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I've been a bit sick since my live poker night and i've completely lost my voice. It's pretty weird, i'll be watching a funny tv show and start laughing and nothing comes out? So i'm like laughing air. Anyway. I put in a few sessions, one winning NL ring and one losing NL ring, basically cancelling each other out. I put in two sets of 8 SNGs (playing the 60s and 114s) and had marginal wins. I probably won't be playing much for the next day or two, just the odd set here and there, till i'm feeling better. Maybe some HU SNGs as I haven't played any of those in a while.

September
Tourneys Played: 46
Total Profit: $289
ROI: 10.4%
Time Played: 5.4 Hours

Stars $200 NLHE 6max
Hands played: 2,108
Total Profit: $1,470.15
Time Played: 3.45 Hours

Live Poker
Total Profit: $576.37 ($750 aus)
Time Played: 10 hours

Overall
Time Played: 17.85 Hours
Total Profit: $2,335.52

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Glad to see you are godlike again

Well I had a pretty bad run playing tournaments and lost a fair amount there, though i've still been doing pretty decently at NL200.

September
Tourneys Played: 73
Total Profit: -$240
ROI: -5.6%
Time Played: 9.0 Hours

Stars $200 NLHE 6max
Hands played: 5,502
Total Profit: $1,879.20
Time Played: 9.08 Hours

Live Poker
Total Profit: $576.37 ($750 aus)
Time Played: 10 hours

Overall
Time Played: 28.08 Hours
Total Profit: $2,215.57

Bah bah bah. Ugly ass session of nl200 which involved getting set-over-setted in a raised pot for 1.5 stacks (i had JJ he had KK on a JK4 flop) and me making a pretty bad mistake on another hand. It went something like this:

I have and a LAG (46/22) raises to $8, I re-raise to $22 in position and he calls. Flop is and he check-calls a $40 bet. Turn is the or something giving me the nut flush draw and he checks to me again. I should've checked here. Instead I bet $80 or so and was forced to call his allin when he pushed, he had aces and i missed my 11 outer. Checking behind is important as the flop was pretty drawless so he's either calling with a PP (which won't call my turn bet) or something like KQ which also probably won't call, but both might pay off a bet on the river (or fire out with a bluff). I also picked up a lot of outs if I was behind and he was offering a free card, I should've taken it. I stopped my session shortly after that as I realised I wasn't playing my best and didn't want it to cost me anymore.

Stars $200 NLHE 6max
Hands played: 9,028
Total Profit: $1,818.40
Time Played: 15.15 Hours

I'm still running at about $120/hr which is great, and I feel like i'm playing great (despite that mistake, though i'm pleased I had the discipline to stop when I did and not play my B game to try recoup my losses). I'm gonna play some warcraft then maybe try another session.

Well after that terrible run at ring games I decided to crawl back to SNGs for a bit. I'm glad I did. I played a couple of sets of a mix between 60s and 27s and fared quite well. I also played several HU matches. The first two were against the same player, both $105 matches. This guy was terrible. He would call almost every bet and raise preflop/on the flop and most on the turn, he also had a nasty habit of NEVER betting his own good hands and he'd pop in annoying little check-min-raises on the river. I just had to get a couple of hands and he'd pay me off, so eventually in the first one I pick up TT and raise to 4bb preflop, he calls with 23o I kid you not. The flop is 346 and I bet, he calls. Turn is an 8 and i push, he calls and rivers a 3. I find him registered in another $105 and beat the crap out of him the second time around. It was fun.

The next I played during a set of SNGs and my opponent also had an annoying tendancy to min-re-raise every PFR I made. I re-popped him with a mediocre hand (T9s) and he called then led 1/2 pot at me on the flop which I missed. I raised him and he called, I didn't continue the bluff. Anyway after that I raised with AJ or something and he callde with 93s, flop came J93 and that was the end of me.

