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More Variance Please

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

This was an exciting thread on 2p2. PrimordialAA bet Skates that he could play 2000 super turbo husngs at high stakes ($350, $500 and $1000) and come away with a ROI of over 3%.

The thread was initially filled with the bewilderment of the uninitiated who couldn’t understand why such a small % was so hard, and even after having the error of their ways pointed out, PrimordialAA went on a massive heater making 3% look like a ridiculous number. In the first 500 games he won $60,000. Then the true face of super turbos finally kicked in, and he remained break-even for the rest of the games, which actually gave a nail-bitingly close finish, finishing just over 3%.

I managed to rail him on the last handful of games, and it looked fun. So I started playing some myself (at $5 of course lol), and it was as fun as it looked. It was enjoyable because it was over in minutes and you already knew it was going to be high variance.

These two things make it so much easier to see the bigger picture. When I’m doing my regular husngs I get pissed off at each game I lose (esp the suckouts obv), and a row of losses can stop me playing for the rest of the day. With these super turbos you just play game after game and you see your results after an hour’s play – much more like a regular cash session. So I guess playing $5 super turbos is like playing 2/5 cash with really really slow hands (lol, kinda).

Ok, fast forward to two weeks time and see me berating how crap super turbos are…

Update: also found a new blog to follow; Chipstar1. This was the guy who had that crazy million hands at NL2 showing a perfect climb. He’s now part of Pokerstars team online, representing the nanostakes players (despite having moved up to NL100). Seems a good guy & worth a read…

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Hot Hot Hot

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Too hot!!! Still going to play tennis though, although it’s going to be a bit desperate.

Newff (a husng player on my blogroll, even though he doesn’t post anywhere near enough!) wants to try his hand at the 5k HU main event at the Canadian Poker Open in August. He started a thread on 2p2 asking for backers and people were putting up 1% shares which is about $60. I figured I could just about spare that, and he’s probably got a better chance of cashing than I have of throwing that at my $10 husngs . So I threw my share into the hat. Hopefully he’ll get enough for the ticket, although it’ll take quite a few people when everyone’s just up for 1% shares…

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Jaded June

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

Poker has become frustrating again. Early victory in HU cash was fun, but as we come to the end of this month it still shows a loss – I’ll spend an hour against a weak opponent and win a nice variance-free buy-in (or two), and then go up against an aggressive player and lose the lot (plus I was pushing the limits each time, so the losses were v painful). 50/50 whether it’s been bad beats or my fault – I recently was against someone who was clearly overreaching with their bets, and got it all in on a 4bet with J3 as top pair. They called with an OESD that hit – even though I was a 60% favourite and had made a good read, the wisdom of pushing with J3 is hardly defending my case much.

Consequently I’m not playing much as the moment, it just seems a bit futile – in the early days a session was fun (or not), but the more I play the more I see poker as a long term game with all the sessions merged into a single win-rate, and it’s not that great.

Results for June:

HU Cash:

husngs:

For a whole month that’s an amazingly low hand count. Bear in mind it’s single tabling on the cash games, plus I’ve been away 3/4 weekends this month, so not been playing much anyway.

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Heads Up Cash Working Well

Monday, June 14th, 2010

The heads up cash games are really going well. I’m not entirely sure whether my winrate is good, bad, mediocre or what since the HH won’t import into HEM, but at the very least I’m showing a profit.

Yesterday for instance I bought in short ($10) into a NL20 game, and after an hour my opponent finally gave up – my stack was $32. That was an hour of chipping away without any huge shoves. Is that how it should be? Normally my game has far more variance than that, with a few more shoves causing some big stack sized swings along the way. Seems like a very slow way of winning (an hour of $20 husngs could easily be $100 on a good day), although I should remember that long term my crazy swingy style has generally lost, despite the epic 4-5 buy-in session wins!

I also realised that traffic numbers on these sites is very misleading. For instance I said the other day how EverLeaf was showing only a few thousand players while Pokerstars had a massive 200 thousand. It turns out that PokerStars’ numbers are vastly inflated – the real number is more like 80,000 (according to pokerscout). Still a lot, but not quite the same wow factor. The difference in numbers is that the 200,000 included play chip tables, plus players signed in but not actively playing

120,000 inactive/play chip players sounds a lot. Maybe I’m still not seeing the real numbers here…

Update: Just noticed the latest HEM release supports EverLeaf. I’ll upgrade when I get home. I noticed the that HH text doesn’t include rake taken from the pot, so hopefully HEM is figuring it out somehow…

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Heads Up Cash

Friday, June 11th, 2010

Just to mix it up slightly I started playing some heads up cash games last night – I had played a few husngs and got more or less nowhere without making any serious mistakes, and was just feeling generally put upon (obv poker is pure luck). Cellsino has HU cash games starting at 0.01/0.02, so I figured I’d mess around with those to see how it went.

Of course the difficulty is finding opponents, but the site mysteriously had only one person on each stake who was just sitting there waiting. No full tables, just these guys. Very patient people, shills or bots?

I started at the lowest limits and cleared out the first guy until he left. I then moved up to NL10 and started on the next guy. Again I was able to take his money fairly easily (almost too easily) and I started to wonder if he was a bot (which on the whole aren’t good players). So I started a little chat, and he replied so he seemed real. I kept on going until finally he sat out. He didn’t leave – he just sat out. So I left, and looking back at the lobby he had sat back in, and there was still the NL2 guy still waiting. I’m leaning towards shills now.

