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collegesucks United States. Mar 14 2008 01:32. Posts 5780

April 3rd:

my puny city is hosting one of the most celebrated pianists in the world o_O !!

So i insta shipped 70 bucks for a back row seat =D

Yundi Li, La Campanella:

He's AWESOME OMGGGGGG

Concert Program:

Mozart, Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor (perhaps the toughest concerto for piano EVER)
Respighi, Pini di Roma
Ravel, Piano Concerto in G major

I was listening to the scores above and it made me wonder if listening to classical music while sessioning would be +EV. I think it might help you tilt less? idk.. gotta try =D

Pokerwise i'm not playing so hot. i'm experiencing your usual swingy shit/not playing enough hands/lurking around lp.net too much/etc. I grind up, and then proceed to dump a few 3betting/paying off nits and also paying off the nuts with the second nuts or something close to that

Some hands:

i was trying to calculate my equity vs the donk's face up Qx but my timebank had one second left so i just clicked call =x. maybe i was too optimistic about implied odds as i really didn't know how he would react to a flush card on the river. idk. i got lucky.
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spots like this are so hard to explain to myself in restrospect. now that i think about it, i wonder why it never occurred to me to think that he would have better made hand on the turn. i guess my feel at the time was that this player was wayy too aggro with draws for me to give him enough credit on the turn i guess. and going with that read on the turn i had to call river since that Jack changed absolutely nothing.
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this hand got me thinking a lot about how i tend to slowplay monsters that can potentially be overwhelmed. it's a habit that i really really need to correct. there really is no sense in checking turn as i'm betting with tons of worse hands in that spot, as well as for too many other reasons to count.
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T__T nuff said
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speaking of slowplaying, i had this one hand vs. a multitabling postflop nit who opens a hugely wide range but shuts down immediately after his cbet. i called his raise from the CO with KQo in the small blind. flop came KQxhh, i check, he cbet, and i chose to simply call for some GOD-forsaken reason. the turn was a Jx and i checked again o__O... he fired a second bet for 30BB and at this point alarms are going off all over the fucking place. nevertheless, i flip the callstation/spewtard switch and call turn and call his huge 60BB bet on the river and /wrists when he flipped AT. I knew i was paying him off but i just wasn't playing with much sense at the time as the nit and i never really tangled before(he folded almost every hand that i 3bet vs. him)

god... that hand gave me nightmares. sometimes i just shut my brain off and spew spew spew in standard places. if i think during my sessions at least as much as i think when i post in the low stakes forum, i should be tons better off, imo

but i'm still hovering halfway toward my goal of moving up all this god damn month. i haven't moved a bit since my last big upswing, so i could def use another one of those. i think i average out to about 500 hands a day T__T so that's something that i need to work on as well.

also, i'm playing poker all over the fucking town so my data is split over 3+ computers, so no graphs until i can sort it all out.

peace,

collegesucks

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BigRed0000 This user is a quality poster

United States. Mar 14 2008 02:59. Posts 3554

i listen to classical radio when i play.

ahk88 United States. Mar 14 2008 03:50. Posts 635

haha. my parents went to see him play when he was in San Diego. enjoy

gawdawaful Canada. Mar 26 2008 04:26. Posts 9012

1st hand = no odds on turn
2nd hand = bet flop, while his turn c/r makes no sense, I still would be more inclined to fold there. I agree, river jack changes nothing
3rd hand = definitely bet turn - its good you recognize that you would be second barreling this card a lot here, but on this board, you definitely wouldn't be doing it with complete air because that card completes a lot of draws/gives a lot of 2nd pair hands like TJ/TQ a reason to call turn. Firing 3rd barrel on a blank with complete air would be bad.
Summary: K high flop with 2 rags = cbet, Ace turn = good for 2nd barrel, board texture important
4th hand = wtf

Im only good at poker when I run good