Graveyard for Fun Hands

Won lots of money today raising the river in position (posted the hands in other thread in SHNL) and I'm up about 5 buyins on the week... through 310 hands lol.

Been really busy with school stuff and a project I might talk about in a later entry.

I'd say "hopefully I can get in more hands soon" but the truth is I just finished a sweet hit n run and I'm gonna learn how to play FIFA 2008 on the Wii and drink lots of beer


ok ok. 1 hand for the old blog :

I know you are a donk who’s been minraising preflop lots

But just fold one time plz?

$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, November 09, 17:38:01 ET 2007
Table Table 127885 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 3
Seat 2: HERO ( $479.24 USD )
Seat 4: sarorn87 ( $192 USD )
Seat 1: MikeDiff ( $412.70 USD )
sarorn87 posts small blind [$2 USD].
MikeDiff posts big blind [$4 USD].

** Dealing down cards **

Dealt to HERO
HERO raises [$14 USD]
sarorn87 calls [$12 USD]
MikeDiff calls [$10 USD]

** Dealing Flop **

sarorn87 checks.
MikeDiff checks.
HERO bets [$34 USD]
sarorn87 folds.
MikeDiff calls [$34 USD]

** Dealing Turn **

MikeDiff checks.
HERO bets [$72 USD]
MikeDiff calls [$72 USD]

** Dealing River **

MikeDiff checks.
HERO bets [$189 USD]
jbe64 has joined the table.
MikeDiff folds.
HERO does not show cards.
HERO wins $442 USD

k thx



run well everybody

made a buy in in about 20 minutes 2 day

here s the only really interesting spot I faced :

Villain seems like a decent reg (24/16, very aggro post flop). He most likely views me as super-tight since I've been nitting it up at this particular table.

$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, November 15, 15:20:39 ET 2007
Table Table 126681 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 3: meeder111 ( $450.32 USD )
Seat 4: marken_78 ( $0 USD )
Seat 5: oemre72 ( $483.95 USD )
Seat 6: FeedUrFish ( $877.80 USD )
Seat 2: HERO ( $402 USD )
Seat 1: noscoe ( $104.68 USD )
HERO posts small blind [$2 USD].
meeder111 posts big blind [$4 USD].

** Dealing down cards **

Dealt to HERO
oemre72 folds.
FeedUrFish raises [$15 USD]
noscoe folds.
HERO raises [$47 USD]
meeder111 folds.
FeedUrFish calls [$34 USD]

** Dealing Flop **

HERO checks.
FeedUrFish checks.

** Dealing Turn **

HERO bets [$79 USD]
FeedUrFish calls [$79 USD]

** Dealing River **

HERO is all-In.
FeedUrFish (tanks…) and folds.
HERO does not show cards.
HERO wins $532 USD

Eff stacks on river were about pot (270 ish). I really think all 3 possibilities have merit.

Betting can get called by worse (99 ish) and fold out better (JJ-QQish going for pot control thoughout hand), which is why I chose to bet.

Another issue is shove vs value-bet. I'm very very confident I have the best hand here so I was tempted to go for 1/2 pot or something, but instead I decided to take the chance of folding out the 2 hands that beat me that got to the river this way once in a blue moon. Also shoving is good in case I get called by 99 or 77 or something just to protect my bluffs and merge my range.

I'm crazy busy with a development project in Peru I'm organizing from my base here in Montreal. So I'm not playing as much as I'd like, but the hit n runs still feel good.

played a reasonable session today

was wondering what I was gonna do with my 2k+ profit when getting it AI vs a 50/28 with on board and another wacko on tilt with AK preflop

in 1st hand villain had and second hand he sucked out with KJo

so went from +2k to about +1.5 buyins but a nice little profit all the same

stopped after that cuz figured there was a good chance I'd be in "win it back" mode which can often turn into "get unstuck" mode

Dropped a decent amount today but it doesn’t feel as bad as it could.

After losing 1.4k in 400 hands at nl400 I decided my game needed a good kick in the ass of discipline.

I went down and played about 800 hands of nl200 and won about 750ish to cut my loss for the day in half.

At nl200 I was playing what seemed like very ABC poker and was surprised to see that I ran at 30/20.

The nl400 loss was mainly 2 hands : a deepstacked semi-bluff in a 3-bet pot that ran into the stone cold nuts and a flip 150bb’s deep with vs on a board.

Here are a couple hands from the nl200 recovery that made me smile :

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, November 23, 22:37:24 ET 2007
Table Table 126403 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 6: HERO ( $337.88 USD )
Seat 2: Michelle_Y ( $207.35 USD )
Seat 5: kosco77 ( $214.60 USD )
Seat 1: knobrok ( $158.85 USD )
Seat 4: ShynePo11 ( $205.21 USD )
Michelle_Y posts small blind [$1 USD].
ShynePo11 posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
kosco77 folds.
HERO raises [$7 USD]
knobrok calls [$7 USD]
Michelle_Y folds.
ShynePo11 raises [$10 USD]
HERO raises [$38 USD]
knobrok calls [$38 USD]
ShynePo11 calls [$33 USD]
** Dealing Flop **
ShynePo11 bets [$20 USD]
HERO is all-In.
knobrok folds.
ShynePo11 is all-In.
** Dealing Turn **
** Dealing River **
ShynePo11 shows a pair of Tens.
HERO shows a pair of Tens.
HERO wins $132.67 USD from side pot #1 with a pair of Tens with King kicker.
HERO wins $454.42 USD from the main pot with a pair of Tens with King kicker.
kosco77 has left the table.

Squeezing with AK didn’t always work out so hawt… :

***** Hand History for Game 6529841164 *****
$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, November 23, 22:46:04 ET 2007
Table Table 125885 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: rocc36 ( $36.44 USD )
Seat 4: rembrant777 ( $0 USD )
Seat 5: absolut_soccer ( $279.12 USD )
Seat 3: HERO ( $231 USD )
Seat 2: DrCanine ( $178.92 USD )
Seat 6: Haaksbergen3 ( $127.11 USD )
DrCanine posts small blind [$1 USD].
HERO posts big blind [$2 USD].
Haaksbergen3 posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
absolut_soccer raises [$6 USD]
Haaksbergen3 calls [$4 USD]
rocc36 calls [$6 USD]
DrCanine folds.
HERO raises [$36 USD]
absolut_soccer calls [$32 USD]
Haaksbergen3 calls [$32 USD]
rocc36 is all-In.
** Dealing Flop **
HERO bets [$145 USD]
absolut_soccer is all-In.
Haaksbergen3 folds.
HERO is all-In.
** Dealing Turn **
** Dealing River **
HERO shows a pair of Queens.
absolut_soccer shows three of a kind, Queens.
rocc36 doesn't show a pair of Queens.
absolut_soccer wins $48.12 USD from side pot #2 with three of a kind, Queens.
absolut_soccer wins $390.68 USD from side pot #1 with three of a kind, Queens.
absolut_soccer wins $144.76 USD from the main pot with three of a kind, Queens.

This call may seem sick.

Trust me : you had to be there.

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, November 23, 22:46:25 ET 2007
Table Jackpot #1309450 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 6: HERO ( $200 USD )
Seat 1: Alex3280 ( $396.48 USD )
Seat 4: Sitting__Out ( $201 USD )
Seat 2: MoneyEvil ( $178.75 USD )
Seat 5: lantimenace ( $111.46 USD )
Seat 3: VPIP99 ( $194 USD )
Sitting__Out posts small blind [$1 USD].
lantimenace posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
HERO raises [$7 USD]
Alex3280 folds.
MoneyEvil calls [$7 USD]
VPIP99 folds.
Sitting__Out folds.
lantimenace calls [$5 USD]
** Dealing Flop **
lantimenace is all-In.
HERO is all-In.
MoneyEvil folds.
** Dealing Turn **
** Dealing River **
lantimenace shows a full house, Sevens full of Twos.
HERO shows two pairs, Aces and Sevens.
The time at which hand ended:Nov 23 2007 22:47 ET
HERO wins $88.54 USD from side pot #1 with two pairs, Aces and Sevens.
lantimenace wins $227.42 USD from the main pot with a full house, Sevens full of Twos.

Getting paid off is nice :

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, November 23, 21:58:35 ET 2007
Table Table 127948 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 2: ShootTheml8r ( $211.20 USD )
Seat 6: HERO ( $444.40 USD )
Seat 4: Dressler84 ( $0 USD )
Seat 1: crack83 ( $213.45 USD )
Seat 5: Just_a_hunch ( $185 USD )
ShootTheml8r posts small blind [$1 USD].
Just_a_hunch posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
HERO raises [$7 USD]
crack83 raises [$20 USD]
ShootTheml8r folds.
Just_a_hunch folds.
HERO calls [$13 USD]
** Dealing Flop **
HERO checks.
crack83 checks.
** Dealing Turn **
HERO bets [$26 USD]
crack83 calls [$26 USD]
** Dealing River **
HERO is all-In.
crack83 is all-In.
HERO shows a straight Ace to Five.
crack83 doesn't show a pair of Tens.
HERO wins $230.95 USD from side pot #1 with a straight, Ace to Five.
HERO wins $427.90 USD from the main pot with a straight, Ace to Five.

Hopefully I can play some good poker tomorrow. My current objective is to make 5k then cash out 3k. gogogogogo me.

edit (4:30 am) : just played some plo25 and 50

+250$ ship it, so only down 1 buy in at nl400 for the day

deposited 100$ on stars cuz I felt like playing some low limit donkaments

worked it up to 300$ and just won a 13$ dbl shootout to tomorrow's mill

I prob won't play but the 530$ is nice

also I'm chip leader with 12 ppl left in a 5$ PLo rebuy. 1st is only 700$ but it'd be nice

gogogogo luckbox

edit : just put on casino royale so I'm waiting impatiently for my St8flush cooler

final edit : busted in 6th KKdbl suited into AA preflop and lost 6679 on 58T board vs bare QQ bleh

still made about 1 hundo on the FT so whatever gg

I've dropped 3603$ in my past 718 hands at 2-4.

4 of the buyins were huge bluffs deep. 1 of them was good and another one of them was reckless.

The rest are just high-variance plays that didn't work out (i.e. felting 99 Bvb vs complete maniac running 90/57 over 150 hands).

It's kind of too bad because I've played pretty much my A game every hand so far at nl400. This short but nasty mini-downswing has reminded me that I need a huge # of buyins if I want to play what I think is an optimal game.

I'm thinking hard about what to do right now. In the past, I've always moved down or taken a break after dropping 10ish buyins.

Another option is sticking at nl400 with 32 buyins but playing a much lower variance style.

Gonna think about this for a while and post later.

K just thought about it for about 30 secs

Gonna play 5k hands of nl200 and come back to nl400 and force myself to take low-variance approch until I have 45 buyins.

At 45 buyins I'll up the aggression a little bit (start trying to make ppl fold hands when I know pretty well what they have and think they ***should*** fold to aggression).

When I hit 50 buyins, I'll withdraw some money, keep the variance reasonable and take a crack at nl600 when I make back the money I've withdrawn.

This may sound a little ridiculous, all this talk about "controlling my variance", but trust me, it's not. It's VERY hard to lose in the Party nl 2-4 games when thinking clearly and adopting some sort of nittag style.

Initially after moving up, I was playing something as close to this as possible for me (maybe 20/14 ish), since I just wanted to build some confidence.

