Grabbed by Holdem Manager
NL Holdem $4(BB) Replayer Game#636011754000375

SB ($547)
BB ($486)
Hero ($612)
CO ($347)
BTN ($601)

Dealt to Hero QQ

Hero raises to $14, fold, BTN raises to $24, fold, fold, Hero raises to $84, call,

FLOP ($174) 249

Hero bets $80, BTN raises to $160, Hero raises to $528, BTN calls $357,

TURN ($1,209) 249K



RIVER ($1,209) 249K7






If anyone reads this go ahead and comment on the hand. The player had already shown down min 3betting me with 99 otb, then pot controlled a Q88 fllop and call 2 bets when I had KQ.

This is on cake and even tho Id never advocate 4bet folding QQ like ever, this is one of the rare spots where id figure this random cake donk would only 5bet KK+ and would call with 100% of his remaining range.

I dont think i like my flop bet size. I was thinking of how I should bet to get it in on 3 streets, but I think its better to get it in on 2 streets given most of his range is vulnerable to overcards, and I dont think he is gonna spaz out and raise/call 88 on the flop

That said once he minraises I felt super weird about shoving cos its hard to think he would do that with TT or 99 or like 98. At the same time I didnt think he would 3bet 44 or 22 and he also INSTA called my 4bet so I rly thought KK and AA would be impossible given the timing tell. Idk wat u guys think



Also funny chat later in my session

BIG THANGS: d2 = call station
BIG THANGS: too bad your mom is going to be murdered
d2themfi: got me
d2themfi: ouch
d2themfi: wanna play HU?
BIG THANGS: eat s**t
d2themfi: so is that a yes or a no
BIG THANGS: i will s**t on your mom
BIG THANGS: you shylock ****
d2themfi: can u do that whikle we play HU on 4 tables ?
BIG THANGS: shylock loser fk
BIG THANGS: donkey s**t eating cnt
BIG THANGS: hollister? fkn spic
d2themfi: HUHUHUHUHU
d2themfi: lol
BIG THANGS: mexican burito trash
d2themfi: im white
d2themfi: but yea we have a lot of mexicans
BIG THANGS: highly doubt that
d2themfi: HU 4 rolls please

So like a lot of things I kinda forgot/got lazy with this blog. I wanna start it back up again, and hopefully keep it goin semi regularly.

On the real life front, school just started up for me on Thursday. Im in my 4th and probably last year at UCLA. I have a pretty heavy class schedule for this quarter and also the rest of the year and Ill still probably have to take a session of summer school to get enough units to graduate.

As for poker, my last couple months has been super swongy. Ive been playing a bit of everything, HUNL, 6max NL, 6max PLo and some MTTs, and none have gone particularly well. One thing Ive been thinking about is the amount of tables I play. Looking back on the last year or so when Ive gotten pretty serious about poker, I have continually tried and tried to become good at mutitabling, basically trying to play more than 4 tables of 6max or 2 tables of HU. But over and over, I basically have all my worst sessions come from the times I try to 8 table, or 4 table HU, and all my best sessions come form when I 4 table 6max or 2 table HU.

Its actually extremely dumb of me to not have noticed this before, looking back its pretty ****ing evident that I tilt way way more when I play a ton of tables, and I spew waaaaaaaaay more when im playing a lot of tables. I dont necessariy have answers to why this is true, but it seems to be over a pretty big sample. I used to think that I was just running bad when I chose to 8 table and it didnt work out, but Im pretty sure it was me just overwhelmed

Soooo for the rest of 08 IM gonna make a rule for myself to not play more than 4 tables of 6max or 2 tables of HU at the same time. Ill give it the 3 months and see if Im any happier with my results. I feel like if I play less tables, than I can achieve almost the same theoretical Hourly by just playing higher stakes, playing higher quality poker, and also improving at a faster rate. We will see I guess

Im also gonna try to put in more hours actualy playing. I defintely spend way too much time watching videos, reading forums and talking on aim. I think I should be able to play 3-4 hours a day while Im in school no problem, giving me somewhere around 1k hands a day

