Session 4

Nice day today, really put in a good amount of hands (9K) and ended up booking a win. Unfortunately I played and bricked the Super Tuesday and the 100r, and also lost a "close to chiplead" pot in the NHG QQ<A9o vs a reg who ended up final tabling it :(. I ended up mincashing.

Heres a graph from today.

I played extremely well today, I brought my A game and definitely my best play in cashgames so far this month. I felt like a puppet master, and everyone was doing exactly what I wanted them to do. Unfortunately as you can see, I ran really far under EV. For some reason I just couldn't get it all in and win today :(. Luckily I heatered for a short while in some 10/20 games which is the only reason I ended up winning today.

Today I ran at 25/21 6.7 3B 45 WWSF

Here are some hands from today.

AJ in 3 bet pot - this hand was one of those hands that just felt great today. It's because this hand is against a reg who I know is making poor adjustments against me, and getting fed up with my play. It feels great to get so much value out of a hand, especially when my absolute hand strength probably doesn't warrant 100BB's in most circumstances.

river C/R bluff - this hand was really nice, my original plan was to barrel a J or heart for value, and a club as a bluff with maybe some tweaked sizing between the two, bluffing is also tempting on a river Q, and T since I block the twopair combos a bit and calling a third barrel on those boards with Ax is kinda gross since some gutters and such get there. I get what is basically the worst river to CBET. So, I plan to C/F, but then right there I realize how strong a CRAI would look here. It's entirely congruent with a hand like 33, 88, KK, and the overfulls A3, AK, A8. All of these hands could check the river to extract value from missed draws, and to extract max value from Ax by going for a CRAI. It's also one of those simple level spots where "omg why would I try to bluff him off (a strong absolute strength hand) trips?"

Session 3

Today I played 7K hands, I booked a very small win, basically broke even all day. I had a small heater near the end but then I got it all in preflop with AK vs AA against an unknown for 100BB's which was probably a mistake, leaving a sour taste to end the day.

Today I ran at 24/21 7.6 3bet 45.8 WWSF

My non showdown winning really took a dive into the tank after I got back from dinner. I was slightly out of sync and the lineup of regs was different. I attacked the wrong spots a few times, and probably wasted a barrel or two where I should have had a strong and strict value range, of course, my showdown winnings were good, and if I had made a few more hands I would have had a nice day. I think I played my B- game today, and I'm not entirely thrilled. Another mistake I made today was calling too many rivers, this tilted me into quitting my session early on and taking a break after this hand.

What happens is I think of tons of really stupid justifications for how I have to call here in order to avoid being exploited, and how he might be bluffing, and how I have a supercharged bluffcatcher and close to the top of my range, but really it's just a bunch of nonsense. My entire game is based on playing exploitable, but constantly staying one level higher than my opponents. I know my opponent is never bluffing here, and I know he never has a worse hand for value (I block the lower flushes, and no its not a set.) I also do this thing where I assume people share the same theory that I do, for instance, I can have an extremely wide checkraising range on this river (both for value and as a bluff,) even things like AK+, and I change how my range is weighted based on my opponent. But other regs just don't do this, they just like to pretend they do in the forums.

So anyways, I was tilted and I made this jaypeg! It's now the wallpaper for each of my 3 30" monitors and it's quite hilarious, and an obnoxious constant reminder to stop paying off uncreative regs (even if it's "exploitable" and I'm bet/folding this river 95%+)

GRRR Sundays!

Session #2 this month was 100% MTTs, I kept it this way because it was a massive Sunday on FTP, with every tourney being multi-entry. I'm not really sure what my total buy-ins were but it was probably somewhere in the 15K range.

I was really proud of my play again today, on a scale of A+ through E, I played my A- game. I got 13th in the multi entry 150r on FTP. First in this tournament was 150K but my cash was insignificant. Even getting 12th would have netted another 5K and I would have been almost even on the day, but as it is... another super frustrating Sunday.

I've never had a cash for more than 50K in my poker career, this is extremely unlucky given all of the high buy-in tournaments I have played, and all the great chances I've given myself. Nonetheless, I know exactly what I'm getting myself into when I register for these MTTs. I just wish that I wasn't on the extreme shit-end of the bell curve for "MTT luck" but, thats why my main game is cash, whether you are on the shit end or the good end of luck, if you play millions of hands each year you will realize your expectation within a couple percents. In MTT's it's more or less lottery and it takes well more than a few lifetimes to realize expectation. I've made this rant 100 times but it still feels good to make it again! I'll continue to make this rant until I realize expectation in MTTs (and then I'll probably still keep doing it!)

