Operation: $$ accumulation

Your blog is cool. Keep up the good work. Im happy you are at FTP, for my own personal reasons, because I tend to start tables and sometimes play regs. Prob do poorly vs u.

!luck

cheers for the comments guys!

i've often scoffed at the ideas of writing notes advising good poker play and sticking them to your monitor..
however:
"before auto-bluff-raising rivers allin vs regs always remember to take a deep breath, pause a second, and at least consider folding"
is now rocking pride of place at my desk. Could have saved myself 7 buyins the last 3 days just by reading such a note. One reg did manage to bank right down before calling his second set (fwiw i put him on QQ+ overpairs, TT/99 top two sets), and this a reg who folds about 80% of the time he banks. Anyway, i don't think my image is clean enough among regs to be pulling that kind of shit so often. There was one crazy 1k hand session where i managed to shove 40 times and have negative showdown winnings (obviously) and barely breakeven overall. This is nit-ring ffs, and i'm a nit. Give it up.

In general i have been playing poorly the last few days, even splashier than normal, bet-calling my bet-folds, bluffing with too little equity, calling 3bets oop, bluff-shoving into strong ranges, etc. Good news is that i'm up a bit, not heaps of $$ or anything, but to be playing this spewtard and still be winning says something about something. If i figure out what these somethings are anytime soon i'll post my ideas.

anyway, hidden in the spew there have been occasional bluffs i like a lot, and then a few like this one where i have managed to confuse myself more and more whenever i look at it. Bikes was at the table, not involved in the hand. I should ask him to put me on a range here..

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (9 handed) - Full Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

MP2 ($84.90)
MP3 ($74.10)
CO ($38.35)
Hero (Button) ($50)
SB ($41.10)
BB ($50)
UTG ($26.05)
UTG+1 ($48.75)
MP1 ($52.50)

Preflop: Hero is Button with 10, A
5 folds, CO bets $1.50, Hero calls $1.50, SB calls $1.25, 1 fold

Flop: ($5) 5, K, J (3 players)
SB checks, CO checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($5) 7 (3 players)
SB checks, CO bets $1, Hero raises to $6, 1 fold, CO calls $5

River: ($17) 3 (2 players)
CO checks, Hero bets $12,

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Originally Posted by daven

i have been playing poorly the last few days, even splashier than normal, bet-calling my bet-folds, bluffing with too little equity, calling 3bets oop, bluff-shoving into strong ranges, etc.

my poker life summed in a sentence

so i started referring to poker as gambling. So i started playing a way more gambool style. So i experienced some sick swings. So it's time to get back to work.

a link with some sculpted bodies, some orchestral metallica, some cool choreography, and i need to find out if the people who did this were at a movement workshop i taught at the european juggling convention in lille a few years back where i made people interrogate movement and balance on a medium (climbing wall) that they were unfamiliar with.

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edit - here's the last couple of days of poker. I'm running pretty awful in cooler spots over this sample as well. Games are obviously good. Ahead a little after bonusclear etc. Blah.
a nice post from that other forum
***** 1,000th POAST - You are Gonna F*** Up!! **** - Micro Stakes Full Ring Games - Micro Stakes Poker Strategy Forum

Today i feel a little bit degen
probably something to do with all the drama re black friday, and the fact that i spent last night playing MTTs in search of overlay and managed 3 deep runs (29th, 54th, etc) and no final tables fml.
so i went lobby surfing to see what i could find. I found short-handed rush omaha-8. Awesome. 4-tabling this while 8-tabling ring for a while was lol-action

for better or worse i've withdrawn most of my roll since april 15th. First in a mad rush of withdrawals on the day, leaving a very thin 50nl roll online, then another $750 a few days later when FTP started freezing and their .co.uk site disappeared. And then i started running like death. Back to back to back losing sessions, 12bi behind aiev in one 3k hand session, my FTP roll dropped as low as $600... that kind of death. I've got about $1k across other sites, thought about moving it back to FTP but instead i'll just grind it out for the moment. Still going to stick to my no-deposit rule that i've kept going since about August 2007, but it might be tight to get properly rolled again for a while. At least my irl bank accounts are looking healthy - and will still be that way after i get back from two months of climbing in europe june/july.

Yeah, no poker for june-july. And a (weather dependent) climbing trip from friday this week for a while. Hmm, I got a no-deposit bonus from FTP, so now i have two bonuses to clear (net $1600 left to go now) - they won't clear concurrently. I have to clear them before i leave on may 26th. I'll go figure out how many hands that is at busto 25nl/50nl - about all i know is that it's gonna require some grind...

i got a cold earlier this week. I don't get sick. It has sucked. I have been grumpy. No running, no climbing, etc. Now it's time to be healthy again.
davenout for a while.