Very confused tonight, as the Mrs decided a good opportunity to have take away and a wine. I wasn't really up to drinking, due to my self control poker situation, but decided to let the drink(s) happen and not play poker. However, when dinner was over, and two wines had hit and we retired to the couch, that "might as well fire up some donkfest" feeling came right back in.
Tonight I overcame the feelings. No poker was played, milestone no doubt. It's important to stick to it I think, I really believe this is a big step towards becoming much happier with:
1. My poker winrate.
2. My poker/life balance
3. My feeling that I control poker, rather than sometimes feeling poker controls me.
All good, happy with results, lets move onto day 2, which is Friday night (eg a big drunken poker night for me).
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Two good CR videos
Well since my last blog a bit has happened (whole half day it was). I watched Zaitsev's 2nd video and most of VitalMyth's first. I won't bore too much with the details, but Zaitsev's was very good, and something I definitely want to watch again and try to understand more about, but VitalMyths was like watching pure poker genius. You can't just go from where I am to where VitalMyth is, it isn't always possible. I think this video pretty clearly outlines the differences between a player like that and a player like me, and the gap is enormous. Assuming it is even possible for me, well that's pretty much my aim now, to be like VitalMyth. Both videos talked a lot more about finding spots to +ev bluff at rather than just playing solid ABC, and both showed a lot of success at it.
So of course I went into last nights play looking for more spots. I definitely bet in places where they weren't great spots, and found a few "good spots" that ended up turning sour, but overall the intent was there, and I was using my reads, so I'm pretty happy with my efforts. I just need to hone in my skills for finding the right spots, which will involve more thinking at the table, which can only be a good thing. I'm playing 2 tables right now, and feel like I can improve my thought process a lot while doing that. I won't move up to more tables until I feel like that thought process is becoming 2nd nature. I also improved my HUD a lot, and have stats on there that make sense now. Overall last night I finished up 0.5 BI's, more by luck and a hero call (3rd pair where his line just made no sense at all by the river) than actual skill, and I spewed off in a few too many pots for NL25 players who just aren't ever folding top pair no kicker (nor should I hope they ever do of course).
One other thing I thought about while watching the videos and thinking about my leaks is that betting is much different to calling. These guys bet in spots that makes baby Jesus cry, but are massively nitty when it comes to calls. It's almost the case that if you don't have a big draw, or a hand that beats his range a lot, then there is no reason to call a turn, only to hope you are above the bottom of his betting range or a bluff that he won't continue on the river. In this case, playing a similar nitty style that I've been playing, and adding some more bluffs can't be a bad start. So very soon, maybe in a couple of weeks, I'll hope to have compiled a list of decent opportunities and start working it into my main technique.
At the moment I'll keep working at my reads and go from there. Seeing the gap between myself and VitalMyth for ingame thoughts really opened my eyes, that I just need to work at it. After time that will become 2nd nature, and I'll wonder why I even thought it was an issue, but for now, forcing myself to think things through is the best I can do. I plan to start small, which is:
* Put a player on a hand range
* Assess the factors
* Imagine how he'd react to a bet/raise/call/check with different hands in his range
Point 2 about assessing the factors is really what is different between a Zaitsev and VitalMyth IMO. For me that will be things like his range preflop, my range given his thoughts (which may well be none), how the board hits his range, what his history/stats are in regards to folding to flop bets, what my current image is. There are stacks more, but that is easily a handful right now for me.
I might play a little tonight and do that, but I'd expect little poker to be played this weekend due to my new self control stance to do with drinking.
So of course I went into last nights play looking for more spots. I definitely bet in places where they weren't great spots, and found a few "good spots" that ended up turning sour, but overall the intent was there, and I was using my reads, so I'm pretty happy with my efforts. I just need to hone in my skills for finding the right spots, which will involve more thinking at the table, which can only be a good thing. I'm playing 2 tables right now, and feel like I can improve my thought process a lot while doing that. I won't move up to more tables until I feel like that thought process is becoming 2nd nature. I also improved my HUD a lot, and have stats on there that make sense now. Overall last night I finished up 0.5 BI's, more by luck and a hero call (3rd pair where his line just made no sense at all by the river) than actual skill, and I spewed off in a few too many pots for NL25 players who just aren't ever folding top pair no kicker (nor should I hope they ever do of course).
