lazy week

so i played less hands this week than i used to play in a day but thats because i've had a b-day(i've got 2 almost identical poker chip sets - someone heard i play poker..and a backgammon set - nice level for those who gave me poker sets) and haven't played drunk, and i think it's very important :)

i've had my very first sweat session with Meteoric. hope it'll take my game to the next level :)

some funny hands:

$0.1/$0.25 No Limit Holdem
6 players
Stacks:

UTG	Hero	($48.41)
UTG+1	djabbel	($25.10)
CO	CLX088	($26.35)
BTN	TENOFSPADES5	($29.27)
SB	AMP87	($46.74)
BB	mazerpelt	($63.59)

Pre-flop: ($0.35, 6 players) Hero is UTG

Hero folds, 2 folds, TENOFSPADES5 raises to $0.75, AMP87 raises to $2.50, mazerpelt calls $2.25, TENOFSPADES5 calls $1.75

Flop: ($7.50, 3 players)
AMP87 bets $3.75, mazerpelt raises to $13.75, TENOFSPADES5 goes all-in $26.77, AMP87 goes all-in $44.24, mazerpelt calls $30.49

Turn: ($122.75, 3 players)

River: ($122.75, 3 players)

Final Pot: $122.75
TENOFSPADES5 shows:
AMP87 shows:
mazerpelt shows:

TENOFSPADES5 wins $84.81 ( won +$55.54 )
AMP87 wins $34.94 ( lost -$11.80 )
mazerpelt lost -$46.74

shortly after this all-in fest i got aces:

$0.1/$0.25 No Limit Holdem

5 players
Stacks:

UTG	TENOFSPADES5	($85.37)
CO	AMP87	($34.94)
BTN	Hero	($63.48)
SB	djabbel	($25.00)
BB	CLX088	($26.35)

Pre-flop: ($0.35, 5 players) Hero is BTN

TENOFSPADES5 calls $0.25, 1 fold, Hero raises to $1.10, 2 folds, TENOFSPADES5 raises to $4, Hero raises to $12.35, TENOFSPADES5 calls $8.35

Flop: ($25.05, 2 players)
TENOFSPADES5 checks, Hero bets $25.05, TENOFSPADES5 raises to $50.10, Hero goes all-in $51.13, TENOFSPADES5 calls $1.03

Turn: ($127.31, 2 players)

River: ($127.31, 2 players)

Final Pot: $127.31
TENOFSPADES5 shows:
Hero shows:

Hero wins $124.31 ( won +$60.83 )
TENOFSPADES5 lost -$63.48

thats how one hand changes everything :)

playerhaters, beware..i'm back

I haven't posted for quite some time but now holidays are over and I'm back. I withdrew money from my accounts in the end of June, just before the trip but Meteoric sent me back the money I gave him before+some interest (100% roi, which is very generous :) ) so i played a few sngs. fortunately i run like god and more than quadrupled that sum. i played mostly 45-man and 90-man 1$ sngs, shipped few of them(when i was ITM it was almost always a first place..have I mentioned I run like god?). my sharkscope graph is way off(even compared to my opr stats) so no graphs here..is there anything similar in PT/HEM? I played 1 $5 MTT, made a deep run, played few HU sngs and in the end decided to play $5 32-man HU sng. at first I wanted to play the "winner-takes-it-all" but I'm such a pussy so I played the normal one with 8 places paid. needless to say I shipped that one too! for only $56...fml

anyway, fastforward..on my way back from the airport I somehow left my wallet in the taxi(well I thought someone stole it). it was the first time in my life when I left my wallet. I had quite some cash in it: ~400 euro(got my apartment deposit back on the very last day)+some roubles worth another ~100 euro..and 4 credit cards! the very next day taxi driver(totaly random guy) called me(I had my business card with my number in the wallet) and said he found my wallet in his car. he gave it back to me with all the money(~500 euro) and credit cards! I totaly didn't expect it. Russian taxi drivers are the best :) but I have already locked my creditcards and had to re-issue them so I was able to start grinding only this week. sooo....
I started with 50nl:

had a very tilting session with some stupid shortstacker: he had $20, his line was "minbet-minbet-shove" but after 10-15mins he had $220! I slapped my self, calmed down and won almost all of it back but then suddenly "he had to go". here's his graph:

sure he had some luck but I wasn't playing my A-game. after that guy I had few badbeats in the following session and decided to try 6-max (25nl, 4 tables):

didn't play as much as I used to play and I think I'll stick to 4 tables of 25nl 6max for a while so I think it'd be better to post weekly(not daily graphs)..and I don't think I'll be able to play much next week as I have a birthday(woo-hoo). but I already have grind on the mind :)

btw rake is the killer at 25nl: from what I've experienced it's 16bb/100 hands(or 8ptbb/100) which is gross...at 50nl hu it's almost one buy-in per 1000 hands which is also bad but not as bad as 25nl..

