Friday, April 25, 2008
I Don't Understand
Have been following up all sessions since last post by reviewing my previous blogpost. Aiming to capitalize/improve upon strengths, and eliminate/adjust for weaknesses. Very glad that I'm using this blog for something productive, and not just for BBV. Naturally, BBV is a part of poker, but it's not value-added to discuss it. Instead, I'd rather focus on leaks and plugging them, instead of writing everything off as a cooler.
cuz DAMN some hands can seem like coolers when you casually ignore the multiple mistakes you made on the way to 5th street.
Again, I apologize for having hands in full text format.
Seat 4 - xxx($53.44 in chips)
Seat 5 - xxx($61.35 in chips)
Seat 6 - Hero ($63.04 in chips)
Seat 1 - xxx($28.85 in chips)
Seat 2 - xxx($13.42 in chips)
Seat 3 - Villain($71.56 in chips)
xxx- Posts small blind $0.10
Hero- Posts big blind $0.25
*** POCKET CARDS ***Dealt to Hero[7d 7c]
2 Folds
Villain - Raises $1 to $1
2 Folds
Hero - Calls $0.75
*** FLOP *** [9h 7h 8d]
Hero - Bets $1.75
Villain - Raises $7 to $7
Hero - Raises $18.50 to $20.25
Villain - All-In(Raise) $63.56 to $70.56
Hero - ?
Villain above is a 19/17/5.7 over 2.6k hands. Taggy. He's also a 9 BB/100 winner.
We have deep stacks, about 250bb effective, I'm covered. Standard preflop action, and I hit a flop that I love. I have the option of two lines - checkraising the inevitable Cbet or leading out, and I choose the latter due to the super wet board.
When he raises, it's time to put him on a range [AA-88, AhKh-JhTh, Ah8h+, T9s-78s]. *what do you think of this estimate?* Pokerstove gives it as 60/40 equity for me, so I raise (too small).
After his bet, the pot is 10.75, and I 3bet to make the pot 29.25; 11.5 for him to call [2.5:1]. At this point, I have committed 1/3rd of my stack, and have ~$40 left behind. And he shoves over the top, making it another $41 for me to call for a chance to double up.
Obviously, w/ 100BB effective stacks I am committed all day. But 240bb deep? I really felt like I should be 3-betting here to get value from AA-TT, heart draws, and two pair. Also feel the villain is aggressive enough to pull this move with all of the above.
As y'all know, my deepstack game is shaky, so I'd like some feedback here.
This second hand involves my FAVORITE villain, a TagFish. 23.5/18.7/3.5 over 7k hands @ ($15.84)bb/100. Our history revolves around me taking advantage of: his wide range for raising (by widening my 3betting range IP) and his high Cbet % (by widening my floating range).
Haven't seen him play non-ABC poker too often, and my note on him is that he marries his overpairs and TPTKs.
Seat 3 - Hero($52.03 in chips)
Seat 4 - Moron($23.17 in chips)
Seat 5 - xxx($26.45 in chips)
Seat 1 - xxx($15.45 in chips)
Seat 2 - TagFish($122.34 in chips)
Moron- Posts small blind $0.10
xxx- Posts big blind $0.25
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero[10c 10s]
xxx- Folds
TagFish- Raises $1 to $1
Hero- Raises $4.25 to $4.25
Moron- Calls $4.15
x- Folds
TagFish- Calls $3.25
*** FLOP *** [5s 9d 8d]
Moron- Checks
TagFish- Bets $11
Hero- Calls $11
Moron- Folds
*** TURN *** [5s 9d 8d] [4h]
TagFish- Checks
Hero- Checks
*** RIVER *** [5s 9d 8d 4h] [Kd]
TagFish- Checks
Hero- Bets $12.75
Here I'm meh about my 3bet PF. TT isn't quite good enough from MP against an UTG raiser, and our history means he will understand that I'm 3betting lighter than [JJ+, AKo+]. When he doesn't squeeze, I put him on [QQ-22; AQo, possible some big SCs].
Therefore, I don't like my turn action. I should be either be pushing or folding here, as his action screams [qq-tt]. However, I choose to be indecisive and call. Poor.
Then he checks out of position and I check behind. Poor.
Then a decent card comes to bluff at. I don't consider this a good card to bluff on any more. It just doesn't make sense. PF/Flop I'm repping a big PP. That is incongruous w/ my river actions.
