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[vital]Myth  United States. May 29 2007 05:23. Posts 12159 | | |
Poker:
Poker has been going really well. At this point, I feel I've solidified my game to the point that I should almost never have serious bad runs where I make poor decisions in many large pots. The money is flowing well, and I'm running fairly neutral. I'm up about $1,200 in live-play after 4 days, and about $3,400 in online play after 7. I have been working on a ton of stuff, and both fullring and short-handed games feel great. I'm also improving at PLO, and I'm learning so much just constantly conversing with Daut.
My new group of full-time students for the latter half of the summer are also exciting. I think they are some good players with a lot of potential, and I hope to mold them into great players who will tear through midstakes in no time. My students who are just wrapping up their full-time coaching deals are mostly doing well. One has increased his bankroll more than 5x and has moved up 3 stakes in the past 6 weeks. I'm proud of all my students and I hope they continue to improve and crush their games.
Friends:
Daut is definitely one of the most solid friends I've ever made. He's a great, patient, generous, level-headed, easy-going person with a good sense of humor and a great outlook on life. He's a lot of fun to be around, and obviously a huge asset for me in improving my poker game.
Mig is a nit. But he thinks everyone sucks at poker, which is cool. Although he has no respect for any other poker player, he never talks about himself or brags about how good he is. He's not arrogant or cocky, he's just ruthlessly unforgiving of others' mistakes at the poker table. All joking aside though, Mig is also a lot of fun to hang out with, but not so helpful for my poker game  .
I spent several hours talking to and playing $1/3 NL with RaSZi yesterday. He's been playing $10/20 at the Wynn, and killing it. But he was bored and his game was bad, so he came down to my micro-stakes table to donk it up and get drunk. He tilted the table really badly, drastically increasing its +EV for me. Big thanks to RaSZi for getting those geeks to ship me so much money. He's a hilarious and very fun individual, and he likes to talk poker. I am hoping to get to spend a lot more time with him while he's here. He's a really good live player and I think he will crush very high stakes live for a long, long time if he wants to do so.
I also met up with LURPED a few times at the Wynn, and I think he's been playing $5/10 and $10/20. It's been a long time since I last talked to him, but he's a poker player through and through. He just has this air of "grinder" about him. I haven't gotten much chance to talk to him seriously, but he is about to buy a house near here. Congrats to him on that, and I hope his land value skyrockets  .
Stories:
Here are a few cool hands I have played so far:
1. I am like $800 deep at a $1/3 NL game at the Wynn, and my opponent has about $500. I have 55 in middle position, and I limp after 2 other limpers. The button makes it $21 to go, folds back to me, and I call. Flop is Q56, and I check/raise a $60 overbet to $180. He calls. The turn is a 6, and he has about $300 left. This player is an old guy who has been trying to abuse me in position a lot, so I just bet $120 and leave him room to shove, instead of putting him in, knowing that he'll think he has more leverage to show strength with a weak hand if I just bet small now. So he does shove, instantly, and I of course snapcall. The river is a K and he shows TT. LOL, ship it.
2. RaSZi was sitting directly to my right, and was ultra deep-stacked with like $2,400, and I had about $1,000. He had been playing something like 50/45, but very serious and solid postflop. I hadn't been stomping on him much, because he has a lot more experience in aggressive deep-stacked games than I do and I know his superiority as a player means that I can't get too out of line -- I need a fairly tight image to make plays at him. Having this image, the following hand ensued. He raised over a limper to $15 in the hijack, and I made it $45 on the button. Folds to him, he calls. Flop is AA2 with 2 diamonds, and he checks. I bet $60 and he starts grumbling..."see, if I start bluffing on flops like this, I don't know if you can start floating me to re-bluff," and folds. I show Qc5c. He says he hates me. I mumble that I'm not sure whether I need to bet $60 to get a fold there, and he says..."oh believe me, you do. Otherwise I will absolutely stomp on you. Trust me, if you bet weak, I'll be the first one all-in and you'll be doing some math."
3. Villain is about $650 deep, and I cover by a mile ($1/3). He is sitting a few seats to my right, but the people between us have been sitting out a lot. I have been absolutely shitting on him non-stop since he got there. His friend is sitting directly to my left, and both of them are wannabe-TAG kids who think that they're good image players. They make a lot of mistakes, but I don't doubt that they're winning players in this game.
In one important hand we played earlier, I had ATo and raised over his limp. He called. The flop was K67 with two spades, and he check/called about 2/3 pot. It was pretty clear he was drawing in this hand, because there is just no other type of hand he could have that wouldn't protect itself on this flop. The turn was a blank, like the 2h, and he check/called another 2/3 pot bet. The river was some dirty card like the 9s, and we checked down. He showed 54dd for a busted stupid straight draw, and I showed ATo and won the pot. He grumbled, "ace high?! Psssh...I could have gotten you off that SO ez."
