awesome month

nah it sucked. check this out:



yea.......

pretty much just seemed to run terrible and get coolered over and over. i lost way too many pots where im trapping some over agressive reg and get boned by the river. here is a fun example:

stacks r such that 4bets increase, ie he can 4bet me and i have to risk so much to continue. so i call w AK cause im pretty sure i will have the best hand here alot and 5betting isnt great. flop amazingly. check call to look like JJ QQ or similar. ch/ch turn and i lead a blocker river bet to hopefully induce a bluff or get a weak hand to call. another awesome backdoor gets there.


fml look at the size of this guys reraise. leaves me no room to rebluff or call light, just straight up coolered by a moron...


so this weekend i had nothing to do on saturday and played a 7 hour session of 50nl rush poker lols. well i won 17 buyins !!! wow it was fun. i gota give 100nl rush another shot cause rush is so much better than table selecting 200nl where there r so few fish. and if i was a fish id wana play rush...

in other news we had a homegame on the long weekend. 4pm to 6am i think. i honestly dont remember any hands after i came back from a break at 11pm. but somehow i lost my profits and ended up roughly $500 in the hole??? o god i shouldnt play when i am super tired. 5 card no limit omaha was pretty fun tho :D

all in all a fail month. another stupid thing is i have been getting up early and forcing myself to play on the weekends so i can get hands in before i go out etc. this is not a good way to play! if i get on tilt i dont wana stop cause i only have limited time. i know i should have definetly stopped some of those sessions early. o well learning the hard way. been back into watching videos. have found some real gems if u guys get a cardrunners account going. maybe i can share mine i dont see how they can stop me. hit me up if ur keen anyway.

200NL & 50NL rush october: rakeback is wrong its about half of that *cry*


also ima keep track of my FTPs cause i cant work out how fast im getting them. its going up extremly fast though. in 80years i can prob buy that BMW

Tilt: $9415 (+$5550)
Stars: $234
Total: US$15200
FTP:175k

Live: NZ$1500

ups and downs

had a spewtastic weekend. and october has definetly not been a good month for me. althogh ive only played 8k hands cause my comp broke. rakeback seems to have taken roughly a 25% hit from this new FT thing which is also super gay. so what happened on the weekend? i played fine but it all went horribly wrong...

so this first hand may be a mistake. im versing a fish with stats 30/1 lol. i guess is shouldnt shove the river but it must be close. thinking about it now he raises 1% of hands so he could even have AQ. not off to a good start...


i went on genuine tilt after this hand tho. having a bit of a war with this guy then bam i trap him. god i felt like phil hellmuth.


3% on flop. gota slow play them cowboys :(


o well at least i owned this guy!


the rest of the hands r just set over set or set verse draw thing. i see now i did tilt a bit looking at some of these hands. bit of the ol' run bad play bad combo. this weekend im guna grind like a madman i tell you

homegames:
had one the other week where not too much interesting stuff happened too me. i had one big hand verse remi. he 3bets from the blinds verse like luke or something so i 4bet him w AJ, like i dont mind a call or a fold im in position with probly the best hand anyway. he calls and flop is JTx he leads pot really fast. heres my remi tell, he bets fast and doesnt think when hes bluffing. dont tell anyone mmk? so he bets like $25 i call. turn is a brick he bets $65 in the same fasion and i have like 30 behind but just call cause i want him to bet again. river is a god awful JTxxQ. KQ JQ AK 9T etc etc all got there but i dont have much left so i call but i just know he hit it. he has Q9. $120ish gone.

last night was a cracker tho i was hitting every flop. luke payed me off about 50 times. i had 2 big pots verse phillip one where he pretty much shipped me his stack on KxxK with JJ and i had Ak and had just called his 3bet in position. another hand he 3bets someone and i 4bet him with Q9s. he calls and donks a 678 flop and i put him all in for ~$60 more. he made a good call tho and had JJ. we ran it 4 times and split it haha.

