Monday, June 30
the last second push :)
just booked a winner -- holy shit that felt weird. +368 in 2.5 hours (~1300 hands). 7 BI not bad for 2.5 hours of play, i'll take it any day. just wanted to post because it made me very happy, don't really have time to make a good end of the month post though. i'll do that when i get home from sushi/wanted (which better be good).
Sunday, June 29
fucking cunt ass shit bitch ...
i couldn't sleep all night -- i need to shower for work in like 30 minutes. i just wanted to quickly say that i'm getting really fucking sick of poker. i'm up over 300 in non showdown winnings over the last 11k hands and down over 500 in showdown winnings. the coolers and beats seriously need to stop, i keep getting very close to breaking my computer and/or phone. i'm playing good poker, thinking about my decisions and as soon as i find myself on autopilot i get up and go to sleep or do something else. i seriously can't remember the last time i got action with a good hand and had that hand hold up, or when i got in a huge draw that had an equity edge and actually hit it. i miss the crazy heater i had between my 50NL start and 100NL start -- i was up like 40-50 buyins between the two limits over 3 or 4 weeks.
idk if i'm even going to play later today, depends how tired i am after work and if i can find something to do. i'd really rather go to the pool and gym and then jacuzzi later, i'll try to make that happen. i seriously am going to spaz out if i can't book a winning session soon. FUCKKKKKKKK.
-geoff
idk if i'm even going to play later today, depends how tired i am after work and if i can find something to do. i'd really rather go to the pool and gym and then jacuzzi later, i'll try to make that happen. i seriously am going to spaz out if i can't book a winning session soon. FUCKKKKKKKK.
-geoff
Saturday, June 28
wtf is wrong with me?
ugh -- where to start? let's make the beginning of this a little happy. i'll just touch on what's been going on in everything besides poker (we'll get to that lovely mishap later). what else do i even do besides play cards?
work -- i've actually been making a lot more money now that i get opening/closing shifts. just having that one opening shift and the ability to pick up those shifts without john ladd being a spaz is helping out. money was pretty tight for a while, getting a lot better now though.
working out -- has actually been going really well. i think i've been 3 times since my last post, maybe 4 actually. running has been getting a LOT easier, i think it's pretty obvious i was fairly out of shape because running a mile shouldn't have been so tiring. my new thing is a walk/jog for around 1/2 mile to get warmed up a bit, then run an 8 minute mile, then walk it off for another 1/4 mile. it feels good being able to do that fairly easily, i need to work on a bit more of a routine though. the treadmill and the bike machine is basically all i do besides the like 2 or 3 chest/arm machines i use. i don't really care about getting ripped or anything though, just being in better shape in general is all i want and i think cardio is the best way to do that so what i do isn't horrible i suppose.
jess -- i don't do jess, but you get the gist. things are going well i suppose, nothing has progressed as far as a relationship but i'm pretty sure we're both ok with that for now. i guess i wouldn't know because we talk about pretty much everything BUT us, but once again i think we're both ok and prefer that. planning to take her out somewhere nice soon, i'll see if she has next saturday off next time i'm at work. either javier's or something like ruth's chris, i know she likes mexican but she likes steak too and i'd rather have steak. for some reason i've been craving really good steak recently. i guess it's not the weirdest craving, most people do like good steak, but i've just really wanted it for some reason. i think it's reading all the WSOP blogs and reading up on the vegas life and all the fine dining. i want that life really bad, hopefully one day. sorry, tangent, i guess that was it with jess anyways though. when we go to dinner i will bring us up for at least a little bit though and see where she's at. i think spence was right when she said she doesn't even think i want a girlfriend though, i really don't right now. i mean i really like her and in time i would love to date her, but right now it just seems so confining. caroline just moved away and i know i haven't been dating her for months but at times she still felt like a girlfriend up until she left, and just being able to put all my attention towards what i want (ie: not being f--cking horrible at poker) feels really good.
ok, on to poker. i'm not down as much as i thought i would be since i posted last -- not happy with myself though. i have some mentality thing where i think i just need to keep winning and winning and winning and if i'm breaking even for a stretch of over an hour i get all frustrated. i don't know how to teach myself that an hour is only 500 hands, there are going to be stretches where i can get the maximum equity out of every situation i'm in and be playing my A game and still be breaking even over 5k+ hands. i don't think 10k break even streaks are THAT rare for a professional, probably a monthly occurrence playing 40+ hrs/wk. i think if i can really just try to focus on not worry so much about winning i will do MUCH better, because my actual game still feels really good until i start to check PT every other hand and notice i'm not up any significant amount. i suppose being ROT in the long term since isn't as bad as being ROT hand for hand, but it's still a huge mental leak that i need to plug up. here's a ss of my last few days at 50NL btw ...
yes those are all the same thing, it would just be filled with white space anyways though and i'm a spaz so i pasted it onto paint 5 times. i'm not going to go through and actual review my hands because i'm lazy and i did do light review after my sessions and didn't find anything horrible except a few spots which were due to stupid tilt crap that i touched on above.
what i think i'm going to try to do is instead of putting in my late night sessions where i'm half asleep for the last half is try to put in long quality sessions on the days i don't have work. i think if i can keep myself motived and not long term ROT like i have been my late night sessions will def be +EV, but i think having 2 or 3 good solid sessions will be really good as well.
as far as the setup, of course i never went to kinkos and got withdrawals through checks set up. the new plan is take jess to dinner, then save up after that and buy the desk/chair, then save up after that and buy the monitor. should really only take a month, it's only like 500 worth of shit, i can easily save that up in a month. having the desk should be nice for those long session and will make me focus more at night as well.
i guess that's it for now, going to go put in a few hands, probably not too long. plan on putting in a good 4+ hr session tomorrow though when i wake up. i'll try to post again on monday or tuesday about 1) date with jess 2) my sat/sun/mon sessions.
