Keeping Warm in Winter

[AAroddersAA]

Shot at MTT"s tonight

16:00 - Bigger $8.80
18:00 - $5.50 NLHE
18:30 - $11 Sunday Storm
19:00 - Bigger $11
19:00 - APAT League

May add some more as well

[Newportlad]

Shot at MTT"s tonight

16:00 - Bigger $8.80
18:00 - $5.50 NLHE
18:30 - $11 Sunday Storm
19:00 - Bigger $11
19:00 - APAT League

May add some more as well

Best of luck!

[AAroddersAA]

Quite a tough day today at the tables. I just could not get anything going. Every time I felt like I was starting to get somewhere something would happen to knock me back down. This was mainly on the cash games but even in the MTT"s I either could not get started or was struggling as soon as I did and would get knocked back down. Starting with cash games.

Hands: 1970
VP$IP: 20.36%
PFR: 15.43%
3-bet: 6.08%
Total Loss: $19.62

I definitely ran below allin EV which was about level for the day. Not only that but I ran into a few situations where I was always losing my chips and there was nothing I could do about it. I dropped a buyin down early and never brought it back.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4666591

This is the first hand I lose which is totally standard and nothing that can be done about it. If I don"t go broke on this hand then I am doing something wrong, badly wrong.

I then lose a lot of medium sized pots where I am double barreling and it is not getting through, again standard sort of stuff. I was smashing into the top of peoples ranges all over the place.

I don"t think there was a big pot I played that badly but lots of little pots I was losing bets that I probably did not need too. Not going to post them up as really no point as they are simple enough I just get them all wrong.

I have to fold QQ and AK to four bets a few times, this is the right thing to do long term I am sure. The biggest pot I win is $8.97 with AA against KK.

I play some of the MTT"s but can"t get going in the APAT when my early doors QQ runs into somebodys AA luckily for me he lets me off and I lose the absolute minimum (apparently my play is terrible *lol*). I shove light a few times to stay in the game but can"t find anything and go out when I have AT into JJ.

I go out of the bigger $11 when I get it in with KK against QJ for a massive pot and lose, if I had won that pot I would have had 20K and been looking quite good.

I min cashed the Sunday Storm

I got knocked out of the bigger $8.80 somehow as well.

So that was today. I actually made money on the MTT"s as the entry to the Storm and bigger $11 is free on the tickets. I am still just over $15 up for the month in cash having played 4.5K hands.

Not the best day I have ever had and not the best start to the month but at least I am not losing.

[AAroddersAA]

Some more interesting spots did come up today in the session. Very happy with the volume so far this month.

Todays session started off quite well. I sat at just above even for about

150 hands.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4666968

Then I get a bit lucky here, although again I do prefer my play in this hand to either of theirs. I raise it pre and then when nobody seems interested on the flop and the turn I try to steal it before hitting the river. I really think that the guy with JJ should have played a bit stronger at some point though, probably 3-bet pre and certainly look to raise on the flop or turn. When I bet the river it is a fold of the JJ. I think my play is fine and I take advantage of my opponents mistakes there.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4666969

Then comes this hand which I probably play OK. I am not sure. I c-bet the flop and get called. He can have lot"s of hands here and does not need to have the jack. I am putting hands like TT and 99 in his range as well as maybe smaller pairs and floats seeing if I give up on the turn. He could have a monster but I don"t give that too much thought. The turn give me a flush draw so I bet again and he calls, now I think he has something, probably some kind of jack. The river gives me top pair so I check call.

This might be bad, I am not 100% sure that he bets with much I beat here and would probably just check a hand like KJ. He is not bluffing as he could not have been chasing a draw when calling on that board. Think I should fold this river.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4666972

What is everybodies opinion of this without any info on the player by the

way. I do think that this is the best line to take with this hand (and

QQ) here. I could just flat the raise but worse calls the 3-bet a lot.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4666973

This is a hand I should probably put on PHA as I really have no idea what the best line on the turn is. The answer may be don"t 3-bet pre but my hand is ahead of his range even though I am out of position. The flop is pretty good for me as well and when he does not raise I am more likely to be good as he probably does not have a ten and overpairs tend to raise the flop. The problem is betting the turn tends to fold out the hands I beat and checking seems so weak. Is CRAI better?

