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had one of those weekends. lost like every pot, reraised every time i bluff, snap fold every time i have the nuts etc etc. here is my month graph now lol! and yes i was playing 100NL RUSH :(



here some moron CALLS on the river with the nuts??


here some moron plays a hand badly and is rewarded by the poker gods


here some moron calls with the worst hand. o wait that was me


here i am outplayed by my oponent


ok enough whining. i had ONE cool hand even tho i lost it. this dude check raises me on the flop instead of cbettting multiway. so i think he has Ax like 90% of the time with the flush draw obviously. i plan to raise all in on the turn as long as no diamond comes and ill b a favourite. A comes on the turn which is odd case i thought he had it. but i think im more likely to hav a big diamond here than him so ill bluff it. really its hard for me to have the K high flush here and he made a good call! i learnt a good lesson in this hand. even tho i knew he was on a bluff on the flop i have to remember to think about what my hand looks like cause even a bluff can bluff catch if its obvious.... oh and bet bigger on the flop, i dont know why i bet so small now that i relook at it


fml but ill get over it


had another home game this week. this one was really fun cause all my bluffs worked! had a fun one verse Jin when he 3bet luke and i 4bet him on the button with trash. he had been going after luke a bit and only brought one buy in so i think making a big pot here will be good. he calls and folds on a 98x flop with TT. he couldnt really grasp how bad it is to call with TT and then fold when u get one of the few good flops for your TT. may as well fold pre???

i seemed to avoid luke alot for once. he did some big river bets when i was calling him down but i tihnk he had me every time. i think i had A high every time though which didnt help my cause. his big bet made it hard to think of reraiseing though cause it would have to be huge.

and i bluffed phil a bunch of times cause hes scared money and doesnt like big pots tehehe.

Tilt: $11876 (+$3050)
Stars: $234
Total: US$15160

Live: NZ$1600

posting my garp 2

i just filtered my rush graph to see how i was doing and bam instant boner! i mean yea it looks nice:



rush poker officially cracked ! might make a 100nl rush move soon. would be the sickest rakeback

i forgot how much i lost at the home game the other night wen joel came. i think it was bout 150....live roll is guna get destroyed this weekend

o yea and phenom day happened on the weekend. it was pretty much a sad event with only eamonn finishing up and tha was because he played the same fish heads up for like 4 hours straight at capped holdem. i did make a late comback tho but lost A9v57 all in pre for 3rd in a 2dollar donkament. 70 bucks first :(

Tilt: $12793 (+$3050)
Stars: $234
Total: US$16077

Live: NZ$1500

posting my garp

just to make joel feel special im doing a blog on how the months going. i played barley any 200nl but alot of rush after work. been grinding a solid winrate tho. months graph so far:



it may look like a lot of hands but its only 17 hours. just noticed im 11/12 sessions with a profit. lol run good....

2 sweet hand i just played this session:

in this first hand i completely outplay my opponents

i was sure aksy had a set so didnt mind shoving over the fishes re-reraise with so much money in there. wish i had been deeper

heres an example of a bad reg which infests 50NL rush. sitting deep and he 3bets me oop with a 2% 3bet stat. yea im set mining cause he has QQ+ nearly always. of course he stacks off on the driest board ever:


wen ppl say 50nl regs r bad, they mean like this. they dont spew with crazy bluffs. the play super tight and standard but never fold. i love these ppl. stuck on the level where they prob think about what i have, but dont think about that i know they r uber tight.

welly champs at the casino this weekend. will be looking to hit up all 3 tornys. first one is $370 donk fest. $550 on sat and a deep $750 on sunday. if only i was good at tornys i might be excited.

Tilt: $12082 (+$3050)
Stars: $234
Total: US$15366

Live: NZ$1650

Sunday Home Game

had a good day playing live poker on sunday. i wasnt guna go cause i was planning to grind online for a whole day but tim needed me to get 6ppl so i went which was ok cause i was -800 in ev by that point and was probly tilting. anyway luke wasnt there for ages and it was under 6 handed so i could play pretty loose. had some sweet hands.

first big hand chewy limps utg along with one other (5-6 handed), i raise 50c to $3.50 with KQ and just chewy calls. A55 and i cbet, he raises so i think he full of shit obviously cause he cant have a good Ace and i doubt he calls $3 with 56s or something like that. so i thought he had like 44 or something and was doing a bad bluff. feeling heated up by my incredible read i go all in not realising he has bout $70 left. he calls with Q5s lol! i guess i cant really put him on crap liek that but i should have raised to $30 then i could have folded if he called.