One other thing I thought about while watching the videos and thinking about my leaks is that betting is much different to calling. These guys bet in spots that makes baby Jesus cry, but are massively nitty when it comes to calls. It's almost the case that if you don't have a big draw, or a hand that beats his range a lot, then there is no reason to call a turn, only to hope you are above the bottom of his betting range or a bluff that he won't continue on the river. In this case, playing a similar nitty style that I've been playing, and adding some more bluffs can't be a bad start. So very soon, maybe in a couple of weeks, I'll hope to have compiled a list of decent opportunities and start working it into my main technique.
At the moment I'll keep working at my reads and go from there. Seeing the gap between myself and VitalMyth for ingame thoughts really opened my eyes, that I just need to work at it. After time that will become 2nd nature, and I'll wonder why I even thought it was an issue, but for now, forcing myself to think things through is the best I can do. I plan to start small, which is:
* Put a player on a hand range
* Assess the factors
* Imagine how he'd react to a bet/raise/call/check with different hands in his range
Point 2 about assessing the factors is really what is different between a Zaitsev and VitalMyth IMO. For me that will be things like his range preflop, my range given his thoughts (which may well be none), how the board hits his range, what his history/stats are in regards to folding to flop bets, what my current image is. There are stacks more, but that is easily a handful right now for me.
I might play a little tonight and do that, but I'd expect little poker to be played this weekend due to my new self control stance to do with drinking.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
I have two sessions to post results and play about. First one I played last night, and it lasted probably 1.5 hours. I felt good but found myself on a bad table with a LAG on my left. I'd decided to leave when I got dealt AKo and 3 bet squeezed from the button. Aggro 4 bet me, and I was a bit stuck for ideas. He could be value 4 betting, or he could think I've squeezed, maybe lightly. I decide it's very possibly the latter or a coin flip and shove. He tanks and calls with KQ, nice. OK, he hits. The interesting thing is he instantly laughs in the chat, and I say "very funny." I wasn't too tilted. But it was nice to see every other player at the table then berate him for laughing after sucking out. It felt good to ease the great run I have preflop lately.
The rest of the session went smoothly, and I had very few tough decisions, and all the ones I did have I had the best hand and hopefully made the right plays. Up 1.5 BI's.
Today my daughter is sick, so I looked after her in the morning, and played while she slept. I felt fine, but overall don't feel confident playing at night. It's like drinking in the morning, it just doesn't have the same feeling. I played OK I thought, but lost 2 BI's, which I'm disappointed about. However, it was coolerville. A couple of key pots. I had KK vs 86 on a 665dd board. I thought a 6 was a part of his range, but in this pot so was the flush draw, TT-QQ, even straight draws. I lost a full stack. AA saw a mid position isolator with a tight range. I considered flat calling his raise but decided he was strong and may just stack off pre. He didn't, but he flopped a set, and again I could see dozens of hands I was ahead of. AA vs KK pre, I won that, reverse cooler. Straight vs flush, not for a full pot, but 70BB's so still painful. Limped pot I got an OESD he flopped a flush, and played passively until the river. I'd turned a straight and wasn't really worried about the flush 100%, but when he raised the river I really didn't see him bluffing, but called. I'm not sure why, I knew he had it and wasn't playing a worse straight/two pair that way. Finally flopped set vs nothing, then runner runner flush. I raised the turn which he called and I wondered if it was a backdoor flush he was calling for, and it came and he bet fairly big, but I was ahead of so much I had to call and it was backdoor, and he did have it of course. AQ on QJ7 board, lost another stack to an aggro 50/4 with 77, very much just a cooler. Finally, I thought I'd coolered somebody, but had them beat on all streets and hit my two pair on the river to seal the deal, and he paid me off. Really quite an odd session where I seemed to get played back at only when I had a strong hand, and quite a sour result, meaning a lot more work yet before moving up.
