Fearless poker had been doing well over a very short sample since the big win. In 3 short sessions, I'm running +39.45 BB/100 at NL50. Today I called down a bluffer who fired 3 barrels with A3s on an AKAxx board where he was the PFRer. He had TT. I would have feared a bigger kicker and probably have folded last week. Many spots where I may have been more conservative last week are becoming spots where I'm more aggressive now and it's paying off well. Where as I am looking for a reason to fold when I am running bad, I am looking for hands to bet or raise now whenever I suspect someone may be weak. I'm not worried aboue losing and it feels great.

I played my 1st MTT since the big one today hoping that my luck would still be with me, but I got ousted in 20 minutes with [Qs] in the SB vs [2s] in the BB. A22 flop. He tried to play it like a flush draw, but I suspected a 2 and still had to pay him off. I was just pot committed by the end when he pushed. Half my stack was in already.

I've decided to pull about $3500 and leave around $2500 in.

Withdrawal Punishment
I requested my 1st withdrawal from Full Tilt late last night and today I was thoroughly punished for my crime. I was pounded in all 4 of my encounters with a LAG's.
Opponent #1 was 52/10/29 and check-raising and pot betting into raisers at will deep into hands. In our 1st encounter he flopped a set against my Aces. In the 2nd he swore he had an overpair to my medium pair on a rag board. In the 3rd he turned quad Kings with AK vs my 66 from the button. Afterward he even apologized and asked what I did to piss of the site.
Other LAG was 61/10/42 and would routinely pound bottom pair on a monotone flop until the river. In our one encounter I flopped a flush draw with an over, turned a pair, and he had a set. I lost 2.5 stacks in 150 hands.

Later on, I made the mistake of fooling myself once again into believing that limit 6-max is a legitimate game. Maybe I'm wrong, but I was led to believe that you play our medium pocket pairs and broadway cards a little more aggressive because a shorter handed table means that many top pair and even some middle pair hands will hold up. Never so. In a short session I got crushed with hands like top pair vs sets and 2 pair. Then when I got my Aces, I was up against.....Aces! WTF???

Every hand is still an action flop it's just that there are more insane hands per hour.



Limp/push experiment Update:
One AKs today. No calls. +$4.75

16 pushed - 5 calls (31%) = (-$2.30) (-$0.14) per push
AA: 2 push - 1 call = (-$52.75)
Calls = 0 Wins 1 Loss
http://www.pokerhand.org/?762382 (AKs)
KK - 4 pushes - 1 call = +$32.10
Calls = 1 Win 0 Losses
http://www.pokerhand.org/?811632
QQ: 1 push - 1 call = (-$41.70)
Calls = 0 Wins 1 Loss
http://www.pokerhand.org/?767894 (AKo)
AK: 7 push - 2 call = +$54.75
Calls = 1 Win 1 Loss
http://www.pokerhand.org/?787600 (A9o)
http://www.pokerhand.org/?790129 (QQ)
76s: 1 push - 0 calls = +$4
Calls = NONE
65s: 1 push - 0 calls = +$2.50
Calls = NONE

I've pretty much been getting pounded since I requested the withdrawal late Wed night except for today when I pretty much just broke even. Ended up having my biggest losing week in about a month which still isn't that bad considering that no matter what happens, I'm still gonna be up at least $4K or so for the month by March's end.

I've been posting a little less this week because I've been concentrating on other things and I had one of my best friend's 30th b'day party last night. I do have one kinda funny story/conversation.

This girl that my friends work with, they're teachers, who comes out for all the "social events" and I've come to know fairly well was there last night with her boyfriend, her sister, and her friend. She kept trying to get me to talk to them, but I really had no interest. So anyway she finally gave up and came and sat down next to me and said, "Do you think my sister is crazy too?" (There is a common consensus among most people that she is.)
"Well, she is talking to a fish tank right now", I replied. (Mind you, the girl does not drink.)
Yeah. She is, isn't she?", she said.

One of my other friends bought a car yesterday and was showing it off last night, but made the mistake of trying to tell us the car's color.
"It's mineral."
"It's what? Bullshit! It's grey."
"That's what they told me at the dealership. They said it's mineral."
"Don't ever tell me it's mineral again. It's grey."
"That's what they said."
"Then whey didn't you get vegetable?"

