1 - There are 5 hands, where if I win any 1 of them, I cash and at least pull out a win for the week and possibly a winning or even very profitable day. AK and KT were killers.
A - AK vs AJ and A7 all-in preflop where I came in 3rd.
B - JJ vs KTo EP limp/call. T on Turn and River.
C - QQ vs KTo EP limp/call again. K on flop.
D & E - The 2 AKs hands (vs TT and 77) posted above.
2 - I ran really well in Omaha last week. Even had a winning LO8 session on Saturday. But I ran so badly in NLHE and MTT's that I couldn't even capitalize on it and make it a winning week. So I feel that I wasted a heck of a run in PLO. Don't have time to post graphs, but I won most of the hands I got it in ahead and most of the coin flips too. Very frustrating having nothing to show for it, yet when I get hammered, I wonder if I'll run well somewhere else to make up for it. I can never get that hot streak in more than 1 game at a time.
Last week:
PLO+LO8: +$328.75 ($91 from LO8)
NLHE: (-$131.80)
MTT: (-$211.80)
An extremely busy week ahead with and without poker.
- I need 3 more days of 100pts on Full Tilt to qualify for Silver Iron Man and get a $200 mid-year bonus for July.
- I need a little over 800 FPP's on Stars for Gold and a $285 bonus.
- A bunch of house work both inside and out.
- I really want to get all of this out of the way by Thursday because I have one of my best friend's bachelor party in AC on Saturday and would like to take a 4 day weekend until next month.
We're going to Harrah's, even though I hate the company, cause that's where he wants to go (Borgata is too pricy for the group). So I plan on playing some live Saturday too, just not sure what. Anyway, should be a fun weekend with some old friends that I don't get to see much anymore since they got married. Or if I do, it's with the wives where they have to look for permission before they speak. Sometimes they'll look to see if she's paying attention and then whisper instead. And then I feel like I have to watch my behavior in front of them too sometimes. It's so sad.
Statistics: Posted by MTPaid — Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:02 pm
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I haven't had a chance to get down to Foxwoods. I will definiteley go in either July or August.
Yesterday I played in a live tournament at a friends house. These guys are pretty bad. Only 7 people wound up showing and 4 of them were complete loose/passive weaklings. The other two were slightly less bad but still no threat. I rarely lost much when I got outdrawn because they don't bet or raise much and I was able to extract good value when I hit because they call too much. I wound up splitting with the hosts wife once it got heads up. It was a long day and I think she was sick of having everyone in her house. So I decided to win $20 less than I would have if I had won and chop it. I figure it's a good investment for future games.
One key hand happened at the 100/200 level (we started with 3,000 in chips) when the player to my left (second best player at the table) made it 600 to go. One of the LAP's called and it folded to me on the BB with
![[Ks]](https://livepokerforum.com/images/smilies/Ks.gif "The King of Spades")
![[Ts]](https://livepokerforum.com/images/smilies/Ts.gif "The Ten of Spades")
. We were 5 handed at the time and I was chip leader with about 5,800. Getting 3.75:1 on my money and knowing I will be paid off if I hit I call. Flop is ![[Kd]](https://livepokerforum.com/images/smilies/Kd.gif "The King of Diamonds")
[Qd][Td]. I decide to bet here which isn't much better than checking. I just didn't want to let them draw for free. So I bet 1200. The original raiser calls and the fish thinks and shoves. I was sure she had a big hand because that was the first time she had made a big move all day. I was pretty sure the UTG raiser had some kind of draw, I was thinking he had like Ax with a diamond for a gutshot + flush draw. I had been card dead for a while so this was tempting but I made the right play and folded. The raiser had ![[Qs]](https://livepokerforum.com/images/smilies/Qs.gif "The Queen of Spades")
[Jd] for mid pair plus open ended plus 2nd nut flush draw and straight flush draw. Better than I thought. Unfortunately for him the fish had ![[Ad]](https://livepokerforum.com/images/smilies/Ad.gif "The Ace of Diamonds")
[8d] and he missed his 1 out for the straight flush. I got shortstacked a little while later and shoved UTG for less than 4BB. I looked at my first card and it was a J which was good enough. I got called by A6 and my kicker was a 4 but I actually won a 60/40 for once! After that, every time I got my money in it was as a favorite. I almost busted when it was 3 handed as I had KK and raised preflop with 1 caller. The flop was 3,4,5 and I shove to complete the stop and go. She called with J4 and turned a J but the river was a 5 giving me a better 2-pair. I think I played pretty well overall and didnt get unlucky.
I need to update goal 4 as I've been playing a lot of 6-max.
1. Get to Foxwoods or another larger game at least 6 times: 1 down, 5 to go.
2. Re-read ToP and Largay's book: Finished Largay's book, halfway through ToP
3. Read the poker books I got for Christmas: 2 down, 1 to go
4. Play enough on Pokerstars to earn $100 bonus, then start staking deal with GLR: 76% of the way there
5. Play tighter preflop and more aggressive post-flop: For the past month or so I have been doing well with this. I'm running at like 20/16.
6. CB when I miss OOP more often: Working well.
7. Don't get impatient when card dead and no good stealing oppertunities arise: I have been sucessful so far. My peroids of bad cards have come but I have just foled through them and waited.
Current bankroll (Live play only): $2,146 ($646 profit).
Statistics: Posted by Bosox1 — Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:08 am
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Statistics: Posted by SebQtaneus — Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:00 am
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I think my biggest problem is that I have been playing tired and trying to push too many situations to make the BR grow...It sucks not having 2-3 hours to play every day...
I have been working a ton of OT this last couple of weeks and I get myself in tough situations instead of waiting for the money to come to me.
My work shift starts at 0430 hours and most nights I have been staying until around 1930 hours. Playing tired is not ideal for me, I have figured that out...
I remember that KJ hand, but it was suited and I agree that I should be getting my money in better...
I had a flush draw against what turned out to be top set and I think the other hand had TPTK...
See you at the tables...
Statistics: Posted by bigwheell — Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:34 pm
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But I must say that you are playing on tilt too often.
Ive been playing at cake's NL50 and I remember that I saw you shoving KJo against a a shortstacked raiser and overcaller.
Stop trying to push people out of their silly hands.
Statistics: Posted by Tatarana — Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:10 pm
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