On a pretty nice win streak. It all started with a 100/100/200 Omaha game. Blinds are in Philippine Pesos, so it's like 2/4 or 2/3 or w/e. Not a huge game. 100 bb min. So I lost a few blinds here or there and then I picked up T653 in a double board bomb pot. I flopped 245cc, T54 rainbow. Pretty decent. I bet 3k into 4500 and one caller. A rec lady on my left I was friendly with. Turn 8c, Jc. Pretty bad. Check check. River 8d, Tx. Pretty good. I c/c 10k and scoop.

Another pot I won I limped in with AAK7. Facing only a single raise I opted to limp call. We went three to the flop. The flop was A53, giving me the top set and second nuts. I call down the prfr on a Q, 8 runout where he unloads the clip. Allegedly he had QQ.


So anyway that was +40k.


Last night I ended up getting stacked for 8k with AK < AA AIPFR. Really stupid pot to. It was straddled, couple limpers, I pot it to 600 with AKdd, two callers, then an EP limper jams for 8k. No way anyone would play aces like this right? Wrong. I'm left with 1k in chips and I fold until I pick up QQ then stack off vs JJ and lose to a river jack. Le sigh. Anyway, I switch tables to the 50/100 game. Buy in 15k. I complete AQ vs a couple limpers, flop KJThh. I bet chunky on flop and turn and get called, river is a Q so board is now KQJT and I check to let him bluff at it but he checks back showing Q3hh for missed hearts. Then our game breaks and we combine tables.

So relatively early on in the night i pick up AKdd and its minraised and called in front of me. I raise to 1k and get three callers. Flop is KJx. Checks to me, I bet 2k, fold, call, fold. Turn 9c, check, spr 1 so all in, he calls with 45cc?!?!? air on flop, picked up fd. he bricks it. CHIPS! I play ultra snug mostly just playing big pairs and putting in ridic three bets with them. Kept getting called and then folded to on the flop also. I end up winning like 10k on the night.

Prev. night I won with AA vs AK AIPF, and the night before that I won with AA flopped top set, buddy called down to the river and then hit his flush on board pairing river.

Anyway we're doing great so far, from 60k to probably around 150k. Did have a pretty brutal session right before this run, although that wasn't mostly just run bad, I lost like 160bb AIPFR vs A9 and KQ with TT (it was a good spot, and I'm definitely not one to overplay med pairs, the A9 guy was short and jammed for like 25 bb and the guy who called him was tilted and playing loose so I had to punish jam my TT which I had flatted). And I had a hand earlier where I put in 36 bb on the turn with 94% (JT8x board with Q9 vs K9) only for him to spike the Q on the river and then I pay off like 90 bb.



Anyway going to be grinding until like 2M then buy a house.

Resorts World Session

Two players limp and I make it 500 to go in late position with KK. Three callers. The flop is a beautiful KT6 with two hearts, and I cbet 1100. Only one caller, who checks in the dark. I check back the Qh, and the river pairs the 6. My opponent bets 2400, and I make it 10,000 putting him all in. He calls fairly quick with a flush. We're now 25 hours into a poker session, and I'm sitting on just under 70,000 pesos at a 50/100 table. In for 55,000. What can I say, someone told me to never quit when the game is good.

And the game was good. I started off losing a few bbs at the 100/200 game, since a seat was open when I got there and they were just trying to get it started. Nothing really eventful happened before I bounced. At the 50/100 I ended up getting stuck. I three bet a fairly loose opener with AKss and picked up a cold caller. The flop came JJT giving me a gutty to a royal flush. The colder caller had aces and I didn't improve. He was short stack anyway. And then just a long stretch of being card dead. I picked up no hands, and the few I played didn't go far. There was one player on the other side of the table who was playing very loose aggro. Opening wide. I suspected he stole a lot of pots on the river. While I sat there and folded I got a chance to observe him. After a while I concluded that I really knew nothing, the tells he was exhibiting which I first observed that said he was bluffing were there constantly. He had a few though, hand in front of his mouth, motionless, cards completely unprotected. Anyway we got into a huge pot. A couple limpers, I make it 600 with AK, he makes it 2400, I make it 10,000 he says "let's gamble" and call. The flop comes all babies, he jams 14k effective and I call. He has JJ and I turn a king.