As of now I got monies on a bunch of diff sites so Im gona do my best to game select pretty hard, and take some shots whenever I see super soft games

since this blog seems super boring with all this writing, Ill post the biggest pot Ive played at PLO so far(playing 1/2 for the most part)


POKERSTARS GAME #636012002000065: OMAHA NO LIMIT ($2/$4) - 2008/09/26 - 19:04:14 (ET)
Table 'Cake_ havanaStockholm (6-max) 12002' Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: gavr*** ($578.30 in chips)
Seat 2: Subl*** ($653.70 in chips)
Seat 3: sque*** ($519.40 in chips)
Seat 8: Nitz*** ($54.00 in chips)
Seat 9: d2themfi ($396.00 in chips)
Seat 10: ohda*** ($193.00 in chips)
d2themfi: posts small blind $2
ohda***: posts big blind $4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to d2themfi [Jh 9c 8d Td]
gavr***: calls $4.00
Subl***: folds
sque***: calls $4.00
Nitz***: calls $4.00
d2themfi: raises $20.00 to $24.00
ohda***: calls $20.00
gavr***: calls $20.00
sque***: raises $100.00 to $124.00
Nitz***: calls $50.00 and is all-in
d2themfi: calls $100.00
ohda***: folds
gavr***: calls $100.00
*** FLOP *** [9h Kc 9d]
d2themfi: bets $272.00 and is all-in
gavr***: folds
sque***: calls $272.00
*** TURN *** [9h Kc 9d] [6c]
*** RIVER *** [9h Kc 9d 6c] [6s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
d2themfi: shows [Jh 9c 8d Td] (Three of a Kind, Nines)
sque***: mucks hand
Nitz***: mucks hand
d2themfi collected $751.70 from pot
d2themfi collected $239.30 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $994.00 | Rake $3.00
Board [9h Kc 9d 6c 6s]
Seat 1: gavr*** folded on the Flop
Seat 2: Subl*** folded before Flop
Seat 3: sque*** mucked [Ac As 3d Ts]
Seat 8: Nitz*** mucked [8h 3s 5d 4c]
Seat 9: d2themfi (small blind) showed [Jh 9c 8d Td] and won ($991.00) with Three of a Kind, Nines
Seat 10: ohda*** (big blind) folded before Flop

So I figured since I started a blog I should make some goals so I can look back in a few months and be disappointed in how lazy I am. So since I moved from cake back to FTP/stars I've noticed its much easier getting in hands at HU on these sites. On cake a lot of times I would not get action or would only be able to 1 table, especially at 5/10 because every reg on cake at 5/10 is a ****ing bum hunter. Anyways HU is definitely my favorite poker game, and over the last 2 months I have kinda been slowly transitioning to becoming a HU regular as opposed to a 6max reg.

So my goal which Ill be trying to update/keep track of in this blog is this: to play 100k hands of HU poker between now and when i start back with classes which is the last week of September. The hands can be NLHE or PLO(I'm learning PLO, less than 5k of HU PLO so far) and my stakes will probably be 2/4 and 3/6 for NLHE, possibly 5/10 if I run well and there's soft games, and 1/2+ for PLO. Since I'm going to be out of town from tomorrow till Sunday Im going to count my last two days as part of the 100k hands since I started a brand new DB in Holdem manager anyways.

I think if I actually am able to pull this off, and play/run well I will be able to play 5/10 HU on a regular basis not having to worry about game selection too much. That said, its gonna be hard. I have never played more than 25k hands in a month before(maybe the laziest person ever) and I also play the 4 larger Sunday tournaments each week(staked for these), and I don't usually mix tournaments and cash at the same time

Oh yea, and on monday my new monitor and video card is coming in. Ill have 2 24"s running should be good. So since this is officially a goal or a challenge or whatever I will post the first graph





Here is a bonus graph, this was all my HU hands on cake at 3/6 and 5/10. The best part of this graph was when the red line goes way up all of a sudden. That was a 4 tabling session versus maybe the worst reg I had ever played on cake played him for 2k hands in about 3 hours at my friends house in vegas

Sup guys, I finally decided to do a blog on here, thought itd be fun. My name is Danny, and im 21 and am from a smallish town in northern california. I go to college at ucla and am gonna be finishing up next spring/summer with a history major. Ive played poker since my senior year in High school, when me and some friends used to play 10$ buyin games and get tanked. I wont bore u with my poker story cos its pretty standard. Right now I just finished playing on cake poker for about 5 months and did pretty well playing 2/4 thru 5/10 both 6max and HU. I just moved back to FTP/stars tonight actually.


