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Guys, I need your help. My game has become so stilted and inflexible - I can almost feel myself strangling myself as I play, and I need to be accountable. So I am going to post here after every session and open myself up to the world. Please, please comment on my plays and give clear explanations - I *know* I play many things "wrong" but I NEED to know why. I'm at work at the moment but home tonight, so I'll do my first proper entry then. Last night, almost 1k hands and -$133 at $50, £50 and $100; overall for the month, not counting b0nus and rb, I am about $500 down. Watch this space... |
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Dude, where's my update? But seriously, good idea with the operation thread. Let's see some handsies. |
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| Oh god, I am already cringing at having to post hands. Please be gentle with me. | ||
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Rock and roll. My turn to rip you a new one.  Not
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| Dude you have to be gentlest of all. There'll be some real duffers and a lot of "and you had the nerve to call ME on that crap?" when you see the hands I'm misplaying... | ||
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Okay, here's a typical bluff attempt. As you can see, I had no intentions at any point to do anything beyond bluffing. Tell me why this is wrong: No Limit Hold'em CryptoLogic ($NL) Converted by FTRConv 5-handed StacksSB: $58.83 Hero: $84.25 UTG: $117.50 CO: $139.82 BTN: $99.75 Pre-Flop: Hero is BB with 5  A UTG folds, CO folds, BTN folds, SB raises to $2, Hero calls Flop:($4.50) 9 J 3 (2 players)SB bets $5, Hero calls Turn:($14.50) 9 (2 players)SB bets $8, Hero raises to $21, SB raises to $51.83 and is all-in, Hero folds, SB doesn't show hand Final Pot: $64.50 This hand - not technically a blind steal as I had a top 25% hand - should I have slowed down earlier? Should I have bet the river? Villain 15/6/0.6 and played hard when he played: No Limit Hold'em CryptoLogic ($NL) Converted by FTRConv 6-handed StacksBTN: $52.08 Hero: $103.25 BB: $97.50 UTG: $151.82 UTG+1: $159.50 CO: $98.50 Pre-Flop: Hero is SB with K T UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, CO folds, BTN folds, Hero raises to $4, BB calls Flop:($8.50) K 3 4 (2 players)Hero bets $5, BB calls Turn:($18.50) A (2 players)Hero bets $12, BB calls River:($42.50) 7 (2 players)Hero checks, BB checks Final Pot: $42.50 |
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Here's a hand I just played, badly: No Limit Hold'em CryptoLogic ($100NL) Converted by FTRConv 6-handed StacksUTG+1: $30.25 CO: $104.75 Hero: $121 SB: $80.25 BB: $96.19 UTG: $99.25 Pre-Flop: Hero is BTN with A 6 UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, CO folds, Hero raises to $4, SB calls, BB folds Flop:($9.00) 6 3 2 (2 players)SB checks, Hero checks Turn:($9.00) 2 (2 players)SB checks, Hero bets $4, SB calls River:($17.00) 9 (2 players)SB bets $8, Hero folds, SB doesn't show hand Final Pot: $17.00 |
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I am currently playing two SNG*s, so final total for the evening not yet known, but my ring stats from earlier were as follows: 298 hands (would have been more except the gf needed my shoulder to cry on) at £50 and $100NL 6max, +$27 *Got 3rd in the first one, so assuming I lose #2 it barely dents my stats - edit, I came 5th in the 2nd after being sucked out on 3 times in a row from a comfortable position. Ca c'est le poker, hein. |
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| Yeah I don't see what's too bad about that hand other than I would bet the flop more than check, but I don't think it's bad. | ||
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| I guess I felt I just let it get away from me - by checking the flop I completely gave control to the SB, which is unforgiveable. My memory is he was a solid, unshowy player who didn't call the SB with any two, so perhaps I minimised my losses this way. But how much weakness do I show here, on every street, despite flopping (a rather unthreatening) TPTK? That's why I think it's bad. | ||
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Last night I played 802 hands for $21 profit at 1.33ptbb/100. Not impressive, no; but I did, for the first time ever, 4-table $100NL all evening, and while I hardly pwned it I was pretty comfortable. Was briefly at +$180 but then things went to shit  However, I didn't tilt, I got in a good long disciplined session, and I think I played pretty well (and cleared about $75 in b0nus/rb). I'm off work today so I can post some hands, good and bad, for your comments. PLEASE give your thoughts if you can - it's been too long since I was doing this regularly! |
