Play some moar pokerrrr!!

2h
+$340

Pretty gay session for a weekend:
2h
+$50

There were one or two interesting spots. But I'm too tired to look them up... I'll post tomorrow.

Too many tables... played bad, ran bad, payed off minraises with tptk.

Sunday:
looooong session
+$20

4.5h
+$350

So I'm playing with this FT pro... and he's calling all my 3-bets and then folds the flop without fail, and just randomly insta-pot bets and stuff... so I look him up.
http://www.pokertableratings.com/ful...ch/ryan+dreyer
so he won a donkament and now he's a pro.
Congratulations

So many stupid hands... I'll just post the links.


http://weaktight.com/1114000
utg is über-nit

http://weaktight.com/1116912
no reads

http://weaktight.com/1116953
villain was 50/4 with no 3-bets over ~100 hands... but he shoved the flop the moment it came out, so... idk

http://weaktight.com/1118867
MP1 is extremely LAGG, and MP2 is calling all of his raises.
Flop is just to isolate the shortstack, and I thought I could get the other guy to fold pretty lightly.

http://weaktight.com/1118930
Turn is for value.

So this is what they call the flop and then donk the turn with.




$0.25/$0.5 No Limit Holdem
HoldemManager
9 players
Converted at weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG ($12.75)
Hero (UTG+1) ($93.65)
MP1 ($20.45)
MP2 ($16.50)
MP3 ($5.00)
CO ($8.75)
BTN ($50.00)
SB ($56.10)
BB ($60.25)

Pre-flop: ($0.75, 9 players) Hero is UTG+1
1 fold, Hero raises to $2, 5 folds, SB calls $1.75, 1 fold

Flop: ($4.50, 2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $3, SB calls $3

Turn: ($10.50, 2 players)
SB bets $10.50, Hero calls $10.50

River: ($31.50, 2 players)
SB bets $31.50, Hero calls $31.50

Final Pot: $94.50
SB shows:
Hero shows:

Hero wins $91.50 ( won +$44.50 )
SB lost -$47

nice table selection! Search and destroy mode on Ryan D before he loses ALL his money huh

Originally Posted by daven

nice table selection! Search and destroy mode on Ryan D before he loses ALL his money huh

Search and destroy on 85% of all 100NL players imo.

3h
+$200

Gonna play a €50 live donkament later.
*loads some noiserock on the ipod so he stays awake until the final table*

Wasn't too much fun... had a young live-pro to my right for about an hour who had a €1k chip on display, so we know he's l33t... told everyone what they had on every hand... and circled around the table for a full minute after he busted out, berating the guy for calling his minraise with K9 from the bb.

Last hand, I raise TT from the CO with a 42k stack, 800/1600/200 level, chipleader tanks a little and then pushes all-in. I thought there was a chance he's full of it - he had been raised a lot, and seemed to min 3-bet for value usually. But what made my decision was that there were at least 1.5 more hours before the FT, and I realized I could make an average cash playing at home, and I prolly had 35% equity against his range at worst anyway.
ez call lohl

3h
+$220 in HE
And another 60 or so in PLO... I need to get HEM omaha already.



Hero call time:

$0.5/$1 No Limit Holdem
HoldemManager
9 players
Converted at weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG ($108.00)
UTG+1 ($101.00)
MP1 ($97.50)
Hero (MP2) ($296.00)
MP3 ($101.00)
CO ($101.00)
BTN ($161.00)
SB ($50.00)
BB ($93.70)

Pre-flop: ($1.50, 9 players) Hero is MP2
3 folds, Hero raises to $3, 4 folds, BB calls $2

Flop: ($6.50, 2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($6.50, 2 players)
BB bets $7, Hero calls $7

River: ($20.50, 2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks

Final Pot: $20.50
BB shows:
Hero shows:

Hero wins $19.50 ( won +$9.50 )
BB lost -$10




Probably shouldn't brag about that one, but I winz teh hand!!!

