martins1337: A-game development

Getting paid with decent hand

$0.25 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players

Hero (SB): $25.00
BB: $31.84
UTG: $43.85
CO: $12.40
BTN: $35.77

Hero posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.35) Hero has 3:club: 3:spade:

UTG raises to $0.75, CO calls $0.75, fold, Hero calls $0.65, BB calls $0.50

Flop: ($3.00, 4 players) 8:diamond: 8:heart: 3:diamond:
Hero bets $2.00, BB calls $2.00, fold, fold

Turn: ($7.00, 2 players) 4:club:
Hero bets $4.16, BB raises to $10.00, Hero raises to $22.25 and is all-in, BB calls $12.25

River: ($51.50, 2 players) K:heart:

BB shows 8:club: 9:club: (Three of a Kind, Eights) (Pre 53%, Flop 23%, Turn 16%)
Hero shows 3:club: 3:spade: (Full House, Threes full of Eights) (Pre 47%, Flop 77%, Turn 84%)
Hero wins $48.93

I lead on the flop because CO fish and UTG won't cbet much - only pairs and Fdraws, and I don't have word slowingplay (or how you pronounce it ) in my vocabulary

Running really good......on flop. hitting sets left and right, the only problem is that there's 2 more community cards to come

Funny hand, I called preflop because everybody was doing it, I just wanted to be popular

$0.25 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players

UTG: $27.92
MP: $36.52
CO: $46.71
Hero (BTN): $25.00
SB: $27.69
BB: $25.35

SB posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.35) Hero has 7:diamond: 6:diamond:

fold, MP raises to $0.75, CO calls $0.75, Hero calls $0.75, fold, BB raises to $4.00, MP calls $3.25, CO calls $3.25, Hero calls $3.25

Flop: ($16.10, 4 players) 3:spade: 4:heart: Q:spade:
BB checks, MP checks, CO checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($16.10, 4 players) 8:heart:
BB checks, MP checks, CO checks, Hero checks

River: ($16.10, 4 players) 7:club:
BB checks, MP checks, CO checks, Hero checks

I think I'm done for this week. Will just read/watch some poker content.

Cooler

$0.25 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players

BTN: $109.51
SB: $25.00
BB: $25.00
Hero (UTG): $33.70
CO: $25.00

SB posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.35) Hero has 9:diamond: 9:heart:

Hero raises to $0.75, fold, fold, SB calls $0.65, fold

Flop: ($1.75, 2 players) Q:diamond: 9:club: J:diamond:
SB checks, Hero bets $1.25, SB raises to $3.75, Hero raises to $10.00, SB raises to $24.25 and is all-in, Hero calls $14.25

SB shows J:spade: J:club:

Nice when you get positive variance while getting unlucky though, rake is a low price to pay!

one orbit earlier same villain 3bets me and I 4bet, he folds. this time, he 3bet much bigger, I thought why so big if for value? 4bet all in or 4bet ~2x his 3bet. After he 5beted I remembered that hand, when different villain had K2s in similar spot, so I smiled and went all in.

$0.25 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players

CO: $25.00
Hero (BTN): $29.32
SB: $25.10
BB: $25.00
UTG: $31.39

SB posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.35) Hero has K:spade: A:spade:

fold, fold, Hero raises to $0.75, fold, BB raises to $3.75, Hero raises to $7.00, BB raises to $11.00, Hero raises to $29.32 and is all-in, BB calls $14.00 and is all-in

Flop: ($50.10, 2 players) 2:diamond: 3:club: 8:spade:

Turn: ($50.10, 2 players) 6:diamond:

River: ($50.10, 2 players) J:club:

Just keep getting it in good, and results will follow.

It may suck a bit to lose when massively dominating him, but as long as he keeps making these calls, you'll be the one laughing in the end!

exactly fruktpuff!

Didn't play much last week. Losing money is not fun
I will try to put some volume this week + at least one article a day. Also I think it's time to reread The Poker Mindset.

Let us know how you like it and what ou managed to take away from it afterwards!

I will try to write some thoughts about the book. I read it ~1.5 years ago, and because I'm losing money, The poker mindset should be a good read. Also not forgetting about hand posting and articles

Yesterday I made huge mistake ♦ I had 20$ left on Stars and played zooom. The software, the hands/hour . After that, playing on party network was like going to 3rd word country.
My plan in to finish FDB and move to site, that has fastfolding poker - iPoker or microgaming. Stars is last option - not tracked.

I will switch to MSS for a while. Don't want to move down to NL10, so I will stay at NL25 and play MSS. I think this decision is not that bad. Knowing how to play MSS, should help my game against MSSers.
From one article

It is also suited for BSS players who want to try something new. Perhaps you simply want to take a different perspective. Maybe you feel insecure against other BSS regulars and want to restructure your game. You don't just play mid stack because you think "I am a fish and if I play mid stack I will only lose half". It can be interesting for BBS players to play MSS if they have come to a point in their game where they don't exactly know how to proceed and want to revive their game with a new strategy.

Back to articles and after that - tables, maybe

Got my hand on a monitor. Now 8 tabling pretty easy and nice. I think soon I play NL25 BBS again, gotta get used to 2 monitors and 8 tabling.
As for MSS - now it's easier to play vs MSSers. Other player mistakes vs them are setmining and not 3betting enough.
Cheers!