But after winning maybe 15 buyins, I started opening up my game substantially. I've played the past few sessions around 30/22. I think this is the best style vs the mediocre regs and nits and it lends for some crazy swings vs the better laggs.

The practical implications of the different approaches to variance aren't that tough to lay out. They're probably obvious for many of you but I think I'll make a post using an example hand some other night.

For now it's time to fire up some nl200.

bleh

just played 1k hands of nl200 and dropped 900$. This means that 2day was my biggest loss ever, 3.1k.

almost everything was just aggro play during the nl200 session. A cpl times I 2 barrelled 3 bet pots HU and got shoved on, lost a cpl flips with AK and got it in with TT vs a compulsive squeezer who had QQ.

Last hand of night I called a 3 bet on the Btn preflop with AQ vs a 29/26 villain planning on commit-raising any flop. 2 bad he had QQ and flop came J high.

I'm not really worried, just really frustrated. I hope I don't play these 5k hands like a bot or anything. Just wanna play good, smart and aggressive. It would drive me crazy to lose so much at nl200 that I have to stay there for a while.

Back at it soon.

I’m tired and upset so I’ll post 2 hands from 2day’s session for fun

Here I’m up against the maniac and make a good call.

$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, November 25, 23:10:18 ET 2007
Table Jackpot #1304641 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: kruspe222 ( $2,535.11 USD )
Seat 2: No_Limit_King ( $555.60 USD )
Seat 3: nutzgrabber ( $422.50 USD )
Seat 6: x_Megatron_x ( $693 USD )
Seat 5: HERO ( $400 USD )
Seat 4: StepThirteen ( $408.45 USD )
nutzgrabber posts small blind [$2 USD].
StepThirteen posts big blind [$4 USD].

** Dealing down cards **

Dealt to HERO
HERO raises [$14 USD]
x_Megatron_x folds.
kruspe222 calls [$14 USD]
No_Limit_King folds.
nutzgrabber folds.
StepThirteen calls [$10 USD]

** Dealing Flop **

StepThirteen checks.
HERO bets [$31 USD]
kruspe222 calls [$31 USD]
StepThirteen folds.

** Dealing Turn **

HERO bets [$67 USD]
kruspe222 calls [$67 USD]

** Dealing River **

HERO checks.
kruspe222 bets [$2,080 USD]
HERO is all-In.
kruspe222 shows high card Queen.
HERO shows a pair of Fours.
The time at which hand ended:Nov 25 2007 23:10 ET
kruspe222 wins $1,792 USD from side pot #1 with high card, Queen.
HERO wins $812.50 USD from the main pot with a pair of Fours.

Here all I can say is I don’t know what villain was thinking. Nice call.

Maybe he was happy cuz one of his cards matched the top pair on the board? He timed down, so maybe for a while he thought he didn’t have the top pair but then realized the A matched up with his A, even though it was a different colour.

$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, November 25, 23:31:55 ET 2007
Table Jackpot #1304411 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: UrBabyIsUgly ( $719 USD )
Seat 2: ffsstfu ( $266.73 USD )
Seat 4: lucasqueiroz ( $480.40 USD )
Seat 5: Joost058 ( $396.44 USD )
Seat 6: Gleb3136 ( $298.83 USD )
Seat 3: HERO ( $400 USD )
lucasqueiroz posts small blind [$2 USD].
Joost058 posts big blind [$4 USD].

** Dealing down cards **

Dealt to HERO
Gleb3136 folds.
UrBabyIsUgly folds.
ffsstfu folds.
HERO raises [$14 USD]
lucasqueiroz folds.
Joost058 calls [$10 USD]

** Dealing Flop **

Joost058 checks.
HERO bets [$25 USD]
Joost058 raises [$68 USD]
HERO is all-In.
Joost058 is all-In.
** Dealing Turn **
** Dealing River **
Joost058 shows two pairs, Aces and Jacks.
HERO shows two pairs, Kings and Jacks.
The time at which hand ended:Nov 25 2007 23:33 ET
HERO wins $3.56 USD from side pot #1 with two pairs, Kings and Jacks.
Joost058 wins $791.38 USD from the main pot with two pairs, Aces and Jacks.

I think I have some serious self-management issues to overcome.

Most of the money I made at nl400 came from playing short, ***perfect*** sessions. Usually that just means that I didn't get called in any big bluffs and finished with a profit.

Today I continued playing nl200 (plan is to play 5k hands before going back to nl400) and quickly made about 750$.

I then dropped at least 1k in the space of about 140 hands.

1 buy in was CLEARLY due to tilt. Blind vs blind I got limp-reraised by a 24/6 who had stacked me on the very last hand when I shoved on his river blocker (after raising UTG and firing 2 barrels on J high board) and he snap-called with TPTK.

I insta-shoved over his limp-reraise and his AK held up over my AJ.

Nothing... and I mean NOTHING, tilts me like spewing away winnings. I ALWAYS tell myself "well, if you'd only stopped"...

What this suggests is a basic gambler's mentality. It is COMPLETELY irrational. It means that I am playing poker for emotional fulfillment. It feels good to win. I always want to be happy. Booking wins feels good.

But the need to feel good has gotten in the way of my long-term profits. If I look back over the past 12 months or so of play, I can count the sessions where I've played very well for more than 1k hands on the fingers of one hand.

This is a very very bad sign and means that, while in a bubble I may have some sort of poker proficiency, I lack the emotional discipline and the equanimity necessary for poker.

It's funny, because this isn't something I really feel like I'm lacking in other aspects of my life ("handling your ups and down" lol) but I've somehow managed to never get over this hump in poker.

When I was grinding up my roll playing the Back 2 Back in the good old days of their huge bonuses, I was a very very aggro regular at the nl100 euro games.

My old laptop with the results of those days is shot, but I think I made about 15 ptbb/100 over about a 40k sample. Back then, I had maybe 1/3 of the poker skill and experience I have now, but I had a much much better approach to variance. I would regularly get it in light vs other regs and just accepted the fact that the swings would be huge. Most of the regs ended up just giving up vs me since they were only there to nit their way to the bonuses so I was in a great spot. I also had the comfort of knowing that even if I spewed a little bit too much, I had big bonuses waiting for me at the end of the day.

Nowadays, I'm playing solely for profit from the tables. For whatever reason, I get extremely tied to results. Like, it's just fucking unbelievable. If I run a bluff that works, then it's brilliant and I feel great and I'm on top of the world (and vice-versa obv).

What's stupid though, is when I'm losing, I often have no problem rationalizing what appears to be a good play that didn't work out. I just chalk it up to variance that some dood make a crazy call or I got kicked in the nutz by someone rivering a 3-outer when I was trying to control the pot.

If, however, I'm winning and one of these marginal plays doesn't work out, it drives me off the deep end. I start telling myself that I should be "holding on" to my profits and not spewing and this just puts me on huge tilt.

This is really really bothering me right now and I have some serious soul-searching to do before I continue with anything poker-related. At the very least, I have to try to start playing with a bit less intensity and less focus on short-term results.

Fuck me. It's very hard to be patient when I've been struggling with this for over 12 months.

chat is particularly fun

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, November 29, 06:51:19 ET 2007
Table Jackpot #1305419 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 4: Roulette_777 ( $286.45 USD )
Seat 3: Siouxsic ( $847.05 USD )
Seat 6: HERO ( $518.20 USD )
Seat 1: avgyst ( $191 USD )
Seat 5: KumarKGB ( $214 USD )
Seat 2: midein87 ( $209 USD )
KumarKGB posts small blind [$1 USD].
HERO posts big blind [$2 USD].

** Dealing down cards **

Dealt to HERO
avgyst folds.
midein87 folds.
Siouxsic raises [$8 USD]
Roulette_777 folds.
KumarKGB folds.
HERO calls [$6 USD]

** Dealing Flop **

HERO checks.
Siouxsic bets [$14 USD]
HERO raises [$55 USD]
Siouxsic calls [$41 USD]

** Dealing Turn **

HERO bets [$123 USD]
Siouxsic raises [$246 USD]
HERO is all-In.
Siouxsic : flush?
KumarKGB : i wonder if either of you have a pair
Siouxsic calls [$209.20 USD]

** Dealing River **

Siouxsic shows a full house, Eights full of Fours.
HERO doesn't show a full house, Fours full of Fives.
The time at which hand ended:Nov 29 2007 06:52 ET
Siouxsic wins $1,033.90 USD from the main pot with a full house, Eights full of Fours.

2nd step towards poker maturity: stop posting bad beats.

you are looking for sympathy among your peers, but all of us have been subject to the same beats multiple times.

shrug them off and keep playing. remind yourself that 95% of that pot was yours, the other 5% you had to tangle with that bitch called Fortuna. if you keep getting yourself in these spots, over time, you'll win 95% of the total money at stake in these spots.

do not place importance to beats. just shrug them off and keep playing. posting them only gives them meaning, gives them importance, gives them an "omg this shouldn't happen to miii, villain yu lukboks bastaard!!' feeling that will keep you in permatilt.

Jack you re right that posting beats is completely useless. I almost never post beats but that one, almost 300bb's deep was probably the worst I've ever taken so figured it was worthy of laughter at the very least.

Anyways, played 1.4k hands today and was down about 1k after 700 hands then turned it around for a small profit after I ended things up. I feel like I played well at the start, spewy in the middle, then well at the end. It helped to be sitting with a whale who donated about 800$ directly to my account.

Here's a hand that is somewhere between awesome and epic :

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, November 29, 11:53:45 ET 2007
Table Jackpot #1306096 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 5: nitramos7 ( $140.71 USD )
Seat 1: HERO ( $867.02 USD )
Seat 2: bendoon111 ( $242.40 USD )
Seat 4: NattyDread4 ( $200 USD )
Seat 6: SredniVashtar ( $200 USD )
Seat 3: Sune1983 ( $172 USD )
nitramos7 posts small blind [$1 USD].
SredniVashtar posts big blind [$2 USD].

** Dealing down cards **

Dealt to HERO
HERO raises [$8 USD]
bendoon111 calls [$8 USD]
Sune1983 folds.
NattyDread4 folds.
nitramos7 calls [$7 USD]
SredniVashtar folds.

** Dealing Flop **

nitramos7 checks.
HERO checks.
bendoon111 bets [$16 USD]
nitramos7 folds.
HERO raises [$32 USD]
bendoon111 raises [$44 USD]
HERO calls [$28 USD]

** Dealing Turn **

HERO checks.
bendoon111 is all-In.
HERO calls [$174.40 USD]

** Dealing River **

HERO shows four of a kind, Aces.
bendoon111 doesn't show a pair of Aces.
The time at which hand ended:Nov 29 2007 11:54 ET
HERO wins $491.30 USD from the main pot with four of a kind, Aces.

Originally Posted by Genitruc

somewhere between awesome and epic

I lean towards epic.

when's party coming back to the states?

Originally Posted by uscheese

when's party coming back to the states?

just move to Canada?

dude just read you self management post up there above. It sounds like I suffer from the exact same problem and I'm doing the same soul searching trying to fix it. lol it actually fells like looking into a mirror reading that post.

I still haven't figured out how to deal with it. I'm kinda getting there though I think. One thing I am figuring out is how to recognise my own tilt better in my own play. I'm also really working hard on forcing myself to walk away for a half hour or whatever when I feel the slightest sign of tilt. Catch it in the early stages so to speak so that I never get to that point where I do that dumb bluff or stupid hero call or whatever. It's hard to do and I still haven't got it down but I'm getting there.