Yeah I'm pretty sure that was a bad call lol, unless you had an unbelievable read on him.

Ace high is the best hand on the turn like 85% of the time in this spot*, but it's a very draw heavy board, so he's more likely to be semi-bluffing... I really don't want to see a lot of river cards. If he's good enough to realize that he made a stupid turn bet, he could put me on exactly Ax and make a really marginal river bet and get me to fold a lot.

But then there's really no point in betting the turn with a draw either... I'm not going to bet when the 8 pairs after I checked the flop, and I'd have a hard time parting with A high.

*Just because of the bet sizing... he knows I don't have any pair, any draw after I check the flop... so there's no point in betting that big... and I do know the guy somewhat - value bets look different.

Had to reinstall xp because my hd was dying, and I had so much crap on anyway, so I didn't bother mirroring the partition...
After that I didn't get HEM to work... got a Teamviewer session scheduled with support for today. Tried to get PT working so I at least have a hud and can do session reviews, but PT refuses to autoimport - sais FT doesn't save HH's, which is wrong. I can only manually import new hands.

So no hud, but I played anyway today... sucked in some spots, but I can't wait forever.

2h
+$270

Computer trouble continues. I'm seriously considering switching back to linux and running the poker stuff in a VM - I was running linux for a couple of years before my favorite distributions made some really gay decisions synchronously, and I didn't like the alternatives... and because I started playing lots of poker and SP2 made XP acceptable to use, I got back on the windows train.

So anyways...

90min.
+$120

I've lost pace, but I'll try to pick it up again.
Tomorrow I'll have to squeeze in a breakfast session.

Originally Posted by oskar

Tomorrow I'll have to squeeze in a breakfast session.

didn't see you at breakfast
there was a new 26-21 8-tabling constant pressure type who was keeping the FR deep tables interesting. Took me a while to adjust but eventually we ended up breakeven against each other over 1k hands

you been playing 6-max or something?
my month is swing-city... pro-poker-meh-ness

No, I played like 200 hands or something.
Now I have to go, and I won't come back before very late, so this is prolly the only session of today:

20min.
+$50

Yesterday:
3h
-$13


May graph:








Running hawt.
Right now I'm playing a bit with PokerEV trying to figure out how hot exactly. Sklansky bucks aren't that much behind, but I think I got very lucky in set-over-set & KK vs AA pre situations...
can't figure out how to filter those yet.
Also got lucky to get to play against A LOT of borderline retards... can't put a number on that.

hey, how do you get imageshack to show the pix here? ive been mucking arnd with it earlier and i suck.

After you upload, copy the link from the text field that says 'direct link to image' - paste it, select the link in your post and then click the 'img' button.

cool thx

cool thx

Starting the month with another best day evar.

3h
+$410

One session FR, one HU. I think I'll stick with FR even though I still think HU is really soft... it's just too much pain.

man you own. nice job on the sick month

Thanks. It's not so much me owning as it is them failing.

50NL session today:
2.5h
+$270


(3:07:37 AM) spoonitnow: Here's a hellacious Lee Jones quote
(3:07:38 AM) spoonitnow: I actually brought it up with a shrink, pointing out that poker players produce no good or service for society. Her reply (which I've held dear ever since), was "But your "business" provides entertainment and relaxation for people. That is an invaluable gift."

nice results man, keep it up

I wills!

90min.
+$180

Will play another session later, but I wanted to post my sexy graph.

(3:54:29 PM) oskar: FU all-in-EV! U can't bringz me duwn

Funny SN, man - I know mine's pretty public, but some folks like to keep their SN's unknown, so you might crop your HEM screen shots. I believe we've played some at FT.

Gah idk... The only 'reg' that I have enough history with that he could be looking me up is an idiot, and what is he going to do with it anyway?
Anybody can check PTR and see who's winning and who's loosing.

And the FTR regs who know me are more likely just monkeying it up against me if anything, so no harm done.



