Graveyard for Fun Hands

Just grinded a solid 3.5 hr session. Felt like I played great and didn't come close to tilting.

One fascinating hand occured when playing a reg HU about 140bb's deep.

He 4-bet me and I felt like it was the perfect time for him to be 4-betting me light so I reshoved Q7s. He SNAPPED it off with KQo and shipped the pot.

We chatted after the hand and he said "I thought your range was Ax suited and big pairs"

...

lol, what? Good call for a bad reason, sucks

Put in a quick session at the juicy late-night tables and am happy with a solid day's work. I got into a couple interesting spots but overall didn't experience anything too crazy.

I think I'm finally getting a handle on low-limit PLO. I've been sitting at a few tables here and there and am starting to see some decent results.

Sorry if the poker content of this blog has sucked of late, but I've really tried to concentrate on the grind itself rather than everything surrounding it. In the past I've avoided playing as much as I could and taken refuge in the forums, railing ppl and talkign poker. Now is the time to grind baby.

If anybody still takes the time to read this yawn-o-blog, feel free to ask questions - be they poker specific or general stuff - and I'll do my best to answer them. If you're looking for discussion on specific situations it might motivate me to look at interesting hands so just fire away.

post some PLO handzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

don t have ptracker or anything else for PLO

shit I don't even have PT3 or HEM yet, gotta get off my lazy ass

Originally Posted by Genitruc

In the past I've avoided playing as much as I could and taken refuge in the forums, railing ppl and talkign poker. Now is the time to grind baby.

this

Just shut things down 600 hands into a session. It’s a good thing there weren’t any bananas lying around my apartment because I’d have probably eaten all of them and been constipated for a week. Felt like such a fucking monkey.

What does it take to put me on tilt? I think regs owning me hard by taking weird and fishy lines puts me on tilt. I just reviewed my HH’s and decided that 5 hands caused me to want to punch a hole in my monitor. Let’s go through them 1 by 1.

Here’s my 1st tilt-hand. Villain is a reg I’ve owned over and over and over again, mainly by playing strong and straightforward.

Seat 1: HERO (€200 in chips)
Seat 2: Chavinder (€164.70 in chips)
Seat 3: Snaitug (€200 in chips)
Seat 5: Danton (€33 in chips)
Seat 6: stekarn (€256.60 in chips)
stekarn: posts small blind €1
HERO: posts big blind €2
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO
Chavinder: folds
Snaitug: raises to €8
Danton: folds
stekarn: folds
mrxxxxx joins the table at seat #4
HERO: calls €6
----- FLOP -----
HERO: checks
Snaitug: checks
----- TURN -----
HERO: bets €13
Snaitug: raises to €26
HERO: raises to €62
Snaitug: calls €36
----- RIVER -----
HERO: bets €130 and is all-in
Snaitug: calls €130 and is all-in
----- SHOW DOWN -----
HERO: shows (A Pair of Kings, Queen high)
Snaitug: shows (A Pair of Aces, King high)
Snaitug collected €398 from Main pot

I’m not gonna spend a long time writing this entry, but this hand just blew my mind on so many levels. My river shove was a strange play but I really thought he’d be shoving all better hands on the turn and that the only hand that I’d be value-stacking myself vs would be AK with a diamond. My head kind of exploded when he flipped over his hand. Vs my calling range in the blinds, how can he not bet the flop? Because he thinks I’ll spaz out and 3-bet bluff a turn after he minrases me?

So I’m already steaming.

Next I play this hand vs my poker soulmate, Ravageur. Nothing much to be said except that ppl never ever give me any credit in this spot because I appear to be spewy preflop. I seriously had a bad feeling when I saw the gutshot draw on the flop :

Seat 2: Jackb2502 (£200 in chips)
Seat 3: HERO (£200 in chips)
Seat 4: 0fresh0 (£227.50 in chips)
Seat 5: Ravageur (£282.39 in chips)
Seat 6: Jibby147 (£289.10 in chips)
Jackb2502: posts small blind £1
HERO: posts big blind £2
Ravageur: posts small blind £1
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO
balmore joins the table at seat #1
0fresh0: folds
balmore sits out
Ravageur: raises to £7
Jibby147: calls £7
Jackb2502: folds
HERO: raises to £31
Ravageur: calls £24
Jibby147: calls £24
----- FLOP -----
HERO: bets £56
gift joins the table at seat #4
Ravageur: raises to £251.39 and is all-in
Jibby147: folds
HERO: is all-in £113
Returned uncalled bets £82.39 to Ravageur
----- TURN -----
----- RIVER -----
----- SHOW DOWN -----
Ravageur: shows (A Straight, Ace high)
HERO: shows (A Pair of Aces, King high)
Ravageur collected £429 from Main pot

So that one is just kind *sigh*… What can you do? In itself it definitely didn’t tilt me. In fact, it felt good to get it in as such a huge favourite and kind of un-tilted me.

About 3 mins later, I ran KJ into 77 on KJ7hh board at fullring for an 800$ pot. Meh.