Yearly Results:
WEEK 1 +$95.60 (23h 11m)
WEEK 2 +$61.05 (14h 53m)
WEEK 3 +$159.12 (18h 42m)
WEEK 4 -$193.65 (26h 45m)

JANUARY +$152.69

WEEK 5 +$57.85 (25h 32m)
WEEK 6 -$167.65 (26h 17m)
WEEK 7 +$52.09 (26h 40m)
WEEK 8 +$76.77 (22h 17m)

FEBRUARY -$11.89

WEEK 9 +$4,628.97 (21h 10m)
WEEK 10 -$121.41 (11h 53m)

Why did this hand piss me off soooo much?

NL50 7-handed
CO ($111.25) [Js]
MP, brand new to table, raises to $1.50
I re-raise to $5.25
Button ($14.15) ABSOLUTE ROCK (8/2/12 over 100+ hands) calls for 1/3 of his stack ????
MP folds

[5h][9s] Pot $12.75
He has $8.90 left. Obviously I'm not folding, but what the hell kind of hand would he call like that short stacked. My only hope is that he has AK or TT and will bet if I check to him so I do......twice.....and he checks......twice.



I bet $4 on the river and he pushes, I call. He shows [7h]. I absolutely don't get it.

Overall, it seems that Full Tilt has gotten over my withdrawal. Maybe that's what the downtime was yesterday. (Pretty cool though that I got $10 again for them being down though.) I've been running about even last few sessions. Today was the day of the draws. I flopped a bunch of draws today. Here's how I played them. Thoughts are welcome........

1st orbit [3d] in SB
Button opens for $1.50, I call
[6d][7s] Pot $3.50
I'm giving myself at least 9 outs, up to 12. Button only has $26.50 left and it could have been a positional raise with nothing so I'm gonna c/r this one.
I check, Button bets $2, I raise to $6.50, Button pushes $24.50 more.
Oops, but now there is $36.50 in the pot and it costs me $20 to call. If I didn't have the straight draw as well I'd probably have to fold, but 1 or 2 additional outs gives me odds to call here so it's not that bad.
Button has [Jd]
I have 11 outs. I'm 1.4-1 here. I'm content.

16 outs?


MP1 [9s]
SB and I both start with full stacks. No read.
UTG+2 limps, I limp, SB limps, BB checks
[4s][2h] Pot $2
SB bets $2.50, 2 folds, I raise to $4, SB calls
FD+2 overs and other 2 players folded. I may not have 15 outs, but I'm going to give myself enough to play this hand slightly aggressively. SB didn't 3-bet so I'm not all that worried about a set right now.
Pot $10
SB checks, I bet $6, SB calls
Pot $22
check, check
Should I have bet this river? Will he put me on a missed draw and call with a small pair?
He showed a pair of 7's.

[7d] CO. 4-way un-raised pot
[Kh][Ad] Pot $2
SB bets $2. I'm the only caller.
I could have played this hand faster, but while I could have up to 14 outs, I could also have less than 9 and the pot was small.
Pot $6
SB bets $3 and I call
Pot $12
SB bets $5
I thought about raising here, but decided not to. He looks scared but that doesn't mean he won't have enough to call.

[9d] in BB
1 limp, Button min-raises to $1, I call, limper calls
[5d][Jh] Pot $3.25
Button bets $1.50, only I call.
Again, I almost c/r'ed but decided not to.
Pot $6.25
check, check
After his check here, I'm pretty sure I'm picking up this pot. He could think I have a small Ace here. I bet out $5 on a blank river and take it.

I think I may be due to actually hit a flush at this point, huh?

[9s] CO
MP2 (Loose passive with $15) limps, I limp. Button limps, Blinds play.
[As][5c] Pot $2.50
BB (soild player, but keeps telling the table his every hand afterward) bets $2, MP2 calls, I call
I have the nut draw here, but I'm pretty sure I only have 9 outs. I'm almost getting odds here so no need to be aggressive.
Pot $8.50
BB bets $5, MP2 calls
Now I have to consider what the heck MP2 has. He has $7.50 left after he calls. Could he have a flush draw too? Regardless I'm getting more than 3-1 here. So I can make a small river bet if I make it and get paid the correct odds.
I call $5
Pot $23.50
Checked to me. I think about making a pot sized bet, but play it safer and only bet $10. BB immediately folds. MP2 immediately calls and shows [6c]

[7c] BB
UTG ($17.15) limps
MP1 ($33.45 a TAGish player) raises to $2
Button ($41.25 loose passive) calls $2
SB ($18.50 loose passive) calls $2
I call $2
UTG calls $2

[8c][Jc] Pot $10
Checked to MP1 who bets $7, folded to me.
He's got a good hand. He's probably serious about this hand, but he only has $24.45 left after this bet and no matter what he has, I have more than 9 outs. If he has an overpair, I have all clubs + an Ace. If he has Aces I have clubs+gssd. I seriously doubt he has the straight already.
I put him all-in and he calls with [Ad]
I'm 45%, almost a coinflip. I'm happy. on the turn.

