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| Sorry to bang on - yes, I can see the argument that bad beat posts and strategically valid HHs maybe should be kept separate, if only to retain focus. But I have chosen to combine the two, as well as hands like the AQ hand above - it's not a bad beat hand, but it is a useful example of how not to play. In fact, I would love to hear a proper discussion of what I *should* have done. | ||
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| Da GOAT |
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its fine dude lol, *sigh* at thinking what im gonna say here lol........... i liked to keep my thread positive if i could coz it showed to me that i was improving. bad beats i thought/think bring an air of negitivity to my thread, dwell on poor play/luck, and basically hold back my development by not letting go. SO if i dont post them i can forget them (this isnt to say i dont review my play away from the forums). hey its just a personal preference, on the AQ hand above I wouldnt feel the need to discuss it, its post as a bad play not as a talking point. Not a bad beat but just something you played bad, you are aware of and shouldnt do again is the exact same circumstances again. ''posting bad plays doesnt affect your poker play'' no but indirectly i do think that it can do. ppl get into slumps and become negitive,dwelling on errors in play can affect future play. If you want a hand discussed then put alot of detail into the hand. ill look over HH on 25/5 but at a glance there isnt many reads or anything so standard lines come into play. If you wanna discuss off forum drop me a PM and im happy to discuss some poker. PLz do coz ive structured my reply terribly |
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Jman: every time the action is to you, it's an opportunity for you to make the perfect play.
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| biondino |
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No it's fine, I know what you mean, I just don't quite agree  Are you ever on AIM/MSN, Goat? If so I'm always happy to chat poker, esp. during the working day...
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End of May graph. Thanks to the strength of the £, I was delighted to discover I did actually finish up in money terms, a whole +$45 albeit at -0.25ptbb/100. Add to that $450 in b/rb, it wasn't a disaster, but still, not much return for all that effort. I'm hoping to take home $1000 a month and I'm quite a long way off that this year so far. The 7.5 buyin downswing in mid-month was fun. |
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| Da GOAT |
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| good job on getting back to even stevens to finish the month | ||
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Jman: every time the action is to you, it's an opportunity for you to make the perfect play.
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| biondino |
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| Heh - the last 3,200 hands were an exercise in weaktight nittery (20/12 type stats). But I needed to play like that. | ||
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Monday night sucked the big one. I mean the REALLY big one. I blew $400 in 120 or so hands. It was a £30 rebuy tourney, live - 49 players, first prize £2,000 ($4,000). I rebought 3 times, added on, then got knocked out 9 hands into the post-rebuy period. $300 gone, just like that (of course, I knew the buyin was much bigger than I would usually play, but it was live, it was for fun, it's cool). I'm not one to moan (ho fucking ho) but I tilted something rotten when this arsehole encouraged a noob player to call after I'd pushed over her limp. She was obviously going to fold, but changed her mind and her A8o beat my KQs. As we all know, when we lose we look for things, people, superstitions to blame - and I had this dude who had seriously breached poker etiquette. Man I was steaming, and as a result I wasn't able to enjoy the rest of my short-lived tourney. I got a cash game going afterwards, nice low stakes, but had no luck there either. I picked up AA in MP and called a PFR. 2 other callers, so 4 people saw flop with a decent pot. Flop is 782, and the first player to play pushed (we were only playing with 20BB stacks btw, so he was basically putting $40 into a $25 pot). Next guy folded, I called, other guy folded, dude turns over 67. River is a third seven and I am stacked. All fine. But then, this guy who claims to be a winner at 10/20 NL starts telling me I was asking to be stacked by not re-raising pre-flop. My thinking - whcih I am still very happy with - is that I had seen a lot of maniacal post-flop play with marginal hands/air, and I was willing to risk having a greater chance of being sucked out on for the chance of tripling or even quadrupling up. I lost to 67o, which I'm sure would have folded to a re-raise - but why on earth would I want them to fold? Anyway, if you think this was foolish play on my part, please tell me. So, not a successful night at all. I wish the buyin had been lower - £15 rebuy, I'd have come home £100 down but able to live with that so much more. Ah well, what can you do. Luckily, the next night I made just over 3 buyins at $100NL in under 150 hands. Which has calmed me down a lot. |
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| biondino |
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So, I haven't posted for a while. It's been more of the same, basically - swingy and mostly irritating, with my fair share of bad beats and bad play. Seriously, is it really so hard to try and play optimally for an entire session? Clearly yes, it is. Anyway, just as an excuse to get rolling again, here's my stats from my shot at $200NL. I am the greatest poker player ever!  Of course, two sets (including one set over set - what a shame he was short) and a straight (over a set) helped a little bit. Not sure I'll do it again in a hurry
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| Da GOAT |
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| well done on the last shot there | ||
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Jman: every time the action is to you, it's an opportunity for you to make the perfect play.
