havent updated for a few days, have been playing a bit. thought i would do a little update before im away for the next 4 days down at the beach with the girl, hope the weather is good.
just been playing on william hill got up a buy in, and then lost it to be even and got into a $hit talking match vs some other guy, i of course challanged him to a hu match, now i am very inexperienced in heads up games but felt i had a significant edge after i had played with this guy for half an hour at 6 max.
so we sat down at 2 tables playing with 20 euro on each.
so i ended up taking him for 68.5 euro.
then a shortie sat vs me and i told him if he took my whole stack i would give him an extra 20 euro for nothing, but he didnt last long going broke with aj vs my ak so i finished on that table on 96.3
and then some other muppet sat vs me who never raised more than min except to shove, called 90% of his hands preflop, save to say his 2 buy ins didnt last long and i took him for another 11 dollars odd.
a good night of hu might want to start playing this game more lol.
finished plus 83.2 which is equal to $164.04 AU.
have to be up in 5 hours so def going to sleep now.
peace.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
back to the tables.so
will edit full casino report and update stats in about me section tommorow, havent been updated now.
soooo went to the casion with the girlfriend tonight and played 1/2 she ended up winning $40 after getting stacked early shoving a gut shot and flush draw but came back to win. (was glad to see her lose shoving rather than caling) and yes i finally won! for the first time since starting this blog lol 4 losing sessions in a row so sick, but i guess i had 8 wins in a row last month. won 120 after copping a bad beat at the end grr still running below par.
got jj 3rd hand 4 callers all folded on 332 flop so win a little.
5 mins later AA raise to 10 5 callers flop comes ah 3h 7 shortstack shoves his last 6 i re raise to 18 and get flat calld by dealer he obv has flush draw turn brings no flush so i shove he folds his flush draw king high he says shortie shows 44 and river is 4h crazy lol i win.
win like 40 with jj on board of akj x 10 we both checked the river he had ace 9
flat call with 88 pre and again on flop of 276 then donk out on the turn 20 he calls and we both check the queen river i win.
aq on the btn raise to 10 sb and bb call flop ak8 sb donks 5 bb calls i make it 20 sb folds bb calls turn is the q i bet 25 his stack he folds, then whines bout how he should have called...yea i wish lol.
early raise to 12 and 1 caller i have jj and look around guy behind me is going to call and original raiser only has a 38 stack so i pop it to 38 to isolate him for his stack he calls with aa and wins.
i make a couple of bluffs and win a hand or 2 with a cbet to stay around even nothing happens for an hour or so. fold aq to a 3bet vs the same guy who my jj lost to his aa i show him a queen and say ok il fold queens then he shows me his aa. ok cool.
our table breaks new table won a cpl of small pots only 2 major hands qq i raise to 12 station calls and then other guy shoves for 50 i shove for 200 over the top to force out the station who has played 100 percent of hands im up against 1010 and i win.
then 2 hands before i leave i get kk and guy shoves his stack on j high flop i call he has king jack.
and spikes trip jacks on the river..wtf i run sobad.
end up leaving plus 120 but that was a 128 pot i lose to a 2 outer 5 mins b4 i go, would have loved to hold up their once and win 250 get back most of my losses after the last shit week. but oh well glad to finaly win since this blog started lol.
cake started the day session playing my old short stack game and lost 21.65 making a squeeze with jj only for original raiser to call me with aq and he hit queen on the river...oh well. then tonight lost with kk a.i preflop vs aa same shit diff day.
-45
W/HILL short session today ended up losing 6.9AU nothing in particular just couldnt get a hand and got shoved on after i 3 bet light it happens...and for some reason i couldnt log in tonight it kept timing out trying wtf...
-6.9
Tilt- decided to try a little challange starting with $10 to see how far i can run it up, if at all playing 6max 5cent 10 cent not sure of exact guidelines as yet but will probably move up if i reach $50 which is 2 buy ins for 10cent25cent and if i lose 1 there left with 25 will move back down, will sort it all out tommorow. am keen to get enough to be able to multi table but on other hand stupid to multi table on these micro stakes and should only play 1 table here plus my normal games on other sites.
ended up turning the $10 into $14.35 woohoo.
soooo went to the casion with the girlfriend tonight and played 1/2 she ended up winning $40 after getting stacked early shoving a gut shot and flush draw but came back to win. (was glad to see her lose shoving rather than caling) and yes i finally won! for the first time since starting this blog lol 4 losing sessions in a row so sick, but i guess i had 8 wins in a row last month. won 120 after copping a bad beat at the end grr still running below par.
got jj 3rd hand 4 callers all folded on 332 flop so win a little.
