Was playing a session of maybe 8h yesterday but only 4h of NLH, so getting behind a little bit since i don't count omaha or MTT's etc in to my hours by the end of the month. Anyway, there was a seat open at the 25/25 PLO when I got to the casino and I was on the list for the NL. I decided to sit down while waiting, since that could be a while due to a tournament. Got it all in for ~65bb with 4 single suited broadway cards and lost. Reloaded and picked up AAxx OTB the hand after. It's a couple of limps and I make it 150 and we end up 4-ways. Flop comes like 852r and I c-bet 400 and BB calls. Checks through on t+r and mhig.

Nothing to exciting but around 2am my NLH table was a quite ****ty below avg game while the PLO looked like a sick good game. So I was either going home or to the omaha, and obviously it ended up being the omaha. I was right about the game though, it was absolutly mental with every pot going 4-8 ways and almost all pots straddled/blind raised. Unfortunately I got nothing going for about 2 hours and my best holding was AQK8 which I lost. I think my expected hourly in that game must have been at least twice what I have in an avg NLH game and I'm probably a ten times better NLH player then PLO...

Had some really good 50/50 action going the other night. Was leaving early though because I've catched some cold and had a slight fever so didn't feel like I could focus properly. Ended up +9k in 3h though which was nice! Hopefully we'll get a similar game next thursday and hopefully I feel better then!

A few hands:

UTG is a recriational spewy guy. I'd considre him to be good value but he's also rich and can pull some moves and make your life quite misserable.

50/50

Pre:
UTG limps 50, I raise 250 w/ AQ from CO, BB calls, UTG calls.

Flop (800) J42
BB checks, UTG checks, I bet 500, BB folds, UTG calls

Turn (1800) A
UTG leads for 1000, I call

River (3800) 7
He bets 2100, I call

- Pretty standard but wasn't playing many big pots... Can't really raise any street and he's repping a bluff basically, so quite standard to be bluffcatching.

50/50

Pre
UTG raise 300, UTG+1 calls, I call AQ OTB, blinds fold

Flop: (1000) AA4
UTG checks, UTG+1 checks, I bet 550, UTG+1 calls

Turn: (2100) J
He checks, I bet 1300, he makes it 3000, I call

River: (8100) 6
He checks, I shove for 4900, he tank folds.

- This villain is also a "high stake" recreational. He loves to bomb and put people under a lot of pressure. Not afraid to put in 200bb in a 50/50 game and capable of pulling complete random bluffs.

He told me he was really close to hero call me here. Sure, I might play KT/KQdd like this up until river but I'm probably rarely ever shoving against him in this spot. In reality I'm gonna be very value heavy here but it's good that I can give out the illusion that I'm not just by being agressive in other spots were it's really profitable!


25/25

Pre
Two limps and BTN who is a young reg although I think he's quite bad and spewy makes a large raise to 275, I call in sb w/JJ, fish calls as EP limper.

Flop (875) AJ8
I check, limper check, BTN bets 500, I call and the fish folds.

- The fish is short and he's only got about 1300. I was thinking about leading here on this flop to get him to call or ship his last money and then hopefully the reg has an A or better. I took a different line though and let the reg put in a c-bet and hoped the fish had something and just decided to go with it. I like leading better in retrospect. The reg isn't as likely to c-bet here even if the texture is good when there is a short fish in the hand. I also believe that the fish will get it in much wider when I lead here as opposed to a c-bet + a call. Then I just have to hope that the reg has AK or something and gets it in. I think leading would extract the most amount of money from both players tbh.

Turn (1875) 9
I lead for 1100, reg thinks for a bit and goes all in for 3100, I snap it off.

River (8075) Q
Villain has AT for a rivered straight...

- Kind of a weird hand. Think leading flop is the ideal line. As played I don't mind leading turn instead. It looks kind of fishy and he might put me on a Jxss or KQss type of hand. Probably that's what he did and just hoped to get it in good here, because otherwise it's a pretty bad shove if he's never ahead, since he shouldn't expect much, if any FE.

Also have to say I think ATs is a terrible hand to make some sort of massive raise with pre in this spot. I think it's fine to be unbalanced here sometimes to get action from bad weak fish when you have value, but AT basically makes most worse Ax hands to fold and better to call... You might get action from JTs from the fish but thats about it...

Got a nice dynamic with the guy from the AQ hand above lately. I've valuebet him twice in big pots otr and never gotten called and just mucked. Seemed like it started to annoy him slightly. Then we ended up in this pot towards the end of the session.