Then this hand took place vs same villain who had AA in hand 1. It literally put me off the deep end :

Seat 1: HERO (€211.90 in chips)
Seat 2: Chavinder (€163.70 in chips)
Seat 3: Snaitug (€248.20 in chips)
Seat 4: mrxxxxx (€194.80 in chips)
Seat 5: Alang2109 (€308.60 in chips)
Seat 6: stekarn (€227.60 in chips)
HERO: posts small blind €1
Chavinder: posts big blind €2
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO
Snaitug: calls €2
mrxxxxx: folds
Alang2109: folds
stekarn: folds
HERO: raises to €11
Chavinder: folds
Snaitug: calls €9
----- FLOP -----
HERO: bets €16
Snaitug: raises to €40
HERO: calls €24
----- TURN -----
HERO: checks
Snaitug: checks
----- RIVER -----
HERO: bets €41
Snaitug: calls €41
----- SHOW DOWN -----
HERO: shows (Two Pairs, Tens and Twos, Ace high)
Snaitug: shows (Two Pairs, Kings and Twos, Jack high)
Snaitug collected €183 from Main pot

How can ppl play so bad and own me so good? I seriously don’t know what to say about this hand. It’s fascinating how much it tilted me. Any advice or comments are welcome. Seriously why does shit like this drive me off the deep end?

The proverbial nail-in-the-coffin to my shortlived session came during 2 small pots that occurred simultaneously. Nothing too weird, but seriously what the fuck is going on in the 1st hand (oop float) and I just shut down my cpu after the oesd hit the river in the 2nd one :

Seat 1: Yorkie25 ($473.45 in chips)
Seat 2: Teamgods1 ($278.01 in chips)
Seat 3: KWR460 ($480 in chips)
Seat 6: Lovequeen ($222 in chips)
Seat 7: HERO ($545 in chips)
Seat 8: Neemelo ($480 in chips)
Seat 10: mmhhmm ($288 in chips)
mmhhmm: posts small blind $2
Yorkie25: posts big blind $5
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO
Teamgods1: calls $5
KWR460: folds
0fresh0 joins the table at seat #4
Lovequeen: folds
HERO: raises to $21
Neemelo: folds
mmhhmm: folds
Yorkie25: folds
Teamgods1: calls $16
----- FLOP -----
Teamgods1: checks
HERO: bets $31
Teamgods1: calls $31
----- TURN -----
Teamgods1: checks
HERO: checks
----- RIVER -----
Teamgods1: checks
HERO: checks
----- SHOW DOWN -----
Teamgods1: shows (Two Pairs, Queens and Tens, King high)
HERO: mucks hand
Teamgods1 collected $108 from Main pot

Seat 1: dunderich ($46.75 in chips)
Seat 2: HERO ($301.70 in chips)
Seat 3: Napstar ($61.35 in chips)
Seat 4: Kaiser004 ($68 in chips)
Seat 5: Bob26071 ($38 in chips)
Seat 6: placebo66 ($199.28 in chips)
Seat 7: PaulB75 ($405.69 in chips)
Seat 8: The_miko ($63.80 in chips)
Seat 9: Sarah66 ($45 in chips)
Seat 10: Gonnaneed ($73 in chips)
Bob26071: posts small blind $1
placebo66: posts big blind $2
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO
PaulB75: folds
The_miko: calls $2
Sarah66: folds
Gonnaneed: folds
dunderich: folds
HERO: raises to $8
Napstar: folds
Kaiser004: folds
Bob26071: folds
placebo66: folds
The_miko: calls $6
----- FLOP -----
The_miko: checks
HERO: checks
----- TURN -----
The_miko: bets $8
HERO: raises to $35
The_miko: raises to $55.80 and is all-in
HERO: calls $20.80
----- RIVER -----
----- SHOW DOWN -----
The_miko: shows (A Straight, Nine high)
HERO: shows (A Pair of Queens, Ace high)
The_miko collected $127.60 from Main pot

While posting a bunch of lame hands might not seem productive, hopefully I can get closer to understanding what it is that tilts me. I think it has to do with feeling owned. The guy who won the 2 big pots off of me with AA and KK is definitely not a big winner. Paying him off when he takes terrible fishy lines makes me feel like I suck which, in turn, makes me feel like a monkey.

Man, those are some weird lines.

I'd guess it tilts you because you pride yourself on playing well postflop, which means reading hands well, and when people take spastic unreadable lines you lose that edge.

Some of those hands are a bit lol though.

just played another 400 hands and got set-over-setted 3 times for stacks, twice in 3 bet pots

blahblahblahblahblah fuck variance fuck it fuck it

it s a broken record... but man is it ever important to detach myself from results

what I find so hard is this : staying connected to and worried about results is the easiest way for me to avoid making spewy and fancy plays and warring with regs. instead, when I'm "worried" about my results, I lower my variance out of fear of posting a big loss.

