Epic Day

Heres my graph for today. Yes that is $1550! holy shit what a heater. won every flip and even sucked out a few times. if only poker was always this easy. i think ill just post a heap of cool hands...

Here is me folding a boat to a fish! he told me he had a higher boat too. probly one of the best laydowns ive ever achieved....


$300 pot and i have 7% to win wen the money goes in... yea ill take it


super cooler for all involved but i take it down with a skillful come from behind


this guy just straight up ships me his stack


Soul read this reg but i actually lose this hand :(


free money:


to cap it off here is the now biggest pot of my life.


ahhh wat a day........

Tilt: $7353 (+$350)
Stars: $234
Total: US$7937

Live: NZ$1480

Thursdays game

what can i say. went on a sweet heater at the home game and got payed off every time. was probly the most agro game we have had yet. during the first hour about 50% of hands must have been 3bet pots. was pretty good time for run good

first big pot was against luke. raise w K9s and luke calls the straddle. cbet A8x with my flush draw, fire a second baral on the turn when i pick up a pair. luke plays so many hands i think double baralling with alot of pot equity will be a good move. he reraises me all in for $70 and the pot now totals about $100. i think i have at least 12 outs with my flush and trips draw if he has a big hand, but a fiarley large portion of lukes range would be a bluff on a board like this, cause it would be a hard call for AK AQ. also i just wanted to gamble a bit and dont mind losing money to luke cause he will gamble it back. turns out i have him crushed with a higher flush draw so he has 3 outs. luke proceeds to go on some rediculous tilt after this hand and the combination of missing every flop. down 500 for the night :(

i had another good pot verse liam. he 3bet my TT open and i called oop. 9xx and i check call. blank turn and i check raise all in. i dont plan on folding cause liam 3bets agressivly and im probly good so i shove before any scare cards come like an A or K. he also loves to hero call, and thats exactly what he did with 88 so another big pot.

i straddle A8s and we r 5 way to A9T so i have top pair nut flush draw. liam bets, dev raises and im not folding here especially verse dev who is a bit of a spaz + i dont put liam on much. i reraise all in which wasnt much more for dev and liam comes along too which was good. about a $250 pot 3 way all in and i hit the flush of course, dev had 9T and liam A9. didnt have as many outs as i thought but still a fine push for a 3way all in. if it had been heads up verse dev i think i have 40-45%.

another kool hand luke railed me with QTs. multiway flop of AKx so i have flush draw gutter. dev bets out and i think he has a pretty descent hand cause he is generally passive so i just call cause dev is a station so my fold equity is low. hit my flush on the turn ofcourse and put in a small raise but dev quickly calls. i just raised small cause i know he will call a small bet without thinking. river brings a Q which i think is awesome cause he prob has AK or AQ, i bet pretty big $55 and he shoves with AQ hehe.

the most terrible hand of the night goes to tim. he raises utg and i just call with my JJ cause we are all very deep so i wana keep it small really. 9xx 3 way and its checked to my button. i bet out and tim now calls? its a weird move and i think he has A high. turns out he has AQ and got lucky by spiking a Q on the turn. thought it was terrible because he obviously was just thinking i might be bluffing so called my flop bet. being out of position with such a transparent play there is no way he is going to win this pot easily unless he wants to commit alot of chips. a good example of a call in the moment without a plan for later streets.

that was all the big hands i remember cashed out $480 in profit for the night. i have a new strat lately. gone is the relentless 3 betting. everyone is doing it and i dont think it has much respect anymore. wenever i 3bet i get action anyway cause ppl must just remember i 3bet alot once and everyone is 3betting giving the illusion of me joining in haha. instead im seeing alot of flops cause ppl are in general just paying off really easily and i think im plain better than most people there (not trying to sound braggy) so why not see flops and win much more money than just stealing a few bucks preflop. preflop is easy to play, its after the flop that i see everyone making some huge mistakes so once u realise peoples leaks u gotaa pound away at it.

