Keeping Warm in Winter

[AAroddersAA]

Just found a new leak, something I am not doing correctly is making notes on how regs react to 3 and 4 betting. I know how to exploit the percentages of course but I need better notes on their reactions to this.

[AAroddersAA]

Total yoyo couple of day these last two days. I played a high number of cash hands yesterday and for some unknown reason ran like a three legged horse. I am sure this is not supposed to happen to me but I was 5 buyins under EV at the end of the session. Unfortunately I think I made a couple of mistakes due to this and lost more than I really needed too. Not going to post too many hands as they are either bad beats or me playing like a clueless donkey. An example is below:-

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4761639
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4761640
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4761642

So yeah, that was kinda crappy overall. There were quite a few outdraws and I was almost level on the day in allin EV but that does not excuse bad play in any way at all.

Hands: 2522
Total Loss: $55.69

So anyway I needed to try and do better today. Didn"t play many cash hand, won about $7 playing cash but then stopped to focus on a couple of 180 manners that I was playing.

Early on in this one I get AK on the button and have to 3-bet fold which is annoying, it is definately correct though in this spot and shows the importance of making correct decisions. Even though I am left with less chips I am still in the tournament with plenty of chips compared to the blinds.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4761646

I then get a nice slice of luck when QQ holds up here giving me a stack back. The hand pretty much plays itself from my point of view but I can easily be out of the tournament here

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4761647

I then get in a hand with this player. He has raised and c-bet a lot at this table (PFR 31%) and when I shove I reckon I have loads of fold equity and if he calls I still have outs. (PS - I am also a lucky fish).

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4761648

Standard hand is standard

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4761649

I then nick some pots and make some chips and start to look good for a deep run. The pot below helps me as we go into the money places.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4761650

At this point my 3-bets are quite effective so I am able to collect chips without ever going toi showdown which is the advantage of having a larger stack. The pot below is what really set me up though.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4761651

NOw I had double the average chip stack and was on the way.

I more than less stay where I am until near to the final then I make this error which knocks me back. My hand is just a terrible hand to call with here and is a very basic fold and it is not even close.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4761652

Never one to learn too quickly though I do the same thing again more than less. His range here is filled with AK and AQ this call is just as bad as the one above, on the upside I am now chip leader. At least whatever was wrong with Pokerstars causing my run bad ysterday seems to have been fixed.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4761653

I then make the final table. This hand is very significant as I had been 3-betting quite wide. Mt opponent in this hand seemed to have picked up on it and had already 4-bet me once. I four bet back at him the next round, then this hand popped up. Queue action. This could have got awkward otherwise when people won"t back down it usually does.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4761654

I think I play the below hand well

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4761655

As we go down to three plays I manage to keep my agression up and get to heads up which goes back and forth for a while before I lay the smackdown below:-

http://www.boomplayer.com/poker-hands/Boom/1473131_A5BC23F4D5

When I bet the 20K on the flop I did not want to see a call. I think he would have caled with most hands with showdown value so his range was very much flush draws, air and maybe the odd King, although a king would often slow play.

Not a bad day winning $7 in cash and $204 in MTT"s made up for yesterday anyway.

[Santino67]

Just wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, nicely done mate  

[AAroddersAA]

Thanks Grant

Played 1100 hands today and lost $31.

This was mostly down to playing badly, not a lot more I can say about it. It is annoying that I know what I am doing is wrong but do it anyway. I know everybody does this but why, how do you get around it?

Some hands:-

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4763634

Preflop is fine and the flop is fine for a c-bet as well. However when I get called with that flop he is not calling with nothing and I am obviously beaten, AQ and KQ are in his range. I am unsure why he checked the turn but I suppose on that flop as I have given up it is a reasonable play. The river is probably a check fold unless he bets small. Bet/call is the nut worse line. Check/Call might be OK if he bets out small.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4763635

This hand is pretty lol bad. I should 3-bet pre rather than call from SB here. When I hit TPTK on that board it is still really REALLY marginal against his range. I have no idea why I lead out we get it all in and he wins which is a fair result. This is bad poker.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4763636

I am not being aggressive enough in Button Vs Blind situations and this is an example of why. The BB is pretty aggressive here and I think and will 3-bet wider than just JJ+ and AQ+ so I should 4-bet pre and this is the reason the hand goes wrong. If I 4-bet here he might even fold. If he doesn"t I might still get stacked but at least it would have been correct. Calling the flop as played is OK but the turn is a fold.

