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Hey guys,

I recently got back to poker playing a really really small volume just to keep my mind sharp and in the game. Trying to get 50 hands/day cause I work 6days a week now.

Trying to play as solid as possible, less/to no FPS and it feels like I finally got used to 6max. I was a fullring player for a long time, and I feel like I was playing a 6-max style on full-ring tables which lead me to play too loose which lead to a lot of spew.

I've been running good and it's been working so far.

If I feel like I'm getting bored and going on facebook, raising too wide, and FPS-ing it up, I just quit since I set a super duper small volume for myself.

Liquid Poker has been really helpful as well, people are commenting on my hand history for .02/.04 which is basically charity work for a lot of members and I really appreciate that.

So thanks for that.

It feels good.

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After 10k hands I found out that I am a losing player @ 4NL.



Feels bad man, I was a break-even 25NL player for a long time before I decided to get better and be honest with myself.

That's when I started to grind 4NL even though I'm rolled for 10NL or 16NL on stars, but I wanted to crush at least 1 limit first. But here we are... I definitely played looser than I'm used to running at 22/18 so there's definitely ALOT of spew and leaks.

I have to work on emotional issues, auto-piloting issues, not getting frustrated when i constantly get min 3-bet, stop 4-bet bluffing, stop tilting and get better psychologically.

Gotta also work on fundamentals, properly adjusting and plugging up leaks/spew.

2NL here I come... feels bad bro =[.

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Hey guys, I just got back from a trip to Niagara Falls and I decided to play the 1/2 game they have there at the Niagara Casino.

I arrive, I'm a bit tired but nothing a large Tim Horton's coffee couldn't solve. It was a Thursday night so it wasn't too busy, I went there with a friend who doesn't really know anything about poker. I gave her $60 (The min buy-in) to splash around with to have some fun and apply some concepts I kind of nonchalantly been teaching her about.

I sit down at a table and my friend sits at the one next to mine. As I take my seat, I recognize one of the players there: a girl that played at the CNE casino I've been dealing at in the summer. I remember her because she's cute, funny, very friendly and talks a lot.

Oh yeah, she's also a massive, massive whale.



There's five hands until I'm the big blind so I observe the table. A ~30-year old black man in seat 7, from the table-talk, he is very tight and from the way hes putting in bets pf and post, I'm assuming he's nitty-TAG. The white-man to my immediate right has tattoos, and the way the dealer knows his name I assume he's a regular. He's in a hand with an older white man ~40-50, where he gets it all-in on the river and Showdowns the J10 nut straight. The older white man from the way hes looking had a very very badly played Two pair. He re-buys for $260

The white man to my left is around ~20-30 enjoyed talking about poker and he threw around terms like equity, set-mine, and pot odds so I assumed he was a bad-but-thinks-hes-good player.

So I post the big blind. UTG White Poker Player (~$350) limps, and the Friendly Whale (~$170) limps when the Black Man(~$200) raises to 16. It folds to me where I peel an Ad. Then I think about the ranges I'm continuing with hoping for another A, where I peel a Ks.

I wanted to play longer than this for my first real decision since my friend was still splashing around learning and having fun and my stop loss was only at $260 and I didn't have any REAL reads. My initial reads weren't really concrete but I decided to just flat OOP (which is probably a mistake) than the other option of re-raising where I didn't really expect anyone to fold and playing OOP in a large pot. UTG flats and we see a flop of:

Pot (~$55)
10h 9h 5d

I check, Poker-Player checks, Black-man checks to a

Turn:
4d

I check, Poker-Player bets ~$15, Black-man calls,
I fold.

River bricked and they checked down to SD where

Poker-Players shows 22
Black-man shows QJo



Dead-wrong reads... So I think to myself: I play so bad...



Lamenting my play, it goes to the VERY NEXT hand where the Friendly Whale(FW)(~$150) limps, and Black-man raises to $5 this time.

The White-Man-w/ Tattoos (WMT)(~$450) whom I assumed hes a regular from the way the dealer knows his name calls and I peel the Ks. Then peel the Kh.