So, do I 3bet the flop? Bet the turn? Or just check the river?
Lol see if you can guess my hand in this one.
Seat #2 is the dealer
Seat 2 - xxx($20.53 in chips)
Seat 3 - xxx($34.72 in chips)
Seat 4 - Hero($61.29 in chips)
Seat 5 - xxx($25 in chips)
Seat 6 - TagFish($50.57 in chips)
Seat 1 - xxx($23.71 in chips)
xxx- Posts small blind $0.10
Hero- Posts big blind $0.25
xxx - sitout (wait for BB)
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero[XX]
TagFish- Raises $1 to $1
xxx- Folds
xxx- Folds (Timeout)
xxx- Folds
Hero- Calls $0.75
*** FLOP *** [Qs Ks 10d]
Hero- Checks
TagFish- Bets $2
Hero- Raises $6.50 to $6.50
TagFish- Calls $4.50
*** TURN *** [Qs Ks 10d] [10s]
Hero- Bets $8
TagFish- Calls $8
*** RIVER *** [Qs Ks 10d 10s] [Ah]
Hero- All-In $45.79
TagFish- All-In $35.07
Hero- returned ($10.72) : not called
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Hero- Shows [10h 10c] (Four of a kind, tens)
TagFish- Mucks
Hero Collects $98.24 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***Total Pot($101.24) Rake ($3)Board [Qs Ks 10d 10s Ah]
Seat 4: Hero(big blind) won Total ($98.24) All-In HI:($98.24) with Four of a kind, tens
Seat 6: TagFish HI: [Mucked] [Ac As]
yeah, yeah, brag hand, asdfjkl;
My really big pots all follow the same logic
- best hand played strictly ABC
- horrible suckout (ATs > QQ AIPF)
- monster vs monster
I dunno. I really need to say to myself THAT IS OK THERE IS NO NEED FOR FPS AT 25NL. But... when I have hands like the one below....villain is 52/17/1 over 200 hands
Seat #2 is the dealer
Seat 2 - xxx ($58.99 in chips)
Seat 3 - xxx($41.67 in chips)
Seat 4 - xxx($31.30 in chips)
Seat 5 - Hero($24.69 in chips)
Seat 6 - ATC($40.17 in chips)
xxx- Posts small blind $0.10
xxx- Posts big blind $0.25
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [10h Kh]
Hero - Raises $1 to $1
ATC- Calls $1
xxx - Calls $1
xxx- Folds
xxx- Calls $0.75
*** FLOP *** [5s 5c 6c]
xxx- Checks
Hero - Bets $4.05
ATC- Calls $4.05
xxx - Folds
xxx- Folds
*** TURN *** [5s 5c 6c] [9d]
Hero - Checks
ATC- Bets $4
Hero - Raises $11 to $11
ATC- Folds
Hero - returned ($7) : not called
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Hero - Does not show
Hero Collects $19.21 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***Total Pot($20.20) Rake ($0.99)Board [5s 5c 6c 9d]
Seat 5: Hero collected Total ($19.21) HI:($19.21) [Does not show]
Seat 6: ATCFolded on the TURN
I have a few hands like this -- where I 'feel' the villain is weak and shove him off the hand. Going on 'feel' like this is a huge fucking leak. Why did it work? Do I need more examples? Help.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
How Do I Win Moar Monies?
1) They control pot size
2) They seem to know when they have the best hand and how to keep a worse hand around
3) They take chances that they will sucked out on in order to extract more value from a worse hand
4) They save their big bets for the turn when a drawing opponent has half the dream he had on the flop
5) They bluff/semi-bluff a lot and when they do the bluffs are consistent with a made hand"
the redoubtable Fuel55
No Pokerz all Week!!
Winrate: 0 bb/100
Net Win: 0
Super busy week. Had some HR drama previously, and have been pushing to hit my weekly goals. Let's brag.
- Hit the 1800 calories mark every day, 6 meals, 180 oz H20.