~9k deep

Pre
Straddle, UTG limp, I limp 55 UTG+2, CO limps, Villain raise 375 OTB, folds to me who calls, CO calls

Flop (1275) 234
I check, CO check, Villain bets 575, I call, CO folds

Turn (2425) Q
I check, he cheks

River (2425) J
I check, he bets 2100, I tank for a bit and call. MHIG

GL - I thought swedish feminists had banned all man fun - may you run goot!

haha ty. Yeah fortunately not yet! They should come and play poker instead imo!

There has actually been some decent action at the >25/25 lately and I've finally managed to run good. I had a big hole in the 50/50 graph until yesterday but I think I've past b/e now! I'm not sure if I'm playing tonight but since there is a chance that I do, I'll wait before I submit the month.

Okey, february is all wrapped up and it ended up to be the best month so far since the start of this thread! That's always nice! I'm not too proud of the volume. For some reason I struggle to play a lot, I think it's the late shifts that don't suit me and since I can't play during the day I don't get in as many hours as I should. On the other hand I don't think I should force volume if I'm not motivated to play, that's usually just gonna end badly. Anyhow, it ended up being ~83h of live NLH CG. I did play some tournament and I've put in two short sessions of omaha so probably another 10-12 hours on top of my "regular grinding".

All NLH for February:



NLH Graph February



25/25

very nice month!

Ty!

One thing I've noticed that's really weird is that Wednesdays sticks out a lot as being the worst day. The sample is starting to get big enough to not make it a complete coincidence. I can't figure out why, but literally every month wednesday is the worst day and most months I'm stuck. All other days are more or less decent, but wednesdays I'm a consistent loser :/

Gd work. I played 125hr last month and felt like i was forcing myself to play. Ended up with pretty average results as well. Which backs up your theory.

It's been a rubbish week an I'm stuck four out of four sessions. Can't say I've been on my A-game all of the time and to be honest I was quite out of the zone this friday session. I have played reasonably well to be fair though and I've lost quite a few nasty pots like set under set etc. I'm done for the week and tomorrow is my mates 25th brthday so he'll be throwing a party and I will be too hangovered on sunday to play...

This is the very last hand for the evening and I ended up value owning myself. Pretty annoying but I think I'm okey with this bet and I'm fully aware of the fact that he will have Ax a decent portion of the time. I do think he will call me down with JJ/QQ and hopefully 88/99 more often then Ax, and I expect him to bet any sort of Tx almost 100% ott.

I have 5,5k and villain who is some random early 40's guy that I haven't seen before got me covered. Haven't seen him do anything super out of line...

Pre
One limp, Co raise 175, I 3-bet 575 w/KK from sb, folds to villain who calls

Flop (1200) ATT
I bet 600, villain calls

Turn 2400) 7
check, check

River (2400) 3
I bet 1000, he calls W/AJ

- The flop c-bet is essentially for value, I could check but even if villain seems like a weak recreational player I would literally turning my hand face up as KK/QQ/JJ here. Turn I just hope that he checks back which I think he will a lot. As I say I think I can get called by worse >50% here in the end and c/f feels a bit meh.

c/c is pretty bad even though I think he is too much of a showdown monkey (as most players are) to be V-beting a hand like the one he had. I got Kd blocker and he shouldn't have many busted draws here with the Td out there aswell. So regardless of how polorized he would be on the river I think c/c is -EV.... I would have saved myself 1k this time and I expect it to have gone check/check otr here, but I'm not gonna be result orientated.

If i would cb (which i would maybe half the time) i would definitely cbet bigger so we got the value we are looking for and then if he calls we can comfortably x/f turn or river(if he doesnt make smth weird like bet 500 etc)

If we take the ch line we will cc flop and xf turn/river but if taking this line we must be able to balance in othe spots if we have AK etc.

I'm actually going to spain tomorrow for a week and a half. It's Nordic masters here so it might be a little bit stupid to be leaving now, but to be honest I think those events are over rated and the CG's aren't too much better anyway. It's definately gonna be nice to get away from home for a bit and get some environmental change and some sun. Plus I'm familar with the casino over there in Valencia and a couple of years ago when I was there the games were very very soft. Actually they ran €5/10 daily back in 2010 that were ridiculously soft, we'll see if that kind of games are still running!