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| biondino |
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Thank you. Including the entirely unrealistic $104 from above, I had a good weekend for the first time in an age. It was a bit of a disaster in tournament terms - moneying a 45-man at Stars for about $8 net profit was the highlight, and losing $55 in a guaranteed MTT I *thought* would have a big overlay but actually didn't was the downpoint. But, in cash terms, I played very good poker for the most part, with only one hand in just under 2,000 making me slap my forehead. I think my overall take was about $350, which puts me well into the black for June after spending much of it bubbling under. Add in $500 or so in bonus/rb and I might just make another 4-figure month (my touchstone for satisfactory returns). |
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Hi Guys, Quick update time. I took July as a holiday from 6max ring (and indeed, took an actual holiday as well - to Chicago, which was fantastic), and I'm still enjoying SNGs with the occasional MTT thrown in. I'm only marginally up - maybe $200 since the start of July - but in the last couple of weeks I've formalised things a little with a spreadsheet tracking my efforts at the Party $11s and the Stars $13s and $16s, and I've finally started doing okay, albeit with a very small sample size (45 SNGs, 24% ROI). I also managed my highest MTT finish - 3rd in a $4.40 Stars 180, which I fucked up with one moronic move 3-handed versus 2 decent, very aggressive players, and then was card dead until busting out with some desperate push. Another thing worth mentioning - August has, so far, seen the most staggering positive variance in terms of always winning 60/40s and always winning 40/60s! I won a tourney earlier today with K7s THREE TIMES all in, each time vs Ax, and each time I hit. I have to say that this holiday from "real" poker feels great. Obviously if I lose half a dozen SNGs in a row it doesn't feel great, but it's hardly even possible for me to lose a three figure sum even in the worst case, so stuff feels a lot more relaxed. I also played a live $100+$10 freezeout the other day and came 4th (out of 24) for $200. And I only bust out when rivered (although if I'm honest, the 74s I pushed with wasn't good pre-flop either ). Another $60 rebuy tomorrow night - it'd be SO cool to finish ITM but I doubt I'll have good news to report back, especially since I'm going with my mate, who normally plays $5 SNGs, who has so far taken down $3,500 in the three tourneys I've taken him to, winning each one. Now there's variance for you.
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Hello chaps, I've played about 12k hands of $50 no-limit and pot-limit since the start of September - I didn't have the comnfidence to start playing $100nl again and tbh I'm okay with that. Poker is becoming less of an earning pasttime and more just for fun, which is ultimately all I want in the long term. I am making efforts to play more live and while it's so far not been profitable (my $70 bounty for busting Hoyt Corkins is, I think, the only thing I've won live since my last post), I'm really enjoying it and anyway, my sample size is tiny. I have played a couple of gauntlets (busting out of both with nasty suckouts, which is gratifying in its own tiny way) too, which are great. My stats - and the fact I don't actually know what they are please me, for some reason - over the 12k hands are as follows: 12,044 hands ptbb/100 of 1.48 19.5/12.7 Agg factors of 2.9/2.6/3.6 (arrgh my river aggression, I hate it) Went to SD 23%, won at SD 48% (I know both these are low - I am too weaktight postflop) |
