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Got Carried Away

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

Whoops, in the stupid belief that I could cope with 4 tabling rush poker I threw away $64!

My biggest mistakes were unfortunately while I was deep – I hit trips on a 727 board, both of us with 200bb stacks – the money went all in and he had 22 It’s kinda difficult since clearly his shove screamed that he had a major hand, certainly better than my sevens, but the NL10 game at rush poker is full of crazy people – shoves like that are happening all the time. This is perhaps partly because NL10 is the lowest stakes so we have all the NL2 & NL5 people there, plus the speed induces people to play a bluffy reckless game.

So I took a step back and had a breather – during this time I figured out how to export my HEM stats into my Full Tilt player notes (since the HUD’s useless with rush). It didn’t help that much though as I don’t seem to have any history with the people I’m seeing on the rush tables. I guess that’s a consequence of NL10 being the lowest limits again.

So I restarted, and this time added another piece to my Rush strategy – ratholing! I switched down to 2 tables and whenever a stack gained more than 20bb I closed it and then joined another. Obviously not an optimal strategy for a strong player, but I lack the experience and self-discipline at playing deep, and if I don’t cap my game like that I stand to lose some big hands.

Anyway, it went better;

The improvement is mainly from going down to 2 tables, but I think the ratholing is probably a good thing for me to do, at least for now…

Update: It’s a good feeling when you lose an absolute bucketload of money, and then have the ability to win it back

I almost posted this chart at the 1.6k hands mark but thought I’ll just make it a real profit – duh, that of course made everything spin out of control. Made it on the second attempt though

For the prop bet I’d be negative still if it wasn’t for rakeback – I’d be at -$6 but with Rakeback I’m +$38! That’s a lot of rakeback…

Posted in Full Tilt, Good Days, NL10 | 7 Comments »

Today’s Rush

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Not so hot today Now four tabling rush poker;

Glad I scraped it back, although I was a bit bad letting it go that far down. Bluffs are failing completely and utterly on rush poker – there just seems to be too many calling stations. Of course that’s fine when you’re hitting hands, which is probably why yesterday’s graphs were so sweet – I was hitting a ton of stuff then. Today I had loads of small and medium pockets pairs, and loads of AKo hands, but almost none of them seemed to hit at all. On top of that everyone was mashing the pot button on the flop – it was hard folding so often, plus feeling nervous to cbet with the CS’s made it not the most pleasant of sessions.

During the return to zero part I modified my game so that my opening raises were completely ridiculous – all button steals were $0.20 minbets, speculative SC’s were minbets, broadways and big pairs were 3 to 5 big blinds. It seemed to be paying off as well – with minbet raises you don’t need that many to be successful to make a profit, and yet perversley *more* people seemed to fold to the minbet than to the 3bb button raises.

For the propbet, I’m still behind the starting line

but the fact that I was able to do 2k hands just today is amazing! Rakeback is just going to rocket up now, plus I might get some of the variance out of my game. Just got to avoid the tilt induced crashes that tend to come my way every now and again

One thing that’s funny is that on these Rush tables I’m now getting the redline of a multitable grinder;

I’ve *never* had a graph like that before, but is my game better or worse for it? A positive redline might be seen as a good thing, but then my game was always so swingy?! Maybe this is an indication of stability perhaps…

It might also be worth looking into the ironman promotion now as well.

Posted in Bad Days, Full Tilt, Multitabling, NL10, RakeBack | 1 Comment »

My Go At Rush Poker

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Finally got round to having a go. Since I ran hot I like it

That’s 277 hands in an hour which fits with what FTPDoug said – that’s about two and a half times the normal rate, so awesome for rakeback. Let’s face it – that’s the only way I ever build my roll, so looks like this is my game.

Of course, next time I play I’ll run bad and I’ll decide that Rush poker is a pile of crap. For now though I’m happy enough with it.

Still no confirmation on the Pokerstars WBCOOP. Since this post is going to knock it off the front page I’ll post the link stuff here again…

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! The WBCOOP is a free online Poker tournament open to all Bloggers, so register on WBCOOP to play.