Also I find it helps to actually indulge your little voice in there which feels good if you "book a win". One thing that tilts me so bad is if I build a stack up to 200 or 300bb on a particular table then lose 100bb of that stack in subsequent play. Even if I played perfectly fine I still go on mega tilt. I used to try and force this voice that wanted me to walk away to stay quiet and I'd continue playing at that table in defience and "get over it". Of course the inevitable would happen and I'd end up on tilt and play bad. So I've learned to actually leave that table that I'm up money on and "book a win" to satisfy myself. I know this is mathamatically dumb and whatever but it saves me money in the long run because I don't end up on tilt.

Same as if I'm up a couple of hundred for the day I'll make a concious decision not to play any more because nothing puts me in a bad mood like if I'm up money on the day and then I loose it all before I go to bed that night. I cant sleep for hours when I do that. So instead I don't play any more that day and loose the money the next morning. Same variance, same result except it means I sleep a bit better.

Learn to work with yourself instead of trying to train yourself into a machine I guess.

your siggy


i have nothing good to offer you for advice though, sorry man

hey, i just read your post a couple days ago too. i have an idea of what you're talking about. here's some random thoughts.

one helpful thing is this 2+2 post . it starts with a sorta different problem, but there's posts that relate to what you're talking about.
here's my favorite quote from that link...

i'm not saying it's ok to tilt, i'm saying that you must have an extreme desire to crush your opponent, and you must be overconfident in yourself, and it must bother you to no end when your opponent outplays you. and at the same time you have to be level-headed enough to focus and find the best play. it's an extraordinarily delicate thing to balance, but it's the only way to be a top player in my opinion.

otherwise, i combat this sort of thing similar to irisheyes in that i'm getting good at recognizing what "grade" i'm playing, like A game, C game, etc...
for me this is more about how much i'm analyzing and acting on reads vs just doing standard stuff.
like if i'm in a C game, grinding sort of mode, then i get off, and do something else like walk or run outside, drive someplace new, or whatever will get some energy/creativity/etc flowing again.

for you it might be more about how angry you are about losing some winnings, but whatever it is, it's important to not play in "C game".

gl with this..there are lots of $ out there right now if you can improve the tilt thing.

Nothing interesting to report right now

I've played a cpl K hands at nl200 in past few days but have mainly been busy with school stuff

Have some time on my hands between now and Monday so I'm gonna experiment with a nittagg 9-tabling game at nl200 on Party. There are just so many terrible players and I feel like lowering my variance for a little while. Results soon.

Just finished my 1st shortish 9-tabling session playing nitty

ended up down a little over 3 buyins in about 1.3k hands at nl200. Somehow got it in vs bigger pairs preflop vs laggy villains a couple times. Each time it was a preflop spewing contest and they had the bigger one.

Don't feel like I played great... such a small sample. My won at showdown was 39 which sux pretty hard.

Gonna play at least one more session in a bit and I'll update after running smoking hot.

Part 2 of today's poker was 850 hands of 6-8 tabling

+1k for a 2 buyin profit on the day

Besides winning a few buyins, I also was lucky enough to acquire some poor unsuspecting taggfish's soul :

The timing tells and past few hands just made this too good an offer to pass up

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, December 06, 12:00:34 ET 2007
Table Table 127950 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 3
Seat 2: Zinkoral ( $230.15 USD )
Seat 6: HERO ( $374.05 USD )
Seat 4: migout ( $76.41 USD )
HERO posts small blind [$1 USD].
Zinkoral posts big blind [$2 USD].

** Dealing down cards **

Dealt to HERO
migout folds.
HERO raises [$6 USD]
Zinkoral calls [$5 USD]

** Dealing Flop **

HERO checks.
Zinkoral bets [$12 USD]
HERO calls [$12 USD]

** Dealing Turn **

HERO checks.
Zinkoral bets [$36 USD]
HERO calls [$36 USD]

** Dealing River **

HERO checks.
Zinkoral bets [$110 USD]
HERO calls [$110 USD]
Zinkoral shows high card King.
HERO shows high card Ace.
HERO wins $329 USD from the main pot with high card, Ace.

After the experiment playing 17/13 this morning, I'd say I'll avoid that and stick to a laggier approach unless I'm running bad.

Just finished a quick morning session for 700$ish in about 500 hands at nl200. Nothing notable to report besides fish playing overpairs terribly and stacking off light.

Gonna play more in a bit.

played another 1.3k hands and lost a little over a buy in

No biggie really, made one very marginal call that didn't work out well, although I think the call is close to break even and got set-over-setted twice.

Still and o.k. day, even up a couple buyins in 200 hands. The games were just so fishy this afternoon that I played a robo-tag game and 9-tabled. Couldn't pick up a hand vs the fish but that'll change soon enough.

played a little bit yesterday and just finished a 600 hand session this morning. Managed to drop 6 buyins in the 750 hand span. I won a couple stacks over this period but gave away 8 complete stacks during this span.

The big pots went like this :

-bottom set going down in flames 200bb's deep
-strong overpair vs 35/0's flopped str8 after I had been beating up on him
-flush over flush in a limped pot
-losing a race in a 3-bet pot
-somehow thinking I had a str8 with 78 on 9538T board and reshoving the river into the runner-runnered nuts
-losing a race with top 2 vs OESFD
-calling a J high flop and turning top 2 with AJ on AJxx vs JJ


So looking back I can say that some of the stacks I lost were coolers, at least 1 was a total mental meltdown (handreading your own hand FTW!), some were just standard variance and at least 1 was very questionable (low flush in limped pot).

As anyone who has followed this thread can see, I have a tough time finding consistency in my approach to poker.

Lately my searching has been regarding self-management and I feel pretty good about that. Don't want to get ahead of
myself but I don't really feel tilted by the swings at the moment.

Not sure if I'll play more this afternoon as I've got some school shit to take care of and this morning's session left a bit of a bad taste....

Ok gonna take rest of day off and do school shit but just looked over pokertracker and I've played about 9k hands of nl200 since moving down and I'm pretty happy with my play overall.

I'm down about 6 buyins for this small stretch but there are only a few hands in the 9k hands that I don't really like.

Starting tomorroow I'm going back to nl400 with the best game selection possible.

I will not play high variance poker for a little while

I will not play high variance poker for a little while

I will not play high variance poker for a little while

I will not play high variance poker for a little while

I will not play high variance poker for a little while

Game selection and patience FTW

Game selection and patience FTW

Game selection and patience FTW

Game selection and patience FTW

I will not play high variance poker for a little while.

Game selection and patience FTW.

played a few K hands of nl200 in past few days and have made a few buyins. Nothing amazing to report.

I'm thinking of moving part of my roll to a new site and playing mainly shorthanded as a prop.

Maybe I should convince myself to sit at some nl400 games I dunno. Feel good with my play but don't feel any urgency to move back up right now.

Originally Posted by Genitruc

I will not play high variance poker for a little while.

Game selection and patience FTW.

God i wish just saying it would make it work

nothing interesting to update

I've made 2$/hand for my last 500 hands of nl200

going back home soon for holidays and will probably grind quite a bit for a week

I'll post some - hopefully - interesting hands once the occasion arises.

Run well everybody.

Just saw that party is offering reload bonus so it looks like that'll be my gift to myself for the holidays. I figure it'll take about 12k hands to grind off and it's only 200$ but it should be a good incentive to play.

After the holidays I think I'll make my partial move to another site. Prob find a week or so to do nothing as well so it should be fun.

I'll try to post my most interesting hand with detailed analysis after each sizeable session.

One thing I won't be doing is massive multi-tabling just to grind off the bonus. I'll try to keep it around 4 for the mostpart, almost always 6 or less.

If I run well for the 1st 6k hands, I'll play nl400 for the last bit of whoring which should mean I complete it about 50% quicker. I've been sick for a couple days and will probably start this on Sunday.

party only offered me a $100 bonus

JJ that sux

At least your bonus won't take a million hands to grind off.

So I've started grinding the bonus and so far I've played 2.4k hands and I'm up 6 buyins at nl200.

I'm really not doing anything fancy, just value-betting the shit out of the stations. I'm kinda burned for the moment but I'll post some thin value-town hands soon.

Gah just played a few hundred hands and lost a lot.

I don't even wanna look at Pokertracker but it was pretty bad.

Spewed a buy in the very 1st hand of the session and after that just had brutal shit happen left and right.

Gonna look hard at all of the hands to see what I could have done better. Hopefully I'll be thinking clearly enough to play some more in a little bit.

I was down 980$ in 420 hands.

Just looked over things and 3 of the buyins were spewy.

Of those 3, 1 of them was terrible, 1 of them was marginally bad, and 1 of them is actually o.k. imo.

The rest was just horrible shit running.

If I look up a few posts in my blog, I have all of the advice I need.

I really think owning the games for the past few K hands, having really good results, and basically avoiding all undisciplined poker brought me to a kind of self-satisfied state.

I really want to work on my discipline and lowering the variance of my game so I'm not gonna just move up to nl400 so the pressure of the stakes makes me focus better.

I'm gonna do it at nl200. Taking a break and going back to play in a bit.

Just walked around for a bit and realized that I feel pretty drugged up from the meds I've been taking for my flu since last night.

Prob another sign of arrogance. I never ever play stakes that mean anything to me when I'm not 100% sober.

I'll probably just staw away for the rest of today, although that means falling behind in my Christmas bonus quest pretty significantly.

It's unlikely that I'll be able to play much tomorrow. This opens up the possibility of grinding the rest of the bonus at nl400, where it'll clear significantly quicker.

I mentioned a few posts up that I was making decent $ just by value-betting kinda thin.

None of these hands seem particularly thin to me. If I were up against good opponents, I’d be more likely to keep the pot small since I think bloating the pot will be more likely to induce a big mistake from me on a turn or river bet.

Vs these loose-passive mediocre taggs and fish, I have no problem building big pots with marginal hands when I think it’s likely I have the best of it, since I don’t see them bluffing enough in position and I can easily fold to big river bets if I ever get stuck with a bad card falling. These hands are obviously easier since I’m in position…

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, December 22, 15:30:47 ET 2007
Table Jackpot #1305553 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: vuilewas ( $193.20 USD )
Seat 4: Hohni ( $171.43 USD )
Seat 1: HERO ( $205 USD )
Seat 5: Overdrive882 ( $143.23 USD )
Seat 3: blindfolded6 ( $200 USD )
Seat 6: Breg15 ( $141 USD )
Hohni posts small blind [$1 USD].
Overdrive882 posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
Breg15 calls [$2 USD]
HERO raises [$9 USD]
vuilewas folds.
blindfolded6 folds.
Hohni folds.
Overdrive882 folds.
Breg15 calls [$7 USD]
** Dealing Flop **
Breg15 checks.
HERO bets [$15 USD]
Breg15 calls [$15 USD]
** Dealing Turn **
Breg15 checks.
HERO bets [$35 USD]
Breg15 calls [$35 USD]
** Dealing River **
Breg15 checks.
HERO bets [$83 USD]
Breg15 is all-In.
HERO shows two pairs, Jacks and Tens.
Breg15 doesn't show two pairs, Jacks and Nines.
The time at which hand endedec 22 2007 15:31 ET
HERO wins $1 USD from side pot #1 with two pairs, Jacks and Tens.
HERO wins $281.50 USD from the main pot with two pairs, Jacks and Tens.

