Schwing

Haven't posted in a while since I haven't had anything major to report. I've been busy with school and haven't played that much.

I did have a nasty little 15-hour session at the casino playing 2/5 limit. Ended that with a profit of $70 which is a bit disappointing. The best I ever built my stack to during that session was for about $160 profit. It's a swingy game though with about 5-6 people seeing every flop. It's always fun playing live though.

Nothing to report in MTT play. A few minor cashes and some sick beats have kept me from going deep in anything.

50NL has been has swingy as well. I'm currently up 3 buy-ins on the month over 5k hands for a stupid winrate of 3bb/100. Very disappointing, but my play is getting better and I should show a much stronger winrate by the end of the month.

I've also been playing some limit heads-up. The play is generally terrible and I'm up close to $150 over very few hands. I could just be getting lucky though. Need bigger sample!

Here are a couple hands from 50NL that I found interesting in tonight's session.

Hand 1: 50NL
Seat #5 is the dealer
Seat 5 - GMAN271407 ($89.46 in chips) -- aggro donk running at 62/20/2.5
Seat 6 - Hero ($124.65 in chips)
Seat 4 - ISUTENDER07 ($99.25 in chips) -- standard TAG
Hero - Posts small blind $0.25
JAVAHAVA - Posts big blind $0.50
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [ ]
HOLDEM_07 - Folds
MAXIPESAA - Folds
ISUTENDER07 - Raises $2 to $2
GMAN271407 - Calls $2
Hero - Raises $9 to $9.25 -- standard squeeze
JAVAHAVA - Folds
ISUTENDER07 - Folds
GMAN271407 - Calls $7.25 -- not surprised

Flop:
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Not thrilled about this flop but I have to bet.

Hero - Bets $16 -- $16 into $21 pot, maybe should have bet more here
GMAN271407 - Calls $16

Turn:
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I don't put him on a Q because I think he would raise that flop. If he has a 10 I'm paying him off. Also not putting him on KK/AA because he flatted pf.

Hero - Checks -- Since he has been very aggressive I will let him take the lead and decide from there
GMAN271407 - Bets $22.50 -- half pot bet, seems very weak
Hero - All-In(Raise) $99.40 to $99.40 -- if I call here I'm committed to calling just about any river, so I might as well shove
GMAN271407 - Folds -- aggro donk lets it go
Hero - returned ($76.90) : not called
Hero - Does not show
Hero Collects $95 from main pot


Hand 2: 50NL
Seat #6 is the dealer
Seat 6 - Hero ($169.15 in chips)
Seat 5 - GMAN271407 ($98.91 in chips)
JAVAHAVA - Posts small blind $0.25
HOLDEM_07 - Posts big blind $0.50
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [ ]
MAXIPESAA - Folds
ISUTENDER07 - Folds
GMAN271407 - Calls $0.50 -- same aggro donk as in last hand
Hero - Raises $2.50 to $2.50 -- standard raise here on the button
JAVAHAVA - Folds
HOLDEM_07 - Folds
GMAN271407 - Calls $2

Flop:
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GMAN271407 - Checks
Hero - Bets $4 -- bet $4 into $5.75, maybe a little weak
GMAN271407 - Raises $10 to $10 -- interesting, I haven't seem him checkraise many flops
Hero - Calls $6 -- not sure if this is good but this guy is a an aggro donk so I'm not gonna let this go just yet

Turn:
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GMAN271407 - Bets $33 -- he overbets the $25.75 flop
Hero - Calls $33 -- I think I made a mistake here by flatting. At the time I still thought I might be ahead (likely not), and I picked up the flush draw. However, pot odds of 2-to-1 are not nearly enough here I don't think. At this point he only has $53 back so even if I hit my flush, or a T or K for a two-pair I'm still only getting roughly 3.5-to-1 implied odds.

River:
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GMAN271407 - All-In $53.41
Hero - Folds
GMAN271407 - returned ($53.41) : not called

Showdown:
GMAN271407 - Does not show
GMAN271407 Collects $88.75 from main pot

He shoves and I fold with no help from the river. I think I need to stove this hand with some ranges after a good night's sleep to see if that turn call was even remotely close to being good. Any thoughts on this hand would also be appreciated. :)

Jackpot!

Coupled with the prize money, double finish jackpot, and best double finish jackpot, last night's shipment came in at a smokin' $1390! I almost doubled my bankroll overnight! I'm not sure how much I'll withdraw and how much I'll keep in the br just yet, but I'm thinking about buying myself a used drum kit to rock out on.

