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Wriggers
Joined: 21.07.2009

Sorry it's been so long guys. Busy with exams/being ill all weekend and then lectures today. All of which meant I couldn't put in the volume I was hoping. Anyway, my "unbeaten streak" of winning months in poker has come to an end, all in all I ended the month $140 down + Rakeback, so probably slightly up overall but that doesn't count in my book. I will post a full update tomorrow lunchtime probably, and then i will get cracking on with my February month, hopefully it will go better

Would've made up some of the losses today, was about $60 up in my last session until I got ruined in consecutive hands, one QQ into AA (Terribly played by me, a figh limp/raised preflop, obvious he had AA or KK X( Stupid me) The next I had JJ, flopped a set and 3bet another guy big, extra guy calls so it's 3 handed. Turn comes out and I shove, and the guy holding QT who had called a 3bet on the flop with a gutshot had obviously hit :rolleyes:. Honestly didn't think he could have that after the way the hand had played out.

Another cooler includes the "Oh so lovely" I flop a straight, he flops a better straight :P my 67 on a rainbow flop of 89T runs into QJ :P

Anyway, off to bed with me now to watch a bit of House (I'm addicted to this program now ) and get up for my 9am lecture! Fun fun fun!


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Wriggers
Joined: 21.07.2009

January Review

Don't worry, this won't be long :P

So the month started off great, I hit an upswing and started shooting at NL50. Played about 15k hands and was up $400, then BAM. Downswing struck and everything went wrong, crushed for the remainder of the month and ended the month $140 or so down. Meh.

Here's the graph:

Fortunately I managed GoldStar on Pokerstars, which was a goal of mine, hoping to make Platinum this month but my Dissertation might get in the way :P

First session of February went alright, althoguh a hectic few minutes caused me to drop all of my profit and end $12 down. Played all the hands alright I think, ended about $45 below EV.

Also, i'm thinking of applying on the staking forum for a small stake to take me to NL50, along with a bit of coaching to try and improve my game. Will have a think about it over the next few days and maybe make a thread there. Not sure if this is allowed here but if anyone is interested give me a shout in here and i'll give you any info/graphs you would like :)


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Wriggers
Joined: 21.07.2009

Just been reading through the past few pages of this blog, God I seem like a whiny bitch

Thought i'd pop in here to post a few hands that i've been marking in my sessions the past couple of days but always been too tired to post. SO we'll get on to that in a minute. February is starting off pretty well, lost another $12 on a VERy small session last night, before my flatmates came in and made me play Worms 2: Armageddon _cool: But then played another session after that and ended it up $70 or so, so not too bad. Enough of this though, here's some hands:

Hand 1:

Hand converted with online PokerStrategy.com hand converter:

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$0.1/$0.25 No-Limit Hold'em (8 handed)

Known players:
[tg]UTG2$25.60:///////;MP1$26.56:///////;MP2$25.00:///////;MP3$25.00:///////;CO$30.93:///////;BU (Hero)$43.93:///////;SB$69.97:///////;BB$24.80:///////;[/tg]

Preflop: Hero is BU with 8:h, 8:d.
2 folds, MP2 raises to $0.75, 2 folds, Hero calls $0.75, 2 folds, BB folds.

Flop: ($1.85) K:d, 3:s, 4:s (2 players)
MP2 bets $1.50, Hero calls $1.50.

Turn: ($4.85) 5:c (2 players)
MP2 bets $4.25, Hero raises to $11.00, MP2 raises to $22.75, Hero folds, MP2 gets uncalled bet back.

Final Pot: $15.85.
So, there's a play by me gone horrible wrong haha. Looking back on it I should have 3bet him preflop since i'm massively in position and Villain tends to fold to a lot of 3bets. As it goes though, I flat call. The flop comes dry as anything and the only thing that will have got a piece of this board is AK, KQ and KK. Villain is pretty nitty but Cbets 90% on the flop and 80% on the turn. So I float him on this dry board. The turn doesn't really change anything for me or Villain imo, as I don't see him showing up with 67 too often here. He Cbets again, and I think this bet looks a bit too big to be for pure value. I decide to raise him anyway, looking back on it the raise size on the turn was dreadful, I guess I subconsciously made myself leave enough behind to justify a fold :p. I'm still not sure about this hand, I think my play was fine overall, his Turn bet was probably for protection, hmmm the only hand I can put him on that would 4bet me on the turn is AA or KK. So usually I think my play is fine here, it would push any Ax hand out of the pot, and probably any TT-QQ hand as well, and definately the 55-TT hands.

