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ddrrr — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:22:49 +0000

hello world!

Almost broke my wrist. That's how today went.

RIGGED! — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:13:16 +0000

Such a freaking frustrating day of poker. Right out of the gate I have this crazy reg at all of my tables. I hate him when he is getting lucky (which is most of the time), but I love him when my hands hold. This guy probably put me out of about seven tournaments out of twelve with the worst hand. He’s pushing every small blind. I call him with K3, A2 K8, Q8, etc over and over again and his 47, 35, 92, etc win every time. I was just taking it like a man and not getting mad about it. Then some moron was min raising me every hand heads up and I 3bet him all in with 98o (which was dumb). Of course he calls with K7 and holds. I make few mistakes and that was all I could take. I banged the side of my fist on my desk a good four times as hard as I could. Immediately regretted that as I thought I broke my wrist, but the pain subsided after awhile and now I just have a fatty bruise. Well today wasn’t all bad. I played 96 games and made 1.25 buy-ins. I ran completely horrible heads up and three handed today. It was just one of those days. I stopped short of my last set because my internet was being really weird. I’m not sure if it was on Full Tilt’s end or my end. It was just lagging a little bit and I don’t wanta risk it going out on my last set of the day. Blowing a smooth $144 doesn’t sound appealing at the moment. So I decided to play it safe tonight. Going to try and knock out the rest of the last season of 24 tonight. Talk to you guys tomorrow. RIGGGED!! Oh, almost forgot

Friday, 30 july 2010

Dan_AKs — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:18:46 +0000

Hello and Welcome to The Life Of a Learning Grinder Well let me start by introducing my self my name is Daniel and im from the united kingdom i have been playing poker for about 1 year or so at casinos playing live tournaments and cash games and also playing online mainly having shots at MTT and 200NL cash games not taking it to serious and trying to get a quick fix but we all no that when u take shots its easy to go busto because verience kicks u in the behind so this august im deciding to grind a $600 bankroll, Im unsure of what my achievable goal would be so for the first month im just going to go for the the first week is to get my bankroll to around $1600 obsessively this will be tuff and i understand this i have been doing my research on micro-cash and im feeling confer dent i can learn this its not going to happen over night but theres only one way to learn and thats go for it ill be uploading graphs and servile hand history’s maybe later on a few videos so wish me goodluck END OF DAY 1 So its been a long day and i have enjoyed it im glad to say i have made a profit of + 92.23 i havent really put a masive amount of volume in

today hope to do a bit more tomorro
BANKROLL PROFIT/LOSS
BANKROLL START : $ 600
BANKROLL END : $ 692.23

Deuces Beginner!!!

Iconoclast — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:53:16 +0000

After my free seven day run, I decided to get a monthly subscription to the site. I’m honestly impressive with the information that is provided and the helpful coaching and instructions. I’m looking forward to learning and investing time into the site. Also, probably need to get involved in the forum discussion a lot more.

Shortest Blog Entry Ever

nienie23 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:30:44 +0000

Got nothing to say. Grinded my wayback to 25NL and I am there to stay, full of confidence. See ya at 50NL.

Some sick Days. at 30NL and 50NL

izaque — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:58:22 +0000

Played 1860 hands today mixed between 30 and 50NL Seems like i get some kindof brainfuck in the beginning of each sesh thinking im a pro handreader calling stupid stuff down with low pp on high boards and so on. Then i fing myself stuck like 75$ having to struggle for a few hours to get it back. Its not because of runbad or anything its because i play like a donkey. Anyway ran into theese hands wich were kindof interesting. hand 1 hand 2 Also 4 flushed AA against AQ with flop QQ9 all in preflop. Best hand always wins. Anyway after this long session i won 3$ i guess thats poker sometimes. Starting roll : 1045$ Ending roll : 1048$ See you tomorrow

50% RB

Acombfosho — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:40:43 +0000

I just looked at my rakeback for this year.. €5247 :) @ 50% – awesome http://www.webpokersource.com/?wpsr=d3BzMTcyMQ== Promotional Code or WPS Username : jjipkr

Converted from Cardrunners!

