A good session

Recently I've been trying to get back into playing PLO (I know...) and I've been experiencing playing 3 tables of NL and one of PLO at one time.
This last session I played kind of mirrors my overall results, in about 100 hands, I lost $6 at PLO and won $13 at NL.

To the big hands:

This hand played itself. Was afraid he turned the straight but he took a while before calling so it was obvious I was good.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4227496

I guess he's trying to make some kind of Jedi call...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4227499

Was that a good move? Even for a short-stacker like me at PLO?
My guess was that it was a good spot to double up, but I don't know better.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4227503

ronee

Month recap

Hey there

Not much online poker those past two weeks for me, lots of stuff going on and work ouf course.
I was able to play a lot at the beginning of April and racked up 1300 hands in short order but didn't put in another session after that, which all added up to a small profit.

Luckily I ended with a small bang after I finished 1st twice in our live SNGs this past week, which makes me feel good about my play.
I have been experimenting with a more loose/aggressive play recently and it's been working quite well I gotta say. Not that my former style wasn't working or anything, but being a tight player is just plain boring. Right now I tend to raise more from any position with a much wider range of hands and just try to outplay after the flop and make the right calls.

Hopefully the next post won't be as boring and I'll have a few HHs for you ;)

ronee

The worst poker night of my life

April 1st is over, but it still feels like the joke is on me, as I am running absolutely horrible.
So far this month, I am about even online but still feel like I should be up a bundle more, if I didn't have Aces cracked or QQ getting called AIPF vs Jh5h (for his whole $5 stack!) and the dude hitting a backdoor flush.

But tonight really tops it all because I have a really sick feeling to my stomach.
In a live SNG with $10 BI, I was the clear chip leader with 7 left and kept doubling up the short stacks with gems like these.

AA vs K8, board reads 64523
99 vs 22, he rivers a 2
KQ vs K8, he turns a flush
AK vs KQ vs 99, the board is rags

What can I do seriously? Even with that last double up, I think I was even or ahead in all of them, so there is not much I can do anymore.
After all this, the shorter stack (which I doubled 3 times) was the runaway chip leader as I left shortly after busting, a meaningless A3 vs AT which fizzled...against that same guy obviously.

Even through all this, I think I got respect from everybody at the table since they all acknowled I was just running bad.

It just sucks to lose.

ronee

Volume is the *key*

I've been running bad the past month.
After a great start to the year, I am barely even in live games (I don't keep track but whatever, this is about right).
I then proceeded to lose most of my winnings playing on Full Tilt and some more at PLO.
Obviously I still suck at Omaha and take full responsability for playing when I don't even have any sort of edge.

One thing I realized though in poker is, volume is the key to everything.
You might be 2% better than your opponent, still, you won't be making money after one night of play.
I have seen so much shit the past few weeks, like K6 pushing on the river of a KK6-T-rag board only to get called by KT. What about last night with JT committing all his money on the turn when the board read KQ9-Q-K and his opponent calling with Q-rag.

So for a change, I decided to 6-table tonight. Although my connection barely held up and I got disconnected temporarily twice, I was able to put in 250 hands in about an hour.
Guess what, I had AA twice in the first 10 mins, and they got cracked twice, preflop by JJ and on the flop by a straight draw.

I lost $12 very very quickly and I was starting to feel depressed and thinking 'this is just not my day', but still I stuck with it and I am glad I did.
Luckily when you play multiple tables, you just don't have time to feel sorry for yourself and think about your mistakes (which is what hand histories are for, but I don't bother to be honest). So I just kept my head in the game and kept grinding, grinding, kept reloading, busting and being busted.

At that time, I didn't even know what my bankroll was exactly and probably didn't want to know the result from this disastrous session.
I loaded Poker Tracker anyways, imported the 259 hands,... the sessions read this:
-$9.35
-$0.05
-$2.95
+$5.90
+$4.70
+$2.10

In the end, I came out a +$0.35 winner, ridicoulous. But still a lot better than if I were just 2-tabling, don't you think?