Not much interesting stuff to show on the internet poker front. being solidly chipping up the BR. here is my NL100 career so far just cause it looks prety. been feeling like im coasting Nl100 lately so could soon be ready for the big move up. might just start by adding a few table rather than a straight jump. looks like a shitty weekend coming up so might get on the grind hardcore. a saw a massive fish move up to Nl400 the other week but i was too scared to sit down. probly a good move, 400 dollars on the table is some serious stakes. one day.....



looking forward to watching sams video! might inspire me to make my own but probly not... was too busy this week to watch much deuces cracked but have been picking up some good stuff from what i have watched thats for sure.

aaaaaand now the warriors a kicking off. good start to the weekend!

Tilt: $5850 (+$350)
Stars: $234
Total: US$6434

Live: NZ$1480

porbly guna b long...

well havent blogged in ages so ill get into it. 2 home games this weeks to make up for last weeks faliure. finished up a couple of buyins both nights so went pretty good.

first night was too long ago to remeber anything. i hit a fair amount of good hands verse luke but he kept folding the turn to my raise. i thought it was kinda funny how it felt like me tim and luke were the like sharks slowly taking everyones money to finish up with nearly all the chips. think we all played solid, tim seems to have gotten over his stack off with any overpair problem lol.

last night i got off to a hot start and was up to like 300-350 from my original 50 buyin. flopped nut flush verse times T high flush for a stack. won AK v AK all in pf cause mine was suited verse the kid haha. made a mint call verse the kid again. i 3bet 67 on the button and he called from sb. flop was 78K with a flush draw i think and i cbet but he calls. turn brings me 2pair on 74K6 so i bet again big and he slowly calls. 74K68 river brings an obvious straight and he insta shoves. i take ages but call. the problem is he seldom bluffs in big pots. but i decided he isnt good enough to value bet any hands other than a straight here, and it very unlikely he has a 5 in his range from calling my 3bet and how the hand played out.he shows busted flush draw.

i made another sweet call the other night. been watching alot of deuces cracked vids and its helping me think through hands better and make sick calls. this one was verse tom. 3 way to a flop of 6Qx it was checked around. i lead a 6QxQ turn for half pot with 64 to tkae it down or get luke to call me with worse lol. both call. river is like a nine so i bet small like half pot and tom raises me huge. i tihnk he wouldnt play a Q like that he would raise the turn or make a smaller river raise. i call and he shows A high.

another good one was verse tom. i have AA and i raise some limpers on the button, only he calls. KKx flop and i cbet only for him to check raise me to $30. im 99% confident i have best hand cause how often does he limp call a K and then y would he scare me off wen im most likely bluffing. i check behind turn to induce a bluff. river makes the board kinda scary and he bets again but i have to call and was still good.

i also called down luke with K high for 3bets in a small pot. board was super scary and i felt like he isnt value betting anything worse than a flush or straight and was just trying to get a fold. it happened again last night after i checked behind AxxKx and he bet out river after 3way it was checked around so i called with 44.

i played 2 big hands verse luke and he blogged about one quite wrong lol. i opened 52s MP and hayden 3bets me. i think i have a pretty good tell on him and thought he didnt have a great hand here cause he looked VERY happy every other time he 3bet and had shown KK AA etc. luke called on button so i 4bet a little too small in hindsight $6 to $20. he folds AQ but luke calls and hits trips on 99Q. i feel like him to call a 4bet he has a pair JJ or worse and i can get him off it. so i bet $35 and he calls. turn is another Q and i check to him hoping he was couterfitted or if he has a Q he is going to bet and im folding. checked through and i have to stab the river cause i have no showdown value and if i check im too easily bluffed here. i took ages to bet and i wanted him to think i had AA or KK and was making a thin bet and lay down his JJ TT or fold anything else which is playing the board basically. but he had a nine :(

anohter hand i cbet w 55 on T42 all suited with a pair and a spade. i tihnk luke calls with worse pairs or a draw, so i can win the hand multiple ways. turn is an ofsuit 8 an i check behind - probly to call a river bet. river brings a 5 and luke bets out. i didnt really realise it was an overbet at the time. i have to raise here cause he will call with 2pairs and lower set most likely, or perhaps even lighter if he puts me on a missed A high flush draw. so i made it pretty big to look like a bluff. he took sooo long to call it was basically a slowroll and i was positive i had the best hand :( he has 2nd set.

