Is it so impossible to play normal after hands like this one.
Tight opponent, but when I made bet, he played like an asshole.
What is this
I need 1-2 days break, because this is the last but not the least hand like this for last days.
They are going tilt me and I dont like that.
2008-08-19
2008-08-15
15th Aug: Two good hands in a row
I delayed my SnG for tonight and played some cash on shorthanded tables. I want to present you two of the hands which I played during my session
AK vs pocket TT
AA vs 77 in next hand
AK vs pocket TT
AA vs 77 in next hand
15th Aug: SnG 3+0,40$ series today
Today I am planning to play 10-players SnGs with entry fee 3+0.40$
I will publish here the results of my SnGs and screenshots from the winning ones.
SnG #1 - 3rd place
I got into the money and lost with flopped 2 pairs against opponent's runner runner.
Update is coming soon...
I will publish here the results of my SnGs and screenshots from the winning ones.
SnG #1 - 3rd place
I got into the money and lost with flopped 2 pairs against opponent's runner runner.
Update is coming soon...
2008-08-14
14th Aug: HU SnG Pyramid of tourmanemts
I played my third cash heads-up session for today and after 431 hands with 3 players I finished with loss of 35$ and didn't have any luck in some of the hands, maybe except in the hand below where during the bets I was sure that my opponent have something like AK, but actually I won the hand but he had very good chances to do it too.
Good reading or good luck?
After that I get some break and built up my "pyramid" of heads-up SnG tournaments.
The scheme was follow:
Started with "capital" of 2.65$. When I lose - game is over. If you have enough "capital" to join next level - you should decide - to join or to play same level. Levels are: buy-ins of 2.20$, 6.25$, 11.50$, 23$.... I played 6 tournaments and won all of them (wow, the cash heads-up works good for my discipline maybe?). The buy-ins were 2.20;2.20;6.25;11.50;11.50;23. The result of this series was profit of 62.35$ - very good return of investment.
Below you can see the screenshots of the tournaments' standing (you can click on the pictures to enlarge them)
Tournament #1 (2$+0.20$ entry fee)
Tournament #2 (2$+0.20$ entry fee)
Tournament #3 (6$+0.25$ entry fee)
Tournament #4 (11$+0.50$ entry fee)
Tournament #5 (11$+0.50$ entry fee)
Tournament #6 (22$+1$ entry fee)
Good reading or good luck?
After that I get some break and built up my "pyramid" of heads-up SnG tournaments.
The scheme was follow:
Started with "capital" of 2.65$. When I lose - game is over. If you have enough "capital" to join next level - you should decide - to join or to play same level. Levels are: buy-ins of 2.20$, 6.25$, 11.50$, 23$.... I played 6 tournaments and won all of them (wow, the cash heads-up works good for my discipline maybe?). The buy-ins were 2.20;2.20;6.25;11.50;11.50;23. The result of this series was profit of 62.35$ - very good return of investment.
Below you can see the screenshots of the tournaments' standing (you can click on the pictures to enlarge them)
Tournament #1 (2$+0.20$ entry fee)
Tournament #2 (2$+0.20$ entry fee)
Tournament #3 (6$+0.25$ entry fee)
Tournament #4 (11$+0.50$ entry fee)
Tournament #5 (11$+0.50$ entry fee)
Tournament #6 (22$+1$ entry fee)
14th Aug: Second session today
After lunch I played my second session Headsup cashes. I did it well and finished with total profit of 32$
The most tough moment in the session was the game with DonovanBluff. Godness, this guy called everything all the time. He made about 50$ profit in the session and I still didn't find the right way to kick his butt. Once I limped with pocket Aces, he 3x-raised and fold after my re-raise. Finally, after over 80 hands I thought that no chance to made any good move against him, when I got pocket Aces again. Limped them again, he 3x-raised again and I reraise. Whats happened? You can see the log of the hand below:
Pocket Aces against DonovanBluff
Finally next hand I break the match against him with small lose of 2$ (because of the rake).
After 322 hands in this session I won 32.65$
The total result for today is 480 hands and 72.25$.
It is good progress today, I will try to keep the right way.
The most tough moment in the session was the game with DonovanBluff. Godness, this guy called everything all the time. He made about 50$ profit in the session and I still didn't find the right way to kick his butt. Once I limped with pocket Aces, he 3x-raised and fold after my re-raise. Finally, after over 80 hands I thought that no chance to made any good move against him, when I got pocket Aces again. Limped them again, he 3x-raised again and I reraise. Whats happened? You can see the log of the hand below:
Pocket Aces against DonovanBluff
Finally next hand I break the match against him with small lose of 2$ (because of the rake).