Then there was some tilt and bad play. This maniac lag guy who always gets into my head joined us, along with his smokeshow of a girlfriend (she's also a very tough poker player). Anyway I lost a bunch of pots to him, mean while he was dumping chips to everyone else. Some people you just can't beat. Eventually they left, and I my stack was fluctuating between 37,000 to 30,000 for a long time, winning and losing some small pots here and there.



Too many hands to even think about. But one shining moment needs to be recaptured. My opponent raises a couple limpers in LP to 600. He loves doing this with speculative hands, so I had targeted him to be three bet for value wider than normal (my normal three betting range being AK/QQ+). Anyway I make it 2400 with AA. He called. The flop came Q64 and I c-bet and he check raised small. I called. The turn was a 7. He bet 7500. I called. The river as an 8. He checked, and I checked. A big pot for one pair, more than 20,000 in there. He had AQ. Too bad the river didn't come a four or something.

So that hand brought me back to 50k or so. And from there, mostly folding, until the kings full hand. Then the last hand of the night, a LAG chinese guy comes to the table. The guy to my right is down to 2k, anyway long story short I have TT, the Chinese guy bets 1100, the other guy jams, I call, Chinese guy jams 12k and he's sitting on like 35-40k, I end up folding and he has AT. I decide to call it a night.


Anyway I made some money so whatever. Long session.

another long, long session of 50/100 php. i was up 10k almost right away. QQ > JJ on the 50 bb stack was a nice start, I cold 4 bet all in vs 350 - 1000. The 350 was a little suspicious because villain had made an oversized raise pre and showed KK (so the inference is he has a decent but non nutted hand).

some hands. one villain opens ep i flat AA next to act. not sure the last time i've ever done that in cash. flop A24 two tone. Villain c-bets I put in a hefty (pot sized raise). villain calls. turn is an ace, he checks, i bet like 1/3rd, he folds, and I end up cheating myself out of the high hand because apparently you need to see the river. it's only 2000 pesos anyway.

villain blind raises to 600 from EP. i flat Jd9d next to act. one other caller, villain makes it 2500 from the blinds. i call. flop QJ4. xx. turn 9. 1500 call. river 3. 4500 call, I lose to QQQ. pre is pretty bad here even 25k effective.



anyway games were really good.

had a JJ hand where it went 300, call call, I make it 1600 tid.

had an AK hand where villain makes it 500 from EP/Mp i make it 1600 from the blinds. flop is like Q9x rainbow and we just check it down and my hand is good. i think i like the line, just need to take some c/c lines with AQ and AA and QQ sometimes as well.

nice KK hand where I iso a few limpers to 500, one very loose player calls. flop 974 x i cbet like 50% or something. calls. turn 7. x x. river 3 x I go 40% fold.

98hh limp villain 400 this guy made some pretty big mistakes, lost a decent sized pot with 42o where he A) chose to play in like MP or something B) bet the river with bottom pair where he was too strong to value bet and too weak to bluff, just a bad time to bet C) peeled bottom pair vs small multiway cbet. anyway he was very active. i don't think this hand is an auto play in a raised multiway pot even in position but in this specific scenario vs these players i think it was a profitable flat. anyway flop comes 9xx he cbets small i call, turn i think pairs the bottom pair he checks i 40% he folds.

oh this one was fun. i open a small suited connect, 45 or 56. villain calls me. villain and i have some history, he is a bit loose (he got into a big pot today with J4 where he flopped top pair + fd and gii vs nfd and doubled through him for a huge pot) but seems to know what he is doing pretty over all. we've probably played like 10-20 hours at the same table this week. anyway I flop like k23 so just open ended and i'm first to speak three way so i c-bet loose guy calls. turn i pick up hearts and I fire a large second barrel (75%) and tid with my combo draw. im a huge nit so always love it when i get the odd redline win.

