Heater Continues

Having a good run at NL25. Heres my stats from 4 days of play, starting to get a sample size going. Have been playing pretty loose, opening tonnes from cuttoff and button. Any Ax Kx QX suited, offsuit connecters, suited 2 gappers or better. Good sign is graph is going up steady:











That huge heater at the start was phenom day btw. Must of ran like god.

Some hands:

Mmmmmm run good....


Call this one karma then


Last one is best. Well felt cool at the time. Guy had a 3bet of 30%. Squeezed every oporunity he had. Was a maniac but no one played back. I 4bet bluff on button once, he was in blind bu he shoved. Layed a few more down to his 3bet then pulled a masterfull bluff imo:



Then i finished his stack few hands later. Was satisfying


Bankrolls:
Stars: $220
Tilt: $610
Casino: -$200

BankRoll Number

Stars: $220
Tilt: $450
Casino: -$200

Internet Pokers

Finally, uni has slowed down and its time for some serious grinding. First session in like 6 months was the other week, "Phenom Day". Start with $50 and race the other 10 people in the room to the highest amount by the end of the night.

My strat was to grind the cash games of course. Made a new account on Tilt and got the HoldemManager deal. 4 tabling 10NL got me up to $100 pretty quick. Then I moved onto 4 25NL tables which is where I stayed until the 12 hours of play was up, finishing with $280 and second place. Shicka was the winner with like $340, after chopping a big torney win for ~$200. I think I ran really good to do so well though. Looking through the hands I really had no big losses. No interesting hands either. I only just learned about the 'save a hand for later' function in HM so I captuerd a few since then.

Been playing poker most of this weekend. My goal obviously is to get the bankroll up and move to some serious limits. NL25 is going pretty good. After Phenom Day and 2 days of grind, Tilt account is at $450. Here is my graph so far:














Had a really good table that just broke up, full of deep fishies. Here was the first big pot after I just doubled up. Note the expert use of the min raise by myself...



Then I had a bigger one verse the even worse fish, 200bb with TPTK had me holding my breath though...



This one is just for humour value, call the short stack shove with my A8 cause he was a baddie. Then the idiot next to me spazzes out. Get pretty much a dream flop considering the hands shown but lose in a disgusting manor really.



Finally my food for thought hand. Was versing this guy on 2 tables and had ~500 hands on eachother. These were the deepstack ante tables btw. Anyway we were both really agressive against eachother, 3betting alot preflop. I got caught by him in a 150bb bluff a little earlier so im sure he has no respect for me. Get this hand... Wish I knew how to do that vote thing cause the turn could be played multiple ways. I think I did the right thing given the image we had of each other.

On flop I re-raise smallish to induce a shove was the plan from memory. He just calls and im left with 50% of my stack in the pot when an ugly card hits on turn.



Hmm hope those worked... Off to bed, happy grinding fools

First Casino

Friend (luke) plays poker in my games and is a good loose player. plays online alot and seems to be doing well. well me and him go to the casino to play poker $1/2 blinds w $100 buy in which is a bit weird but seemed to work alright. huge fish everywhere litterally giving their money away, one guy shoved 5 hands pretty much in a row on bluff ofcourse. i hit some great hands but the suckouts were flying. hands are not in exact order...

3rd hand in i get AA
raise to like $12 get a caller or two.
flop J 8 2
i c-bet and a fishy looking guy calls
turn: j 8 2 K
i bet again and he calls, i have around $50 behind
river was a low blank and i shove, he folds and doesnt show

next hand i get JJ and get it all in pf verse a guy who turned out to be descent, but he only had a stay of $40ish so i just 4bet him all in. had QQ

folded alot then get AJs earlyish
riase $10 few callers, 2 of them huge fish
flop: 8 9 T, giving me flush draw, open ender and overcards.
fish bets, other fish all in , me all in , fish all in
hit my outs
dont know what they had, probably just a pair or air knowing these guys.

