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Keeping Warm in Winter
AAroddersAA:
Played a bit of poker this morning. I got up early to watch qualifying, had a tenner on Rosberg for pole and reckon it might have been good if he had not flat spotted his tyres.
Played a few games but the most interesting one is this heads up session. It invovles some hands between me and a pretty aggressive and not too bad heads up PLO player. It was a pretty tough game as he is not playing standard PLO, his is 3-betting a little bit too light though and semi bluffing a bit too often, he is not easy to take off a pot and not scared to get his money in the middle.
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4171160
This hand pretty much played itself tbh, quite happy to 3-bet that hand pre and after I make the C-bet I have to get it in.
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4171162
This one was slightly annoying but it happens in PLO, same hand near enoughbut I still manage to lose the pot.
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4171164
Pretty standard again he has a nice hand on the flop but with what has gone in pre I have to get it in and was near enough a coin flip.
So I was pretty much getting beaten up pretty badly in this game so far. He was 3-betting REALLY wide (39% 3-bet preflop) and taking the agressive action at every point.
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4171167
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4171168
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4171169
I like how I play this hand. We had both been three betting quite a bit so I did not have to have to be this strong preflop. He had not really started to 4-bet light though so I was not surprised when he flat called. The flop is quite good enough for me no big draws and not many combos that SHOULD make two pair (he can actually have two pair here but it is more likely he does not). I feel I am ahead and he will call a bet on the flop with lots i beat. I was fairly sure he would raise if I was behind so the bet gave me value and info, when he called I felt I was ahead and the turn did not change anything. After he called the turn I was still confident as he had not pulled the trigger on me. The river, I thought he would fold anything I beat if I bet, but that he might shove with worse, could not see much he could really bet for value on the river unless he made a silly inside str8 draw or set of nines which was possible but not likely. My plan worked - a nicely played hand I felt.
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4171170
I shove on a semi bluff on the flop and am lucky to get there but I think I win the pot with the semi bluff often enough and I supposed to make my draws sometimes
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4171179
I 4-bet lightish here but still ahead of his 3-bet range. Was confident the flop was most likely a semi bluff and snap it off, this time he gets there.
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4171180
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4171182
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4171185
This one is pretty thin but I wanted to keep the pressure on, he makes an easy call with KK, there are times you might have to think abou it with this kind of action but it was almost 100% to be good in this game.
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4171186
when you are hot, you are hot
I make some mistakes here for sure but think I play him fairly well and make good adjustments to his game and understanding how to get the max out of him.
I won $125 on this game and also won $5 at Zoom Poker (should have been more but played very bad hand).
Lost $22 at 6-max PLO for a profit of $103 on the day.
Actually having a good month, although it all mixed up as my tracker does not track Zoom poker or PLO Hu. Like the games though as you make FPP at them at a great rate. Fairly sure the below is right:-
March
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PLO 6-Max (inc Zoom) = +$14 (great hourly)
PLO Heads up = +$220
Tournaments = +$95
Total profit = $329
AAroddersAA:
Quick update to avoid a tl;dr post.
Finished last month in profit and somehow or another have been up at poker in each month this year, not sure how that happens as my plays has not been great at all. Started this month badly and was down $250 in cash games and tournaments. Ran like god last Sunday and won APAT league event to bounce back into profit. Then ran good a couple of evenings and this weekend including today to make back $200 in cash games. So having a good month even though I am down in cash AGAIN (although my EV line says I should be up $150). I will certainly take results to date this year overall as I think they are much better than I deserve. I really should be down.
That said I think I have added some new skills to my game after spending AGES looking at the stuff Noble1 sent me and reading the stuff about being better at exploiting people. I have had to cut it down to two tables for the time being but I think I am a lot better at doing this stuff now. Here are two quick hands for you.
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4226172
Not sure how good of an example this is as I have flopped half decent anyway but I knew Glfin tended to c-bet almost all the time but give up when met with resistance, telemehani tended to raise the full pot if he had the goods. I therefore felt the Check raise had a great chance of getting through and I had some equity anyway with 6 clean outs to the nuts and a bunch of other cards that could give me the best hand with position.
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4226173
This time I am against a loose player who seems to like to call down up to the river but gives up easily on the river. Having position is important as when the flush card came I felt fair;y confident he would be it most ofthe time. So thought I was safe to take the pot away on the river.
For those of you who like hand analysis this is an interesting one http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=57446.0
I have a week off work this week so might play some poker but have a tournament schedule for tonight anyway.
AAroddersAA:
Off work tomorrow so tonight"s schedule
18:30 $11 - Sunday Storm 1st Anniversary [1M Gtd]
18:35 $3.30 - PL Omaha [1.5K Gtd]
18:45 $11 - Sunday Million Sat 100 Seats Gtd
19:00 $11 - Bigger $11 [150K Gtd]
19:00 $3.30 - NL Hold'em [5K Gtd]
19:00 $11 - APAT League
Sure went well
cashman:
--- Quote from: AAroddersAA on April 15, 2012, 17:42:15 PM ---
Off work tomorrow so tonight"s schedule
18:30 $11 - Sunday Storm 1st Anniversary [1M Gtd]
18:35 $3.30 - PL Omaha [1.5K Gtd]
18:45 $11 - Sunday Million Sat 100 Seats Gtd
19:00 $11 - Bigger $11 [150K Gtd]
19:00 $3.30 - NL Hold'em [5K Gtd]
19:00 $11 - APAT League
--- End quote ---
played a sat for the 18:45 $11 - Sunday Million Sat 100 Seats Gtd and managed to bag myself a seat for $3.06 ;D
AAroddersAA:
Nice one Cashman :-)
To be fair I could not have run much worse tonight. Made a little bit playing cash whilst playing the tournaments though so not all bad (only about $25 but it all counts).
Annoyed to bust six tournaments in under two hours without really doing too much wrong but that"s the way it goes sometimes. Still about $50 up on the day.
EDIT: Make that $100 up for the day, found a fish playing PLO on the heads up so sat and made $50, should have made more, was more up but misplayed a few hands due to being morally obliged to drink the bottles of SA that were in my beer fridge. I will take a $100 day though back in profit on cash for the month now. I also played some FR hold "em cos Darren was on the table (not sure how that is a good thing) and a seat was free. Lost $23.87 doing that but it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Hopefully more updates tomorrow
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