The obvious problem with this is handling brutal beats and coolers. It's hard to be attached to results as a buffer against fancy play and spewing without the irrational emotional reaction to suckouts and coolers.

How can I be more even-keeled and straightforward without tilting the minute variance bites me in the ass?

That, my friends, is the question.

Man I (and just about everyone else probably) wish there was an easy answer to that question.

I've had some luck working on that side of things recently, but who knows if what helped me will help you. Like you I probably follow my results a bit too closely. I'm getting better at not tracking my results too closely during sessions (I used to refresh HEM session results every 5-10 mins). Mainly I just sat down one day and really considered what poker could mean to me. What it would mean to get the kinds of monthly results I should be capable of getting? Then I really thought about how the sessions where I tilted or spewed were affecting that. It was literally handicapping me. I even took a screenshot of my monthly graph and edited it to remove my spewy sessions to see what it would have looked like if I hadnt played those ones (not results oriented, just the 3-4 sessions where I really spewed), and it was amazing the difference it made (and what my BR would have been otherwise). So for me a real focus on the downside of those bad sessions to my overall results, and how much better my progress would be if I could remove them helped me focus a lot. It comes to mind now when the tilt starts creeping in. I'm even finding I can reverse it and get back to playing well now, where I never could before, but even at worst I'm now good at quitting when I should because I'm aware of the risks of playing on when I'm not right.

ya that s def solid advice (keeping the "longview" in mind)

I m good at quitting, but the greater concern is - what you seem to be getting good at - avoiding the path that leads to quitting out of frustration/fear in the 1st place.

This is all obvious shit, but I think the path to equanimity or peace of levelheadedness is different for everybody. Just when I think I'm getting over the hump, things pop up that make me realize just how far I have to go.

Much of it probably has to do with the state of mind I'm in outside of poker. It's a constant and interesting challenge.

Originally Posted by Genitruc

ya that s def solid advice (keeping the "longview" in mind)....
Just when I think I'm getting over the hump, things pop up that make me realize just how far I have to go.

FWIW...

I'm just beginning to learn the game so can't say much about it. It certainly helps keep me level to know that even accomplished players find the psychological and emotional battles associated with the game challenging and, to an extent, insurmountable.

As for your personal journey.. I know very few individuals of such aptitude, intellect and inspiring disposition. So if there's anyone I know that can excel - not just at a game of cards but at anything he chooses - it's you.

Now if you could just show me how...

thx for the kind words al

when I start my luckboxpoker.com training site, maybe I'll use that quote on my main page?!

just a little ramble - sometimes it helps me to spit things out here. actually fuck the "little" part. this ll probably be long.

The anonymity of this blog affords an unusual and valuable opportunity to create a virtual alias. While this may seem inconsequential, I feel like it's essential in making myself believe in my online persona.

I was never much of a computer nerd but I know quite a few and the online poker experience for me has been similar to what I've seen some people go through with characters in online RPG's. The imagined persona of a character acquired through battles with other level 47 Felar Assasins isn't all that different from the special dynamics acquired through nitty or spewy history between myself and other regs. It changes things dramatically and it's what makes playing regs interesting and stimulating and challenging.

Believing in my poker alias means assuming a kind of imaginative ownership over the virtual life of my poker screenname. Without this I'd feel empty everytime I popped open the tables. Obviously if there were no financial incentive, I wouldn't be constantly searching for new ways to motivate myself to play more hands.

Most people might just be inspired by the idea of making tons of money. I am a strange and creative person. The idea of creating and maintaining some kind of imagined online legacy (like rolling some awesome Duergar Warrior) gets me a whole lot more excited that the idea of making 400$/hr. So I have to accept this and exploit it and tap into it. When I'm really playing my best, I take responsibility for every play I make, almost in an ethical sense. The good plays - both creative and disciplined - make me feel like I'm living well. The spews and stationy calls make me feel like a douche. For someone relatively uninterested in money, it's important that there be some emotional value - even if it's completely imagined - in the activity I'm choosing to spend my time pursuing.

I've been thinking of paying relatively big bucks to hire a poker coach. This is kind of tangential to the above blahblah because it relates to ownership and pride for my game.

Throughout my life, when working really hard to get good at something, I've always had a mentor, sometimes several. Some were decent, others were awesome, a couple were meh. Regardless, they all elicited a strong desire in me to show them I could improve. I have a natural desire to see myself progress, but I get a huge kick out of taking the advice and guidance of others, assimilating it and churning out improved results.

Much of this is due to a basically pleasing, suck-up nature. There's part of it, on the other hand, that is simply a product of my love for camaraderie and a team or group mentality. Right now, when I evolve as a poker player and achieve good results, I feel happy for myself. In other activities, I've always felt the double satisfaction of getting better for myself and reflecting well on my mentor/coach/team.

As I write this I realize that paying lots of money for an overpriced coach who's probably not much better at poker than I am might seem crazy. But I know myself well enough to know that regular sessions and someone eagerly looking for me to post good results, move up and crush the games would be a huge motivation and make my success all that much more satisfying.

