Czechvengeance is right in this case

I think it might've been checked to the river so didn't see any value in cbetting and making the pot even bigger.

I don't know I like my AK. xD

LOL! 4betting big there is obv optimal.
If we have a made hand or not is irrelevant. We have a hand thats very top starting hand vs. very call happy opponent, thats relevant.
Also postflop playability is awesome with AK, especially versus straight forward calling stations.

GL GL!

Day 32.
Hello everyone!

Today for the first time in my life I played a decent match where my opponent didn't leave after winning or losing one stack but was rebuying till the very end!

For about two hours we were gently playing with each other while constantly changing the effective stack size. He didn't leave even when I had to go to the bathroom!

Our battle took over 500 hands.

I can't show you the graph because my HM2 stopped tracking hands in the middle.

classifying things as made hands or not pre-flop seems unnecessary to me. i think making it big against someone who is going to call a lot is probably fine.

Day 37.
Best day in HU so far.

Despite the time I spend at the tables (usually it's 5-11 hours per day), the rake and my small mistakes eat tones of money.

Another curious thing I've noticed is that ppl appear at my tables wave-like. It's like you sit there for 30 minutes, bored as hell. And then BAM! You've got action at 5 tables at once.

It's very sad when somewhere at that point you need to go to the toilet. You wait till the very last moment, then write "brb", but for the whole time I've plated only 2 guys waited for me. And I'm shocked but not only the guys who're up against me leave, but those who're down 2 buying are gone by the time I come back.
Where is their desire to get everything back?

It looks like a pee bottle (there are special female and unisex models) is an absolute must-have for a HU player, though it's great for 6-9-max grinders too.

Day 39.
It's been so funny playing these last two days. I guess I've never lost so many all-ins in my entire life. My neighbours probably think that I'm a very bad girl because I swear loudly half of the day.

Hand of the day:
Poker Stars, $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 2 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: $73.75 (147.5 bb)
Hero (BB): $95.01 (190 bb)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 7 7
SB raises to $1.50, Hero calls $1

Flop: ($3) 3 A 2 (2 players)
Hero checks, SB checks

Turn: ($3) 7 (2 players)
Hero bets $2.25, SB calls $2.25

River: ($7.50) 7 (2 players)
Hero bets $5.25, SB raises to $13, Hero raises to $91.26 and is all-in, SB calls $57 and is all-in

Results: $147.50 pot ($0.50 rake)
Final Board: 3 A 2 7 7
SB showed 4 5 and won $147 ($73.25 net)
Hero showed 7 7 and lost (-$73.75 net)

that is a brutal hand wow straight flush over quads, I feel your pain

August.
Another funny thing.

There are some opponents AGAINST whom I hit everything. I can easily call my gutshots "wihout having odds to do so". I will hit anyways.

Usually it happens versus one concrete guy. It's somewhere equal agaisnt the others.

And I'm curious if they run so bad only against me. And if so, why would they press "rebuy" again and again instead of "sit out"?

And my monthly results, of course:



Biggest pot lost:
Poker Stars, $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 2 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: $73.75 (147.5 bb)
Hero (BB): $95.01 (190 bb)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 7 7
SB raises to $1.50, Hero calls $1

Flop: ($3) 3 A 2 (2 players)
Hero checks, SB checks

Turn: ($3) 7 (2 players)
Hero bets $2.25, SB calls $2.25

River: ($7.50) 7 (2 players)
Hero bets $5.25, SB raises to $13, Hero raises to $91.26 and is all-in, SB calls $57 and is all-in

Results: $147.50 pot ($0.50 rake)
Final Board: 3 A 2 7 7
SB showed 4 5 and won $147 ($73.25 net)
Hero showed 7 7 and lost (-$73.75 net)

Biggest pot won (I missclicked on the turn obviously):
IPoker, $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 2 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

BB: $82.76 (165.5 bb)
Hero (SB): $92.10 (184.2 bb)

Preflop: Hero is SB with 4 7
Hero raises to $1.50, BB calls $1

Flop: ($3) J 2 3 (2 players)
BB bets $2.50, Hero raises to $6.50, BB calls $4

Turn: ($16) 5 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $84.10 and is all-in, BB calls $74.76 and is all-in

River: ($165.52) A (2 players, 2 are all-in)

Results:$165.52 pot ($1 rake)
Final Board: J 2 3 5 A
BB showed 8 J and lost (-$82.76 net)
Hero mucked 4 7 and won $164.52 ($81.76 net)

not bad!

Sometimes something happens that is beyond my understanging.

For example, today. I was playing and suddenly two guys just raped me! I haven't seen so much luck for a while.

I had enough around this hand which is called "I have a draw I call":


Poker Stars, $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 2 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: $103.36 (206.7 bb)
Hero (BB): $92.31 (184.6 bb)

Preflop: Hero is BB with Q Q
SB raises to $1.50, Hero raises to $5, SB calls $3.50

Flop: ($10) 2 4 2 (2 players)
Hero bets $5.50, SB raises to $14, Hero raises to $87.31 and is all-in, SB calls $73.31

Turn: ($184.62) 6 (2 players, 1 is all-in)
River: ($184.62) 7 (2 players, 1 is all-in)

Results: $184.62 pot ($0.50 rake)
Final Board: 2 4 2 6 7
SB showed 6 5 and won $184.12 ($91.81 net)
Hero showed Q Q and lost (-$92.31 net)

I guess everyone had those sessions when someone keeps 3betting-4betting-raising-checkraising and stuff. It drives me crazy especially when I don't have anything to counterattack him with.

