Gervinho's Galaxy ツ 4NL Back to Basics!

Thought you might like this video ♦

Ok I got some time before eating my Sloppy Joe's Lunch ♦

Originally posted by adamall
Hey Gerv,

Re: JJxx hand

I think there are quite a few differences with this hand than TT's hand. I dont remember the hand exactly but I think TT was deeper than 100bb. Also I think TT had a 77xxx board not 22xx.

From villains point of view it's unlikely you have many 2's and 44xx in your range, so his nut flush is more likely to be the best hand (also you are not going to raise 22xx and can even flat 44 sometimes).

Also there aren't alot of 22 and 44 hands. He can play the same with 2J/24 type hands, and sometimes flushes if he is a fish. W/O a trimming tell on the snap check I personally think you at least have to call the first time again a relative unknown.

Let me know your thoughts.

I can't assess on what level he is thinking because it is the 2nd hand & he only played 1 table at that time. Fact that he might slowplay Quads again + he is fishy + I have the 2nd nuts beating every single other hands that might check/raise, I think I cannot possibly fold

But I was contemplating it because of this snap check/raise of which I was confident that it was not the nutflush nor any worse boat. I think it is still fine as played Little spoiler; turns out he is a regular with a huge timing tell ♥

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Originally posted by ProlinePoker
Hey gerv,

On the MSS forum section you said your next coaching will be on ZOOM so I was just wondering what you, and your students, think about MSSing Zoom?

I'll be looking forward to attend that coaching session!

Hey
Generally I will be adjusting to my stacksize as 50bb means more risk in terms of 3betting, 4betting & restealing/stealing. I am looking forward to it myself as I have no idea how FR Zoom plays there.

I do play Zoom PLO 6max from time to time to warm-up

Originally posted by jasonforan
Thought you might like this video ♦

Ahyeaaa Afrojack, Sunnery James, Tiesto

The last day of the month everyone's wants to put their best performance in. When at the Trading Day, the people on the floor were sure the S&P was rallying up as everyone wants to get their bonus payment for Q1 and tell their clients that they have a solid performance over this period

Same for me in PLO only on 888 I intentionally leave a small% of my bankroll on it because the security there is not top-notch. In fact it is Hacker's paradise; 8 digit exact password , only numbers & letters, your loginname is the same as your screenname but even worse, I think Cassava is one of the slowest , most inactive Pokercompany in Poker's Industry so by the time you request your account to be looked upon & investigated, that guy is already rubbing it on your titties

Where I want to go with my story here is that if I take shots on PLO100 and almost entirely play on that stake, at some point you are going to see the ''deposit'' button 888. Now psychologically this affects me a bit. I am changing my game to prevent losing or prevent depositing again.

I am aware it is stupid but this is one of the things I have to work on especially in a game of PLO. I guess it takes experience

I am not satisfied with the amount of playing so far in this week. Coming month (April) is going to be solely 50PLO or some crazy 25PLO Zoom broadcasting marathon sessions while preparing myself for my exams & a 5months vacation ♦

Let's do some PLO cooking by the book

Should I be afraid of my $550 on 888?

5 Month Vacation! I hope you enjoy it and crush the PLO tables!

Poor Gerv, he needs to prepare for 5 months vacation. Must suck.

why are you putting some BR on 888 if you dont feel comfortable? why not try a more trusted site like partypoker or something?

Originally posted by ilovemagic
why are you putting some BR on 888 if you dont feel comfortable? why not try a more trusted site like partypoker or something?

I like the software opposed to other networks, also the rake is less than on other networks somehow someway tho I play the same style

My password is the most secure tho it is 8 digits and I change it every month.

Marchwise, I was down cruelly due standard variance. basically with other poker activities & bonuses, I was break-even. As we speak I doubled my bankroll on 888 ♦ PLO fish keep them coming

Grabbed by Holdem Manager
PL Omaha $0.50(BB) Replayer
SB ($205)
BB ($248)
UTG ($127)
Hero ($59.32)
CO ($50)
BTN ($140)

Dealt to Hero T♥ J♣ 9♥ 8♣

fold, Hero raises to $1.75, CO raises to $6, fold, SB calls $5.75, BB calls $5.50, Hero raises to $30, CO raises to $50 (AI), fold, BB calls $44, Hero raises to $59.32 (AI), BB calls $9.32

FLOP ($174) K♥ A♥ 2♠

TURN ($174) K♥ A♥ 2♠ 7♠

RIVER ($174) K♥ A♥ 2♠ 7♠ 8♥

BB shows 9♠ 6♣ 3♦ 4♠
(Pre 16%, Flop 5.4%, Turn 5.6%)

Hero shows T♥ J♣ 9♥ 8♣
(Pre 48%, Flop 37.2%, Turn 25.0%)

CO shows A♠ 5♠ 2♥ A♣
(Pre 36%, Flop 57.4%, Turn 69.4%)

Hero wins $170

CO: F* Bsh** site
BB: LOL HERO FISH (U don' say?)
CO: I just literally lost $200 under 5 minutes on this table
Hero: We're soooooorry for party rocking
CO: F*** you luckbox

I figured that if I do something stupid , why not post it here as well. Today opposed to yesterday was quite horrifying. Not sure if my IQ was transferred to the next day (=today) because seems (didn't analyzed the hands yet) that I was just madpotting it.

