last session of the month capping 20k hands at 200NL. been running good, barely had any losing sessions at all which is always a huge plus wen u move up! infact i won at over 8bb/100 this month :O had two kool hands on the weekend:
Just a really big pot. i think he missplays it after i raise the turn i clearly have a set or straight this deep and wont be folding to a shove so he should just call or fold. o well i hold as usual....
here is a K high call. this is where note taking on fish comes in handy.
here is my month graph just cause it looks pretty. 200nl on day 1, a bit of 100nl.
i have nothing to report about from teh last home game. had one of those nights where u dont hit a pair at all. but i didnt tilt! only down a buyin ($60). had one good hand where me and luke are like $120 deep and i raise his tripple straddle from sb, i shove over his $30 3bet. he calls and we both have AQ lol. AK one time!!!
ah yep thats alot of hands. 250k hands to get from 10NL back on pokersocs yearly 'phenom day' november 2009, to becoming a part time grinder at 200NL. 430 hours of poker according to my HEM. pretty awesome accomplishment i reckon! fittingly this week i just cracked the 5 figure BR too. heres hoping it keeps going up...
lifetime graph:
now for todays sweet session. played about 4 hours and was about break even for the day wen this happened...
villain in this clip is a huge fish, 95vpip and super agro. wen he checks the flop after 3betting im almost sure he has a hand cause he was just a nutter. i check behind to help make him spaz out if he had KK or something, if he has an Ace the money is going in. turn makes it even better and bam huge pot incoming.
this sets up the next hand within the same orbit. between the two hands the fish 3bet every time and pot pot bet the flop and turn. was clearly on mega tilt.
was a great flop and easy call. then he pots the turn and im like oh shit. had a very reliable tell on him he pots turns and rivers for value otherwise he bet smaller. but i figured he thinks and lower pair is value, and maybe even like AK AQ plus he is obviously on mega tilt. close my eyes and just shove it in. sweeeeeeeeeeet!
so in other news we had a dealers choice game the other day. i didnt know how to play at all so i tried to just play tight but didnt do too great. lost i think $110 but a bit of that was in indian poker lol. cant say i enjoyed the limit games they were to slow and everyone was multiway to every turn. we would have to play bigger limit stakes to make it work imo. some other games like 5 card omaha were insane, had some 4 way all ins set over set nut flush and wraps all in for over 100 each. was mental.
also had another holdem the other night. i played alrite, picked off alot of bluffs pretty well but made a pretty big mistake in one hand: i ave AT in the sb and we r 4 way to a flop of T33. dev bets out so he prob has a T and tom calls, they r both pretty fishy so i reraise smallish to isolate one of them and take the lead. only tom calls and im pretty sure he has a T. bet turn and river both blanks. he reraises me pretty small on the river and i just knew i was beat. hes called 3 bets so must have showdown value so hes only repping a 3 by raising me here. if it was anyone but tom id fold but he is such a spaz i had to call and he had K3. he slo played it well ill give him that, if he had raised earlier he might have gotten more tho i dont know... well that was $110 gone.
another kool pot saw me raise utg to $1.5, dev calls and tim makes it $7 from the bb. i have KQs and dev to surely call behind me and being quite deep with tim who just rebrought i call. flop is 8xx with my flush draw, he cbets nearly pot which is prob not the greatest on his part, now if i just call im commited to any turn bet. i have no option but to shove $20 to $100 hoping he has QQ JJ TT and i have over 40%. turns out he has QQ and tank folds. impressive fold tim is becoming a phenom laying down his overpairs. i poker sotved myself a range here that id shove. nut flush or KQ KJ flush draws, sets, QQ+. i wouldnt stone cold bluff tim here and he knows that he said it as he was tanking. also id just call with any pair JJ and down to keep his bluffs in and get dev to tag along obviously. he has 25% equity verse that range so gg. the one thing he didnt think of is if i had a set id only call to keep dev in on a safe board and to mayb get a turn baral with any bluffs. but still tim used to stack off super deep with any overpair so i thought it was kool.