i cant think of too many others but i had alot of cool hands last night. i liked the new guys they were pretty descent and agressive. unlike someone like hamish who played super weak tight to an almost laughable level. as long as we never invite that one gay guy again that luke mentioned. everything about him is 100% douchebag from the leather jacket to the constant annouces to the table how an actual girl is txting him. holy shit i hate that guy. lucky he cashed out after like 20 mins.

so last night i finished off 100 up. basically just lost 2 huge hands verse luke for a total of 180 to 200 dollars. its all good though i liked them both fine. i bluffed the new guys several times all in at the start too cause i knew they would be scared and it worked. tim was pretty quiet last night actually. he got flush over flushed twice lol.

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gave rush a solid effort, playing most nights after work but just cant get a winrate going so i gave up. donked around a lot playing like heads up and tourneys but got back into it on the weekend and played some 100NL. up 250 after 5 hours or so i think. ran a buyin over ev which was nice. now im trying to watch one deuces cracked video a night rather than playing poker cause im too tired after work and at best bring my B game. my goal is to "fix" my redline cause i know im playing to weak. one GREAt piece of advice ive picked up is to increase ur redline its not about bluffing more! its about betting thin and stealing in very +ev spots. ive doubled my 3bet% up to 6%, although small sample but i was just trying to play big pots in position and it was working well. 3betting with high hands though like QJ off was best cause i could still value bet or get to showdown unlike if i 3bet 65s where i have to win by bluffing. i also played looser with a vpip/pfr of 20/16. 2 reasons. i learned if u open the sb forr 3x the bb must defend over 40% for it to b non profitable. another cool tip is is u hold an A and 3bet they are 20% less likely to hold a premium. these things add up.
i watched an especially good video on note taking and bet size tells. this is especially good against fish where you can watch a few hands and make generalisations like 'bets pot as bluff' etc and they can make calling alot easier with marginal hands rather than "ah hes a fish he is just probly bluffing here". takes alot of concentration to catch good notes while 8 tabling though. also thinking about ranges and what ppl r repping much much more, this has already helped me alot at our live game do some nice calls.
a small example i really liked was this.
ur in the bb and call a buton raise, on a flop of KTx the button checks behind the flop. 99% of the time here he has some showdown value but is kind of weak. if he has air he cbets a K high board 100% of the time. moral of the story is if you have a strong hand you should lead out pot on the turn, they will always call here cause they 'induced a bluff". if you have a weak hand you cant stab and give up you have to fire the river too. same with if someone opens early/MP and checks behind a lowish flop. he most likely has Ax here and you have to bet twice to take it down. lots of other stuff but this isnt a blog for that.

dam i tihnk i just put more effort into that than i did at work all day...

Tilt: $5430 (+$350)
Stars: $234
Total: US$6014

Live: NZ$1000

bit of everything this week

grinded the shit out of rush on saturday, and been playin a bit after work. logged 25k hands in just over a week. counting rakeback im pretty much exactly even. although down $350-400 in EV :( my graph looks pretty sad tho. not seeing any real trend upwards even with ev. ill log another 25k then have to quit if i dont start getting better i guess. guna watch some vids havent done much "study" in ages.



homegame on tue. played nitty as. wanted to be a wild night but things didnt go my way. was down $200 and we swicthed to omaha. i 3bet a raggy hand and flopped a boat on 442 and doubled up through luke. i also 4bet luke and fired a low flop with A9 but he was trappin'. if u 5bet i might have gone for the elusive 6bet bluff haha. i think those were the only exciting hands i got in. not as nitty as sam tho - he folded KJ in early position lols.