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My first properly bad night for a while. 500 hands exactly, -$161 at 50nl and pl at Full Tilt. One hand I stacked off badly, but even there I had 18+ outs by the river vs a laggicidal maniac. But maybe I'm kidding myself - so, here are my big losing hands of the evening. 1st hand vs vastly overaggressive donk who had already stacked me twice. My play appears pretty bad, but because of his style I can't think of a single hand any sane person would play that I could be behind, apart from 88 or 99, at a push. HAND 1 Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (5 handed) Full Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver Cards) MP ($9.90) Button ($67.80) SB ($15.25) Hero ($67.55) UTG ($60.70) Preflop: Hero is BB with  ,  . 2 folds, Button raises to $1.75, 1 fold, Hero raises to $6.5, Button calls $4.25. Flop: ($12.75)  ,  ,  (2 players)Hero bets $9, Button raises to $18, Hero calls $9. Turn: ($48.75)  (2 players)Hero checks, Button checks. River: ($48.75)  (2 players)Hero checks, Button bets $43.8 (All-In), Hero calls $43.55 (All-In). Final Pot: $135.85 He had 67o. I only have myself to blame for this. I was kidding myself above - this is shameful. This was one of the previous stackings from the same guy. A simple bad beat. HAND 2 Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (6 handed) Full Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver Cards) UTG ($11.90) MP ($51.10) CO ($20) Hero ($94.75) SB ($50.05) BB ($16.75) Preflop: Hero is Button with  ,  . 1 fold, MP raises to $2.5, 1 fold, Hero calls $2.50, 2 folds. Flop: ($5.75)  ,  ,  (2 players)MP bets $5, Hero raises to $10, MP raises to $29, Hero raises to $48, MP raises to $77.6 (All-In), Hero calls $10.60. Turn: ($122.95) (2 players, 1 all-in)River: ($122.95)  (2 players, 1 all-in)Final Pot: $122.95 Villain has 88. This hurt, a lot. This hand was vs a 16/14 TAGG who may have had AQh or AKh but more likely had a flush draw and an overcard. So I pushed in the hope that I had fold equity vs an overpair or AK - I couldn't see any way to safely play it. HAND 3 Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (6 handed) Full Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver Cards) SB ($50.15) BB ($54.45) UTG ($49.75) MP ($50) Hero ($48.80) Button ($21.95) Preflop: Hero is CO with  ,  . 1 fold, Hero raises to $1.75, 2 folds, BB raises to $6, Hero raises to $12.75, BB calls $5.50. Flop: ($24.50)  ,  ,  (3 players)BB bets $8, Hero raises to $37.8 (All-In), BB calls $29.80. Turn: ($0)  (3 players, 1 all-in)River: ($0) (3 players, 1 all-in)Final Pot: $100.10 Obviously I should have put A4h in his range. Wtf? This one only cost me half a buyin, but it was my 2nd last hand of the night after having unticked all my blinds, so you can appreciate the pathos. HAND 4 Full Tilt 0.50/1 Hold'em (6 handed) Full Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver Cards) Preflop: Hero is MP with ,  . UTG raises, Hero 3-bets, 1 fold, Button caps $9.4 (All-In), 2 folds, UTG calls, Hero raises, UTG calls $17.15 (All-In). Flop: (160.10 SB)  , ,  (3 players, 2 all-in)Turn: (80.05 BB)  (3 players, 2 all-in)River: (80.05 BB) (3 players, 2 all-in)Final Pot: 63.25 Villains had QQ and JJ. They had, however, both thought to have a heart. |
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Down 7.5 buyins since my happy high point 4 days ago. I don't think I've played badly the last two nights at all; but I have stacked off with overpairs (QQ on a low flop, AA on a K-high flop, I think) vs tight aggressive players with flopped sets, twice, and I still don't know if I should have been able to get away. I might try and post the hands once I get home. Another annoying one that cost me half a buyin (and I didn't even see a showdown) was AA on a 4J99J board in a raised but not re-raised pot - he made a river PSB all-in after check/raising me on the flop and leading the turn. This is always strength at $50nl, right? I guess maybe I'm lucky the board made it easier to fold. Other than that, it's going fine - if you discount the big losses I would have broken even I still seem to be pwning PL but NL has my balls on a plate right now. Thankfully, running good earlier in the month means I am still about a buyin up overall.
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| grnydrowave2 |
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| Unless the board texture is really really bad, I'll almost always stack off with a QQ+ overpair. Even alot of TAGs at this level seem to overvalue TP. Perhaps it would be best to try to recognize obvious set lines, like when a tight payer limps and then calls a raise, but I don't think overpair vs set comes up very often. If it's a leak, it's probably not a very big one, and you might even pass up alot of value by trying to fix it. | ||
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<SrslySirius> Hal Lubarsky, my nemesis.
