The Daily Grind

I didn't run ridiculously cold, I'd be crushing these games. Lost a full stack with 44 on a Q43r flop against AQ which hit runner runner boat, and lost a 300+ BB pot with KQ on a JT9r flop against T9 and JT, 3 way all-in on the flop, obv 9 on the turn. Also lost a buy-in at the beginning of the session with KK vs. AA, and half a stack with AQ on a QQx flop against QT which rivered a ten after we were all-in. Finished up $59.90 in 1731 hands, should have been way more. $200 more to go before I move back to NL 100.

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Just finished another solid day of grinding. That said, it could have potentially been a monster day, if I hadn't lost two big pots preflop: the first with JJ against a tilter's AKo (this guy was on mad tilt) when he hit an ace, the second with KK against TT that hit his T. Big pots I won were two with sets: 44 against AJs on a J74 flop, 77 vs. AKo on an A73 flop. Took down a HUGE pot with QQ against J6o and 65s on a JJxxQ board. Played that one really well, only put in one bet when behind, almost everything went in on the river (65s rivered a flush). Overall, I think I'm playing very well over the last few days, maybe even better than my WR over them (which is a not-too-shabby 7.5 PTBB/100). After today, I'm $260 away from my goal for moving back to NL 100. I also should easily surpass 2,000 UB points for the week, which means a $150 bonus.

Results: +$114.95 in 1540 hands.

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Well, today was the first really good day in a while. Overall, I'm really satisfied with my play today. The stats weren't tremendous (+$107.35 in 1393 hands), but given some of the coolers, etc. that I was dealt, I think I played about as well as I could have today. I made a nice 3-bet and steal with KQ from the SB facing a button raise (pretty sure he folded JJ or so on the flop to me given his chat), and played much more aggressively than I have in the past. My stats have been getting nittish lately, but today they were a very healthy 19/14/3.

The ugly:

AKs vs. 88 on an AK8 flop. We know how that ends, put me in the hole early. Luckily he was short-stacked, so I didn't lose a full buy-in.

KK vs. 77 on a Q72 flop. Guy played it way weirdly, check-calling the flop and turn with the flush draw out there and then donking into me on the river. Really thought he had a busted draw there, good thing I flat called instead of raising.

Trying to double barrel a shortstack with QTs that completely missed. Bad idea in retrospect, but didn't cost me too much.

K2 vs. T2 on a 5422T board in a blind vs. blind battle. Luckily I didn't lose too much here, the flop was checked thorugh, I bet the pot ($1) on the turn and then called a smallish river checkraise.

The good:

KK vs. Qh3h on a Th7h2xQx board. I had gone on a monster rush at this table, and kept raising and three betting the huge fish on my right. Finally busted him with this hand.

33 vs. AQ on a A837Q board, against the afformentioned donk. I raised PF and bet all three streets for value. I'll be damned if I know how I didn't stack him here, he was putting way too much money into the pot with marginal hands and then check-called the river here with top two pair with no straight or flush possible.

66 vs. a shorty's 77 on a multiway 96x flop.

Lots of other medium sized pots. I built my way back from -$75ish to the green without winning any huge pots, and the KK hand was my only full stackage of the night. Overall a good night, and hopefully a session then can help me rebound from the rough downswing I've been on lately. According to the plan, $375 left to go before I try and move back up to NL 100.

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Dear UB,

Please turn off the doom switch. Seriously.

Sincerely,
RAHZero

God, every time things start to look up I get raped by the riggedaments at UB. Won a huge pot with JJ vs. AK and 33 on a KJ3 flop to get back near even for the session, and not 2 minutes later I get KK vs. AA. Earlier I was up and then lost KK AIPF against AJo. Somehow I managed to still finish up $20 for the session. Graph below:



Oh yeah, and I missed two huge combo draws again. 9c8c on a Jx6c5c flop and Ad4d on a 7x5d2d flop. Will try making a video tonight, didn't work last night (got no audio).

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Last night was another horrible session at NL 100, my worst so far. Started off great when some guy called my $5 raise PF with 32o (I had AQ), then donked into me on a Q62 flop. He proceeded to call my raise to $45 (three-way pot, he led for $15, I raised to $45), and spiked a 3 on the turn. Down 1-buy-in early. It just went downhill from there. I didn't stack anyone all session, and spewed quite a bit towards the end and finished down 6 buy-ins.