1 tabling this $150 tourney on FTP drinking a vodka-cran cus we don't have any beer, there are 73 left, and its 80K for first. I plan on getting 30th or so. It's my last tourney for the day. When this is over I'm gonna play some Starcraft2, take a breather, maybe a shower (this helps me refresh my mind) and then start up a cashgame session for today. I'm still sort of perma-tilted so I dont think I will play my A game, but I'll game select and play a touch lower, I just really need volume right now, to attain the goals I set for myself this month.

Session 2 totals:
infinite MTTs
-6K

some hands from the 150r:
most tilting hand of the day on so many levels
super hood bluff, lol

update, got 22nd in that last tourney and MTTrs ARE SO BAD AT POKER, it's so tilting to watch some of these idiots heater on and win. They have fundamentals that are literally backwards. This idiot valuecut raises turn, I call cus its wa/wb and hes an idiot, then he rivers his TPTK and checks behind in the most obvious valuebet spot ever. Then he stacks me reshoving A5 vs my A7 BvB.... like ggwp BRO. ARGHHH

Blog Outline, April Goals, and April Session #1

I'm going to post a review of all of my sessions here. I think getting my thoughts out of my head and being accountable for results will help me. It's something I'm going to try this month.

April goals,
150K VPP
quality hands

Today was my first session, I ran quite well today, here is a graph.

Today I played almost 10K hands, almost all 6max with a touch of 9max early this morning when not many games were running. I ran at 28% VPIP, 24% PFR, 9% 3bet, 47.7% WWSF. Today I played my "A" game, and it felt great, a fantastic way to start off the month. If I can play the rest of the month how I did today then I will be very happy.


Here are some hands from today.


This was one of the most interesting
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HAND #1
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Poker Stars, $2/$4 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 9 Players
LeggoPoker.com Hand History Converter

SB: $156
BB: $2,449.70
Hero (UTG): $470
UTG+1: $466.75
UTG+2: $512
MP1: $400
MP2: $463
CO: $447
BTN: $400

Pre-Flop: Th Td dealt to Hero (UTG)
Hero raises to $8, 3 folds, MP2 calls $8, 2 folds, SB calls $6, BB calls $4

Flop: ($32) 8d 3d 3c (4 Players)
SB checks, BB bets $16, Hero calls $16, MP2 calls $16, SB folds

Turn: ($80) 5c (3 Players)
BB checks, Hero bets $59, MP2 calls $59, BB folds

River: ($198) 8s (2 Players)
Hero bets $123, MP2 raises to $380 and is All-In, Hero calls $257

Results: $958 Pot ($3 Rake)
Hero showed Th Td and WON $955 (+$492 NET)
MP2 showed 5d 7d and LOST (-$463 NET)



This was the best beat of the day (still feeling really dirty about this shove)
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HAND #2
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Poker Stars, $5/$10 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
LeggoPoker.com Hand History Converter

Hero (BTN): $1,079.50
SB: $1,102
BB: $1,367.50
UTG: $1,024
MP: $1,317
CO: $2,643.75

Pre-Flop: 4h 5h dealt to Hero (BTN)
3 folds, Hero raises to $20, SB raises to $80, BB calls $70, Hero calls $60

Flop: ($240) 9s 9h 5s (3 Players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets $112.50, SB raises to $320, BB folds, Hero raises to $999.50 and is All-In, SB calls $679.50

Turn: ($2,239) Qh (2 Players - 1 is All-In)

River: ($2,239) 8h (2 Players - 1 is All-In)

Results: $2,239 Pot ($3 Rake)
Hero showed 4h 5h and WON $2,236 (+$1,156.50 NET)
SB showed Ts Td and LOST (-$1,074.50 NET)



This was the biggest pot of the day, these stakes are much higher than normal and I was taking a shot in this game because my opponent was not very good.
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HAND #3
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Poker Stars, $20/$40 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
LeggoPoker.com Hand History Converter

MP: $8,140
CO: $6,539
BTN: $2,193.50
SB: $4,000
Hero (BB): $4,000
UTG: $3,770

Pre-Flop: Ks Ac dealt to Hero (BB)
UTG raises to $100, 2 folds, BTN calls $100, SB folds, Hero raises to $460, UTG folds, BTN calls $360

Flop: ($1,100) Kh Qh Qc (2 Players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $360, Hero calls $360

Turn: ($1,820) 4d (2 Players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $360, Hero calls $360

River: ($2,540) 2h (2 Players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $1,003.50 and is All-In, Hero calls $1,003.50

Results: $4,547 Pot ($3 Rake)
BTN showed 2d Jd and LOST (-$2,183.50 NET)
Hero showed Ks Ac and WON $4,544 (+$2,400.50 NET)

I'm quitting poker

Yep, that's right, I'm sick and tired of being on the shit end of the bell curve every year. I'm thousands of "cashgame hours" under equity in MTTs, and I've never sustained a heater at highstakes so Poker Gods you can go mess with someone else!