Graveyard for Fun Hands

been back playing the past cpl days after taking a few days off

felt terrible my 1st cpl sessions but made a little money I think

tonight played a quickie at nl400 and played some of my best poker in a long long time. my reads were crisp and I chose my spots really well

I think I lost about 1.5k though, mainly on 3 deepstacked 50/50's that all went against me

i don t care though; my vow for feb is to not check results once and try to worry more about how I'm playing than how I'm running

I know that Im new to the board, but I was intrigued by your operation and I just had to post after looking at your last 10 or so hands. I dont play 400NL, and I have a very long time to get there, but I do belive there is no way in hell that I could handle the variance you are handling. I am amazed that you can still sit down in front of the computer after being in some of the hands you have been in. I mean, I typically playe 60k hands a month, and I think you have had more coolers than I have had had in a year.

My friend, I say to you GG just for the ability to still grind it out.

Thanks a lot Jason. It may seem trivial, but I really appreciate you taking the time to make that post.

Played a ton (by my standards) between Fri-Sun. I'm trying to avoid going above 4 tables and I'm really table-selecting hard.

I feel like I'm playing great but the results still aren't there. My goal is to avoid checking results until the end of Feb and I've been good about that so far. I just can't seem to find myself to the "right" side of the marginal spots. Weird things like 43/21 fishy open-shoving for 500$ when I have JJ... turning OESFD and 2-barrel-pricingmyselfin vs a set that slowplayed the flop... AA and KK going down about 1/2 the time. But like I said, I really feel like I'm playing great and now feel completely comfortable beating up on the regs I'm facing; just the right balance of well-timed aggression without spewiness. I'd guess I'm down another 2-3 buyins but I'm gonna give myself about 3-4 more before moving down to nl200.

Wasn't able to play yesterday or today because of a massive presentation for school and I doubt it'd be a great idea to sit right now on 3 hrs sleep in 48 hrs.

I'm looking at 3 consecutive days of 1k hands playing 4 tables or fewer between tomorrow and friday. Hopefully I can keep playing well and manage to get myself in some better spots.

You are in a game full of stations.

In the words of Warpe, you should give them something to call.

I believe you are too stack-off-happy

Puke

This seems like the only way I can win a hand right now :

$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, February 13, 12:02:48 ET 2008
Table Table 127929 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: DaBlackHand_ ( $517 USD )
Seat 2: sappert ( $445.80 USD )
Seat 3: RystyRyan ( $1,243.50 USD )
Seat 4: Lord95746743 ( $687.73 USD )
Seat 5: kOrKiNg ( $580.40 USD )
Seat 6: HERO ( $384 USD )
kOrKiNg posts small blind [$2 USD].
HERO posts big blind [$4 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Ace of Clubs

DaBlackHand_ folds.
sappert folds.
RystyRyan raises [$14 USD]
Lord95746743 folds.
kOrKiNg folds.
HERO raises [$47 USD]
RystyRyan calls [$37 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** Six of Spades

HERO bets [$71 USD]
RystyRyan is all-In.
HERO is all-In.
** Dealing Turn ** Five of Hearts

** Dealing River ** Seven of Clubs

HERO shows Ace of Clubs

two pairs, Aces and Sixes.
RystyRyan shows Ace of Clubs

a pair of Sixes.
RystyRyan wins $859.50 USD from side pot #1 with a pair of Sixes.
HERO wins $767 USD from the main pot with two pairs, Aces and Sixes.

Here are today’s 4 biggest pots in ascending order :

1) jatczak is running 91/25, 3-bettor is 20/17 and we've been tangling preflop :

$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, February 13, 12:41:30 ET 2008
Table Table 127579 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: phuck4free ( $412.40 USD )
Seat 2: jatczak ( $880.20 USD )
Seat 4: Lord95746743 ( $1,012 USD )
Seat 5: SamDiam0nd ( $1,324.20 USD )
Seat 6: HERO ( $414.20 USD )
Seat 3: Lommelerka ( $422.90 USD )
phuck4free posts small blind [$2 USD].
jatczak posts big blind [$4 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Queen of Diamonds

Lommelerka folds.
Lord95746743 folds.
SamDiam0nd folds.
HERO raises [$16 USD]
phuck4free raises [$50 USD]
jatczak calls [$48 USD]
HERO raises [$160 USD]
phuck4free raises [$356 USD]
jatczak folds.
HERO is all-In.
phuck4free is all-In.
** Dealing Flop ** Four of Clubs

** Dealing Turn ** Four of Spades

** Dealing River ** Ace of Hearts

phuck4free shows Ace of Diamonds

a full house, Aces full of Fours.
HERO shows Queen of Diamonds

two pairs, Queens and Fours.
HERO wins $1.80 USD from side pot #1 with two pairs, Queens and Fours.
phuck4free wins $873.80 USD from the main pot with a full house, Aces full of Fours.

2) Flop minraiser is running 64/18 and has been splashy

$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, February 13, 12:15:44 ET 2008
Table Jackpot #1306164 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: wowenslowen ( $1,216.90 USD )
Seat 4: mides444 ( $2,176.70 USD )
Seat 5: Luckbox_off ( $435.50 USD )
Seat 1: HERO ( $506.10 USD )
Seat 3: Goin2CrushU ( $525.60 USD )
Seat 6: Lommelerka ( $384 USD )
Lommelerka posts small blind [$2 USD].
HERO posts big blind [$4 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Ace of Spades

wowenslowen raises [$14 USD]
Goin2CrushU folds.
mides444 calls [$14 USD]
Luckbox_off folds.
Lommelerka folds.
HERO calls [$10 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** Nine of Spades

HERO bets [$36 USD]
wowenslowen folds.
mides444 raises [$72 USD]
HERO is all-In.
mides444 calls [$420.10 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** Two of Hearts

** Dealing River ** Seven of Diamonds

mides444 shows Seven of Clubs

a straight Five to Nine.
HERO doesn't show Eight of Spades

a pair of Eights.
The time at which hand ended:Feb 13 2008 12:16 ET
mides444 wins $1,024.70 USD from the main pot with a straight, Five to Nine.

3) Same villain as previous hand

$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, February 13, 12:34:18 ET 2008
Table Jackpot #1306164 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: wowenslowen ( $1,340.90 USD )
Seat 4: mides444 ( $2,584.80 USD )
Seat 5: Luckbox_off ( $400 USD )
Seat 1: HERO ( $640.30 USD )
Seat 3: Goin2CrushU ( $524 USD )
Seat 6: Lommelerka ( $398 USD )
mides444 posts small blind [$2 USD].
Luckbox_off posts big blind [$4 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Jack of Diamonds

Lommelerka folds.
HERO raises [$16 USD]
wowenslowen folds.
Goin2CrushU folds.
mides444 raises [$26 USD]
Luckbox_off folds.
HERO calls [$12 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** Six of Diamonds

mides444 bets [$34 USD]
HERO raises [$111 USD]
mides444 is all-In.
HERO is all-In.
** Dealing Turn ** Ace of Hearts

** Dealing River ** Four of Hearts

HERO shows Jack of Diamonds

a pair of Eights.
mides444 shows Queen of Clubs

a pair of Aces.
The time at which hand ended:Feb 13 2008 12:35 ET
mides444 wins $1,944.50 USD from side pot #1 with a pair of Aces.
mides444 wins $1,281.10 USD from the main pot with a pair of Aces.

4) once again, jatzak (91/25) is in the hand (the original raiser) and is stacking off with A high... any gutter ball and any pocket pair. The flop raiser is protecting any draw and any pair on the board (especially since I never have an overpair here) :

$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, February 13, 12:37:00 ET 2008
Table Table 127579 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: phuck4free ( $400 USD )
Seat 2: jatczak ( $1,078.30 USD )
Seat 4: Lord95746743 ( $569 USD )
Seat 5: SamDiam0nd ( $1,193.20 USD )
Seat 6: HERO ( $400 USD )
Seat 3: Lommelerka ( $438.90 USD )
HERO posts small blind [$2 USD].
phuck4free posts big blind [$4 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO King of Clubs

jatczak raises [$20 USD]
Lommelerka folds.
Lord95746743 calls [$20 USD]
SamDiam0nd folds.
HERO calls [$18 USD]
phuck4free folds.
** Dealing Flop ** Two of Diamonds

HERO checks.
jatczak bets [$28 USD]
Lord95746743 raises [$120 USD]
HERO is all-In.
jatczak folds.
Lord95746743 calls [$260 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** Six of Hearts

** Dealing River ** Seven of Hearts

Lord95746743 shows Two of Hearts

a full house, Twos full of Sevens.
HERO doesn't show King of Clubs

two pairs, Sevens and Sixes.
Lord95746743 wins $849 USD from the main pot with a full house, Twos full of Sevens.

Time to stop whining and just go play some nl200. I suppose I'll have to look at results now. bleh.

I hate the fact that when things start turning around for me I'll be at nl200.

But so far for Feb W@SD is 39% and I don't wanna be grinding lots of tables of nl200 with less than 45 buyins so now's the time to get my ass back there.

sigh

Just played about 1k hands at nl200 and I think I’m gonna stop for the day, even though my plan was to put in a ton of hands when moving down.

I just notice that I’m kind of on life-tilt and I think it’s related to poker. Nothing really interesting happened during my session except for a tilty shove after a 27/24 raised my c-bet on a TT2 board and I shoved with AK to get him off of small pairs… and of course he has 2’s full. Everytime I can narrow a player’s range down to very few hands, it always seems like they show up with the goods lately.

Anyways, I just don’t think the vibe is good right now so time to quit for the day. I only ended up down a buyin, but it just seems like random shit is sending me off the deep end right now.

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, February 14, 14:58:18 ET 2008
Table Table 128205 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 3: b1ister ( $247.87 USD )
Seat 6: rak0r ( $270.55 USD )
Seat 4: HERO ( $224.75 USD )
Seat 5: svmgeest ( $189.63 USD )
Seat 1: ploper_ ( $200 USD )
Seat 2: janka999 ( $51.91 USD )
ploper_ posts small blind [$1 USD].
janka999 posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Ten of Spades

HERO raises [$8 USD]
svmgeest calls [$8 USD]
rak0r folds.
ploper_ folds.
janka999 folds.
** Dealing Flop ** Six of Hearts

HERO bets [$17 USD]
svmgeest raises [$38 USD]
HERO calls [$21 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** Five of Diamonds

HERO checks.
svmgeest bets [$32 USD]
HERO calls [$32 USD]
** Dealing River ** Ace of Spades

HERO checks.
svmgeest checks.
HERO shows Ten of Spades

two pairs, Tens and Nines.
svmgeest shows Ace of Hearts

two pairs, Aces and Nines.
svmgeest wins $157 USD from the main pot with two pairs, Aces and Nines.

just when i m feeling down party sets up a 500$ reload Bonus that should take 15k hands to grind off at nl200

works for me. no updates till i m done grinding it out. and no nl400 even if I run hot. br cushion ftw.

Update :

Have started grinding off 20k hands in 14 days for the Party Bonus.

I'm playing pretty snug 7-9 tabling and things have been going unbelievably bad. All at nl200.

I haven't experienced shitty variance like this since I first started playing cash games almost 2 years ago.

Fuck me.

I felt pretty good in today's first session. Then I checked results and saw that I had dropped a buyin over 1.5k hands.

Just fired up another session but knew the results were really really bad after about 30 mins so I just stopped cuz I felt shitty. Just checked and sure enough... -847$ in 369 hands.

Just for the shit of it I'll post the big hands from my 400 hand session :

Villain in this hand was a nit running at 17/12. Didn’t have a great postflop read.

Preflop is pretty much always a suited connector or PP. I check the flop to let him bluff small pairs – which I find these villains almost always do (putting HERO on big cards).

The way the action went, villain never has the nut or 2nd nut flush (assuming my preflop read is correct) and on the turn his range is 333, a straight with J9s, a flush and a bluff with a small pair. I decide to make the big turn call with the intention of calling any 4-flush board (unless the river brings the A or K of hearts, in which case it makes sense for him to shove a bit light with the 3rd or 4th nuts).