pokersoc torney last night which was a huge donkathon. i had the worst table in the world and used my shove rebuy strategy to have a pretty good stack going into the break. my table was sooooooo slow tho and we would literally play 3 hands in between blind levels which were skyrocketing rediculously fast. i had 25k and went for a blind steal (av bout 18k prob) accidently cbet too much cause i thought blacks were 10k so i tossed in a bloack and said 10k thinking i had a much biiger stack than i did. then i had to put in another black and had cbet half my stack. he had 2pair of course. then lost a flip AK v QQ wen i had just under everage a bit later ~16k, a with 1k/2k blinds. chris lai takes out the $50 last longer bet between me him luke and tim.

play short handed 50PLO between me luke and tim. i run super good and stakc everyone multiple times to cash out $240. i reshoved tim with top pair on J32 cause i thought he as bluffing and lucky my way to a 50/50 verse his pair+wrap. also called an all in with 89TJ or something on A94 after i 3bet pf. i know he has no set cause i could have AA so think im doing all right verse a draw or bluff with alot of backdoor outs seeing as i had to call$10 into like $50-60. turns out he has nut flush draw no pair but i looked it up and i was a descent favourite. maybe i should never fold in omaha. also hit like a million straights and ship the chips. i end up +$10 in my live bankroll for the week.

that about wrapps it up i guess.

Tilt: $5500 (+$350)
Stars: $234
Total: US$6084

Live: NZ$840

rush

just played a fun hand:



i thought he knew i looked weak and might have QQ KK or something so he overshoved. funky AK line pays off

apart from that ran 2 buyins under ev and finished down $70 in 1.5k hands. classic rush

*did a 15min session b4 i went out. won it all back yehaw*

Tilt: $5460 (+$350)
Stars: $234
Total: US$6044

Live: NZ$830

michas farewell game

once again my memory is hazey. like i could remember every hand if someone brought it up but i cant remember many to write about. i played kinda snug, but not tight as luke would say. tryed to pick my bluff spots better and not play too much junk.

i lost $100 in like 30mins at the start. i cant remember how. i think i 3bet AK in one and gave up after a cbet or got raised. oh i lost a descent one to micha. i 3bet his buton open from bb with AQ. he 4bet and i called cause the stacks were an awkward size. planned to hit the flop or go for a bluff. J24 or something and he cbet $20. i called thinking ill look strong and he will give up + i prob have best hand. turn he bets quite big basically all in. i was so sure he was full of shit but could have been bluffing even though he hit a tiny pair or something. i folded and said i have TT. he showed the air bluff of course :(

i stacked tim twice. on i raise utg w 99 and call his smallish 3bet. hit a set on 89J flush draw board and shove 80 more over his 20cbet to look like a draw. he called with KK. ppl discussed but i dont like the call. at best he is flipping with my shoving range (pair + straight or flush draw type hands) or crushed by 2 pair or sets.

soon after he is tilting quite obviously. raise and 4 callers and i bump it up big with AA in bb. tim calls from sb and check shoves a Qxx flop and i snap obviously and he has 88.

i did some descent bluffs but nothing *huge*. mostley against micha cause he was in every hand. me and luke got in no big hands, i did value bet him alot and dont think i bluffed him once cause he always calls me haha. o i actually did the best bluff, first 5bet bluff of the homegame. i had mentioned it and wanted to whip it out cause im the only person i seen 4bet bluff too (apart from micha tonight)so i must get action if i get a big pair some time soon. anyway. i raise utg with 89o, liam 3bets and micha calls. liam plays *tight* in comparison to the rest of the table but still his 3bet range is huge so im not worried about him at all. luke 4bets from sb and i think he is thinking the same way as me and going for an easy resteal (4bets still get respect haha unlike 3bets). so i think this is a great 5bet spot cause i can have a nice hand utg obviously. i bet $55. its perfect spot because im only risking $55 and if luke wants to play its for stacks (both $300 deep). furthermore he cant reasonably continue without AA or KK. he turns out to have a hand in JJ but has to fold.