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First of all, the two big hands of the night, mainly for entertainment value: My big win. Villain was 30/8/2 but on the aggressive side when he did bet. The big thing that was at the forefront of my mind here was the fact that I know I am laying down too many hands - this spot, I felt, was one where I could be behind, but it would only be to a set or AA since the flop was so dry. This meant I was ahead of AT, JJ, QQ and any weird draws, so I felt that I was winning often enough to want to get it all-in regardless of the circumstance. Fortunately, it worked out. No Limit Hold'em CryptoLogic ($NL) Converted by FTRConv 6-handed StacksSB: $109 BB: $43 UTG: $125.56 UTG+1: $99.25 Hero: $91.25 BTN: $151.25 Pre-Flop: Hero is CO with K K UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, Hero raises to $4, BTN calls, SB calls, BB folds Flop:($13.00) 4 6 T (3 players)SB checks, Hero bets $10, BTN raises to $24, SB folds, Hero raises to $38, BTN calls Turn:($99.00) 2 (2 players)Hero checks, BTN bets $109.25 and is all-in, Hero is all-in $49.25 River:($197.50) T (2 players)Final Pot: $197.50 Villain had JJ. And my big loss (is it unusual that in 800 hands of $100NL 6max I only faced two all-ins for close to 100BBs?). It's pretty clear that the dude has a weak ace; I am ahead of most of them. I don't think he'll fold, whatever he has - I had a strong read on his relative fishiness (he was 43/9/1.8, but weaker than that suggests, and had recently called off a fair chunk of his stack with 2ndPTK). No Limit Hold'em CryptoLogic ($NL) Converted by FTRConv 6-handed StacksHero: $85.75 BB: $46.75 UTG: $101.75 UTG+1: $63.78 CO: $63.94 BTN: $54.25 Pre-Flop: Hero is SB with 7 7 UTG folds, UTG+1 calls, CO folds, BTN folds, Hero calls, BB checks Flop:($3.00) 7 A A (3 players)Hero bets $3, BB folds, UTG+1 calls Turn:($9.00) 4 (2 players)Hero bets $8, UTG+1 calls River:($25.00) J (2 players)Hero bets $73.75 and is all-in, UTG+1 is all-in $51.78 Final Pot: $128.56 Villain is holding A4 ftw. |
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| hands 1 - i dont like the flop repop from you. if opp is aggro call him and let him bet turn. if he does have weaker holding then you are just scaring him off on flop, let him feel he has the best hand. again to repeat that flop is dry and very little cards hurt so i like this line | ||
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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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Just finished a 2-hour, 667-hand session. Ouch. At one point I was $300 down, primarily due to a sick run of laggs all having the goods when I either bluffed at them or bet a second best hand. It would probably be useful to find examples of this, because I am sure there was unnecessary recklessness on my part. Finished off $133 down (thanks to doubling up with 33 on a K3J5A board vs a Tagg with AKs, which was just what I needed). Am taking a break, getting in some GTA, then I'll kick off again in an hour or so - I need to clear at least 750 $100 hands tonight to complete my last bonus of the month. |
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1. Fine, i stack off here lots IF i know my opps dont reraise JJ/QQ 2. Sucks, im all in on this river without blinking, i may just open shove the turn versus a donk because he isnt folding any ace and your boat is good like $$$$$$$'s of times. ugly 
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I played another 500 hands later afternoon, and SHIP IT Finally, things went my way - I managed to drop 2 buyins early on (trips vs boat & KK vs AA) and still made $245. I ran hot and played some lovely poker - it's never flawless with me, but it was pretty good. I just got the balance right, knew when to play hands, when to fold. I also played very aggressively, my stats more 22/17 than my usual 23/14, and experimented with more variation of pre-flop bet size than normal. Made me feel really good and really confident - at Crypt0 there are plenty of regulars and I managed to play some excellent poker despite their presence. I then got in a final session to clear my last remaining March bonus (in just over 10k hands I have cleared $200 from Interpoker and $200 from Pokerplex), and broke even. I am fine with that after the rest of the