Hand 2:

Hand converted with online PokerStrategy.com hand converter:

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$0.1/$0.25 No-Limit Hold'em (8 handed)

Known players:
[tg]SB (Hero)$25.23:///////;BB$25.00:///////;UTG2$14.79:///////;MP1$26.59:///////;MP2$16.15:///////;MP3$27.42:///////;CO$25.00:///////;BU$9.15:///////;[/tg]

Preflop: Hero is SB with K:d, K:c.
5 folds, BU calls $0.25, Hero raises to $1.25, BB calls $1.00, BU raises to $3.25, Hero raises to $14.60, BB folds, BU calls $5.90.

Flop: ($24.9) 6:h, 8:c, T:s (2 players)

Turn: ($24.9) 7:c (2 players)

River: ($24.9) 9:h (2 players)

Final Pot: $24.9.
Results follow:

Hero shows a straight, ten high(K:d K:c).
BU shows a straight, ten high(T:h T:d).

Hero wins with a straight, ten high(K:d K:c).
BU wins with a straight, ten high(T:h T:d).

Haha I bet he felt pretty smug about himself on the flop

Hand 3:

Hand converted with online PokerStrategy.com hand converter:

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$0.1/$0.25 No-Limit Hold'em (7 handed)

Known players:
[tg]CO (Hero)$27.39:///////;BU$25.00:///////;SB$13.53:///////;BB$48.45:///////;MP1$45.36:///////;MP2$25.75:///////;MP3$35.67:///////;[/tg]

Preflop: Hero is CO with Q:d, A:h.
3 folds, Hero raises to $1.00, 3 folds, Hero raises to $27.39.

Flop: ($27.74) 4:d, 8:h, 7:d (1 players)
gets uncalled bet back.

Turn: ($27.74) 4:h (1 players)
gets uncalled bet back.

River: ($27.74) A:c (1 players)
gets uncalled bet back.

Final Pot: $0.35.

And this is where HEM pays for itself Villain is 75/38/50 over 32 hands, he's been 3betting everything for the last orbit. I had been waiting to get a hand to paly against him so I had to shove it In the end I won about $35 off this Villain with this hand and another all in preflop when I had QQ. He did then win some of that back sucking out on me but oh well :P

Hand 4:

Hand converted with online PokerStrategy.com hand converter:

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$0.1/$0.25 No-Limit Hold'em (8 handed)

Known players:
[tg]MP2$13.36:///////;MP3$16.69:///////;CO$19.67:///////;BU$8.32:///////;SB$25.10:///////;BB$104.50:///////;UTG2 (Hero)$25.70:///////;MP1$25.57:///////;[/tg]

Preflop: Hero is UTG2 with T:h, T:c.
Hero raises to $1.00, 3 folds, CO calls $1.00, 3 folds, 2 folds, BB folds.

Flop: ($2.35) T:s, 7:c, K:d (2 players)
Hero checks, CO checks.

Turn: ($2.35) 4:c (2 players)
Hero bets $2.00, CO calls $2.00.

River: ($6.35) 2:h (2 players)
Hero bets $5.00, CO raises to $16.67(All-In), Hero calls $11.67.

Final Pot: $39.69.
Results follow:

Hero shows three of a kind, tens(T:h T:c).
CO shows a pair of sixs(6:c 6:h).

Hero wins with three of a kind, tens(T:h T:c).

Not too sure what Villain was thinking here. I check the flop to give him a chance to catch up, it's a hella dry flop so i'm fine checking here. I have to fire on the turn if I want any sort of big pot so I do. I was expecting to show up against another set here, surprisingly not haha!

That's all from me folks, will be clocking a few sessions tonight hopefully :)

Hands Played - 1,780

Profit - $38.90

Profit With Rakeback - $88.90 + FPPs

VPP Earned (Monthly) - 159

VPP Earned (Annually) - 5,018

Hmmm, I think i'm going to start an overall annual one of these to post at the end of every month :) Hopefully i'll remember!