The river is a good card for me. I don't see him turning a str8 into a bluff so his shoving range gets really really narrow : 3’s full hoping I have a flush and can call and… the stone-cold str8 flush nuts. FWIW I’d play JT without a heart the exact same way if I decided to go with the hand on the turn.

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, February 20, 08:01:43 ET 2008
Table Table 127709 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 4: Monti666 ( $197 USD )
Seat 5: IhasFlush ( $200 USD )
Seat 6: Dominator98 ( $190.80 USD )
Seat 1: HERO ( $229.10 USD )
Seat 3: Malvina___ ( $58.55 USD )
HERO posts small blind [$1 USD].
Malvina___ is sitting out
Monti666 posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Queen of Spades

IhasFlush folds.
Malvina___ has left the table.
Dominator98 calls [$2 USD]
HERO raises [$10 USD]
Monti666 folds.
Dominator98 calls [$9 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** Queen of Clubs

ShipitFMAN has joined the table.
HERO checks.
Dominator98 bets [$20 USD]
HERO calls [$20 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** Eight of Hearts

HERO checks.
Dominator98 bets [$50 USD]
HERO calls [$50 USD]
** Dealing River ** Queen of Hearts

HERO checks.
Dominator98 is all-In.
HERO calls [$109.80 USD]
HERO shows Queen of Spades

three of a kind, Queens.
Dominator98 shows Jack of Hearts

a straight flush, Queen high.
Dominator98 wins $381.60 USD from the main pot with a straight flush, Queen high.

Here I lose to exactly 2 hands :

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, February 20, 08:12:21 ET 2008
Table Table 127709 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 4: Monti666 ( $209.75 USD )
Seat 6: Dominator98 ( $378.30 USD )
Seat 1: HERO ( $199 USD )
Seat 3: ShipitFMAN ( $194 USD )
Seat 5: Ignatius69 ( $96 USD )
Seat 2: vladaaa71 ( $69 USD )
Monti666 posts small blind [$1 USD].
Ignatius69 posts big blind [$2 USD].
vladaaa71 posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO King of Hearts

Dominator98 folds.
HERO raises [$10 USD]
vladaaa71 folds.
ShipitFMAN calls [$10 USD]
Monti666 folds.
Ignatius69 folds.
** Dealing Flop ** Two of Hearts

HERO bets [$21 USD]
ShipitFMAN raises [$55 USD]
HERO raises [$134 USD]
ShipitFMAN is all-In.
HERO calls [$29 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** Five of Spades

** Dealing River ** Eight of Diamonds

HERO shows King of Hearts

a pair of Kings.
ShipitFMAN shows Two of Clubs

three of a kind, Twos.
ShipitFMAN wins $390 USD from the main pot with three of a kind, Twos.

Here I call the weird flop minraise intending to shove over any heart turn and look to extract on the river if I hit an ace :

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, February 20, 08:12:09 ET 2008
Table Table 126396 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: Dragon168888 ( $65.10 USD )
Seat 4: Dominator98 ( $298.39 USD )
Seat 1: HERO ( $367.60 USD )
Seat 5: SwtHomeChcgo ( $204 USD )
Seat 3: Jacdaw ( $206.15 USD )
Seat 6: OBMAZ ( $198 USD )
Jacdaw posts small blind [$1 USD].
Dominator98 posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Ace of Hearts

SwtHomeChcgo folds.
OBMAZ calls [$2 USD]
HERO raises [$10 USD]
Dragon168888 folds.
Jacdaw folds.
Dominator98 folds.
OBMAZ calls [$8 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** Three of Clubs

OBMAZ checks.
HERO bets [$17 USD]
OBMAZ raises [$34 USD]
HERO calls [$17 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** Ten of Hearts

OBMAZ bets [$80 USD]
HERO raises [$160 USD]
OBMAZ is all-In.
** Dealing River ** Three of Hearts

HERO shows Ace of Hearts

a flush, Ace high.
OBMAZ shows Jack of Diamonds

a full house, Queens full of Threes.
HERO wins $6 USD from side pot #1 with a flush, Ace high.
OBMAZ wins $396 USD from the main pot with a full house, Queens full of Threes.

This next one is just a standard preflop play I make a lot when villains show lots of 3-betting aggression from the blinds. Rather than get fancy, I just shove TT+, suited aces and AK+. I love playing postflop in position but when I’m doing heavy multitabling this is a pretty tough strategy to play against and requires less tricky postflop thinking.

The result is that I usually have decent equity when called, get action on my monsters and usually get ppl to tighten up their 3-betting range which is great. Here the guy timed down to 2 secs before calling :

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, February 20, 07:52:16 ET 2008
Table Table 127709 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: Kitunen ( $201.65 USD )
Seat 4: Monti666 ( $197.20 USD )
Seat 5: IhasFlush ( $200 USD )
Seat 6: Dominator98 ( $196.80 USD )
Seat 1: HERO ( $214 USD )
Seat 3: dkyffin ( $0 USD )
Kitunen posts small blind [$1 USD].
Monti666 posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Ace of Clubs

IhasFlush folds.
Dominator98 folds.
HERO raises [$8 USD]
Kitunen raises [$27 USD]
Monti666 folds.
HERO is all-In.
Malvina___ has joined the table.
Kitunen is all-In.
** Dealing Flop ** Six of Spades

** Dealing Turn ** King of Diamonds

** Dealing River ** Seven of Spades

Kitunen shows Ten of Spades

a pair of Tens.
HERO shows Ace of Clubs

a pair of Sixes.
HERO wins $12.35 USD from side pot #1 with a pair of Sixes.
Kitunen wins $403.30 USD from the main pot with a pair of Tens.

This next hand was a semi-tough spot but I couldn’t find a fold since the villain was a 25/20 aggro with a high flop aggression. I usually see these players play overs +FD very aggressively.

If I stop and ask myself “what does he play this way that I beat?” I have a tough time finding an answer. But since I raised the flop and pretty much hit gin on the turn… Oh well :

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, February 20, 08:08:37 ET 2008
Table Table 127435 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: Nobbyxx ( $179.20 USD )
Seat 2: Dominator98 ( $395.71 USD )
Seat 6: HERO ( $367.75 USD )
Seat 4: Jacdaw ( $207.75 USD )
Seat 3: pinopuente ( $167.35 USD )
Seat 5: tropical17 ( $202.30 USD )
Nobbyxx posts small blind [$1 USD].
Dominator98 posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Ten of Clubs

pinopuente raises [$4 USD]
Jacdaw calls [$4 USD]
tropical17 folds.
HERO calls [$4 USD]
Nobbyxx folds.
Dominator98 folds.
** Dealing Flop ** Eight of Spades

pinopuente bets [$6 USD]
Jacdaw calls [$6 USD]
HERO raises [$27 USD]
pinopuente folds.
Jacdaw calls [$21 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** Five of Clubs

Jacdaw checks.
HERO bets [$41 USD]
Jacdaw is all-In.
HERO calls [$135.75 USD]
** Dealing River ** Nine of Hearts

HERO shows Ten of Clubs

a flush, Ten high.
Jacdaw shows Jack of Clubs

a flush, King high.
Jacdaw wins $425.50 USD from the main pot with a flush, King high.

This hand pretty much sums up 2008 :

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, February 20, 08:04:11 ET 2008
Table Jackpot #1305524 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: Delorgater ( $470.86 USD )
Seat 3: Rothkowitz ( $203 USD )
Seat 4: Ivory85 ( $578.55 USD )
Seat 5: Callimedon ( $215.50 USD )
Seat 6: Black_Balzam ( $244.87 USD )
Seat 2: HERO ( $222.50 USD )
HERO posts small blind [$1 USD].
Rothkowitz posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Ace of Clubs

Ivory85 calls [$2 USD]
Callimedon folds.
Black_Balzam folds.
Delorgater calls [$2 USD]
HERO calls [$1 USD]
Rothkowitz checks.
** Dealing Flop ** Six of Clubs

HERO bets [$6 USD]
Rothkowitz folds.
Ivory85 calls [$6 USD]
Delorgater folds.
** Dealing Turn ** Ace of Spades

HERO bets [$21 USD]
Ivory85 raises [$42 USD]
HERO raises [$67 USD]
Ivory85 calls [$46 USD]
** Dealing River ** Three of Spades

HERO bets [$126 USD]
Ivory85 raises [$252 USD]
HERO is all-In.
Ivory85 shows King of Spades

a full house, Kings full of Sixes.
HERO doesn't show Ace of Clubs

a full house, Sixes full of Aces.
The time at which hand ended:Feb 20 2008 08:05 ET
Ivory85 wins $125.50 USD from side pot #1 with a full house, Kings full of Sixes.
Ivory85 wins $445.50 USD from the main pot with a full house, Kings full of Sixes.

Bleh. It seems like every other session is like this one : short, brutal and just plain meh.

Unfortunately nothing good to report.

Played 1.2k hands just now at 17/13, got AA and KK 10 times combined and ended up - 2.5 buyins with them. Also ended up at -1k for the session.

God I'm sick of dropping 5 buyins every session. Make it stop.

Go and do something you really enjoy! And I don't mean anything Poker related. Make love to a beautiful woman, drink the finest whiskey and have the sweetest dreams snoozing in the afternoon.

k don t wanna be a downer

whatever it s hard right now

just made a prop bet that i d play 4k hands today (Friday). I'll post the 3 biggest winners and the 3 biggest losers after I make 50$ baby (amount of the prop bet).

brag : just finished 4k hands at nl200 in 1 day (ship the 50$)

beat : lost 2031$ in 4017 hands

variance : time for a long break?`

trip report shortly

Ok here are today’s 10 biggest losers in descending order :

1: Villain is 24/20 aggro. We have been splashing quite a bit both pre and postflop. I have been getting the better of him (called him down with A high, value bet thin in a cpl of reraised pots).

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, February 22, 21:33:59 ET 2008
Table Table 128206 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: tmkavs ( $247 USD )
Seat 2: zico59 ( $152.60 USD )
Seat 3: nevermo ( $228.70 USD )
Seat 4: MetalCommand ( $515.35 USD )
Seat 5: APresent4me ( $200 USD )
Seat 6: HERO ( $253.40 USD )
MetalCommand posts small blind [$1 USD].
APresent4me posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO King of Spades

HERO raises [$8 USD]
tmkavs folds.
zico59 folds.
nevermo calls [$8 USD]
MetalCommand folds.
APresent4me folds.
** Dealing Flop ** Four of Hearts

HERO bets [$17 USD]
nevermo raises [$56 USD]
HERO is all-In.
nevermo is all-In.
** Dealing Turn ** Six of Diamonds

** Dealing River ** Ace of Diamonds

nevermo shows Seven of Diamonds

three of a kind, Sevens.
HERO shows King of Hearts

a pair of Kings.
HERO wins $24.70 USD from side pot #1 with a pair of Kings.
nevermo wins $457.40 USD from the main pot with three of a kind, Sevens.
zico59 has left the table.

2: Villain is 26/24 tagg.

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, February 22, 17:31:29 ET 2008
Table Table 133907 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: IDontTilt55 ( $226.35 USD )
Seat 3: Amoroso5 ( $202 USD )
Seat 4: HERO ( $245.70 USD )
Seat 6: ahmet1601 ( $303.30 USD )
Seat 2: wennlund24 ( $226.95 USD )
Seat 5: BombaTTo ( $203 USD )
wennlund24 posts small blind [$1 USD].
Amoroso5 posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Ace of Clubs

HERO raises [$8 USD]
BombaTTo folds.
ahmet1601 folds.
IDontTilt55 raises [$27 USD]
wennlund24 folds.
Amoroso5 folds.
HERO is all-In.
IDontTilt55 is all-In.
** Dealing Flop ** Six of Clubs

** Dealing Turn ** Queen of Clubs

** Dealing River ** Jack of Clubs

IDontTilt55 shows Ace of Spades

two pairs, Aces and Queens.
HERO shows Ace of Clubs

two pairs, Queens and Sixes.
HERO wins $19.35 USD from side pot #1 with two pairs, Queens and Sixes.
IDontTilt55 wins $452.70 USD from the main pot with two pairs, Aces and Queens.