Back home again from Valencia. Had a nice trip but it became more of a vacation rather then poker... Partly because the games were quite dead over there, not at all as it was a few years ago which was a bit sad. There was just one game of €2/2 €500 cap running most of the time and they never even got a €2,5/5 up during the entire time I was there. It didn't really motivate me to play in a relatively shallow low stake game with higher rake then home. The player pool was ridiculously soft, but with that rake in a low game were most people sit between 100-300 deep it wasn't really worth it for me... Not like the good old days were the €5/10 was stuffed with bad recreational players and a couple of mediocre winning regs. I remember the /5 used to close before the 5/10 because people thought /5 was too boring!

It was a nice trip anyway though even if the poker was boring. Ended up mini stuck over ~12-15 hours or so, time to get back on it back home instead!

On a little downswing at the moment. Also lack of volume which is probably one of my biggest weaknesses in poker. I love the game and the challange to become better, but the actual grind hours aren't as fun for me. I've never been very good at putting in volume to be honest. I guess the more you play the less excitet you become about playing, and in the beginning of your poker career its much more fun to play all the time. But still, Im struggeling to play 100h a month which is rediculous...

Anyway I played two 7h+ sessions yesterday and sunday. -1k on sunday and -5k yesterday. Literally didn't win one single hand for 4h yesterday and had to b/f, bad runouts, some suckout and missed flops etc. Was stuck about 10k at one point without losing one pot >4k before I actually got to win when c/r 55 on 467dd vs a 2,5k stack. He tanked and got it in and I binked the 8 otr for a straight. Then I hit a flush for a medium sized pot aswell.

Had an interesting spot were I chickened out on a 4b bluff. Think the stacks were pretty sweet to bomb it with the dynamics at the time and the villain being perceived to be able to 3b somewhat light (a.k.a not 100% value like QQ+/AK).
7 handed, Hero has T6 in CO, Fish limps HJ, I raise 175, semi decent girl 3b from the blinds to 550, fish folds and I folded ~8k effective...

Think if I make it 1500 here it's gonna be very difficult for her to continue with the vast majorit of her range. She's not gonna be very excited to get 8k in with even AK/QQ here without any 3b/4b dynamics and if she 3bet say 5-10% in this spot its gonna be pretty easy to play for me IP if she flats TT-QQ/AQ/AK, ships KK+ and folds the rest! Would definatley have gone for it if I had K or A blocker.

A little better yesterday, made about 300bb were 150 came from 50/50, so that was good. No massive pots really but one that played out really strange.

Strange hand:

Pre:
Hero open 125 W/KJ from EP, HJ, BTN, SB, BB calls

Flop: (625) TQ8
checks to me, I check, HJ checks, BTN (1500 eff) bets 425, folds to me who calls, HJ calls

Turn: (1900) A
checks through

River: (1900) Q
I check, HJ check, BTN all in, all folds

- I didn't want to c-bet this flop 5 ways even though I had the open ender. Dont think I have much FE at all, so I was planning on check/evaluate. I was leaning towards c/r if someone bet but BTN was too short...

Then I bink the straight ott but dont really wanna lead and basically rep the flush. Maybe I could just b/f 1000 vs HJ and get it in vs BTN but decided to go for river value if checked through and disguise my hand a little...

River I get counterfeited and just give up. Really weird hand!

hand 2: UTG makes it 125, 3 calls, I call BTN w/AT

Flop: (675) 833
UTG check, UTG+2 bets 275, folds to me I make it 775 and win

- We're about 5k effective and when the field player is betting less then half pot on 833 and I just think Im gonna win the pot a ton here. If he decides to peel with an 8 or flushdraw I think he'll fold to my 1500 barrel ott on a lot of cards anyways.

Hand 3: Reg opens MP to 125, I call QJ in CO, HU to flop

Flop: (300) T84
He bets 250, I raise 750, he folds

- We're about 5k effective and I think I rep pretty well on this board. Again I can barrel off on a lot of cards and it will get really nasty for him if he peels with Tx/JJ or a low FD's.