If you don't multi-table, you're just losing money.

ronee

Crazy game this poker

Whew, March got off to a rocky start where I was losing a ton on Full Tilt. Like I said, this site seems to love action and I have been on the receiving end of the beats, as the hands below can attest. If I had won only a few of those I'd be in the black but as it turns out, after about 700 hands into the month I probably won't be able to replicate February unless I go on a sick heater.

I was able to climb back up and find myself down only 2 BIs for the month. I recently ended a session where my KK on a Jhh board were cracked by a guy calling my all-in on the flop with the nut flush draw. Oh well.

Straight for all = action.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3944610

Aces cracked
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3944612

Broadway cracked
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3944614

cya

ronee

My february numbers

So february is over and the total tally is pretty good, even for a micro-stakes grinder like me :D

I didn't put in as many hands as I wanted (1k+ seems about right) but so far I made maybe $25 in NLHE cash online, $8 in HORSE online, and about $30 in live SNG/cash.
Obviously I am due for a downfall but the later the better hehe.

My graph below represents my NLHE online cash results for the month and I absolutely like the shape of it.


ronee

I get rivered twice,...and still win!

I was invited to a cash game thursday night, some of the people there I had never seen before, including one girl.
The game was a 0.05/0.10 NLHE game with a buy-in anywhere from $5 to $20.
I figured 100xBB would do the trick and would allow a lot of play so that's why I bought in for $10 and also did the other 7 players.

The VERY FIRST HAND of play was quite a shocker to say the least.

- I raised in MP with KcQc and everyone seems to think I'm getting overly aggressive already lol.
- The player next to me calls and everyone folds
- The flop is a MAGICAL 6c8cAc so I bet PRAYING he has an Ace or a club, he calls.
- The turn is a 6 which pairs the board. I kind of hate but I still bet about half the pot and he calls fast.
- River is a Fucking Ace! And I absolutely PUKE because I know for sure he has an Ace at this point so I check.
- To my surprise he checked also and showed AJ for the nuts....weird.

The hand of the night happened maybe during the second orbit of play.

- Lots of limpers and I decide to see a flop for cheap with 34o and we are maybe 6 players in.
- Flop is 256 rainbow which of course gives me the nuts.
- EP bets half the pot, I raise and get 3 callers, included the EP raiser.
- Turn is the Ac which puts a second club on board and EP again bets big, maybe $2.
- I decide to wait no longer and push. Most likely in this loose game, most drawers and TPTK-holders would call to see the river; thus my push wouldn't be such +EV on the river.
- MP agonizes for a long time (so do I) and finally calls.
- LP thinks also but tells me he can't possibly fold and calls.
- EP resigns himself and folds.
- I show the nuts, MP shows Qc8c and LP shows Ac3c which is awesome for me. EP reveals he had 78 later.
- The river is a harmless King and I am sitting with a stack of $40 in front of me.

Honestly in that hand I don't think MP should have called, but maybe LP because he definitely had odds at this point.
I find that a lot of new players attach too much value to their hand and don't seem to worry about what the opponent might be holding.
This is probably good for me because in honesty, this is the kind of game you want to be sitting in, with people chasing every card.
But if they hit (cf next hand) that just sucks for me.

I honestly considered quitting at this point but I just decided it wouldn't be fair to everyone to bolt with $40 after just a half hour of play (or less).
Plus the two players I busted decided to rebuy for $5.
The only other big hand I had after that was....a crueler.

- KK in early position I raise and get a caller.
- Flop is 349 I bet $2, she calls.
- Turn is a 6 I bet $2 she calls.
- River was a crushing 7 and she checks. I am not sure what to do there but I put her on AT-AJ and decide well, she might think I was bluffing all the way and decide to call a bluff with Ace high.
So I bet (idiot! you're only gonna get called by a hand that can beat you!) $2 and she just flat calls (ORLY) with A5 for the straight.

My stack did take a big hit after that hand, and I didn't have much to play with either.
I tried to limp in with gapped connectors or suited cards and didn't hit much for the rest of the night. Plus a couple of short stackers were starting to shove it.
We finally ended the game at 10:15pm and I was the big winner with a $31 stack, which.....is kind of disappointing lool.

Dang, if only I had left.

ronee