Now, the important thing. How am I playing. I'm pretty certain better than ever. I'm hand ranging!!! Yes I'm putting villain on some sort of preflop range, and applying that to the board before making a decision. I've got preflop hands on quite a few players after datamining, but yet to know how to easily get their post flop tendancies. Still, I'm very happily making semi-informed decisions based on real examples of what villain calls with etc. It just fills you with confidence to know you have real data you are working from when making a raise/call. I just need to fix my HUD now and I'll really happy with my information level, then I'll be working on using it the most effectively.
I've been happy with all forms of progress in the last few weeks, and feel like my skills are definitely moving in the right direction. If I find mysefl BR'd for NL50 someday, I'll be sure to start looking up coaches to take my game to the next step officially.
The rest of the session went smoothly, and I had very few tough decisions, and all the ones I did have I had the best hand and hopefully made the right plays. Up 1.5 BI's.
Today my daughter is sick, so I looked after her in the morning, and played while she slept. I felt fine, but overall don't feel confident playing at night. It's like drinking in the morning, it just doesn't have the same feeling. I played OK I thought, but lost 2 BI's, which I'm disappointed about. However, it was coolerville. A couple of key pots. I had KK vs 86 on a 665dd board. I thought a 6 was a part of his range, but in this pot so was the flush draw, TT-QQ, even straight draws. I lost a full stack. AA saw a mid position isolator with a tight range. I considered flat calling his raise but decided he was strong and may just stack off pre. He didn't, but he flopped a set, and again I could see dozens of hands I was ahead of. AA vs KK pre, I won that, reverse cooler. Straight vs flush, not for a full pot, but 70BB's so still painful. Limped pot I got an OESD he flopped a flush, and played passively until the river. I'd turned a straight and wasn't really worried about the flush 100%, but when he raised the river I really didn't see him bluffing, but called. I'm not sure why, I knew he had it and wasn't playing a worse straight/two pair that way. Finally flopped set vs nothing, then runner runner flush. I raised the turn which he called and I wondered if it was a backdoor flush he was calling for, and it came and he bet fairly big, but I was ahead of so much I had to call and it was backdoor, and he did have it of course. AQ on QJ7 board, lost another stack to an aggro 50/4 with 77, very much just a cooler. Finally, I thought I'd coolered somebody, but had them beat on all streets and hit my two pair on the river to seal the deal, and he paid me off. Really quite an odd session where I seemed to get played back at only when I had a strong hand, and quite a sour result, meaning a lot more work yet before moving up.
Now, the important thing. How am I playing. I'm pretty certain better than ever. I'm hand ranging!!! Yes I'm putting villain on some sort of preflop range, and applying that to the board before making a decision. I've got preflop hands on quite a few players after datamining, but yet to know how to easily get their post flop tendancies. Still, I'm very happily making semi-informed decisions based on real examples of what villain calls with etc. It just fills you with confidence to know you have real data you are working from when making a raise/call. I just need to fix my HUD now and I'll really happy with my information level, then I'll be working on using it the most effectively.
I've been happy with all forms of progress in the last few weeks, and feel like my skills are definitely moving in the right direction. If I find mysefl BR'd for NL50 someday, I'll be sure to start looking up coaches to take my game to the next step officially.
Monday, October 6, 2008
I'm in control baby.
First day of self control went fine. Felt like a couple of beers, but stayed away while playing, and eventually had one after the session. The only interesting thing that came up was after I'd sat down for a while, surfed a bit, forum searched a bit, I noticed an urge to crack open Pokerstars and donk around a bit. Fortunately I understood the danger of doing that just one day into my self control phase and opted not to, which felt good I guess, pretty standard really.
I'm trying harder and harder to get real reads before playing players, but it's really taking way too much focus off early game. Even with just 2 tables, I'm really only concentrating fully after about 20 hands once I have had a look at the history. Then I'll notice two of the original players have been replaced by other guys I have datamined and try to look through their history. There has to be a quicker way. Ideally, this is what I want. I want to be able to sit down, and within an orbit or two, have specific goals for how to deal with all players on the table, knowing as much about their post flop tendancies as possible. Then I want to be able to specifically say how I'm going to crush a couple of them... or if I have nothing, then leave. "If you can't spot the fish then you are the fish" type of thing.