Registration code: 930826

Update: lol, I still like rush poker

I upped it to two tables, and found I could cope with the speed. Possibly if I was using a proper mouse and not my laptop pad thing I could do 3 tables. At least that meant the next hour gave me 700 more hands.

Biggest hand was this one. I was on the verge of folding to what could have been a squeeze, and then realised we were both reasonably deep. Implied odds and all that, so I called. Then my sooooted connectors hit

NL Holdem $0.10(BB) Replayer
SB ($25.11)
BB ($12.38)
UTG ($2.71)
Hero ($18.41)
CO ($24.65)
BTN ($9.60)

Dealt to Hero 7 6

fold, Hero raises to $0.30, CO calls $0.30, fold, SB raises to $1.40, fold, Hero calls $1.10, fold

FLOP ($3.20) 4 3 5

SB bets $2.10, Hero raises to $5.10, SB raises to $23.71 (AI), Hero calls $11.91 (AI)

TURN ($37.22) 4 3 5 T

RIVER ($37.22) 4 3 5 T 8

SB shows K K
(Pre 79%, Flop 4.9%, Turn 0.0%)

Hero shows 7 6
(Pre 21%, Flop 95.1%, Turn 100.0%)

Hero wins $35.22

Posted in Full Tilt, Good Days, NL10, No Limit Hold'em, Poker, RakeBack | 6 Comments »

++ Full Tilt Introduces New Buy-in Limits, Plus Rush Poker ++

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Newsbreak – FTPDoug has just announced the new Full Tilt changes here.

They’ve increased the minimum buy-in to 35bb, which I guess is enough to mess up the short stack strategy. They also introduced ‘shallow’ low buy-in games where the maximum buy-in is 40bb. No use to shortstackers at all, but will please the poorer newbie player who doesn’t want to risk a big stack or play capped.

The other big news was the introduction of Rush Poker. Basically when you fold you’re instantly taken to a new table which has a hand being dealt. The idea is you’re continually playing a hand. FTPDoug reckons you’ll play 2 or 3 times as many hands this way. You still get hand histories, but your HUD won’t be able to cope with it. Also sites like pokertableratings won’t be able to track them either. So, downside is you can’t build good reads on your opponents, upside is more exciting and higher rakeback gains. Sounds like fun though, but I can’t see it replacing the grinder’s game of choice (well, maybe? It’ll attract a lot more fish, plus with the Rakeback it might change the game a lot?)

Posted in Full Tilt, Poker, RakeBack, Short Stack Strategy, TwoPlusTwo | 5 Comments »

Ridiculous

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Another crushing session – no idea how this one happened, I wasn’t tilted this time, I was folding to raises. There were a bunch of flips (AK stuff) plus a few KK vs AA stuff, but down $50 in one session is too much.

Bankroll is down to $250. Only 5 buyins from having to move back to NL5. (update: just remembered $60 in another account. Bit more of a margin – guess that can pay S1ndr0me after he plays his next 6k hands…)

For prop bet;

No chance now I guess…

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Back to Square One

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

I’ve lost it completely now – down $18 this morning. Into negative figures for the $200 challenge, down more than $20 for the month. I’m even going to have to audit my accounts to see how many buy-ins I have left for NL10

I’m just going to do something else for the rest of the day. Tomorrow I don’t know. I might try satelliting into a big tourney, or possibly join S1ndr0me back at NL5 for a bit. No idea, don’t even want to think about it right now…

#1
NL Holdem $0.10(BB) Replayer
SB ($10.06)
Hero ($10)
UTG ($12.09)
CO ($20.05)
BTN ($10.63)

Dealt to Hero J A

fold, fold, fold, SB raises to $0.30, Hero raises to $0.90, SB raises to $2.60, Hero calls $1.70

FLOP ($5.20) T 5 J

SB bets $4, Hero calls $4

TURN ($13.20) T 5 J 3

SB bets $3.46 (AI), Hero calls $3.40 (AI)

RIVER ($20) T 5 J 3 Q

SB shows K K
(Pre 68%, Flop 75.9%, Turn 88.6%)

Hero shows J A
(Pre 32%, Flop 24.1%, Turn 11.4%)

