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EXCELED Canada. Jan 23 2009 13:41. Posts 401

Ive been switching it up a little bit lately getting away from LHE. Ive been playing 6 max NLE and a bit of PLO the last 2 days and I gotta say Im really enjoying myself. Ive been playing .01/.02 - .02/.05 games and there just retartedly easy lol. Great for rebuilding your roll.

Im probably going to make this a perminant change. Being able to play NLHE well is just way better for so many reasons and I dont know why I havent been playing it all this time. I would be a hell of a player if I stick with NLHE instead of going the LHE way. PLO is a great game too but its really tough. There is just so many hands a person can have its really hard to nail down there range. But like any game Im sure it just takes a lot of practice.

If Im going to be focusing my time now to NLHE Im going to need your help guys. Im going to be posting hands all the time now in my blog and your thoughts and advice will be much appreciated. I havent really had any tough spots the last two days but when I run into them I will be sure to post the hands. Heres my results so far:

Pretty small sample but Im doing something right. NLHE is 10x tighter then LHE so the trick for me is to have a bit more patients. I can get away with making pretty lose position raises in LHE but its a little more trickier in NLHE especially at the lower limits when guys are just so retarted. Hopefully I can get to NL10 by monday.

Here is a few hands:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/hand/hand.php?hand=615320
Maybe a loose call from the BB but I like suited aces with deep stacks. I got a beautiful flop and re raised the guy but when he came overtop of me I figured he had a bigger A. I think for sure a shove here is a legit play too. Turn is golden and so is the result of the hand.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/hand/hand.php?hand=615323
This one sucked dick. This guy hit his miracle on the river when I was trying to slow play him. Im not really mad at how I played it but I guess I could have put in a bit of a raise on the turn. If I did raise the turn though I dont think I would be getting paid off by anything though. Sucks that he gets lucky. Thats poker though.

No other real big hands to show. It seems Im losing the most money with big Aces that miss. Going to look over some hands and see if theres anywhere I can improve. I think that a big part of my game that I need to work on is 3 betting pre. There are obvious hands that are easy 3 bets but theres some hands Im not sure if I should flat call or re pop. For instance say the guy to my right raises and I have AQs AJs 99 or 1010. Is it better to flat call with these hands and see a flop or is 3 betting a better play since I have position? Situations like that give me a bit of trouble.

This weekend should be an alright one. My buddy is coming down tonight and were going out lookin for some nice mit. Not sure where we are going yet but theres tons of options in this city. Im heading home Saturday because I have a hockey game and I have some things I need to get back home too. Saturday night Im coming back to my place with a bunch of guys from my hockey team and going out again. This should be an interesting night lol. HAvent been out with the guys on my team for a while but its always a shit show when we go out so Im pretty excited. Sunday.... study time ugh.

Hope everyone has a good weekend.

PZ OUT
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Luckb0xx Germany. Jan 23 2009 15:11. Posts 2069

2nd hand.. i could never flat flop AND flat turn lol.. drawy board ~~

pfffffff...

k2o4 United States. Jan 23 2009 19:20. Posts 4803

hand #1 is fine.

hand #2 you should probably raise flop and get it in on the turn, but calling flop isn't horrible. But you gotta raise the turn for sure.

I'm surprised you didn't mention me in your blog and say "k2o4 will be happy!" cause I ALWAYS tell you to switch to NL. I had a similar start where I played NL for a bit, then moved to NLHE cause of a downswing and thought that was where I would do best, then moved back to NL and was like "wtf why was I doing NLHE???"

Never go back. LHE is a horrible game imo.

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Last edit: 23/01/2009 19:20