Net: -$547
While the cards could've been kinder in spots, this session served as a brutal reminder of my failings in certain spots, namely, spots where the fold button seems to shrink before my eyes while the other two grow in stature.
I'll start with some basic basic spots:
$2/$4 No Limit Holdem • 5 Players
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| UTG | DOM92222 | $178.20 | |
| CO | RE_MOGUL | $471.80 | |
| BTN | SHAGGYCHIPS | $428.50 | |
| SB | Hero | $400 | |
| BB | COLDISLAND | $1,229.60 | |
- Pre-Flop ($6, 5 players)Hero is SB
2 folds, SHAGGYCHIPS raises to $12, Hero calls $10, 1 fold
- Flop ($28, 2 players)
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Hero checks, SHAGGYCHIPS checks
- Turn ($28, 2 players)
Hero bets $22, SHAGGYCHIPS calls $22
- River ($72, 2 players)
- Final Pot: $72
So, I could've and probably should've 3bet this PF. However, I'm starting to lean towards check raising these types of hands where I flop overcards + backdoors etc, as that's not currently not really part of my game and perhaps it could be.
Anyway, once villain checks, he's got some weak pair or ace high. Are we even bothering with fighting for this pot? It looks so donkish to lead turn and river and get called by A9..........
So, while on the subject on check raising, I do another one here:
$2/$4 No Limit Holdem • 6 Players
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| UTG | FR8SGETSTAIN | $130.90 | |
| UTG+1 | SHAGGYCHIPS | $400 | |
| CO | POKERPRO15 | $427 | |
| BTN | COLDISLAND | $783 | |
| SB | Hero | $400 | |
| BB | OMAHAFAN | $462.30 | |
- Pre-Flop ($6, 6 players)Hero is SB
1 fold, SHAGGYCHIPS raises to $12, 1 fold, COLDISLAND calls $12, Hero calls $10, 1 fold
- Flop ($40, 3 players)
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Hero checks, SHAGGYCHIPS bets $30, COLDISLAND folds, Hero raises to $88
- Final Pot: $158
And here:
$2/$4 No Limit Holdem • 3 Players
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| BTN | CARROTSNAKE | $447.80 | |
| SB | COLDISLAND | $497 | |
| BB | Hero | $544.10 | |
- Pre-Flop ($6, 3 players)Hero is BB
CARROTSNAKE raises to $12, COLDISLAND folds, Hero calls $8
- Flop ($26, 2 players)
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Hero checks, CARROTSNAKE bets $18, Hero raises to $57
- Final Pot: $101
$2/$4 No Limit Holdem • 3 Players
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| BTN | Hero | $400 | |
| SB | JOETFK | $402 | |
| BB | SHAGGYCHIPS | $976 | |
- Pre-Flop ($6, 3 players)Hero is BTN
Hero raises to $12, JOETFK calls $10, SHAGGYCHIPS folds
- Flop ($28, 2 players)
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JOETFK checks
- Final Pot: $28
Here's a basic cbet spot, or is it? SB vs BTN he has a ton of broadways, and given my lack of equity when called there's not many or any cards I can barrel.......?
Next hand, do we flat this to the nit? Do we bet the turn?
$2/$4 No Limit Holdem • 6 Players
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| UTG | SHAGGYCHIPS | $400 | |
| UTG+1 | POKERPRO15 | $431.50 | |
| CO | COLDISLAND | $400 | |
| BTN | Hero | $532 | |
| SB | BROOKLYNSAM1 | $402 | |
| BB | MR_JAYP | $420 | |
- Pre-Flop ($6, 6 players)Hero is BTN
3 folds, Hero raises to $12, 1 fold, MR_JAYP raises to $38, Hero calls $26
- Flop ($78, 2 players)
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MR_JAYP checks, Hero checks
- Turn ($78, 2 players)
MR_JAYP checks, Hero checks
- River ($78, 2 players)
MR_JAYP checks, Hero checks
- Final Pot: $78
Next hand:
$2/$4 No Limit Holdem • 5 Players
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| UTG | JOETFK | $400 | |
| CO | COLDISLAND | $995.10 | |
| BTN | KIDCONCRETE | $403.30 | |
| SB | GUIGUI_88 | $798.50 | |
| BB | Hero | $423.90 | |
- Pre-Flop ($6, 5 players)Hero is BB
1 fold, COLDISLAND raises to $14, KIDCONCRETE calls $14, 1 fold, Hero raises to $58, COLDISLAND raises to $142, KIDCONCRETE folds, Hero goes all-in $423.90, COLDISLAND calls $281.90
- Flop ($863.80, 2 players, 1 all-in)
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- Turn ($863.80, 2 players, 1 all-in)
- River ($863.80, 2 players, 1 all-in)
- Final Pot: $863.80
- Hero shows
Standard squeeze get in?