SB wins $18.67

#2
NL Holdem $0.10(BB) Replayer
Hero ($10)
BB ($12.28)
UTG ($10.84)
UTG+1 ($7)
CO ($14.79) Repeat offender 1 46/16
BTN ($2)

Dealt to Hero K A

fold, fold, CO calls $0.10, fold, Hero raises to $0.40, fold, CO calls $0.30

FLOP ($0.90) 5 4 K

Hero bets $0.90, CO raises to $1.80, Hero raises to $9.60 (AI), CO calls $7.80

TURN ($20.10) 5 4 K 6

RIVER ($20.10) 5 4 K 6 9

CO shows K 4
(Pre 28%, Flop 70.4%, Turn 79.5%)

Hero shows K A
(Pre 72%, Flop 29.6%, Turn 20.5%)

CO wins $18.76

#3
NL Holdem $0.10(BB) Replayer
SB ($7.45)
BB ($9.03) Repeat offender 1 46/16
Hero ($11.89)
CO ($12.28)
BTN ($10)

Dealt to Hero T K

Hero raises to $0.30, fold, fold, fold, BB raises to $0.90, Hero calls $0.60

FLOP ($1.85) K T 7

BB bets $1.30, Hero calls $1.30

TURN ($4.45) K T 7 5

BB checks, Hero bets $4.45, BB calls $4.45

RIVER ($13.35) K T 7 5 Q

BB checks, Hero checks

BB shows Q Q
(Pre 72%, Flop 11.6%, Turn 4.5%)

Hero shows T K
(Pre 28%, Flop 88.4%, Turn 95.5%)

BB wins $12.46

#4
NL Holdem $0.10(BB) Replayer
SB ($27.65)
BB ($8.75) Repeat offender 2 40/17
UTG ($10.35)
UTG+1 ($10)
CO ($11)
Hero ($10.22)

Dealt to Hero A 5

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to $0.30, fold, BB calls $0.20

FLOP ($0.65) A 7 T

BB checks, Hero bets $0.40, BB raises to $0.80, Hero calls $0.40

TURN ($2.25) A 7 T 9

BB bets $2.25, Hero calls $2.25

RIVER ($6.75) A 7 T 9 4

BB checks, Hero bets $4, BB calls $4

BB shows J A
(Pre 72%, Flop 83.9%, Turn 79.5%)

Hero shows A 5
(Pre 28%, Flop 16.1%, Turn 20.5%)

BB wins $13.77

#5
NL Holdem $0.10(BB) Replayer
SB ($10.68)
BB ($9.85)
Hero ($12.56)
BTN ($14.73) Repeat offender 2 40/17

Dealt to Hero 7 7

Hero raises to $0.30, BTN calls $0.30, fold, fold

FLOP ($0.75) K J 9

Hero checks, BTN checks

TURN ($0.75) K J 9 T

Hero bets $0.70, BTN raises to $1.40, Hero calls $0.70

RIVER ($3.55) K J 9 T K

Hero checks, BTN bets $1.50, Hero raises to $3, BTN raises to $4.50, Hero calls $1.50

BTN shows A 8
(Pre 46%, Flop 54.1%, Turn 100.0%)

Hero shows 7 7
(Pre 54%, Flop 45.9%, Turn 0.0%)

BTN wins $11.72

#6
NL Holdem $0.10(BB) Replayer
SB ($11.79)
BB ($10.31)
Hero ($12.01)
UTG+1 ($10)
CO ($12.39) Repeat offender 2 40/17
BTN ($13.35)

Dealt to Hero J T

Hero raises to $0.30, fold, CO calls $0.30, fold, fold, fold

FLOP ($0.75) 6 J 8

Hero bets $0.50, CO raises to $1, Hero calls $0.50

TURN ($2.75) 6 J 8 A

Hero bets $1.50, CO raises to $3, Hero calls $1.50

RIVER ($8.75) 6 J 8 A 7

Hero checks, CO checks

CO shows J K
(Pre 68%, Flop 82.8%, Turn 86.4%)

Hero shows J T
(Pre 32%, Flop 17.2%, Turn 13.6%)

CO wins $8.17

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