day, though losing KK to Q3s in a re-raised pot (trip 3s on the turn after getting it all in with third pair and no draws on the flop, asshole) and QQ to KK (again, all the money in on a raggy flop against an under-repped hand - at least until he woke up ) for a net -$120 took the edge off slightly.I should really look for some hands now - I might post some later. So, I don't know if I'll get to play tomorrow (and if I do, I may just donk around with some SNGs), so here is my graph, in all its nastiness, for March:  (Today was from 9k onwards. How about that for swingy )But I have ended the month on a bit of a high, both relatively speaking after my 7.5k hand downswing (my longest ever, if not my deepest) and because I finally know for sure I can hold my own in one of the tricker $100NL 6max games on the internet. Let's hope April starts positively! |
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Balls. I actually only cleared $100 b0nus at Interpoker (doubly annoying as they had 10% more rb than Plex. Badly organised, Mark, must try harder). I thought $400 seemed a little generous
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Here's a cautionary tale - my second worst loss (after KK vs AA all-in pre-flop) of the day. POT CONTROL, PEOPLE! HAND 1 No Limit Hold'em CryptoLogic ($100NL) Converted by FTRConv 6-handed StacksUTG: $179.75 Hero: $146.50 CO: $123.50 BTN: $96.50 SB: $95.75 BB: $84.25 Pre-Flop: Hero is UTG+1 with Q A UTG folds, Hero raises to $5, CO folds, BTN calls, SB folds, BB folds Flop:($11.50) Q 6 7 (2 players)Hero bets $7, BTN calls Turn:($25.50) T (2 players)Hero bets $15, BTN calls River:($55.50) Q (2 players)Hero bets $37, BTN raises to $69.50 and is all-in, Hero calls Final Pot: $194.50 |
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Here are two of the few hands I simply played badly. My read was that villain was over-aggressive, though I think I was misled by one or two hands as his stats are only 26/12/1. HAND 2 No Limit Hold'em CryptoLogic ($100NL) Converted by FTRConv 6-handed StacksUTG+1: $78.50 CO: $100.50 BTN: $70.50 SB: $81.29 Hero: $126.16 UTG: $47 Pre-Flop: Hero is BB with 9 9 UTG raises to $3, UTG+1 folds, CO folds, BTN folds, SB folds, Hero raises to $9, UTG calls Flop:($19.50) 8 J 2 (2 players)Hero bets $10, UTG raises to $20, Hero calls Turn:($59.50) K (2 players)Hero checks, UTG bets $18 and is all-in, Hero calls River:($95.50) 6 (2 players)Final Pot: $95.50 Secondly, I decided this guy was bluffing. I have no idea why; his stats indicate a solid Tagg though perhaps it was early as I have no memory of any read at all. An inexcusable way to play AK. HAND 3 No Limit Hold'em CryptoLogic ($100NL) Converted by FTRConv 6-handed StacksCO: $47.25 BTN: $115.25 Hero: $148.76 BB: $35.75 UTG: $113 UTG+1: $100 Pre-Flop: Hero is SB with A K UTG folds, CO folds, BTN raises to $4, Hero calls, BB folds Flop:($9.00) J T 9 (3 players)Hero checks, BTN bets $5, Hero calls Turn:($19.00) 6 (3 players)Hero checks, BTN bets $14, Hero raises to $34, BTN calls River:($87.00) 8 (3 players)Hero checks, BTN checks Final Pot: $87.00 hand 2, he held 88; hand 3, he held 78 |
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Here's a hand I DID play well. A strong read on this player, he was 67/6 and liked to take any opportunity to claim pots, and tended to overplay his hands to do so: HAND 4 No Limit Hold'em CryptoLogic ($NL) Converted by FTRConv 5-handed StacksBB: $112.51 UTG: $75.25 Hero: $87 BTN: $26.50 SB: $39 Pre-Flop: Hero is CO with J J UTG raises to $3, Hero raises to $9, BTN folds, SB calls, BB folds, UTG folds Flop:($22.00) 9 T 6 (2 players)SB bets $3, Hero raises to $17, SB calls Turn:($56.00) T (2 players)SB checks, Hero bets $13, SB calls and is all-in River:($82.00) 8 (2 players)he has 77 and flukes a straight, asshole Final Pot: $82.00 |
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Man this is ugly. I can't remember this guys stats but I had him as a capital letters DONK. Horrible flop and turn from me - horrible pre-flop from him No Limit Hold'em CryptoLogic ($100NL) Converted by FTRConv 5-handed StacksHero: $117.25 BTN: $98.50 SB: $50.75 BB: $123.38 UTG: $97.50 Pre-Flop: Hero is CO with 7 9 UTG folds, Hero raises to $4, BTN folds, SB calls, BB calls Flop:($12.00) 7 8 5 (3 players)SB checks, BB bets $5, Hero raises to $14, SB folds, BB calls Turn:($40.00) 2 (2 players)BB checks, Hero bets $18, BB calls River:($76.00) K (2 players)BB checks, Hero checks Final Pot: $76.00 Villain holds 36o |
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bet river? you not read good sir.
