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Sweden is incredibly hot, +25 without a cloud on the sky at the moment been like this for 5 days and gonna stay for another week ! Im currently pretty sunburnt hehe, no val in playing Tennis without a t shirt 2 days ina row! however we shall ship the tan soon
Poker is going much better The comp the other day was rigged in my favour however only made 4th had a spot with 5 left when i have 180k, 2 stacks ship all in (65k and 55k) and i look at AA in BB obv it doesnt hold vs JJ and KK guess what hand one? of course it was the worst one!
Won about 450 yesterday at onvirtual game playing 50$ HU and was very pleased with my game online and all good hand (almost) held up, still not playing enough fre online games thou, being “lazy” keep watching TV or doing other shizzle.
Today is looking very good, started an hour ago play 2-3 HU at the time and won 8 in a row, and now taking break, gonna treat myself to some excersice.
CONGRATS TO ADAM FOR GETTING A FIRST!!! THAT BEATS ANY POKERSKILL IMO; ))
(maybe not shipping big comp like wsop ept WPT but still :p
Firstly, props to fenix35 who is on a sicko run atm, both live and online. It must be nice!
Poker
Tbh haven’t played as much as i really should have. Have done a couple of meh day jobs (got another on monday) that bring in a few pounds but generally have no motivation atm. If im not seeing friends, gf, family or generally out then im asleep, so havent had much time for poker. I’ve won about $160 playing 10 hu sngs, 5% roi, meh, rb is another 60-80 tho so its not too bad. However I am stuck like 200 on tournaments, 100 on cash. I don’t think ive cashed in 10-15 tournaments or so. Most have been sattellites where top 2-3 go through, i keep going really deep but losing crucial flips or some shortstack on bubble gets it in 3 times behind, wins all 3, then i lose a 60:40 to go out without a cash. meh. Played a couple of tourneys on ipoker too, $15 4k gtd last night, get 1500 up to 4k, blinds get to 50 100, bb has just lost a big pot and is down to 4k, folded to be in sb with KK, i make it 275 he ships with 33….loyal 3′s obviously flop a set and i lose an 8k pot. murrr. Then this morning played a $10 freeze, 120 runners, 80 or so left and ive got 3k, blinds 30 60, utg limps, i limp mp with 88, button makes it 3x, sb calls utg calls so i call. board K 10 8, sb ships 900 into 500 or w/e, utg min raises to 1800, i ship for 1k more, button with 2.5k behind thinks and calls, and utg calls. Pot is like 11k when avg is 2.4, sb has 44 (wtf) utg has k5o (wtf) and button has JJ (WTF.) Q turn, J river, see you later.
So, to conclude, im a bit fed up with poker atm!
Non-poker
Off to Sweden next saturday to visit StigOwe with jeal, there for a week. Only costing £20 return with ryanair (ship) so is keeping the vegas fund safe. Hopefully we can have some good sessions together and i’ll refind some run good and actually make some more spending money!
As mentioned in the title, I got my results this week…and got a First! I genuinely had ruled it out, thinking a 2.1 was my destiny. On Thursday I got a call from my mate luke saying results were on the internet, was driving with my gf so when we got back in my family and her nearby as I squeezed out my results on the laptop. Last year when I was .6% short I went a bit pissed off so had warned hannah that I might swear a bit if I bubble one again! It reads attained: I Class I…I had to recheck a few times before I could believe it. My family + gfs family were all really pleased etc so that was nice, all of my friends have been really congratulatory too, it’s been an awesome few days. Unfortunately two of my close friends were less than 1% away, which has taken a bit away as it would have been nice for us all, but there you go. I should hear for definite about the scholarship on Tuesday, it is essentially mine but until its in writing i’m still not going to properly celebrate. Will be pretty sick opening up an email potentially worth 90-100k though. :/
Vegas stuff is sorted, we will be riding around in one of these:
Oh, and I got stung by a wasp yesterday. It hurt like hell, and I can still feel it this morning! beware.
Thats all for now, I am going to be playing a few more mtts this week as I really feel I am playing well, just need to learn how to hold in the later stages!
Gl all,
Adam
(this isn’t written very well but atm im in a rush!)
Hand #6 Final hand that took me up to the $10k is vs one of my favourite DeucesCracked instructors. He’s very aggressive and very good at hand reading. He’s 3betting a ton 4-handed, although way too much OOP imo. This shows why position owns deepstacked! Pretty sure there’s no reciprocal value as he’d have played it the same way vs me.
Villain is really loose/spewy postflop so I’ve go no option but to cbet and go with it on that flop. Felt sick when he shoved but clicked call before I could talk myself out of it. The money goes in and he has JJ.