I then sat at NL20, and this guy had a very different style (although still really bad). He 3bet me preflop almost every hand, I switched down to 2bb openraises and widened my 3bet calling and started taking his money. Three times I built my stack up to $30 and then try a shove to get his last $10 (he wasn’t rebuying) – each time I got it in ahead which was great, but each time he hit on the turn or river putting us back to $20. Finally tilt was getting to me and I got it in with KQo against his 99. I hit a Q on the flop but then the wanker hit a 9 on the turn.

So overall I lost, thanks to that last hand and the horrific rake. I get 53% rakeback on that site, so I shouldn’t feel too bad about the Rake, but I’m pissed off that I was tilting at the end. In many ways KQo wasn’t the worst hand to get it in with against this guy (far from ideal without an A though), but the tilt made me instaquit when he spiked his set and I would have been better to stick around a bit longer and at least recoup my losses…

Nevertheless, HU cash was a lot of fun. Reading Jungleman’s well he said that he got to $30 & $50 husngs with mediocre winnings, but then switched to cash and the rest is history. Maybe that’s me too

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Mentalists

Sunday, May 16th, 2010

It’s the endgame, you’re in the lead with 10x the idiot’s stack thanks to your strategic brilliance, and you’re into the shove/fold zone;

No Limit Holdem Tournament
2 Players

$10.00+$0.50

Stacks:
SB Hero (2,750)
BB Villain (250)

Blinds: 10/20

Pre-Flop: (30, 2 players) Hero is SB J K
Hero goes all-in 2,750, Villain goes all-in 230

Flop: A 4 2 (3,000, 2 players, 2 all-in)

Turn: 7 (3,000, 2 players, 2 all-in)

River: 3 (3,000, 2 players, 2 all-in)

Final Pot: 3,000
Hero shows high card Ace
J K
Villain shows two pair, Fours and Deuces
4 2

Villain wins 500 (net +250)

Hero collects 2,500 (net -250)

42o? Well, every fish has his day

No Limit Holdem Tournament
2 Players

$10.00+$0.50

Stacks:
SB Villain (500)
BB Hero (2,500)

Blinds: 10/20

Pre-Flop: (30, 2 players) Hero is BB J K
Villain raises to 40, Hero goes all-in 2,500, Villain goes all-in 460

Flop: A 10 7 (3,000, 2 players, 2 all-in)

Turn: 10 (3,000, 2 players, 2 all-in)

River: 2 (3,000, 2 players, 2 all-in)

Final Pot: 3,000
Hero shows a pair of Tens
J K
Villain shows two pair, Aces and Tens
7 A

Villain wins 1,000 (net +500)

Hero collects 2,000 (net -500)

ffs

No Limit Holdem Tournament
2 Players

$10.00+$0.50

Stacks:
SB Hero (2,840)
BB Villain (160)

Blinds: 15/30

Pre-Flop: (45, 2 players) Hero is SB 8 7
Hero goes all-in 2,840, Villain goes all-in 130

Flop: 2 A K (3,000, 2 players, 2 all-in)

Turn: 5 (3,000, 2 players, 2 all-in)

River: 7 (3,000, 2 players, 2 all-in)

Final Pot: 3,000
Hero shows a pair of Sevens
8 7
Villain shows a pair of Aces
A 10

Villain wins 320 (net +160)

Hero collects 2,680 (net -160)

No Limit Holdem Tournament
2 Players

$10.00+$0.50

Stacks:
SB Villain (305)
BB Hero (2,695)

Blinds: 15/30

Pre-Flop: (45, 2 players) Hero is BB 7 K
Villain goes all-in 305, Hero calls 275

Flop: 4 10 5 (610, 2 players, 1 all-in)

Turn: 5 (610, 2 players, 1 all-in)

River: J (610, 2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: 610
Hero shows a pair of Fives
7 K
Villain shows two pair, Fives and Deuces
2 2

Villain wins 610 (net +305)

Hero lost 305

No Limit Holdem Tournament
2 Players

$10.00+$0.50

Stacks:
SB Hero (2,405)
BB Villain (595)

Blinds: 25/50

Pre-Flop: (75, 2 players) Hero is SB K 7
Hero raises to 100, Villain goes all-in 595, Hero calls 495

Flop: K 9 2 (1,190, 2 players, 1 all-in)

Turn: 3 (1,190, 2 players, 1 all-in)

River: 2 (1,190, 2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: 1,190
Hero shows two pair, Kings and Deuces
K 7
Villain shows a pair of Deuces
A 6

Hero wins 1,190 (net +595)

Villain lost 595

finally!

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Return of The Mojo

Monday, March 15th, 2010

It’s one of those weird monday nights – everyone I’ve played has been really, really, really bad!

So far it’s 6 games won out of 7, and the last game was an $10 8 man shootout. I noticed that 5 people had already signed up and figured I might as well join in – the prize is split between the 2 finalists $52/$28, so compared to a 4man it’s not that great, but I felt like killing some time and having a gamble.

Plus I was running hot – so hot that even FT couldn’t handle it! First game of the 8man we were all in and I was in bad shape needing a K on the river to complete a straight. Just before the river card was dealt Full Tilt completely hung – it just stared at me showing me the straight draw, taunting me! Then it crashed completely. I thought ‘oh well, gg’ and restarted Full Tilt not expecting much.

As I logged in the game popped up with the fuckwit villain hammering away at his bet button – a K must have landed!!! He’d blinded me back to a 50:50 stack size and I started rebuilding. I was up to 75:25 and he shoved. I called with A7 (blinds were getting a bit high) to see 88. Flop and turn missed, and then the river hit! That guy must have been so pissed (muhahaha).

I went on to win the 8man making $77 for the night – that rescues this month which had been down $80.

I’m a bit worried about my net connection now though. Full Tilt is disconnecting a lot, plus my modem is also checking out fairly often as well. The two combined aren’t making life easy.

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