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4666974

Think this is OK although need to do some more work on this QQ and AK thing in 3-bet pots. Is it better to just get them in preflop, most good players seem to believe it is but the hands I am seeing play out seem to disagree with that.

The biggest pot I win annoyingly won"t convert but it was pretty standard, I raised KK, got 3-bet and 4-bet to $2.50. The flop came 9 high allowing me to bet out $4 which got called. the turn was a blank so I could shove got a call from TT to win a nice pot and a profit of nearly $14.

Very interested in opinions on this hand

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=59449.0

I folded top set on the river and am wondering if a call is better. To

call I think my opponents range needs to be something like This

A2s+
KJs, KJos
QQ, TT, 99
AQ and QT

His range does not look that wide and I know he is somebody who chases draws and every draw has hit. It is likely a good fold.

This is probably the hand I am least happy with how I played. My opponent has a 3-bet of 15% over 90 hands (I know the sample is small) so if I am going to defend I should really 4-bet not flat call and get in an awkward spot. Check/call or chack/fold the river depending on what he bets is also probably better than blocker bet/fold.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4667567

Here is an example of how not to play a poker hand *lol*

Cash games result today

Total hands: 1008
VP$IP: 20.96%
PFR: 16.73%
3Bet: 4.57%
Total Profit: $22.03

May do a couple of 180 manners later.

Full Tilt tomorrow though. I wonder if I can actually manage to have two good days in a row on the cash games.

EDIT: Still can"t cash in 180 manners. Now played 9 this month without a cash, wonder if I can actually cash one before the end of the month. Might play the bunch of fives tonight, was going to go to pub but looks cold out.

[AAroddersAA]

Not done an update for a couple of days but have been playing. Have had a pretty break even time of it (slightly up but not by much). I have played 2000 hands in the last couple of days though on Pokerstars. I found $50 in Full Tilt so tried to spin that up which did not go well. I bricked both of the bunch of fives tournaments, although to be honest I was not really trying very hard in them (not sure why, I wanted to but sort of could not be bothered). I won my seat at Stoke for £11 which can"t be bad though.

Unfortunately the hand replayer has been down for a couple of days so I am not able to convert the hands in the normal way so will have to post them from Card Runners.

So anyway on with the session reviews. On Tuesday I started with the plan of trying to three bet a bit less in marginal spots as I have probably been over doing that. I also set my HUD to highlight players who are not three betting often so that I could raise their blinds more often from my button and hopefully get three bet less when doing this.

Early on I 3-bet AQ and take it down with a c-bet on a dry flop. I make a set of threes and lead out and get no action but I still like leading out with sets.

http://www.cardrunners.com/pokertools/hand/14449531/

This hand then comes up. It more than less plays itself although I certainly was not loving it when he shoved on me as bottom set can be easily dominated there. I guess he could have a few overpairs in his range that he has gone crazy with but it is mainly Flush draws and a few sets. Ran it through Pokerstove and it"s profitable but not a fist pump spot. Not that it matters as I am never folding with the way the action goes.

http://www.cardrunners.com/pokertools/hand/14449551/

Lost this hand, not sure if I should be folding TT there. The thing is he can have underpairs in his range a lot and also some silly random hands so pretty sure it is a call. He had JJ.

http://www.cardrunners.com/pokertools/hand/14449561/

Not sure if I am a huge fan of how I play the aces in this spot. The plan was to raise allin on the turn. Maybe trying to get it in on the flop is better.

http://www.cardrunners.com/pokertools/hand/14449581/

Lost this one but I think it is totally standard and again plays itself. He has K8 of clubs.