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Nice of you to stop by at my blog...
Did read yours from time to time, probably will take time and read it from the start, was just too lazy to do it already :rolleyes:


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JohnTheGreatest
Joined: 28.01.2010

Hi, wriggers!

I've been reading your blog for a while! I like it, especially hands with analysis that you post. :)

I started on cash exactly month ago (NL2 SH on Stars) and built my roll from $10 to $39 atm.

I like your climbing in limits fom NL2 to NL25.

and how do you calculate your rakeback? (is rakeback even possible on stars?)

nice blog once more :), tnx

miljon.


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Wriggers
Joined: 21.07.2009

Thanks and GL with your own quest My main aim when I started playing again seriously, and when I deposited $50 into Stars was to build my roll up to where I am able to play NL400 (Hopefully) without depositing again :) Even if I somehow managed to lose it all now i'd still be in profit since I made a few withdrawals haha.

I don't so much calculate rakeback, I add in the bonuses I get on HEM, such as the VIP Stellar rewards, they're the figures I put in as rakeback. Then you have the FPPs as well, which vary in value depending on what you buy with them. So when I buy bonuses with them I will add them in as rakeback.

Although it is sort of possible to calculate rakeback using the website FppPro, although again it depends entirely on what you're spending your FPPs on :)

Just playing a session now, lost some on the Home Games with friends off a different forum I frequent due to me playing like an idiot haha, but i'm feeling good about this session for some reason :)


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EmanuelC16
Joined: 02.01.2010

Yo! Do you have me on ignore in Skype or smth? I think the last 3 times you haven't answered


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Wriggers
Joined: 21.07.2009

Haha sorry man, I have actually left a message for you, for some reason my Skype is still being crap and it's not notifying me when I recieve a message Every time i've got a message off you by the time i've seen it you're long gone haha!

Was meant to play a lot more than I did tonight, since my flatmates have gone out and I was looking forward to a night jam packed with poker! Unfortunately I spent most of night making and eating Enchiladas But i've just finished a session now which I played pretty well in. Strange that I had a 1,000 hand session and didn't get all in once ?( I don't think i'm aggressive enough.

This leads me on to a leak i've realised I have. Basically I'm scared when I get a set, I protect it too much and it causes Villain to fold a lot. For instance, say I flop top set on a 2 suited board, i'm always scared to check it or simply call a bet, as i'm always worried the turn will bring that 3rd flush card. Now I know it's quite unlikely they're even going to have that flush draw in the first place. I guess this is something I have to work on.

Anyway, i've got a hand to post that i'm quite proud of really :) Villain is recognised to be one of the best NL25 players on Pokerstars, and is almost definately better than me. This guy is definately thinking at Level 2/3 depending on who he's playing against. My guess is that against other regs such as me he's trying to think at Level 3.

Hand converted with online PokerStrategy.com hand converter:

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$0.1/$0.25 No-Limit Hold'em (7 handed)

Known players:
[tg]CO$23.87:///////;BU$25.00:///////;SB (Hero)$27.46:///////;BB$28.65:///////;MP1$25.82:///////;MP2$44.86:///////;MP3$28.73:///////;[/tg]

Preflop: Hero is SB with T:d, T:c.
MP1 folds, MP2 raises to $0.75, 3 folds, Hero calls $0.65, BB folds.

Flop: ($1.75) 9:d, J:s, 5:h (2 players)
Hero checks, MP2 bets $1.00, Hero calls $1.00.

Turn: ($3.75) 4:s (2 players)
Hero checks, MP2 bets $3.00, Hero raises to $8.25, MP2 calls $5.25.

River: ($20.25) 5:s (2 players)
Hero bets $17.46(All-In), MP2 folds, Hero gets uncalled bet back.

Final Pot: $20.25.

