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piratematerial Netherlands. Aug 08 2009 14:52. Posts 773

This is becoming a really bad weekend, pokerwise that is. Otherwise it's just great. So it's not a complete fail. This morning i was doing fine. Not really killing flops but taking down stacks here and there at a nice speed and then this fish i took a few buyins off a few days ago joined my table. In my opinion he is really really bad. BUT i think i must be honest with myself and admit that today he actually owned me really hard. I think in large part this was due to the fact that we were in reversed roles this time, right away. Last time i got up on him and he started spewing into me really really bad. I made a note that he is an erratic fish. He overbets with total air and sometimes even 3x barrels with overbets and all and like no equity given the board.

So last time my strategy was to make him spew and give him space, especially on dry boards, to spew off his stack to me. i wouldn't raise to protect my hand. even when overcards were rolling off. knowing that with his hand selection and all, it was very likely he was drawing dead. Also i had a little read on his betsizing and i was really in control of that match.
This time it was the other way around. I think the fact that i hardly connected with the boards played a role in it. But it was just impossible for me to win. I spewed off stacks here and there. Got it in with him all wrong. Which i think is partly my fault. His preflop hand selection is just awfull, he calls opens with like 70%, min or a little more 3bets like 37% and opens on the button with maybe 35% and limps a bunch maybe another 35%.

But when he is winning he doesn't stack off light. And that little piece of knowledge did not get into my brain today. I think i should have made some laydowns that i would never ever have made in our first matchup but i should have made now.

for example this hand i think in the 1st match he was bluffing here 80% of the time. but i think today maybe 30% or less and my calldown was spewy

i regret it.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/728074

don't mind this one so much. i tried to 3bet him on the flop because his range for these minraises is quite large and i wanted him to discourage from it in the future. i didn't bet the turn because i don't give him credit for laying down a draw on the turn. and that's exactly what i tried to fold out on the river. it's FPS though i think and this is absolutely not a line that's standard for me because i think against good players i will get destroyed on these flops, if i use this.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/728073

this is pretty ugly. he was min3betting me 37% and i was just calling a lot and playing pots in position but here i decided to mix in a 4bet bluff also to create some history and to give me the initiative back because it was really hard to get respect from him in pots and i needed it because i wasnt hitting

obviously i didnt gain much respect. turncard seemed perfect to barrel.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/728072

very important example of a hand that would have been fine 1st session but i think now that he was winning it was my spew. regret it

, it didnt help that a few hands earlier he took the exact same line when a second 9 laned on the turn and i held TP, that time i did fold like i should
: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/728071

i think i can 4bet flops like this because we have a little bit of history and he can call with really low equity holdings, when he threw it in my face it really sucked but i think i have to call. didnt want to slowplay this because i think its too drawy.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/728070

this was quite early on against him. i think its fine because this is typical him. trying to represent something that you hardly ever hit on every street and then having air. but maybe thats not so much him today hehe.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/728068

last hand of the match. i dont know. i think i regret this one. last week he could have shown up with A10 or 33 or something but now he was up so much.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/728066

i'm typing all this up in the train to amsterdam. i'm going to a movie festival. a french movie i think. if it's an good i'll let you guys know. and its arriving right now. so i have to go. but later i will update with some hands against him i won. where you can maybe see why i call him down in such a stupid way. definetely not my default. and results of today tell me why

oh whatever i'm happy i analyzed this. i only took out some of the big pots but seeing how i played doesnt make me happy at all. maybe i should put a stoploss in. but i don't like stoplosses when i am playing huge fishes. so often i have taken back 3 or 4 buyins and finally stacked them. one time i think i came back from a 6 buyin loss. thinking about it.

peace.

ok back from the movie festival. the movie was pretty funny. it was about a bunch of women who lose their jobs at a factory because the bosses close it down and then they pool their severance pay to hire a hitmen, who is an utter failure. it was kind of a dark humour.

i promised some hands that i won, here is a hand that shows how erratic he can be:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/728061

and though i think its fine he plays this hand for stacks, it shows you something about his defending range.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/728063

here he makes a calldown that imo is really bad. the board is way too drawy too calldown this light? maybe it puts more semibluffs in my range but really.. i think its not good. i think he does this a lot but sometimes turns his hand somewhere in a bluff when he senses weakness or something.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/728064

i'm at Central station right now, waiting for my train to depart and i don't have any more hands on my laptop but i might look into this match more when i get home.
peace.

ps your advice is always appreciated.

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Last edit: 08/08/2009 21:40