Stacks:
Hero (CO)
($4077.00)
BTN
($3694.00)
SB
($2673.00)
BB
($2796.00)
Pre-flop: ($30, 4 players) Hero is CO Hero raises to $60, 1 fold, SB raises to $230, 1 fold, Hero raises to $620, SB goes all-in $2,673, Hero calls $2,053
Hand #1 Learning HU at the moment, as you can see I’m pretty excited about having a gutter. I think a double barrell here is good. I know villain will call 3bets with broadways, suited connectors, pocket pairs, etc and he’s gonna peel the flop a lot.
Stacks:
BTN
($2109.25)
Hero (BB)
($2144.75)
Pre-flop: ($30, 2 players) Hero is BB BTN raises to $60, Hero raises to $200, BTN calls $140
Stacks:
CO
($4706.00)
BTN
($3931.00)
SB
($6283.00)
Hero (BB)
($4481.00)
Pre-flop: ($30, 4 players) Hero is BB CO raises to $60, BTN calls $60, SB raises to $260, Hero raises to $680, CO folds, BTN folds, SB calls $420
Turn: ($10,884, 2 players)
Started using Twitter to rail the WSOP action, it's pretty cool. I'm Bazclef, feel free to add to I can follow your updates too.
Pre-flop: ($30, 4 players) Hero is CO Hero raises to $60, 2 folds, BB raises to $190, Hero raises to $580, BB calls $390
Final Pot: $9,173 BTN shows: Hero shows:
Final Pot: $1,540 Hero wins $1,539.25 ( won +$444.25 )
River: ($5,596, 2 players)
Hand #2 Villain is the mark at the table, he 3 and 4bets very loosely and calls too much, hand plays out pretty standard.
Turn: ($5,596, 2 players)
Hand #3 Villain is a very very good HS reg. I'd been 4betting him light a couple of times and got to showdown on a $600nl table we're also playing on. He quit both tables after this hand
Final Pot: $4,311 Hero wins $4,309 ( won +$1,288 )
BTN wins $5,264 ( won +$2,641 )
Hand #4 Pretty standard cooler, at least I gave the money to the fishay and not some reg. After this hand I dropped all my tables and chilled out for 10mins before deciding that I was cool to sit back in.
Flop: ($5,596, 2 players)
Yea, $760 would have been better.
Flop: ($9,173, 2 players)
Final Pot: $10,884 SB shows: Hero shows:
Totally addicted to The Yeah Yeah Yeahs 1st album at the moment… if you’ve played a bunch of Rock Band you should recognise this!
Pre-flop: ($30, 4 players) Hero is BTN 1 fold, Hero raises to $60, 1 fold, BB raises to $200, Hero calls $140
River: ($9,173, 2 players)
TY to everyone for the congratulations on my last post… can hardly believe how this month is going, very happy! I feel like I should give you guys some content after just blatantly posting a brag graph lol. Here are some of my fav high-stakes hands from yesterday, in the order they went down. Hand #5 is my biggest ever pot at cash virtual game pokers.
Stacks:
BTN
($2623.00)
Hero (SB)
($6548.00)
BB
($4061.00)
Pre-flop: ($30, 3 players) Hero is SB BTN raises to $70, Hero raises to $255, BB folds, BTN raises to $785, Hero raises to $6,530, BTN goes all-in $1,838
Yo, long time no update, havent played for ten days, missed out on a lot of rakeback there which kinda sucks but still doing ok on the front… ATM finaltabling in a comp atm, chipleader with 5 left, small one on b2b on the good old rigged StigOwe account, been winning a lil bit on the HU there too
today i won around 320ish on onvirtual game, which has changed their software and it is sooo bad now! so slow, and lags a lot! boooooo! anyways gotta focus, not happy with anything below 1st
[x] First five figure day! [x] I got up 3 hours ago and am now drinking beers. Winface. [x] Games are still good but whatever, I’m booking the win! [x] Am probably now doomswitched.
I’ll post some hands and actual content later, one of the hands was almost a five figure pot ($9.1k I think)… for now, celebrationtown!
… Bazclef, you will run like the flaming demon-jesus for ALL OF JUNE!
What a trip… I had a blast. It started on Friday, June 5th. I loaded the family (boyfriend, his mother and son, and my youngest son and only daughter) into the SUV and headed to Vegas after 9:00 p.m. The kids slept the whole way – which was great – and we arrived at our timeshare around 1:00 in the morning.