-geoff
work -- i've actually been making a lot more money now that i get opening/closing shifts. just having that one opening shift and the ability to pick up those shifts without john ladd being a spaz is helping out. money was pretty tight for a while, getting a lot better now though.
working out -- has actually been going really well. i think i've been 3 times since my last post, maybe 4 actually. running has been getting a LOT easier, i think it's pretty obvious i was fairly out of shape because running a mile shouldn't have been so tiring. my new thing is a walk/jog for around 1/2 mile to get warmed up a bit, then run an 8 minute mile, then walk it off for another 1/4 mile. it feels good being able to do that fairly easily, i need to work on a bit more of a routine though. the treadmill and the bike machine is basically all i do besides the like 2 or 3 chest/arm machines i use. i don't really care about getting ripped or anything though, just being in better shape in general is all i want and i think cardio is the best way to do that so what i do isn't horrible i suppose.
jess -- i don't do jess, but you get the gist. things are going well i suppose, nothing has progressed as far as a relationship but i'm pretty sure we're both ok with that for now. i guess i wouldn't know because we talk about pretty much everything BUT us, but once again i think we're both ok and prefer that. planning to take her out somewhere nice soon, i'll see if she has next saturday off next time i'm at work. either javier's or something like ruth's chris, i know she likes mexican but she likes steak too and i'd rather have steak. for some reason i've been craving really good steak recently. i guess it's not the weirdest craving, most people do like good steak, but i've just really wanted it for some reason. i think it's reading all the WSOP blogs and reading up on the vegas life and all the fine dining. i want that life really bad, hopefully one day. sorry, tangent, i guess that was it with jess anyways though. when we go to dinner i will bring us up for at least a little bit though and see where she's at. i think spence was right when she said she doesn't even think i want a girlfriend though, i really don't right now. i mean i really like her and in time i would love to date her, but right now it just seems so confining. caroline just moved away and i know i haven't been dating her for months but at times she still felt like a girlfriend up until she left, and just being able to put all my attention towards what i want (ie: not being f--cking horrible at poker) feels really good.
ok, on to poker. i'm not down as much as i thought i would be since i posted last -- not happy with myself though. i have some mentality thing where i think i just need to keep winning and winning and winning and if i'm breaking even for a stretch of over an hour i get all frustrated. i don't know how to teach myself that an hour is only 500 hands, there are going to be stretches where i can get the maximum equity out of every situation i'm in and be playing my A game and still be breaking even over 5k+ hands. i don't think 10k break even streaks are THAT rare for a professional, probably a monthly occurrence playing 40+ hrs/wk. i think if i can really just try to focus on not worry so much about winning i will do MUCH better, because my actual game still feels really good until i start to check PT every other hand and notice i'm not up any significant amount. i suppose being ROT in the long term since isn't as bad as being ROT hand for hand, but it's still a huge mental leak that i need to plug up. here's a ss of my last few days at 50NL btw ...
yes those are all the same thing, it would just be filled with white space anyways though and i'm a spaz so i pasted it onto paint 5 times. i'm not going to go through and actual review my hands because i'm lazy and i did do light review after my sessions and didn't find anything horrible except a few spots which were due to stupid tilt crap that i touched on above.
what i think i'm going to try to do is instead of putting in my late night sessions where i'm half asleep for the last half is try to put in long quality sessions on the days i don't have work. i think if i can keep myself motived and not long term ROT like i have been my late night sessions will def be +EV, but i think having 2 or 3 good solid sessions will be really good as well.
as far as the setup, of course i never went to kinkos and got withdrawals through checks set up. the new plan is take jess to dinner, then save up after that and buy the desk/chair, then save up after that and buy the monitor. should really only take a month, it's only like 500 worth of shit, i can easily save that up in a month. having the desk should be nice for those long session and will make me focus more at night as well.
i guess that's it for now, going to go put in a few hands, probably not too long. plan on putting in a good 4+ hr session tomorrow though when i wake up. i'll try to post again on monday or tuesday about 1) date with jess 2) my sat/sun/mon sessions.
-geoff
Monday, June 23
roygbiv
i've been meaning to make another entry the last few days. every time i got on the computer i wanted to play a session though, so i did.
i finally had my downswing at 100NL and let me tell you, it wasn't fun. i made a small post about it over on CP forums, don't really feel like touching on it too much. it was -8.5/9 buy ins over 3.5k hands which leaves me at -105ish over the full 10 or 11k hands i have at 100NL over the last week and my total bankroll is just over 1700.
i think it's important to always have certain short term as well as long term goals set for yourself to stay on track, and i've always kind of mentally kept these but i might as well right them down now. so my current short term goal is to grind out 50NL until i get my rakeback in the beginning of next month which should be around 600ish. i should get that transfer in like 2.5/3 weeks -- we'll say i average 10k hands/wk and i run at 5PTBB/100 over this sample (cross your fingers, although this isn't really that high of an expectation really) and that would be 1250 in profit. so between that and the 600ish i should get for rakeback it would put my account at 1700+1250+600 = 3550 total. sounds like a nice goal to aim for, very achievable. if i have managed to get my account to this i'll just into 100NL again, i want to grind out at 50NL for these 2.5 wk span though, think it will be good discipline and i like to have extra cushion for my bankroll.
as far as long term plans go, here's what i'm thinking right now. come fall, i really do want to register for classes and take 12 units. i honestly don't give a shit about school because i honestly don't see myself ever giving up on cards because i'm the most stubborn person i know, but to at least have an AA would be nice and i could have that by next winter without even trying. as far as poker, i hope to be playing 400NL by my birthday. that gives me almost just over 5 months. i also hope to have enough saved up to either just buy straight up or put a fat down payment on a car for myself, not 100% sure what kind yet. i still do like the GTI's, we'll see how i feel when the time comes.
anyway, here's a little timeline of how i'd like to attempt to progress in limits over the next 5 months. this is more for myself to have something to look at and keep me motivated more than for anybody reading, but here it is:
now/mid july - grind 50 NL until i get my rakeback in. hopefully be at 3500+ at this point and jump back into 100NL.