As a sidenote, the coaching that I've done has been hugely satisfying. I'm working with a lowstakes grinder right now who's been sweating me quite a bit (maybe 5 hrs or so per week). I get much more pleasure out of my sessions when I'm explaining things to him as we go along. Maybe the same will be true when the roles are reversed.

I'd really appreciate any advice or comments from people who've either given or received serious coaching in the past.

Good post man,

I've never gotten any coaching, so I probably can't be too great input on that. But I've definitely thought about it and am pretty sure that someone else watching your game can be a god way to find certain leaks that you wouldn't even consider.

That's pretty interesting about your whole "poker legacy" thing that you wanna create. I kind of always associated the legacy and the earnings side by side. The more you earn.... the greater chance of you creating your legacy!

last night I played for about 5 hours, just 4 juicy late night tables, mixing in plo and NL

Within the 1st hour I was down no less than 8 full stacks at plo.

Then my QQ lost AI pre to JJ 800$ deep at NL 2-5.

Then something strange happened. Or rather, didn't happen.

It's hard to say how much of it was the result of mental work I've been doing lately, but I just felt no tilt. None. I wasn't eager to win it back, wasn't looking to outplay the douches who had sucked out on me.

Instead, I just kept thinking about gameflow, equity and position.

I won it back at NL and then left a PLO table with - wait for it - 1100bb's. This is not a joke or an exaggeration. Too bad I don't track my PLO play. But I feel like I improved at PLO more in 1 session than I have in all of my previous sessions and study.

Don't want to celebrate too much. No doubt tilt will creep back in at just the wrong time and tempt me to get spewy and impatient and emotional.

But, for at least one night, I felt invincible to tilt and just kept dispassionately looking for the edge and exploiting it.

sick. nice comeback. quite a transformation from your usual raging monkey tilt.

but monkey tilt makes for so much for fun when someone's railing you

Originally Posted by Genitruc

but monkey tilt makes for so much for fun when someone's railing you

i concur

Just played a late-night session at some AWESOME tables.

I'm not sure the word is tilted. I guess I'm just flabbergasted. Variance is a bitch, yadayadayada...

I made exactly 2 high variance plays this entire session.

Two.

Not one, not 3, not 14.

Two.

Here's high variance play #1 :

I misclicked preflop and hit the “fold to any bet” button so I insta-checked the flop to him. I think the shove is fine since his calling range has to be super tight and includes lots of draws that don’t have a pair yet. It’s a little spewy but puts him in a gross spot with less than AK.

Table "Heartsdefender" Seat 4 is the button.
Seat 2: luckydonk ($896.80 in chips)
Seat 4: Ruste2508 ($485.71 in chips)
Seat 5: HERO ($1096.65 in chips)
Seat 6: The_moron ($1096 in chips)
HERO: posts small blind $2
The_moron: posts big blind $5
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO
luckydonk: folds
Ruste2508: folds
HERO: raises to $20
The_moron: raises to $55
HERO: raises to $181
The_moron: calls $126
----- FLOP -----
HERO: checks
The_moron: bets $200
HERO: raises to $915.65 and is all-in
The_moron: is all-in $715
Returned uncalled bets $0.65 to HERO
----- TURN -----
----- RIVER -----
----- SHOW DOWN -----
HERO: shows (Two Pairs, Aces and Nines, King high)
The_moron: shows (A Full House, Tens full of Aces)
The_moron collected $2190 from Main pot

In the next hand, villain had been peeling flop raises UBER light OOP (think bottom pair + gutter). I felt like there was a decent chance he’d call me for a normal bet a good % of the time on the river since he’s a pretty laggy stationy type so I shoved since I can have a flush and he pretty much can't ever.

A few hands before I had raised flop and 2 barelled turn then called his river shove after hitting BD flush and got coolered by his higher BD flush on another table.

Needless to say, my head exploded a bit when I saw his hand. The most soul-crushing part was I was 100% sure he was folding. He called with less than a second left in his timebank.

Game #8185273584: Hold'em NL (£2/£5) - 2008/10/30 - 06:38:23 (UK)
Table "RiohachaGuajira" Seat 1 is the button.
Seat 1: HERO (£1071.20 in chips)
Seat 2: farmer-g (£1248.02 in chips)
Seat 3: Dukatos (£602 in chips)
Seat 4: MF199 (£147 in chips)
Seat 5: Tuana0907 (£908.30 in chips)
Seat 6: Loser18 (£1283.15 in chips)
farmer-g: posts small blind £2
Dukatos: posts big blind £5
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO
MF199: folds
Tuana0907: folds
Loser18: raises to £20
HERO: calls £20
farmer-g: folds
Dukatos: folds
----- FLOP -----
Loser18: bets £34
HERO: raises to £92
Loser18: calls £58
----- TURN -----
Loser18: checks
HERO: bets £135
Loser18: calls £135
----- RIVER -----
Loser18: checks
HERO: bets £824.20 and is all-in
Loser18: calls £824.20
----- SHOW DOWN -----
HERO: shows (High Card King)
Loser18: shows (Three of a kind, Queens, King high)
Loser18 collected £2146.40 from Main pot

Sucks that this was the biggest pot I’ve ever played. Also sucks that I played awesome the entire session at awesome tables and made 2 moves that crushed me, both 200+ bb's deep.

it s funny there s part of me that wants to cry and another part that feels completely unaffected and is kind of chuckling

god I guess this means Loser will never ever fold to me again?