It's going to be a good trip right? =D.

I make it $26 (probably should have made it larger ~.~) in the sb and the FW calls as well as WMT on the BU. Flop comes:

Pot ($~79)
10d 5h 6d

I c-bet to $55 (should have made this larger as well)I bet $55 in the moment because it was the rest of my one hundred dollar stack.

The Friendly Whale sighs and folds, then the WMT thinks and announces he's all-in.



It's my second hand T_T and I wanted to play longer for other reasons as stated above. So I'm thinking that he's a regular and probably a some-what decent hand-reader who knows what I probably have. I wasn't sure if he could do this with a FD so I thought for about a minute and whispered call. He didn't reveal his hand or anything and the dealer didn't seem to catch it, so I moved my chips to the middle and announced louder my call.

My thought process was that I didn't know how he played and since the pots around ~$300 and I'm risking $100 so I'm getting ~3:1 and in a vacuum against 1/2NL players, I could be against badly played QQ or a FD. I thought 55 and 66 would play it exactly like this and it was my first thought. But I figured there was too much in the pot to fold and I was going to shove any turn anyway so might as well.

Turn came the 4s and the river measured the 5s where he announced two pair. I show my KK and he says that's good. Apparently he had pair + FD.



Feels good bro.

Which comes to the VERY next hand on the BU where I have 66 and limped behind. I was talking about the KK hand where people thought I was going to fold and told them that maybe he had a set and I continued talking where I saw a flop of

Pot (~$12)
Qs 10s 6c

Then continued talking without skipping a beat.



Checks 6-way to me where I bet $10.

Get snapped called by White-Poker-Player (WPP)

then bet $30 to a 7c turn and I get a fold.

It continues, I play tight, get AK two more times, Raise PF this time! And get folds around. Pick up KK (AGAIN) UTG-raise to $11 and get folds. Get AA Raise $15 pf to a limper. Bet flop he folds.



I ran really good but no action unfortunately. I'm just talking, agreeing with people's poker logic, listening to stories, laughing, making sure everyone's having a good time. I somehow got the image of a tight-winning-poker player. I decide I should start stealing more and making more bluffs.



Until we come to this hand.

Kind-of new player sits down, Middle-Aged Lady (MAL) who seems nice, we welcome her to the table and I assume she's a reg as the dealer knows her name. She posts 4 to the bb away so I assume fishy.

She checks her option and flops two pair where she bets it aggressively.

I'm dealt AsQs UTG so I raise to $11 and get called by (MAL)(~250) in the sb and (WMT)(~$85) in the bb.

Flop comes;

(Pot: ~$35)
Ac Jc 5h



(MAL) donks $20 and (WMT) shoves for $75.

Going on my reads, I guess MAL is doing it with ~A5 or ~AJ or ~55 but I wondered if she could be doing it with a smaller Ace as thats what 1/2NL players do. The shove from (WMT) could be an Ace or a J or a FD. Pretty weak and I'm almost certain I beat him. I think for about 10 seconds and fold.

(MAL) calls and showdowns AK and (WMT) had a FD apparently.



Then we come to this hand where I feel like I made a pretty bad mistake.

UTG+1,(MAL)(~$350) limps, I limp on the BU with 4s4d, sb completes and the bb (Tight-Older-Asian-Gentleman)(TOAG)(~$500) decides to raise $15.

(MAL) calls, I call and sb thinks and folds.

Flop:

pot (~$50)
10h 6h 5d

(TOAG) does something strange and he decides to c-bet to $10.

(MAL) calls.

I smell weakness, like (TOAG) has ~AK, AQ because I figured he'd bet bigger for value unless he's looking to c/r, and like I don't really think this particular gentleman would play AA,KK,QQ that tricky on this board. (MAL) I guess maybe picked up on this? Has something like a pair of 6 or a 5, maybe a FD, maybe a SD and maybe a 10.

So I re-raise to $50. Reason: TOAG probably has a weak hand and MAL has something pretty marginal that she might fold. I had a plan to bet a A,K,Q,3, MAYBE 7, and obviously a 4 turn card.