mxjust — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:42:17 +0000

Hey Everyone, My cardrunners membership ran out a few weeks months ago and i decided to try the free trial at DC. I love the site and went ahead and became a member. Overall in my opinion DC is the superior site of the two. I love the fact that i can put vids on my ipod and if anyone has recommendations for good vids for the ipod please let me know. Also the note taking feature for the vids is clutch and Im going to force myself to take notes on almost every video I watch. A little about myself: I am a full time student at the University of Delaware, and I work part time as a poker dealer at Delaware park. I have been playing cash games online for about a year now and currently play 50nl. I strongly believe that i am capable of crushing this limit, but i have several tilt issues that are holding me back. I am working on eliminating these issues by reducing the amount of tables i play and focusing more while i play. Anyways i just finished my first video series which was coaching Kristy and I thought balugawhale was a great instructor and plan on watching more of his videos. If any 50nl-100nl read this and would like to do some sweat sessions or review HH’s please send me a PM. Good luck at the tables -Justin

first update in quite a while

corkeye — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:24:50 +0000

Lately i’ve not been online as much as before. After suffering a terrible swong in the sngs I have switched my play to micro cash (0.05/0.1) – and have found some success. Live i’m really pumped about this saturday. Myself and a couple of friends are going to this tournament http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/festivalinfo.php?id=61 Which is essentially an improvement in structure in the event I often play on a friday. 10K starting stack and slightly longer levels,while its not the wsop main event structure it offers more play than a 3k starting stack im used to, add to that the fact that many people who play at this level have huge leaks and are not used to starting with such a big stack (plus not everyone adjusts once the antes start), i’m hoping to get a good run in this ONE TIME DEALER ;). My basic strategy is try and get in pots cheap early on to hit large hands (suited connectors in multi way pots, paint cards small pps etc), then open up my range once the antes hit. I’m not going to play too tight early on or hyper aggy tho. We shall see . My record at the ‘festival’ events isn’t great though if i’m being honest but i’m due a deep run. One thing I will do is open up big time once we are a few levels into antes, as I recall an event a few months ago in which 1 moment I was average stack and 1-2 levels i’m in shove/fold mode and unfortunately found no spots to get it in first as there was always a shove in front of me. I think it pays to get aggressive before you get criticial. Anyways, i’ll bore you all with an update if I ship it. :P

I complain too much

xix — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:15:32 +0000

Poker Stars $0.05/$0.10 No Limit Hold’em $0.02 Ante – 9 players – View hand 827802 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter SB: $21.28 BB: $10.00 UTG: $21.57 UTG+1: $26.31 UTG+2: $20.40 MP1: $20.00 MP2: $19.64 Hero (CO): $38.15 BTN: $9.95 Pre Flop: ($0.33) Hero is CO with K J 1 fold , UTG+1 raises to $0.30 , 3 folds , Hero calls $0.30, 3 folds Flop: ($0.93) T Q 5 (2 players) UTG+1 bets $0.70 , Hero calls $0.70 Turn: ($2.33) A (2 players) UTG+1 bets $1.30 , Hero raises to $2.60 , UTG+1 calls $1.30 River: ($7.53) 8 (2 players) UTG+1 checks, Hero bets $6 , UTG+1 folds Final Pot: $7.53 Hero mucks K J Hero wins $7.18 (Rake: $0.35) Absolute Poker No Limit Hold’em Tournament – t20/t40 Blinds – 2 players – View hand 827803 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN/SB: t1805 M = 30.08 Hero (BB): t1195 M = 19.92 Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with A T BTN/SB calls t20, Hero raises to t , BTN/SB calls t-40 Flop: A J Q (2 players) Hero bets t , BTN/SB calls t0 Turn: K (2 players) BTN/SB calls t0 River: 5 (2 players) Final Pot: t0 BTN/SB shows K 8 (One pair, kings) Hero shows A T (Royal flush) Hero wins t2390 (Rake: t-2390)

