go kenny, you know how to outplay these bastards!

2/4
i raise $16 with AQo from MP. Only caller is sb.

FLOP $34
954 rainbow

Checked to me, I bet $32 as awalys. I get checkraised to $64. Well..time to fold right??

Hold on..i have notes! so i look....notes say " this guy slows plays every big hand to the river."

Fair enough... that means he doesn't have a very good hand and is trying to get me out. I reraise to $150. Called.

TURN $334
9548 rainbow

Opponent bets $30. haha...blocking bet. bye btch! i move all-in...called instantly.

River no help..opponent shows A9.

My read was correct as usual...i just overestimated my opponent's skill. stupid stupid stupid. hell i wasn't even drawing to anything.


The wonderful thing is...i wasn't even gonna play. I didn't feel in the right "mood"/// but i keep telling mself that i need to put in more hours, more hours.

*uck that. i don't care about hours anymore...no matter what my brother says...or what you guys say....i'm just gonna play my hours..no more. and if that's only 10-20 a week...well damnt...taht's all it's gonna be.

I have no need to gamble it up...i don't care about thrill. I just wanna put in the hours i need to do, then do something else. amen.

I will start taing notes Kenny.

Very nice hand!!!

the thing is I dont find the same players at party NL$25. That could be good for Bodog.


AlexMR

Kenny, don't lump us all on the "more hours" bandwagon... If I could make the money you make in 10 hours, I'm sure I could find SOMETHING to occupy my days...Like chuggin bottles of Jagr and bangin hookers 3 at a time...

Kenny, a week ago I would have said I like your play. Deep down I still like it. I think it shows that you have balls and you are willing to go with your read and make an aggressive play. But as you know I got buried today partly because of failed bluffs. PEOPLE DON'T FOLD TOP PAIR. WHY? I Don't know. They are idiots but they don't learn when we show em KK 5 times in a row in a situation like this and then have AQ the 6th time. THEY STILL CALL. I don't understand why, but that's just the way things are, and we need to adjust to the morons.

MG...thanks for the input.

I don't mind being aggressive and going with my read....but i don't like to do it unless i have outs to win the hand. 3 outs for a queen just doesn't cut it.


MVP
yeah i need to at least get some strippers at my place one of these days.

Kenny

in your entire post, there's one thing you need to remember more than anything else

.i'm just gonna play my hours..no more. and if that's only 10-20 a week...well damnt...taht's all it's gonna be.

Last week i put in 14 hours at 2/4 and made 3k and change. it was my biggest winning week to date. in each of my sessions, i stopped playing immediatly under the following circumstances

1: i lost a pot and was upset about it.
2: i won a pot and was upset about it (i.e. massive misread and could have made far more)
3: i got distracted by something else, even if only for a minute or two (i.e. i pulled up BTP while quad tabling and started reading posts on here. damn you all).
4: i felt my game wasn't in a top notch mode.
5: I got bored. once every couple of months i seem to go on a 1-2 week... i dunno, hiatus, from poker. i play, but i'm just not excited about it.
6: i wasn't having fun/wasn't in the mood. . usually the result of any of the above circumstances.

by limiting myself to these conditions of play, i found that i was never in a spot in which my game was not above my A level of play. I never once played when i wasn't fully feeling it.

on a side note, i also only lost one or two big pots in which i was outdrawn. my luck was impeccible, but my reads were dead on - i was extracting huge amounts from sub par hands, and losing minimal amounts with my sub par hands. so that easily contributed to it. (this week, as a counter example, i've already lost two stacks. coincidently, both against times getting all in against A9 sooooooooooted when they flopped a flush draw and pushed against me set and overpair. they turned and rivered the flush respectively).

sorry for the long winded post here, i just wanted to stress the benefits of short sessions.