There were a few smaller and less significant missed draws after that.


So finally I've pushed myself to start a real blog that I've been procrastinating on the past few months. I've found a pretty cool, pretty cheap host, with the 1st month free. I'm pretty much all over the place with the software and capabilities right now so it's a bit all over the place. I'm a little upset that I can have seperate blogs, but the categories for all the blogs show on each page and apparently there is no way to keep the categories for each blog on the seperate pages. Hopefully something can be done about that.

So I have my main blog with general ramblings, stupidity, humor, entertainment and such and a sports blog so far. I'm planning on adding a poker blog, but it will less personal than this one. I plan on writing more poker content and not personal records and bitching like I do here, unless it's entertaining or informative. I'm also planning on putting up a home income blog on there too. So this will be a hobby, but hopefully another source of income as well. I have so much to do, but it's actually more fun and less like work than I thought. The hardest part is getting started.

http://www.lazyguy.squarespace.com
http://www.lazyguy.squarespace.com/sports

The slaughter is complete. 0 for 8 and not even close.

1 - $22K Guarranteed - 441 out of 441 - Buy-in $69+6
Set over set (444 vs TTT) on the first hand as shown above

2 - $3K Guarranteed (Limit) - 106 out of 124 - Buy-in $24+2
Lost every time I flopped top pair

3 - $26 Tolken Frenzy (Turbo) - 54 out of 157 - Buy-in $6 + 0.50
All-in with 66. Called by stack leader with A9o. Ace on the flop.

4 - $19K Guarranteed - 725 out of 950 - Buy-in $24+2
Had to fold JJ when an Ace hit the flop and I met aggression. 2 hands later I missed from the BB on a 3 heart flop while I had the

5 - PLO8 - 77 out of 178 - Buy-in $5 + 0.50
Got all-in way ahead for the scoop and 2 outted on the river to go from scooping the pot to being quartered. That damn 2 only shows up when you least want it to.

6 - Daily Double A - 456 out of 1138 - Buy-in $10+2
Big stack had been raising every hand so it's only natural I'm going to flop TPTK when he has an overpair.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?911757

7 - Daily Double B - 404 out of 913 - Buy-in $10+2
Yes sir. The rock in early position must be stealing. You have a big stack and you have a monster. You must push with those 8's.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?911759

8 - $26K Guarranteed - 696 out of 1183 - Buy-in $24+2
Flopped flush draw after flush draw and kept missing. Finally had to push with Jacks vs a maniac. Knew he was calling and as soon as I saw him flip up an Ace I laughed cause I knew I was done. Funny how that works some days.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?911762

Playing against known idiots

The following are a bunch of hands from today's session mostly vs known idiots on some scary boards. All 1/2 limit FR

ANSWERS BELOW

HAND 1:
[As] in BB
MP1 (59/16/30 - just plain bad) raises, folded to me I 3-bet of course, he caps, I call

Flop is YUCK. [5h][3h] Pot 8.5 SB
I bet out and it gets capped again on the Flop.

Pot 8.25 BB
Against a decent opponent I'm leaning towards giving up here, but this guy is soooo bad that I'm not sure if it's worth it to call 2 more BB for a chance to win 10.25 BB. Getting 5-1 vs a complete idiot to call down, is this worth it?


HAND 2:
MP1 [Tc]
UTG+2 limps, I limp, Button raises, BB calls, we both call.
- A few words on UTG+2 (45/12/31 over 266 hands). He will call down with any pair and will bet into raisers and even 3-bet with GSSD's. Somehow though he always ends up catching at least 2 pair in big pots. He will play 93s and flop bottom pair but end up with 2 pair on the river all the time. He's actually +7 BB/100 over 266 hands playing this way.
- Button is just as bad if not worse (48/12/45)

[5c][7h] Pot 8,5 SB
BB/UTG+2 check, I bet, Button calls, BB folds, UTG+2 raises, I 3-bet, Button folds, UTG+2 caps, I call.

