Put in another 2,5000 hands last night, lessons learned, proudest and weakest moments...
03-30-2010
, 10:26 PM
Hey fellow 2+2ers,
I put in my second night of over 2,500 hands in one night. Last time I did this was two nights ago 6-tabling NL2. I ran at about 2BB/100 and there was a lot of downtime. I decided I could be using this downtime to playing more hands instead of reading the forums, so I added two more tables.
I have to start by saying this: I learned a valuable lesson in tilt tonight, because before I sat down to grind NL2 I made a mistake. I sat down at 4 NL5 6M tables. I'm accustomed to FR so I decided to use the same general strategy, except a little looser. At first my loose style won me a lot of pots, I was up $15 in under 200 hands. I thought I was on fire, that is, until I wasn't. You can look me up on PTR, my player name is Joseph Bleau. Look at the mountain graph, because shortly after my wins I plummeted to a $10 deficit. This annoyed the hell out of me.
If I did anything right, it was close those tables right then, but my next move of opening 8 NL2 tables might not have been so wise. I took a minute to collect my thoughts, opened my cashier and grumbled, closed it and started grinding. I played pretty tightly and was sitting in positive cash at all of my tables for the first couple of hours. I had picked up maybe $5 or $6 of my lost dollars but was still in the green. Things were going pretty good, and this is about where I had my proudest moment of the night:
Jacks in the hole, I'm UTG and I raise out. It folds around to the CO and he re-raises pot. Now, I've been stuck so many times by KK in this position that I am pretty much at the point where I'm only shoving AA or KK, so I flat-call.
Flop comes 3JJ. I make a 3/4ths pot value bet here really just expecting him to fold, but much to my pleasure, he re-raises. This is where I knew I had caught someone, maybe he had AK, AA, or KK and he wasn't going to drop the hand. I put on my devious trickster hat and played the best hand I've ever played at NL2. I sit and I wait, letting my counter tick down. I hit my time button and a few seconds before it ran out (god help me if it had) I called. I check to him again, this time he shoves way over the top 2x pot.
Again, I play my little theater act. Any good player would have checked this turn I think and not have let me get another dime, but he was a fish and I was about to teach him a valuable lesson. The counter drops down near zero.
The river comes another brick, he's been drawing dead this entire time with AK, he shoves the last of his chips. I call with a smile on my face and turn up my quad J's. I think I made $7 on this hand, putting me at around $14 on that table, which at NL2, is just disgustingly deep. Although this will be important later.
I check my cashier with a little sigh of relief, finally back to break even. I continue playing tightly, bemused by my JJ hand. I even manage to play theater a few more times with the nuts and overall it seemed pretty successful. I remember being amused a little when one player flat out didn't fall for it and just checked me to the river and folded to a bet, oh well.
Then comes the last hand of the night, AA in the hole on my table with now $15. There's another player at this table and he's sitting at $10. He's also at four other tables of mine. This is the first time I've run into another NL2 multi-tabler (I mean come on, who plays these nosebleeds stakes, it's insanity!). I was in MP and he was BB. I raise the pot, he re-raised, we kept escalating back and forth until we were both all in with $20 in the pot.
Hands turn up, Villian: Ad, Ah - Hero: Ac, As.
Flop comes: 2d, 9d, Jd
Turn comes: 2h
As if you don't see it coming...
I just sat in shock a little bit. I've been playing for six ****ing hours re-earning my losses and I've just lost it all in one hand. This put me on humongous tilt just raising and calling hands that had no business being in the pots. I only went on like this for another -$4 before I just shut my laptop and went to bed.
Moral of the story? There is no ****ing justice in poker.
Anyway, carry on 2+2ers, love you all,
JB
I put in my second night of over 2,500 hands in one night. Last time I did this was two nights ago 6-tabling NL2. I ran at about 2BB/100 and there was a lot of downtime. I decided I could be using this downtime to playing more hands instead of reading the forums, so I added two more tables.
I have to start by saying this: I learned a valuable lesson in tilt tonight, because before I sat down to grind NL2 I made a mistake. I sat down at 4 NL5 6M tables. I'm accustomed to FR so I decided to use the same general strategy, except a little looser. At first my loose style won me a lot of pots, I was up $15 in under 200 hands. I thought I was on fire, that is, until I wasn't. You can look me up on PTR, my player name is Joseph Bleau. Look at the mountain graph, because shortly after my wins I plummeted to a $10 deficit. This annoyed the hell out of me.
If I did anything right, it was close those tables right then, but my next move of opening 8 NL2 tables might not have been so wise. I took a minute to collect my thoughts, opened my cashier and grumbled, closed it and started grinding. I played pretty tightly and was sitting in positive cash at all of my tables for the first couple of hours. I had picked up maybe $5 or $6 of my lost dollars but was still in the green. Things were going pretty good, and this is about where I had my proudest moment of the night:
Jacks in the hole, I'm UTG and I raise out. It folds around to the CO and he re-raises pot. Now, I've been stuck so many times by KK in this position that I am pretty much at the point where I'm only shoving AA or KK, so I flat-call.
Flop comes 3JJ. I make a 3/4ths pot value bet here really just expecting him to fold, but much to my pleasure, he re-raises. This is where I knew I had caught someone, maybe he had AK, AA, or KK and he wasn't going to drop the hand. I put on my devious trickster hat and played the best hand I've ever played at NL2. I sit and I wait, letting my counter tick down. I hit my time button and a few seconds before it ran out (god help me if it had) I called. I check to him again, this time he shoves way over the top 2x pot.
Again, I play my little theater act. Any good player would have checked this turn I think and not have let me get another dime, but he was a fish and I was about to teach him a valuable lesson. The counter drops down near zero.
The river comes another brick, he's been drawing dead this entire time with AK, he shoves the last of his chips. I call with a smile on my face and turn up my quad J's. I think I made $7 on this hand, putting me at around $14 on that table, which at NL2, is just disgustingly deep. Although this will be important later.
I check my cashier with a little sigh of relief, finally back to break even. I continue playing tightly, bemused by my JJ hand. I even manage to play theater a few more times with the nuts and overall it seemed pretty successful. I remember being amused a little when one player flat out didn't fall for it and just checked me to the river and folded to a bet, oh well.
Then comes the last hand of the night, AA in the hole on my table with now $15. There's another player at this table and he's sitting at $10. He's also at four other tables of mine. This is the first time I've run into another NL2 multi-tabler (I mean come on, who plays these nosebleeds stakes, it's insanity!). I was in MP and he was BB. I raise the pot, he re-raised, we kept escalating back and forth until we were both all in with $20 in the pot.
Hands turn up, Villian: Ad, Ah - Hero: Ac, As.
Flop comes: 2d, 9d, Jd
Turn comes: 2h
As if you don't see it coming...
Spoiler:
I just sat in shock a little bit. I've been playing for six ****ing hours re-earning my losses and I've just lost it all in one hand. This put me on humongous tilt just raising and calling hands that had no business being in the pots. I only went on like this for another -$4 before I just shut my laptop and went to bed.
Moral of the story? There is no ****ing justice in poker.
Anyway, carry on 2+2ers, love you all,
JB
03-30-2010
, 10:49 PM
03-31-2010
, 02:49 AM
