish, looked rubbish. She also doesnt like potatoe, which was half this dish.

They ruined my kumera mash with too much parmasan cheese.

We also got desert and a glass of desert wine which was disgusting.

Total bill $165 - actually quite good value.



low skill view from the top



Getting to grips with the timer...

So we get the lift back down to the ground levels. The casino is there but shes too young to enter (only 19 and you need to be 20)

I enter Farha mode and have to at least try to smuggle her in. I walk the corner and theres 2 security and no one else entering. Thankfully my gangsta stride we walk right past without getting ID'd.

Like a kid in a sweet shop im off to the cashier. She wants to play a slot machine but i only have 1 $2 coin (i roll paper only, obv)

Luckbox it to $8 and shes sick impressed then bitches as we lose it. I then have to hear about how we could have used $6 profit...

Then i play blackjack $10/hand and get owned fairly hard. Then ball back from -$110 to +$50

She doesnt know how to play any casino game, and was shocked by the number of asian people there (LOL)



sick ballin with the profit, thats like $120 USD - most of you guys will never have seen that much money.


bonus pick: how a full time NL10 balla lives.


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beat: have to take woman to dinner
beat: shes not old enough to go in the casino
beat: it will be expensive
beat: my life
beat: women
variance: didnt win party BBJ which is at like 400k. I bet if i didnt have to go to dinner id win, so im already like -$160k for this trip.
brag: none


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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.



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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.



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Im proud to say ive been playing what is probably my best poker ever the last week. Im so comfortable 8-tabling 3/6 and I feel I have a big edge over most of the field.I have been putting in longass sessions and have been able to sustain a modest winrate even though ive been getting assfucked by variance time and time again(just look at some of the hands ive recently posted.)

A partypoker update fucked with my pokertracker stats since they display all hands to happen 01-01-1970 gah! I did manage to repair most of the damage by some awesome pain skillz.

Anyways, results for august:




In two hours im flying to my hometown to be, Kalmar. I didnt manage to get a temporary place to stay so being the baller I am im staying at a hotel for a week.

I expect my classmates to be cool and the courses to be fun since I run good forever.


zomzomzom


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This got massivly TLDR but whuteva.

So last night i went to the university annual ball thing. The theme was "oriental obsession" which i thought was fairly fuckin retarded since 95% of the uni is asian.

I was taking my flatmate (girlfriend #1) but i get a text from the american exchange student who wants to know if she can ride with me (stud life son) - so i get 2 dates kinda.


this makes them look like a beat - they arent that stunning though, but neither am i.

There was a pre-ball party at the student bar. I order a beer and specify "Speights" he gives me a "Tui" and although they are almost the same i cant help but think hes a fucktard.

It was confirmed when i returned to the bar and he looks at me and goes

"What do you want? Speights?"
"Yeh Speights"

He gave me another Tui - learn to fucking read.

I saw him later at the ball and he tried to strike up a conversation with me but i was like NAH SON - GOODNIGHT

On the bus there i spent the whole ride enjoying the paraletic chick 2 seats ahead of me. All that effort for a ball dress, getting ready and buying a ticket - then she doesnt even make it out the pre-ball party.

I arrive and got a fortune cookie (original) which entitles me to 1 free beer and 1 free cocktail. I also drink my dates beer.

The venue was very classy, right opposite a strip club. Had i known this in advance i wouldnt have gone with a date so i could fuck off to see some strippers.

There was a $100 prize for the best dressed man and woman. Naturally i had it sewn up. Unfortunatly it was all politics. They gave it to some fat old guy who came dressed as a samurai - i thought it was a formal ball, not a fancy dress party. Stupid douche. The woman who won was wearing some crappy looking chinese dress. I took a real chinese girl so i should have got brownie points for that.

Then there was some other shit and i ate some sushi and it got really boring really quick. The american girl bought me a drink and i had my photo with her and my asian date so i was pimpin huge.


They had a show, these guys were pretty cool.