On Saturday we met up with my parents who were in Vegas for a conference being held at the Caesars and we walked across to have brunch at the Flamingo Buffet. (Like a true grinder, I will go anywhere for free food.) I kid you not, one could spot the frugal WSOP players staying at the Flamingo from a mile away. After brunch, Johan (my boyfriend) went off to the Poker Room and my Dad was dismissed to hit the Black Jack tables. I chose to spend the day with both moms and the kids. First stop, Super Walmart!!! Can I get a woot? Ha, ha, ha. Ok, really, we were staying in a timeshare and I needed to make sure the kids had lots, and lots, and LOTS of snack foods to keep their little mouths busy. Of course, the moms were totally on board (my mom had never been to a Walmart before). When we got there, I gave each kid $20 and let them buy whatever they wanted. Needless to say, we returned to our room with a lot of junk, cookies, chips, soda, etc. The timeshare had an arcade that offered a “Kids Club” daycare from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., so after the kids were safely deposited with the club staff, I took my mom and Johan’s mom back to Caesars to play the penny slots. Let me tell you, my mom is pro! She took “Li’l Lucy” down! Johan’s mom also got the most for her money. Johan met up with us and the two of us just watched our moms and cheered them on from the sidelines. By 9:30 both mom’s had had enough. My mom retreated to her room in Caesars and the rest of us went back to the timeshare to pick-up the kids and put them to bed. After the kids went to sleep, it was my turn to hit the Poker Room. My Dad had done well at Craps and gave me $400 in Caesars chips so we returned to the Caesars Poker Room to check out the action. Along the way, I lost $100 on Craps. With $300 I played 3/1 NLH and made a tidy little profit. We only stayed a few hours because I was set to play the Ladies’ Event at noon on Sunday (June 7). After morning coffee, Johan and I headed to the Rio to buy-in for 2009 World Series of Poker, Event 17. After a last minute decision to consolidate all of the ladies into the main ESPN room, the cards were in the air. I caught some great cards early on and was the chip leader at my table before the end of the first level. By the first break I had turned my initial 3K in chips to over 10K. Unfortunately, after the break, I knocked out the player to my right who was replaced by the ever-so-sweet and well-liked Proker Pro, Maria Stern . I say “unfortunately,” because first, Mrs. Stern (who won a WSOP bracelet in 1997 in the $1,500 7-card Stud event) is a poker force not to be reckoned with and second, she had not been at the table long enough to watch my play when she called my re-raise off position with A♥6♦. I had pocket J♥J♦ and with an all low, 3-spade, straight re-draw with a 6 on board flop, she didn’t put me on an overpair. She caught another 6 on the turn and with that I was down to 6K just as we went into level 5.
What could be worse? How about two rounds later my table (Table 76) was broken on my button and I was tossed a seat card for Table 74. Of course I sat down in the chair under the gun and caught both blinds before the second break. Right after the break, I was moved again on my button. After being card dead for over an hour, I made a move with K♠10♠ against the big blind who had just tripled up after pushing all-in with pocket Aces under the gun (she had been the shortstack with just 5K before she pushed with her Aces). Well, guess what – lightening can strike twice. She turned over two red aces, and even with two spades and a King on board – the dealer threw up nothing but runner-runner bricks. I was busto 5 minutes before the dinner break. After grinding out all nighat after my bust out of the WSOP, I bought myself into the Venetian Deepstack Extravaganza for $330. Again, I caught great cards and was above average the whole way. Of course it only takes one mistake or one bad beat to keep from making a final table – - and I managed to do both. The mistake was, after raising the pot in early position with 9♦10♦ with two callers, I folded after the small blind (who hadn’t played a hand in hours) pushed all in for 1/4 of my chips. The two callers then pushed all in behind me (the largest of the all-in stacks was 1/3 of mine. The hands were A♠K♠, A♣J♠, and the small blind had A♥7♣, the flop came K♦J♦?♥, turn♦, river♦. Yeah, I would have doubled up if I had gambled there. It was a bad lay down. The bad beat came when I four-bet under the gun with A♠K♥ and some donkey in mid-position pushed for just under 30K . I had over 150K in chips and snapped called. He turned over A♣3♣, and I was way ahead. Although we both flopped the Ace, he turned a 3 for two pair. The break started during the hand and as I was counting out my chips to ship, he said he was sure he could push me off anything under Jacks, and was shocked when I called and showed such a big hand. Uh-huh, four-bet under the gun (blinds were at 800/400 – 75 ante), sure you can push me off a hand that I think is worth a 3200 bet into a 1950 pot. Lucky moron. I got it all back later, but getting back what I lost and getting ahead in chips are two different things.