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, December 22, 18:47:34 ET 2007
Table Table 133901 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 6: HERO ( $244.25 USD )
Seat 4: Adisbaba ( $122.25 USD )
Seat 5: MacVosti ( $52.86 USD )
Seat 2: MLTBRO ( $218.10 USD )
Seat 1: Robban3 ( $199 USD )
Seat 3: BerndStromberg ( $197.70 USD )
Robban3 posts small blind [$1 USD].
MLTBRO posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
BerndStromberg folds.
Adisbaba calls [$2 USD]
MacVosti folds.
HERO raises [$9 USD]
Robban3 folds.
MLTBRO folds.
Adisbaba calls [$7 USD]
** Dealing Flop **
Adisbaba checks.
HERO bets [$15 USD]
Adisbaba calls [$15 USD]
** Dealing Turn **
Adisbaba checks.
HERO bets [$45 USD]
Adisbaba calls [$45 USD]
** Dealing River **
Adisbaba checks.
HERO bets [$54 USD]
Adisbaba is all-In.
HERO shows two pairs, Jacks and Nines.
Adisbaba doesn't show two pairs, Nines and Sixes.
HERO wins $0.75 USD from side pot #1 with two pairs, Jacks and Nines.
HERO wins $244.50 USD from the main pot with two pairs, Jacks and Nines.

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, December 22, 18:29:23 ET 2007
Table Table 125446 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 4: HERO ( $463.88 USD )
Seat 1: lumpy_lums ( $30.10 USD )
Seat 5: scaffscreen ( $111 USD )
Seat 3: seventhcross ( $72.30 USD )
Seat 2: OMZ81 ( $46 USD )
Seat 6: IDontTilt55 ( $200 USD )
seventhcross posts small blind [$1 USD].
HERO posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
scaffscreen folds.
lumpy_lums calls [$2 USD]
OMZ81 folds.
seventhcross calls [$1 USD]
HERO raises [$8 USD]
lumpy_lums folds.
seventhcross calls [$8 USD]
** Dealing Flop **
seventhcross checks.
HERO bets [$21 USD]
seventhcross calls [$21 USD]
** Dealing Turn **
seventhcross checks.
HERO bets [$42 USD]
seventhcross is all-In.
** Dealing River **
HERO shows a pair of Queens.
seventhcross doesn't show a pair of Queens.
HERO wins $0.70 USD from side pot #1 with a pair of Queens with Ace kicker.
HERO wins $144.60 USD from the main pot with a pair of Queens with Ace kicker.

Something that I had been doing very well before today's session was really focusing hard on "leaving my ego at the door" when playing these soft lowstakes games. My hand-reading in general is strong enough that I usually know it when my opponents are weak to medium strong and I often get in trouble pushing them around since ppl hate folding (just see the above hands for proof of that).

By avoiding the temptation to push ppl off of weak hands, I lessen the chances that someone makes a ridiculous huge call on me, putting me on tilt, lighting money on fire etc... So instead of using my hand-reading to bluff ppl, I need to focus on it to value-bet super thin.

This had been working really really well for a while but I really think overconfidence lead me to lose that sharp focus on minimized variance and almost guaranteed steady profits.

I played a little more today and won back a couple buyins. For anybody who reads this and hasn't checked out the Jman (Phil Galfond, a.k.a. OMGClayAiken on FTP) WELL thread in the 2p2 High Stakes Forum.

I think it reveals one of the most appealing poker minds/personalities we'll come across in a long, long time.

No poka 2morrow happy holidays everybody.

Too exhausted to make a long update post; logged 2k hands today and so far have logged 5k hands and am up 8 buyins for this bonus hunt.

I need to play 5k more hands between now and Sat so I'm going to use my time in front of my laptop wisely.

OK I'm going to abandon the bonus hunt but I'm really glad I gave it a shot.

I ended up playing 5.5k hands in 5 days at nl200.

I ran at 10.2 ptbb/100 and made just over 2k.

Maybe tomorrow I'll post some hands if I'm bored but I'm really due to just go on vacation for a few days.

Cheers everyone.

I'm not so much into setting very precise goals but here are a few things I'm looking to do in 2008 :

-play 200k+ hands

...


...

K actually I think that's it. I'll likely be out of the country for a couple months and away from poker so that comes out to about 20k hands/month. Added on to school and a cpl other pursuits it seems like a very realistic goal.

Plus, I already played 138 hands... up 1 buyin SHIPIT.

gah back at nl400 and am running like shit so far.

I feel like I've made a couple mistakes that are due to impatience and a bit of rust in my game from the break. Hopefully I can shake it off and hit my stride soon.

I REALLY REALLY REALLY want to get over this ridiculous mental hurdle of nl400. I'm properly rolled for it but I really really have to try to keep my variance low and table select for the next 10k hands, book some small wins and get my br cushion and confidence level built up. For the next few days I'll only update with a grade I give myself on 2 things :

-table selection

-patience (i.e. low variance poker) and emotional control (resisting the urge to out aggro other regs when I'm running bad)

For today, I'll give myself B- for table selection and A- for patience/emotional control (folded AA on dry flop almost 100% sure I was beat, didn't tilt when I started getting reraised, but couldn't resist making a crazy shove that I think is a +ev play but was def higher variance than I'd like).

Just played a late-night session that would have been huge had AK not gone down in flames to 9To vs a 73/54 ai for 120bb's

Still managed to pull a little win, but the most important thing is that I took some time in the important spots, made what I think were lots of +ev plays. Also, I took the time to table select really really well.

As the session wound down, I fired up 3 nl200 tables where I didn't really play my A game but it wasn't anything major.

I give myself A for low-variance emotional control (1 play kept me away from A+ where I made what I think was a good resqueeze... but I don't need to make these plays right now).

Also I give myself A for table selection (a little sloppy at the end with nl200).

Today's results were lame but that's ok since I think Sklansky owes me about 1k.

I've kept up my steady rate of losing 1$/hand since coming back to nl400 while playing some pretty damned good poker.

played 1.2k hands (while 3 and 4 tabling) for -1.1k fsdajkflsadjfk;asdjf;sdafjk;sd

I sat for a loooong time at some great tables but things just didn't work out.

The play was spread over 2 sessions which I'll give cumulative grades of A for table selection and A- for patience and emotional control. I did some high-variance things that I think were pretty good but as you can guess by the results things didn't work out all that great.

Cpl tough spots that I think I'll post in SHNL.

HYACHACHACHACHACHACHACHACHACHA

Just got it in 300bb's deep with on a board vs a 72/25's


AF SDKALF JASDKL;F JSAD;K FASJ;DF SADK;

Chased him up to nl600 but he gave all of my money away quicker than you can say gutshot.

A+ FOR TABLE SELECTION

sweet, that is all

Ok I'm down enough at nl400 so that a few more buyins and I'll start feeling awkward about my roll at that limit.

So I'm gonna grind some pretty hardcore multi-tabling at nl200 this afternoon and probably tomorrow as well. Something like 3-4k hands of clear-headed low-variance poker would be nice.

I'll post the interesting spots here in the blog, maybe with some analysis; haven't done that in a while.

Also, tonight should be an awesome sports night : leafs, raps, ufc, steve molitor defending his title and the ufc replay at 10 (if you know what happens with penn-stevenson, don't say anything!).

Updates coming.

Well that wasn’t bad.

Played 1042 hands for +1.3k at nl200 7-8 tabling.

Ran at 25/17 and feel like I played pretty well.

Folded JJ preflop in a tough spot (I 3-bet a loose UTG raiser on Bth, then 30/23 shoved from the bb for 180 more into 220… bleh).

Also made a cpl big calls, the best one being this fun hand vs a guy who had just spewed away a 450bb stack playing like a complete monkey :

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, January 19, 17:48:09 ET 2008
Table Table 127374 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 2: bubbleboy007 ( $612.20 USD )
Seat 3: LE_GALIZE ( $206.20 USD )
Seat 4: foldItNow77 ( $300.35 USD )
Seat 5: viktorKab ( $263.35 USD )
Seat 6: HERO ( $375 USD )
HERO posts small blind [$1 USD].
LE_GALIZE posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
foldItNow77 folds.
Lemaro147 has joined the table.
viktorKab folds.
HERO raises [$6 USD]
LE_GALIZE calls [$5 USD]
** Dealing Flop **
HERO checks.
LE_GALIZE is all-In.
HERO calls [$199.20 USD]
** Dealing Turn **
** Dealing River **
HERO shows a full house, Fives full of Sixes.
LE_GALIZE doesn't show three of a kind, Fives.
HERO wins $410.40 USD from the main pot with a full house, Fives full of Sixes.

This shorty had been pretty aggro… the river card made my CR seem brilliant, but it was more just the fact that I think he thought I was full of it :

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, January 19, 18:15:46 ET 2008
Table Jackpot #1304944 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 5: jamlicker ( $276.20 USD )
Seat 6: HERO ( $294 USD )
Seat 4: kaapaa ( $198.85 USD )
Seat 2: nige84 ( $427.02 USD )
Seat 1: carolinprahl ( $87.95 USD )
jamlicker posts small blind [$1 USD].
HERO posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
carolinprahl calls [$2 USD]
nige84 calls [$2 USD]
kaapaa calls [$2 USD]
jamlicker folds.
HERO checks.
** Dealing Flop **
HERO bets [$6 USD]
carolinprahl raises [$18 USD]
nige84 folds.
kaapaa folds.
HERO calls [$12 USD]
** Dealing Turn **
HERO checks.
carolinprahl bets [$16 USD]
HERO calls [$16 USD]
** Dealing River **
HERO checks.
carolinprahl bets [$30 USD]
HERO raises [$60 USD]
carolinprahl is all-In.
HERO shows a full house, Sixes full of Kings.
carolinprahl doesn't show two pairs, Aces and Sixes.
The time at which hand ended:Jan 19 2008 18:17 ET
HERO wins $8.05 USD from side pot #1 with a full house, Sixes full of Kings.
HERO wins $178.40 USD from the main pot with a full house, Sixes full of Kings.

This hand was fun! Villain was 39/14 so I think unlike many tags, there are lots of 2-card broadway combos in his range :

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, January 19, 17:52:49 ET 2008
Table Jackpot #1304214 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: viktorKab ( $534.86 USD )
Seat 3: shark33a ( $84.45 USD )
Seat 5: VIPClown ( $207.85 USD )
Seat 6: Kichigi ( $366.27 USD )
Seat 4: HERO ( $284.60 USD )
Seat 1: jamlicker ( $259.70 USD )
Kichigi posts small blind [$1 USD].
jamlicker posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
viktorKab folds.
shark33a folds.
HERO raises [$7 USD]
Kichigi calls [$6 USD]
jamlicker folds.
** Dealing Flop **
Kichigi bets [$6 USD]
HERO raises [$21 USD]
Kichigi calls [$15 USD]
** Dealing Turn **
Kichigi checks.
HERO checks.
** Dealing River **
Kichigi bets [$38 USD]
HERO raises [$111 USD]
Kichigi is all-In.
HERO is all-In.
HERO shows a straight Three to Seven.
Kichigi shows a flush, Ace high.
The time at which hand ended:Jan 19 2008 17:54 ET
Kichigi wins $81.67 USD from side pot #1 with a flush, Ace high.
Kichigi wins $568.70 USD from the main pot with a flush, Ace high.