5 mins later AA raise to 10 5 callers flop comes ah 3h 7 shortstack shoves his last 6 i re raise to 18 and get flat calld by dealer he obv has flush draw turn brings no flush so i shove he folds his flush draw king high he says shortie shows 44 and river is 4h crazy lol i win.
win like 40 with jj on board of akj x 10 we both checked the river he had ace 9
flat call with 88 pre and again on flop of 276 then donk out on the turn 20 he calls and we both check the queen river i win.
aq on the btn raise to 10 sb and bb call flop ak8 sb donks 5 bb calls i make it 20 sb folds bb calls turn is the q i bet 25 his stack he folds, then whines bout how he should have called...yea i wish lol.
early raise to 12 and 1 caller i have jj and look around guy behind me is going to call and original raiser only has a 38 stack so i pop it to 38 to isolate him for his stack he calls with aa and wins.
i make a couple of bluffs and win a hand or 2 with a cbet to stay around even nothing happens for an hour or so. fold aq to a 3bet vs the same guy who my jj lost to his aa i show him a queen and say ok il fold queens then he shows me his aa. ok cool.
our table breaks new table won a cpl of small pots only 2 major hands qq i raise to 12 station calls and then other guy shoves for 50 i shove for 200 over the top to force out the station who has played 100 percent of hands im up against 1010 and i win.
then 2 hands before i leave i get kk and guy shoves his stack on j high flop i call he has king jack.
and spikes trip jacks on the river..wtf i run sobad.
end up leaving plus 120 but that was a 128 pot i lose to a 2 outer 5 mins b4 i go, would have loved to hold up their once and win 250 get back most of my losses after the last shit week. but oh well glad to finaly win since this blog started lol.
cake started the day session playing my old short stack game and lost 21.65 making a squeeze with jj only for original raiser to call me with aq and he hit queen on the river...oh well. then tonight lost with kk a.i preflop vs aa same shit diff day.
-45
W/HILL short session today ended up losing 6.9AU nothing in particular just couldnt get a hand and got shoved on after i 3 bet light it happens...and for some reason i couldnt log in tonight it kept timing out trying wtf...
-6.9
Tilt- decided to try a little challange starting with $10 to see how far i can run it up, if at all playing 6max 5cent 10 cent not sure of exact guidelines as yet but will probably move up if i reach $50 which is 2 buy ins for 10cent25cent and if i lose 1 there left with 25 will move back down, will sort it all out tommorow. am keen to get enough to be able to multi table but on other hand stupid to multi table on these micro stakes and should only play 1 table here plus my normal games on other sites.
ended up turning the $10 into $14.35 woohoo.
Monday, February 9, 2009
casino report- played 1/2 tonight as my friend was short on money, up, down, up down, and in the end down..-37. some of the major hands:
utg straddles to 12 i am utg plus 1 find ak raise to 36 leaving me 41 behind (80 max buy in shit) get 1 caller old man plan to shove anyflop flop comes kk8 i shove he calls i win.
lose $50 with 88 when the same old man calling station calls me the whole way with k10 on flop of 7 5 2 2 10 to win..wtf.
make a raise to 8 with 77 four callers flop comes 568 1 guy donks out 10 i flat as do other 2 turn 4 to make my straight i bet 20 only old man calling station calls, river is 10 i would normaly check here but against old man calling station i squeeze another 30 out of him and he calls and mucks.
lose 55 with ak vs kk and 99 fold on the turn blah.
win 12 dollars with 55 on 56k all diamond board lol.
i then find aq raise to 10 get 1 caller j3h5h flop i bet 20 he calls leaving 40 behind turn is a king beutiful i bet 40 thinkng he now has to fold a jack or any draw...not so.. he calls me with 9h7h and gets his flush on the river!! blah blah blah
finaly got aa 10 mins before i leave raise it up and win blinds then 2 hands later qq raise to 9 1 caller flop 89a i bet 19 he calls turn Q beutiful i bet 33 he folds oh well.
so dissapointing night that aq hand really cost me if only he had have missed his 15 outer maybe i should have checked their, still think my reasoning was right to bet and he shouldnt have called but oh well, only down -37 could have been worse.
online didnt play any tilt like i said i wouldnt. might get back on there tommorow we will see.
cake- played .5/1 short stacking again in my first session earlier in the day i lost a few dollars but tonight managed to win a bit after getting all in with qq on 10 8 5 board vs 77 who couldnt fold when i 3 bet preflop. thanks.
+12.75
william hill- not so good today, played some US .25/.50 6max and after raising 4 hands in a row i got aa and thought these guys gonna have to start playing back soon so after i c bet 4.5 on flop of 938 only to see other guy shove for 45 i think im probably good..wrong he has set of 3s thought he most likely had 1010 jj or maybe 77 a9 but maybe should have folded to his massive overbet with just 1 pair, unfortunate i started thinking they have to play back at me soon influenced my decision a little. and then another short session tonight lost me like another 15 oh well cant win here everyday i guess hope to get back to winning ways tommorow.