mid july/september - stick with 100NL over this month 1/2 ... i want to try and not move up through stuff too quickly. i have nothing but time, their is no reason to force anything. if i keep up with my 10k hands/wk and running at 5PTBB/100+ over this sample, my min income would be $5k for this 6 week period, not bad pay for online SSNL. that would put my total bankroll at 8500+ and i would be looking to make a decent sized withdrawal at this point and taking my 200NL shot. taking out 1500 and leaving 30 buys for 200NL sounds like a good idea. i would buy my desk/monitor if i hadn't already at this point. i forgot, as far as rakeback goes it should be around 2.1k/month.
september/december - grind out the 200NL. i think the play here will be the biggest change i've encountered online so far and i just really want to feel comfortable with the amount of money that i should be winning/losing on a somewhat regular basis. if i can maintain 5PTBB/100 at this level, which i'm optimistic that i'm good enough but who knows, i would be averaging $2k/wk or $8k/mo. that means in this 3 month period i could potentially make $24k if i put in the hard work and time and really make this work. that would put my total bankroll at $30k, and at this point i think i would take out $15k for a car and leave $15k in. depending on how my vegas trip goes for my 21st i'll either stick with 200NL for a while or take my shot at 400NL at this point. i actually might grind out 200NL for another month and set aside money for london at this point too. and also forgot here as well, we need to add an extra 3.5k/mo for rakeback, or 10.5k overall.
so there's my goals for the rest of the year, they sound lofty when you just say them but looking at the numbers this is certainly achievable if i try. i know i can run better than 5PTBB/100 at 100NL, and i can also put in more than 10k hands/wk fairly easily.
as far as reviewing hands i'm not so much in the mood, i want to get to a session. i did look over my big losing session and nothing stood out at me as exceptionally tilty/spewy -- just a lot of coolers and suck outs. having this happen now will just help me down the road, i'm definitely strong enough to handle it and that's what separates the amateurs from the people that can stick this out for a living in the long run.
try to post how 50NL is going sometimes this week, any hands that stick out i'll throw on an update as well -- don't need to overwhelm the 'ol CP forum.
i finally had my downswing at 100NL and let me tell you, it wasn't fun. i made a small post about it over on CP forums, don't really feel like touching on it too much. it was -8.5/9 buy ins over 3.5k hands which leaves me at -105ish over the full 10 or 11k hands i have at 100NL over the last week and my total bankroll is just over 1700.
i think it's important to always have certain short term as well as long term goals set for yourself to stay on track, and i've always kind of mentally kept these but i might as well right them down now. so my current short term goal is to grind out 50NL until i get my rakeback in the beginning of next month which should be around 600ish. i should get that transfer in like 2.5/3 weeks -- we'll say i average 10k hands/wk and i run at 5PTBB/100 over this sample (cross your fingers, although this isn't really that high of an expectation really) and that would be 1250 in profit. so between that and the 600ish i should get for rakeback it would put my account at 1700+1250+600 = 3550 total. sounds like a nice goal to aim for, very achievable. if i have managed to get my account to this i'll just into 100NL again, i want to grind out at 50NL for these 2.5 wk span though, think it will be good discipline and i like to have extra cushion for my bankroll.
as far as long term plans go, here's what i'm thinking right now. come fall, i really do want to register for classes and take 12 units. i honestly don't give a shit about school because i honestly don't see myself ever giving up on cards because i'm the most stubborn person i know, but to at least have an AA would be nice and i could have that by next winter without even trying. as far as poker, i hope to be playing 400NL by my birthday. that gives me almost just over 5 months. i also hope to have enough saved up to either just buy straight up or put a fat down payment on a car for myself, not 100% sure what kind yet. i still do like the GTI's, we'll see how i feel when the time comes.
anyway, here's a little timeline of how i'd like to attempt to progress in limits over the next 5 months. this is more for myself to have something to look at and keep me motivated more than for anybody reading, but here it is:
now/mid july - grind 50 NL until i get my rakeback in. hopefully be at 3500+ at this point and jump back into 100NL.
mid july/september - stick with 100NL over this month 1/2 ... i want to try and not move up through stuff too quickly. i have nothing but time, their is no reason to force anything. if i keep up with my 10k hands/wk and running at 5PTBB/100+ over this sample, my min income would be $5k for this 6 week period, not bad pay for online SSNL. that would put my total bankroll at 8500+ and i would be looking to make a decent sized withdrawal at this point and taking my 200NL shot. taking out 1500 and leaving 30 buys for 200NL sounds like a good idea. i would buy my desk/monitor if i hadn't already at this point. i forgot, as far as rakeback goes it should be around 2.1k/month.
september/december - grind out the 200NL. i think the play here will be the biggest change i've encountered online so far and i just really want to feel comfortable with the amount of money that i should be winning/losing on a somewhat regular basis. if i can maintain 5PTBB/100 at this level, which i'm optimistic that i'm good enough but who knows, i would be averaging $2k/wk or $8k/mo. that means in this 3 month period i could potentially make $24k if i put in the hard work and time and really make this work. that would put my total bankroll at $30k, and at this point i think i would take out $15k for a car and leave $15k in. depending on how my vegas trip goes for my 21st i'll either stick with 200NL for a while or take my shot at 400NL at this point. i actually might grind out 200NL for another month and set aside money for london at this point too. and also forgot here as well, we need to add an extra 3.5k/mo for rakeback, or 10.5k overall.
so there's my goals for the rest of the year, they sound lofty when you just say them but looking at the numbers this is certainly achievable if i try. i know i can run better than 5PTBB/100 at 100NL, and i can also put in more than 10k hands/wk fairly easily.
as far as reviewing hands i'm not so much in the mood, i want to get to a session. i did look over my big losing session and nothing stood out at me as exceptionally tilty/spewy -- just a lot of coolers and suck outs. having this happen now will just help me down the road, i'm definitely strong enough to handle it and that's what separates the amateurs from the people that can stick this out for a living in the long run.
try to post how 50NL is going sometimes this week, any hands that stick out i'll throw on an update as well -- don't need to overwhelm the 'ol CP forum.
