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Canada. Aug 03 2006 01:00. Posts 20070

Ok so I have not posted here in a while because I've been preety buisy the last few days and have not found the time do update this. I have not really played much in the last three days, yesturday I played 5-5NL at Casino Niagara (this is the highest they offered) and two days before that I put in about ~1500 hands/day which is ok but nothing special. So in the last three days I made $2500 playing 3/6 NL and I lost two buy ins at the casino which I will explain later on.

I've never been to a Casino before because I never really wanted to go and waste money playing slots, blackjack, or any other stupid -EV game so I just stayed out of there. Since they opened poker I still have not been looking forward to casino games but I figured I might as well try it eventually. When I was there the first thing I realized is that the player quality is absolutley attrocious, there were a few standard tight players (who were so predictable it was funny to watch) and a few loose cannons who seemed to loose at least 1-2 buy ins/hour. Given the number of hands/hour we were playing this is a really awfull rate of losing money. So I figured I would play loose against the predittable tights and tight against the donks. This strategy worked out very well, I did a ton of bluffing and I never got caught once which is really rare. Unfortuatley I never won a single showdown all night (no joke) If the hand ever reached the river I was always out-drawn.

Worst hand of the evening was I raise $25 UTG with 8d9d (my stack is $700) donk calls ($200 stack) and tight calls ($1300 stack) flop is 7dTd3s. Since I'm not in position and I figured a standard con't bet had little fold equity I decided to check and perhaps reraise a weak bet. So donk bets $35, tight min reraises him to $70 I go all in (just because tight would not mini reraise with a monster here on such a draw heavy board, this is something I picked up during the evening). He thinks for like 30 sec and calls showing 5d6d a lower flush + gutshot straight. So I have him dominated but the turn card comes 4h river is meaningless and I gotta reload :/

Actually one of the biggest problems with this game was that it was capped, I had to sit down with only $500 and if I lost a few pots I would find myself sitting with a $400 stack which was stupid. Plus the table was 10 handed which was really slow paced. But they charged $6 rake every 30 min which was ridiciously high given the number of hands we get in. These games are extremley soft and can be crushed but I can probably make more money playing online, so I'll probably do that

Unless they fix up the casino games and get a uncapped game. I think if you'r main goal is just to make money as fast as possible 8-12 tabling online is the optimal way to go about it.

As for Pokerstarss the last few days, I've been running about average. Meaning I'm getting about $1 every hand I play. I also find myself posting a lot less hands than before, I think rather than just posting every pot that comes I will only post interesting hands that come up.
<a href="http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55493">
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55493 </a>*This guy raises every single pot, I just felt
he had to bet to win so I called :/ After this call check_kills told me that's the worst call he has seen in over 3 months lol
<a href="http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55494">http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55494</a> *I figured out his betting patterns a few hands after this one, everytime he goes all in he has either a strong draw or a hand with extremley good showdown value, had I known this earlier I would not have called.
<a href="http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55495">http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55495</a>
<a href="http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55882">http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55882</a> *Standard - If he has a set he stacks me here every time
<a href="http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55885"> http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55885</a> *Most people don't 3-bet preflop with AA-QQ and for the most part it's the correct play, this is just a very tough spot for him. I think he thought I had either QQ or AA
<a href="http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55896">http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55896</a>
<a href="http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55904">http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55904</a> *I had almost an exact same hand last week like this, same flop except when you'r running bad they showdown AA when your running average-good you win

<a href="http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55906">http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55906</a> *This is a really weird hand, if he has an ace or 6 he has to call. I don't understand why he would bluff in this spot.
<a href="http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55917">http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/55917</a> *Probably the worst call I've made in a long time. IntrepidFox is not capable of bluffing in this spot I was just too stubborn at the time to realize that. I actually paused for a moment before betting I initially thought I would check it down and just see what he called me with for information, but I got greedy and value bet :/
<a href="http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/56205">http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/56205</a> *This is exactly how not to play a set. Not only is this a bad way to play a set, why is he limping in with JJ wtf.
<a href="http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/56206">http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/56206</a> *Apparently my image is really loose because I honestly thought he would not do this without a set it's incredible he pushed with a hand like AQ I was really shocked. This guy is one of the very tight players on 3/6
<a href="http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/56207">http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/56207 </a>*I think I played the flop and turn almost perfect. I suspect I should have made a slightly larger river bet. Either way I got very good value here (especially considering it's an unraised pot) but I think it could have been a little larger.
<a href="http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/56208">http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/56208</a> *Again wow, I can't beleive people are pushing with such garbage

Thoughts:
I used to play my overpairs and TPTK for medium-value. But I'm noticing recently people are willing to play big pots with me with very weak holdings even stuff like medium pairs. So I think I will increase my aggresion with very strong one pair hands and see where that goes. I used to almost never play TPTK for stacks but now I realize against me people will play very big pots with weak kickers so I will try and find a way to really exploit this.

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