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| Yeah, there are any number of draws he could have been betting that didn't come (as did, indeed, happen). Though what will he call a river bet with that doesn't beat me? 67? | ||
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Just an aside - I have been playing a few $11 SNGs for fun since finishing my goal - 10 of them, seven times finishing 5th or worse and three times finishing 1st. Strange stats, if rather a small sample size Though I do feel completely in control when blinds are high - HU in ring I am terrible but when it's push/fold I tend to dominate. I am really feeling my experience at $100 has noticeably improved my game in ways that playing at $£50 just didn't. I am still quite prepared for a proper big downswing, but if that doesn't happen and I can achieve, say, 2.5ptbb/100 in April at $100, I may be making less money than before but I can only see my game sharpening up. |
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April hasn't begun great; I played a 773-hand session last night (after 95 hands the night before) and am a total of $24 up. I'm not too annoyed, because as seems to be my modus operandi, I donked off a stack early on and spent the rest of the time fighting to get it back. The donkey hand is one I'd like to post here, actually, so I'll try and remember to do so tonight. But it involved TP + nut flush draw which I slowplayed (wtf?) and when the flush doesn't come, A6 feels pretty damn weak... The only other hand of note was stacking a lagg to my right with whom I'd already had several steal/resteal scraps. And it was AA vs KK - the first time in 5 occasions when it's gone my way after getting all-in PF (3 times I had the KK and the other my AA was cracked). Which was nice Oh, there was one hand I felt I badly misplayed - again I'll try and find it, see what you think. April stats: 868 hands (almost all at $100NL, some £50) +$24 at 1.4ptbb/100 |
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Hi again, Not played that much in the last 2 days - last night because Crypto was playing up, lagging and I lost patience with the slowdowns. Not that it mattered - in the 75 hands I managed I made a sweet $161, including almost doubling up with a set on my very third hand! So not a great night for bonus-clearing ($3 ftw!), but it's made my tiny-sample-size stats look a LOT healthier. |
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Ugh. $350 down in 1000 or so hands yesterday. I guess I didn't play very well, but I can only really put a finger on two dubious hands - JJ overpair stacked by a set (me doing the betting, him raising the river), and AK losing to QQ all-in pre-flop (he was a 42/29 who kept re-raising me from the blinds, so I pushed). Having said that, what do you think of below? I bet 99% of my good draws, and here's an example. Is this spew? No Limit Hold'em CryptoLogic ($100NL) Converted by FTRConv 6-handed Stacks BTN: $115 SB: $98.50 BB: $75 UTG: $110.81 Hero: $83.11 CO: $66 Pre-Flop: Hero is UTG+1 with T A UTG folds, Hero raises to $4, CO folds, BTN folds, SB folds, BB calls Flop:($8.50) 8 Q 7 (2 players)BB checks, Hero bets $4, BB calls Turn:($16.50) 6 (2 players)BB checks, Hero bets $8, BB calls River:($32.50) 4 (2 players)BB checks, Hero checks Final Pot: $32.50 He had queen crappy kicker, meh. No Limit Hold'em CryptoLogic (£100NL) Converted by FTRConv 6-handed Stacks SB: £28 Hero: £145.50 UTG: £99 UTG+1: £152.50 CO: £26.50 BTN: £87.25 Pre-Flop: Hero is BB with J T UTG folds, UTG+1 raises to £4, CO folds, BTN calls, SB folds, Hero calls Flop:(£12.50) 5 9 3 (3 players)Hero checks, UTG+1 bets £7, BTN folds, Hero raises to £21, UTG+1 calls Turn:(£54.50) 6 (2 players)Hero bets £31, UTG+1 calls River:(£116.50) T (2 players)Hero checks, UTG+1 bets £53, Hero folds, UTG+1 doesn't show hand Final Pot: £116.50 |
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And here's one where your read turns out spot on, and still you end up losing: No Limit Hold'em CryptoLogic ($100NL) Converted by FTRConv 6-handed Stacks SB: $115.50 BB: $99.50 UTG: $38.25 UTG+1: $110.81 Hero: $121.36 BTN: $66 Pre-Flop: Hero is CO with 8 9 UTG raises to $3, UTG+1 folds, Hero calls, BTN folds, SB folds, BB folds Flop:($7.50) 5 Q 9 (2 players)UTG bets $3, Hero calls Turn:($13.50) 7 (2 players)UTG bets $3, Hero raises to $9, UTG calls River:($31.50) K (2 players)UTG checks, Hero bets $24, UTG is all-in $23.25 Final Pot: $78.00 He has KJ. Idiot. |