Wednesday, June 18
good news and analysis
so the good news comes first, i can finally fucking withdrawal from FTP. i've decided just to stick with a straight 50/50 BR plan, meaning that i will be keeping 50% of my winnings in the BR and will be taking 50% out for other things (mostly savings). this ill accomplish two major things: 1) it will take longer for me to be able to move up in limits (ie: i go on a crazy sick heater and run +25 buy ins over a week and then decide to take my shot at 200NL and get crushed because i'm not ready) and 2) give me motivation and remind me why i play poker when i run bad because i can just look at some of the stuff poker has bought me (like my new monitor and desk that i'll have in 10 business days!).
so here's the official tally of half of my winnings since 5/25 (the Illinois trip):
so not being a mathematician, i get half of these profits to come out to 1,010 after some quick calculations. we'll subtract the retarded donkaments i played the other day (i NEED to stop doing that) and the 40 i sent to ian that he donked off in a few days and it comes out to 1,010 - 225 - 40 = 745. not bad for my first paycheck, hopefully we can keep it up.
on to the analysis part, i'm going to start giving feedback and all the 100+BB hands that i'm involved in and just make sure i'm happy with my play. i've got 9k hands that i haven't looked over, doubt i'll get through them all right now but here it goes:
88 - pretty standard 200 BB deep. hadn't seen V be very active and even LAG players have fairly polarized 3 bet ranges from the SB v UTG. his play on this hand is atrocious, if i were in his shoes i 3 bet/fold the flop, c/c any turn card, c/f the river if barrel again.
JJ - i thought his 3 bet could have been light given i was just raising to pick up the dead blinds, i don't really think this V was even on that level though. meh -- i'm never folding on this flop and stack sizes are kind of awkward to the point of if i c/c and c/r jam the turn i'm getting no FE so it's very apparent i have a good PP. my hand looks pretty bluffy as played and can see him looking me up with almost any PP if he has balls, i like this after a big of pondering. really i don't see another way to play it other than c/c down all the way and of course to suck out on the river. sets win money :)
AQs - ugh -- i think this is kind of spewy and i just got lucky he's bad. i don't think i have to cbet this flop. c/c and c/r AI a non diamond turn is better, obv lead if the flop checks through and a non diamond comes. i think V is always raising the flop with a PP because of the 3 flush board, and nothing hits this board hard except a flush obv. that said, when he jams the turn he never has a set (he's not floating me with 88 on that board with someone behind him) so he either has a flush which is not often, or i'm ahead. so as played i actually do like my turn line, i think i prefer pot controlling and taking the line i said above though in the future. maybe that's too weak? i'll post this on CP.
99 - standard, don't really know why i bother posting this. too late now.
QQ - also pretty standard, i think i should size my bet on the flop a bit smaller though to induce that bluff more often. V is never really flatting the flop and we're not folding the turn even if he does given the pot odds i'd be getting on his shove, so just make it like 26 and try to look weak.
AA - don't really remember if i had a read for trying to be trappy with my AA pre, doesn't hurt to mix it up a bit though. don't like the flop jam, no need. just call and shove the turn.
AKo - i don't tend to give the donks a lot of credit, esp on boards that are potentially really scary so i went ahead and decided to pop it up with my TPTK. i do this as a bluff occasionally too, so i have to when i hit hard. think V is calling with all sorts of pair + diamond hands. a little afraid he's slowplaying, but when he donks the turn again i think he still has a very vulnerable hand and decide to just get it in. didn't really expect a call TBH, i'll take it though.
JJ - just went ahead and cbet this because i didn't want to give anyone a free card on this board obv, fortunate he bluffed at it.
KTo - just trying to pick up the blinds, get a very fortunate flop and a very bad V. have to raise this because i'm raising as a bluff here a lot, same reasoning as the AKo hand. when he 3bets me he has so little behind and i didn't want to fold this so i just decided to stick it in.
77 - standard, V in this hand is a HUGE fish though. anyone reading this blog i advise looking up that name anytime you sit down, he will hand you lots of money.
T7s - raising pretty light OTB obv. i decide to just flat the flop because raising doesn't accomplish anything other than turning my hand into a bluff. the turn was kind of interesting, i was getting almost 3:! just calling and had a monster draw so i just elected to take the odds he was giving me and call, i do like raising here though a lot. his line looks so incredibly strong, which means he's generally weak at this level. people don't like to lose customers with there big hands, they make it slow. the river is pretty obv call with top two.
67s - standard flop to cbet with ATC, i happened to hit it hard. barreled off on the turn because i had so much equity and wasn't that afraid of getting c/r on this board. i think my river VB is a bit big, something more like 34 i like better. got lucky that he paid it off though.
JJ - pretty standard once again. check this back because there really is no value in betting, don't see a non Q calling here. you're either just taking down the flop or getting c/r by a FD/bluff. turn makes it less likely V actually holds a Q, and this V is the big fish from before that likes to bluff so i give him no credit. river is just a brick and i don't give this guy credit so i look him up, gg me.
ATs - preflop i've been flatting suited aces PP and SC in position like this just looking to outplay people post flop, and because these types of hands all play well multiway so if the blinds decide to come along that's lovely. this also opens me up to flatting my monsters here because i'm going to induce more squeezes due to my incessant flatting in position. my flop raise is standard, my flop call is close i think. i have to call 90 into 142 so i was getting 1.6:1 roughly --
Text results appended to pokerstove.txt
33,660 games 0.016 secs 2,103,750 games/sec
Board: 5d 9d Jc
Dead:
equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 43.993% 43.99% 00.00% 14808 0.00 { AdTd }
Hand 1: 56.007% 56.01% 00.00% 18852 0.00 { JJ+, 99, 55, KJs+, QJs }
ehh ... easy call. having the Td really helps because it takes the combo draw crap out of his range like QTd JTd out of his range.
AJo - meh, i would never stack off to this guy now given the history we have. at this point i didn't have a read on him other than he was a regular so i assumed he was thinking. there were draws on the flop and A hi flops are good to bluff at, so i figured just stick it in with good FE. i don't hate this line against an unknown, just a shitty spot in general though.
AA - oh god, this hand. posted this one on the forums so pretty much done with it. the 3 bet on the turn was absolutely horrendous retard spew given stacks because i can't call a shove. just need to call the raise and c/c pretty much any river. V play makes me laugh so hard on this hand, doesn't get old lol.
