daven - a year in the life

*Last edited by daven on Thu, 31 Jul 2008, 7:23pm; edited 1 time in total*

New poker blog time, i'll start out with some autobiography - a la Spoon with his 1000th post...

Cliff notes
1) loads of self-indulgent autobiography
2) I discovered poker, learnt to play, started to make some money
3) I'm working part-time hours the next 12 months
4) Planning to play some poker in addition to work
5) I'm gonna start playing standard grinding styles
5) Poker goal = make $25k over the next 12 months...

here and here detail converting $200 to $4000 from August 2007 to present

I'm a kiwi. From that little ol' country at the end of the world. Famed for rugby, nuclear-free, lord of the rings, adventure wonderland and a (dubious) clean green image. Currently I'm based in Wellington - the capital, all 300,000 people of hilly harbour city windiness of it. Imagine a microscopic version of San Fransisco

I arrived in Wellington aged 17 (1995!), cos that's what I did - abandoning smalltown rural NZ to go to University (college). I climbed and tramped (hiked) my way through and emerged in 2000 with a couple of degrees, a post-grad piece of paper and having finally attained my goal of dropout - when I finally became disillusioned with acadaemia...

And then... then followed a few years of travelling and working random jobs (fruit picking, guiding, street performance, etc) through Australian and NZ. Finding more of life and surf and climb and yoga and being outside.

Somehow I found myself juggling in Europe and sorta helping to coach circus in Spain. Then abandoned that for a fantasy - which saw me a month later contemplating a big rockwall standing between me and the path I'd chosen. 3 Weeks since I'd spoken to anyone. 2 Weeks since I'd been truly warm. And telling myself to suck it up - while wondering about the merits of choosing technically challenging variations to a late-Autumn coast-coast solo traverse of the Pyrenees. A week later I was on the Mediterranean, and soon after cruising through the Omani desert, chasing camels. Soon I ended up back in NZ for two months of nothing but climb.

Decided to return to urbanity, fell into a lucky contract and continued to make lucky judgement calls through the project. Met an amazing South American girl at the same time, finished the project and moved to join the Chilean mafia.. I got on well enough with the Dons, but the mafiosa and I didn't last so I took off to the mountains. Solo mission to some big hils saw a near miss at 4500m on some rock arete that may have been a first ascent if I'd finished it! and I broke my base-camp and took off to Uruguay. En route I met a Swiss banker who claimed to be paying for his travels by playing poker - he was playing Party Poker steps and $5nl so I doubt it was true, but the idea fascinated me. Uruguay = two months of yoga-asado-party-surf lifestyling and some poker.

In fact, the next 6 months of South America were punctuated by two hour internet poker sessions playing mostly $6 sng's on Party - lost a coupla hundred bucks over the first few months, but read some strat as well...

Cruised around the Patagonian Andes, hung out at Cerro Torre basecamp and decided it was for next time. More downtime in Santiago de Chile, then a Bolivian sojourn where lol$/gram started causing me problems after a month or so (think rave-party in a velodrome 4000m asl, 10:30 am and marching powder), so I left. And soon after I was back in New Zealand, kinda broke and winter was drifting to an end.

Signed on for a ridiculously "career" contract as a principal business analyst, some shit like that anyway. Pulled out my poker $$, somewhere on the road I'd switched to cash games with no idea about Bankroll Management and somehow managed to devour $25nl on Party. I'd also bought Poker Tracker after arriving back in NZ - so I have a record of my 40ptBB/100 run at $2/$4 limit!!!

Anyway, I decided to spend the poker money on living, and started from scratch with US$200 - read about that here and here if you care...

I debated ending work when my contract finished end-April 2008, but thought differently of it - I'm still not convinced that poker would be healthy like that.

But, I'd decided that working for the man has big downsides so convinced work that I could effectively oversee/manage a big programme of work in only 18hrs/week - so now I have 4 day weekends and no necessity to do anything more to support my increasingly dissolute lifestyle.