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1,400 hands today, mainly thanks to my first session-long attempt at 5-tabling (which is fine - I made a couple of mistakes as a result, but didn't feel rushed making decisions or anything). If, as planned, I had just stuck to $100nl rather than dipping my fingers once more into £100, it would have been a moderately decent day... As it was, I finished $90 up overall. It has to be said that 2/3 of my entire daily profit was earned after I had switched off and was checking the various Crypto sites to see how healthy my BR was looking (it's about $5k). I look at Sun, and discover that the February $100 bonus, which I thought had expired, was not only still available but was 74% complete! So that was like discovering $74 I didn't know I had; but to be sure, I decided to play enough hands to tick the total up to 75%, just to be sure it's working. And, thanks to a boat and a flush, I managed to make a precious $53 extra It's funny, since the $100NL move the sums I'm talking about are FAR smaller than what I was regularly earning at £50nl. But I do feel it's making a difference to my level of play, and with bonuses and rakeback propping me up (already totalling about $300 for April, if I've done my sums right), it seems a worthwhile pursuit. |
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For entertainment - possibly the worst hand I have ever played. It took my session from healthy to in the red; I was SO angry at myself. Enjoy. No Limit Hold'em CryptoLogic ($100NL) Converted by FTRConv 6-handed Stacks BTN: $100 SB: $113.25 BB: $67.13 Hero: $146.25 UTG+1: $153.75 CO: $65.69 Pre-Flop: Hero is UTG with 3 A Hero calls, UTG+1 calls, CO calls, BTN calls, SB calls, BB checks Flop:($6.00) 3 A 8 (6 players)SB checks, BB checks, Hero checks, UTG+1 checks, CO checks, BTN bets $6, SB folds, BB folds, Hero raises to $20, UTG+1 folds, CO folds, BTN raises to $68, Hero calls Turn:($148.00) 9 (2 players)Hero bets $31, BTN calls River:($210.00) Q (2 players)Final Pot: $210.00 He had 52s for the flush. |
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No Limit Hold'em CryptoLogic ($100NL) Converted by FTRConv 5-handed Stacks BTN: $59.50 SB: $93.50 BB: $184.75 Hero: $97 CO: $25.75 Pre-Flop: Hero is UTG with Q Q Hero raises to $4, CO folds, BTN calls, SB folds, BB calls Flop:($12.50) 3 J 2 (3 players)BB checks, Hero bets $9, BTN calls, BB calls Turn:($39.50) 8 (3 players)BB checks, Hero checks, BTN checks River:($39.50) 3 (3 players)BB bets $21, Hero folds, BTN calls Final Pot: $81.50 Thoughts? |
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| 609-hand session 5-tabling; +$35. It's almost 3bb/100 but man, it feels so... attritional. One single pot of over $100 (I won it, set vs two pair, after only about 20 mins); the rest was smallball. I should say that I play a relatively low variance style which involves very few all-ins, but still. Where were the Sunday afternoon fish?! | ||
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| Fuckit is the word. down $135 this evening's 800 hands. It was almost entirely down to 2 spewy hands. I am so fucking shit at this game. | ||
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| I guess that's true. I guess if anything I was more deeply annoyed with breaking even over the other 798. I mean, what's the point really? | ||
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Quick update in graph form. I have now played over 10k hands since I made $100NL my main game (maybe 1500 of these hands are at £50 or £100, both losing levels during this period, albeit a very small sample size) and man, it's swingy. Thank god, once again, for b0nus and rb:
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Yeah, thanks to me calling an all-in with TPTK in a re-raised pot I'd do it again, though - dude who had overcalled raises twice pre-flop open pushes the 6Q8 flop with two diamonds on it - could his hand BE any more face up! If I squint at that graph there is *sort of* an upwards trend, so maybe I can continue to make at least a positive return from 100nl. But it does make me hark back to the days of 8ptbb/100 at £50NL with sighs of affection and longing. |