I made a list of thing I need to do daily - running, reading, pokering, and some optional things. For this month my goal is to follow this plan.
June was pretty shitty month in poker. I think I played 2,5 weeks and lost bunch of money. But now it's different. Playing 8 tables BSS at NL10 just to get a feel to it and maybe in next few days move back to NL25.
Last month graph

was playing NL10 and NL25 and saw couple of regs playing both stakes. I think it's a good idea - not many good tables running, but on both limits combined, there's plenty of action.
Now I'm playing 4h a day average and I like this much more than playing certain number of hands.
Funny pic I found in interwebs

From "The Poker Mindset"
"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win." - Sin Tzu from The Art of War
I think, if you want to be victorious poker player, you need to have hand reading skills and knowing you are the best player at the table. I have this feeling while i play NL10, now I need to get it at NL25.

The Five Realities of Poker - understand and accept it.
1. Poker is a game of both skill and luck.
2. In the short term, luck is king.
3. In the long term, skill is king.
4. Poker is a game of small edges.
5. Poker is a game of high variance.

Won 20$ from EURO2012 promo, too bad I still have FDB to clear, so by by 20 bucks
Playing those tournaments - Summer Superstars and Championship Challenge. Don't know is this helps me for my game, plus if I want to play them all, it's 5+h of tournament poker a day. And it's in the evening when, in my opinion, my pokering skills are the worst. Love that morning/day grind.

Here is a hand that sums up (all) my tournament history

SB: 7,610.00
BB: 2,970.00
UTG: 3,621.00
UTG+1: 6,050.00
Hero (UTG+2): 2,990.00
MP: 2,960.00
MP+1: 3,590.00
MP+2: 4,300.00
CO: 2,809.00
BTN: 2,910.00

SB posts SB 20.00, BB posts BB 40.00

Pre Flop: (pot: 60.00) Hero has K:diamond: K:spade:

UTG calls 40.00, fold, Hero raises to 160.00, fold, fold, MP+2 calls 160.00, fold, fold, SB raises to 2,960.00, fold, UTG raises to 3,621.00 and is all-in, Hero calls 2,830.00 and is all-in, fold, SB calls 661.00

Flop: (10432.00, 3 players) 8:spade: Q:heart: 2:spade:

Turn: (10432.00, 3 players) 6:diamond:

River: (10432.00, 3 players) A:spade:

SB shows K:heart: A:diamond: (One Pair, Aces) (Pre 17%, Flop 2%, Turn 0%)
UTG shows A:heart: Q:club: (Two Pair, Aces and Queens) (Pre 10%, Flop 16%, Turn 10%)
Hero shows K:diamond: K:spade: (One Pair, Kings) (Pre 73%, Flop 83%, Turn 90%)
UTG wins 1,262.00
UTG wins 9,170.00

Last week was good. Played 6days, 13,3k hands. This week I will mainly focus on blind battles - reading articles, videos. Also will write down vision and goals, like Schnitzelfisch said in coaching and his post.
Cheers!

Interesting that I couldn't go all in this hand - after villains 5bet only fold or call was the option.
Still nice hand tho
Maybe just bet all in on flop?
$0.25 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players

MP: $11.89
Hero (CO): $27.60
BTN: $33.59
SB: $8.49
BB: $26.51
UTG: $8.90

SB posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.35) Hero has K:diamond: K:spade:

fold, fold, Hero raises to $0.75, BTN calls $0.75, SB raises to $1.25, fold, Hero raises to $5.00, BTN calls $4.25, SB raises to $8.49 and is all-in, Hero calls $3.49, BTN calls $3.49

Flop: ($25.72, 3 players) J:club: K:club: 6:spade:
Hero bets $10.50, BTN calls $10.50

Turn: ($46.72, 3 players) 6:heart:
Hero bets $8.61 and is all-in, BTN calls $8.61

River: ($63.94, 3 players) 5:club:

when fish goes mental

SB: $25.22
BB: $50.78
UTG: $25.92
MP: $21.67
CO: $17.95
Hero (BTN): $31.09

SB posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.35) Hero has 8:club: 7:club:

fold, MP calls $0.25, fold, Hero raises to $1.00, fold, fold, MP calls $0.75

Flop: ($2.35, 2 players) 5:heart: 4:diamond: 6:spade:
MP bets $1.00, Hero raises to $2.75, MP raises to $20.67 and is all-in, Hero calls $17.92

Turn: ($43.69, 2 players) Q:club:

River: ($43.69, 2 players) J:spade:

Hero shows 8:club: 7:club: (Straight, Eight High) (Pre 43%, Flop 97%, Turn 100%)
MP mucks K:club: 4:club: (One Pair, Fours) (Pre 57%, Flop 3%, Turn 0%)
Hero wins $41.51

Haha I love that last hand, his heart must have dropped. Enjoying the blog and will be following, good luck for this month. I'm playing NL10 atm and going to be taking shots at NL25 this month --- would you say that you notices a jump in the skill levels that is significant? Or is it still just as fishy?

Good luck at the tables!