I guess I got better at poker somewhere along the way. But then I got bored and certain that a simple TAGG grinding, multi-tabling, 4ptBB/100 game wasn't optimal. So I experimented, a lot. That's how a bunch of March and all of April have been. 6-1 nit, I've played it, 13-12, yep, 18-9, sure, 25-20, si, 40-30 almost 10k hnads, 65-45 to learn about aggression - that was a little costly, but somehow I've still made money through these experiments and I've added a load of tools to my game.

I've also learnt that my natural game lies somewhere between 14-9 and 17-13, and it's also my most lucrative style.

So, now...
Bankroll has supported a surfboard, new laptop and monitor, etc. and is now sitting around $4k, not bad from $200 back in August as a part-time hobby.
Yeah, now.
I'm gonna grind. Plan is to play 10-15 hours/week over the next 12 months (variable, but working 18hrs/week gives me time)
I'll clear some bonuses, earn some $$ and soon move up to 100nl.
Goal time. Only play while I'm enjoying it. Play a standard (for me) style - allow space for incremental improvement and evolution rather than searching for hte lightning flash of soul-reading poker enlightenment

$50/hr is probably achievable. So, a $goal?
Dunno. I want to play consistently and well. I guess US$25k is attainable. That's it then. I'll update here occasionally, monthly, significant milestones, etc.

See you at the tables, I'll be 3-betting and floating to your left.

Davenout.

Hah! You're a gypsy! Awesome Very Happy

Chilean mafia, eh? You've had an interesting life and/or are a great storyteller Wink

$50/hr is totally achievable at 100NL man...I've been averaging more than that since moving up. Down a bit last night (despite a 4th place finish in a stars $12/180 turbo donkament), but I think we're pretty close to even now, hovering around the $4k mark.

The finish line seems so close, but it's deceiving with all the oscillating our good friend 'variance' brings Mad

Kia Ora! Good luck mate! Pretty sure you can achieve your goals. Insert "Wellington Rugby" joke here but somehow they seem to be playing well this year. Kia kaha!

Awesome! World traveler. Teach me to be a bohemian world traveler dude.

also, good luck man! and I hope $50/hr (withdraw money) is achievable there too.

I'll put up a prop bet with you guys up soon.

The week has had no waves in town = I have a new board that I still haven't hit the water with. I only went climbing once. And only one night of live music. No yoga. Some running, not enough.

I played too much poker this week. And haven't even been profiting from it. Running bad? a little, but not really. Playing less than optimally? most definitely. Enjoying it? not as much as I have done. Thinking about what other things those hours could be doing? yep... a little concerned about the addictive qualities of poker? absolutely.

so my bankroll still lingers around the $4-<$5k mark. Impatient, and that is probably a factor in how poorly i am playing.

Life is about experiences. Those experiences result in stories. Sitting in front of a computer playing poker is a story that is interesting the first telling, but doesn't seem to be going anywhere.
edit. life is also about meeting jack's avatars!

Should I start playing MTTs? winning the Sunday million would make a good story, but I doubt that mtts are a good answer. SNGs - nope, i revisited $60 i had sitting on party and played the $3 & $6 sngs i first played poker in. It's so much about coinflips and suckouts. wow. Ended up down $10 or something, so I was beating the players but not the rake... Don't think they're something I particularly enjoy any more - and it's not just because of the micro-$$ involved.

hmm... watch this space...

I've hit a plateau as well. Still hovering around 4k after a now 3 week breakeven stretch?

I'm throwing a little 6-max / HU / MTT in the mix to keep things interesting for me. The FR cash grind can be tough when you're not running good...

I somehow missed this until today. Your bio is awesome dude and good luck on your 25k Wink

May is over. I played badly and was lucky to break-even - thanks bonuses!

Discipline - I need to start folding again. Hero-calls result in one "sick call dude" for every four stacks lost. This is -EV. So I shall stop.

June. I will play better. I've decided to postpone moving up to 100nl - although I'm buying in 200bb deep at 50nl whenever i get the chance, so I'm getting comfortable with a bigger game. When I move up it should already feel familiar.

June. I'm going hiking loads, gonna hang out in the snow.
June. I'll drink a little less.
June. Should be a good month for waves - I've got a new 6'4" fish and it's piles of fun.
June. I'm going to crush my project at work.
June - I'm excited.

cool. Davenout.

