The day is not starting off well...

I hope I get out of this variance funk soon. However, my QQ cracked aces - too bad it was against a shortstacker and I made very little. Why can't variance help us in situations with more BB involved?


Full Tilt Poker $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em - 7 players
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Hero (BB): $24.90
UTG: $12.85
UTG+1: $22.40
MP: $14.17
CO: $25.00
BTN: $5.00
SB: $20.62
buckwilde1236: $13.35

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is BB with 9 2
4 folds, SB calls $0.15, Hero checks

Flop: ($0.50) 3 K 9 (3 players)
SB checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($0.50) 2 (3 players)
SB bets $0.50, Hero raises to $1.25, SB raises to $3, Hero calls $1.75

River: ($6.50) 9 (3 players)
SB bets $3.75, Hero raises to $17.75, SB calls $13.62 all in

Final Pot: $41.24
Hero shows 9 2 (a full house, Nines full of Twos)
SB shows 9 K (a full house, Nines full of Kings)
SB wins $39.18
(Rake: $2.06)

Today has been super soft @ 25nl. I had at least 2 40/7 type fish at each of 7 tables. I was up 3bi in my first 750 hands.

And I still didn't manage to book a winning session. I need to either learn that it's ok to fold KK pre in some circumstances, or quit after this hand:

Grabbed by Holdem Manager
NL Holdem $0.25(BB) Replayer
SB ($33.68)
BB ($20)
UTG ($13.89)
UTG+1 ($35.93)
UTG+2 ($45.89)
MP1 ($78.72)
MP2 ($50.75)
Hero ($61.04)
BTN ($25)

SB antes $0.05
BB antes $0.05
UTG antes $0.05
UTG+1 antes $0.05
UTG+2 antes $0.05
MP1 antes $0.05
MP2 antes $0.05
Hero antes $0.05
BTN antes $0.05

Dealt to Hero K K

fold, fold, UTG+2 raises to $1, fold, fold, Hero calls $1, BTN raises to $4.50, fold, fold, UTG+2 raises to $8, Hero raises to $11.50, fold, UTG+2 raises to $25.50, Hero calls $14

FLOP ($56.30) 2 4 9

UTG+2 bets $20.34 (AI), Hero calls $20.34

TURN ($96.98) 2 4 9 3

RIVER ($96.98) 2 4 9 3 7

UTG+2 shows A A
(Pre 83%, Flop 91.6%, Turn 95.5%)

Hero shows K K
(Pre 17%, Flop 8.4%, Turn 4.5%)

UTG+2 wins $93.98

My original flat was a mis-click. I usually raise this up to like $3...not that it really mattered here anyway. I kept trying to tell myself it was just a cooler, but dammit if I didn't KNOW that guy had AA. He was a loose player @ 32/15 but not overly aggressive. Who the hell takes this line 180bb deep with anything less than AA?

So, we're celebrating new year here in Russia tomorrow (no Christmas on 25Dec, wrong religion).
I want to wish you good luck next year in poker and also i hope all ex-USSR shortstacks will die somehow

gl you all nl50/100 regs
special gl to ElNino

the one and the only russian 12+ tables fullstack multitabler Valera.

Sigh...again...I only played K9o IP because my VIP was fairly low and calling stations were in the hand (hence not being as aggressive). I knew I shouldn't have called...ugh.

Full Tilt Poker $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 8 players
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MP1: $16.75
MP2: $50.00
CO: $69.15
Hero (BTN): $45.80
SB: $48.75
BB: $9.25
UTG: $16.70
UTG+1: $33.40

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is BTN with 9 K
UTG calls $0.50, 1 fold, MP1 calls $0.50, 2 folds, Hero calls $0.50, SB calls $0.25, BB checks

Flop: ($2.50) 9 A 9 (5 players)
SB checks, BB checks, UTG bets $1, MP1 folds, Hero raises to $3.50, SB folds, BB folds, UTG calls $2.50

Turn: ($9.50) K (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $6, UTG calls $6

River: ($21.50) K (2 players)
UTG bets $6.70 all in, Hero calls $6.70

Final Pot: $34.90
Hero mucks 9 K
UTG shows K A (a full house, Kings full of Aces)
UTG wins $33.20
(Rake: $1.70)

I never played so many hands in just one day before. The result is pretty meh therefore.




This is around 80% NL10 and the rest is NL25.

25NL done, fun session.

Sorry EN09 if I bullied you a bit. Had to keep up the laggy image



Long time sense I flopped so bad, but somehow my laggy style kept me in the green. First level where I got paid of with my big hands more (small sample bla bla bla ).

