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Keeping Warm in Winter
Jon MW:
--- Quote from: AAroddersAA on November 28, 2011, 15:26:11 PM ---
... As I said I have more than less had my life arranged around poker for the last two years and that has probably caused burnout....
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A bit of balance would probably be the key, fitting poker into your life rather than fitting your life around poker would be a much better approach for the future.
HOLDorFOLD:
--- Quote from: Sunseekers on November 28, 2011, 13:56:13 PM ---
ditto to above comments.......
when texas foldem gets boring switch to PLO, PLO8 and stud, play the side events.
Anything to keep your juices flowin man.
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This ... and ditto to other comments
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technolog:
We all love you Steve, hurry back.
Dawn and I are likely to be largely absent too but for different reasons.
AAroddersAA:
Right back to business then.
Played a small PLO session today, first proper online cash session for a couple of months but felt I played very well and also ran good. I won just under $100 in about 2 hours so that has to be good. My PLO game is different to my NLHE game and I play a lot looser and see a lot more flops. I think this has a lot to do with playing much deeper and therefore being able to play a flop much better and there is a lot of play on the later streets. A lot of PLO players also play their hands face up after the flop. If fact a lot of them also seem to assume everybody else does as well so very exploitable. It"s a very good game and I would recommend everybody try it, even though I am very much still learning it. Try and make notes on people who can"t get away from over-pairs after the flop as these are like ATM"s when playing very deep (not so much when only 100BB deep).
Hopefully this will be the start of a good run which will see me doing well in both cash games and tournaments for a while. I am off work on Friday this week so will be putting in some poker time then as well. I want to try and get in at least three sessions per week on December. Ideally one of Hold "em, one of Omaha and a tournament session. Maybe next year I will even try to learn that silly PLO8 game properly.
Stats for today were
VP$IP = 44%
PFR = 23%
3-Bet = 9%
The 3-bet is most likely too low but happy enough with that for now. It"s a tiny sample.
I ran well above EV. The session was +EV by just over $30. Biggest pot I won was a cooler for the other guy but god mode is fun:-
PokerStars Game #71287450827: Omaha Pot Limit ($0.05/$0.10 USD) - 2011/11/28 20:01:33 WET [2011/11/28 15:01:33 ET]
Table "Stearns V" 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: AAroddersAA ($48.76 in chips)
Seat 2: maxim torque ($19.10 in chips)
Seat 3: CaptanPoker ($26.85 in chips)
Seat 5: ElDoctore ($27.07 in chips)
Seat 6: Yokker25 ($24.90 in chips)
Yokker25: posts small blind $0.05
AAroddersAA: posts big blind $0.10
K2AA72: sits out
AAroddersAA: posts the ante $0.02
maxim torque: posts the ante $0.02
CaptanPoker: posts the ante $0.02
ElDoctore: posts the ante $0.02
Yokker25: posts the ante $0.02
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to AAroddersAA [Ad Kd 5c Ac]
maxim torque: raises $0.20 to $0.30
CaptanPoker: calls $0.30
ElDoctore: calls $0.30
Yokker25: folds
AAroddersAA: raises $1.35 to $1.65
maxim torque: calls $1.35
CaptanPoker: calls $1.35
ElDoctore: calls $1.35
*** FLOP *** [Kc 5h 7c]
AAroddersAA: bets $5
maxim torque: folds
CaptanPoker: raises $16.42 to $21.42
ElDoctore: folds
AAroddersAA: raises $16.42 to $37.84
CaptanPoker: calls $3.76 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($12.66) returned to AAroddersAA
*** TURN *** [Kc 5h 7c] [6c]
*** RIVER *** [Kc 5h 7c 6c] [9d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
AAroddersAA: shows [Ad Kd 5c Ac] (a flush, Ace high)
CaptanPoker: shows [4s Th 7s 7h] (three of a kind, Sevens)
AAroddersAA collected $55.11 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $57.11 | Rake $2
Board [Kc 5h 7c 6c 9d]
Seat 1: AAroddersAA (big blind) showed [Ad Kd 5c Ac] and won ($55.11) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 2: maxim torque folded on the Flop
Seat 3: CaptanPoker showed [4s Th 7s 7h] and lost with three of a kind, Sevens
Seat 5: ElDoctore (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 6: Yokker25 (small blind) folded before Flop
*NB - Pokerstars screen id changed in hand history (it is not AAroddersAA). I will change it to AAroddersAA on all hh in this thread and on the PHA on Blonde. I don"t want anybody to be able to identify me at the table.
I can"t find any mistakes worth posting so will just stick with the above hand for now. Obviously neither of us are folding on that flop.
Friday will probably be a NLHE day (or maybe tournaments if I feel like it).
AAroddersAA:
OK, going to try unlimited Holdem today. Not been playing that game so well lately so going to improve on that today.
I need to try and get my Goldstar back this month as well. I used to get that every month, if I can get 665 VVP then I will also get $50 stellar reward and a $50 bonus so that is a pretty good rakeback along with the freerolls.
Pokerstars is still the best site to play on so it seems. I have tried a few alternatives this year but have kept coming back. Will edit the post later with results and somelinks to some hands on the PHA board.
Watched a good video about small stakes leaks recently and think I have some new improved stuff to use on the cash tables.
Will edit the post later with results, one question for other MSNL players how many tables do you find to be optimal? Will only be playing four today but Know I can go to quite a few more than that.
EDIT:
Ran horrible today, KK into AA twice and a straight into a rivered FH (might have made a bad play calling on the river as the flush hit as well). Don"t think there was much I can do about any of that. Lost about $100 in the process will call it a day for today early as probably would not play my best now.
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