<SaltLick> are you seriously losing to a blind guy
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| biondino |
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At FR I could always (well, often) find a fold with an overpair to a properly strong set-type line, but at 6max... I dunno though, because I am losing stacks with my premiums but I don't seem to be winning stacks very often - indeed I am still down overall with JJ-AA for the month. I don't think I'll be playing any more ring in October, so my final stats are a really pretty disappointing: 7,000 hands +$127 1.81ptbb/100 In my last post I refer to a 7.5 buyin downswing; it ended up being 11 buyins, but since then I have won back 5 which at least puts me back in the black. Rakeback was about $90 - I played all my games this month at Full Tilt. I only played 7k hands because for the first half of the month I didn't get to play at all due to overseas visitors and social bookings.. I think my game is fine for returning to $100NL, but to be honest I am feeling pretty comfortable at $50NL (and especially PL), and after two and a half years of playing recreational poker I understand quite how important it is to not let the game stress you out. S November is likely to be more of the same, possibly mixing in some 5max at Mansion (Ongame) where I have a juicy 36% rb. Finally - I played a tiny satellite last night, a 4-table SNG at Stars, and my gf called from the states meaning I missed the first half hour of play. So I sat down with 1/3 the average stack; but half the players had already bust out, and I did manage to come back about 1 minute before the blinds went up to 100/200 so at least I was in control by that point. Naturally I ended up 1st when we reach the top 6 paying places. I think I might play a few more satellites, they're easy 
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Quick up date - the sole reason I am making this is because I am running good (positive returns each day so far in November) and obviously it's all going to come crashing down as soon as I post. I'm playing smaller sessions this month - averaging 300-350 hands, usually for no more than an hour 3 or 4-tabling. I know that this is partly because I'm doing well - and when I do well I tend to quit and take my profits although I know full well that this is precisely when I should keep on playing! I'm also pretty much invariably starting off poorly, dropping a buyin or two early on, and then winning it back in a little rush towards the end. I'm sure it's just a statistical anomaly, but past experience tells me I tend to be too full on, both with raises/bets and with calls, in the first 20-30 minutes of each session, so that might be something to look at. In all honesty I don't feel like I'm playing actively badly when I sit down but I should look at it more closely. So, in cash/buyin terms, I have played 2,700 hands of NL and PL and am up just over 11 buyins at a rather pleasing 21ptbb/100 Pot limit continues to astound me - either I am running phenomenally well or it genuinely is a softer game at the $50 level.However, I think I am dumping Crypto for good. I signed up again this month because of the good bonus + 31% rb but in a paltry 500 hands the game is taggy and annoying. I'm feeling so comfortable at Full Tilt - with its ease of table selection, its decent facilities and the faster speed of the game - that really the bonuses aren't any longer enough to keep me loyal to Crypto. |
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Well my running good sort of came to an end... at the end of this session I have to admit I was solely playing to get back into the black for the night (though I wasn't on tilt so I hope nothing bad would have happened had I not managed it). But, $6.95 after 1200 hands still counts as a winning session, right?
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Get on AIM please
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<SrslySirius> Hal Lubarsky, my nemesis.
<SaltLick> are you seriously losing to a blind guy
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| Miffed22001 |
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| are you still on crypto? You need to move onto softer games. | ||
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| biondino |
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| Nope, I am playing entirely at Full Tilt right now. | ||
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LOL yeah. PL anything is my best game too, and i don't get why The difference is so dramatic its not even funny |
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| biondino |
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LOL downswingaments! Am down about 9 buyins since last Thursday, and I have detected three big leaks: 1: Raising pre-flop then having no plan about how to play the hand post-flop 2. Calling river bets and raises with a good but not monster hand 3. Playing cash games like an SNG with aggressive actions pre-flop and flop and then completely losing my way. |
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I dunno, I was on such a big upswing, and then my last 2500 hands I had some coolers but not SO many that I can just blame it on bad beats - and I handed out some suckouts so I reckon my luck odds are about even. I've had real trouble lately with my bluffs; and an aspect of my game that I was trying to fix, over-aggression on the river, has just pwned me this weekend as EVERY check/call I made (where previously I might have bet out) was vs a better hand. Perhaps I have to start respecting non-fishy players river bets, even if I have TPTK type hands? Example - decent tagg with position on me calls my PFR - I have AA. Flop is 7TK two spades, I bet near pot, he calls. turn is 2d, I bet 2/3 pot, he calls. River I forget, but it completes no obvious draws. I check, he tanks and eventually bets $16 into a $30 pot - I have $30 behind and he covers. His line is very strong, right - but is it strong enough to fold rockets when I'm getting 4/1? |
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| biondino |
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| Btw I'd be really grateful if people asked me questions, responded to comments etc. - I feel I have genuinely been playing badly lately and I want to examine and fix the big problems before I donk off the rest of my monthly winnings! | ||
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When a decent tagg calls you on both flop and turn, it should say: he has a hand. I wouldn't expect that villain shows less the KT on river most of the time, however, if you've seen him bluff IP, then hmmm. Actually, you are getting 3 to 1
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Thanks Jimmy! Here's a hand from my latest session. The river call's okay, right? Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (6 handed) Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver) SB ($106.95) BB ($60.25) Hero ($55.75) MP ($49.75) CO ($51.70) Button ($48.20) Preflop: Hero is UTG with K  , A . Hero raises to $2, 4 folds, BB calls $1.50. Flop: ($4.25) K  , T, T (2 players)BB checks, Hero bets $3, BB calls $3. Turn: ($10.25) Q  (2 players)BB checks, Hero checks. River: ($10.25) 2 (2 players)BB bets $12.5, Hero calls $12.50. Final Pot: $35.25 |
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| Dislexsik |
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| I bet turn again in that AK hand, very drawheavy, this line makes it look like u have a weak hand so he can bluff u off on the river. | ||
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