There were lots of little hands where I am doing the wrong thing at the wrong time as well. I just am not playing very well these last two sessions.

Todatys Result

Hands: 1100
Total Loss: $31.76
VP$IP: 23.84%
PFR: 19.72
3-bet: 7.49%

So that puts me down around $50 in cash for the month. I am up about $300 in MTT"s so not too bad (I am also up on both cash and MTT"s on APAT Poker poker). I should not be down though, if I had played correctly I would be up about $100, I have not run bad and have not been unlucky. It does feel at the end of most sessions like you have but when you look at it a bit deeper you usually find the reason you lost was bad play and this turns out to be the case again in the last couple of days.

I am sure I will turn it around by the end of the month but it is annoying that so many mistakes are getting into my game at the moment in an environment where you just can"t have them.

I will go and play some 180"s instead this afternoon.

[AAroddersAA]

Does anybody fancy a small prop bet in 2013. Say $50 (or less if people prefer) on Pokerstars? It can be more than two people but the rules are:-

1) You have to play at least 200 tournaments on Pokerstars in 2013 (any stake), if you play less you lose automatically
2) The winner is the person who OPR says has the highest ROI on Pokerstars at 6pm on 31st Dec 2013

This would help keep us focused during 2013

We could try to do something with cash games but that would have to be done with the use of tracking software as there are no reliable 3rd party trackers, and posting up screenshots which becomes really complicated.

Anybody up for this?

[AAroddersAA]

Playing really bad at the moment. Doing lots of things wrong which I know are wrong but I just do them anyway. Today I was playing and was up $40, I knew I was not playing 100% any more and thought I should come off. Then just didn"t and went down to just $25 up then started to try and force the action knowing I should come off. So I just opened another table instead and ended the session down about $30.

I basically lost $70 in 200 hands. I don"t think I should have lost $10 in those hands when I really should have left the table and not been playing at that time. The problem I have at the moment is that I seem to be tilting very easily and silly things are tilting me (like players playing generally badly, got annoyed yesterday because I guy called me down with JJ on a king high board when I had AK as it was so obvious he should have folded the turn, no idea why this should bother me in the least, I should be quite pleased, but things like this are starting to tilt me).

Not sure what to do about this, it happens every now and again but it makes no sense. Why I am doing things that I know are wrong, I know the right play in my mind but it"s like I just do the opposite. The best one was playing 250BB I raised QT to 30c and got called I then c-bet the flop and the turn and got called twice (I had nothing). I checked the river and the other player shoved for about $22. So I called with queen high.

Silly game sometimes

[mporter123]

Does anybody fancy a small prop bet in 2013. Say $50 (or less if people prefer) on Pokerstars? It can be more than two people but the rules are:-

1) You have to play at least 200 tournaments on Pokerstars in 2013 (any stake), if you play less you lose automatically
2) The winner is the person who OPR says has the highest ROI on Pokerstars at 6pm on 31st Dec 2013

This would help keep us focused during 2013

We could try to do something with cash games but that would have to be done with the use of tracking software as there are no reliable 3rd party trackers, and posting up screenshots which becomes really complicated.

Anybody up for this?

Yup, tournaments, in for $50.

[AAroddersAA]

Does anybody fancy a small prop bet in 2013. Say $50 (or less if people prefer) on Pokerstars? It can be more than two people but the rules are:-

1) You have to play at least 200 tournaments on Pokerstars in 2013 (any stake), if you play less you lose automatically
2) The winner is the person who OPR says has the highest ROI on Pokerstars at 6pm on 31st Dec 2013

This would help keep us focused during 2013

We could try to do something with cash games but that would have to be done with the use of tracking software as there are no reliable 3rd party trackers, and posting up screenshots which becomes really complicated.

Anybody up for this?

Yup, tournaments, in for $50.

