LOL, I really have to either move to Stars full time or stop playing over there.
My Friday night session ran over to 7:00 a.m. Saturday on FT, so I got my iron man points for both days. Thus, Saturday night, I decided to grind over at Stars.
So I sign on, filter for 50bb tables (zomg, those are awesome), filter out the fast tables (slow-witted, ldo) and, jesus effing christ, the highest players seeing the flop I see is 17%. So I wind up on tables that range from 17-12% and decide that my usual 11/9 game isn't going to cut it. So I say to myself, "I'm gonna have to lag it up a bit to exploit these nitty tables. Show these Stars guys some good, old fashioned Full Tilt aggression."
Highlights:
HUGE suckout when I grossly overestimated the FE I had against the one maniac on any of my tables. Guy was playing 44/33/16 (no, that AF is not a typo). He raised OTB, SB called, I called in BB with 55. Flop comes 347 check, check, maniac pots it, SB folds, I think, "well, he can't really have hit this flop," so I raise, lol, he min 3bets me, and I think, "well, if I shove here he's got a tough call even with AA and I have 6 outs against AA, so eff it, let's go." Well, regardless of whether it was a tough call for AA, it was an easy call for his top set, but a gorgeous 6 on the turn shipped me the pot.
Saw the flop 3 times with AA and got sucked out on all 3 times, once for stacks aipf v. KK. (payback for spiking my gutshot, obviously).
Played 18/13/2. Interestingly, my AF% went up from 25% at FT to 35%.
I 4 bet 33% of the 3 bets I faced, lol.
Had FUN. When I grind FTP, I select the highest vpip tables, which necessitates a tight, even nitty style. At Stars, they don't have high vpip tables, apparently, so the correct adjustment is to loosen up. I did, and it was kind of fun.
Finished +$300 in 600 hands without ever getting paid on a premium pocket pair or a set.
Red line looked like a dead person's ekg.
Had a really fun bit of run good. In this first hand, I was just spewing. It was the same thinking as I talked about above--"he can't have much, eventually he has to fold."
Poker Stars $100.00 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players
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BTN: $102.15
Hero (SB): $113.50
BB: $125.85
UTG: $101.50
UTG+1: $145.55
UTG+2: $121.15
MP1: $129.10
MP2: $100.00
CO: $102.50
Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is SB with Q
7
7 folds,
Hero raises to $3, BB calls $2
Flop: ($6.00) 3
6
3
(2 players)
Hero bets $3.00, BB calls $3
Turn: ($12.00) 2
(2 players)
Hero bets $8.00,
BB raises to $16,
Hero raises to $34, BB calls $18
River: ($80.00) 8
(2 players)
Hero checks,
BB bets $42.00, Hero folds
So I finally came to my senses and it didn't get that bad. But Pokerstars evidently loves me, because this was just two hands later--no way i get his stack without spewing off the $37 I spewed off in the hand above:
Poker Stars $100.00 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players
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MP2: $102.15
Hero (CO): $100.00
BTN: $162.35
SB: $100.50
BB: $149.70
UTG: $118.15
UTG+1: $129.10
UTG+2: $100.00
MP1: $102.50
Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is CO with A
J
5 folds,
Hero raises to $3, BTN calls $3,
2 folds
Flop: ($7.50) Q
T
K
(2 players)
Hero bets $7.00, BTN calls $7
Turn: ($21.50) A
(2 players)
Hero bets $20.00, BTN calls $20
River: ($61.50) 2
(2 players)
Hero bets $70.00, BTN calls $70
So, evidently, I have a tendency to spew when I play on Stars. I guess I have a superiority complex from having played at FT for so long--"these stars guys can't handle FT aggression." Unfortunately, I seem not to be very good at FT aggression--they always have the top of their range when I decide to rely on FE.
But it's fun playing 18/13, and it was cool to be on tables where it was justified.