It comes down to how do we effectively play the player at poker. We doing it by knowing how he plays hands and acting accordingly. It's one thing to know a player plays tight, but a whole other thing to see how they go broke and how they play in tough spots, like facing aggression with a draw or top pair. If we see someone cbet then 3 bet shove a flop with a bare flush draw, we know he can play flush draws aggressively. If we see someone donk lead then shove, or donk lead then fold, then we get a better idea for what they are doing that with. Now lets say you have datamined 450 hands on a player playing on your table that you just sat down at. His stats say he's a reasonable player, but there are weaknesses/trends I'd like to know. So far, finding these out takes too much of my playing time, and I don't see people on a regular enough basis to put my history of reads into practice.
Oh and my session last night was break even. I played fairly solid, but felt a little timid due to my brain putting much more emphasis on post flop tendancies rather than just going with a hand, which is probably a good thing. Like I isolate QQ OOP and the flop comes out Axx, and I check folded. Firstly, his range indicated he limp calls Ax hands sometimes, but also I just had no postflop reads, so didn't know how he'd play if I cbet, or if he'd be honest if I checked to him, etc. I probably missed an easy cbet, but I just don't feel fully equipped to make certain choices now.
I'm trying harder and harder to get real reads before playing players, but it's really taking way too much focus off early game. Even with just 2 tables, I'm really only concentrating fully after about 20 hands once I have had a look at the history. Then I'll notice two of the original players have been replaced by other guys I have datamined and try to look through their history. There has to be a quicker way. Ideally, this is what I want. I want to be able to sit down, and within an orbit or two, have specific goals for how to deal with all players on the table, knowing as much about their post flop tendancies as possible. Then I want to be able to specifically say how I'm going to crush a couple of them... or if I have nothing, then leave. "If you can't spot the fish then you are the fish" type of thing.
It comes down to how do we effectively play the player at poker. We doing it by knowing how he plays hands and acting accordingly. It's one thing to know a player plays tight, but a whole other thing to see how they go broke and how they play in tough spots, like facing aggression with a draw or top pair. If we see someone cbet then 3 bet shove a flop with a bare flush draw, we know he can play flush draws aggressively. If we see someone donk lead then shove, or donk lead then fold, then we get a better idea for what they are doing that with. Now lets say you have datamined 450 hands on a player playing on your table that you just sat down at. His stats say he's a reasonable player, but there are weaknesses/trends I'd like to know. So far, finding these out takes too much of my playing time, and I don't see people on a regular enough basis to put my history of reads into practice.
Oh and my session last night was break even. I played fairly solid, but felt a little timid due to my brain putting much more emphasis on post flop tendancies rather than just going with a hand, which is probably a good thing. Like I isolate QQ OOP and the flop comes out Axx, and I check folded. Firstly, his range indicated he limp calls Ax hands sometimes, but also I just had no postflop reads, so didn't know how he'd play if I cbet, or if he'd be honest if I checked to him, etc. I probably missed an easy cbet, but I just don't feel fully equipped to make certain choices now.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Man I play good drunk...
OK, this is the last step for me. I feel like I'm working hard at crushing the game, and still donking off dollars while drunk. My long weekend started innocently enough losing about $20 having some fun on Pokerstars, which was mostly intended. I stopped and didn't intend to play again, but a couple of drinks later Full Tilt is up, and $20 more gone. Next night, watching a movie (new Indiana Jones) and the wife falls asleep. Again a couple of dinner and post dinner drinks downed, I open up Full Tilt just to "watch", the intention being to try and hand read while not actually playing. I'm looking for a tight table to see how well I read regs, and I notice the perfect seat on a real donkish table...and I'm there. NL50 while drunk and underolled, nice. Another $30 to donks hitting, and I finish it off by busting (just about) my Pokerstars account which had $50 before the weekend. OK, so now I'm down $120 all up for just playing a bit of poker while drunk. WTF!!!! That takes me weeks of EV at NL25, what a waste.