next mint hand was 2 hands later and i have a fresh 100 stack. time raises a limper and i call with KTs from the sb. 3 way to a Txx flop and tim cbets so i call. turn brings a J with a flush draw and he bets again. i think i have a tell although its not completely proven but anyway he did it here wen he bet $27 so i called again. blank on the river but brings b/d flush so it xxTJx 3 clubs and he goes all in for 60-70 dollars more (about pot). i tank for way too long lol. after wat seems like forever i make the call. i would be very surprised if he has AA KK here (he plays too weak on the river to value bet them like this he would bet small afraid of TJ or a set) and my range looks weak so he would surely bet less. i think he can only have TT JJ or AK/AQ of clubs to play this strongly and maybe he jsut isnt thinking im weak and is shoving hoping to get called. but that is such a narrow range i think he is making a play so thats y i called. he had AKo for A high and i scoope a big one with second pair 200bbs lol owned.

i won about 6 hands with 72 by 3betting or just baraling and lost once where i think chewy had top set. one hand i 3bet someone and marco calls, luke 4bets and i think he is full of shit as usual but just call cause i think it will look stronger than a raise like i have JJ QQ or something. marco calls aswell though and the flop is Qxx. i check so does marco and luke has clearly given up the hand. i bet a 7 turn now hoping to steal it and i prob have the best hand cause i hit a pair lol. marco calls and i think he has a descent hand so im guna give up cause marco doesnt like folding, luke folds. river brings another 7 so i bet big like $40 and marco calls with AQ verse my trip 7s $110 pot with 72 so juicey.

big red made his usual suicide play after i get QQ and there was a straddle on and i have the button so i prob look to be stealing. shoves me with T6.

shick trys to make a play at me. he does notice wen ur 3betting alot and plays back but he seems to do it at stupid times or calls ur 3bet w bad hands and just burns money. in this hand i 3bet a junkey bb hand wen he opens from cutoff and sb had called. he calls me and flop is K8x. i cbet and he raises me. now here he is representing a set or AA cause the K is obv hitting me hard. he would reraise AK cause he was clearly annoyed at my 3bets by this point. so i shove him and he insta folds and makes the classic "now i know where i stand in the hand" comment. i show him my air cause i want him to try again.

he trys again a bit later on. i have JJ and 3bet him from the button. him and luke call. QJx i cbet both call. luke has to have a draw to overcall like that cause shick is pretty tight so i doubt he calls thinking his hand is better than both of ours but not good enough to raise. ie only one hand in AQ would play it like that. so anyway turn is a super blank and i bet kinda big to commit shick to going all in or folding. he goes all in which forces out luke luckily. i dont see his hand but was prob AQ AJ or something. luke would have stacked me on the river. luke cries cause im a nit and get payed of like that but he didnt see that i was playing super agressive b4 he got there. i cant play like that with luke there is is the only person who plays back well. i really love the quote from that blog i posted the other day "play just crazy enough to make ppl think ur a maniac". im obviously kinda tight but i 3bet the button often, always try steal if there is a double straddle, show down 72 all the time etc... ppl just remember that and forget that i 99% have the best hand wen they call my 3 barals. only luke seems to get what im doing but he calls me down alot too :)

another biggish hand i had verse luke. i open utg 8 handed or so and he 3bets after marco and chewy had called. i quickly 4bet to try look bluffy and cause luke knows im ment to look strong raising utg so could easily try a 4bet bluff here. he calls and c-raises all in on QTx. this was actually pretty gay cause i thought he had slow played his AA or had called the 4bet w QQ so i didnt really like it but called. i think he had AQ but i held.

another big hand involving luke i think i 3bet him on the button w AK and marco called in bb, luke then 4bets and we both have huge stacks so i didnt really wana 5bet. so i called hoping marco comes along and i spike an A or K + i think luke will give up his bluffs quite often. marco then shoves and luke folds. its obvious marco has a pair like JJ or down or AK aswell so i call his $80 shove after ive invested $20. we run it twice but i lose both to TT. i like that me and luke have such an agro image going that ppl r fine to shove over us 3betting and 4betting with TT 200bb deep. chewy tryed to trap us once, i 3bet w 72 and chewy cold calls w KK, luke 4bets me but quite small and i just gave up my 72 this time cause i didnt wana call w chewy behind and i thought he might hav 4bet small to induce a bluff. turns out chewy calls and has KK hits a set wins moneys etc.