Good start to June.

I've got some money stagnating on Pacific cos I haven't quite cleared the first deposit Bonus. I've decided to add a few short-handed 50nl tables to the mix when I've nothing better going, and nit it up so that I can put that money somewhere I want to use it!

My first session of the month was boosted by my first (?) >$200 pot that actually went my way, I've lost a couple before. Villain was a known fish-donor and button an 18-10 with crazy high attempt to steal and flop-bet/re-raise stats (figure he had 99 or something, don't think he's folding 55 here)...

The major highlight of that same session was folding AA on a 379Q rainbow board after being floated on the flop and heavily re-raised on the turn (200bb deep too!). Bring on a month of folding!

So June. About 1k hands for $150 profit.

Nice. I hope to keep it up.

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (9 handed) Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

BB ($98.40)
UTG ($66.20)
UTG+1 ($214.55)
MP1 ($89.30)
MP2 ($25)
Hero ($99.25)
CO ($50)
Button ($52.90)
SB ($97.75)

Preflop: Hero is MP3 with 7

, 7

.
2 folds, MP1 raises to $1.5, 1 fold, Hero calls $1.50, 1 fold, Button calls $1.50, 2 folds.

Flop: ($5.25) Q

, 5

, 7

(3 players)
MP1 bets $2.5, Hero calls $2.50, Button raises to $10, MP1 raises to $43, Hero raises to $100.25 (All-In), Button folds, MP1 calls $47.30 (All-In).

Turn: ($195.85) J

(2 players, 2 all-in)

River: ($195.85) J

(2 players, 2 all-in)

Final Pot: $195.85

Results below:
MP1 has Ah Qs (two pair, queens and jacks).
Hero has 7d 7h (full house, sevens full of jacks).
Outcome: Hero wins $205.80.

about five minutes into a session today and this hit me. Villain is tight enough pre-flop that I'm only sometimes 3-betting, and not this time...

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MP2 ($50)
Hero ($48.70)
CO ($22.30)
Button ($71.05)
SB ($54.25)
BB ($37.85)
UTG ($12.20)
UTG+1 ($50)
MP1 ($143.65)

Preflop: Hero is MP3 with Q

, Q

.
1 fold, MP1 raises to $2, 1 fold, Hero calls $2, CO calls $2, Button calls $2, 1 fold, BB calls $1.50.

Flop: ($10.25) 3

, Q

, J

(6 players)
BB checks, MP1 bets $10, Hero raises to $20, CO folds, Button folds, BB folds, MP1 raises to $151.65 (All-In), Hero calls $26.70 (All-In).

Turn: ($103.65) 3

(3 players, 2 all-in)

River: ($103.65) A

(3 players, 2 all-in)

Final Pot: $103.65

Results below
MP1 has Ah Ac (full house, aces full of threes).
Hero has Qc Qs (full house, queens full of threes).
Outcome: MP1 wins $103.65.

Calmed down pretty quickly and settled into what I was planning as a big session. an hour later and PT3 started doing it's crashing stuff - I can't wait until there's a stable release. Loyalty has its place, but...

I've realised that software and/or connection problems are probably my biggest tilt risks, that or multiple badbeats in a row.

So I stopped. The session was about +$20. Why don't I know for sure? PT3. Dunno where half the hands have gone, and don't know if I can be bothered trying to find them

That's all.

I think you played that perfectly if he is a nit. You can probs 3bet some stuff like Axs to balance your premiums but I don't like to 3et QQ in this situation vs. a very tight player.