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Quick update - since the above post I have played just over 1,500 hands at 9ptbb/100 for a lovely poker profit of $274. It's been swingy, of course - tonight I was up $200, down $50, then ended up $224 for the evening ($228 if you include the $6 HU sng I decided would be a good idea when drunk ) AA is a funny old hand. Twice in the last two nights I have been all-in on flops where the villain had a set; once it was a dumb stupid in-denial call by me; the other time he played it better and I basically had to call, gg him. However, I have also stacked 2 dudes myself - once vs QQ and once vs TPGK - and it does still sit proudly atop my earners. I'm still a little tipsy, and I'm not sure I can usefully find a challenging hand to post, so instead, here's the biggest pot I've won since making $100 my primary game: Party Poker No Limit Holdem Ring game Blinds: $0.50/$1 5 players Converter Pre-flop: (5 players) Hero is CO with J J UTG folds, Hero raises to $4, Button raises to $12, SB calls $11.50, BB calls $12, Hero calls. Flop: 2 5 2 ($0, 4 players)SB checks, BB checks, Hero checks, Button checks. Turn: J ($0, 4 players)SB bets $15, BB calls, Hero raises to $30, Button folds, SB calls, BB calls. River: 9 ($0, 3 players)SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets $75, SB is all-in, BB folds. Results: Final pot: $274.60 Hero shows Jc Jd SB doesn't show 9h 9s Hero wins $ 11.40 USD from side pot #1 with a full house, Jacks full of Twos. Hero wins $ 263.20 USD from the main pot with a full house, Jacks full of Twos. |
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The other one happened when, ironically, the "call any" button might have been more useful - AA on a JxJxx board vs a deepstacked aggro villain who I suspected had the jack. Instead, though, I misclicked raise - and at this point a minraise was another $24 - over which he gleefully pushed, leaving me folding a $150 pot with aces. The other $135 or so was almost entirely lost through bad beats - I played one of my best "laggy" sessions ever (actually not laggy at all - my VP was below 20% - at 6max - but my post-flop play was much more cunning and aggressive) and basically owned all the laggs at my tables. Which felt pretty good. Checking my stats afterwards, I actually got more aggressive on the turn than the flop, then even more so on the river - letting the laggs hang themselves, by and large, because cbets seem almost worthless against the better $100nl regs. |
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| I have toned down my c/betting at $100NL as well. Initially I got floated a lot especially with low PP on high boards. Often I have been raised out of pots with marginal holdings through aggression by the opposition. I guess the biggest difference I have encountered is that in some instances calling has been replaced by raising. But I have also noticed a MUCH looser play at $100NL in comparison to $50NL. | ||
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But either way, you're taking away their weapon. Check/calling is also useful for making them feel uneasy - they can never be sure if you're some donk who'll call three barrels with third pair, or if you have a draw, or if you're slowplaying them - and again, you can change gears on the turn or river and, more often than not, get the result you want (a win, or a correct fold). That's the plus with laggs at $100 - they can be aggro on the flop, or on the turn, but they're seldom able to take it all the way when they don't have the goods. |
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A quick stats check for April: 9,046 hands at $100NL 6max 21/14/3.2 W$WSF: 41.9% W$atSD: 46.3% (still well below half! Will I ever get to 50%?) +$668 at 3.7ptbb/100 Additionally, bonus and rakeback cleared so far is approx $480. Now THESE are the kind of (modest but decent) figures I've been hoping for. If I can keep a bb/100 stat of 3+ then I think I could be content at this level. (edit for the sake of full disclosure: I am also $310 down this month at $50/£50/£100 - but I feel okay ignoring them for the sake of this post because establishing myself at $100nl is the key target right now, and also because I am only playing these alternate stakes when the $100 games aren't available - the samples size is only 749 hands) |
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I do kinda hate you mate. You do realise that?  But seriously good going. I knew you could pwn the $100NL if you'd just try. BTW: I think W$WSF and W$@SD are two very tricky stats... they oughtn't to include any pots your didn't VPIP but I guess they do... I'd also want to take away showdowns where you are not all-in and yet didn't bet/call on turn or river. |
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Oldest TerryBlog (the good ole days): http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...oker-40661.htm
Older TerryBlog (failed attempt #1): http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...887&highlight=
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Hilarious night last night. After the gf went to bed, I decided, possibly unwisely, to play some $100 a bit tipsy. I only managed to play 42 hands; however, I did finish up $294
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