-92AU ) 64.4 US
*all stats updated in about me section*
utg straddles to 12 i am utg plus 1 find ak raise to 36 leaving me 41 behind (80 max buy in shit) get 1 caller old man plan to shove anyflop flop comes kk8 i shove he calls i win.
lose $50 with 88 when the same old man calling station calls me the whole way with k10 on flop of 7 5 2 2 10 to win..wtf.
make a raise to 8 with 77 four callers flop comes 568 1 guy donks out 10 i flat as do other 2 turn 4 to make my straight i bet 20 only old man calling station calls, river is 10 i would normaly check here but against old man calling station i squeeze another 30 out of him and he calls and mucks.
lose 55 with ak vs kk and 99 fold on the turn blah.
win 12 dollars with 55 on 56k all diamond board lol.
i then find aq raise to 10 get 1 caller j3h5h flop i bet 20 he calls leaving 40 behind turn is a king beutiful i bet 40 thinkng he now has to fold a jack or any draw...not so.. he calls me with 9h7h and gets his flush on the river!! blah blah blah
finaly got aa 10 mins before i leave raise it up and win blinds then 2 hands later qq raise to 9 1 caller flop 89a i bet 19 he calls turn Q beutiful i bet 33 he folds oh well.
so dissapointing night that aq hand really cost me if only he had have missed his 15 outer maybe i should have checked their, still think my reasoning was right to bet and he shouldnt have called but oh well, only down -37 could have been worse.
online didnt play any tilt like i said i wouldnt. might get back on there tommorow we will see.
cake- played .5/1 short stacking again in my first session earlier in the day i lost a few dollars but tonight managed to win a bit after getting all in with qq on 10 8 5 board vs 77 who couldnt fold when i 3 bet preflop. thanks.
+12.75
william hill- not so good today, played some US .25/.50 6max and after raising 4 hands in a row i got aa and thought these guys gonna have to start playing back soon so after i c bet 4.5 on flop of 938 only to see other guy shove for 45 i think im probably good..wrong he has set of 3s thought he most likely had 1010 jj or maybe 77 a9 but maybe should have folded to his massive overbet with just 1 pair, unfortunate i started thinking they have to play back at me soon influenced my decision a little. and then another short session tonight lost me like another 15 oh well cant win here everyday i guess hope to get back to winning ways tommorow.
-92AU ) 64.4 US
*all stats updated in about me section*
Sunday, February 8, 2009
chill day
mate come over in the day and whatched some cricket and the aussies finaly won a game! lol 1 time..then went to work, and had the girlfriend around tonight (she is alseep next to me right now) whatched the end of season 4 and start of season 5 of soprano's box set. great show. also been reading the harrington on cash game books these are good probably the best iv read and would definatly reccomend. next on the list is rolfs omaha book and/or kill everyone.
so horrible on fulltilt for me today a couple of beats. like 98 off calling my 3bet preflop and getting all in on x j 8 flop vs my aa only for 10 to turn grr, the old kk vs ak a.i preflop ace on flop standard beat just was not my day at all, made a couple of mistakes when and paid off 1 bet i should not have with my qq vs aa but thought i was behind and still made a bleeding call on the river. going to take a break from tilt for a day or too, been running bad here and cant seem to every get ahead hopefully doom switch gets turned off in that time.
tilt -100
on cake i played a short session of like 60 hands short stacking .5/1 again i turned my 20 into 37 but then lost it all with a9 of spades in the bb on flop of 7s7cAh 8s i thought i could make him fold to a check raise on the turn showing alot of strenght repping the 7 and even if he called i had the flush outs thought he had a hand like aq with his limp utg and bet on flop and turn but i guess the 22 extra bigblinds check raise wasnt enough and he called with aj and scoopped.
cake -20
But on william hill another good day for me playing the 6pac euro game 25nl equal to AUS 55NL I think i have figured out the best way to exploit this game and after a few more days tweaking it minorly i will share it here. i plan to play a bit more US 50NL or US 100NL tommorow on w/hill coz it is also pretty soft but it doesnt work out to have many tables in the day time, and i might be out tommorow night.
i had a good session more than tripling my buy in and then 3 tabled it after stopping play on the other 2 sites winning just under another buy in, finishing me for the day:
william hill +144.17AUS ($97.05US)
*totals updated in about me section*
might be heading into the casino tommorow night? friend wanted to go in tonight but i choose the girlfriend instead, if he is keen tommorow il go, will see what happens
so horrible on fulltilt for me today a couple of beats. like 98 off calling my 3bet preflop and getting all in on x j 8 flop vs my aa only for 10 to turn grr, the old kk vs ak a.i preflop ace on flop standard beat just was not my day at all, made a couple of mistakes when and paid off 1 bet i should not have with my qq vs aa but thought i was behind and still made a bleeding call on the river. going to take a break from tilt for a day or too, been running bad here and cant seem to every get ahead hopefully doom switch gets turned off in that time.