had another interesting hand. so I open KJs 300 and then this lady, rec, tries to three bet me to 700. her range is pretty nutted, but i'm still calling the 400. but she actually string raises it. she does it with one hand, but first she throws in the 300, and then a few seconds later the 400. the dealer wanted to let her get away with it. normally i wouldn't even care and would go with intent but i'd seen dealers enforcing string bets very strictly against other players so i mean i don't really care about what the policy is but make it consistent. like one guy was called on a string bet when he bet with two hands and one hand was just slightly trailing the other. i really felt like the lady was getting a favourable ruling from the dealer because she was filipina so i demanded a floor decision and they relented before the floor actually ruled. then flop came k high, she cbetted like 120% pot so I just folded my top pair. lady is a massive spot, just ultra loose passive, never get any value, always pay off when behind. u gotta love 'em.

at one point i was super card dead over a long period of time.

oh had a LRR KK hand. I limp UTG, gets raised with at least two callers, i make it 2k, three callers. flop came 852, i check, short stack all in, two deep stacks fold, i call and win vs JJ.

oh yah. there was a really wild chinese guy. baccarat player. and he brought a friend. he had a really sick angle too, where he called the turn and then went to raise. but he's held to just calling. it as a 2k turn bet. anyway the bettor just shuts down and chinese guy tables 72 for bottom pair. so either a sick free showdown angle or he really meant to raise with bottom pair which is quite credible also. chinese guy won a huge pot vs AA with T2dd when he flop top pair + fd and got it all in. AA had opened for like 11 big that hand but was no match for the tenacious preflop calling of our baccarologist. i didn't get any hands vs him, but i did get a fun hand vs his friend? son? accomplice? Anyway after the main guy ****ed off to play baccarat or go sleep or whatever his friend remained behind. He was really really bad too, much more hopeless than his friend who at least was splashy and crazy. This guy was just straight like call and then lose. Anyway he limped ep, I raise to 500 with 99, get a loose / enterprising call behind and then buddy goes to call but accidentally makes it 1100. I make it 4500 and tid.

It was about 18 hours in when I picked up KdQd. The gentleman to my right, a middle aged Chinese guy, opened for 600. Earlier he had been opening really wide so I started three betting him a lot. But that dynamic had long since changed. The table was pretty deep. I called, and we went to the flop multiway.

The flop came Ad5dx, giving me the nut flush draw. The PFR and I checked, and a decent sized bet came on my left. I closed the action with the third call. Around 10,000 in the pot when the 2d was dealt, giving me the effective nuts. I decided to lead out, betting 4400 and one caller. The river was a beautiful brick. Villain had about 1 psb left, and usually I would go for the home run, but I decided to size down and bet "only" 11,000. He called pretty quick with the jack high flush.



It had been a long session. A long losing session. Where did things go so wrong? It's hard now to remember even a single hand, my mind is so foggy despite or perhaps because of a full day spent repaying my sleep debt. One hand I had flopped top pair 5 kicker and NFD. I tried a big semi bluff play, but my opponent wouldn't fold his AT, top pair ten kicker. I ended up three quartering him, which was nice.

A couple limpers, and I raise to 1000 with J7s. The flop comes giving me a gutty and back door spades, 643. On the limpers donks 1500. I peek, there is another call. The turn is a 7, putting three clubs on the board. The aggressor continues betting 2k and we both fold quickly.

Chinese gentleman on my immediate right raises the button a decent size after a couple of limpers. He's been extremely active, playing every pot, and making a ton of opens. I three bet AJo. Flop comes K84. I c-bet 1/3rd, he calls. Turn brick x/x. River brick, I x/c 4600. He has KJ.

Another hand near the end of the session, it goes 300 (this guy was playing extremely spewy and tilted as well, he was having a hard session, not winning many pots), Chinese guy 900, me 3000 on button with AhAs. First guy physically almost calls out the 3k and then almost jams but ultimately decides to fold. Chinese guy calls.