Mr Bubble and a porn star

HotDiggy1121 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:32:20 +0000

Got a little run-good wit my new Mr Bubble avatar. Ended today +$327 – which is where I thought I’d be going into this thing. I did a few things differently today: 1) Mr Bubble avatar. With the avatar came a new dedication and focus on bubble play. 2) Limited the # of MTTs I played. I still blew like $125ish. Geez..it just goes. I played my last large field MTT today until at least end of next month. NO MORE OF THIS! 3) Used Sh%$kSc%pe and ONLY played Easy to Easy/Neutral SnGs. If it wasn’t there, I didn’t force it. I played various structures on PS and FTP. By end of this week I’ll be all set to add Carbon, Bodog, and Cake to my options. If there is a weak SnG, I’ll find it. 4) Limited the # of tables to no more than 6 (for the most part.) I picked up on quite a few more tendencies and was able to steal chips in some spots to keep me from being so short at the end. 5) I made like 6-8 member vids, but I’ve never been able to get the audio compression quite right with Cam Studio to make them small enough to upload. Even still, they made me talk through my thought processes and FOCUS a lot more. Making vids seems to be GREAT for anti-tilt. I shoved AA on the bubble of this $27 18-man and dude hit like a phucken Skip Bo on the river or something – which is great for him..I’m glad I could help :). So, I promptly started recording another vid. It’s pretty hard to spew too bad when you hear yourself saying ""I know I should fold, but I’m gonna just ship it." (For the record, AMT told me to record myself like a year ago in a coaching session. I made a few vids, but didn’t really feel it. Today, I was feelin it.) 6) Since I dropped like $1k+ on cash games, I’ve been pretty terrified of them. Even with Rapid Ev coaching me (and he’s the BOMB!) , I’ve still been completely terrified of them. With my confidence where it needed to be, I played 2 quick sessions for a total of about 90 minutes and finished +$80ish. I just didn’t press so much. It was kinda sick because I was gettin kind-of “porn star” with it. I mean, villains would call me up and I’d show em da nutz! !…lol :) Mr Bubble and a porn star ftw !

Looking for a single woman in the WA State area :)

RIGGED! — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:12:20 +0000

Thought I’d give it a try. I’m pretty sure I’m destined to be single the rest of my life. I’m sitting at my computer in my house, alone, for most of the day, everyday. I don’t go out much, if at all. And I don’t make much money. So the future is looking pretty bleak for me. Years of going to sleep alone and depressed thinking of what could have/should have been I have to look forward to. I think about her everyday, every hour. I’ll never know the real reason why she broke up with me. Times were awesome two months ago. Life was going great, no worries. Then bam, worst nightmare and it’s never ending. A life of depression. I know a lot of people have it worse than me, but it doesn’t make it any less difficult. I can make a great husband for someone. I cook and clean. I’m home all the time. I make my own schedule. Most importantly, I know how to love. Finding that woman that appreciates that and is willing to love me as much as I love her is going to be a trick. One of my biggest flaws is that I am not sociable. I don’t know the first thing about going up to a girl and starting conversation. I’ve had two relationships that lasted about two years each. I met both of them online. I thought I got lucky with the last one, but she dumped me. I’m now back into the wild and have no idea what to do. Ok enough about that. It was just on my mind and I wanted to tell somebody. To poker. I woke up at about 7:30am because my neighbor decided to mow his lawn 15 feet from my window. I decided to twitter about it. I started playing poker at about 9:00. Played just about straight through till 6:00. I ran sooooooooooo bad in sooooooooo many spots. It was so fucking frustrating. I would really like to get out of this funk. It is completely ridiculous how bad I am running. I’m not playing bad!!!! Yet, I am having such trouble turning profit! Today I played 109 games and made 6.5 buy-ins. Combined with yesterday’s 48 tourneys I made a half of a buy-in. I was looking at some stats today and there are some players with sick ROI’s. It seems that these are players that are playing different than the regs. To me moves that they make are massively -EV. So I’m not really sure what’s going on. Maybe I need to spend some time watching some videos or make one of my own. Yeah I really should do that. I just don’t have much time because I’m trying to get as much volume in over these last few days of the month. I’d like to have some winning days, because I don’t think I can run any worse than I have been. Also, I was trying to stay in the top 10 on the low limit leaderboard, but it’s not looking like that’s going to happen. I guess at the end of the month a handful of $24 regs make a push so they can get to the top of the leaderboard. They only have to play half the games that I have to. There’s a player at the top of the leaderboard, pandurrrr. Not sure if anyone knows this player, but he has a 10% roi at the $22 regular speed STT’s. Over the last three months he’s made about $20,000 and you can add about $5k more in rakeback . He puts in sick volume obviously. It got me thinking that maybe the turbo’s aren’t where it’s at. Players at the $24 Turbo’s are at like a 2% roi at best. He’s obviously having no problem getting in volume at the regular speeds. Hmmm very interesting. Maybe it’s time for a switch. I’d have to play continuously because it would take forever for 12 tables to load. They last about twice as long as turbos, but if that means a roi that is way higher than what I am getting now, then I’m all for it. I’ll have to think on it. Well, enough typing for tonight. I’ll listen to the rest of the Mariner game (about 2 minutes) then watch some episodes of 24. See ya. RIGGED!!!

