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Gotta Get My Grind On

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

oop, not posted for more than a week! I was away for a long weekend so haven’t actually played much poker, and what I did play was fairly so-so (On checking it I’ve made $56 – actually quite pleasing considering it seemed like I wasn’t playing at all).

Sooo, what can I post about? Not much I guess. Full Tilt is still proving to be the best site to play husngs – plenty of players and not much waiting for a game. Tonight I’ve been playing on Cake (under the alias ‘Rolf Lmao’ – geddit? :-) ), but it takes too long to sit and wait for someone to join you, so I’ve been joining anyone waiting on a game $25 or less (not many $25s, although the one I played I won – whoohoo!). So far been doing ok, but not getting many games over $10.

Here’s a great hand though – I love bluffing, but when someone showed me that they folded top pair it makes it well worth the many, many times that I get called down;

No Limit Holdem Tournament
2 Players

Stacks:
Hero (1,560)
BB (1,440)

Blinds: 10/20

Pre-Flop: (30, 2 players) Hero is SB 9spades poker card 2spades poker card
Hero raises to 40, BB calls 20

Flop: Qspades poker card 8clubs poker card 2diamonds poker card (80, 2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets 80, BB calls 80

Turn: 3diamonds poker card (240, 2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks

River: Jspades poker card (240, 2 players)
BB bets 240, Hero raises to 480, BB folds

Final Pot: 960
BB shows Qclubs poker card 9diamonds poker card

Hero wins 960 (net +360)

BB lost 360

There is some history on that hand – I’d played the same line of cbet, check turn, fold river about 3 times, with him making a PSB on the river each time. So I was actually waiting for a hand to have some value to take this line anyway, but I figured he’d also give the click-it-back action some credit on the river anyway, and a bluff would work just fine too (which it did lol!). However I had been putting that PSB of his as a stone cold bluff to simply buy the pot, and to see him fold away a hand with decent value really surprised me. I guess those other PSBs weren’t bluffs at all (maybe).

Oh, and here’s another one (different opponent);

No Limit Holdem Tournament
2 Players

$20 + $1 Heads Up Sit & Go

Stacks:
SB (1,140)
Hero (1,860)

Blinds: 10/20

Pre-Flop: (30, 2 players) Hero is BB 6hearts poker card Adiamonds poker card
SB raises to 40, Hero calls 20

Flop: 7spades poker card 4clubs poker card 5clubs poker card (80, 2 players)
Hero checks, SB bets 40, Hero raises to 100, SB calls 60

Turn: 5hearts poker card (280, 2 players)
Hero checks, SB bets 160, Hero calls 160

River: 7hearts poker card (600, 2 players)
Hero bets 200,
SB: what a joke
SB has 15 seconds left to act
SB: i got 36
SB folds

Final Pot: 800

Hero wins 800 (net +300)

SB lost 300

Possibly a bet for value more than a bluff, but very thin really…

6max? Game Over I Think…

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Full Tilt is giving away another little bonus (without telling anyone it seems?), and S1ndr0me said he was off to do a bit of rush to clear it. Sounded a good idea so I opened up a couple of tables.

After 600 hands I was down $27 (NL10). I stopped playing and thought how familiar this was. Every 6max session lately has been a losing one. Not suckouts or bad beats either, just me being spewy.

So I went back to husngs ($10 ones – Monday’s always a bad day, so wanted to play for fun rather than pushing myself into $20s). Six games later I was still unbeaten. $57 from an hour’s play.

What’s the point in playing 6max? Obviously none at all. I’m down $180 this year playing that stupid game, while I’m up $460 playing husngs.

So, time to give up playing anything else other than heads up (well, apart from some MTTs just for the big event of it).

Normality Resumed

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

So cash was way too swingy and husngs looked like a fantastic low variance easy climb up the ranks. Nothing could stop me.

Yeah right. I’ve managed to incorporate swings into husngs. It wasn’t easy, but I did it;

I’ve just lost 10 games in a row. The first 4 were $20s, and after seeing it fall away I switched back to $10s. It just kept on going. I’ve finally broken the streak with a single hand game where I sucked out to get 2pair on the river (yep, would have had a fairly crippled stack if that hadn’t happened).

One thing I’ve noticed though is that Full Tilt is easier than Pokerstars – even though PS has twice as many players there seem to be more newbs on FT husngs, plus the blind structure seems slower (well, seems slower, haven’t actually compared properly).

I think I’ll just piss around on rush poker for a bit just to have some low pressure donking – watch me throw a load more away :-)

FML – down $30 in 50 hands! Ran into Kings and Aces left right and center. Why do I even bother…

January Results

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Half good, half bad month.

The bad was my cash games – I started out the month after some in depth revision of my play, and came to the conclusion I was pushing too hard with paired hands (not PP) – overvaluing them and trying to get too much value. I was doing well at all-in play, and making good value out of 2pair+ hands, but the weaker made hands were wiping out those gains.