tilt -100
on cake i played a short session of like 60 hands short stacking .5/1 again i turned my 20 into 37 but then lost it all with a9 of spades in the bb on flop of 7s7cAh 8s i thought i could make him fold to a check raise on the turn showing alot of strenght repping the 7 and even if he called i had the flush outs thought he had a hand like aq with his limp utg and bet on flop and turn but i guess the 22 extra bigblinds check raise wasnt enough and he called with aj and scoopped.
cake -20
But on william hill another good day for me playing the 6pac euro game 25nl equal to AUS 55NL I think i have figured out the best way to exploit this game and after a few more days tweaking it minorly i will share it here. i plan to play a bit more US 50NL or US 100NL tommorow on w/hill coz it is also pretty soft but it doesnt work out to have many tables in the day time, and i might be out tommorow night.
i had a good session more than tripling my buy in and then 3 tabled it after stopping play on the other 2 sites winning just under another buy in, finishing me for the day:
william hill +144.17AUS ($97.05US)
*totals updated in about me section*
might be heading into the casino tommorow night? friend wanted to go in tonight but i choose the girlfriend instead, if he is keen tommorow il go, will see what happens
Saturday, February 7, 2009
online playing.
was a very good day for me on the tables. played a good game only 1 major mistake and ended up having nice profits on all 3 site's.
cake played 2 brief short stacking sessions of .50/$1 for a profit of +29
full tilt played .25/.50 full ring games and after a bad start dropping 30 turned that around to finish the day +37
and a great day on william hill playing the euro 15cent/25 cent descirbed in better detail below finishing with a massive profit (for those stakes) of +226
*All figures updated for the month in the about me section*
ok so today i played a bit of 15/25 cent EURO on william hill, i wanted to play some .25/.50 USD or .5/1 But couldnt get any tables going as day time here is the dead of night in europe. so this euro currency 15.25 cent is equal to .30/50 cent Aus and i think it like roughly would equate to a .40 cent bb in USD. but the quality of play here is very bad, you get some bad beats on this site but it is definatly very exploitable, i was and only play 6 max on will and am experementing with diff strategies of the best way to exploit the fish. i.e playing the normal tag game or playing a more small ball approach keeping the pot small with one pair hands and getting it big with premium hands... i will keep this updated to see how it goes.
but it is normal in these games for 2 players to limp, their is very little aggresion and even when the aggresion comes preflop the players still call with weak cards position seems of little importance this is the same in the .25/50 cent USD games only the arnt AS BAD.
here are a few of the hands that came up today.
Game #7176013873: Hold'em NL (£0.15/£0.25) - 2009/02/07 - 05:39:21 (UK)
Table "Halla" Seat 5 is the button.
Seat 1: samilace (£73.61 in chips)
Seat 2: Nata05122 sits out
Seat 3: Onionhead (£31.98 in chips)
Seat 4: Chr311270 sits out
Seat 5: Johnners (£21.35 in chips)
Seat 6: Spearmin (£58.08 in chips)
Spearmin: posts small blind £0.15
samilace: posts big blind £0.25
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to samilace [Th 9d]
Nata05122 sits back
Onionhead: calls £0.25
Johnners: folds
Spearmin: folds
samilace: checks
----- FLOP ----- [Js Qd 6h]
samilace: checks
Onionhead: bets £1
samilace: calls £1
----- TURN ----- [Js Qd 6h][Kd]
samilace: checks
Onionhead: bets £2
samilace: raises to £4.50
Onionhead: calls £2.50
----- RIVER ----- [Js Qd 6h Kd][8s]
samilace: bets £5
Onionhead: calls £5
----- SHOW DOWN -----
samilace: shows [Th 9d] (A Straight, King high)
Onionhead: mucks hand [8d Jd]
samilace collected £20.57 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot £21.65 Main pot £20.57 Rake £1.08
Board [Js Qd 6h Kd 8s]
Seat 1: samilace (big blind) showed [Th 9d] and won (£20.57) with A Straight, King high
Seat 3: Onionhead mucked [8d Jd]
Seat 5: Johnners (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: Spearmin (small blind) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
my line is here on the river to just bet $5 because i genuinly dont think he is very strong and i want a call here had i known he rivered 2 pair i would have bet closer to $10, but this illustrates my point about the weak games on the turn the king comes and i check raise him he calls with 3rd pair and flush draw i think i could have won a little more off this hand but its done now.