I guess I'm more pissed than I've admitted to myself about these two pots since I keep coming back to this thread.

If I look at my lifetime moving up, down and around various limits, one trend is constant :

all of the biggest pots I've contested (400bb's +) have involved giant bluffs that have been called. I have never, in all of my hands played (maybe 450k or so?) won a pot over 450bb's and I've twice gotten sucked out for 500bb pots, once when I was a 96.3% favourite.

Weird. I guess this is a kind of running bad on the swingy massive pots. At the same time, if I had avoided getting myself into spots where I was spewing away 250bb's, maybe

I'd be playing 10-20 and 25-50 right now instead of 2-5 and 5-10?

Food for thought I guess.

Originally Posted by Genitruc

Weird. I guess this is a kind of running bad on the swingy massive pots. At the same time, if I had avoided getting myself into spots where I was spewing away 250bb's, maybe I'd be playing 10-20 and 25-50 right now instead of 2-5 and 5-10?

Food for thought I guess.

This is exactly exactly how i feel about my poker year right now. Glad to see (or I guess I'm not really glad to see cause it sucks) that I'm not the only one that feels like this.

Hope things turn around man! I'm starting to think that its almost bet to just cut out these massive bluffs really... I'm not even sure ppl adjust enough to call down that light and instead just call down when they have it.

srsly though how the fk does loser have QQQ in that last hand

in the 1st hand, whatever, he flopped a set in a 4 bet pot 200bb s for him when there was exactly 1 set he could ve flopped on that board. gg

for some reason I just untilted from the hand where Loser called me with QQQ. His range is weak and can't take much heat. I like my bet.

The 99 hand isn't nearly as good, although there's already a buyin in the middle and I've repped a hand that can't take heat (JJ-QQ) so it's far from terrible vs a thinking reg.

Yay poker is fun

Originally Posted by Genitruc

I have never, in all of my hands played (maybe 450k or so?) won a pot over 450bb's and I've twice gotten sucked out for 500bb pots, once when I was a 96.3% favourite.

Variance is all well and good, but I'm yet to hear anyone explain why when villains win a 2 outer its for a 200bb+ pot, and when I win a 2 outer its for a 50bb- pot.

hmmm i just finished a long intense session and it looks like I dropped 2k

maybe that s a bad sign? I'll post some hands

haha god i was surprised i lost so much... Guess this is why :



Seat 1: redmundir ($883.25 in chips)
Seat 2: HERO ($747.15 in chips)
Seat 3: Ierokama ($218.85 in chips)
Seat 4: bluecheek ($508.40 in chips)
Seat 5: Loser18 ($1032 in chips)
redmundir: posts small blind $2
HERO: posts big blind $5
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO [8d Jd]
Ierokama: folds
bluecheek: raises to $15
Loser18: calls $15
redmundir: folds
HERO: calls $10
----- FLOP ----- [6h 2s 8h]
HERO: bets $31
bluecheek: folds
Loser18: raises to $109
HERO: raises to $732.15 and is all-in
Loser18: calls $623.15
----- TURN ----- [6h 2s 8h][Ah]
----- RIVER ----- [6h 2s 8h Ah][Th]
----- SHOW DOWN -----
HERO: shows [8d Jd] (A Pair of Eights, Ace high)
Loser18: shows [6d 6c] (Three of a kind, Sixes, Ace high)
Loser18 collected $1508.30 from Main pot

Table "Heartsdefender" Seat 1 is the button.
Seat 1: Loser18 ($573 in chips)
Seat 2: redmundir sits out
Seat 3: ShootEmUp ($537 in chips)
Seat 4: Mefatbird ($121 in chips)
Seat 6: HERO ($758.25 in chips)
ShootEmUp: posts small blind $2
Mefatbird: posts big blind $5
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO [Ks Kc]
HERO: raises to $13
Loser18: raises to $55
ShootEmUp: folds
Mefatbird: folds
HERO: calls $42
----- FLOP ----- [Qc Qh 6s]
HERO: checks
Loser18: bets $91
HERO: raises to $703.25 and is all-in
Loser18: is all-in $427
Returned uncalled bets $185.25 to HERO
----- TURN ----- [Qc Qh 6s][5h]
----- RIVER ----- [Qc Qh 6s 5h][Js]
----- SHOW DOWN -----
HERO: shows [Ks Kc] (Two Pairs, Kings and Queens, Jack high)
Loser18: shows [Qd As] (Three of a kind, Queens, Ace high)
Loser18 collected $1151 from Main pot