I managed to get another free cocktail aswell, and was feeling pretty buzzed. Then i bought the american chick a drink in return but she copped off with some douche (possible beat? i dunno i dont really care about her but shes got massive jugs) So i drank my vodka cranberry then decided to drink hers.

We get a taxi home at about 11:30pm which is when the ball was picking up but since my date doesnt fuckin dance we might aswell just call it a night.

So i get home and i get a text from girlfriend #2 asking if i want to come to the city with her and friends. Obviously this is too good an opportunity to pass up, but first...

I have like 25 minutes so have time for a quick carpet lick and a happy ending. I also gave her the shocker lol.

Then my phone goes while im busy doing my thang. Its girlfriend #2 asking where i am. I tell her ill be down in 10 minutes. Finish up - send girlfriend #1 to her room - get changed and head out.

I get some complimentry beer when i arrive and theres people from my friends home town up to visit. One guy is a total cock but hes with his missus so i dont really give a fuck.

We go out to the city and its pretty good. My bladder almost exploded waiting in line.

We danced some and drank some sambuca shots. I totalled about 6 shots but only paid for 1.

My friend orders 4 sambuca shots and the bar tender lines them up. He gives my friend the little handset to enter his cards pin and the wire from it knocks over one of the shots.

He tells us it was our fault and we have to pay for it. Heres a dilema - pay like $8 for a shot that got spilt, or dont pay for any shots and go to another bar.

Nice one son. We argue with him and he pours us a new shot realising that he is infact a retard.

We take a taxi home at about 3am or so. On the way home i give a beautiful rendition of "Beautiful Girls" by Sean Kingston when it came on the radio as i cuddle girlfriend #2

We get home and people all drop out fast because unlike me they cant drink. sicklifeson

One guy still wants to drink a bit and have a ciggy and he kind of interupts me makin moves with girlfriend #2 but she says shes going to get ready for bed and she will leave the door unlocked so i can come back in 10 minutes.

She locks the doors (stupid twat) so i phone her and get her to come let me in then we head up to her room.

Beat: nothing happened. I was way too drunk but i gave her a cuddle as she was falling asleep, her parents were in town and she had to get up at 9am to go to breakfast with them - then i put my jeans back on and head back to my own place.

The sun is rising and theres daylight - it must be about 5am.

I left my keys/wallet/phone on the desk of girlfriend #2 so i go sleep in the bed of girlfriend #1 - and do the usual stuff to her.

I pass out for a bit, then girlfriend #2 bought me a subway.

gosicklife

Cliff notes:

Went to ball
Playersville
Subway


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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):




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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):




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so i dont know quite how but ive pretty much ended up with 2 girlfrinds ( HI-5 TO ALL MY NIGGAZ IN PlayerSVILLE!)

So tonight was my birthday and i just kept it fairly quiet and went out with my best mate for a few.

Of course before i went out girlfriend #1 (who is my flatmate) took me out for dinner. Obviously i didnt want to order the most expensive thing on the menu (the rid eye steak) so i ordered the duck which was about a dollar cheaper than the steak.

We had a nice meal (and didnt give a tip because our waiter was about as good as cancer) and next week she wants to go out for more romantic meals together. Im like HELLS YEH - coz im fat and love food.

So i get back and my flatmates arent fooled about where weve been even though its supposed to be a big secret.

Me and my best mate start drinking and BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!

WHATS THIS?

Oh its crazy chick from earlier appologising for being a cunt to me (ABOUT FUCKING TIME!!!)

So i text her telling her we might go to bar and shes invited. She says she wants to but only if her friends are up for it - they arent.

I dont care me an my mate go to bar and watch the end of the rugby then head home for a couple of beers and some youtube street fights.

we go to chicks house and we just piss about for a while then my mate goes home coz its late and he has work.

everyone else slinks to bed and i walk this chick home (LIKE I GOTTA PLAY THE GAME NIGGAS)

I make my move and put my arm round her and we mac some - talk some jive together and i pull all the sweet moves on her. mac some more.

I FUCKIN RULE

2 girlfriends with no signs of stoppin
this shit is gonna trainwreck so fuckin hard when it hits.