summer break+software issues

ok I haven't been posting for a few days. I was out of town and was quie busy but I did play some poker. one bad session (almost $300 down) and one "ok" session (about $70 up). but no graphs... after watching some HU vids and reading forums I realised that HEM is so much better than PT (few important HUD stats+lots of useful filters) so I bought the licence - $45 is less than a BI so I hope it'd be +EV in the long run. I tried to convert my db manualy and I guess I screwed it :) I had my hh archived somewhere and tried to import it but it didn't run quite as I expected. I'll try to fix that..or start from the scratch. I don't need 2nl stats anymore(I hope!)+it may improve performance. also it looks like I may need a separate hard drive for the DB but oh well...
my summer break starts next week(sun-beach-sport/sex-drugs-rocknroll) and I'll be back in the end of July so no poker/blogging for about a month :)
not sure if I play much this week - I have to meet alot of friends(drunk poker is a no-no...well at least at 50nl) but again...we'll see :)

*edit* just played for a few minutes after writing this post and won almost $60-something. time to go to bed before variance hit me :)

I was owned :)

I've had a badbeat in the beginning, but since I've been running good it's ok :) then kinda grinded it up, thanks to local fish. then, when the next villain busted out, a reg sit at my table. he was 2 tabling already. I was close to zero and was pretty confident so I wanted to see what will happen.
owange (villain's)graph:

maybe I played like pussy in the beginnig(red line) but he was outplaying me on every street. and he was such a nit. very tight and very agressive. after almost $200 I started to realize I need to adjust better. thanks to bill chen and "mathematics of poker" . I need to reread a few paragraphs for sure. villain def. was a thinking player and he was capable of big laydowns unlike usual fish. all-in is such an equalizer. the momentum has changed and at some point we were 300bbs deep(I even had him covered) so he simply left the table. maybe for good - it was gettin scarier. definetly the toughest HU match I've had so far.

then I found some fish and took my money back and even ended the day in green(+rakeback). unfortunately mr. fish busted out too quickly.
I hope my skill has improved today :)

HU duel

I sat down to play with some fishy villain who was also from Russia. he had some luck in the beginning but he played awfuly. after about 100 hands he went on monkey tilt and started yelling at me, giving me names, whining how online poker is rigged etc. I was kinda fed up but he was a fish so I invited him to the 2nd table. I've lost some pots and he went nuts. i should have reported his abusive behavior but I wanted my money back and I was quite confident I could've outplayed him. some crazy 4-bets and werewolf moves(flips in he middle), I beat him with a couple of "gus hansen hands" tilting him even more:

$0.25/$0.5 No Limit Holdem
2 players

Stacks:

BTN		($209.20)
Hero (BB)		($80.45)

Pre-flop: ($0.75, 2 players) Hero is BB

BTN raises to $1.50, Hero calls $1

Flop: ($3, 2 players)
Hero bets $2, BTN calls $2

Turn: ($7, 2 players)
Hero bets $6, BTN calls $6

River: ($19, 2 players)
Hero bets $15, BTN raises to $55, Hero goes all-in $70.95, BTN calls $15.95

Final Pot: $160.90
Hero shows:
BTN shows:

Hero wins $160.40 ( won +$79.95 )
BTN lost -$80.45

the next hand almost killed him(althoug the pot was small, note stack sizes!)

$0.25/$0.5 No Limit Holdem
2 players

Stacks:

Hero (BTN)		($216.75)	<- !!!
BB		($80.40)

Pre-flop: ($0.75, 2 players) Hero is BTN

Hero raises to $1.50, BB calls $1

Flop: ($3, 2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($3, 2 players)
BB bets $2.50, Hero calls $2.50

River: ($8, 2 players)
BB bets $7, Hero calls $7

Final Pot: $22
BB shows:
Hero shows:

Hero wins $21.50 ( won +$10.50 )
BB lost -$11

at some point I was sitting with ~$250 on each table..a couple more hours and that'd be "hu4rollz" :) I could have won much more from him I believe but probably I was also tilted(no wonder). that was a good exercise for tilt control :)

in the end he turned into a passive fish(flips didn't work well for him) and just left both tables.

one night in bangkok makes a hard man humble....