Table "Heartsdefender" Seat 1 is the button.
Seat 1: Loser18 ($573 in chips)
Seat 2: redmundir sits out
Seat 3: ShootEmUp ($537 in chips)
Seat 4: Mefatbird ($121 in chips)
Seat 6: HERO ($758.25 in chips)
ShootEmUp: posts small blind $2
Mefatbird: posts big blind $5
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO [Ks Kc]
HERO: raises to $13
Loser18: raises to $55
ShootEmUp: folds
Mefatbird: folds
HERO: calls $42
----- FLOP ----- [Qc Qh 6s]
HERO: checks
Loser18: bets $91
HERO: raises to $703.25 and is all-in
Loser18: is all-in $427
Returned uncalled bets $185.25 to HERO
----- TURN ----- [Qc Qh 6s][5h]
----- RIVER ----- [Qc Qh 6s 5h][Js]
----- SHOW DOWN -----
HERO: shows [Ks Kc] (Two Pairs, Kings and Queens, Jack high)
Loser18: shows [Qd As] (Three of a kind, Queens, Ace high)
Loser18 collected $1151 from Main pot

Table "Keizan" Seat 2 is the button.
Seat 2: HERO ($525.05 in chips)
Seat 4: redmundir ($398.50 in chips)
Seat 5: Loser18 ($1590 in chips)
redmundir: posts small blind $2
Loser18: posts big blind $5
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO [Kh Ks]
HERO: raises to $17
redmundir: folds
Loser18: calls $12
----- FLOP ----- [Tc 8s 3d]
Loser18: checks
HERO: bets $31
Loser18: calls $31
----- TURN ----- [Tc 8s 3d][5h]
Loser18: checks
HERO: bets $81
Loser18: calls $81
----- RIVER ----- [Tc 8s 3d 5h][Td]
Loser18: checks
HERO: bets $396.05 and is all-in
Loser18: calls $396.05
----- SHOW DOWN -----
HERO: shows [Kh Ks] (Two Pairs, Kings and Tens, Eight high)
Loser18: shows [7h Th] (Three of a kind, Tens, Eight high)
Loser18 collected $1050.10 from Main pot

Table "Chaucer" Seat 3 is the button.
Seat 1: redmundir ($463.55 in chips)
Seat 2: HERO ($1017.90 in chips)
Seat 3: berjobull ($191.40 in chips)
Seat 4: bluecheek ($495 in chips)
Seat 5: Loser18 ($594 in chips)
bluecheek: posts small blind $2
Loser18: posts big blind $5
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO [Ad Kh]
redmundir: raises to $20
HERO: raises to $71
berjobull: folds
bluecheek: folds
Loser18: folds
redmundir: raises to $463.55 and is all-in
HERO: calls $392.55
----- FLOP ----- [6c 5h Jd]
----- TURN ----- [6c 5h Jd][Ts]
----- RIVER ----- [6c 5h Jd Ts][3h]
----- SHOW DOWN -----
redmundir: shows [9c 9h] (A Pair of Nines, Jack high)
HERO: shows [Ad Kh] (High Card Ace)
redmundir collected $931.10 from Main pot

Table "Keizan" Seat 2 is the button.
Seat 2: HERO ($511 in chips)
Seat 4: redmundir ($397.50 in chips)
Seat 5: Loser18 ($2101.05 in chips)
redmundir: posts small blind $2
Loser18: posts big blind $5
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to HERO [Kc Qs]
CLS350 joins the table at seat #1
HERO: raises to $16
redmundir: raises to $65
Loser18: folds
HERO: calls $49
----- FLOP ----- [Qd Th 9c]
redmundir: bets $115
HERO: raises to $446 and is all-in
redmundir: is all-in $217.50
Returned uncalled bets $113.50 to HERO
----- TURN ----- [Qd Th 9c][7h]
----- RIVER ----- [Qd Th 9c 7h][Jh]
----- SHOW DOWN -----
HERO: shows [Kc Qs] (A Straight, King high)
redmundir: shows [Kd Ah] (A Straight, Ace high)
redmundir collected $798 from Main pot


Guess that's how you feel like you played decent and end up losing 2k. Funny that I can't wait to play 2morrow.

Also, Alex and Griffey get back to me on the prop bet imo.

Just checked out those hands, and I don't know, I just feel like in general some of them are just overplayed. Though I know thats probably moreso to do with your style and your history with like Loser and stuff.

The first hand, top pair 8 hand is just kinda whatever. You're at best flipping with his calling range there and I think he probably doesn't even fold 8x, and all 8x beat you and dominate you.

The KK hand, I think if someone is 3-betting your UTG open from UTG+1 that you can safely just 4-bet there and expect they will get it in. I'd be more likely to slow play from like CO vs button or something like that.