This next one was annoying. The turn bet was to get value out of big 1-card flush draws :

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, January 19, 17:47:22 ET 2008
Table Jackpot #1304214 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: viktorKab ( $537.86 USD )
Seat 3: shark33a ( $111.20 USD )
Seat 5: VIPClown ( $210.85 USD )
Seat 6: Kichigi ( $383.27 USD )
Seat 4: HERO ( $303.65 USD )
Seat 1: jamlicker ( $203.05 USD )
HERO posts small blind [$1 USD].
VIPClown posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
Kichigi folds.
jamlicker calls [$2 USD]
viktorKab folds.
shark33a folds.
HERO raises [$9 USD]
VIPClown folds.
jamlicker calls [$8 USD]
** Dealing Flop **
HERO bets [$20 USD]
jamlicker calls [$20 USD]
** Dealing Turn **
HERO bets [$35 USD]
jamlicker raises [$72 USD]
HERO folds.
jamlicker does not show cards.
The time at which hand ended:Jan 19 2008 17:48 ET
jamlicker wins $165.50 USD

Here villain’s river betsize just made me too curious. It looked like crap or the nuts and it’s hard for him to have the nuts here imo :

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, January 19, 17:28:27 ET 2008
Table Table 125885 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: Fnogg ( $189.22 USD )
Seat 3: Nuelein ( $311.24 USD )
Seat 6: bond1969111 ( $134.50 USD )
Seat 1: HERO ( $200 USD )
Seat 5: davrob1 ( $55.12 USD )
Seat 4: petarm111 ( $0 USD )
Nuelein posts small blind [$1 USD].
davrob1 posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
petarm111 has joined the table.
bond1969111 raises [$4 USD]
HERO raises [$14 USD]
Fnogg folds.
Nuelein folds.
davrob1 folds.
bond1969111 calls [$10 USD]
** Dealing Flop **
bond1969111 checks.
HERO checks.
** Dealing Turn **
bond1969111 bets [$3.51 USD]
HERO calls [$3.51 USD]
** Dealing River **
bond1969111 bets [$42 USD]
HERO calls [$42 USD]
bond1969111 shows a full house, Nines full of Kings.
HERO doesn't show a pair of Nines.

Lucky this guy wasn’t playing fullstacked :

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, January 19, 17:40:37 ET 2008
Table Jackpot #1306154 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 1: HERO ( $488.70 USD )
Seat 3: Jays_Raps ( $96.50 USD )
Seat 5: bertrichter ( $57.05 USD )
Seat 2: levento ( $80.28 USD )
Seat 6: O_Red_Eyes_O ( $81.50 USD )
O_Red_Eyes_O posts small blind [$1 USD].
HERO posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
levento folds.
Jays_Raps calls [$2 USD]
bertrichter raises [$9 USD]
O_Red_Eyes_O folds.
HERO raises [$35 USD]
Jays_Raps folds.
bertrichter is all-In.
HERO calls [$20.05 USD]
** Dealing Flop **
** Dealing Turn **
** Dealing River **
HERO shows a pair of Aces.
bertrichter shows a flush, Ace high.
The time at which hand ended:Jan 19 2008 17:41 ET
bertrichter wins $114.60 USD from the main pot with a flush, Ace high.

Looking through the rest of the hands there’s nothing too epic. Just lots of value-betting and pretty standard stuff.

Here’s one last hand that was kind of funny. Q-high for value baby. Villain was running 80/11/15 :

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, January 19, 18:27:23 ET 2008
Table Jackpot #1304214 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 5: VIPClown ( $234.50 USD )
Seat 6: Kichigi ( $682.82 USD )
Seat 4: HERO ( $251.90 USD )
Seat 1: jamlicker ( $226 USD )
Seat 2: papakettles ( $190.65 USD )
Seat 3: achim1959111 ( $82.65 USD )
jamlicker posts small blind [$1 USD].
papakettles posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
achim1959111 folds.
HERO raises [$7 USD]
VIPClown folds.
Kichigi folds.
jamlicker folds.
papakettles calls [$5 USD]
** Dealing Flop **
papakettles checks.
HERO bets [$12 USD]
papakettles raises [$50 USD]
HERO is all-In.
papakettles is all-In.
** Dealing Turn **
** Dealing River **
papakettles shows a pair of Jacks.
HERO shows a flush, King high.
The time at which hand ended:Jan 19 2008 18:28 ET
HERO wins $61.25 USD from side pot #1 with a flush, King high.
HERO wins $378.80 USD from the main pot with a flush, King high.

Hopefully tomorrow will be more of the same.

Holy shit.

Just played 550 hands and dropped 1004$ at nl200.

I stopped cuz I started feeling tilty after my went down in flames to KQo on board ai for 200bb's on flop.

I don't really know what to say besides I just reviewed all of the big pots and there were 1 or 2 spots that were slightly overaggro but only because I'm a good hand-reader and knew I was likely beat in setup situations.

Bleh.

Gonna try to play about 1.5k hands of nl400 today, 3-6 tabling, probably in 2 mid-sized sessions. If I drop more than a couple buyins at any point I'll either stop or move down to nl200.

I just played 272 hands of nl200 and lost 775$

2 hands were 100bb tilt-spews. They were just completely gross. I wanna vomit.

I shouldn't have even been playing since I was really really tired.

Also I think a lot of subconscious tilt is the result of built-up anger at myself for my shitty ass results in poker that are all due to a lack of commitment and motivation.

The way this comes out when I'm in this mood is a completely "fuck it" attitude. If you have a tough time imagining what I'm talking about, I mean things like this :

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, January 21, 20:40:41 ET 2008
Table Table 127374 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 3: Folke_Filbyt ( $142.15 USD )
Seat 4: BabbaSquad ( $419.19 USD )
Seat 5: HERO ( $200 USD )
Seat 6: ESAREGOOD ( $435 USD )
Seat 1: val60qq ( $34 USD )
Seat 2: Overdrink ( $200 USD )
ESAREGOOD posts small blind [$1 USD].
val60qq posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
Overdrink folds.
Folke_Filbyt folds.
BabbaSquad folds.
HERO raises [$7 USD]
ESAREGOOD raises [$25 USD]
val60qq folds.
HERO calls [$19 USD]
** Dealing Flop **
ESAREGOOD bets [$30 USD]
HERO calls [$30 USD]
** Dealing Turn **
ESAREGOOD bets [$80 USD]
HERO is all-In.
ESAREGOOD calls [$64 USD]
** Dealing River **
ESAREGOOD shows two pairs, Aces and Jacks.
HERO doesn't show two pairs, Nines and Eights.
ESAREGOOD wins $399 USD from the main pot with two pairs, Aces and Jacks.


What makes that hand even more expert was this hand that happened a few orbits earlier :

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, January 21, 20:32:01 ET 2008
Table Table 127374 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 4
Seat 3: Folke_Filbyt ( $179.15 USD )
Seat 4: BabbaSquad ( $204.41 USD )
Seat 5: HERO ( $203.15 USD )
Seat 6: ESAREGOOD ( $198 USD )
ESAREGOOD posts small blind [$1 USD].
Folke_Filbyt posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
BabbaSquad folds.
HERO raises [$7 USD]
ESAREGOOD raises [$25 USD]
Folke_Filbyt folds.
HERO calls [$19 USD]
** Dealing Flop **
ESAREGOOD checks.
HERO checks.
** Dealing Turn **
ESAREGOOD bets [$36 USD]
HERO raises [$72 USD]
ESAREGOOD is all-In.
HERO calls [$100 USD]
** Dealing River **
HERO shows a pair of Fours.
ESAREGOOD shows a pair of Jacks.
ESAREGOOD wins $396 USD from the main pot with a pair of Jacks.

A good poker playing friend was railing this short meltdown and I think he hit the nail on the head when he said "it looks like you're punishing yourself".

There's a lot of truth to that and the only way of getting by it is by playing the hands, putting in the time and striving towards the results I know I'm capable of.

Playing at nl200 where the stakes are just low enough that spewing a few buyins doesn't faze me is not what I want to be doing.

Finally, a reminder of just how badly I own nl200. Here are my last 2 sessions, totalling just under 1k hands :

damn man, i know what its like to be in "fuck it" monkey-tilt mode like the 44 hand...and its not pretty

I don't necessarily think it has anything to do with 200nl not meaning enough for you, monetarily speaking..but more with being in the right frame of mind to play good, solid poker. I know I would probably spew close to the same amount of buyins whether its at 1knl or 200nl if im on tilt/tired mode.

Anyways I hope you PZWN poker the rest of the month. GL sicko

good luck man, I know what you mean. You'll come thru it and learn from the it.

Hey Conor, come sweat me - I can even sweat you if you like! Hit me up sometime, sounds like discussing stuff might be useful.

ty guys for the support

I think I have to take care of some stuff outside of poker in order to find a better balance

also, yesterday was just a shitty day

Ok here goes.

It's lame and purely symbolic but I'm renaming this Operation.

I FINALLY got my datamining program working so I'm gonna look to datamine 2-4 for the next few days and only play good tables.

I don't want to play another hand of 1-2 unless my Party BR dips below 24 buyins at 2-4, at which point I'll mix in 1-2 and good 2-4 games.

Simple as that.

WTF, you can datamine on party?? I thought they banned it a couple years ago.

Could you shed a little light on this please.

conor, take a break and play some of the new cash games at the casino. alex said they are wicked soft, and im sure itd be a good break from the grind. i mean you used to barely play a few hundred hands a day and now you are busting out huge sessions.

for you though, i really do think that you need to stick to 400nl regardless of a couple of bumps unless you _really_ need to drop down.

add my new msn, we can chat about hands again.

BigLRIP :

Try one of the datamining programs that can be found on the bottom left of the PokerTracker main page (I use SpadeEye).

Thanks for the advice andy, I'm adding you right now.

Also, get your ass up here soon so we can be degens at the casino and then have deepstacked highstakes cash games back at my place with our winnings and a super-drunk Alexos.

ADJFKASL;DD;JAS

Just table-selected hard and found some good games at nl400.

Won about 1k riiight away then just lost everything for the next hour. I'm checking my results but I don't really wanna look.

edit : just checked and I lost 650$ in 354 hands.

Nothing was even bad but in this case I REALLY should have just stopped after winning a couple buyins, although I know I was massively +ev at all of the tables I played. Building my confidence is probably more important than anything right now.

Here are the big pots I lost :

$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, January 24, 00:29:01 ET 2008
Table Table 128279 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 2: A_C_K_E_T ( $171.50 USD )
Seat 5: orbit7777 ( $410.17 USD )
Seat 6: HERO ( $490.30 USD )
Seat 1: charlett21 ( $412.50 USD )
Seat 3: thxforthado1 ( $115.90 USD )
orbit7777 posts small blind [$2 USD].
HERO posts big blind [$4 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
charlett21 folds.
A_C_K_E_T folds.
thxforthado1 folds.
orbit7777 calls [$2 USD]
HERO raises [$16 USD]
orbit7777 calls [$16 USD]
** Dealing Flop **
orbit7777 checks.
HERO bets [$24 USD]
orbit7777 raises [$52 USD]
HERO is all-In.
orbit7777 is all-In.
** Dealing Turn **
** Dealing River **
orbit7777 shows two pairs, Tens and Fours.
HERO shows a pair of Fours.
HERO wins $80.13 USD from side pot #1 with a pair of Fours.
orbit7777 wins $818.34 USD from the main pot with two pairs, Tens and Fours.