Unfortunately I lost 6 Buyins tonight running, 9 Bi below EV(see graph/hands below). Not mad or tilted at all tho, played pretty well and just got owned by the RNG. It was definitely interesting to play on ftp and stars compared to cake. I definitely think that edge wise its not that different on cake or these sites. Players play really bad on both sites. However the overwhelming theme of the villains I played tonight was aggression. And not really good aggression, just complete spewtardom. Obv small sample size tonight, I probably only played 4-5 "regs" but all of them were very bad postflop, and pretty insane preflop. I really like playing those kind of players, but it definitely increases your variance dramatically, whereas on cake I often had very low variance matches

I guess thats all I got for tonight. Pretty boring I knw


99 for villain here

Party Poker, $2/$4 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 2 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

BB: $727.50
Hero (SB): $495

Pre-Flop: 8 8 dealt to Hero (SB)
Hero raises to $12, BB raises to $36, Hero calls $24

Flop: ($72) 6 8 T (2 Players)
BB checks, Hero bets $50, BB raises to $691.50 and is All-In, Hero calls $409 and is All-In

Turn: ($990) J (2 Players - 1 is All-In)

River: ($990) Q (2 Players - 1 is All-In)

Results: $990 Pot ($0.50 Rake)
BB showedand WON $989.50 (+$494.50 NET)
Hero showed 8 8 and LOST (-$495 NET)


KQ for villain here

Party Poker, $2/$4 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 2 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

SB: $986.10
Hero (BB): $580.50

Pre-Flop: A A dealt to Hero (BB)
SB raises to $16, Hero raises to $52, SB calls $36

Flop: ($104) J Q T (2 Players)
Hero bets $75, SB raises to $182, Hero raises to $528.50 and is All-In, SB calls $346.50

Turn: ($1,161) 5 (2 Players - 1 is All-In)

River: ($1,161) A (2 Players - 1 is All-In)

Results: $1,161 Pot ($0.50 Rake)
SB showed and WON $1,160.50 (+$580 NET)
Hero showed A A and LOST (-$580.50 NET)


JTo

Party Poker, $2/$4 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 2 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

BB: $668
Hero (SB): $417.50

Pre-Flop: Q T dealt to Hero (SB)
Hero raises to $12, BB calls $8

Flop: ($24) Q 5 9 (2 Players)
BB checks, Hero bets $16, BB raises to $66, Hero calls $50

Turn: ($156) A (2 Players)
BB checks, Hero bets $100, BB raises to $590 and is All-In, Hero calls $239.50 and is All-In

River: ($835) 8 (2 Players - 1 is All-In)

Results: $835 Pot ($0.50 Rake)
BB showed and WON $834.50 (+$417 NET)
Hero showed Q T and LOST (-$417.50 NET)


67s


Party Poker, $2/$4 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 2 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

BB: $1,643.10
Hero (SB): $401.60

Pre-Flop: K A dealt to Hero (SB)
Hero raises to $12, BB raises to $48, Hero raises to $118, BB raises to $1,639.10 and is All-In, Hero calls $281.60 and is All-In

Flop: ($803.20) 9 3 J (2 Players - 1 is All-In)

Turn: ($803.20) Q (2 Players - 1 is All-In)

River: ($803.20) 7 (2 Players - 1 is All-In)

Results: $803.20 Pot ($1,242 Rake)
BB showed and LOST (-$840.40 NET)
Hero showed K A and LOST (-$401.60 NET)



TT


Party Poker, $2/$4 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 2 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

SB: $396
Hero (BB): $404

Pre-Flop: A A dealt to Hero (BB)
SB raises to $12, Hero raises to $42, SB raises to $124, Hero raises to $400 and is All-In, SB calls $270 and is All-In

Flop: ($792) 7 T J (2 Players - 1 is All-In)

Turn: ($792) 6 (2 Players - 1 is All-In)

River: ($792) 9...