Yes I did just call TT OOP The flop is dry as hell so he's always Cbetting here, unless he's hit big where he might check back. He bets quite big on the turn, and he knows i'm a reg so he wouldn't do this just to build the pot. I'm thinking he's trying to push me off my hand at this point. I raise him, he tanks it and then calls. Now I know the flush draw from the turn completes on the river, but imo he NEVER has a flush here, or at least he wouldn't have been calling that turn with just a flush draw. After his call on the turn I think he still thinks i'm trying to get him off a hand. His flat call after a tank on the turn makes me think weakness, or at least weak enough to fold to a shove on the river. So I shove it, repping 99 or 44 here in my opinion. With this shove i'm expecting to push out everything in his MP2 raising range apart from 99 and JJ, and obviously 55 but that's very unlikely. I think with this shove after the line i've taken, which is generally showing a LOT of strength at this level, I will push him off all hands other than Full houses and flushes. AJ, QQ, KK and AA will all probably fold here. So i'm quite proud of this hand

I did have a few blunders this session, a major one being a complete bluff 4bet on the flop, in which I didn't take his stack size into account. I'm sitting there with no draws and 8 high when he shoves an extra $3 into a $11 pot and I have to fold, looking like a complete tool :f_mad:

Hands Played - 5,493

Profit - $39.52

Profit With Rakeback - $89.52 + FPPs

VPP Earned (Monthly) - 501

VPP Earned (Annually) - 5,361

EDIT: Hahahahaha my flatmate just rang me, obviously drunk as fuck, asking for a taxi from outside the casino. He obviously thought he was ringing the taxi company, as our names are quite close to each other on his Contacts list It took me a second to think of a plan but I ended up telling him there would be a taxi there to pick him up in 10 minutes


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Hajler
Joined: 21.10.2008

Hey again, good to see you seem to be doing well this month.

I don't think playing sets fast on a board with a flush draw is a leak at all - you just need to balance this by raising your draws/bluffs in the same spots as well. Raise flop when there is a draw on board/call and raise turn on a dry board are the most standard set lines I would say.

The hand where you turned your TT into a bluff was well played because you perfectly represent a big hand and the river card is very good - he pretty much has to fold everything because AA or even a flush would just be a bluff catcher. I disagree that 55 is not likely to be in his range though(you didn't post stats, but based on the fact that you said he is a good reg), I think any pocket is a standard open even in FR.

On the other hand, I don't think the 88 bluff from a few posts back is not very good. You aren't really representing anything believable because sets would have raised the flop, and you have no reason to raise say a king. By taking this line I think you get less better hands to fold as opposed to a raise flop bet turn line. Where with the latter you can even get a fold out of AK a lot, I think the former will result in you getting shoved on by TPTK hands often. I'm not saying this line wont work, just that its probably not optimal in this spot IMO.

Anyways thats just my opinion, I'm not sure how reliable my advice is. :f_biggrin:

Good luck at the tables.


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Wriggers
Joined: 21.07.2009

Thanks for the praise and the advice as well :) I'm sure your advice is more reliable than my own thoughts, due to you having more experience and playing higher limits than me

About the TT hand, the reason I say 55 is unlikely is simply because of the 2nd 5 coming on the river, leaving only one combination of 55 left, and I tihnk he would have pushed on me on the turn with 55 :) But yeah i'm quite proud of that hand as I outplayed someone who is believed to be the best player on NL25 (I won't mention names on here ).

The 88 hand wasn't well played and I realise that now, I usually pick good spots to bluff in general, and this was not one of those, although unfortunately it's taken me a few analyses to realise it

In other news, it was a MIGHTY day of Football in the Premier League today, with more goals being scored than ever on a Saturday, including a huge comeback from Newcastle after being 4-0 down against Arsenal. Unfortunately, my beloved Man Utd lost their unbeaten league streak against bottom-of-the-table Wolves in a dismal performance :(

Oh, and i've also got a Cardrunners membership! Going to work my way through various verneer videos, as they are excellent. I watched one on NL50 Leakbusting last night and it was very good. Part of a series so i'll watch a few more tonight :)


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DannyG13
Joined: 29.10.2009

Originally posted by Wriggers
In other news, it was a MIGHTY day of Football in the Premier League today, with more goals being scored than ever on a Saturday, including a huge comeback from Newcastle after being 4-0 down against Arsenal.

Fml :f_mad:

Originally posted by Wriggers
Unfortunately, my beloved Man Utd lost their unbeaten league streak against bottom-of-the-table Wolves in a dismal performance :(

Hahaha, love it! _biggrin:

Originally posted by Wriggers
Oh, and i've also got a Cardrunners membership! Going to work my way through various verneer videos, as they are excellent. I watched one on NL50 Leakbusting last night and it was very good. Part of a series so i'll watch a few more tonight :)

You pay for this? Worth investing?