Fenway Park

bosoxx34 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:59:09 +0000

I recently decided with a friend to go to Fenway for a Sox-Rays series in early September. I usually make one trip to Fenway a year and it’s usually an incredibly fun time time. It’s tough to explain but there are so many things that are great about the park. First of all, if game time is at 7, outside of Fenway is like a party from 5-7. There’s vendors everywhere with a bunch of people wandering around excited to see the game. From there, walking into the park and stepping in as soon as you see the field is a great experience. Generally the first thing you see is the Green Monster, a giant 37 foot wall in left. It’s probably not as awe inspiring for a casual fan but as a lifelong fan of the Redsox it’s one of my favorite moments when I go to Fenway. From there, the fans are arguably the most knowledgeable in baseball. The reason I say this is there are no “get loud” or “make noise” animations from the scoreboard. Every chant, every piece of noise, every rhythmic applause is started by the fans themselves. There have been quite a few more fair weather fans that have come to Fenway, but generally when sitting in the cheaper seats nobody will leave until the end of the inning causing you to miss very little of the action or have to get up during the game. This may not be the best analogy but the easiest way for me to describe Fenway fans is to compare it to a wild dog.They’re always looking for a sign of weakness, generally always from the opposing pitcher. Sometimes it has very little effect. At this game I chanted “Lil-ly” with the rest of the crowd for 7 innings with very little effect. It was definitely loud and continued for the whole game and Lilly pitched very well. Then there was this game . Carmona came into the game and after retiring the first two, the crowd got louder after the Mirabelli got hit by a pitch. It was at that time Carmona started to struggle and the crowd was deafening by the time Youkilis got up. It was a really cool experience and when Loretta doubled the roof nearly came off the place. Next year they were down 3-2 to the Indians in the ALCS with game 6 in Fenway. The crowd was chanting “lets go Redsox” as Carmona was warming up, something I had never seen before. There’s really no way to tell if he was rattled but he gave up a grand slam in the first and was chased in the third. Again, there’s no evidence to point out that the crowd has anything to do with it, but make any mistake or falter a bit and they’ll be all over you. So, needless to say I couldn’t be more excited to go in September which could be in the middle of a playoff race. The Redsox are finally getting healthy and hopefully they can play well in August since there’s nothing like a playoff atmosphere at Fenway. -—— “As Commissioner, you’re supposed to be objective. It wasn’t much of a

secret though, that I loved Fenway Park, especially how it made you a
participant and not a spectator."
—Bowie Kuhn

Don't chat while playing...

xix — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:05:13 +0000

This is why one shouldn’t chat while playing… Poker Stars $0.01/$0.02 Pot Limit Omaha Hi – 3 players – View hand 827400 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter Hero (BB): $3.27 BTN: $2.26 SB: $6.13 Pre Flop: ($0.03) Hero is BB with T 3 2 3 BTN calls $0.02, SB calls $0.01, Hero checks Flop: ($0.06) T A J (3 players) SB checks, Hero checks, BTN checks Turn: ($0.06) A (3 players) SB checks, Hero checks, BTN checks River: ($0.06) 3 (3 players) SB bets $0.03 , Hero folds, BTN folds Final Pot: $0.06 SB wins $0.06 It seems I don’t like boats… maybe that’s why I’m a losing player. ;)

