Upsy downsy...

Hot ran ended with a 6 buy downswing over 24 hrs. To be honest, I just didnt adjust to full tables of maniacs. Well, borderline maniacs, like 50% fold to cbet and a lot of turn betting/etc, lots of donk betting. Didnt help that I barely flopped a TP hand with my isolations any session, only 1 set for the whole time (got paid off, but only by shorty) and no action on my AA/KK hands.

Anyway, took a day off, read some articles, thought about it away from the tables, and came back today to put in a 2 buyin winning session. Not as many maniacs, but played them well the ones that were there.

Omg, I had a money tree to my right on one table. Like 80% vpip, never once limp/folded, and best yet, if he hit the board he always donk bets. So he's 100% fold to c-bet. Not only that, but he turns into a maniac with a weak hand. He called with J50, and donked PSB v's 2 opps on a two tone J high board, then when the 3flush hit on turn he called 2/3 PSBs on turn and river. So I was somewhat selective about my hands, but if I hit a TP hand I'm more than happy to either let him take himself to valuetown or do it myself if he slows down on turn. On the other hand, any time he checks flop I can bet ATC. Thats free money guys!!!

I also got my first AA ai pre in like 6k hands. I'd raised like 3 in a row (table was sooo nitty, but there was one huge stack all the regs were gunning for), and raised 4th time UTG into a fairly decent TAG regs BB who was unfortunate to have QQ and think I was running over the table. Who knows, maybe he gets ai regardless of recent history, but it sure didnt hurt. AA held, poker is fun again .

So I managed to get a bit of a poker group going. Bunch of us who have formed a group on weaktight, so we can review and comment on HH's etc, as well as chat a bunch on aim/msn/email/etc. Hopefully that will help us all improve. On the other hand, its meant I dont post many hands on here anymore, so I figured I'd change that.

Theme of the day: Bluffs.

I bluff very little outside of c-betting in this game. Makes me a bit weak-tight, but they pay me off anyway, so I stick with it. Against certain opps though I will attempt some plays.


Hand 1
53/13/3. Fairly aggressive postflop, takes lots of stabs.

$0.15/$0.25 No Limit Holdem
5 players
Converted at weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG TheVotary ($24.20)
CO TheLoon ($109.05)
BTN GOCHITOTCHRA ($16.65)
SB PouiLastico ($24.75)
BB Hero ($56.60)

Pre-flop: ($0.40, 5 players) Hero is BB
2 folds, GOCHITOTCHRA calls $0.25, 1 fold, Hero checks

Flop: ($0.65, 2 players)
Hero checks, GOCHITOTCHRA bets $0.65, Hero calls $0.65

Turn: ($1.95, 2 players)
Hero checks, GOCHITOTCHRA bets $1.95, Hero raises to $7

Villain steals a lot of orphan pots. I figure I can call with my hidden gutshot, if I happen to hit I'll just call turn and let him value town himself on river, if I miss (most likely) I can represent a wide range to take it off him on the turn. 7 is perfect, just the kind of thing I might happen to call flop with and from BB my range is ATC.


Hand 2

Raiser callers are all decent TAGs, shorty is a moron who got ai with J8s the previous hand.

$0.15/$0.25 No Limit Holdem
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG dirtydoerk ($31.40)
UTG 1 webzock60 ($6.50)
CO TheLoon ($76.60)
BTN taflouf ($12.55)
SB PouiLastico ($31.90)
BB Hero ($23.05)

Pre-flop: ($0.40, 6 players) Hero is BB
1 fold, webzock60 calls $0.25, TheLoon raises to $1.15, taflouf calls $1.15, PouiLastico calls $1, Hero raises to $6.25, webzock60 raises to $6.50, TheLoon folds, taflouf folds, PouiLastico folds, Hero calls $0.25

Bit more borderline here, but go for a squeeze play. The 3 players already acted are all semi-decent TAGs, and read me the same way. This is basically a level, I show extreme strength v's a very strong looking range, so I expect them to fold a LOT of hands here. Shorty wasnt part of the plan, but he's an idiot doing this with any two cards the same color, so I'm not worried about being ahead of him, more that the others will actually see me show this down. Dunno, maybe good for image, now I think about it, this happened about 5-10 mins before my AA hand, so maybe it helped there too.

Hand 3

33/4/11 seen him run this line in a few limped pots.

$0.15/$0.25 No Limit Holdem
5 players
Converted at weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG svinkelz ($25.40)
CO jfnice31 ($34.40)
BTN andaluscia ($24.60)
SB AXIV ($24.60)
BB Hero ($25.25)

Pre-flop: ($0.40, 5 players) Hero is BB
1 fold, jfnice31 calls $0.25, 2 folds, Hero checks

Flop: ($0.65, 2 players)
Hero checks, jfnice31 bets $0.65, Hero calls $0.65

Turn: ($1.95, 2 players)
Hero checks, jfnice31 bets $1.95, [color=#cc0000]Hero raises to $6

Same as hand 1 basically. Hidden gutshot v's maniac on flop. A is a good scare card to bluff on turn v's a non-thinking opponent. Less so in limped pot v's thinking opp, but maybe they'd put me on a 2 pair Ax type hand... Anyway, all this drooler will consider is that I could very well float flop with an A and another high card.

BR - $760.