Run bad :(

So, I have effectively cut my broll in half. Bah this is frustrating. Over the past day, I kept getting 3/2-outed on the river, losing my AA vs KK alli pf, losing coin flips (my AKs + flush draw vs QQ allin on flop), getting my flush counterfeited on the river, and (NOW, as I write this) getting one-outed!!



BAH. I quit.

1-outed Mr. Clownface

This hand is just sick.



It's the first time I one-outed somebody. I think the hand went down pretty well. The flop is pretty drawy and hit most of their ranges, hence the check. Once I hit trips, I bet for value against top pair and any straight draws out there. Now the interesting part. So, the second dude bets into me after being passive on all streets which suggests that he def has a boat at this point. So, feeling that people at 10NL can't fold boats of any sorts, I shove for value. I fist pump then LOLed. I'm now up 7 buyins at 10NL (1.1K hands).

Broll Management

I've been thinking about factors that impede my progress in poker. One thing that always lingers in my head is bankroll management. I have been guilty (x 10) of playing outside of my broll too frequently, and as a result, I find myself starting over many times. I probably have never actually played at any limit with a comfortable broll (even when i was super robusto in the spring cuz that broll build up came from playing outside of my broll). I guess I am too eager to play higher than to play better. For example, just yesterday I played 25NL with only 8 buyins!! Some of the motivation for this redonkulousness might be pride, some of it might be impatience. After tanking my broll multiple times, I really should play within my broll to avoid insanity. I think my lack of broll management may have changed my psyche while I'm at the tables - I probably get frustrated way too easily. I think I will start fresh and work my way up like the norm, instead of trying to play short rolled. Bah.

Anyways, I have not been playing much poker the past two weeks. I won't even have enough pts to make iron man this month :( cuz other stuff has kept me entertained/busy. Maybe once my job is over, (next week) I can start playing again, at 10NL like my broll suggests.

Run RIDICULOUSLY Good

I've been trying to focus more on my play by not multi-tabling too much. I've been playing 3 or less tables with some movie/video running to keep me entertained. I'm trying to be more conscious of not calling and getting to showdown too much but rather raising and folding. I think it's been working so far. I have a WTSD% of 28.3 and W$SD% of 47.2 over 2.2k hands (small size, i know). Still trying to iron out some things.

Anyways, I've been playing some 25NL now that my rakeback came in. I've been running pretty good - 1 buyin over expectation. HEM is pretty cool cause I can see my equity when I go all-in. From the looks of it, my avg all-in EV is about 62.6%. That's pretty solid, i guess.

Anyway over the past two days, I am up 8 buyins at 25NL (RUN GOOD). It will be interesting to see how I play when I do not run so good, imo. If my stats, allin equity, and blah blah blah continue to be good, I might 1 table 50NL or something.

Wheels keep a-turnin

So, I've been playing at 10NL with the $12 from the $100 freeroll. So far, I've been able to turn that winning into $34 over 540 hands (run so good, imo). I feel like I've been making careful (and hopefully correct) decisions. Here are all my all-ins while playing with the $12 winnings, courtesy of Hold'em Manager.


For the most part, I've been getting my money in ahead. The AK hand was essentially a coinflip; villian had QQ. Also the KT hand was dumb..maybe tilting from this hand:



I shoved the river to get value from a weaker flush and possibly a strong T (I've recently been watching DC vids and they talk about trying to get max value with strong hands). I did not expect a set because the flop was so wet (FD and SD possibilities), and he did not raise my cbet. I guess this is a standard cooler, or maybe I am just bad. Okay, time to keep grinding.

Just when you thought it was over...

So, I was bored and randomly signed up for one of those $100 freerolls that starts every 4 hrs or so. Right now I am busto in my account (not counting rakeback), so I can't play cash games. Anyways 5.75 hrs later, I made the final table. I ended busting 2 out of 2700. For my troubles, I got a whopping $12. Good hourly rate, if I do say so myself.

Interesting hand that I was not a part of...bad beat



Anyways, the final table was pretty tight. I would mostly take the pot down with a cbet. The chip leader was a super fish and making ridic hero calls (called an allin with bottom pair on a flush draw board). Eventually I got to play HUs with him for ALL the marbles. We started off equally stacked and that continued for a while. But then he didn't folding for some reason. Eventually I lost KTo < QJs allin pf. Oh well. It was a good run. Now time to go busto again!

ROBUSTO!!

...jk. I have forgotten how to win.

No news

Haven't really played that much in the last couple of days. I am also back to even, so I still have 20 buyins to go.

Later today, I hope to win something at Mannions. It should be fun.

Da MAC

So, I sit down at a 10 NL table to test out PT3 on my MAC (using vista because postgres doesn't work on mac). Boy, did I pick a good table. While I wait for the BB to roll around to me, I notice these two retards raising each other pf and on flop, dumping chips in the middle with crappy hands. Here's when I LOLed at both of them:



Run so good....17 more buyins til LEVEL UP

REWARD

As of now, $50 for whoever catches me playing HU. GOGOGOG

Bah, I'm CLOWNFACE

So, I managed, yet again, to barf away my broll by playing dumb at 25 NL, tilting away at HU, and going wild at 10 NL. Right now its down to 200ish. NEW PLAN: Tomorrow, I think I will start at the bottom again and play at 10 NL. I will only play at the next level once I achieve 20 buyins at the current level. This is prolly something I should have done earlier but I was a retard and played outside of my broll (RETARDNESS count = 3).

