Windy windy windy! Play a cheap 9 hole course today (par of 30) after work this morning and oh my god the first 5 holes could not have gone any worse. Best score was a double bogey those 5 holes. The last 4 holes I finally got used to the wind and shot just 3 bogeys and 1 par (and had another par putt lip out the cup) for a 45 total. I couldn't hit the ball properly the first 5 holes.

So I'm going to play at least a session today. I'm going to go through some hands too, look back on some mistakes and things. I may also try an MTT, but I'm not 100% on that one. I want to play a lot, because I won't be playing tomorrow. I'd love to break $250 today.

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my knee hurts. i have a rare disease where basically, my spine is ****ed up. bent with both scoliosis and kyphosis. no cure, but a cosmetic coverup. too risky for me, as there was a chance for paralysis. it shortens my hamstrings, makes my back look a bit funky. it's supposed to limit what i can do physically, bnut i havent let it stop me. but it does make me more sore than other people. and thats why my knee hurts after a thing as simple as golfing.

what do you guys do w ATo OTB v a CO pfr?

this is good practice. guy to my right at 10nl table pfr every SB BTN or CO when its unopened.

mmm flopped nut straight. think i missed river vale. put him on flush draw, he had it. but also had two pair. hmmm. maybe he calls a suck betOTR.

well, i improved. not as big of a pot, but creating a suck bet OTR whn i know i have the best hand. A9cc OTB after 1 limper (aggro guy) bb x F K66cc x x i bet f c(by aggro guy). A t, x I check bc I like almost any card OTR. R blanks he x i bet less than 1/2 pot bc he has small Kx or FD or like 77. but he folds

3betting AQo in SB, cbetting paired flop. yum.

floating can unfortunately be profitable.

in BB w 140bb stack, OTB pfr to 3xbb (200bb stack) SB calls (100bb), calling w 73s is an ok move sometimes, right?

this sessionis dragging. big time. no big pots or hands. lets change tables then,.

dont rep strong hands when your hand has showdown value. oh, and vs fish. they dont know when their bottom pair w small kicker isnt good.

flop top two, get it all in on flop vs top pair, he turns the Q he needed for higher two pair.

there really is not many tough spots or big hands tday

oh my. another AI and get sucked out. AK<T5cc AI OTT. He called a bet OTF of 25A one club, then called a shove (I shoved bc he had .4 more than a pot bet) on 8c turn. mannnnnn. then the bitch ratholes

And KK<AA. i haven t looked at the cashier but ima have to drop 10nl soon. not bc im playing bad but bc this card distribution is ****. i could be playing bad as well too.

AK b2b hnds same guy limps. same guy limp folds gboth times lol

hmmm. pf aggression. won the last 5 pots pf just raising

what do you guys think about bvb facing a shorty?

i ran horrible. just awful. i dont know how i lose $25 in a session of 10nl and 5nl. im checking my play tomorrow or later tonight. i was to the right of a guy who ran like god all night. i lost those two big hands when i was a favorite, and lost KK to AA. Yeah, going back down to 5nl.

1.75 hours
-$26.22
BR: $212.69

I think flatting is std if they seem reggy

I felt at the time flatting was ok. I didn't really have reads since it was towards the beginning of the session, so I did just flat. It turned out (iirc) that this guy was a chronic thief, almost to the point where it probably was a leak for him. At the beginning of the session, my only tells are this:

Full Stack - reg
80-100 - probably reg
<80 - fish

Now obviously those aren't exact guidelines, but I feel they're accurate enough in lieu of hard evidence.

Yesterday was bad, but I didn't feel tilted if at all. I did make a bad semi-bluff at the end (shoving QJ with a double-gutter) against the player who was running like god, but most of the play was simply me opening pre-flop, getting 1 or 2 callers, not hitting the flop and the flop really being too wet to bet on (JTT with 44 or AK with 876). There was the occasional suckout (the AK<T5 hand and T8<QT AI on the flop when I flopped top two) and cooler (KK<AA against god mode player) and I feel I didn't play too bad sans maybe the semi-bluff. When I play bad, I get a little mad at myself, and that wasn't really the case. A funny thing happened though that wouldn't happen earlier (IE circa 2010). I wasn't tilty or emotionally attached to the losing because I had already parted with the money. That money is no longer a part of me until I choose it to be. Therefore, it should have no emotional control over me. When I get a winning session, I'm happy about it because it makes me closer to my goals. When I get a losing session, I should dust it off and see what I did wrong. I also see all these PG&C threads who post when they win and refuse to when they lose. The losing is just as much a part of the thread as winning, but it doesn't make you look as baller when you lose. I'm ok with that. I'm not trying to be a baller. I'm trying to improve.