The last one was very funny. It was a 4-player $105 SNG. The first match I played was vs a pretty decent opponent, though he was a little on the weak side so I ran over him bi by bit. It was a marathon and with blinds of 50/100 I was pushing a lot, he eventually called with 99 vs my A5 and I hit my A on the river. The second player I played was the WORST nlhe player i've ever played against or even witnessed in my poker playing career. He would call almost every raise I made preflop, then fold to my CB 100% of the time (while I was in position, i don't raise too much OOP). One hundred percent. If he did hit the flop, he would lead himself for a very small ammount (1/4 - 1/6 pot) and i'd call with my overs or whatever and if I hit i'd get a nice pot out of him. He almost never raised preflop. He was the weakest, most tight, worst player ever. Check it out:



At first I thought he might be setting up his image to try and make a few plays later on, but then I sharkscoped him and noticed he'd only played 2 matches and was a loser, so my best guess is he saw poker on TV and decided to deposit to pokerstars and give away a few hundred $s. I aint complaining.

September
Tourneys Played: 94
Total Profit: $344
ROI: 6.4%
Time Played: 12.7 Hours

Stars $200 NLHE 6max
Hands played: 9,530
Total Profit: $1,161.90
Time Played: 16.03 Hours

Live Poker
Total Profit: $576.37 ($750 aus)
Time Played: 10 hours

Overall
Time Played: 38.73 Hours
Total Profit: $2,082.27

Well about 1/3 of the month has passed and so far things have been going pretty damn good. I've had a couple of bad days mixed in, but overall i'm very pleased with my results. This bet I have with shamdonk has been great for getting me to put hours/hands in. I put in a set of SNGs tonight after my live game and had terrible luck, but managed to limit my losses to about $150. I then fired up eight NL200 cash game tables and made about $1k in maybe an hour and a half. The session started by getting 2-outered on the river, allin on the turn with my set vs his overpair and he hit, and it was just uphill from there. I actually managed to stack that guy to get my money + his money back later with AA vs KK which was great.

My live game wasn't too great tonight. I played the tourney but when a few people started busting, the cash game looked really juicy and they were playing dealers choice, though maybe half the table were mainly holdem players and i knew they'd donk off their money. So i started playing super aggro in the tourney (only $50 buyin) and busted quickly and hopped into the cash. I did stack one of the holdemdonks for about $100 but didn't really have many big hands after that. Oh there was one in pot-limit pineapple hi-lo where i had AA6 vs a decent opponents A35, he made it $10 preflop and i raised to $40 (1/2 blinds), he called and pushed on a K73r flop for about $100. I called, he kept the A5 and missed his low.

I also made the rest of the table basically cream themselves when I laid down the nut flush to a straightflush on a non-paired board in PLO8. I don't think it was particularly hard though given the circumstances. The hand went something like this: We're 7handed and I limp UTG, UTG + 1 calls as does the CO. The button (a lag/maniac - not great) pots it. We all call, the flop is 4-way. It comes down and it gets checked to the button, who also checks. Turn is the and bet $30 (about pot) with the nutflush, UTG+1 calls to my left and the other two fold. River is a brick, I think the or something and I check. Guy to my left pots it for $100 or so and I fold. This guy was a pretty decent, tight/solid, winning player. He'd check behind with any other flush, or a set, or a straight, so it's either the SF or a total bluff..which i've never seen him do, so yeah. It was fun to have everyone think I was the best player since sliced bread (does that expression work here?) for a while though. I ended the cash game up about $110 though for a small win on the night, though after dinner/travel/snack expenses come in, it was mostly breakeven. I had fun though.

Results and a graph or two.

September
Tourneys Played: 103
Total Profit: $107
ROI: 1.8%
Time Played: 14.1 Hours

Stars $200 NLHE 6max
Hands played: 11,872
Total Profit: $2,635.05
Time Played: 20.17 Hours

Live Poker
Total Profit: $600
Time Played: 20 hours

Overall
Time Played: 54.27 Hours
Total Profit: $3,342.05

This months NL200 play:


That dip around 9.5k was bad play + bad luck + tilt rolled into one. My winrate over these 12k hands or so has been 5.55ptbb/100. Admittedly i've run quite hot for a lot of it and my luck has been above average (though not insanely, WTSD = 21.70% and W$SD = 52.96%), there were a few bad plays/calls and reckless mistakes that lead me to believe they even each other out - that is, if i had "average" luck but rectified those mistakes and played well consistently (improving my game) then i'd be able to sustain a winrate like this. 8-tabling I think this is pretty impressive. Ok, finally, warcraft and breakfast time!