chewy was playing like an egg verse me for some reason. one hand stood out, flop was QTx and i cbet, he raises me 3way so i shove him with ~70 effective stacks. he calls with Q5??? i dont even know what hes thinking in these spots but he keeps doing it. i brick my straight draw

i think the best thing tho was twice i 4et luke in position with 600bb stacks. both times he was squeezing from blinds and i have A rang but if he makes it $15, i make it $40 he cant do shit unless he has AA KK or is sure im bluffing. and i know luke isnt guna rebluff me cause he wants to protect his wins for a better spot ;)

finally i got 72 about 5 times and won every hand. phillip limp reraised me and i 4bet him once and he mucked which was fun. also luke actually folded once when i baralled an A turn and i had 72 this time of course. best one tho was verse phillip. turns out we had alot of hands but thats cause i was on his right and playing alot of hands with him. so im raiser in cutoff maybe 5handed and take an A66 flop in position. i cbet and phil reraises me. i just call cause thats what id do with an A, and i doubt he has a strong one or any A at that. he checks turn and i bet $5 into like $25 pot. he folds hehe ship them 50 cents! so cash out $290 up

hmmmm 6handed casino torney coming up. $600 buyin. could be something to get excited about

Tilt: $10350 (+$5550)
Stars: $234
Total: US$16134

Live: NZ$2050

recent stuff

played a bit on the weekend but was down half a buyin. had a couple kool hands.

not a big pot but here i turn an overpair into a bluff on the river. im just calling pre and on the flop cause there is a fish in the blinds. by the time we get to the river i think he has AA KK or an 8. i can rep a T so well i think it was good to bet as a bluff cause pretty much no hands he has call me except a T. he tanked river and talked in chat so im pretty sure i had the worst hand. was just a different kinda play, so standard to just check behind there.

Full Tilt Poker Game #24386362106: Table Butterum (6 max) - $1/$2 - No Limit Hold'em - 21:25:20 ET - 2010/10/02
Seat 1: nzmunkey ($216.30)
Seat 2: roach85111 ($200)
Seat 3: Callide ($404.85), is sitting out
Seat 4: chancleto33 ($155)
Seat 5: NokseMojo ($218.95)
Seat 6: Daniel04 ($366.25)
roach85111 posts the small blind of $1
chancleto33 posts the big blind of $2
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to nzmunkey [Qc Qs]
NokseMojo folds
Daniel04 raises to $6
nzmunkey calls $6
Callide stands up
roach85111 folds
roach85111 adds $1
chancleto33 calls $4
*** FLOP *** [5s 8h Tc]
Stella-921 adds $200
chancleto33 checks
Daniel04 has 15 seconds left to act
Daniel04 bets $12
nzmunkey calls $12
chancleto33 folds
*** TURN *** [5s 8h Tc] [8s]
Daniel04 has 15 seconds left to act
Daniel04 bets $26
nzmunkey calls $26
*** RIVER *** [5s 8h Tc 8s] [Th]
Daniel04 has 15 seconds left to act
Daniel04 checks
nzmunkey has 15 seconds left to act
nzmunkey bets $36
Daniel04 has 15 seconds left to act
Daniel04 has requested TIME
Daniel04: fun river
Daniel04: for u
Daniel04 folds
Uncalled bet of $36 returned to nzmunkey
nzmunkey mucks
nzmunkey wins the pot ($92)
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $95 | Rake $3
Board: [5s 8h Tc 8s Th]
Seat 1: nzmunkey (button) collected ($92), mucked
Seat 2: roach85111 (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 3: Callide is sitting out
Seat 4: chancleto33 (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 5: NokseMojo didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: Daniel04 folded on the River

ok the hand replayer thing is down so i just post the whole thing like a noob...i got into the 'black card' club which needs an average of 500ftp per day over the last 100 days. now i earn double ftps at all times. they really rack up im up to 140k FTP. just guna keep saving and buy something massive one day.

had a fun home game the other night too. hadnt won for a while but cashed for $430 this time. had 3 main hands.

the first was verse luke surprise surprise. he 3bets an early raise after i had called from the bb so i call with ATs in position and kinda deep. flop a flush draw cause i run so good. Qxx. i didnt really wana raise cause i thought luke might get in in light here. so i call and hit a flush on the turn. he checks so i bet half pot and he shoves with something, i tihnk AQ. that was about $110 more to my stack.