Just after the announcement that the remaining players had made the money, they shuffled the tables. With just fifteen minutes left in the final level of the day and the blinds at 8000/4000 with a 1000 ante, I woke up with A♥Q♠ on the button just as a monster chipleader table moved into the big blind. I shove with my 120K in chips and, after he finished straighting the last of his 12 columns of 5000 and 1000 chips, he looked me up and down then peeked at his cards. He insta-called with A♣K♣. The flop went 9♥10♥J♦, followed by two bricks…BOOO! I was out at 53rd. I cashed $583 although for some reason the results list me at 55 with $483. Oh well, the stats may not be right – but the money I was paid was the money I was paid, regardless.
On Wednesday, Johan and I went to Bellagio. We had doubled up at the 5/2 when he got a call regarding a family emergency involving his son’s maternal grandmother. We immediately cut the trip short, packed up and headed home. With all the ups and downs, this trip will be one to remember.
I found this little value spot. I had a relatively tight image but had been stealing a little from the cutoff and button. The big blind was a 24/22 and had a 3bet% of 15%.
I made a standard raise and the button called. The big blind paused. In my mind I thought If I was him I would squeeze here.
$0.5/$1 No Limit Holdem 6 players Converted at weaktight.com
Stacks:
UTG
($51.50)
UTG+1
($92.52)
Hero (CO)
($114.00)
BTN
($114.00)
SB
($109.00)
BB
($106.00)
Pre-flop: ($1.50, 6 players) Hero is CO 2 folds, Hero raises to $3.50, BTN calls $3.50, 1 fold, BB raises to $14.50, Hero raises to $36, BTN folds, 1 fold
Final Pot: $33 Hero shows:
Hero wins $54.50 ( won +$18.50 ) BB lost -$14.50 BTN lost -$3.50
The fact that I thought that he should squeeze made me repop him. He knows now that any bet from him now commits his stack. I, on the other hand, can still fold to any reraise. Im effectively putting the fear of playing for stacks without actually putting my stack at risk.
event 32 this time It was another $2k buyin with a few less runners (1500 i think?)
I busted 44th about an hour ago for just under $10,000. I got pretty unlucky actually, getting KK in preflop against AQs (I 4 bet-shoved and he called) for what would’ve been a double average stack. He flopped a flush and I got like zero sweat. It was the kids first live event ever and he was shaking so much raking in the chips and for like the next 5hands afterwards. It was cute. Soon after I called a late position shove with AJs to find myself up against ATo for what would’ve brought me back to average. Two tens on the flop and I get no help and I’m down to about 10bbs. I ended up shoving blind versus blind with K3s and the same kid with AQ made a pretty sick call with K8o and busted me. GG main.
So i’m at like $51,000 on a $5500 investment so far this series.
my girlfriend flies in on friday so i wont be playing anymore events this week. i might play one more $1500 event before the main event, but not even sure about that. i might just relax and grind online.
well thats about it. im off to have a few beers by the pool while i think of what might have been
Also, I’d probably agree with anything BalugaWhale says ever… and if I don’t I’m likely wrong
I figure he’d fire the flop with most of his air, definately all flush draws, obviously Qs and strong Ks. I figure his range is mostly pocket pairs and stuff like weak draws with showdown value like AJ/AT.
I can rep a ton of stuff, a Q, strong K and the flush. I know he never has a Q or the flush. Also the A and T are likely outs for me. So I bet.
I mixed it up between 4 and 8 tables at times. Over the last 6 months I’ve been sticking to 4-6 tables max and it’s definately optimal for me. My goal has always been to be a solid msnl reg. Now that I’ve done it (probably) I’d say that I should have played less tables, preferably 4 but never more than 6. I’d also have game online selected more and taken more shots.
Question is really whether I should bet the river or not. After he calls turn I figure his range to be pocket pairs with a spade, gutters/etc with a spade and weak kings. Meh looking back over it I think I played the hand fine, my line merges sick good with strong hands too.
If my goal was to make money than I might have been more inclined to get good at 10-12 tabling and beast $100nl and $200nl. But doing that is just playing ABC, feeding on the weak players and shuffling money around with the regs. Yea that makes monies… but it’s dull, you’re not learning how to beat good players, and you’re going to have a tough time moving up to the levels where you make the real money. I’d say my free online game really took off when I stopped concentrating on taking money from fish and started concentrating on taking money from every single player at the table. I enjoy playing that way a ton more, owning people is fun.
