Alexos' Adventures in Donkland

my question is, will you ever move up from 2/5 live?

That is exactly your problem. You are now what i call money numb. When playing two different levels of poker at the same time, you will always become money numb with the lower ones. Because your brain has already registered the swings of the hi limits and you have bipassed it so that it doesn't effect your play. So no matter how much you lose at the smaller limits, it will always register as small to your brain, when really, it's a guy like me's dream bankroll. My reccomendation is that you only play one limit at a time, or another good way i have found is using multiple monitors with multiple levels, because it's something about the way your brain processes information, and what we as poker players do to overcome the urge to tilt and steam that causes it. If you don't agree just play a 1-2 game at the same time as a 50-100 game and look at your stats, and i guarantee your seen flops turn and river percentages will always be up by almost double on the percentages. check it out. Gl and i hope you heed my advice so that you don't keep losing large sums of money. remember, one mans trash can be another mans treasure, so next time you are in the mood to lose a grand just come donate it to me. GL on the felt and hope things go well

What happens when Rav stops running like god.... hmmmm? Smile

Running gooooot!!! On pace for 100k goal

+5k on Entraction network

WOW!! nh

Dear Santa,

All we want for Christmas is for you to turn the Crypto doomswitch off. Kthxbye

Wish granted today. Play bad, suckout, win 6k$ pot.

$10/$20 No Limit Holdem
5 players
Converted at weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG ($3903.00)
CO ($2634.00)
BTN ($757.00)
Hero (SB) ($2137.50)
BB ($2383.50)

Pre-flop: ($30, 5 players) Hero is SB Ace of Diamonds

UTG raises to $60, 2 folds, Hero calls $50, 1 fold

Flop: Queen of Diamonds

($140, 2 players)
Hero checks, UTG bets $100, Hero raises to $300, UTG raises to $680, Hero raises to $2,077.50, UTG calls $1,397.50

Turn: Jack of Diamonds

($4,295, 2 players)

River: King of Diamonds

($4,295, 2 players)

Final Pot: $4,295
UTG shows: Queen of Clubs

Hero shows: Ace of Diamonds

Hero wins $4,292 ( won +$2,154.50 )
UTG lost -$2.00

Wow.. what was the percent on that... 90/10 or what?

ship 10/20 pounds suckout haha

Rav - if you ever wanna fix your doom switch you should just play more!

Hm double gutter 32%?

btw who was villain in this hand? tell me it was a nemesis

15k hands in 3 days coming up imo

watch out alex

your boomswitch will rise again

Played my biggest pot ever today Very Happy

$25/$50 No Limit Holdem
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com

Stacks:
Hero (UTG) ($11690.00)
UTG+1 ($9908.00)
CO ($9713.00)
BTN ($6469.00)
SB ($6713.00)
BB ($10443.00)

Pre-flop: ($75, 6 players) Hero is UTG Seven of Diamonds

Hero raises to $150, 4 folds, BB calls $100

Flop: Seven of Hearts

($325, 2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $250, BB calls $250

Turn: Queen of Clubs

($825, 2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $650, BB raises to $1,900, Hero calls $1,250

River: Jack of Clubs

($4,625, 2 players)
BB bets $3,550, Hero raises to $9,390, BB calls $4,593

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2009 goals coming up soon... Happy new year everyone!

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Please tell me he had AhTh

I already told alex this, but I think river raise is thin. Not because we're not ahead here a lot, but because the hands we're ahead of are often b/f here I believe.

As soon as I saw this I was like.. "godddd QJ ownage.... is it too nitty to flat a boat on this river?"..... I would feel dirty doing it, but I think given stacks it might be right.

I tried convincing myself he can have 666/nut flush on river but I think we have to heavily discount those because of flop action. I'm like 80% sure people would c/r those on flop this deep and try to build a pot?

Also, villain hasn't seen me at 25/50 often so he probably thinks I'm more passive/nitty than usual?

I think it's close...

I agree that 66 c/r's this flop a lot but I disagree that a flopped nut flush would very often.

You can get to this river with a pretty wide range yet you're saying that villain can only call your river shove with the top two hands in his range, both of which are relatively unlikely. Seems like villain needs to gave a wider calling range than boats to avoid serious exploitation.

Man I've been so lazy with updating this thing. I think I'll do some mini-operations in the future, with specific goals, so I'll be more motivated to update them since they can actually be completed. This one is pretty pointless since I never post anyways Razz

Anyways, yesterday was a gooood day, played the highest stakes I've ever played . Played some 25/50 pounds (7knl) and 40/80 pounds (11knl) which is kinda surreal for me since I've always been such a bankroll nit. Played pretty aggro and then I won this hand vs the fish.

