Sunday, June 27, 2010

hanging in there

well this week has been pretty much a slack week. i didnt play as much i usually can i probablly played 2500 hands this week and 1000 of them were from today on wednesday i think i went fishing after work for a couple hours for king salmon and got skinked there wich wasnt that big of a deal it was my first time fishing this year so it was nice to get back out there and get a line wet and i think a couple ohter days i went to sleep early cause i was super tired for some reason so i didnt put that many hands in while i was playing and also my week wasnt going that well on the green felt as it was so it wasnt that big of a deal. i might of found somthing i can improve on in my game though ive been searching for somthing to improve on and i think this might be it. well i think i go a little to far with mediocore pairs on an unthreating board its mostly just pairs but sometimes it might be when i flop a pair as well. say the board comes 10 6 3 rainbow and i have pocket 8's or 9's either in position or out it kinda seems to play the same way if the agressor bet preflop then fires on the flop and im sure everyone will call a bet on the flop then say the turn is a 5 or somthing meaningless and they fire again ive caught my self calling the turn just to either fold on the river to a bet or to lose on the river if they check a 10 or a higher pair so i guess what im getting at is if they bet the turn i think in the end it would be more profitable to lay down the pair. the only problem i have with it is that if the opponent is any good they can read the call as atleast a 10 or a under pair and if they have AK then they will fire another bullet in which case ill be laying down the best hand. ive done this before with AK so i know how it can work. so thats the only problem i have about laying down the pair on the turn, but i suppose that in those cases that you can catch the bluff it probablly doesnt pay for the money you lose when you come across the bigger pair so i guess i will have to lay it down more often. somthing that would also help in that situation would be able to read your opponent if you could physically tell that they were bluffing that would make it that much easier to call another street but thats a lost call in online poker although there are some tells ive picked up on playing online. so back to my actuall weeknd friday i drove like 50 miles to go buy some fireworks and ended up droppin 200 on them so ill be having some fun on the 4th, and saturday night was pretty fun i actually had a buddy that i got to go out with me to the club which was fun i found out im way more outgoing with an wing man by me. when i was in highschool i was a pretty shy kid and pretty much just talked to my friends and girlfriends and what not but now that im out of school ive opend up a lot esspecially this last year because this summer is really the first time that ive spent time clubbing so my social skills are deffinitley raising and esspecially with the females which is always fun. as for poker this whole week was prettys much blah i wasnt really going anywhere when i was playing. i was kinda just hovering around 205 then yesterday i dropped to 190 i think and then today was actually pretty good and i ended it at 225 so hopefully with the leak ill be working on and my upswing hopefully i can keep it going up. its deffinitly taking me a lot longer than i thaught to get back to 25nl. one thing that kinda helps is that even the top pros have had or are having draughts even at games theyve been able to beat easily. ill just throw patrick antonious out there earlier this year he was down 3 million and was doing horrible for about 3 months then all of a sudden bam he hit his heater and made it all back plus some in just a couple weeks to a month wich just shows you how the swings of the game really are which im fine with its just a little reincouragement to know or hear that even the best players do things wrong or have tuff times as well. ummm i dont really have any hands i want to post i wasnt really paying that much attention to them i was more concerned as to why i was having so much trouble with 10nl. although i did find a little bit of a leak i dont think thats why im not beating 10nl right now. i think its more so that im just in a downswing and that i just need to wait it out and keep my head up and be patient while i wait for the upswing to come. but thats all for this week laterrrs

