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Originally Posted by ShellysAshes
Goals for Monday 20/02/2017 to Sunday 26/02/2017 (the next week)
[ ] 40hrs+ Total Grind
[ ] 3hrs+ Total Study
I've decided to call it quits for the week. Failed both of these goals but considering I basically lost a day and a half to the delivery driving on Thursday I'm satisfied with the effort.
Played for 33hrs 58mins and studied for 2hrs 35mins in total.
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Graphs for the Week
As you can see my CEV hasn't been great. Part of this is definitely down to variance. There's been a lot of coolers, getting outdrawn post-flop, not getting action on big-hands, going card-dead HU against fish, getting run-over against LAG-fish opponents etc etc. All very standard and of no concern.
However, part of this decline is also down to me. I've not played as well as I would like and have made quite a few FPS spews. I also seem to be trying to make way too many hero-calls.
The problem is, there's so many spots where I'm able to identify that the lines of my opponents make very little sense, so I'll call and then often find out that the reason their lines don't make sense is because they don't have any sense of what they're doing. I'm not saying this to be arrogant or with any air of superiority, obviously I'm grateful to be playing for real money against these guys but it is just a simple fact that if you're at level 2 or 3 or w/e and you're trying to view the actions of your opponents through level 1 or 2 eyes but they're actually at level 0, then you're going to **** up your own adjustments.
It's also dumb for me to make these calls because I seem to be decimating my stacks against guys that are calling jams way too light against a shoving-range that has already adjusted to their light-calls. They're such high-variance spots that most of the time there really is no need for them at these stakes. I'm hoping that I can keep an eye on that and really think things through a bit more this coming week!
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Here's some hands.
One of the aforementioned attempted hero-calls where I view their bet as highly-polarised but they're actually just doing something completely wierd.
Poker Stars, $2.76 Buy-in (20/40 blinds) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 2 Players
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#37651062
BB: 520 (13 bb)
Hero (SB): 980 (24.5 bb)
Preflop: Hero is SB with A
2
Hero completes, BB checks
Flop: (80) Q
Q
5
(2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks
Turn: (80) J
(2 players)
BB bets 40, Hero calls 40
River: (160) 6
(2 players)
BB bets 240, Hero calls 240
Results: 640 pot
Final Board: Q
Q
5
J
6
BB showed 6
9
and won 640 (320 net)
Hero mucked A
2
and lost (-320 net)
FPS raise then giveup. The hand they called the raise with then took to showdown makes my play really
really bad.
Poker Stars, $2.76 Buy-in (30/60 blinds) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 2 Players
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#37651063
BB: 750 (12.5 bb)
Hero (SB): 750 (12.5 bb)
Preflop: Hero is SB with 8
6
Hero completes, BB checks
Flop: (120) J
A
3
(2 players)
BB bets 60,
Hero raises to 166, BB calls 106
Turn: (452) 9
(2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks
River: (452) Q
(2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks
Results: 452 pot
Final Board: J
A
3
9
Q
BB showed 7
6
and lost (-226 net)
Hero showed 8
6
and won 452 (226 net)
Got this hero-call right. To be honest, the way things have gone this week they could have easily been ahead here.
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#37651064
Hero (BB): 470 (23.5 bb)
SB: 1,030 (51.5 bb)
Preflop: Hero is BB with Q
J
SB completes,
Hero raises to 50, SB calls 30
Flop: (100) K
7
K
(2 players)
Hero checks,
SB bets 100, Hero calls 100
Turn: (300) 7
(2 players)
Hero checks,
SB bets 880 and is all-in, Hero calls 320 and is all-in
River: (940) 5
(2 players, 2 are all-in)
Results: 940 pot
Final Board: K
7
K
7
5
Hero showed Q
J
and won 940 (470 net)
SB showed 2
3
and lost (-470 net)
Really dumb hero-call because the 5 makes sense. Obv I just don't expect them to do this with any of their 2pr hands or turned Kx so that lead me to click the button.
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#37651065
SB: 74 (3.7 bb)
BB: 754 (37.7 bb)
Hero (BTN): 672 (33.6 bb)
Preflop: Hero is BTN with 7
Q
Hero raises to 40,
SB folds, BB calls 20
Flop: (90) 6
7
8
(2 players)
BB bets 30, Hero calls 30
Turn: (150) K
(2 players)
BB bets 75, Hero calls 75
River: (300) 4
(2 players)
BB bets 300, Hero calls 300
Results: 900 pot
Final Board: 6
7
8
K
4
BB showed 4
6
and won 900 (455 net)
Hero mucked 7
Q
and lost (-445 net)
Their bet credibly reps 3x on the flop because lots of fish will do this on these paired boards. Not sure how they don't just pile pre but by the river they're credibly repping very little as the majority of players don't play any of their value hands this way.
Poker Stars, $2.76 Buy-in (15/30 blinds) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 3 Players
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#37651066
BB: 415 (13.8 bb)
BTN: 680 (22.7 bb)
Hero (SB): 405 (13.5 bb)
Preflop: Hero is SB with Q
A
BTN folds, Hero completes, BB checks
Flop: (60) 9
3
9
(2 players)
Hero checks,
BB bets 60, Hero calls 60
Turn: (180) K
(2 players)
Hero checks, BB checks
River: (180) 5
(2 players)
Hero checks,
BB bets 180, Hero calls 180
Results: 540 pot
Final Board: 9
3
9
K
5
BB showed 8
A
and lost (-270 net)
Hero showed Q
A
and won 540 (270 net)
Got this guy marked as a fish because he does some pretty poor stuff, but I suppose he's a bit of a fish-reg as I've seen him a few times now. It's the most violated I've felt since father last paid me a late night visit. (last Tuesday)
Flop-raise probably gets the job done there and then. He tank/called river so would love to know his thought process. FWIW I think it might be bad as I'd very recently decided to check A2s vs his limp and that went to sd, so I can have Ax or some flopped 2pr.
Poker Stars, $2.76 Buy-in (20/40 blinds) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 2 Players
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#37651068
SB: 610 (15.3 bb)
Hero (BB): 890 (22.3 bb)
Preflop: Hero is BB with 9
J
SB completes, Hero checks
Flop: (80) 7
8
K
(2 players)
Hero checks,
SB bets 40, Hero calls 40
Turn: (160) A
(2 players)
Hero checks,
SB bets 80,
Hero raises to 180, SB calls 100
River: (520) 4
(2 players)
Hero bets 400, SB calls 350 and is all-in
Results: 1,220 pot
Final Board: 7
8
K
A
4
SB showed Q
T
and won 1,220 (610 net)
Hero showed 9
J
and lost (-610 net)
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Ok that'll do for now. I'm taking tomorrow off from playing but I've got some HUD work and some studying and whatnot to get on with.
I'll drop in and set some goals for the week ahead. Also, as mentioned before, I'm going to have a bit of a shot-take at the 7s so on Tuesday. I'll just single-table and reduce my variance/figure out the level. Have about 150BI for the level which isn't an awful lot, but the monetary downswings at the 3s are very small as the playing standard is so weak, so hopefully the 7s won't be too different!?
Thankyou for reading.