After 322 hands in this session I won 32.65$
The total result for today is 480 hands and 72.25$.
It is good progress today, I will try to keep the right way.
14th Aug: Morning session started good
My morning session started very good. I played 88 hands against two players.
I opene my table today a bit short - with 30$.
My first opponent was el Sinep. He played very standard - just raised 3x-bet almost 70% of played hands. I played 70 hands against him without any showdown and finished with profit of 6$.
After that BigBalla420 joined my table. I know him as agressive player and was very attentive for the hands where I join the pot. We played 18 hands. The 17th hand he got his AK and pushed all in against my pocket Jacks. Its doubled up my stack. Below you can see the hand.
My pocket Jacks won against his AKs
My third opponent was bobman14. He started very agressive but after that he changed his style. The luck was on his side most of the time and during the session he won 30$. I kept my concentration and finished the session with some pots of 10-12$ won and in the end of the session the result was small profit.
In 158 hands I made almost 40$ profit - very very good result.
I quit the heads-up playing at the moment to join 3+0.30$ tournament (3000 starting chips, 15 minutes levels).
11:51AM Update
Tournament started not so bad for me and I built up my stack to 3,700. Two bad hands dropped me to 270 chips. No luck when I went all in and I finished 659th out of 1200 players.
Now I am back to Heads-up.
I opene my table today a bit short - with 30$.
My first opponent was el Sinep. He played very standard - just raised 3x-bet almost 70% of played hands. I played 70 hands against him without any showdown and finished with profit of 6$.
After that BigBalla420 joined my table. I know him as agressive player and was very attentive for the hands where I join the pot. We played 18 hands. The 17th hand he got his AK and pushed all in against my pocket Jacks. Its doubled up my stack. Below you can see the hand.
My pocket Jacks won against his AKs
My third opponent was bobman14. He started very agressive but after that he changed his style. The luck was on his side most of the time and during the session he won 30$. I kept my concentration and finished the session with some pots of 10-12$ won and in the end of the session the result was small profit.
In 158 hands I made almost 40$ profit - very very good result.
I quit the heads-up playing at the moment to join 3+0.30$ tournament (3000 starting chips, 15 minutes levels).
11:51AM Update
Tournament started not so bad for me and I built up my stack to 3,700. Two bad hands dropped me to 270 chips. No luck when I went all in and I finished 659th out of 1200 players.
Now I am back to Heads-up.
13th Aug: Hand of the day
My notable hand yesterday was in headsup session when I flopped straight and got great pot of 132$
You can see the log of the hand below:
Flopped straight
You can see the log of the hand below:
Flopped straight
2008-08-13
13th Aug: The morning session started good
The session started very good.
After 46 hands heads-up I doubled up my stack from 50$ to 100.80$. After the hand which I posted in my previous post I met on the table very agressive player. After some check-raises I got the control over the table and my stack increased.
After that I joined 3a.m. EST 10$+1$ NLHE tournament. I love this structure - 3000 chips and 15 minutes blind levels. The post will continue with the information of the tournament.
10:30AM Update:
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After first two blind levels my stack increased to 4,735 chips. I am doing very well till now.
I am posting 2 hands from the first 30 minutes:
Hand #1: Lose with AQ against agressive player - stack dropped to 2,300 chips
This player started to went all-in almost each hand (couple of hands before this one we splitted with AJ both) and I got decision to call him. No help from the board and his pocket 8's won the coin flip.
Hand #2: Win full house over full house - stack doubled up
A lot of limpers in this hand and I called from SB with my pocket nines. Another nine on the flop and I was happy with my set and checked. I had some worries if the opponent made flush on turn but he shown pocket 4's and my full house 99933 kicked his 44433
10:40AM Update:
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25/50 blind level started good for me - my AKsuited again opponent's all in with AQ and I made nice 7,000 chips stack - very good for this stage of the tournament.
At the moment I have 7,370 chips and 69 position in the standings.
Hand #3: AKs won against AQ
11:05AM Update:
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No action in last level before the break and I finished the first hour with stack of 6,995 chips and 150/586 position. Average stack is 5,400. No needs to change anything after the break at the moment.
11:15AM Update:
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Hand #4 Unsuccesfull bluff
No comments about his preflop call, but I didn't find the right way in this hand and my stack dropped.
With 3,700 chips I still keep my chances in the tournament.
Couple of minutes later my all in with KJ and flopped King killed me when the opponent called preflop with A5 and made two pairs on the turn. My bad run in the tournaments continues, I have to work a lot over that.
