weekend update

I took shot at 50nl HU again(as I'm still underrolled)..it didn't work very well but then i recovered some of my losses and moved back to 25nl. 6max is definetly easier than 9max. not sure if i can mass-table 6max, maybe i'll try later. volume still sucks, need to play more hands.

also, cleared super-bonus and got rakeback for 2 weeks(due to delays on fulltilt). ship it!

midweek update

quick update: i'm running good, playing not-so-good but at least green line is going into the right direction. mostly 6max 25nl and some 50nl heads-up. i'm still underrolled for 50nl but i'm taking stabs at fish occasionaly.
i've found one tendency...thats why i'm writing this post basicaly. many players limp from the SB, almost always call a raise, call almost all cbets and then do something ridiculous like minbet-minbet-huge overbet. or lead flops with minbets. here's a good example:

at first i've decided to double-barrel him as his flop calling range is full of crap. not a good idea. however it must depend on bet sizing..then i've decided to tighten up and became a total nit and folded almost all of SBs and played only limped pots without position. he started to fold to my c-bets on A- or K-high boards so i added a fair amount of bluffs for balancing(don't bluff calling stations etc) because i always failed to build a big pot with strong hands. it was very boring and i little annoying. his style was very exploitable but i couldn't exploit it well...but still he was losing money. then he found his "raise" button and became kinda spewy. interestingly, when he was betting big it was almost always bluff, so i've just waited for good hands and stacked him.

his "style" (i do think he has some method to his madness) is not uncommon so i have to figure out how to beat it effectively. must be easy money..

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....

2 tables

I tried playing 2 tables. nothing good, nothing bad but in the end I sticked to 1 table. I was playing with a huge fish, 2 times we were allin 100+ bbs deep, he had some crap and I had goods but he hit 2 pairs. it kinda tilted me because I've been playing with him for quite some time and still couldn't take his money. in fact lost $100+ to him but not because he's a better player, ldo. then I sat down with a good player (cardrunners member) - I think I was still tilted as I should have insta-quit there's alot of fish. lost some $$ to him but he said "I wanna play fish. you can find better games too". words of wisdom! :) I did find some fish and recovered most of my losses. when will I learn my lessons?

further heads-up adventures

link to BBV

played with 3 guys, all 3 left after i stacked them. won probably the biggest pot today:

$0.25/$0.5 No Limit Holdem
2 players

Stacks:

BTN		($120.65)
Hero (BB)		($105.05)

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

BTN raises to $1.50, Hero calls $1

Flop: ($3, 2 players)
Hero bets $3, BTN raises to $12, Hero raises to $30.50, BTN raises to $49, Hero goes all-in $103.55, BTN calls $54.55

Turn: ($210.10, 2 players)

River: ($210.10, 2 players)

Final Pot: $210.10
BTN shows:
Hero shows:

Hero wins $209.60 ( won +$104.55 )
BTN lost -$105.05

I was 99% sure he had AQ or KQ and not a set :)

last one was easy-peasy:

$0.25/$0.5 No Limit Holdem
2 players

Stacks:

Hero (BTN)		($65.50)
BB		($110.55)

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

Hero raises to $1.50, BB calls $1

Flop: ($3, 2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $2, BB raises to $4, Hero calls $2

Turn: ($11, 2 players)
BB bets $9, Hero calls $9

River: ($29, 2 players)
BB goes all-in $96.05, Hero goes all-in $51

Final Pot: $131
BB shows:
Hero shows:

BB wins $45.05 ( lost -$65.50 )
Hero wins $130.50 ( won +$65 )

he still owes me $4 though..he didn't have chances anyway, i'll add him to my "fishlist"

just an update of morning graph. found some fish with $20-30 stacks. easy game.

i found full-stacked fish, but he was a little bit stubborn and didn't want to give me his stack(swings in the end). but eventually..$50->bank wire->ATM->titties
best cash day ever :) enough for sunday million...maybe I should ship it some time