Cold-caller here was an unknown. Since I want to keep my variance low, I think the correct play was just to fold :

$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, January 24, 00:07:30 ET 2008
Table Jackpot #1304434 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 5: HERO ( $827.64 USD )
Seat 2: davidross ( $399.36 USD )
Seat 4: Luckyyl ( $376.22 USD )
Seat 3: Neil_Trahey ( $399.60 USD )
Seat 1: ReteDaPesca ( $400 USD )
Seat 6: xBORMANx ( $150.50 USD )
davidross posts small blind [$2 USD].
Neil_Trahey posts big blind [$4 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
Luckyyl folds.
HERO raises [$14 USD]
xBORMANx is all-In.
ReteDaPesca calls [$150.50 USD]
davidross folds.
Neil_Trahey folds.
HERO is all-In.
ReteDaPesca is all-In.
** Dealing Flop **
** Dealing Turn **
** Dealing River **
HERO shows two pairs, Jacks and Tens.
xBORMANx shows two pairs, Jacks and Tens.
ReteDaPesca shows a full house, Queens full of Tens.
The time at which hand ended:Jan 24 2008 00:08 ET
HERO wins $427.64 USD from side pot #2 with two pairs, Jacks and Tens.
ReteDaPesca wins $499 USD from side pot #1 with a full house, Queens full of Tens.
ReteDaPesca wins $454 USD from the main pot with a full house, Queens full of Tens.


Like I said before, I want to keep my variance low but I was so sure this opponent was bluffing I couldn’t help calling. He was running 69/12 and was a classic strong=weak player :

$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, January 24, 00:00:00 ET 2008
Table Table 126324 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 1: BertholdHeisterkamp ( $1,479.40 USD )
Seat 3: dauger93 ( $348 USD )
Seat 4: MirjamWLoVe ( $406 USD )
Seat 5: HERO ( $400 USD )
Seat 6: KYPHIKOBA ( $244 USD )
dauger93 posts small blind [$2 USD].
MirjamWLoVe posts big blind [$4 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
HERO raises [$14 USD]
KYPHIKOBA folds.
BertholdHeisterkamp folds.
tranmerd has joined the table.
dauger93 calls [$12 USD]
MirjamWLoVe folds.
** Dealing Flop **
dauger93 checks.
HERO checks.
** Dealing Turn **
dauger93 bets [$36 USD]
HERO calls [$36 USD]
** Dealing River **
dauger93 is all-In.
HERO calls [$298 USD]
dauger93 shows high card Ace.
HERO shows high card Ace.
dauger93 wins $698 USD from the main pot with high card, Ace with King kicker.


Villain knows nothing about me and he’s running 29/26. We haven’t tangled. The cold-call preflop was to induce the 63/1 station to overcall from the blinds (even though I’m way ahead of villain opening range). I wanted to make it clear I was never folding on the turn :

$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, January 24, 00:03:26 ET 2008
Table Table 127409 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 3: MirjamWLoVe ( $563.60 USD )
Seat 4: shoqi ( $434.24 USD )
Seat 6: addict68 ( $663.43 USD )
Seat 1: HERO ( $468 USD )
Seat 5: ReteDaPesca ( $400 USD )
Seat 2: Anaialeite ( $394 USD )
MirjamWLoVe posts small blind [$2 USD].
shoqi posts big blind [$4 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
addict68 raises [$14 USD]
HERO calls [$14 USD]
Anaialeite folds.
MirjamWLoVe folds.
shoqi folds.
** Dealing Flop **
addict68 bets [$24 USD]
HERO calls [$24 USD]
** Dealing Turn **
addict68 bets [$68 USD]
HERO raises [$202 USD]
addict68 raises [$556 USD]
HERO did not respond in time
HERO folds.
addict68 does not show cards.
addict68 wins $906 USD

Last one : taking myself to value-town vs a 63/0 who didn’t seem to enjoy folding any pair postflop.

$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, January 24, 00:05:35 ET 2008
Table Jackpot #1304434 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 5: HERO ( $1,083 USD )
Seat 2: davidross ( $415.36 USD )
Seat 4: Luckyyl ( $181.36 USD )
Seat 3: Neil_Trahey ( $399.60 USD )
Seat 1: ReteDaPesca ( $400 USD )
Seat 6: xBORMANx ( $80 USD )
HERO posts small blind [$2 USD].
xBORMANx posts big blind [$4 USD].
ReteDaPesca is sitting out
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
davidross raises [$12 USD]
Neil_Trahey folds.
Luckyyl calls [$12 USD]
HERO calls [$10 USD]
xBORMANx folds.
** Dealing Flop **
HERO bets [$24 USD]
davidross folds.
Luckyyl calls [$24 USD]
** Dealing Turn **
HERO bets [$45 USD]
Luckyyl calls [$45 USD]
** Dealing River **
HERO bets [$101 USD]
Luckyyl is all-In.
HERO shows two pairs, Jacks and Sixes.
Luckyyl shows a flush, Ace high.
The time at which hand ended:Jan 24 2008 00:06 ET
HERO wins $0.64 USD from side pot #1 with two pairs, Jacks and Sixes.
Luckyyl wins $376.22 USD from the main pot with a flush, Ace high.

So that’s that. I don’t really know what the plan is besides continuing to table-select hard and hope to play and run well.

Looking back at those big hands it’s clear that the self-valueownage and turn bluff hands are way too high-variance for my roll at nl400 right now. The AJ call I don’t regret at all since I was as close to 100% sure villain was bluffing as I could possibly be.

play HU, you will own people so hard imo

Just played an 8-tabling session of nl200 and made a few buyins to finish slightly up for the day.

Nothing wacko to report.

Was really tired tonight but saw a good game at nl400 so I sat down and just 1-tabled for an hour.

What is my mantra these days? Table select and be patient. Target the fish.

So after building up a 1k stack, what do I do?

1st hand vs a 30/27/5 in my database over a large sample :

Rather than 3-bet I planned on check-raising dry flops and playing flops that hit me pretty passively to let him do the betting.



$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, January 24, 23:05:02 ET 2008
Table Table 127461 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: AANOTILTKK ( $1,005.61 USD )
Seat 3: igetjokes1 ( $432.30 USD )
Seat 6: donjey ( $538.68 USD )
Seat 4: HERO ( $586.46 USD )
Seat 5: BertholdHeisterkamp ( $400 USD )
Seat 2: hanzfat ( $436.40 USD )
igetjokes1 posts small blind [$2 USD].
HERO posts big blind [$4 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
BertholdHeisterkamp folds.
donjey folds.
AANOTILTKK folds.
hanzfat raises [$12 USD]
igetjokes1 folds.
HERO calls [$8 USD]
** Dealing Flop **
HERO checks.
hanzfat bets [$18 USD]
HERO raises [$51 USD]
hanzfat raises [$118 USD]
HERO is all-In.
hanzfat is all-In.
** Dealing Turn **
** Dealing River **
hanzfat shows two pairs, Kings and Queens.
HERO shows a pair of Queens.
HERO wins $150.06 USD from side pot #1 with a pair of Queens.
hanzfat wins $871.80 USD from the main pot with two pairs, Kings and Queens.

Seriously. It tils me soooooo much to spew this way. I really have a tough time expressing just how angry this makes me.

Obv I can justify it by saying that a smart villain almost has to 3-bet bluff me on this flop. Why? Because all I'm repping that beats him is 222 and 666 along with flushdraws. But this kind of overly complicated wacky-play thinking is exactly what I want to iron out right now until I build a comfortable roll at nl400.

I tilt myself so fucking hard right now.

130 hands for -450$.

Don't wanna dwell exclusively on the negative, so I should probably post a decent, if somewhat standard, call I made to build up my stack :

Preflop both villain were running overly loose (40/25ish) so I was definitely ahead of their ranges but was pretty sure I’d get called if I 3-bet. Also they both seemed a bit fishy and predictable postflop :

$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, January 24, 22:36:56 ET 2008
Table Table 127461 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: AANOTILTKK ( $1,229.13 USD )
Seat 3: igetjokes1 ( $458.50 USD )
Seat 5: xBORMANx ( $169 USD )
Seat 6: donjey ( $543.42 USD )
Seat 4: HERO ( $400 USD )
Seat 2: Goldamp ( $412 USD )
igetjokes1 posts small blind [$2 USD].
HERO posts big blind [$4 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
xBORMANx folds.
donjey calls [$4 USD]
AANOTILTKK raises [$18 USD]
Goldamp folds.
igetjokes1 folds.
HERO calls [$14 USD]
donjey calls [$14 USD]
** Dealing Flop **
HERO checks.
donjey checks.
AANOTILTKK bets [$22 USD]
HERO calls [$22 USD]
donjey calls [$22 USD]
** Dealing Turn **
HERO bets [$71 USD]
donjey calls [$71 USD]
AANOTILTKK folds.
** Dealing River **
HERO checks.
donjey is all-In.
HERO is all-In.
HERO shows a pair of Jacks.
donjey shows high card Queen.
donjey wins $143.42 USD from side pot #1 with high card, Queen.
HERO wins $839 USD from the main pot with a pair of Jacks.

My new goal is to play 5k hands without spewing once.

NOT ONE SPEW FOR FIVE THOUUUUSAND HANDS.

No spews this morning so I get a checkmark there.

1st a very very marginal spot :

$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, January 25, 13:12:04 ET 2008
Table Table 127934 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 1: IhasFlush ( $678.76 USD )
Seat 3: HERO ( $592 USD )
Seat 2: kasiiino ( $366 USD )
Seat 5: Weini7107 ( $96.95 USD )
Seat 4: hakkis96 ( $131.89 USD )
Weini7107 posts small blind [$2 USD].
IhasFlush posts big blind [$4 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
kasiiino raises [$14 USD]
HERO calls [$14 USD]
Weini7107 folds.
IhasFlush raises [$56 USD]
kasiiino calls [$46 USD]
HERO…

The squeezer from the blinds has done this a few times now so my plan worked perfectly until the original raiser flatted.

This is gross since I really really think it’s unlikely original raiser is slowplaying AA KK here in a possible huge 3-way pot. That means his likely hands are those that he thinks he can play 3-way vs a bluff-squeezer… and QQ TT…. Maybe 99. With all the dead money I just said fuck it.

is all-In.
IhasFlush folds.
kasiiino is all-In.
** Dealing Flop **
** Dealing Turn **
** Dealing River **
kasiiino shows two pairs, Queens and Threes.
HERO shows two pairs, Jacks and Threes.
HERO wins $226 USD from side pot #1 with two pairs, Jacks and Threes.
kasiiino wins $792 USD from the main pot with two pairs, Queens and Threes.

Lame

Here I make a big call vs an aggro villain (29/25) who seems to be repping a busted flush draw or exactly KQ. He took quite a while to call on the turn which lead me to believe he thought he had implied odds with a draw vs my seemingly big hand. I’m very sure he raises trips on the flop or turn…

$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, January 25, 13:30:40 ET 2008
Table Table 128282 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: kasiiino ( $436 USD )
Seat 2: hejsan66 ( $565.80 USD )
Seat 3: BlackHawk2101 ( $400 USD )
Seat 4: Pakka_52 ( $446.30 USD )
Seat 5: HERO ( $770.80 USD )
Seat 6: iownulongrun ( $647.50 USD )
hejsan66 posts small blind [$2 USD].
BlackHawk2101 posts big blind [$4 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
Pakka_52 folds.
HERO raises [$16 USD]
iownulongrun calls [$16 USD]
kasiiino folds.
hejsan66 folds.
BlackHawk2101 folds.
** Dealing Flop **
HERO bets [$31 USD]
iownulongrun calls [$31 USD]
** Dealing Turn **
HERO bets [$65 USD]
iownulongrun calls [$65 USD]
** Dealing River **
HERO checks.
iownulongrun bets [$160 USD]
HERO calls [$160 USD]
iownulongrun shows two pairs, Kings and Queens.
HERO doesn't show two pairs, Nines and Eights.
iownulongrun wins $547 USD from the main pot with two pairs, Kings and Queens.