QQ - ugh -- i could have got away from this. when the UTG player 4 bets over my squeeze and then the MP flat caller decides to get it in warning lights should have gone off that he had a huge hand. i think i was in auto pilot mode and just was thinking "QQ -- get it in pre". had petrochem not called in the middle i just stick it in with no hesitation and this is a standard cooler.
AJo - pretty standard squeeze OTB. i decide to just cbet and get it in on this flop if need be because of the NFD and gutter to the nut straight, again pretty standard IMO.
KJo - V in this hand had been pretty aggressive blind on blind. that said i was planning on bluff raising a lot of boards, a 3 bet pre is better with a hand like KJo though. i go ahead and bluff raise like i said on the flop, hit a fairly good flop as well with the gutter to the nuts + overs (should be bluff raising this to 15ish instead of 11). decide to barrel the turn trying to rep the flush that got there. the river 9 was another beautiful card to bluff at because now even if he just has a lone T he has to worry about that being in my range, which is certainly is. there was no conceivable hand in V range except 9T that could call this river shove -- 99 TT 44 CRAI on the turn, a flush is also probably putting in a CR on the turn and is taking a huge risk checking to us on the river. no one pair hand can make a profitable call on this river, but of course that didn't stop V from making the call. i really like my thought process about V range on this hand and my play in general, pretty sick he didn't fold.
K9s - obv cooler -- V is laughable for flatting A6s in the sb like that but more power to him.
AQo - cooler as well, don't like jamming the flop like i did though. i'm pretty sure i did it to look bluffy, that's just dumb though because nothing can call you. next time i just flat here, shove the turn.
AQs - standard again, nothing you can do and no other way to play this really.
QQ - haha -- this is just funny to post.
K7s - i don't think this is horrible, esp if i had a read V was weak. not sure if i had that read or not though. he's 3 betting TJ and any set on the turn, probably AJ KJ as well. there just aren't that many good hands in his range that can call this river shove. his call is marginal to say the least anyways, but i should probably just try to avoid spots like this because people don't fold that often at this level. against a more thinking player i like it.
JQ0 - didn't bother to cbet this flop because it's just going to get floated/bluff raised so often i don't think it's +EV. as for the turn CR, i think he's betting 99% of his range when i check to him twice so he doesn't have to have anything on top of the fact that there are a lot of cards i can hit on the river that make me very happy (a 9, any club, a J or a Q). river bluff is spew on the blank, he obviously has something and isn't going to fold when an offsuit deuce hits.
AJ0 - i don't always call this 3bet preflop with AJo, not horrible though. post is pretty standard IMO, river is probably closer than i thought at the time. pretty sick he VB QQ there, not many players at this level are doing that when the K hits the turn. i figured he'd be firing another bullet with a lot of PP though trying to get me to fold out a similar hand.
44 - just folding on the flop is standard, i decided to get cute and bluff here though. not bad to mix this into your game, i think it's def +EV.
AKs - this hand tilts me. how does he call a 4 bet with 77? how does he just float this flop? hindsight that cbet on the flop was probably -EV, this player had been super active and calling everything preflop though, just decided to try and take it from him. only 1 tilt effected hand out of all of these though, i'd say that isn't bad.
so here's the official tally of half of my winnings since 5/25 (the Illinois trip):
so not being a mathematician, i get half of these profits to come out to 1,010 after some quick calculations. we'll subtract the retarded donkaments i played the other day (i NEED to stop doing that) and the 40 i sent to ian that he donked off in a few days and it comes out to 1,010 - 225 - 40 = 745. not bad for my first paycheck, hopefully we can keep it up.
on to the analysis part, i'm going to start giving feedback and all the 100+BB hands that i'm involved in and just make sure i'm happy with my play. i've got 9k hands that i haven't looked over, doubt i'll get through them all right now but here it goes:
88 - pretty standard 200 BB deep. hadn't seen V be very active and even LAG players have fairly polarized 3 bet ranges from the SB v UTG. his play on this hand is atrocious, if i were in his shoes i 3 bet/fold the flop, c/c any turn card, c/f the river if barrel again.
JJ - i thought his 3 bet could have been light given i was just raising to pick up the dead blinds, i don't really think this V was even on that level though. meh -- i'm never folding on this flop and stack sizes are kind of awkward to the point of if i c/c and c/r jam the turn i'm getting no FE so it's very apparent i have a good PP. my hand looks pretty bluffy as played and can see him looking me up with almost any PP if he has balls, i like this after a big of pondering. really i don't see another way to play it other than c/c down all the way and of course to suck out on the river. sets win money :)
AQs - ugh -- i think this is kind of spewy and i just got lucky he's bad. i don't think i have to cbet this flop. c/c and c/r AI a non diamond turn is better, obv lead if the flop checks through and a non diamond comes. i think V is always raising the flop with a PP because of the 3 flush board, and nothing hits this board hard except a flush obv. that said, when he jams the turn he never has a set (he's not floating me with 88 on that board with someone behind him) so he either has a flush which is not often, or i'm ahead. so as played i actually do like my turn line, i think i prefer pot controlling and taking the line i said above though in the future. maybe that's too weak? i'll post this on CP.
99 - standard, don't really know why i bother posting this. too late now.
QQ - also pretty standard, i think i should size my bet on the flop a bit smaller though to induce that bluff more often. V is never really flatting the flop and we're not folding the turn even if he does given the pot odds i'd be getting on his shove, so just make it like 26 and try to look weak.
AA - don't really remember if i had a read for trying to be trappy with my AA pre, doesn't hurt to mix it up a bit though. don't like the flop jam, no need. just call and shove the turn.
AKo - i don't tend to give the donks a lot of credit, esp on boards that are potentially really scary so i went ahead and decided to pop it up with my TPTK. i do this as a bluff occasionally too, so i have to when i hit hard. think V is calling with all sorts of pair + diamond hands. a little afraid he's slowplaying, but when he donks the turn again i think he still has a very vulnerable hand and decide to just get it in. didn't really expect a call TBH, i'll take it though.