TOAG folds and MAL starts thinking, and looks pretty distressed. So I felt pretty good about it until she asked how much it was and she did that,

"Mehhhh, Ehhhhhh, Okay, I call."

Turn:

6c

Bad bluff card =[. Not folding anything but maybe a draw. But if she's calling with those on the flop I think I have to bet huge on the turn to make draws fold.

She checks.

I check.

River:
6s

Worse River card haha, but Maybe I'm good so I check behind,

and she SD's a Jc10c for 6's full of 10's.



I always pull stupid bluffs to take a chunk of my profits almost every session but w/e, I'm still trying to learn and I did leave with a healthy $200 profit after ~2 hours of playing.

Plus my friend ended up with $85 (She was up ~$130 at one point) which is really really good for her first EVER live poker casino experience and probably her 10th time playing overall.

Anyway thanks for reading =D

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So I occasionally play in the local 1/2 game and if it gets short handed we start to play dealer's choice, which can include Crazy Pineapple, NL Omaha with ocean cards etc.

So anyway, the game is pretty soft, I lost my first bi stacking off QQ which was probably a mistake, but I got it back by tripling up with AA. so I have around $450 (I'm in for $400), and I continue to play semi-tight, playing position, taking down pots and I'm winning more than I'm losing. Then this hand, I have AdKc2s in crazy pineapple post-flop.

Crazy Pineapple is a poker game where you're dealt three cards and you discard one, either pre-flop or post-flop. This time, it was post-flop. I'm in the sb, and it limps around to me, I complete, and bb checks. 4 way to the flop of; AsAhKh =DDD; I discard my 2s obviously, and lead for $8.

I get a call, and then the BU raises $25. I think now that he has probably a big ace, we are $300 effective, and if I put in a raise, I'm pretty sure he's able to fold. Also, I want to get the other guy in the pot as well so I flat. bb folds, and the turn comes the 8h. If he raised with an FD which I think is likely, even though I probably will never do it, he'd bet his flush. I think he's betting his entire range on the turn anyway, so I check probably thinking of check raising.

Surprisingly, he checks back, and the river is the 8d, so the board reads: AsAhKh8h8d.

My thoughts: very very unlikely he raised me on the flop with 88 since he's pretty tight. If i Value bet more than 1/3 of pot, he's folding A. Flush B. KK's full and only calling with an A. So if his calling range is only an A, then I figure out how much he's calling with an A.

So I shoved all-in, $300 into $50 or so. Got the call (he had A10) and now I'm up to ~$700 =D.

We start to play NL omaha, and I banked another ~$200 value betting QQ's full and another $200 v-betting JJ's full. I am really really bad at Omaha, and I'm pretty bad at NLHE as well. I'll explain my reasoning but I'm not defending what I did, I probably played really bad and the justification was all wrong. With that in mind we come to this hand. I have ~$1,200 and villian has about ~$520

CO limps, BU limps and I look down at AhKh2h5s, I complete, and bb checks.

Flop comes Ks8c4d.

I lead around $8 and bb raises me $35 folds to me.

Thought process: Villian is a really FPS player that talks a lot about poker even though he isn't very good. He's prone to lecturing people how to play their hands even though he doesn't abide by the same advice. He justifies all his plays with pseudo-poker knowledge and when he sucks out, he gloats talking about how he could do nothing there.

It's pretty dry, I'm thinking sets are in his range, unlikely KK cause I have a K and he's likely to raise pf so value range is like, all two pair 88 and 44. I think I can get him to fold all two pair and even 44 and maybe 88 if I rep KK.

Reason is I overbet pots on the flop/turn all night with top sets/boats and I've shown these hands. I have literally never bluffed in this game. This was my reasoning when I re-raised $105. I told myself that I had KK42 in my hand and tried really hard to believe it.

He tanked for a bit and made the call. Turn was a 4 which pairs the board and I think it's a semi-good card for me. He could have quads but if he has 88 or K4 or 84 which was his likely hand by calling my raise, he now beats no value-range, since 44 now has quads if he had 88; he's beating K4 or 84 but I think he knows I wouldn't raise those hands on the flop and if he had K4 or 84, then he's losing to KK and 88. so I bet around ~150 and he has around ~250 left. I think to myself at this point, if he calls, I'm shutting down. He tanks a bit and calls.

