I looked...

and I like what I saw. Ship the 5BB/100 at 2/4 only over a 13K hand sample but I think I have alot of room for improvment at the moment which is pretty fucking awesome if you ask me. I am 4 lifetime over 34k so that nots to shabby. My BB/100 is higher on FTP then AP which is pretty dam lol. Speaking of lol I will reveal my most deadly weapon in my arsenal. If you say lol outloud it sounds like lull thus I call it loling them to sleep.



Villain is a standard 21/18/3 aggro reg. The key to this hand is that I typed lol mid way through his timebank at which point he insta jammed. Best of all Dodgy was watching this session and told me not to type anything. After I did and the hands were revealed he nearly died from laughter.

$2/$4 No Limit Holdem
5 players
Converted at weaktight.com


Stacks:

UTG		($337.90)
CO		($400.00)
Hero		($715.30)
SB		($436.30)
BB		($397.90)

Pre-flop: ($6, 5 players) Hero is BTN

1 fold, CO raises to $14, Hero calls $14, 2 folds

Flop: ($34, 2 players)
CO bets $28, Hero calls $28

Turn: ($90, 2 players)
CO bets $62, Hero raises to $188, Hero says "lol", CO goes all-in $358, Hero calls $170

River: ($806, 2 players)

Final Pot: $806
CO shows:
Hero shows:

Hero wins $803 ( won +$403 )
CO lost -$400.00

I just had to open my mouth.

Was trying to post a graph of my last few days as they have been fun ones. Woke up Saturday ready to go and proceeded to just over play the fuck out of my hands preflop and get owned to the tune of 6 BI's. I have slowly pieced it back together and feel every day of playing this game is a learning experience. I need to get back in the zone. If you get a chance watch a Jfish vid from 2's cracked his pace is awesome. I truly enjoy poker when I take my time and make my decisions without rushing myself. I am going to conciously make an effort to think through the better/callers range before I make my action(any action)from now on.

Ship it!

FTP 2/4 6-max be warned, I moved my roll*. Now I am comfortably rolled and will be mostly grinding 2/4. I still havent looked at my results, just hands and hours, it is around 11k and 36 respectively. AEJONES thing is going insanely well. My eyes have been opened. Poker is a numbers game, learn the math and have no tilt.

*I was inspired by LuckySOB and Dodgyken.

Havent looked

I check my session results and that is all. Have yet to look at my totals for the month. i do glance at number of hands played in game notes as well as hours played in sessions. 16 hours so far this month and 5420 hands. Feel my game is growing every session and my eyes are starting to really open up to just how focused and deep thinking a high stakes winner needs to be. Too often I find myself resorting back to my hand strength and not even thinking through my opponents range. The truth of the matter is that should be my 1st thought always. Here are some hands where I dont think. Also one where I do.

Villain is 20/17/4 winning regular. When he raises my cbet we have to stop and put him on a range. It seems like a very marginal spot and as weak as it seems this may be a fold. Curious to see what other do on the flop.

$2/$4 No Limit Holdem
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com


Stacks:

UTG		($791.15)
Hero		($458.80)
CO		($884.90)
BTN		($1313.55)
SB		($465.35)
BB		($817.20)

Pre-flop: ($6, 6 players) Hero is UTG+1

1 fold, Hero raises to $16, 1 fold, BTN calls $16, 2 folds

Flop: ($38, 2 players)
Hero bets $28, BTN raises to $99, $71 to Hero ($414.8)?



Villain is 38/23/1.6 with a flop AF of 5. Again another spot where I think my hand doesnt fair extremely well vs his range. What is our best line vs his range?

$1/$2 No Limit Holdem
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com


Stacks:

UTG		($97.00)
UTG+1		($195.90)
Hero		($214.20)
BTN		($188.50)
SB		($200.00)
BB		($298.80)

Pre-flop: ($3, 6 players) Hero is CO

1 fold, UTG+1 calls $2, Hero raises to $9, BTN calls $9, 2 folds, UTG+1 folds

Flop: ($23, 2 players)
Hero bets $16, BTN raises to $38, $22 to Hero ($189.2)?



Villain is 61/11/5.5, he tended to over bet if weakness was present. I decide to check back my two pair on the flop to induce. When he fires the turn I again decide to extract max value I will flat allowing him to spew on the river. Maybe I should have min raised the river?

$2/$4 No Limit Holdem
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com


Stacks:

UTG		($895.40)
Hero		($960.60)
CO		($369.80)
BTN		($517.30)
SB		($524.70)
BB		($781.90)

Pre-flop: ($6, 6 players) Hero is UTG+1

1 fold, Hero raises to $16, 2 folds, SB calls $14, 1 fold

Flop: ($36, 2 players)
SB checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($36, 2 players)
SB bets $40, Hero calls $40

River: ($116, 2 players)
SB bets $236, Hero goes all-in $904.6, SB folds

Final Pot: $588

Hero wins $1253.1 ( won +$292.5 )
SB lost -$292.00

New month,...

new attitude. I said it before and I will say it again, I lost focus during the hand challenge. My main goal was to play and not be results oriented. I wasnt but I was. I wanted hands and I was focused way to heavily on that rather then playing good winning poker. My results suffered due to that emphasis.