Pot 8.75 BB
UTG+2 bets, I call

Pot 10,75 BB
UTG+2 bets, I ????


HAND 3: - This is a weird hand
Button [9h]
UTG (25/5/38 - a semi-calling station) limps, I raise, he calls

[4s][Ad] Pot 5.5 SB
He checks, I bet, he calls

Pot 3.75 BB
He bets. Now that's wierd! I was actually going to check behind, but now I have 2-pair AND he's betting into me. I have no clue here! I raise and he just calls.

Pot 7.75 BB
He bets into me again after just calling the turn raise????? A2????? I'm definitely calling but am I raising top 2 here?



HAND 4:
Button [Qh]
I open-raise (read steal to BB), BB calls.
BB is Button from hand 2 (48/12/45)

[7d][8d] Pot 4.5 SB
BB checks, I bet, he calls.

Pot 3.25 BB
BB checks, I bet, he calls
Normally I may think of checking vs tighter opponents, but the fact that there were straight and flush draws on the board + BB's only pre-requisite to go to showdown was that he was dealt exactly 2 cards made me bet again.

Pot 5.25 BB
He checks again. HORRIBLE card. Easy check behind or do I try to bet this knowing that he'd call down with anything?


HAND 5: Slowplay gone wrong?
[8d] BB
MP1 (fairly new, but seemed ok) raises, SB calls, I call.

[8c][8h] Pot 6 SB
SB bets???, I call on a very safe board looking for c/r, but MP1 only calls.

Pot 4.5 BB
SB bets again, no more slowplay - I raise, MP1 insta-3bets, SB folds, I call.
WTF was that??? Did I just slowplay myself into a 2 outter?

Pot 11.75 BB
I check/call


HAND 6: Value bet river or check - questions on every street
[Qd] SB
UTG (dummy from hands 2 and 4 - 48/12/45) limps, poster in MP1 checks, I call (marginal to raise here?), BB checks.

[8d][4d] Pot 4 SB
I bet, BB calls, UTG calls, MP1 poster raises, I call (raise here because of overs or keep in because of flush draw - can MP1 have bigger flush draw?), BB calls, UTG calls

6 BB
Checked to MP1 poster who bets, all call

Pot 10 BB
Value bet or not here?


HAND 7:
[Qd] CO
MP2 Lucky dummy from hand 2 (45/12/31 +7 BB/100 over 266 hands) raises, I 3-bet, MP2 calls.

[5c][Kc] Pot 7.5 SB
I NEVER 3-bet KQo, but I had to make an exception vs this guy.
He bets into me on the flop. Raise or call down?


HAND 8:
[6c] SB
UTG (weakly played 44 for boat before) limps, CO (solid) raises, Button (weak passive semi-caller from before) cold calls, I call 1.5 from SB, BB folds, UTG calls.

[Th][6s] Pot 9 SB
CO bets, Button calls, I c/r, UTG folds, CO and Button call
I don't consider this a monster, but probably the best hand right now. I figure I have a better chance of knocking out UTG by c/r than I do of knocking out Button by betting out and letting CO raise which he may not even do. Is c/r the best play here?

Pot 7.5 BB
UH-OH! What now?













HAND 1:
I called down. He had [Qh] for the turned flush. Capped preflop and flop. Now you know why he's an idiot. I got half of what I lost to him back to him 2 hands later with 2 black Aces again.

HAND 2:
I called. He had [7s] for 2 pair on the flop.

HAND 3:
I raised the river. Should I have just called? He just called the bet and showed [4h] for the boat. Very strangely played.

HAND 4:
I checked behind. His [2c] wins.

HAND 5:
MP1 had [9c] ???? He actually said that he meant to fold the turn, but was playing too many tables and checked the raise any box by mistake

HAND 6:
It got checked down.
BB [8c] for top pair on Fp w/ backdoor straight draw + turned GSSD
UTG A9o - not worth mentioning
MP1 poster [5c] - raised flop with a GSSD and bet bottom pair with GSSD on turn.

HAND 7:
I raised flop and he called. I bet turn and he called. River put backdoor heart flush on board. I checked and he showed [2c]. My original read was good and I had him outkicked. Questionable check on river?

HAND 8:
I took a shot and followed through with the bet. Both folded.

I just finished one of my best NL 50 sessions EVER!!!

First I flopped the nut flush [Td] on [Ks][Jc] board vs a button raiser from the BB. I slowplayed as a 7-1 favorite on the flop and he hit a 3-outter to make a better straight with [Qc] yet I was stupid enough to pay him off cause I was pissed.