Last night was a good chance to have a couple of drinks due to a long weekend, but I decided I need to choose between drinks and poker, and poker won out at first, with the intention of staying up late and having a couple of drinks later. I grinded for a little over an hour, and was pretty happy with my play, and booked a 1.5BI profit, somewhat helping the mood after donking while drunk. Absolutely through with drinking poker, I cracked open a drink and noticed I still had $3 in my pokerstars account. I decided to go out with a bang and play it as aggro as I could. Tripled it on NL5, then HU SNG's. Grinded, grinded, grinded, drank, drank, drank. I couldn't lose. I got in good just about all the time, and held almost always. I was also extracting value like nothing else, getting people to hand over their entire SNG with top pair no kicker on the first blind level. A heap of fun. Up to $47 again, lol.
So that's it now. Poker is officially a serious hobby now rather than a pastime, as I can't stomach the losses I have when not in full control. So this week and weeks/months going forward are all about one main leak fix. Self control. I want to be able to pick and choose when I play. If I'm not reading boards well, quit. If I'd drunk, don't ever play anything, there is just no point. If I'm tired and need to stop, stop. I want to actually write how I am feeling before I play. If I'm tilted or tired, I want to identify that before playing, and just go read forums or do something else for a while. There are no more excuses in my game now. I don't want to not have a reason for making a play, and certainly playing tired or tilted or drunk help you ignore decision making.
I feel very pumped about this, as we are talking playing while in good mood, my play is constantly improving anyway, and I feel like I've officially made the right mental moves to control a big leak in my game.
As a side task, I still need to do a lot more hand reading. My reading is kind of like my hand is this good, and he'd have to have one of these hands to have me beat. I'm not saying, what is his likely full range just yet. So my moves are all about protecting my hand or maximising it's value, rather than fully maximising value by knowing what he'd have and how he'd react to my moves given his range and tendancies. I'm getting there though. Also I'm working extra hard looking through hand histories to pickup how people play post flop, and I think ideally I need to simplify this. So when I have a tilted or tired moment, I'm going to work on a program to help get reads from PT3, which seems to be running again somehow.
Last night was a good chance to have a couple of drinks due to a long weekend, but I decided I need to choose between drinks and poker, and poker won out at first, with the intention of staying up late and having a couple of drinks later. I grinded for a little over an hour, and was pretty happy with my play, and booked a 1.5BI profit, somewhat helping the mood after donking while drunk. Absolutely through with drinking poker, I cracked open a drink and noticed I still had $3 in my pokerstars account. I decided to go out with a bang and play it as aggro as I could. Tripled it on NL5, then HU SNG's. Grinded, grinded, grinded, drank, drank, drank. I couldn't lose. I got in good just about all the time, and held almost always. I was also extracting value like nothing else, getting people to hand over their entire SNG with top pair no kicker on the first blind level. A heap of fun. Up to $47 again, lol.
So that's it now. Poker is officially a serious hobby now rather than a pastime, as I can't stomach the losses I have when not in full control. So this week and weeks/months going forward are all about one main leak fix. Self control. I want to be able to pick and choose when I play. If I'm not reading boards well, quit. If I'd drunk, don't ever play anything, there is just no point. If I'm tired and need to stop, stop. I want to actually write how I am feeling before I play. If I'm tilted or tired, I want to identify that before playing, and just go read forums or do something else for a while. There are no more excuses in my game now. I don't want to not have a reason for making a play, and certainly playing tired or tilted or drunk help you ignore decision making.
I feel very pumped about this, as we are talking playing while in good mood, my play is constantly improving anyway, and I feel like I've officially made the right mental moves to control a big leak in my game.
As a side task, I still need to do a lot more hand reading. My reading is kind of like my hand is this good, and he'd have to have one of these hands to have me beat. I'm not saying, what is his likely full range just yet. So my moves are all about protecting my hand or maximising it's value, rather than fully maximising value by knowing what he'd have and how he'd react to my moves given his range and tendancies. I'm getting there though. Also I'm working extra hard looking through hand histories to pickup how people play post flop, and I think ideally I need to simplify this. So when I have a tilted or tired moment, I'm going to work on a program to help get reads from PT3, which seems to be running again somehow.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Give me just 5 minutes of running good...
Fold, fold, BAM!!! WTF was that? I had AKs PF and now I'm down a buy in. OK, fold, fold, BAM!!! There it is again, make that 2BI's, set over set. Now what to do?