*Last edited by daven on Sun, 08 Jun 2008, 3:50am; edited 1 time in total*

Was just going to suggest you look into softer sites. Seriously, 25NL on Everest plays like about 5NL on stars/ftp. Theres something to be said for the extra money of playing worse opposition on softer sites.

so I got to $5k a while ago! making the move to 100nl on July 1st, equipped with 50+buyins. Strange to think of the dollars involved now - I'm thinking of pulling out some cash again, just to remind myself that the money is real.

anyway, haven't really played much (three hours?) the last couple of weeks.
mixed in some 6-max before that - last time I played 6-max i was way too loose, full ring play has helped...

i ran bad then tilted at 50nl... first decent tilt in ages - AA<QQ all-in pre-flop a little deep, then KK<AA for 240bb, then AA < JJ 180bb deep on a 76J flop after 3-betting to 18bb pre
...
i've moved up to 100nl to lick my wounds - turned on the HUD and dropped to 8-tabling at the same time

bankroll somewhere between $4700 and $5000...

edit - 100nl doesn't seem too scary so far. Pot sizes are fine after a bunch of hands won and lost 200+bb deep at 50nl. Bet sizing I'm mostly managing to think of it in terms of blinds not coffees. I had a nasty hand where my rivered middle set caught a flush, and another where I couldn't fold my overpair. But I've got some buy-ins (45?) up my sleeve, so I plan to stay here a while. Maybe dropping to 50nl if I feel tired, tilty, or like a touch of heavier (i.e. >>>10) multitabling..

I used to look in awe at the hands posted at 100nl in the forums, and at those posting them. There is still a tinge of that, but hey - I've ground here from $200 and deserve to be here. Now I want to become established. You know, become one of those decent regs people talk about...

I'll likely be here a while - planning to move up to 200nl at bankroll = $10k...

poker is good.

Congrats on the moveup. I know whatcha mean by looking in awe at the 'high stakes' 100NL/200NL Laughing

You've paid your dues man -- you deserve to be there.

I however can't shake this cooler and am moving back down to 100NL with about your BR (little less now). See yah on the tables! Wink

3 days ago

ugh. That last one is so dirty Sad

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right now and it feels like my game is weak
bonuses and Rakeback are the only thing keeping my bankroll intact.
cleared a Full Tilt loyalty Bonus of $300 in the first five days of July, and probably racked up about $100 in Rakeback at the same time. That leaves me net around -$30 for the month so far...
and leaves my bankroll at about $5000.
Yuck. Gotta learn to beat 100nl.
gotta stop being a degen, imagining micro-thin edges that probably don't exist...
gotta get better
gotta stop paying off fools
gotta stop being the fool
And time to start studying, if i'm breaking even then there isn't even a $cost imposition on time spent studying the game rather than playing

next post next week

right now we're setting up the PA and the decks in front of our fire in anticipation of a night that is likely to get somewhat out of control... house party while the cold dark cold dark rain comes down outside

You're focusing too much on big pots.
Big pots happen, relax. Don't force them.
Beating the games right now requires you to play small and medium pots well.

Finally got a PT3 version that seems to be working ok... interesting playing with stats up again after so long without. Still sticking to 11-14 tables at the moment though.
Playing better. That is good. Results are kinda meh. Whatever.
Noticed that I was coming around 20th in the RTR rake race a day ago, that tells me i should play less and study more!

That's good that you feel like you're playing good. I think I'm playing fairly decently as well. I've dropped my lagg-bot style for a more dynamic tagg style, but...I know my game needs work still.

"Play less and study more" is a great idear. I'm thinking of following that & getting the CR membership with my FT points instead of getting books.

I play funny?
seem to be getting it in good a lot more often recently...
up $550 on the tables so far in July, and probably another $600 in Rakeback.
Studying was gold. So was remembering how to fold.
I owe Renton a vote of thanks for his FR Digest posts...

last 10k hands (basically since I started doing more poker study - maybe I'm just running good though)

hand 1) silly slowplaying villain...
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MP1 ($101.50)
MP2 ($69.80)
CO ($106.45)
Button ($22.60)
Hero ($108.35)
BB ($245.85)
UTG ($101.50)
UTG+1 ($36.70)

Preflop: Hero is SB with A

, 2

.
6 folds, Hero completes, BB raises to $3, Hero calls $2.

Flop: ($7) 8

, 6

, J

(2 players)
Hero checks, BB checks.

Turn: ($7) 4

(2 players)
Hero bets $3, BB calls $3.

River: ($13) 9

(2 players)
Hero bets $8, BB raises to $16, Hero raises to $102.35 (All-In), BB calls $86.35.