After this terrible start to February, I'm moving back down to NL 50 for a little. I'm going to try to make a video tonight and see if some others can help me find leaks in my game. The plan is to play NL 50 until I've made 10 buy-ins ($500), then move back up. If I fail at NL 100 again, then I'll probably switch over to limit or tourneys for a bit. I really think that I'm capable of beating the NL 100 games I've been playing lately, but I can't seem to catch a break. Hopefully moving down will allow me to build back up some confidence in my game.

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Played about 850 hands at NL 50 this afternoon and finished up about $45 despite some guy cold-calling a raise and my 3-bet with 77 and flopping quads. Probably going to try and get in a session of NL 100 later on tonight.

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Man, February is off to an awesome start!

Great hands so far:

KK raises from the button, gets three-bet, gets all-in against T9s on a Q86r flop! Sweet! Oh wait, the turn's a 7.

88 flops a set on an 842 flop AND gets raised. Awesome! Oh wait, he turns a flush.

50/10/5 shoves a QJ9 flop when I'm holding AA. Nice! Oh wait, this time he actually has a hand (QQ).

JTs flops a combo draw with middle pair + FD + gutshot. Oh wait, I forgot, I don't ever hit combo draws.

QQ 3-bets PF and get's called by KTo, which of course flops a king.

Some guy bluffs at me on the turn and I decide to call down with ace-high. Oh wait, he rivers a pair of sixes with 86o.

Down 4 buy-ins on the day yesterday, another on Thursday = 5 buy-in downswing to start the month.

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The end of January kind of sucked, I dropped about $230 on Tuesday night at NL 100 thanks to ridiculous suckouts like AA < 42s (which raised PF and called a reraise) all-in on a K86 flop, where he flopped a flush draw and hit runner runner straight. The same guy also hit a 3 outer on the river against me earlier, when AQ < AK on an AQ92 board, K on the river. Total stats for January were pretty meh, $464.00 profit over 19,807 hands. Also made $332.50 in tourneys though and another $350ish and bonuses and rakeback. I definitely feel like I'm a solid winner at NL 100 though after playing there a decent bit, so my Feb. goal is 30k hands there. I want to move over to Full Tilt or maybe even Stars for a little bit, but it looks like getting cash out of UB is going to take forever at the moment.

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Decided to mix it up and play a little NL 50 today to shoot a video. Well that didn't go well, because I got flush over flushed twice (one was flopped flush over flopped flush in a blind battle, WTF thanks UB), and ended up yelling profanities. Took a break, watched 24 (another sick episode, next week is going to be insane), then came back to play NL 100.

Well that went much better than NL 50. I flopped a set with 55 on a K95 board, all clubs, and led into the PF raiser, who flat called. The turn was the ten of clubs, I checked, he checked behind. River was the beautiful ten of diamonds, I bet the pot, he pushed, I called, AcKx no good, up half a stack early. I won a couple small pots, raised QQ in a blind battle, got raised on the ten high flop, called, shoved over his turn bet and took it down for +$50ish, then won about $70 with QQ on a J22 flop vs. KJ. I proceeded to take a donk to value-town with QQ, he called my reraise with 99 and proceeded to call me down on the 6-high flop with 99, won a full stack there. The last huge hand was with AA. A tight-passive limped to me in the BB, I raised to $5. Flop came KQQ, I led for $8, he called. Turn was a sweet Ace, I checked, he bet $15, I called. River was an 8, I checked, he bet $25, I raised all-in, he called. 88 no good, LOL!

Totals for the day:

NL 50: 628 hands, -$107.85
NL 100: 699 hands, +$271.15
Profit: $163.30

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Saturday night I didn't play any poker (or get drunk, but that's another long, frustrating story).

Tonight should have been another huge day at NL 100, except UB is frigging rigged against me. KK < AKs all-in preflop, and not more than 5 minutes later, AA < KK at the same table. Final totals were -$70 over slightly more than 1000 hands. Overall, a very frustrating night, especially since I should have been way up.

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