PEACE WHUT


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GO SHORTY!

I got lots of silly little presents from my family, and some cashmoney. probably gonna get a 360.

It wouldnt be my birthday without some girl going on mad tilt due to my gangsta ways.

Remember that crazy chick from way back - well yeh shes back lol.

We went out with a group of people last weekend to party and shit. Her best friend tells me shes really into me so im like SAFE!

That group went home in a taxi and i went to the casino on my own (lol dropped u for a gambol bitch) - its in a previous semi-drunk post.

Then she tilted like crazy over the last week so i gave up trying to be nice and play her games via text and told her to fuck off. The last 2 texts i got from her were pretty funny.

(Told her she was emotionally unstable)
"I dont have issues, youre the one who gets abusive and cruel when i dont say what you wanna hear. It seems ur the one with issues. Im not the one who hasnt attended lectures in how ever long. You have no right to judge me for pointing out that as much as i wanted (past tense after that last text you sent me) to be with you i didnt see how we were gonna make it work. Was wondering what you thought we could do about that but since you just told me what you really think of me i dont think i wanna know anymore"

"Oh by the way ur flatmate told me about ur episode on the roof adter that night you caused a scene at the bar (LOL this is all fictional, i was hammered drunk and went out my window onto the roof and sang along to my mp3s)

So dont talk to me or any1 else about emotional stability coz u my friend are exactly that emotionally unstable, oh and youre not a very nice person and im a tool for thinking you were. At least i know what ur like now"

LOL

Im gonna nuke this bitch.

On a more positive brag: My flatmate is taking me out to dinner tonight. Then ill get smashed on drinks nugga.

PEACE


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I like the banner but it needed a couple of subtle changes. So i went ahead and took the initiative so Nazgul didnt have to worry about it.

I sent it to Nazgul on MSN:

Sam says: Do you like the new banners i made?

Nazgul says: post them in your blog, tell people if they like them they should spam my PM inbox and flood the main poker forum with "VOTE YES"

Sam says: that seems a little out of character, but ok.

You heard the man, so here they are.

option 1:



option 2:



Each one has an updated slogan. I changed the old (and cliche) AA to a joker and an uno card. The most powerful hand in texas holdem.

You can also ban floofy from the top menu.

And as some of you more vigilant people might notice - im logged in as nazgul, giving me full admin powers. If anyone else wants this

Username: Nazgul
Password: Nazgul


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Just finished a 7-8 hour long session, probably the longest ive ever played straight. I started off dropping about 3k the first two hours, worked it back up to 6k profit and the last hour I got completely fucked in the ass and ended up only 2k+. I guess I should be satisfied with showing any profit but Its really anoying to loose 80/20 all ins over and over.

This hand kinda sums up the end of my session.

Submitted by : SakiSaki

***** Hand History for Game 6257773536 *****
$600 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, January 01, 01:00:00 ET 1970
Table Table 127494 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 2: Hero ( $3,151.55 USD )
Seat 1: Kannine ( $562 USD )
Seat 4: Lukhail ( $477.10 USD )
Seat 3: lolEurodonks ( $646.45 USD )
Seat 5: MWT55 ( $1,338.05 USD )
Kannine posts small blind [$3 USD].
Hero posts big blind [$6 USD].

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to Hero
lolEurodonks folds
Lukhail folds
MWT55 folds
Kannine raises [$21 USD]
Hero raises [$79 USD]
Kannine is all-In [$538 USD]
Hero calls [$477 USD]

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $1,124.00)

   

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $1,124.00)

   

River (Pot : $1,124.00)

   
Hero shows two pairs, Tens and Nines .
Kannine shows a straight Five to Nine.
Kannine wins $1,122 USD from the main pot with a straight, Five to Nine.

As if my life wasnt just one massive brag after another already - my medallion arrived today.


What kind of balla shit could need such a fantastic display box?


OH SNAP! Its world champion poker professional and PokerStars team member Chris Moneymaker!



SICK WIDDIT CATS DONT GOT THESE!


I got 275/2000 so you better hurry up and buy one if you were planning on getting one.


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