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Ftrunkz Australia. Apr 04 2008 04:07. Posts 384

Okay, I'm going to say it right off the get go, this post will be insane, and i highly doubt to get many people, or maybe even no one that will read the whole thing. But I would really appreciate if one of the middle/high stake players read it and gave me some advice.

I'll start off with graphs. These are my graphs of NL25 and NL10 since winning the $400 in the tourny to get me rolled for NL25.

Around hand 5,000 is where i dropped back to NL10.
Here are my stats for the two levels:

Yeah... so basically you can see what has happened. I'm sure the swing was to do with running VERY bad, but the flatlining for 5k or so hands at NL10, I'm sure, can atleast be contributed somewhat to me played like a sped.... So i'm going to post a ton of hands here, and hopefully in some of them you can point out if i could've saved money, earned money, etc. etc.

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Hand 2: This ones a really common situation for me with AK, anything wrong about my play here?
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Hand 3:
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Hand 4: Do i call this river? do i fold earlier in the hand at some point?
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Hand 5:
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Hand 6: Combo draw played wrong?
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Hand 7:
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Hand 8:
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Hand 9:
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Hand 10:
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Hand 11:
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Hand 12:
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I think a lot of the hands are coolerish, but i refrained from posting any hands where my money went in good and i just got an obvious suckout or pre-flop allins with QQ+ in which i lose.

Once again, any ammount of help would be appreciated.

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Last edit: 04/04/2008 04:18

KwarK United Kingdom. Apr 04 2008 04:09. Posts 1019

Dude, sorry about that most recent KK bluff. I posted the hand btw so you can see what I held.
It might be better to put the hands in spoilers so people can actually look at your blog post.

Ftrunkz Australia. Apr 04 2008 04:15. Posts 384

On April 04 2008 03:09 KwarK wrote:
Dude, sorry about that most recent KK bluff. I posted the hand btw so you can see what I held.
It might be better to put the hands in spoilers so people can actually look at your blog post.

lol why apologize for out-playing me? That's poker .

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KeanuReaver United States. Apr 04 2008 04:16. Posts 2022

didn't look through all the hands but the most obvious thing was you're giving up WAY too quickly

and the endurance required for MMA, which has actions like punching and kicking bone and muscle with 1000-2500 PSI. - Taco

Ftrunkz Australia. Apr 04 2008 04:20. Posts 384

yeah, to explain the first hand, kwark is an lper as well and i realized as soon as he flatted he was getting odds to call with a small pp and possibly a connector type hand, and that flop was terrible for the kind of range he has, when he called on the flop, by betting any decent ammount on the turn i was commiting myself, and when he put me all in i figured, for the ammount of time's he's on a combo draw compared to having having a hand like 56s, 55, 66, 99 or JJ is easily in his range too, it wasn't worth it.

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KeanuReaver United States. Apr 04 2008 04:26. Posts 2022

he really wasn't getting odds to call, it was an all around horrible play by him given what he had
all i can really say is you have kings in a 3bet pot with a relatively safe board, and since TT and QQ will be making up a huge part of his range (as a general rule, an overcall pf means TT-QQ and AK) you absolutely should not be checking.

and the endurance required for MMA, which has actions like punching and kicking bone and muscle with 1000-2500 PSI. - Taco

Silver_nz New Zealand. Apr 04 2008 04:50. Posts 5647

you play good overall
#12, cooler, nothing else to be done ever
#11, fine imo, river pay off.. meh, you can be ahead enough of the time to make that call profitable.
#10, fold turn, he reps a flush or possibly a set. when you are raised on the turn holding a one-pair type hand you are behind 90% of the time vs 90% of opponents.
#9 vs a passive player I lean towards fold to first raise
#8 DO NOT GET HALF YOUR STACK IN THEN FOLD UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE. call and suck out or fold to first raise

#1 if kwark was bluffing there he is a sick sick hero.

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jase Australia. Apr 04 2008 05:12. Posts 1604

#2 - here you're getting ~2:1 on a call, assuming he doesnt have a set and one of your your kings or aces are outs if not both then you're about 1:4 of making your hand so its a good fold

#3 - on the turn its ok to overbet this pot, like $1.90 - $2.20 i think, although against a player like him i don't think it would change anything. also the minraise on the river screams strength obviously but i dont think u can fold here

#4 - again flop minraise screams strength and i think you either have to raise the turn or fold, if you're not folding to that turn you shouldn't be folding to that river imo

#5 - just unlucky that you hit your boat

#6 - i'd also like to see some replies to this hand as i have no clue how to play hands like this yet

#7 - just another case of nl10 players not seeing that they don't have the odds to call here and drawing out on that river, although im not sure what he was doing on the flop :/

#8 - screams set/flopped straight or overpair, your overpair beats no other overpairs and obv no set/straight so its a good fold. try not to commit half your stack with the intentions of folding to a re-raise for your whole stack though. also i think you should be raising $2.10 to at least $6ish

#9 - cooler

#10 - hes definitely repping the flush/set although with the ace of clubs i would probably just call his $4.20 and see a river

#11 - pretty standard

#12 - dont see what you can do here at all :/ its a cooler

edit; please criticize and correct me as much as possible

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rogier Netherlands. Apr 04 2008 06:39. Posts 1528

stacking off with a big overpair if you have gotten 1/10th of his/your stack in preflop is okay for 100bb 85+% of the time

agree with jase on nearly all ;p

jase Australia. Apr 04 2008 06:49. Posts 1604

what dont you agree with me on?! plz im learning too haha

KwarK United Kingdom. Apr 04 2008 07:53. Posts 1019

On April 04 2008 03:50 Silver)Z( wrote:
#1 if kwark was bluffing there he is a sick sick hero.

Semi-bluffing with fold equity. But I'll take all the <3 I can get for it.

SolarMusic Germany. Apr 08 2008 09:46. Posts 1218

hand #2 call shove
hand #4 call river LOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hand #6 i check turn and call or fold depending on the size of his bet....

........most other hands are coolers