Felt great today. Made a couple dumb mistakes, it happens. Overall really happy with my play though - def feeling very confident. It's taken a while, but I'm finally starting to see some serious results from the strat/mental work I've done the past few months. It's been hard to maintain confidence during this epic runbad at times, but I almost don't care about variance anymore - I just want to crush people and make good decisions.
I've pretty much stopped chopping completely, 100% stopped at 500+. Some of the guys I chopped w in past and play now occasionally are quite good, but I know that challenging myself vs them only makes me better in the long term. If any of you are reading this, it's def nothing personal and I have a ton of respect for all of you (why we chopped in the first place).
December has been easy so far. I feel great.
December
VPPs: 29,670 (2768 behind pace...basically 1 day of playing)
Some hands from today:
I would have bet about $30,000 that I was ahead on this flop. Seriously. Lol.
Poker Stars $220+$10 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 2 players
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Hero (BTN/SB): t1280 25.60 BBs
BB: t1720 34.40 BBs
Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BTN/SB with 3
3
Hero raises to t100,
BB raises to t150, Hero calls t50
Flop: (t300) T
K
3
(2 players)
BB bets t1570 all in, Hero calls t1130 all in
Turn: (t2560) 4
(2 players - 2 are all in)
River: (t2560) 6
(2 players - 2 are all in)
Final Pot: t2560
Hero shows 3
3
(three of a kind, Threes)
BB shows K
K
(three of a kind, Kings)
BB wins t2560
One of the biggest 3barrel stations I've ever played. T8 is like the nuts here. I could do anything I wanted for value vs him. So fun.
Poker Stars $550+$20 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players
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BB: t955 31.83 BBs
Hero (BTN/SB): t2045 68.17 BBs
Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BTN/SB with T
8
Hero raises to t75, BB calls t45
Flop: (t150) 3
7
T
(2 players)
BB checks,
Hero bets t80, BB calls t80
Turn: (t310) 2
(2 players)
BB checks,
Hero bets t175, BB calls t175
River: (t660) A
(2 players)
BB checks,
Hero bets t175, BB calls t175
Final Pot: t1010
BB mucks 6
3
Hero shows T
8
(a pair of Tens)
Hero wins t1010
Th blocker is a pretty sexy card to have to 3 barrel (Ah being the best obv). Eliminates a lot of the fd's he flats oop (pretty sure he'd just c/c them all the way). I expect to get called by 2 pair, but dont think he has many 2 pair combos (Q8/85s maybe). The link I posted a few posts back helped me to think about this spot a lot better (hand combos/blockers).
Poker Stars $500+$20 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t10/t20 Blinds - 2 players
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Hero (BTN/SB): t1670 83.50 BBs
BB: t1330 66.50 BBs
Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with T
6
Hero raises to t60, BB calls t40
Flop: (t120) 5
K
Q
(2 players)
BB checks,
Hero bets t80, BB calls t80
Turn: (t280) 8
(2 players)
BB checks,
Hero bets t180, BB calls t180
River: (t640) 6
(2 players)
BB checks,
Hero bets t1350 all in, BB folds
Final Pot: t640
Hero mucks T
6
Hero wins t640
wtf can't find my hand today where i donked off my stack - a summary:
i called oop KTo, flop 653 i lead he flats, turn 3 i lead he snap jams a slight overbet. i hero call and he shows A6.
can't go into too much detail of why i thought i was good there. i have a lot of history vs villain. he is decent, but has just a really backwards thought process in a lot of spots (like this one where he turns his hand into a bluff basically and elimintes bluffs from my range, way to go!)...maybe he's so good he knew he'd level me into calling with air lol.
Going to get some sleep. Gl guys.