So let's post the hands I ''spewed'' in & made me stand up and frustrate myself with how I played. I am still not sure if my 3bet Turnspots are correct

So feel free to flame

$0.25/$0.50 Pot Limit Omaha Hi
2 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com

Stacks:
BTN ($50)
Gerv (BB) ($50)

Pre-Flop: ($0.75, 2 players) Gerv is BB A♣: 2♠: A♠: 8♣:
BTN raises to $1.50, Gerv raises to $4.50, BTN calls $3

Flop: K♠: 6♦: 9♦: ($9, 2 players)
Gerv bets $5.50, BTN calls $5.50

Turn: 4♥: ($20, 2 players)
Gerv bets $13, BTN calls $13

River: 9♠: ($46, 2 players)
Gerv goes all-in $27, BTN goes all-in $27

Final Pot: $100
Gerv shows
A♣: 2♠: A♠: 8♣:
BTN shows
T♥: J♣: J♦: 9♥:

BTN wins $99 (net +$49)

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Next
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Grabbed by Holdem Manager
PL Omaha $0.50(BB) Replayer
SB ($49.50)
BB ($200)
UTG ($146)
UTG+1 ($50)
Hero ($50)
BTN ($42.19)

Dealt to Hero T♠ K♠ Q♦ 6♦

fold, fold, Hero raises to $1, fold, SB calls $0.75, BB raises to $4, Hero calls $3, SB calls $3

FLOP ($12) J♣ 4♦ A♠

SB checks, BB bets $8.50, Hero calls $8.50, SB raises to $45.50 (AI), BB raises to $157, Hero calls $37.50 (AI)

TURN ($149) J♣ 4♦ A♠ 3♠

RIVER ($149) J♣ 4♦ A♠ 3♠ 9♦

BB shows K♥ T♦ Q♠ A♦
(Pre 29%, Flop 15.3%, Turn 6.9%)

Hero shows T♠ K♠ Q♦ 6♦
(Pre 26%, Flop 16.8%, Turn 26.4%)

SB shows 9♥ A♣ J♥ K♦
(Pre 45%, Flop 67.9%, Turn 66.7%)

BB wins $1
SB wins $144

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Next
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Grabbed by Holdem Manager
PL Omaha $0.50(BB) Replayer
SB ($42.44)
BB ($50)
UTG ($154)
UTG+1 ($146)
CO ($50)
Hero ($50)

Dealt to Hero K♦ K♠ J♥ A♥

UTG raises to $1.75, fold, fold, Hero raises to $6, fold, fold, UTG calls $4.25

FLOP ($12.75) J♦ 5♣ 4♠

UTG checks, Hero bets $12.75, UTG calls $12.75

TURN ($38.25) J♦ 5♣ 4♠ 2♥

UTG checks, Hero bets $31.25 (AI), UTG calls $31.25

RIVER ($100) J♦ 5♣ 4♠ 2♥ 6♦

UTG shows 4♥ 5♦ 5♥ 3♦
(Pre 40%, Flop 87.6%, Turn 95.0%)

Hero shows K♦ K♠ J♥ A♥
(Pre 60%, Flop 12.4%, Turn 5.0%)

UTG wins $96.75

*Tried out pot betting vs UTG because I saw him making a stand against me before whenever I potbet so he signals he perceives it to be more polarized. Then it should be blatantly obvious to me his calling range is either superweak that is probably folding on Turn or supersupermanstrong right?

It was more or less within x amount of minutes against the same opponent. Then it is pretty hard for me to control myself from not going into Avenging mode so I had to cut back tables, stop starting HU tables and especially stop HU tables with that player.

He also played this but I was kinda shocked how he played this;

Grabbed by Holdem Manager
PL Omaha $0.50(BB) Replayer
Hero ($63.71)
($49.25)

Dealt to Hero T♥ 6♣ 3♣ Q♥

raises to $1.50, Hero calls $1

FLOP ($3) J♥ 8♣ K♦

Hero checks, bets $1.50, Hero raises to $5.62, calls $4.12

TURN ($14.24) J♥ 8♣ K♦ 9♦

Hero bets $13.50, raises to $42.13 (AI), Hero calls $28.63

RIVER ($98.50) J♥ 8♣ K♦ 9♦ 7♦

shows T♦ A♥ 6♠ K♥
(Pre 58%, Flop 68.4%, Turn 7.5%)

Hero shows T♥ 6♣ 3♣ Q♥
(Pre 42%, Flop 31.6%, Turn 92.5%)

Hero wins $97.50

Feel free to comment once again, I am back to the drawing board though I should be ready to analyze the hands freshly tomorrow morning.

And I didn't blog about awesome yesterday... 2 euro Ben & Jerries, got the Shirts and my new painting ( I broke the other one accidently )

Ahwell sucks , I also went on life tilt because my fucking heater wasn't working & it was storming here in Ireland so my living room wasn't that hot as it was when it was 19degrees, ffs almost smashed it

- Gerv

Worst breakfast ever!