I got there in a few hands, and after a few more orbits in 2 tables seeing nothing good coming my way, I gave myself 10 minutes. I wouldn't say I was totally tilting, but I knew I couldn't play 2 hours like this, or I'd be down 5+ BI's. If I'm up (yes, completely results oriented) in 10 minutes, I'll keep playing. I got no cards to even play the first 5 minutes, then lost a pot, but did take down a medium pot to be +ve after 10 minutes. A waiting list came through, and I got 3 nice tables going. Only about an hour later, I had worked back the 2 BI's and profited 1.5 BI's. I played OK, but ran well. I honestly didn't suck out like has happened to me a lot, but I just had good hands preflop, and post flop. I was over 200BB's on all 3 tables when I left.
It's easy as anything to quit at this point, and I'm very happy to book a winning session after yesterday, and todays start. I'm pretty sure I need to get a little more aggressive postflop. I've been table selecting almost too well, and find myself against 40/12's so much that calling 2-3 streets is profitable if I hit, as I'm so far ahead of their range preflop that hitting means I'm crushing their range on most flops. However, I'm finding myself with no idea what they have and getting sucked out on a bit. I'm worried about raising people off worse, or getting called by better, but if I think it's going to be another street or two without any information, it may not be a great strategy. Plus I'm mixing up some of the player types amongst these guys, as some are tight weak postflop, others are quite bluffy.
Reasonable week, probably have a bit of a break again now for the weekend, but believe me I'll be thinking through a lot of what's gone on this week, and looking for ways to improve my tiny poker mind.
I got there in a few hands, and after a few more orbits in 2 tables seeing nothing good coming my way, I gave myself 10 minutes. I wouldn't say I was totally tilting, but I knew I couldn't play 2 hours like this, or I'd be down 5+ BI's. If I'm up (yes, completely results oriented) in 10 minutes, I'll keep playing. I got no cards to even play the first 5 minutes, then lost a pot, but did take down a medium pot to be +ve after 10 minutes. A waiting list came through, and I got 3 nice tables going. Only about an hour later, I had worked back the 2 BI's and profited 1.5 BI's. I played OK, but ran well. I honestly didn't suck out like has happened to me a lot, but I just had good hands preflop, and post flop. I was over 200BB's on all 3 tables when I left.
It's easy as anything to quit at this point, and I'm very happy to book a winning session after yesterday, and todays start. I'm pretty sure I need to get a little more aggressive postflop. I've been table selecting almost too well, and find myself against 40/12's so much that calling 2-3 streets is profitable if I hit, as I'm so far ahead of their range preflop that hitting means I'm crushing their range on most flops. However, I'm finding myself with no idea what they have and getting sucked out on a bit. I'm worried about raising people off worse, or getting called by better, but if I think it's going to be another street or two without any information, it may not be a great strategy. Plus I'm mixing up some of the player types amongst these guys, as some are tight weak postflop, others are quite bluffy.
Reasonable week, probably have a bit of a break again now for the weekend, but believe me I'll be thinking through a lot of what's gone on this week, and looking for ways to improve my tiny poker mind.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
I can't get enough of this...
Well, what an ordinary night. I got 600 hands in and was smashed. 2 of the top 3 pots had my money in as 80% and 90% favourite and lost of course. Out of the others I had top two pair against an absolute donk who rivered a straight (didn't pay him off much after he sucked out), had QQ overpair against a straight draw, who sucked out and got one more street of value from me, a flush draw and overpair in a low pot 3 bet PF, of course he flopped a set of 6's after calling my 3 bet, and a better kicker for a pretty big pot with only top pair. The last two were the worst, but overall, I think that's called running bad.
Enough whinging about my cards, I'm partially responsible for the debacle. My reads were missing tonight, and I was really scratching my head on many decisions, and ended up calling too much due to running bad, rather than raising more for protection or value. So I was a long way from my A game for sure. I lost over 2 BI's, which is pretty nasty given I never seem to make more than 1/2 BI going the other way, even though I feel like I'm playing my best poker recently.
I can at least say the luck didn't go my way much tonight, and tomorrow is of course another beautiful sunny day (or something like that).