Anyways, I probably won't try to get a session in today because I do work second shift. For those, I have to wake up later than usual so I don't fall asleep at work. I even went into work yesterday after my session because someone called off, leaving my manager alone for the second straight night. That was more tilting than anything. And I'll look at some hands and try to post in the strategy section today. Have a good friday everyone!

It's always a disappointment to know that I still currently make more per hour at my ****ty job than playing online poker at the current moment. I did go over a few hands yesterday, mostly those where I had lost a little bit of money to see what I could do better. Remember that AK hand where I folded TPTK to a x/r OTT and shove OTR? Turns out the guy had me beat like I thought. Whereas I put him on a straight, he actually had top two pair. And looking through the hands to see if I could do anything different...there wasn't much from what I could see. It also helps to know that, looking at my EV line, I went from 2 BIs over EV to 2.5 BIs under EV in the span of 2,000 hands. That's quite a contrast, although I haven't had a chance to look at the hands from Thursday's session yet.

Working sucks by the way. I work at a place that has implemented massive, widesweeping changes the last 2 or 3 months. They all scream of desperation and customers hate them with a passion. They, in turn, take it out on the employees who have no say in what happens. They took away a cashier each point of the day. They cut store operating hours. They cut self-checkout operating hours. And I haven't figured out whether it's corporate or just our store manager, but the hours everyone is given has been cut drastically and the managers are working 60 hours a week because of it. Anyways, last night I was supervising and got snapped at no fewer than 10 times in 1 1/2 hours over the new genius corporate move, scanning a loyalty card before being able to scan any other items at a self-checkout. I agree with customers, it's the stupidest, dumbest thing ever and it's done to prevent the very low amount of theft that occurs at those machines. I can't say that on the clock, however, and I have to take it. Eventually, another customer snapped at me and it was a couple minutes past time to go, so I said "**** it, I'm out" and clocked out. And then I teased the customers for ten minutes by just standing there and saying "no I can't help you" which pissed them off.

Anyways, enough ranting about that god awful place. Today's plan is full of relaxation and poker. Because I have nothing planned and don't really want to go out, especially because it's been flurrying....yes, FLURRIES....here this morning and it's cold. Well played, Ohio weather. Well played. So two sessions probably or a really long session. Oh, and to end this on a positive note, despite how bad Thursday was, I still wound up positive at 5nl and am still beating it at 19bb/100. Good luck everyone!

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all 5nl tables

I see a lot of raises today so far

lol first hand for a player, insta pf shove

was actually starting sooner, but had to watch my baby niece while my brother showered. and in between, router went out again for a little bit. dont like that, but living in the country kinda gets hit or miss internet.

another fish on a heater? guy to my immediate right.

lol. 3b in bb A9o to btn stl, cb on JA7ccc flop. calls. x on J turn. x on T r. he has KQcx. then i iso, min raise, get it in vs shorty AIPF. AK<AA. note to self: always fold to the limp-lolimadonkminraise

i dont believe there is ever an instance to min-raise. unless you're performing a bluff.

defending your SB w 76o...not even 3betting...massive leak.

why we dont 3b in SB vs BTN steal w good hands: AJ vs A6.

Feels good to win flip: QQ>AKs

hard to pla when an obvious fish open shoves ever other hand pf. not complaining

small pp....66-22....uncomfortable to play UTG


set set set....ewww spot. he had top two, rivered a boat better than mine. and he ratholed

damn i have not raised pf and the guy on my direct left not call. itd help to hit a pair on that table, oh well. lol omg. dont slowplay AA pf. raise OTB, BB min raise. hes a shorty, should just get it in. flop JT9, get it in. he turns over KQ. I slowplayed to shove any flop and keep his worse hands in. oh well



wow. same shortstacker. calls an iso raise in BB w QJo. I have AJ OTB. flop T98ddx.


another lesson: stay in the pot if you have something of relative value. ie you have 99, pfr from btn, get a caller and the flop comes dry Q73. he donks. wtf does a donk mean? usually, nothing.

ok, this has to be a bad run or something. i just had a fish limp pre, call an iso with T4s, call a 3/4 pot bet on a 562HHc flop, and hit his 3! im never putting him on any 4 there (i had QQ). this is bad. unreal. ive even dropped down and this stuff is still happening.

ok, im just done. BB special, flop top and bottom, bet enough to get straight draws out, and he hits his straight draw OTR. This is bad. This feels awful. I can't explain it, but it's like I can't win. I seriously just lost 2 BIs at 5nl. I'm down....down since depositing. There's no way I'm that bad. I hope it's a bad run. I'll try to play later. But it seriously feels like Bull****.

