live pokers

been out for a while. but played a sweet game the other day and got the taste for poker again. woo!

first day was the pokersoc torney. hit a set second hand omg. hand goes like this:
call w 44 on btn 3 way.
flop Q46. he bets i raise.
turn Q463. i bet big pot is 8k both have 6k behind.
river Q4632. gay 4 straight bu i think he has a queen so bet 1k.
he check raises me instantly all in. nooooooooo
i fold cause he must have it right? no he flips AA and says good fold. yes he thought AA was so strong he did the old pop em on the river. fml could have doubled up second hand...

ok busted that torney but won $80 in the cash game after so all good. won a big pot verse remi after i flop top pair in a 3bet pot T9x i have KT he has QJ. then won a big one verse his mate whos name i always forget. limp pot 2pair. check flop first to act. utg bets, friend calls, i raise, friend ships. obvious draw always wen that happens cause he would never flat a strong hand (board was super drawy).

ok lukes home game and i run like a god (as usual i know). i get a good image going at the start. bluff 72 all in verse luke AK and hit my 7 owch. bunch of big hands, im playing pretty loose short handed. a new guy to lukes left starts to call me constantly. i 3bet pre. ship low flop he snaps me with AJ, i have AK. we split tho. had a couple other hands like that.

favourite hand goes like this:
standard raise a few callers and i call cutoff w 52s. luke raises to $13 after 6ppl were in. i think everyone calls haha.
flop K94 rainbow. checked around.
turn K943. i have straight flush draw. new guy bets out small $30 into $75, i dont want to raise cause i checked behind flop i cant rep much i think. plus this guy wont fold to me i tihnk. hayden calls behind. im certain he has a flush draw too which is gay. he even says "please club!" and ive seen him do this several times and he doesnt lie.... great tell but anyway
river K943J. miss the draw. i think if its checked to me im shoving cause the new guy must be weak to bet 30 then check. so i shove all in its like $150 to call. hayden snap folds obviously. new guy thinks but folds 66 aparently. honestly im not repping much doing this play, KJ was what im going for i guess. i would not do this with a pair only. but these players are fairley average so i can get away with plays like this. wouldnt try that play on eamonn for example. polarised range and its hard to have better than a pair the way o played it etc. show the bluff bam it was awesome.

also hit trips verse the new guy. get it all in on 988 verse his 9T. ummm a big hand verse dev. sitting with devto my right makes for an easy game haha. wen hes on my left i have to play so tight cause he is in every pot. goes like this
see a standard flop 3Q7 or something i have A3 for pair + nut flush. i cbet only dev follows. turn bricks low. he donks into me which i know he does with weak pairs and draws. so obv raise here, dev will fold to me he knows im a nit cause he rails every hand i play. i raise to $50 and he calls. river brings a beautiful flush. he donks all in i call. he has J high flush owch. $300 pot to me.

finally a hand verse andy. he 3bets and i call behind someone else with 78s. we all r deep. low flop 78x. i check and ahh checked around. turn a beautiful K. i check cause i tihnk andy is capable of repping a K, or quite likely has one. bad player calls behind andy so i check raise. now i make a mistake. i chek raise too small. i think it went cbet 12 call i make it 35. yukk. anyway is doesnt set up river well for me. river makes it 78xK9 no flush. i tank for ages he has 100 behind pot is 100. do i bet 40? if he reraises me its pretty gross. i guess i should have bet like 60. i shove him and he tank folds his AK. the problem was i didnt think any worse hand would call me wen i shoved. and i guess i was right. ahh well. if i had bet turn bigger it was easier shove...

finish cashing out for $595 after buying in for $150. sweet night to get me loving poker again.

online has been going pretty shit. i played a few rare sessions but havent been winning. rush has ruined online poker for me i find normal 6max sooo boring and i cant beat rush ahhh what a dilema. getting a laptop soon, so im guna try gind low stakes every night on the couch instead of watching tv or watever so it still looks like im joining in with the flat. genious? 50NL rush here i come.

oh and while im whining. ah the US dollar is so weak! $0.78 wtf ill never get my money off full tilt. remember the good ol days of $0.55 conversion. what happened??! god my blogs r a ramble.......