3: Villain is 25/18 tagg. He has raised me once on a dry flop and I folded air. Peeling and getting it in on a non-heart turn is probably better. Also I can bluff-shove if a heart falls on the turn and he checks twice.

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, February 22, 17:13:15 ET 2008
Table Table 125918 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 4: mannemer2 ( $177.75 USD )
Seat 5: SinCity23 ( $242.10 USD )
Seat 3: HERO ( $572.30 USD )
Seat 1: Zeeslagje ( $200 USD )
Seat 6: joeandyh1 ( $220.85 USD )
Seat 2: starbaby66 ( $60.80 USD )
joeandyh1 posts small blind [$1 USD].
starbaby66 posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Ace of Diamonds

HERO raises [$8 USD]
mannemer2 folds.
joeandyh1 calls [$7 USD]
starbaby66 folds.
** Dealing Flop ** King of Hearts

joeandyh1 bets [$18 USD]
HERO raises [$65 USD]
joeandyh1 is all-In.
HERO calls [$147.85 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** Jack of Clubs

** Dealing River ** Eight of Diamonds

HERO shows Ace of Diamonds

a pair of Kings.
joeandyh1 shows Nine of Diamonds

three of a kind, Nines.
joeandyh1 wins $441.70 USD from the main pot with three of a kind, Nines.

4: Villain’s preflop betting speaks for itself.

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, February 22, 22:55:00 ET 2008
Table Table 125552 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 5: Spitsberg ( $299.44 USD )
Seat 3: HERO ( $208.45 USD )
Seat 4: tatou4590 ( $113.76 USD )
Seat 2: vedder66688 ( $247.42 USD )
Seat 1: Moulton555 ( $198 USD )
HERO posts small blind [$1 USD].
tatou4590 posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Ace of Clubs

Spitsberg folds.
Moulton555 folds.
vedder66688 raises [$4 USD]
HERO raises [$16 USD]
tatou4590 folds.
vedder66688 raises [$26 USD]
Tiltpeppe has joined the table.
HERO is all-In.
vedder66688 calls [$178.45 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** Nine of Spades

** Dealing Turn ** Three of Clubs

** Dealing River ** Queen of Hearts

vedder66688 shows Jack of Spades

three of a kind, Jacks.
HERO doesn't show King of Diamonds

a pair of Kings.
vedder66688 wins $416.90 USD from the main pot with three of a kind, Jacks.

5: I get tricky and get stacked. Btn’s range is so looooooose (he s running at 60/14) and sb’s is pretty wide as well. I had been tight at the table so I think 4-betting gets a hand as strong as JJ or QQ to fold from the SB and obviously the button rarely has a shoving/calling hand when I 4-bet. Also I’m pretty sure when I play it the way I chose to the button will often go crazy with AK preflop and stack off postflop with any top pair type hand and often call a bullet with a PP on an innocuous board.

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, February 22, 16:49:44 ET 2008
Table Table 128385 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: bobdeboer ( $239.79 USD )
Seat 2: diman99 ( $231.73 USD )
Seat 3: ZAHO3A ( $214.10 USD )
Seat 4: APresent4me ( $207.25 USD )
Seat 6: Dominator98 ( $416.50 USD )
Seat 5: HERO ( $206.18 USD )
APresent4me posts small blind [$1 USD].
HERO posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Ace of Diamonds

Dominator98 folds.
bobdeboer folds.
diman99 folds.
ZAHO3A raises [$7 USD]
APresent4me raises [$23 USD]
HERO calls [$22 USD]
ZAHO3A calls [$17 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** Two of Diamonds

APresent4me checks.
HERO bets [$51 USD]
ZAHO3A calls [$51 USD]
APresent4me folds.
** Dealing Turn ** Six of Diamonds

HERO checks.
ZAHO3A bets [$88 USD]
HERO is all-In.
ZAHO3A calls [$43.18 USD]
** Dealing River ** Jack of Diamonds

ZAHO3A shows Eight of Diamonds

a flush, Jack high.
HERO doesn't show Ace of Diamonds

two pairs, Aces and Eights.
ZAHO3A wins $433.36 USD from the main pot with a flush, Jack high.

6: Villain is 17/7 but is weird (like limp reraising 55 from utg and stuff) and we have history. Mainly him stacking me with flopped monsters. I raised flop just expecting him to shove but thinking that the odd time he’d call the flop raise and fold to a turn shove.

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, February 22, 21:21:24 ET 2008
Table Table 127301 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: Pianist888 ( $224.13 USD )
Seat 3: Dominator98 ( $552.85 USD )
Seat 4: WhyDoWeFall ( $333.50 USD )
Seat 6: fraentsch ( $484.20 USD )
Seat 5: HERO ( $200 USD )
Seat 2: Mr_Wambat ( $235.50 USD )
Mr_Wambat posts small blind [$1 USD].
Dominator98 posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO King of Spades

WhyDoWeFall folds.
HERO raises [$8 USD]
Pianist888 folds.
Mr_Wambat folds.
Dominator98 raises [$18 USD]
HERO calls [$12 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** Jack of Spades

Dominator98 bets [$28 USD]
HERO raises [$61 USD]
Dominator98 calls [$33 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** Seven of Clubs

Dominator98 is all-In.
HERO is all-In.
** Dealing River ** Eight of Clubs

Dominator98 shows Queen of Clubs

two pairs, Queens and Sevens.
HERO doesn't show King of Spades

two pairs, Tens and Sevens.
Dominator98 wins $352.85 USD from side pot #1 with two pairs, Queens and Sevens.
Dominator98 wins $399 USD from the main pot with two pairs, Queens and Sevens.
Mr_Wambat has left the table.

7: Villain is a 68/10 fish, spewy post and pre (i.e. calling any 2 to a reraise). I feel like he goes broke with any ace or FD here.

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, February 22, 22:24:15 ET 2008
Table Table 133905 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 6: ahmet1601 ( $409 USD )
Seat 2: HERO ( $200 USD )
Seat 4: sayin83 ( $64.80 USD )
Seat 1: IchiDKilla ( $326.60 USD )
Seat 5: campersplay ( $40 USD )
Seat 3: turntablemrt ( $198 USD )
IchiDKilla posts small blind [$1 USD].
HERO posts big blind [$2 USD].
campersplay posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Nine of Diamonds

turntablemrt calls [$2 USD]
sayin83 calls [$2 USD]
campersplay checks.
ahmet1601 calls [$2 USD]
IchiDKilla calls [$1 USD]
HERO checks.
** Dealing Flop ** Ace of Clubs

IchiDKilla checks.
HERO bets [$12 USD]
turntablemrt folds.
sayin83 folds.
campersplay folds.
ahmet1601 raises [$148 USD]
IchiDKilla folds.
HERO is all-In.
ahmet1601 calls [$50 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** King of Hearts

** Dealing River ** Three of Diamonds

ahmet1601 shows Four of Diamonds

three of a kind, Fours.
HERO doesn't show Four of Hearts

two pairs, Nines and Fours.
ahmet1601 wins $405 USD from the main pot with three of a kind, Fours.

8: Villain was 21/14. Hard to put him on the hand he had.

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, February 22, 22:12:35 ET 2008
Table Table 133904 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 1: OmegaBDragon ( $200 USD )
Seat 2: HardManDavs ( $83.51 USD )
Seat 3: skink111 ( $287.25 USD )
Seat 6: melchorases ( $0 USD )
Seat 5: HERO ( $198 USD )
HERO posts small blind [$1 USD].
OmegaBDragon posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Ace of Spades

HardManDavs folds.
skink111 folds.
JediChipTrix has joined the table.
HERO raises [$7 USD]
OmegaBDragon calls [$6 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** Four of Clubs

HERO bets [$16 USD]
OmegaBDragon raises [$32 USD]
HERO calls [$16 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** Ace of Diamonds

HERO checks.
OmegaBDragon bets [$25 USD]
HERO calls [$25 USD]
** Dealing River ** Queen of Diamonds

HERO checks.
OmegaBDragon is all-In.
HERO is all-In.
HERO shows Ace of Spades

two pairs, Aces and Fours.
OmegaBDragon shows Queen of Clubs

a full house, Queens full of Fours.
OmegaBDragon wins $2 USD from side pot #1 with a full house, Queens full of Fours.
OmegaBDragon wins $394 USD from the main pot with a full house, Queens full of Fours.

9: When I flat pre it’s so I can raise a flop like this and rep a draw so I can stack JJ AT… I’m stacking off to AA and KK anyways vs this villain (23/19 taggy… I’ve been 3 betting quite a bit).

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, February 22, 22:51:45 ET 2008
Table Table 130448 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: ChicaLoco ( $166.23 USD )
Seat 3: tschipper ( $195.66 USD )
Seat 4: faf23 ( $308.59 USD )
Seat 6: HERO ( $205 USD )
Seat 5: ednovelo ( $155.90 USD )
Seat 1: lucky7154 ( $59.60 USD )
lucky7154 posts small blind [$1 USD].
ChicaLoco posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Queen of Hearts

tschipper raises [$7 USD]
faf23 folds.
ednovelo folds.
HERO calls [$7 USD]
lucky7154 folds.
ChicaLoco calls [$5 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** Two of Clubs

ChicaLoco checks.
tschipper bets [$14 USD]
HERO raises [$51 USD]
ChicaLoco folds.
tschipper raises [$150 USD]
HERO is all-In.
tschipper is all-In.
** Dealing Turn ** Nine of Hearts

** Dealing River ** Eight of Clubs

tschipper shows Nine of Spades

a full house, Nines full of Tens.
HERO shows Queen of Hearts

two pairs, Queens and Nines.
HERO wins $9.34 USD from side pot #1 with two pairs, Queens and Nines.
tschipper wins $396.32 USD from the main pot with a full house, Nines full of Tens.

10 : Villain is 19/16 but I don’t know how he plays preflop in blind wars. Bet-fold flop?

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, February 22, 21:43:12 ET 2008
Table Table 130448 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: tmkavs ( $179.75 USD )
Seat 3: micnicfratt ( $417.50 USD )
Seat 4: Dominator98 ( $239.80 USD )
Seat 5: kenpmurray ( $103.89 USD )
Seat 2: HERO ( $200 USD )
Seat 6: badger13781 ( $40.65 USD )
tmkavs posts small blind [$1 USD].
HERO posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Queen of Diamonds

Dominator98 folds.
kenpmurray folds.
tmkavs raises [$6 USD]
badger13781 has left the table.
HERO raises [$23 USD]
tmkavs calls [$18 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** King of Diamonds

tmkavs checks.
HERO checks.
** Dealing Turn ** Eight of Diamonds

jabassadone has joined the table.
tmkavs bets [$38 USD]
HERO calls [$38 USD]
** Dealing River ** Eight of Spades

tmkavs is all-In.
HERO calls [$116.75 USD]
tmkavs shows Queen of Clubs

a full house, Jacks full of Eights.
HERO shows Queen of Diamonds

two pairs, Queens and Jacks.
tmkavs wins $357.50 USD from the main pot with a full house, Jacks full of Eights.

Now for the 5 biggest winners

1: This is the kind of opponent I was sitting next to all day. Somehow managed to drop 10 buyins.

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, February 22, 17:48:41 ET 2008
Table Table 127301 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 4: HERO ( $294.95 USD )
Seat 1: Pianist888 ( $343.63 USD )
Seat 6: tedvanes ( $348 USD )
Seat 2: Rikmus ( $182.94 USD )
Seat 3: Dominator98 ( $199.15 USD )
Seat 5: jimmyb78 ( $198 USD )
jimmyb78 posts small blind [$1 USD].
tedvanes posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Jack of Spades

Pianist888 folds.
Dominator98 folds.
HERO raises [$8 USD]
jimmyb78 folds.
tedvanes raises [$16 USD]
HERO calls [$10 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** Two of Clubs

tedvanes bets [$15 USD]
HERO calls [$15 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** Ten of Spades

tedvanes bets [$30 USD]
HERO raises [$121 USD]
tedvanes calls [$91 USD]
** Dealing River ** Three of Hearts

tedvanes checks.
HERO is all-In.
tedvanes calls [$140.95 USD]
tedvanes shows King of Spades

a pair of Kings.
HERO shows Jack of Spades

a flush, Ace high.
HERO wins $588.90 USD from the main pot with a flush, Ace high.