Sunday, June 20, 2010

bad month

well i think the tittle pretty much sums up how i feel this month is going. as for the week i ran my roll up to 250 at the beggining of the week and then through out the week i kinda just stayed around 235 and then saturday and today hit a bad run and now im at 206 so im up 6 dollars for the week haha. i now see why the big time regulars play upwards to 24 tables at once they can play my whole week of 4 tables in one of their sessions so it really brings down the variances, but i dont want to do that and i like multi tabling 4 later on in the year i might try 6 but we'll see. anyways yeah i hope this month is just a bad run, if not somthing has happend to my game that i cant see. im playing one of the most profitable limits and cant seem to gain really. some situations come up that i kind of beat my self up over like some spots where you might have 3 of kind and the other person has a boat or situations like that and it feels like i should be able to get away from it but i dont know how i can. its a difficult situation. on the same note ive been going over my game a little and im having a difficult time finding things that i need to improve on. im not saying that i dont need to improve anymore cause i can always improve but it just seems like my game is going fine but i dont see success thats why i hope its just a bad month and not somthing im doing wrong that i cant see. on another note heres a hand that happend today that i was proud of utg+1 raised 3bb i was on the cut off and 3bet to 10 bb i was holding QQ everyone folded to him and he 4 bet to like 25-30 bb somwhere in there and i just flatted. on the flop it came like 9 high two hearts i think he lead out for about 2/3 the pot and i thaught for about 10 seconds and folded. i typed in the chat box "so i guess you got QQ beat then?" and after i folded he showed AA. im sure a lot of regs. that ever read this will probablly be like obviously he had aAA or KK but at that level and 6 max they could take that same route with AK or jj ive 4 bet with jj myself in another hand so that being said i gave myslef kudos for laying down on the flop somtimes i call to see if they bet the next street so i could better tell where im at in the hand but in that situation i was pretty sure i knew where i was and i was right so that was good. what i always thaught is that everyone is going to get the same amount of good hands over time so your not going to make money there. where your going to make money is by the big lay downs and also the big bluffs along with a couple other things. but both of those situations seem like theyll make you or break you. thats why i feel bad when i cant get away from a really good hand cause i know the outcome. one thing i wish i had was a friend that was as serious about poker as i am so that i could talk stratagy and situations i know it would improve my game drastically. i have a couple friends thatll play a game here or there but they dont care about the game. i have somthing to tell the readers of my blog though but its a suprise im saving for november lol so you guys will have to wait. thats one thing that sucks about alaska is that the poker scene here is so rediculously bad its horrible cause theres no legal gambling here at all. theres a couple bars that run free tournaments and like the winners get like free prizes or whatever but those games arnt even worth sitting in and theres no value or knolege to take from them (i think i murderd that word). besides poker things are going alright work is going a little slower than id like but its alright still gettin plenty of mulah. and this weeknd was pretty awesome the summer and winter soltice are kinda a big thing up here they have parties for it here and everything like that but yeah they had a free concert downtown with fly leaf playing wich was pretty awesome the only bad thing was that me and a buddy stayed there for about 10 minutes before we started hitting the clubs near by lol. there was so many people there though and their sound system they had set up wasnt as good as it shoulda been so where we were at it wasnt that good of a show as it coulda been so i dont think i missed that much and plus the clubs were way fun the only bad thing was i drank a bit much and i probablly made a fool of myself more than once lol but it was good times. gonna do it again next weeknd except im not gonna drink so much so i can remember the girls i actually talk to lol. and my last thaught is about my life style i like to stay fit but while im working i dont work out because my job is a little physical and im usually working 12 hours a day so i dont have the time to work out but in the winters i work out so this winter im gonna take my workout really serious and have a good routine going but for now im just doin whatever right now. so yeah later

Sunday, June 13, 2010

bad prospects for june

well i got a few things goin on. first i decided to do a new post once a week so ill probablly do four a month and then do a fifth one at the end on the month to recap that months play. now for this week it has been horrible ive been getting sucked out a lot and a couple days i played like crap so that didnt help. i mean ive been playing for 2 years im use to getting sucked out on its not that big of a deal but day after day for a week striaght kinda sucks. two days that stand out the most were friday and saturday. friday i started to go on tilt. ive got my tilt factor pretty much under control and it takes a bit for me to go on tilt but on friday i managed to get to that point. and it wasnt to bad once i recognized that it was affecting my play i quit and i probablly only lost a buy in and a half due to me tilting. and on saturday it kinda carried over, ive kinda seen a pattern for when i go on tilt in that the day after i usually dont play that well either i guess thats a leak ill have to fix in my game as well (duely noted) but any way yeah i played like crap saturday and i think i started the week at either 235 or 250 somwhere in there. i think its in my last post but by saturday i was down to right around 200$ and then today wouldnt you imagine i was getting another suck out session and i fell all the way to 160 wich makes me feel like crap. makes you feel like you suck at poker which i know ive got talent im not bragging that i got skill at the game cause my game can always use work but i know im talented at the game and when you cant win it makes you feel like your dumb or somthing. anyways anyone who plays on pokerstars knows about the stellar awards and if you dont you get frequent player points for the certain amount of hands you play and the amount in the pot and so on and after you get enough points earned up theyll give you a little bonus first they give you like 5 10$ bonuses and then 5 50$ bonuses and then some 100's but they get harder to earn the higher they are, but anyway i had a 50 dollar bonus saved up for a rainy day. i was gonna use it when i got back up to 25nl so that i would have 2 extra buy ins but seeing as how i was falling fast i decided to use it. so that put me back up to 210. and soon after that i started hitting a heater and ran it up to 242. and right after that i hit another rollercoaster session and ended back at 210 which is where i am now it was pretty draining this weeknd i put like 1100 hands in saturday and then like 2300 hands today which wouldnt be so bad if things went a little better. over all i am satisfied with my play for the week besides friday and saturday im just hanging in there waiting to get out of the valley. on another note seeing as how saturday started to go bad a couple friends were bored so i cut that session short and went and hung out with them and kept them occupied and then i went out to a dance club that night. i sayed i was gonna take a break this weeknd wich i did and i didnt. cause i went out to the club buuuut i didnt drink which im sure my liver thanks me for. but i had a lot of fun at the club and got a few dances and one was a little spicier then the rest of them ill just leave it at that. so the weeknd was fun but poker sucked lol well im gonna go to sleep i think and after work tomorrow ill hit the felt running again

