Wednesday, October 8, 2008

New Biggest Pot

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $2.00 BB (6 handed) - Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

saw flop
| saw showdown

UTG ($202)
MP ($167.90)
CO ($313.60)
Button ($1132.75)
Hero (SB) ($435.55)
BB ($243.10)

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q, Q

3 folds, Button raises to $8, Hero raises to $28, 1 fold, Button calls $20

Flop: ($58) 10, 7, 5 (3 players)

Hero bets $39, Button raises to $100, Hero calls $61

Turn: ($258) 7 (3 players)

Hero checks, Button bets $150, Hero raises to $307.55 (All-In), Button calls $157.55

River: ($873.10) Q (3 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: $873.10 | Rake: $3

Button had 6, 7 (three of a kind, sevens).

Hero had Q, Q (full house, Queens over sevens).

MP didn't show

Outcome: Hero won $870.10

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Obviously pretty big suckout, but I don't really play this any differently except for mixing it up between getting it in on flop and cr'ing the turn as I did here.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

All Clear

Downswing officially over. Have the graph to prove it:


Fun $1200 downswing over 5k hands right in the middle there. All-in EV is just sick over that period. Thank god it's over!

Biggest losing hand over this stretch:

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $1.00 BB (2 handed) - Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
Hero (Button) ($259.50)
SB ($238)

Preflop
: Hero is Button with 9, 9
Hero raises to $3, SB raises to $11, Hero calls $8

Flop
: ($22) 7, 6, 4 (2 players)
SB bets $15, Hero raises to $49, SB raises to $112, Hero raises to $248.50 (All-In), SB calls $115 (All-In)
Turn: ($476) 4 (2 players, 2 all-in)
River: ($476) 5 (2 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot:
$476 | Rake: $0.50
Main pot: $476 between Hero and SB, won by SB
Results in white below:

Hero had 9, 9 (two pair, nines and fours).

SB had 10, 10 (two pair, tens and fours).

Outcome: SB won $475.50


The match had been kind of crazy at this point and I was working the guy to a point where I could stack him off, but I definitely don't want to be getting 476bb deep with 99. I snap shoved over his flop 3bet which is pretty bad.

Biggest winning hand:

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $1.00 BB (2 handed) - Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
Hero (SB) ($306.20)
Button ($232)

Preflop
: Hero is SB with J, K
Button raises to $3, Hero raises to $11, Button calls $8

Flop
: ($22) 6, 2, 5 (2 players)

Hero bets $18, Button calls $18

Turn: ($58) 3 (2 players)

Hero bets $34, Button raises to $203 (All-In), Hero calls $169

River: ($464) 3 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: $464 | Rake: $0.50

Main pot: $464 between Hero and Button, won by Hero

Results in white below:

Button had A, 8 (one pair, threes).

Hero had J, K (flush, King high).

Outcome: Hero won $463.50

Not much to add here. The guy was obviously pretty terrible. I actually took him for $940 over the full session we played, which is pretty sick.

I've also been playing a bunch of 6-max and the games are pretty good, but table selection is pretty important. I'm mostly playing 6-max to grind out ironman and ftp points. I want that 50" plasma. :P

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

HU Nonsense

I won two buy-ins last night and I thought I could see the light at the end of this downswong. Then these happened:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3205196 -- super standard here. I check the turn because I'm "giving up"

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3205201 -- this is bad and I should probably c/c the turn.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3205205 -- mostly standard. I waited till the turn to let him bet again, unfortunately I get 5-outed yet again.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3205210 -- disgusting 4-outer

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3205215 -- super standard again. Q3 is money I guess.

Overall I'm still playing with confidence which is worth mentioning considering I'm down 20 buy-ins on the month. This has to turn around soon.

Some good hands. Very rare these days:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3205273 -- guy overbet shoves the river with air. pretty big call and i'm glad i can still make it despite my results lately.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3205274 -- i valuebet ak on the river and call a raise. glad i can still make these bets despite my results lately :)

Monday, September 15, 2008

Life Tilt

On massive downswing approaching 20 buy-ins. Break-even last 6k hands. Beat after cooler after beat.

Here are two gems from last night:

$100.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, September 15, 03:20:41 ET 2008
Table MAPLE AVE (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: LATCHEZAR ( $195.65 USD )
Seat 2: HELLOMR ( $41.20 USD )
Seat 3: SIMPLESTYLE ( $325.82 USD )
Seat 4: ISAIDGOODDAY ( $205.98 USD )
Seat 5: FRANKSTER88 ( $50.00 USD )
Seat 6: DOE_JAI919 ( $444.67 USD )
HELLOMR posts small blind [ $0.50 USD ].
SIMPLESTYLE posts big blind [ $1.00 USD ].
FRANKSTER88 posts big blind [ $1.00 USD ].

Holecards:
Dealt to SIMPLESTYLE [ ]
RAISE ISAIDGOODDAY, $4.50 USD
FRANKSTER88 folds
DOE_JAI919 folds
CALL LATCHEZAR, $4.50 USD
HELLOMR folds
CALL SIMPLESTYLE , $3.50 USD

Flop:
[ ]
SIMPLESTYLE checks
BET ISAIDGOODDAY, $8.50 USD
CALL LATCHEZAR, $8.50 USD
RAISE SIMPLESTYLE , $27.00 USD
RAISE ISAIDGOODDAY, $45.50 USD
CALL LATCHEZAR, $45.50 USD
RAISE SIMPLESTYLE , $204.00 USD
CALL ISAIDGOODDAY, $147.48 USD
CALL LATCHEZAR, $137.15 USD
SIMPLESTYLE wins $29.52 USD from main pot

Turn:
[ ]

River:
[ ]
LATCHEZAR shows [ ]
SIMPLESTYLE shows [ ]
ISAIDGOODDAY shows [ ]
ISAIDGOODDAY wins $20 .56 USD from main pot
ISAIDGOODDAY wins $585.05 USD from main pot



***** Hand History for Game 1074006935 *****
$100.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, September 15, 01:59:09 ET 2008
Table ALASKA AVE (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 5: SIMPLESTYLE ( $277.85 USD )
Seat 6: DOE_JAI919 ( $194.00 USD )
Seat 1: SKILO17 ( $38.10 USD )
Seat 2: LUVDISCO ( $209.45 USD )
Seat 3: URAISEULOOSE ( $35.50 USD )
Seat 4: JEFFEXACT ( $54.85 USD )
DOE_JAI919 posts small blind [ $0.50 USD ].
SKILO17 posts big blind [ $1.00 USD ].

Holecards:
Dealt to SIMPLESTYLE [ ]
LUVDISCO folds
CALL URAISEULOOSE, $1.00 USD
JEFFEXACT folds
RAISE SIMPLESTYLE , $4.50 USD
RAISE DOE_JAI919, $15.00 USD
SKILO17 folds
URAISEULOOSE folds
CALL SIMPLESTYLE , $11.00 USD

Flop:
[ ]
DOE_JAI919 checks
BET SIMPLESTYLE , $24.00 USD
RAISE DOE_JAI919, $178.50 USD
CALL SIMPLESTYLE , $154.50 USD

Turn:
[ ]

River:
[ ]
SIMPLESTYLE shows [ ]
DOE_JAI919 shows [ ]
DOE_JAI919 wins $386 .50 USD from main pot


Posting this garbage almost makes me feel better.