Final Pot: $217.70

Results below:
BB doesn't show (88).
Hero has As 2s (flush, ace high).
Outcome: Hero wins $217.70.

hand 2) don't play turns slow!

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Hero ($87.40)
SB ($108.35)
BB ($100)
UTG ($229.15)
UTG+1 ($100)
MP1 ($204.65)
MP2 ($20)
MP3 ($100)
CO ($98.80)

Preflop: Hero is Button with J

, J

. UTG+1 posts a blind of $1.
1 fold, UTG+1 (poster) raises to $3.5, 4 folds, Hero calls $3.50, 2 folds.

Flop: ($9.50) J

, 6

, 7

(2 players)
UTG+1 bets $5, Hero calls $5.

Turn: ($19.50) 3

(2 players)
UTG+1 bets $9, Hero raises to $18, UTG+1 raises to $45, Hero calls $27.

River: ($109.50) 8

(2 players)
UTG+1 bets $46.5 (All-In), Hero calls $33.90 (All-In).

Final Pot: $177.30

Results i below:
UTG+1 has Ks Kc (one pair, kings).
Hero has Jc Js (three of a kind, jacks).
Outcome: Hero wins $177.30.

hand 3) straight vs obvious set, I prefer to get loaded on the turn. Paired board = easy fold.
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Hero ($107.85)
Button ($67.45)
SB ($56.35)
BB ($95.45)
UTG ($100)
UTG+1 ($82.50)
MP1 ($18.50)
MP2 ($103.50)
MP3 ($101.15)

Preflop: Hero is CO with 6

, 5

.
1 fold, UTG+1 calls $1, 3 folds, Hero calls $1, 2 folds, BB checks.

Flop: ($3.50) 8

, 4

, 7

(3 players)
BB checks, UTG+1 bets $2, Hero raises to $6, BB calls $6, UTG+1 calls $4.

Turn: ($21.50) T

(3 players)
BB checks, UTG+1 bets $13, Hero raises to $60.5, BB folds, UTG+1 raises to $75.5 (All-In), Hero calls $15.

River: ($172.50) A

(2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: $172.50

Results in white below:
UTG+1 has 8c 8h (three of a kind, eights).
Hero has 6s 5s (straight, eight high).
Outcome: Hero wins $172.50.

hand 4) ahh, river 4-outers, gotta love them!

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Hero ($112.25)
SB ($100.50)
BB ($59.90)
UTG ($160.15)
MP1 ($80.45)
MP2 ($48.50)
CO ($100)

Preflop: Hero is Button with 4

, 4

.
4 folds, Hero calls $1, 1 fold, BB raises to $5, Hero calls $4.

Flop: ($11.50) 4

, 7

, 6

(2 players)
BB bets $10, Hero calls $10.

Turn: ($31.50) 6

(2 players)
BB bets $15, Hero raises to $30, BB raises to $44.9 (All-In), Hero calls $14.90.

River: ($121.30) 6

(2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: $121.30

Results in white below:
BB has Kc Kd (full house, sixes full of kings).
Hero has 4s 4h (full house, sixes full of fours).
Outcome: BB wins $121.30.

1) Weaksauce turn bet. Make it $5 and give urself some FE.

2) Yup

3) Here's a spot where you can be isolating pre

4) WTF preflop? Did you just open limp a button? Never do that!

GW on making money at last Daven. You playing on Stars?

+1 to isolating with SCs.

You're in position, you get to rep whatever high card comes, and you get supersecret nut hand possibility. Plus isolating is more fun than limping along. Multipots almost always play themselves.

glad t'see you're makin' some monies Smile

solid rate over 10k...