Last hand, villain transparently has a weak ace or KK etc, and I make a flop decision to triple barrel him off it. I can have QJ and assorted other nutted hands, though that river is perhaps bad for me in the sense I shouldn't have a 7 and he'd perceive I'd shut down without one etc. Please tell me just to check fold the turn, thankyou.
$2/$4 No Limit Holdem • 5 Players
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| UTG | CARROTSNAKE | $423.80 | |
| CO | COLDISLAND | $495 | |
| BTN | Hero | $572.10 | |
| SB | BROOKLYNSAM1 | $329.70 | |
| BB | MR_JAYP | $474.60 | |
- Pre-Flop ($6, 5 players)Hero is BTN
1 fold, COLDISLAND raises to $14, Hero calls $14, 2 folds
- Flop ($34, 2 players)
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COLDISLAND checks, Hero bets $32, COLDISLAND calls $32
- Turn ($98, 2 players)
COLDISLAND checks, Hero bets $81, COLDISLAND calls $81
- River ($260, 2 players)
COLDISLAND checks, Hero bets $206
- Final Pot: $466
Return to Midstakes, New Regime, Anger At Myself TL;DR
The first day of this month I dropped $2k at 400nl and endeavoured to play 20k hands of 200nl before moving back up. I made money during this period, but not the $8k I was striving for. I was well on track until the last 4k hands or so, when I let myself down in super typical fashion.
First a bit of background- I have this head thing that causes immeasurable problems for me as a poker player. I get it at various times of the day, some more than others. I call it 'light headedness', but really it's like a disconnect from reality that takes over from time to time. It's not painful, but is definitely a physical feeling. It doesn't stop me from doing anything; driving, cooking, talking to people etc- what it does do though is completely separate me from caring in the slightest what is happening as I play poker. I'm basically reduced to clicking buttons for fun, but it's not even fun- more like I'm trying to lose (or win big) in order to actually feel something, anything.
Without being overly dramatic, I think it's comparable to those mentalists who cut themselves in order to feel something.
I'm aware of having the feeling before I start playing, but the feeling itself perpetuates itself by the fact I don't even care that I have it, and I'm ambivalent to the truth that all that's about to happen is that I'm going to sit and throw 5 BIs down the drain.
Anyway, I decided some time ago that this physical feeling was definitely connected to my overall health and diet (vegetarian diet for the last 5 months or so). So, I changed up my diet, got a load of vitamins and fish oil type supplements, and tried to do more exercise than just my usual weekly footy match. The light headedness actually receded and I felt a ton better.
Obviously, what I'm getting around to saying, is that I didn't stick to it.
I didn't stick to it, because I became preoccupied with technical aspects of my game that needed work. For a long while I obsessed about exact 3bet ranges, cbet strategies on different boards, 'erm guys do you think I should barrel this K turn' yada yada yada. What I couldn't understand was how I used to be so sure of everything, but now so uncertain.
Luckily, I hadn't gone crazy. There was one massive massive massive leak that had crept in, that was blatently obvious, that was instantly correlatable to all my losing hands just by looking at them, and was instantly fixable. That leak was that in 6max poker I had somehow opened up my range to the point where I was opening 30% of hands UTG and UTG+1 in every session. I was like........ omg position really matters?
So, apart from tightening up there, I've started refusing to play single raised pots OOP. Sorry if this is all a little bit BRAND NEW INFORMATION, but jesus the difference was immediately noticeable, like overnight noticeable.
As soon as I started winning again playing basic IP ABC poker, I suddenly had the confidence to do everything else I used to be good at. Such as gameflow; my favourite part of poker is 3 betting the shit out of the guy to my right until he cracks, anticpating his reactions by suddenly 5bet jamming AJ and getting a nailed on fold, before getting in JJ vs 55 for 150bbs.
