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k2o4 United States. Sep 26 2007 10:37. Posts 4803

First off let me apologize for spamming the Blogs box... Decided to start doing this blog thing and wanted to put some old posts from another forum up here as well.

Also another disclaimer: There will be many boring posts in this blog. Why? Cause I mainly want to use this as a type of "Poker Journal" where I can keep track of my winning/losing hands for sessions to analyze later, while also allowing friends and the public to give feedback. So most of the posts will just be a listing of hand histories with my thoughts on my mistakes, or asking questions on how to play them better.

Now let's get started for today's post... Where am I? Oh yeah, broke. Well, not literally but my live cash game BR got kilt. Or killed. Either way I had to spend my last night of Costa Rica poker in my hotel room with a shady wireless connection that kept crapping out on me. Despite that challenge I still pulled about 3.5 buyins, which seems to be my regular rate when I have a winning session.

Looking over things I had a lot more significant winning hands than losing hands, which is nice to see. I've started going back through PT after each session and looking for hands with a net of over 10 big blinds as either a loss or win, and examining those hands. I'm going to take the 3 most confusing winning hands and 3 most confusing losing hands of each session and ask for advice on em, and below I'm gonna list all the rest for future reference. Also, people who are really bored or who like me a lot can go through the rest and give feedback. I'm guessing I'll only get help from the former category... it sucks being a newb.

On another note, my fellow sMi poker pla<x>yer Salad has gone and blown his BR... again. Please visit his blog here and make fun of him.

<center>GRAPH TIME!!!</center>

Well I figure it's about time to post some SS's.... but I don't have the damn graph program yet so just a PT SS for now. I started playing NL cash games at the end of August, so this represents the last month of play. I think I could have done better if I wasn't working and traveling so much, but I'm still happy. Planning to move up to NL25 when I hit $750. Why such a huge roll? Cause I play better over-rolled, and I am doing a "rolling bankroll" strat where you move up to your next level with a cushion of 5 buyins so that an early losing streak doesn't mean you have to move right back down. So instead of moving up at 25 Buyins, I move up at 30.

Ok, let's look at some hands now!

How do I play these better? (3 winners/3 losers)

1) Should I just call this and hope for calls behind or am I trying to shut out? Figure since he's all in I probably shoulda just called... if it was only 1 guy behind I'd call for sure, but 2 made me worried.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/280955

2) Should I bet out this flop? Was the CR too big? Didn't want to give a cheap draw to a flush... Should I just call here or make a smaller raise?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/280973

3) Villain is very laggy - should I ReRaise the turn or was the call fine since I had position and he might bet into me on the river?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/280974

4) Bad flop call? I always end up paying shortstacks off like this =
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/280980

5) Was tryin to take this away from him with the GS and 1 possible OC. Seems to have failed. Better to call or fold?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/280981

6) Too aggr w/ Gs + 2 OC's?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/280984

Other Biggest Winners of the Session:

1) How could I get more value out of this?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/280958

2) Lucky Turn
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/280953

3) Here I got worried on the turn... if he'd had more money I might not have called. Hmmm... is that a bad approach?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/280957

4) Turn bet too big?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/280960

5) Bet bigger river?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/280961

6) Bigger river bet?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/280962

7) Was scared of 98 here.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/280963

8) This was great - I knew him to be very Aggr and figured he'd just try and bully me the entire time.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/280964

9) Not sure what he was calling with and then folding the river.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/280965

10) Good flop raise?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/280966

11) Dunno why the hell I ch'd the river.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/280970

12) I saw this guy raising a lot to steal my blind, so I started playing back at him and getting him to lay down. I had a feeling he was getting frustrated and would get aggr w/ very little and with so many outs figured I was good. Went well =)
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/280975

13) Big Bluff of the night
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/280976

Other Biggest Losers of the Session:

1) Bad PFR w/ A9s?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/280979

2) Call this river?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/280982

3) This guy put a move on me, which is so rare here at NL10 that I just auto fold most of the time and need a read on someone before considering to keep going.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/280985

4) Same situation but he didn't show his hand this time.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/280986

5) This guy folded to nearly every single ContB, so I figured he had at least a 7, and probably an overpair when he called. Then his turn check got me thinking maybe it was a 7 or a Flush Draw... but he was very tight PF, so probably shouldn't have made that guess. Meh.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/280987

That's all for today... but stay tuned cause my next post will be a fun one about me getting stacked - over, and over, and over again.

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Last edit: 26/09/2007 10:46