tim also called a bluff of mine. i 3bet button verse cutoff with trash and flop was Jxx. i cbet and he called, i think he prob has a med pair or a jack so i check behind the low turn card. river is a King and he checks to me so i put in a descent bet and he calls me with 33! owned...
one kool thing is dev ALWAYS sits by me and lets me rail every hand. so i know exactly how he plays now lol. he tried to bluff me several times and i called him down. for some reason he tries to bluff me lots but its all good i like him doing it cause he takes stupid bluff lines.
we played some omaha at the end and i won a few medium pots by bluffing with blockers which worked surprisingly well. no one is that great at omaha so alot of non nut hands get folded to heavy action i have found. just gota find that perfect balance of agression, id like to play more omaha its fun.
end up down $140, tom is up like $450. nearly everyone else must have lost or broke evenish. was a good night as usual though.
also transfered tim $200 online to start a roll. he has already grinded several thousand hands. phenom in the making?
**Sunday update: today went good aswell. up $770. just made an awesome call before i stopped playing:
there is nothing worse than using ur whole time bank up on the river then calling and being beat. so im glad i won that one. figured my hand looked weak, his range looks strong. therefore he should bluff here and id fold nearly everything. alos over the whole weekend ive had a horizontal red line! i dont know how but thats awesome.
so the situation is a common one for me, im opening the blind/cutoff and get 3bet by a guy with 10-15% 3bet to a steal. ive been 4betting a bit but its only slightly a winning play according to data gathered (pretty small sample). so i was thinking about calling and bluffing flops more. here was the though anyway:
4bet math... open to $3, 3bet to $11, $15 in pot ($1 small blind), i can 4 bet $24 to win $15.
3 bet but call and raise flop... open to $3, 3bet to $11, i call, $23 in pot. he cbets flop for just over half say $14. i can reraise to $34 to win $37. this seems like a much better deal!
other points to consider. -he can hit the flop hard with his trash and continue in the hand -he can have a premium and i have to fold, but thats guna happen if i 4bet. -he might ch-fold certain flops, i can steal it for much cheaper. -i might get rebluffed -i might hit a hand and stack his premium.
ok just writing this out helped me. i might try calling more with descent hands and bluffing if i miss instead of the 4bet or fold being my standard. any thoughts on this?
also i went to pokersoc omaha torny last night. $20 entry with rebuys but it was actually alot funner than the normal holdem rebuy where i just shove alot pre cause it was pot limit! anyways is go into the break with the starting rebuy stack and top it up for another $20. after the break the blinds are pretty high and i just play quite tight and take a few blinds/ hit a few flops (prob had about 20bb average). people drop like flies around me and i hit a few key hands. i sucked out once to this fairley crap guy who was running like god. had a wrap verse a flush draw + pair + some straight draws but i got there. a good one was this asian kid whos name i should know was stealing most buttons, he raised smallish so i potted it out of the bb w 6789. he calls and flop was 662. i checked cause i know he will try steal it. he pots it and i shove and beat his flush draw. so i knock him out and double up here. tim tryed some bluffs on me when i had a set twice so i made a good chunk.
then the crap guy knocked out everyone and we went heads up 40k chips to 80k+. was all over within 5 hands. in one i had AQ33 suited ace and opened button. A82 rainbow and he pots into me, i think i prob have best hand + backdoor flush so i just call the 4k. 3 of diamonds on the turn is the best card possible so i have a set + nut flush. he pots again and i shove. he has A2 and i hold!
soo he limps button and i check JTTx one suit. flop was QTx with a flush draw, i check he pots i reraise and hes all in with the nut flush draw. gets the draw on the river but it gives me the boat haha. its all over and i finally win one of these donkey live torneys lol.