The above just isn't possible from a confidence perspective when I'm opening 96s utg, getting 3 callers, and I'm cbetting QJ9 into all 3.... then wondering why I'm losing. 'Oh, must be the spewy button stuff, stop bluffing IP dan'. Moron.
Anyway, I need to start weaving the various strands of this blog post into some form of coherentness. What I basically want to say is that I feel my technical game is as good as it's ever been right now, and being aware of my most basic of problems means it's not likely to regress such as in the past.
What I'm left with then, is that I need to really really change my lifestyle to try and attain physical fitness and mental wellbeing. My *hope*, but also knowledge from experience, is that this will cure the light headedness thing that's currently the only thing stopping me from being a paper millionaire.
You know what I wish, I wish there were some way to FORCE me to do certain things day in day out. I'm going to list them here anyway, but I need suggestions as to how I can be punished for not doing them.
Ok after writing that last paragraph, I had a little break and just read Baz's blog. I like his daily/ weekly goals thing. That's basically what I need. I'm still stuck on the way in which I can be forced to do them though. I'm thinking some sort of financial prop. Like, every day I don't write a blog and do all of my daily goals I'll donated $50 to a charity of whoever comments first's choice or something.
Anyway, my daily goals are as follows:
Gym in morning (between 8-9am)
Whole wheat for breakfast
Tidy office
1 pint of protein shake in morning, 1 in afternoon
Take fish oil, vitamin b12, multi B vitamin
Blog immediately before session- comment on the light headedness.... is it there?
Drink water all throughout day
Wholewheat pasta in afternoon
Session length of 35-60 minutes
Have some competitive pride.
Technical goals will be dicated before each session, and reviewed thereafter.
Is all.
dan
First a bit of background- I have this head thing that causes immeasurable problems for me as a poker player. I get it at various times of the day, some more than others. I call it 'light headedness', but really it's like a disconnect from reality that takes over from time to time. It's not painful, but is definitely a physical feeling. It doesn't stop me from doing anything; driving, cooking, talking to people etc- what it does do though is completely separate me from caring in the slightest what is happening as I play poker. I'm basically reduced to clicking buttons for fun, but it's not even fun- more like I'm trying to lose (or win big) in order to actually feel something, anything.
Without being overly dramatic, I think it's comparable to those mentalists who cut themselves in order to feel something.
I'm aware of having the feeling before I start playing, but the feeling itself perpetuates itself by the fact I don't even care that I have it, and I'm ambivalent to the truth that all that's about to happen is that I'm going to sit and throw 5 BIs down the drain.
Anyway, I decided some time ago that this physical feeling was definitely connected to my overall health and diet (vegetarian diet for the last 5 months or so). So, I changed up my diet, got a load of vitamins and fish oil type supplements, and tried to do more exercise than just my usual weekly footy match. The light headedness actually receded and I felt a ton better.
Obviously, what I'm getting around to saying, is that I didn't stick to it.
I didn't stick to it, because I became preoccupied with technical aspects of my game that needed work. For a long while I obsessed about exact 3bet ranges, cbet strategies on different boards, 'erm guys do you think I should barrel this K turn' yada yada yada. What I couldn't understand was how I used to be so sure of everything, but now so uncertain.
Luckily, I hadn't gone crazy. There was one massive massive massive leak that had crept in, that was blatently obvious, that was instantly correlatable to all my losing hands just by looking at them, and was instantly fixable. That leak was that in 6max poker I had somehow opened up my range to the point where I was opening 30% of hands UTG and UTG+1 in every session. I was like........ omg position really matters?
So, apart from tightening up there, I've started refusing to play single raised pots OOP. Sorry if this is all a little bit BRAND NEW INFORMATION, but jesus the difference was immediately noticeable, like overnight noticeable.
As soon as I started winning again playing basic IP ABC poker, I suddenly had the confidence to do everything else I used to be good at. Such as gameflow; my favourite part of poker is 3 betting the shit out of the guy to my right until he cracks, anticpating his reactions by suddenly 5bet jamming AJ and getting a nailed on fold, before getting in JJ vs 55 for 150bbs.
The above just isn't possible from a confidence perspective when I'm opening 96s utg, getting 3 callers, and I'm cbetting QJ9 into all 3.... then wondering why I'm losing. 'Oh, must be the spewy button stuff, stop bluffing IP dan'. Moron.
Anyway, I need to start weaving the various strands of this blog post into some form of coherentness. What I basically want to say is that I feel my technical game is as good as it's ever been right now, and being aware of my most basic of problems means it's not likely to regress such as in the past.