So I played some more...
4h +$390,
but I lost like 2-3BI @ .25/50 PLO and NLO.

I should be sticking to HE some more... and if I play omaha, I guess I should dedicate some time to really studying the game.

Got a prop bet with a friend... €10 on who gets to 6 figs first. Anyone want in?

nice looking month so far. My first goal for the rest of the month is to get in the black.... and then start working on

Originally Posted by oskar

Got a prop bet with a friend... €10 on who gets to 6 figs first. Anyone want in?

count me in. I expect mid 2010, if you keep crushing like you are so far this month then you should kick my arse, but maybe i'll get better too?

I got really lucky to start almost every single month with a heater.

Just grind it out... volume >>>> luck

I'll try to get iopq in on the bet... free money imo.

I was trying to get some money out of FT and into Titan, but the freaking window hangs at 'Please wait while we verify your account.
If I can't cash out tomorrow, I'll have to e-mail support.

Anyway
2h
+$330

cashout gayness continues. I have to deposit at least a $ from my moneybookers acount to FT before I can cash out to it... I appreciate that as a security feature, but right now it's a pain in the ass.

Played two short sessions in the morning, and a longer one now when I really shouldn't have been playing. Was pretty tired, made some pretty bad plays, played too many tables... luckily I break even after flopping set-over-set.
At least I destroyed his soul after I shove over his timeout-raise on the turn... that's always fun.

3h
+$220

God Oskar, I swear I remember when you were still at the micros. Really nice work man, would love to rail you at some point.

Nhs.

I'll send you my skype ID.
I won't be able to explain much. I talk to friends via skype sometimes when I'm playing, and mostly I'm just mumbling gibberish. But I don't mind someone watching.

Today: pretty bad morning session, followed by very good evening session, and a not so awesome late night session.

5h
+$350

At some point I realized I was playing on 5 tables with stats like 6/3 11/10, 6/6 0/1, 2/2, 5/4, 12/10 all around me for over an hour. I need to pay attention to that and quit those tables. It's really not worth it.

4h
-$200

Nothing seemed to work. Idiots are owning me left and right. Standard, really... but not after the last 40 days.

Tomorrow I'll drop some tables, and play shorter sessions.

4h
+$825

I should post more useful stuff here... but the idea was to just log my sessions publicly... The problem is I usually post these between 1 and 3 in the morning, and I just want to go to bed and not go through hands and analyze stuff.

Went to a club where they had a €25c/50c game where nobody had more than €15
Played for half an hour while I was waiting for the jam session to start.

< -- drummer

It was fun. I think I'll play those sometime again. All the people are cool, nobody is crying about bad beats. Of course it has little to do with poker, but it's nice.
Made like €20 - tipped half of my winnings away
I think it's really cool that poker is catching on here. I won't go live pro anytime soon, but hopefully there will be more action at 5/10 by the time I'm rolled for it. (I don't think it pays to play lower live)

Pretty damn horrible session. I wouldn't mind being down $350 - but $260 of those went to a total drooler who I convinced to play me HU, but then he opened a 55+5 turbo HU sng... He took down 4/4. When I finally got him to agree open 100NL cash - AND HE OPENS A $100 TURBO HU SNG.

Someone else sits down (also legally retarded) and beats him, and he logs off never to be seen again.

Then I simultaneously sit down with a HU '''reg''' at a 100NL table who sits in for 85.67 and tops off to 100 after the first hand.
Played almost worse than the drooler because it was so freaking obvious what he was doing. Got it in with an underpair in a preflop war and he leaves immediately.

If you are a semi-retarded HU reg, and you're reading this:
Sit out the moment you realize you're an underdog in the match... don't hope to get your money back by getting in a miracle situation where the chips will actually go your way.
I don't want to sound like Mr Grumpy because I've made lots of monies against guys like that in March.