So I trimmed down my game and initially it seemed to be working – a nice 12 buy-in climb. It then collapsed dramatically, and to be honest I’m still not sure why;

At the bottom of that dive Full Tilt bought out Rush Poker, and I instantly switched, lured in by the appeal of big rakeback and racking up a large volume of hands. I’m not a big volume player, and the idea of boosting the number of hands was to reduce variance, but somehow I became swingier then ever. I possibly could have worked my way back to zero, but I was dispirited with the whole thing. My new year’s resolution was to not care about the limits I play, and just go with my bankroll, which is still fine, but it hurt to be within $8 of moving down to NL5 :-(

However  at that point I switched to HUSNGs. Which was the good half of the month :-D

For some reason I’ve been unstoppable – $5 buy-in games went fine, enough to give me confidence with the $10s. I then won 75% of $10 games – 17/23! Yesterday I tried some $20 games (not january I know), and won 2/3, so early days there – however the cash profit from these is astounding. Furthermore I’m not feeling bad (much) when I lose a match, not like when I’ve just spewed 4 buy-ins at NL10 – however that could be because I’m on a winning streak, sooo I’m not going to make too much of that right now.

Final gains: $120 including rakeback. $70 without rb – have to admit, rush poker did win in that respect!

February I’m concentrating on HU. Maybe this is a turning point in what kind of game I play, we’ll have to see…

ps. forgot to mention 21st in the WBCOOP main event as well :-)

Also got two weeks of stox from trulyfree, better get watching some vids I guess!

Why Was I Wasting My Time On Cash Games???

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Sooo, husng’s seem to be going well.

Today I played 3 $5 games (accidentally, forgot to look closely enough in the lobby)  – lost one, won the other two.

I then played 9 $10 games (so far). Won 9, lost none :-D   Today’s profit so far is $90! Never ever have I had a winning day like this at cash – not just for the sheer amount of money, but for the relative lack of stress and ease of games! I don’t get it? It can’t be this easy surely?! (it probably isn’t – in my graph below it looks very heaterish :-) )

Anyway – husng history to date (all 6 days of it);

Yesterday I lost 4 out of 6 $10 games which dented my confidence a bit. Mustn’t let today’s unstoppable run go to my head – I should expect a loss soon and shrug it off…


Update: Damn, lost a couple;

;-)

I’m half way through a bottle of wine, so I should stop now. The WBCOOP starts in 45 minutes, and I was going to fill the tedium of that with more sng’s, but perhaps I shouldn’t push my luck.

First 50 HUSNGs

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Completed my first 50 heads up sit ‘n’ go’s. Well, not quite true as I played a handful ages ago, but this is the first 50 since coach Yegor stepped in and pushed me up to $5 games (actually he said $10s, but being the timid fool that I am I wanted to paddle a bit first).

Results – 33 won, 18 lost (51 total) – ROI: 23%, total win: $62

So, now onto the $10’s I guess. I’m still having trouble seeing the big picture and get a twinge of depression when I lose a game – it’s a long term thing, gotta remember that.

Current sharkscope is;

HUSNG’s are the second half of games played (prior to that is 2 years of randomly having a go at a 6max SNG now and again). Onwards and upwards…

HUSNGs and My Forum

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

I’ve enabled my forum http://www.meteoricpoker.com/forum/ just as a friendly place to chat. I’m not expecting much traffic from it, but maybe it’ll be useful for somewhere us bloggers can whinge about bad beats at the very least. Feel free to vent, spew or whatever you want to do in a forum :-)

I fired up some more $5 HUSNGs and carried on crushing people :-) First two went reasonably well, then I picked up an opponent who couldn’t let it go and I beat him 3 times before he finally gave up.

Unfortunately luck runs out, and I started running into hands like this;

NL Holdem $20(BB) Replayer
($1,560)
Hero ($1,440)

Dealt to Hero Jhearts poker card 3hearts poker card

Hero raises to $60, calls $40

FLOP ($120) Ahearts poker card Qhearts poker card 7hearts poker card

checks, Hero bets $80, calls $80

TURN ($280) Ahearts poker card Qhearts poker card 7hearts poker card 8spades poker card

bets $140, Hero calls $140

RIVER ($560) Ahearts poker card Qhearts poker card 7hearts poker card 8spades poker card 5hearts poker card

bets $300, Hero raises to $600, raises to $1,280 (AI), Hero calls $560 (AI)

Hero shows Jhearts poker card 3hearts poker card
(Pre 43%, Flop 71.0%, Turn 84.1%)

shows 2clubs poker card Khearts poker card
(Pre 57%, Flop 29.0%, Turn 15.9%)

wins $2,880

Just knew I should have raised that turn – one card left to beat me, and there it was.

Anyway, I gave up after 5 losses in a row, feeling that tilt was probably going to get the better of me.

Early days, but this is looking a lot better than cash games – as long as I don’t go on a 5 game losing streak again I can definitely rack up money quicker than my swingy 6max game…



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