Tilt: $9770 (+$5550)
Stars: $234
Total: US$1554
FTP:254k

Live: NZ$2500ish

woops

got kinda lazy in the last week and didnt really play. had one shit day lost 400-500 at 100nl rush. i tihnk i give up on rush my edge just isnt big enough im barely squeaking out a profit over alot of hands. its hard to imagine why, with the amount of retards i see around me but it is what it is. played a day of 'real' poker, 8 tabling 200/100NL. did alright up a couple of buyins... forgot what its like to play 6max seemed much easier than rush. ie find a table with a whale and wait for him to give u his stack.

heres a cool hand:

so deep so didnt wana just get it in plus he was a super agro fish.

going up to auck for my last week for the big day out. i think i profit around a grand these holidays after 40hrs play. the rush gamble didnt really pay off. its so hard to play more than 4-5hrs a day especially when all ur friends r on holiday too. dreading going back to work ahhh.

lifetime over 260hrs (140k hands) at 100/200NL normal 6max poker I average US$30+rakeback an hour. to be or not to be a poker pro....

Tilt: $10383 (+$5550)
Stars: $234
Total: US$16167
FTP:254k

Day 12

today i had a big session but down 350 buckos. was just a super gay day so i stopped a bit early. u can tell ur tilting when u start yelling at your screen haha...

y do i always get boned in these spots...


rolling blackcard FPP at 440 ohhh

Tilt: $10507 (+$5550)
Stars: $234
Total: US$16291
FTP:250k

Live: NZ$1980

Day 11

today was 3k of brake evenness then 4 buyins up in the last 300 hands woop. 3 way all in after 5 people see a flop of 68T monotone and i have top set verse nut flush draw verse flopped straight. running boat for me of course...

this hand tilted the shit out of me though. knew exactly what he had bu couldnt pull the third trigger. such terrible play by him though. after this he payed me off like a station several times tho so its all good.


Black card folling FPP at 420. big sleep and mega session tomorow i got 4 days left miiiiiight make it. all it does is give me more FPPs but may as well try keep it going....

Tilt: $10860 (+$5550)
Stars: $234
Total: US$16644
FTP:232k

Live: NZ$1980

Days 9&10

Day 9 was a bit of a crap one. several buyins under EV and didnt win a single stack in 5k hands woo. today was alright, finished 1 buyin up. had some lame coolers though. btn vs sb i have A4 on a 235 board... somehow the other guy has 46 of course!

speaking of lame coolers:

felt kiiiinda bad for the guy haha

here are some positional stats to think about. seems weird that my winrate from EP and MP is so low, seeing as im so tight from these positions.... i plan to look into it further when i get some time. ie opening 22 though 66 or something might not be profitable from early position or something. my rush stats are also slightly nittier than my normal ones, i dont know why i feel i play the same. power folding the button is probably the reason haha.


for the record ive clocked 29hrs of rush which equals USD$27 per hour plus rakeback (around $11) which is prety pimping seeing as i have a pretty tiny bb/100 winrate. need more sample size though! furthermore i just cant manage more than 5 hours of rush so exhausting doing 1000 hands an hour.

Tilt: $10491 (+$5550)
Stars: $234
Total: US$16275
FTP:226k

Live: NZ$1980

Day 7&8

day 7 doesnt exist cause it was after new years so i put in a descent day 8. 4.26 hours, 5k hands and $300 profit. was guna do a big blog today but ive run out of time. had a reg 4bet shove 200bb deep with 22 against me today, i had AA of course haha. infact my 4 biggest hands today were all AA lol! nits for the win.

graph so far this holiday... not enough hands to see a winrate it just looks a bit crazy haha.


look at the hillarious bluff. sometimes the regs r worse than the fish....


mani made a huge mistake in this hand. fish minraises AA pre ofcourse. hit my jin and know he isnt folding after he slowplays the flop haha AA/KK every time! bam betting huge to set up river. river is an A omg. y did i jam ahhhhh didnt even think... rofl hand though!


my blackcard rolling FPP is at 373 with 7 days to get it to 500. ahh dont think ill make it. havent managed a 5+ hour session yet, should have more time now xmas/new years is all done.

Tilt: $10813 (+$5550)
Stars: $234
Total: US$16597
FTP:226k

Live: NZ$1980

Day 6

argh i feel shitty today. played 700 hands, won some pots then stopped haha. post this hand from yesterday. dude had nitty stats so i didnt think he had many suited card type hands in his range... so wen he bet the river i didnt think hed do it like that with a set. so i thought he was bluffing... played the hand weird/bad but got lucky with my call cause it turns out he did indeed have a suited conector just the wrong suit. yay for misread call!



oh and bet more on flop next time chris!


Tilt: $10453 (+$5550)
Stars: $234
Total: US$16237
FTP:211k

Live: NZ$1980