ok thats enough typing. +200 for the day but most importantly caught hands verse luke :D then went to watch the ufc119 and it was one of the best ones ive watched where anderson silva takes a beating for 5 rounds then wins with a triangle choke in the last 30 seconds. everyone went nuts. had a box seat at the all blacks on sat night through some customers which also ruled. pity i didnt drop in at the casino after cause aparently ma'a nonu went to play poker and was a huge whale at the 5/5 game! did finish sat night off at a quiet party instead + watched the warriors win again to stay in the top 8. oh and fri night had an old skool call of duty lan which was alot of fun. so in summary i had an amazing weekend but barley any online poker was played :(

phenom day on sunday. im thinking rush torneys will be my strat...i have an account on like every site so cant exactly start a new one which is annoying lol

Tilt: $12082 (+$3050)
Stars: $234
Total: US$15366

Live: NZ$1650

rush poker cracked?

been playing a little rush poker 50Nl on the sly after work. everyone is just as bad as i remember but im not getting sets hit on me constantly. maybe ive gotten better since 3 months ago but the graph speaks for itself.... this is awesome cause I LOVE RUSH



standard rush hand:


wellington champs coming up soon at chch casino. might enter some big ones....

Tilt: $11934 (+$3050)
Stars: $234
Total: US$15218

Live: NZ$1450

Words of Wisdom

Its like this post came straight out of my head. I suggest you read it:

some of my favourite points:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/39/small-stakes-pl-nl/being-solid-very-long-838950/

making small mistakes early in a hand to avoid or cause bigger mistakes later on, such as folding 77 on a J94ss flop even though it might be the best hand at the time

2. Run bluffs with equity. When deciding to raise a K84 flop as a bluff, it's MUCH better to do so with 76s or A4s than it is to do so with JT.

4. Play JUST loose enough to get people to assume you're a goofball. 3-bet on the button. Occasionally C/R and bluff-raise obvious bluffing spots and then fold. Let your opponents assume you're capable of more than you actually are.

i prety much wana copy paste it all but just go read it!

unstuck for the month

july was pretty up and down. had my worst every session, took two weeks off and followed it up with my best ever session. the idfference i think is i stopped rying to be a 3bet monkey and went back to my normal game. hopefully all the regs took notes on me tho so now im a nit again i can waste them with my Aces :)

finished the month off with two good sessions over the weekend. posting my weekend graph cause it looks sexy:


4337 hands and i only fully stacked someone 5 times and was stacked for 100bb zero times myself. seems weird... i marked no hands so i thats pretty uninteresting. i might just post a bunch of stats today for future reference.

NL200 stats:

i manage to lose less than it costs to post a blind in the sb and bb so playing super tight from these positions seems to be working for me. my W$SD% is pretty high so i think im ment to be thinly betting more. one thing i know i do differently to alot of ppl is check call to catch bluffs rather than bet myself. not too surprisingly the button is where the moneys at!

i also played some rush after work. and ive been winning! maybe im just running good. one thing ive realised is that rush induces tilt like no other. seeing so many hands makes all the bad beats seem like they r happening too often. i was playing NL50 do i think the beats didnt hurt me so much and i could stay on my A game. plus the NL50 game is so unagressive preflop compared to what im used to now it all seems much easier.

lifetime graph nov09 - jul10


dam this is turing out to be a random bunch of ramblings. had a psoc torney the other day. was doing pretty good but took a pretty gay beat about halfway through. Had QJ suited and raise a fishy limper. 3 way flop Jxx all spades. i cbet about pot and the fishy guy calls. turn is a low blank so i put him all in. he tanks talking about how i must have a "big" hand here. eventually he calls with A9o with the 9 high flush draw. hits it ofcourse! after that i was down to 6bb or so but managed to survive for ages cause i had nits behind me and i shoved there blinds plus some limpers alot. got the standard "this isnt poker" from some dude as i shove over his limp with 6bb haha. eventually its me chewy and luke left for our 'last longer bet' and i have 18k, chewy on 20 something and luke doubled up recently to have like 30k maybe. blinds were like 1k 2k and guy who limps alot does just that, i have AT on button and shove him. he has KK. both blinds have folded Aces lol and im out. luke scoops the bet + first prize.

i also lost $200 at the home game the other week. pulled a pretty solid/standard bluff on luke that failed to lose my first hundy. then got a open ender + nut flush draw all in verse top set against luke of course. ran it twice and bricked for the second hundy. man i love playing omaha at the home game tho. everyone except luke just seems terrible. i try play in position cause everyone is so passive plus seeing flops cheap still gets my nitty ass image payed off.

ok thats my summary for the month. didnt play enough hands cause i took some time off so i didnt tilt after my worst session. hoping for more hands and more winnings in august!

Tilt: $11280 (+$3050)
Stars: $234
Total: US$14564

Live: NZ$1400