This is a response to some questions Malfaire asked in the comments of the last post. My reply got a bit long and I figure it might be useful to other people so I’ll post it up here. Plus I wanted an excuse to post that wicked Outkast song
Obviously he’s opening the BTN really wide, especially because BB and I are playing relatively nitty and there’s not much 3betting going on. Villain tends to call 3bets a lot in position and my objective of being at the table isn’t to create big pots OOP against players that are better than me, so I figure I just flat and keep the pot small.
I played some $25/50 for the first time tonight, it was a 4-handed fre online game with a strong reg, a standard reg and a big fishay. I bought in for $2,500 but topped up to $5k after a couple of orbits when I realised that the table was set to be crushed. Never quite got a five-figure pot which would have been cool, the online game was playing pretty loose/passive with a lot of small/medium pots… and to be honest I didn’t want to get $5k of my money in without a strong hand. I ran well and finished up around $3k which made up for a bunch of money I lost at other limits tonight.
I don’t feel like playing 8+ tables is playing poker, it’s just clicking buttons. I like to be able to spend time looking at shown down hands, making detailed notes on players, picking up pots where villain ranges are weak, having time for decisions and keeping track of ranges and lines. I struggle to do that most of the time while playing a ton of tables. It’s a lot better playing 4-6 and having time to actually player poker rather than play tagfish poker.
“when can / should we start 8+ tabling?” I’d say never. I was 8-10 tabling over the last couple of days for bonus/rb type reasons, but I came to the conclusion that it really wasn’t worth it. When I play more than 6 tables my play is weaker and I get tired quicker.
$25/$50 No Limit Holdem 4 players Converted at weaktight.com
“How did you get up through the ranks table # wise? And would you do it differently now that you’ve done it?”
Stacks:
CO
($4428.50)
BTN
($4621.00)
Hero (SB)
($2800.00)
BB
($4054.00)
Pre-flop: ($75, 4 players) Hero is SB 1 fold, BTN raises to $150, Hero calls $125, 1 fold
Here’s a hand I’m not sure about… it’s against a very good msnl/hsnl reg.
This morning there were some good virtual games but it turned out to be one of those sessions where I won next to nothing at showdown (running bad). I felt like I played ok but was definately a little tired and made a few notable mistakes, not firing 2nd barrells when I should have (but only costing me ~$300). Anyways, I dropped $2k in the 45min session. Pretty frustrating as I made $2k yesterday so I felt like I’d undone yesterdays 2.5k hand grind with one shitty morning session.
Cool track by The Whitest Boy Alive…
Here’s to playing as best as I possibly can in every session for the rest of the month.
So the things I want to avoid doing in future are:
No 8+ tabling with 3-4 handed free online games and high-stakes free online games. 8 tabling $1/2 6m is ok, 6 tables max if I’m playing higher stakes.
No $2/4+ when tired. Auto-piloting $1/2 is fine, but as soon as I go higher on auto-pilot I’m probably only break-even anyway.
At the moment I’m not really looking to cure how the tilt that caused the c-game online to occur, instead I’m looking to damage control it when it does occur. I reckon that’s a good place to start. So one of my new goals for the month is to make sure I don’t slip into either of the bullet points above and also to try to keep as aware as possible of my tiredness and tiltedness while playing.
It’s important to become aware of what caused your poor play so that you can notice the pattern next time and prevent it.
Tonight I played very C-game onliney. In Angelo’s second video he talks a lot about ‘lopping off the C-free online game’. The idea is to define the recent poor play as your ‘last worst session’ and never hit that low spike again. So your next incident of poor play at least isn’t as bad as the last worst session. That way you gradually have less and less C-fre online game, like this…
The mistake I made was to then try to grind the money back. I decided to 8-table $1/2 to knock out a lot of hands, but I spotted a bunch of soft $2/4 4-handed online games and 5/10 10/20 virtual online gamess too. I can beat $1/2 well on auto-pilot but that’s not the case with higher fre online games. So despite putting in almost 4k hands today I’d have been better off putting in either 3k 6-tabling, or just sticking to $1/2 tables.
had a spot with 5 left when i have 180k, 2 stacks ship all in (65k and 55k) and i look at AA in BB obv it doesnt hold vs JJ and KK guess what hand one? of course it was the worst one!
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[x] First five figure day!
d lots, and LOTS of snack foods to keep their little mouths busy. Of course, the moms were totally on board (my mom had never been to a Walmart before). When we got there, I gave each kid $20 and let them buy whatever they wanted. Needless to say, we returned to our room with a lot of junk, cookies, chips, soda, etc. 
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It’s important to become aware of what caused your poor play so that you can notice the pattern next time and prevent it.