http://www.cardrunners.com/pokertools/hand/14449591/

This is horribly bad, whoever sees me next could you please punch me for this hand. He has KJ obv.

http://www.cardrunners.com/pokertools/hand/14449601/

Get this against a player who has been raising constantly so I just complete he raises as expected. I shove as I know he calls with lot"s worse. He calls.... with TT, I get there.

http://www.cardrunners.com/pokertools/hand/14449611/

Very standard hand but wins me a buyin

http://www.cardrunners.com/pokertools/hand/14449621/

And this one loses me a buyin

Total hands: 2000
VP$IP: 20.3%
PFR: 16.2%
3-Bet: 5.25%
Profit: $5.76

[AAroddersAA]

Only played a small 150 hand session yesterday. Nothing that exciting to post about, won a pot with AA which cover about $5 of a $6.95 win. All pretty standard stuff.

Hands: 150
VP$IP: 17%
PFR: 15%
3-Bet: 6%
Profit: $6.95

Going to try and get a few more hands in today.

[AAroddersAA]

End of the month then. Final totals on cash was OK

Cash (Pokerstars)

Hands: 10840
Total Profit: $80.26
VP$IP: 21.90
PFR: 17.70
3-Bet: 7%

MTT & 180 sitngo (Inlcuing APAT League and Bunch of fives)

Tournaments: 43
Total Buyin: $270
Total Cash: $310
Total Profit: $40

I also made a tiny profit playing cash games on APAT Poker, and won a sat on Genting into the Uk Championship

So overall a decent month really. I was in a bit of a hole in the MTT"s but got out of it by winning last weeks league game but had a 0% ROI on 180"s this month (played 16 cashed 0). Took a couple of shots at the bigger $10 and Sunday storm so $44 of the buyins was actually tournament tickets not cash so my actual profit is $44 more than shown here.

Things I have to improve on are bad sessions.

I lost $50 in one day due to playing when I should not have been this meant I only ran at 2.5BB/100 instead of closer to 4 which would have been pretty good.

This was my biggest loss of the month in a single cash hand I think

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4720187

Should I 5 bet pre? I think this pretty much turns my hand face up but he can have KK a lot there and not fold so maybe 5 betting is better.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4720188

By contrast my biggest win was this hand where I beat AA.

I do pretty well with pocket pairs but am break even with broadway hands. My worst two hads this month are KQo and AKo. I think I just ran a bit bad with AK this month as I ran into a set with TPTK in 3-bet pots twice. I don"t think there is a lot I can do about that

These are for entertainment purposes only

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4720189
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4720191

Next month I am only in work 10 days so will keep some updates going throughout the month.

First though it is back to the live arena and Stoke with the Home Nations and UK Championship. I will be there from Friday as I am going to miss Thursday night which is a shame.

I have been very lucky in my APAT life so far since arriving at the start of season 4. I have run miles and miles above my natural level in terms of results. I have been at a WCOAP final table. From a poker point of view though the greatest achievement was winning the Home Nations as part of Team Wales last year. Can we do it again, time will tell, I have great confidence in the team I have selected and I know they will all give their all and after that I don"t mind what the result is. I do hope Paul McGuniess is left with a headache when selecting the WCOAP team after some of them turn in amazing performances on Friday though. Wales B start as favorites imo but don"t give them the trophy yet!!!!

Hopefully my amazing run at APAT's will continue in the last event of the season, a fifth final table would be magnificent. If not and I go out on day one then the list of attendees should ensure a great weekend being had by all. I will most likely make some illogical post at some point during/after this weekend before returning to a logical cool online poker player until the UK Team Championship in January.

[AAroddersAA]

Well I am really not sure where this year has gone. It is Dec already.