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jbpatzer
Joined: 23.11.2009

Originally posted by DannyG13

Originally posted by Wriggers
In other news, it was a MIGHTY day of Football in the Premier League today, with more goals being scored than ever on a Saturday, including a huge comeback from Newcastle after being 4-0 down against Arsenal.

Fml :f_mad:

Looooool. And you forgot to mention Spurs winning 2-1 with a goal in the last minute of extra time!


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Wriggers
Joined: 21.07.2009

Damn you Danny! :P Except for Arsenal losing their lead My flatmate is a Newcastle fan He was having a dreadful day at one point, he was hungover having been out last night, 4-0 down in the first half and on the verge of going back to bed hahaha. Then they came back and he was buzzing

And oh yeah, forgot about the Spurs game Sounded very, very controversial, with refereeing decisions all over the place haha, can't wait for Match of the Day!

And about Cardrunners, if you have the money available but can't afford a coach, i'd recommend it highly, I do pay for it and I can see it paying off big time, despite the annoying American accents


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jbpatzer
Joined: 23.11.2009

If you play on FT, you can get free Cardrunners if you make 5500 ftps per month, or get part weeks. I got two weeks last month.


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DannyG13
Joined: 29.10.2009

Originally posted by jbpatzer
If you play on FT, you can get free Cardrunners if you make 5500 ftps per month, or get part weeks. I got two weeks last month.

How? You gotta spend FTP's on them, or just sign up somewhere and it's all free? Explain please


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vonki
Joined: 18.03.2008

Originally posted by DannyG13

Originally posted by jbpatzer
If you play on FT, you can get free Cardrunners if you make 5500 ftps per month, or get part weeks. I got two weeks last month.

How? You gotta spend FTP's on them, or just sign up somewhere and it's all free? Explain please

Everyone who plays on FTP automaticly qualifies for it, how long perscription you get is based on how much FTP's you make, but they do not take your FTP's away from you or affect your rakeback in any way.

=)

@ Wriggers, is it SH or FR that you play? I would love to do some review sessions anyway so add me on skype if you're up for it =)


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Wriggers
Joined: 21.07.2009

I play FR vonki :) Yeah i'd love to review some hands and sessions, what's your Skype? Well, you can just add me actually, Wrig90.


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Wriggers
Joined: 21.07.2009

Quick update. Basically i'm down a bit this month, but pretty much break-even. This is due to a horrible session a few days ago where I dropped $130 :( But oh well.

The big news is that i've got myself a staker, where my BR has been boosted to allow me to play NL50FR. We did a sort of preliminary session review last night to check I wasn't a complete fish and it went alright :) So I should be playing NL50 in the next few days :) Fortunately my staker (wasy8 :)) has beaten NLFR before so i'm getting a bit of coaching as well which is the perfect deal for me :) Crushing NL1k by summer? I tihnk so Or not.


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Hey man, just bump in to say hello.
I like your blog and will deff take time to read thru it somtime this days.
Love idea of nl1k before summer, stick to it :)

Cheers


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Wriggers
Joined: 21.07.2009

Thanks for popping in Sinnology :) Glad you like it. Too bad hitting NL1k by Summer will never happen Unless I run like God himself, hopefully I will reach NL100 though.

So, i've not updated much at all recently, mainly because not much has been going on, since getting my stake i've been mixing NL50 and NL25 tables, but nothing much has happened. Pretty much just breakeven sessions. However, since the 20-40bb tables have been removed from Pokerstars the fish count has DRAMATICALLY increased on the 100bb tables, seriously good :) I'm not sitting with at least 2, usually 4 calling stations/fish with VPIP of >40 A lot of them are the fit or fold sort of fish, where they call everything preflop and fold instantly if they miss. Which means 3bet them relentlessly and Cbet any board

But NL50 seems easily beatable at the moment, and i'm just hoping for some run good haha. Also, a friend of mine off another forum ran deep in the SUnday Million last night (He freerolled into it through satellites) and he walked away in 12th place for around $9k! Sick win.


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