Downswing

gsiciliano — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:09:39 +0000

After the last post, I had a 3,5 BI downswing: So, I decided to make a review of my play during this period (the last 2626 hands) and try to figure out if I´m playing bad or if it´s just variance. Feel free to criticize or whatever you want to say… First I´m going with general stats, then with some specific hands that were the bulk of this down swing. I played a 21/18/4 TAGish style with 5.5% 3bet ; 75.8% Fold to 3bet ; 78,3% Flop cbet with 45.5 success and 50% Turn cbet with 50% of success. My Steal was 27% from the CO ; 49% from the BT and 53% from the SB First things that called my attention were the high flop cbet and turn cbet. I usually run a little lower than taht in both stats. But the thing is, my default BS when I´m just trying to pick up the dead money is around 60% of the pot (I usually bet close to pot for value and a little less for thin value. Totally exploitable but no need for balance yet at 25NL, right?). With that BS I only need to take down the pot around 38% of the time to show immediate profit in a vaccum. Add the fact that much of these bets are for value and you´ll see that since I´ve showed 45% success on the flop cbet and 50% on the turn cbet, it was profitable in general. My steal% from SB was a little high too, but since I was not being played back at a lot… There were 5 big pots I lost that made the difference, the first two were just bad beats: Poker Stars $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold’em – 5 players – View hand 827246 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter UTG: $58.42 CO: $25.56 Hero (BTN): $26.23 SB: $25.99 BB: $41.69 Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is BTN with 4 4 1 fold , CO raises to $0.75 , Hero calls $0.75, SB calls $0.65, 1 fold Flop: ($2.50) 8 4 8 (3 players) SB checks, CO checks, Hero bets $1.40 , SB calls $1.40, CO folds Turn: ($5.30) 3 (2 players) SB checks, Hero bets $4.75 , SB raises to $11.75 , Hero raises to $24.08 all in , SB calls $12.09 all in River: ($52.98) 3 (2 players – 2 are all in) Final Pot: $52.98 Hero shows 4 4 (a full house, Fours full of Eights) SB shows 3 3 (four of a kind, Threes) SB wins $50.98 (Rake: $2.00) I posted this one on the last post. Brutal, huh ? Poker Stars $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold’em – 5 players – View hand 827248 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BB: $76.38 Hero (UTG): $25.35 CO: $25.00 BTN: $38.69 SB: $20.98 Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is UTG with K K Hero raises to $0.75 , 3 folds , BB raises to $2.50 , Hero raises to $7 , BB raises to $76.38 all in , Hero calls $18.35 all in Flop: ($50.80) Q 4 9 (2 players – 2 are all in) Turn: ($50.80) 2 (2 players – 2 are all in) River: ($50.80) T (2 players – 2 are all in) Final Pot: $50.80 BB shows T T (three of a kind, Tens) Hero shows K K (a pair of Kings) BB wins $48.80 (Rake: $2.00) On the river… Sick Next three hands were coolers, bad play, whatever. You judge. Poker Stars $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold’em – 6 players – View hand 827296 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter SB: $14.10 BB: $25.00 UTG: $26.24 MP: $25.00 Hero (CO): $32.38 BTN: $21.12 Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is CO with K K UTG raises to $1 , 1 fold , Hero raises to $3 , BTN calls $3, 2 folds , UTG calls $2 Flop: ($9.35) 9 6 J (3 players) UTG checks, Hero checks, BTN bets $4 , UTG calls $4, Hero raises to $29.38 all in , BTN calls $14.12 all in, UTG folds Turn: ($49.59) 5 (2 players – 2 are all in) River: ($49.59) A (2 players – 2 are all in) Final Pot: $49.59 Hero shows K K (a pair of Kings) BTN shows 9 9 (three of a kind, Nines) BTN wins $47.59 (Rake: $2.00) I had prior history with 1st villain (UTG) because I had 3bet him a lot and he folded a lot, either preflop or on the flop. 2nd villain (BTN) had a hard time folding hands like 2nd pair or TPWK in some previous hands, plus he likes to stab when he “senses weakness”. I check this flop b/c I´m almost 100% sure that the BTN is gonna fire after check-check. He does fire and UTG flats (?). I put UTG on some kind of draw (I´d expect a set to raise this wet board, and he probably doesn´t have aces due to pf action), and BTN´s range is very wide in betting after two checks. There´s a lot of money in the pot at this point and I´m confident I have the best hand at the moment. Since any reasonable raise commits me, I decide to shove. Poker Stars $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold’em – 6 players – View hand 827297 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter BTN: $16.49 SB: $33.14 BB: $36.08 Hero (UTG): $25.00 MP: $25.47 CO: $30.42 Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is UTG with Q K Hero raises to $0.75 , 2 folds , BTN calls $0.75, SB calls $0.65, BB calls $0.50 Flop: ($3.00) T Q 6 (4 players) SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets $2 , BTN calls $2, SB folds, BB folds Turn: ($7.00) 3 (2 players) Hero bets $4 , BTN calls $4 River: ($15.00) 9 (2 players) Hero bets $10 , BTN calls $9.74 all in Final Pot: $34.48 BTN shows K J (a straight, Nine to King) Hero shows Q K (a pair of Queens) BTN wins $32.80 (Rake: $1.68) This villain is a 43/2 (64 hands). The kind of player who calls three streets with any piece of the flop. He rivers a straight… Poker Stars $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold’em – 6 players – View hand 827300 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter SB: $15.95 BB: $32.30 UTG: $28.39 MP: $25.00 Hero (CO): $26.05 BTN: $26.56 Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is CO with J J 2 folds , Hero raises to $0.75 , 1 fold , SB calls $0.65, 1 fold Flop: ($1.75) 6 3 9 (2 players) SB checks, Hero bets $1.50 , SB calls $1.50 Turn: ($4.75) 5 (2 players) SB checks, Hero bets $5 , SB calls $5 River: ($14.75) 2 (2 players) SB bets $8.70 all in , Hero calls $8.70 Final Pot: $32.15 SB shows 5 2 (two pair, Fives and Deuces) Hero mucks J J SB wins $30.58 (Rake: $1.57) Villain is a 50/17 mega calling-station. He hits runner-runner 2pair, lol So, that´s basically it.