2: Pretty thin. Since he was shortish, since it’s the perfect squeeze spot for me (I had squeezed 2 of 3 times earlier) and since there was all the dead money I figured his shoving range would be wider than QQ+ and AK.

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, February 22, 21:13:10 ET 2008
Table Table 127806 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: nevermo ( $191.75 USD )
Seat 2: ahmet1601 ( $169.05 USD )
Seat 3: Roachise ( $613.40 USD )
Seat 4: Dominator98 ( $195 USD )
Seat 6: HERO ( $291.90 USD )
Seat 5: buzzn1985 ( $44.20 USD )
HERO posts small blind [$1 USD].
nevermo posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Jack of Hearts

ahmet1601 raises [$8 USD]
Roachise folds.
Dominator98 calls [$8 USD]
buzzn1985 calls [$8 USD]
HERO raises [$34 USD]
nevermo folds.
ahmet1601 is all-In.
Dominator98 folds.
buzzn1985 is all-In.
HERO calls [$134.05 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** Queen of Hearts

** Dealing Turn ** Three of Diamonds

** Dealing River ** King of Clubs

HERO shows Jack of Hearts

a pair of Jacks.
ahmet1601 doesn't show Ten of Diamonds

a pair of Tens.
buzzn1985 doesn't show Eight of Hearts

high card King.
HERO wins $249.70 USD from side pot #1 with a pair of Jacks.
HERO wins $139.60 USD from the main pot with a pair of Jacks.

3: When variance serves you lemons guess you need to make some lemonade. Villain was a 54/11 spew-station who liked to bet for value with big hands.

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, February 22, 17:04:33 ET 2008
Table Table 125918 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: pinod1 ( $405.73 USD )
Seat 4: mannemer2 ( $216.78 USD )
Seat 5: SinCity23 ( $234.30 USD )
Seat 6: FullTimeDonk ( $230.11 USD )
Seat 3: HERO ( $209.85 USD )
Seat 1: Zeeslagje ( $200 USD )
pinod1 posts small blind [$1 USD].
HERO posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Ace of Hearts

mannemer2 calls [$2 USD]
SinCity23 folds.
FullTimeDonk folds.
pinod1 calls [$1 USD]
HERO raises [$9 USD]
mannemer2 calls [$9 USD]
pinod1 folds.
** Dealing Flop ** Queen of Diamonds

HERO bets [$16 USD]
mannemer2 calls [$16 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** Six of Hearts

HERO bets [$41 USD]
mannemer2 calls [$41 USD]
** Dealing River ** Two of Clubs

HERO checks.
mannemer2 is all-In.
HERO is all-In.
HERO shows Ace of Hearts

high card Ace.
mannemer2 shows Jack of Diamonds

high card Queen.
mannemer2 wins $6.93 USD from side pot #1 with high card, Queen.
HERO wins $419.70 USD from the main pot with high card, Ace.

4: He had been leading weak all session so a flop raise was kind of mandatory. After he shoves it’s pretty close I think.

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, February 22, 17:37:02 ET 2008
Table Table 126744 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: HERO ( $197 USD )
Seat 3: DARLENEROB ( $116.45 USD )
Seat 1: johnnyk411 ( $273.70 USD )
Seat 6: diman99 ( $208.45 USD )
Seat 4: gladiator107 ( $78.55 USD )
Seat 5: Ecktown_77 ( $43 USD )
Ecktown_77 posts small blind [$1 USD].
johnnyk411 posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Nine of Hearts

HERO raises [$8 USD]
DARLENEROB folds.
gladiator107 folds.
Ecktown_77 calls [$7 USD]
johnnyk411 calls [$6 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** Five of Hearts

Ecktown_77 checks.
johnnyk411 bets [$12 USD]
HERO raises [$45 USD]
Ecktown_77 folds.
johnnyk411 raises [$88 USD]
HERO is all-In.
johnnyk411 calls [$89 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** Ace of Spades

** Dealing River ** Five of Clubs

johnnyk411 shows Six of Hearts

two pairs, Eights and Sixes.
HERO shows Nine of Hearts

two pairs, Nines and Fives.
HERO wins $400 USD from the main pot with two pairs, Nines and Fives.

5: Value-town. His turn bet made me think he wanted me to fold. River bet-size is key. He was a donk (just a bit).

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, February 22, 11:54:31 ET 2008
Table Table 126823 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: Jetlaner ( $206.45 USD )
Seat 4: elevenouts ( $248.95 USD )
Seat 5: Juicy78 ( $159.36 USD )
Seat 6: TheMuppetShow ( $218.95 USD )
Seat 3: boy_vdveer ( $66.45 USD )
Seat 1: HERO ( $200 USD )
TheMuppetShow posts small blind [$1 USD].
HERO posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Ace of Spades

Jetlaner raises [$4 USD]
boy_vdveer folds.
elevenouts folds.
Juicy78 folds.
TheMuppetShow folds.
HERO raises [$15 USD]
Jetlaner calls [$13 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** Two of Hearts

HERO bets [$25 USD]
Jetlaner calls [$25 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** Nine of Clubs

HERO checks.
Jetlaner bets [$76 USD]
HERO raises [$152 USD]
Jetlaner calls [$76 USD]
** Dealing River ** Four of Clubs

HERO is all-In.
Jetlaner calls [$6 USD]
HERO shows Queen of Spades

a pair of Fours.
Jetlaner shows Six of Diamonds

a pair of Fours.
HERO wins $398 USD from the main pot with a pair of Fours with Ace kicker.

I dunno what to say. I’ve never come close to experiencing a run this bad before in poker. I might take yet another week off (puke) or even change sites and get on a rakeback-bonus site. I’ll def grinding out the remaining 2 or 3k hands left for the 500$ Bonus though.

I dunno maybe I’ve forgotten how to play poker and have become a huge donk? It’s possible.

When I look over these hands I see some iffy spots, maybe a little overaggression with AK preflop (but it's tough to fold it when you'r 3-betting a pretty wide range) but nothing too crazy. 2 of my 5 biggest winners involved really really sick reads the made me 800$ pots I didn't really deserve. I guess I should be encouraged by that but... wow my fking br is decimated right now. It's hard to think nice thoughts.

Hmm ya I think I can now officially say I've been experiencing a downswing.

thanks a lot for all the feedback Alex

Ya it s funny you mention flatting the AA and QQ hands. As you can see in most of my HH's I'm not a fan of slowplaying pre, esp since I don't hesitate to get it in w AK. So funny that I'm 2 for 2 today in stacking myself by flatting pre.

I agree that in a downswing it s prob more important to "not lose a big one" than to play for maximum ev, just cuz of tilt reasons... but I rly think that the AA hand is more +ev to flat in that spot.

but whatever, thx a lot for the replies and hopefully I'll be getting sucked out on by you as well at n500 on Crypto.

also, andy is supposed to be down next week so we gotta do it up.

Maybe we should go see the Bute fight Friday?

the big thing i was going to suggest is to cut down on some of the very very high variance plays. a lot of the combo draw stuff is obv +EV in a vacuum, but taking the psychological stuff into consideration it probably isnt so clear.

id really just focus on playing solid poker which i know sounds really cliche, but basically when the choice is really marginal and you dont know what to do between shoving, folding, whatever, id say take the more passive route so that you can get your head back together.

yea, itll prob be sacrificing some immediate ev, but spewing while tilting is probably worse in terms of winrate. you obviously have the game to beat these levels, i think the biggest thing is the mindset. when i went through similar streaks, that was definitely the biggest thing for me.

pick up "elements of poker" by tommy angelo and give that a read. it really does a good job of going over the other aspects of poker.

also, yea, im going to be coming up this friday. we will definitely have a blast, even if you bust your roll.

Decided to fire up some tables today. Here are the biggest pots so far.

Villain is 48/18 and we’ve been tangling :

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, February 26, 14:56:18 ET 2008
Table Table 125918 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 3: AlBaggieBoy1 ( $207.80 USD )
Seat 4: stevem7171 ( $165.07 USD )
Seat 5: HERO ( $205.40 USD )
Seat 6: MsZer000 ( $194 USD )
Seat 2: CashyP ( $201.88 USD )
Seat 1: juniormoff ( $105.20 USD )
stevem7171 posts small blind [$1 USD].
HERO posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Five of Spades

juniormoff did not respond in time
juniormoff folds.
CashyP raises [$6 USD]
AlBaggieBoy1 folds.
stevem7171 calls [$5 USD]
HERO calls [$4 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** Four of Spades

stevem7171 bets [$6 USD]
HERO raises [$24 USD]
CashyP folds.
stevem7171 calls [$18 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** Five of Hearts

stevem7171 checks.
HERO bets [$45 USD]
stevem7171 calls [$45 USD]
** Dealing River ** Three of Clubs

stevem7171 bets [$16 USD]
HERO calls [$16 USD]
stevem7171 shows King of Diamonds

a straight Three to Seven.
HERO doesn't show Five of Spades

a straight Two to Six.
stevem7171 wins $186 USD from the main pot with a straight, Three to Seven.

Villain is 81/0/0.4 and has been calling down with A high and any pair on paired boards:

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, February 26, 14:53:46 ET 2008
Table Jackpot #1311993 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: Ousia ( $297.75 USD )
Seat 5: janzett ( $226 USD )
Seat 6: sneaker123 ( $481.35 USD )
Seat 2: HERO ( $318.20 USD )
Seat 4: areuenraged ( $207 USD )
Seat 3: HQrn3t ( $37.46 USD )
sneaker123 posts small blind [$1 USD].
Ousia posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Ten of Hearts

HERO raises [$8 USD]
HQrn3t calls [$8 USD]
areuenraged folds.
janzett calls [$8 USD]
sneaker123 folds.
Ousia folds.
** Dealing Flop ** Queen of Clubs

HERO bets [$21 USD]
HQrn3t folds.
janzett calls [$21 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** Six of Diamonds

HERO checks.
janzett checks.
** Dealing River ** Queen of Hearts

HERO bets [$56 USD]
janzett raises [$112 USD]
HERO folds.
janzett does not show cards.
The time at which hand ended:Feb 26 2008 14:55 ET
janzett wins $233.50 USD

Same villain (81/0/0.4)

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, February 26, 14:28:41 ET 2008
Table Jackpot #1311993 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: Ousia ( $192.25 USD )
Seat 5: janzett ( $184.70 USD )
Seat 6: sneaker123 ( $253.30 USD )
Seat 2: HERO ( $283.35 USD )
Seat 3: cbj76 ( $77.50 USD )
Seat 4: batal911 ( $101.65 USD )
janzett posts small blind [$1 USD].
Ousia posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Ace of Diamonds

HERO raises [$8 USD]
cbj76 folds.
batal911 folds.
janzett calls [$7 USD]
Ousia folds.
** Dealing Flop ** Four of Clubs

janzett checks.
HERO bets [$16 USD]
janzett calls [$16 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** Queen of Diamonds

janzett checks.
HERO bets [$48 USD]
janzett calls [$48 USD]
** Dealing River ** Five of Clubs

janzett bets [$20 USD]
HERO calls [$20 USD]
janzett shows Jack of Hearts

two pairs, Queens and Jacks.
HERO doesn't show Ace of Spades

a pair of Aces.
The time at which hand ended:Feb 26 2008 14:29 ET
janzett wins $183.50 USD from the main pot with two pairs, Queens and Jacks.

Villain is unknown :

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, February 26, 14:48:48 ET 2008
Table Table 128208 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 5: HERO ( $254.30 USD )
Seat 3: CliffPung ( $262.10 USD )
Seat 4: spanaren1 ( $76.10 USD )
Seat 1: gwpostje ( $68.80 USD )
Seat 6: BubiAce ( $42 USD )
Seat 2: matteAA ( $200 USD )
spanaren1 posts small blind [$1 USD].
HERO posts big blind [$2 USD].
gwpostje posts big blind + dead [3 $].
matteAA posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Three of Spades

BubiAce folds.
gwpostje checks.
matteAA checks.
CliffPung calls [$2 USD]
spanaren1 calls [$1 USD]
HERO checks.
** Dealing Flop ** Eight of Spades

spanaren1 bets [$6 USD]
HERO raises [$24 USD]
gwpostje folds.
matteAA folds.
CliffPung folds.
spanaren1 is all-In.
HERO calls [$50.10 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** Nine of Diamonds

** Dealing River ** Five of Clubs

HERO shows Three of Spades

two pairs, Eights and Threes.
spanaren1 shows Two of Diamonds

a flush, Nine high.
spanaren1 wins $156.20 USD from the main pot with a flush, Nine high.