Had a weird hand verse remi. he 3bet the button like he does so i 4bet him with Q9s. flop is Qxx. i think i have the best hand but dont wana get bluffed and its not like i can get 3 streets of value w Q9 oop. checking lets him bluff me too. so he bets flop pretty big, i call. ch/ch turn. i think he has nothing after he checks so i check the river when i hit trip Qs. he bets pretty small has about $40 left. i didnt think a worse hand would call so i just called. i really should have raised now i think about it. he thought i slow rolled him lol cause i took ages to think about it.

the last hand i get 72 and raise early. remis friend 3bets the button really small and we r super deep. so i dont think he has a good hand cause he should have made it bigger. plus i seen him do some abnormal bets when hes bluffing prob cause hes nervous. if he has a big hand i planned to bluff on a good board with so much money behind. amon called too. set minning for shizzle. flop bottom two ofcourse! 972 no flush draw. he cbets and i call still thinking he has nothing so no point in raising. turn is 972T bringing a flush draw. not such a great card for bottom 2 he could have got a set or better 2 pair but more importantly if i raise it looks scary and he might fold an overpair if he actually had a hand. so i smooth call again. river is a kinda bad card bringing pairing the ten 972TT and counterfitting my 2 pair. then he puts out a monster pot sized bet of $65. i was pretty sure i had him straight away but took a long time cause i wanted to think it through fully. i had seen him do some big bluffs before. he bet so big i doubt he does this with AA KK. the key is my range looks so weak playing it like i did, so hed only bet huge if he wanted a fold. of course he could be levling me and know i know this but i doubted that. plus as i tanked he sat there forzen, which is a slight universal tell for when someone is bluffing. all the signs pointed me towards a bluff so i called and was right. he had AK and had picked up a flush draw on the turn.

oh and one last hand. i complete bb w Q9 w luke raising and marco in pot. checked round low flop and turn is a queen. i check again cause i know luke cant resist a steal and he bets, marco calls so do i. river is a blank and i bet out cause i think luke prob bluffing and will check and i want value from marco. luke reraises me $10 to $40. i put him exactly on AQ or nothing how the hand went down. in hindsight i should shove me top pair here! he would have to fold for sure. next time luke....

also had a pokersoc torney with the standard last longer $50 bet. i donked out w about 15bb on KJx 3 way w KT when some guy min raised my cbet w KQ. guess i can fold there but meh prob fine either way. can never win these donkaments!

Tilt: $12000 (+$5550)
Stars: $234
Total: US$17784

Live: NZ$1845

did some good grinding

after a lazy month, and inspired by last weeks run good i put in 10 hours this weekend for 5k hands and $700 profit. 500 below ev but still good. tagged so mny interesting hands but ill just post a few.

i think this guy played the hand pretty good but felt like he had many more draws than trip 9s so had to make a call down. he went nuts at me in chat which was fun.


shortly after this hand happens. this time there are no draws so i kinda have to give him credit. if he turns TT or something into a bluff and shoves river its a pretty sick play. JJ AQ KQ AA all beat me so i folded.


i played this hand baaaaad. i should have bet turn cause sets will call to draw to a boat and the person behind me was a fish. was thinking if i bet it would look obvious what i have. in hindsight im only getting one street of value verse a set anyway, so i should have bet turn to charge a boat draw + build pot verse lower flush. won the minimum...


i got confused here on the river and prob should have bet. didnt think he would be calling me so light so wanted to check call if he had a missed draw. still dont know what the best play was still pondering on this one.


hey at least i got two blogs in this month.


Tilt: $11950 (+$5550)
Stars: $234
Total: US$17734

Live: NZ$1600

september

hav hardly been playing cause ive been "busy". which basically means lazy. plus a new Halo came out and lans are so much less stressful than grinding!

have a pretty awesome graph this month tho. break even and then bam, $1500 over EV. twice got AA in on the turn verse a set and rivered the A. boy did it feel good! today i had a small session and won 4/4 flips. got set over set but won a big one with nut flush verse lower flush verse set.

graph:


have two mint hands. this first one i level some reg and set a sexy trap. flop top boat 4way and lead out weak. 2 regs in the pot and i think it will look like i have a med pair judging the preflop action. i hope someone makes a play. get a call and then the flush hits. i check to look like im scared of it + he might have it so ill let him think he has the best hand. check call then another high card on the river. if he puts me on a pair this is another high card to baral, so i go for the check raise. he bet calls top 2! crazy call by him, he must hav me on a bluff. any value hand i have he obviously loses. now if id gone for the usual chcek raise or call on the flop i would hav won a much smaller pot.


here is a descent calldown. his reg has a 15% 3bet steal stat which i used to narrow his range to all bluffs. he ch/raise the flop KT3 and he would definately 3bet any hand that hits that. AK KK TT 33. he can only really have draws or bluffs, maybe KT. good example of a reg not thinking about his own range and just assuming ill fold to heavy action because i open the button alot. actually i dont know what he was thinking.



Tilt: $10830 (+$5550)
Stars: $234
Total: US$16614

Live: NZ$1600

owch!

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