Depending on how this contract I'm going for works out, I may have some spare cash to throw at a solid horse like you in the FTOPS, Dervish. So if you do post a BAP, I wouldn't mind a link here.

No guarantees I'll buy, but I'll definitely give it a good hard look if my finances are right.

Would definitely be interested in backing you as well, will subscribe to the thread now!

Can I clean your house?

Now would actually be a good time for a half-month graph; I'll be taking the next 2 days off (snowboarding today, Steelers game Sat ... and the GB/ATL game aughta be notes as well). GL out there everyone!

Took Friday and Saturday off (yeahhhhhhh Steelers!!!), and played sparingly today (won $50). Been pretty stagnant since the 10th, so going to get at it hard starting tomorrow and try to make this month something special.

Right on ... I'll have the details up within the next week.

I don't think my maid would appreciate me going behind her back like that

nice graph sir, GL

Had some pretty good battles with Beanmo today, the guy who's #1 on the 9-handed turbo leaderboard ($101-$300) that I'm going for. He's about $8k ahead of me right now, so I've got a lot of work to do.

I usually never use players' SNs when I post hands, but he's one of those cool kids that makes videos and **** so I doubt he'd mind


Full Tilt - $110+$9|80/160 NL - Holdem - 7 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

WhirlingDervish (BTN): 1,855.00
Whitesnake1 (SB): 2,335.00
beanmo (BB): 1,675.00
at0at08 (UTG): 2,565.00
don jad (UTG+1): 2,230.00
money-today (MP): 2,040.00
pokerwakko (CO): 800.00

Whitesnake1 posts SB 80.00, beanmo posts BB 160.00

Pre Flop: (240.00) WhirlingDervish has A T

fold, fold, fold, fold, WhirlingDervish raises to 400.00, fold, beanmo raises to 1,675.00 and is all-in, WhirlingDervish calls 1,275.00

Flop: (3430.00, 2 players) 5 7 8

Turn: (3430.00, 2 players) 7

River: (3430.00, 2 players) Q

WhirlingDervish shows A T (One Pair, Sevens) (PreFlop 61%, Flop 4%, Turn 0%)
beanmo shows 4 6 (Straight, Eight High) (PreFlop 39%, Flop 96%, Turn 100%)
beanmo wins 3,430.00

This is one of those hands where he knows a have a wide hand range from the button, so he thinks he can move me off of it by coming over the top. I know that he knows this, so I'm going to call him wider than I would normally. I also call for metagame purposes; if he knows I'll call fairly wide, he will (hopefully) be reticent to bluff-shove on me in the future.

Often times, it's better to open-shove here than just raise, as it takes the reshove element out of the equation (particularly if either of the blinds has a small pair). But here I knew I might get bluff-reshoved by a marginal hand, and chose to play it in a more high-variance manner. Didn't work out, but it was definitely a fun hand

This one's from the next tourney. It's not real exciting or anything, but getting revenge HU is always sweet.

Full Tilt - $110+$9|300/600 NL - Holdem - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

WhirlingDervish (BB): 6,285.00
beanmo (SB): 7,215.00

beanmo posts SB 300.00, WhirlingDervish posts BB 600.00

Pre Flop: (900.00) WhirlingDervish has 5 A

beanmo raises to 7,215.00 and is all-in, WhirlingDervish calls 5,685.00 and is all-in

Flop: (12570.00, 2 players) 5 3 8

Turn: (12570.00, 2 players) T

River: (12570.00, 2 players) T

WhirlingDervish shows 5 A (Two Pair, Tens and Fives) (PreFlop 66%, Flop 76%, Turn 89%)
beanmo shows K 3 (Two Pair, Tens and Threes) (PreFlop 34%, Flop 24%, Turn 11%)


Pretty good day today, all in all.

In the first hand you say you have a wide range on the button, so you obv mix in some raise calls and raise folds in that range? Do you fill like you get away with a lot of raise/folds with this stack on the button? (Its an area I need to work on just wanna hear more of your thought process with these 10-15bb button ranges) 2nd hand is super standard

I guess to be more precise, I should have said "he assumes I have a wide range on the button" since most people do. In general, I really don't try to steal all that much from the button (esp with the 10-15 bb stack size), since people kindof expect that. But I am much more inclined to steal-raise to 2.5 bbs when I have a 15 bb stack (when the raise represents 1/6th of my stack) than a 10 bb stack (1/4th). But of course, it must be done sometimes, usually depending on game situation and what type of players are in the blinds. If it's a guy I know isn't gonna re-pop it without a strong hand, I'll go out on the limb and raise ~1/4 of my stack to try to steal more often, even though it's not an ideal chip stack for it. If it's a guy who isn't afraid to put you to the test with a marginal hand, it's best to go shove-or-fold to take that play away from him.