River is a 5d. Board: K8445 I should give up by this point. I see he has around ~250 left and the pot is around 500. I don't know what compelled me to shove in the last 250, but convincing myself that I had KK, and there was no way I would be bluffing because I never bluff, and he should know this, I shoved in the last 250.

I get snap called.

The players out of the hand were asking the villian if he had Quads, because they all knew I had KK's full which was nice I guess, at least some people thought I had KK's full.

He showed KQ88; for 8's full.

And then he gloated.

Saying how he had too good of a hand to give up or something like that. I still think he had a bluff-catcher but Kudos to him or w/e. I'm still a micro-stakes player so losing a $1,000 pot is a big milestone for me. I'm not sad, I'm not angry or frustrated, I'm just a little dazed, like did that just happen? I'll be back at that game with a new experience.

It was funny as I had thought me losing such a big pot would result from having the nuts against a super draw, or set-over-set, or getting sucked out really badly, but it came to me trying to bluff a guy off the third nuts. Which is better I guess, since I have a story to tell people now.

It was my fault, I said nice-hand, felt the tilt coming so I played a few more hands and then told them I was done for the night. I still ended up being up ~$390 and I told myself never try to bluff somebody off of a full house.

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Grinding the $6 SnGs on Party, the Speeds, Normal Speed, and the Normal DoNs. Running good and finally beating them for 6% ROI trying to grind out the Dominate the World promotion at Party.

Still Sweatshop poker though =[; At least I'm winning =), training my ICM and hoping to take $11 shots in January.

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Hey, October started out pretty badly, but eventually got there mixing low-stakes SnGs and MTTs.

Only played 275 games and running good.

Still need to work on my STT and MTT games and not entirely sure what do in a lot of cases beside simple ICM decisions.

Still kind of clueless about other general aspects of MTTs.

Currently reading "One Hand at a Time" and "SnG Strategy"



Cheers!

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Recorded my first winning month in September playing .1/.25 and small-stakes mtts. Feels good.

Got my Liquidpoker stuff, had to pay an extra $50 for customs which sucked but can't really complain. Feels good.

Reached gold on Party Poker. Good Feeling.

But...

Getting crushed live, lost about -$1,400 in my last 10 sessions coming from a +$1,000 swing. Playing bad, and running bad =[. Trying to work on my tilt issues.

Had my worst day ever yesterday, down -$200 being stupid I guess... Which is 8bi =[ for like a 3 hour session.

But...

Reading up on my game, trying to minimize mistakes, and a general feel-good, motivated and dedicated approach to getting better, overall,

Feels good yo.

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Break-even micro-grinder here,

Been trying to improve my game by subscribing to DC and watching videos, playing every day etc. Its my last week of dealing at the CNE so pretty excited about that.

After a couple of months at break-even at 25NL I decided to try and take my stab at the $11 SNG on party since I know a bit more about them than cash games, and tried to grind those for a bit until i got crushed.

So I decided I'm going to grind 10NL for a bit, try to win at that level, mixing in some SNG's here and there and find something I can beat. It's pretty frustrating right now but hopefully I'm getting better...

Pretty much beating Live Poker however, and that feels good. There's a Casino Staff poker tournament soon and I'm pretty much going to destroy that and everything else about life other than online is pretty much fantastic, but I want to get better at this game...

Just wanted to rant,

Cheers!

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Currently waiting for my second lesson session dealing 5/10 limit hold'em for. The cne casino.

Wondering how many liquidpoker members are going to partake? I'm going to work a shit load, night shifts, so if you see a handsome Asian guy named Sam, come and say hi

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Dedicated myself for about a week in playing 5-7 hours a day at 25NL.

At first I thought I was running bad but now I just think I'm playing bad.

And here I thought I was a good poker player...

Lots of shit still to learn I guess and see where I am at 40,000 - 60,000 hands...

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