Nata05122: posts big blind £0.25
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to samilace [Js Jd]
Bjor04071: folds
Davsha001: calls £0.25
Johnd1507: folds
Spearmin: folds
samilace: raises to £0.75
Nata05122: calls £0.50
Davsha001: folds
----- FLOP ----- [Qd Jh 6d]
samilace: bets £1.25
Nata05122: calls £1.25
----- TURN ----- [Qd Jh 6d][5s]
samilace: bets £2.75
Nata05122: raises to £5.50
samilace: raises to £12.50
Nata05122: calls £7
----- RIVER ----- [Qd Jh 6d 5s][3d]
samilace: bets £14.90 and is all-in
Nata05122: calls £14.90
----- SHOW DOWN -----
samilace: shows [Js Jd] (Three of a kind, Jacks, Queen high)
Nata05122: shows [5d Jc] (Two Pairs, Jacks and Fives, Queen high)
samilace collected £56.10 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot £59.05 Main pot £56.10 Rake £2.95
Board [Qd Jh 6d 5s 3d]
Seat 1: samilace (small blind) showed [Js Jd] and won (£56.10) with Three of a kind, Jacks, Queen high
Seat 2: Nata05122 (big blind) showed [5d Jc] and lost with Two Pairs, Jacks and Fives, Queen high
Seat 3: Bjor04071 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Davsha001 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Johnd1507 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
this hand was very early on in the session and helped my build my stack up nice early i have no idea wtf he is thinking at all i guess it just shows the fish in this game calling a raise with j5 flat calling with middle pair on the flop and going broke with 2nd and 4th pair even after the flush comes when i have shown no stop aggresion the whole hand, perhaps i could have re raised a little more on the turn but i wanted to get him to call whilst commiting himself to the river bet regardless of what card comes, may have worked.
#7176013583: Hold'em NL (£0.15/£0.25) - 2009/02/07 - 05:30:54 (UK)
Table "Halla" Seat 5 is the button.
Seat 1: samilace (£52.57 in chips)
Seat 2: Nata05122 (£32.03 in chips)
Seat 3: Onionhead (£19.40 in chips)
Seat 4: Chr311270 sits out
Seat 5: Lawr04041 (£9.60 in chips)
Seat 6: Spearmin (£36.63 in chips)
Spearmin: posts small blind £0.15
samilace: posts big blind £0.25
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to samilace [Ac Qc]
Nata05122: raises to £0.50
Onionhead: calls £0.50
Lawr04041: folds
Spearmin: calls £0.35
samilace: calls £0.25
----- FLOP ----- [7c Ad 8c]
Spearmin: checks
samilace: checks
Nata05122: bets £0.25
Onionhead: calls £0.25
Spearmin: folds
samilace: raises to £1.25
Nata05122: calls £1
Onionhead: calls £1
----- TURN ----- [7c Ad 8c][5c]
samilace: bets £2.25
Nata05122: calls £2.25
Onionhead: calls £2.25
----- RIVER ----- [7c Ad 8c 5c][7h]
samilace: checks
Nata05122: checks
Onionhead: bets £15.40 and is all-in
samilace: calls £15.40
Nata05122: folds
----- SHOW DOWN -----
Onionhead: shows [2d Ah] (Two Pairs, Aces and Sevens, Eight high)
samilace: shows [Ac Qc] (A Flush, Ace high)
samilace collected £41.14 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot £43.30 Main pot £41.14 Rake £2.16
Board [7c Ad 8c 5c 7h]
Seat 1: samilace (big blind) showed [Ac Qc] and won (£41.14) with A Flush, Ace high
Seat 2: Nata05122 folded on the River
Seat 3: Onionhead showed [2d Ah] and lost with Two Pairs, Aces and Sevens, Eight high
Seat 5: Lawr04041 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: Spearmin (small blind) folded on the Flop
this hand demonstrates what i was talking about earlier still experimenting with small ball and tag approach in this game, i decide to just flat call with aq and play a multiway pot vs the lesser players with this small approach im thinking not to raise it up when im a 60% favourite keep the pot small with these hands aggresive but small and then get bigger pots with the bigger edge...a great flop for me decide to check raise to try and get more money in the pot it works. turn comes the flush bet out again probably should have bet closer to $3 these guys just loved calling anyway ....and then on the river the terrible card!! pairing the board.
i decide to check because you know not many worse hands can call a bet here, but they can bet, but apon reflection i guess these guys would probably still call anyway. and checking also induces the bluff. a fullhouse doesnt really make alot of sense for either player here but i guess im used to playing against better tricky oppenants where it would be a possibility.
so guy shoves i snap call, hoping to get nato to call who i put on a hand like aj, a10 maybe even ak but he tank folds.
so dude has a2 and i scoop the pot, what was he thinking i dont know, i think the flop was an easy fold for him, the turn even easier, but hey im not complaining. and i guess in this case checking the river definatly got me more money because i would have probably only bet around $8 this way i got his full 14 or so.
definatly in upcoming blogs as i experiment with these diff approaches to the game i will give updates and examples of how they are both going and which i think is better, obv for decent games a good 6 max game is generally the appropriate strategy but the william hill games seem considerably weaker than say tilt cake or stars.