Repping a bluff vs a tight reg :

$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, January 25, 13:15:34 ET 2008
Table Table 130472 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 6: ARKADAK ( $64.75 USD )
Seat 4: HERO ( $673.65 USD )
Seat 3: Zoey2042 ( $269.50 USD )
Seat 1: Karikatyr ( $408.30 USD )
Seat 2: wakajawaka1 ( $411.90 USD )
Seat 5: A_Behemoth ( $382 USD )
Karikatyr posts small blind [$2 USD].
wakajawaka1 posts big blind [$4 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
Zoey2042 folds.
HERO raises [$16 USD]
A_Behemoth calls [$16 USD]
ARKADAK calls [$16 USD]
Karikatyr folds.
wakajawaka1 folds.
** Dealing Flop **
HERO checks.
A_Behemoth checks.
ARKADAK checks.
** Dealing Turn **
HERO bets [$34 USD]
A_Behemoth calls [$34 USD]
ARKADAK folds.
** Dealing River **
HERO bets [$145 USD]
A_Behemoth calls [$145 USD]
HERO shows two pairs, Kings and Queens.
A_Behemoth doesn't show a pair of Queens.
HERO wins $409 USD from the main pot with two pairs, Kings and Queens.


Making a call-down vs a loose and bluffy fish. Pretty sure he raises top pair and better hands on the flop so either he had 67 or I win :

$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, January 25, 13:08:44 ET 2008
Table Table 127934 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: IhasFlush ( $508 USD )
Seat 4: fnldrmkck ( $410 USD )
Seat 5: Oldie55 ( $330.76 USD )
Seat 6: lutzio ( $546.20 USD )
Seat 3: HERO ( $414 USD )
Seat 2: kasiiino ( $394 USD )
lutzio posts small blind [$2 USD].
IhasFlush posts big blind [$4 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
kasiiino raises [$8 USD]
HERO calls [$8 USD]
fnldrmkck folds.
Oldie55 calls [$8 USD]
lutzio folds.
IhasFlush folds.
** Dealing Flop **
kasiiino checks.
HERO bets [$21 USD]
Oldie55 calls [$21 USD]
kasiiino folds.
** Dealing Turn **
HERO checks.
Oldie55 bets [$40 USD]
HERO calls [$40 USD]
** Dealing River **
HERO checks.
Oldie55 bets [$104 USD]
HERO calls [$104 USD]
Oldie55 shows high card Ace.
HERO shows a pair of Nines.
HERO wins $357 USD from the main pot with a pair of Nines.

Wish I could play more; the games are good right now. Gotta go. 400ish hands for a couple buyins of profit.

i m soooooooooooooo fking tilted

Sat in 6 great nl400 games

quickly made about 1.5k in 200 hands playing solid

then got set-over-setted on a draw-heavy board 180bb's deep and then lost JJ to ATo on 8 high board

then I made a huge fold I'm not sure about

then I made a marginal call with 99 vs a monkey that was probably -ev. benny was sweating me at the time and called out villain's exact hand . should have listened to him.

ASDFKJASDJFK;ASDJFKA;SDLJFKADS;LJF;ASDLKJKFSADL;JK FSA;DLFJSA;KLDJFASDKL;JFADSK;JFSAD;SDKAJ;DAFS;JSD

earlier I played a 9-tabling session at nl200 cuz I couldn't get a seat at any of the good nl400 games. felt like I played well but managed to drop a couple buyins.

I am sooo fking disgusted. I know I'm impatient and I'm not the 1st person to run super-swongy and not great when trying to establish himself at another limit.

but fuck me, I'm getting fking sick of this b.s.

God I'm getting sick of this.

Here are today’s biggest pots :

Villain is 27/24 aggro.


$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, January 27, 17:32:30 ET 2008
Table Table 125491 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 3: mad4it109 ( $394 USD )
Seat 4: FourBetBluff ( $414.60 USD )
Seat 6: FeFuracao ( $290 USD )
Seat 1: HERO ( $589.05 USD )
Seat 2: deine_Mudder ( $455.20 USD )
Seat 5: krasssavec ( $394 USD )
FeFuracao posts small blind [$2 USD].
HERO posts big blind [$4 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
deine_Mudder folds.
mad4it109 folds.
FourBetBluff raises [$14 USD]
krasssavec folds.
FeFuracao calls [$12 USD]
HERO raises [$61 USD]
FourBetBluff calls [$51 USD]
FeFuracao folds.
** Dealing Flop **
HERO bets [$81 USD]
FourBetBluff is all-In.
HERO calls [$268.60 USD]
** Dealing Turn **
** Dealing River **
HERO shows a straight Six to Ten.
FourBetBluff shows a flush, King high.
FourBetBluff wins $840.20 USD from the main pot with a flush, King high.

Villain was 19/15. So gross. No options are good really. Folding pre is just meh…


$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, January 27, 18:54:54 ET 2008
Table Table 127604 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: Ulohon ( $228.10 USD )
Seat 2: kmsbnn ( $549.10 USD )
Seat 4: Pakka_52 ( $536.10 USD )
Seat 5: SiaromOnun ( $149 USD )
Seat 6: PPSuicideMe ( $404.40 USD )
Seat 3: HERO ( $400 USD )
Ulohon posts small blind [$2 USD].
kmsbnn posts big blind [$4 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
HERO raises [$16 USD]
Pakka_52 raises [$54 USD]
SiaromOnun folds.
PPSuicideMe folds.
Ulohon folds.
kmsbnn folds.
HERO raises [$140 USD]
Pakka_52 is all-In.
HERO is all-In.
** Dealing Flop **
** Dealing Turn **
** Dealing River **
HERO shows a pair of Queens.
Pakka_52 shows a pair of Kings.
Pakka_52 wins $136.10 USD from side pot #1 with a pair of Kings.
Pakka_52 wins $803 USD from the main pot with a pair of Kings.

Villain is 44/22 spewtard.

$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, January 27, 18:29:01 ET 2008
Table Table 130473 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: VIPClown ( $400 USD )
Seat 2: AWOOGAAA ( $390.40 USD )
Seat 4: mad4it109 ( $461 USD )
Seat 6: vvvvvnh ( $625.20 USD )
Seat 5: HERO ( $400 USD )
Seat 3: B1ngo_Bango ( $410 USD )
mad4it109 posts small blind [$2 USD].
HERO posts big blind [$4 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
vvvvvnh raises [$12 USD]
VIPClown folds.
AWOOGAAA folds.
B1ngo_Bango folds.
mad4it109 folds.
HERO calls [$8 USD]
** Dealing Flop **
HERO checks.
vvvvvnh bets [$24 USD]
HERO calls [$24 USD]
** Dealing Turn **
HERO checks.
vvvvvnh checks.
** Dealing River **
HERO checks.
vvvvvnh bets [$60 USD]
HERO raises [$222 USD]
vvvvvnh is all-In.
HERO is all-In.
HERO shows three of a kind, Jacks.
vvvvvnh shows a full house, Aces full of Jacks.
vvvvvnh wins $225.20 USD from side pot #1 with a full house, Aces full of Jacks.
vvvvvnh wins $799 USD from the main pot with a full house, Aces full of Jacks.

Limped pot… gross.

Problem with the turn is that even if I call to fill up, he has a higher set a decent % of the time.

$200 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, January 27, 19:10:40 ET 2008
Table Jackpot #1304946 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 1: thelymac ( $567.10 USD )
Seat 2: HERO ( $357.79 USD )
Seat 4: Watson1010 ( $126.97 USD )
Seat 5: AA_Hickok_88 ( $201 USD )
Seat 3: Gazza99 ( $113.20 USD )
HERO posts small blind [$1 USD].
Gazza99 posts big blind [$2 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
Watson1010 calls [$2 USD]
AA_Hickok_88 calls [$2 USD]
thelymac calls [$2 USD]
HERO calls [$1 USD]
Gazza99 checks.
** Dealing Flop **
HERO bets [$8 USD]
Gazza99 folds.
Watson1010 folds.
AA_Hickok_88 folds.
thelymac calls [$8 USD]
** Dealing Turn **
HERO bets [$24 USD]
kya333 has joined the table.
thelymac raises [$77 USD]
HERO is all-In.
thelymac calls [$270.79 USD]
** Dealing River **
thelymac shows a straight Ace to Five.
HERO doesn't show three of a kind, Twos.
The time at which hand ended:Jan 27 2008 19:11 ET
thelymac wins $719.08 USD from the main pot with a straight, Ace to Five.



$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, January 27, 17:46:30 ET 2008
Table Table 127894 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 4: sunnylake ( $793.50 USD )
Seat 5: Spinogryz ( $467.10 USD )
Seat 6: HERO ( $429.50 USD )
Seat 3: kroemtjod ( $142.30 USD )
Seat 1: MrTommy ( $96 USD )
Seat 2: Mr_Multi ( $130 USD )
MrTommy posts small blind [$2 USD].
Mr_Multi posts big blind [$4 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
kroemtjod raises [$8 USD]
sunnylake folds.
Spinogryz folds.
HERO calls [$8 USD]
MrTommy calls [$6 USD]
Mr_Multi calls [$4 USD]
** Dealing Flop **
MrTommy checks.
Mr_Multi bets [$15 USD]
kroemtjod calls [$15 USD]
HERO calls [$15 USD]
MrTommy folds.
** Dealing Turn **
Mr_Multi checks.
kroemtjod bets [$16 USD]
HERO raises [$67 USD]
Mr_Multi folds.
kroemtjod raises [$102 USD]
HERO raises [$102 USD]
kroemtjod is all-In.
** Dealing River **
HERO shows two pairs, Jacks and Tens.
kroemtjod shows two pairs, Aces and Nines.
HERO wins $49.70 USD from side pot #1 with two pairs, Jacks and Tens.
kroemtjod wins $312.60 USD from the main pot with two pairs, Aces and Nines.

Srsly. I would trade a 10-buyin downswing in 2 months for just running normal right now when I’m kind of vulnerable.

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Just played 400 hands and lost a few buyins.

I think I came up a little short on my goal of not spewing for 5k hands :

I made it 3k hands without a single spew.

These two hands happened back to back and I think they were the reasons I was tilting without admitting it :

$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, January 29, 01:05:55 ET 2008
Table Table 126755 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: Repo_man69 ( $511.90 USD )
Seat 2: TheBlueMile ( $476.30 USD )
Seat 3: HERO ( $431 USD )
Seat 4: kalino ( $495.41 USD )
Seat 5: pas1sat1 ( $219.86 USD )
Seat 6: VickyRaisins ( $400 USD )
kalino posts small blind [$2 USD].
pas1sat1 posts big blind [$4 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
VickyRaisins folds.
Repo_man69 folds.
TheBlueMile raises [$16 USD]
HERO calls [$16 USD]
kalino calls [$14 USD]
pas1sat1 folds.
** Dealing Flop **
kalino checks.
TheBlueMile bets [$37 USD]
HERO raises [$81 USD]
kalino calls [$81 USD]
TheBlueMile raises [$203 USD]
HERO is all-In.
kalino is all-In.
TheBlueMile is all-In.
** Dealing Turn **
** Dealing River **
TheBlueMile shows a full house, Queens full of Tens.
HERO doesn't show a full house, Fives full of Tens.
kalino shows two pairs, Kings and Tens.
kalino wins $19.11 USD from side pot #2 with two pairs, Kings and Tens.
TheBlueMile wins $90.60 USD from side pot #1 with a full house, Queens full of Tens.
TheBlueMile wins $1,294 USD from the main pot with a full house, Queens full of Tens.

