:Pot Stuck

This week has been nothing but swings and roller coasters. Earlier, around Tuesday I believe, I lost about 10 buyins in a matter of four or so hours. Then in my last hour of playing I won about nine of them back. While all this was happening I was totally clueless to being up/down that amount of money so my play was not effected.

Yesterday I played a short session and did well, about +2 buyins in 1,000 hands.

Then today I started off my session running very well. I won +2 buyins in probably 1,000 hands. And then the fun stuff… I think I lost every single hand for about 2 hours straight, resulting in a 7 buyin drop.

So, in just 3 sessions (and about 6,000 hands) I had a -10 buyin drop, a +13 buyin upswing, and then -7 buyin downswing. Pretty crazy as I haven’t experienced a swing like that in a long while.

I had to quit early today because of the beats I was taking. I know I like to believe that running bad doesn’t hurt my play at all, but it does. If I am aware that I am running bad, like I was today, then I play poor poker and it just results in me losing more. Over the past year this is probably the biggest poker accomplishment I am most proud of: Realizing that the games will be there tomorrow and theres no need to “get back to even”.

Full Tilt Poker - No Limit Hold’em Cash Game - $3/$6 Blinds - 6 Players

SB: $619.00
BB: $1,147.50
UTG: $178.20
MP: $236.00
Hero (CO): $597.00
BTN: $567.00

Preflop: Hero is dealt K K (6 Players)
2 folds, Hero raises to $21.00, BTN raises to $72.00, SB folds, BB calls $66.00, Hero raises to $291.00, BTN folds, BB calls $219.00

Flop: ($657) Q 5 3 (2 Players)
BB bets $306.00, Hero calls all-in for $306.00

Turn: ($1269) 6 (2 Players - 1 All-In)

River: ($1269) 6 (2 Players - 1 All-In)

Pot Size: $1,269.00 ($3 Rake)

BB had 2 4 (a flush, Queen high) and WON (+$669.00)
Hero had K K (two pair, Kings and Sixes) and LOST (-$597.00)

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I just played about 1,700 hands and really spewed. I made an awful river raise, got 3bet, and misclick called. My hand had showdown value, but certainly not vs a bet/3bet. And to be honest my hand would have never been good vs a bet/call. It’s the worst feeling ever when that happens. Good bye one buyin!

At other times I would try to semi bluff raise huge calling stations or just make some really bad bluffs. I started the session off immediately losing about 2.5 buyins and then grinding it out and won 2 buyins total. The games were great, but I forced myself to quit because I was playing so poorly.

Today

This month

I will probably take the rest of the week off from poker because I have a ton of work to do. Will be a nice break since I did play a lot last week.

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I played a bit online today, few hundred hands, and I was in one of the best online games I have ever played in. It was only mid stakes, but the players was awful. Open limping, min betting, and min raising from literally every single player. I seriously felt like I was in a limit game where everyone else could only bet the size of the big blind, and I was the only one is was allowed to bet whatever he chose. This screen shot should give you a pretty good idea to how the game was.

The best thing about this screenshot is 1) Obviously the VPIP/PFR/POT stats, 2) The button open limping, very common, and 3) the SB leading out for a 33% pot sized minbet on this board.

After playing online I headed to the local casino to play live. Heres a hand.

4 handed, and folds to the SB, he opens and I 3bet 4h 2h in the BB. He calls. Effective stakes are 100bb.

The flop is Ah Qh 5s. Sweet, He checks, I bet 70% of pot, he snap calls.

The turn is 3d. He checks, I pot, he calls.

The river is a 6c. He leads for some crappy amount and I raise 3x which puts me all in. He snap calls and flips up 7d 4d. I love his turn peel with 7 high.

I cant really complain (and I shouldn’t) because this month has been great. I have been playing a good amount online, a few thousand hands of shorthanded poker and am up about 10 buyins. On top of that I have already earned about $1,000 in rakeback. Sunday I plan on putting in a big online session since I didn’t play at all on Friday and only a few hundred hands on Saturday. Plus, the Sunday games are always great.

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Haven’t had an update in a few days, but thats ok since no one reads this. I have been pretty busy and in the last five days I have played just a little over 4,000 hands of poker. That’s pretty embarassing.

I’ve been playing pretty normal and running pretty normal as well. Today when I first sat I was on the left of a fish so I was isolating him probably 80% of the hands he limped. He didn’t like it too much and kept calling me a fag and an idiot. This was one of my favorite quotes from him after my non stop raising and 3 betting

stonewallbuck: nice job and stop f-ing around and only bet that much with AA or KK idiot

The other day I downloaded a program called SpadeEye (http://www.spadeeye.com/), which has some great uses. I use it to act as my ‘Poker Loby’ and have it display all of the tables with the players + the average stats. This way I can easily find good tables and I don’t have to deal with the crappy poker software lobby. It also acts as a buddy list, alerting you whenever one of your buddies starts playing. I recommended trying out this software. Heres a picture:

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