i hit 2 more sets but it was against the biggest nit (amon). first i call his 3bets cutoff v button and flopped with TT on JTx. i think this missed him and he wont cbet cause it hits me so well so i donk out to induce some kind of spaz play. but he folds cause he never bluffs haha. then i flopped another one in the same situation but micha is in too. JTx and i have JJ. i check it back to him and he checks too. JTx9 so i have to bet so i just pot it, amon calls. blank river and same again...i pot it and he calls with AA. i kinda like how he played it. most others would stack off to me. he misses alot of value verse alot of my range though. amon is the pro but he never wins cause he is too nitty and misses alot of value and thinks ppl are bluffing him and makes some marginal river calls.

one interesting hand was i had TT in bb and call lukes open along with tim. 854 flop and i check to luke so he can try steal as he does on these flops. tim calls him so i repop it thinking im ahead of luke most likely but he will call me cause i look bluffy stealing tims weak call. luke calls and tim re-raises. this is a really weird move and i think he must have flopped a straight or set. would be the worst bluff cause most ppl in my spot would call i think. what did u think at the time luke?

i liked two of lukes hands very much. 3 streets of value with KT vs micha on a very coordinated low board. then fired flop and turn only to check raise river with 72 was mint.

as usual i start of the blog with no ideas and manage to write a bunch. up $190 for the night.
guna start playing some more after work, the thing i love about rush is its just sit down and go. no mucking around setting up tables. to get 8 good tables going can take me an hour usually. not worth it unless im going for a big session. hopefully i can keep winning at rush though lol. wana start pushing that br up!

Tilt: $5472 (+$350)
Stars: $234
Total: US$6056

Live: NZ$830

yay rush and 6k BR

my main monitor broke so im playing on a tiny piece of shit, which means i cant multi table :( so the best idea is obviously to play rush poker!!! one sweet update since i last played is that my HUD now works in rush. played 5k hands and booked a winning session wohoo

had one awesome hand:


then i played this hand so bad. i was in a big hand on another table at the time. this has to be the easiest fold in the world as far as having top set goes:

i didnt notice the guy donk, call cause i was distracted. its a draw every time multiway!!! i just decided the shorty had the straight and shipped it like an idiot. call then fold to reraise is the play....

summary of the day is that rush poker seemed beatable with a hud. will put in more hands cause i love rush :)

i havent blogged about the home game last week. was some fishy players but i kept missing flops and probly got tilted. well definately got tilted when micha pulled a super play on me.

small raise utg and a call and micha 3bets to $10. i know he is stealing probly so i 4bet to $35 with position on him. he just calls which is weird and i put him on med pair type hand JJ TT 99 or something. flop was J55 with a flush draw so i check behind cause he isnt folding any of those hands. turn brings J55A with the flush. i check behind again and am going to bet the river. i mean this is how id play AK, we both had $300 or so so are super deep and i would hate to bet and get raised if i had a hand. my mistake is it looks weak to an opposing player to not bet the A so i should just do it if i intend to bluff. my thoughts alway are it will look stronger if i dont bet then bet river cause if i was going to bluff i would have done it at the obvious time. i think this is thinking into it too much for our homegame... anyway river brings last heart to give a 4flush board J55A3, he checks again and i bet $45 into $80. i think i can rep any heart like AK with king of hearts or more importantly if i was 4betting light just any heart in my hand. micha made a nice call with KJ though and i was super shocked. i loved this hand though cause its like a light went off in my head and i realised i have to think on another level verse some of the players here. its annoying micha is leaving soon i like playing him. furhtermore if i hadnt 4bet luke greg and fez were getting it all in with straight flush VS nut flush VS full house which would have been epic!

another big hand and i misplayed it pretty bad. i have Qx suited and i open in position. tim calls in bb. flop is Kxx with my flush draw. it goes tim donk, i raise, he reraises $10 to $30. i just call cause i guess he isnt folding much. turn brings KxxQ and i shovwe over his $40 bet cause it looked weak to me. so i bet like $40 to $120 . i was hoping he just had a strong top pair and would fold, but looking back tim wouldnt have played a top pair that hard most likely. he has K2 for 2pair and it holds.

then i shoved about 10 times and finally busted $300 haha.

earned $6 in rakeback last week. man im getting lazy...

Tilt: $5472 (+$350)
Stars: $234
Total: US$6056

Live: NZ$640