$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, January 29, 01:24:55 ET 2008
Table Table 126968 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 5: cardslugger ( $312.40 USD )
Seat 6: Gleb3136 ( $662.70 USD )
Seat 4: VickyRaisins ( $675.90 USD )
Seat 3: HERO ( $421.50 USD )
Seat 2: Majestic1009 ( $288.20 USD )
Seat 1: xBORMANx ( $80 USD )
Gleb3136 posts small blind [$2 USD].
xBORMANx posts big blind [$4 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
Majestic1009 calls [$4 USD]
HERO raises [$18 USD]
VickyRaisins did not respond in time
VickyRaisins folds.
cardslugger folds.
Gleb3136 folds.
xBORMANx folds.
Majestic1009 calls [$14 USD]
** Dealing Flop **
Majestic1009 checks.
HERO bets [$31 USD]
Majestic1009 calls [$31 USD]
** Dealing Turn **
Majestic1009 checks.
HERO checks.
** Dealing River **
Majestic1009 checks.
HERO bets [$75 USD]
Majestic1009 calls [$75 USD]
HERO shows a pair of Kings.
Majestic1009 shows two pairs, Sixes and Fours.
Majestic1009 wins $251 USD from the main pot with two pairs, Sixes and Fours.

So when the donk made a small turn bet here, I felt like he had a mid-pair, maybe (big maybe) a weak top pair, or a float that decided to bluff the turn. No WAY do I do this if I’m running/thinking well :

$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, January 29, 01:08:39 ET 2008
Table Table 127170 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: Napalm_77 ( $779 USD )
Seat 2: kamikaz999 ( $348.20 USD )
Seat 3: Angelica6 ( $405.10 USD )
Seat 5: HERO ( $396 USD )
Seat 6: AGENTURA ( $126 USD )
Seat 4: kaimachek ( $80 USD )
HERO posts small blind [$2 USD].
AGENTURA is sitting out
Napalm_77 posts big blind [$4 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
kamikaz999 calls [$4 USD]
Angelica6 folds.
HERO raises [$19 USD]
Napalm_77 folds.
kamikaz999 calls [$17 USD]
** Dealing Flop **
HERO bets [$31 USD]
AGENTURA has left the table.
kamikaz999 calls [$31 USD]
** Dealing Turn **
HERO checks.
kamikaz999 bets [$36 USD]
HERO is all-In.
kamikaz999 is all-In.
** Dealing River **
kamikaz999 shows a pair of Sixes.
HERO shows high card Ace.
HERO wins $47.80 USD from side pot #1 with high card, Ace.
kamikaz999 wins $698.40 USD from the main pot with a pair of Sixes.

GG another few buyins.

This blog is good because it forces me to realize that I struggle way more with the emotional control aspect of poker than anything else. That is what I need to work on. I will never be a top-class player if I can’t get my emotions under control.

I just played about 1k hands and did o.k.

I got completely levelled in a reraised pot where I c-bet with a pair+ nutflushdraw, then went for a check-raise on the turn when the top card paired on a low-card, draw-heavy board. Villain, who was loose, bluffy and strange, overbet allin 320 into 200. I tanked and called... and he flipped 86o for turned trips.

I guess it makes sense, but whatever. Folding is never a big mistake there, and I got caught trying to be a hero. I think I almost called because I was angry at myself that he overbet when I wanted to checkraise to put pressure on a 99-type hand.

It's just another example of allowing emotional instability affect my bottom line.

I managed to get unstuck for the day by, among other things, running kings through aces for a buyin. Still, I was sitting at some amazing tables and couldn't really get on any kind of roll.

By amazing, I'm talking like 3 ppl with 45% vpip or higher, and 2 mediocre taggs with me. It's ridiculous that I can't seem to beat these games badly these days. Just gotta keep on plugging away at building up my equanimity and patience.

hmm today it only took 217 hands to drop 1.3k. I'm leaving a table with a 62/11 who is limp-calling any amount preflop because it's just not happening for me right now.

I’ve been punishing villain, who is running at 37/0 and making some very weird postflop plays, both bluffs and calls (think peeling flops with 8 hi and backdoor FD, randomly overbetting pot, etc.).

In my experience when someone takes this line (he instashoved river fwiw) it’s very often a frustrated bluff. I dunno maybe I’ve just run weird in the last 500k hands of poker I’ve played and railed :

$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, January 29, 14:46:32 ET 2008
Table Table 127889 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: ScootingCat ( $488.40 USD )
Seat 6: MLVIDIA ( $318.30 USD )
Seat 3: HERO ( $487.80 USD )
Seat 5: ARKADAK ( $80 USD )
Seat 4: bierher555 ( $400 USD )
Seat 1: VodkaUser ( $689 USD )
bierher555 posts small blind [$2 USD].
ARKADAK posts big blind [$4 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
MLVIDIA calls [$4 USD]
VodkaUser folds.
ScootingCat folds.
HERO raises [$18 USD]
bierher555 calls [$16 USD]
ARKADAK folds.
MLVIDIA folds.
** Dealing Flop **
bierher555 bets [$36 USD]
HERO calls [$36 USD]
** Dealing Turn **
bierher555 bets [$64 USD]
HERO calls [$64 USD]
** Dealing River **
bierher555 is all-In.
HERO calls [$282 USD]
bierher555 shows a full house, Aces full of Kings.
HERO shows two pairs, Aces and Kings.
bierher555 wins $805 USD from the main pot with a full house, Aces full of Kings.

Villain is 76/52/11 (… not kidding). I was literally praying for him to call the flop shove since I expected to be way ahead of his wheel draw + overs :


$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, January 29, 14:57:22 ET 2008
Table Table 127929 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: kelb3 ( $320.90 USD )
Seat 2: chicagoluis1 ( $272.70 USD )
Seat 4: vvvvvnh ( $484.20 USD )
Seat 6: AWOOGAAA ( $434.90 USD )
Seat 5: ARKADAK ( $70 USD )
Seat 3: HERO ( $462.10 USD )
vvvvvnh posts small blind [$2 USD].
ARKADAK posts big blind [$4 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
AWOOGAAA folds.
kelb3 raises [$16 USD]
chicagoluis1 folds.
HERO calls [$16 USD]
vvvvvnh folds.
ARKADAK folds.
** Dealing Flop **
kelb3 checks.
HERO bets [$35 USD]
kelb3 raises [$80 USD]
HERO is all-In.
kelb3 is all-In.
** Dealing Turn **
** Dealing River **
kelb3 shows a pair of Kings.
HERO shows a pair of Fives.
HERO wins $141.20 USD from side pot #1 with a pair of Fives.
kelb3 wins $644.80 USD from the main pot with a pair of Kings.

On the brighter side, losing 1k really quickly doesn't affect me anymore.

Maybe it's time to move up to get unstuck?

This is too much for me.

Here are today's 3 biggest pots, in ascending $:

Villain is 54/34/7 fish-maniac :

$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, January 31, 16:58:42 ET 2008
Table Table 134036 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: KPOKO3ABP ( $538.40 USD )
Seat 2: kan2k ( $392 USD )
Seat 5: tobas22 ( $1,560.37 USD )
Seat 4: HERO ( $394 USD )
Seat 6: Sturm_09 ( $1,201 USD )
Seat 3: Tankalanka ( $440 USD )
tobas22 posts small blind [$2 USD].
Sturm_09 posts big blind [$4 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
KPOKO3ABP folds.
kan2k raises [$14 USD]
Tankalanka folds.
HERO calls [$14 USD]
tobas22 calls [$12 USD]
Sturm_09 calls [$10 USD]
** Dealing Flop **
tobas22 checks.
Sturm_09 checks.
kan2k bets [$42 USD]
HERO calls [$42 USD]
tobas22 calls [$42 USD]
Sturm_09 folds.
** Dealing Turn **
tobas22 checks.
kan2k checks.
HERO bets [$124 USD]
tobas22 raises [$368 USD]
kan2k folds.
HERO is all-In.
** Dealing River **
tobas22 shows a full house, Aces full of Fives.
HERO doesn't show three of a kind, Aces.
tobas22 wins $30 USD from side pot #1 with a full house, Aces full of Fives.
tobas22 wins $855 USD from the main pot with a full house, Aces full of Fives.


Here villain is a 21/19 tagg I’ve been running over because of a great run of cards :

$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, January 31, 15:57:18 ET 2008
Table Table 127747 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 4
Seat 3: AA_Hickok_88 ( $487.50 USD )
Seat 2: HERO ( $795.51 USD )
Seat 4: Troublebox ( $400 USD )
Seat 6: alaikpat ( $438 USD )
HERO posts small blind [$2 USD].
AA_Hickok_88 posts big blind [$4 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
Troublebox folds.
alaikpat raises [$14 USD]
BACIN has joined the table.
HERO raises [$51 USD]
AA_Hickok_88 folds.
alaikpat calls [$39 USD]
** Dealing Flop **
HERO bets [$75 USD]
alaikpat calls [$75 USD]
** Dealing Turn **
HERO bets [$321 USD]
alaikpat is all-In.
** Dealing River **
HERO shows a pair of Kings.
alaikpat shows two pairs, Kings and Jacks.
HERO wins $11 USD from side pot #1 with a pair of Kings.
alaikpat wins $878 USD from the main pot with two pairs, Kings and Jacks.

And finally, the hand that made me shut down Party for the day, vs the same 54/34/7 from hand 1 :

$400 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, January 31, 17:27:58 ET 2008
Table Table 134036 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: KPOKO3ABP ( $1,087.50 USD )
Seat 2: kan2k ( $440.50 USD )
Seat 5: tobas22 ( $1,515.67 USD )
Seat 4: HERO ( $776 USD )
Seat 6: Sturm_09 ( $1,189.50 USD )
Seat 3: Tankalanka ( $390 USD )
Tankalanka posts small blind [$2 USD].
HERO posts big blind [$4 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO
tobas22 calls [$4 USD]
Sturm_09 folds.
KPOKO3ABP raises [$20 USD]
kan2k folds.
Tankalanka calls [$18 USD]
HERO calls [$16 USD]
tobas22 raises [$56 USD]
KPOKO3ABP calls [$40 USD]
Tankalanka calls [$40 USD]
HERO calls [$40 USD]
** Dealing Flop **
Tankalanka checks.
HERO checks.
tobas22 bets [$90 USD]
KPOKO3ABP calls [$90 USD]
Tankalanka folds.
HERO raises [$324 USD]
tobas22 raises [$618 USD]
KPOKO3ABP folds.
HERO is all-In.
tobas22 calls [$8 USD]
** Dealing Turn **
** Dealing River **
tobas22 shows a flush, Ace high.
HERO doesn't show a flush, Ace high.
tobas22 wins $1,759 USD from the main pot with a flush, Ace high with King kicker.

I don’t know what to say, besides this is why I’ve always been a br nit. If this goes on any longer I’m gonna have to move back down to nl200 ffs. Fuck me.

Have you thought of a prolonged break? Just to relax and do other things besides Poker?

Anyway, what is your BR management criteria? 30x buy-ins? Although I have hardly played since mid December I still play $200NL with a 14k bankroll.