Awesome $50, highest ROI, how many do you want as the minimum? 300 or is that too low?

[mporter123]

300 is fine. I should play a fair few more than that next year but won"t be stopping if I bink early :-)

[AAroddersAA]

Playing so bad now it is silly. Here are 3 hands from today which pretty much defined how I did

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4780211
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4780212
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4780214

Now I can honestly say as I played these hands I knew 100% what the right play was but did not make it. This is just setting fire to money.

First hand - Preflop looks fine and I don"t mind my check on the flop in this spot as I can make the nuts or a better pair. My bet on the turn for value is good, his raise is huge strength on that board though, he has lots of two pair combos and sets I lose too. Fold to the reraise is fairly simple and calling off 110 BB on the river is just lol bad.

150BB wasted

Hand two is very simple, fold pre to the 3-bet or fold the flop. Fancy play is not required.

150BB wasted

Hand three is slightly less simple but when he raises the flop I should probably flat to keep the pot smaller and then reassess on the turn. With a smaller pot and deeper stacks getting away should be easy.

90BB wasted

So in total that is about 390BB just thrown away. I can"t start to explain how bad this is or justify it.

Still very confused about what i do about this as it"s not something I have suffered with to this stage before. I know I should not be losing very much over the last few days (the way the cards have fallen I probably should be up). The annoying thing is that I was actually played very well for long periods today but then gave it away.

Overall loss today on cash was $13.22

[ForthThistle]

Does anybody fancy a small prop bet in 2013. Say $50 (or less if people prefer) on Pokerstars? It can be more than two people but the rules are:-

1) You have to play at least 200 tournaments on Pokerstars in 2013 (any stake), if you play less you lose automatically
2) The winner is the person who OPR says has the highest ROI on Pokerstars at 6pm on 31st Dec 2013

This would help keep us focused during 2013

We could try to do something with cash games but that would have to be done with the use of tracking software as there are no reliable 3rd party trackers, and posting up screenshots which becomes really complicated.

Anybody up for this?

In for bet.

[AAroddersAA]

Does anybody fancy a small prop bet in 2013. Say $50 (or less if people prefer) on Pokerstars? It can be more than two people but the rules are:-

1) You have to play at least 200 tournaments on Pokerstars in 2013 (any stake), if you play less you lose automatically
2) The winner is the person who OPR says has the highest ROI on Pokerstars at 6pm on 31st Dec 2013

This would help keep us focused during 2013

We could try to do something with cash games but that would have to be done with the use of tracking software as there are no reliable 3rd party trackers, and posting up screenshots which becomes really complicated.

Anybody up for this?

In for bet.

Cool. The way I am playing at the moment it is basically free money *lol*

So Dave/Mark are we happy with doing it between the three of us $50 per man highest ROI according to OPR on Pokerstars at the end of the year wins and the other two pay the winner $50?

[mporter123]

Does anybody fancy a small prop bet in 2013. Say $50 (or less if people prefer) on Pokerstars? It can be more than two people but the rules are:-

1) You have to play at least 200 tournaments on Pokerstars in 2013 (any stake), if you play less you lose automatically
2) The winner is the person who OPR says has the highest ROI on Pokerstars at 6pm on 31st Dec 2013

This would help keep us focused during 2013

We could try to do something with cash games but that would have to be done with the use of tracking software as there are no reliable 3rd party trackers, and posting up screenshots which becomes really complicated.

Anybody up for this?

In for bet.

Cool. The way I am playing at the moment it is basically free money *lol*

So Dave/Mark are we happy with doing it between the three of us $50 per man highest ROI according to OPR on Pokerstars at the end of the year wins and the other two pay the winner $50?

Yea, sounds good to me.

[Newportlad]

Morning Rod

You"re going to need your "A" game for our annual cash session this afternoon at Pockets.  Lots of sharks/fish about i imagine.

[AAroddersAA]

Morning Rod

You"re going to need your "A" game for our annual cash session this afternoon at Pockets.  Lots of sharks/fish about i imagine.

PMSL that is all

I spent most of it in the pub over the road. This is like the worst game of snooker I have ever seen, think I player 8 hands. All-in blind ftw.