Gah just lost a half-stack in a reraised pot as I was posting this. Fuck it.

Keep it up Gen! Things will change soon for ya!

I had swung back up some and had 1.5k hands to grind off today for the P arty Bonus (with points redemption, about 800$).

Here are the 2 big hands I won. As you can see, I won both by playing pretty non-standard :

Both were vs taggy regs. Both got their asses owned. Not that I think they played badly…

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, March 02, 21:43:21 ET 2008
Table Jackpot #1306470 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: nhlscorer ( $196.10 USD )
Seat 3: InimicalDays ( $223.20 USD )
Seat 4: killbraincel ( $354.31 USD )
Seat 5: LeonPhelps2 ( $78.40 USD )
Seat 6: cris2121 ( $136 USD )
Seat 1: HERO ( $198 USD )
HERO posts small blind [$1 USD].
nhlscorer posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Ace of Diamonds

InimicalDays folds.
killbraincel raises [$7 USD]
LeonPhelps2 folds.
cris2121 folds.
HERO raises [$26 USD]
nhlscorer folds.
killbraincel calls [$20 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** Queen of Spades

HERO checks.
killbraincel checks.
** Dealing Turn ** Ten of Spades

HERO bets [$41 USD]
killbraincel calls [$41 USD]
** Dealing River ** Six of Clubs

HERO is all-In.
killbraincel calls [$130 USD]
HERO shows Ace of Diamonds

a pair of Queens.
killbraincel shows Ace of Clubs

a pair of Tens.
The time at which hand ended:Mar 02 2008 21:44 ET
HERO wins $394.50 USD from the main pot with a pair of Queens.

Too bad I had just lost pot the previous hand here. My stack size was one of the reasons for the flat-call.

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, March 02, 19:04:16 ET 2008
Table Table 127786 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: michbeck83 ( $179.05 USD )
Seat 3: douwep ( $33.55 USD )
Seat 4: fnldrmkck ( $212 USD )
Seat 5: PandaMaNiA ( $91.91 USD )
Seat 6: svenseidel ( $206.05 USD )
Seat 1: HERO ( $171 USD )
michbeck83 posts small blind [$1 USD].
douwep posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO King of Spades

fnldrmkck folds.
PandaMaNiA folds.
svenseidel raises [$10 USD]
HERO calls [$10 USD]
michbeck83 folds.
douwep folds.
** Dealing Flop ** Six of Clubs

svenseidel bets [$8 USD]
HERO raises [$30 USD]
svenseidel calls [$22 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** Seven of Hearts

svenseidel checks.
HERO bets [$65 USD]
svenseidel is all-In.
HERO is all-In.
** Dealing River ** Four of Diamonds

HERO shows King of Spades

a pair of Kings.
svenseidel shows Ace of Hearts

a pair of Jacks.
svenseidel wins $35.05 USD from side pot #1 with a pair of Jacks.
HERO wins $342 USD from the main pot with a pair of Kings.

Now for the rest of the big hands. Apparently Party management got word of my upcoming departure (to a site with more Rakeback and bonuses and such; running bad makes it seem impossible to win money and I need something to balance it off). My doomswitch was officially back on today:

Villain here was a loose-passive donkey. I really think this is close to a fold on the flop. Gah.

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, March 02, 16:55:19 ET 2008
Table Table 127937 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 4: jasonwong888 ( $688.76 USD )
Seat 5: JoBlac ( $67.30 USD )
Seat 2: HERO ( $401 USD )
Seat 3: kelmomo ( $133.50 USD )
Seat 1: Poker_Flow_ ( $125.12 USD )
Seat 6: gord0nloet ( $200 USD )
jasonwong888 posts small blind [$1 USD].
JoBlac posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Ten of Spades

gord0nloet folds.
Poker_Flow_ folds.
HERO raises [$7 USD]
kelmomo calls [$7 USD]
jasonwong888 calls [$6 USD]
JoBlac raises [$10 USD]
HERO calls [$5 USD]
kelmomo calls [$5 USD]
jasonwong888 calls [$5 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** Seven of Diamonds

jasonwong888 checks.
JoBlac is all-In.
HERO raises [$110.60 USD]
kelmomo folds.
jasonwong888 raises [$165.90 USD]
HERO is all-In.
jasonwong888 calls [$223.10 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** Two of Hearts

** Dealing River ** Four of Diamonds

jasonwong888 shows Ace of Clubs

three of a kind, Eights.
JoBlac doesn't show Ace of Spades

a pair of Eights.
HERO doesn't show Ten of Spades

three of a kind, Eights.
jasonwong888 wins $667.40 USD from side pot #1 with three of a kind, Eights with Ace kicker.
jasonwong888 wins $210.90 USD from the main pot with three of a kind, Eights with Ace kicker.

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, March 02, 21:09:50 ET 2008
Table Table 125383 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 2
Seat 2: HERO ( $222.75 USD )
Seat 6: DERTSV ( $231 USD )
DERTSV posts small blind [$1 USD].
HERO posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Six of Hearts

DERTSV calls [$1 USD]
HERO checks.
** Dealing Flop ** Eight of Spades

DERTSV bets [$4 USD]
HERO raises [$16 USD]
DERTSV calls [$12 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** Eight of Hearts

DERTSV checks.
HERO bets [$35 USD]
DERTSV raises [$80 USD]
HERO raises [$159 USD]
DERTSV calls [$114 USD]
** Dealing River ** Ten of Spades

DERTSV bets [$10 USD]
HERO is all-In.
DERTSV calls [$0.75 USD]
DERTSV shows Seven of Diamonds

a full house, Eights full of Tens.
HERO doesn't show Six of Hearts

a straight Six to Ten.
DERTSV wins $444.50 USD from the main pot with a full house, Eights full of Tens.

This is close to a flop fold. With a read that villain who raises was solid I’d have folded, but there was too much random top-pair protecting going on at this table for me to fear better draws a huge part of the time.

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, March 02, 16:48:31 ET 2008
Table Table 127937 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 4: jasonwong888 ( $218.93 USD )
Seat 5: JoBlac ( $78.65 USD )
Seat 2: HERO ( $373.20 USD )
Seat 3: kelmomo ( $156.50 USD )
Seat 1: Poker_Flow_ ( $351.12 USD )
Seat 6: gord0nloet ( $200 USD )
JoBlac posts small blind [$1 USD].
gord0nloet posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Jack of Spades

Poker_Flow_ raises [$7 USD]
HERO calls [$7 USD]
kelmomo calls [$7 USD]
jasonwong888 calls [$7 USD]
JoBlac folds.
gord0nloet calls [$5 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** Four of Spades

gord0nloet checks.
Poker_Flow_ checks.
HERO bets [$31 USD]
kelmomo folds.
jasonwong888 calls [$31 USD]
gord0nloet raises [$128 USD]
Poker_Flow_ folds.
HERO is all-In.
jasonwong888 is all-In.
gord0nloet is all-In.
** Dealing Turn ** Ten of Diamonds

** Dealing River ** Ace of Hearts

gord0nloet shows Five of Spades

a pair of Fives.
HERO shows Jack of Spades

high card Ace.
jasonwong888 shows Three of Spades

a pair of Tens.
HERO wins $154.27 USD from side pot #2 with high card, Ace.
jasonwong888 wins $37.86 USD from side pot #1 with a pair of Tens.
jasonwong888 wins $612 USD from the main pot with a pair of Tens.

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, March 02, 18:52:34 ET 2008
Table Table 128352 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: dtw08 ( $307.59 USD )
Seat 3: salue1111 ( $211.10 USD )
Seat 4: lazula ( $49.10 USD )
Seat 6: NewTrino ( $390.70 USD )
Seat 1: HERO ( $206.45 USD )
Seat 5: sue990 ( $68.09 USD )
NewTrino posts small blind [$1 USD].
HERO posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO King of Clubs

dtw08 raises [$10 USD]
salue1111 folds.
lazula folds.
sue990 folds.
NewTrino folds.
HERO calls [$8 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** Queen of Diamonds

HERO checks.
dtw08 bets [$14 USD]
HERO raises [$50 USD]
dtw08 is all-In.
HERO is all-In.
** Dealing Turn ** Five of Spades

** Dealing River ** Five of Hearts

HERO shows King of Clubs

two pairs, Kings and Fives.
dtw08 shows Ace of Spades

two pairs, Aces and Fives.
dtw08 wins $101.14 USD from side pot #1 with two pairs, Aces and Fives.
dtw08 wins $410.90 USD from the main pot with two pairs, Aces and Fives.

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, March 02, 19:20:10 ET 2008
Table Table 127374 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 5: xSIBERIAx ( $449.63 USD )
Seat 3: HERO ( $202 USD )
Seat 6: WhyDoWeFall ( $296.20 USD )
Seat 1: manufc111 ( $269.81 USD )
Seat 2: benno_dk ( $212.75 USD )
Seat 4: Skinny988 ( $168.75 USD )
WhyDoWeFall posts small blind [$1 USD].
manufc111 posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Nine of Spades

benno_dk folds.
HERO raises [$8 USD]
Skinny988 folds.
xSIBERIAx folds.
WhyDoWeFall folds.
manufc111 calls [$6 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** Seven of Spades

manufc111 bets [$6 USD]
HERO raises [$25 USD]
manufc111 calls [$19 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** Jack of Spades

manufc111 bets [$8 USD]
HERO raises [$65 USD]
manufc111 is all-In.
HERO is all-In.
** Dealing River ** Six of Hearts

HERO shows Nine of Spades

a straight Seven to Jack.
manufc111 shows Queen of Clubs

a straight Eight to Queen.
manufc111 wins $67.81 USD from side pot #1 with a straight, Eight to Queen.
manufc111 wins $402 USD from the main pot with a straight, Eight to Queen.

Click-it-back vs an aggro opponent. GG.

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, March 02, 21:16:52 ET 2008
Table Table 127949 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: salue1111 ( $299.30 USD )
Seat 3: Rafter77 ( $322.12 USD )
Seat 6: ALFONCE666 ( $80.49 USD )
Seat 1: HERO ( $197 USD )
Seat 4: kuropuzzle ( $200 USD )
Seat 5: Russian7 ( $40 USD )
salue1111 posts small blind [$1 USD].
Rafter77 posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Four of Clubs

ALFONCE666 folds.
HERO raises [$7 USD]
salue1111 folds.
Rafter77 calls [$5 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** Nine of Clubs

Rafter77 checks.
HERO bets [$11 USD]
Rafter77 raises [$30 USD]
HERO raises [$38 USD]
Rafter77 calls [$19 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** Ten of Diamonds

Rafter77 checks.
HERO bets [$75 USD]
Rafter77 raises [$206 USD]
HERO is all-In.
** Dealing River ** Three of Spades

Rafter77 shows Seven of Clubs

three of a kind, Sevens.
HERO doesn't show Four of Clubs

three of a kind, Fours.
Rafter77 wins $62 USD from side pot #1 with three of a kind, Sevens.
Rafter77 wins $399 USD from the main pot with three of a kind, Sevens.

