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After a few failed day savers on Sunday managed a belated one with 3rd in tonights 320 6max. We're about to book tickets to go to Bayern v Real Madrid in the semi final of the champions league tomorrow. Tickets are expensive but cheaper then the inevitable Super Tuesday early bust out ♦
Wow, I thought there wouldn't be CL tickets available at all on the day of the match 
I'm too lazy to look them up but I guess that, as there's such a lack of demand, they must be way too expensive 
Originally posted by pleno1
After a few failed day savers on Sunday managed a belated one with 3rd in tonights 320 6max. We're about to book tickets to go to Bayern v Real Madrid in the semi final of the champions league tomorrow. Tickets are expensive but cheaper then the inevitable Super Tuesday early bust out ♦
enjoy the match mate 
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HALA MADRID !
Originally posted by FFRRAANNKKIIEE
Originally posted by pleno1
After a few failed day savers on Sunday managed a belated one with 3rd in tonights 320 6max. We're about to book tickets to go to Bayern v Real Madrid in the semi final of the champions league tomorrow. Tickets are expensive but cheaper then the inevitable Super Tuesday early bust out ♦enjoy the match mate
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HALA MADRID !
Yeah unfortunately the train was too long 
retry gutted as would have been great.
Played a 2 hour reg session, decided to swerve Super Tuesday as was getting tired but managed to get a 3rd in 82 6max on stars and 6th in the full tilt 215 with a few other 10-20ths for a decent day.
Almost certainly taking tomorrow off.
Have a big decision re investment had a 3-4 hour meeting/time to think about things. Would be a very sizes be investment but its within poker and something I think will do well. Updates to come no doubt...
Saved some hands and will post them in the blog tomorrow for a little bit of strategy.
Seems like you are doing well man.
What was the main decision behind leaving Gibraltar?
This is from the 100r daily tournament the other day.
Its very early, pre ante, pre rebuy and I have a relatively interesting decision.
PokerStars Hand #115476663913: Tournament #901051279, $100+$9 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level II (30/60) - 2014/04/29 18:29:38 CET [2014/04/29 12:29:38 ET]
Table '901051279 5' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: Milana Jones (3401 in chips)
Seat 2: jonaj10 (3910 in chips)
Seat 3: wont be home (8000 in chips)
Seat 5: pads1161 (4304 in chips)
Seat 6: Moorman1 (7370 in chips)
Seat 7: AlexBor72 (3174 in chips)
Seat 8: ThEcLaiMEer (3699 in chips)
Seat 9: good reg (5770 in chips)
pads1161: posts small blind 30
Moorman1: posts big blind 60
HOLE CARDS
Dealt to pads1161 [Ah Kd]
AlexBor72: folds
ThEcLaiMEer: folds
good reg: raises 72 to 132
Milana Jones: folds
jonaj10: folds
wont be home: folds
pads1161: calls 102
Moorman1: calls 72
I think here its important to understand position a little bit. I dont think its that hes opening less from early position, but I think the main thing is that he is more likely to fight back and defend when in later position. IE I expect him to call pocket pairs when I 3bet vs EP, but when I 3bet vs late position I think I can potentially be defended against with hands like A2s or KTs that maybe wont open or defend from early position.
One of the main leaks from MTT players is playing post flop. Basically they will be very transparent with their sizings, for example they may bet third pot with tptk but 3/4 pot with 2 pair or air. Because of this with AK we have a chance to raise a river bet for value or as a bluff depending on the texture of the board.
On the other side of the coin, we are out of position and will often c/f boards that we can cbet and win on. In summary, when we both have nothing, often I lose, even when my nothing is better than his.
Because of all of this, I think pre flop is close, but calling is better.
FLOP [4d Ad 6s]
pads1161: checks
Moorman1: checks
good reg: bets 205
pads1161: calls 205
Moorman1: folds
On the flop he bets 200 into 400, so a half pot bet. I think players often check back Ax on this texture to induce, especially from moorman and myself, two of the more aggro HSMTT regs. As such, his range should be expected to be pretty polarised with 2 pairs, sets, good draws (i block nfd) and good aces. Becuase its pretty early, I think he can fold AJ for example if I c/r, as I can have a lot of value combos here, and I have moorman behind to consider.
So I make a standard and easy call.
TURN [4d Ad 6s] [7c]
pads1161: checks
good reg: bets 420
pads1161: calls 420
On the turn he barrels again. this card looks like it hits my range, but in reality it doesn't. I'd probably just c/f 76s on the flop, I dont have 58s or 75s pre flop.
Still, its way too thin to c/r for value as he may even be checking back some Ax ott that he decided to bet otf with the intention of bluffcatching vs missed fds.
RIVER [4d Ad 6s 7c] [Td]
pads1161: checks
mrAndreeew: bets 960
pads1161: raises 2587 to 3547 and is all-in
On the river he goes ahead and bets 960. Now lets look at what he could be betting.
