Sick :(

Jesus, bad start to the month.



A lot of tilt and some bad play mixed in there but I'm running fairly bad, everyone hits pairs, backdoors etc in situations where I'm almost forced to look them up which sucks for me :D

Interesting hands:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3931831 - This hand was interesting.

Opponent was very peculiar, he mixed it up a lot between limping and minraising, although when he limped he generally had a weaker range. A6o is a somewhat weak hand but at this point in the match I felt I knew his tendencies postflop well enough for it to warrant a raise (he folded probably twice to a raise and never 3 bet after limping so I was positive I was going to a flop)

Flop middle pair top kicker in a very coordinated flop so I bet, for value. Not really worried about getting blown off my hand by weaker hands because he rarely raised draws in position.

He calls and the turn pairs the board, which is fantastic for me. I bet once again for value and he calls. When he calls turn he pretty much always has flush draws (this was what I was putting my money on at the time) and 78/34 and the other times he has something like 77-99. I don't think he'd flat a T again after flatting top pair on the flop, although not impossible.

Betting the Kbrick river is horrendous because I'm virtually never getting called by worse and I have the best hand a lot so all I need to do is bluffcatch by check/calling. I kinda hesitated before calling because I always hesitate before bluffcatching passive players on the river but nevertheless I called and my hand was good. He ended up having total air with J high so that was good.


http://www.pokerhand.org/?3931865 - This hand tilted me beyond belief.

Guy was steaming a bit, 3 betting most hands so I called with A9s. Flop TPTK with a BDFD on a coordinated flop so before he even bets I'm already figuring out a plan to get my stack in. He saves me the trouble by open shoving... I think that sometimes I'm getting owned by something like KK-TT here but it's heads up poker, I can't really fold.


http://www.pokerhand.org/?3931872 - Extremely weird hand.

"Wtf was this guy thinking.."

Villain in this hand is a guy who usually sits at my tables with 20 big blinds and is a known douchebag (he hit and runs, table blocks, does all sorts of weird crap) in the headsup community.

Today he sat at some of my tables and I refused to play him, like usual, because I don't play professional shortstackers headsup. Well, shortly after, he sits at a table fullstacked and shoves over my raise. People did this to me 3 times in my short HU career... those 3 times I folded and they insta sat out and left the table so that was I was thinking would happen in this case.

Now, at the time I was steaming from a session before where I tilted off $1k to some guy and for some reason I remembered Q7o is called the computer hand because (I'm not sure on this) it has something like 51% equity against a random hand range. Tilt, the prospect of me getting closer to even on the day in an apparent situation where it could be close to neutral EV and the fact that I assumed he was shoving any two cards in this spot made me click my mouse extremely fast. I didn't suckout.

This is a hand I'm not particularly proud of and it's a secure fold on retrospect but it's probably going to be the only time I stack off with Q7o preflop with some reasoning to back it up :D


I'm done for today because I'm tired, tilted and angry and also cause I have to wake up in 6 hours for school so that's that.



Bye.

Long time...

... no see.

Sorry for the lack of updates, I haven't really been interested in writing in the past couple of months but due to repeated requests I decided not to let a few people down and start writing again.

March is the month that marks a fresh start. New semester starts so now I'll have more responsibilities outside of poker (college, mainly) so I can't be fooling around anymore and will have to start working hard.

As such, my goals for this month are:

- 100k hands of midstakes.
- $20k total profit.
- Attend all my classes, both college and drivers license.
- Gym 2 times a week.
- Start waking up earlier.
- Play the Betfair Portuguese Poker Tour, which will be my live tourney debut.
- Update this blog AT LEAST 4 times a week.

That's it basically. I think I'm gonna put in a 6k hand session later so I'm planning on updating the blog again with results and some hands.

Cya.

Back.

Hey,

Sorry for the lack of updates in the past month, but I wasn't in the adequate mental state to write about poker.

Haven't played much this month, mainly moved to FTP to play 1/2 FR because I felt like trying something new. Games are more aggro but overall pretty much like Stars (7 regs per table and 2 fish)

Since Saturday I've been trying out heads-up on Stars and it's been going really great. Combining game selection with smart positional play I'm pretty sure I can really grind out a nice profit when the FR tables suck (basically all the time lolol)

I'm at 259k VPPs for the year at Jokerstars so I'm going to play there in December to grind the $3k milestone bonus and the $4k bonus so I can have $7k in bonuses only.

