Haven't posted in awhile, I've been busy actually playing and posting on cardschat/discussing poker in the real world with friends. I've been working on moving up in stakes, and I'm making a good hourly at .05/.10 now. The next major target is $700 to start in on $25nl.
I've been working on my 6max game a bit, and I do like that better, but for some reason I'm not winning. I've been working really hard on being aggressive preflop, and for this last week I've had my PFR 100% of my vpip. Every hand I've played I've raised. Yet, I've maintained a 6bb/100 loss, which is sucky. I'm also running like hell. Here's my EV for this last week.
It's 3 AM though, so I'm going to sleep. Maybe I'll get some time to post this weekend.
I know that sounds like a made up number, but it's not. I'm a tad behind Durrrr for winnings today. For fun I've compared our stats, and it's closer than I would've thought actually. I'm impressed with myself.
Here's our positional stats:
Interesting EV Graph he's got:
He got all that money from people folding....amazing. This is the guy that scares the hell out of the biggest cash game players in the world. I don't care if you want to say they aren't afraid of playing with him, they're folding to him and letting him not just play almost 50% of his hands, but do it to the tune of 56bb/100. Yeah, they're scared.
So far it's been crazy. I'm trying to emulate Durrrr pretty much, since he's one of the sickest players of all time. I get that at .05/.10 people aren't gonna lay me quite the same FE he gets, but still, why not try it right?
My PT Stats for the day:
And by position followed by EV:
I'm going to go over a couple of the big hands that went down today.
I think this hand really highlights oponnents inability to make standard laydowns at these levels. Even if I was "bluffing" with the king, he's toasted. How can he call? Because pocket queens are pretty and you don't get them often.
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Building upon the last hand here I make a cardinal sin.
I try to use FE + my winning % to make a +EV play when truly I can't expect villains to fold. I need to just take the good odds they lay me and look to hit my nut flush for cheap.
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I was really happy with this play, I just knew this guy was light and I made a great call preflop here.
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Okay this was my biggest hand of the day, and it came near the end.
That hurt real bad. This villain had been getting quite annoyed with my aggression, and started playing back at me a few hands in a row. I picked up the ideal thing, a real hand instead of 98s, 79s, that I'd been pushing into him, and he flops a straight followed by me slamming top set, perfect, only hand that beats me is KJ, oh what's he have? Super!
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Then by some voodoo force I was given this gem, making most of my loss back.
Much needed after the beating I took. After this hand I was up a whole $0.10 for the day. I went on a mini tear after this, taking down a whole bunch of pots, and winning a couple other small ones to finish the day up the $10 even.
All right, for some reason I keep jumping back down to smaller stakes cuz I know I can mash em for a high bb/100 and 16 table it. But I have to look at the bigger picture. I can beat .02/.05 for 50bb/100 16 tabling which puts that at $35 per hour, but that doesn't even match my results if I'm doing 5bb/100 4 tabling at $1/$2(that would be $48/hour by the way). Besides that's way easier on the brain, as 16 can get a little out of control at times. So in truth, my goal should'nt be making my highest hourly winrate I can right now, but what's going to get me beating higher levels sooner.
So, with that, I'm starting today, no longer allowed to play anything less .05/.10 unless my BR gets down to about 1/2. I'm starting right now with 29 buyins, GO GO GO!!!
So I spent yesterday trying out Poker Ace HUD instead of HEM's hud. I hate it so much. I'm buying HEM cuz that's where it's at. Ace hud just doesn't hold a candle to HEM.
Other than that, my pokering took place at the Sun's $1/$2 NL tables. Same shortstack strategy, I bought in with $60. Ran really cold with the cards, doing a heck of a lot of folding, and it seemed the few times I had a hand "strong" enough to limp with the rest of the crowd somebody turned up with a real hand behind me and bumped it to the $15-$20 range, making me void my $2. I slowly trickled down about $15 from blinds and missed flops, I'd won a pot with AQ and one preflop that was straddled, so it was really more than the $15 I was down, but $15 total (I was running really card dead). At this point I got my first real hand of the night and here's how it went down.
The player to my right has been giving money away like a fiend. He'll play any pair if he flop it, but he hasn't gotten overly aggressive at all over the night. The player at the far end of the table has been fairly tight in general.