JJ - just went ahead and cbet this because i didn't want to give anyone a free card on this board obv, fortunate he bluffed at it.
KTo - just trying to pick up the blinds, get a very fortunate flop and a very bad V. have to raise this because i'm raising as a bluff here a lot, same reasoning as the AKo hand. when he 3bets me he has so little behind and i didn't want to fold this so i just decided to stick it in.
77 - standard, V in this hand is a HUGE fish though. anyone reading this blog i advise looking up that name anytime you sit down, he will hand you lots of money.
T7s - raising pretty light OTB obv. i decide to just flat the flop because raising doesn't accomplish anything other than turning my hand into a bluff. the turn was kind of interesting, i was getting almost 3:! just calling and had a monster draw so i just elected to take the odds he was giving me and call, i do like raising here though a lot. his line looks so incredibly strong, which means he's generally weak at this level. people don't like to lose customers with there big hands, they make it slow. the river is pretty obv call with top two.
67s - standard flop to cbet with ATC, i happened to hit it hard. barreled off on the turn because i had so much equity and wasn't that afraid of getting c/r on this board. i think my river VB is a bit big, something more like 34 i like better. got lucky that he paid it off though.
JJ - pretty standard once again. check this back because there really is no value in betting, don't see a non Q calling here. you're either just taking down the flop or getting c/r by a FD/bluff. turn makes it less likely V actually holds a Q, and this V is the big fish from before that likes to bluff so i give him no credit. river is just a brick and i don't give this guy credit so i look him up, gg me.
ATs - preflop i've been flatting suited aces PP and SC in position like this just looking to outplay people post flop, and because these types of hands all play well multiway so if the blinds decide to come along that's lovely. this also opens me up to flatting my monsters here because i'm going to induce more squeezes due to my incessant flatting in position. my flop raise is standard, my flop call is close i think. i have to call 90 into 142 so i was getting 1.6:1 roughly --
Text results appended to pokerstove.txt
33,660 games 0.016 secs 2,103,750 games/sec
Board: 5d 9d Jc
Dead:
equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 43.993% 43.99% 00.00% 14808 0.00 { AdTd }
Hand 1: 56.007% 56.01% 00.00% 18852 0.00 { JJ+, 99, 55, KJs+, QJs }
ehh ... easy call. having the Td really helps because it takes the combo draw crap out of his range like QTd JTd out of his range.
AJo - meh, i would never stack off to this guy now given the history we have. at this point i didn't have a read on him other than he was a regular so i assumed he was thinking. there were draws on the flop and A hi flops are good to bluff at, so i figured just stick it in with good FE. i don't hate this line against an unknown, just a shitty spot in general though.
AA - oh god, this hand. posted this one on the forums so pretty much done with it. the 3 bet on the turn was absolutely horrendous retard spew given stacks because i can't call a shove. just need to call the raise and c/c pretty much any river. V play makes me laugh so hard on this hand, doesn't get old lol.
QQ - ugh -- i could have got away from this. when the UTG player 4 bets over my squeeze and then the MP flat caller decides to get it in warning lights should have gone off that he had a huge hand. i think i was in auto pilot mode and just was thinking "QQ -- get it in pre". had petrochem not called in the middle i just stick it in with no hesitation and this is a standard cooler.
AJo - pretty standard squeeze OTB. i decide to just cbet and get it in on this flop if need be because of the NFD and gutter to the nut straight, again pretty standard IMO.
KJo - V in this hand had been pretty aggressive blind on blind. that said i was planning on bluff raising a lot of boards, a 3 bet pre is better with a hand like KJo though. i go ahead and bluff raise like i said on the flop, hit a fairly good flop as well with the gutter to the nuts + overs (should be bluff raising this to 15ish instead of 11). decide to barrel the turn trying to rep the flush that got there. the river 9 was another beautiful card to bluff at because now even if he just has a lone T he has to worry about that being in my range, which is certainly is. there was no conceivable hand in V range except 9T that could call this river shove -- 99 TT 44 CRAI on the turn, a flush is also probably putting in a CR on the turn and is taking a huge risk checking to us on the river. no one pair hand can make a profitable call on this river, but of course that didn't stop V from making the call. i really like my thought process about V range on this hand and my play in general, pretty sick he didn't fold.
K9s - obv cooler -- V is laughable for flatting A6s in the sb like that but more power to him.
AQo - cooler as well, don't like jamming the flop like i did though. i'm pretty sure i did it to look bluffy, that's just dumb though because nothing can call you. next time i just flat here, shove the turn.
AQs - standard again, nothing you can do and no other way to play this really.
QQ - haha -- this is just funny to post.
K7s - i don't think this is horrible, esp if i had a read V was weak. not sure if i had that read or not though. he's 3 betting TJ and any set on the turn, probably AJ KJ as well. there just aren't that many good hands in his range that can call this river shove. his call is marginal to say the least anyways, but i should probably just try to avoid spots like this because people don't fold that often at this level. against a more thinking player i like it.
JQ0 - didn't bother to cbet this flop because it's just going to get floated/bluff raised so often i don't think it's +EV. as for the turn CR, i think he's betting 99% of his range when i check to him twice so he doesn't have to have anything on top of the fact that there are a lot of cards i can hit on the river that make me very happy (a 9, any club, a J or a Q). river bluff is spew on the blank, he obviously has something and isn't going to fold when an offsuit deuce hits.
AJ0 - i don't always call this 3bet preflop with AJo, not horrible though. post is pretty standard IMO, river is probably closer than i thought at the time. pretty sick he VB QQ there, not many players at this level are doing that when the K hits the turn. i figured he'd be firing another bullet with a lot of PP though trying to get me to fold out a similar hand.
44 - just folding on the flop is standard, i decided to get cute and bluff here though. not bad to mix this into your game, i think it's def +EV.
AKs - this hand tilts me. how does he call a 4 bet with 77? how does he just float this flop? hindsight that cbet on the flop was probably -EV, this player had been super active and calling everything preflop though, just decided to try and take it from him. only 1 tilt effected hand out of all of these though, i'd say that isn't bad.