2) Here you lost $12 for not re-buying in full. I know you say that this is to build a bad image, but I'm not sure it has a better EV then re-buying full.

still doing ok... bankroll through the $6k mark and climbing. Involved in my first $500 pot today - deep and AA vs AA preflop so we both lost a dollar to rake Wink

debating whether to grind enough hands to get a few more buyins through the RTR rake race. Sitting at 31st right now - enough for $200 if I maintain it. I'll decide a week from now...

climbing loads more at the moment - cos my car got stolen and I haven't got around to replacing it yet = less surfing. Downside of subaru imprezas is that they're great for joyriding and easy to steal.

poker study is going well too - I'm going to respond properly to full ring hand histories for a while, cos it helps with my thinking and exposes gaps.
Planning to read a couple of the poohbah posts every week too.
and eventually get onto renton's abcd theorem - beyond the first glance...

more hands to come

had a rough start to today's session:
1) flopped flush in big blind<small blinds flopped nut flush (1xbuyin),
2) QQ<JJ all-in pre vs 60bb
3) KK<JJ all in pre vs 30bb fish
4) 66<78 on 569 flop all-in no assist...

but started to claw it back and was up a couple of buy-ins by the time the following chat exchange happened:

of course I have the nut flush dude - how stupid do you think I am? Stupid enough that I'm never betting my flush draw into your flush draw on flop and turn I guess Wink

Thank you river queen, and thank you chat box...

Cash_Money_Dan has 15 seconds left to act
Cash_Money_Dan has requested TIME
davenigma: zzzzzzzzzzz
Cash_Money_Dan: u really got AKh?
davenigma: i got you owned
Cash_Money_Dan calls $117.25
*** SHOW DOWN ***
davenigma shows [Ah Kh] a flush, Ace high
Cash_Money_Dan mucks [4h 5h]
davenigma wins the pot ($273.50) with a flush, Ace high

lolol wp.

did you just open shove that river? where's the rest of the hand?

Snorkelling sounds like an amazing way to take a relaxing break between sessions. I found it really hard when I lost $1k for the first time, it's such a big sum of money to me and I think it really affected my play for a while. Good to hear that you've turned it around (hopefully) though Smile

July. Interesting month - and my most profitable to date
After I finally got around to moving up in reaction to a series of badbeats at 50nl, July was my first full month playing at 100nl...
I played a lot, and messed around with my game a bunch. First serious downswings happened - during the month I ran into flopped quads with overpair or set over 15times, ace high flush and royal re-draw vs flopped straight flush even once is too often, etc. I also hit a one-outer deep once.

I cleared a Bonus. I got some Rakeback. I placed somewhere in a rake-race for 2 or 3 buy-ins (find out tomorrow).

What else did I do during July, am i still doing?
I started playing the player harder - below are a couple of fun hands vs a decent lag today, we got some nice meta- going on.
I'm learning to 3-bet.
I'm starting to understand position.
I'm slowly getting a feel for bet sizing and pot control.
Ranges are eluding me less.
I'm running near +2/100 over the last 30k hands and think that +4 is achievable and sustainable
I'm ok playing without an HUD, but have decided that using it is +EV and after a bunch of experimentation I think I'm close to arriving at the optimal 7 stats to display (i don't like more for screen space, plus i want to look at the numbers, compute and make a play in less than a second)
My goal of playing more tables is standard now - I can play heaps and have decided that 12-14 is optimal

August goals:
play less hands! 50k running 2-3ptbb/100 is the goal.
that's about it really, maybe play a couple of mtts and try to cash up.

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $1 BB (9 handed) Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

MP2 ($106.10)
MP3 ($146.25)
CO ($157.60)
Shaun Busted ($98.50)
SB ($30.40)
Hero ($105.90)
UTG ($99.60)
UTG+1 ($87.90)
MP1 ($100.40)

Preflop: Hero is BB with A

, K

.
6 folds, Button raises to $3, 1 fold, Hero raises to $9.5, Button raises to $29, Hero raises to $105.9 (All-In), Button calls $69.50 (All-In).

Flop: ($204.90) 4

, 2

, 8

(2 players, 2 all-in)

Turn: ($204.90) 4

(2 players, 2 all-in)

River: ($204.90) T

(2 players, 2 all-in)

Final Pot: $197.50

Results below:
Hero has As Kh (one pair, fours).
Shaun Busted has 3c 3s (two pair, fours and threes).
Outcome: Button wins $197.50.