River here shoulda been a fold. I called with 1 second left. You know that feeling when you know you got sucked out on… but you just HAVE to see it? :

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, March 02, 19:30:56 ET 2008
Table Table 128207 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: xSIBERIAx ( $344.90 USD )
Seat 2: Ljuti_Gusar ( $219.80 USD )
Seat 4: carlo1969 ( $195.21 USD )
Seat 5: dtw08 ( $200 USD )
Seat 6: Wesker333 ( $197.65 USD )
Seat 3: HERO ( $200 USD )
Ljuti_Gusar posts small blind [$1 USD].
HERO posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO King of Hearts

carlo1969 calls [$2 USD]
dtw08 folds.
Wesker333 folds.
xSIBERIAx folds.
Ljuti_Gusar folds.
HERO raises [$9 USD]
carlo1969 calls [$9 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** Eight of Clubs

HERO bets [$21 USD]
carlo1969 calls [$21 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** Six of Clubs

HERO bets [$51 USD]
carlo1969 calls [$51 USD]
** Dealing River ** Eight of Diamonds

HERO bets [$50 USD]
carlo1969 is all-In.
HERO calls [$62.21 USD]
HERO shows Ace of Diamonds

two pairs, Kings and Eights.
carlo1969 shows Ace of Spades

three of a kind, Eights.
carlo1969 wins $388.42 USD from the main pot with three of a kind, Eights.

This was the very last hand of my party Bonus. No effing joke (it made me quit and I realized I had just passed the requirements) :

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, March 02, 20:04:47 ET 2008
Table Jackpot #1304946 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: InspectrGrim ( $188.70 USD )
Seat 2: newboy444 ( $349.21 USD )
Seat 5: sneaker123 ( $399.10 USD )
Seat 3: HERO ( $203 USD )
Seat 4: MrMagoo555 ( $197 USD )
Seat 6: shinerr56 ( $66.13 USD )
newboy444 posts small blind [$1 USD].
HERO posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO Ace of Hearts

MrMagoo555 folds.
sneaker123 folds.
shinerr56 calls [$2 USD]
InspectrGrim raises [$10 USD]
newboy444 calls [$9 USD]
HERO raises [$37 USD]
shinerr56 folds.
InspectrGrim is all-In.
newboy444 folds.
HERO calls [$149.70 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** Seven of Hearts

** Dealing Turn ** Five of Clubs

** Dealing River ** King of Clubs

HERO shows Ace of Hearts

two pairs, Aces and Fives.
InspectrGrim shows Ace of Clubs

a flush, Ace high.
The time at which hand ended:Mar 02 2008 20:05 ET
InspectrGrim wins $385.90 USD from the main pot with a flush, Ace high.

Amazingly, these all happened during today’s 1.5k hand 2-part session.

poop you, Party Poker and poop you, Variance.

I’m done with this for a little while. Gonna move my roll to another site and do a bunch of schoolwork this week. GL all.

Ok I'm done with Party and have started playing on another site with Rakeback and bonuses.

I'm gonna start out with nl200 (or nl100 pounds) with a relatively small BR and see what happens.

Taking a week off did wonders for my head. I railed a friend at 5-10 and helped him win some moniez, which was fun.

I think I'm going to take this thread back to it's original format : only gonna post the interesting hands.

There's just no need for me to whine about beats and talk about variance. My last little run had been so fucking bad that I guess I just needed to vent somewhere, so hopefully I'm done with that.

Here's a fun hand from today... actually the last hand of the session. Villain was splashy, a bit donkish and INSTA-called flop, then thought for a few seconds before calling the turn :

Table "Erlidge" Seat 4 is the button.
Seat 1: The_b_fox (£95.85 in chips)
Seat 2: Ryanm2401 (£180.60 in chips)
Seat 3: HERO (£100 in chips)
Seat 4: Yatman (£176.25 in chips)
Seat 5: millie (£206.35 in chips)
Seat 6: Alist0701 (£98.50 in chips)
millie: posts small blind £0.50
Alist0701: posts big blind £1
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO King of Clubs

The_b_fox: folds
Ryanm2401: folds
HERO: raises to £3.50
Yatman: calls £3.50
millie: folds
Alist0701: folds
----- FLOP ----- Queen of Hearts

HERO: bets £7
Yatman: calls £7
----- TURN ----- Queen of Hearts

HERO: bets £17
Yatman: calls £17
----- RIVER ----- ] Queen of Hearts

HERO: checks
Yatman: bets £32
HERO: raises to £72.50 and is all-in
Yatman: folds
Returned uncalled bets £40.50 to HERO
HERO: doesn't show hand
HERO collected £117.50 from Main pot

Here are couple more hands from the first days since changing sites. Haven’t played much, but trying to really focus hard and play good laggy 4-tabling poker.

I haven’t spewed once yet and have done really well in some pretty marginal spots.

Here villain and I had tangled and I had just pushed him off a big hand (according to his chat). He runs at 14/7 preflop so he can definitely have a good ace in his range :

Table "Erlidge" Seat 3 is the button.
Seat 1: Razor666 (£130.15 in chips)
Seat 2: Carol1952 sits out
Seat 3: EDDDDDIE (£87.80 in chips)
Seat 4: fattis (£86.85 in chips)
Seat 5: Olof1412 (£42.50 in chips)
Seat 6: HERO (£153.15 in chips)
fattis: posts small blind £0.50
Olof1412: posts big blind £1
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO Queen of Spades

HERO: raises to £3.50
Razor666: calls £3.50
EDDDDDIE: folds
fattis: folds
Olof1412: folds
----- FLOP ----- Queen of Diamonds

HERO: bets £7
Razor666: raises to £17
HERO: calls £10
----- TURN ----- Queen of Diamonds

HERO: checks
Razor666: checks
----- RIVER ----- Queen of Diamonds

HERO: checks
Razor666: bets £25
HERO: raises to £132.65 and is all-in
Razor666: is all-in £84.65
Returned uncalled bets £23 to HERO
----- SHOW DOWN -----
HERO: shows Queen of Spades

(Four of a kind, Queens, Ace high)
Razor666: shows Ace of Spades

(Two Pairs, Aces and Kings, Queen high)
HERO collected £258.80 from Main pot

This villain was pretty laggtardish and was betting out the strength of his hand quite a bit :

Table "Erlidge" Seat 6 is the button.
Seat 1: Razor666 sits out
Seat 3: EDDDDDIE (£91.95 in chips)
Seat 4: Mr.Snugz sits out
Seat 6: HERO (£281.85 in chips)
HERO: posts small blind £0.50
EDDDDDIE: posts big blind £1
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO King of Hearts

HERO: raises to £3
Deni02105 joins the table at seat #5
EDDDDDIE: calls £2
----- FLOP ----- Eight of Hearts

EDDDDDIE: checks
HERO: bets £5
EDDDDDIE: calls £5
----- TURN ----- Eight of Hearts

EDDDDDIE: checks
HERO: bets £12
EDDDDDIE: calls £12
----- RIVER ----- Eight of Hearts

EDDDDDIE: bets £9
HERO: raises to £36
EDDDDDIE: folds
Returned uncalled bets £27 to HERO
HERO: doesn't show hand
HERO collected £57 from Main pot

Here villain had been 3-betting my opens quite a bit (probably about 5 times in 6 orbits or so). It’s never a great feeling getting it in with TT but whatever…

Table "Anto" Seat 1 is the button.
Seat 1: ve6ticata ($161.66 in chips)
Seat 2: Anurysm ($83.40 in chips)
Seat 3: sonnym ($227.55 in chips)
Seat 4: Campo1 ($141.65 in chips)
Seat 5: Leon13022 ($74.20 in chips)
Seat 6: HERO ($205.70 in chips)
Anurysm: posts small blind $1
sonnym: posts big blind $2
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO Ten of Spades

Campo1: folds
Leon13022: folds
HERO: raises to $7
ve6ticata: raises to $20
Anurysm: folds
sonnym: folds
HERO: raises to $68
ve6ticata: raises to $161.66 and is all-in
HERO: calls $93.66
----- FLOP ----- Five of Diamonds

----- TURN ----- ;5d: Seven of Hearts

----- RIVER ----- Seven of Diamonds

----- SHOW DOWN -----
ve6ticata: shows [Jd Js] (Two Pairs, Jacks and Sevens, King high)
HERO: shows [Ts Td] (Two Pairs, Tens and Sevens, King high)
ve6ticata collected $323.32 from Main pot

I think this was probably my best hand of the session, given reads.

Limp-caller was a shorty 53/18 fish whose range was definitely not only top pair +. Cold-caller OOP was a 41/17 player who peeled lots of flops. Of course the risky thing about this play is that I have so little equity when behind… I felt that the dead money in the pot compensated, especially since I felt that the cold-caller on the flop would fold such a huge % of his range :

Table "Anto" Seat 2 is the button.
Seat 1: KWR460 ($197 in chips)
Seat 2: Anurysm ($118.40 in chips)
Seat 3: sonnym ($219.55 in chips)
Seat 4: Campo1 ($143.50 in chips)
Seat 5: Leon13022 ($77.10 in chips)
Seat 6: HERO ($200 in chips)
sonnym: posts small blind $1
Campo1: posts big blind $2
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO Seven of Clubs

Leon13022: calls $2
HERO: raises to $9
KWR460: folds
Anurysm: folds
sonnym: folds
Campo1: calls $7
Leon13022: calls $7
----- FLOP ----- Three of Spades

Campo1: checks
Leon13022: checks
HERO: bets $24
Campo1: calls $24
Leon13022: raises to $68.10 and is all-in
HERO: raises to $191 and is all-in
Campo1: folds
Returned uncalled bets $122.90 to HERO
----- TURN ----- Eight of Spades

----- RIVER ----- Eight of Spades

----- SHOW DOWN -----
HERO: shows Seven of Clubs

(Two Pairs, Eights and Sevens, Ace high)
Leon13022: shows Ace of Diamonds

(Two Pairs, Aces and Eights, Five high)
Leon13022 collected $185.20 from Main pot

Finally, here’s a pretty cool one from yesterday :

Villain here was pretty passive in general, but raising virtually every BvB situation. I would vary my play here typically with Ax but here I decided to call pre and raise all flops that were good ones to c-bet.

On the river it REALLY looks like he’s trying to push me off of a split…

Table "Erlidge" Seat 1 is the button.
Seat 1: The_b_fox (£95.50 in chips)
Seat 2: Ryanm2401 (£108.05 in chips)
Seat 3: HERO (£120.83 in chips)
Seat 4: Yatman (£108.90 in chips)
Seat 5: millie (£190.15 in chips)
Seat 6: Eatmynuts (£198.60 in chips)
Ryanm2401: posts small blind £0.50
HERO: posts big blind £1
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO Ace of Clubs

Yatman: folds
millie: folds
Eatmynuts: folds
The_b_fox: folds
Ryanm2401: raises to £3
HERO: calls £2
----- FLOP ----- Two of Diamonds

Ryanm2401: checks
HERO: checks
----- TURN ----- Two of Diamonds

Ryanm2401: bets £4
HERO: calls £4
----- RIVER ----- Two of Diamonds

Ryanm2401: bets £17
HERO: raises to £61
Ryanm2401: folds
Returned uncalled bets £44 to HERO
HERO: doesn't show hand
HERO collected £45.60 from Main pot

Villain here was a bad, laggy player.

Table "Keller" Seat 1 is the button.
Seat 1: HERO ($211.30 in chips)
Seat 2: OnniBosse ($198 in chips)
Seat 3: kaffebarn ($144.95 in chips)
Seat 4: SkipperD ($208 in chips)
Seat 5: fresh ($206 in chips)
Seat 6: agfagf ($72.50 in chips)
OnniBosse: posts small blind $1
kaffebarn: posts big blind $2
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO Seven of Spades

SkipperD: folds
fresh: folds
agfagf: calls $2
HERO: raises to $8.50
OnniBosse: folds
kaffebarn: calls $6.50
agfagf: folds
----- FLOP ----- Queen of Clubs

kaffebarn: checks
HERO: bets $16
kaffebarn: calls $16
----- TURN ----- Queen of Clubs

kaffebarn: checks
HERO: checks
----- RIVER ----- Queen of Clubs

kaffebarn: bets $20
HERO: raises to $80
kaffebarn: folds
Returned uncalled bets $60 to HERO
HERO: doesn't show hand
HERO collected $89 from Main pot

Here’s a pretty interesting one. The real point of interest is the flop.

I 3-bet pretty small to protect as well as to get him to tell me what was up. It may sound lame (I’m not a big fan of “raising for info”) but this villain had just posted OOP and seemed donkish. I figured he’s flat-call his draws and shove his big hands.

I’d have been getting a great price but I ***could*** have folded to a flop shove. Doubt it though; it would’ve depended on timing.