Intro to optimal bluffing frequencies when drawing in Deuce

jrw5001 — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:40:54 +0000

The goal of determining an optimal (in the game theory sense) bluffing frequency is to make our opponent indifferent to calling or folding. This makes the frequency dependent on two factors, our hand and the pot odds (and in no limit games we can play with the latter). In practice, our opponent won’t usually call with the exact frequency he needs to in certain situations. We can adjust our bluffing/valuebetting frequencies to account for this (an exploitative adjustment) and readjust if he seems to be calling/folding with different frequencies as result. Let’s take a look at a simple spot where we always either bet (for value and as a bluff) or check/fold (we never check/raise or check/call) against a hand we suspect is somewhere near the median of predraw pat hands, say something like a T8753 (but we don’t know exactly what it is). How often should we bluff? Say we have the monster of all draws, 7432. There are 5 ranks of cards that are good for us (so 20 cards max) and we likely on average have somewhere around 17 outs to improve. If we bet half pot (giving Villain 3 to 1) we need to bet for value 3 times as often as we bluff to make Villain indifferent. So with a 17 out draw, we’d want to bluff 5.66 cards. It usually makes sense to do this with the worst of our catches (even though in this situation we’re assuming we have no showdown value with anything worse than a T and could choose randomly as long as we were consistent). So maybe we’d bluff on 7,7,7, the 4,4 not of the same color of the 4 in our hand all the time, then 2/3 of the time we could bluff the other 4 (and we could do this 2/3 randomization in various manners). Say we notice after a few times in this spot (or similar spots) that this player never/rarely folds when we bet. We can exploit this by bluffing less (if we don’t want want it to be too noticeable) or not at all (and if we stop bluffing against this player we need to be vigilant about how this looks to other players in the game). Now, if instead of betting half pot, we decide to overbet 2x pot. Villain only gets 3:2 and we should be bluffing twice as many (11.333) cards (so maybe 77744433322 and 1/3 [via some randomization] of the 2 of the same color in our hand). In this case we may find our opponent is never calling and we should increase the number of times we bluff until Villain catches on. We can use these ideas in other circumstances as well and to think about how we should establish our various ranges in the different drawing spots, though they require more rigor. Here’s a table you can use to interpolate:

