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hiems United States. May 21 2010 01:23. Posts 2979

So I played another session of live today.

Some cool hands. I am sitting in the 6 Seat. Guy in the 8 Seat is a Young White Guy.
He has a neat haircut, pretty preppy clothing...A pink polo that is fitted and "nice" pants, a metallic, silver watch. His girlfriend is preppy as well, and is pretty good-looking. He seems like a guy with a decent job that knows a little bit about poker. But I don't think he's very good...I've seen him open to like 4x once or twice, and there was a multiway pot where he led from the blinds. Also, when the waitress asked if anybody wanted a drink, he requested a "Cornoaaa with Lime Pleaaase" in such a girly way haha. He is the baby-face type. Just based on profiling, seems like a person I can run over a bit.

I think Seat 10 was the Button. Anyway I'm dealth AhJh. I open from EPish I guess to 5x. The dude calls and we also get a caller from the Blinds. So the pot is roughly 30. Flop comes 7 5 2 R. Anyway guy from the Blinds Check. I think about it and though its dry I just feel alot of times I'll get called from Ace Highs and Pairs, and I can probably try and show down. I check. The dude Bets like 15. Guy from Blinds Folds. I think about it and I think he is stabbing at the pot a ton of the time here. Im getting 3:1 on a Call. But if I do call I'll be OOP and need a plan. I decide I'll call, and if I hit my A or J I'll just play for my card value. If a good card comes on the turn for me to make a play, I'll do that. If its a bad card, I might Check/Fold. Turn comes a 3 Putting a 2 Flush Out there. I pick up a Gutter, and still have outs on my A and J. I feel like the guy is pretty weak on that flop and If I make a Big Bet I am able to rep some werid hand like 33 or a straight (They probably can't hand read well and I think I have just the image of an aggro online kid). So I decide a check/call Lead Turn line is a cool so I led out for 50 Into 60. He quickly folds. I show the bluffs then head off to lunch! Haha that was a sweet feeling.

I sucked out hardcore one hand. I had AdJd I opened EP. (There was so many fishes at the table I defintitely get called with worse). Anyway, an Asian guy that is slightly over weight to fairly new to the table min-3bets me to 20x. We Pick up a caller from the blinds. I call getting 5:1 odds, hoping to pick up a strong draw or spike an ace. Anyway Flop comes Qx Ts X(Spades). Anyway the guy in the blinds check. And I just decide, I'm going to make a crazy play at this pot, lol. If I give the guy who 3-bet a range of AK+,JJ+, He has 11 nonspade AK, 3 QQ, 6 KK, and 3 AA, and 3 JJ. He has exactly 1 PSB left, $60. I felt if I shove he folds his 11 AA and 3 JJ. So I win the pot like half the time, and I do have an Ace out against KK and I have a gutter against his entire range. I dont have a backdoor flush draw, but whatever! Anyway I just put that guy all-in. He calls. Guy in Blinds fold. Turn comes a Jx and River Ks. I make my straight an announce I have the nuts. Guy turns over Trip Queens.

Karma comes around to bite me back though. Theres a new player to the table. He JUST sat. He is a hispanic guy with "Trendy" Glasses that is slightly overweight. He Opens to about $22 Dollars. He only has about $70 or so behind. Super Fish from Late Middle Position Calls. I wake up in the blinds with AcKd or something like that. And I just figure this guy based on how he looks probably opens pretty wide here. Just the fact that he opens to $22 first hand, I just feel like hes openeing widish there (Since its just a retarded open...Its either he wakes up with a sick strong hand first hand AND is the type that plays super exploitive with his bet sizing on those hands, or he is just clueless...in which case AT LEAST AQ is in his range... Not that even if its a standard opening range I don't ship. But I felt thattt much better about it. I ask how much he has and then I raise to $100. He decides to call with JTcc. The super fish folds. He Spikes a T on the turn and I lose the pot.

The hand I won a bunch of money on was when I opened QTdd really early on in the session. I cbet a Diamond, Ace high board pretty big and I got Called from this old guy. "Post-Game Analysis" of the hand, this guy reallly really really was suspicious of my aggression LOL. Turn was a low card, Heart Brick. And I checked and he checked behind. River was a low card Diamond. I shove like more than $100 dollars or something and he calls with Pocket Deuces LOL.

I won a decent amount of money for the session, which is nice.

Anyway I learned something good today. There was a young online-player that was pretty solid to my direct right. He seemed like a nice guy. Anyway he was really good at paying attention to all the hands at the table. So this motivated me more to do the same. And I realized he was better than me at doing this than I was. So I worked on improving on processing information during observation. I think I develop a decent "technique I guess" to think more efficiently about how the players at the table play. I'll practice this in later sessions, as it seems sort of promising.

Also, I played online for 1 1/2 hours this morning. Strangely my VPIP PFR stats were nittier. 34/28, 13.4% 3-bet over 185 hands. I was just taking what the table was giving me. And I was playing profitably. I'll be honoest I like playing alot of hands. And it makes me sort of sad to see me playing nittier LOL. But of course I will just do what I feel is most profitable at any point in a hand. Anyway my after my blog posts about developing aggressive style, my win-rate at online have been pretty good actually. Esp considering I lost ALOT of "Relative Money" in some seriousssssssss spews that I know I am much much better than. Once I get good enough, I'll start adding more tables, etc. Its going to be hard balancing practicing online and live at the same time, while also making time to study poker. Fwiw my brother is here for the week and once he leaves I'll have alot more peace and quiet to get into a good routine.

Anyway its always nice to blog after live sessions. I love the personal feeling of recounting my hands. Doubt many of you will have read this far. But to those of you who did I hope you enjoyed it somehow. I'll be strangely impressed by anyone who says "FPS on the AdJd Hand"...Just cause they took the time to read that, lol. FWIW I completely forgot about AA being possible when I made the play. (Completely discounted AQ But Iono I thought that was fine. Might be a ranging-leak but Iono Its an aggressive discount but its "Possible" that he never does that with AQ). Anyway yeah. Cool.

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Last edit: 21/05/2010 01:32

NewbSaibot United States. May 21 2010 02:17. Posts 4946

lol at live fish minraising big PP's. I opened ATs and get min3bet by the BB who has KK. Flop comes KJ4. We check it to the river and I hit a Q for the straight. We then proceed to get it allin and he's furious he "let me get there (lol?)" although he did take responsibility for playing it like a complete tool, checking top set 3 times without ever getting a bet out of me.

bye now

Critterer United Kingdom. May 21 2010 07:47. Posts 5337

uve nitted up and are playing 34/28? wtf were u playing before??! lol

LudaHid: dam.ned dam.ned dam.ned. LudaHid: dam.ned northwooden as..hole