So having been away at Stoke this weekend it was time to get some hands in today and I duly did this. I would like some responses if people want to make them, don"t care how good you think they are and I won"t be in the least offended

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4745146

Early on I get this hand. I have been struggling a bit with KQ do we think this is OK, it is just so cheap all the way along.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4745147

Think this is pretty bad as swell. I should do a big 3-bet on the flop, even though the turn is a bad card for me I think I could get paid of quite wide here.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4745149

OK this is the kind of hand I have been playing badly later and leaking chips with. I raise pre and hit top pair. I can"t remember why I checked the flop on that board. Looks like I should be top pair there. I think the call is fine and the turn is a check fold given the sizing?

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4745152

AK was another hand I had a bit of trouble with last month and lost a small amount on it (although that was mainly down to a couple of unavoidable coolers). How do we like the way we play this against a player we know to be pretty aggro. Would it be better to 4-bet pre as we definitely have fold equity?

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4745153

Not sure about this one (KQ again). Do we like 3-betting the button, I have been just flatting with this in that spot but think there may be a case for three betting against a standard opponent. When he calls the flop I don"t think there is much in his range he can still continue with so turn bet is OK.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4745154

Poor attempt to nick the pot on the river, it does not look like I have the ace here.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4745156

I have two here though

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4745157

And a set of eights slow play which worked out nicely. When he bet river I put him on the queen or nothing so simple shove.

Hands: 1001
VP$IP: 21.18%
PFR: 19.23%
3-bet: 6.3%
Profit: $36.29

Easy game like :-)

[AAroddersAA]

I am getting to old for APAT live events (or the full on version anyway), after getting back from Stoke yesterday I woke up at midday today. I never sleep till midday, literally never. The 4 hour drive back didn"t help.

Today went strange, the games seemed to be harder than normal for some reason. I tried to get some more interesting hands so that I can explain reasons for the plays.

Before starting the session I noted down a couple of things I want to try and aviod doing as they are leaks at the moment.

1) Don"t spew chips by calling the river when the action says you are behind even if logic states you should not be.

2) Don"t call three bets to light out of position

So we started off and got a nice start with the hand below

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4745837

I have almost no hands on my opponent but the few I do have shows him to be playing 38/7 so him calling me preflop is not a big surprise. I am guessing he could have a pair but there are some worse aces in his range as well.

The flop is great for my hand and I don"t think he gets away from a worse ace here and I take down a nice pot. Happy with that hand.

The next hand which is only a little one is AJ OTB

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4745839

Not sure if I play this well or not. He was playing 31/18 so I think I am ahead of his raising range, he was also 100% fold to three bet over a small sample size.

Next hand is AJ again this time in the SB with a button raise.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4745841

Don"t have many hands on the button here. I call as I think he can raise with a smaller ace, maybe a 3-bet is better. The flop leaves me almost certainly miles ahead so I like my check. The turn puts some draws out there so I make a bet and get a call. The river basically makes me the uts, or as near as. I put a bet in, he calls with AQ so he had me crushed preflop. I run good.

Then had this hand, I think I play it OK against a reg who if he views me as anything it is probably as overly aggro. I know he will probbly just flat me on the flop here with top pair.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4745846

I think the turn card is a good one for firing again on the turn as AK just got there and he may know that is in my range, I can still hit and ace to probably have the best hand or a ten for the nuts. He called both flop and turn quite quickly. I have heard it said this often means a draw but I could not disagree with this more strongly. It usually means they have no intention of folding and are not even thinking about it. I have to get away from the hand here.

This hand confused me but it didn"t matter as it is easy. He probably had a queen I suppose he played it well.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4745849

On the flop I thought I was value betting against a hand like 88 or 99. I thought he usually would bet AQ on the flop. On the turn I thought I was betting mainly for value but also to get a cheap showdown as he is very likely to check to me on the river again. When he raised the turn I am almost never good and it is an easy fold.

I then get JJ dealt in this hand, I can"t get it to convert which is annoying as it is a good hand. I get raised from LP and 3bet the with JJ. I get 4-bet and I know my opponent is quite aggressive and I am likely to be ahead of his 4-bet range. I call instending to get it in on a good flop. Flop is good enough for that. I hit a set of Jacks on a K high flop, the money goes in and he had AK.