I Will Not Play Large Field Tournaments

HotDiggy1121 — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:03:35 +0000

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I think I quit....

xix — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:32:27 +0000

Sydney DC Meetup

aus_dragon — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:44:40 +0000

Not much to say, pretty sure the pics speak for themselves :) Was a great night with plenty of LOLs and plenty of drinks. Will be great to do this again, hopefully everyone that missed this one will be able to make the next. A special mention has to go to Shuttle for making the effort and coming up from Melbourne. Thanks mate, I hope it was worth the trip for you :) I had to include the obligitory pic of pockets :) Left to right, Shuttle who made the trip from Melbourne with PokerGnome getting ready to deal WhiteHeatSyd and Shuttle putting on their best “Honest, I’m sober” faces :) Pretty sure I am saying WTF do you mean how do you play LHE :) , DiggerTheDog is on the far right and Pink Dragons “chip rack” making a sneaky appearance ;) The infamous rigged IMHO hand :) Blinds 25/50, PokerGnome raises UTG to 150, Pink Dragon shoves in CO for 825 and PG calls. PG turns over QQ Pink turns AA, flop gives top set to PG with straight draw to Pink. Turn is a blank and Pink hits the case A on the river to take the pot and a lot of LOLs and calls that the game is Rigged :p Shuttle was nice enough to highlight the fact as seen in the third pic of the series :) Hmm rubbing the neck, that’s a pacifying tell if I’m not mistaken, you haven’t just coped a beat have you? Ohhh now I see why the neck rub :) Shuttle telling us what he thinks of the hand “RIGGED IMHO” Thanks to DiggerTheDog for the shout, this is where things started getting interesting :) :p This is where it got interesting

Upside To Being Fickle?

K00PA666 — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:19:23 +0000

I am an extremely fickle person, many of my friends say its one of my worst qualities, and I agree with them. I change my mind about everything, all the time, what I want to eat, what I feel like doing, I mean literally everything. I don’t know why I do this, maybe I get bored I have no idea, but it’s something I do. Poker has proven to be no different, I started out playing STT’s, switched to 6 max cash games, then to MTT’s, then back to 6 max, then to HU cash and HU SNG’s. The day after my last post I believe, I just had a brutal day at HU cash and SNG’s got pretty tilted and stopped playing for a couple hours, then decided to get back on later in the day and just play something for fun, I ended up playing a $2.20 180 SNG on FT. I ended up getting 3rd which kinda of amazed me because I have never got anything close to first in any MTT’s before besides satellites into the larger buy in MTT’s where I got first to gain entry and most of the players are just donking everything off cause they are usually playing it like its a freeroll cause they used points to buy in. Anyways this sparked my interest in these because of the potentially high ROI. So I spent the next few days watching Hitchhikers Guide to SNG’s and grinding out these $2.20 180’s on FT, I played about fifty of these with a 120% ROI which I was super siked on. There were two problems though, one, they don’t have any higher than this buy in for the 180’s, and two, it is a bitch trying to get multiple tables going because it takes like 40 minutes just for one game to fill up, so putting in any kinda of serious volume is impossible. So yesterday I switch my BR over to stars and tried to play the $2.20 180 turbo’s, i think I probably played 4 of these, fuck those things, way to much variance with all the shoving that goes on cause of the fast blinds. Today I took my first shot at grinding out the lowest non turbo limit on there the $4.40’s. A bunch of min cashes a 2nd a 3rd and a 5th. I’m not sure what sustainable ROI’s are at these but I’m pumped on my results over this small sample. Bones and AMT’s video’s are amazing and have helped me a lot so far. I guess being fickle has allowed me to find a game that I can do good at without tilting, go figure. why can’t i stop laughing at this? run good everyone.