Plan for April: Enjoy poker. Grow as a player. Win monies while not being results oriented.

This month my focus is going to be solely on playing and enjoying it. Thats why I started playing poker in the 1st place. Yeah I want money, and this is one of the main reasons, but I also enjoyed playing the game. Fuck x amount of hands. I will play what I play. I will only play 4 tables, never any more, for the entire month. Along those same lines I will play a minimum of two two hour long sessions 5 out of 7 days of the week. On the remaining two days I can play as I see fit. lastly, I will not look at my results for the entire month.

That is all.

Its done!!!!

Thank fucking god. Seriously I lost focus of the whole point of this hand challenge early on. It wasnt about the hands. but rather playing quality poker and alot of it. Thus I will never ever set a hand goal again. I simply will work on playing as much poker as I can while on my A-game. Seriously I just spazzed the fuck out at the end. Yesterday and today I was the .25/.50 donk I used to be. Thinking every one was making moves and just sticking my chips in bad everywhere. Quite sick to be honest. I am not happy with myself at all.

This graph is just stupid. The start I was 4 tabling and playing my A-game with no care of results. Then I had a tilty Friday that caused me to just spew chips everywhere back down to even. I turned it around at that point and played good poker with a major spew session around the 17k mark whihc I again rebounded well from. I was grinding super solid 8 tabling till the 34k mark where I really started going adfter regs. I was 3betting light and flatting and playing way to many pots while 8 tabling. Also I was making way to many irrational decisions based solely on my hand not what my opponent was repping. The last 4K hands were quite disappointing as I had hoped to end the month on a high and hit my 1st 10K mark but instead I went the opposite way. i did have my share of coolers but the amount of money I spewed is pretty sick.

Every mistake we ever make in life is an opportunity to improve. I feel this month was actually a huge stepping stone in my poker career. Poker isnt about how many hands you can play and what two cards you have(unless we get to showdown). Its about why your opponent is doing what he does and what he thinks your why is. God I cant fucking wait to 4 table again. 4 tables will allow me to play a more open and fun style in which I can make peoples lives hell until they crack and give me their chips. Good luck in April if you are on my right.

FPS

I have FPS, that is fancy play sydrome. I know sometimes all poker players chalk hands up to variance to easily were we actually spewed imo. I have SirNeb to thank for plugging a leak of mine today. basically villain and I have been tangling a bit but nothing to extreme(Note to self:Stop thinking everyone is after you.)I had just 4bet his 3bet and he folded. Then this hand takes place. At 1st thought I am like he is floating a medium PP, air, or he has KQ. The only other legit hand is 44 imo. Now I decide to be amazing and c/r the turn for value. In reality the value in this spot is betting, the board is so dry and I have a aggressive image thus villain may call 2 if not 3 streets putting me on a bluff. So that was my 1st mistake. Also what do I do if he 3bets? I do believe there is value in c/r this turn with air as he will fold quite often but here I have the top of my range and I need to value town him.

Now the leak. On the river we can assume his range is 55-99 and KQ. These are all hands I want to get value from and a vast majority of them he will call with but not bet. Thus betting will maximize my EV. I instead decide a c/r for value will be best again. What value? I dont think anything I am ahead of can actually call a river c/r here. Also a large part of his range should check behind as I can almost never call with worse. Thus c/c is ok if I put him on air but I dont. So instead of maximizing my EV FPS explodes in my face when my river c/r gets shoved on. I of course call without thought and he shows me 4X4. LOL!!! As played this is like the easiest fold ever. Yeah my hand looks pretty FOS imo but seriously does he ever shove with worse here? The answer is hell fucking no!!!!

$1/$2 No Limit Holdem
5 players
Converted at weaktight.com


Stacks:

Hero		($245.80)
CO		($91.25)
BTN		($254.95)
SB		($301.10)
BB		($212.00)

Pre-flop: ($3, 5 players) Hero is UTG

Hero raises to $7, 1 fold, BTN calls $7, 2 folds

Flop: ($17, 2 players)
Hero bets $12, BTN calls $12

Turn: ($41, 2 players)
Hero checks, BTN checks

River: ($41, 2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $32, Hero raises to $98, BTN goes all-in $235.95, Hero calls $128.8

Final Pot: $494.60
BTN shows:
Hero shows:

BTN wins $500.75 ( won +$245.8 )
Hero lost -$245.80