$40/$80 No Limit Holdem
4 players
Converted at weaktight.com

Stacks:
CO ($11268.00)
BTN ($5885.00)
Hero (SB) ($9121.00)
BB ($5710.00)

Pre-flop: ($120, 4 players) Hero is SB Nine of Diamonds

1 fold, BTN raises to $240, Hero calls $200, BB raises to $999, BTN calls $759, Hero raises to $9,121, BB calls $4,711, BTN folds

Flop: Six of Clubs

($15,830, 2 players)

Turn: Ten of Hearts

($15,830, 2 players)

River: Queen of Clubs

($15,830, 2 players)

Final Pot: $15,830
BB shows: Seven of Diamonds

Hero shows: Nine of Diamonds

Hero wins $15,828 ( won +$6,707 )
BB lost -$5,710
BTN lost -$999

Thats a $22k pot with a pair of nines, which is probably the biggest pot I've played. I noticed fish (BB) loves to squeeze, and the reg (BTN) loves to call 3bets IP, so decided a pair of nines was good enough to shipit. Good thing I was right or I'd be tilting pretty bad right now. Obviously I had to sell action for this high stakes games and somehow I ended up only having 40% of myself since a bunch of degens wanted to stake me for some reason. I ended up shipping them 9k of the profits which I don't mind since I wouldn't have played it with 100% of myself. I feel like this staking thing never works out right usually, the only person that made me money is Andy_akb with some pro shortstacking. Go figure:P.

Here's another random hand from my sesh. I'm pretty sure this is the optimal line vs a reg since I'm playing higher than usual I don't think a 4bet pre is optimal.

$25/$50 No Limit Holdem
4 players
Converted at weaktight.com

Stacks:
CO ($11273.00)
Hero (BTN) ($5000.00)
SB ($5025.00)
BB ($7714.00)

Pre-flop: ($75, 4 players) Hero is BTN King of Spades

1 fold, Hero raises to $150, SB raises to $525, 1 fold, Hero calls $375

Flop: Three of Hearts

($1,100, 2 players)
SB bets $565, Hero calls $565

Turn: King of Clubs

($2,230, 2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $950, SB calls $950

River: Ten of Hearts

($4,130, 2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $2,960, SB folds

Final Pot: $7,090

Hero wins $7,088 ( won +$2,088 )
SB lost -$2,040

Ohhh and I finally called a tax accountant today to figure stuff out. I won't tell Griffey anything he says since it would be lame for me to complete his operation already. CALL UR OWN, U LAZY MOFO!

Oh my god, I also have to mention that the gym propbet I have with Griffey is a TOTAL FAIL. We each went like 2-3 times total within 3 weeks. I think I'd be more motivated to go if it wasn't for this bet. So so lame.

you need a micro-stakes prop-bet on exercise - a la http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/forum/robb-v-daven-fitness-prop-bets-t81598.html
it seems to be working pretty well for me!

Nice wins Alexos!
When are you going to challenge Durr??? Wink

1)This hand is against Ravageur. The only history we have is that he sucks out on me a lot in every possible way, other than that, we're not monkeying against each other too much this session.

He checks flops more than most, but I'd expect him to cbet most pairs here especially TT+, 9x, and FD's. On the river, I basically assume he has Ace high most of the time, and im pretty sure he knows i know he's weak, so I decide to go for the soul-own. what the poop does he have and can I fold the nuts?

$2/$5 No Limit Holdem
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG ($1087.82)
UTG+1 ($1091.40)
CO ($918.50)
BTN ($166.00)
SB ($606.15)
Hero (BB) ($500.00)

Pre-flop: ($7, 6 players) Hero is BB Nine of Diamonds

1 fold, UTG+1 raises to $17, 3 folds, Hero calls $12

Flop: Three of Spades

($36, 2 players)
Hero checks, UTG+1 checks

Turn: Three of Diamonds

($36, 2 players)
Hero bets $30, UTG+1 calls $30

River: Four of Spades

($96, 2 players)
Hero bets $165, UTG+1 raises to $1,044.40, $288 to Hero ($288)?

2) Funny hand from last week. Villain is loose UTG, but very nitty postflop. He loves to check-call QQ on turns after cbetting KJxhh flops and turn is Qh, and c/c rivers, kinda stuff. He also doesn't cbet that much, especially this deep I'm pretty sure he takes pot control lines OOP. Are these kinda reads enough to justify b/folding this boat? zomg boat!!