1.66 hours
-$11.36 (how the **** does that happen?!?!?!)
BR: $201.33

LOL

sorry, I just read the first paragraph of your last post. Dude, you lose 2 games at $5 and you're crushed?

No, I'm not crushed by the money or the fact of the $5. It's the principle behind it. It's my 4th losing session in a row and I just moved down stakes because of it. And the players are sooooo lolbad that I guess I feel entitled to their money every session. But I shouldn't feel entitled, I gotta work for it. Play as optimally as I mentally and physically can and hey, if I get sucked out on, maybe it'll be that hand that keeps the fish reloading instead of quitting forever.

IDK how I'm going to do this. Wanna be in bed by 1am, also gotta eat dinner (I have to eat dinner around 10 or 11 due to working 2nd shift almost always) and get some gf time on the phone more than likely. Unless she skypes me. And I'm about to play a session. Suck up the beats, bring my A game, and I got a fresh pot of coffee ready!

There's no principles in poker bro. There's luck and there's skill. As a poker player you have control over 2 things:

How much bankroll you play with
and
How you play

If you're playing good, with a ton of buyins, you should never have to move down. If you win 10 playing like a fish, it's worse long-term than losing those 4 buyins while playing your A game.

We are similar in that way though. I sometimes feel entitled, but once you get all in, it's not your money anymore.

GL

Start 908

awww one table and everyone already left me

mmmm just saw two players get it AI w QT on T high board

wow. just flopped two sets at the same time. both in raised pots. both pots about 80 bb. but i cant rely on flopping sets to win.

hmmm. me in UTG pfr UTG+1 min 3b. he is a SS. noone else calls. I have AJs. call or fold?

that was early in the session. this is still early in the session. but now i have enough info to believe that it should have been a call, even tho i hte playing oop

ick. two uncomfortable spots back to back. pfr AQs in UTG1, 2 callers, then SS SB shoves (he shoves $1.15). The callers have 70bb and 120bb respectively. HU, this is a snap call any day of the week and twice on matilsday. with 2 players left to act, this has to be a fold all day, right?

next hand, I get TT in SB. 120bb stack pfr in MP. I 3bet he calls. flop 468ssx. cbet, he calls. i dont have a s. turn is As. can we fire the 2nd bullet?


idk how people dont know how to bet. i call after 2 limpers w A5hh OTB. flop 3Q4hhx. x b c f i raise c f. So HU. turn is 5x. the guy min bets. i snap call. river is Kx. he min bets again. huh??????? snap call, he shows 36o.

what the hell? cleveland, winning 19-6 in the 6th inning? :O i mean i know theye frustrated having to deal with Boston during the whole bombing thing, but dayum

heres something fun. im getting hands IP of a pfr that are.....ehhhh. TJ, 44, QJ, etc...hands im not yet comfortable 3betting IP but I know makes me look weak for just calling.

dear flush draws...hit!

urgh. thats a bad play on my part even though it may have saved me money. UTG pfr min(he's loose), I 3b in CO w QQ he flats. floip AA8ddx. i check. i should bet those flops w QQ. turn is J he checks, I bet. that screams weakness I think, but idk. he calls. flop is somne blank, checked down. he shows KK,.

same guy pfr on BTN two hands later, I have QQ in BB and 3b, he calls ofc. flop KJ6ssx I finally cbet!!!!...he calls. turn gives me spade draw, I x he bets 1/3 pot. i cant see myself beating much there unfortunately. i have to call tho. turn is Tx he shoves. i cant tell if i misplayed it or just std

Just lost a BI. AQdd<K5 AI on 755ddx flop. I was getting 2 to 1 and figured he could do it with any overpair which puts me at 1 to 1 (maybe even better?) and if he has a 5 I'm about 2.5 to 1. Plus he was fishy.

even if I'm min 3b by a fish and OOP, I'm still not playing ATo

lol guy from AQ<K5 pot running like god officially. he had a donk shove 66 into him when he had JJ.