now i have a good stack like $450 and am feeling pretty good

had a hand verse luke...
limped to me by a couple ppl on the button. i limp w A6s
luke in sb raises to like $8. weird raise as it gets noone to fold and now he has a big pot oop verse like 4 ppl. anyway i call after everyone else.
flop:AKT luke c-bets into everyone which looks pretty strong but i have to call one with top pair in position.
turn is a blank and luke checks, i check behind...im either way ahead or way behind here i think , keep pot small is plan.
river: AKTxQ luke bets half pot and i fold, he shows KJ for pair+gut on flop
just thought this was weird hand and i write it down so i can ask him bout it sometime, makes no sense to 3bet small then fire into 4ppl with a pretty vulnerable hand oop...

fold alot and get AA again.
agressive young guy raises early and i reraise in position $18 or so, we r both deep
he calls and flop comes Kxx with flush draw, he donks $2...
he either has a weak hand but more likely a draw here, id seen him do this before
i raise full pot, knowing he likes to chase/gamble
turn is blank and he donks $2 again
i overbet him all in and he moans some bullshit then says LETS GAMBLE, im happy as he calls
rivers flush ofcourse, i lose like $200

soo i open pot for $12 w KQ and fishy guy to my left calls, he has like $70 flop: KQx , i c-bet and he shoves , i call and flip over top two "gunna need me some runner runner" he says turn and river both come KQx55 he shows K5 for runner runner boat. 0.3% chance of him winning that hand. awesome ...

played this next hand pretty bad, i think that runner boat affected me.
got KK on button and had been some limpers. i make it like $16 and get 3 callers.
flop: AA4 rainbow, well this is a bad flop with all these callers
agressive young guy from earlier bets $7 into like $45 so i just call on button everyone folds.
turn is blank and this time he bets $50
now im thinking that small flop bet ment weak hand earlier but as i just called maybe he is now trying to bluff me off hand. so i call this big bet
river is AA4xT and he checks, i check behind and he shows an A rag. says he thought i was trapping him or something. probably should have folded to the 50 bet looking back just because there was 3 callers and one of these fools is going to have A rag if im holdiong no ace, o well hindsight.

playing this hand like that actually snapped me out of this tempory tilt and i folded a bunch of hands to tighten up, play all around me was pretty crazy so just had to wait for premiums.

solid looking new guy raises early, fish calls and i just call in sb w KQs
flop: Kxx giving me flush draw and TPGK
solid c-bets, fish massive overbet shoves, i call...solid guy lays down worse king than me :(
fish shows AA, which he slowplayed pf for some reason, its a flip pretty much
i dont hit an out, $100 or so lost

have like $80 now ( i rebought $100 in there somewhere)

im in bb or sb and whole table limps, i complete or check w 34o.
flop: A25 flopped nut straight, flush draw possible
i check....checked to button who bets $20, i shove, he calls
he has flush draw and hits , i curse

i leave $200 down but should have been up so much more, o well its poker. luke has a good night, made like $130. i remember he took a bit of a bad beat in there somewhere but some loud drunk guy gave him alot of chips. he even chucked like $30 into lukes stack at one point.

Fun night, plan to go back many times when uni is over!

24hr cash game

24 hour cash game the other day through club pokersoc. Got there at like 1pm and stayed till 3am. NL50 with mostly the usual crew. Though I played really well but still finished even. Heres some hands i remember:

tight good player raises button, fish in sb calls, i call A3 suited.
flop:
A 3 4
good player c-bets $4 , fish calls, i raise $16.
he reraises $35 with about 20 behind.
though for a while but i think i had to push... could easily have AK here, guy prob thought i was a bad with A10 or something.
he had 44.

very loose UTG limps, few callers i check my bb (Q8)
flop: Q 8 6
i check, utg raise, i reraise, he shoves total of about $60. insta call of course, this guy could easily have TPTK and think its the nuts, prob is with his image but anyway.
he has AA, rivers an A for top set.