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CO ($107.60)
Button ($144.75)
SB ($156.60)
Shaun Busted ($194.50)
UTG ($29.90)
Hero ($100)
MP1 ($100)
MP2 ($95.10)
MP3 ($100)

Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with K

, A

.
1 fold, Hero raises to $3.5, 1 fold, MP2 calls $3.50, 4 folds, BB calls $2.50.

Flop: ($11) 2

, 7

, K

(3 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $6, MP2 folds, BB calls $6.

Turn: ($23) 2

(2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $18, BB raises to $40, Hero calls $22.

River: ($103) J

(2 players)
BB bets $60, Hero calls $50.50 (All-In).

Final Pot: $204

Results in white below:
Shaun Busted has 3c 2c (three of a kind, twos).
Hero has Ks Ad (two pair, kings and twos).
Outcome: BB wins $213.50.

and then another sesssion, another table a few hours later and i'm 3-betting him without mercy:

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $1 BB (9 handed) Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

CO ($122.25)
Button ($214.35)
SB ($68.25)
BB ($95.25)
Shaun Busted ($122.80)
Hero ($108.45)
MP1 ($100)
MP2 ($117.10)
MP3 ($30)

Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with K

, K

.
UTG raises to $3, Hero raises to $10.5, 7 folds, UTG raises to $33, Hero raises to $108.45 (All-In), UTG calls $75.45.

Flop: ($218.40) K

, 9

, 2

(2 players, 1 all-in)

Turn: ($218.40) T

(2 players, 1 all-in)

River: ($218.40) 9

(2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: $218.40

Results below:
Shaun Busted has Qs Ts (two pair, tens and nines).
Hero has Kd Kh (full house, kings full of nines).
Outcome: Hero wins $218.40.

Man, hope he's on your friends list Smile

.

Congrats on a good month!

Bankroll yo-yo, sitting at $8k right now.
Game study is working out. I'm playing substantially better than I was a month ago - still a lot to learn though! Recent adjustments have been more 3-betting, smarter isolation plays, more steals,
but...
underlying it all, the biggest thing I've been assessing (yet again, after another $1k downswing!) is the need for discipline.

This evening and what a crazy session - 2000 hands for +$300, not too bad considering:

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $1 BB (9 handed) Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

SB ($212.65)
BB ($237.40)
UTG ($100)
Hero ($208.70)
MP1 ($359.50)
MP2 ($115.80)
MP3 ($237.30)
CO ($152.55)
Button ($203.75)

Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with K

, K

.
1 fold, Hero raises to $3.5, 3 folds, CO calls $3.50, Button calls $3.50, 2 folds.

Flop: ($12) Q

, A

, K

(3 players)
Hero bets $10, CO raises to $20, Button calls $20, Hero raises to $205.2 (All-In), CO calls $129.05 (All-In), Button calls $180.25 (All-In).

Turn: ($566.50) Q

(3 players, 3 all-in)

River: ($566.50) 9

(3 players, 3 all-in)

Final Pot: $561.55

Results in white below:
Hero has Ks Kd (full house, kings full of queens).
CO has Qc Qh (four of a kind, queens).
Button has Jh Th (flush, ace high).

and

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $1 BB (8 handed) Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

SB ($142.20)
BB ($93.70)
UTG ($59.60)
UTG+1 ($102.50)
MP1 ($99)
Hero ($106.50)
CO ($100)
Button ($94)

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with K

, A

. CO posts a blind of $1.
3 folds, Hero raises to $4.5, CO (poster) raises to $15, 3 folds, Hero raises to $25.5, CO calls $10.50.

Flop: ($52.50) 3

, K

, 5

(2 players)
Hero bets $32, CO raises to $74.5 (All-In), Hero calls $42.50.

Turn: ($201.50) 9

(2 players, 1 all-in)

River: ($201.50) 9

(2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: $201.50

Results in white below:
Hero has Ks As (two pair, kings and nines).
CO has Qc Ah (flush, ace high).
Outcome: CO wins $201.50.

Wow, Hand 1 is CRAZY with all of you being deep. That is a MONSTER pot. What a horrible turn, even though you needed to pair the board.

Hand 2 sucks donkey balls. Ugh.

I don't know which one I like less... Post some winners instead would ya?

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