Crazy variance week! Wednesday was a very sick day. The table started off as a 25/25/50 with a few really agressive recreational players who just loves to bomb it in every other pot. Especially one guy in particular. The dynamics got sicker and sicker, eventually it became a 50/50 table and the right people got to win and the right players lost, reloaded 15k, got on tilt etc. After being 50/50 for a while it was probably 200k at the 9-handed table with an absolute bizarre dynamic. No low variance b/f game at all, but great value indeed! Probably one of the most profitable games I've ever sat in in terms of $EV/h. Ofc I timed the dryest card streak of the year during the 50/50 and played 3 hands during the entire 50/50 which was about 4,5h. I folded AJo to a 3b pre from UTG, folded 88 otf with two over cards and got it all in pre QQ vs A9s for a 16k pot that I chopped. That was it for the 50/50 and I was stuck a ton in the 25/25... It's hard to find words for this game game but it was fun, aside from that I lost a lot!

One very sick hand from early on in the session. It's against the aggro rec player that I know from before. No dynamics yet in this session but I know he's able to bomd 3 streets with air or make moves. He's definitely not a normal player by any means and he's playing a ton of hands super agressively, 3b preflop all the time etc. Generally likes to bet a lot and put pressure a lot. Sometimes you can catch him doing weird stuff when he don't really rep much though, like in this hand.

Pre:
Villain raise 200 from EP, BTN calls, Hero calls from mandatory straddle w/45 5k effective.

Flop: (650) 27T
checked through

Turn: (650) 6
I lead 500, villain raise to 1100, BTN folds, hero jams 4500

- He really doesn't rep anything here aside from 67 or 66 but I think he'd raise bigger with those to set up stacks for river. My first thought was he was full of **** and could be doing this with pretty much anything. I decided his range could be so wide here and full of nonsense it was profitable to shove with my hand. On the flip side he doesn't like to fold a lot but yeah, he can't call with absolute nonsense since I can have all sets, 89, 2p etc. Maybe he doesn't fold a Q9hh type of hand though, who knows... Can't decide if it's spew or not here, but it's certainly not standard that's for sure.

Hand 2 Lost a pretty enoying one w/AA. Villain from above opens 200, other rec gamble happy guy calls, one more calls, I raise 850 OTB, first two calls, other fold.

Flop (2950) 678
check, v2 leads all in 2400, I ship my last 4500, v1 tank called. V1 has KX V2 has 55 and ott

Stuck 16k for the session, 15 from the lower game which is my biggest loss in a 25/25.

On to a little downswing but finally made a decent session last night. Didn't feel too great at first after losing QQ vs A9s AI pre the first hand. Found a card rush and had QQ, KK, AKs, KQs, KQo within one orbit but only won a small pot in the KK hand. I sat for maybe another hour before this following hand came up. In case someone I play with reads here it's definately -EV to post this hand but who cares. Sometimes I find spots to call with K-high aswell and if people are gonna start 3b jamming rivers over me they better make sure to rep something properly, cus I'm not gonna fold a boat all that often.

Villain is a reg, it's early on in the session. We haven't played all that much against eachother but we've definately been at the same table a few times. I know he's capable of bluffing and making moves which goes against folding here. But I just cant see how he's bluffing in this spot. First of all what hands can he bluff with that he gets to the river with this way? Second, how often is someone 3-bet jamming as a bluff on the river when someone raises in a fairly small pot. Sure I can find some optimistic hands but it's just not gonna happen often enough. The one thing that makes most sence that I beat is some sort of merge with A-high flush, but honestly that's not gonna happen too often. At least it shouldn't vs me because I'm raise/folding lower flush here. My hand is essentially the same as one pair here aside from that I beat an unlikely merge. I could certainly be wrong and he might do this with a nut flush since my hand is under repped up until river.

Pre:
Villain raise 150 from MP, I call w/22, two more calls

Flop: (650) 66J
checks through

Turn: (650) 2
Villain bets 275, I call, others fold

River: 1200) 7
He bets 375, I make it 1200, he shoves for about 4-5k effective and I fold

After this hand I eventually found a little bit of good run and I left with 20k in my stack and about 13k+. Turned a 5-high flush and got it in. Was also a bit lucky in another one getting it in otf with 77 on 568 were a guy leads 800 in to about 1300 in a mutiway pot, I c/r from the blinds to 3100, and he goes all in for the last ~1000 on top. I obv call and the board bricks out but my pair is good.

Interesting hand, yes he doesnt rep much for value that we beat but at the same time he doesnt rep much at all except 77 or mb 66 that beats us. Tbh even 77 and 66 i think would bet turn bigger and definitely bet river bigger. I just dont see him having us beat enough for us to be able to fold a boat. Certainly cant fold river imo, especially considuring we had checked flop and only called turn it looks like we have a weak tp/mid pair kind of hand and when he blockbets river he might think we turn our pair into a bluff and decide to bluffjam himself.