When the first guy bet I didn't give him credit at all for the flush, but I didn't want to raise just yet because doing so would definitely pot commit me, and if my read was off then I just forced him to take my money and I'm drawing dead. Calling here to see what develops on the turn seemed prudent. When the other guy raised, I was hoping for the first player to fold so I could shove. He's been very tight preflop, and it was extremely unlikely that he made the initial call with a couple of hearts. More likely was that he held 2 big cards one of which was either the K or Q of hearts.
Of course this all became moot as soon as the guy who opened the betting shoved another $100 on top of the guy's raise. I sat there a second or two, pondering if this was also a move with a FD, and then realized he's been calling a lot of bets with losers, not betting them. He was nice enough to show me the flush he flopped, amazing.
I eventually switched tables, as many of the table left and refilled, the table became much tigher, and more aggressive. When that was all said and done I was down $63 from the session in 3 hours of play. I found a great new table though. This was definitely a profitable spot, and I was looking to start building myself a stack to do some damage with.
Sadly, the cards kept at their terrible pace, combined with horrendous plays that unbeknowst to the players, saved them. Check out this little gem.
So the guy makes the amazing play of not checking his option with A3, but making a raise to $20!!! Then of course my deuece slams the flop. Superb, lol.
And then there was this hand that annoyed me. It's not like I had a great anything going on, but I mean, the guy bets 2x pot with ace high! And shuts me out on my gutty that completes, which at the time made me want to punch a baby. Would've felt great. When nothing's going right for you, hands like this actually seem like a loss.
So that was that. My buddy was done, and I told him this was my last orbit. I'd made back $22 of what I lost earlier, so hey I recouped a bit. My last hand of the night paid dividends though, check this out.
This really sucked. The guy had just been so passive all night long, and now he shoves this river? Could he really be doing this on a busted flush draw? I wanted to call so bad, I mean the pot was pretty big at this point, but I just didn't think there was any way I could win. I got him talking to me a bit. Convo went like this, and it wasn't forced or anything, natural.
I let him know I was in a tough spot, and said: "Aw man this sucks, can you just show me if I fold, cuz this is just bad" "Can't do that, I wanna see if I can get the rest of those chips you got there" **Hold up my five chips, 25 chip, 2 $5's and 2 $1's** "This is all I've got though" "Have you ever heard of pot committed?" "Nope.....Sorry guys I'm in a tough spot. Is there any way I can beat you?" **At this point I just don't see how I can be winning, he HAS to have a Jack** "I hope not" I give it a few more seconds thought and fold my J9 face up, and he shows me AQ for Queens over deuces, tough river for me. Got lots of equity, and lost $44. Boo-urns.
So that ended my night, and 2nd session took another $23 off my face, making my total for the night ($86) over 4.25 hours. ($20.23)/hour or (5.05BB)/hour
Okay, so it's been awhile. I have to get some more info and stats for updating later on, cuz right now I'm on a lappy. Mike had some old lappys that we ripped apart and Frankensteined into a working deal. But we spent some time at Mohegan Sun, to check out the new room, and it was phenomenal. I'm done with Foxwoods unless I really get the urge to play some limit.
Playing poker for 3.5 hours yielded $108 profit, but it was late and I was tired, so that was the extent of my night. Rake vs Time is soooooooo needed for me. I only got involved in 3 pots, 2 fully raked at $4 and one for $1 total of $9 in rake. At Foxwoods, I would've paid $35, not cool.
No time to really blog right now, I'm finishing up formatting and getting the laptop usable. I'll get back when I have time and #'s.
Here's the 1st pot I got involved with. The player to my right has been raising a LOT. 4 times in the first orbit, and a few more since. My 10's are obviously way ahead of his range so I'm playing. I figured I'd be committed with any raise, so shove and maybe end it now, otherwise be ahead of his range and go with it.
This next hand took place at my 2nd table. I had been very tight and thought that my folding may allow me to take the hand down preflop, or at least after the flop. Things changed though when the flop came.
This last hand wasn't me, but my buddy. He got a big blind special here.
Pretty crazy there, although I can't agree with the shove on the end. We talked about it afterwards, and I think he learned a good deal from this pot.