The KK on TxxxT board. I really think Tx is his most likely holding by far, follow by other midpairs. I think your bet on the river, and the sizing is just polarizing his calling range to hands that beat you (Tx) and folding out the others. But you'd know this better, since this is an image/history spot if anything.

others are fine obviously! Man you play such a high variance style, I couldn't deal

Ok book the propbet for 500$. 15k hands min at 2/5+ running at 7ptbb+.

oh and just saw you and dylan's halloween costumes.. ahaha.. aweeeeeesome!

haha last night was epic imo

Grif in the 1st hand it was effectively Co vs Btn and he seems to fold everytime I 4 bet him since he rr's trash so often in LP wars

Ok Alex book it

just make sure you don't bust and still have 500$ in you account to pay me at the end of the month

just deleted the records for every hand of poker I ever played while installing HEM

not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing

I've been playing awesome so far in November and getting absolutely destroyed.

I have never gone this long without winning a flip in a rr pot.

I'm not tilted, just kind of bored waiting for variance to turn around.

Originally Posted by Genitruc

I've been playing awesome so far in November and getting absolutely destroyed.

I have never gone this long without winning a flip in a rr pot.

I'm not tilted, just kind of bored waiting for variance to turn around.

Genitruc and Griffey's variance turns......

nowwwwwww

BOOM SWITCH

tyty

edit : if I keep running bad it s obv your fault now

if anybody who reads this thread is interested in going to UFC 91 Lesnar vs Couture, PM me. I have 4 extra tickets that I am willing to sell for cheaper than you'll find anywhere else.

Originally Posted by Genitruc

if anybody who reads this thread is interested in going to UFC 91 Lesnar vs Couture, PM me. I have 4 extra tickets that I am willing to sell for cheaper than you'll find anywhere else.

Where is this going down?

Originally Posted by griffey24

Originally Posted by Genitruc

if anybody who reads this thread is interested in going to UFC 91 Lesnar vs Couture, PM me. I have 4 extra tickets that I am willing to sell for cheaper than you'll find anywhere else.

Where is this going down?

I'm guessin not Toronto...

Vegas?

vegas baby

Originally Posted by Genitruc

vegas baby

so you're missing it for CPC right?

Mannnnn I so wanna go.. this masters is a pain in the ass. Can't wait for next year, I'm all over vegas/cpc!

So I take it you're not gonna take the discount to go with Rav (leave Friday and get back late Sunday/early Monday)

Originally Posted by Genitruc

So I take it you're not gonna take the discount to go with Rav (leave Friday and get back late Sunday/early Monday)

naah wish I could.. would be sweet!

If I was gonna take any time off I"d prob go to CPC and play alex at live poker.. that would pay for the trip in itself.. after a couple hours!

Originally Posted by griffey24

If I was gonna take any time off I"d prob go to CPC and play alex at live poker.. that would pay for the trip in itself.. after a couple HANDZ

Have an awesome time at CPC dude!

zomg its tomarraw!!! MAKE MANIEEEEZZZ

THE F DO

is this a spoooky graveyard?

Hey rilla

WANNA TEAM UP?

MAKE THE MANIEZ?

THE F DO

THE F DO AMEN BROTHA!

What a sick sick cruise.

Had a great time. Split action in the Main Event (2.7k buyin) with 3 friends, one of whom was chip leader more than half way through after set-over-setting me (chip dump obv).

Somehow none of us paid out but it was a great fking time.

Back to the grind wheeeee...

pics of hot interpoker plat support girls obviously!

pfft drunken memories are way better imo

Originally Posted by Genitruc

What a sick sick cruise.

Had a great time. Split action in the Main Event (2.7k buyin) with 3 friends, one of whom was chip leader more than half way through after set-over-setting me (chip dump obv).

Somehow none of us paid out but it was a great fking time.

Back to the grind wheeeee...

Some highlights had to be :

-Andy on the dancefloor at any point in time (lawnmower ftl)
-Alexos telling a bunch of brits that he was a pokerroom manager and offering them rakeback at 5 am and the actual poker manager pretending that he was alexos and owned them online (yeah you had to be there) and then proceeded to ask the crew staff on what deck level they sold Crack.
-Polish dealer omg broke my heart
-Bubbling main event wat?
-Wheel of fortune?!!

We should write a trip report but it would probably get a lot of people potentially in trouble so probably not a good idea.

oh god, i think we should get Jesper to write the TR :P hah!

trip report would be so deadly but so awesome agreed

we should just invent gimmick accounts and change all our names then shipit

Originally Posted by Genitruc

trip report would be so deadly but so awesome agreed

we should just invent gimmick accounts and change all our names then shipit

Saw some of andy and dylan's pics. Looked like a good time boys. Dylan has some drink spillage issues!

so did you other guys make some money in the cash games? I know alex is a live donk.. so that answers that.

i made maybe 1k in cash but dropping 2.7k in the main event and running ice-cold in donk n go's made it a losing trip financially

lawnmower ftl? psssssssssssh

Originally Posted by andy-akb

lawnmower ftl? psssssssssssh

heard you're bringing some short stacking styles to crypto?

haha yea, ill try not to tilt you guys too hard

i m sitting to the immediate left of a guy playing 96/3

he has 700bb's

it's all mine

make it 800bb's

so u stack him yet? been 42 minutes now

only got 2 buyins back before he quit

highlights were :

AQ vs his 22 on QQ2 flop in rr pot
my backdoor flush vs him running boat on 428AA
my AT vs his A9 all in on turn on A2259
my J9 vs his flushdraw all in on turn 200bb's deep on 25J93 (riv completes flush obv)
my AJ vs his J5 on JJT board ai on flop (chop ftw obv)

that s all i can remember. he left with about 750bb's after butt fking some other ppl too. it was a night to remember.

