also a random comment about variance :
today my closest poker friend - a 5 ptbb winner at 2-5 and 5-10 over his past 170k hands - dropped 12k at 2-5 and lower. The ev graph was pretty much a straight line towards break-evenville.
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| Flop I c/r this hand fairly often, or lead out. As played, turn I call given the odds he's giving. River - he's not betting into two ppl here with worse than A high, so despite the odds we're getting, I fold here. If this was HU, I might call. | |
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| PFR acts before me on all streets. Its funny, if he bets say $5 on flop I probably raise him, but for only $3 into an $11 pot the odds just win me over. Do you think his range is weak enough and contains enough stuff that beats me but would fold to a river shove? | |
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| Yeah, this thought occurred to me too. If I read that small bet as weakness, then I add a lot of fold equity to my pot equity, meaning I should really be more likely to semi-bluff here than v's a std c-bet. | |
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| Ok, I thought this was an interesting spot. Looks standard at first, but I think maybe stack sizes change things a bit. | |
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| bj - If villain c/r you here was a full stack, I might even say flat his c/r. I don't think the 8 is a clean out all that often, and I don't think we have that much fold equity on this type of board. But given his stack, shovey shovey. | |
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| an interesting question is whether or not there s a point where playing the flop vs a short and vs a deep stacked opponent become similar facing the flop CR. | |
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| I assume he's got at least TP+draw or better. I dont remember having much of a read on him. | |
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| gotta run right now but interesting hand ; i ll think about it and respond soon. | |
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| k i m pretty baked and exhausted right now after throwing a party but my first reaction is that preflop is o.k. to good, flop is meh to o.k. and turn is bad to meh. i ll try and spit something coherant out after I wake up. | |
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| Spoke to Griffey about it. I think I like his line of calling flop and betting if checked to on turn, raising if he bets turn and a spade comes in, or just folding turn if it doesnt and he bets. Turn I have to call $15 into $90 after I bet, so I've got odds, unless of course he's either already hit or has a better FD (A or K). Is that what makes the call bad? | |
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| I prefer floating the flop to raising because we're repping sets and AA-KK as well as FD's and bluffs when we raise | |
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| just lost 7k vs a bunch of donks at 2-5 and lower playing late night my 2nd day back grinding after a bunch of school shit | |
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| SDNFJK;SD J`KSD JJF | |
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| Oh man... that sucks dude. | |
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| WTFFFF, I sat at your table for ~10minutes in which you proceeded to bust about 2 guys and were sitting with 400bb stacks when i left... | |
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                                                02-26-2009 04:18 PM
                                        
                                
                                
                                        
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| hehe thx guys. words can t describe how tilted I was last night. I owned hard in my first 2 sessions back then lost it all and then some in a single session... almost all to Geo (u know how that feels obv) and some guy who kept calling oop and check-shoving any pair, gutter etc vs my overpairs. | |
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| Oh man.. geo owns my life.... he runs like goddd.. moreso than Rav even! | |
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| made it back and then some tonight. shipit. | |
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| it helps sitting at plo w a 1400bb stack | |
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| If 55 hadn't lost to K7hh on 529hh for a 2.7k pot, I'd have had an awesome comeback session tonight. I was down a tonne at one point but for whatever reason didn't feel too stressed about it. Maybe the massive swing I had this week helped to be a bit equanimous in the face of more and more variance. | |
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| So I doubled my online BR in about 12 days of playing after finishing up some school shit. | |
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                                                03-19-2009 07:38 PM
                                        
                                
                                
                                        
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| Nice couple of weeks | |
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| man u have no idea | |
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| I'm kind of coming around on the switch of sites : I feel like the games are pretty damned good. The software still tilts me hard, but I spoke to support and they said they'll be working on changing that. | |
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| What did inter support say they were going to fix? | |
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| Not HUD compatible?? Wow... sooo not using Boss geez | |
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| ya that s kind of why I like it | |
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| Sooo from what i hear... Boss isn't compatible with HEM but it IS compatible with PT3.. so people definitely have stats I'd imagine! | |
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                                                03-22-2009 09:42 PM
                                        
                                
                                
                                        
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| I've booked wins in 16 of my past 19 sessions. | |
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| glad to hear somebody is running hot, other than rav, haha. im going to be flying into montreal on the 24th of April, hopefully you guys are all around | |
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| playing without stats forces me to avoid ever going into bot-mode | |
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| Just tried out the new Inter software and I dropped seriously like 6k euros in the first 2 hours on the site. I was seriously wondering if it was rigged until I made most of it back in the next 4 hours. It has so many bad things about it I can't name them, but the games are good for sure. If they can change a few basic things like how fucking fast it is (8 tabling is nigh impossible and even 6 tabling is a recipe for a timeout every fucking orbit) then maybe it will be bearable. | |
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| ya it s funny i ve kind of warmed to the software | |
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| Just had my 1st losing session since making that post about being careful not to spew. I have to say, it's been a pretty awesome run. | |
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| ok gonna have to regroup after back-to-back meh sessions. made my 1st all-out spew in quite a while, 4 betting small then snap-calling a shove pre w A9s in a spot with no history (wtf??!!). | |
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| hmm was up 6k on tonight s session then lost 25 consecutive BI s at plo | |
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| ok that was kind of pointless but one of my bigger days just turned into my biggest loss ever so all i wanna say is | |
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| he's baaaaack!!! +1 for big losing days yest | |
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| haha i was at some GOLDEN late-night tables and was sitting with 3.9k euros at a 2-4 table and 400bb + stacks at 3 separate 1-2 tables (so actually maybe i was up way more than 6k??? fk me) then lightning struck and i lost 3 consecutive 300bb pots at the 2-4 table with the nuts all in pre or on the flop (the worst was losing JJxx to KK xx ai on J26r for 2.2k euro pot) and suddenly BAM it s all gone on the 2-4 table. | |
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| just reviewed that session mentally from last night and realized that I was up 7k euros at my high point, which makes it even sicker to think that I ended up down 5k euros, all at 1-2 and 2-4!!! | |
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| update after day 1 of recovery : | |
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| have played really, really well the past few days and all I have to show for it is a mini-downswing. highlights include losing A5 to JJ ai on 2344 turn 250bb's deep and KK to KJ on AKQ board ai on flop 200bb s deep... AA is my biggest loser... ETC ETC BLAHBLAH RUN BAD | |
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| just grinded a pretty awesome awesome session | |
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| Just played a few tables of 5-10 euro (about 1.7k usd). late night games looked golden and I destroyed them : | |
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| BossMedia Game #1785348836: Table Table TH 3689 - €5.00/€10.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 02:19:51 - 2009/09/24 | |
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| grinded a few K hands early this morning and felt great. ran bad but made the maniez. | |
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| oh man... ppl are the hugest spazzjobs lol. | |
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| +19k in the past 24h hours | |
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| btw griff in the AK hand from above I m not worried about winning the hand all that often on the flop... | |
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