What I'm left with then, is that I need to really really change my lifestyle to try and attain physical fitness and mental wellbeing. My *hope*, but also knowledge from experience, is that this will cure the light headedness thing that's currently the only thing stopping me from being a paper millionaire.
You know what I wish, I wish there were some way to FORCE me to do certain things day in day out. I'm going to list them here anyway, but I need suggestions as to how I can be punished for not doing them.
Ok after writing that last paragraph, I had a little break and just read Baz's blog. I like his daily/ weekly goals thing. That's basically what I need. I'm still stuck on the way in which I can be forced to do them though. I'm thinking some sort of financial prop. Like, every day I don't write a blog and do all of my daily goals I'll donated $50 to a charity of whoever comments first's choice or something.
Anyway, my daily goals are as follows:
Gym in morning (between 8-9am)
Whole wheat for breakfast
Tidy office
1 pint of protein shake in morning, 1 in afternoon
Take fish oil, vitamin b12, multi B vitamin
Blog immediately before session- comment on the light headedness.... is it there?
Drink water all throughout day
Wholewheat pasta in afternoon
Session length of 35-60 minutes
Have some competitive pride.
Technical goals will be dicated before each session, and reviewed thereafter.
Is all.
dan
Thursday, 6 May 2010
Some Hands
I've been allowing myself to get into too many impossible spots OOP lately. I've become much more positionally aware with my opening ranges lately since my good run, but lately I've started to let it creep back in. On every street, how would you play each of these hands differently?
Not OOP this, but still not easy....... bet fold turn? Check turn? Waaaaaaa
$1/$2 No Limit Holdem • 6 Players
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| UTG | IRISHKESTREL | $299.05 | |
| UTG+1 | 00BANKRUPT00 | $161.85 | |
| CO | WATERBEAST | $296.65 | |
| BTN | LES_OEUFS | $203 | |
| SB | ROQIE | $192 | |
| BB | Hero | $296.45 | |
- Pre-Flop ($3, 6 players)Hero is BB
1 fold, 00BANKRUPT00 raises to $6, WATERBEAST raises to $18, 2 folds, Hero calls $16, 00BANKRUPT00 calls $12
- Flop ($55, 3 players)
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Hero bets $33, 00BANKRUPT00 folds, WATERBEAST raises to $154, Hero goes all-in $278.45, WATERBEAST calls $124.45
- Turn ($611.90, 2 players, 1 all-in)
- River ($611.90, 2 players, 1 all-in)
- Final Pot: $611.90
$1/$2 Ante $0.50 No Limit Holdem • 6 Players
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| UTG | SKYLINED | $388.77 | |
| UTG+1 | Hero | $208.20 | |
| CO | LES_OEUFS | $238.90 | |
| BTN | THE DECIDER | $252.85 | |
| SB | BEER GUY | $79.57 | |
| BB | DOYLEBRINSON | $204 | |
- Pre-Flop ($6, 6 players)Hero is UTG+1
1 fold, Hero raises to $7, LES_OEUFS calls $7, 3 folds
- Flop ($20, 2 players)
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Hero bets $15, LES_OEUFS calls $15
- Turn ($50, 2 players)
Hero bets $37, LES_OEUFS calls $37
- River ($124, 2 players)
Hero bets $148.70, LES_OEUFS calls $148.70
- Final Pot: $421.40
Not OOP this, but still not easy....... bet fold turn? Check turn? Waaaaaaa
$1/$2 No Limit Holdem • 6 Players
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| UTG | JEAN_CHRIS | $276.40 | |
| UTG+1 | Hero | $203 | |
| CO | IRISHKESTREL | $239.05 | |
| BTN | HEYCALMDOWN | $111.60 | |
| SB | WATERBEAST | $468.85 | |
| BB | TENRAG2 | $81.60 | |
- Pre-Flop ($3, 6 players)Hero is UTG+1
JEAN_CHRIS raises to $7, Hero calls $7, 4 folds
- Flop ($17, 2 players)
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JEAN_CHRIS bets $11, Hero calls $11
- Turn ($39, 2 players)
JEAN_CHRIS checks, Hero bets $25, JEAN_CHRIS raises to $60, Hero calls $35
- River ($159, 2 players)
JEAN_CHRIS bets $198.40
- Final Pot: $357.40
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