Do you think shoving it in preflop is better though?

I will be speaking to Stars about the below. I am sure they are supposed to send the queenball on the river :-)

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4745857

Not a lot I can do about this one lol.

I won and lost some other pots but the overall result was a little win.

Hands: 1000
VP$IP: 18.3%
PFR: 16.1%
3Bet: 6.75%
Profit: $9.41

Overall I think I am still playing well. A few points to keep a look at:-

1) Don"t spew chips by calling the river when the action says you are behind even if logic states you should not be.

2) Don"t call three bets to light out of position

3) C-betting on the turn in 3 bet pots, I need to choose spots better here.

That"s about all.

May play a couple of 180"s later.

[AAroddersAA]

[mporter123]

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4747871

This one looks fine to me. There are some bluffs in there that float the flop that we beat. i.e. 22-66, AQ,A10 that might float the flop could bet the river. Would play the same but probs betting the river smallish.

[AAroddersAA]

[AAroddersAA]

[AAroddersAA]

lol so true

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_Qaqyv9eZJQ#at=475

[AAroddersAA]

Had first losing session of the month today. This would not be so bad but it more than cut the monthly total for cash games in half.

http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=12960.msg198196#new

It is interesting because something I have identified as a leak in my game (calling too light on the river). This one is actually very close though so really not sure if it is correct or not.

So go along until the first big hand that comes along. This one is totally standard in my opinion. I am prett much never folding to the tiny 3-bet when I have position after the flop. Post flop plays ityself.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4759214

Pretty sure there is not much I can do about the hand above. This one is probably a mistake though and I should fold on the turn. If the ace of hearts was not on the flop it might be closer to being a call.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4759215

I play a little bit more and win some pots and lose some pots in fairly standard spots. Make a bad bluff. I do notice C-betting ace high flop is BVB spots seems to get little respect these days,

This pot then kind of annoys me as I kinda of feel I should win as I play so much better than my opponent, this really should not annoy me but it does for some reason

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4759218

It is possible I lose value on the river in this hand. He does have a flush draw in his range but can have other aces as well. It does not look like a staight has got there and his line is suggesting a worse ace. I probably get paid by lots that I beat on the river here.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4759220

I then get given a gift when I raise to 30c with AJ and somebody from the BB shove for $6. This is usually a small pair or worse ace in my experience. Yes he can have AK or AQ but they are about the only hands I am in real trouble against. It is not JJ - AA (actually JJ is possible but not the top 3 hands).

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4759221

I get back to being less than a buyin down and play two hands horribly

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4759223
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4759224

These two hands came in quick succession and basically cost me two buyins. The JJ hand is a good spot to set mine pre as the 3-bettor probably has a bigger pair and the caller a smaller pair and we are all sat really deep so I can win a big pot of the guy who I think has AA or cooler the guy with the smaller pair. I should really be giving it up on that flop though. The other hand is just trying to outplay somebody for no reason. I was trying to float the flop to take it off him on the turn. Once that did not work I know he usually has an overpair type hand and should give it up. The river bet is terrible. The problem here might have been I was in a rush to get the session back to even which was basically going to happen anyway but I wanted to be even there and then. Again this is something that I sometimes do.

So I was back down $25. I then have a little period where my raises are getting 3-bet and I am having to fold to drop down some more.

Didn"t play well from there with hands not going my way and also managed to misclick raise in one hand when I meant to click fold. End of the session looked like this

Hands: 858
VP$IP: 22%
PFR: 18.5%
3-Bet: 6.96%
Total Loss: $47.02

Not happy with how I played the session overall, made too many mistakes and let some of the leaks slip back into the game. I did a few times call OOP with marginal hands when I got three bet overall. I was also trying to steal pots in bad spots or against the wrong player. You get sessions like that though.