Table "Coral" Seat 2 is the button.
Seat 1: Zeggey (€80.68 in chips)
Seat 2: mooriczka (€99.50 in chips)
Seat 3: Xeneizez (€99.50 in chips)
Seat 4: kasiguapo sits out
Seat 5: h2theizzo (€94.75 in chips)
Seat 6: HERO (€126.10 in chips)
Xeneizez: posts small blind €0.50
h2theizzo: posts big blind €1
Zeggey: posts small blind €0.50
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO Ace of Diamonds

kasiguapo sits back
HERO: raises to €3.50
Zeggey: calls €3
mooriczka: folds
Xeneizez: folds
h2theizzo: folds
----- FLOP ----- Two of Spades

HERO: bets €7
Zeggey: raises to €14
HERO: raises to €31
Zeggey: calls €17
----- TURN ----- Two of Spades

HERO: bets €51
Zeggey: is all-in €46.18
Returned uncalled bets €4.82 to HERO
----- RIVER ----- Two of Spades

----- SHOW DOWN -----
HERO: shows Ace of Diamonds

(A Pair of Eights, Ace high)
Zeggey: shows Six of Spades

(A Straight, Nine high)
Zeggey collected €159.86 from Main pot

I’m tilted so gonna stop. The hands that set me off were just coolers so no point in talking about them.

There were def a couple of interesting spots though that I think are worth posting… Such as :

This turn spot was really really tough.

Villain here had been playing pretty insane in his first few orbits, betting full pot with a wide range postflop and raising random amounts preflop (from 2x all the way to 5x).

I considered 3-betting pre, but figured he’d be calling almost 100% of the time and I’d be OOP with about a potsized bet left and air a pretty big % of the time on the turn. Another reason for the flat call pre is that I think he c-bets flops that I hit well (A high or T high) 100% of the time so I’m getting nice implied odds when I do hit… usually.

When he 2-barrels the turn with 3 of us seeing it, I really have to think about folding my hand. The 3rd player in was basically just adding dead money to the pot (he had any pair, any hand like QJ looking to hit the turn, any gutter, any A... etc). I had just made a huge call with bottom pair vs the villain though and felt like he would be tilt-potting a decent % of the time so I just decided to go with it. The gut was telling we to be careful and I almost folded… Meh.

Table "Zartura" Seat 3 is the button.
Seat 3: Riverrdr1 (£102.45 in chips)
Seat 4: Nh_sir sits out
Seat 5: HERO (£186.79 in chips)
Seat 6: jinmaster (£59.29 in chips)
HERO: posts small blind £0.50
jinmaster: posts big blind £1
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO Ace of Clubs

Riverrdr1: raises to £5
HERO: calls £4.50
jinmaster: calls £4
----- FLOP ----- Ace of Spades

HERO: checks
jinmaster: checks
Riverrdr1: bets £14
HERO: calls £14
jinmaster: calls £14
----- TURN ----- Ace of Spades

HERO: checks
jinmaster: checks
Riverrdr1: bets £43
HERO: raises to £86
jinmaster: folds
Riverrdr1: is all-in £40.45
Returned uncalled bets £2.55 to HERO
----- RIVER ----- Ace of Spades

----- SHOW DOWN -----
HERO: shows Ace of Clubs

(Two Pairs, Aces and Threes, Jack high)
Riverrdr1: shows Ace of Diamonds

(Two Pairs, Aces and Threes, King high)
Riverrdr1 collected £221.90 from Main pot

Here’s I think the most interesting hand of the session. Villain here was running about 26/14 and had twice 4-bet my squeezes (I folded pretty strong hands both times) and also called down a 2-barrel with top pair weak kicker (I showed down a turned straight draw and the riv went check-check) that picked up a straight draw on the turn. So he definitely views me as aggressive.

On the other hand he’s seen me check overpairs on the flop (although I only did it a couple times vs nits whose range consisted of sets and underpairs that whiffed… but he doesn t necessarily know that and could potentially view me as trappy). So I check the flop looking to fold to his bet (since I’d doubt he folds anything as strong as A-high but will check behind with a bunch of marginal hands allowing me to value-bet 1, maybe 2 streets when I hit a 6-outer).

After he checks behind his hand looks to me like a small pair or A or K high. There’s a small chance he has a monster… but there are just so few hands that hit that flop hard. Also, I’m pretty sure he’d try to take the pot down with air (in this spot I’d definitely consider A or K high stronger than “air”) after I check so his range to me looks a LOT like A high or a small pair going for pot control since I may be trapping with something like QQ.

The turn call is my worst play in this hand, but I really felt like I had a hand that could check-raise almost any non-Ace, non spade river and value-bet and K or J. Also I don’t like the regs to think they can auto-bet when I check OOP. Also, he pretty much never has a flush here for obvious reasons.

The river comes perfect for me. Also his bet size is great since it shifts his range towards monsters and bluffs. All big spades missed and I don’t see him value-betting this strongly with a rivered Q (what can I call him with that he beats?). But I can’t call profitably since A high will win the showdown a good % of the time so I go for a fake value-checkriase to get him off air (which for the most part will have big spades), small pairs that are bluffing (pretty unlikely imo). I don’t encounter many players at this level capable of calling a checkraise without a very strong hand here.

Table "King" Seat 4 is the button.
Seat 1: leraner ($105.55 in chips)
Seat 2: Jacktar13 ($127.45 in chips)
Seat 3: pity ($107.75 in chips)
Seat 4: basket114 ($441.55 in chips)
Seat 5: HERO ($317.55 in chips)
Seat 6: BMWCoupe ($390.20 in chips)
HERO: posts small blind $1
BMWCoupe: posts big blind $2
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO King of Hearts

leraner: folds
Jacktar13: folds
pity: folds
basket114: folds
HERO: raises to $7
BMWCoupe: calls $5
----- FLOP ----- Ten of Spades

HERO: checks
BMWCoupe: checks
----- TURN ----- Ten of Spades

HERO: checks
BMWCoupe: bets $8
HERO: calls $8
----- RIVER ----- Ten of Spades

HERO: checks
BMWCoupe: bets $20
HERO: raises to $65
BMWCoupe: calls $45
----- SHOW DOWN -----
HERO: shows King of Hearts

(A Pair of Tens, King high)
BMWCoupe: shows Ace of Hearts

(Three of a kind, Tens, Ace high)
BMWCoupe collected $157 from Main pot

This hand is interesting because of the double-trapping going on. The river was a close spot since JJ pretty much equals AA… so what can villain have? Also, we have history with villain, who is a huge nit (14/8… cold-calling AK preflop etc). bluffraising (?) things like 99 on QQJ boards… so he can definitely show up with a random bluff here.

Only problem is that it looks like suuuch a value-raise. Bleh. One of the reasons for the flop check was that I figured his flop bluffraising range would be pretty balanced (since I’d seen him bluffraise underpairs on paired boards before). A pretty tough hand.

Table "Erlidge" Seat 2 is the button.
Seat 1: booberoo (£110.05 in chips)
Seat 2: Razor666 (£98.50 in chips)
Seat 3: Caballa45 (£270.20 in chips)
Seat 4: Xeneizez (£134.40 in chips)
Seat 5: HERO (£115.64 in chips)
Seat 6: Magic1an (£36.05 in chips)
Caballa45: posts small blind £0.50
Xeneizez: posts big blind £1
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO Jack of Spades

HERO: raises to £3.50
Magic1an: folds
booberoo: folds
Razor666: calls £3.50
Caballa45: folds
Xeneizez: folds
----- FLOP ----- Ten of Clubs

HERO: checks
Razor666: checks
----- TURN ----- Ten of Clubs

HERO: bets £6
Razor666: calls £6
----- RIVER ----- Ten of Clubs

HERO: bets £15
Razor666: raises to £45
HERO: calls £30
----- SHOW DOWN -----
Razor666: shows Nine of Clubs

(Three of a kind, Eights, Ten high)
HERO: mucks hand Jack of Spades

Razor666 collected £107.50 from Main pot

This is a fun one. Villain here is repping a set, 2 pair or a big draw. I decide to take the “let’s see a safe turn card and get it in” line. Results are amusing.

Table "Gas" Seat 4 is the button.
Seat 1: BMWCoupe ($326.55 in chips)
Seat 2: leraner ($231.60 in chips)
Seat 3: pity ($153.14 in chips)
Seat 4: HERO ($201.65 in chips)
Seat 5: basket114 ($243.95 in chips)
Seat 6: Litchy86 ($136.94 in chips)
basket114: posts small blind $1
Litchy86: posts big blind $2
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO Eight of Diamonds

BMWCoupe: folds
leraner: folds
pity: folds
HERO: raises to $7
basket114: folds
Litchy86: calls $5
----- FLOP ----- Eight of Spades

Litchy86: checks
HERO: bets $12
Litchy86: raises to $34
HERO: calls $22
----- TURN ----- Eight of Spades

Litchy86: bets $78
HERO: raises to $156
Litchy86: is all-in $17.94
Returned uncalled bets $60.06 to HERO
----- RIVER ----- Eight of Spades

----- SHOW DOWN -----
HERO: shows Eight of Diamonds

(A Pair of Eights, Jack high)
Litchy86: shows Queen of Diamonds

(High Card Queen)
HERO collected $271.88 from Main pot

This is a pretty huge turn call and it looks pretty spewy. I made it simply because of the timing of villain’s INSTA-shove. I think if he had a pair with his draw, he’d have thought much much longer.

Table "Ludwig" Seat 1 is the button.
Seat 1: sam31 (£36.10 in chips)
Seat 3: HERO (£102.65 in chips)
sam31: posts small blind £0.50
HERO: posts big blind £1
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO Ace of Hearts

sam31: calls £0.50
HERO: raises to £4
sam31: calls £3
----- FLOP ----- King of Hearts

HERO: bets £6
sam31: calls £6
----- TURN ----- King of Hearts

HERO: checks
sam31: bets £26.10 and is all-in
HERO: calls £26.10
----- RIVER ----- King of Hearts

----- SHOW DOWN -----
sam31: shows Three of Hearts

(High Card King)
HERO: shows Ace of Hearts

(High Card Ace)
HERO collected £71.20 from Main pot

Gl everybody. I’ll try to keep this thread interesting.

I’ve been getting absolutely murdered at the new site I’ve been playing. For the first time since I was a noob, I’ve had to redeposit just to keep playing.

Regardless, I think I’ve been playing great and really haven’t gotten it in bad much until today when my AKs ran into a whale’s AA ai preflop. I flopped top pair + NFD but somehow whiffed.

Here are a couple hands. I’m uber-tilted right now so gonna take a break.

Wtf… Standard I guess, esp from BB :

Table "Larch" Seat 4 is the button.
Seat 1: SirWinLot (£90.99 in chips)
Seat 2: Lawman (£35.67 in chips)
Seat 3: HERO (£138.34 in chips)
Seat 4: dury (£102.10 in chips)
Seat 5: chrtin (£49.65 in chips)
chrtin: posts small blind £0.50
SirWinLot: posts big blind £1
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO Ten of Diamonds

Lawman: raises to £4
HERO: raises to £13
dury: folds
chrtin: folds
SirWinLot: calls £12
Lawman: calls £9
----- FLOP ----- Queen of Diamonds

SirWinLot: bets £77.99 and is all-in
Lawman: is all-in £22.67
HERO: calls £77.99
----- TURN ----- Queen of Diamonds

----- RIVER ----- Queen of Diamonds

----- SHOW DOWN -----
SirWinLot: shows Three of Hearts

(A Pair of Fives, Queen high)
Lawman: shows Ace of Diamonds

(A Pair of Fives, Ace high)
HERO: shows Ten of Diamonds

(Two Pairs, Tens and Fives, Queen high)
HERO collected £110.64 from Side pot #1
HERO collected £104.51 from Main pot

Seriously... I must have had like 2% equity on the turn there. Who knows how it held.

Getting levelled :

I had been raising the flop quite a bit, villain here was 30/15 and INSTA clicked-it-back.