Monday, June 7, 2010

boring

so the weeknd was kinda boring. i went out again but i was kinda bored nothing really sparked my intrest but i kept myself entertained anyway. as far as poker goes it was pretty lame as well first on friday i got up to 252 wich was decent things were goin alright but it didnt last long and i was down to 225 i bounced inbetween 225 and 235 all weeknd it was kinda annoying and there wasnt any excitement to the game it seemed it was just one of those sessions where your like ugghhhhh. buuuut i just finished my session for today and im up to 254 so going up for now i had aa vs. kk twice tonight and held up and kk vs. aa which bad news for me didnt suck out but yeah deffinitley a better session today than the whole weeknd. i dont know if im going out drinking next weeknd so if i dont i will put in a ton of hours plus ill have saturday and sunday off so it will be a long session but we will see when it comes but other than that todays been good besides it being a monday annnnnd thats about it yeah this post is pretty short :)

Saturday, June 5, 2010

before the weeknd

well i ended friday on a good note and today i dont know if im going to play or not im gonna try and sleep a little then end up going out for the weeknd but ill put in some solid hours on sunday. hopefully my play is decent and im not to hungover haha. anyways i ended the week on a good note i started the week at 200 got it up to 235 hit a cooler and fell to 188 and now im at 245 so unless i play today the week ended up decent. heres a couple hands that i can remember. this one was from friday oh yeah and by the way i havnt mentioned it yet but i play 6 handed instead of 9 handed i feel that the game better suits my style of play, theres a lot less regulars wich is better for me, theres more action and you get more hands in. i just switched when i started playing .10/.25 and besides losing there id have to say i like 6 handed way more than a full ring. but back to the hand the opponent was on the button and i was small blind i had AK he raised 3x bb i reraised to 10bb he 4 bet to i think 2.60 or 2.80 somewhere in there and i actually went in the tank for a while. at these limits thats usually on an AA or KK move but then i had a thaught that he defenitley coulda thaught i was raising with something like 99. i dont know my 3 bet percentage but i bet it was somwhere around 6.5 to 7% anyways after thinking for a while i just had a feeling he had jj or qq for some reason and just flat called. the board came 8k2 two hearts. i checked he bet about 2/3 the pot i waited a little bit and smoothed called then the turn was a blank and i checked and he bet between half the pot and 2/3 the pot i cant really remember although this is deffinitley a route that AA would take i still was very confident in my hand and was about 80 percent sure i was ahead after he bet i waited a little bit and then put the rest in. he went in the tank for a while. while he was thinking i actually typed "yup" in the chat box and about 10 seconds after that he ended up calling and while he was in the tank i knew i had him there obviously. the river was a blank and he flipped over jj and i scooped a 20 dollar pot. sometimes i live 10nl :). heres one from thursday i think i had QJ of dimonds utg and raised it to 3x the bb. the opponent to my left raised to 10x the bb. usually when an opponent 3 bets in middle position in 10nl hes got qq plus, mostly AA or KK. it came back to me and i flated. the flop was 4J3 rainbow. i check and he bet 1.60 into a 2.15 pot. i was pretty sure i was behind unless he had AK but i decided to call and see the turn, plus there was one dimond on the board as well. the turn was a magical Q i check and he shoves 7.40 into a 5.35 pot. unless he had qq then i had him in pretty bad shape. i wasnt going to fold in that situation with top two so i called and the river was a blank and he showed AA. just a demonstration as how knowing when your opponents actually do have a really strong hand and how you can call with a worse one to get paid off huge in the end, that was another 20$ pot. this post seemed to be an ok one so i think ill insert a few hands at the end of the weeks i play instead of everyday so that i can blog about other things. anyways good luck at the tables for you poker players and everyone else keep tuned

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

well since the last post my down streak continued i lost another 4 buy ins and ended up going from 230$ to 188$ which was a new low for me i didt play bad i was just getting cold decked and things just wernt going so hot, but my work kinda switchwed my shifts up for a few days so i got like 12 hours to play today instead of the usuall 2 hours so im just finishing up my session about 6 hours into it cause im getting pretty tired and i just donked off a stack with a pair of sixes on an over bet pot lol. so i think it was time for me to quit. but before i donked off the 10$ i was at 235 so i made back what i lost. played about 1900 hands on 4 tables and went pretty well i caught about 4 decent sized bluffs and i did about 2 or 3 big bluffs and i usually dont do big bluffs in 10nl because if somone shows intrest in the pot there usually gonna call you so i guess i got pretty lucky that those people were a little talented to be able to throw away a pair or somthing. so even though i know no ones reading this yet i think next post when im not so tired ill insert some hand situations to make it a little more interesting but today went pretty good and if i can do this a few more times then ill take another shot at 25nl. some people might say that im rushing it a bit but i usually try the next level when i have 20 buy ins at the level i play at and then 5 buy ins at the next level its not really enough to take a hit and rebound from it cause its pretty easy to lose 5 buy ins but it gives you more chances at the next level to be able to get it started and then keep it going its seemed to work for me so far so unless i find somthing amazing about another way of doing things ill keep playing like that ok i think im spent .