98s (4 combos)
76s (3 combos)
AT (3 combos) ((perhaps discounted due to flop and turn cbet)
44 (3 combos)
66 (3 combos)
77 (3 combos) ((perhaps discounted due to flop cbet)
a4s (2 combos)
a6s (2 combos) ((perhaps discounted due to pre flop)
a7s (2 combos) ((perhaps discounted due to pre flop)
qjdd
98dd
87dd (perhaps checks turn)
So when we get to the river, lets now look at my range for c/raising.
When I get to the river, I would basically never c/r without some kind of blocker this early in an MTT, especially the 100r where the field is small and rebuying is not too attractive.
So basically I need the Kd in my hand, or possible another diamond.
Lets look at what diamonds I can have?
KdQx no, obviously not
KdxX no, never.
QdKx no, obviously not
QdXx no, never.
So the ONE hand I can have here to be bluffing with, the one single combos out of all the combos I get to the river with is AxKd. I think MTT guys generally think that people 3bet AK pre because they are scared to play post flop without initiative.
So when I jam the river I should basically never be bluffing and I would expect him to potentially call all the flushes he has and fold everything else.
so looking back he should fold 25 combos and call 3 combos.
Lets see what he had..
mrAndreeew: calls 2587
SHOW DOWN
pads1161: shows [Ah Kd] (a pair of Aces)
good reg: shows [Qs As] (a pair of Aces - lower kicker)
pads1161 collected 8740 from pot
wow..
and honestly- do u really can manage to go throught with all (and i mean all) of this tought process while the hand is played for every single combo he can have?
its not like i dont believe, i just think that many ppl who claims to be this good and fast in making complex decisions and able to process huge amount of informnation so quickly, really overrates themselves just so they would look like some crazy braniacs in the eyes of others and in reality they mby just manage to get through half of that at the time when hand is actually played...
any ways, sick hand
If you are only value betting with K:dQ:d (I assume you don't have any other K:d made flushes?)and bluffing with all 3 AxK:d combos then I suppose calling wide isn't soooooooo bad. Obviously betting the river with AQ let alone calling a raise is still spastic in this situation.
But if he had a more reasonable river betting value range of say >2p, then he could bet/call with his entire value range and be massively +ev (1400 chips)verse your river raise if you're raising all 3 A:d in AK.
I suppose if you have no other value combos and you're bluffing more ♦ combos then that makes bet/calling AQo good. The only one I can think of that makes a little sense is perhaps J:d from JJ. So that's 3 more combos. In which case bet/calling with AQ would be worth 2k chips (4k with entire betting range >AQ).
So, I give 2 scenarios going through this guys head.
1. "This guy has too many bluffs (J:d:Jx) I'm bet/calling 90% of my TP and everything better." Massive props to river bet/call exploits & wizard status if true.
2. Or more likely, TP/good kicker is the nuts for a tournament player with less than 50bb effective. "fuck this guy, I'm calling, I has da nutz" 
The good news...
So I'm very very happy to announce that I've joined Pocarr. Pocarr is one if the biggest and most professional poker staking stables in the world showing amazing results from their players. I won't go into too much detail but on their sample video from last year they show their players in 1.2m profit from the last few years.
I've been waiting and waiting for the right project to both invest my time and my money in and this is perfect for me. The amount of money I can make with this project is collerated with how much time and application I put in. There is currently 70 or so players and ill be acting as a coach. Making videos, conducting seminars and helping some of the guys on a 1on1 basis.
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One if the reasons that I am so keen to join is because of the responsibility and freedom I will have with the ability to push projects and initiatives. At pokerstrategy I really enjoyed the business side and did very well, always getting good feedback and good results and this will allow me to get back in that side abit too. Investing my money in a business that has been successful for the last 3 years, is set up to continue to be successful and is in something that I know very well and able to make a direct impact is extremely attractive and motivating for me.
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The bad news
I told my housemate that if I lost on FIFA today I would not play for 2 weeks. I lost 1-0 but with scoop coming up that may be a good thing!
The bad news
I told my housemate that if I lost on FIFA today I would not play for 2 weeks. I lost 1-0 but with scoop coming up that may be a good thing!
If it's FIFA 14 it's even less of a big deal! Such a big step back from the previous ones!
If it's FIFA 14 it's even less of a big deal! Such a big step back from the previous ones!
But it's still FIFA so it would've been a big deal for me at least if I would have to do 2 weeks without it 
Decent Sunday.
Win the 100r late on stars for 10.5k and came 5th in trex for 7.5k with few other ok/good scores .
Reallllly tired now though
Originally posted by pleno1
Decent Sunday.Win the 100r late on stars for 10.5k and came 5th in trex for 7.5k with few other ok/good scores .
Reallllly tired now though
Easy game ♦