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Keeping Warm in Winter
HOLDorFOLD:
--- Quote from: Swinebag on February 04, 2012, 00:55:25 AM ---
And take ger up on his offer. I might even tag along if stu comes down the same night as well
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Ger and the aquarium is going to be over run soon ... I got an invite tonight as well ?
nosey-p:
I as getting to that stage recently (not cash) and was also going to have a break but 1 good night and things change.
AAroddersAA:
--- Quote from: Fatcatstu on February 03, 2012, 22:57:32 PM ---
If i might say so, and please dont take this the wrong way mate, i think you have kind of brought this on yourself.
In vegas doing stupidly long cash grinds, when you admitted yourself you werent enjoying it....
Playing ALOT online...
It seems like you managed to suck the enjoyment out of it all for yourself to me. I think you are doing the right thing in taking a long break from it, hopefully when you come back you will decide to play some APAT live events, and try and get back to playing the game and having FUN while you do it, hopefully making a bit of cash on the way :)
Good luck with the work thing dude, am ssure you will crush it :)
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See Stu can talk loads of sense when he wants too. You are 100% right mate, obviously I will be back but planning on talking a decent break from it first.
--- Quote from: duke3016 on February 03, 2012, 23:32:54 PM ---
You need a break..
So... Pick a weekend, stay with me, go to the aquarium, get hammered and get the love back....
If not just relax enjoy your break and come back stronger.....
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Ger, you are a top man. I may well accept this very kind offer would certainly make playing poker interesting again.
--- Quote from: HOLDorFOLD on February 04, 2012, 04:02:16 AM ---
--- Quote from: Swinebag on February 04, 2012, 00:55:25 AM ---
And take ger up on his offer. I might even tag along if stu comes down the same night as well
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Ger and the aquarium is going to be over run soon ... I got an invite tonight as well ?
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For when? If everybody else is going I definitively wanna come.
Paulie_D:
Date"s not set yet...probably towards the end of July.
Get yourself over to the Chezger forum and get your name down.
AAroddersAA:
Anyway last weekend I was in Newport, and Friday afternoon I was at a loose end so thought I would try playing a little bit. I wanted to focus on playing against opponents so I tried playing a bit of heads up PLO. This worked quite well and I ended up winning 8 buyins ($200). Here are some of the pots that I played
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137648
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137650
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137651
Nothing really interesting to be honest, the first two are standard the last one is a move that goes wrong. Overall I was very happy with how I played and think I played the players pretty well.
I then decided I should play a little bit of 6-max. The deep stacked 6-max plo games are currently my favourite form of poker. There is a lot of play involved and you have to play well on all of the streets. People who can read the texture of the board well and understand how other players think can find plenty of oppotunities for Value bets and bluffs. I have recently been talking to a very good PLO player about the game and some of the considerations you should make during one of these hands are mind blowing. I am certainly a long way from having a full understanding of this game and the way the equity works. Position is also very important.
Here is a naughty little hand that I am not sure I can do much about
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137659
Can I get away from top set here? I don"t think I can although a set is very unlikely for him and there is not a lot else he can go mental with here. It would be a really tough fold though.
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137663
I quite like how I play this hand against an aggressive player who does not give up on his draws easily. I actually did not think he had a draw at the time as I would honestly expect him to raise and I had blockers to the flush draw. Quite an easy hand to play but getting this stuff right is the "bread and butter so to speak.
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4137667
This is another cool hand, me and my opponent in the hand had been 3-betting each other very wide and I felt I was getting the best of it and had taken him off a few pots by barrelling. I suspect he had done the same to me. He certainly was not afraid to put a bet in. I had seen him make the nuts twice earlier in the game and he had fired the full pot both times.
Preflop I raise from the button and am not at all surprised when he three bets me. I put in the four bet, the great thing about this game is even to a four bet all of the streets are going to have play on them. Hecalls my four bet and we see a flop.
It"s not the best flop for an overpair but I am likely to be ahead at this point although my equity in the hand is uncertain. I bet out and he calls, the turn card is bad for me as he could easily have two pair now or some kind of weird straight. He can also have a flush draw still. It goes check/check which I think is fine. He then bets out 3/4 of the pot on the river. This makes KQ seem unlikely as I know how he bets the nuts. He could still have two pair looking for value against AA but two pair is marginal in this spot, a check call is the play I would expect him to make as he knows I can have nothing here and may well bet the river if I do, and a set should have raised me on that flop. I make what I think is an excellent call on the river.
The vital Stats for last weekend were as follows:-
I did not use Poker Tracker for the Heads up games as it can sometimes be misleading but made $197 at that
PLO 6 Max
Hands = 472
VP$IP = 53.35% (this is too loose so I need to tighten the ranges up a bit which I am looking at
PFR = 36.86%
3-Bet = 11.79%
BB/100 = 11.61
Total Profit = $54.80
Tournaments (180 man sit n go"s)
Total Played = 3
Cashes = 0
Total Buyin = $13.50
Total loss = $13.50
More to follow.
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