Then I trapped a manaic who was PFRing 20% WTSD 40%. Bet pot on every street and already shown down air 2x after pot betting the river. I flopped TPTK and took a stand and as usual, this is the 1 time the clown had an overpair.

And then for the finale, I ran TT into AA for a small loss, but THAT'S NOT ALL!!!! Very next hand I ran KK into AA again!!!

122 hands -$134.50

I am now up only $55 after 11K hands of NL50.

I've only had 2 winning days over $5 since I withdrew over a week and a half ago and none over $50. I've had 3 losing days over $100 and now 2 straight big losing weeks including my worst week in over a year now at well over $200. I've now dropped almost $400 since my first withdrawal. Coincidental???

Yearly Results:
WEEK 1 +$95.60 (23h 11m)
WEEK 2 +$61.05 (14h 53m)
WEEK 3 +$159.12 (18h 42m)
WEEK 4 -$193.65 (26h 45m)

JANUARY +$152.69

WEEK 5 +$57.85 (25h 32m)
WEEK 6 -$167.65 (26h 17m)
WEEK 7 +$52.09 (26h 40m)
WEEK 8 +$76.77 (22h 17m)

FEBRUARY -$11.89

WEEK 9 +$4,628.97 (21h 10m)
WEEK 10 -$121.41 (11h 53m)
WEEK 11 -$218.20 (17h 59m)

Seriously though, I just don't feel like working out the numbers, but I'm making this post to remind me to do it tommorrow and edit this post. I blame myself for my disaster earlier today. Part of it was tilt which shouldn't happen and part of it was losing my paranoia. It may not be healthy to be paranoid everytime, but I suppose you do need some of it in order to win and just not stack off with every decent hand.

For a 2nd straight week my poker hours are down. I'm just having too much fun with this blog thing. I gotta signup for adsense soon and start making money from it since I'm spening so much time on it now. It just keeps taking so much longer because I'm doing research when I post because I don't want to look like an idiot in public. I leave that for this site. Tonight I spent the past hour and a half posting about the Gordon vs Lindgren this week on PAD. There's actually a bit of interesting backstory involving Negreanu that you wouldn't know about from watching the show. I'm sure most of you guys know what I'm talking about though. www.lazyguy.squarespace.com/poker if anyone cares what I thought. The thread in Negreanu's forum where Gordon shows up to defend hmself is pretty good though.

Further Punishment

Very close to a big cash the last 2 times I played in the $26K.

Tonight. How about knowing exactly what your opponent has, outflopping him, getting all your money in, him hitting a gutshot on the turn, then a better 2 pair just to insult you on the river.

This guy limped JJ and only called aflop bet. Checked down an overpair against me.
Then he had QQ in the BB. Didn't 3-bet me. Check/called the flop and checked down.
So now he min-raises. If your not raising JJ and QQ then WTF can he possibly have? KK or AA. And when he pots the flop I know it's Aces.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?920686

If I win that hand I'm top 5 in chips with 135 left and in-line for another good cash.

Two nights ago. Same position. IRan my AK into AJ all-in preflop with 63 left. Woulda been top 3 in chips.

If I had won either one of those hands I think I have another solid cash.

5 MTT's tonight......

Daily Double A 500 out of 947 -$12
Daily Double B 690 out of 799 -$12
$400K Satellite 9 out of 20 -$24
$3 Rebuy 17 out of 188 +$8.64
$26K Guarranteed 247 out of 1135

Sickest Hand I've Ever Seen
This is ridiculously brutal. Does this idiot know something pushing 2135 into a 75 pot with T5o? An another idiot calls with QJs? And AA comes in 3rd? I'd hurt someone if I had lost this hand.

When Will I Learn To Fold Sets on Safe Boards?
Few hands after witnessing that disaster on table B. I run into my own disaster on Table A. Never seems to fail. I don't get set over setted on the flop. Only the river. And it happens WAY too often. 2nd night in a row I outflopped a monster (KK/AA) only to lose.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?923935

I ran 99, TT, and QQ into KK tonight as well as the set of 7's into KK above.

Lone bright spot. I did crack KK once. I guess this is how you gotta win. It was so unbelivable that PT didn't even catch it.
AJ vs AJ vs KK AI on the flop of Jxx. KK was shortie. I caught runner-runner straight against the other AJ.

Then ran TT into KK vs a big stack who was raising every other hand.