I may be down this session but I feel a lot better about my play.

feels good when your read is spot on and you win someones stack (even if theyre a SS)

for some reason, coffee makes me tired. i dont get awake. i drink coffee straight black because i like the taste.

damn, ran into god person in a small pot

small pot, hit straight.

no action on aces but at least i played em right this time

wow. I just got way lucky. 3 handed i pfr KJo in UTG,m BB w 70bb stack calls. f J22ssc. he checks, I bet, he calls. turn is 5c. he bets, i raise, he calls. flop is Kc. I know he doesn't have clubs. he checks, I tank and shove because AJ could call and honestly I have him beat except for a bad played AA. And if he has 22, bravo. He tank calls w QQ.

just successfully folded TT after 3 limps and I iso raise. first limper lolimadonkminraises. almost always AA, this time it was KK and I fold preflop.

godmode fish now has a $21 stack at 5nl. thats truly amazing

I feel I played this session better. Well, and ran better too. More aggressive and a bit more selective with hands in raised pots. I still recorded my 5th straight losing session which is quite baffling but I do feel a lot better about how I played and how I paid more attention. I work tomorrow 11-430 (very strange shift for me) and, unless my friend wants to do something after work, should get a session in tomorrow afternoon/evening. I can't really get 6 losing sessions in a row, can I?

1.84 hours (1 hour, 50 minutes)
-$1.57
BR: $199.76

Yeah, I hear that. I had 24 BIs for 10nl, and I still have 20 BIs, but it's better to move down perhaps to regain confidence and build the BR back up. I'm being cautious with my BR living in the US, as I don't want to go through the hassles of depositing again.

I agree to that as well. Feeling entitled is a bad way to feel at the poker table. It let's ego get in the way, and all of a sudden you're playing pots with the fishes that you shouldn't really be in. That's something I controlled better the session I just played, not playing in as many pots with the fish as I had been. IE 76s or o, PP OOP, and really trying to avoid playing OOP. They may be fish, but they can still bet and make life a bit uncomfortable for you playing mediocre hands OOP.

Yeah it can be frustrating. Sometimes it's more tilting when it's a good player doing it.


I just played 2 games against a decent reg. 1500 starting stacks in a sng. He calls my 500 chip 4 bet with 53, gets all in into ak3 board and turns 3.

Next game 4 bet shoves 87 vs ak and hits set of 7s on flop.

I was kinda ticked off at first, but then I remembered to be grateful. Anytime we can get a good player to spew like that, we're doing something right. He didn't sit me after that unfortunately.

first hand I had AK

I completely agree that that is exactly what we want to happen, let the good and bad players alike get tilted from our awesomeness and play hands badly. This is a part of one of the live poker COTMs that I read a couple months ago about image. We get the regs and fish alike to play badly against us by being aggressive. By being aggressive, we appear to be fishier and looser than we actually are. By playing passive, we seem to be tighter and thus don't get as much action.

I have no desire to go to work today. I will, because I haven't called off once during my almost 3 years working there.

Another way I helped to get back on track was seeing a certain PG&C thread of someone who is crushing SNGs. He went on a 2 week downswing/BE stretch and then came out of it better and just continued winning after it. It wasn't that he all of a sudden got bad, he just got unlucky but kept chugging on.

That's the key. Mindset.

Last night I started 7-2, but by the end of the night I was 16-14. It's deflating when your stack slowly drops when you're playing good. You keep plugging along and good things eventually happen.

Id go the mtt route my dude this could be a tedious and long process. do you have any decent mtt experience?

How much do you trust your non public |girlfriend|? I hope your aware of the realities of what goes on in college.

I actually started out with MTTs. Never really any big stakes, just $5 and below. Won a couple, a good deal of FTs, but they take such a long time and I somehow do not have the patience to sit and play MTTs for hours on end. I say somehow because I have chess tournament experience, playing 1 single game for 4, 5, even 6 hours. Cash games I'm much more comfortable at because I can sit and ply 2 hours or so and I can play just about everyday, whereas I can't play MTTs due to my stupid part time job. While I only work 30 hours a week, I'm always scheduled at a different time each day so I'd have to end sessions abruptly.

And I trust her a decent amount. I know what goes on in college, but I also know that she wouldn't do much of that kind of stuff. And she actually supports my playing of online poker.

