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.
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
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....
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!
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!
put in a 2k session today. nothing quite like running at 46bb/100 :D dug myself out of the hole for a profitable month.
i wish i knew how to filter my set hitting ratio cause i must have hit like 50% of them. was siiiiiiiiiiick
bluff gone bad:
biggest pot:
really thought someone might have TT KK there. instead they r virtually drawing dead
i get owned by a fish:
i only remember 1 hand from the other nights cash game. i had KK and raised the straddle after a limper (dev). luke called and so did dev. A79 and i cbet in position. i think i can get value here but i guess i coulda checked aswell. luke reraised me and i thought he was bluffing cause its a board where i prob have a strong hand often and its hard for him to make a better one judging by the pre action. then he insta shoved turn so i called cause most ppl do that when they r bluffing. luke had AK tho. i felt really dirty calling but the turn paired the board making a set or 2pair less likely. was still a bad call, just cause ive seen that tell doesnt mean luke does it. hes probly smarter and reverse telled me lol. finished the night exactly even tho after losing that $80 pot.
i think there is a game all day tomorow which should be sweet. got my 2.5k cashout and i tihnk the bank stole 3% for the exchange. bastards.... made over nz$20k from my poker career now. in one day winning more than i earn at work over a month is pretty rediculous :)
oh o. i did a sneaky cashout just to get some funds and then bam! im getting owned left right and centre. ill admit i did also tilt a bit on the weekend and play kinda bad but daaaaaaaaam. i think ill just post some hands i played bad to punish myself:
DOOMSWITCH:
check fold check fold CHECK FOLD! start it off with a stupid hand indeed. obv flop and turn r fine. then i bet the river and he tanks for ages then calls with a straight. this just shows how absurdly thin a bet there is. every draw gets there so i can expect him to call with a hand worse than mine. this hand i was just auto piloting lol i have set bet bet bet.
crazy hand here. yes this guy randomly floats my 4 way to the flop with A high and hits his gin turn card. i couldnt see how he could have a bd flush and put him on QJ or 33. even QJ prob doesnt play it so strong. and i lose to 33. y didnt i fold the river :(
last bad hand cause its the worst of all. i beat NOTHING on the river and actually thought at the time he might turn a naked A spades into a bluff on the river. too bad no one would ever do that :( must hav been tilting so bad. i could make this fold any other day that im not down 1k.
getting too emo so ill show one hand i played well :) biggest hero call ever? btw he wasnt a donkey or anything it was weird! put me on AJ obv
i tihnk i played 3 nights of live poker last week. first night i was up 50 next down 50. not much happened i didnt have many hands and got 5bet alot lol. im glad to hear luke had AA for one of them. i tihnk it was one where i had opened utg, 1 caller and he 3bet BB. then i 4bet cause im craaaazy, and insta fold wen he 5bet me :(
i remember one kool hand. i have AK and get 4 callers or so. flop is 999. i cbet cause people think im tight so i think ill get alot of folds as everyone missed with their trash. marco calls and im like ok he prob has 66 or worse, luke reraises which is laughable. i guess he reps a nine here after callin from the BB. so i call w A high to get luke of the hand on the turn cause it will look like i have TT+. marco calls again and i dont think about it enough but i should have shut down here. so i bet turn and marco calls. he has 3/4 pot left on river (luke folded) i dont feel good anymore but i shove anyway cause a high card like a J i tihnk came. he had flopped quads haha owned.
actually i had another good hand verse marco. he 3bets me and we take a flop of Jxx and i have TT. he cbets i call, duno about position. K turn abv bad but marco had been going crazy pre so he has alot of worse hands that will rep AK here w a bet. so i call again. river is another KING. i think this is a good card, obv makes it less likely he has a K, he will prob check behind AA QQ cause he is a river noob. he overbets all in. so he pretty much has JJ AK or nothing. i tank for ages and look for tells. i think the betting leans toward a call, but he gave off some tells that i ignored cause i wanted to do a hero call. he had AK. at least i got some good tells. i got a few on everyone infact. especially tim lol.
the third night i owned tim pretty good. was 3 handed. i 3bet Q7 from bb he calls and has like $50. QJx so i bet and he calls. blank turn and i check, he bets which is pretty weird. he has become 'scared' for the lack of a better word and only bets really strong hands or bluffs/semi bluffs so i think im definately ahead on this drawy board so i shove. he then gets angry cause he knows he made a bad bet and calls anyway w KJ. it wasnt a bet for value or a bluff just a bad play but at least he realised after...
had that hand verse luke where i fold top 2 AJxQx. i mean who folds to LUKE?! he wont tell me what he had which is so lame :(
i ran good that last night, didnt win any one big pot just a bunch of descent ones. cashed for $360. played luke heads up which was pretty fun actually. he was kinda tilted tho and wasnt hitting much lol. o well he one outtered someone so he deseves a year of run bad!
at least i get a shit load of rakeback this week. put in so many hands tying to win back my losses lol! such a noob. god i felt like shit today after that performance :(
Tilt: $7922 (+$3050) Stars: $234 Total: US$11206
Live: NZ$1400
add a link to this blog cause i liked it. poker isnt some think that people are naturally good at. the best players simply try harder to get good than other people. moral of the story? get on the grind. think about poker fundamentals all day, GRIND MORE!! http://www.pokerlistings.com/strategy/grit-and-the-grind-how-great-players-get-great plus it somehow has the most hillarious comment ive ever seen on the internet and i wanted to remember it: "Darwin wasn't a scientist at all. He rejected Christianity cause he hated God and made up a fairy tale for adults." ok now i have to write down another one i JUST read on facebook "Sport is a joke and just goes to show how dumb the rest of the world is for being so addicted to it and making it so popular."-from some heavily religious guy
PS: NOT religion bashing i just been studying evolution and religion lately in my spare time (yes im weird)