I started playing at 10 NL today (I prolly won't count the buyins I won now in the 20). It is drastically easier than 25 NL (i.e. people are skerd/dumb). Anyways, while playing, I think I found something that I constantly do wrong - calling to see if I am right. Even when I was a wee little one, I always had to know if I was right and dreaded being wrong. So, I think I call too much in some spots just to verify my suspicions. For example, I'm UTG with JJ and open std pot (3.5x BB). Villain in the CO 3bets me (3x my bet) and I, without hesitation, 4bet him. Villain thinks and then calls. Flop comes 7dAc8c. I check and Villain shoves the rest of his stack (4 into 7). I think for a second and wonder what hand he is calling my 4bet pf but not shoving over. And the conclusions I come up with are AK, JJ (not likely as I have JJ) , and maybe QQ (but not likely). But like a retard, I called the flop just to make sure I was right....and I was - he had AK. Bah. I should stop doing this and trust my reads.

Anyways new plan starts now. Broll = 200 at 10 NL with 20 buyins to go.

Up a little, down more

So yesterday I played 2 MTT and 1 6max STT. The MTT were $3 + $0.30 KO Turbos. So each time you KO someone in the tourney, you get $0.50 for your troubles. I like this concept because it gives you a wee little incentive for KOing fools. Anyways, the field for the MTTs was 90 people. I made it deep in both of them. After being the chip leader in one of the MTTs, I busted as BUBBLE BOY....BAH. I had to make a move because my stack was dwindling. Unlucky for me, the guy also had the same pair, just a better kicker. So I busted 10/90 in this one. In the other MTTs, I busted ITM at 9/90. I lost KK vs A6o allin pf. In the process, I KOed 6 people between the two MTTs. So I was up a whooping $2 for the 2hrs I spent playing.

In the $6 + $0.50 6max turbo STT, the people were pretty bad. I doubled up quickly and never looked back. I single handedly KOed all 5 retards to win 1st and take down ~$18 in profits. So far, I am still on the positive side when it comes to playing DONKAMENTS. Maybe I will move up in limits for MTTs, granted my broll decides to stop barfing.


Now for the down :( . I went back to regular old 6 max today. I played 1 table at 50NL and 5 tables at 25 NL. Right off the bat, this happens at 50:



Did not expect this at all. He limps, then calls the raise, then calls the squeeze. I bet near-pot to charge any draw he might have. By the turn, I shoved $20 into $80 with TPTK and a gutshot. I did not expect his hand. Sigh. I think I will withdraw my initial $100 investment and play with my profits...if i bust, then so be it.

Is this it?

So, I just finished playing 1.7k hands at 25NL and feel pretty dejected. In the session I ran into everything: losing set over set, getting outdrawn by FDs, getting it in bad (JJ vs KK on a low FD flop), missing coin-flips...Sure I stacked a few people here and there, but I ran bad and, as a result, got frustrated and played bad, really bad.



I have a sweet flush draw on the flop, hence the cbet. I turn a OESD...looking back maybe the reraise allin may not have been good; villain has only 7.85 left and is already committed :( Why do I think like this after the fact?

Hmm...what would you do in this hand?



Villian showed up with 36o a couple hands ago. Maybe I could have folded the turn for fear of Beluga, but there are so many draws out there and villain could easily have an overpair (99,TT, JJ)...so I called. By the river, I don't think its likely that villain will have 69 and the flush draw missed. Villain can still have an overpair or very possible 68s. What would you do?

I've been losing consistently for the past two months (down 2 BB/100 for ~25K hands or so). It's frustrating because I was winning early on and thought I made good decisions (HU is the gay). I think I will stop playing poker for awhile. Who knows, maybe I might stop for good.

Hola Amigos!

Howdy. I'm Alg, and I "play" poker. Right now, I'm playing at 25NL and hope to go robusto. I try to play whenever I have time but my summer job messes that up. My goal for the summer is to play consistently at 50NL, but first I have to build up my broll to handle that limit....after swinging at HU, I'm currently around 500ish. I will try to move up when I hit 1K or quit when I go busto. I will probably use this blog to write down my thoughts and interesting spots I encounter.

So, today I played in this rakeback freeroll that occurs every month for people who earn some amount of rake. I usually don't play donkaments because they take so much time and the chance of getting in the money is low. I started off by stealing the blinds to test the waters. Shortly after, I tried bluffing by check-raising an AcKc8c with Kd9s after being the pfr, but the d00d raised allin. So, with a small stack I just played super tight. After a while I got a rush of cards allowing me to get a big stack. So, I just sat around waiting for bubble boy. Eventually, I busted 92 out of 624 and made it in the money. My final hand was my KK vs AJo allin pf.

Here's an intereting hand:



At this point in the donkament, there were only 20 or so people left before the money. Normally, I would easily 3bet the pfr with AKs but I got scared of busting....I guess I should have done it anyways. Flatting the flop is also probably bad as I know nothing about his hand and I commit even more chips with just two overs. He probably has a pp here, a worse ace, or even broadways that I could have bluffed him off of, but I was too skerd of committing chips here. I played this hand badly.

Anyways, I will have to study more and grind out 25NL 6max. Also, HU is the gay, imo.