Flop comes Kxx with two spades. My opponent c/c 4600. Turn is another spade. He checks I jam (less than 1 spr) he folds.

Anyway, by the end of it I think I only lost 10k. Not 100% sure.

Sat down with a 40 bb buyin at the 50/100 at Resorts World. Some positive variance right away. One hand I made it 850 pre, I was playing very nitty and then making slightly larger than pot sized raises pre when I got premiums. Anyway I had AK, made it 850 pre, got two callers, and flopped a king. With 1 spr i just jammed. Anyway I did this for a while, won like 30 bb or so, and then decided to top up for max (300 bb). It was quite fortunate that I did, because about 40 minutes later I pick up AA. I limp, and it goes raise, three bet to 2200 behind me, and I make it a cool 6300. The initial iso raiser, not the three bettor, calls. Three bettor folds. Flop comes low, and I'm so sure this guy has KK or QQ and is getting stacked so I c-bet 10k, he jams, I call. He has KK. We run it twice and I scoop.

Then I had this hand, I overlimp 99 in late position. Flop AA9. I bet flop, bet J turn, and get raised to 2200. Villain was a whale so I wasn't super worried. River was a 7, he checks I bet 4k, and then he puts in a 10k chip. We sit there for a bit and I table my hand. He starts to insist he said raise (he never did, although he probably wanted to raise). He keeps appealing but they are firm. He wins with A7.


Eventually I quit + 20k for the day. Also won a few hundred online. Actually up something like +1500 online the last couple days, just some random short sessions playing $100 and $200 plo (4/5/6 ) and OFC.

Think I might look into more live short stacking.

Two sessions since i last updated my blog.

session 1 layed really long. ended up in a really long conversation with another player. won like 5k playing 50/100, then won a bit at 100/200, then lost a bit at 100/200. over all down for the day i think, maybe 10k not a ton.


actually all my profits at 50/100 came from a hand where I had KK, I lrr from 500 to 2000. villain calls. Flop comes A97, 9, 4. We check both flop and turn and villain bets 3k on river I call he shows 85o.


this 100/200 hand.


straddled, 1500, I flat AKo, we go 3 or 4 to the flop. flop is all clubs, i have ace of trump. checked around. turn is a club. 1500, I call, call.

river brick, board has 4 clubs. there are 3 ways to make a straight flush. 3000, I call, fold.



another 100/200 hand I open AQ, get called in two places, end up flopping TPTK on a very dynamic board, I c/c two streets. river pairs the board and completes a flush. we both check and villain actually ended up being counterfeited.



50/100 again

I have QQ. goes limp, 500, me 1500, original raiser 4500. i call. flop comes all medium 4k i call. turn is a low brick, pairs board actually, x/x. river A. all in I fold. so villain had about 10,500 on river all in into 18000. should have just jammed turn i guess.


another hand i open with 44, two callers. flop comes 842. i cbet like 600 into 1000, two callers. 2800 in the pot. turn 4. i bet 1000 and they both fold

one hand i called turn w/ mid pair + fd. river paired the board and gave me a flush and i pay off like 20 bb or something. villain had top two on turn so nut full on river.




session 2 :

so there was this really weird dynamic at the start. anyone this one guy was making it 8 bb like half the time. so i win two pots early on, i mean it takes an hour or two but in both hands buddy was in the straddle, i over limp in, he makes it 800 from the straddle, then i flop top pair ace in a 4 and then 5 way pot, everyone checks to me, i'm last to act, i bet 2k (pot was 3k and 4k) everyone folds. was kind of strange. then i pick up AA and make it 300 to go. couple callers, villain makes it 1500, i make it 5000, he makes it 20,000, I jam he calls. run it twice and i win both. 600 bb pot.

the one more hand I had AK, I open, get three bet, theres a cold caller and I make it 7k. three bettor calls all in for less, cold caller calls. flop is all low, I bet all in (2700) effective. caller folds. i'm against QQ, we run it twice and I hit the river on the second board. so that was a decent profit, chopping the main, scooping the side. villain said he had AK.