cake played 2 brief short stacking sessions of .50/$1 for a profit of +29
full tilt played .25/.50 full ring games and after a bad start dropping 30 turned that around to finish the day +37
and a great day on william hill playing the euro 15cent/25 cent descirbed in better detail below finishing with a massive profit (for those stakes) of +226
*All figures updated for the month in the about me section*
ok so today i played a bit of 15/25 cent EURO on william hill, i wanted to play some .25/.50 USD or .5/1 But couldnt get any tables going as day time here is the dead of night in europe. so this euro currency 15.25 cent is equal to .30/50 cent Aus and i think it like roughly would equate to a .40 cent bb in USD. but the quality of play here is very bad, you get some bad beats on this site but it is definatly very exploitable, i was and only play 6 max on will and am experementing with diff strategies of the best way to exploit the fish. i.e playing the normal tag game or playing a more small ball approach keeping the pot small with one pair hands and getting it big with premium hands... i will keep this updated to see how it goes.
but it is normal in these games for 2 players to limp, their is very little aggresion and even when the aggresion comes preflop the players still call with weak cards position seems of little importance this is the same in the .25/50 cent USD games only the arnt AS BAD.
here are a few of the hands that came up today.
Game #7176013873: Hold'em NL (£0.15/£0.25) - 2009/02/07 - 05:39:21 (UK)
Table "Halla" Seat 5 is the button.
Seat 1: samilace (£73.61 in chips)
Seat 2: Nata05122 sits out
Seat 3: Onionhead (£31.98 in chips)
Seat 4: Chr311270 sits out
Seat 5: Johnners (£21.35 in chips)
Seat 6: Spearmin (£58.08 in chips)
Spearmin: posts small blind £0.15
samilace: posts big blind £0.25
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to samilace [Th 9d]
Nata05122 sits back
Onionhead: calls £0.25
Johnners: folds
Spearmin: folds
samilace: checks
----- FLOP ----- [Js Qd 6h]
samilace: checks
Onionhead: bets £1
samilace: calls £1
----- TURN ----- [Js Qd 6h][Kd]
samilace: checks
Onionhead: bets £2
samilace: raises to £4.50
Onionhead: calls £2.50
----- RIVER ----- [Js Qd 6h Kd][8s]
samilace: bets £5
Onionhead: calls £5
----- SHOW DOWN -----
samilace: shows [Th 9d] (A Straight, King high)
Onionhead: mucks hand [8d Jd]
samilace collected £20.57 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot £21.65 Main pot £20.57 Rake £1.08
Board [Js Qd 6h Kd 8s]
Seat 1: samilace (big blind) showed [Th 9d] and won (£20.57) with A Straight, King high
Seat 3: Onionhead mucked [8d Jd]
Seat 5: Johnners (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: Spearmin (small blind) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
my line is here on the river to just bet $5 because i genuinly dont think he is very strong and i want a call here had i known he rivered 2 pair i would have bet closer to $10, but this illustrates my point about the weak games on the turn the king comes and i check raise him he calls with 3rd pair and flush draw i think i could have won a little more off this hand but its done now.
Nata05122: posts big blind £0.25
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to samilace [Js Jd]
Bjor04071: folds
Davsha001: calls £0.25
Johnd1507: folds
Spearmin: folds
samilace: raises to £0.75
Nata05122: calls £0.50
Davsha001: folds
----- FLOP ----- [Qd Jh 6d]
samilace: bets £1.25
Nata05122: calls £1.25
----- TURN ----- [Qd Jh 6d][5s]
samilace: bets £2.75
Nata05122: raises to £5.50
samilace: raises to £12.50
Nata05122: calls £7
----- RIVER ----- [Qd Jh 6d 5s][3d]
samilace: bets £14.90 and is all-in
Nata05122: calls £14.90
----- SHOW DOWN -----
samilace: shows [Js Jd] (Three of a kind, Jacks, Queen high)
Nata05122: shows [5d Jc] (Two Pairs, Jacks and Fives, Queen high)
samilace collected £56.10 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot £59.05 Main pot £56.10 Rake £2.95
Board [Qd Jh 6d 5s 3d]
Seat 1: samilace (small blind) showed [Js Jd] and won (£56.10) with Three of a kind, Jacks, Queen high
Seat 2: Nata05122 (big blind) showed [5d Jc] and lost with Two Pairs, Jacks and Fives, Queen high
Seat 3: Bjor04071 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Davsha001 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Johnd1507 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
this hand was very early on in the session and helped my build my stack up nice early i have no idea wtf he is thinking at all i guess it just shows the fish in this game calling a raise with j5 flat calling with middle pair on the flop and going broke with 2nd and 4th pair even after the flush comes when i have shown no stop aggresion the whole hand, perhaps i could have re raised a little more on the turn but i wanted to get him to call whilst commiting himself to the river bet regardless of what card comes, may have worked.
#7176013583: Hold'em NL (£0.15/£0.25) - 2009/02/07 - 05:30:54 (UK)
Table "Halla" Seat 5 is the button.