Heads up is soooo much more fun than FR that its not even close. Every single match I play is guaranteed to be exciting (albeit non-boring like the mindless FR grind) and I always have at least 1 or 2 hands per game which really make me think about the game.

This is just a "blog ain't dead" post, I'll make another tonight, hopefully after another $1k day at the HU tables ;)



Peace.

Done.

ALEFUCKINGLUIA, CLEARED THE BONUS IN A MAGNIFICENT WAY!

Best 100nl session ever (after transferring 2 cents to KidPoker, obv)



Kinda tired atm so I'll post some hands tomorrow.


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Peace.

Not giving up on this.

Sorry for the lack of updates (again)

Played a 7k hand session just now and am 2k VPPs away from clearing the bonus (I'm playing 100nl so it's taking a shitload of time)

I'll have the bonus cleared by tomorrow so I'll be playing the limits I'm supposed to starting on Monday. Starting then I'll try to update the blog on basically a daily basis.

Update.

Hey,

Sorry I took so long to update. I've slacked a ton in the past 2 weeks so there hasn't been much to write about, and when there was it was probably me whining so I preferred not to do so.

September has come to an end and I failed miserably at every objective I had for this month. They were:


50k hands of 400NL -> No. Barely played 50k hands of poker at all.
Total profit of $16k -> I wish, but not even $6k.
Cut down the number of tables to 12-16 to focus on improving. -> No, auto pilot all the way.
Be mentally prepared to make $400 my regular game in October and take shots at 600 and 1000NL. -> Doubt it.
Blog once every 3 days, the minimum. -> Failed.
Decide once and for all what I'm going to do about college. -> Yeah I decided not to take the year off.







About the graph, I bought the $4k milestone bonus around hand 30k and the huge dip was my first session following the purchase. Last 10k hands of poker have been absolutely infernal, it's cooler after cooler and beat after beat so it's been really tough (-$1k in 10k hands at 100NL which is a limit I was crushing for 25k hands or so this month)

Overall I'm very ashamed with these results. Some people say "ARE YOU STUPID?!??! YOU WON MONEY THAT'S VERY GOOD" and those people are weak. I am NOT happy with these results. These results are garbage. Failing at every poker goal for the month is something I can't take (given the importance I attribute to this game and the impact it has on my lifestyle) so something will have to be done because I don't settle for mediocrity.


October goals:

- $16k total profit.
- Clear the $4k bonus. Keep collecting FPPs for another $4k bonus (or buy a $1.5k bonus if I can clear that one before the month is over)
- Reach the 300k VPPs milestone and buy the $3k bonus.
- Lose 5 kg (11 lbs)
- Study 20 hours per week, college related and drivers license related.


I hope October isn't as huge of a failure as September was. I'll also be 20 in the 26th of October so I hope that I have accomplished all of them by then so it can be my birthday present to myself.



Fail.

BBV

Brag: 3rd +$800 session in a row (2 at 100nl and 1 at 200nl)
Beat: Only now am I'm even from the $3.2k downswing.
Variance: Still far away from my $16k goal.

Played a 5.xk hand session at 100NL just now. I'm completely shattering that limit (5.4ptbb this month over a smallish sample of 22k hands) and it's way, WAY more profitable than playing 200NL for a 2ptbb winrate so I'll keep playing 100NL until my winrate here justifies no longer playing lower than 200NL.



Don't think I ran insanely hot or anything. Positive around 2 buyins in AIE and had 4 KK vs AA (won one of them where the guy flats my 4 bet and the flop comes K high and he gets stacked obv)

I really love playing 100NL though... regs here even though a little nitty have a wider stacking off range and I had 2 fullstacked fish stacking off with top pair vs me just today whereas I can count by my fingers the number of times I recall a 200NL fish doing that in 130k hands or so.

Didn't play any interesting hand today so I wont post any.

6.9k VPPs cleared out of 28k VPPs



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