Sunday, June 15
FUCK DONKAMENTS
so i decided to play some MTT's because i wasn't in the mood to grind cash, let me just say every time i choose to play tournaments i remember why i stopped playing them i'm done. i played in 3, the line up was:
$55 -- 50k gtd
$26 -- 28k gtd
$55 -- 1r+1a 18.5k gtd
the 50k was rather uneventful, my stack never got very big. ended up shoving A9s over two limpers OTB with ~11BB somewhere in the 3rd hour and got called by TJs and lost the race.
the 28k was looking really good, i had a 15k stack at 150/300/25 and was running over my table for the most part and had position on another deep stack, then this hand came up. i didn't cbet the flop because i figured he was defending somewhat light and looking to make a play on certain boards because i had been raising so much and he could certainly put pressure on me with that stack. with the 8 ball rolled off i figured i was gin because i didn't really put K9 in his range, esp when he donks 3/4 pot into me. i decided to continue with the idea that K9 wasn't in his range therefore we were obviously splitting or he was bluffing and i win. idk if he folds a set to this shove, my button opening range is pretty wide so a 9 can easily be in it, didn't really see the harm in shoving though because i had the nuts, so i thought. oh wells.
now on to the 18.5k ... what a fun roller coaster. i was fairly quiet the first hour, did manage to double up though with this hand. villain had been very bluffy and he was snapping off those bets, just didn't think he had anything and obv i was right. nice to go to valuetown off a gutter. chipped up some more off some pretty standard stuff, then get moved tables with a few bit stacks, one of them i have labeled as a huge nit -- solid though. first few hands at the table i have this hand ... pretty sick call if i do say so myself. i didn't think villain had many aces in his range just flatting OTB weak/med suited ones, his range was weighted towards SC and PP hands. that said, his line just look so much like a big combo draw (KQ QT KT of hearts) trying to get there, Ax of hearts certainly would have put in a raise, and i just couldn't figure out a hand that bets this river for vaue. his bet sizing was odd too ... very large for a VB, didn't seem like he wanted to get paid off. was feeling really good after this hand. continued to be aggressive, lost a 4k pot to the same guy when his 25s sucked out on my KK. then i made a retarded play with AK and got bumped down to 6500 -- still ok though with the blinds at 80/160. i hovered for a long time picking up a blind here and there, every time i got post flop my hands didn't seem to connect until this fell into my lap. idk if i've ever hit a flop so hard, fortunate the idiot just jammed into me. i of course proceeded to bust him the very next hand, a quick stove showed i had 41% equity against a random hand with T5o, who knew? i kept chugging along, started to get 3 bet by the two big stacks behind me because i was opening so much, but we were deep enough that it didn't really matter much and i was still chipping up in the long run. i pick up a nice pot in the BB thanks to pot odds and the free turn card ... think i should have just shoved the river. my stupid raise looks a lot stronger than a shove in hindsight. then this comes up, the bustout hand. this had to be THE most retarded call i have ever seen. i have no idea what his perceived range was that i was making this play with, he is getting 50% equity if i'm doing this with 55+,ATs+,KQs,AJo+,KQo -- which is very hard for him to put me on a range that wide, although he made the call so apparently he gave me NO credit at all postflop. this was the first time i had called a 3 bet and the first time i had made a move like this, there was no reason for me to be doing this light other than the fact that i was opening a lot of hands preflop? v v bad logic, but what can you do?
anyways, spirits were pretty low after that hand. just got home from getting some in n out and an ice cream cone from mcdonalds ... had to go out and try to cool off after that. even smoked a cigarette, i'm so weird. going to put in cash session now, not sure how big. we'll see how i'm feeling once i get into it -- hopefully i have better news next time i post.
$55 -- 50k gtd
$26 -- 28k gtd
$55 -- 1r+1a 18.5k gtd
the 50k was rather uneventful, my stack never got very big. ended up shoving A9s over two limpers OTB with ~11BB somewhere in the 3rd hour and got called by TJs and lost the race.
the 28k was looking really good, i had a 15k stack at 150/300/25 and was running over my table for the most part and had position on another deep stack, then this hand came up. i didn't cbet the flop because i figured he was defending somewhat light and looking to make a play on certain boards because i had been raising so much and he could certainly put pressure on me with that stack. with the 8 ball rolled off i figured i was gin because i didn't really put K9 in his range, esp when he donks 3/4 pot into me. i decided to continue with the idea that K9 wasn't in his range therefore we were obviously splitting or he was bluffing and i win. idk if he folds a set to this shove, my button opening range is pretty wide so a 9 can easily be in it, didn't really see the harm in shoving though because i had the nuts, so i thought. oh wells.
now on to the 18.5k ... what a fun roller coaster. i was fairly quiet the first hour, did manage to double up though with this hand. villain had been very bluffy and he was snapping off those bets, just didn't think he had anything and obv i was right. nice to go to valuetown off a gutter. chipped up some more off some pretty standard stuff, then get moved tables with a few bit stacks, one of them i have labeled as a huge nit -- solid though. first few hands at the table i have this hand ... pretty sick call if i do say so myself. i didn't think villain had many aces in his range just flatting OTB weak/med suited ones, his range was weighted towards SC and PP hands. that said, his line just look so much like a big combo draw (KQ QT KT of hearts) trying to get there, Ax of hearts certainly would have put in a raise, and i just couldn't figure out a hand that bets this river for vaue. his bet sizing was odd too ... very large for a VB, didn't seem like he wanted to get paid off. was feeling really good after this hand. continued to be aggressive, lost a 4k pot to the same guy when his 25s sucked out on my KK. then i made a retarded play with AK and got bumped down to 6500 -- still ok though with the blinds at 80/160. i hovered for a long time picking up a blind here and there, every time i got post flop my hands didn't seem to connect until this fell into my lap. idk if i've ever hit a flop so hard, fortunate the idiot just jammed into me. i of course proceeded to bust him the very next hand, a quick stove showed i had 41% equity against a random hand with T5o, who knew? i kept chugging along, started to get 3 bet by the two big stacks behind me because i was opening so much, but we were deep enough that it didn't really matter much and i was still chipping up in the long run. i pick up a nice pot in the BB thanks to pot odds and the free turn card ... think i should have just shoved the river. my stupid raise looks a lot stronger than a shove in hindsight. then this comes up, the bustout hand. this had to be THE most retarded call i have ever seen. i have no idea what his perceived range was that i was making this play with, he is getting 50% equity if i'm doing this with 55+,ATs+,KQs,AJo+,KQo -- which is very hard for him to put me on a range that wide, although he made the call so apparently he gave me NO credit at all postflop. this was the first time i had called a 3 bet and the first time i had made a move like this, there was no reason for me to be doing this light other than the fact that i was opening a lot of hands preflop? v v bad logic, but what can you do?