Seemed like the first level where you could actually 2-barrel good turn cards and make people fold.

It was less aggressive than 10NL preflop

np, a 4b light on your resteal and things settled back down!

thought you wouldn't 4bet light OOP, had to fold my A9s.

I've spent the last 60k hands developing that weak/tight image just for this spot.

What are you doing 3betting A9s IP?

The River play is bad as you miss out on PTR icon for Royal Flush!

Came to post a giraffe of my recent DS, but it appears it's only like 10 BI...so now i feel stupid.

1) It was against me
2) keeping his Laggy image going

I have a tendency to believe it was to punish me for raising on HIS table.

Your right about being the one and only

Thanks for the good luck wishes and i also wish you the best of luck at the tables. Ive still self banned my chat though so i cant talk at the tables in case you think im ignoring you.

UTG is a 10/7 South Korean
MP1 and SB are both droolers ~38/5 type

$100pl in case you dont see that part

Full Tilt Poker $0.50/$1 Pot Limit Hold'em - 8 players
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UTG: $100.00
Hero (UTG+1): $107.30
MP1: $106.45
MP2: $40.00
CO: $160.05
BTN: $277.30
SB: $100.00
BB: $137.85

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is UTG+1 with K A
UTG raises to $3.50, Hero calls $3.50, MP1 calls $3.50, 3 folds, SB calls $3, 1 fold

I elect not to 3bet a tight players UTG open pf as i dont see being able to fold out anything worse than AK and also might fold out hands i dominate such as AQ or AJs

Flop: ($15.00) 5 6 A (4 players)
SB checks, UTG checks, Hero bets $4, MP1 folds, SB folds, UTG calls $4
Once UTG checks i elect to stab small to see if i can get either drooler behind to go a little crazy with Arag type hands.


Turn: ($23.00) 9 (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $8, UTG calls $8

After i get flatted by UTG on the flop i think that he really has a hand like KK - JJ, with KK discounted as i hold a K, so i dont feel i can bet a whole lot as i cant see him calling a near psb with those hands
River: ($39.00) K (2 players)

UTG checks, Hero bets $11, UTG raises to $72, Hero requests TIME, Hero ???
Once he checks again checking back seems too nitty so i elect again to continue to bet small to extract some thin value from what i think his range is. He pretty much insta check / potted. Do we call and if we do call then what does a 10/7 South Korean play this way that he insta check / pots the river ?

All thoughts appreciated. Sorry to those that dont like hands in here but posting in its own HH thread will just get people to say snap call you have top two.

Results if you want them later

10/7 SK's generally don't make moves like that w/o the goods from the ones I've played against. has he seen your smallish bets like this before? How much history between the two of you? I also don't see him checking the river with a strong hand and allowing you to check behind either... 99 and he'd c/r the turn... don't think he'd play 87s from UTG... PM me!

His line makes no sense. Did he really call two streets with KK? It is pretty thin for a 10/7 to raise here with AK... I'd probably fold since he raised so large. Not sure how wide his air range is.

lol sry just saw this. Nope it is not. Any reason why you ask?

I am game for a new thread if it would help out with space. Doesnt matter much either way to me.

From my experiences with 10/7's this is always AA/KK with the very occasional AK chop in there. I realize we have blockers to both hands and there is only 1 combo of AA and 2 combos of KK, but 10/7's just do not do this on the river without the effective nuts. I guess this could occasionally be a 99 that decided to peel the flop as well. I think that he does this with a hand that we beat a very very small % of the time. Even though in the heat of moment I would still probably call this (im a donkey), in hindsight I believe it should be a fold. I would be hard pressed to develop a Stove range that could make this profitable to call here. I feel like he only does this for value.

Anyways in these situations I typically b/f the turn and river for slightly larger than you elected to get value from the ocasional AQ in his range.

uh... what about folding preflop vs 10\7 opening from UTG?

Well im officially done with poker for 2009 and all i can say is **** the last 3 months. Sure ive not played well but man some of the crap just really got to me.

Hopefully in 2010 i will move up to $100nl and be able to do reasonably well

I hope that 2010 is a boomswitch year for everyone of you guys thats posts regularly in here.
Also thanks to many of you that have become personal friends over the last year and hopefully we are able to meet up in Vegas at some point for a beer. (Only KurtSF gets to crash on the floor of my room tho - and yes Kurt, this is overdue !!!)

Guess what one of my new year's resolutions is

Your the LAG maniac, you tell me

Why is 3betting that bad, I have position(?). Should I have flatted instead?

HP: I KNOW, I KNOW!!!

Your are switching from FR to MTT pro

why are you not 3betting a9s in position is a better question to ask imo