So I forced myself to hunt down in the city centre to have breakfast. I ran out of eggs and even not attending any class for university ( last 2 days of college before the exams) is hurting my fridge, my stomach

Anyways my first plan was to hop in the city and go to a noodle bar. I walked and walked and skipped like 3 all yo can eat bro for 7 euro restaurants. I mean most of them are shite as they are asian only and like 75% of them are pure junk52 crap

So I finally arrived at the noodle bar (closest one I guess) but then I realized.. ''hey let's try out this other all you can eat buffet'' where you have indian dishes as well.

Before you can shuffle & know it, Gerv was heading into that joint and oh man oh man :]. Either it was my expectations being far beyond the treshold Or the food was just plain too spicy, too oily, too fatty or just doesn't have any taste. I tried to make the best of it by taking noodles with some meat but even that didn't cut it. Indian dishes were far toooooo spicy, the chicken wings were more bone than wings. etc.etc.

I left a bit in disgust but I had to move on and do the groceries to prevent this Disastreux thing from happening!

Besides that, I have witnessed my play detoriating when I witness a swingy session when taking shots. In times of stress ( I know myself a bit) aka being in an exam period even though I know I will Ace from Space it, is still a stressfull period. Pokerwise this is a vicious circle for me so I try to tune it down by moving down or playing my normal limit and not taking shots

Besides playing 2 2h sessions, I managed to get a finish 2 entertaining but very helpful vids of PLO HU by TT & Suite. Some spots where new to me which definitely helps and I probably have to rewatch again to get a fully 100% content out of it.

I mostly start tables as well and I end up being HU with fish. Looks something like this (Bell Curve):

Where the x-axis is the time we are in when I play my session & y-axis is the # amount of people playing.

Funny thing is when I had to take a leak, I sitout on all of my tables. Suddenly 2 tables just died I am the Fisch people! muahaha

Resultswise, doing pretty bad I think. Mostly unlucky 50/50s but what can you do? PLOy better! and don't tilt And sometimes folding obvious 2nd best hands is hard when that same person keeps betting Pot on the River while you know he has it over and over again.

it's a simple discipline thing I have to learn I guess

Oh and the tune of today is a Mashup of like all Top 2011 songs by Mashup-Germany, Pretty cool for in the club if you are a DJ if you ask me, at least I would play it

They mixed in these songs lol:

-- Gerv

Ooh damn, Easter is coming!

I feel like the Big Bad Wolf now

We watched My Week With Marilyn, last week. Poor old Emma played the plain girlfriend that the main character dumps for Marilyn Munro. She was well suited to the part imo. I enjoyed it.

Originally posted by jbpatzer
We watched My Week With Marilyn, last week. Poor old Emma played the plain girlfriend that the main character dumps for Marilyn Munro. She was well suited to the part imo. I enjoyed it.

dude, spoiler

i agree tho...

cherish the love

Originally posted by jbpatzer
We watched My Week With Marilyn, last week. Poor old Emma played the plain girlfriend that the main character dumps for Marilyn Munro. She was well suited to the part imo. I enjoyed it.

hmmm yea just saw some highlights of her (obv) in that movie (don't care about the main plot ) and I agree

Ben & Jerry’s Core Karamel Sutra by FoodBev Photos, on Flickr

Just before Easter the B&Jerries discount campaign was ending so I had to do a couple of stuff anyway in the city centre that I grabbed those 2 500ml tubes to my freezer. I still have 1 tube of raspberry & 1 of chocolate brownee

Forgot it is Easter in 5 min. here in Ireland. Anyways I will be mostly working on a grind day tomorrow. It's the ''last day'' without learning for exams in April as from Monday onwards, I have to devote time to this thing

I also will put Zoom in my warming up list because it's fast, people are superbad 200bb++ in PLO and I can maybe stream it

Anyways I didn't played too serious now, was up 4 stacks or something with 1 entry having 600bb stack. sucked out on 1 PS.com member (having the same screen/nickname is pretty easy to identify unless someone is doing the TwiceT trick ♦)

Listened to AfroJack's newest mix (Jacked) but he played pretty old songs, cant' stop me now & greyhound par example

Hardwell is also going hard and more to the electronic tune

I also started watching Game of Thrones with Boromir as leading character ♦ One does not simply watch this series it's pretty cool

Super Sunday:

&

PSV eindhoven

&

♥ what a day!

Ooh and ♦

He should've been sent of for that first tackle to Song's knee.

Thanks for securing us the title

I heard great things about Game of Thrones. I am contemplating dling it and watching it. It`s my kind fo cake so I should like it (I somehow got to watch 15 mins of a commentary by actors on it)

Anywhore, Gl w studying

Originally posted by THESHade
I heard great things about Game of Thrones. I am contemplating dling it and watching it. It`s my kind fo cake so I should like it (I somehow got to watch 15 mins of a commentary by actors on it)

Anywhore, Gl w studying

Just watched Episode 2, looks like a good plot so go go!

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