Wacky weekend. I'll post interesting hands after lunch. uggg



And here is the month so far.

I like these types of sessions.

Monday morning - Tuesday morning poker play:

[Begin Rant/Bad Beats]

I played a bunch of poker last night. Got in quite a few tournaments along with regular cash games. I wish I wouldn't have played.

I played 7 MTTs and didn't cash in any. I played 1 SNG and got 3rd after having 60% of the chips when it got down to 3. And the half stack donks at the cash games consistantly bad beated me to death.

--------- The awesome cash game hands ---------

5 outer on river after all the money gets in on the turn


2 outer on the river


5 outer on turn after calling PSB with 2nd pair 2nd kicker


2 outer on river after getting all the money in


--------- Hands from MTTs ----------------

PS $15+15.50: I'm down to 10 big blinds. Two limpers and I push K9s from the button. 2nd limper calls with QTo and I lose.

PS $20+2.00 180 Person MTT: I have only 7 BBs left, so I am short. I flop a set with JJ, but I lose to a two outer. Would have tripled up (Ya, I was behing Pre-flop)


PS $50+5: I'm getting kinda short. QQ vs 88 all-in PF against someone with just alittle bit less chips than me. 8 on the turn. I win that and I'm back above average

FT $24+2 26k guar: Villain calls basically all-in on flop with a gutshot (Actually had his pair outs, but no way he could have counted on those). River fills his gutshot.


FT $10 Rebuy 15k guar: I sucked during the rebuy period, and was just around average after the rebuy period. Then I went on a rush and made it into the top 10 in chips. Biggest hand being me flopping a straight and someone with 50 BBs or so not being able to let go of his aces.

Then I ran into Aces again where he flopped a set and I had two pair. I called a raise in position with a suited connector. Flopped a flush draw and a pair. Called a bet. Turned two pair. We got it all-in and I saw his top set. River was a blank.

Then I ran KK into AA later on. He flopped a set and rivered quads. lol

Times I got AA in that MTT: 0. Times I got KK: 1

$30 SNG: And then finally, I decided to play a SNG. I haven't played a single table SNG for a long time. Made it into the money and then this hand happens. blah.




So there you have. A night truely devoid of any luck. None whatsoever.




[End Rant/Bad Beats]

Last Friday, I decided to move back down to 100NL for a little while (with maybe one or two 200NL tables open if there were any juicy tables). I did this because I feel a lot more comfortable and a needed a confidence booster. Plus, I think I can play more tables down here at the same time.

To say things are going well at 100NL is an understatement.

Here is how I have been doing since Friday (8.5 total hours of play)



And here is the month so far. 20 ptbb/100 sustainable? heh

Lol Nice - I have just shifted up my short-stack experiment from $100 to $200 NL 6 max.

I have to say that $100 - $200 is a noticeable jump aggro/skill wise.

And dropping down when the going is tough and running like a god is absolutely the best thing to do

I'd have to agree with ya Excession. At 200NL at FT, a typical table will be 1 donk, 1 unknown, and 4 regulars (or just 2 unknowns, 4 regs). It is very rare to find a table with less than 2 regulars.

But at 100NL, you can easily find a table with 0 regulars. Sitting at tables with 2 50/20 donks, and 3 1/2 - 3/4 stack 30/10's can be very profitable.

I read a post a couple days ago over at cmitch's blog about three betting and 4-bet bluffing



He had a link to a blog post by CTS () from almost a year ago where he says, "Whenever I was 3-bet by someone who I perceived to be a competent player capable of 3-betting me light I would go ahead and shove all-in with aces, kings, and ace-rag (suited or unsuited) assuming we had around 100BB stacks."

I've been playing a lot looser lateley (around 24.5/17.5) and thus have been 3-bet a lot more by the competant players, so I decided to give this 4-bet shoving a try.

The past 3 days I've done this 8 times. I got called once, and they folded the other 7 times!

The one where I got called was kinda strange I guess. It was Blind on Blind and he just completed his blind (His stats were 32/3). I raised with A9o, and he 3-bet, and then I pushed. He called and had KK. I flopped an ace and won the pot.

The other 7:
- I bet AJo UTG. 3-bet by a 22/19. He folds to my push
- I bet A7s OTB. 3-bet by a 19/15. He folds to my push
- I bet AQo UTG. 3-bet by a 19/11. He folds to my push
- I bet AKo OTB. 3-bet by a 37/18. He folds to my push
- I bet A9o UTG. 3-bet by a 20/17. He folds to my push

Other 4 bet pushes with non Ax hands
- I bet TT in MP. 3-bet by a 24/20. He folds to my push
- I bet QJs in MP. 3-bet by a 20/15. He folds to my push (He had been 3-betting me very light, so I loosened up, heh)

welcome back. your blog says you're from MN?

yea. i'm up in Blaine.

hit me up on AIM later... Plus 4 Dude

Jebus H Cripes

I ran like total crap this weekend. But still made $200. What pisses me off though, is that I was up $1350 at one point.



Saturday morning was great. I located a couple donks, played some 400NL, and ended the morning up $1350. If I stop there for the day, I have my best day ever by far. I even bragged to my wife.

I shouldn't of done that, because the doomswitch got flipped on immediately.

While the kids took a nap, I did a few chores around the house, and then sat down at the computer. The wife was watching some show, and when I sat down at the computer, she says, "Why don't you stop for the day. You're probably going to lose what you won this morning". CLICK! DOOMSWITCH!!!

100 hands later, and I was up only $750 for the day. I donated two stacks to a regular, one of them a bad play by me where I could have easily folded, and the other was one of the biggest coolers you can have (Top two pair vs bottom set). Both hands, he had exactly the only hand that had me crushed. Withing 10 hands of each other too.

Then Sunday morning I played a quick session and won a quick $200 stack. And then later in the afternoon, I sat down and played two sats into FTOPS #9 (Went out near the bubble in both), and played one 200NL table. And proceeded to lose 4 stacks there.

But I still won money for the weekend, right? Bah, it still don't make me feel better

care to trade weekends?