Well I played some more NL ring yesterday and once again had decent results. I ran good for the most part and played well also, which is always fun. I entered the BTPWCOOP NLHE event this morning and ended up taking it down for $115 I think. I started off pretty card dead and dwindled down to about 1.1k chips with 25/50 blinds, I limped with AA and trapped hard2tel for a doubleup against his KJ on a 44JK board. I then raised to 250 and the 50/100 blind level in EP with 89s and hard2tel pushed from the button, it was only 800 or so more into a 1.5k pot and I called, I was a head of his 67s and stayed good to chip up some more. Nothing much else happened till briachek pushed from the button into my BB, I looked down at 78o and had to call getting decent odds since he was so short, I think he had 67 so I was in good shape and got his chips too. Made the final table and blew up a little, doubling up somoene short and donking off a few chips here and there with marginal hands. Eventualy it was down to 3-handed with Cactus, Wild Bill and I. We played for quite a while going back and forth stealing/re-stealing etc, I think I played pretty well and made a couple of very marginal valuebets on the river that paid off against Bill. Eventually I raised with KTs and Cactus pushed over the top, I was getting pretty decent odds and figured his range to be pretty big, I was right and he had A5 and I lucked out to hit my T on the turn. HU against Wild Bill was a good match, he took a fairly decent pot off me early without a showdown and had the chiplead, then he limped and I raised otb with K2o, he calls. Flop is KQ2 and I lead weakly, he pushes and i insta-call against his QT to doubleup. Shortly after i get ATo and one of us raises, I can't remember but it was raised to the flop of Kxx with two clubs. He minbets 800 and I raise to 4200 (effective stacks ~10k) with the naked Ac, he pushes and getting huge odds I call and spike a club on the turn. It was fun and there were a lot of people sweating at the end too. I was playing in a 0.04/0.08 stud8 game at the same time and not really looking at my cards, just auto-raising/capping every street (including the river several times when I had no low and couldn't beat others upcards for high - it was an image play!) and I think I broke about evenish there since I had some good cards early. I don't think i'll play too much today, and if I do it'll likely be HU matches and maybe some omaha to take a break from SHNLHE.

September
Tourneys Played: 104
Total Profit: $211
ROI: 3.6%
Time Played: 16.7 Hours

Stars $200 NLHE 6max
Hands played: 14,098
Total Profit: $2,922.80
Time Played: 24.03 Hours

Yeah you did miss it tommy, you can make next weeks though - it's PLO.

You know how you have those days where you start out with a losing session and spend the rest of the day trying to get unstuck? Well today was one of those days. I dropped 3-4 buyins playing at the NL200 tables, due to cold cards and a string of my every raise being re-raised and every bluff being called. You know how it is. So anyway I then played a few SNGs and lost some more which sucked - more cold cards. So down about $1k on the day I decided to play some HU matches to try and make it back. I played five $100s and won four of them for a +300 win. I took a break for a while and played some warcraft then had some lunch and decided to play some more NL200 to try and win some back. I put in a pretty decent lenghty session of what I guess to be about 2 hours and made back a couple hundred or so there. I was playing really great so I just kept the session going and hovered at about the same balance for a while.

So while sweating Xas (watching him get his ass handed to him) in some HU SNGs Mecos invites me to a HORSE table with himself, jusk and mvp. I had a bet with Mecos that the loser would pay the winner 2x the difference in what you finish it. We were playing at a 1/2 table and I bought in for 40 - I cashed out at like 160. Needless to say the deck absolutely smashed me over the head so I profited about 120 from the table and another 100 from the bet to bring me closer to the black for the day. I haven't totalled anything up but just going by my stars balance i'd say i'm only about -250 atm, which i'm pleased with.