Seat 1: samilace (£52.57 in chips)
Seat 2: Nata05122 (£32.03 in chips)
Seat 3: Onionhead (£19.40 in chips)
Seat 4: Chr311270 sits out
Seat 5: Lawr04041 (£9.60 in chips)
Seat 6: Spearmin (£36.63 in chips)
Spearmin: posts small blind £0.15
samilace: posts big blind £0.25
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to samilace [Ac Qc]
Nata05122: raises to £0.50
Onionhead: calls £0.50
Lawr04041: folds
Spearmin: calls £0.35
samilace: calls £0.25
----- FLOP ----- [7c Ad 8c]
Spearmin: checks
samilace: checks
Nata05122: bets £0.25
Onionhead: calls £0.25
Spearmin: folds
samilace: raises to £1.25
Nata05122: calls £1
Onionhead: calls £1
----- TURN ----- [7c Ad 8c][5c]
samilace: bets £2.25
Nata05122: calls £2.25
Onionhead: calls £2.25
----- RIVER ----- [7c Ad 8c 5c][7h]
samilace: checks
Nata05122: checks
Onionhead: bets £15.40 and is all-in
samilace: calls £15.40
Nata05122: folds
----- SHOW DOWN -----
Onionhead: shows [2d Ah] (Two Pairs, Aces and Sevens, Eight high)
samilace: shows [Ac Qc] (A Flush, Ace high)
samilace collected £41.14 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot £43.30 Main pot £41.14 Rake £2.16
Board [7c Ad 8c 5c 7h]
Seat 1: samilace (big blind) showed [Ac Qc] and won (£41.14) with A Flush, Ace high
Seat 2: Nata05122 folded on the River
Seat 3: Onionhead showed [2d Ah] and lost with Two Pairs, Aces and Sevens, Eight high
Seat 5: Lawr04041 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: Spearmin (small blind) folded on the Flop
this hand demonstrates what i was talking about earlier still experimenting with small ball and tag approach in this game, i decide to just flat call with aq and play a multiway pot vs the lesser players with this small approach im thinking not to raise it up when im a 60% favourite keep the pot small with these hands aggresive but small and then get bigger pots with the bigger edge...a great flop for me decide to check raise to try and get more money in the pot it works. turn comes the flush bet out again probably should have bet closer to $3 these guys just loved calling anyway ....and then on the river the terrible card!! pairing the board.
i decide to check because you know not many worse hands can call a bet here, but they can bet, but apon reflection i guess these guys would probably still call anyway. and checking also induces the bluff. a fullhouse doesnt really make alot of sense for either player here but i guess im used to playing against better tricky oppenants where it would be a possibility.
so guy shoves i snap call, hoping to get nato to call who i put on a hand like aj, a10 maybe even ak but he tank folds.
so dude has a2 and i scoop the pot, what was he thinking i dont know, i think the flop was an easy fold for him, the turn even easier, but hey im not complaining. and i guess in this case checking the river definatly got me more money because i would have probably only bet around $8 this way i got his full 14 or so.
definatly in upcoming blogs as i experiment with these diff approaches to the game i will give updates and examples of how they are both going and which i think is better, obv for decent games a good 6 max game is generally the appropriate strategy but the william hill games seem considerably weaker than say tilt cake or stars.
Friday, February 6, 2009
online report
ok so this is my first online report of the month, i havehavent been able to play too many hands online so far because iv been spending so much time at the casino but i will be playing more over the next few days, especialy as the girlfriend is back in town, when she stays over every 2nd or 3rd night she goes to sleep at like 2am normal person time. so i hop into bed with her and after shes asleep i get in a 3 hour session of poker ussualy. i feel i have a lot of information/insights to offer about the various games at diff stakes over the different online sites which i will no doubt share some time later in the month.
i think i will downgrade my monthly goal of reaching iron man status on fulltilt to just reaching gold status this month, as i said earlier its hard getting 200 points a day for 25 days out of 28 when i will be away for 3 or 4 of them and gold status i can still collect from reaching 200 points 20 days of the month.
after the first 7 days of the month i have earnt roughly $65 rake back on fulltilt and $5 on cake BUT still unsure how much iv earnt from william hill as they are offering 60% and i only got confirmation that it is tracking my rakeback as of today so i am hoping they will back pay over the last 6 days coz that should be around 40-80 mark and i would probably have not played there if i didnt think i was getting the rake back.
so if i get paid from there i am costing towards earning 300 rake back for the month if not i will defiantly have to put some time in to earn the other 230 in like 19 days of play.
so far the month has not been a good start at the end of friday the 6th my records look like this
fulltilt -57
whill - 32
cake- 9
a negative result on all 3 totaling up to -98 is not good. losing a $140 pot with kk vs aa all in preflop on tilt flop comes aa j lol nh was the main killer blow so looking to grind that back now.