2h
-$350

Originally Posted by oskar

Gah idk... The only 'reg' that I have enough history with that he could be looking me up is an idiot,

lucky that i don't get easily upset

I'm not talking about you. We've hardly played any hands together.
There are only like 2 or 3 guys I have 1000+ hands on...

ship the 1k downswing imo.

-$500 in all-in EV.

Once I 4-bet/ got it in with AKs against some guy who was 3-betting for the 3rd time since sat down - only 20 hands, but I don't think I can play it any different oop. and another time co vs btn where I 5-bet shoved against a guy who has 40% fold to 3-bet and 30% 4-bet. Ran into AA both times.
Twice I lost AK all-in pre vs J7s and Q4s. - huge overbet shove with J7s 300bb deep.

Thanks for reminding me why I'm maintaining a 100BI BR.

2h
-$600

Still up 2k for the month... so whining about beats is pretty pathetic.

count me in on the bet
daven, oskar and me all put in TEN YOUROW

lucky 6 figure man walks away with it all
sound good?

cool.
Yup, I'd say winner takes all. I don't thin we need to work out the details.

I played a little on Titan today just to get the HUD running.
I played their beginner tables, because I can.

The software is a catastrophe. I don't know how they can get away with it. The right table only gets the focus about 50% of the time. You get a second audible warning, but it still doesn't bring up the table, so stacking tables is impossible. Even when they're tiled you're not really getting any visual cues that it's your turn to act.
On top of that the graphics are just as bad as it can get. Blue background with red seats, and just way too much going on with the avatards and everything *eyecancer*.
Will have to find a skin or something.

crash burn lifetilt

I don't really know where I'm going from here. I've lost almost all of this months profit running about 2k behind all-in EV. Today I topped it off by loosing my biggest pot ever with KK vs AA against a 66/55 over 1k hands. And it was most definitely tilt. I was 3-betting him relentlessly, and he hadn't 4-bet me once. If I was thinking clearly, I would have called for set value, which might sound like results oriented thinking, but when you 3-bet someone over and over again, and they don't adjust over 2 or 3 hours, they're not going to adjust, and getting it in 300bb deep with KK is pure spew.

I'm really tempted to cash everything but 2k out and rebuild from 50NL. Mostly because I don't know if I will even continue to play this game if I loose another 2k.
I've had pretty swingy streches. I think I can loose 5BI within a session and continue to play pretty much my usual game. But right now if I get it in I can't help but anticipate the suckout, or running into the top of their range, because it just happened over and over again over the last 15k hands, and I play a lot worse as a result.

The way I'm running I couldn't be up a cent over the last 20k hands, but I think I lost at least 50% more than necessary due to tilt.

Anyway. Operation is on halt. I'll be reading some books, doing some range and equity exercises, and I probably won't play a lot before July.

Awlright... operation back no track. Last month sucked... but it's nice when a sucky month means 1k+ in profit after rakeback.



Lost my deposit on Titan... which isn't a big deal... I know that going broke was a possibility unless I deposit like 2-3k. And like I said, the software is just incredibly bad.

I deposited a little back to the site where I started with 10NL - it's an austrians only Boss Network skin. It's really fun to play, because pretty much nobody understands the fundamentals, but at 100NL+ most players play every day, and they do certain things right while doing other things horribly wrong.
You get into spots where there are 2 limpers, you open and 7 players call, and someone donks the flop for 1/4 pot with 2 callers before it gets to you. I'll play there when I'm going to make an <8 table session... otherwise FT is just so much better.


Bought 3 poker books:
Elements of Poker
The Poker Mindset
Check Raising the Devil (Matusow biography)

Read the relevant parts of EoP, and will get back to the rest after I've finished TPM.
Mainly what I got from it is that I need to work on my non betting decisions. Like what do I do after all the chips go in before the hand goes to showdown... like thinking about all the other possibilities, getting ready to make player notes... so I don't get excited about the outcome either way.
Also I will be trying not to look at my cashier too much. I'll just update session times and interesting spots, which should make for a more interesting blog.