Bout to fire up a session. NO 6 IN A ROW!

start 715

just saw a guy stack off w tp no kicker. awesome. dont bust before i get dealt innnn

lol variance. guy just sat w me HU at 6m. shoved last 4 hand

couldnt win a pot hu v him. lol he left. closest i got was KJhh, i raise he call, f 89Qhhx. b c t 7x b c rivwer fat blank x he bet i fold. ehh

these sweats are sooooo comfy. they are two sizes too big, and i only got them bc they were 60% off

did i miss value? JJ in BTN, 4 handed, UTG limps, I iso to 4x, blinds fol, he calls. f 982ssx. he donks for .10 into .45. I raise to .45 total, he folds. he is also a SS

ewww. finally get my first pair, QQ, iso raise, two callers, A on flop. lol.

lol 74o is a badddd hand....except when you're in BTN and the first 3 players all limp. and the first three have 80+bb stacks. and you flop a pair. and you turn trips

i need more balls. get QQ, two limpers, i iso raise, one limper calls. f 752r. he x i bet, he calls. t 3. he x...i check?!?!?! hate that play on my part. r is 5. he half pot bets ....and i just call. its 6m. sets are more rare than FR.

3b bvb...QJo. cbet K75ccx f in BBm, get x/r. no need to get fancy

ahhh. fought and won against the temptation to play suited connectors OOP against half stacking fish.

quadsssss but not paid off. had QJ, flop and turn 3QQQ

i cant tell yet if guy to my right is bad or good....

lol player 6 at this table jhust opened for .5 UTG. and he pot bets any time he bvets

i need a hand warmer. its collddddddd.

iso raise more OOP. 4x plus a bb for every limper above 1 IP. 5x plus a bb for every limper above 1 OOP

hmmm. OESFD. didnt get to see other cards was priced into the pot anyways and I may have shouldnt have played in it. QTo in CO, 1 limper, I cll, BTN raises to .15 more both blinds call and original limper calls. i cant fold anything getting 6 to 1 almost pre


ok, guy to right definitely bad. just seen him play K2 in UTG

just figured out hes a fish and then he leaves. ow

yeesh. it's been another bad session for Ax for me.


lol i get on a bit of a run, table breaks. whoops;

something im seeing tonight: shorthanded really means lower hand standardsd

hit a set on a super soaking wet board against seeming tag, got a min...but lol i aint risking it on 89Jssx flop w bottom set

seriously. just lost an AIPF AK<A7 (there was an AI SS w 88, we both had100 bb) . sucks as im toward the end of my session, that might have put me in the negative

ahhh wrapping up. lol AA on last hand at a table. won a nice pot. lol AK last hand, just flopped trip As.


Played better. Not as good as last night's final session, but still pretty good. I did misplay some hands, like the QQ hand, but I was still more aggro than usual. This is good, aggression is a good thing. It's a shame I didn't win that AK hand (I did win EV bucks!) otherwise this would have been a 2 BI winning session. I played even less OOP, especially against shortstackers. They may be the biggest fish, but I still don't want to play speculative hands against them. But you know what, eventually that EV will even out. And I like these 2 hour blocks. I'm still engaged at the end of the session and feel like I could play even more. But I do need to eat dinner. Oh, and I FINALLY BROKE THE LOSING STREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!! (even if it is a small win)

2 hours
+$1.88
BR: $201.64

Session time. Early for a session, but I have a stupid 5-9 shift tonight and then 8a-2 shift tomorrow morning. Gotta get em in when ya can.

Looking through pokeit, I've started to narrow the VPIP to PFR ratio. Right now I'm at 20.5/12 with a 4.5 3b. Obviously not optimal. I do steal more often than everyone else though, which is good. I'm a tad bit less aggressive and I definitely need to fix this stat: 49.8% cbet. Ouch. But I think that's misleading personally. When I do raise preflop, there is often multiple players in the pot so I feel less comfortable cbetting on a wet flop that I completely whiff on. No doubt I can take a small percentage of those down, but it's really risky and the times I can take it down probably don't outweigh the times I can't take it down. I'm hardly ever going to double barrel at 5nl and never going to triple barrel as well just because these players won't fold Q3 on a KJ37 board. And I have seen that a few times before. Oh well. Cleaning out the coffee tumbler, bringing some water over and firing up the tables!

start 1225

lol action seems dead, no tables or anything.

maybe some tables will pick up now. 1 full 6m, 1 hu currently. ahevnt opened a 4th table yet bc there just isnt tables

and no hu guy i wont play 72

ugh. two pair beaten by two pair hu.