Oh and get fucked Full Tilt, I never get sucked out on so bad as I do on Full Tilt:
Here is some of the fun I endure right now:
FullTiltPoker Game #8301395037: Table Willis (deep 6) - $0.10/$0.25 - No Limit Hold'em - 8:26:05 ET - 2008/10/01
Seat 1: Seth_Qc ($20.80)
Seat 2: sb944 ($41.90)
Seat 3: cop2007 ($26.15)
Seat 4: thecometodaddy ($19.25), is sitting out
Seat 5: hbvb ($28.60)
Seat 6: Gnotschi ($25), is sitting out
sb944 posts the small blind of $0.10
cop2007 posts the big blind of $0.25
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to sb944 [As Ad]
hbvb calls $0.25
Seth_Qc calls $0.25
sb944 raises to $1
cop2007 folds
hbvb calls $0.75
Seth_Qc calls $0.75
*** FLOP *** [3d 9d 4h]
Gnotschi stands up
sb944 has 15 seconds left to act
sb944 bets $2
Fiona888 adds $25
hbvb folds
Seth_Qc raises to $19.80, and is all in
sb944 calls $17.80
Seth_Qc shows [2d 9c]
sb944 shows [As Ad]
*** TURN *** [3d 9d 4h] [5s]
*** RIVER *** [3d 9d 4h 5s] [6d]
Seth_Qc shows a straight, Six high
sb944 shows a pair of Aces
Seth_Qc wins the pot ($40.85) with a straight, Six high
sb944 adds $3.90
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $42.85 | Rake $2
Board: [3d 9d 4h 5s 6d]
Seat 1: Seth_Qc (button) showed [2d 9c] and won ($40.85) with a straight, Six high
Seat 2: sb944 (small blind) showed [As Ad] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 3: cop2007 (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 4: thecometodaddy is sitting out
Seat 5: hbvb folded on the Flop
Seat 6: Gnotschi is sitting out
Enough whinging about my cards, I'm partially responsible for the debacle. My reads were missing tonight, and I was really scratching my head on many decisions, and ended up calling too much due to running bad, rather than raising more for protection or value. So I was a long way from my A game for sure. I lost over 2 BI's, which is pretty nasty given I never seem to make more than 1/2 BI going the other way, even though I feel like I'm playing my best poker recently.
I can at least say the luck didn't go my way much tonight, and tomorrow is of course another beautiful sunny day (or something like that).
Oh and get fucked Full Tilt, I never get sucked out on so bad as I do on Full Tilt:
Here is some of the fun I endure right now:
FullTiltPoker Game #8301395037: Table Willis (deep 6) - $0.10/$0.25 - No Limit Hold'em - 8:26:05 ET - 2008/10/01
Seat 1: Seth_Qc ($20.80)
Seat 2: sb944 ($41.90)
Seat 3: cop2007 ($26.15)
Seat 4: thecometodaddy ($19.25), is sitting out
Seat 5: hbvb ($28.60)
Seat 6: Gnotschi ($25), is sitting out
sb944 posts the small blind of $0.10
cop2007 posts the big blind of $0.25
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to sb944 [As Ad]
hbvb calls $0.25
Seth_Qc calls $0.25
sb944 raises to $1
cop2007 folds
hbvb calls $0.75
Seth_Qc calls $0.75
*** FLOP *** [3d 9d 4h]
Gnotschi stands up
sb944 has 15 seconds left to act
sb944 bets $2
Fiona888 adds $25
hbvb folds
Seth_Qc raises to $19.80, and is all in
sb944 calls $17.80
Seth_Qc shows [2d 9c]
sb944 shows [As Ad]
*** TURN *** [3d 9d 4h] [5s]
*** RIVER *** [3d 9d 4h 5s] [6d]
Seth_Qc shows a straight, Six high
sb944 shows a pair of Aces
Seth_Qc wins the pot ($40.85) with a straight, Six high
sb944 adds $3.90
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $42.85 | Rake $2
Board: [3d 9d 4h 5s 6d]
Seat 1: Seth_Qc (button) showed [2d 9c] and won ($40.85) with a straight, Six high
Seat 2: sb944 (small blind) showed [As Ad] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 3: cop2007 (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 4: thecometodaddy is sitting out
Seat 5: hbvb folded on the Flop
Seat 6: Gnotschi is sitting out
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