I don't really agree with those ranges to be honest. I probably wouldn't fold this against some players and in a different spot and it's different if it was online, if I think he makes hands in to bluffs, I have better reads on him or I have a better reason to think he could be merging with worse here. To me the one hand that sticks out here is JJ. It makes sence for him to check flop with all the blockers and stuff plus the sizing in the rest of the hand. I might not do that myself, I prefer to make that small bet otf instead. He could also have 77 if he decided to check that on the flop and take this line, he could check quads, he could play 67 this way etc. There aren't many value hands but the line is so sick and there aren't almost any bluffs/hands that I beat either. I don't think we are good here enough of the times to make this call in this particular spot.

If he has JJ 40-50% of the times, other value 25% and bluffs/worse hands that merge the rest, it's really close. It's impossible to come up with precise numbers but to me it's on the side were I'm not good often enough, or less the ~1/3 times.

I've actually played some online poker during the days when I haven't had anything better to do. It's only small stakes, but I found 500 bucks on stars and I thought why not try to make it in to a decent online roll. My roll is less then one BI in my regular games so it's ok if I lose, so I'm not really gonna apply proper BR management or anything. If I reach 200nl+ there is probably decent money to be made and it's nice and convenient on the side of live poker. So far Im at about 5bb/100, but it's a small sample and I think it takes some time to adjust to the dynamics and the superb differences in the player pool...



















[converted_hand][hand_history]Poker Stars, $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 9 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite. View Hand #25834991

BTN: $66.11 (132.2 bb)
Hero (SB): $51.65 (103.3 bb)
BB: $48 (96 bb)
UTG+1: $60.45 (120.9 bb)
UTG+2: $52 (104 bb)
MP1: $48.75 (97.5 bb)
MP2: $14.84 (29.7 bb)
MP3: $50 (100 bb)
CO: $83.72 (167.4 bb)

Preflop: Hero is SB with 2 2
2 folds, MP1 raises to $1, 4 folds, Hero calls $0.75, BB folds

Flop: ($2.50) T 2 Q (2 players)
Hero checks, MP1 bets $1.50, Hero raises to $4, MP1 calls $2.50

Turn: ($10.50) K (2 players)
Hero bets $7, MP1 calls $7

River: ($24.50) K (2 players)
Hero bets $14.25, MP1 raises to $36.75 and is all-in

Was playing pretty bad yesterday and made a few mistakes that I shouldn't be making. I'm gonna update here after each session with results for the rest of the month. I think I might be out of town for the last week of april though. There is a little live event in Madrid I wanna go to. It's just some small event but I think it can be good games and a lot of fun.

Ended +2725 in 4h37m last night and ~+2000 in about an hour of Omaha

Villain is a decent recreatinal player probably in his late 40's. We're about 7k effective and I think his range is extramly strong here. Proably QQ+ AK with maybe a 2-5% exception.

Pre:
I open 125 W/55 from EP, MP 3b to 450, I call and HU to flop

Flop: (950) Q72
Check, Check

Turn: (950) Q
I check, he bets 550, I call

River: (2050) 7
I lead 1250

- I'm pretty sure what his range is at this point and I think he's almost never gonna have KK/AA with this line. So it's mostly gonna be AK and maybe TT/JJ a small amount. Player dependent if I think a guy will hero call me or not, but I really don't rep much so I should probably be giving up here more often then not. My thought at the time was that most live players will just be bad hand readers and fold, but I realize maybe that's not gonna be the case in this spot. Obv got called by AK and felt stupid... It's nice if I have 88 here and go for thin value though. I think he's so weighted towards AK that I should v-bet 88 here even though there is a chance he folds A high.

+8300 in 9h37m yesterday. Sat to 4.30am for the first time in quite a while, mostly due to getting a sick table that I couldn't really leave. Four big spots sitting deep at the same table and crazy dynamics. A standard pot someone opened 6bb, all fish calls, a reg 3bets, everyone calls again.

-3700 yesterday. I couldn't really find any spectacular table even though it was a friday night. It's not the first time that happens and to be honest I think weekends are a little bit overrated. It's better games over all but nothing extream and often times I find myself in a better game on a regular weekday night.

You do know it was good friday huh?
too many ppl tend to hang out with their families these type of days for obv reasons, my casino was kind of empty yesterday as well.

weekends are usually much better than weekdays especially where you´re grinding.

GL