anyways, spirits were pretty low after that hand. just got home from getting some in n out and an ice cream cone from mcdonalds ... had to go out and try to cool off after that. even smoked a cigarette, i'm so weird. going to put in cash session now, not sure how big. we'll see how i'm feeling once i get into it -- hopefully i have better news next time i post.
my first entry!
so i've tried to make a blog before but i've never been able to stick with it. now that i've been taking cards a lot more seriously hopefully i will take this more seriously as well, i really think constantly writing down what's going on and just going over different stuff here will help my game immensely and also help the sanity of my friends who don't want me bugging them about shit they don't care about (ie: poker, or how weird i am with girls).
i guess first thing is first, i have been running AMAZING. i'm so excited about how well i've been doing. i know part of it is that i'm running well, but i really hope i can keep up this winning because it feels good. here's a little sneak peek at my stats since 5/25 (like 3 weeks ago give or take).
ugh -- i tried to upload the actual stats so the breakdown between 50NL and 100NL would be there, would only let me save the graph as a picture though. first thing i've been annoyed about from PT3 though, it's been a very nice upgrade so far. back to the winning quickly though, this bankroll has been very shaky. i'm down a few 100 at 50NL HU from played angry/tilted as well as playing in some MTT's that were way over my roll. long story short, my roll was down to 120. i bought into 5 25 dollar satelites for the 750K guarantee exactly a week ago (i had one token) and only got one seat, god i'm horrible. i end up going super deep and get 70/3500 and cash for 1125 (here's the bustout hand, would have been sick if it could of held up and gone even deeper) -- built that up to 2k within a few days at 50NL and then took my shot at 100NL which has been going great for the past 3 days. roll is now at 3450ish. the other night if this hand would have held up i would have broken 4k as well -- a 4k week at 50NL/100NL would have been insane.
so basically full tilt has been putting me on life tilt lately due to the fact that i can't withdrawal anything at the moment. i don't have a scanner and i haven't been anywhere with a scanner so i can't send them in the files they want to let me get a check, and the bank transfer option has been down for the past 5 days now. stupid fucking epassporte withdrawing from doing business with online poker sites.
once i can finally get some money out, i'll be taking out 1k and buying myself a nice new 22" inch monitor along with a desk and chair for my room so i can have a nice little office set up. playing while lying in bed is nice and all, but i think i'd stay more focused sitting up and it should be better for my back and neck as well. it'll be interesting to see how many tables i can play and still maintain a fairly good winrate. over the 5.5k hands i've put in at 100nL, i've been 6 tabling the whole time and running just over 10PTBB/100. with the new monitor i can obviously fit more on the screen making it easier to play more tables, i think i should be able to keep up the rate with 8 tables, 10 or 12 i may start to diminish though. trail and error i suppose, i will know in time. the monitor and desk/chair and other crap should come out to around 550, plan to take jess out somewhere nice with some of the rest and then just throw it in savings.
my god this is a long post, hopefully i can keep up the posts.
i guess first thing is first, i have been running AMAZING. i'm so excited about how well i've been doing. i know part of it is that i'm running well, but i really hope i can keep up this winning because it feels good. here's a little sneak peek at my stats since 5/25 (like 3 weeks ago give or take).
ugh -- i tried to upload the actual stats so the breakdown between 50NL and 100NL would be there, would only let me save the graph as a picture though. first thing i've been annoyed about from PT3 though, it's been a very nice upgrade so far. back to the winning quickly though, this bankroll has been very shaky. i'm down a few 100 at 50NL HU from played angry/tilted as well as playing in some MTT's that were way over my roll. long story short, my roll was down to 120. i bought into 5 25 dollar satelites for the 750K guarantee exactly a week ago (i had one token) and only got one seat, god i'm horrible. i end up going super deep and get 70/3500 and cash for 1125 (here's the bustout hand, would have been sick if it could of held up and gone even deeper) -- built that up to 2k within a few days at 50NL and then took my shot at 100NL which has been going great for the past 3 days. roll is now at 3450ish. the other night if this hand would have held up i would have broken 4k as well -- a 4k week at 50NL/100NL would have been insane.
so basically full tilt has been putting me on life tilt lately due to the fact that i can't withdrawal anything at the moment. i don't have a scanner and i haven't been anywhere with a scanner so i can't send them in the files they want to let me get a check, and the bank transfer option has been down for the past 5 days now. stupid fucking epassporte withdrawing from doing business with online poker sites.
once i can finally get some money out, i'll be taking out 1k and buying myself a nice new 22" inch monitor along with a desk and chair for my room so i can have a nice little office set up. playing while lying in bed is nice and all, but i think i'd stay more focused sitting up and it should be better for my back and neck as well. it'll be interesting to see how many tables i can play and still maintain a fairly good winrate. over the 5.5k hands i've put in at 100nL, i've been 6 tabling the whole time and running just over 10PTBB/100. with the new monitor i can obviously fit more on the screen making it easier to play more tables, i think i should be able to keep up the rate with 8 tables, 10 or 12 i may start to diminish though. trail and error i suppose, i will know in time. the monitor and desk/chair and other crap should come out to around 550, plan to take jess out somewhere nice with some of the rest and then just throw it in savings.
my god this is a long post, hopefully i can keep up the posts.
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