tight player raises early $2.5, fish sb calls, i call w 33
flop : 10 8 3 two clubs
tighty c-bets big, im thinking over pair right now. Fish min raises... I call to trap hopefully, slightly risky w flush but want the tight guy to push. he just calls.
turn 6o
fish shoves his last $20 or so.
i think then re-shove, tight guy has about $50 left and i have him covered
he folds and shows nut flush draw
fish had 10 6 for the turned 2 pair...
made about $60 here

win quite a few pots just by 2 barrelling w my tight image on good boards against players who i know respect my image, 3-bet a very loose agressive player to my right often and he pays me off when i get a hand. could see he gets frustrated when he cant open every pot

friend luke wasnt hitting any flops and was getting in a large hole.
he raised earlyish and i call w 77
flop of Q T 7
he bets i just call, he is prtty bluffy sometimes and i think this board has a high chance of missing him.
turn T giving me a full house. this is a pretty bad card for me cause if he had a Q its going to look like i just caught up. He checks i check behind hoping to get value on river, or induce bluff.
River blanks and he bets out 1/2 pot. I think and then reraise him 3x.
He tanks a bit but makes a good laydown of AQ, think it was first pair i seen him hit all night so i applaud his tilt control.

final hand i remember has me raise early $2.25 (JJ) and get two callers, one loose average player and one fish.
flop : 10 4 2 rainbow good flop for me, they will call several bets w just a T for sure
i bet out $6.50 loose guy calls quickly , im thinking he has a good T, fish overcalls
turn is a 5 diamonds putting flush draw out there.
i bet again $15, loose guy tanks and folds . later shows KT but said he put me on a big hand.
fish shoves and i insta call. he shows T6 for top pair w flush draw. he shoved like $20 more so no fold equity at all.
turn is a diamond and the happy bad rakes it in.

also flopped a straight on a 3 suit flop and got it all in vs A high flush draw, he hit.

good player raised UTG and i 3bet w AQs
he calls, he is solid so im thinking he must have something good
flop: KQ4
he checks and i check behind, just to control pot cause i could easily not be ahead here. not too many scare cards can come for me either.
turn: KQ4Q
now he bets out into me and i call, pretty sure ive got him but he is very agressive so ill let him take another shot before i raise.
river: KQ4QK
horrible card for me, he checks though so i put out a small bet, thinking back i should have mayb checked behind because not much worse would call me here from a good player.
he c-raises and i sadly fold.
Shows KQ so i guess the K actually saved me. bit of a suckout flop for him...a simple Q high would have been nice, i wouldnt have put him on KQ either cause imo its a terrible hand to call 3bets oop as its always dominated if there is action. o well

all in all i think i played pretty good but just ran bad, god dam flush draws always seem to make it. forgot the hands but i got it in a couple more times ahead and lost, could have been a big winning night had most of them held. o well good fun.

First Blog

Decided to start this blog on the advice of a mate just to track my progress hopefully for many years to come... Also i have a terrible memory so writing stuff down should be key.

Summary:
Started playing probably just over a year ago. First went to small cash games and have since started an online account (Deftona). Progress online has been pretty standard. Played sot'n'goes with my frst $50 which I seemed to do pretty good at even though i pretty much just played my cards. Get to like $300 but eventually go busto cause im shit. Then stop playing and read alot of poker stuff, watch deuces cracked videos and start to get alot better. New $50 and im at NL10 2 tabling. Get to $400 with a very steady graph of 10bb/100. Have learnt to 4 table by now. Move up NL25 where they r just as bed but somehow i lose most of my roll. Back to NL10 where i am now to build up but have been very busy with uni so havent had much time. 2 weeks to go then im hoping to play alot more. Also go to a live game every few weeks NL50, think im about even after playing there around 10 times. Game is pretty soft, but there are some good agressive players.