Here's a situation from yesterday... I think fold turn is prolly best, but whateva:
http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...ff-t86862.html

I was going to play a late night session, but it was so hot that I needed to go out... so I just decided to move my session to the cardroom and play a live session.
This was actually pretty relaxing. A lot of it was 8 to 4 handed due to tables breaking up, and people taking long breaks. They have free breakfeast at 6AM which is also nice.
I felt like I was the only player who was really comfortable playing 1/2 - I expected at least one or two regs...

Maybe the most important thing I got from this was how much it helps just to stay calm and relaxed on the outside... after some time I felt really comfortable, and even some very tricky spots couldn't change that.
Also not getting rushed into decisions by the timebank is nice even though I don't think I took longer than 10 sec. on any decision.
With 6 hours this was my longest poker session - except for a couple of tournaments where I made the FT, and it felt like 2 hours online.

Played another live session today... Got to the cardroom at 1AM and played till 8AM.
Had a poker revelation today... I was doing the Tommy Angelo chip dance - he suggests that you try moving one chip from the top of one stack to the other every time the dealer shuffles... that didn't go well from the get go. I lost a good chunk on my first hand and immediately topped off (no auto top-off, wtf???!!!)... and immediately skipped the second hand.

About half an hour and a dozen missed shuffles later I decide to cheat and move the chip to the right every time I get a blue card, and to the left when I get a red one - they always alternate... so I immediately know if I screwed up, unless I skip two in a row.
Then at about 3AM there was a strech where I felt like I hadn't made a mistake in about an hour... mostly because I folded like 30 hands straight... and opened / checked back / folded turn to one of those acting geniuses who're like 'oh my god, if I look like I'm constipated when I check he will never put me on a hand'... and the chip keeps going to the right stack without fail.
So all goes smoothly until I miss an easy b/f with 2nd pair against a tilted station, and I immediately forget to move the chip the next hand.
Shortly after that there was another hand where I thought I might not have gotten the most value out of it, and it was all downhill from there. For at least an orbit I didn't even have the chip on top of any stack because I took it to make a raise, and just forgot about it altogether.

So anyway... what I've been trying to do for quite a while now unsuccessfully was to experience my play as if I was watching myself play. I realize a lot of obvious mistakes at session review, and it should have really been clear to me at the table that I was making a mistake... I figured if I can get into the state of mind that I am while reviewing it would help my game a lot, and this exercise is something that might just be the way to get there... even if it's just an indicator that I am either too involved with the situation, or drifting away. I have yet to come up with something similar that will work while playing online.

Also working hard on my 6th street play... planning ahead what I am going to do when I have no more decision to make... like what will I do if I loose this pot, what if I get slowrolled... can I reload fast efficiently enough to have the right chips in the right denomination before I get dealt my next hand, and so forth.

I continue to play online, and I think I'm doing well. I've managed not to look at the cashier for the last 3 sessions, and I hope I can keep that up.
Operation for the next live session is: try to actively follow 5 hands straight. This means: put everyone on a range, and make mental notes. This might seem easy... but it's a lot harder than you think.
That and continuing my chipdance... I probably will need to take breaks.
I realize that might sound ridiculous if you haven't tried it, but this is actually really hard... I'll have one of my friends with me, and we can prolly make a sidebet on the chipdance stuff... I will own him so bad, he has no idea.

A problem I have with the forum and irc lately is that everyone seems to try and work on that equilibrium solution to the game, and everyone is like "well, if I do this, I also have to do that"... and well, you don't. Of course it's kind of nice to think about your game and figure out a strategy that is basically unexploitable, but you're often giving away value, and you're often making plays that are simply -EV against certain opponents with your specific hand... they still won't be able to exploit your range, but you don't have to play theoretically optimally...

So what I'm saying is that I think an unexploitable solution is usually a suboptimal one... That and I think there are a lot more options in any given situation. As long as you have chips and there are cards to come, there are endless ways a hand can play out, and to say "I would always c-bet", or "I would always c/r", or "I would always c/c, donk turn here" is really simplifying the game way too much.