Table "Locke" Seat 5 is the button.
Seat 1: leraner ($121.05 in chips)
Seat 2: secadero ($210 in chips)
Seat 3: nazgull99 ($212.55 in chips)
Seat 4: HERO ($217.60 in chips)
Seat 5: Daigle ($194 in chips)
Seat 6: gedden ($61 in chips)
gedden: posts small blind $1
leraner: posts big blind $2
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO King of Clubs

secadero: folds
nazgull99: raises to $6
HERO: calls $6
Daigle: folds
gedden: folds
leraner: folds
----- FLOP ----- Eight of Diamonds

nazgull99: bets $6
HERO: raises to $21
nazgull99: raises to $44
HERO: raises to $211.60 and is all-in
nazgull99: is all-in $162.55
Returned uncalled bets $5.05 to HERO
----- TURN ----- Eight of Diamonds

----- RIVER ----- Eight of Diamonds

----- SHOW DOWN -----
HERO: shows King of Clubs

(Two Pairs, Eights and Fours, King high)
nazgull99: shows Eight of Clubs

(A Full House, Eights full of Fours)
nazgull99 collected $425.10 from Main pot

Here are a few bluffs from today. Any feedback is welcome.

Maybe none is necessary since there wasn’t a ton of history between the villains and I in any of them.

Villain here had taggy stats.

Table "King" Seat 1 is the button.
Seat 1: Lundgaard ($227.30 in chips)
Seat 2: Agentu ($223 in chips)
Seat 3: mattdamon ($191.10 in chips)
Seat 4: svetlana ($284.25 in chips)
Seat 5: Tristar99 ($402.94 in chips)
Seat 6: HERO ($203.65 in chips)
Agentu: posts small blind $1
mattdamon: posts big blind $2
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO Queen of Spades

svetlana: folds
Tristar99: raises to $7
HERO: calls $7
Lundgaard: folds
Agentu: folds
mattdamon: folds
----- FLOP ----- King of Diamonds

Tristar99: checks
HERO: checks
----- TURN ----- King of Diamonds

Tristar99: bets $13
HERO: raises to $41
Tristar99: calls $28
----- RIVER ----- King of Diamonds

Tristar99: checks
HERO: bets $81

This villain has been betting for value pretty thinly on the river, runs a bit passive pre (30/12) but fairly aggro postflop :

Table "Scorpion" Seat 3 is the button.
Seat 1: horesori1 ($130.35 in chips)
Seat 2: HERO ($98.50 in chips)
Seat 3: PDB2601 ($100 in chips)
Seat 4: Rivsucks ($99.04 in chips)
Seat 5: $All_In$ ($190.25 in chips)
Seat 6: Domewo ($106.75 in chips)
Rivsucks: posts small blind $0.50
$All_In$ sits out
Domewo: posts big blind $1
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO Ace of Hearts

horesori1: folds
HERO: raises to $3.50
PDB2601: folds
Rivsucks: calls $3
Domewo: folds
----- FLOP ----- Jack of Clubs

Rivsucks: checks
HERO: checks
----- TURN ----- Jack of Clubs

Rivsucks: bets $4
HERO: calls $4
----- RIVER ----- Jack of Clubs

Rivsucks: bets $6
HERO: raises to $24

Villain here was running pretty laggy, about 30/23. Hadn’t seen him display any recklessness postflop :

Table "Erlidge" Seat 5 is the button.
Seat 1: miky55 (£144.45 in chips)
Seat 2: h2theizzo (£110 in chips)
Seat 3: HERO (£114.15 in chips)
Seat 4: Daf95xf (£100 in chips)
Seat 5: BWFC02 sits out
Seat 6: tigertone (£53.85 in chips)
tigertone: posts small blind £0.50
miky55: posts big blind £1
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO Ace of Spades

h2theizzo: folds
HERO: raises to £3.50
tigertone: folds
miky55: calls £2.50
----- FLOP ----- Seven of Diamonds

miky55: checks
HERO: checks
----- TURN ----- Seven of Diamonds

miky55: checks
HERO: checks
----- RIVER ----- Seven of Diamonds

BWFC02 sits back
miky55: bets £5
HERO: raises to £21

Goddd, I pretty much dislike any bluff you'll show b/c ppl are HUGE MEGA stations. Just keep it simple, people will donate to you.

Btw that guy SirWinlot from ur Friday post is a huuuge fish lol. Here's a hand I played against him:P

Game #5719792663: Hold'em NL (£1/£2) - 2008/03/09 - 17:34:18 (UK)
Table "Kapti" Seat 6 is the button.
Seat 1: TRANS4M (£689.10 in chips)
Seat 2: twms1111 (£311 in chips)
Seat 3: mrpink (£368.50 in chips)
Seat 4: Loser18 (£338 in chips)
Seat 5: cyber01 (£195 in chips)
Seat 6: SirWinlot (£533.94 in chips)
TRANS4M: posts small blind £1
twms1111: posts big blind £2
----- HOLE CARDS ----
dealt to TRANS4M Queen of Hearts

mrpink: raises to £8
Loser18: folds
cyber01: folds
SirWinlot: calls £8
TRANS4M: raises to £32
twms1111: folds
mrpink: calls £24
SirWinlot: calls £24
----- FLOP ----- Six of Hearts

TRANS4M: bets £65
mrpink: folds
mrpink sits out
SirWinlot: raises to £501.94 and is all-in
TRANS4M: calls £436.94
----- TURN ----- Ace of Hearts

----- RIVER ----- King of Diamonds

----- SHOW DOWN -----
SirWinlot: shows Ace of Spades

(Two Pairs, Aces and Twos, King high)
TRANS4M: shows Queen of Hearts

(A Pair of Queens, Ace high)
SirWinlot collected £1098.88 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot £1101.88 Main pot £1098.88 Rake £3
Board [6h 2c 5h Ah Kd]
Seat 1: TRANS4M (small blind) showed [Qh Qd] and lost with A Pair of Queens, Ace high
Seat 2: twms1111 (big blind) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: mrpink folded on the Flop
Seat 4: Loser18 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: cyber01 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: SirWinlot (button) showed [As 2s] and won (£1098.88) with Two Pairs, Aces and Twos, King high
****HAND ENDS****

been playing a lot and have started to break even, rather than lose all the time

here's a fun one from today

river bet size after taking a LOOOONG time suggested to me that he decided to fire a small bet with overs to try to get me to fold a busted draw of very very weak made hand

Table "Erlidge" Seat 1 is the button.
Seat 1: mavros (£152.45 in chips)
Seat 2: Jonahmog (£80 in chips)
Seat 3: Microfish (£111.85 in chips)
Seat 4: Capslight (£137.45 in chips)
Seat 5: Figment (£216.73 in chips)
Seat 6: HERO (£102.45 in chips)
Microfish: posts small blind £0.50
Capslight: posts big blind £1
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO Ten of Clubs

Figment: raises to £4
HERO: calls £4
mavros: folds
Microfish: folds
Capslight: folds
----- FLOP ----- Seven of Diamonds

Figment: bets £8
HERO: calls £8
----- TURN ----- Seven of Diamonds

Figment: bets £20
HERO: calls £20
----- RIVER ----- Seven of Diamonds

Figment: bets £35
HERO: raises to £70
Figment: folds
Returned uncalled bets £35 to HERO
HERO: doesn't show hand
HERO collected £132.50 from Main pot

my god

the games late at night on InterPoker are completely ill

just finished an 800 hand session 3-tabling HU vs 2 different opponents, both of whom had vpip's over 80 and preflop raise % over 50

6 times in 700 hands both my opponent and myself were dealt QQ+ (not AK... big ole purrs). Twice top two ran into top set... the swings and coolers were completely epic.

funny thing is, only reason I fired up the tables was to pass the time while I played a 22$ 180 man on stars, which i won! ship the 1.8k.

I ended up leaving the 3 tables with stacks of 600, 700 and 800$... and ended up down 18$ for the ring game session WTF unreal

no hands cuz I'm too tired, but my god was it exhausting.

ok I'm gunning for 16k hands between now and the end of March

Hopefully during that span I can improve my W$@SD which, unbelievably, is right around 40% so far, despite me tightening up significantly as I play 8 tables.

Most of the hands will be played at 1-2 while 6-8 tabling in super robotagg mode.

I feel like I've really come into this style lately and am able to play it really really well and efficiently with very little emotional investment, unlike the peak of my lagg days where it seemed like I either tilted myself or the entire table...

Results are irrelevant but - just for the sake of reminding myself that I AM playing poker to make money at some point - I'll aim for a very modest winrate of 2ptbb/100 over 16k hands. Based on my rate so far, I should be able to generate about 650$ in Rakeback so the financial goal for this end-of-month push is 1900$.

Let me gogogo.

Yay for late-night sessions stoned and drunk on InterPoker!

and LOL variance at nl200, etc...

haven t updated in 4ever but things have been going well

last 400 in sunday mill right now w 240k stack

gogogo luckbox

48/262 right now

yay QQ into KK

finished somthing like 150th for 1.2k was fun

finally

Wow, that looks like a long road back to even! Let all your future graphs go UP UP UP!

117 dollars left to go before u can brag, imo

I'm really disappointed and embarassed right now so I'm gonna post what pissed me off so that I don't do it again.

Tonight I sat down at my secondary site at nl1-2 uncapped and doubled a shorty up (40$ to 80$). Then he doubled up to 160.

Then he doubled up to 320$

Then I raised A8s

Flop J88 I pot he calls

Turn K (rainbow) I pot he calls

River K I pot he instashoves

I tank and call and lose to KJ.

At this point I should've just realized that my call was pretty terrible (since there's no reason to think he was bluffing) and quit.

Instead I reloaded to 650$ and 3 bet the 1st hand with QJss.

He 4-bet and I snap-called and insta shoved a Q high flop.

He called with KK and ended the carnage, insta-quitting after I reloaded to cover him at 1.4k.

Since the beginning of April, I'm up about 13k in roughly 18k hands, playing mainly late at night, often when drunk and high.

Thing is, I find that my enthusiasm for poker and patience while playing is heightened when fucked up, but in this case, my lack of sobriety definitely hurt me. Maybe the reason it seemed so easy playing fucked up in the past 5 or 6 weeks is that I just ran really well.

This is particularly annoying since I'm back on the verge of sitting as a regular in higher games at 2-4 and up.

I don't know what to say besides I'm disappointed in myself. I'm hoping to grind lots of hands 2morrow playing my A game.

I've cooled down and thought about tonight a bit.

One thing that this 5 minute tilt-session made me realize is how steady I've been and just how far I've come in terms of discipline and self-control.

This is probably the 1st gross tilt I've exhibitied in months and I can really be proud of that.

Things have been going well

I'm really busy with the last big piece of work I'll ever have to do academically but I've been playing around 1k hands/day and continuing to do well

I'm really cut down on spewing and I've think I've gotten much better at choosing high % spots for big moves.

Here's one spewy shove I made today that I think looks terrible but wasn't all that bad any comments on it are appreciated.

I mix it up w cold calling and 3 betting pre here but I had 3 bet the btn a cpl times in the past orbits so I felt like he'd be defending pretty often and would be able to own my in position with stacks above 120bb's pretty often.

Villain in the BB has squeezed a few times but I haven't seen a showdown. He's 20/17 tagg and seems to be playing well and straightforward.

The big factor for me here was the size of his flop raise.

Table "Perpignan" Seat 2 is the button.
Seat 1: Randori ($157.05 in chips)
Seat 2: mrxxxxx ($445.32 in chips)
Seat 3: HERO ($247.40 in chips)
Seat 4: Santiaga ($556 in chips)
Seat 5: Kasparoso ($361.65 in chips)
HERO: posts small blind $1
Santiaga: posts big blind $2

----- HOLE CARDS -----

dealt to HERO Seven of Spades

Kasparoso: folds
Randori: folds
mrxxxxx: raises to $8
HERO: calls $7
Santiaga: calls $6

----- FLOP ----- Eight of Diamonds

HERO: bets $19
Santiaga: raises to $40
mrxxxxx: folds
HERO: raises to $239.40 and is all-in

im pretty sure Santiaga's range here totally crushes you... so i disagree

also his bet sizing is scurry

btw this sure is a graveyard, update more often

platinum tourney on June 12th i think, see u then?

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