also something awesome was that new zealander who just beat durr in that big torny. even kooler is that hes a 100NL reg with a pretty descent graph (search PTR for siac0). monster score for the guy!
so 200NL doesnt seem too much different to 100NL. just even more 3betting and everyone is a notch more agressive. I played 10k hands and finished up 1.5 buyins which im pretty happy with. worst thing about a move up is overadjusting and losing tonnes of money playing stupid. coolest thing is the mad rakeback. i was only playing 6 tables on average and pulled in about NZ$25 per hour. so in total i think i pulled in around $300 rake. yes that means full tilt made $1100 of rake of me this weekend! one thing different was the regs are plain better at owning fish. this means fish only last a few minutes until they are stacked so it takes alot of shuffling to keep finding games.
here are 3 fun hands:
the worst value bet/bluff catch ive ever seen.
the best value shove. ok i was just hoping hed fold his bluffs but this is worked out just fine.
im not sure what happens here but its against a reg. i think i play it so much like a Jack he turns his AA into a bluff to rep the King...
played alot of live poker this week. crazy pinaple torny and i have my last longer bet going with tim and luke. i end up rebuying 8 times but cant win any flips and bust out first.
then we played a cash game after. liam 3 bet me and bet call my shove on 789 flsuh draw board which i thought was pretty crazy call... i had KQ but hit my overpair draw haha. then i lost a big chunk to luke TT vs QQ, i guess i lost some other money too but i dont remember how. down $130 total for the nigght after all the rebuys and losing the bet.
cash game last night and i got off to a tilted start. i have KK and 3bet from the sb and tim calls. dreaded A42 board and i cbet it. maybe i should check here i duno, i hate this spot oop with KK QQ. anyway he calls and turn is another low card. i think he must have and A but it would be weak as id expect AK to 4bet? this may be optomistic for tim he never really 4bets. anyway i fire again and he reraises me! shiiiit. at least now i take Ax out of his range cause im most likely holding AK AQ or watever. so i decide tims making amove to get me to fold KK QQ like he sometimes does. so i call. check check river and he has A2. arrrrrrrrrgh wtf was that?!
ok so another hand i have K9 and open cutoff. kid and tim call. Qxx flush draw, i cbet both call. QxxK turn, i bet again with my top pair, both call. river blanks off any draws. i bet again. pretty thin but i hope someone looks me up. tim tanks for ages and then calls with KJ. so ive lost about $80 and rebuy.
wat else happened... luke owned me calling 3 barals with A rag. i 3bet shick a bunch and dev is short stacking so i kinda have to call wen he shoves. i lose like 3 times doing this. i must have 3bet alot cause i took a couple down against shick and tim on the flop or turn. finally i got KK and did the ol 3bet button trick and shick played back after just losing a big pot and i doubled up about $50 more.
i did way too much bluffing and alot of it didnt work. nothing seemed to go right really and it was just a bad night in general. twice i got a walk with AA lol! and i limped KK once and luke didnt min raise for once and i folded on 445 to some heavy action infront of me where tim had a 4.
played a quick session today which went well yet again. i havent had a losing session for ages so this is a sick sick run. had some interesting hands actually:
sb was a fish so i just called my monster flop and turn to keep him in, river was a horrible card and i hero folded... i think it was a good fold tho.
this hand was completely screwed up. i really wish i called now. do you think this guy is full of shit? normal reg stats, very agressive but no notes...
finally this hand was just awesome. first time ive ever done this and it doesnt even show up on my ev line lol. i check turn in case he was floating so he will bet it. wen he checks i think he has SD value like an A and would expect him to value bet it if i check river. it all goes so wonderfully to plan
also i played one table of NL200. got AA vs AK in the blinds and doubled up instantly, good start....guna take a serious shot at it tomorow.
and im seriously abusing sams DC account. just been watching heaps of random vids, like heads up and high stakes ones and shit. i figure if i watch them all ill just get better in general. the theory ones and low stakes can get very boring after while...