- Planned out new lifting schedule 3x weekly
- Got new kicks and crushed cardio / abs
- Blasted a push set yesterday (all compound exercises: dips/bench/incl bench/mil.press)
- SUGAR INTAKE = Og = HOOJ WIN
It's been almost 3 weeks off, and my metabolism has reset to its former slacker level. Perfect. Time to shock it back into the red. Smaller, frequent meals, compound exercises (more muscles activated = higher metabolic boots; pullups > curls), loads of water, right amounts of calcium, vitamins, and sleep...all of these contribute to burning more calories as I sit here typing.
I'll probably end up adding a bit of muscle, but this is really an all-out assault on the gut. Happy to report that the gut has been losing the war over the past 5 years, but it hasn't quite given up, due to frequent reinforcement by its allies. But, as I've cut the supply chain off on Red Bull and Cookie Dough, it's only a matter of time.
on topic: the long & the short of it is that I haven't had the energy to get hands in after getting home at 7.30p (avg) and getting my shit done. I don't want to be sitting down at the tables at 10pm at night, post-workout and exhausted, and expect to A) play well and B) make it to work on time. So I watch a vid and pass out.
money saved = money earned?
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
ARTERIES EXPLODING
Monday, April 14, 2008
MOAR
...of the same:50 NL
318 hands
($43.69) / (27.48)
25 NL
$140.36 / 51.41
actually seems to be sustainable, due to 40BB stacktards at AP ?!?!?
Continuing to flirt with the cusp of 50NL. Playing relatively solid, lost a few flips and made a few obvious mistakes of the gee, i'm pretty sure i'm not good here, but can't help myself variety. Nothing I'm really concerned about for the 50NL hands.
25NL is so so so beatable right now. Having an enormous PT database doesn't help -- once upon a time I was giving too much respect to the 19/14, 22/18, 14/10 types. I would make efforts not to get into pots with them, would leave the table, etc and consider it 'good game selection'.
Since my datamining is so much easier at AP (thanks Absolute Solution!!), I have exponentially more data than before. Now I look forward to dealing with the above spectrum of players, provided they are marginal winners or losing players. I really haven't seen that many truly TAG players at AP -- most think they are, but are actually weak/tight.
- Datamining. A LOT. My laptop is my bitch, and the best-informed people are the best-armed.
- Table selection. I've been actively filtering my PT Database, auto-rating it, finding the fish, and sitting to their left whenever possible. Also have been attempting to get full, loose stacks in the 3 seats to my right, and weak, tight, short stacks in the 2 seats to my left.
- Opening up against weak/tight/marginal regs. I've been opening up my range preflop against known entities when I feel I have a read on their range
- Running HAWT: I catch outs like it's my fucking job. I'm the King of Catching my Gutshot after a Cbet gets called. Also, I have a condo in Valuetown, and I takes u there.
some hands? in this one, I take money, and throw it on the bonfire. one cannot profitably take a Cbet/fold line in a 4-bet pot. If I'm going to bet here, I have to commit, and JJ is likely a dog vs his range here.
Seat 1 - xxxx ($41.35 in chips)
Seat 2 - HERO ($37.85 in chips)
Seat 3 - xxxx ($28.30 in chips)
Seat 4 - xxxx ($21.20 in chips)
xxxx - Posts small blind $0.10
HERO- Posts big blind $0.25
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to 1R0NEAGLE [Jc Js]
one limper to
Solid TAG - Raises $1.19 to $1.19 <--- wide range for BN open
HERO - Raises $3.63 to $3.88 <--- std for BB play
Solid TAG - Raises $7.87 to $9.06 <--- wtf range for 4bets
My champagne glass is gutshot, but I get a free card and get filled up. over and over again.
I'll post some non-poker related pics at my other blog. Maybe I'll even link it.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Live Poker isn't Rigged
I had my KK run into a flopped set of tens on a raggedy board early on...neutered my proud starting stack to a measly $75. After tripling up when AA turned a full house, I ran it to $550 in a straddled pot when I flopped a flush OOP. Led out + called a min c/r, c/c'd a PSB, then shoved the river. Valuetown, you goes there. Fare is $275, thank you come again.
Feeling cocky, I began to vaccuum the red nickels in front of me, ignoring my BB to create intimidating scarlet towers. The jealous throng finally convinced me to keep the game moving, and I check the napkins.
AcAd. Nuts throb with joy.
The four limpers in the pot look like absolue snack food. I cover them all, so I bump it to $16. This dissuades live donkeys very little. Three of them, OBVIOUSLY NOT FEARING THE POWERFUL IRON EAGLE, hee-haw their way to the flop.