i think ima switch the iso up. wanted to raise more on iso OOP to encourage folding. raise less imo bc we're oop

dont let this be yet another bad session w Ax. in fact im down $13.62 in 49 hands before yesterday w AKo. I'm down almost 5 in 12 hands w AKs.

lol just saw guy who i lost two pair to two pair to HU call another guy a donkey...which means obviously he is a donkey. saw him lol min raise to .11 pre AFTER A LIMPER w QTs

lets see how much i can lose w AKo this time lol...omg i won by 3betting!

ewww. just saw QQ suck out on AA


another miss w Ax

hmm. flop top two in limped pot in BB...noone called oh well

yeahhhhh AKo held AIPF! enough to dance!....except it was a 13 bb pot. beggars cant be choosers

thievery...no good


another swing and a miss w Ax

obvious squeeze is obvious. but im not ballsy enough to call a 40bb shove pf w TT and 3 players to act after me


just saw puzzling hand. and whiffed again w Ax. anyways puzzling hand. limp, SS raises, hu guy reraises, limp folds, SS calls. (SS is at like $1.60). flop J94ddx. hu guy bets .4 into .8, SS shoves $1.20. hu tank and calls. hands: hu guy KQ, SS KT. ??????????????????? obviousl Q on turn.

pfr TT. SS calls. flop: KQJ.

one of my tables broke, the only one i had anything going for me on.

and then it filled up w 4 SS.

mmmm hu guy running like god

omg Ax hit!!! i feel bad fr sucking out tho. raise AJ in UTG, UTG+1 calls, BB call. f Ak8hhx. x i bet both call. t is 3x. they're both SS at like 2.2 to start the hand. BB bets .31 into $1.4, I just shove. both call. UTG+1 has A8 ofc, BB has AJ. river is K, me and BB split

two hands later on that table im dealt 87hh. BTN limps (guy i split w), so I limp. BB raises and BTN calls. Both have more than 100bb, so i flat. f 865r. pretty good. i x w intention of x/r and getting it in (is that bad?), BB obliges and bets, BTN folds, I raise, BB folds. Is this a bad play?

ick. pfr A8cc in CO, BTN and SB call. BTN has 60bb stack. f Q74ccx. x I bet BTN calls SB folds. I feel BTN has Qx. T is 3x. whayt do we do?

hahaha. players on one of my tables arguing bc a guy chased a gutshot when other guy hit a set of AA. <3 it

7s on every flop except the one i needed. such is poker

its soooo cold. its supposed to be like 70 degrees

ugh. i hate being oop w QQ, a K showson the flop with flush draws and straight draws, and the guy calls the cbet. and then every draw preceeds to get there

lol winning pots i have no business winning. bc their line is soooo transparent

hopefully i can take a hot shower before work. its super colddddd in here and i had to take cold shower yesterday bc my sister spent an hour in the shower.

winning small pots right about now . its not bad, but nothing really big going on.

cant hit a set lol. but ill try to play it like i did

AA hmmmm....eh at least i didnt lost

i dont think the guy on my right knows how to bet. its funny.

just about done w session.

pffff yeah. 3 handed just ran QQ into a SS KK. and then flopped two sets lol

lol AA<A7 AIPF. flopped the flush. me not in the hand

Another session in the books. It just feels like I'm not connecting with anything lately. It's good, as it's letting me improve my flop play and aggression when I hold air or something less, but it's bad as I can't really get into value spots. I didn't have a flush today. One rivered straight (might have gotten a second one in the 87 hand but it did't go further than the flop). Flopped two sets at the end of my session. QQ over KK 3 handed. Two pair to two pair HU. At least I'm not tilting and going ape monkey and these losses, minus the two big losing sessions, are rather small. I'll get back on track. I'd just much rather it be now than in a week or two.

1.84 hours played
-$3.02
BR: $198.62

Might be calling or limping in some spots that you should be raising or folding. But its tough to tell unless you know the specific table conditions.

Yeah, I mean there are usually a bunch of limpers or a raise and then a limper or two. I don't purposely play like 96o or really play any speculative hands HU, but these are usually multiway pots. I have been cutting down on it and increasing my raise percentage.

I'm going to play a session today. I'm tired for some reason, but I think it's just a temporary thing. Plus, I'm going to get a pot of coffee brewing. And I just realized a couple of days ago that I have a bunch of 100k new player freeroll qualifying tickets, and one of those tournaments are tonight, so I'm going to play in that one. If there is another quick tournament I could play in that one as well IE the $2.20 $1k GTD. The tournies look like they have pretty good formats for the micros, but kind of sucky formats for higher BIs than $10 or so. Probably get some Halo on right now.