But one thing that pisses me off the most is when I suddenly get some good hands against him and it looks like he feels it or something and stops doing his aggressive ****.

And this keeps happening since yesterday.

I don't know maybe I'm PMSing but at this very moment I'm a raging tilting bitch.

I took a day-off from poker (although it might be 2 days since I woke up at 9pm) and I did some thinking about motivation, playing and mistakes.

For me, 'motivation' can be changes with a word 'will'. Not enough motivation = not willing to do something.

At some point in my life I had to motivate myself to get out of bed.

I've never traveled, I've never wanted some fancy new gadgets like an iphone (but of course I wouldn't mind having a new monitor and/or keyboard and/or mouse and/or PC) or fashion clothes. "setting goals" has always been somewhat foggy like "climb up to 200NL".

And now after years I spent in poker my mistakes are still here. And I believe I can't get rid of them because I don't have enough (or any) motivation to do that. I despise the fact that everything depends on money in this world so my entity fights with my will to get myself together and get those moneyz.

And all this journey to success still looks like a drawing on a sand which can be blown away with a breeze.

But at the same time I deeply believe that if I change something small, a tiny little detail, it all will work out the way I want it to.

So I start with the obvious thing.

I shall read my motivational and theoretical notes before every session, I shall listen to a nice song and I shall close my internet browser for the session duration. Also I'll try to configure the sites-blocking addon (which blocks the access to specified sites after a certain time I've spend there) because lots of sites eat lots of my time.

It might look like an easy task but I'm like a refresh junkie, lol.

We'll see in a week if it affects my game at all (especially the preparation part).

Good luck!

If you need help to find drive and motivation, and more importantly, the tools to change everything, you should look up Anthony Robbins and his teachings. Golden.

Games and browser.
Well, it's a doublefail.

Firstly, I got into a low priority pool in Dota2 because I abandon the games way too often. Now if I want to play in the next day I'll have to play with moronic leavers like myself. But I don't want to spend my time with a bunch of russians who cuss through all the game in voice-chat becase we're losing while they're the reason we're losing since picking 4 carries is not a good plan. Phew.

Secondly, I completely forgot about one useful thingy that browser contains which is PTR. So I need to correct my rule a little bit because sometimes it's very helpful to check out my opponent there.


And a little bit more about games.

Actually I just love playing any kind of FPS/Action, but lately I've been playing some weird ****. For example, right now I'm rotating between "DuckTales Remastered (which is a remake of the Dandy game. Hello, childhood!), "Parers, please" (which is a simulator of an immigration officer) and a new horror game called "Outlast".

And you know, I used to play for like a whole day if I really liked a game, or I could play Half-Life for the millionths time, or I could keep playing untill I made it through a very rough moment. Now I get bored in like 20 minutes. Am I getting old?

Oh, another thing.
I will play with my new rules not for a week but for 12 days (including 1 dayoff).

Hahaha!

A few days ago I wrote I woldn't mind having a new keyboard. Some guy asked me why wouldn't I buy it now and I answered that until this one was broken I didn't see any reason to spend money.

WELL

YESTERDAY MY KEYBOARD FACED MY GLASS OF BEER

IO+EIO+H,.DVWkl
GHTYkl
r;VER;E

i can't believe how you have climbed stakes, at first i thought you were gonna fail so badly, to be honest, but well... i was wrong... gl girl.

Experiment.
Hey guys, it's been a while.

First and foremost, I have a problem with my PokerStars layout after today's necessary update. I can't install my chips (I have a cool set from TiltBuster).
If anyone knows how to make them work again — please, let me know.

Secondly, it's been 12 days since my experiment with the preparation to my sessions.

I feel myself much more confident when I sit and play. Tilt doesn't influence me the way it used to, I cuss a bit (which is the next step I guess in my self-improvement), but I don't lose money because I am tilted.

However, I'm still a human and I still make mistakes.

Started to add 100NL tables.


12 days without preparation:


12 days with preparation:


It was all thanks to best day on 14th of September:


Experiment was successful!

Yeah I'd think it's a mistake to get it in with 65ss ~200bb deep on this flop, but he still had ~40% equity and there isn't much any of you could do..

September.
Another month is in the past.

I think my stagnation is connected with the ****load of emotional stuff because it's time for me to move out of this apartment and I still haven't found my next home.

Because of that I've been playing a little bit less lately as well as a little bit worse (but only a bit!).

I started to add 100NL tables.

I hope I will find a new place fast enough to play a decent amount of hands in October.




Biggest pot lost:


Biggest pot won:

Break.
Looking for a place in Kiev appeared to be harder and longer than I expected. Playing from my parents' place is hard too: two TVs, two cats, my mom, my dad and my granny make it impossible to think straight and fast.

So it looks like there won't be any poker for the next few days.

You can't imagine how badly I want to find a new place with a nice aura and start to kick some major poker ass!!!

I don't have any reads on your villain, but it seems a bit too optimistic to bet/3bet 97o on this board ~250bb deep.

Back in business.
I am finally home!

My search for a place didn't only exhaust me morally, but also messed up with my playing schedule. It appears that coming back to hours and hours waiting for opponents is a little bit harder than I thought, especially considering that I'm still getting used to my new place. There are still some things I need to change/fix here.

Overall, I plan to grind till the end of this month to at least try to get a desent amount of hands despite the 2 weeks break.

Also, few days ago I found not 1 ice-cream in a pack, but 1 and a half! YES, I AM A WINNER.

And boy, it's so good to live up here on the 8th floor, closer to the sky and to the hot water.