So that's my little rant for today... and there will be a lot of them because I won't be posting session durations and results anymore, so suck it.

note to self:
No reason to do anything but fold against a SS'ers limp/3-bet without KK+

Well, oskar what you are talking about is unexploitability vs. exploitability.

When you play to exploit your opponent you are playing an exploitable strategy yourself. When you bet/fold top pair on the flop vs. a fish, you're exploitable vs. bluff raises, but a passive fish doesn't think about bluff raising you so you keep on running the bet/fold line because your overall strategy exploits the lack of bluff raises by the fish.

I'm not saying that nobody is ever adjusting... I mean spots where you might try to bet the same amount as a bluff as you do with a made hand, or you don't 3b because you only 3b nut hands there when your opponent clearly isn't paying attention.

But I'm barking up the wrong tree here because you are one of the the least methodical player here... for good or worse.

So since I've stopped reporting my results it looks like there is nothing much to report about.

I've picked up some speed again after last month.
I couldn't resist checking my graph because I knew I probably made it past 10k in recorded profit. I should be just over 15k in lifetime winnings now.
This week I've cashed out some to buy a new car... a new used car... I'll probably have it home and licensed on Wednesday - so no pictures yet.
I'll cash out some more on the 9th of August because I'm going on vacation for a week. I have 8k online right now, so unless I continue to hit my worst strech of variance ever, I'll be comfortably within my BR limits for 100NL... but it means I won't be moving up either for another month or so.

That was really nice... withdraw it, go to the bank, have the lady behind the counter ask "how would you like your money?", and go buy some big toys... after all this is kind of the thing you fantasize about when you first deposit your $10 and take a shot at poker.

Grats on your new car man! Must feel great having something tangible as a reward for your efforts. Now it's your shoes all the micro donks want to be in.

thx...

June graff:


+€800 live


Next month I'm shooting for 50k hands+
I've cashed out 4k this month for car and living expenses, so BR is stuck where I left off 4 weeks ago. So I'll grind some moar 100NL.

Yesterday I played some live again. There are small poker rooms opening up all over the city. Some have games as low as 25c/50c. So that's fun. At 1/2 people are playing way too serious... they get emotional and stuff.
I'm a big looser over my first couple 1/1 sessions, but I make it up with some profit at 1/2.

Right now I'm figuring out some life management stuff. It looks like my best option is to take a 20h job as a decoy so I don't need to pay taxes on poker or sumthin.

Running super hot this month... Up a lot in hardly any hands. Started playing some 1/2... Everytime I'm moving up someone tells me "Oh no, but xNL to xNL is a hoooooch jump" And then I get there, and it's the same idiots making the same mistakes. It was the same from 10NL to 25NL, from 25 to 50, from 50 to 100 and now from 100 to 200.
The stakes get higher, the regs get a little smarter, but it never was a huge jump.

Just came back from vacation...
Haven't played a single hand that week, and I don't even feel like playing now.
Gotta put in some volume though.
I'll spend a lot of time playing drums... practicing, going to sessions, finding new bands. That will take up most of my afternoons and evenings, so I'll have to set my poker sessions earlier. That means I'll be playing at the worst hours, but I have other priorities right now.
I went climbing yesterday and I think I'll start doing that some more.

I'll be applying at a music school for a 30h job which should cover health insurance and all that crap. I like teaching a lot, and it makes everything much less complicated... insurance, taxes...

I'll keep shooting for ~2h+ of poker every day.

I've played less than 10k hands and I'm over 2k for the month, which even makes it a little harder for me to sit down and grind it out.

bro, update on hours this month so we can see who's ahead and who needs to grind a shitton to catch up

Yet on another worst downswing ever, so I don't particularly feel like updating anything... another session like today and I'm playing 50NL again.

12 hours and 5k hands so far this month.