Just got back from playing some soccer with the nephew and brother. Just in time to register for both tournaments. Going to set up some cash games during the first few levels. Hoping I can still play 4 cash game tables.

damn people don't know how to bet. 3rd level, guy bets pf, 4 callers, i have to call w 22. f 776...original raiser bets...60! his pf bet was 160. call, call, so i have to call. turn is J. original raiser x, some other guy bets 60, 1 fold, i have to call. i have a pair and im getting almost 16 to 1! original raser....folds?!?!?!. river is beautiful 2. guy...once again, min bets! and i raise him to like 900 more and he calls and loses. so ive almost doubled up in the $2 mtt where there is currently a HUGE overlay. but still an hour left of late registration. and 16% of the field is already gone.

KT is my favorite MTT hand. I have won two tournaments with it.

double up in freeroll needed too, i was already SS with an M of 13 (i had played 0 hands(

ouch...tptk...but it was good when the A hit :P. probably good before that too

i cant even start my cash games yet bc my nephew is down here. sooooo frustrating.

got knocked out of freeroll. shoved 99 into KQ and 55. got rivered. well not the worst thing in the world, still got a decent stack in non freeroll mmt

start 10pm

i love my nephew dont get me wrong. but today ive either been at work, with my friend (she's hot no pics tho), or with him. want some me time.

lol quickly get dealt top two in first hand and AA in second orbit at a table

that is not how you play Ax broadway on a paired flop. i pfr 88, bb calld. f 449, x b c. t 9 x b c. r T, x, I x bc he cant call with worse.

lol he is a fish. called a pfr w J4.

damn. lost a decent pot. bvb.

ouch. down to 8 M in mtt. folded to me in sb. i shoved w J8o (i dont think its that bad) and he has a 11 M stack. good situation to shove imo. he calls with AK. I spike J on flop. it holds.

if im gunna run good tonight, let it be in the mtt. a top 3 finish wouldnt be bad at all


mtt strat: you do not limp with antes in play. unless you have a massive stack. like an m of 50

cash games nopt going too well tonight. not getting much value again and just running into awkward/bad spots

thank you for the donation kind sirrah. SS limps 23 in CO, I limp KTo in BTN (I should rase, but im not comfortable with marginal hands like that yet) bb x. f 422. checks around. t T x SS b I raise fold SS calls. r T. SS shoves. and snap call.

2nd break in MTT. 63 get paid, im at average in 55th w 127 players left

AA for 3rdtime in cash. flop top set. get half a shorties stack. hand before, i get AKo SB limps i raise he calls. f KQTccx. he checks, i bet, he raises. confused, i call. turn is a blank, he pots it i fold. ironic, bc he pulled the same exact line 2 hands later on someone.

limping QQ in EP in an MTT w antes. huh.

lol pfr JJ in UTG BB calls. f 9Q4ddx. he min bets. ive seen this line soooooo often recently. i raise him, he calls. t is 8x. he bets like .2 into $1. I have to call. r is blank, he bets .25 into $1.5. call. he has 23dd. most donk bets otf are draws of some

huh? I just 4bet 2 SS. UTG bet, even shorter SS 3bet in BTN, I 4bet $1.45 to put UTG AI w AKo. BB FLATS!?!?!?!?!?! UTG fols, BTN calls. f TT2, i shove on BB, he snap folds. BTN has....KTo. awesome

lol the tables got dryyyyy

gettinm a bit dry on mtt cards too. not the time

and ofc the gf calls ugh.

shoving AQo in MTT.....M of 5, kinda have to. folded around, but blinds and antes arent bad at all


and everyone folded to me in bb in mtt...seriously?

AA again in cash game...yet im still down for the sesh lol prolly

lol guy limp/calls KK pre....lol

ooo folp top two...had to play it fast tho w flush and straight draws on the board

ITM! first hand itm AK...lets see what happens...eh not a double up but did get a knockout lol AK>AJ

shove 44....come on fold or hold...folding is good


omg. 3 handed, i have KK. guy raise and called my shove on a 852sxx flop (i raised pf) with 97ss. We want him to do that. turn is 3 of spades, river is A of spades. stuff like that just keeps on happening. ugh. at least i half doubled up in MTT, still in it..

break 3, 30th out of 42 players left, 20k stack, avg 37k

i need to loosen range HU and 3 handed. i used to be good but am a bit rusty

definitely need a hand in MTT

finished in 26th. shoved A8o, got called by A2xh. the 2 was the heart. obv flop was 3 hearts, t was the 4th. called by the guy who i saw call al his chips preflop with J6dd and flop a flush. and the cash game...omg im going to have to study or something. I either have a huge leak somewhere or I'm just running bad. I can't catch a damned thing. It's getting to be pretty ridiculous. Maybe I just suck and should spend my money elsewhere. .....Nope. But seriously. Like, Bovada hates me or I suck. Either one.