I'm guessing at his stats but I paid close attention to every hand at the table (i ran at about 55/50, making each of his limps 8x... he didn't fold once and routinely cold-called other regs' 3 bets of my punishes with stuff like 59o). He folded preflop 4 times in 5 hours at the table and raised probably under 10 times total.

My favourite hand was him owning me by calling 3 barrels on AT726 board vs my open-ended str8 flushdraw including a river shove when he his 4th pair w 69o.

96/3? SU obv

Originally Posted by Genitruc

only got 2 buyins back before he quit

highlights were :

AQ vs his 22 on QQ2 flop in rr pot
my backdoor flush vs him running boat on 428AA
my AT vs his A9 all in on turn on A2259
my J9 vs his flushdraw all in on turn 200bb's deep on 25J93 (riv completes flush obv)
my AJ vs his J5 on JJT board ai on flop (chop ftw obv)

that s all i can remember. he left with about 750bb's after butt fking some other ppl too. it was a night to remember.

I'm guessing at his stats but I paid close attention to every hand at the table (i ran at about 55/50, making each of his limps 8x... he didn't fold once and routinely cold-called other regs' 3 bets of my punishes with stuff like 59o). He folded preflop 4 times in 5 hours at the table and raised probably under 10 times total.

My favourite hand was him owning me by calling 3 barrels on AT726 board vs my open-ended str8 flushdraw including a river shove when he his 4th pair w 69o.

holy geez... limits? who was this guy and sounds like you lost a lot to him?

bah fishhhh

I hate fish on your left, though I still think fish on your left is > no fish at all.

I had an 85/35 next to me two days ago who owned my life too... was pretty annoying!

i meant to my immediate right

it was so awesome... It was at 1-2 pounds and i was making it 14 preflop almost every hand and he would just limp-call every every every single hand

having position on him makes it even more incredible that he took stack after stack after stack. His SN was something like Veon26137...

life stuff has been relatively brutal of late. i ve been grinding school stuff like a motherfucker and that has lead to a grand total of 1.5k hands of poker in december so far

vacation starts sunday for me. the plan is 15k hands in 3 days, then a total break. gl me. i ll post anything worth posting if i have time/tilt in between sessions.

Originally Posted by Genitruc

life stuff has been relatively brutal of late. i ve been grinding school stuff like a motherfucker and that has lead to a grand total of 1.5k hands of poker in december so far

vacation starts sunday for me. the plan is 15k hands in 3 days, then a total break. gl me. i ll post anything worth posting if i have time/tilt in between sessions.

gl with school stuff! I SHOULD be grinding school stuff more.... you'll have to teach me how to avoid the poker slacking off!

so far I've played 10k hands in 3 days

not quite 15k but I'm happy with the discipline

I've been playing 10-14 tables of nl and plo between 1-2 and 5-10

my few forays into 5-10 have resulted in 2 buyins lost, AA being -2.4k etc

(insert running bad b.s.)

oh well I'm playing pretty great imo. fk it.

haven't updated in 4ever but I'm too tilted not to post this somewhere

I had a whaaaaaaaaale down to his last 600$ after sitting down with him deep at 5-10. Got it in w KK on KQx dd vs his bare flushdraw.

11 minutes later he was sitting on 6.3k and instaquit after winning AJ to my QQ AI pre 300bb's deep.

My roll is short these days and I'm only playing when the games are great since school is my #1 priority until the summer. Recently I have been on my worst downswing ever (somewhere between 15 and 20k depending on the value of the pound). I had won most of it back until tonight.

I just need to write asdjkf;JKD;SAJF A;DS JA;SFDAKS;
AASD FA
SJD KFLA
JWEIA
FEWJ KAS
DJ
SDAIJ
OIF JD T8W934389 T
EJ
goi FDJDFKJ KSD JFAKDS JSDA`KJFA;SDKJSAK;F JA;DSK A;DSKJFA;DSK J;SDAF;KJA

Ok that's much better.

Man, that sucks.

Originally Posted by bjsaust

Man, that sucks.

those 3 words actually felt pretty good to read.

Bjaust I haven't kept up with things much but if you're playing these days, find your toughest hand from the past while and just for shits and giggles I'll give as detailed a thought process for every street as I can.

If bjaust doesn't read this soon and somebody else actually peeks at this old blog sometime, let me know who you are (if I don't already) and post a tough hand. I'll get on the 1st one I find and go as deeply into it as I can.

I guess I'm just in one of those moods.