Now for the hand in question. The villain has been limping a bit too much, and I've raised in position the last 5 times he has limped. So he limps this hand, and I make it $15 with A7o. He calls and we're heads-up. Flop is 272 with two spades, and I have the As. He checks, I bet $24, he makes it $66. I call. Turn is the Qd, and he bets $160. I go into the tank for a bit and finally shove for about $400 more. He gets a disgusted look on his face and starts counting his money. He thinks and thinks and says to himself, "ugh, I think this is a call...how can this be a call?" Finally, he folds, disgusted.
He left not long after, and had been gone for a while. His friend came back to the table and at some point asked me, "hey, what did you have on that hand where my buddy made that big turn bet? Sevens full, right?" I replied that I of course didn't have sevens full (and by the way, I would have butchered it if I had that hand). I said I had A7o, and he was stunned. "So you WERE making a play at him then? He had king jack of spades." I explained my play of the hand this way: his friend had shown down a few strong hands before, and every time he had been very still, with very little signs of emotion in his body language, and his eyes were generally looking at his opponent's chips and hands. He took standard aggressive lines, so his betting was irrelevant. But his body language was key.
On the flop in the hand above, he was a bit fidgety and his eyes were fixated on the board more often than not. He was sort of rotating back and forth in his chair a lot. I knew on the flop that he was either semi-bluffing or playing some kind of hand he was unsure of, like a small overpair. I felt that 55-66 might fire again on the turn, but probably weak, 88-99 would probably play about the same way but maybe a little stronger, and TT was very unlikely anyway because I'm almost 100% certain he raises that preflop. But a ton of hands with two spades make a lot of sense, like JTss, 98ss, etc., while the middle pairs are possible but unlikely. So I am not looking to jam on the flop, because I can't possibly induce a mistake on the flop, unless he folds a combo draw (which I doubt) or he folds an overpair (which is a slim possibility). So I have to call because I am ahead of his range anyway, I have a nut redraw with the As, and I can get more value when I'm good, or induce more folds from better pairs when I'm not good.
When the turn was the Qd, he looked at it very quickly and instantly reached for his chips. It was the most cursory of glances. I knew immediately that he couldn't have possibly re-evaluated his hand or his play when the Qd came out. Therefore, it was a meaningless card for him. Thus he can't have the Qs. I know that he didn't think that far ahead on the flop, because he isn't that smart. If he had the Qs, he would hesitate for a second on the Qd turn. He just reached for chips. After his bet, his body language screamed that he wanted me to fold and just get the hand over with. So after he bet $160, I knew I had the best hand, but I had no idea which cards on the river would be bad for me, except spades obviously. Because of that, I couldn't let him have the betting lead with so much money behind on so many possible rivers that killed my hand. I'm not sure that calling down isn't the best play, but I shoved and that's why.
It took a lot fewer words to say to his friend, but I really stomped on that geek pretty hard. Owned.
More updates later!
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Karma Australia. May 29 2007 05:43. Posts 3538 | | | |
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stfu nit i'd insta c/r you AI on every hand |
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wait... i tought summer hadnt started yet |
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| I sometimes fold AA preflop to balance my range | Last edit: 29/05/2007 07:02 |
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Joe Czech Republic. May 29 2007 07:11. Posts 5987 | | |
Nice post Myth, hope I can meet up with at least some of u when I am in Vegas for a few days in the end of August. |
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iop Sweden. May 29 2007 07:16. Posts 4951 | | |
Nice post, I hope to come to vegas this summer too! |
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| Milkman lol i didnt spend half a thousand on a phone so i could play it cool and be all stealth | |
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veryGUd United States. May 29 2007 09:24. Posts 625 | | | |
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lucifer Sweden. May 29 2007 09:56. Posts 5955 | | |
summer is 3 days away yo  |
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| On February 19 2009 22:21 Confedrate wrote: i dont get it | |
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tae-g United States. May 29 2007 09:56. Posts 1782 | | |
nice post. i enjoyed the hands |
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| Diagonals: oh hai guise wats goin on at this table | |
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Logiabs~ Colombia. May 29 2007 10:26. Posts 9133 | | | |
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ggplz Sweden. May 29 2007 10:48. Posts 16784 | | |
| | On May 29 2007 09:26 Logiabs~ wrote:
very nice report! |
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| if poker is dangerous to them i would rank sports betting as a Kodiak grizzly bear who smells blood after you just threw a javelin into his cub - RaiNKhAN | |
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locoo Peru. May 29 2007 11:20. Posts 4561 | | |
very nice analysis, I like it a lot |
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FrinkX United States. May 29 2007 14:18. Posts 7561 | | | |
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| bitch on a pension suck my dong | |
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MilZo France. May 29 2007 14:30. Posts 1333 | | | |
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| S1KLYF, this is the profession we chose | |
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