$10/$20 No Limit Holdem
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG ($3741.00)
Hero (UTG+1) ($3192.00)
CO ($2239.50)
BTN ($2118.60)
SB ($1558.40)
BB ($2000.00)

Pre-flop: ($30, 6 players) Hero is UTG+1 Jack of Spades

UTG raises to $80, Hero calls $80, 4 folds

Flop: Queen of Clubs

($190, 2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $133, UTG calls $133

Turn: Ace of Clubs

($456, 2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $333, UTG calls $333

River: Queen of Spades

($1,122, 2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $777, UTG raises to $3,195, $1,869 to Hero ($1,869)?

I d say Rav has 4's full or aces in hand 1 like 100% of the time so I'd fold. Haven't talked to him bout it yet but I think he's never ever bluffing you here.

Hand 2 is so disgusting I don't wanna talk or think about it. In fact I might not come back to this thread until it hits 7 pages.

I won't comment on my hand, but hand 2 whoa. I just have a tiny bit of advice:

I seriously think I get on my feet so that when i call and lose I can run away from the computer as fast as I can so that I save myself the 10 buyins on my other tables that I would spew off immediately after instadeath-tiling from that hand.

Hand 2 is interesting. My first thought was no way I'd fold, but the more I look at it and take into account your reads, the more I think its a fold. It doesnt sound like he's bad enough to value town himself with a flush/straight/trips, or that he's sick enough to turn whatever his hand is into a bluff here. Unfortunately that leaves him with 33 as the only hand he might do this with that we beat.

hmmm ya I think rav's advice is key

Hand 2 seems like an insta-fold.

Pretty epic day yesterday, I started playing 10minutes after I wake up, and insta started the day down -9k within 20minutes of play!!! I then blamed this doomswitch on the fact I skipped breakfast, so I went to make some coffee in hopes of recovery. 2k hands later, I somehow managed to almost breakeven. Despite the graph, I can't say I ran that bad since some high variance bluffs/thin shoves went my way.

Not been playing that many hands recently, I just feel like grinding champions league soccer games, hockey, or Sopranos series instead. Although I'm still on pace for my yearly goal in poker.

Cheers,

-Alex

Mega downswinging and getting back to even is amaaaaazing.

Yah I hear ya with not wanting to play. Thesis grinding and trying to grind entourage streaming is my grind of choice. Too bad my stupid entourage streams are failing me!

Not sure how much I like these daily 10-15k swings... hmm I'll take it though.

Hand of the day:

$10/$20 No Limit Holdem
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG ($2599.00)
UTG+1 ($3223.00)
CO ($1686.00)
BTN ($3982.50)
SB ($2678.00)
Hero (BB) ($4849.00)

Pre-flop: ($30, 6 players) Hero is BB Ace of Clubs

1 fold, UTG+1 raises to $70, CO calls $70, BTN calls $70, 1 fold, Hero calls $50

Flop: Eight of Spades

($290, 4 players)
Hero checks, UTG+1 checks, CO bets $80, 1 fold, Hero raises to $320, UTG+1 folds, CO calls $240

Turn: Ten of Clubs

($930, 2 players)
Hero bets $620, CO calls $620

River: Five of Clubs

($2,170, 2 players)
Hero bets $3,839, CO calls $676

Final Pot: $6,685
Hero shows: Ace of Clubs

CO shows:

Hero wins $6,682 ( won +$1,833 )
UTG+1 lost -$70
CO lost -$1,686
BTN lost -$70

Enjoy Smile

holy christ

who was villain?

teodoro... ill also post a tribute to Geo very soon

yooooo, montreal trip is back on for the 25th. only one night, but it will be more than made up for in terms of degeneracy. a friend is getting us all on the list at opera and/or la mouche [sp?], we will just get an extra bottle or something. itll be a good vegas pre-game, and hopefully youll get really drunk, get robusto on roulette and then come to vegas early for my bday.

ill give you more details when i get back to bangkok, and ill also fill dyl and conor in

Hey guys, I'm gonna revive this thread for at least a bit. Been on a mini downswing lately and what usually happens is I stop playing poker for a while. Butttt, I wanna get in 30k more hands until the end of the month so I'll start a small operating and update DAILY! Maybe put in some hands too.

BTW it's all gonna be at 2/4

Here we gogogoo!!!

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