Doing OK, Hands

I'm still updating the 100k hand challenge thing on the right. This includes some 6tabling hands though prior to my complete turnaround in poker philosophy. Since 4 tabling with this new philosophy I've been running hot (well, must be!) and my hourly is pretty decent.

This graph is ever hand since I got Pawel to sweat one of my sessions and talk me through the dos and don'ts of getting reads on every tiny nuance of a regs game and then how exactly to exploit them. From turn leads OOP dry board as caller, to betsizing 3bet pots wet boards, to polarised/ non polarised cbetting, to loads of other generalised tendecies that we can infer and then confirm and then exploit.

I've put in place the stoploss of $350-$400. Working good so far, well I only had one session so far where I hit it. Hit it after 10 minutes, 2 big suckouts so that was a real test of my strength to act on it, but quit I did and it's infinitely more likely that it would've turned into a $2k losing session than a $2k winning one from that point onwards.

Played some cool hands along the way:


This is my favourite. Combination of reads, winning reg but spazzy, very high raise donk bet stat (40%), 65% BTN open. So I basically played it to rep a straight draw from the flop onwards with plans of  never folding. Important to lead the river, as I don't think he'd credit me with just CC an oesd on turn and then check river, while I couldn't cr turn to rep straight draw either really as blows out a lot of stuff. I snapped the river as I do with most hero calls.

$1/$2 No Limit Holdem • 5 Players • PokerStars

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UTG	Hielko	$210.70
CO	jerson2011	$249.80
BTN	Coole Rick	$268.05
SB	grogheadflow	$258
BB	guidosuller2	$92.80

• Pre-Flop ($3, 5 players)Hero is SB
• 

2 folds, Coole Rick raises to $6, grogheadflow calls $5, 1 fold

• Flop ($14, 2 players)
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grogheadflow bets $9, Coole Rick raises to $24, grogheadflow calls $15

• Turn ($62, 2 players)
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grogheadflow checks, Coole Rick bets $38, grogheadflow calls $38

• River ($138, 2 players)
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grogheadflow bets $38, Coole Rick goes all-in $200.05, grogheadflow calls $152

• Final Pot: $528.05

• Coole Rick shows
• 

• grogheadflow shows
• 

• grogheadflow wins $516 (net +$258)
• Coole Rick collects $10.05 (net -$258)

This one is all about imbalances in betting strategy. This guy previously pot controlled AJ on turn in a similar spot, and with high stab flop and barrel number combined with a 18% BTN flat range was decent to call down.

$1/$2 No Limit Holdem • 6 Players • PokerStars

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UTG	INGA1964	$203
UTG+1	arebew	$200
CO	grogheadflow	$207.35
BTN	Pokermoney07	$200
SB	DeWinterY	$253
BB	Oord	$728.55

• Pre-Flop ($3, 6 players)Hero is CO
• 

2 folds, grogheadflow raises to $6, Pokermoney07 calls $6, 2 folds

• Flop ($15, 2 players)
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grogheadflow checks, Pokermoney07 bets $8, grogheadflow calls $8

• Turn ($31, 2 players)
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grogheadflow checks, Pokermoney07 bets $17, grogheadflow calls $17

• River ($65, 2 players)
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grogheadflow checks, Pokermoney07 bets $48, grogheadflow calls $48

• Final Pot: $161

• grogheadflow shows
• 

• Pokermoney07 shows
• 

• grogheadflow wins $159 (net +$80)
• Pokermoney07 lost $79

 

Another spewy type of player, but one whom I felt I could get to fold QJ and maybe KQ by the river. He never has AQ or KK+ as flatter was a decent size fish. Villain has low fold to cbet flop and turn, hence decision to triple (shoving the river). Then he raised the turn and I'm like weeeee no J, 9or T please ! This probably the best river card to call down on actually. Very next hand on another table he 3bets/5bets A9 into my AK TILT.

$1/$2 No Limit Holdem • 6 Players • PokerStars

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UTG	grogheadflow	$210.70
UTG+1	YaDaDaMeeN21	$299.20
CO	TheDonDoaln	$88.85
BTN	aXuLe	$253.05
SB	ReSpEcTAiGhT	$81
BB	Fivez	$203

• Pre-Flop ($3, 6 players)Hero is UTG
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grogheadflow raises to $6, 1 fold, TheDonDoaln calls $6, aXuLe calls $6, 2 folds

• Flop ($21, 3 players)
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grogheadflow bets $15, TheDonDoaln folds, aXuLe calls $15

• Turn ($51, 2 players)
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grogheadflow bets $38, aXuLe raises to $86, grogheadflow calls $48

• River ($223, 2 players)
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grogheadflow checks, aXuLe bets $146.05, grogheadflow calls $103.70

• Final Pot: $472.75

• grogheadflow shows
• 

• aXuLe shows
• 

• grogheadflow wins $428.40 (net +$217.70)
• aXuLe collects $42.35 (net -$210.70)
• TheDonDoaln lost $6

One that failed but also kinda didn't. Had to re-appraise my opinion of the player after this hand. Knew he was bad but not THAT bad.

$1/$2 Ante $0.40 No Limit Holdem • 4 Players • PokerStars

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CO	profi76	$1,098.45
BTN	le_marc08	$527.85
SB	grogheadflow	$353.80
BB	ndjoh	$498.75

• Pre-Flop ($4.60, 4 players)Hero is SB
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1 fold, le_marc08 raises to $6, grogheadflow raises to $22, 1 fold, le_marc08 calls $16

• Flop ($47.60, 2 players)
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grogheadflow bets $26, le_marc08 calls $26

• Turn ($99.60, 2 players)
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grogheadflow bets $62, le_marc08 raises to $148, grogheadflow calls $86

• River ($395.60, 2 players)
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grogheadflow checks, le_marc08 bets $331.45, grogheadflow calls $157.40

• Final Pot: $884.45

• le_marc08 shows
• 

• grogheadflow shows
• 

• le_marc08 wins $882.45 (net +$354.60)
• grogheadflow lost $353.80

I'm still life broke so just have to keep on it, hopefully keep this up..........