2.16 hours
-$1.87
BR: $194.55

How many hands have you played/what is your winrate thus far? It could just be some standard run bad.

If I remember correctly, I may have just hit the 5k hand mark on Bovada with Tuesday night's session. It could very well be standard run bad. But it could also be leaks and odds are it's somewhere in between. Even with leaks though, I mean what is it, like 7 of 8 of my past sessions being losers? Sounds like a bunch of run bad, as if I do have leaks 5nl players probably aren't going to be able to exploit them at all.

That being said, yesterday I looked for about an hour at my past few sessions hands. The losers and the winners. Being able to see THEIR cards is tremendously helpful. Something I noticed:

1. I'm not really missing much value; they're not having hands good enough to justify calling bets and such. That being said, I do need to perhaps increase my bet size. I've tended to cbet on the lower end when I miss the flop and cbet on the higher end when I hit the flop. That needs to change. Become diversified!

2. I have to lower my standards for calling bets and even raising. I'm going through the hands and noticing that I'm assigning ranges that are far too narrow compared to the actual hands they have. Like this hand. I instantly see "KQJ" and think "oh, crap". What I should look at, however, is how this board hits my range. It should smack it in the penis, so I should be playing quite aggressively. While I have the lower end of my range on this board, I still have a lot of equity.

Bovada | No Limit Hold'em Cash - $0.02/$0.05 - 6 players
Hand #2694556012 - delivered by Pokeit

BTN Seat 2: $1.51 (30.2 BBs)
CO Hero: $5.00 (100 BBs)
MP Seat 6: $3.28 (65.6 BBs)
UTG Seat 5: $5.96 (119.2 BBs)
BB Seat 4: $1.50 (30 BBs)
SB Seat 3: $4.95 (99 BBs)

Pre-Flop: ($0.07) Hero (Hero) is CO with T♣ T♦
2 players fold, Hero raises $0.10 to $0.15, 2 players fold, Seat 4 calls $0.10

Flop: Q♠ K♣ J♠ ($0.32) (2 players)
Seat 4 bets $0.05, Hero calls $0.05

Turn: 5♣ ($0.42) (2 players)
Seat 4 bets $0.05, Hero calls $0.05

River: 2♠ ($0.52) (2 players)
Seat 4 bets $0.05, Hero folds

Final Pot: ($0.50 | rake $0.02) (1 player)
Seat 4 wins $0.50 +$0.25

(He had J9o)

3. Aggression in late position. I have nearly a 6 AF in UTG and UTG+1, but it drops to around 1.4 in CO and BTN. I know the reason for it. With position, it's easier to play meh hands and draw hands because flatting a bet ends the round. Without position, I don't want to give up the lead because I'm always afraid I'll get bet at (and ironically it does happen). Mix in a bit more passivity in early position. It's good to be aggressive, but you have to lower the size of the pots and mix up just a little bit. In late position, don't be afraid to stick in a raise with a top pair hand. Don't be afraid to raise good drawing hands. Fold the weaker hands.



And that was my poker for yesterday. It was probably also a good time to be scheduled the second shift, which meant I didn't have to play. I also won't be playing Saturday since I have to go to a family reunion that I have 0 interest in going to. I will be playing a session sometime after I take a nap since I did have to be up at 630 this morning for work. Not sure how much volume I'll get since tonight is an extremely rare big sports night in April for a Columbus/Cleveland fan. The draft is tonight and I'm fully expecting the Browns to trade down from the 6th pick. Not only that, but the Blue Jackets have a HUGGGGGGEEEEEEE game tonight at Dallas in what is easily a must win. Dallas is still mathematically alive for the final playoff spot, but must win out and hope both us and Detroit lose to Nashville. We need to either get two points in two games and have Detroit lose both games in regulation, get 3 points and hope Detroit loses one game in regulation and one in OT, or win both games and hope Detroit loses in regulation once. Either way, Detroit should probably just lose tonight.

Let's get it!