Which come Tc 9c 7d. Fuck.
I bet $30 into the $46 pot. Zany comes along, a loose-aggressive, skilled player. He understands position and stack sizes, plays Omaha Hi-Lo, and never seems to shut up. Maybe he figures he can outplay me on this flop. Shit. 1 fold to Dumbo, who hasn't done much yet. He's got a real country-soundin' voice, dontch'yall know how we play dis hear game. I don't have a read on him.
Turn Kc. Effing F. Both players have about $100 left, and the pot has mushroomed to $156. However, I can't see their stacks, as they are hidden behind their cups. All I am seeing right now is the board that I am now WA/WB, and out of position on. Not even thinking about their stacks (which are fucking committed right now durrr). I check. They check.
River bricks a 5d. I'm pissed. OOP against two players? Can I lay this down? I resolve to check/call a small bet (still not thinking about stack sizes). Zany checks, insisting he has us both beat. Nothing new under the sun there. Dumbo quietly shoves all-in.
FUCK. I should call. I call if there is one person here. But Zany is still behind me! Would either check a made flush on the turn? I shit blood and fold. Zany calls, putting him all-in, and shows 8c8d, and scoops a huge pot.
the good: recognized a WA/WB situation, OOP in 3-way pot
the bad: didn't take stack sizes into account
the ugly:
I figured at least ONE of them had straight or flush. When Dumbo pushed in, I was thinking about Zany calling behind me -- never realizing that my equity doesn't change in that situation!! Calling the bet puts him all-in; he can't reraise me for any more of my stack.
I had pot odds of 7:1, and I folded. Live poker isn't rigged, I'M JUST A MORONNNNN
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Heater Runs Into Buzzsaw
50NL331 hands
$83.13 / 25.11 BB/100
25NL
2049 hands
$276.73 / 27.01 BB/100
So I came back from my incredible vacation and continued to tear 25NL a new asshole. Righteously running hawwwt. I reached the 20 BI mark for the next level, and decided to take a 4-BI shot at 50NL, as my game is so sick tight.
fail. That enormous W is my time at 50NL, which was marked by LAGs either taking adv of me or running hot, and missing every flop. Such is life. I admit that the constant pressure threw me into a bit of tilt, too. :(
Licked my wounds, went back to 25NL, and continue to crush. Sadly, I think it's more because of my table selection than anything. I can count at least three times when I noted that one of my tables had 5 TAGs, and one fish. The other 4 TAG regulars were all there because everybody had full stacks. Fuck that.
I skedaddled off to other tables, where 75bb - 50bb stacks were being horribly wielded by terrible players. Made at least 20 new fishy friends, who were willing to call off their stacks with TPGK and worse on the flop. Weeee.
Some hands? I'll try to keep these in chronological order, and make sure interesting hands only are posted. There are ~2400, so bear with me...
Here's a pretty standard scenario. I've always had the tournament mentality of 'raise to protect my hand'. Forget the fact that I have TPWK + NFD. I know that I should have just called and prayed to hit the flush.
When I have just TPWK here, it looks like a major leak. Should I be calling and re-evaluating his action on the turn/river? His raising range includes both flush draws and better aces, so I'm guessing the answer is yes. The problem is when he bets out his flush draw after the c/r, and I have to fold the best hand. Value is definitely being lost here, and I've had this type of situation backfire on me before, so obviously my thought process needs revision.
This is just a crappy spot to double-barrell. I don't know what I was thinking.
I took the worst line possible in this hand. Either I lead out or I c/r. This is just too drawy a board. Don't really know what he was thinking on the turn.....
Is KK OOP on an A-high flop a bet/fold situation? Should I even be leading out against two villains? I guess it's read-dependent. Thank God he showed.
I don't mind my PF / flop play, but on the turn, I had a read that he was on a flush draw. Villain is a complete donk, and never has a 7 here ever. I should have just taken the free card, and pushed on the river, where he would have folded. Didn't stop to think...
tilting and spewing
I stack off here all day -- I destroy his range.
totally lost here. Villain is 55 / 20 / 1.5, and has been splashing around constantly.
That's all I can take right now. Edits and updates tomorrow. You can see my last few entries are not very productive. I'm not talking about ranges or anything, just posting results. More thought is necessary.
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