So tonight went pretty well. I ended up a little more then 3 buy ins (im currently playing 25nl). I started the night off pretty poorly getting when someone hit a three outer. Oh, well it happens. cant ask for much more then getting your opponent in when your a 94% favorite.
Tonight I dont feel like I ran much better then normal, I was making calls that I dont think I would normally make but Im putting my reads to the test. I think I made a good call here when all I could beat was a bluff. It was a tough call to make when there where a lot of hands that he could have in the blinds and be calling my raise with (Ah7h, T8s etc). The way he played it though I put him on a flush draw on the turn. The turn bet really looked like he was trying to peel off a cheap card to try to hit, I really wanted to raise the turn, but I felt that he could easily raise me off my hand and I gave him enough respect to be able to make this play. Also, I wanted to play a small pot with this hand and call and decided I would re-evaluate the river. The river cards sucked almost as much as a diamond. Not only did it comeplete a four card striaght, but the second flush. His bet looked like he was trying to fold out a ten. I know that he knows I only call the turn with top pair, and felt like he could put me off it by betting enough (I almost starting to over think the hand and think that he knew i had a ten, and that I know that he knows my hands, and therefore if he bets trying to represent a missed flush draw, I would call with a weak hand like TP/NK, and he would gain more value out of the hand by stepping up his thinking. But then i realized im playing 25nl and I needed to stop thinking so much). If he would have hit I think he would have bet one of two amounts, either insta potted the river (as I've seen him do) or about 3.0-4.00 trying to get a call out of the ten that I had when I flipped my hand face up on the turn. I couldnt put him on the second flush draw unless he had a hand like Jh10h or something of that nature but Im sure he would have checkraised the flop with top pair. This hand was fun, I love this game!!!
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Running Hot
Okay, So I'm restarting my blog in order to hopefully make it a little more entertaining then the last attempt. Also, I might keep this one updated...
A few things I wanted to say:
First, Im running as hot as the devils balls on FTP lately. It must be the poker gods reimbursing me for the terrible time I had last time (or in poker terms: getting back to the postive side of varience). Im winning most of the hand that I'm getting it in when Im a big favorite, and thats always fun. Im being so much more patient then I was before. I was trying to out think people who are not thinking (an example that works http://www.pokerhand.org/?1134970) or the countless times that I was trying to represent a big hand by playing like I was on a flush draw, the flush gets there, Im 80% sure they have TP/NK and should be able to take the pot away, but cant. This is okay with me, just I did not have the discipline to wait till I had TP/NK beat and stack them. Im learning it though.
PLO
Ive been working on my non-existent PLO game. Im playing 2 tables of 25nl and one 10nl table of PLO. I feel like I was doing well today and enjoying the game a lot. I ran into one sick cooler as the last hand I played for the night. I should have prevented this by just folding my sb, but i thought, "hey, Im getting like 40million to one with all these limpers, If I hit my hand Im sure someones gonna pay me off."
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1134972
I lose to JJxx and 66xx. And shit, he had one.
Wild Card Poker.
I was on the bodog site a few weeks ago and noticed they were casting for a show called Wild Card Poker. I thought it would be fun to fill out the form and see what happens. Well, I recieved an email back from them asking for a 5 minute tap so that they can review it. I was pretty excited about the whole thought of it but I responded and asked for a deadline, and they said the end of the first week in june. Well, I dont have time to put together a five minute video, nor do I have the camera to do it with. Its kind of dissapointing to not be able to do it, but I will try if they do it next year and if not then o'well.
If you dont keep track of your BR swings beyond just poker tracker I really suggest you start. This is a great tool and is always good to look at your swings. go here to get this http://www.kingscascade.com/PokerSessionLog.html
A few things I wanted to say:
First, Im running as hot as the devils balls on FTP lately. It must be the poker gods reimbursing me for the terrible time I had last time (or in poker terms: getting back to the postive side of varience). Im winning most of the hand that I'm getting it in when Im a big favorite, and thats always fun. Im being so much more patient then I was before. I was trying to out think people who are not thinking (an example that works http://www.pokerhand.org/?1134970) or the countless times that I was trying to represent a big hand by playing like I was on a flush draw, the flush gets there, Im 80% sure they have TP/NK and should be able to take the pot away, but cant. This is okay with me, just I did not have the discipline to wait till I had TP/NK beat and stack them. Im learning it though.
PLO
Ive been working on my non-existent PLO game. Im playing 2 tables of 25nl and one 10nl table of PLO. I feel like I was doing well today and enjoying the game a lot. I ran into one sick cooler as the last hand I played for the night. I should have prevented this by just folding my sb, but i thought, "hey, Im getting like 40million to one with all these limpers, If I hit my hand Im sure someones gonna pay me off."
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1134972
I lose to JJxx and 66xx. And shit, he had one.
Wild Card Poker.
I was on the bodog site a few weeks ago and noticed they were casting for a show called Wild Card Poker. I thought it would be fun to fill out the form and see what happens. Well, I recieved an email back from them asking for a 5 minute tap so that they can review it. I was pretty excited about the whole thought of it but I responded and asked for a deadline, and they said the end of the first week in june. Well, I dont have time to put together a five minute video, nor do I have the camera to do it with. Its kind of dissapointing to not be able to do it, but I will try if they do it next year and if not then o'well.
If you dont keep track of your BR swings beyond just poker tracker I really suggest you start. This is a great tool and is always good to look at your swings. go here to get this http://www.kingscascade.com/PokerSessionLog.html
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