i think i will downgrade my monthly goal of reaching iron man status on fulltilt to just reaching gold status this month, as i said earlier its hard getting 200 points a day for 25 days out of 28 when i will be away for 3 or 4 of them and gold status i can still collect from reaching 200 points 20 days of the month.
after the first 7 days of the month i have earnt roughly $65 rake back on fulltilt and $5 on cake BUT still unsure how much iv earnt from william hill as they are offering 60% and i only got confirmation that it is tracking my rakeback as of today so i am hoping they will back pay over the last 6 days coz that should be around 40-80 mark and i would probably have not played there if i didnt think i was getting the rake back.
so if i get paid from there i am costing towards earning 300 rake back for the month if not i will defiantly have to put some time in to earn the other 230 in like 19 days of play.
so far the month has not been a good start at the end of friday the 6th my records look like this
fulltilt -57
whill - 32
cake- 9
a negative result on all 3 totaling up to -98 is not good. losing a $140 pot with kk vs aa all in preflop on tilt flop comes aa j lol nh was the main killer blow so looking to grind that back now.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
just knocked off work its 11.45 pm about to go back to play some more live by the time we get there will be a 5 hour session. my friend pauly coming with me again we both lost last night so hoping to turn it around, another friend who owes me money coming in tonight so hope he wins and pays me back!! lol. and an old friend is in at the moment so will catch up with him for a bit too i guess hopefully run better.
ok...so im going to keep this short and sweet, wait scratch that sweet does not apply short and brief. the night unfolded for me like this:
i call a couple of small raises and fold on the flop with q9 and ace 10 and i miss a straight draw multi way pot and one semi bluff that i didnt work and im down to 120.
when i wake up with KING hearts and King club in the bb,,middle position raises to 12 one caller and i pop it to 36 original raiser snap shoves for 150 i snap call
he shows aq spades
flop ah jh 10h turn and river blank blank wtf are you serious. ok.
my next buy in was lost after a raise and 3bet with my qq on flop of 347 all diamonds i have q of diamonds and my stack is the pot i dont really like this flop much at all but i am commited?? i shove and get called by ace 6 of diamonds for the nut flush and he ends up rivering a straight flush nh sir.
so i still havent won a hand..this changed when i win my only hand of the night with a 9 high flush when the river brings the 4th diamond in a 4 way pot that was checked the whole way through.
and on my last buy in the tables mega fish says before the hand is dealt 'ok guys lets gamble' and proceeds to bet 60 utg before the cards are dealt YES SIR i 20x the bb blind raise. i look down at ak and shove over the top 1 other fish calls because 'its his favourite hand' blind raise fish also calls and then proceeds to go all in still without looking on the flop....so the flat caller folds and its meand the fish im getting 3-1 that he doesnt hit a pair when the board rags out on me and he flips 9 10 for top pair i think either way im finished.
ran like crap AGAIN. as soon as i start this blog i cant buy a pot lol. oh well am definatly going back to crown on monday night but probably wont go the next 3 nights til then as im sick of running like this where i just cant win. oh well its gota turn around, sooner rather than later i hope.
will do an online update tommoro i guess since i wont be playing live
ok...so im going to keep this short and sweet, wait scratch that sweet does not apply short and brief. the night unfolded for me like this:
i call a couple of small raises and fold on the flop with q9 and ace 10 and i miss a straight draw multi way pot and one semi bluff that i didnt work and im down to 120.
when i wake up with KING hearts and King club in the bb,,middle position raises to 12 one caller and i pop it to 36 original raiser snap shoves for 150 i snap call
he shows aq spades
flop ah jh 10h turn and river blank blank wtf are you serious. ok.
my next buy in was lost after a raise and 3bet with my qq on flop of 347 all diamonds i have q of diamonds and my stack is the pot i dont really like this flop much at all but i am commited?? i shove and get called by ace 6 of diamonds for the nut flush and he ends up rivering a straight flush nh sir.
so i still havent won a hand..this changed when i win my only hand of the night with a 9 high flush when the river brings the 4th diamond in a 4 way pot that was checked the whole way through.
and on my last buy in the tables mega fish says before the hand is dealt 'ok guys lets gamble' and proceeds to bet 60 utg before the cards are dealt YES SIR i 20x the bb blind raise. i look down at ak and shove over the top 1 other fish calls because 'its his favourite hand' blind raise fish also calls and then proceeds to go all in still without looking on the flop....so the flat caller folds and its meand the fish im getting 3-1 that he doesnt hit a pair when the board rags out on me and he flips 9 10 for top pair i think either way im finished.
ran like crap AGAIN. as soon as i start this blog i cant buy a pot lol. oh well am definatly going back to crown on monday night but probably wont go the next 3 nights til then as im sick of running like this where i just cant win. oh well its gota turn around, sooner rather than later i hope.
will do an online update tommoro i guess since i wont be playing live
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