After short break I will continue with HU Cash 50NL.
11:34AM Update:
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Good run in Heads-Up continues. I started with XXHOTCAKEXX, and after about 15 hands I almost stacked him for 40$.
You can see below the both hands which made it:
XXHOTCAKEXX Hand 1 - My set won
XXHOTCAKEXX Hand 2 - He tried bluff, unsuccesfully
After those hands my stack on the table is 90$
12:40PM Update:
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The session continued bad for me. I played with zhaozhan77 and lost almost 100$.
After 46 hands heads-up I doubled up my stack from 50$ to 100.80$. After the hand which I posted in my previous post I met on the table very agressive player. After some check-raises I got the control over the table and my stack increased.
After that I joined 3a.m. EST 10$+1$ NLHE tournament. I love this structure - 3000 chips and 15 minutes blind levels. The post will continue with the information of the tournament.
10:30AM Update:
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After first two blind levels my stack increased to 4,735 chips. I am doing very well till now.
I am posting 2 hands from the first 30 minutes:
Hand #1: Lose with AQ against agressive player - stack dropped to 2,300 chips
This player started to went all-in almost each hand (couple of hands before this one we splitted with AJ both) and I got decision to call him. No help from the board and his pocket 8's won the coin flip.
Hand #2: Win full house over full house - stack doubled up
A lot of limpers in this hand and I called from SB with my pocket nines. Another nine on the flop and I was happy with my set and checked. I had some worries if the opponent made flush on turn but he shown pocket 4's and my full house 99933 kicked his 44433
10:40AM Update:
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25/50 blind level started good for me - my AKsuited again opponent's all in with AQ and I made nice 7,000 chips stack - very good for this stage of the tournament.
At the moment I have 7,370 chips and 69 position in the standings.
Hand #3: AKs won against AQ
11:05AM Update:
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No action in last level before the break and I finished the first hour with stack of 6,995 chips and 150/586 position. Average stack is 5,400. No needs to change anything after the break at the moment.
11:15AM Update:
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Hand #4 Unsuccesfull bluff
No comments about his preflop call, but I didn't find the right way in this hand and my stack dropped.
With 3,700 chips I still keep my chances in the tournament.
Couple of minutes later my all in with KJ and flopped King killed me when the opponent called preflop with A5 and made two pairs on the turn. My bad run in the tournaments continues, I have to work a lot over that.
After short break I will continue with HU Cash 50NL.
11:34AM Update:
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Good run in Heads-Up continues. I started with XXHOTCAKEXX, and after about 15 hands I almost stacked him for 40$.
You can see below the both hands which made it:
XXHOTCAKEXX Hand 1 - My set won
XXHOTCAKEXX Hand 2 - He tried bluff, unsuccesfully
After those hands my stack on the table is 90$
12:40PM Update:
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The session continued bad for me. I played with zhaozhan77 and lost almost 100$.
12th Aug: Tournaments and Heads-Ups cash yesterday
After my break I played two tournaments today 5,50$ entry 6-max and 11$ entry. I lost in both tournaments in the middle of the standings. Its very bad, I have to work a lot for fine tunning of my tournament play.
Yesterday, after not so good session of cash Hold'em (shorthanded tables) I played also 6 heads-up tournaments with 6,25$ entry fee. The result was 3 wins and 3 losses (one of them with AK vs. AA in first hand).
In my late session I played some Heads-Up cash and won about 70$. Seems its my game at the moment.
Today (13th August) I just started and played only 1 hand till the moment. But got pocket Aces in it and you can see the log of the hand:
Its good to start with pocket Aces
Yesterday, after not so good session of cash Hold'em (shorthanded tables) I played also 6 heads-up tournaments with 6,25$ entry fee. The result was 3 wins and 3 losses (one of them with AK vs. AA in first hand).
In my late session I played some Heads-Up cash and won about 70$. Seems its my game at the moment.
Today (13th August) I just started and played only 1 hand till the moment. But got pocket Aces in it and you can see the log of the hand:
Its good to start with pocket Aces
2008-08-07
Hand of the day August, 7th
I am in 10 days holiday but played 250 hands today (50NL level)
I want to share with you my "hand of the day" where I won nice pot of 55$ with my KK against opponent's AQ
KK vs AQ
I want to share with you my "hand of the day" where I won nice pot of 55$ with my KK against opponent's AQ
KK vs AQ
2008-08-06
2008-08-01
Ten days holiday
I am planning to be 10 days out of poker games. August is the time for holidays. I believe most of you are in holiday too. Enjoy the summer :)
I will come more powerful after the break.
I will come more powerful after the break.
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