Obviously in this case I felt my hand was strong enough to call a reshove from him, and the stack sizes helped dictate that kind of higher-risk/variance play. That is, because all the stacks were fairly even, I felt it would be better to go for the double-up rather than shove - and put myself at risk just to pick up the 240 and still have the same stack as everyone.

In general, I think it's best to play pretty tight with 10-15 bbs unless there is a particular reason to make you think stealing a high % play.

G&Cs forum is full of epic STT sweats this year! gotta love it

GL

Can you point me to some of the good ones out there? There's so many new threads at the beginning of the year that it's hard to sift through them sometimes.

sick A10o hand. Still can't quite wrap my head around the read you have on the guy & his thought process for shoving there so wide, but the run-out looks familiar to me . aim tomorrow?

Why dont u play 6max stts btw?
they fit to u way more than the 9max because there is more postflop play and not so much pushbotting. and there are often deeper stacks in the heads up and fewer regs in the highstakes(if u tableselect well).. imo :P

Wanna say something to that?

fresh

I never really gave it that much consideration ... maybe I should? I wasn't aware there was more post-flop play in those games. Why is that? I do like the idea of less regs ...



Sorta sick I guess. I'm only a 2:1 favorite there, so it's really not so bad. And that's kindof where he was coming from; A lot of the good aggressive players will reshove on you with suited connectors and small pairs, the thinking being that you will usually fold, and if you don't, they're really not that big of an underdog to hands like AK/AQ/AJ. If you combine folding equity + showdown equity in those spots, it can be a +EV play against players who don't stoutly defend their raises.

I think that's what he was going for in this hand. Obviously 6-4s is real marginal in this spot, but on top of winning the sizeable pot, he wanted to discourage me from raising his blind. I called not just because I thought my hand might be best, but also because I wanted to show that I will defend my raises which will hopefully discourage him from making this sort of play in the future.

I think from his POV, my range was polarized; If I had a moderately strong hand, I would have shoved. He thought my smaller raise indicated either a big pair or a steal, and it's not all that likely that I have a big pair. I think a lot of players play like that, so I don't think it was an unreasonable assumption on his part. I try not to; mixing it up is real important against perceptive players.

Anyway, down for aim ... let me know what time works for you

Interesting stuff WD, thanks for posting the hand and your thought process.

yea there is more deepstack play because its 6max and u get more hands and its not like 9max where every reg needs like 5 secs for a decission because hes 30 tabling.
at the 9max u are at 50/100 after around 13 hands, when you are there in the 6max at around 22 hands.
im talking about stars, dont know how it is at ftp, but im sure with the regs thing.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/17...2011-a-938652/ = starting guns STT thread

and the spacegravy one too

gl wd. been following for a while now.

Word. Thanks for the heads up - I'll do some scouting over on FTP and see what's up.

I've actually check both those out. Gravy's obv one of the elite guys and it's way cool to check his **** out.

Right on man Feel free to chime in whenever.



Today was real lame. I ordered "How to Treat Your Poker Like a Business", and was real excited when it came in the mail today. So I tried to fit in a set so I could get my Iron Man requirements in and then shut it down so I could read the book. I didn't focus properly at all and sped through the set, going 0-for-6 and dropping ~$700. Very poor performance by me and I am committed to turning that right back around come tomorrow.

Nice a shout out! heh


FYP

been following thread for a while now. gl wd

Very inspiring! GL in 2011! awesome thread keep up the good work!

Hahaa!! I do love your ****!

Thanks ... again

Thanks Mr. Montoya ... hopefully I do less sucking and more inspiring ... update soon!

Today was a glorious day of poker. The graph says it all.




Despite getting sucked out on all day (and even worse, not sucking out on anyone ), I battled and never lost my focus, and ended up in the black.

Cashed in 9 of 16 tourneys and didn't win a single one! Like Baxter eating a whole wheel of cheese, I'm not even mad. That's amazing!