I went out of DD A on a doozy of a hand. I'm still replaying it in my head. Any comments appreciated! (Turns out the hh got lost or something...)

Villain was a decent player who mixed up his raises so it was difficult to put him on a hand.

Villain is on button with about 25BB
I have about 15BB
Dealt to me: 33
Folds around to button
Villain minraises
SB folds
I call
Flop: 4 5 7 rainbow
I shove 13BB into 4.5BB + antes
Villain calls with 88

No help to me and I'm gone. I shoved because Villain whiffs this board a lot of the time. With the minraise preflop I can't put him on that midpair too often, so I guess he played it well.

February Results and March Goals

Throughout February I really tried to get comfortable with a true TAG style of play and I think I did a good job of that. I feel right at home at 25NL and am able to beat just about anyone playing the game over at Absolute.

At the beginning of the month I was playing too aggressively and stacking off with weak holdings a bit too often. I adjusted throughout the month and I think I have a good idea of when I need to get my money in and when I should be slowing down. I still make some poor river calls where I pay people off so that's a major leak I want to plug throughout March.


Here are the numbers from the PT database off my desktop:


I'm not sure why PT is doing this, but all of the 25nl numbers should be 6-max. Another thing is that I did a lot of 6-8 tabling at the start of the month and my play was definitely not as good as when I slowed down to 4-tabling for the rest of the month.

Here are the numbers from my laptop:


Aside from the terrible run at 50NL here, I like these numbers a lot more. I played on my laptop for a week which I spent at home. All of this play was 4-tabling, and as a result I posted a much better winrate than on my desktop.

Lastly, here are my tournament results:


I went over my tourneys in past posts so I won't say anything else about them here.

In total, I made $783.74 profit from play during February, which I'm very happy with. In addition to that, I also cleared $215 in bonus from AP, and I'll be getting $277.05 in rakeback for the month.

All together, that puts me at a grand total of $1275.79 profit for the month of February! Yum!

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Goals for this month are:

• playing 10,000 hands of 25NL with a winrate of 8bb/100
• playing 10,000 hands of 50NL with a winrate of 5bb/100
• score a big cash in a MTT with a buy-in of at most $15

I think I'm playing a lot better at 50NL than February's results show (they're abysmal!) so I definitely want to have a solid result this month in that game. I likely won't get as much play in this month as in February because school is looking pretty busy, but I think I can still manage 20k hands and some MTTs.

That's it for now!

Money In Midnight Madness

Finished 92nd in the 1,839-man field in Full Tilt's $10+1 Midnight Madness MTT. I was all set to go real deep, sitting at a comfortable 15 blinds with a good feel for my table, when this monstrosity of a hand happened:

600/1200 Ante 150
Seat 1: J_HasTheNuts (17 614)
Seat 9: Hero (19 331)
-- clip antes
Hero posts the small blind of 600
J_HasTheNuts posts the big blind of 1,200
The button is in seat #8

Holecards:
Dealt to Hero [ ]
-- folds around to me in sb
Hero raises to 4,800
J_HasTheNuts calls 3,600

Flop:
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Hero has 15 seconds left to act
Hero bets 6 000
J_HasTheNuts raises to 12 664 and is all in
Hero calls 6 664
J_HasTheNuts shows [ ]
Hero shows [ ]

Turn :
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River:
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J_HasTheNuts shows a straight Nine high
Hero shows three of a kind Fives
J_HasTheNuts wins the pot (36 128) with a straight Nine high

I'm 65% to win this on the flop, and I gave him pot odds just short of that with my flop bet. I need to shove in that spot next time.

$6500 Guarantee Cash

Scored another MTT cash, this time in APs $25 buy-in $6500 Guarantee. I thought played pretty solid throughout, but made a couple mistakes once the bubble burst that cost me a shot at going much deeper.

In one hand, I called a short stack's ep raise with QT in the big blind, and when I missed I decided to bet at the flop, to which the short stack obviously shoved. I shook my head in disgust at my dumb play and folded. That cut my stack down a bit, and what killed me was letting that diminished stack dwindle down to the point where it become inconsequential.

I ended up shoving about 5 blinds or so into a raise holding 33. The raiser turned up KK and I didn't catch any miracles. I should have made some moves sooner, when my short stack still had some weight. Live and learn!

Nothing exciting to report from any cash game sessions, other than the fact that I've twice been asked by Cardrunners members whether I am one of them. I'm currently not but I guess I must be doing something right. ;)